Death-T
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! (manga), Yu-Gi-Oh! (Toei series) | |
| Owner | Seto Kaiba |
| Location | Kaiba Land, Domino City |
| Building Cost | ¥10,000,000,000 |
| Stages | 5 |
Death-T is the name of an attraction at the Domino City Kaiba Land theme park. The name stands for 'theme park of death'. Death-T is built by Seto Kaiba at huge expense as a means of exacting his revenge on Yugi Mutou for defeating and humiliating him at his game of choice, Magic and Wizards (Duel Monsters in all other media). The events around Death-T play out slightly differently in Toei Animation's Yu-Gi-Oh! than in the manga, and it is not shown at all in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters. Instead, certain parts of Death-T are incorporated into the first episode.
Death-T consists of five stages: Death T-1, Death T-2, Death T-3, Death T-4 and Death T-5, each with their own distinct theme and games. As the stages are cleared, the competitors will be brought closer to the battle dome at the top of Kaiba Land where the last stage, Death T-5, is held.
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[edit] Prior Events
The creation of Death-T is set into motion when Seto Kaiba steals a copy of the highly-rare Blue-Eyes White Dragon Magic and Wizards card which belongs to Sugoroku Mutou. To win the card back, Dark Yugi defeats Seto in a game of Magic and Wizards. Since the game was played as a Game of Darkness, Seto receives a penalty game for losing where he believes that he is trapped inside a Magic and Wizards card and experiences what it feels like to die.
Whilst trying to buy Capsule Monster Chess toys from a coin machine, Yugi Mutou is taken hostage by Seto's younger brother Mokuba Kaiba and a band of armed elementary school children. The two play Capsule Monster Chess in a Game of Darkness and Mokuba is defeated. As punishment, he too receives a penalty game - Mokuba hallucinates that he is trapped inside a giant Capsule Monster Chess capsule.
Some time later, Yugi and his friend Katsuya Jonouchi are invited to stay at the Kaiba family mansion. Although Seto is tired from working and cannot greet the two, Mokuba explains that they are both guests of honor at the grand opening of a special project. At the Kaiba mansion, Mokuba hosts Yugi and Jonouchi's dinner on a Chinese restaurant turntable. However in the six meals of the turntable, two of the foods are poisoned. When the table is spun, the 'kiddie lunch' stops in front of Jonouchi and he eats it to discover that it is poisoned. Mokuba controls where the table stops with a syrup bottle switch, but Dark Yugi smashes it with the Millennium Puzzle and the place where the table stops is turned to chance. On the spin, Mokuba receives the poisoned hamburger and is forced to eat it. The winner, Dark Yugi, takes the antidote to the poison for Jonouchi.
After the dinner, Yugi and Jonouchi spend the night at the Kaiba mansion, before being driven to the opening ceremony of Kaiba Land: Seto Kaiba's multi-story indoor amusement park.
Whilst the amusement park is not scheduled to open for another three days, certain children are given invitations to come and play at the park for free. After he enters, Seto is confronted by a man who used to be the right-hand employee of Kaiba Corporation's previous owner, Gozaburo Kaiba. The man claims that Seto was the one who forced Gozaburo to commit suicide, but is quickly ejected from the park. Yugi and Jonouchi try out the attractions at Kaiba Land for a while, before Seto takes them to a 'special show'. In the middle of a huge arena, the two are shocked to see Yugi's grandpa, Sugoroku, inside a virtual duel simulation box. Although nobody can hear him, Sugoroku reveals that he was kidnapped the previous night.
Sugoroku and Seto play a game of Magic and Wizards in the virtual reality simulation box, where three-dimensional images of the cards are projected. Seto defeats Sugoroku, revealing that since his duel with Dark Yugi he has collected the three remaining Blue-Eyes White Dragon cards in the world. He then proceeds to shred Sugoroku's Blue-Eyes, making Seto Kaiba the only owner of a Blue-Eyes White Dragon in the world. As a further insult, he activates a function of the virtual reality simulation box, turning on roaring projections of monsters which trap Sugoroku in the box. This is Seto's recreation of the penalty game which Dark Yugi dealt to him. He agrees to turn off the penalty game if Yugi agrees to face Death-T: the hidden attraction of Kaiba Land.
