Worst Yu-Gi-Oh Characters

Easily the worst protagonist the series has ever had and it shows how bad he is, when you want his opponent to win more than him. From his constant whining, his obnoxious voice or how he's useless without Astral, Yuma is terrible.

INTERESTING FACT ABOUT THE YU-GI-OH! FRANCHISE:

Yuma without Astral actually has a 0% chance of defeating any duelist from each series, while Yuma with Astral at his side only has a 10% chance of defeating any duelist from each series.

Towards the end of the series, Yuma gained almost 1% potential, but otherwise, he sucks.

As a duelist, as a character, as a protagonist, even as Yuma Tsukumo

He just sucks, BADLY

Yuma and Tea should swap places,

Yuma = strong
Tea = SHUT UP WITH YOUR SPEECHES ALREADY

From the original Yu-Gi-Oh series. Worst villain in the series. His motivation is confusing. He wants revenge on Kaiba because Kaiba apparently stole Zigfried's idea on creating holographic images for Duel Monsters. One question: What proof do you have? He has none. This whole arc happened because Zigfried is an idiot who can't back up his own claims Easily, the worst part of the original show.

I didn't think this was at all possible for there to be a worse villain than five old dudes Kaiba fired. The only thing good about him is his design and Valkyrie deck, that's about it.

There's no words for how terrible this "villain" is!

A very dull female lead in the anime. I know she's slightly better in the manga but I wish they gave her more to do than just standing on the sideline cheering. There's only two things I know about her that exclude her friendship with other people. She loves dancing and she works at a burger shop. That's it. Other than that, she never develops a personality and is always there on the sideline. I know people say she defeated Mai or how she won against one of the members of the Big Five. Here's the thing though, Mai gave up the duel. She had a habit of giving up before the duel was over and when she felt she couldn't recover from a heavy blow. If she did keep pursuing, she would have won. Secondly, Serenity won against one of the members of the Big Five after they lost Tristan and she never dueled before. So it really doesn't make her all that special.

She's so annoying. Always giving dumb speeches and getting involved in stuff she doesn't need to. Also, she doesn't stop yelling at Kaiba, which is bull. I especially hate her for stopping Atem from attacking Kaiba and for trying to stop Yugi and Atem's duel.

Why does everyone like her? I find her boring. I saw a scene of her in the anime when I watched it on Netflix that made me disturbed. She looks like Madoka Amano of Metal Fight Beyblade.

Tea sucks. She stands on the side, says stupid and pointless friendship slogans, and makes me wish she'd go to the Shadow Realm. She's so stuffed up and just- ugh.

Tori/Kotori has one major flaw: She's just a cheerleader for Yuma. Tea/Anzu was the last incarnation of that trope, but since then Yu-Gi-Oh spinoffs had a female duelist among the main cast - Alexis/Asuka in GX, Aki/Akiza in 5Ds. But without the ability to duel, Tori/Kotori has absolutely no purpose to any overall story arc in a show about dueling!

I haven't watched Yugioh Zexal yet but when I looked this girl up, I can't help to noticed how over sexualized she is for a 13 year old girl.

I never cared for this girl and never will. She's a disappointment of a female lead and very irritating if you think about it.

What a disappointment. Akiza was a really great female lead but then we got one hundred steps backwards to Tori.

Asuka/Alexis is not a Mary Sue. If she would be one, she'd never lose, and she'd never get kidnapped or persuaded to become a member of Sartorius' band of fools. But you're absolutely right with everything else. The writers obviously didn't know where to go with her character - just like Daichi/Bastion, who might be even more useless after Season 1 onwards!

She's the biggest Mary Sue in the GX series to me. She's never really developed a personality and her only motivation was finding her brother. But that's resolved half way through the first season. She never really evolves or grows as a character.

I always felt like she was lacking something and you actually put it in words.

I was actually okay with Alexis... Jaden X Alexis is a pretty decent ship.

From Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal comes another idiotic villain. This seems to be a recurring problem with this series. Dr. Faker wants to save his son Hart. Okay but the lengths he takes and choices he makes, make me question how he became a 'doctor'. Aliens from another world tell him they will save Hart if Dr.Faker destroys Astral World. Now several questions arise that are never explored. Why did he blindly believe in these aliens? Why didn't he feel the need to trust his other son Kite about this information? What made him think that doing all this damage would cause any harm? Did the aliens ever give any proof that they could cure Hart? Why did he say the Barians will grant him power and help him conquer the Earth? Wasn't this supposed to be about his son?

He isn't much better in the Zexal manga either. There he dies before being able to cure his son, and Mr. Heartland then uses his death for his own benefit. If that's not the sign of a poor villain, I don't know what is.

Noo why is Cathy on this list take her off

A terrible cliché villain. He wants to destroy the world and he will do so with the Pyramid of Light. First the Pyramid of Light just looks like the millennium puzzle upside down and blue. Second, why does he want to destroy the world? Lastly, he only appears at the very last ten minutes of the movie. I thought Venom from Spider-Man 3 was wasted but Anubis was much worse.

First place in the regionals, yet the FIRST to be booted from Duelist Kingdom! I guess he did well in Battle City, but I assume that he cheated to win most of his duels. He is annoying as hell!

Damn it this guy is stupid but I guess he created him so the series can actually progress because exodia would've one shores everybody yugi dueled and it would make the matches less interesting. I wonder who has them now

Yeah he deserves to be on this list for trashing a pretty sweet card that pissed me off so much when Weevil threw the Exodia Cards in the ocean and some of them got lost

The most annoying character by far.
Can't stand his voice and behaviour.

Crowler is just downright scary, annoying and I hate his Japanese voice. Also he has no backstory whatsoever, how can a character who looks so transgender have no motive or backstory to look like that? It just confuses me and I'm sure other people especially smaller children who watch (ed) GX would be confused as well. He dueled a couple of times but to be honest.. he sucks. He lost to a transfer student who wasn't even in duel academy yet. An yeah I know Judai is the main protagonist so of course he wins but other than that he just sucks.

Or Doctor Crowler if you prefer. Not only is his appearance kind of cringey but he's all talk and no show. He's lost so many times in this series but still thinks he's the best. He lost to a student who didn't even transfer to his school yet. He was just an annoying character to deal with and I found him just a nuisance to the show.

He's just a mean teacher and that's it.

Hate. Hate. Hate.

Sly is that annoying kid that thinks that he's so cool and pretends not to care. He's also kind of dumb because he wants Yusei's StarDust Dragon and Yusei has helped him in the past but he still resents him.

Honestly, the only things Tristan really does are Hit on Joey's Younger Sister Serenity, Get into fights with Duke Devlin, and just shouting words of encouragement, but at least Tea won her duel, while Tristan lost a duel and his body to NESBITT OF ALL PEOPLE.

"And Tristan. Tristan. You are the single most worthless human being I've ever met." - Kaiba, YGOTAS.

No why is he here

Her voice is so squeaky and annoying. Also, she is a pretty useless damsel in distress as well as Anzu (Tea).

Because if there's anyone in any Yu-Gi-Oh series who has no personality, it's her. I know she needed an operation to get her eyesight back. That's all I know about her. At least Téa's got some traits to pass for at least half a personality, I can't say the same of Serenity.
And she literally can't say one sentence without mentioning her brother somehow. Her whole life revolves around him. It's super creepy.

Annoying voice, little to no personality and 0 character development.

Irritating character. Does nothing good for the show at all.

She was irritating as hell when she joined Doma! I mean whoever gives a damn for her dreams? And for that only she wants to defeat only one and that's Jonouchi? Stuoid