History Characters / GyakutenKenji2MinorCharacters

* TheBadGuyWins: In a sense. By the end of the game, his enemies have gotten their comeuppance and he will have Simon for company.

* OutOfCharacterAlert: While it's not obvious to the player at the time, this is what tips off Shelly de Killer to the fact that 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.

* AnimalMotif: Monkeys.

* TroubleMagnetGambit: The chisel he hid in Knightley's chess set.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: He claims that Justine is no different from him in that she also used Sebastian as a pawn.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: His plan on awarding the Angel Recipe for his contest was meant to help publicize the recipe, but the finalists ended up being a pair of greedy and unscrupulous men and a woman who specifically wanted to keep the recipe under wraps, ''all'' of whom ended up cheating in various ways.

* TheDreaded: Has a fearsome reputation that ensures anyone who actually knows who he is gives him a wide berth. He's especially this to Patricia Roland, to such a degree that [[LuxuryPrisonSuite he can have basically anything he wants]]; in fact he's this to her so much that his infamous [[HellIsThatNoise bells]] even feature in her VillainousBreakdown.]]

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* RightHandAttackDog: Pretty much his whole gimmick.

* LargeHam: Huang is loud and bombastic, with many of his lines being shouted by him. After his breakdown, however, he pretty much loses this aspect of his characterization, as he becomes much quieter during the rest of the case.

[[folder:'''Teikun Ō''' (''Di-Jun Huang'')]]

'''Note 1''': Due to the sheer amount of marked spoilers, all spoilers for ''Gyakuten Kenji 2'' have now been unmarked. Read cautiously!

'''Note 3''': Due to the game's overreaching plot and all spoilers being unmarked, spoiler warnings have been added to some character folders that may easily spoil later plot points. That said, read at your own will.

[[folder:'''Manosuke Naitō''' (''Horace Knightley'') -- '''WARNING: MAJOR UNMARKED SPOILERS''']]

[[folder:'''Sōta Sarushiro''' (''Simon Keyes'') -- '''WARNING: MAJOR UNMARKED SPOILERS''']]

[[folder:'''Ryōken Hōinbō''' (''Sirhan Dogen'') -- '''WARNING: MAJOR UNMARKED SPOILERS''']]

[[folder:'''Yutaka Kazami''' (''Dane Gustavia'') -- '''WARNING: MAJOR UNMARKED SPOILERS''']]

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* TookALevelInJerkass: He takes this UpToEleven as the case progresses.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: The previous game's BigBad, Quercus Alba, was a GreaterScopeVillain in charge of a criminal group with significant international influence and was even protected by his country's laws as ambassador, was a HateSink with no redeeming traits, and is the oldest BigBad of an Ace Attorney game. Simon Keyes, on the other hand, is working alone, does not have access to significant resources (beyond being able to hire Shelly de Killer), gets the members of a criminal group with significant international influence killed or arrested, is a SympatheticMurderer outside of his sociopathy, and is the youngest BigBad of an Ace Attorney game.

* 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.]]

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.]]

* 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.]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:His [[BodyDouble impostor]] anyway. Not only was he a criminal, but he was also planning to kill Courtney and Marsh to keep his cover safe when he got killed]].
* 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.]]

* 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]].

* 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.]]
* KillAndReplace: [[spoiler:The president's body double replaced him after planning his murder.]]
* LargeHam: [[spoiler:Pre-breakdown]].
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Zheng Fa ~ Land of the Phoenix"

* 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]].

* AnimalMotifs: Foxes. [[spoiler:Despite being rather weak physically, she's sly, cunning, and dangerous, singling out prey to kill by dragging them into her den (be it an orphanage backyard or her office.)]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:It becomes increasingly hard to feel sorry for her the more we realize [[PayEvilUntoEvil why]] Dogen bullied her.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Other than [[spoiler:being an accomplice to the murder of the Zheng Fa president]] and [[spoiler:murdering a prisoner out of fear]], she's a pretty nice person. [[spoiler:Actually, no she's not that either-she's quite willing to forget her maternal nature in return for money, as shown by how screwed up Simon became under her care.]]
* CrazyCatLady: More like "Crazy Fox Lady", but similar principle. Though she tries to come off as a [[KindheartedCatLover Kindhearted Animal Lover]].

* ExpressiveAccessory: The silver fox on her neck is alive and usually copies her facial expressions. One of her animations shows her speaking through her fox. [[spoiler:Probably a result of her being paranoid.]]
* EvilOrphanageLady: [[spoiler: What she used to be, as we find out in Case 5.]]

* HateSink: A minor one, but still one nonetheless. [[spoiler: Despite being excellent at appearing to be a caring and friendly woman, she's a truly nasty piece of work, willing to kidnap, psychologically abuse, and traumatise children to save her hide. This is revealed in chapter 5, when she's shown to be a truly cruel, smug, and ruthless woman who will sink to any low and become downright vicious when she needs to be.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Subverted. She's actually the one who's threatened with death. Although one must wonder if she deserves it since her family was threatened too. Later Inverted when it's revealed she tried to pull this on someone herself once.]]
* IHaveYourWife: More like "I have your family", but similar principle. [[spoiler:Sirhan constantly threatens that his 'dogs' will go after her family. It's the main reason she eventually snaps.]]
* InterfaceSpoiler: [[spoiler: If you ask her about Sirhan Dogen's black dog, she adopts a stunned expression hiding her face, which clearly hints to her villainous nature. This is a big tip-off that she is the case's true killer.]]

* MurderByMistake: [[spoiler:Kills Knightley, fearing he is one of Dogen's henchmen.]]

* ProperlyParanoid: Though she takes it a little too far. [[spoiler:If her suspicions had stopped at Dogen]], she would have been completely right.
* SmugSnake: [[spoiler: Not so much this during her first appearance in case 2, but it comes out in full force during her brief appearance in case 5. She smugly treats her own trial as a complete waste of her time, feeling secure in the knowledge that the evidence implicating her was disposed of.]]
* SympatheticMurderer: She freaked out after [[spoiler:years of bullying by Dogen]] and thought [[spoiler:she was acting in self-defense.]] [[spoiler:Then subverted, when it's revealed that the reason Dogen bullied her to begin with was entirely the fault of her own selfishness.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Clearly deredere by default, she goes tsun on the guards ''big time'' once she realizes [[spoiler:Elbird has escaped.]] [[LampshadeHanging Even Edgeworth notes the abrupt change.]] Although it may be a hint to her serious side, it could just be dedication to her job.
* TurnsRed: [[spoiler:She doesn't make much of an attempt to argue back during her testimony... until you REALLY push her and she completely overturns Edgeworth's logic with just one sentence!]]

** [[spoiler: Has a second more minor one during case five after its proven that she made a deal with Blaise Debeste to have the evidence implicating her disposed of. Her previous smug mood breaks down completely and she angrily rants about how Blaise had boasted about his ability to create his own Not Guilty verdicts, how she had contacted him with the belief that he would have helped her get off scott free, and capping the tirade off by screaming about how completely useless Blaise is. [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud Naturally this whole tirade only serves to implicate Blaise and herself further,]] although by that point her situation couldn't really get much worse.]]
* WardensAreEvil: A prison warden who [[spoiler:murdered one of her own prisoners, tried to frame another and took part in an assassination.]]

* WhamLine: When she says [[spoiler:there is a huge contradiction in Edgeworth's logic]]. It even uses a sprite animation you've never seen from her before.

* AbusiveParents: [[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]].
* AssholeVictim: 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.
* 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.]]
* 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.]]

* PeekABooCorpse: [[spoiler:One that took 18 years to reveal itself.]]
* SeriousBusiness: Desserts. [[spoiler:He was willing to have a child kidnapped over it.]]

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:He inadvertedly turned Gustavia and Keyes into monsters, leading to catastrophic events far beyond his death.]]

* TheScapegoat: After von Karma got a penalty during the IS-7 trial, Lacer took the fall and got fired. Not only that, but the only reason he didn't tell anyone [[spoiler:the body went missing was]] because [[spoiler:Blaise Debeste]] had decided to go ahead and charge Master without consulting von Karma, and "persuaded" Lacer to keep quiet.

* AbusiveParents: Comes off as an emotionally abusive parent that constantly berates Sebastian for his incompetence. Sebastian isn't affected at first because he seems to be used to these types of comments, but eventually, it gets to the point where he [[spoiler:deliberately breaks his son just to make him shut up]] and everyone present (even Franziska) is appalled by his attitude toward him.
* AmoralAttorney: Even more so than Manfred von Karma. [[spoiler:He holds secret auctions of evidence from past cases, murdered a journalist and his defense attorney girlfriend when they were investigating him, and gets anyone else who crosses him sentenced to life in prison. In fact, he isn't blameless for Manfred's most disgusting actions]]. He doesn't even deny it.

* BaldOfEvil: [[spoiler:Revealed after he burns his wig away in his breakdown]].

* ClimaxBoss: [[spoiler:Twice. The confrontation with him at the conclusion of ''The Forgotten Turnabout'' comes after a series of intense emotional developments and resolves one of the games main plotlines. Then in the following case he's fought again in what resolves Sebastian's arc and closes out the first half of the case, leading into finding out both the true backstory and the identity of the BigBad.]]

* DidYouActuallyBelieve: [[spoiler:Besides the notable scene where he reveals to his son that he manipulated all of his grades,]] he seems to [[ItAmusedMe enjoy]] tricking people in general, mainly to watch their reactions:

* DisproportionateRetribution: Well, disproportionate ''something'', given he [[spoiler:puts his son through an emotional trainwreck]] (in the space of about 5 minutes) ''just to get him out of the courtroom''.
* TheDragon: Initially seems like the BigBad, until TheReveal that [[spoiler:he and Patricia Roland are in fact CoDragons to the Di-Jun Huang body double]]. And then [[spoiler:all three of them get upstaged by Simon Keyes in the end]].
* DramaticUnmask: [[spoiler:He burns away his wig and fake beard during his breakdown.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:He was the unnamed Chief Prosecutor who gave Manfred von Karma his one and only penalty, as depicted in "Turnabout Goodbyes".]]

* EvilerThanThou: To Manfred Von Karma. While Von Karma ruined countless lives to [[ThePerfectionist maintain his perfect record]], Debeste ruined lives for shits and giggles. He's far more sadistic and murderous than Von Karma and was far more directly abusive to his son. In fact, even [[spoiler:von Karma is a victim of his villainy.]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: He frequently teases his son in a way that a DotingParent would do, he also makes himself appears childish... [[spoiler:and then he says that "the truth can be created", he murdered lots of people, and never drops his childish persona.]]
* GogglesDoNothing: He wears aviator's goggles which he occasionally has to empty of collected fluid. He literally says as much when [[spoiler: he burns away his wig and fake beard during his VillainousBreakdown]].
* GoodScarsEvilScars: [[spoiler:Has a skull-shaped burn scar on his chin, underneath his beard.]]

** This guy has his fair share of responsibility for the whole series happening. [[spoiler:Manfred von Karma ended up using evidence forged by Blaise in court, and when Gregory pointed it out, Blaise had to penalize von Karma in order to divert the blame from himself, leading the perfectionist prosecutor to start the DL-6 incident, which would change the lives of Miles Edgeworth (and Phoenix Wright by association) and Mia Fey (who also had considerable influence over Phoenix), as well as the rest of the Fey Clan (Misty went missing because of her involvement in the DL-6 incident, which caused the clan to lose prestige and Mia to become an attorney. Morgan and her daughter Dahlia would also have life-changing events happen to them because of this) and Godot[=/=]Diego]].
** And to top it all off, he is also involved in several international conspiracies and illicit dealings, being TheDragon to [[spoiler:the president of a foreign nation]]. His influence over the setting more or less rivals that of Redd White, Damon Gant and Quercus Alba.
** His alliance with [[spoiler:President Huang's body double]] and influence over the legal system is part of the reason why the real BigBad of ''Investigations 2'' is a paranoid and misanthropic mastermind.

* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler: Exposed as a murderer and insanely dirty prosecutor, arrested, upstaged by his "idiot" son and the guy he tried to have disbarred and jailed, and his accomplice yells at him in court about what an EpicFail his plot turned out to be. Plus when you get down to brass tacks, the whole thing was set in motion by an ''orphaned circus clown'' (though Blaise didn't find that last one out).]] All in the space of two days. That's gotta smart.

* ItsAllAboutMe: He only cares about himself. [[spoiler:He doesn't care about a perfect record like most of other prosecutors do, he only cares to accomplish his goals. Even his "love" for Sebastian is just a façade, he only cared as Sebastian could be as UnwittingPawn, and when Sebastian [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness]], he didn't care to say that everything Sebastian had become was because of Blaise.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: He makes [[spoiler:Roland]] look tame and since he is the one behind [[spoiler:the beginning of DL-6 (although someone else caused him to start the incident)]] and [[spoiler:SS-5 (most of which was on him, especially the murder)]], you can't help but feel happy when [[spoiler:you finally take him down]].

* TheManBehindTheMan: To [[spoiler:Manfred von Karma]], albeit indirectly.

* OcularGushers: Whether it's all an act or whether he really is that sentimental, the man cries buckets at the drop of a hat, wringing the tears out of his beard and emptying them out of his goggles. [[spoiler:With the reveal that his hair and beard are both fake, it's possible it's an allergic reaction to whatever material they're made of]].
* OlderThanTheyLook: He's neither balding nor graying and has some impressive abs. He's sixty-eight. Except it turns out [[spoiler:he's actually completely bald, and wears a wig and fake beard. Though the abs are apparently real.]]