When Yugi promises to enter the theme park of death, Seto turns off the simulation. Sugoroku is taken away by an ambulance, but not before handing his Magic and Wizards deck down to Yugi. Seto explains to Yugi that his challenge is that Yugi defeat each level of Death-T and advance to the final stage inside the dome at the very top of Kaiba Land. Jonouchi adds that he will play too. Hiroto Honda, who is visiting Kaiba Land with his baby nephew Johji, joins the group. With that, Seto opens the door to Death T and Yugi, Jonouchi, Honda and Johji enter.
[edit] Death T-1
Death T-1 is the Space Zone of Death-T, set inside a space station. It contains the game known as Shooting Stardust, which is a laser gun battle. The arena is an electrical field with walls to create strategic attacks. There are three players on each team, and a player is out of the game when the sensor on their cyber-vest is hit by a laser beam. When all a team's players are eliminated, the opposing team wins.
[edit] Events
As soon as Yugi, Jonouchi, Honda and Johji enter the door to Death T-1, they encounter Anzu Mazaki who was hired by Kaiba Land as the guide to Death T-1. Anzu instructs the boys on the rules of the game and they enter the arena, leaving Johji with her. From his control room, Seto explains that the guns that the three boys are using are merely toys, whereas the guns their opponents are using are real laser guns which will inflict shocks of one million volts. Unknowing of these facts, Yugi, Jonouchi and Honda begin the game.
The boys' opponents are three professional gunsmen: Johnny Gayle, Bob McGuire and 'Name Unknown' - each one eager for the bounties on the heads of Yugi and his friends. Johnny Gayle, the guerrilla warfare expert of the team, goes in for a surprise attack but is foiled when an impatient Jonouchi climbs atop the scenery walls and kicks him in the face, knocking him out. The laser fight begins when the other two mercenaries chase after Jonouchi. Honda scores a direct hit on the cyber-vest sensor of former SWAT team leader Bob McGuire but nothing happens. Then, when a laser beam slightly scrapes his own shoulder and he is pricked by an electric shock, Honda realizes the game is rigged and calls for a retreat.
Outside in the waiting area, Honda explains to his friends that their own guns are useless. In outrage that Honda is interrupting his private time with Anzu and talking negatively about Seto, Johji fires Anzu's laser gun. The beam hits the rack of spare cyber-vests and they crackle with electricity. Honda realizes that Anzu has one of the real lasers and enters the electrical field again, armed with one of the fake guns. He drops the gun to the floor and surrenders. Of course, the mercenaries are paid to kill and so they aim their lasers. Taking them by surprise, Johji is revealed to be strapped behind Honda's back and he passes Anzu's working laser into Honda's raised hands. Honda shoots down both gunsmen, although he adds that he turned down the voltage on his own gun in order not to kill the two men.
Death T-1 is cleared. Now with an additional team member, Anzu, the group exits the Space Zone.
[edit] Death T-2
Death T-2 is the Horror Zone of Death-T, containing several deadly games. The first is a mini-game, the Electric Chair Ride of Death, where the participants are strapped into electric chairs on a track which leads to the next game. Voice sensors on the helmets of the electric chairs pick up sounds, and if a participant makes a sound when the ride is moving one million volts of electricity will run through that person's chair. The game is made harder by interactive obstacles in the path of the ride and booby traps in the chairs.
