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'''The Characters of Persona 4. Spoilers abound!'''

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[[folder: The Investigation Team]]

!!The Entire Team

* {{Amateur Sleuth}}s: Every member of the team save for Naoto, who's actually a KidDetective.
* BadassCrew
* BerserkButton: Hurting Nanako is this for all of them because she basically cheered up everyone when they were depressed. When she got hurt, they couldn't forgive the person who did this to her because she was only an innocent child. She had no right to be involved in the cases.
* DareToBeBadass
* FireForgedFriends: It helps that part of their CharacterDevelopment, both as individuals and as a team, includes learning each other's deepest shames and accepting themselves and each other for who they are.
* FiveManBand: The early group, later broken.
** TheHero: The Protagonist.
** TheLancer: Yosuke.
** TheSmartGuy: Teddie.
** TheBigGuy: Chie.
** TheChick: Yukiko.
** TheSixthRanger: Kanji, Rise and Naoto.
* ItsPersonal: Everyone on the team is either a victim or the friend of a victim, giving them all a personal reason to hunt the killer down.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Plays a major role in plot and gameplay.
** More to the point, the main character gets his strength from this.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The team consists of a second-year transferee, the class clown, a tomboyish kung-fu fangirl, the heiress to a prestigious hot springs inn, an infamous delinquent, a pop idol, a celebrated teenage detective, and some bear-like creature; all (save for the bear-creature) are in high school.
** They even call themselves this at one point, albeit to the kid detective's offense at being called a misfit.
* {{Reconstruction}}: Thanks to the Midnight Channel, The entire investigation team is painfully aware of the various flaws in their character types. Much of their S-Links are spent accepting and overcoming these flaws.
* RedBaron: The trailers for ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' have the LemonyNarrator giving insulting nicknames to each of the Team's members in the trailers. [[InteractiveNarrator Naturally, they complain about this]].
* SpecsOfAwesome: Get these once they acquire their Personas.
* TookALevelInBadass: They transform from a bunch of ordinary teenagers (some who are celebrities) with deep-seated issues to an [[BadassCrew effective fighting team]] with supernatural powers, that not only solves a murder case, catches the killer, but also [[spoiler:take on a god-like being (and win)]]. Also, when their Personas evolve.
* TrueCompanions
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld
* YouMeddlingKids: They truly are the bane of the main villain.
* YouWouldntBelieveMeIfIToldYou: Pretty much the reason they can't tell anyone about their after-school activities.

!! The Protagonist/[[CanonName Yu]] [[AnimeOfTheGame Naru]][[VideoGame/Persona4Arena kami]] (AKA [[ComicBookAdaptation Souji Seta]])
[[quoteright:208:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/P4Protagonist.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:208:''[[{{Catchphrase}} Calm down.]]'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaisukeNamikawa (Japanese) and JohnnyYongBosch (English)

The silent protagonist [[HelloInsertNameHere who can be named by the player at the beginning]]. His affinity is with the Fool Arcana, which gives him the ability to call forth multiple Personas, starting with Izanagi. He uses primarily two-handed weapons, including [[HeroesPreferSwords long swords]], [[KatanasAreJustBetter katanas]], [[BatterUp baseball bats]] and [[ImprobableWeaponUser golf clubs]] as weapons, has exclusive access to the Velvet Room, and occasionally encounters Oracle Cards in his mind that give him new Personas and also grants an Arcana Chance. He summons his Persona by crushing the card with his bare hand. The manga gave him the name Souji Seta, whereas the anime and the forthcoming fighting game will name him Yu Narukami, making this his CanonName. ([[UpdatedRerelease The Golden]] simply refers to him as "Hero" when it names the cast in the opening.

His parents moved a lot from town to town, forcing him to constantly change schools. Then, due to his parents having to work overseas, he has to move to the rural town of Inaba to stay with his uncle, police officer Ryotaro Dojima, and his six-year-old daughter Nanako. In his new school, he quickly made friends with class clown Yosuke Hanamura and kung-fu fangirl Chie Satonaka. Soon enough he learns about the 'Midnight Channel' and discovers his ability to insert his body to the television. This leads him into a quest to uncover the truth behind a series of inexplicable murders, in the process gaining a lot of friends and, when he has to leave Inaba a year later, lots of fond memories from an otherwise forgettable town. In the True Ending, his ultimate Persona is revealed to be [[spoiler: Izanagi-no-Okami]].

He's one of the Investigation Team's three founding members (along with Yosuke and Chie) and its de facto leader (unlike the protagonist of {{Persona 3}}). He sets the pace for the investigation, handles finances, and enacts all major decisions before the rest of the Team can act on them; he also leads the forays into the Midnight Channel and commands the group in battle. Also, the team never enters the Channel unless he is present.

