History Characters / AceAttorneyVictims

* IllGirl: [[spoiler:Has a heart condition that later became fatal.]]

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He got killed while trying to kill Dee Vasquez (for blackmailing him) and was in the process of trying to frame Will Powers for it.]]

Fiancee of Yanni Yogi. She committed suicide after the DL-6 incident.

* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: [[spoiler:Yanni named his parrot after his dead fiancee.]]

!!Turner Grey (''Tetsuro Kirisaki'')

* PosthumousCharacter: Averted. Unlike most of the victims in the series, he is actually first introduced while alive, before he is shot during Maya's channelling.

* DeadMansChest: His body was found in a safe.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: She was stabbed by Professor Means's staff.

* StatuesqueStunner: She was 5'11/181 cm, making her the tallest female character in the series by a significant margin.

* FamilyThemeNaming: She invoked this trope, naming her daughter after the mythological daughter of the titaness Metis.

A treasure guard who was ordered to watch the "Founder's Orb", Khura'in's most prized artifact.

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler:Paul set up Archie Buff's murder to look this way.]]

* PetTheDog: Her actions led Larry to find his true calling as an artist.

* FirstNameBasis: In the Japanese version, she's the only character besides Mia to call Maya by her first name without honorifics. In most cases, it would be overly familiar to refer to a stranger(even a younger one) this way, [[spoiler:but it's a perfectly appropriate way to refer to one's own daughter.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: She has the dubious honor of being the only victim to have one ("Simple Melody").

* AssholeVictims: There's a ''lot'' of victims in this series, so they run the full gamut from 'completely innocent' to 'criminals just as bad as their killers', with a lot of room in between for jerks of all sorts. Some of them only became victims because [[AssassinOutclassin they tried to murder someone else who then fought back]].

* AssholeVictims: More than a few. They range from merely being {{jerkass}}es to people who are just as evil, if not more so, than their killers. [[spoiler:Averted in ''Dual Destinies'', where every victim is completely innocent, law-abiding, and nice, which makes it [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth all the sadder]]]].

* StealthPun: She's a SatelliteCharacter named after a satellite.

* {{Retcon}}: In ''Apollo Justice'', Zak Gramarye states that Jove died in an accident while performing in a scenario. In ''Spirit of Justice'', it instead shown that he died while doing a private performance in the Khura'in Royal Residence, and that it was not an accident, but a fire that was deliberately started. Though this can be explained by [[spoiler:Ga'ran suppressing the true facts of the crime]].

* BlessedWithSuck: [[spoiler:He wins the lottery mere moments before his loan is due. Unfortunately, Glen's collateral is worth much more than the value of the loan, which prompts Furio Tigre to kill Glen to get it.]]

* FlatCharacter: Even despite being a victim you get to meet in-person, he shows little apparent personality but according to Lamiroir, he was at least coordial with Machi Tobaye.

%%ZCE* AbusiveMom: Suspected to be this, or at the very least [[ParentalNeglect neglectful]], [[spoiler:but in truth she loved her daughter dearly]].

* NiceHat: A pink hat.

* NiceHat: A classy yet badass detective fedora.

* NiceHat: A hat shaped like his band's namesake, a bird's wing.

* AmbiguousSituation: Although she ended up being blamed for it, it's never revealed how responsible she was for the 14 deaths at her clinic.

* PlotTriggeringDeath: [[spoiler:Her death kicks the plot (not to mention the video game series) into motion.]]

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: She was almost one. [[spoiler:After her suicide, Juan planned to use her real suicide note or use a fake one (in the game) to smear Matt Engarde and ruin his career. However, he was killed by Engarde's assassin before he could.

An astronaut who was one of Apollo's close friends. Dies from a stab wound in the chest.

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Like Russell Berry, this man is a saint. He pays his workers well, [[spoiler:he saved the original Ora Shipley from being euthanized, tried to prevent Sasha from performing after finding out about her heart condition,]] and is respected by everyone at the aquarium, including the Doctor and [[spoiler:the culprit]]. [[spoiler:His last actions before dying? Refusing to give Marlon [[TakeMyHand his hand]] since he would only end up dragging him down as well, apologising to him for not realizing the pain he suffered and trying to explain that his hatred was misplaced]].

Athena Cykes's mother, who was a psychologist and worked with robots. Killed by being stabbed with a katana.

* PosthumousCharacter: He died 5 years prior to case.

* SlainInTheirSleep: Courtesy of L'belle. In the opening cutscene of the second case, Kyubi and Tenma were drugged with sleeping pills planted in their coffee cups and L'belle took the opportunity to stab the unconscious Alderman while he was in his drug induced slumber with one of his own spears.

* AnimeHair: [[http://aceattorney.wikia.com/wiki/File:Azurasummers.png As seen in her full body art]], the tips of her hair curve upwards to mimic the tentacles of cephalopods, as a contrast to Sasha's spiky sea urchin-like hair.

* SatelliteCharacter: Mainly exists to tie her boyfriend [[spoiler:who turns out to be Rimes]] to the case.

* KnifeNut: His first killing was a vehicular homicide (possibly an accident), but the rest seem to have all been knife murders.

[[folder:Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth]]
!!Akbey Hicks
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An Interpol agent assigned to pair with Franziska on the investigation of the smuggling ring, but died before making contact.

* DeadMansChest: His body was placed in the most garish one imaginable - one of Rhoda's portable luggages.
* InterpolSpecialAgent: Assigned to investigate smuggled goods on [=iFly=] Airlines en route to and from Zheng Fa.
* PunnyName: "Ackbey" sounds like ''akubi'', which means "yawn" in Japanese. [[spoiler:Ironic, considering who murdered him.]]
* RailingKill: [[spoiler:His cause of death.]]