The destination of the ride is the Murderer's Mansion, the location of the rest of the games in Death T-2. The Murderer's Mansion is a large old house filled with traps. The only way to win is to find the way back out once the door has locked itself. Hanging from a suit of armor is a piece of paper with the word 'blood' misspelled as 'bllood' written on it. A wall panel has four holes in it, and above each hole is a number: 00, 01, 10 and 11. However, the wall is in fact part of a guillotine and when a person puts their hand into the hole their hand is locked in place. Just within each hand's reach is a button. In five minutes, the guillotine blade will fall and sever any hands locked inside. The blade will also fall if a person presses the wrong button.
The answer is in the 'bllood' note, as the four numbers on the guillotine each represent letters in the word 'bllood'. '10' is the 'b', 11 is the 'll', '00' is the 'oo' and '01' is the 'd'. The '11' button is the correct button because that is where the misspelling of 'blood' comes from. In addition, the extra 'l' on the 'bllood' note ends in an arrow, which points down towards the floor, indicating that the next game is in the basement.
Down a flight of stairs there is a small round room which holds The Chopman, a notorious serial killer. One participant must be locked inside the room with The Chopman, where the two must find to the death whilst both handcuffed together. The players may use any of the weapons hanging from the ceiling, and must be careful of the layer of slippery oil on the floor. Only the survivor may escape the room and continue on to Death T-3.
[edit] Events
The group enters Death T-2 and are immediately unnerved by the morbid scenery. The Kaiba family butler shows up and introduces them to the Electric Chair Ride of Death. Everybody is strapped in except for Johji, who sits on Anzu's lap. The butler also plays the game. As the ride progresses it becomes harder and harder to keep quiet, and Johji notices that Anzu is near breaking point. Taking the initiative, he climbs up to the butler and empties his diaper onto his lap. Taken by surprise, the butler screams and is electrocuted.
Everybody else survives the game, although Jonouchi only survives by fainting. The group enters the Murderer's Mansion and the door locks behind them. After searching for the exit for a while, a hologram of Seto shows them the guillotine and Yugi, Jonouchi, Honda and Anzu put their hands in without realizing the blade hanging above them in the shadows. Just as the blade is falling, Yugi solves the puzzle and tells Anzu to push the switch in front of her hand. With that, the blade stops. Whilst sitting next to the trapdoor to the basement, Johji is kidnapped by The Chopman.
After figuring out the clue hidden in the 'bllood' note, the others advance down through the trapdoor and find Johji sitting on a pillar in the small circular room beyond. A television screen of Seto informs them that the baby will be killed by The Chopman unless somebody plays the next game. Jonouchi accepts, and the television is revealed to be strapped to the chest of The Chopman. The door locks, and The Chopman chooses the chainsaw as his weapon. Jonouchi doesn't choose a weapon and concentrates on getting away from the giant serial killer. When The Chopman gets his chainsaw stuck inside the pillar, Yugi informs Jonouchi from outside the door of the candlestick on the wall. Jonouchi realizes what Yugi means and picks the lock of his handcuff with the candlestick. He the quickly tangles the candlestick and handcuffs into the bars of the door, so that when The Chopman heaves his own chain the door is pulled off its hinges. Jonouchi escapes and The Chopman is burned alive when the candle hits the oil-coated floor.
[edit] Death T-3
Death T-3 consists of an empty, square-based room with an extremely high ceiling. The white walls and floor are set in a repeating pattern of squares. Whilst at first nothing seems to happen, the game begins when large cubes start to fall from above. If one is caught under a cube, they will be instantly crushed. To defeat the game, the players must climb on top of the fallen cubes to reach the exit about ten meters above the floor level.
The timing for when the cubes fall and the places where they land are comparable to the rhythm and steps of a simple dance. However, the rhythm does not always stay the same.
[edit] Events
Death T-3 is specifically designed to break up the teamwork of Yugi and his friends, due to the danger of looking out for other people in a game where it's every man for himself. When the room is first entered and the door locked, the game does not immediately start. Disheartened, Yugi wonders if it was Seto's plan all along to trap them and never let them leave. When he blames himself for everybody's apparent fate, Jonouchi becomes angry and explains that naturally he would accompany Yugi even in the most dangerous of places, because it was Yugi who taught him to like himself. With her magic marker, Anzu draws a quarter of a smiley face on each of their hands, so that when their hands are put together in a circle the image is completed. She tells them that with this image, they will remember each other even if they go their separate ways.