* PlayingWithFire: Quite literally. [[spoiler:And he has the burn scars to show for it, which [[HoistByHisOwnPetard REALLY comes back to bite him in the ass later.]]]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He doesn't miss a chance to pour salt on others' wounds. A good example can be found [[spoiler:in Case 5, when [[{{EvilGloating}} he believes]] Sebastian's efforts were useless and proceeds to rub in how incompetent he's always been:]]
-->'''Blaise''': [[spoiler:Y'know, you've always called yourself a genius prosecutor, haven't you? Didn't I explain to you this morning why you were a genius up until now? That's right. It was all because of me. Because of my authority. You were always being protected. By people like Courtney... and me.]]
* {{Sadist}}: Blaise Debeste enjoys tormenting innocent people and making their lives hell for a quick laugh. [[spoiler:He even humuliates his own son ForTheEvulz.]]
* SayMyName: Delivers an epic one to [[spoiler:his son]] when finally [[spoiler:beaten in court]].

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: [[spoiler:Used his connections to help Sebastian get ahead [[KickTheDog and gleefully rubs this in his face when he starts becoming a liability]].]]

* TheSociopath: A low functioning example, as he isn't particularly charismatic or intelligent. He treats ''everyone'' around him like crap, [[spoiler:including his own ''son'']], constantly boasts about how his [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections connections and influence]] allow him to simply [[IRejectYourReality "manufacture" the truth]], [[spoiler:and was involved in ''three'' separate murders. And it's implied he's had countless others "[[DeadlyEuphemism disappeared]]." Including his own ''wife''.]] Much like [[spoiler:Matt Engarde]], he seems to take ''pride'' in being a completely awful human being, but unlike him, he can't hide it well in public.

** [[spoiler:In Case 4, he wears a mask during the black market auction to cover his face and disguise his voice, but he picks the ''one'' mask out of over a dozen that leaves his chin exposed. Which is exactly where he happens to have a uniquely-shaped burn scar that gives his identity away to Jill Crane immediately. You'd think the Conductor who organized the whole auction would have had first pick of the masks]].
** [[spoiler:Also in Case 4, he says that Kay's memories cannot be trusted after she reveals that the victim had a bull doll while trying to arrest her based on those memories not five minutes prior, saying that her confession was all they needed.]]
** [[spoiler:In Case 5, he tries to kidnap Courtney’s adoptive son to force her into acquitting Patricia Roland. The problem, though, is that he instructed his men only to verify that the boy they planned to kidnap knew Courtney, not that he was her son. Not only does this cause them to kidnap Sebastian by mistake, it allows the BigBad to successfully kidnap Courtney’s son for the opposite reason.]]
** [[spoiler:Also in case 5, he's smart enough to wear gloves so his fingerprints won't show on the evidence, but he's also dumb enough to wear the same pair of gloves that he uses to work on his very oily bike. These gloves have letters on the fingertips spelling "D-E-A-T-H", which is left on the evidence due to the aforementioned oil. He gives the obvious excuse that anyone could go out to the store and buy the same kind of gloves, but the "A" is partially worn off on his pair, creating a unique "fingerprint" that can only be linked to him]]. So yeah... he kinda forfeits his right to comment on ''anyone's'' intelligence.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:He's the one who penalized Manfred von Karma, kickstarting the DL-6 Incident.]]

* VillainHasAPoint: When Justine has enough of his treatment of Sebastian and calls him out, Blaise counters that [[NotSoDifferentRemark Justine used Sebastian as a pawn]] [[spoiler:to help bring Blaise down]]. Justine admits he has a point, but counters that she actually had some appreciation for Sebastian's good intentions in spite of his ineptitude, unlike Blaise.

* AssholeVictim: We're led to believe she is the "Conductor" behind the illegal evidence auctions. [[spoiler:Subverted, this turns out to be a lie. In fact, she was killed for attempting to turn the real Conductor into this as {{Revenge}} for him killing her lover.]]

* ItsPersonal: She suspected that [[spoiler:Blaise]] killed her boyfriend.

** A question in the rhyme is "who is behind the falling of the turtle and the crane" - who is about to stab her in the back. Her boyfriend represents the "turtle", and the person who is behind his falling is [[spoiler:Blaise Debeste]] - the same person who killed her.
** In the fan translation, her first name comes from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_and_Jill_%28nursery_rhyme%29 Jack and Jill]], while her last name comes directly from her Japanese name. [[spoiler:Particularly fitting since her boyfriend Jack "fell" first, then Jill "went tumbling after" when she tried to avenge him.]]

* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler:More like Sympathetic ''Attempted''-Murderer. She was killed by her would-be AssholeVictim instead.]]
%%* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:To Keyes.]] (how is she a pawn)

* SecretKeeper: He deduced that [[spoiler:Di-Jun-Huang was killed and replaced by a body double]], but never disclosed it to avoid political chaos.

** 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.]]

[[folder:'''Tateyuki Shigaraki''' (''Raymond Shields'')]]
!!Tateyuki Shigaraki (''Raymond Shields'' in the fan translation)
!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/KeijiFujiwara (trailers)
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' "Byronic Hero" (''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth AAI2]]'' FanTranslation)
!!!'''Debut:''' ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Gyakuten Kenji 2]]''

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A famed defense attorney who knew Edgeworth's father, Gregory Edgeworth, and succeeded him as the head of the Edgeworth and Co. Law Office after his death. Appears in ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth 2''.

* AccidentalKiss: When he asks Patricia Roland for a hug, he gets his wish, but she throws in a kiss as well. Well, he was asking for it.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: After meeting Regina Berry, he wonders if she's the kind of animal tamer who [[{{Dominatrix}} uses a whip and says 'down, boy']]. Edgeworth mentions he knows someone else like that, and Raymond demands they be introduced. Of course, [[WhipItGood if you know who he's referring to...]] Incidentally, [[spoiler:they DO end up meeting in the fourth case. And they even go up against each other in court in the fifth.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Contrasted with the people he works with, he tends to come off as quirky. To wit, he's unprofessionally sarcastic, has a habit of asking people he meets for hugs, and is something of a HandsomeLech, all of which belies his competence. Bonus points for being an actual lawyer!
* CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest: One possible interpretation of his behavior towards Kate.
* CasanovaWannabe: Not to the same extent as Larry, but his offers of hugs generally don't go over well with the ladies. The only one who actually takes him up on his offer [[spoiler:turns out to be the second case's murderer]].
* CharacterTics: He often makes {{air quote|s}} gestures with his hands when speaking, emphasizing his sarcastic tendencies.
* DeadpanSnarker: His older self has a biting sense of sarcasm.
* EconomyCast: He's the defense attorney of [[spoiler:Horace Knightley, Simon Keyes, Katherine Hall]] and when [[spoiler:Patricia Roland]]'s intended lawyer [[spoiler:was killed]], he took over her case. Note that [[spoiler:none of them are innocent, although Kate never ended up actually killing anyone]].
* {{Fanboy}}: His past self, of ''Piece of Cake''. He even sings the show's theme song along with its two presenters when meeting them for the first time.
* FirstNameBasis: He's one of the few characters who calls Edgeworth by his first name in both the original Japanese and fan translation, and starts doing so after he starts to warm up to Edgeworth.
* TheGlomp: When he meets Patricia, he offers her a hug as he does with a lot of other characters. Unlike other characters, she gives him a bigger hug than he asked for, as well as a kiss, instead of turning down his offer.
* GoodLawyersGoodClients: A surprising inversion where none of his clients are innocent in spite of him being a NiceGuy.
* HandsomeLech: His present self. He gets on quite well with Larry when they meet in the third case.
* HisQuirkLivesOn: His present-day self will remove his hat and bow it with it held to his chest, exactly the same way Gregory used to. [[TragicKeepsake It's even the same hat]].
* HonoraryUncle: In the fan translation, he refers to himself as Uncle Ray. Given his apprenticeship to [[spoiler:Gregory]], and the fact that he and Miles Edgeworth know each other, there's probably a chance that [[spoiler:Gregory]] may have introduced Tateyuki/Raymond as "Uncle Ray" to Miles.
* IngestingKnowledge: His past self carries a notepad which he uses to take notes on the case, usually followed by him ripping out the page he was writing on and eating it. He believes it helps him remember what he wrote.
* JerkassRealization: After the flashback portion of "The Inherited Turnabout" concludes, he apologizes to Miles for the way he treated him.
* JerkassToOne: He's a friendly individual to most people, but is cold to Miles at first due to still thinking of him as von Karma's disciple.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Joking Motive", a showy jazz song meant to invoke Shields' laid-back personality.
* LovableCoward: Downplayed. The man is easily startled but calms down pretty quick and is a nice guy otherwise.
* MeaningfulName: "Tate" means [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe "shield"]] in Japanese, which is fitting for a defense attorney and complements both Miles and Gregory ''Edge''worth's sword-related names.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: In the fan translation, he's named after Raymond Burr, who portrayed Franchise/PerryMason, which complements Gregory's first name.
* NiceHat: Both his past and present selves wear one. The one worn by his present self [[TragicKeepsake used to be Gregory's]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: His older self has no "angry" sprites (the closest he has is his "serious" one), as he presents himself as a very jovial and easygoing person who rarely gets mad, preferring to express any discontent in a sarcastic, semi-joking manner. When he ''does'' get mad, however, such as when [[spoiler:Dane Gustavia gleefully admits that he'd let Jeff Master, who at this point is clearly innocent, continue to rot in jail to preserve his own reputation as a master confectioner]]...
-->'''Raymond:''' Miles. It's been a long time... Since your Uncle Ray's been ''[[TranquilFury this angry.]]''
* PeekABangs: Pulls this off with his NiceHat instead of actual bangs.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Edgeworth makes it clear he's known him most of his life, though he's been away overseas for a while. He was also at the courthouse during DL-6, but avoided being trapped in the elevator prior.
* ShipTease: A bit with Kate, especially during his younger years. From their first meeting, Gregory reminds him to 'note', not 'dote'. They clearly hold each other in high regards, though [[spoiler: Raymond won't hesitate to suspect Kate when the evidence clearly points to her]].
* TragicKeepsake: He inherited Gregory's hat, and implies that he also inhereted Gregory's coat, and keeps his attorney's badge pinned to it like Gregory used to. Despite claiming he wears it in court for good luck, when we actually do see him in court he's just wearing the same outfit as always, although this may be because [[spoiler:he knew the defendant was guilty going into it]]. He also inherited the Edgeworth Law Offices, which he refuses to change the name of.

[[folder:'''Hakari Mikagami''' (''Justine Courtney'')]]
!!Hakari Mikagami (''Justine Courtney'' in the fan translation)
!!!'''Debut:''' ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Gyakuten Kenji 2]]''

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->''"Ah, 'Lady Justice'... blessings be upon her."''

Edgeworth's rival in ''Ace Attorney Investigations 2'', a fierce-looking (female) judge. She's part of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee, who is determined to end Edgeworth's career as a prosecutor. She has a washboard of hair over half her face and seems to wear more traditional clothing.

* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Would you really believe at first glance she's John Marsh's mother? Justified in that she's his ''adoptive'' mother. Biologically, they are first cousins, once removed.
* AnimeHair: Judge Courtney sports PeekABangs that are shaped like a stereotypical lightning bolt. It is so rigid-looking that from the way it's bent, it looks like she has a large piece of steel glued to her forehead.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's said to always have a kind smile on her face, but is merciless towards anyone who breaks the law. She's also a loving mother toward John, but is also so strict with him that he's a bit scared of her.
* BigDamnHeroes: Has her moment in Case 4.
* CatchPhrase: '''''Overruled!''''' ("却下!" or "Kyakka!" in Japanese).
* ClosetGeek: Of all things, ''[[NotZilla Moozilla]]''. Her phone has the movie's opening riff as the ringtone and has a Moozilla toy attached to it. [[spoiler:Given that her son is the main star...]]
* ColdHam: She may not speak boisterously or [[IncomingHam announce her presence through self-generated fanfare]], but she constantly proclaims herself a vessel of the Goddess of Law's will, which touts her as being a divine force. The effect renders itself similarly to more unsubtle {{Large Ham}}s as a result.
* CrystalDragonJesus: Seems to worship ''the law itself'' as a concept (or at least the Goddess of Law) and carries herself as a priest, even holding her gavel like it's crucifix.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Has black hair and eyes.
* DotingParent: Towards John Marsh. Case 5 shows that she always carries a magazine cutout of an article detailing John's big debut in his acting career so that she can look at something to be proud at every day. Her ringtone is also the ''Moozilla'' theme song, most likely because of John's role in the movie.
* TheDragon: To Sebastian in case 2 and 3, and to Blaise in case 4.
* DragonInChief: Both Sebastian and Blaise leave it to her to do most of the dirty work, albeit for different reasons (Sebastian because he's incompetent, Blaise probably to use her as a scapegoat in case something goes wrong).
* DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler:Is secretly trying to take Blaise down.]]
* DropTheHammer: She slams her extendable gavel on the floor repeatedly.
* EvilBrit: Her "Overruled!" in the fandub has a very noticeable British accent and she constantly tries to hound Edgeworth throughout his investigations due to the P.I.C. having targeted him for alleged misconduct. [[spoiler:After she turns on Blaise, she drops the evil part.]]
* FirstNameBasis: In the fan translation, she and Sebastian call each other by their first names.
* FullNameUltimatum: She frequently resorts to this when scolding John.
* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:Almost to the point where she's TheMole. She's trying to expose Blaise's corruption, but before she can do that she has to pretend to work with him, which causes her to get in Edgeworth's way. In Case 4, she dramatically reveals her true allegiance and turns on Blaise.]]
* HangingJudge: She's a bit overeager to take Edgeworth's badge and declare the latest subject of Sebastian's incoherent investigations Guilty, to say the least. While part of it [[spoiler:is coming from Blaise, and another part of it is her worry that Edgeworth will take ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight too far]], she's still overly high-handed and too quick to condemn.
* HeroicBSOD: In Case 5; [[spoiler:She initially seems to be her usual aloof and quick-to-deliver-verdict self in the trial...right up until her Logic Chess segment gets around to [[IHaveYourWife her actual reasons for being soft on Patricia Roland]], [[NotSoStoic where she quickly breaks down, panting heavily while apparently on the verge of tears]]. Not only is she scared for her son's life, as it turns out, but in effect Blaise found the one thing that will truly bias her, meaning she's no longer an impartial judge [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone and is deeply torn up over that fact]]. Kay helps her calm down by convincing her she doesn't need to be ashamed of being human.]]
* HesBack: [[spoiler:After being under Blaise's thumb because of her kidnapped son she gets a call telling her he's been found, allowing her to properly conduct the trial.]]
* HypercompetentSidekick: She is this to Sebastian in ''The Imprisoned Turnabout'', being far more competent than he is and correcting his mistakes.
* {{Hypocrite}}: She is merciless towards lawbreakers, but Justine rarely follows her own rules. She makes threats to Edgeworth when she is not under investigative authority, continues to hold up investigations, even uses fabricated evidence to convict a suspect she knows is innocent, and hides evidence when [[spoiler:she is a person of interest]]. While prosecutors have been shown to be this way in this series, the judge is supposed to be impartial.
* IceQueen: Both Raymond Shields and Larry Butz try to proposition her at various points in the game. Her reaction to both men is unenthusiastic to say the very least.
* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Son]]: [[spoiler:She was forced to work against Edgeworth when Blaise and his goons kidnapped her adoptive son to force a Not Guilty verdict for Patricia Roland. Though it turns out Blaise's goons are so dumb they accidentally kidnapped ''Blaise's'' son instead, and the one who ''actually'' kidnapped John wanted to force a ''Guilty'' verdict]].
* InformedAbility: Many people in the story call her extremely intelligent. However, just like any opponent in the series, she's prone to making rather stupid mistakes.
* InspectorJavert: Determined to put an end to Edgeworth's career and have him replaced by Sebastian, of all people. [[spoiler:It's all an act however, since she's just working on Blaise's behalf and later drops it when she has incriminating evidence to indict Blaise.]]
* IronLady: A spin on the usual presentation, Justine doesn't appear outwardly to be the type (her manner of speech is very soft, inviting, and unimposing). However reading into her words quickly reveals she is absolutely no-nonsense and rock solid in her convictions. Towards the end of this game this starts to ebb off substantially, however, and you peer deeper into her other personality traits.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Late in ''The Imprisoned Turnabout'', she says she distrusts Edgeworth because his logic has proven faulty on multiple occasions. Edgeworth, who'd erroneously suspected [[spoiler:Sirhan Dogen]] of the murder, and only identifies [[spoiler:Patricia Roland]] as the culprit near the end of the case, admits she's not wrong about him making mistakes in this case.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Goddess of Law". Her ringtone is a version of "The Great Monster Borumosu".
* LostInTranslation: In the original Japanese she uses extremely formal honorifics on others, and uses "-sama," the most respectful honorific, on most people. In the fan translation, she instead calls people "Mr./Mrs./Ms./Miss" or their job titles (e.g. Prosecutor Edgeworth, Warden Roland), which is more conventionally polite.
* MamaBear: Normally she acts like a soft-spoken, deceptively gentle but extremely stern and merciless enforcer of "the Goddess of Law's will". However anything that concerns her adoptive son (whether he's in danger or he's just being rude to those around him), she flips the switch and becomes a concerned mother. It's almost cute in a way to see her go from being Miss Rulebook to mommy.
* MeaningfulName:
** "Hakari" means "Scale" (As in "Lady Justice's scale") and Mikagami means "Water Mirror", possibly referring to the Yata-Mirror, the Japanese imperial insignia of wisdom.
** The fan translation renames her Justine Courtney, with both names meaning "justice" and "court".
* ObfuscatingStupidity: An interesting case, as she does it through another character rather than herself. Basically, whenever she lets [[SmallNameBigEgo Sebastian]] testify, you know she's cooking up something that is at least marginally smarter.
* OjouRinglets: They look a bit like lightning bolts.
* OminousPipeOrgan: Her {{Leitmotif}}.
* ParodiesForDummies: In Case 3, she hands Edgeworth a book with a cartoony cover on it which provides the exact details entailing the Statute of Limitations. You will have to pull that out later.
* PeekABangs: Over her right eye.
* PrinciplesZealot: Strongly believes in upholding the law, and feels Edgeworth is unworthy to be a prosecutor if he breaks it.
* PromotionToParent: She adopted John when her cousin Amy Marsh(John's mother) died.
* RetractableWeapon: Her gavel has an extendable shaft.
* TheRival: To Edgeworth, in her stricter adherence to the law.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Never confirmed, but some of her conversations with Edgeworth (particularly the one where he's in detention) sound like she's trying to determine if he really is committed to the truth and/or has what it takes to stand up to Blaise Debeste.
* SilkHidingSteel: Polite, gentle, but utterly inflexible.
* TeenagePregnancy: Subverted. When she reveals that John is her son, most would expect this case, until later she explains that John's her adopted son.
* WhamLine: Near the end of the fourth case, when it seems as though the true culprit is about to get off scot-free, she appears ready to have Kay arrested, but then...
-->'''Courtney''': The defendant... [[spoiler:Blaise Debeste]]! I indict you!
* WhamShot: During her Logic Chess match, during which she reveals a new animation: [[spoiler:[[HeroicBSOD utter]] [[TearsOfFear panic]].]]

[[folder:'''Yumihiko Ichiyanagi''' (''Sebastian Debeste'')]]
!!Yumihiko Ichiyanagi (''Sebastian Debeste'' in the fan translation)
!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Naotaka Noda (''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth AAI2]]'')
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' "[=SonicShadows=]" (''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth AAI2]]'' FanTranslation)
!!!'''Debut:''' ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Gyakuten Kenji 2]]''

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->''"...Oh well. It can't be helped. There's no way someone who's so [[{{Malaproper}} thick on the intake]] could have good ears."''
A rookie prosecutor who fancies himself as 'the best' at his work. He first appears in the second case of ''Ace Attorney Investigations 2''.

* BigEgoHiddenDepths: Underneath the egotistical moron prone to humiliating himself in front of everyone [[spoiler:is a deeply insecure kid desperate for his father to acknowledge him.]]
* BookDumb: An inversion [[spoiler:and then a subversion and finally a double subversion.]] Sebastian graduated at the top of his class but seems to lack common sense when actually putting it to work. [[spoiler:Then it's revealed that his father abused his influence to get him his grades, which make it seem like he is stupid in both real life situations ''and'' school. It's finally double subverted though when Edgeworth pulls him out of his HeroicBSOD and shows that he's capable of being competent when he has no name to stand on.]]
* BoundAndGagged: By the subordinates of his own father, although they were actually aiming for another boy.
* BreakTheHaughty: Given that he was not taken seriously in the first place, it's a bit surprising how thoroughly the final two cases kick him in the teeth. [[spoiler:First he learns his much-admired prosecutor father is in fact a criminal and a murderer. Said father proceeds to disclose, to Sebastian and the entire assembled court, that all of the good grades and awards he was so proud of were only obtained through Blaise's own personal connections and influence. ''That'' is followed up with a remark that being too stupid to figure this out made him undeserving of being Blaise's son. Overwhelmed, Sebastian flees the courtroom... and is immediately kidnapped. By the time Edgeworth and Kay are able to free him, he's far overshot "humbled" to crash land somewhere around "[[HeroicBSOD shell-shocked]]," able to do little but cry and feel worthless. Only after the longest Logic Chess segment in the game is he able to start pulling himself back together, although when he ''does'' come back his apparent level of competency has gone way up.]]
* BuffySpeak: Whenever Sebastian is the one talking, expect to see nothing but vague terms -"that thing"- and pauses which Courtney fills with the word he was looking for. If he attempts to make use of a slightly more complex term or idiom, he will misuse it without fail. Sure enough, his rather small vocabulary often results in him getting lost during someone else’s explanations.