* AlmostKiss: An optional scene in [[UpdatedRerelease Golden]] has this happen between him and [[spoiler: Teddie]].
* {{Badass}}: He can reprimand Morooka with "You calling me a loser?", summons Persona not by attacking his card with his WeaponOfChoice, but by ''crushing it with his hands''.
** It also helps that he's probably the first ''Megami Tensei'' protagonist to get [[spoiler:[[EarnYourHappyEnding a perfectly happy]] Normal and True ending]]. Thanks to him, the deaths in Inaba were kept to a minimum [[spoiler:(In the Normal and True Endings, only three die: Mayumi, before he even returned from his first day at school; Saki, just before he discovered his powers; and Morooka, killed by a random psycho he had no preliminary warning of)]]. In fact, all the casualties are minor characters which, by the franchise's tradition of killing party members (or at least major characters) out of the blue, is a huge difference. It takes a very special kind of {{Badass}} to make that possible.
** Exaggerated in the anime: Yu basically takes out the bosses singlehandedly. It's gotten to the point where some Imageboards joke that he's obviously on a NewGamePlus.
*** FridgeBrilliance comes into play when you remember that Yu gets his strength from ThePowerOfFriendship. If he didn't have the backing of his friends and teammates, he'd be screwed [[spoiler: which is actually shown in episode 12 after getting trapped in a Lotus-Eater Machine set by Shadow Mitsuo.]]
** BadassBookworm: Seen more prominently in the anime, which features Yu actually commenting on the books he reads.
** BadassLongcoat: Both his starter Persona, Izanagi, and his ultimate Persona, [[spoiler:Izanagi-no-Ookami]] have one.
* BattleAura: Deserves special mention; his BattleAura is several times larger than those of the rest of the Investigation Team.
* BeneathSuspicion: Dojima's instincts catch onto you and the investigation team almost immediately, but he can't bring himself to suspect the person who watches over his daughter.
* BerserkButton: In the anime, Yu's only real weak spot is his BigBrotherInstinct towards Nanako. While he does have other buttons, endangering Nanako is the only guaranteed way to make him lose his composure. First shown when [[spoiler: Mistuo]] tried to do... something... to her when she bumped into him at the grocery store, only to be scared away when Yu jumped to her defense with a rather uncharacteristic "[[DeathGlare Back off or I]] ''[[DeathGlare will hurt you]]''" expression.
** TranquilFury: How he expresses his anger. Particularly in episode 23 [[spoiler: when he [[http://images.wikia.com/megamitensei/images/a/a4/Yu_was_about_to_throw_Namatame_into_the_Tv_world.jpg comes within a hair's breath from tossing Namatame into the TV world]] (basically a death-sentence) in retaliation for Nanako's apparent death, and without any hint of emotion on his face]]. It's one of the most chilling scenes in the anime.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Towards Nanako.
** BigBrotherMentor: The Protagonist adopts this role with several of his Social Link contacts, notably Kanji and Teddie, and to a lesser extent Shu Nakajima and Naoki Konishi.[[hottip:*:Special mention for Kanji who will even, albeit sarcastically, refer to the Protagonist as "Big Bro" during his Social Link.]]
** KnightTemplarBigBrother: [[spoiler:You're given the option to throw Namatame in the television in retribution for Nanako's death. [[DownerEnding Things will only get worse though.]]]]
*** [[spoiler: Yu nearly DID do this in the anime, but managed to stop himself.]]
* BigEater: In the anime, Yu apparently likes to order the The Meat Lover's Combo.
* {{Bishonen}}
* [[spoiler:ButNowIMustGo]]: It doesn't last.
* CatchPhrase: The anime turns some of the narration's comments from the game into phrases Narukami says, for instance "Let's leave him be" shows up a fair bit.
* CelibateHero[=/=]ReallyGetsAround: The Protagonist can be either one or anything in between.
* CharacterDevelopment: The personality stats return from {{Persona 3}}, except there are now five attributes rather than three: Knowledge, Courage, Diligence, Understanding, and Expression. Maxing them out opens up new Social Links and gives you more dialogue choices.
** In the anime, Yu starts off as a quiet, reserved, stoic, somewhat shy and unmotivated individual. He gradually begins to open up, showing a kinder, friendlier, yet slighly perverted, but comedic side to his personality. In fact, he eases up on the [[TheStoic poker face]], smiling more often and showing more reaction to events around him, and takes more initiative in understanding/dealing with the people around him.
* ChickMagnet: Recognized in the anime. He's called a gigolo by Margaret of all people. Nobody argue about this.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZoSgivgRHk Case in point.]] Why does his shirt open itself? Because it must.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: If you perform the Social Links, it is almost impossible to stop him from helping others.
** Parodied in the anime at first, as Yu doesn't so much agree to help people as get volunteered to at an almost alarming rate by others. [[spoiler: Bonus points for the fact that Izanami more or less volunteered him to save Inaba on his first day in town]] However, later episodes play this straight.
* CloudCuckooLander: Narukami in the anime. ''[[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Possibly.]]'' He's a master of [[TheStoic the poker face]], so it's hard to tell when he's being [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]] or serious.
** TheGadfly: Another possible explanation is that he's well grounded and simply likes to tease his friends by saying outrageous things with a strait face. Take your pick.
* TheComicallySerious: The anime ''loves'' doing this with [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111104041510/megamitensei/images/e/ed/Persona_4_Yu_2.jpg Narukami]], as he's amusingly stoic when most people would be either laughing or screaming, such as [[ItMakesSenseInContext when he puts Teddie's head back on his body]]. Yosuke even lampshades it.
-->'''Yosuke''': [SweatDrop] Narukami, you're pretty thick-skinned.
-->'''Narukami''': [[ConfusedQuestionMark Huh?]]
** Probably shown best when Yu and Yosuke get knocked into the river for making perverted comments to Yukiko and Chie. Yosuke is laughing and flailing about, while Yu is completely flat faced and falls like a rock.
* CoolBigBro: Pretty much every social link with someone who's not older than you, and one you're not romantically interested in.
* CoolOldGuy: Get turned into an old man briefly in Naoto's dungeon in the anime. Rise leads the other girls in squeeing over him anyway.
* CoolShades: He can make a simple glasses into one. Just look at the page cover.
* CovertPervert: Some of his text options are pretty perverted.
** In the anime his response to Shadow Yukiko talking about scoring a hot stud is to remark to Yosuke ([[DeadpanSnarker coolly]]) that he wished he had taped it. As of Episode 7, [[BrickJoke he did start recording it.]]
** It's becoming something of a RunningGag that Yu and Yosuke will say something equally perverted, [[ButtMonkey but only Yosuke will get hit for it.]]
*** Chie actually says at one point that the girls don't find it creepy when it's Yu whose doing it, but it is when the other guys are acting preverted.
** The "Covert" part has pretty much flown out the window; Yu once delivered ''[[CrowningMomentofFunny a very passionate 30 minute rant]]'' as to why the girls should enter a beauty pageant.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow
* [[spoiler:DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu]]: [[spoiler: And he didn't even break an arm.]]
** [[spoiler:TheGlassesComeOff]]: [[spoiler: This is HOW he punches out Cthulhu.]]
* [[spoiler:EarnYourHappyEnding]]: Well, [[spoiler: "Earn Your BittersweetEnding" [[ButNowIMustGo is probably more accurate]].]]
* [[spoiler:EleventhHourSuperPower]]: Initiated by [[spoiler: ThePowerOfFriendship.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Narukami has a very snarky (and a little odd, but funny) sense of humor, with an emphasis on '''Deadpan'''; it's hard to tell if he's kidding or not. To provide one example...
-->(Narukami sticks his hand onto the TV, only for Teddie to bite it.)
-->'''Narukami:''' Something bit me.
-->'''Chie''' It left marks! Are you alright?!
-->'''Yu:''' I think I'm going to cry.
-->'''Chie:''' No you're not.
* ExtremeOmnivore: You have the option of eating anything you find in the fridge, regardless of how inedible it is (at one point you can even eat a ''pot of grass''.)
** He does get sick a few times, though.
* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn: Adachi's S-Links in ''The Golden'' can make the Protagonist relate with him so much to the of point not exposing his crimes, leaving the town on schedule, invoking the Accomplice End]].
* FemaleGaze: In the anime, after he summons Izanagi for the first time. The camera pans down his chest as he opens his jacket so he can breathe better. [[DistractedByTheSexy It's, um... impressively distracting.]]
** Episode 15, right before the King's Game starts and as it progresses. Yeah...he's pretty ripped.
* FirstKiss: [[spoiler:Margaret]] steals his in a moment of GenreBlindness to romance. Unless you date anyone else beforehand.
** In the anime, he gets his first kiss from Ai instead.
* TheFool: His [[spoiler:(initial)]] Arcana.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Does this to Yosuke in the Manga when he meets his Shadow.
** This happens in the anime as well; made more awesome as he decks Yosuke in sync with Izanagi as it lands a good punch to Yosuke's Shadow. Then made [[MoodWhiplash hilarious]] by Yu's response:
--> '''Yu''': [[http://images.wikia.com/megamitensei/images/b/b0/Yu_remark_that_was_an_accident..jpg (completely deadpan)]] Oops, wrong guy.
** Also, [[spoiler:in the Normal/True Ending, he shouts down the entire team to calm down and make them reconsider avenging Nanako on Namatame, realizing something is off with the situation]].
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Like in {{Persona 3}}, you are given the opportunity to sleep with almost any of the girls' whose Social Links you've completed. The scenes are not given explicit detail since this isn't an {{eroge}}, but it's heavily implied that both Yu's are very loving and gentle.
* GuileHero: Saves almost everyone around him with words and simple emotional guidance.
** TheHeart
** HeartIsAnAwesomePower: When the quality of your relationships actually power your Personas to fight against the Shadows, of course this trope applies.
* HelloInsertNameHere: While the manga and anime give him a name, the initial game does it. In fact, The Golden simply refers to him as "Hero" when it lists everyone's names.
* [[HenpeckedHusband Henpecked Boyfriend]]: In Episode 5 he plays the reluctant rebound-boyfriend for Ai. He's totally whipped.
* TheHero
* [[spoiler:HeroicBSOD: Happens in Episode 12 of the anime, Yu is hit by a Lotus-Eater Machine set by Shadow Mitsuo in the form of experiencing his worst nightmare. All of his friends in the Investigation Team leaving his life gradually, Yosuke being the last to leave and ending with Shadow Mitsuo appearing in his room as Yu fails to summon any Personas as his Social Links have all broken. Shadow Mitsuo grows to a large size and begins strangling Yu to death. He Gets Better by Yosuke bailing him out.]]
** [[spoiler: It happens again in episode 21, when Nanako is kidnapped. When they find Namatame's truck, with both Namatame and Nanako gone, he completely snaps, to the point that Teddie has to physically restrain him as he attempts to dive into the TV to follow them (it was established earlier in both the game and the anime that entering any TV other than the one in Junes is extremely risky, and potentially too dangerous to attempt). Rise is able to talk him out of it.]]
* HeroesPreferSwords: Or bats, or golf clubs, but mostly swords.
** KatanasAreJustBetter: His weapon of choice in ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena''.
* HotBlooded[=/=]BloodKnight: He's mostly stoic and calm in conversation but loosens up a bit during fights; shouting and throwing out the occasional swear word.