It is in this moment of good will that the game begins, and the first cube blocks fall from above. Yugi realizes that they must climb on top of the fallen cubes to reach the exit high up above and Anzu notices the regular rhythm and pattern of the fallen blocks. With this knowledge, everybody is able to reach the point of exit. However, just as Honda and Yugi are reaching the exit, the rhythm changes. Honda lifts Yugi up into the exit, but does not follow. His jacket has been caught under one of the blocks and he cannot escape. As soon as the others realize this, a cube falls and blocks Honda from their view.
[edit] Death T-4
Death T-4 is a single game of Capsule Monster Chess. The twist is that the game is played in a small box held above a giant-sized version of the Capsule Monster Chess game board, where virtual reality projections play out the game so that the audience can watch the action. Both players take their capsules from a coin machine in the box. The loser of the game receives a simulated penalty game: the experience of death, where the virtual reality box traps the loser inside and activates nightmarish projections and effects.
[edit] Events
In shock at Honda's apparent death, Yugi admits to his friends that he sometimes feels as if there is another Yugi inside of him and that this other Yugi acts of his own accord. Jonouchi and Anzu agree that they will be friends even if there is another Yugi and the group heads on. In the control room, Mokuba angrily bets his brother that he will defeat Yugi himself at Death- T-4, and heads for the stadium.
Inside the huge arena, Dark Yugi takes over Yugi's body and heads across the narrow gangway to the battle box. Jonouchi and Anzu stay behind but are kept at gunpoint by some security staff. Dark Yugi and Mokuba take their Capsule Monster Chess pieces from the coin machine, and it is instantly clear that the machine is rigged in Mokuba's favor. Dark Yugi continues to pass his turns until Mokuba's monsters have completely surrounded his own. He then allows his low-level Beeton to reach an evolution space and evolve whilst his other monsters are taken out by Mokuba's powerful pieces. The strength of Mokuba's monsters proves unwieldy and some of his own monsters accidentally destroy each other. Yugi's Ninja Squid self-destructs and takes another of Mokuba's monsters with it in the blast. After these distractions, Yugi's newly-evolved Hyper Beetle manages to easily destroy Mokuba's remaining pieces.
Dark Yugi leaves the box, but Seto activates the penalty game whilst Mokuba is still inside. As he is being attacked by the horrifying virtual reality creatures, Yugi's hand reaches through the steam and pulls him out. He can't believe that he was saved by his enemy, but Yugi is already heading towards the elevator to the final stage. The armed security guards take Anzu and Jonouchi up as well, and the crowd flee the auditorium to get the best seats on the next level up.
[edit] Death T-5
Death- T-5 is the final game of Death-T: a one-on-one game of Magic and Wizards in the duel dome at the peak of Kaiba Land. Projections of the cards used are summoned around the two players, whilst they sit at a small table inside the duel dome.
[edit] Events
Jonouchi phones Tomoya Hanasaki to find out about the status of Yugi's grandpa, and Hanasaki says that the old man has been in surgery for an hour and that the situation doesn't look good. To make matters worse, Honda does not answer his cell phone.
Dark Yugi enters the duel dome with Seto and the game begins. The lead seesaws back and forth until Seto summons his ultimate monster, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Dark Yugi buys himself some time with the Swords of Sealing Light card, but before long Seto has all three of his Blue-Eyes White Dragons in play. Dark Yugi can see no use in the arm and leg 'part cards' in his hand, and can see no way to win. Just then, he remembers that once his grandpa told him of a rare card that can only be summoned when all five of its pieces are combined.