* BumblingSidekick: To Courtney to the point that she often uses him to testify only to execute ThePlan on Edgeworth. His attempts to support his dad only cause Blaise to feel embarrassed as well. [[spoiler:To be fair, by the final case, [[TookaLevelInBadass that's no longer the case.]]]]
* ButtMonkey: He's often told to shut up by the other prosecutors when he's trying to make a statement. Smarter characters like Courtney and Edgeworth will now and then employ some [[{{Ahem}} fake throat clearing]] to resume the conversation ignoring whatever stupid thing he's just said. Franziska even whips him once when he's not making any sense. Even ''Larry'' looks down on his level of intelligence. [[spoiler:It gets really depressing later.]]
* CallingTheOldManOut: Played with. [[spoiler: Sebastian does indeed tell Blaise to just give up and admit that he killed Jill Crane, and turns his insults back on him, asserting that [[IAmNotMyFather he'll surpass him as a prosecutor by becoming a fair and kind crusader for truth and justice.]] But despite everything Blaise put him through, how lowly he thought of him, Sebastian still finds it in his heart thank him for all he's given him before saying goodbye as Blaise is finally convicted.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: Starts as a KnowNothingKnowItAll being carried along by his HypercompetentSidekick; ends as a young man who knows he has a long way to go but wants to stand on his own two feet and pursue the honest path.
* CoatCape: He wears his coat over his shirt without putting his arms into his sleeves.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Brown hair and brown eyes
* TheDogBitesBack: While he doesn't call [[spoiler:his father]] out for the crap he's been through, he manages to humiliate him in court, which is just as satisfying.
* DopeSlap: Invoked by his baton when he bends it too far.
* DumbIsGood: Likely the reason he managed to remain as pure-minded despite [[spoiler:being brought up by a guy who [[DevilInPlainSight nonchalantly]] [[ForTheEvulz takes pride in his wickedness]] ]]. Also leads him to obliviously aid Edgeworth here and there against Courtney or Blaise's wishes.
* DumpsterDive: [[spoiler:He tears through a gigantic garbage pile after realizing that his father disposed of the evidence he wanted to keep safe. Although he didn't have enough time to find the murder weapon from the second case and only found Sirhan's bell wrapped in newspaper, Edgeworth finds out that Sebastian tore open a huge hole in Blaise's plan by doing this as his distinct glove print was on it.]]
* ExpressiveHair: The question mark on his head turns into an exclamation when he's startled.
* FirstNameBasis: In the fan translation, he and Justine call each other by their first names.
* {{Foil}}: To Edgeworth. [[spoiler:Both are prosecutors who devoted much of their life to an attempt to appease the expectations laid on them by the AmoralAttorney who raised them, and ended up suffering tremendously as a result. While Edgeworth was raised to be a "genius" by Von Karma in an act of egotism and is genuinely talented and intelligent, every one of Sebastian's achievements were things manipulated by his father, who only valued him as another pawn to get what he wanted, and he in reality is just a regular person underneath it all. Edgeworth likewise spend years grappling with the effect Von Karma had on him and his life perspective before managing to firmly reject much of his teachings, while Sebastian even at the end never truly can reject his, only resolve to move past him.]]
* FollowInMyFootsteps: To his father, as a prosecutor.
* HeroicBSOD: Has a MAJOR one in Case 5. ([[BreakTheCutie And who can blame him!]]) It takes an entire Logic Chess bout with Edgeworth to snap him out of it. The logic Chess is actually extremely long because, midway through the questioning, Sebastian starts having a mental breakdown and Edgeworth has to help him back.
* IdiotHair: WordOfGod states that, like Apollo, the question marked-shaped hair on top of Sebastian's head is not natural; he carefully styles it that way everyday.
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: His logic is horrible, he constantly misuses words, can't see when a wrong piece of evidence is being presented... and still thinks he's superior in intelligence to everyone else. When Edgeworth gently corrects his phrasing and Sebastian thanks him for it, it's a sign that he's coming out of this mode.
* ImprobableAge: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Sebastian is a prosecutor conducting full control over cases at just ''17''... and is about as good as you might expect from that descriptor. [[spoiler:This is because of his father buying his grades.]]
* InelegantBlubbering: [[spoiler:When he breaks.]]
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Will keep proclaiming himself the best, then instantly get teary-eyed when others don't take him seriously (which translates to all the time). [[spoiler:There's also all that self-deprecation during his Logic Chess segment...]]
* InsaneTrollLogic: His logic is so bad that even Larry Butz, a widely acknowledged moron, is able to realize that Sebastian is an idiot and be perfectly sound in such a realization.
* InsufferableImbecile: While he acts like an InsufferableGenius, [[KnowNothingKnowItAll his complete lack of common sense to back up the "genius" part]] leads to this trope instead. [[spoiler: He becomes much less insufferable and starts getting smarter after his HeroicBSOD.]]
* JokeLevel: His first testimony is easily one of the most ridiculous in the ''entire series'', yet it takes so long to crack simply because it's ''so damn vague''! (seriously, since when was "finding 'traces', 'there' " a valid reason for arresting someone?) His second testimony is a little better, but has one contradiction so obvious [[AlreadyDoneForYou Edgeworth points it out without you having to do anything.]] And most of the discrepancies you ''do'' point out contradict his ''own'' testimony! In fact, his first testimony [[BGMOverride is set to his own theme rather than the standard cross-examination theme]].
* {{Leitmotif}}: "The Best Reasoning," a cutesy, dopey-sounding theme that greatly contrasts Courtney's darker, no-nonsense leitmotif, and [[spoiler:"The Best Farewell"]], a more serious-sounding theme that plays once he's up against [[spoiler:his father]].
* LethalJokeCharacter: [[spoiler:He's a terrible prosecutor with less-than-adequate logical reasoning skills, yet when push comes to shove, he's able to take down Blaise Debeste and provide the final nail in his coffin. This is likely because Edgeworth gave him the incentive to strive to be better.]]
* {{Malaproper}}: The boy can't get a single idiom right, constantly using the wrong words for a situation (ie "inculpable" in place of "incapable", as well as his quote above).
* MeaningfulName:
** "Ichi" means one in Japanese. His goal in life is to be number one at everything. "Yanagi" can mean "weeping willow" -- both he and his father cry easily. "Yumi" means bow, the weapon, in contrast to Mitsurugi[=/=]Edgeworth, which is a pun on sword. His full name creates the pun "ichiya naki yumi wo hiku" - "pulling a bow without an arrow", which is a reference to his baseless deductions.
** "Ichiyanagi" is the alternate reading for the kanji "ichiryuu", which means "top notch", or "first rate", which is where "Debeste" comes from. Also, if you reverse the kanji "一流" ("ichiryuu") to create "流一", and replace "流" ("ryuu", meaning "style") with its homonym "龍" ("ryuu", meaning "dragon"), you get "龍一", "ryuuichi", which is Phoenix Wright's given name in Japanese.
*** [[spoiler:"Yumihiku" means "to rise up against," and as the combination with his surname suggests, he does end up confronting a family member.]]
** In the fan translation, he's named after Saint Sebastian, who is associated with the bow and arrow. "Sebastian" also [[PreppyName evokes the image of a sheltered, well-to-do kid]]. "Debeste" sounds like "the best" (and literally means that in Dutch).
* MissingMom: According to his dad, her whereabouts are unknown. [[spoiler:And since it turns out that whenever Blaise describes someone as "having disappeared" it means that he either killed them or had them convicted to life in prison...]]
* ProductionForeshadowing: Sebastian's school uniform came from Themis Legal Academy, the setting of the third case in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'', [[spoiler: and sure enough, the academy is still facing corruption and forged grades even eight years later, with defense attorney Hugh O' Conner being another such victim.]]
* ProneToTears: He wells up at the slightest inconvenience, usually when people point out the holes in his InsaneTrollLogic. To be fair, he's [[AbusiveParents been through a lot.]] A HeroicBSOD will do that to a person.
* PungeonMaster: He's all too aware of his PunnyName and WILL make jokes off it at every possible opportunity. He'll even twist other characters' Punny Names to do this, like when he asserts that he's better than Edgeworth because the first syllables of their (Japanese) names can mean 'one' and 'three', respectively; or in the fan translation, when he says he's ''miles'' ahead of Edgeworth. Leads to GotMeDoingIt on several occasions.
* PutOnTheBus: [[spoiler:After he overcomes his father and learns to stand on his two feet, Sebastian leaves the story entirely and doesn't show up again until the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue.]]
* RightForTheWrongReasons: [[spoiler:While Sebastian's initial "logic" implicating Simon Keyes in Knightley's death is definitely of the [[InsaneTrollLogic insane troll]] variety, it turns out that Keyes ''did'' end up causing Knightley's death [[BatmanGambit (he just wasn't the one who actually killed him)]].]]
* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: He still wears his school uniform despite [[WordOfGod being a Themis Legal Academy graduate]] by the time he first appears. Yes, he wears it even while on the job.
* ShutUpHannibal: "Pops... you stink". And then proceeds to dig up a link between his dad and the evidence he hid, without even asking Edgeworth to explain it for him.
* SingleTear: He graduates from InelegantBlubbering to this.
* SmallNameBigEgo: He thinks himself a fantastic prosecutor but really isn't anything special. If you present the wrong evidence to him, he doesn't even realize until Courtney points it out for him. [[spoiler:[[TheWoobie Thanks to the trauma he experiences in the game]]]], this is actually quite depressing. By the time the credits roll, [[CharacterDevelopment he's already]] asked everyone to [[spoiler:stop calling him [[TheMagnificent "Ichiryuu"/"The Best"]].]]
* SpannerInTheWorks:
** If it weren't for Edgeworth's unintentional help, Sebastian could have caught [[spoiler:Simon Keyes]] much earlier than he eventually was.
** [[spoiler:He performs a DumpsterDive to try and recover evidence he gave to his father for safekeeping which was actually disposed of. His only finding was seeming meagre...until Edgeworth proved that Blaise tried to hide evidence anyway because of it due to a glove print.]]
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Unlike other examples of ImprobableAge from prosecutors, he is just about as good as you'd expect from a 17-year-old prosecutor. He's not a TeenGenius and is ''way'' out of his depth. [[spoiler: The only reason he has the job in the first place is because his dad bribed his teachers for good grades.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: In the final case of ''Investigations 2'', after he [[spoiler:stops crying and Edgeworth snaps him out of his HeroicBSOD]], he finally has enough courage to stand up to [[spoiler:his father and humiliate him in court but not before getting broken further]]. Even his ''theme music'' takes a level in badass when this happens.
* UnwittingPawn: Having been told that that's the safest choice, he [[spoiler:lets his father hold onto the evidence concerning Roland's trial, which Blaise then proceeds to get rid of. At one point, Blaise literally refers to his son as a "pawn that [[MinionWithAnFInEvil isn't user-friendly]]".]] It's strongly implied that [[spoiler:this was in general what Blaise intended him to be in the long run, a pawn whose sheer incompetence could ensure his crimes would never be uncovered.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: In Sebastian's own words, he [[spoiler:became a prosecutor merely because he wanted his dad to acknowledge him.]]
* YouFool: On the receiving end of this from Miles Edgeworth, Franziska von Karma, and even Dick Gumshoe and Larry Butz. When Larry calls another person an idiot with perfectly sound reasoning, that shows that Sebastian's logic at the time is InsaneTrollLogic. Blaise Debeste also invokes this by calling his son an idiot, but often without any justification.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Often uses sophisticated-sounding words or phrases while clearly having no idea what they actually mean.

