Solomon Muto
From Yu-Gi-Oh!
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| Kanji |
武藤 双六 | ||
| Rōmaji |
Mutō Sugoroku | ||
| English (Manga) |
Sugoroku Mutou | ||
| English (Anime) |
Solomon Muto | ||
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| Appears in |
Manga Anime
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| Birthdate |
October 4 | ||
| Age |
71 at debut; 72 at series' end; | ||
| Height |
151 cm1.51 m | ||
| Weight |
62 kg136.687 lb | ||
| Gender |
Male | ||
| Blood type |
O
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| Occupation |
Owner of the Kame Game shop | ||
| Deck(s) |
Ancient | ||
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Sugoroku Mutou, known as Solomon Muto in the English anime, is the grandfather of Yugi, who calls him "Grandpa" (Jii-chan). "Sugoroku" is a Japanese game similar to Backgammon. Solomon gave Yugi the Millennium Puzzle as a present. He owns the Kame Game shop, where Yugi and his friends get several of the games they play. Solomon is the present day incarnation of Siamun Muran.
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[edit] Manga biography
[edit] History
[edit] Valley of the Kings expedition
Suguroku was a gaming master, who tried and won all sorts of games all over the world.
At the age of 40, he heard the legend spoken of amongst his companions, about the Shrine of the Game of Darkness said to be in Egypt.
In 1960, Suguroku, along with Ahmet and Mushura visited the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. Here they entered the Tomb of the Nameless Pharaoh, finding it laden with the corpses of previous trespassers.
Each room inside the room was treated like a game. One such room contained statues swinging swords, along a maze over a bottomless pit. Suguroku realized that the statues only moved if the traveler did not show respect, which in ancient Egyptian ways meant putting their left foot forward, as the heart is on the left side of the body. Suguroku led Ahmet and Mushura across the pit, but towards the end, Mushura panicked and ran, causing two of the statues to impale and kill him. With Mushura dead, Ahmet holds a gun to Suguroku, intimidating Suguroku to not let that happen to him.
In the final room, there was a bridge leading to the Pharaoh's treasure. Suguroku began to cross the bridge first with Ahmet pointing his gun at him. Once Suguroku got to the end, Ahmet fired at him, causing him to fall off the edge. With Suguroku hanging on with one hand, Amhet began crossing the bridge, but was consumed by a monster. The spirit of the Nameless Pharaoh appeared and helped Suguroku up.
Once he reclaimed his senses, Suguroku collected the treasure, which turned out to be the Millennium Puzzle.
[edit] Devil's Board Game
Mr. Otogi asked Sugoroku to take him in as a disciple gamer. After a while, they challenged each other to a game for the ownership of the Millennium Puzzle in a Shadow Game called the Devil's Board Game. During the game each player was to bet a number of years of their life, eah time they moved their piece. Sugoroku won the game, resulting in Otogi, aging 50 years in one night as his Penalty Game. Otogi swore revenge on Sugoroku through his son Ryuji.
[edit] Later life
Suguroku got together with his wife, after sending her a love letter in the form of a jigsaw puzzle. He got a son, who married Mrs. Muto, who together had his grandson, Yugi Mutou.
Suguroku opened a game store, Kame Game, where he lives with Mrs. Muto and Yugi.
At around the age of 63, he let Yugi have the Millennium Puzzle, to try solving it.
Sugoroku was given the rare Duel Monsters card, "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" from his friend Arthur Hawkins. (unnamed in the manga.)
[edit] Yu-Gi-Oh!
[edit] Early manga
At the age of 71, he found Yugi had almost solved the Millennium Puzzle. Sugoroku had been previously visited by Katsuya Jonouchi, who returned a lost piece of the Puzzle and explained that Ushio was giving Yugi a hard time. Sugoroku gave Yugi the piece to finish the Puzzle.
Unbeknownst to Sugoroku and even Yugi, Yugi's body became host to a part of the Nameless Pharaoh's soul Dark Yugi, who was stripped of his memory and would occasionally take control of Yugi's body.