He realizes that all five pieces of this card must be in his grandpa's deck, and so his only chance to win is to draw all five. He had collected four when the Swords of Sealing Light which held back Seto's Blue-Eyes from attacking runs out. The only way to win is to draw the last part card on his next turn. Dark Yugi goes to draw the card but is disheartened by the massive odds against his next card being what he needs: Exodia the Sealed One. It is at this moment when he remembers the symbol of friendship which Anzu drew on his hand. Enthused by thoughts of his friends, he draws a card.
His faith pays off, and the card he draws is Exodia the Sealed One, the strongest card in the game. Dark Yugi places down all five parts and the Summoned God Exodia instantly destroys all three Blue-Eyes White Dragons, winning the game. Dark Yugi then inflicts a penalty game upon Seto - Mind Crush - which shatters Seto's evil heart. The boy is left in a comatose state. The security guards still have their guns on Anzu and Jonouchi, but Honda appears out of nowhere and helps to knock them out. It turns out that he was saved by Mokuba, as a favor to Yugi.
In a state of repent, Mokuba explains the roots of his brother's anger: the two were orphans, living at an orphanage thanks to their untrustworthy relatives. They liked to play chess at the orphanage, but their peaceful existence was shattered when Gozaburo Kaiba visited to search for an heir. Seto made a deal with Gozaburo to adopt them if he could beat the old grandmaster at chess. Seto won by cheating and the boys' surnames changed to Kaiba. Seto's life learning to be the Kaiba Corporation heir was hard, but it taught him many things and he managed to wrestle control of the company from his adoptive father. As a result, Gozaburo threw himself from a high-story window and fell to his death.
Mokuba wishes his brother had never cheated at that chess game, so that he'd still have his kind heart. Dark Yugi reassures Mokuba that his brother will return, once he has pieced together his heart. Mokuba says he will wait for that day.
The sun is setting and Yugi, Jonouchi, Anzu, Honda and Johji finally leave Kaiba Land. Jonouchi receives a call from Hanasaki saying that Yugi's grandpa has made a complete recovery. The group leaves to visit him at the hospital. Yugi reflects that, for the first time, he can remember the battles with his friends that he has fought this day despite the presence of his 'other self'.
[edit] Death-T (Toei Series)
Although the basic structure is there, the events around Death-T play out differently in Toei Animation's Yu-Gi-Oh!, with some games and characters different to the manga's version of events. Honda's nephew Johji is not shown, but is replaced by Miho Nosaka.
Yugi and his friends are visiting the recently-opened arcade in Domino City. The racing game that Yugi, Jonouchi, Anzu, Honda, Miho and Bakura are playing is interrupted by a message from the Kaiba Corporation. Seto Kaiba ‘invites’ Yugi to come to Kaiba Land, and Mokuba (who owns all the high scores at the arcade) reveals that they have Yugi’s grandpa Sugoroku held hostage. Seto tells them to be at Kaiba Land at 8 o’clock the following morning to play the games.
That night, everybody is preparing for the deadly games: Jonouchi frantically reads videogame guides; Anzu cooks lunches for the group; Miho beautifies and Honda practises meditation. Yugi is surprised to see all his friends by his side in the morning mist, but Bakura is not with them – he is travelling to Kaiba Land by himself, as he feels that something is calling him. A boat carries the others across the river, where Kaiba and Mokuba wait.
Kaiba Land is full of people, and an announcement informs everybody that an opening battle will be hosted on the first floor of the game tower. Yugi and his friends are directed into an elevator by some security guards. The elevator leads to a darkened room containing a virtual reality simulator box where Seto and Sugoroku are playing a game of Duel Monsters (Magic and Wizards). With his three Blue-Eyes White Dragons, Seto wins and three huge Blue-Eyes projections attack Sugoroku. Seto turns the projections off and the simulator disappears in a puff of smoke, but Yugi's grandpa is already in a state of intense shock.