!!Oliver Deacon/[[spoiler:Colin Devorae]] (''Masumi Ogura''/[[spoiler:''Sumio Kurama'']])
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Butler to Amano family and Lance's tutor. Died from a gunshot wound in his abdomen.

%%zce* DisappearedDad: To [[spoiler:Lauren Paups.]]
* {{Greed}}: [[spoiler:Subverted. We think he was killed because he didn't want to share the money, but it turns out that he was forced to take the heat for Ernest Amano, and was implied to have been blackmailed by his son into cooperating on the fake kidnapping]].
* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:It's suggested that Lance was threatening to harm Lauren if Colin didn't help with the fake kidnapping, which is why he suddenly attacked him in the fun house.]]
* SignificantAnagram: [[spoiler:His real name and alias.]]
* TakingTheHeat: [[spoiler:Forced to take responsibility for the Amano Group's ties to the smuggling ring.]]

!!Mack Rell (''Tohru Makari'')
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Hitman and suspect of killing of Deid Mann. Originally claimed to be Yatagarasu, but then accused Byrne Faraday of being one instead. Later found under Faraday's body with a gunshot wound and a knife in his hand, suggesting he stabbed Faraday at the last second before expiring.

* TheCameo: He's modeled after [=AAI=]'s producer Motohide Eshiro.
* FatBastard: An overweight criminal who's clearly guilty of killing Deid Mann.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Killed Deid Mann to silence him, [[spoiler:much as Manny Coachen had killed Cece Yew to silence her]], giving rise to the case being called the "Second KG-8 Incident".
* TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: Murdered while on trial for committing homicide by [[spoiler:his own defense attorney in order to create a convenient cover story]].
* LeaveNoWitnesses: Faraday is the one [[spoiler:Calisto Yew]] had any actual motive to murder. On the other hand, Rell is killed in order to leave no witnesses.
* PunnyName:
** Mackerel, as in the fish.
** His Japanese name is an inversion of the phrase ''makari tooru'' means "to get away with" or "to let slide".
* StealthPun: Given the above about his name, this makes him a fishy individual.
* VillainHasAPoint: When he accuses Byrne Faraday of being the Yatagarasu. [[spoiler:He's one-third correct -- and Byrne being the member who actively stole the critical evidence for this particular trial sure doesn't hurt, either.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: On [[spoiler:Calisto Yew]]'s orders, he kills Deid Mann, accuses Byrne Faraday of being the Yatagarasu, and, after Byrne Faraday is dead, helps arrange the crime scene. Then he is killed as well so that the murder will look like a fatal struggle between the two men.

!!Deid Mann
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Cohdopia Embassy staff member who was murdered by Mack Rell to prevent him from testifying about the smuggling ring.

* TheGenericGuy: He's about as nondescript as a murder victim can get. Even his PunnyName is just a reference to the fact that he's a murder victim.
* PunnyName: Dead man.

!!Cece Yew (''Yuko Kazura'')

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The victim of the KG-8 case. Calisto's sister [[spoiler:(except not really)]], and a former Amano group member. Was killed in her apartment ([[MyGreatestFailure on Det. Badd's watch]]) before being able to testify in court about the smuggling ring.

* DefectorFromDecadence: She decided to betray the Amano group after finding out about the existence of the smuggling ring.
* PunnyName: "Cease, You!", "cc: you" or maybe even "sees you."
* SheKnowsTooMuch: Held critical evidence against the smuggling ring gleaned from her employment at the Amano Group.
* ThemeNaming:
** A yew is a type of tree (incidentally, it's sometimes found in graveyards), following the tree theme for several of the characters involved in KG-8.
** In Japanese, the theme is various plants. Her surname, "Kazura", is the Japanese word for climbing or creeping plants (e.g. ivy, vines).

!!Manny Coachen
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A suspect in the KG-8 case after killing Cece Yew, but let go due to lack of evidence. Worked as secretary to Colias Palaeno while secretly still working for the smuggling ring. Later found dead in the ashes of a fire within the Babhalese embassy, although his actual death was caused by a stab wound.

* TheDragon: To the smuggling ring leader, later to become [[spoiler:TheStarscream.]]
* HateSink: [[spoiler:While not as bad as Alba, he was willing to ruin countless lives to make a profit. He would kill innocents if there was an advantage in it for him, and was willing to corrupt and betray his closest allies if he felt that he could gain power from doing so.]]
* HypercompetentSidekick: Seen as one by Palaeno.
* TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: Murdered by the same man who ordered him to commit the murder of a key witness against him years before.
* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler:He was a murderer and a member of the smuggling ring]]. He's also noted by quite a few characters as sharing the same ruthless and selfish ambitions as the man who killed him.
* NeverBringAKnifeToAFistFight: [[spoiler:He probably brought Alba's "frail, hunched, tree-like old man" act and thought of him as an easy target. A mistake that proved to be lethal.]]
* NotMeThisTime: Edgeworth at one point suspects him of killing Byrne Faraday, his motive being that he had prosecuted him, but Badd says while Coachen was at the trial, he was being watched by the police the entire time, and couldn't have done it.
* NotProven: He was never convicted of Cece's murder because [[spoiler:the smuggling ring stole the evidence.]] By the time [[spoiler:Badd stole it back, it was too late to be used in court.]]
* ReformedCriminal: The reason Palaeno hired him as secretary [[spoiler:in spite of knowing he ''did'' kill Cece Yew]]. What Palaeno didn't know, however, was that Coachen was never reformed to begin with.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: The reason he got off the hook for murder. [[spoiler:This is what kickstarted the Yatagarasu.]]
* SmallRoleBigImpact: While Coachen is given a bit more depth than other victims and is even given a sprite, he doesn’t make it long in Turnabout Ablaze before being killed. Regardless, his actions led to the [[spoiler:the creation of the Yatagarasu]] and his death kickstarts Turnabout Ablaze and the start of [[spoiler:Quercus Alba’s]] demise.
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:Tries to ensure that Alba would not become Cohdopia's ambassador when it reunited by stealing the Primidux Statue and trying to kill Alba, but ends up dead instead]].