Yugi and Jonouchi bring games from Sugoroku's shop to school. Sugoroku uses this to boost business at his store, as he knows that children will come into his shop wanting to play the games that he sells there.
One day, Yugi and Jonouchi bring Hiroto Honda to the shop, in search of a gift for the girl he has a crush on, Miho Nosaka. Sugoroku sells them a jigsaw love puzzle similiar to the one he gave to Yugi's grandmother.
[edit] The Cards With Teeth
Seto Kaiba enters the game shop one day and is surprised to see Sugoroku has a "Blue-Eyes White Dragon". He tries to trade for and buy the card. Sugoroku refuses as he got it from a dear friend and its sentimental value is priceless.
Seto Kaiba later tries to steal the "Blue-Eyes White Dragon", but is defeated by Dark Yugi and given the "Illusion of Death" Penalty Game.
[edit] The Man from Egypt
Sugoroku's friend Professor Yoshimori, along with Professor Kanekura put on an Egyptian exhibition at the local museum. Sugoroku, along with Yugi and Yugi's friends were all given free admission.
Professor Kanekura died that day under suspicious circumstances, believed to have been for defiling a pharaoh's tomb. Yoshimori worried about this, but Sugoroku and the others came to visit him to cheer him up. However Yoshimori became possessed by Shadi and started attacking the gang. Sugoroku got knocked-out in the struggle.
Shortly after Dark Yugi defeated Shadi in the Shadow Game, Sugoroku woke-up.
[edit] Death-T
Kaiba builds a theme park, KaibaLand in an attempt to get revenge on Yugi. He kidnaps Sugoroku, the night before the grand opening and faces him in a game of Duel Monsters at the opening ceremony. Although Sugoroku has his "Blue-Eyes White Dragon", it proves no match for Kaiba's own three Blue-Eyes White Dragons and the solid vision holograms of the monsters proves too much for Sugoroku. After defeating Sugoroku, Kaiba tears up his precious "Blue-Eyes" card and forces him into an artificial Penalty Game, using the holograms.
Kaiba forces Yugi to go through Death-T, a series of games and amusement park rides intended to kill Yugi, in exchange for Suguroku's life. Before Yugi begins, Sugoroku gives him his Deck to use to defeat Kaiba.
Yugi defeats Kaiba in the end and Sugoroku is saved by emergency surgery.
[edit] Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist
[edit] Duelist Kingdom
Pegasus J. Crawford, creator of Duel Monsters, sends Yugi a video inviting him to participate in his Duelist Kingdom tournament. Pegasus appears on the tv screen and invites Yugi to duel him on the spot. Dark Yugi ends up facing Pegasus in a Shadow Game of Duel Monsters. As a penalty for Yugi's defeat, Pegasus traps Sugoroku's soul in the video tape.
Yugi enters the Duelist Kingdom tournament in the hopes of returning his grandfather to normal. Throughout the tournament he kept carried around a video camera, containing the tape Sugoroku was trapped in, so they could communicate.
After Yugi and Dark Yugi defeated Pegasus, Sugoroku was returned to normal.
[edit] Dungeon Dice Monsters
[edit] Battle City
[edit] Yu-Gi-Oh! Millennium World
[edit] First series anime biography
The Toei anime's story is similar to the manga story except Kaiba holds Solomon hostage instead of trying to drive him insane. Yugi and his friends defeat Kaiba and free Yugi's grandfather.
[edit] Second series anime biography
[edit] History
[edit] Valley of the Kings expedition
[edit] Later life
[edit] Yu-Gi-Oh!
[edit] Duelist Kingdom
Kaiba wants the "Blue Eyes White Dragon" and decides to challenge Grandpa to a Duel. Grandpa loses and his card is tor, because Kaiba has the other 3 "Blue-Eyes White Dragons" and unable to have a fourth copy, in his Deck, the card could only be used against him. Grandpa is sent to the hospital as Yugi duels Kaiba.