** NotSoStoic: After summoning Izanagi for the first time, he can be seen enjoying a taste of his new power.
* HyperspaceArsenal: The other characters have easily concealed weapons, with exception to Kanji who could hide some of his weapons in shopping bags but not all of them (i.e. a desk). He doesn't ''and'' he carries all of the Shadow parts and useful things you find. The most common suggestion is that the Velvet Room has something to do with that.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: [[spoiler: In the anime. Yu's biggest fear is that after the investigation is over, the group will go their seperate ways and he'll be by himself again. Mitsuo's shadow exploits this fear and causes him to have a ''tremendous'' HeroicBSOD. It's possible that Yu has not had any lasting friendships before now, which would explain his [[SugarAndIceGuy Sugar and Ice personality]].]]
* InSeriesNickname: Yosuke calls him "Partner", Teddie calls him "Sensei", Nanako calls him "Big Bro", etc; in fact, most of the important characters have a different nickname for him, to avoid calling him by [[HelloInsertNameHere whatever name you gave him.]]
* JapaneseDelinquents: At first it was just a FanNickname, but is now officially canon, as in ''Arena'' he is described as a "steel siscon banchou!"
** Even his persona has a BadassLongcoat that gives off this vibe.
* {{Jerkass}}: Most of the dialogue trees in the game have at least one "asshole" option. However, the game discourages you from choosing these, as by doing so, [[YouLoseAtZeroTrust it causes your friends to lose their trust in you,]] [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment resulting in broken Social Links which leads to depowering your character's Persona growth potential.]]
** Dialogue choices tend to push him more into DeadpanSnarker and ObfuscatingStupidity territory.
* KindheartedCatLover: Shows signs of this if you follow the various 'Feed the Cat' sidequests.
** That, and he can spend a whole afternoon doing nothing but petting a cat outside his house.
* LargeHam: Yu has his moments in the anime.
* ManlyTears: [[spoiler: Shortly after Nanako's death and the ruckus with Namatame in the anime.]]
* MeaningfulName: "Narukami" means "lightning god", to which Izanagi is of the lightning element. Alternatively, "Narukami" can also mean [[spoiler:"to become a god"]]. Now consider the name of the protagonist's ultimate Persona and the mythology behind it.
** It also so happens that one of the readings of "Yu" is "[[TheQuietOne quiet]]".
** Not sure if it was intentional, but there's a pun in the English language regarding the name "Yu". In the game, the player character could be named and modeled after anyone playing. So, in a sense, "Yu" could be ''you''.
* TheMessiah[=/=]TheParagon: He helps almost everyone he meets overcome their deep-seated psychological issues, [[spoiler:convinces his friends to spare the man who almost killed his cousin/little sister figure, and saves the world thanks to a literal application of the PowerOfFriendship]].
** Attention is drawn to this by Igor and Margaret in the anime, who refer to Narukami as a "chosen one".
* MrFanservice: Episode 15. [[FemaleGaze Aw yeah......]]
* [[spoiler: MyGodWhatHaveIDone?: In the Accomplice Ending, finally gets this reaction once he boards the train and gets [[IShallTauntYou a message from Adachi]], who is the only person to see him off.]]
* NervesOfSteel
* NewTransferStudent: Apparently becoming a SignatureStyle for ''Persona'' protagonists, which is justifiable, as it's easy to portray a high school kid with no existing friends or acquaintances, thus avoiding potential problems arising from preexisting Social Links. The manga goes further and implies that he (as Souji) changes school almost every year.
* NiceGuy: In almost all canons, he is portrayed to be a very kind and caring individual.
* [[OfficialCouple Official Love Interest]]: Rise in the Manga.
* ParentalAbandonment: In the game itself, his parents are only mentioned two or three times. However, the manga states that he moves a lot due to their jobs, and implies that his self-reliant nature stems from a lack of their presence in his life (due to always being busy).
* PrecisionFStrike: While he can curse several times throughout the story, one line in particular gets special mention because this is the one time he ''loses his temper and '''yells''''' for the first and only time in the entire game... [[spoiler:all to make the party reconsider killing Namatame]].
-->"'''''Calm the hell down!'''''"
* PromotionToParent: His relationship with Nanako, due to the constant absence of her own father from her life.
* PunnyName: "Yu Narukami", his name in ''The Animation'' and ''The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena'', has caused quite a few bad puns among the English fandom involving the pronoun "You".
** The OP even gets in on it with the stressed line "I believe in you". One imagines it was actually part of the point, with HelloInsertNameHere causing the characters to refer to him as you, him, sensei, big bro, etc.
* TheQuietOne: In the [[ComicBookAdaptation manga]] where he is allowed to talk, he (as Souji) is still awfully quiet, only speaking at crucial moments and when he's the one initiating a conversation; it creates quite a parallel to his SilentProtagonist role in the game.
** In the anime he -- as [[MeaningfulName Yu]] -- is portrayed as a calm, composed, and soft-spoken individual.
* RedBaron: "The [[BigBrotherComplex Sister Complex]] Kingpin of Steel" in trailers for ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena''.
* RedOniBlueOni: Blue to Yosuke's red.
* ScaryShinyGlasses[=/=]SlasherSmile: The first time he summons Izanagi is a rare completely heroic example of both.
** Seen here [[http://tonkuniverse.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/zero-raws_persona_4_-_01__mbs_1280x720_x264_aac_-mkv_001288412.jpg from episode 1 of the anime.]]
* [[SempaiKohai Sempai]]: In contrast to {{Persona 3}}'s protagonist, he's older than most other characters and gets called this.
* SecondYearProtagonist
* SeriousBusiness: For Yu, ''everything''. It does not matter if it is solving the case, making origami or eating the rainy day special, he treats them all with the same focus and determination.
* SilentProtagonist: Averted in his appearances in ''The Animation'' and ''The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena''.
* StealthPun[=/=]ShoutOut: This must be what the artists of the manga were thinking when they named the Protagonist after [[RurouniKenshin Seta Soujiro]]. That or just coincidence.
* TheStoic: He never speaks outside battle and often has the option to tell others to calm down; there are only two points in the game where he has the option to become visibly angry. The eyes of his model are pretty cold too.
** The anime adaptation also depicts him this way. In contrast to the other cast members he (as Narukami) is rarely fazed by extraordinary events, and he almost always keeps a straight face (to the point that it's difficult to tell how serious is about some of the things he says - see DeadpanSnarker). Taken to absurd levels in the school trip episode, when he has the same serious expression plastered on his face [[CrowningMomentOfFunny as he's tossed over a cliff by Chie and Yukiko]]
** NotSoStoic: However, there are plenty of moments where he breaks his stoicism. He often shows when he's concerned or surprised about something, rather friendly during conversations with his friends, and there's a distinctively afraid/shocked tone in his voice when he and his friends stumble into Mayumi's Shadow room during the first. episode. He's also smiles at least once an episode. He may be more of a SugarAndIceGuy than Stoic.
*** PlayedForLaughs in Episode 20, when Nanako asks if he and Teddie are perverts. Both of them go BlueWithShock.
*** And, in Episode 21, it's played far more seriously. [[spoiler: He starts to lose it when he sees Nanako on the Midnight Channel and, shorty after, discovers that she's been kidnapped. Then, when they find the kidnapper's truck, but with neither of them at the scene, his reaction pretty much borders on a HeroicBSOD. Teddie has to physically restrain him as he makes a desperate attempt to dive into the TV in the truck, and it isn't until Rise talks some sense into him that he (only barely) regains his composure.]]
* StupidSexyFlanders: Boy does he look good in that schoolgirl uniform and a wig.
** The King's Game scene in TheAnimeOfTheGame, when he unbuttons his shirt and goes deep straight into MemeticSexGod territory.
* SuperpowerLottery: Let's face it, he's the only character who has access to almost every Persona, [[spoiler:and is the only character who is able to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu defeat Izanami]] because of his ability to upgrade his own and everyone else's Persona via ThePowerOfFriendship. Even in comparison to his predecessor's [[SuperpowerLottery Superpower Lotteries]], he won it BIG time, and that's saying something.]]
* SupremeChef: His friends treat his meals like [[ImpossiblyDeliciousFood the best thing they ever ate]], he's asked to save the day by Yosuke when the girls are proposing to cook for an event and during this, if the player decides to make the omelette that will please Nanako the best, she's literally [[OrgasmicallyDelicious blushing with happiness]].
** Can also potentially be a LethalChef when cooking school lunches, if the player chooses the wrong options.
*** At one point, you have the option to ''[[CordonBleughChef spray cologne on creme caramel]]''.
* TalkingToHimself: JohnnyYongBosch voices both him and Adachi. [[spoiler:And you can let the both of them duke it out after TheReveal!]]
* TeamMom[=/=]{{Meido}}: Think about it. The guy's a good cook, is seen taking care of children in one of his jobs while wearing an ''[[ADayInHerApron apron]]'', and tutoring another kid in another job. Another job has him cleaning, while the other three are housework, not to mention how good of an influence he was in raising Nanako. Let's face it -- the guy's the ideal HouseHusband, bordering on a male YamatoNadeshiko in these regards... and also one hell of a {{Badass}} to boot. How many heroes do you got like that?
** RealMenWearPink
* TeamChef: Among the Investigation Team members, he is the only one who can put together a good meal as an individual, though this is largely contingent on the player's own cooking skill.
** Canon in ''The Animation'' where Yu is shown to be a pretty good cook.
* ThousandOrigamiCranes: He can volunteer to fold origami cranes for charity as a part time job.
** The anime promotes this trope into his (as Narukami) hobby when killing time. He's pretty good at it too. He made a crane out of a paper napkin, which is harder to fold than regular paper.
*** Episode 9 shows that Origami Cranes is SeriousBusiness for Narukami.
* [[spoiler: TouchedByVorlons]]: Part of the reason [[spoiler: his SuperpowerLottery payoff was so large is due to having his powers granted to him by Izanami.]]
* [[spoiler:UnwittingPawn]]: [[spoiler: One of the three people to whom Izanami granted the power to enter the TV. He represents "Hope".]]
** [[spoiler:SpannerInTheWorks]]: [[spoiler: Too bad for Izanami, he refuses to accept her gambit and eventually turns his given power on her.]]
* VisibleSilence: There is a whole series of dialogue options which are ellipses (".....") in the early days of the game.
* WarriorTherapist: Because tailing a serial killer (and incidentally saving the world) doesn't mean you can't save time to deal with the psychological issues of your whole team, your family, half your school and if we consider the Fox path, half the town. The therapy is so good he can end up [[ChickMagnet seven-timing]] and somehow convinces his uncle that since he's so great, he can marry ''his own cousin''. And let's not get started on all the [[EvenTheGuysWantHim mancrushes]] he can start.
* [[spoiler: WhatAnIdiot: In-Universe, Adachi cracks up at the protagonist in ''Golden'''s accomplice ending for [[IdiotBall actually burning the letters that could get him convicted.]] Not unjustified, considering his [[ManipulativeBastard actions throughout the rest of the game.]] ]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Delivered to the entire Investigation Team in the Normal/True route -- the only time he gets visibly angry[[hottip:*:(Unless you choose a certain option during Yosuke's Social Link)]] -- when the rest are contemplating [[spoiler: killing Namatame]].
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Well, grey-haired. Also, CurtainsMatchTheWindow