!!Ka-Shi Nou (''Aoi Akaishi'')
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[=Mask=]☆[=DeMasque=] II in name only. Killed via blunt force during an attempt to rob the Allebahstian embassy.

* {{Acrofatic}}: Is noticeably fatter than Ron [=DeLite=], yet he was seemingly a pretty good PhantomThief, since he was actually hired to steal something.
* {{Gonk}}: Is noticeably very fat when his face portrait is seen. It's not as noticeable when in his costume.
* JackTheRipoff: Calls himself "Mask☆[=DeMasque=] II" and styles himself after the original, but is no way connected to him.
* {{Jerkass}}: The only things known about him are his obsession with Mask☆[=DeMasque=] and his willingness to steal things for Manny Coachen.
* {{Neet}}: Is out of work and wanted for larceny.
* PunnyName:
** "Cash In Now". Alternately, "Casino".
** His Japanese first name, Aoi, is written with the kanji for "mallow" (following the plant ThemeNaming in this case). It's also a homophone for the word for "blue", which can also be used to describe someone who is inexperienced [[UsefulNotes/GreenIsBlue (figuratively "green")]].
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[[folder:Gyakuten Kenji 2]]
'''''(Note: English names provided are from the fan translation.)'''''

!!Gai Tojiro (''Ethan Rooke'')

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President Huang's head bodyguard. Death caused by gunshot wound inflicted by a jealous third party.

* ChessMotifs: His last name (in both English and Japanese) is a reference to the rook.
* CoolShades: He is never seen without his blocky sunglasses.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: His honor kept him from being a part of the [[spoiler:fake assassination ploy]] and [[spoiler:Knightley]] murdered him because he saw him as too righteous and unwilling to be as effective as he saw himself.
* SpeakIllOfTheDead: [[spoiler:Knightley]] doesn't hesitate to mock him, much to other characters' disgust.
* WillNotTellALie: [[spoiler:The president first came to him with the fake assassination plan, but he wouldn't do it.]]
* WorthyOpponent: It's extraordinarily rare for someone to even ''scratch'' Shelley de Killer. This man ''broke his goddamn arm''. And then ''shot'' the broken arm for good measure. De Killer was so impressed by Rooke's fighting skills that he forces Edgeworth to solve his murder in order to get justice for such a worthy opponent.

!!Teikun Ō (''Di-Jun Huang'') / [[spoiler:The body double]]
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->"''The battle is not over! ...I declare, here and now! The Hammer of Justice shall be brought down upon all evil!''"
The first victim of ''Gyakuten Kenji 2'', and the president of Zheng Fa. Visited the country in order to thank Edgeworth for bringing down the smuggling ring that had been destroying Zheng Fa's economy, but is immediately targeted by an assassin. He lives, but he turns up dead for real in the final case.

