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In the anime and manga Yu-Gi-Oh!, Obelisk the Tormentor (オベリスクの巨神兵 Oberisuku no Kyoshinhei, lit. Obelisk the Great God-Soldier) is one of the three Egyptian God Cards. In the original Japanese manga and anime, it is sometimes called by the Engrish name The God of Obelisk. Initially passed to Seto Kaiba by Isis Ishtar (Ishizu Ishtar), Obelisk the Tormentor is the first God Card appearing in the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime and manga. The two poles it represents are "light" and "darkness".
Note that "obelisk", unlike Osiris and Ra, is not the name of an Egyptian god, but of a kind of structure commonly erected by the Egyptians.
Note: The effects stated in this section are based on the Japanese anime and/or manga of Yu-Gi-Oh!. The real Obelisk card does not have any effect printed on it, and cannot be used in duels. (See Egyptian God Cards for more detail.)
Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.
According to the Japanese anime and manga of Yu-Gi-Oh!, the Obelisk card has the following unique statistics (unlike most other cards which text are written in Japanese, in the Japanese anime and manga, the text on the God Cards are written in English):
With what are observed in various duels, a more complete description of Obelisk's abilities can be concluded:
Many websites claim that Obelisk's effect does 4000 points of damage on the opponent's Life Points. For those who wants to use Obelisk in the real card game, this may be something convenient to use. However, it should not be considered as Obelisk's true effect.
In both the manga and anime of Yu-Gi-Oh!, Obelisk's effect was not explained clearly at the beginning. In late 1999, when Obelisk's effect was used during the duel between Seto Kaiba and Duel Machine in Japanese manga Duel 146: "A Card Like a Fierce God" (鬼神のごときカード) (this is the first time this effect was activated in the manga), there was no indication on how much damage was inflicted on its opponent's Life Points by its effect. What you can see is only Obelisk's ATK increased to an unknown value, followed by Obelisk crushing Duel Machine and all of its monsters to pieces, reducing its unhurt Life Points(4000) to 0 instantly (remember, Obelisk has an ATK of 4000 originally, which means it can wipe out 4000 Life Points with just one attack). With this scenario and the effect written on the manga Obelisk card in mind, some Yu-Gi-Oh! fans deduced that Obelisk's effect inflicts 4000 points of damage on its opponent's Life Points. And although some details of this duel was changed when it was shown in anime episode 54 "New contest, new rules" (Jap. name: "This City Becomes Battle City!" (この町は、バトルシティとなる！)) aired on TV-Tokyo on May 8, 2001, there was still no indication of the exact ATK of Obelisk with its effect activated, thus nothing to clarify it.
In the manga, after Duel 146, it appeared that Obelisk's effect was activated again when Yugi Mutou and Kaiba formed a team to duel against two Rare Hunters in Duel 177: "Strike the Enemy!!" (その敵を撃て！！), published in mid 2000. However, what one could see about this duel was that both teams played some unknown cards, and then Kaiba summoned his Obelisk and defeated both Rare Hunters with one attack. All details of the duel were skipped, thus no indication of the damage inflicted on the Rare Hunters, and no indication of the Life Points they had just before their defeats either.
However, when this duel was shown in anime episode 68: "Legendary Fisherman (Part 1)" (Jap. name.: "Invisible Enemy ? Sea Stealth II" (見えない敵 シーステルス ||)) aired on August 14, 2001, many details were added, and one could clearly see that, after two monsters were sacrificed, Obelisk first destroyed all of the two Rare Hunter's monsters, then attacked and wiped out both of their Life Points (4000) at the same time.
But before this episode was aired, an unofficial effect stating that after sacrificing two monsters, Obelisk "attacks all of your opponent's Monsters at the same time and does 4000 points of direct damage to your opponent" was given in a Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh! rule book called "Thousand Rule Bible" (サウザンド・ルール・バイブル), published by Shueisha in December 21, 2000. After that, although there were still disagreement on whether Obelisk, with its effect activated, destroyed its opponent's monster by attacking them or using a monster-destroying effect on them, the deduction that Obelisk's effect "inflicted 4000 points of damage to his opponent's Life Points" was so widely accepted that it became somewhat "official". And, needless to say, when Yu-Gi-Oh! was introduced to the Western world in early 2002, this deduction spread even further through the Internet.
Finally, Kazuki Takahashi, the author of Yu-Gi-Oh!, clarified Obelisk's effect in Duel 275: "One-point Life!!" (1ポイントの命！！) by indicating that Obelisk's ATK increased to "∞" when its effect was activated for the third time in the manga. This chapter was published on August 12, 2002, about two years after Duel 177 was published.
However, for some reason, Obelisk's effect was still not "updated" when it was used during the duel between Yugi and Kaiba in Yu-Gi-Oh! anime episode 131: "Clash in the Colosseum (Part 3)" (Jap. name: "Crash! God(Osiris) vs God(Obelisk)" (激突！神(オシリス)VS神(オベリスク)), aired on November 12, 2002. (Note that in the same duel in the manga, Obelisk's effect was never used.) Not until the airing of epsiode 141 "Obelisk's Anger ? Soul Energy Max" (オベリスクの怒り ソウルエナジーMAX) on January 21, 2003 was the clarified effect of Obelisk finally appeared in Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh! anime.
Card description of the English Obelisk card:
"The descent of this mighty creature shall be heralded by burning winds and twisted land. And with the coming of this horror, those who draw breath shall know the true meaning of eternal slumber."
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