!!Yosuke Hanamura
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[[caption-width-right:185:''[[HeterosexualLifePartners Let's go, partner!]]'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' ShowtaroMorikubo (Japanese) and YuriLowenthal (English)

Yosuke is a second-year student at Yasogami. Because his father is the manager of Junes, the local department store, he is usually treated as an unofficial complaints box, much to his chagrin. He is the Main Character's best friend and is often the [[ButtMonkey butt of his friends' jokes]]. Although typically a bit of a DeadpanSnarker, he has a soft spot for Saki Konishi, a third-year and an employee at Junes, whose murder acts as part of his initial motivation to join the Investigation Team. He [[DualWielding dual wields various weapons]] and his Persona is Jiraiya of the Magician Arcanum, which later evolves into Susano-O once the Magician Social Link is complete. His Personas cement his role as the party's [[TheRedMage Red Mage]]: Yosuke can use physical attacks and Garu (Wind) magic fairly effectively, and he also has access to support spells that confuse and debuff enemies, augment accuracy and evasion, and provide minor healing.

During a trip to the Midnight Channel and after witnessing the Protagonist's Persona awakening, Yosuke was faced with the horrible truth: Saki has always hated him. When Yosuke refused to admit this, his Shadow emerges and taunts him that he's only being cheerful as a facade and sees everything, including Saki, as a tool to block out his extreme loneliness. Yosuke angrily retorted and it caused the Shadow to reveal its true form, but was eventually defeated by the Protagonist. Encouraged by the Protagonist and Teddie, Yosuke painfully accepts that he did feel that way, but he resolves to get better, which causes the Shadow to turn into his Persona. Yosuke later goes to co-found the Investigation team, along with the Protagonist and Chie.

Yosuke is the team's unspoken second-in-command. He helps coordinate the group alongside the protagonist, and will usually be the one to suggest new courses of action. He has good deductive reasoning (which serves well in the case), but is not the most perceptive of individuals and has a tendency to put his foot in his mouth.