* AdiposeRex: [[spoiler:The body double's true appearance.]]
* AnimalMotifs: He strongly resembles a lion in appearance.
* AssassinOutclassin: [[spoiler:The assassination plot was a fake though, so it's no wonder he didn't die. He actually planned to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this trope to make himself more popular.]]
* BodyDouble: [[spoiler:The Huang we actually meet]].
* BreakTheHaughty: He initially comes off as a bombastic, intimidating and arrogant man, but after Edgeworth [[spoiler:exposes the fake assassination plot]], he becomes much more subdued and meek, [[spoiler:and his appearance changes accordingly]]. At the end of the case, he owns up to the role he played in helping cause Rooke's murder, and apologizes. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out that he never changed for the better.]]
* BrokenPedestal: Not directly for any one character, but seeing people speak so highly of him comes off as this after seeing his true character. [[spoiler:Later used as a plot point, where the discrepancy between these two images becomes so extreme Edgeworth uses it as reasoning that the President he met wasn't who he claimed to be.]]
* CadreOfForeignBodyguards: He hired a private security firm during his visit at Gourd Lake. It is eventually explained that the reason for this was a combination of Di-Jun Huang's strained relationship with the police force of Zheng Fa as well as his popularity numbers being in the gutter.
* ChessMotifs: A king, obviously. [[spoiler:It's rather fitting for the body double especially, as in chess, the king is relatively weak and needs protection, which ties in well to the DirtyCoward the body double is]].
* CleanDubName: While the FanTranslation continues Capcom's practice of using the [[AlternateCharacterReading Chinese reading of the kanji]] in the names of characters from Zheng Fa, the actual Chinese reading of his name is "Di-Jun ''Wang''," which was changed to "Di-Jun ''Huang''" likely because they thought people couldn't take a president named "Wang" seriously.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: One of the strangest and most brutal in the series, this guy was crushed to death, and his autopsy indicates ''nearly every bone in his body was broken.'' At first he was thought to have been [[spoiler:stepped on by a monster]]. Naturally this turns out to be wrong... [[MetaphoricallyTrue or not quite]], as [[spoiler:a prop monster head for a film set had fallen around the time of his death]]. But this ''too'' isn't what did it. The real cause, perhaps even stranger than any of those? [[spoiler:The killer ''landed a hot air balloon'' on him]].
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:The real president was killed 12 years before the events of the game]].
* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: [[spoiler:Or rather, "Arrested-for-Murder Fall Guy Gambit", but it unintentionally became this in the end. He pinned the assassination attempt on Knightley after his arrest to cover up the fact it was fake]].
* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:The fake]]. And both de Killer and the BigBad call him out on it.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: [[spoiler:The body double's motivation. He figured that since he was the one out there putting his ass on the line, he should be the one in charge.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:The real president, upon meeting his assassin, did not beg for his life or try to bribe Dogen to spare him. He explained to Dogen that he was there to meet his illegitimate infant son for the first time, and simply asked for permission to do so before being killed.]]
* FakeKing: [[spoiler:The real Huang was assassinated and replaced 12 years before the events of the game by his own BodyDouble, who was jealous of his boss. The fake and his comrades then [[ContractOnTheHitman betrayed and planned to kill the hitman responsible]]]]. This leads to the BigBad of the game murdering him, as a way of repaying the hitman for saving the BigBad's life.
* FatBastard: [[spoiler:The body double [[FatFlex can make himself look muscular, but is actually fat]], and is definitely a villain.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:The body double is directly or indirectly responsible for the entire plot of the game, but he only appears in the first case and is next seen... when he becomes the victim of the fifth. The vast majority of his villainy takes place offscreen.]]
* HateSink: [[spoiler:He participated in a presidential assassination, took his place and dragged the president's name through the dirt by tarnishing his legacy, and enabled the corruption and decay of Zheng Fa by using it as a base of operations for any smuggler who needed it. He was also willing to murder those who got in his way, only being defeated because Simon crushed him with a hot air balloon.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler:His [[BodyDouble impostor]] anyway as he was planning to kill Courtney and Marsh to keep his cover safe when he got killed]].
* KillAndReplace: [[spoiler:The president's body double replaced him after planning his murder.]]
* LargeHam: [[spoiler:Pre-breakdown]].
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Zheng Fa ~ Land of the Phoenix"
* MeaningfulName: His name is just a series of words for rulers--"king", "emperor", "monarch".
* NoNameGiven: [[spoiler:The body double's real name is never given, being referred to as Di-Jun Huang before the reveal, and as 'the body double' afterwards.]]
* ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: [[spoiler:He was assassinated 12 years before the events of the game, being replaced by his body double until he too was murdered.]]
* PresidentEvil: While he doesn't seem to be an actively malevolent ruler, he ''does'' [[spoiler:stage an assassination attempt on himself as a publicity stunt]]. Oh, and [[spoiler:he's actually an impostor who hired a ''real'' assassin to kill the real president so that he could take over]].
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Of the President Target type. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] ([[spoiler:the fake assassination plan]]), [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] ([[spoiler:in SS-5]]) and Played straight [[spoiler:(with Shelly de Killer)]].
* OutOfCharacterAlert: While it's not obvious to the player at the time, this is what tips off Shelly de Killer to the fact that [[spoiler:he's not the real president. The real Huang is implied to have been AFatherToHisMen who would have surrendered himself to save Knightley's life, but the double's refusal to surrender himself derails de Killer's plan, and leads to him finding out the truth and then turning on Simon Keyes]].
* RedemptionRejection: At the end of "Turnabout Target", he actually seems shocked and remorseful enough to start turning over a new leaf. [[spoiler:It's all an act -- he then proceeds to try to scapegoat Horace Knightley in "The Imprisoned Turnabout"; and "The Grand Turnabout" ultimately reveals that he's actually a fake President, responsible for the real one's murder out of petty jealousy, and the leader of an international conspiracy that are even willing to kill children in order to cover their tracks (it's even heavily implied that the fake would've killed John Marsh, the real President's long-lost son, had the BigBad not stepped in and killed the fake first).]]
* TemporaryBulkChange: [[spoiler:Inverted, the fake initially starts off imposing and muscular, but when the plan to assassinate him has been shown to be a publicity stunt, his breakdown involves letting out all the air he's been holding in, revealing that he's actually fat and has flabby cheeks. The real one, presumably, actually was that muscular]].
* WouldHurtAChild: The BigBad states that [[spoiler:the body double was willing to kill John Marsh, as he could be evidence that the body double is a fake]].

!!Manosuke Naitō (''Horace Knightley'')

Detailed on [[Characters/AceAttorneyWitnessesAndOtherCharactersGyakutenKenji2 the Gyakuten Kenji 2 section of Witnesses and Other Characters]].

!!Isaku Hyōdō (''Isaac Dover'') [[spoiler:(aka Paul Holic/Pierre Hoquet)]]

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A pastry chef who competed in Jeff Master's contest. Found dead in Master's chocolate treasure chest with a bleeding head wound.

