The fact that Kaiba is an angsty jerk shounen rival whose life goal is to build a theme park is beyond parody. motherfucker is literally edgy teen walt disney with dragons instead of mice. laughing maniacally and wearing leather pants while he furthers his heartless plot to…bring joy to small children? who wrote this. cursed.
imagine there’s this guy, right? and he’s checking every box labelled “supervillain” like his life depended on it. he’s rich. he’s a ruthless corporate scion. he’s a teen super-genius hacker inventor. he has an angsty tragic backstory and a reason to hate the world. he wears high-fashion trenchcoats with shoulderpads and unneccesary spikes. he makes dramatic speeches about how love and friendship are useless ideals that get you nowhere and you should depend on yourself alone and value only crushing your enemies. obsessively stalking our heroic protagonist in order to “defeat” him.
So what’s he doing? Where’s his doomsday device? His world domination plot? No, idiot, he’s just building roller coasters. because he really likes them.
His adopted father was a war profiteer. Kaiba’s villain origin story is taking over his father’s trillion dollar weapons company and turning it into edgy teen Disneyland.