[edit] Dungeon Dice Monsters
[edit] Battle City
[edit] Grand Championship
Grandpa competes in Kaiba's KaibaCorp Grand Prix tournament under the alias "Apdnarg Otum" ("Mask of Rock" in the Japanese version), yet Joey manages to defeat him. The English name is "Grandpa Muto" backwards. The Japanese name is a pun of "Mask the Roku". Roku is six in Japanese, and "Sugoroku" means "double-six". The deck used is an Ancient-themed deck with consisting mostly of Rock monsters.
[edit] Dawn of the Duel
[edit] Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, he appears in episode 75. In that episode, Duel Academy students went on a field trip to Domino. Grandpa is kidnapped by Thunder and Frost. In episode 77. Solomon Moto gave Jaden Yuki, Atticus Rhodes, and The Slifers hamburgers in the bag for one of each. Solomon's hair is now pointy on the top similar to the way it was shown in Capsule Monsters. In the English version he is portrayed as senile.
[edit] Naming
- In the English manga, Sugoroku's family name is usually spelled Mutou but is sometimes rendered as Mutoh. His family name is rendered Mutou in the uncut anime DVDs.
- In the English anime his name is Solomon Muto. All of the versions of the dubbed anime of Indo-European languages use Solomon Muto.
- The Spanish, French, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, and Italian versions of the manga use Sugoroku Muto.
- The German version of the manga uses Sugoroku Mutô.
- The Brazilian Portuguese version of the manga uses Solomon Muto.
- In Yu-Gi-Oh! The Eternal Duelist Soul and its two successors, Sugoroku is known as Trusdale. In other video games and by most people in the anime and manga he is simply called "Grandpa".
- In the ani-manga version of the movie he is Sugoroku Muto. In the English Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses video game, he is Jasper Dice Tudor.
[edit] Deck
Solomon uses an Ancient Deck based mainly around his "Ancient Dragon" during his participation in the Grand Championship. It is also indicated that Yugi's original Deck was once Solomon's, passed on to Yugi.
In Yu-Gi-Oh! Nightmare Troubadour, he uses two decks based around Exodia.
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[edit] Trivia
- In the English anime, Sugoroku's new deck is explained by Arthur Hawkins. Apparently, Sugoroku created a competition of sorts with his colleague whereby the first person to obtain all seven cards needed to summon the Ancient Dragon would get a free milkshake from the loser. Sugoroku won this bet prior to the KC Grand Prix, much to Professor Hawkins' chagrin.
- Prior to him settling down in his game store, Sugoroku was a world class gambler and sported a hairstyle similar to Yugi's (albeit wearing a fedora). After acing every game of chance he ever competed in, he made a bet with himself. If he should ever lose a game, he'd retire, open a store and wear overalls for the rest of his life. That said, it would appear he eventually lost a game.
- The man displayed on Sugoroku's Legendary Gambler is Sugoroku himself as a young man, meaning that Sugoroku is playing a card that refers to himself as a legendary gambler.
- In the English version of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, "Grandpa" has a Blue-Eyes White Dragon in his shop despite the fact that Seto Kaiba destroyed his first Blue-Eyes White Dragon in the first episode of the second series anime. However, this is not a mistake, as that same card was shown taped back together following Yugi's duel with Rebecca in episode 42.
- A running joke in the series is Sugoroku muttering "not again" when he is attacked before he faints. He mutters this line when attacked by Yami Bakura, and in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX when he is attacked by Thunder.
| Yu-Gi-Oh! first series anime characters | ||||||||
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| Antagonists | | |||||||
| Other | Jiro the Yellow Spider - Professor Kanekura - Kageyama sisters - Kaoruko Himekoji - Mr. Karita - Kokurano - Kujirada Mayumi - Miyuki Sakurai - Playing Card Bomber - Shadi - Student Council Chairman - Tetsu Tasaki - Tetsu Ushio Warashibe - Professor Yoshimori - Pokii | |||||||