* AbusiveDad: [[spoiler:He ordered his own son to kidnap Gustavia's son. According to the flashback, Dover's kid carried it out because he was ''that'' scared of his father]].
* DeadMansChest: [[spoiler:Said chest happened to be a sculpture made of chocolate.]]
* FrenchCuisineIsHaughty: Subverted. [[spoiler:He isn't a chef.]] He would be a pretty textbook [[spoiler:FrenchJerk,]] though, [[spoiler:except he's not even French.]]
* HateSink: [[spoiler:Like Gustavia, he was more than willing to use his child as a tool for his own selfish desires, threatening a young Horace Knightley into kidnapping Simon Keyes, his best friend. He also tried to murder Gustavia when he lashed out at him for kidnapping his son. The only reason he did the kidnapping in the first place was to sabotage his competition.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: He betrayed [[spoiler:Dane Gustavia, kidnapped his young son, tried to blackmail him and then assaulted him for the hell of it]]. Up until the actual moment of the murder, he was indisputably the real villain of the case.
* MeaningfulName[=/=]PunnyName: His first name, Isaku, contains the kanji for "work" (as in a work of art). His surname is written with the kanji for "ice" and hall" [[spoiler:which was where his body was hidden]]. [[spoiler:His nom de plume "Pierre Hoquet" is a pun on "digging one's own grave" in Japanese.]]
%%zce* NeverFoundTheBody: For 18 years.
* PeekABooCorpse: [[spoiler:One that took 18 years to reveal itself.]]
* SeriousBusiness: Desserts. [[spoiler:He was willing to have a child kidnapped over it.]]
* SevenDeadlySins: Isaac Dover's Deadly Sins are Pride and Greed, his Pride causes him to betray his collaborating partner in the Contest, Dane Gustavia. He refused to help him when Dane Gustavia made Isaac Dover the Delicious Sherbet he needed to win the Contest, he also had his son tie up Dane Gustavia's son so that Dane Gustavia wouldn't know how his entries tasted, with no way for Dane Gustavia to win the Contest and get the Angel's Recipe which has a cure for taste disorders that he needs, he tries to take a picture of the cure for the taste disorder with an instant camera but Isaac Dover catches him in the act, finds out that Dane Gustavia cannot taste anything and mocks him, His greed causes him to try to blackmail Gustavia into paying him an extortionate sum of money to keep silent about his condition. Isaac Dover's Pride and Greed turn out to literally be his Deadly Sins as betraying Dane Gustavia and then Blackmailing Him results in Dane Gustavia murdering Isaac Dover. Had Isaac Dover not tried to blackmail Dane Gustavia, Dane Gustavia would most likely have hated him but he would not have killed him, had he kept his end of the deal, the prize might have been shared by the both of them. So in Hindsight, Isaac Dover Unwittingly caused his own death.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:He inadvertedly turned Gustavia and Keyes into monsters, leading to catastrophic events far beyond his death.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: There's far more to him than there seems.

!!Ami Aizawa (''Amy Marsh'')

John's mother. She worked at the orphanage "Happy Family" with Patrica Roland. She died when John was 8 so her cousin, the judge Justine Courtney adopted him.

* AlliterativeName: In Japanese, '''A'''mi '''A'''izawa.
* PunnyName: In the fan translation her name is a reference to her original Japanese name. The given name "Amy" means "love," which is one way to read the first kanji of her original surname; it also sounds similar to "Ami." "Marsh"—which comes from the noun "marsh"—is a direct translation of the second kanji ("zawa") of her original surname.
* PosthumousCharacter: She is dead by the time the story begins. Also, she seems to have died of natural causes.

!!Ryūji Kamei (''Jack Cameron'')

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A freelance journalist who died 12 years ago. He was the only known victim in the SS-5 Incident. He and his lover, defense attorney Jill Crane were investigating a prosecutor, whom they suspected of secretly selling evidence.

* GoingForTheBigScoop: Proved lethal.
* {{Gonk}}: Although one of the few examples of this trope to have a ''girlfriend'' despite his looks.
* MeaningfulName:
** His last name contains the word ''kame'' (turtle). One of the lines from the chant in the Japanese children's game "Kagome Kagome" (referenced in his girlfriend, Tsubasa Kagome's name) is about a turtle and crane slipping. Since turtles and cranes are symbols of good fortune, it's been theorized that their slipping is a bad omen.
** His first name in the fan translation is a reference to the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill" (also see Tsubasa Kagome/Jill Crane). [[spoiler:Particularly fitting since Jack "fell" first, then Jill "went tumbling after" when she tried to avenge him.]]
* PunnyName: His last name in the fan translation is a play on "camera".
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[[folder:Manga characters]]
!!Bright Bonds (''Hikaru Shinjou'')

Belle's old boyfriend and the victim in Turnabout With the Wind in the manga. He was thought to have been killed by Larry out of jealousy when he kept pursuing Belle despite being married.

* AlliterativeName: In English, ''B''right ''B''onds.
* {{Jerkass}}: Payne speculates that he got killed because he was committing adultery, as he talks about infidelity harming more people than those involved, [[spoiler:but it's subverted when it turns out that he was killed because he wouldn’t]].
* LoveMartyr: [[spoiler:In spite of knowing that Belle killed him, he went into a men’s only sauna before he died, possibly to ensure that Belle would not be charged. Phoenix suspects that he still cared for her in spite of everything he said]].
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: He's a sports fanatic who shares the same last name as Barry Bonds.

!!Eddie Johnson (''Jirou Kimura'')
A talented employee at Cyber Project who was rude to his superiors and arrogant, and also was in a relationship with Lira Wolfe. Robin Wolfe called Eddie in to have a talk with him, which resulted in [[spoiler:him torturing him with spiders, leading him to commit suicide]]. This led to Robin being suspected of killing Eddie, since he was the last person Eddie saw.

* BloodFromTheMouth: As he is dying from falling to his death.
* BreakTheHaughty: Robin says he was hoping to have a talk with him about his arrogance and insubordination, but his method suggests he was going farther.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:The police, however, think it's murder, and considered Robin the prime suspect]].
* InsufferableGenius: Was apparently quite arrogant, but also had the talent to back it up.
* ShoutOut: He and his brother Brock's names combined form "[[Franchise/SpiderMan Eddie Brock]]", also known as Comicbook/{{Venom}}.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Extremely arachnophobic as a result of being bitten by a spider as a child, [[spoiler:and commits suicide after his traumatic experience]].