[[folder:'''Sōta Sarushiro''' (''Simon Keyes'') -- '''WARNING: MAJOR UNMARKED SPOILERS''']]
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Horace Knightley's best friend, an animal trainer at the Berry Big Circus, and the suspect in this case. When he and Horace were children, Horace kidnapped him and tied him up on his father's orders, locking them both in a car where they nearly froze to death, but were rescued by Sirhan Dogen and brought to an orphanage. Simon's memories became muddled due to the trauma of this incident, but he remembered his savior, Dogen, who became his new father figure. He held a grudge against the conspirators who hired Dogen for an assassination job and then attempted to betray and kill him to keep his mouth shut. He also held an unwarranted grudge against Knightley, as his muddled memories caused him to believe that Isaac Dover was his father and Dane Gustavia, the man who killed Dover, was Knightley's father, when it was actually the other way around.

* AcePilot: Is skilled enough to fly a hot air balloon at night while at close proximity to a 51 floor-high tower, squash someone to pieces with it, and lower said someone's corpse to the ground via rope that makes it look like they got squashed with a prop/stomped by a {{Kaiju}}.
* AlliterativeName: His original name, '''S'''ōta '''S'''arushiro
* AnimalMotif: Monkeys.
* AntiVillain: Downplayed, as he's still very evil and incredibly [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered,]] projecting his trauma onto others and painting all cops and prosecutors as terrible, manipulative people who are all out to get him. His misanthropy is understandable when you realize he's been hounded by terrible trauma and despicable people all his life. He also grew up in an orphanage run by the corrupt Patricia Roland after being abandoned by his father, and after he witnessed her and Blaise Debeste at the scene of the president's murder, she interrogated him day in and day out, trying to get him to admit that he was the one who set the fire that got rid of the evidence implicating Dogen as the killer. He cried every night, both in fear of Patricia, and sorrow at the fact that his father never even tried to look for him after he went missing. After he left the orphanage, he lived in constant fear of Blaise and his men killing him so he could never expose them, jumping at the slightest noise and never getting a full night's sleep. Furthermore, Blaise rigged the justice system so badly that if Simon had ever talked to the police or presented any kind of evidence, it would immediately be destroyed; the only way he could get any justice for all he went through was to either trick the other corrupt parties into turning on each other or to kill them himself.
* ApparentlyPowerlessPuppetmaster: If anyone is the physical embodiment of this trope, it's him.
* AsianAirhead: Though he's really just ObfuscatingStupidity.
* AssassinOutclassin: After his breakdown, Shelly de Killer tries to kill him for hiding information. However, Sirhan saves him.
* TheBadGuyWins: Sure, he was caught, but his main objective was revenge and he got it, big time. Given who his targets were, he probably [[AntiVillain made the world a better place in the process, too]]. He also gets Sirhan Dogen for company as his only real father figure in prison and can easily claim self-defense for the fake Di-Jun Huang's death.
* BatmanGambit: His favorite method. This is how he coerced Roland into killing Knightley and Blaise into killing Jill. He also designed the fake assassination plan to allow the jealous Knightley a perfect opportunity to kill his co-worker. He takes advantage of the trope to try and pull a KarmaHoudini, since he never actually ''told'' anybody to commit murder - he just gave them some crucial information and watched the results unfold. He also kidnapped Kay Faraday and planted a letter on her suggesting that she was working with Jill Crane before leaving her at Blaise Debeste's doorstep, expecting that Blaise would either kill her or (as what happened) use her as a scapegoat for Jill Crane's death. Either way, Blaise would bring Miles Edgeworth's wrath upon himself.
* TheBeastmaster: His claims of being ''just'' an animal tamer is a cover; as shown in his interrogation animations, they do tricks for him like clockwork.
* BadassNormal: Other major villains like Manfred von Karma, Blaise Debeste and Quercus Alba tend to rely on exploiting loopholes and corruption in the law, using their positions of power to change the situation to their benefit. Compared to them, Simon has very little power, [[TheChessmaster yet he still manages to take down an international conspiracy and achieve all of his goals before finally being captured.]]
* BigBad: Catalyzes the events of four out of five of the cases in the game.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: When he introduces himself, he's very cheerful, shy, and charismatic in his own quirky way. Once he's revealed in the final case, you begin to see the deeply scarred psyche he has, as well as his callous and manipulative true personality.
* BreakTheCutie: Lost his only family at a very young age, as well as his only friend during the events of the game. His faith in both the law and humanity was shattered fairly early on, which [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds twisted]] [[StepfordSmiler him]] badly.
* BrokenBird: A rare male example, but being abandoned by your father for something you couldn't control (being held captive), being traumatized so badly by the subsequent near-death experience that your memories became distorted and you [[ElectiveMute spent considerable time completely silent,]] being brought to an OrphanageOfFear where the adult in charge interrogated you ever day so she could tie up a loose end by having her fellow criminal allies kill you the crime you witnessed them commit, and knowing that no adult would ever help you, let alone believe you, because the justice system was controlled by an utter HateSink of a man who would dispose of any evidence or testimony you provided.
* CatchPhrase: "Nowaynowaynoway!"
* ChekhovsGunman: Met as a falsely indicted suspect, and [[TheReveal turns out to be]] the BigBad.
* TheChessmaster: He even refers to himself as an "animal tamer who tames humans."
* ComplexityAddiction: Lang thinks that this is what did him in in the end.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: The previous game's BigBad, Quercus Alba, was a GreaterScopeVillain in charge of a criminal group with significant international influence and was even protected by his country's laws as ambassador, was a HateSink with no redeeming traits, and is the oldest BigBad of an Ace Attorney game. Simon Keyes, on the other hand, is working alone, does not have access to significant resources (beyond being able to hire Shelly de Killer), gets the members of a criminal group with significant international influence killed or arrested, is a SympatheticMurderer outside of his sociopathy, and is the youngest BigBad of an Ace Attorney game.
* CrazyPrepared: He knew the evidence at Patricia's trial would be tampered with, so he prepared a hostage to force a Guilty verdict, [[OutGambitted out-gambitting]] Blaise in the process. He also prepared several methods of escape in case he got caught by the police.
* CuteAndPsycho: Under the fragile, cowardly exterior is an extremely [[LackOfEmpathy cruel and bitter young man.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Oh, boy, where to start. His father never once looked for him after he went missing as a child, his best friend was forced to hold him captive in a car whose doors quickly froze over and trapped them both inside, the subsequent trauma of the near-death experience leading to amnesia and selective mutism, witnessing a murder and helping protect the main killer [[IOweYouMyLife he was the one you rescued him from the car,]] being brutally interrogated every day by the matron of the orphanage he lived in because she was involved in the aforementioned murder and she needed to know how much he knew, and eventually going on the run for years and never being able to relax or sleep at night because he know that one of the criminals from the murder plot, an extremely powerful man, was [[LeaveNoWitnesses still gunning for that one loose end of a kid with the knowledge that could bring him and his accomplices down.]]
* DisappearedDad: Supposedly died years ago. Actually, his real father is very much alive and a murderer who went missing to cover up his crime.
* DoesNotLikeSpam: Has a disdain for sweets. Granted, since his former love for them was the reason why he was kidnapped and nearly killed by accident.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: The assassination attempt on Zheng Fa's president, the exposure of the crimes of a prison warden and the P.I.C. chairman, the deaths of two highly trained bodyguards, an attorney, ''and a president'' were ultimately masterminded by an orphan monkey trainer.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Long red hair (with pigtails no less) and slender build. It helps that he has a somewhat [[PinkIsFeminine feminine]] outfit.
* EvenTheDogIsAshamed: Taken to its logical conclusion in his VillainousBreakdown. All the animals in the Berry Big Circus disown him via beating the crap out of him.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He can't comprehend why Kay and Edgeworth wanted to help him before without some ulterior motive. He has no concept of trust either.
* EvilerThanThou: PlayedWith. Sure, Simon is the BigBad, a [[TheSociopath sociopath]], and caused multiple deaths, but he comes out as the ''lesser'' evil because his actions led to the dismantling of the entire conspiracy that took the life of the real president of Zheng Fa by taking down three people that were far more of a threat due to their positions and influence.
* EvilLaugh: Just like his father.
* EvilIsHammy: Far more prone to bursting out into maniacal laughter than any other final boss in the series, with exaggerated sprite animations to go along with it.
* EvilRedhead: He used to have black hair.
* FalseFriend: To Kay and especially Regina and Knightley. Chillingly, this is reflected in a brutal MetaTwist in the latter case; the end of Case 2 has Edgeworth present Dogen's chisel to Simon as a symbol that Knightley always considered him a friend, only for the final confrontation to reveal in flashback that Simon had given it to Knightley himself (Knightley didn't even ask him to do so), all to prompt Roland into killing him.
* FluffyTamer: As an apprentice animal tamer at the Berry Big Circus.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Blaise Debeste wore the mask of Zuruwan during the auction. Zuruwan is the nemesis of Global Hero Onyankopon. Simon's wearing a blue shirt with Onyankopon's insignia. This foreshadows their enmity, although Debeste isn't his [[TheDragon top target]].
** At the end of Case 2, Regina mentions that he isn't as dumb as he looks. That turns out to be a ''massive'' understatement.
* FoundTheKillerLostTheMurderer: Being the Murderer manipulating Blaise Debeste and Patricia Roland to be the Killers via forged messages to exploit their paranoia, Simon tries to invoke the Lost part on himself when confronted.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: He's an animal tamer for a reason. He even got ''Money the Monkey'' to be friends with him! But when his true nature is made clear they turn on him. Also, despite being hostile to nearly everyone else in the game, Anubis the dog is said to be fond of him.
* GenderFlip: See IdenticalStranger - the similarities in design were likely intentional.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: He's the sole witness to the assassination of the real president Di-Jun Huang. Thus, the conspirators tried to find and kill him to cover their tracks... to no avail, as Simon got them first.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Seemed like this with Knightley. Unbeknownst to Knightley, Simon ''hated'' him ever since the incident with their fathers.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: In trying to take down the conspirators, he winds up using the same methods that they did, to the point that he and Blaise wind up trying to kidnap the ''same kid'' in order to manipulate the same trial, albeit with a completely different verdict in mind. It especially bothers him to learn that Dane Gustavia had tried to throw off the estimated time of death in the same way that he did with Huang's body double. When cornered, he reacts the exact same way his father did: confessing to everything before pointing out a legal loophole that prevents you from arresting him.
* IdenticalStranger: When his character design was first released, he was criticized for looking like a male Dahlia Hawthorne. He certainly [[CuteAndPsycho acts like her too]] (albeit a bit more sympathetically).
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Claims he had no choice but to become a VigilanteMan in order to protect himself from Fake!Huang, Roland, and Blaise. Given the massive [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections corruption]] at play, he wasn't exactly wrong (except for his CollateralDamage in the process).
* IHaveNoSon: Inverted. In his mind, he has practically disowned his own father (and it goes both ways, so there's no love lost there).
* {{Irony}}:
** He asks Edgeworth whether or not Knightley really trusted him, thinking that if Knightley had confided with him, he could have convinced his best friend that there was no need to hate someone so much. Fast forward to Case 5...
** He is not as different from his father as he thinks he is.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Killing President Huang's body double and setting up the fall of both Patricia Roland and Blaise Debeste.
* KillingInSelfDefense: His murder of the fake Di-Jun Huang started with the latter trying to shoot him down, only to get crushed by the hot air balloon he was riding in.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: He forgot who his father was, and when news of the IS-7 Incident reached him, he assumed his father was the victim and Knightley's was the murderer, when it was really the other way around.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3p1yl_N-wg Restless People]] when you first meet him. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoyCfawMScA Strange People]] when you talk to him. And when he reveals himself, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaSITY8NBVw‎ The Man Who Masterminds The Game.]]
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: To Blaise Debeste, Patricia Roland, and Fake Di-Jun Huang. Simon is a sadistic psychopath who is fine with ruining the lives of innocents if his intended victims are taken down, yet his primary goal is to take down a group of criminals who have all contributed to destabilising an entire country and ruining countless innocent people's lives. He's an odious bastard, but compared to his victims, he almost seems like the good guy.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Though he would claim otherwise, Simon turns out to be similar to his father, Dane Gustavia. He even freezes the body of his victim in order to throw off the time of death, not knowing that Gustavia did the same thing, or even that Gustavia was his father in the first place.
* LaughingMad: After he learns that he ended up getting Knightley killed for no reason. His [[TheHyena tendency to burst into laughter starts at this point.]]
* MaddenIntoMisanthropy: His experiences have given him a chronic distrust of other people, and an [[TheSocialDarwinist obsession with being strong]].
* MeaningfulName: "''Saru''" means monkey. His first name can also be read as "Kusata", a pun on "Kusatta" (rotten). Combined with his real family name (Kazami), his name means "Rotten Flavour". His name in the FanTranslation sounds like "Shy monkeys" when said quickly. Additionally, "Simon" could be a reference to "Simon Says", because of his being able to manipulate people into doing whatever he wants, while "Keyes" refers to him being where all five cases connect - in other words, the ''key''.
* MonkeyMoralityPose: He's often shown covering his eyes, mouth, or ears in various sprites, evoking this image.
* MoralityPet: Implied to have been this to Knightley. A rare example in which the MoralityPet is crueler and more hate-filled than the one he humanizes. His own MoralityPet would be Dogen, who is basically the only person Simon considers trustworthy.
* MonsterClown: Dressed like this during the final confrontation, complete with a PsychoticSmirk and deranged facial expressions.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He has a brief moment of this after realizing that his father was actually Dane Gustavia, not Isaac Dover, meaning that his main reason for setting up Horace Knightley to be killed by Patricia Roland was a complete misunderstanding. That being said, his reaction is clearly more a result of shock at having made such a massive screw-up than any regret at his actions, as he himself notes that he had plenty of other reasons to want Knightley dead.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: His role in Dogen's escape resulted in him having to spend the rest of his childhood hiding in fear of Dogen's ex-employers. This, understandably, changed his whole worldview from TheGoldenRule to DoUntoOthersBeforeTheyDoUntoUs.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Edgeworth calls him out on his revenge scheme this way. Whether he realizes it or not, he embodies qualities from the four people he happens to despise the most:
** As mentioned above, he thinks of the same method Dane Gustavia used to preserve his victim's body, despite having no knowledge Gustavia had done so. Edgeworth also points out that both of them have no problem with sacrificing others to protect themselves.
** He disguises his true appearance and personality, just like the body double.
** He's just as good if not better at taming animals than Patricia Roland, and uses them for {{Mundane Utilit|y}}ies -- Patricia has live foxes cling to her body to make a fur coat, Simon has various animals stack on top of each other to give him something to lean on.
** He had the same idea as Blaise Debeste of kidnapping John Marsh to force the verdict he wanted for Patricia, and even succeeded where Blaise failed. He also has no qualms about pinning the murder he committed himself on John, an innocent minor, just like what Blaise did to Kay.
** He even manipulated and kidnapped two innocent women into being used in a broader scheme, much the way Knightley manipulated Nicole into being a patsy for the fake assassination and later Rooke's murder.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: His easily frightened, quirky, and airheaded demeanor hides a ruthless, calculating sociopath.
* OnceKilledAManWithANoodleImplement: The one murder he personally commits is done in a way that is outlandish even by ''Ace Attorney'' standards. He kills the president of Zheng Fa... by crushing him with a hot air balloon.
* TheParanoiac: Believes everyone (excluding Dogen) is out to get him and/or has ulterior motives. Given how he nearly froze to death due to his best friend's betrayal when they were kindergartners, was constantly interrogated by an abusive orphanage-owner, and then had to spend most of his life hiding from a trio of corrupt officials (one of them being the aforementioned owner, no less) in an international conspiracy because HeKnowsTooMuch, you can't exactly blame him.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: If it hadn't been for all the collateral damage like Jill's death or Kay's and John's abduction, it would be hard to even think of him as an enemy, considering who his intended [[AssholeVictim victims were.]]
* PeoplePuppets: When Money the Monkey appears, he immediately starts to control Simon's arms using his hair.
* RealMenHateSugar: Claims he dislikes sweet things when Raymond offers him candy. Suggested to be a result of his [[ParentalAbandonment abandonment issues.]] That or they bring back memories of his days as a taste tester for his dad, which are probably not something he wants to remember either.
* RealMenWearPink: He is usually seen with a pink hoodie and shoes on. At the circus, he wears a pink and purple clown costume and has pink makeup on.
* RightHandCat: His SlouchOfVillainy pose involves various animals climbing on top of each other to make a tower for him to lean on. At the top is a big, fluffy, white cat fit for a Bond villain.
* TheRunaway: A combination of Orphan and Circus type. He actually did it because he was on the run from Blaise's henchmen looking to LeaveNoWitnesses.
* {{Sadist}}: Some unsettling dialogue shows that he genuinely enjoys causing and watching people's suffering, whether deserved or undeserved. He expresses glee over how he set up Knightley's death, ''even after'' he knew that his grudge against Knightley was misplaced.
* ShakingHerHairLoose: When he drops his shy and lovable act, a couple of birds undo his pigtails, turning him into the bastard love child of Ronald [=McDonald=] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}} Nathan Explosion]]. He even has a couple of squirrels comb his hair down straight.
* SexyJester: The clown costume he wears doesn't detract from his handsomeness.
* SmarterThanTheyLook: He's actually damn near one of the smartest culprits in the series, (which is saying something when said series contains Damon Gant, Quercus Alba, Kristoph Gavin, and Roger Retinz.) as all the tropes under ThePlan would show. It's only through bad luck and circumstances outside of his control that he's even caught.
* TheSociopath: While he's never explicitly called a sociopath, it's made repeatedly clear that he trusts no-one but himself, and can't comprehend why anyone would want to help another. Granted, this was probably brought on by his past, and he's still capable of a certain degree of empathy (mostly toward Dogen).
* SpannerInTheWorks: To the group who assassinated the President of Zheng Fa. They tried to silence him for years, but he was just too smart for them.
* StepfordSmiler: Type A. He maintains a friendly smile in almost all his appearances, despite having just lost his best friend. Considering his misanthropic, vengeful personality, he's also a type C.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Implied as an attempt via letting his hair down in the end to resemble Isaac Dover, who he mistook for his father.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Though whether or not he's truly a devil is up to you.
* SympatheticMurderer: His victims tried to have many people killed, including Simon's father figure, Sirhan Dogen. He also has one doozy of a tragic backstory.
* TragicVillain: One of the most sympathetic villains in the series. His mother died when he was young, his father only used him as a taste tester and abandoned him as soon as he didn't need one anymore, he was raised in an OrphanageOfFear, his best friend betrayed him, and his father figure -- the one person in his life to ever show him kindness without later screwing him over -- was an ''assassin''. Even Edgeworth felt sorry for him, and cites that while his actions were heinous, Simon was ultimately a victim of a corrupt legal system, thus giving Edgeworth the resolve to start working his way up to change it for the better.
* {{Troll}}: During the final confrontation, he steals Edgeworth's voice to object to Edgeworth's statements, constantly provokes Kay and Edgeworth to get a rise out of them, ''fakes a VillainousBreakdown'', tells Courtney that she almost got her child killed and Lang that his father was incompetent for no reason other than to [[KickTheDog cause them psychological pain.]] Edgeworth mentions that striking people's psychological weak point is his strategy to get an emotional response and divert them from the subject (they were trying to prove his guilt at the time).
* TroubleMagnetGambit: The chisel he hid in Knightley's chess set.
* UnintentionalBackupPlan: He never expected to be arrested as a potential suspect for Knightley's murder, which was a very big problem since he technically ''did'' cause it. But who should happen to be there but Miles Edgeworth... acting as an assistant to a Defense Attorney. Not only did this get him out of prison, it allowed him to work Edgeworth into the later part of his plan.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: He's shown smiling in the flashback picture with Knightley.
* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: When Dogen gives John [[PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou permission to kill him to avenge his father]], Simon, in one of his most chilling moments, admits that getting his own revenge has made him feel this way... and that he sees it as a ''good thing'', since the hollowness has allowed him to forget all the pain that his life has been.
* VoiceChangeling: Mocked Edgeworth by imitating his voice.
* VillainousBreakdown:
** All of his animal friends beat the crap out of him when he is exposed.
** He also has a ''fake'' one, complete with SkywardScream and his dad's theme music, then both abruptly cut out and he says "Just kidding!"
* WalkingSpoiler: His true colors are not revealed until the very end.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He's a scheming, ManipulativeBastard through and through, but his ultimate goal was to enact vengeance and justice upon much worse and truly villainous people, who [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem directly control the law]] and thus are impervious to being convicted legally.
* WhosLaughingNow: He's gleeful about seeing the conspirators who ruined his life, and who once terrified him be charged with murder (Blaise, Patricia) or end up dead(the body double).
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: After all the crap he went through, you almost can't ''blame'' him for becoming a MonsterClown.
* XanatosGambit: How he dealt with Blaise. He sent letters to both him and Jill exposing the other's secrets and telling them to meet at the same place. There were two possible outcomes here: either Jill kills Blaise, or Blaise kills Jill (the one that ended up happening) and goes down for murder. Either way, he would get his revenge.
* XanatosSpeedChess: He's very capable of working things into his plans on the fly. The fake President just happened to show up during one of his plans, so he took the opportunity to kill him personally. Edgeworth showing up was also a ''complete fluke'', but he was able to turn him into the best UnwittingPawn he could ever ask for with an on-the-spot WoundedGazelleGambit.
* YouKilledMyFather: His hatred of Knightley resulted from his mixed-up memories. Simon believed that his father was Isaac Dover and that Knightley's father was Dane Gustavia, Dover's murderer, when it was actually the other way around. He's quite shocked to find out that one of the reasons he had hated and orchestrated the death of his only friend was completely invalid, but he's still too much of a misanthropic jerk to feel any remorse for it and he has plenty of other cause, what with the whole tied up in a car thing and all.

