Gansley

Hate Sink
Full Name	Gansley (last name unknown) Konosuke Oshita (Japan)
Alias	Deepsea Warrior
Origin	Yu-Gi-Oh!
Allies	Crump Johnson Nezbitt Lector Noah
Powers/Skills	Business Dueling
Goals	Kill Kaiba, Yugi, Joey, Mai, and Mokuba Escape the virtual world (both failed)
What Makes Them Despicable	Being a corrupt and greedy corporate tycoon Trying to kill the protagonists Trying to steal the bodies of the protagonists and leave them trapped in cyberspace forever Trying to forcibly take the protagonists' bodies after losing and refusing to return Tristan's body
"Love to hate" factors	None
Type of Hate Sink	Greedy businessman

Gansley (known in Japan as Konosuke Oshita), is the founder and official leader of the Big Five, the main board of directors for Gozaburo, the head of Kaiba Corp. Gansley himself is the vice president. He is a supporting antagonist in season 1, and the chief tertiary antagonist of season 3. He was voiced by Nobuyuki Saitou in Japanese and Eric Stuart and Marc Thompson in English.

What makes him a Hate Sink?

• He is characterized as the greediest and most corrupt and power hungry of all the Big Five. In the Japanese version, he talks about his history as a corporate raider for Kaiba Corp, firing his employees at his whim when he no longer needed them. The 4Kids dub takes this further by providing him a bit of backstory not present in the original, having him steal a lemonade stand from a neighbor and turn it into a canned juice company. In both versions, he makes it clear he is willing to resort to dirty and underhanded business practices to advance himself. Furthermore, he and Johnson (Chikuzen Ooka in Japanese) are the only members of the Big Five not given a reason for hating Seto Kaiba outside of wanting more power. Seto convinced them and the other three members that Gozaburo wasn't treating them with respect (however while this is likely at least partly true knowing Gozaburo's personality, this could have had more to do with them being greedy and power-mad themselves) and that he could grant them more if they helped him take over Kaiba Corp, only to not only back out of their deal by not meeting his end of the bargain, but also allegedly taking a good portion of the power that Gansley and Johnson already had (though there is no evidence that this effected the amount of money they made). While it was indeed morally wrong of Seto to backstab them like that, Gansley and Johnson were both corrupt businessmen who used, betrayed, and harmed others themselves, with Gansley himself admitting to being a greedy and corrupt businessman who proudly got to where he did in life by using underhanded tactics, meaning that this betrayal from Seto served as karma for all the times they did the same things to others. Most notably, this could be seen as immediate karma for betraying Gozaburo (though Gozaburo deserved it) just to gain more power than he already had.
• Instead of accepting this as his karma for his history of underhanded business practices, Gansley plots revenge on Seto, betraying him to Pegasus. When Yugi defeats Pegasus and he releases Seto, Seto fires the Big Five, who retaliate by sealing Seto inside a virtual world to try and kill him with their Five Headed Dragon Dual monster so they could take over Kaiba Corp themselves. When Yugi, Joey, Mai, and Mokuba enter the virtual world to try and save Seto, the Big Five attempt to kill them as well. Gansley kills Joey, Mai, and Mokuba (who are later revived), but the Big Five are defeated when Yugi and Seto combine their monsters to destroy the Five Headed Dragon, sealing the Big Five in the virtual world.
• Gansley and the rest of the Big Five team up with Noah to trap the protagonists in the virtual world so they can steal their bodies and escape back to the real world. While they don't have any other options at this point, they show no remorse at the thought of imprisoning innocent teenagers inside cyberspace for all eternity.
• Gansley, in the Japanese version, uses quotes from infamous warlords and conquerors, which is called out by Yami Yugi as a pathetic attempt to make himself sound like a conqueror himself, even though he's merely the former vice president of a company.
• Gansley shows sadism, drawing out his duel with Yugi to watch him squirm instead of securing a win at the first opportunity. This also proves to be his undoing, as it allows Yugi to win. For added karma, Gansley spends the duel mocking Yugi's deck master Kuriboh, and he loses due to Kuriboh's special ability.
• Gansley, Crump (Shuzo Otaki in Japanese), Johnson, and Lector (Kogoro Daimon in Japanese) break the rules by returning after their defeats to try and forcefully take the bodies of Joey, Duke, Serinity, and Tea, despite the rules of Noah's little "game" clarifying that they have to win a body in a duel, and they each only get one chance to try and win a body in a duel. Noah gets angry when he realizes they have broken his rules.
• Gansley and the other members of the Big Five duel Yugi and Joey using Tristan's body (won by Nezbitt/Soichiro Ota) with the permission of Noah, the stakes being that they gain the bodies of Yugi, Joey, and two of their friends if they win but return Tristan's body if they lose. When Yugi and Joey win, the Big Five refuse to keep their deal and Gansley, Crump, Johnson, and Lector once again try to steal the protagonists' bodies by force, which leads to Noah either deleting them or sealing them in virtual cells depending on the version (it makes no difference in the end since the virtual world is later destroyed).
• Despite being the official leader of the group, Gansley gets no special fanfare compared to the others. He is ironically the first of the group to be fought instead of the last, and he is inferior to Lector in both Kaiba Corp rank (Lector being the first in line to seize control of the company after Gozaburo's passing until Seto demoted him to a mere figurehead and advisor) and dueling skills. During the five on two duel against Yugi and Joey, he only takes control of Tristan's body for one turn, and Crump is shown to have no problem telling him to step aside. This makes his role as the chief tertiary antagonist of the Virtual World arc rather disappointing. Lector is more of a leader figure than him, being the best duelist and eventually taking control over Tristan's body for the rest of the duel. Lector is also the last to be fought before the five on two duel, and was the highest ranked at Kaiba Corp.
• Overall, Gansley is incredibly greedy, smug, and power hungry, proudly admits to being a greedy and corrupt business tycoon who fired his workers as soon as they were no longer needed, gladly betrayed his former boss in the hope of getting more power only to become furious when his new boss turned out to have just been using him the same way Gansley used and betrayed many others, tried to murder his boss, three teenagers and a preteen boy after his boss rightly fired him for betraying him (albeit, Gansley's betrayal of Seto was understandable given Seto betrayed him first), tried to trap a bunch of teenagers and a preteen boy in cyberspace forever with no remorse, went out of his way to draw out his duel with Yugi just to watch him squirm, went behind Noah's back to try and steal bodies after he lost, refused to honor his word by returning Tristan's body after he and the others lost, and once again tried to take bodies by force. He is corrupt, hypocritical (getting mad at being betrayed despite having used and betrayed others his whole life), sadistic, a liar, and a cheater. He is also a coward, begging Noah for mercy when he and the others broke the rules and repeatedly failed him.
• He and Johnson are the only members of the Big Five with no redeeming or sympathetic moments or traits. Whereas Crump has a genuinely tragic childhood, shows an admiration for penguins, and vows to benefit the environment in the Japanese version, Lector shows genuine disgust at how Seto used the Big Five and Mokuba to get ahead and was initially planning to return Tristan's body should they lose until Johnson talked him out of it, and Nezbitt was at least willing to let Serinity skip three turns so she could try and regain her composure, Gansley and Johnson have no redeeming qualities or Pet the Dog moments.