!!Robin Wolfe (''Akamune Komori'')
President of Cyber Project, he hires Phoenix to defend him when he comes under suspicion of murdering Eddie Johnson. He ends up getting killed himself in Turnabout Gallows, and Phoenix is hired to defend Bobby when he’s charged with Robin’s murder.

* BaitAndSwitchBoss: He's initially the potential defendant in Turnabout Gallows until he becomes the ''victim''.
* BaldOfEvil: A fairly shiny one.
* BigFancyHouse: The owner of one, due to his profession.
* DyingClue: Double subversion. The police investigate his drawing of a spider, thinking that it's related to the "spider man" that was threatening him, but Phoenix points out he merely draws what is in front of him when he needs to come up with an idea. It turns out that [[spoiler:the spider was drawn upside down]], and he unwittingly provided evidence that [[spoiler:he was being restrained on the ceiling]].
* HatedByAll: The kind of person almost everyone in the area at the time of the murder hated enough to have a motive for wanting him dead. His daughter hates him for driving Eddie to his death, Brock suspects that he killed Eddie and Bobby secretly resents how he's being pushed to the side and seen as worthless.
* {{Jerkass}}: Has essentially alienated his wife and daughter. Interestingly enough, however, he's surprisingly nice to [[ButtMonkey Phoenix]].
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Being restrained in a chair, tricked into thinking that Eddie was back from the dead, as a spider man on the ceiling, and then essentially tricked into killing himself by falling to his death (the same way Eddie killed himself)]].
* PetTheDog: Subverted; he claims that he sent Bobby to San Francisco to give him working experience and confidence, but Brock's statements suggest that he wanted him away from home so that he could take Eddie to the Den of Spiders (which also seems like a considerable investment out of love for his brother, but also keeps Bobby out of sight). However, he has an arguably straight example, when toward the end of the trial, Lira recalls a fond memory of him drawing her picture.
* SpeakIllOfTheDead: He derides Eddie for being "weak" for [[spoiler:committing suicide]], and even laughed about [[spoiler:driving him to his death]].
* UnreliableExpositor: He claims that Lira had no relationship with Eddie, but she makes it clear later that she loved him. He also denies Bobby is his brother and claims that he’s a servant when he doesn’t have any servants. It’s thus difficult to believe his claim that he knew nothing of Eddie’s arachnophobia.

!!Flip Chambers (''Junpei Ichinomiya'')
The actor who plays Twinklestar. He was formerly in a relationship with Julie Henson until he left her for someone else.

* BigOlEyebrows: His resemble Sparklestar's, to the point at which Maya is surprised when he isn't the one in the costume.
* {{Gorn}}: Both sides of the costume and his clothes are soaked with blood. Unlike some of the other stabbings in the series, the killer did not leave the weapon in or wipe up the blood.
* IdenticalStranger: With Clay Terran, from the main series games, down to the PointlessBandAid and the manner in which they died (that is, bleeding out from a stab wound to the chest).
* LockedRoomMystery: He was stabbed in the chest, without the front of the costume being pierced. He couldn't have opened the costume (which is zipped from the back) from the inside, and none of the mascots can hold anything in their hands, leaving Julie as the only suspect. [[spoiler:All this, however, only applies if the costumes are not worn backwards, as he and his killer did]].
* MeaningfulName: His Japanese name means "One palace," which the translators changed to "Chambers" to preserve the reference to the LockedRoomMystery.
* PointlessBandAid: On his nose.
* RedHerring: It's noted that he and Julie are not on the best of terms, as he dumped her for someone else. This never comes up a second time, and she is innocent of his murder.
* TheShowMustGoOn: One explanation for his going back on stage despite being fatally stabbed.
* WorkingWithTheEx: He and Julie have not reconciled after their breakup.

!!Oracle Hecate (''Oracle Reika'')
A fortune teller who is the "gatekeeper" of the "Gates of Hell" aka the Nether World. Her prophecies come from the Lord of Death. She's the victim in Turnabout Prophecy.

* ContinuityNod: The chant she told Russi to say (Larmawiledlanmag Mamaxmatphoe Romagteriri) are really small parts of all the defendants' names from the first game to the third one.
* FortuneTeller: Her profession.
* {{Gonk}}: It's actually pretty normal here considering that she's a fortune teller.
* JerkAss: She's described as a terrible human being by Saito. Also, she's like that with some of her customers.
* LiteralMinded: When Cytherea suggested that [[spoiler:she should lock herself up and nail all the entrances to the booth, she took it seriously]].
* LockedRoomMystery: Both the front door and the back door are locked and Russi was supposedly the only one there besides herself. [[spoiler:You can unlock the back door through the hole in the Gates of Hell though]].
* NiceHat: A pink hat.
* NowThatsUsingYourTeeth: [[spoiler:When she's nailing the entrance via ventilation system]].
* PhonyPsychic: She's really [[spoiler:in league with Cytherea to make it look like her fortune-telling is 100% accurate]].
* PosthumousCharacter: Kind of. She's only ever seen in-person from Russi's point of view but Phoenix never actually met her.
* SuperStrength: She practically slammed the doors of all the booths when she found about her death sickle being touched.
* ThePreciousPreciousCar: Don't even think about touching her death sickle.

!!Buck Wheatley (''Nihachi Kanenari'')

The former president of Buckwheat Palace and Diana's father, who had an allergy to buck wheat.