[[folder:'''Marī Miwa''' (''Patricia Roland'')]]
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->''"A proper greeting should begin with a hug AND a kiss!"''
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The director of the prison and the detention center. She is an animal lover who believes in animal therapy.

* AlliterativeName: Mari Miwa. The fan translation forgoes this for a PunnyName instead.
* AndYourLittleDogToo: Her fear and hatred of Dogen also extends to his dog, and she almost quotes the line word-for-word at one point. Justified though, as said dog is ''far'' from little and has been trained to kill.
* AnimalMotifs: Foxes. [[spoiler:Despite being rather weak physically, she's sly, cunning, and dangerous, singling out prey to kill by dragging them into her den (be it an orphanage backyard or her office.)]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:It becomes increasingly hard to feel sorry for her the more we realize [[PayEvilUntoEvil why]] Dogen bullied her.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Other than [[spoiler:being an accomplice to the murder of the Zheng Fa president]] and [[spoiler:murdering a prisoner out of fear]], she's a pretty nice person. [[spoiler:Actually, no she's not that either-she's quite willing to forget her maternal nature in return for money, as shown by how screwed up Simon became under her care.]]
* CrazyCatLady: More like "Crazy Fox Lady", but similar principle. Though she tries to come off as a [[KindheartedCatLover Kindhearted Animal Lover]].
* CuddleBug: In her own words, "A proper greeting should begin with a hug AND a kiss."
* ExpressiveAccessory: The silver fox on her neck is alive and usually copies her facial expressions. One of her animations shows her speaking through her fox. [[spoiler:Probably a result of her being paranoid.]]
* EvilOrphanageLady: [[spoiler: What she used to be, as we find out in Case 5.]]
* FriendToAllLivingThings: She's sweet and motherly almost to excess, allowing prisoners to have animal companions and claiming they're all a happy family. Even her fur coat is still alive.
* TheGlomp: With Raymond Shields. When it comes to hugging, they're soulmates. She makes a habit of greeting ''everyone'' like that. And kissing them, which often leads to accidental Squick on the receiver's end.
* HateSink: A minor one, but still one nonetheless. [[spoiler: Despite being excellent at appearing to be a caring and friendly woman, she's a truly nasty piece of work, willing to kidnap, psychologically abuse, and traumatise children to save her hide. This is revealed in chapter 5, when she's shown to be a truly cruel, smug, and ruthless woman who will sink to any low and become downright vicious when she needs to be.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Subverted. She's actually the one who's threatened with death. Although one must wonder if she deserves it since her family was threatened too. Later Inverted when it's revealed she tried to pull this on someone herself once.]]
* IHaveYourWife: More like "I have your family", but similar principle. [[spoiler:Sirhan constantly threatens that his 'dogs' will go after her family. It's the main reason she eventually snaps.]]
* InterfaceSpoiler: [[spoiler: If you ask her about Sirhan Dogen's black dog, she adopts a stunned expression hiding her face, which clearly hints to her villainous nature. This is a big tip-off that she is the case's true killer.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: The stuffy and deep "Hugs and Kisses". Which she herself does. A lot.
* LiveMinkCoat: As mentioned, her fox fur stole is a real fox -- and her coat is foxes too. They bristle up when she's startled and flee entirely when she breaks down.
* MeaningfulName: Her name comes from ''mimawari'', which means patrol. "Patrol" is also the source of her name in the fan translation.
* MurderByMistake: [[spoiler:Kills Knightley, fearing he is one of Dogen's henchmen.]]
* OrphanageOfLove: She ran the "Happy Family" orphanage. Possibly subverted, since the one character who remembers living there says it was awful -- but said character is the very definition of UnreliableNarrator.
* PrettyInMink: Wears a fur coat that [[LiveMinkCoat is actually made of multiple live foxes]].
* ProperlyParanoid: Though she takes it a little too far. [[spoiler:If her suspicions had stopped at Dogen]], she would have been completely right.
* SmugSnake: [[spoiler: Not so much this during her first appearance in case 2, but it comes out in full force during her brief appearance in case 5. She smugly treats her own trial as a complete waste of her time, feeling secure in the knowledge that the evidence implicating her was disposed of.]]
* SympatheticMurderer: She freaked out after [[spoiler:years of bullying by Dogen]] and thought [[spoiler:she was acting in self-defense.]] [[spoiler:Then subverted, when it's revealed that the reason Dogen bullied her to begin with was entirely the fault of her own selfishness.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Clearly deredere by default, she goes tsun on the guards ''big time'' once she realizes [[spoiler:Elbird has escaped.]] [[LampshadeHanging Even Edgeworth notes the abrupt change.]] Although it may be a hint to her serious side, it could just be dedication to her job.
* TurnsRed: [[spoiler:She doesn't make much of an attempt to argue back during her testimony... until you REALLY push her and she completely overturns Edgeworth's logic with just one sentence!]]
* VillainousBreakdown: She starts screaming her MotiveRant as the sound of Dogen's bells continuously play and her pet fox jumps off her neck...and then ''her fur coat turns into multiple foxes'', all of which jump off her body and flee, leaving a much skinnier-looking Patricia Roland standing there hugging herself while dressed in a prisoner's uniform.
** [[spoiler: Has a second more minor one during case five after its proven that she made a deal with Blaise Debeste to have the evidence implicating her disposed of. Her previous smug mood breaks down completely and she angrily rants about how Blaise had boasted about his ability to create his own Not Guilty verdicts, how she had contacted him with the belief that he would have helped her get off scott free, and capping the tirade off by screaming about how completely useless Blaise is. [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud Naturally this whole tirade only serves to implicate Blaise and herself further,]] although by that point her situation couldn't really get much worse.]]
* WardensAreEvil: A prison warden who [[spoiler:murdered one of her own prisoners, tried to frame another and took part in an assassination.]]
* WeaselMascot: More like "Fox Mascot", but similar principle. She has a very strong affiliation with foxes.
* WhamLine: When she says [[spoiler:there is a huge contradiction in Edgeworth's logic]]. It even uses a sprite animation you've never seen from her before.

[[folder:'''Shūji Orinaka''' (''Jay Elbird'')]]
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One of the prisoners in the jail. Jay is a former boxer who continues practicing in prison. His prison number is D-259. He has a polar bear called Rocky, who's always (literally) hanging around with him. He tried to escape the prison by having Rocky knock a guard unconscious, allowing Jay to steal his keys and disguise himself as a guard. His plan was foiled when Rocky recognized him in disguise.

* DressingAsTheEnemy: He disguised himself as a guard as part of his plan, who would be the natural enemy of a prisoner.
* {{Gonk}}: Just as how you'd expect a boxer from a prison to look like.
* MuggedForDisguise: He even mugged another guy just to have someone to pin it on.
* NoodleIncident: It's never explained exactly what he's in for. He can get quite violent when provoked, and threatens to kill Edgeworth on at least one occasion, which could imply something. But then again, Dogen says several of the inmates were falsely accused, so you never know.
* PunnyName: His full name is a pun on "ori no naka shūjin", which means "prisoner in a cage". His name in the FanTranslation sounds like "Jailbird", a slang term for a prisoner.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: His polar bear buddy Rocky hangs off his chest with its tongue out and has the cutest puppy dog eyes. It loves him so much that it knows when he's in disguise... which foils his escape attempt.
* ShippedInShackles: His wristbands have two small weights chained to them.
* TunnelKing: He dug a tunnel in his cell that connected to Horace's cell, where he stole a guard's uniform.
* VillainousBreakdown: His face repeatedly snaps every which way like he's being punched in the face, then he collapses with his mouthpiece knocked out.
* WeightWoe: As a former boxer, he is obsessed with exercising and losing weight, trying to "make the weight limit". However, with the reveal of his escape plan it's possible that his real reason for losing weight is so that he could fit through his escape tunnel and/or into the guard's uniform he stole.

[[folder:'''Ryōken Hōinbō''' (''Sirhan Dogen'') -- '''WARNING: MAJOR UNMARKED SPOILERS''']]
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A former assassin whose weapons of choice are a long knife and his large black dog, Anubis (Kuro in Japanese). The ringing of his signature bells - one attached to the handle of his knife and another to Anubis's collar - is said to be the last sound his victims hear before their deaths. He is blind and Anubis is his guide dog. He saved Horace and Simon and brought them to an orphanage. Later, when he was asked to assassinate Di-Jun Huang near this very orphanage, Simon recognized him and saved his life. He was eventually caught, prosecuted, and imprisoned.

* AffablyEvil: He might be a creepy assassin, but he can still be surprisingly cooperative and has enough of a heart to save children from dangerous situations. He also [[PetTheDog loves his dog]].
* AntiVillain: Type I. He's ruthless, make no mistake, but he's still honorable enough to refrain from any "needless" cruelty, and he also has a soft spot for children (such as when he saves the lives of two dying kids in a genuine PetTheDog moment rather than any PragmaticVillainy, as well as when he gives John a chance to kill him for {{Revenge}} over Huang's assassination).
* TheBadGuyWins: In a sense. By the end of the game, his enemies have gotten their comeuppance and he will have Simon for company.
* BaldOfEvil: Downplayed. He may be an assassin, but he's [[NobleDemon not completely evil]].
* BlindSeer: Not on ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' levels, but his skill with carving is very impressive, and is very competent at playing chess.
* BlindWeaponmaster: Granted, one of those weapons is [[RightHandAttackDog Anubis]], but he is also said to be just as deadly with his knife.
* CanineCompanion: Anubis.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[ZigzaggedTrope Zig-zags]] repeatedly between this and RedHerring.
** You first meet him after a very ominous buildup, he's practically the definition of ObviouslyEvil and you don't really get much worthwhile information out of him. But later, he falls under suspicion when it appears that the victim was killed by a dog. By the time you confront him again, Edgeworth is utterly convinced he's the killer. He isn't. Later subverted again when you find out that while he didn't commit the murder, he indirectly caused it.
** As if that weren't enough, in Case 5 you find out he was hired to kill the ''real'' president of Zheng Fa 12 years ago so that the body double could [[KillAndReplace replace him]]. Said double turns up dead in the present. It appears that he must be the killer this time, but he isn't. However, he does provide the final piece of the puzzle Edgeworth needs to deduce who the real mastermind is.
* ContractOnTheHitman: His clients planned to kill him after he assassinated the real Di-Jun Huang to ensure his silence on the matter. He was able to escape with Simon's help.
* CoolOldGuy: A semi-villainous example.
* DeathSeeker: He offered [[YouKilledMyFather John a chance to kill him]], saying he is already tired of carving statues anyway. Being reunited with Simon seems to bring back his will to live though.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Of Case 2. Notable since even Edgeworth is convinced he's the killer, and the scene is set up just like a final confrontation.
* EvilOldFolks: While his exact age is never given, he's clearly an old man, though not entirely evil.
* GracefulLoser: Implied, he basically accepted his incarceration, and is consigned to [[RetiredMonster living out his punishment in prison]]. He even promises to head back to the prison after solving the mystery behind his acolyte.
* HandicappedBadass: He's blind, but neither age nor blindness were enough to keep him from keeping [[TheRival rival]] ProfessionalKiller Shelly de Killer from killing Simon in the game's climax.
* HellIsThatNoise: The ringing of his bells is said to be the last thing his targets hear before their deaths. Patricia Roland seemed to think so, given how the sound features in her breakdown.
* HitmanWithAHeart: Despite it not being part of his task and no financial/personal incentive, he saved two children who'd been abandoned in a freezing car. He also has (and has a very loyal/heartfelt relationship with) his dog, Anubis.
* KarmaHoudini: He dodges nearly everything the police tries to do to him, except for his arrest, which he isn't that disappointed about.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Skilled as he is, his blindness means he would still get his ass kicked if a bunch of guys rushed him at once. Once a young Simon informed him that his clients planned on killing him to ensure his silence, he opted to escape rather than fight.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Tone of an Assassin," a brooding, sinister theme featuring his signature bell.
* LuxuryPrisonSuite: Perhaps even more so than Kristoph. Kay lampshades it during an investigation. Later [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] when it's revealed he gets his luxury treatment by threatening the warden.
* MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll: Though he can't directly kill anymore, he still maintains the influence he once had. The mere knowledge that he has "[[{{Mooks}} dogs]]" outside the prison and that they [[OhCrap know where her family is]] allows him to manipulate the warden into giving him anything he wants. Through this he established himself as the prison's "supplier", acquiring items for other prisoners in exchange for favors. Hell, his imprisonment allows him to play a major role in the BigBad's plan.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: In the fan translation, he's named after Sirhan Sirhan, the man who assassinated US Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: The way how he operates and describes his assassination plots are perturbing.
* NobleDemon: It turns out that his treatment of Roland was based on the knowledge that she made his godson suffer greatly, and he still cares deeply for said godson.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: A blind, corpse-looking old man who can most likely kill you.
* NoodleIncident: We never find out exactly how he got caught and imprisoned-- though it's implied that Edgeworth had a hand in bringing him to justice.
* ParentalSubstitute: A father figure to Simon Keyes.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: What morality he has seems to be based around this. It's why he felt justified putting Roland through mental hell (she was a ''terrible'' caretaker to Simon), and when Marsh confronts him, he cheerfully submits to [[PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou whatever punishment Marsh feels is necessary]]. Given the concept of karma in Buddhism, this makes quite a bit of sense.
* PetTheDog: He is fond of his dog Anubis and he also rescued Horace and Simon when they were children, being a father figure to Simon.
* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: Offers this to John, who turns it down, though he does admit it ''would'' satisfy him.
* ProfessionalKiller: Rivals even Shelly de Killer in this department, although he's just as much a general crime lord.
* ProphetEyes: He has cataracts.
* PunnyName: '''Dog'''en. Sure, it's probably pronounced "Doh-gen", but the letters are still there.
* RetiredMonster: He quit the assassination business, and is fine with living out the remainder of his days in prison. He also has no remorse for having murdered people in the past.
* RightHandAttackDog: Pretty much his whole gimmick.
* TheRival: Shelly. As the dialogue during their standoff reveals, Shelly and Dogen knew each other in the past.
* SinisterMinister: Edgeworth refers to him as a fallen priest at one point, implying he was one prior to being an assassin.
* SweetTooth: There's a half-eaten tray of brownies found inexplicably in his cell. It's later revealed that it was from Jeff Masters who regularly baked treats for the inmates.
* VagueAge: His age is always listed as ??? in his profile.