His Shadow looks like him in a ridiculous ninja outfit, with a giant frog making up his lower body. It represents his resentment towards Inaba, his boredom and his wish for excitement. Aside from the reference to the original character Jiraiya, the frog theme is also a word play. In Japanese, "frog" is pronounced the same as "return" which plays in to Yosuke's desire to leave Inaba.

In his Social Link, Yosuke revealed that he initially hated Inaba, but has grown to love it and despite being hated by Saki, he did genuinely love her. He later reveals that he is jealous of the Protagonist and used the murder case to play hero and hide his insecurities. Yosuke later asks the him to punch him to get rid of his jealousy and they end up in a brawl; Yosuke realizes that he can form genuine, close relationships with people regardless of where he is, and resolves to live his life to the fullest. His Persona then evolves into Susano-O.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Played with -- although he crushes on Saki, she secretly hates him. He's aware, though, that she must have disliked him, though he believes she was a good person at heart and decided that he'll still love her anyway.
* AntiHero: Generally Type II on the [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Sliding Scale]].
** MrViceGuy: His vices primarily being [[SmallTownBoredom bored of Inaba]] and [[HonorBeforeReason difficulty considering the ramifications of his words and actions]], which often leads to MoralDissonance and his being on the receiving end of LaserGuidedKarma.
* {{Badass}}
** HeartbrokenBadass: Part of his motivation in being a Persona user is kicking the ass of the one who murdered Saki.
** TookALevelInBadass: Which doubles as CharacterDevelopment.
* BerserkButton: Disrespecting Saki or the Protagonist.
** [[spoiler:Hurting Nanako]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:Among all the party members he was the one most determined to kill Namatame after Nanako's apparent death.]]
* BlowYouAway
* {{Bishonen}}
* BreakoutCharacter: Yosuke stars in his own manga SpinOff ''Persona 4: The Magician''.
* BromanticFoil: To the Protagonist.
* ButtMonkey: And he knows about this, complaining in the anime than nothing good ever happens to him/the guys of the investigation team.
* CallingYourBathroomBreaks: At completely inopportune times.
* CasanovaWannabe: Has three crushes throughout the game, all of which don't turn out too well -- Saki outright hated him, Yukiko shot him down, and Rise only has eyes for the Protagonist.
* ChivalrousPervert: When it comes to Rise, at least. When her shadow offers to "bare it all" for her fans, he clearly can't decide whether to be worried or excited.
* CombatMedic: In the earliest parts of the game, he fills this role until Yukiko comes along, then he becomes a JackofAllStats
* DeadpanSnarker
* DemotedToExtra[=/=]{{Flanderization}}: Yosuke in the anime has much less overall importance than he did in the game, and is much more of a comedic character. This is probably the result of the fact that his role as ExpositionFairy is irrelevant when Narukami can speak for himself.
* {{Determinator}}
* DualWielding: Whether it's knives, kunai, or [[ImprobableWeaponUser wrenches]], he will always have one in each hand.
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: His Follow-Up Attack.
* ExpositionFairy: Shares it with others at times, but the trope most consistently applies to him.
* {{Facepalm}}: He does one during the episode 15 of the anime at the nightclub. [[DrunkOnMilk The situation called for it]].
* FemaleGaze: In the anime, [[http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsnye3Sa771qf95ibo5_250.png quite]] [[http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsnye3Sa771qf95ibo7_250.png a]] [[http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsnye3Sa771qf95ibo3_250.png lot]] of shots are focused on his butt.
* {{Flanderization}}: In the Anime. In the game, Yosuke acted as the unofficial mouth-piece for the [[SilentProtagonist Protagonist]], so he was quite talented at deductive reasoning. This aspect of his character was given to Narukami in the anime, so Yosuke's ButtMonkey and LovableSexManiac aspects have increased instead.
* GroinAttack: Tends to be given "Critical Hits to the Nads" by Chie.
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday
* HonorBeforeReason
* HormoneAddledTeenager
* JackOfAllTrades[=/=]TheRedMage: Jiraiya has good buffs, physical skills, Garu spells and an odd healing ability. Towards the end of the game, he (and Jiraiya's successor, Susano-O) begins trending toward LightningBruiser, especially with good equipment. His [[TheRedMage Red Mage]] status comes with a solid dose of FridgeBrilliance: It's a more literal interpretation of "The Magician."
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* LickingTheBlade: He does this in the [[http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltdmhgH8pn1qej5zpo1_500.gif anime]]. He then claims these are fake. Not that it stops the police from arresting him and Narukami...
* TheLancer
* TheNotLoveInterest
* NumberTwo
* PottyEmergency: He has one when he first discovers the TV World with the Main Character and Chie.
* [[spoiler: RealMenWearPink: In ''Golden'''s epilogue he's mostly eased up on his "HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday" stance, in a literal example of the trope.]]
* RedBaron: "Captain Ressentiment" in trailers for ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena''.
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to the Protagonist's blue.
* ThatCameOutWrong: Has a knack for spouting out innuendo.
* [[TheGlassesComeOff The Headphones Go On]]: Only wears his headphones over his ears in combat.
* SeenItAll: In the later parts of the story starts adopting this attitude towards weird stuff they encounter in the TV world.
--> After [[spoiler: Teddie somehow grows himself a human body inside his suit.]]
-->'''Yosuke''': What kind of creature would do that?! I mean... What IS he? [...] *Sigh* Then again, this hardly the first bizarre thing we've seen...
* ShutUpHannibal: [[spoiler:Responds to Adachi's HannibalLecture by saying "You're nothing but a worthless criminal".]]
* SmallNameBigEgo: Yosuke serves as an interesting aversion. He starts out with traits of this, but after Saki's death, he actually ends up as TheLancer.
* SmallTownBoredom: [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted, once he realizes how much he came to love Inaba.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Chie.
* WeaponTwirling: He does this while in battle and in the opening animation. It backfires when he nearly drops his dagger in both.

!!Chie Satonaka
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->'''Voiced by:''' YuiHorie (Japanese), Tracey Rooney (English), ErinFitzgerald (English, Persona4Arena, Persona4TheAnimation, and ''Persona 4: Golden'')

An upbeat girl with short light-brown hair who usually wears a green athletic jacket decorated with buttons. Her weapon is a pair of greaves. She has an obsession with kung-fu, and even uses them in battle, similar to [[{{Persona2}} Lisa Silverman]]. Her obsession goes so far that she even attacks Yosuke over a martial-arts DVD. Most of the time, she is friendly, cheerful, and energetic, but has a short temper, especially with Yosuke. [[LethalChef She, Yukiko and Rise are unskillful cooks, providing normally unpalatable to terribly awful dishes to the crew several times]].

Her Persona is Tomoe Gozen of the Chariot Arcanum, a muscular female wearing a yellow outfit reminiscent of BruceLee's "Game of Death" costume, wielding a double-bladed naginata. Tomoe Gozen initially learns both physical techniques and Bufu (Ice) spells, but is not that proficient with magic and can only learn mid-level spells; Teddie later becomes the chief [[AnIcePerson Bufu mage]]. Tomoe evolves into Suzuka Gongen, who is wielding what can only be described as [[StarWars Darth Maul's]] lightsaber, after completing The Chariot Social Link.

Chie's Shadow takes the form of a long haired, masked dominatrix supported by three pale Chies. The dominatrix has long black hair, similar to Yukiko's. It represents her jealousy of Yukiko's natural gifts and talents, as well as her wish and need of control over Yukiko.