* AbusiveDad: He often vented his anger on his daughter, and his outbursts were so violent that she even feared she'd die more than once.
* BadBoss: According to Alice Butler, he was harsh to his employees.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He had very shady methods of running his company, and according to his daughter, made several enemies. She suspects that her kidnapping as a child was perpetrated by one of said enemies, and the reason why said kidnapping wasn't reported to the police is because his methods would have been exposed.
* {{Irony}}: The guy ended up developing an allergy to wheat, the same stuff that made him rich in the first place.
* {{Jerkass}}: He was a ''massive'' dick, to say the least.
* OneSteveLimit: Wheatley and Montana share the same given name.
* PunnyName: Comes from "buck wheat", the stuff that made him rich and ironically caused his death.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Covers up many of his underhanded deeds and the kidnapping on Vale, as well as [[spoiler:the fact that she's the daughter of his mistress]].

!!Vale Wheatley (''Kasumi Kanenari'')

Buck's wife and Diana's mother. She died in an accident when Diana was four years old.

* AbusiveMom: [[spoiler:It turns out that instead of being a kidnapper, Diana's [[MamaBear real mother]] was trying to save her]].
* MissingMom: Diana's; she died in a car accident. [[spoiler:Except she wasn't really her mom, but rather her stepmother]].
* WickedStepmother: [[spoiler:Right down to mistreating her stepdaughter for being the daughter of her husband and another woman instead of her own]].

!!Milo "Fairplay" Kent (''Justice Masayoshi'')

One of the contestants on the Gourmand Battle show.

* BloodFromTheMouth: Right as he kicks it, he spits blood from his mouth.
* CheatersNeverProsper: Averted and Invoked at the same time, because [[spoiler:Milo's constant winning streaks were a result of him using his magician's tricks to cheat and win. Unfortunately, it also got him killed.]]
* MeaningfulName: Milo means "Merciful".
* PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo: Risa claims that he switched her poison bowl with his. [[spoiler:And she was counting on him doing so]].
* RedBaron: Known as "The Magician".
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler:Well, [[DownplayedTrope "villain" is a bit strong]], but he WAS a total cheater who managed to get away with it because he was so good-looking and charming to everyone else. It's also pointed out that if word of this gets out, it will cause a lot of trouble, especially since he had advertising deals going on.]]

!!Casper Sly (''Kagero Hosobosoki'')

Also known as G.I. Sly (''GI Kagero''). He was a private investigator who was investigating the Great Tengu Society.

* MeaningfulName: G.I. stands for "Ghost-like and Inconsolable." The way he had disappeared after he was spotted on the third floor of the tower made it look like he had spirited away.
* NiceHat: A classy yet badass detective fedora.
* OfCorpseHesAlive: He was suspended by wires to make it seem as though he were alive for some time after his death to prevent people from finding out when he died, and thus who killed him.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Subverted. He tells Phoenix and Maya his full name before he tells them his nickname.
* PrivateDetective: Investigated the Great Tengu Society.

!!Hayden Maxwell (''Hatsune Mada'')

A woman who is stabbed to death at the masquerade party.

* InTheBack: Fatally stabbed in the back.
* ItsAllAboutMe: She bled her previous boyfriend dry, dumped him, then moved on to another boyfriend with no remorse.
* KarmaHoudini: Seen as such by her killer, for causing her boyfriend to go deep into debt and [[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide]]. The victim then responds with PayEvilUntoEvil.

!!Holland (''Hayato'')

The lead vocalist for Bird Wing, who was killed during his band's final show.
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* AmbitionIsEvil: He was widely disliked among the band for going solo.
* NiceHat: A hat shaped like his band's namesake, a bird's wing.
* WorkingWithTheEx: He used to be in a relationship with Hiedei, but dumped her a week before his death.

!!Hobart Tarkington (''Hirofumi Takeda'')

A robber who tried to steal 200 million yen worth of diamonds, but was killed.

* BoomHeadshot: How he meets his end.
* DisguisedHostageGambit: He tried this, but...
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: It backfired on him and ultimately [[spoiler:led to his "hostage" shooting him]]
* HumanShield: Uses his hostage [[spoiler:or rather, his accomplice]], as one
* ItsAllAboutMe: He was a robber who tried to steal diamonds.

!!Max Arden (''Mamoru Ato'')

A security guard at the Seselagi Art Museum, who was killed in an attempt to steal the painting "Officers".

* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:He found out that Miller had sold Officers. He chose to stay quiet, but Miller decided to kill him to silence him, as part of his plan to pretened that it was stolen]].
* {{Mentor}}: Monet's martial arts master.
* OfCorpseHesAlive: Although the killer couldn't quite get him into a standing position, and so had to improvise.
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:That "Officers" was sold and replaced by a fake]].
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Angrily chastises Miller for selling Officers. He reluctantly decides to keep quiet, but Miller doesn't trust him, and so kills him]].

!!Brodie Toynbee (''Burikichi Omochiya'')
President of Toy-be. He looks Japanese and apparently follows a samurai code.

* NotGoodWithPeople: His only close companion is a dog.
* {{Seppuku}}: Or so his killer wanted everyone to believe.

!!Gabriel Toynbee (''Gannosuke Omochiya'')
The first president and founder of Toy-be and father of the three Toynbee brothers. He committed suicide in his office on New Year's Day. Since the next president apparently committed suicide near New Year's Day too, it was believed that he placed a curse on Brodie and killed him.

* {{Seppuku}}: His method of killing himself.

!!Yardley Kidman (''Yasushi Kito'')
The man convicted of blowing up a giant Christmas tree although he kept pleading his innocence and claimed that he was in his apartment at that time. He had no proof to help him and ended up in prison. Two days before the premier of "Othello Detectives: The Movie," he escaped prison and commits suicide by jumping off a 15-story apartment building. People started doubting whether Kidman really was the "Giant Christmas Tree Bomber."