!!The Inherited Turnabout (''Uketsugareshi Gyakuten'')

-> For [[Characters/AceAttorneyWitnessesAndOtherCharactersPhoenixWright Larry Butz]], [[Characters/AceAttorneyDefenseAttorneysAndAssistants Gregory Edgeworth]] and [[Characters/AceAttorneyProsecutorsAndJudges Manfred von Karma]] see respective pages.

[[folder:'''Issei Tenkai''' (''Jeffrey Master'')]]
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The main suspect in the IS-7 case. A professional chef with a TV show where he sings, dances, and makes sweets. He's also slowly losing his sense of taste, but he's working on a cure. Gregory Edgeworth was his defense attorney. Since Edgeworth revealed that the autopsy report was fake because the victim's body was missing, the prosecutor, Manfred von Karma, had to charge him with accomplice to murder instead.

* ChekhovsGun: While in the detention center, he discovers he has an illness that leaves him unable to taste salt (he never noticed it before since he usually only eats desserts). It turns out that the real killer has a more severe form of the same illness and can't taste ''anything'', which played a part in his motive.
* CoolOldGuy: His present self is a PerpetualSmiler who baked sweets for other prison inmates and guards.
* CruelToBeKind: Master bluntly told Katherine to stop focusing on his own imprisonment, as well as himself and his well being altogether, which breaks Katherine's heart. He did so to try to get Katherine to focus on her own life. Sadly deconstructed, because Katherine never really took his words to heart and ended up planning revenge for nearly two decades afterward.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: His plan on awarding the Angel Recipe for his contest was meant to help publicize the recipe, but the finalists ended up being a pair of greedy and unscrupulous men and a woman who specifically wanted to keep the recipe under wraps, ''all'' of whom ended up cheating in various ways.
* DiseaseBleach: If you want proof of how scary Manfred von Karma is, just look at this man's hair. It went white after a ''single day'' of interrogation.
* FalseConfession: He eventually cracked under the pressure and confessed. The fact that von Karma questioned him day and night, causing his hair to turn white, helped a lot.
* GoodParents: Though it may not seem like it due to his stoic nature, he loves Kate very dearly, even taking a false murder charge to protect her.
* IWillWaitForYou: As thanks to Katherine for visiting him during his imprisonment, he promises to visit her at prison after his false conviction was overruled until she's served her time for hiding/stealing evidence and premeditated assault.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Sweet Happiness".
* PunnyName: His name comes from the phrase "tenka ichi", meaning "the best on earth", referencing his reputation of his pastries being the best around. For once, the pun is actually acknowledged in-game, since it's his nickname. Meanwhile, his FanTranslation name refers to him being a ''master'' at pastry-making. In other words, a "{{Series/Masterchef}}."
* NiceGuy: An extraordinarily kind and humble man, a fact which underscores the tragedy of his false imprisonment.
* ParentalSubstitute: To Katherine Hall, whom he adopted when she was a baby.
* PerpetualFrowner: Only his past self.
* ThrowingOffTheDisability: He eventually gets over his taste disorder due to a drug produced by the Master Group which can cure it.
* WealthyPhilanthropist: In the foyer of his mansion several awards for charity work are displayed.

[[folder:'''Delicy Scone''' (''Delicia Scones'')]]
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A pastry chef who participated in the dessert-making contest, hailing from England. She is actually a pharmacist who works for the Master Group, who was sent to oversee the secret Master Recipe. She acts as an old lady and is the only character who hasn't changed a bit in 18 years.

* BigEater: She snacks on the other contestants' works. It depends how much she snacks on them but Gustavia doesn't seem to take kindly to that habit.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: She may still appear as a chef even though she now identifies herself as a pharmacist, but her knowledge in the latter field and chemistry is very vast. She even proves one of Edgeworth's points by stating that the sherbet sculptures couldn't be replicas due to the matching composition of the sugar between now and 18 years ago. She's also part of an exclusive group who were allowed to view the Angel's Recipe.
* CharacterTic: Most of the time, you'll see her stirring in her bowl or holding it.
* CheatersNeverProsper: She apparently cheated her way into the competition so she can do her job: never let Master's works go public. That's one more reason for the murderer to attempt to frame her.
* FeminineWomenCanCook: Subverted. She's not ''incompetent'', but she herself admits she can't really cook at the level required by the competition and is honestly surprised that her own corner-cutting wasn't discovered until Gregory Edgeworth came along.
* FrameUp: Gustavia tried to frame her by placing the murder weapon in her room. She only becomes a suspect for a short while as a result.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: The Master Group sent her to spy on Master and made sure his work never went public.
* TheMole: Her true purpose in the competition was to get the Angel's Recipe and the pharmaceutical genius contained within. Since the organization that sent her technically ''owns'' the Angel's Recipe, it's not held against her.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Manfred calls a few witnesses to the IS-7 incident in for questioning, then adds Delicia "while (he's) at it." She's offended at being treated like an afterthought.
* TheNapoleon: Only partly. She's not evil, but she can get angry real fast when you insult her.
* TheNicknamer: To everyone. Including Manfred von Karma.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Her eyes look different from the rest of the ''Ace Attorney'' characters, but no one comments on it.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Multiple layers of it, in fact! When Gregory first exposes the fact that she doesn't know the first thing about cooking and her contest entries are just props, she claims she is just a BigEater who entered the contest on a whim because she loved sweets, and never expected to get all the way to the finals. Naturally, it's much more complicated than that, and when you meet her in the present it's clear she's much smarter than she acts. She's able to produce irrefutable evidence clearing her name when accused, for one.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Her exact age is unknown but she claims to be very old. It's a running joke in the case. Notably, she looks exactly the same in the present day as she did during IS-7, while everyone else involved has clearly aged almost 20 years.
* PunnyName: Delicious scone. A scone is a small British quick bread of Scottish origin, and she claims to be from England.
* RummageFail: Does one when looking for the theft report giving her a perfect alibi, but it's played with: it's a blink-and-you-miss-it moment, but one of the "wrong" objects she produces actually is relevant to the case, [[ChekhovsGun it just won't play a part until later.]]
* TheScapegoat: Not only does Dane Gustavia try to frame her for his killing Isaac Dover in the past, but Katherine Hall sets her up to take the blame for her own attempt to poison Gustavia.
* SecretIdentity: Not really a "secret", but she's actually a pharmacist.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Her habit of sampling the other contestant's dishes actually undermined the plan to frame her for Issac's murder. How? She snacked on something that was to be a support for a large model ship made of chocolate, eating enough that the support collapsed and the ship fell onto a life-sized chocolate chest where the body was hidden, leading to its early discovery by Katherine. Gustavia intended to freeze the body to throw off the time of death, but with the early discovery, he chose to hide it in one of Issac's sherbet sculptures until he had an alternative plan.
* VagueAge: Her age is listed as "??" and a RunningGag about her is just how old she is. Especially since everyone in the IS-7 incident has aged appropriately over the last 18 years and she doesn't look any different.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: ''Hates'' cockroaches with a passion, so much so that she carries [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill an incredibly strong pesticide]] with her at all times.

[[folder:'''Tsukasa Oyashiki''' (''Katherine Hall'')]]
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Jeffrey Master's adoptive daughter who assists him on his show. She hid the body of the IS-7 victim and prepared a trap for the real murderer, knowing that he would eventually return.

* AntiVillain: She obstructs a crime scene, lies to authorities, and tried to kill Dane Gustavia, though this was in a misguided attempt to avenge Jeffrey Master rather than out of malice. Like Godot from ''Trials and Tribulations'', she was well-intentioned but incredibly misguided.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: She has brown eyes and hair.
* DoorstopBaby: How she first appeared to Master.
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Tries to do this 18 years after the murder by setting a trap and knowing Gustavia would try to cover up his own crime.
* HappilyAdopted: By Master, though it's hard to see this relationship at first glance.
* ImpliedLoveInterest: To Raymond, [[CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest who not only treats her more seriously than other female characters]], but offers to defend her in a manner very similar to a marriage proposal.
* IWillWaitForYou: She visited Master Jeff in prison for the past 18 years. Their roles are reversed when his sentence is overruled but she has to serve her own sentence.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Sweet Dance".
* PunnyName:
** Her name contains the kanji for "resident of mansion" and "blanket", a reference to how she first hid the body.
** Her full name is a pun on "o yashiki o tsukasadoru" which means "[to be] responsible for the residence". She takes care of Master's mansion.
** Her surname Oyashiki may be a pun on "okashi", which means sweets.
** Her name in the fan translation is a pun on "catering hall."
** "Katherine" may also be a reference to Catherine Douglas, who (according to legend) tried to block the door to prevent a mob from getting in and murdering King James I of Scotland. (This is the probable origin of the phrase "Katy, bar the door.")
* KickTheSonOfABitch: True, she tried to poison someone, though her intended victim was a remorseless bastard who had escaped justice for eighteen years.
* {{Meido}}: Acts as this during the show and outside of it.
* RedHerring: Edgeworth concludes fairly early on in the case's present-day segment that she was responsible for the murder 18 years ago and the attempt on Gustavia's life. Subverted - while she didn't commit the original murder, she ''did'' try to kill Gustavia.
* SexyBacklessOutfit: Best shown when she dances as an adult.
* ShooTheDog: Master flatly tells her to forget about him and get on with her life. She doesn't.
* SingleTear: When she breaks down, she reaches a hand up dramatically and cries a single tear.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Her stealing Dover's ice sculptures along with his body hidden inside one accidentally set up the bizarre circumstances of IS-7 and ruined Gustavia's plans to just frame Scones for the murder, leading to Jeff's conviction and DL-6.
* SympatheticMurderer: More like Sympathetic ''Attempted'' Murderer. After losing both Master and her home for almost two decades, combined with believing that Gustavia got OffOnATechnicality, it's no surprise that she finally snapped and attempted a VigilanteExecution.
* TearsOfRemorse: {{Subverted}}. She is arrested for poisoning, but [[TearsOfJoy she's glad that Master will finally go free]].
* UndyingLoyalty: Her devotion to Master, which worries him because he wants her to live her own life.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: By hiding the sculpture that contained Dover's body, she ended up sparking a chain of tragic and horrible events: the forgery of an autopsy report, which led to von Karma's penalty and the DL-6 incident, which in turn caused the fall of the Fey Clan and the events of the first three Phoenix Wright games. However, as Raymond points out, there's a good chance that things would have unfolded as they did anyway, except with Delicia Scones being falsely convicted instead of Master.
* TheWoobie: Considered one in-universe by Gregory and Raymond. Her backstory even makes Gregory shed a few tears.
* YouAreTooLate: By the time she was able to buy back the mansion and find out that she accidentally hid the body with the sherbet sculptures she stole and hid in the freezer, the Statute of Limitations had already (seemingly) expired at that point, so she couldn't simply report the body to the police to help clear up the misunderstanding.

[[folder:'''Yutaka Kazami''' (''Dane Gustavia'') -- '''WARNING: MAJOR UNMARKED SPOILERS''']]
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A confectioner without the ability to taste. He and the victim of IS-7, Isaac Dover, secretly collaborated in a dessert-making contest. Gustavia was in charge of the flavor, while Dover handled the design. Dover called off the deal at the last minute, abducted Gustavia's son (who was his taste tester) and blackmailed him when he found out about his condition. Gustavia killed him and fled the country. After his return with an expert set of skills, the cure for his condition was published and he regained his ability to taste.