Chie is the third founding member of the Investigation team. While not the smartest of the group, she's very attentive to the discussions and always has her ear to the ground for the latest rumors, gossip, and snippets of info regarding events in Inaba.

Through her Social Link, the Protagonist and Chie become closer through training together at the Samegawa Floodplain. He also learns how Chie and Yukiko first became friends: as children, Chie volunteered to shelter a dog Yukiko found but was unable to bring to her inn due to her parents' disapproval. Over time, the Protagonist learns of how Chie enjoys creating groups and titles for herself, in hopes of being feared by juvenile delinquents and protecting the weak. Hearing from a police officer that high schoolers have been bullying people in the Central Shopping District, Chie and the Protagonist coincidentally help. They first save Chie's middle school friend, who then calls the police. The second time, Chie makes the hoodlums run off just as they attempt to steal from a little boy. Once this occurs, the Protagonist has the option of beginning an intimate relationship with Chie. Depending on what the player decides, Chie will either go to train with the Main Character (friends) or go to his home (romance) and gives him some matching wristbands. Chie's resolve to help others and protect the team, especially the Protagonist, [[LevelUpAtIntimacy5 transforms Tomoe Gozen to Suzuka Gongen]]. She also resolves to train as a police officer under Dojima's guidance.

In the extended true ending of ''Persona 4: The Golden'', [[spoiler:She has become less self-conscious about not being seen as a girl by those around her. While still sporting her iconic black [[ModestyShorts sports shorts]], she now also has a BobHaircut, along with a black choker and a new frilly, floral-patterned jacket.]]

* ActionGirl
* AnIcePerson[[AWorldwidePunomenon a]]: Though she's more on physical beatdown, so she only learns up to mid-level Bufu skills. Teddie fills in this role more completely once he joins the party.
* ArmedLegs
* AwesomeYetPractical: Her Follow-Up Attack, Galactic Punt, will instantly kill one enemy Shadow and [[ATwinkleInTheSky literally blow them away]]. It has a 100% chance to hit and even works on mini-bosses.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassAdorable
** BadassPacifist: Decides at one point to take a beating for a little kid without defending herself to protect him and Yukiko.
* BigEater
-->'''Yosuke:''' The Meat Lover's Combo... Just like it says in the name, you really have to love meat to order it.
-->'''Kanji:''' Oh, you talking about that thing at the food court? I wanna try it, but it's always sold out...
-->'''Yosuke:''' Don't tell me, did Chie-- D-Don't answer that. I'm not sure I want to know for sure that a friend of mine has the appetite of a starved wolf...
* TheBigGirl: A position shared with Kanji.
* BookDumb: Zigzagged. Chie generally fails most exam subjects, but Yukiko states that Chie gets very good scores on those that she doesn't fail.
** She's also fairly attentive and tends to support conversations about the investigation pretty well.
* BruceLeeClone: Since she loves kung-fu movies, she's learned how to emulate her martial arts idol's fighting style during combat, complete with lines likes [[DontThinkFeel "Don't Think, Feel"]].
* CryCute: Broke down crying in relief after the Protagonist and Yosuke made it out alive of the Midnight Channel during their second trip (sans Chie, who tried to keep them tied onto a safety rope, which promptly snapped moments after they enter the Channel).
* CuteBruiser
* DontThinkFeel: One of her quotes at the end of battle.
* ExtremityExtremist: Everything she does in battle she does with her feet, even guarding.
* {{Expy}}: Not in looks, but in attitude: Chie shares a ''lot'' of characteristics with Lisa Silverman, the most obvious of which being enamored with kung-fu movies and BruceLee in particular.
* FoodAsBribe: Inverted in the anime. When Yu and Yosuke return from their second trip into the TV World in the second episode, she says the only way she'll forgive them is if they buy her [[BigEater 10 orders of both beefsteak and nikudon]].
** Inverted and played straight in the game. Chie makes Yosuke buy her food as repayment for destroying her DVD and he bribes her and Yukiko with steak when he and the protagonist devour their noodles.
* GlassCannon: Suffers from Physical Skills which [[CastFromHitPoints consume HP]] and mediocre defense. However, she hits like a truck once God's Hand comes along and has a skill that can instantly kill enemies.
* [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend He Is Not My Boyfriend]]: Happens several times with Yosuke.
* HotBlooded
* JerkAss: Chie has so many shades of this, mainly due to constantly yelling at Yosuke, as if she has a HairTriggerTemper. This is shown much more in the Anime of the Game.
* KickChick
* LeeroyJenkins: Decides to run off after Yukiko early in the game. This does not end well.
* LightTheWay: Gains light spells from her social link in ''Golden''
* MagikarpPower: She stops gaining useful Physical and Bufu Skills by the time you get Kanji and Teddie, at least mid-game. She does get pretty powerful when leveled high enough, though, gaining Power Charge, Agneyastra, and God's Hand.
* ModestyShorts
* RedBaron: "The [[BigEater Carnivore]] [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon Whose Discarded Womanhood]]" in trailers for ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena''.
* TheResenter: Shadow Chie
** PoisonousFriend
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Steak.
** [[BlatantLies No, it's pudding.]]
* {{Tomboy}}: Including the common traits:
** ActionGirl
** LethalChef: Worst of the lot by a mile.
** {{Shorttank}}
** TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The tomboy to Yukiko's girly girl.
** {{Tsundere}}: She has moments of this. Yosuke is usually on the receiving end of the "tsuntsun", while Yukiko gets a good part of her "deredere". [[YuiHorie Naru]] [[LoveHina Narusegawa]], [[ActorAllusion anyone]]?
*** To a lesser degree, the Protagonist as well. It's more noticeable if you pursue her romance.
* TwinkleInTheSky: Her "Galactic Punt" Follow-Up Attack.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Yosuke.
* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Bugs?]]: Her entomophobia, revealed during her 2nd Social Link Event.

!!Yukiko Amagi
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->'''Voiced by:''' AmiKoshimizu (Japanese) and AmandaWinnLee (English)

Yukiko is the only daughter of the owner of the Amagi Inn, and thus the heir to the generations-old family business. Despite that, she is [[LethalChef a terrible cook]]. She is a smart girl, but quite socially awkward, with only Chie as her true friend. She fights with a [[PaperFanOfDoom fan]], but is most suited for [[BlackMage heavy magic fighting]]. Her Persona is Konohana Sakuya of the Priestess Arcanum, and later evolves into Amaterasu. Yukiko [[RedMage fits the role of both]] the WhiteMage and the BlackMage, learning powerful healing spells (including one that fully restores the entire party's HP!) as well as destructive Agi (Fire) spells.

When Yukiko was kidnapped and thrown into the Midnight Channel, it created a dungeon in the form of an European castle, while her Shadow masqueraded as a princess continually searching for a "prince" to whisk her away. The castle and her Shadow were born of her repressed yearning to break free from her designation as heiress to the Inn, instead privately wishing for someone to alleviate her responsibilities. The Protagonist, Yosuke and Chie manage to defeat her Shadow, and she becomes a member of the investigation team.

Yukiko's Shadow looks like a giant, red-feathered bird with her head, kept inside a giant birdcage atop a chandelier -- a literal "bird in a gilded cage", reflecting how Yukiko views her life.