Sugoroku gives his grandson his treasured deck before the floor opens up beneath him and he falls out of sight. From a screen, Seto informs the players that they will be subjected to Kaiba Land’s ultimate game, Death-T. They will have to beat the game on each level of the game tower to advance. The lights turn on and the group is revealed to be inside a huge auditorium. They head through the door to Death T-1 and the crowd watches their progress on several large screens. Bakura looks on from the audience in concern.
Death T-1 here is similar to the Death T-1 of the manga, with key differences:
- Since Anzu is already with Yugi, she does not have the job of Death T-1 guide,
- The three mercenary opponents are re-named, and the mercenary known as ‘Name Unknown’ is replaced by a woman (Johnny Gayle is called ‘Red’, Bob McGuire is called ‘Black’ and the woman is called ‘Blue’),
- Jonouchi’s surprise attack plan does not work, and his sensor is destroyed by ‘Blue’, knocking him unconscious,
- The laser guns of Yugi and his friends are not fakes,
- When it looks as if the mercenaries have the game easily won, Miho crawls out of her hiding place where she had been sleeping and shoots her laser gun in all directions, destroying the sensors of all the mercenaries and winning the game.
Victorious, Yugi and his friends are transported to Death T-2. Death T-2 is completely different to the Horror Zone of the manga, with only one aspect kept: the 'bllood' puzzle. The separate numbers 10, 11, 00 and 01 are each above a lever in a long, dark corridor and the voice of Seto Kaiba instructs everyone but Yugi to pull a lever and hold it. When all the levers are pulled, the floor opens up, balancing everybody precariously on their own ledge.
At the other end of a the corridor, a huge robot starts to move towards them, its treads fitting into the slots in the floor. Seto explains that it is 'blood', a murder machine who hates it when its name is misspelled. It speeds up towards the gang when Miho loosens her grip on her lever. The answer to the puzzle is the same as in the manga, and when Anzu pulls her lever the robot stops and the floor closes up again.
The group are raised on a platform up to Death T-3, which is almost exactly the same as in the manga. However, the blocks begin to fall immediately. Death T-4 is also the same as the manga. Jonouchi and Miho do not watch Dark Yugi battle with Mokuba, but instead go to search for Honda. Bakura appears out of nowhere and points them in Honda's direction, before promptly disappearing. Following Bakura's advice, they find Honda and Sugoroku trapped inside a giant hourglass filling with water. The hourglass is automatically raised up to the ceiling and a door opens, revealing two of the Four Game Masters who had previously been hired by Seto Kaiba: Ryuichi Fuha the lucky gamer and Aileen Rao the dancer.
Two tubes immediately lower and cover both Aileen and Jonouchi in a special battle suit. Miho and Fuha are placed inside capsules where they will control their teammate's battle suit. Fuha attacks before Miho can get used to the controls and Jonouchi loses Life Points. Her time spent at the arcade pays off though, and she manages to pull off a special move and lower Aileen's Life Points. She discovers that special moves cost the player's own Life Points to use though, and Jonouchi's Life Points decrease even lower. At that moment, Fuha uses Aileen's special attack: Shippu Bakuretsu Ken.
Before long, Jonouchi;s Life Points are reduced to zero. Miraculously, Jonouchi is able to refill his own Life Point bar with his own tenacity and the thoughts of his friends supporting him. He pulls off his special move, Senpukyaku Sanren Patsu and defeats Aileen.
Meanwhile, Death T-5, the Duel Monsters duel between Dark Yugi and Seto Kaiba, is the same as it is in the manga, although the Swords of Sealing Light card only work for two turns instead of three. This means that neither Kaiba's turn where he summons Judge Man nor Yugi's turn where he summons Black Magician take place. When the duel is complete, Mokuba does not explain his past as he does in the manga. Bakura leaves the auditorium, impressed that Yugi managed to draw the Exodia card, before his Millennium Ring activates, and Dark Bakura takes over his body. He says that Yugi is a worthy Millennium Puzzle owner, and foreshadows their next meeting.