* AntiVillain: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. Gustavia as a person is actually pretty awful (chiefly, completely cutting his son out of his life just because he couldn't assist with his final dessert entry but also equating Delicia's actions during the contest as enough of an offense to warrant framing her and despite claiming respect for Master, acting remorseless about his wrongful incarceration for 18 years) but on the subject of murdering Dover, he wasn't as much a {{Jerkass}} as Dover (with Dover reneging on their agreement at the last minute and then threatening to ruin Gustavia's career and livelihood by revealing his taste disorder unless he paid up a blackmail followed by attacking Gustavia first; Dover is also the reason Gustavia's son no-showed for the finals and what set off the chain of events to follow).
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: He's a professional pastry chef who considers his work almost akin to martial arts.
* AssholeVictim: Almost became this when a DespairEventHorizon-crossing Kate tried to get {{Revenge}} for Master.
* TheBadGuyWins: It's a distinct possibility he ultimately got away with murder in the end, due to Master's trial now having to be filed as a mistrial and thus possibly removing the stipulation that allowed IS-7 to still be within the statute of limitations (a 'contradiction in the law', as Edgeworth and Raymond state), and even if he didn't he still evaded justice for nearly twenty years and managed to pursue and fulfill his goal during his long freedom. He might lose his freedom but his talents can still be appreciated.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He's actually quite helpful during the flashback portion of the case. It's not until the very end where we realize what kind of person he truly was.
* BringMyRedJacket: He claims that he frequently manages to burn or cut himself when cooking, so he started wearing red so that his clothes won't show bloodstains. It probably came in handy when he was killing someone else, too.
* ChekhovsGunman: At the end his role becomes a lot more important. He's not just a simple criminal. He's the father of Simon Keyes.
* DeafComposer: A chef who lost the ability to taste.
* DirtyCoward: His reaction to killing someone on the spur of the moment is running off, abandoning his son, and letting an innocent man take the blame.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He heavily respected Jeff Masters and had no intention to frame him for the murder. Becomes subverted when he never admits earlier that he was behind the murder to exonerate Masters, choosing to save his own reputation instead.
* EvilChef: A pastry chef and the culprit of the case he appears.
* EvilLaugh: Even more proof that he's Simon's father. Edgeworth actually sees the resemblance.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When he's asked about how long his training trip in Zheng Fa was, he sweats bullets and speaks in a halting tone as he answers that it lasted three years, knowing that this means the Statute of Limitations can't protect him.
* ForWantOfANail: Gustavia's whole feud with Dover is what essentially kickstarts ''the whole series's plot''. After Dover is murdered, Gregory Edgeworth meets von Karma, then the latter's forgeries are exposed ([[NotMeThisTime though the one that was exposed actually wasn't his doing]]) and he gets his first penalty ever. Then DL-6 happens. Him severing ties with his son and then fleeing the country instead of searching for him causes Simon to enact his successful revenge against the Zheng-Fa conspiracy.
* HateSink: Gustavia was an abusive, cowardly, arrogant opportunist who threw out his son like trash when he was no longer needed. While it takes a while to reveal how horrible of a person he really is, when he is cornered as the killer, every positive trait he may have held disappears to reveal an extremely loathsome individual, only beaten by Blaise Debeste and Huang's body double for most loathsome character in the game.
* IHaveNoSon: Claims this in the present. He pretty much only valued his son as a guinea pig for his cooking, and once he started to get his taste back, his son had [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness.]]
* IronicName: His English fan-translated name comes from the same Latin root word "to enjoy or rejoice" (which many characters do not do directly or indirectly as a result of his actions). This word also happens to be the root for the word "gustatory", as in "gustatory system", the combination of saliva and taste buds that facilitate the sense of taste, which Gustavia lacks.
* {{Jerkass}}: Once his son didn't show up for the last legs of the competition and Gustavia recovered his sense of taste after the event was over, he never went back to look for him. He also gloats about causing so much trouble to Katherine and Master, as well as how he's supposedly untouchable under the law.
* KarmaHoudini: At the very least, he managed to get away with his crime for the better part of two decades. On top of that, Raymond Shields says that he's going to try and get Jeffrey Master's conviction expunged, even though this will potentially bring the statute of limitations for Dover's murder back down from 19 years to 18, and thus prevent Gustavia from being charged. Gustavia's ultimate fate is never revealed, however.
* KickTheDog:
** He smugly says that he no longer has any connection to his son, who is no longer useful to him now that he's regained his sense of taste. Even Justine, who's defending him, calls this behavior "inhumane."
** Despite professing respect for Master, he's completely unapologetic about letting Master be imprisoned for 18 years for a crime he committed. This earns him the normally unflappable Raymond's TranquilFury.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Brandished Flavor"
* LoneWolfBoss: The case he's the villain of is the only case in the game that wasn't orchestrated in some way by Simon Keyes, although it's still relevant to his backstory.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Simon Keyes learns that Gustavia is his father late in the final case.
* MeaningfulName[=/=]PunnyName: His name means "full of flavor", which he most certainly isn't. His surname contains the kanji for "weathercock". In the fan translation, his first name can be seen as a shortened form of "danish," and Gustavia is a corruption of the Spanish for taste buds 'gustativa', as well as a name associated with Sweden, which would make him ''[[{{Pun}} sweetish]]''.
* NeverMyFault: Since he didn't plan for Masters to be accused of killing Issac Dover, he takes no responsibility for the fact that Master is falsely serving time for a crime he didn't commit.
* NotSoStoic: He normally speaks very polite, somewhat archaic language and acts like your typical CoolOldGuy in the present. He has one hell of an EvilLaugh, and practically borders on EvilIsHammy once he's cornered.
* RealMenCook: He's a pastry chef, and he's ''very'' serious about it too.
* {{Seppuku}}: Uses a dough effigy of himself as a surrogate for this in his VillainousBreakdown.
* SeriousBusiness: Desserts. So much so that he framed Delicia simply on account of her being "not a real pastry chef", and is deeply disappointed Jeffrey was suspected instead, as he considered him a WorthyOpponent.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Among the villains of the game, he has the smallest role in the plot and doesn't contribute much to the final case beyond being Simon Keyes's father, in addition to his murder being separate from the overarching plot. Yet for a man who's pretty much the game's only filler villain, his impact is rivaled only by Blaise Debeste:
** Abandoning his son was the first step in twisting him into a revenge-seeking misanthrope. Simon would go on and cause every case in the game except the third, which Gustavia started.
** As mentioned below, his murder of Dover ultimately led to DL-6, which motivated every major character, good and evil, from the original trilogy in some way.
* SmugSnake: Gustavia really should have studied the statute of limitations before boasting about how he has become a KarmaHoudini. If he had, he'd have realized that he was still culpable as a murderer. This was an especially stupid move when facing a prosecutor who knows the law extremely well and has a [[ParodiesForDummies law book]] to prove his point. Raymond even calls him "an amateur at law."
* ToBeAMaster: Claims this as his sole goal for entering the contest. There's more to it than that.
* TookALevelInBadass: Uh, as "badass" as pastry sculpting can be. He absolutely sucked in the flashback portion. In the present, he's creating works of art in seconds (including a life-sized replica of himself). [[TookALevelInJerkass Also seems to have become a bit of a callous]] InsufferableGenius in the meantime.
* ThrowingOffTheDisability: His own taste disorder is later cured by the widespread drug made by the Master Group.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His murder of Dover indirectly caused almost every tragedy in the original trilogy. Gregory Edgeworth got Manfred von Karma his one and only penalty at the resulting trial, and in revenge von Karma killed Gregory and raised his son Miles to be a prosecutor. Misty Fey conducted a seance that resulted in Yanni Yogi being falsely named; Misty was exiled and the Kurain Technique was disgraced. Mia Fey left to become an attorney and was killed by Redd White; Dahlia (and Iris) were thrown out, kickstarting Dahlia's life of crime; Diego Armando was poisoned, came back as Godot, and killed Misty to kill Dahlia. Oh, and some art student named Phoenix Wright became a lawyer...
* VillainousBreakdown: Carves a dough effigy of himself with his bare hands, then slices it in half.
* WakeUpCallBoss: His testimony is considerably harder to crack than anything beforehand. And even then, he still has the Statute of Limitations on his side...
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: You prove his motive, means and opportunity and then, in a shock subversion of the series' normal conventions, he proceeds to ''flat-out admit everything you said is true'' and gives a full confession. It seems like it's all over... until he goes LaughingMad and reminds you of the Statute of Limitations.
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[[folder:'''Isaku Hyōdō''' (''Isaac Dover'')]]
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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.
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* AbusiveParents: [[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]].
* AssholeVictim: 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.
* 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.]]
* 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.]]
* 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.
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[[folder:'''Wataru Shirase''' (''Rip Lacer'')]]

A detective and frequent colleague of Manfred von Karma. He was initially the lead detective on the IS-7 incident, only to be reassigned to interrogating the suspect after apparently screwing up and forgetting to inform von Karma about important information.
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* TheGhost: He's mentioned during the third and fourth cases but never actually seen, mostly because he was handling Jeff Master's interrogation in the past segment, and had long-since been fired during the present-day segment.
* {{Jerkass}}: One of his interrogations was enough to turn Jeff Master's hair white ''overnight''. And from Badd's dialogue, it seems obvious that this is par for the course with the interrogations that he and von Karma carried out.
* PunnyName: In reference to the fact that he got replaced by Tyrell Badd early in the investigation, only to take over from Badd again after he refused to co-operate with von Karma.
* TheScapegoat: After von Karma got a penalty during the IS-7 trial, Lacer took the fall and got fired. Not only that, but the only reason he didn't tell anyone [[spoiler:the body went missing was]] because [[spoiler:Blaise Debeste]] had decided to go ahead and charge Master without consulting von Karma, and "persuaded" Lacer to keep quiet.
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!!The Forgotten Turnabout (''Bokyaku no Gyakuten'')

-> For [[Characters/AceAttorneyWitnessesAndOtherCharactersPhoenixWright Lotta Hart]], see her respective page.

[[folder:'''Bansai Ichiyanagi''' (''Blaise Debeste'')]]
!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Koutarou Ogiwara (''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth AAI2]]'')
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' "Crazed Ninja" (''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth AAI2]]'' FanTranslation)
!!!'''Debut:''' ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Gyakuten Kenji 2]]''

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->''"That takes me back. When I was young, I'd always butt heads with this brash detective... A-and then one day... He just disappeared. I hope... he's still doing well..."''
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Sebastian's prosecutor father, and head of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee. He used to be the Chief Prosecutor and he was the one who delivered Manfred von Karma his only penalty. His manner of dress resembles that of a WWI-era German airman. He has a tendency to play with his lighter.
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[[folder:'''Hakari Mikagami''' (''Justine Courtney'')]]
!!Hakari Mikagami (''Justine Courtney'' in the fan translation)

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->''"Ah, 'Lady Justice'... blessings be upon her."''
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Edgeworth's rival in ''Ace Attorney Investigations 2'', a fierce-looking (female) judge. She's part of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee, who is determined to end Edgeworth's career as a prosecutor. She has a washboard of hair over half her face and seems to wear more traditional clothing.

[[folder:'''Sōta Sarushiro''' (''Simon Keyes'') -- '''WARNING: MAJOR UNMARKED SPOILERS''']]
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Horace Knightley's best friend, an animal trainer at the Berry Big Circus, and the suspect in this case. When he and Horace were children, Horace kidnapped him and tied him up on his father's orders, locking them both in a car where they nearly froze to death, but were rescued by Sirhan Dogen and brought to an orphanage. Simon's memories became muddled due to the trauma of this incident, but he remembered his savior, Dogen, who became his new father figure. He held a grudge against the conspirators who hired Dogen for an assassination job and then attempted to betray and kill him to keep his mouth shut. He also held an unwarranted grudge against Knightley, as his muddled memories caused him to believe that Isaac Dover was his father and Dane Gustavia, the man who killed Dover, was Knightley's father, when it was actually the other way around.

!!Bansai Ichiyanagi (''Blaise Debeste'' in the fan translation)

[[folder:'''Shūji Orinaka''' (''Jay Elbird'')]]
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One of the prisoners in the jail. Jay is a former boxer who continues practicing in prison. His prison number is D-259. He has a polar bear called Rocky, who's always (literally) hanging around with him. He tried to escape the prison by having Rocky knock a guard unconscious, allowing Jay to steal his keys and disguise himself as a guard. His plan was foiled when Rocky recognized him in disguise.

* DressingAsTheEnemy: He disguised himself as a guard as part of his plan, who would be the natural enemy of a prisoner.
* {{Gonk}}: Just as how you'd expect a boxer from a prison to look like.
* MuggedForDisguise: He even mugged another guy just to have someone to pin it on.
* NoodleIncident: It's never explained exactly what he's in for. He can get quite violent when provoked, and threatens to kill Edgeworth on at least one occasion, which could imply something. But then again, Dogen says several of the inmates were falsely accused, so you never know.
* PunnyName: His full name is a pun on "ori no naka shūjin", which means "prisoner in a cage". His name in the FanTranslation sounds like "Jailbird", a slang term for a prisoner.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: His polar bear buddy Rocky hangs off his chest with its tongue out and has the cutest puppy dog eyes. It loves him so much that it knows when he's in disguise... which foils his escape attempt.
* ShippedInShackles: His wristbands have two small weights chained to them.
* TunnelKing: He dug a tunnel in his cell that connected to Horace's cell, where he stole a guard's uniform.
* VillainousBreakdown: His face repeatedly snaps every which way like he's being punched in the face, then he collapses with his mouthpiece knocked out.
* WeightWoe: As a former boxer, he is obsessed with exercising and losing weight, trying to "make the weight limit". However, with the reveal of his escape plan it's possible that his real reason for losing weight is so that he could fit through his escape tunnel and/or into the guard's uniform he stole.
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[[folder:'''Marī Miwa''' (''Patricia Roland'')]]
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->''"A proper greeting should begin with a hug AND a kiss!"''
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The director of the prison and the detention center. She is an animal lover who believes in animal therapy.
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[[folder:'''Ryōken Hōinbō''' (''Sirhan Dogen'') -- '''WARNING: MAJOR UNMARKED SPOILERS''']]
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A former assassin whose weapons of choice are a long knife and his large black dog, Anubis (Kuro in Japanese). The ringing of his signature bells - one attached to the handle of his knife and another to Anubis's collar - is said to be the last sound his victims hear before their deaths. He is blind and Anubis is his guide dog. He saved Horace and Simon and brought them to an orphanage. Later, when he was asked to assassinate Di-Jun Huang near this very orphanage, Simon recognized him and saved his life. He was eventually caught, prosecuted, and imprisoned.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Her eyes look different from the rest of the ''Ace Attorney'' characters but no one comments on it.

-> For [[Characters/AceAttorneyWitnessesAndOtherCharactersJusticeForAll Shelly de Killer]] see respective page.

-> For [[Characters/AceAttorneyWitnessesAndOtherCharactersPhoenixWright Lotta Hart]], see respective pages.

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