In the the earlier stages of her Social Link, Yukiko still desires to leave Inaba and pursue interior design to learn to fend for herself. However, friendly teasing from the Inn's staff and pestering from an [[{{Paparazzi}} irresponsible TV crew]] who want to make a program that will ruin the reputation of the Inn eventually made her realize that she had a supportive family and friends that she wants to help and defend. She resolves to accept her duty and manage the inn, evolving her Persona. She is also a possible LoveInterest for the Protagonist depending on player actions in the S. Link.

In the extended true ending of ''Persona 4: The Golden'', [[spoiler:she has become more confident in herself and far less worried about standing out. Yukiko no longer wears red all the time, instead sporting a simple blue and white dress when you meet her, and now wears her hair in a [[PrimAndProperBun bun]].]]

* AcceptableFeminineGoals: Gets a double-helping of this trope. She spends most of her Social Link trying to break free and study to become an interior designer -- until she realizes she's happy to inherit her family's inn, and goes back to her job within the Inn as a hostess and room service waitress.
* ActionGirl
* ArmorPiercingSlap
* {{Badass}}
** BadassPacifist: She manages to make a bunch of {{paparazzi}} back down and run away with words alone. Even the haughty Ai is intimidated with just a "I didn't ask you!".
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She is ''scary'' when provoked. Such as {{paparazzi}} incident mentioned above and when she politely and sweetly blackmails Kanji into joining the cross-dressing pageant. Also, this line from the anime:
--> '''Yukiko''': (about Shadow Kanji) The next time he creeps me out, he's toast!
--> '''Yu''': Sounds good.
--> '''Chie''': No, it doesn't! That's a no-go!
--> '''Yukiko''': What? Why?
* TheCameo: In ''{{Persona 3}} Portable'''s female protagonist route, when the PC's sports club goes to a summer fellowship in Inaba and stays at the Amagi Inn. She's younger and has shorter hair, and impresses the Gekkoukan students with her looks and maturity.
* CastingAShadow: Gains [[OneHitKill mudo]] spells if you level up her social link in The Golden
* CharacterSelectForcing: The only member of the team aside from [[spoiler:Teddie]] to get anything other than pitiful heals and that character is more of a support role, while Yukiko also has hard hitting Agi spells.
** A variant happens during a stakeout early in the game, you get the choice to team up with Chie, Yosuke or Yukiko, but circumstances will always leave you with Yukiko.
* TheChick: Shares this position with Rise.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She has, on more than one occasion, been shown to have a somewhat ''out there'' thought process.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Tends to take gross exaggerations and accidental {{Double Entendre}}s at face value.
* DeadpanSnarker: The anime occasionally shows her taking a level in snark. Particularly against [[ButtMonkey Yosuke]]:
--> '''Yosuke''': (at Junes, with the rest of the gang) Still, don't you feel sorry for Nanako, bringing her here of all places?
--> '''Yukiko''': (indifferently) Yes, I feel sorry for her.
--> '''Yosuke''': You didn't have to rub it in!
* DitzyGenius: While a straight-A student, she does have a peculiar thought process when it comes to certain topics, like taking strange delight on someone described as "legendary".
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: ...[[InvertedTrope Unless they're the malevolent manifestion of your repressed emotions]].
* HimeCut: Part of her YamatoNadeshiko image.
* HotBlooded: In spite of what you might think based on the rest of her characterization, she is quite aggressively enthusiastic about wiping all shadows from existence. This is rather fitting considering her [[PlayingWithFire element]], which can also qualify as her own [[YamatoNadeshiko touch of iron]].
* TheHyena: Her laughing fits can last for several minutes. Chie even calls her this once (or "Demon King" in the Japanese version).
* LadyInRed
* LadyOfWar[=/=]LadyOfBlackMagic: In accordance with her YamatoNadeshiko exterior, she is very graceful on the battlefield.
* LethalChef: Not always lethal, as she manages to make "flavorless" food later on. The stuff she gives to the Protagonist, however... well, you need a high Courage stat to actually eat it, so [[TakeOurWordForIt let's leave it at that]].
* LonelyRichKid: Before meeting Chie.
* TheMedic: This aspect of her Persona alone is going to make her a character you keep in your party for a long time, especially since she learns the mother of all healing spells at level 74. [[hottip:*: It restores the HP of all characters ''and'' removes their status ailments.]] It also makes a lot of sense given that the Arcana she represents is The Priestess, i.e. the kind of person you would expect to be a healer.
* MeetCute: Techically their ''second'' meeting, but the Protagonist runs into her when she's wearing a Kimono. Subverted if the player decides not to romance her.
* NeverLiveItDown: {{In-universe}} -- Shadow Yukiko once said she wanted to "score with a hot stud". Teddie brings it up sporadically throughout the game.
* NonindicativeName: "Yuki" is a name more often associated with "snow". Although, she initially feels that it's a MeaningfulName because she's "worthless" like snow.
* TheOjou: Of a generations-old inn.
* ParasolOfPrettiness: Only with the pink yukata.
* PaperFanOfDoom
* PlayingWithFire
* PrecisionFStrike: Yukiko rarely swears, so if she tells you to ''shut the hell up'' [[spoiler:as she does to those reporters in her Social Link]], you know she's angry. Shadow Yukiko's speech is practically a ClusterFBomb by her standards.
* ProperTightsWithASkirt: She's the poster girl.
* RedBaron: "[[TallDarkAndBishoujo Unconquerable Snow Black]]" in trailers for ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena''.
* TheRedMage[=/=]WhiteMagicianGirl: In combat, she straddles the line with her powerful [[PlayingWithFire Agi]] skills but her personaily fits the White Magician Girl stock character type in addition to being one of the resident Medics.
* RyokanInn: The Amagi Inn of course. She's going to inherit it.
* SayingTooMuch: [[spoiler:During the King's Game scene, in a moment of drunken silliness she accidentally spills the beans about the Shadow World and the Personas to Naoto. Then again, she didn't believe it.]]
* ShrinkingViolet: [[SubvertedTrope She appears this way at first]], but as she gets more comfortable around the Protagonist and Yosuke, her true [[DitzyGenius personality]] [[TheHyena traits]] emerge.
* ShutUpHannibal: [[spoiler:Calls out Adachi on his poorly contrived FreudianExcuse for his actions.]]
* SilkHidingSteel
* SquishyWizard: Probably the worst character in terms of defensive stats, but boy does she hit anything not resistant or immune to Agi like a ''truck''.
* TallDarkAndBishoujo
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The girly girl to Chie's tomboy.
* {{Tsundere}}: Shows shades of being a Type-B in the game (mainly getting violent when the males act perverted), but is definitely a Type-B in the Anime.
* WhiteMagicianGirl: She's arguably the best healer in the game (only surpassed by the Protagonist given the right Persona), the [[YamatoNadeshiko most gentle]] player character, uses a [[ImprobableWeaponUser blunt weapon that amplifies her spells ]] and is a potential love interest. The only way she steps outside this trope is her repertoire of hard-hitting Agi spells.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Played with. She fits the archetype, then her Shadow deconstructs it and shows its opposite. She ultimately shows a modern version of this trope: [[ProperLady softspoken, strongwilled and polite]] yet [[PluckyGirl not afraid to stand up to herself]] and [[SilkHidingSteel get dangerous if necessary]], as an unfortunate group of {{paparazzi}} discovered.

