

Not sure if it was different in the manga, but in the anime, Yugi (Well okay,
Atem) dueled Pegasus through a magic TV, lost, and so he took Grandpa's soul
and told Yugi the only way he was getting it back was to enter the Duelist
Kingdom Tournament and try and make it the finals to duel Pegasus one last
time, but if he lost that duel, Pegasus would get his Millenium Puzzle. The
whole reason he challenged Yugi in the first place.

So why didn't he just take it the first time?

Instead of just taking his Grandpa's soul, why didn't Pegasus just take Yugi's
Millennium Puzzle? Penalty games seem to not have any limits to what a person
can "wager," and I heard in the manga the things a person could lose range
from sanity to even their luck, so why wouldn't Pegasus use his ancient
Egyptian magic to take Yugi's puzzle after he beat him? Was his motivation
different in the manga? In the Japanese version of the anime?


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Why didn't Pegasus just take Yugi's puzzle when he first "won" against him?


# Answer 1 - Magic cannot teleport objects.

The puzzle is a physical object. A soul isn't.

Magic cannot teleport objects. Otherwise why later in battle city did Marik
play Yugi with a physical Slifer deck instead of just playing remotely and
then teleporting the cards eg give Slifer remotely if Marik lost?

From reddit user The_Doolinator
[here](https://www.reddit.com/r/yugioh/comments/ws368z/comment/ikw6on5/?context=3):

> Honestly teleportation seems to be a very rare, almost nonexistent magical
> power (I think Shadi is the only who utilizes it, and I’d chalk that up more
> to him being a spirit. You could make an argument for Bakura too (the ring
> rematerializes on him after he was separated from it) but he is at least
> part dark god so there’s that).
>
> So yeah, teleportation is probably just not a power normally at the disposal
> of other item holders and those able to use it are tapping into something
> specific to them.
>
> Or the real reason: powers as the plot demands.

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# Answer 2 - It was a dub thing.

From reddit users

tokarooni
[here](https://www.reddit.com/r/yugioh/comments/ws368z/comment/ikwobgc/?context=3):

> Pegasus wanting the puzzle was a dub only thing. In the original he just
> needed to beat Yugi publicly as part of the conditions for taking over
> Kaibacorp.

Verificus
[here](https://www.reddit.com/r/yugioh/comments/ws368z/comment/ikwqt8k/?context=3):

> Pegasus didn’t want a puzzle or soul in original manga and original anime.
> Just something 4kids added.

MaCl97
[here](https://www.reddit.com/r/yugioh/comments/ws368z/comment/ikwqwjr/?context=3):

> he never wanted it in the manga. He just wants to beat the guy who beat
> Kaiba and take over kaiba corp. Marik too, he doesn't want the puzzle. He
> just wants to kill the pharaoh.

# Source for Answer 2:

See for yourself in episodes 35-39, a sub-arc called [Match of the
Millenium](https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Yugi_Muto,_Yami_Yugi_and_Maximillion_Pegasus%27_Duelist_Kingdom_Duel),
specifically the middle episode, episode 37 ([fandom doesn't point this out
though](https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-
Oh!_-_Episode_037#Differences_in_adaptations)). There's a part in the 4kids
dub just after Yugi and Atem destroy the toon monsters and just before Pegasus
makes the game into a shadow game where Pegasus says like 'if I win, then I
plan to claim your puzzle.'

Compare the original anime, the original Japanese manga or even the
Singaporean dub. There is no such thing that Pegasus says.

See [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7CVTmFxP_4) (22:00 - 23:40) for
example in the original anime. Pegasus acknowledges Yugi and Atem have a
millennium item, but Pegasus doesn't explicitly express any interest in
claiming the millennium puzzle.


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