* DrivenToSuicide: After escaping from prison.

!!Emi St. Cloud (''Emi Izumo'')
The actress playing as the heroine in the movie, "Othello Detectives".

* BitchInSheepsClothing: She's nice on the screen and when making public appearances, but stops being nice when she doesn't need to fool people.
* {{Jerkass}}: Her true nature outside of the big screen is that of a rather selfish individual who acts like a jerk to many people.
* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Gumshoe notes that Emi acts completely different than she is on-camera.

!!Samuel Sylent (''Sadaharu Otonashi'')
A novelist staying at the Ogre's Axe Hotel.

* AlliterativeName: ''S''amuel ''S''ylent.
* {{Jerkass}}: A thrice-convicted extortionist who was killed while trying to extort from his murderer.

!!Tony Granier (''Teruo Daiho'')
Owner of Ogre’s Axe Hotel.

* SpannerInTheWorks: His interference threatened the plan [[spoiler:to hide Samuel's body, which Youngport]] had formulated. Even though he's killed for it, his killer is ultimately found out.
* SpeakIllOfTheDead: He didn't know for certain that Ava's husband was dead, but he's certainly willing to jump to the conclusion that he abandoned her.

!!Marco Swindell (''Makuri Makiage'')
A man who injured his arm, then claims it didn't heal properly to extort money from the clinic.
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* MeaningfulName: His last name is a homonym for "swindle," which is exactly what he's doing to the clinic.
* ObviouslyEvil: The man is an {{Expy}} of the classic depiction of ''Satan'' for crying out loud!
* ThanatosGambit: Hope suspects that he committed suicide merely to spite the clinic. It turns out that this is not the case.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Claims Dr. Jiffy failed to treat him in order to extort money from the clinic.

[[folder:Anime characters]]
!!Gale Gaelic
!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/KojiYusa ([[Anime/AceAttorney anime]])
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Patric Carroll ([[Anime/AceAttorney anime]])
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gale_gaelic_156297.jpg]]

A waiter who worked at the venue where Avery Richman allegedly murdered Benjamin Cashanova.
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* AlliterativeName: '''G'''ale '''G'''aelic.
* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler:He tries to blackmail Turnbull, using his involvement in the plot to frame Richman as leverage. Turnbull kills him instead.]]
* {{Foil}} To [[spoiler:Shelley de Killer. de Killer is an assassin who follows a code of honor and ends up being blackmailed by his clients, while Gale has no such code and blackmails his client.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler:Given that he was an assassin and a blackmailer]].
* WalkingSpoiler: It's difficult to discuss him without revealing that he [[spoiler:ends up as the murder victim or that he was responsible for framing Richman.]]

!!Benjamin Cashanova (''Yendol Kanesky'')
The Secretary General of the United States Trade Federation. His assassination led to the wrongful conviction of Avery Richman, his economic adversary.
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[[folder:Stageplay characters]]
!!Yuuya Dan
The victim of ''Turnabout Spotlight'', though he survives the attempt on his life. Go [[Characters/AceAttorneyWitnessesAndOtherCharactersTheater here]] for more information.

!!Troupe Sukhavati
A troupe of ghosts who were once actors when they were alive, only to have died just before they could make their big break. They are led by Gaga Miyako (see [[Characters/AceAttorneyWitnessesAndOtherCharactersTheater here]]).
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!!Koyuki Kurono
The director of the action-drama show "Psychic Academy Σ".
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!!Maldea Valenbough
An unknown participant in the Judicial Olympics, reportedly being a prosecutor from Mexico.
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!!Kin Crowmack
The former chairman of the World Judicial Union.
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!!Yukari Fukashigi
Yoko's mother, and the former leader of 'Rabbits'.
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[[folder:Novel characters]]
'''''(Note: English names provided are from a fan translation.)'''''

!!Nadare Chokkakkou (''Wade Ukulfaskul'')
A stand up comedian who fancies himself a 'comedy artist' and was invited to the event in Pegasus Town.
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!!Kobushi Gouda (''Max Fitch'')
A boxer who challenged the former World Champion, Momota Momogaya, on the latter's tenth title match.
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!!Masamichi Uranashi (''Truman Goodwin'')
A locally well-liked politician with a reportedly clean image.
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!!Kota Mitakita
A scientist who apparently came from the future of 2016 and was left stranded in 2001 after supposedly fleeing from an attempted murder.
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%%zce* AbusiveMom: Suspected to be this, or at the very least [[ParentalNeglect neglectful]], [[spoiler:but in truth she loved her daughter dearly]].
* AffectionateNickname: "Mommy Metis" by Ponco and Clonco.

* GlamorousSingleMother: Somehow managed to be both a genius [=A.I=] researcher and a parent. To a hypersensitive child, at that.

* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Subverted. Other than both being intelligent, driven women, Metis shares little in common with her daughter.

* WalkingSpoiler: All tropes associated with her can be found [[spoiler:in Ini Miney's profile]].

* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Downplayed. Sure, the Ninja was lovable and Juan [[EvilIsPetty was not]], but [[spoiler:they do mirror each other. While the Ninja couldn't do heroics, Juan couldn't do true evil like murder.]]

* MemeticBadass: In-universe. It's rumored among his fans that he spent months fighting bears to train for the show. As such they send him stuffed bears, particularly in memoriam after he dies. However, the presence of stuffed bears in his garbage can would seem to indicate what he thinks of these gifts.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: As bad as he is, he isn't quite as terrible as Matt, since he [[spoiler:never ends up murdering his rival.]]