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  • Artist Info: Marik Ishtar is the leader of the Rare Hunters and the main villain of the Battle City arc. As a child, he was forced to be a tombkeeper by his strict father to continue their family's lineage. This ultimately results in developing a split personality, which is only suppressed by his adoptive brother. Without him, the personality of Yami Marik takes over his body. Marik is often considered to be one of the foremost adversaries in the series. After destroying his evil side and coming to his senses, he returns to Egypt to continue his role as a tomb keeper and becomes an ally of the Pharaoh. <br />
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    As a child, Marik was an innocent boy who desired to see the outside world, despite his clan's laws forbid him from doing so, and was willing to sneak out to fulfill his desire. He cared for his siblings very much. Marik also considered Odion to be his brother, despite being not blood related. <br />
    Marik bore a grudge towards the pharaoh because he was forced to guard with his life (robbing him of his freedom) the family carving. Marik's hatred only intensified when his father forced him to take the family's ritual of having the carvings cut onto his back (in the English version the carvings were a tattoo). The pain was so intense that he spawned a second personality to deal with the pain. A year later, when his father brutally tortured Odion for helping Marik and Ishizu to sneak outside, Marik woke up and had no recollection of his father's murder only to see a loyalist to the Pharaoh and thought the loyalist was the killer, and thus leading to Marik's betrayal to the clan to get revenge against the Pharaoh.<br />
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    While leading the Rare Hunters in his quest for world domination and freedom, Marik became rather cruel and uncaring, willing to brainwash people to do his bidding, and force them to cheat and use cruelty on his behalf, victims being Keith Howard and Strings. He was not above using death to punish his subordinates for failure, such as Arkana and Lumis, nor did he care about sacrificing Rare Hunters to test the fake "The Winged Dragon of Ra" cards, which produced severe injuries and death. He even threatened his sister Ishizu with the Millennium Rod for getting in his way, and ordered Odion to use the fake Ra card against his will. However, he still retained his love for his family, despite his mistreatment to them. <br />
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    Marik's family guarded the tomb of the pharaoh for generations and two of the Millennium Items (the Millennium Rod and Millennium Necklace) were passed on to Marik and his sister Ishizu Ishtar. Marik was forbidden to leave the Pharaoh's tomb due to his father's fear that the freedom and marvels of the outside world would further divert Marik's attention away from his heritage. Marik no longer wanted to become a Tombkeeper, so his adoptive brother Odion Ishtar asked if he could take Marik's place but was refused. When Marik was forced to take the initiation ritual to become a full Tombkeeper, Marik spawned a second personality from the pain he endured. A year later, after Marik and Ishizu took a forbidden trip to surface, Marik's father, having found out, attempted to kill Odion. Marik somehow blanked out what happened next: Yami Marik (the second personality of Marik) emerged for the first time to resist his father's punishment and claimed the Millennium Rod for himself. Ignoring his father's orders to put the item down, Yami Marik used its powers to smash him against the wall. When Ishizu protested, she suffered the same strike. Yami Marik then proceeded to kill his father (or, in the English anime, sent his father to the Shadow Realm). Yami Marik was sealed away in Marik's body by Odion. <br />
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    In the Battle City arc, Marik was the leader of the Rare Hunters organization, he wishes to obtain the three Egyptian God Cards, and with them, unlock their power for himself so he can gain the title of "Pharaoh" and set his family free. He also has a hidden agenda - to get revenge on the Nameless Pharaoh's soul, which currently resides in Yugi Muto's body, for killing his father, as he was made to believe. In the English anime, he is considerably more fiendish. He wants the God Cards and the Millennium Puzzle to gain the power of the Pharaoh and rule the world, though he retains his hate of the Pharaoh. Marik uncovers two of the three Egyptian Gods ("The Winged Dragon of Ra" and "Slifer the Sky Dragon" wink from where Maximillion Pegasus had hidden them away due to danger associated with them. However, the third Egyptian God ("Obelisk the Tormentor" wink is taken by Ishizu, who gives it to Seto Kaiba. <br />
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    Marik and his Rare Hunters hack into to the Battle City computer system and enter themselves in the tournament. He has them duel Yami Yugi to take the Millennium Puzzle from him and duel Kaiba to take "Obelisk" from him. Marik also had one of his Rare Hunters that he controlled (via the Millennium Rod) include "Slifer" in his deck and used it against Yami Yugi, but was defeated, allowing Yugi to take Slifer. Later, Marik teams up with Yami Bakura in a verbal deal consisting of Marik's relinquishment of the Millennium Rod if the Yami Bakura got back Slifer. <br />
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    Marik, Bakura, and Odion get places in the quarter-finals. Marik took the guise of Namu while Odion pretends to be "Marik" (nobody except for Yami Bakura had actually met him in person). After Bakura is defeated by Yugi in the first quarter-final match, Marik has Odion use a counterfeit "Ra" card in his quarter-final against Joey Wheeler. Joey suspects he is not dueling the real Marik so Odion attempts to win using the counterfeit to prove he is Marik,. Ra is angered by this and strikes both duelists, leaving Odion unconscious. As Odion is trying to remain awaken, Marik suffers through sudden headaches. After Odion becomes unconscious, Marik (still with his headaches) reveals himself Yugi, Joey, Kaiba, Mai Valentine, Téa Gardner, Tristan Taylor, Duke Devlin, Mokuba Kaiba, and Serenity Wheeler. Suddenly, Marik yells in extreme pain and Yami Marik appears. <br />
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    Marik's carving (tattoo in the English anime) of the Pharaoh's memory. <br />
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    After the quarter-finals, Marik's reformed soul teams up with Yami Bakura to stop Yami Marik, but fails when Yami Marik uses "Ra's" other abilities that were unknown to Marik. However, Marik (through Téa) tells Ishizu to hide Odion from Yami Marik. In the final duel between Yami Marik and Yami Yugi, their weaker selves were the victims of the Shadow Game being played. As the duel goes on, Yami Marik becomes the dominant host of Marik's body, with the real Marik's soul slowly fading out of existence. Also, this Shadow Game that gave him a clear edge, when Yami Yugi lost Life Points, Yugi's body would fade away, when Dark Marik lost life points, the original Marik would fade away. While they duel, Odion wakes up and he makes Marik realize he had to accept his responsibility for being a Tombkeeper. With this confidence, Marik overpowers his evil self and forfeits, destroying Yami Marik. Marik gives Yugi the Millennium Rod and the Ra card. Marik then reveals the Tombkeeper's initiation. The carving of the pharaoh's memory onto the back of a tomb guardian involves using either a hot dagger (as in the manga and the Japanese version of the second series anime), or a tattoo (in the English second series anime, though the dagger was still seen in the flashback) on his back. Fulfilling his duty as a Tombkeeper, Marik returns to Egypt to start a new life. <br />
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    In the Millennium World arc, Marik, Ishizu, and Odion lead Yugi and his friends to the tomb of the Pharaoh in order for Yugi and Atem to have a final duel in order to determine if Atem will move on to the afterlife or remain in the present.
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