!!Kanji Tatsumi
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[[caption-width-right:200:''[[{{Hiimdaisy}} You sayin' I like dudes!?]]'']]
->'''Voiced by:''' TomokazuSeki (Japanese) and TroyBaker (English)

A delinquent whose mother runs a textile shop that the Amagi Inn frequents. Despite his brash outlook, he [[MommasBoy cares a lot for his mother]] and is [[RealMenWearPink skilled at handicrafts]], which caused [[DeconstructedTrope people to shun him for having "girly" hobbies]], which made him [[AmbiguouslyGay question his sexuality]]. He fights with brute force using [[ImprobableWeaponUser chairs, tables, plates, etc]], and his Persona is Take-Mikazuchi of the Emperor Arcanum, which evolves into Rokuten-Maoh; it deals heavy physical attacks and learns a few [[ShockAndAwe Zio (Lightning)]] spells.

When thrown into the Midnight Channel, it generates the Steamy Bathhouse dungeon. His Shadow masquerades as him [[WalkingShirtlessScene wearing nothing but a towel]] and speaking like a CampGay looking for "love". It later taunts Kanji as a gynophobic because women shunned him due to his hobbies, but Kanji refused him, causing the Shadow to show its true form and was later defeated by the Protagonist. Accepting his flaws, Kanji joins the Investigation Team and at the same time, starts re-attending Yasogami as a first-year.

Kanji's Shadow takes on the form of his upper body atop a ridiculously masculine male form with a rose garden where the head should be, carrying two Mars symbols which it uses as weapons and flanked by two MachoCamp bodybuilders. This ludicrous exaggeration of masculinity and homosexuality is a distillation of all of Kanji's fears about his orientation.

In his Social Link, Kanji meets a boy who lost his doll and to cheer him up, he makes him a doll, which turns out to be so impressive he orders more. Kanji [[ShroudedInMyth was later accused of bullying said boy]], but the Protagonist encourages him to tell the truth instead of hiding it. Eventually, Kanji learned to like and take pride of his hobby and opens up his own handicraft class.

In the extended true ending of ''Persona 4: The Golden'', [[spoiler:he has stopped trying to assert his masculinity to others. He can be seen with now unbleached black hair and a pair of glasses. His attire has similarly changed, as he now dresses in a simple short-sleeved button up white shirt and black dress pants.]]

* {{Adorkable}}: Basically sums him up, once you get past his tough-guy exterior.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer
* AmbiguouslyGay: [[http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=22015 By]] [[http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/sexual-diversity design]]. It zigzags during school trips, and then of course there's what happens with Teddie during the King's game.
** CampGay: Shadow Kanji.
** MachoCamp: Shadow Kanji's minions.
* {{Badass}}: He fights off an entire biker gang ''with a shield'' -- all because the noise they made woke his mother up.
** BadassNormal: Prior to being a Persona user.
* BerserkButton: Implying that he's gay. Or insulting Naoto.
* BigEater
* TheBigGuy: A position shared with Chie.
* BillyElliotPlot
* BiTheWay: Speculated by {{Fanon}}, due to his attraction to Naoto Shirogane [[spoiler: before and after he knows she's really a girl.]]
** IfItsYouItsOkay: The alternative, for the fans who still think he's gay.
* BookDumb: But very good at arts and crafts and beating the crap out of people.
* ButtMonkey
* CannotSpitItOut
* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: One of his main weapons. Used as his primary weapon in ''The Ultimate''.
* CoatCape: Provides the current trope picture.
* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler: He's dead, and according to Kanji's mom, Mr. Tatsumi collapsed and died [[NeverGotToSayGoodbye when Kanji wasn't at home]].]]
* DynamicEntry: Kanji's way of saving the Protagonist from danger is drop-kicking him out of the way.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas
** MommasBoy: The cause of his infamous beatdown of a biker gang? They were making too much noise and bothering his mother.
* EverythingIsBetterWithPenguins: The secret Animal Cracker!
* FacePalmOfDoom: One of his Supers in the fighting game is this. Considering his [[TomokazuSeki Japanese voice actor]], can you say ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam Shining Finger]]''?
* {{Gayngster}}: Subverted.
* GeniusBruiser: Very good at arts and crafts.
* GlassCannon[=/=]MightyGlacier: Depending on how you use him; Kanji has higher HP and Endurance than Chie, but his [[CastFromHP Persona's Physical Skills]] burn away through his HP quickly. If you have him stick to basic physical attacks, he'll do less damage but will be very difficult to take down.
* GratuitousEnglish: Nice Guy (one of Shadow Kanji's minions) in the anime.
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: His defensive attitude about his masculinity and sexual identity verges on this early on. His social link is mostly spent helping him getting past it.It also eases up a fair amount once Yosuke stops holding his shadow against him.
* HeelFaceTurn
* HotBlooded
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: In his association with Naoto.
* ImprobableWeaponUser
** ShieldBash
** ThrowingYourShieldAlwaysWorks
** Made especially improbable by the fact that he's supposedly concealing these weapons under a school uniform somehow. Of course, even if the townfolk ''do'' see these weapons, it's not likely that any of them would tell him not to carry them around.
* JapaneseDelinquents: Just LOOK at him.
** [[spoiler: DelinquentHair[=/=]DyeHard: Recent images for The Golden has shown that Kanji has been bleaching his hair.]]
** FaceOfAThug: Still, don't judge him [[HiddenDepths solely on his looks]].
*** [[spoiler: BeautifulAllAlong: The new epilogue for the true ending in ''Golden'' shows that he has stopped dyeing his hair, revealing its natural color to be dark brown. He's also had it styled into more of a corporate cut.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The "jerk" side stems more from his temper.
** JerkassFacade: His Social Link focuses on dropping this.
* KnuckleCracking: His idle battle animation.
* LargeHam
* NoBisexuals: He's attracted to Naoto, [[spoiler:but she's a girl. Not that he knew that before becoming attracted, but he still continues to like her]]. To hear Yosuke and everyone else talk, though, the possibility of bisexuality doesn't exist. Not that it's talk about much in the first place.
* NoodleIncident: An incident where he singlehandedly beats down a biker gang.
* PointyEars: He's given a pair of pointy elven ears in the anime.
* RealMenWearPink: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]], ''not'' just by his Shadow.
** In Episode 22 of the anime [[spoiler: when Nanako is in the hospital he buys pink wool so they can knit animals together when she's feeling better.]]
** [[ReconstructedTrope Reconstructed]] with his Social Link.
* RedBaron: "[[ManlyGay Bloodcurdling Beefcake Emperor]]" in trailers for ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena''.
* ShockAndAwe
* ShrinkingViolet: Around Naoto.
* SingleTargetSexuality: [[AmbiguouslyGay Ambiguous as his orientation is]], Kanji only ever shows an attraction to Naoto, both before and after TheReveal.
* SissyVillain: His Shadow.
* SweetOnPollyOliver: To Naoto.
* {{Tsundere}}: He exhibits shades of this, especially when it comes to his mother and Naoto. 
* UnusualEuphemism: The word "gay" is never said in-game. This leads to some odd phrasings.
* [[YoungerThanTheyLook Younger than He Looks]]: His official bio shows he is younger than all the party members, even classmates Naoto and Rise

!!Rise Kujikawa
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->'''Voiced by:''' RieKugimiya (Japanese) and LauraBailey (English)

A teenage IdolSinger often appearing in TV programs and ads as "Risette". She suddenly declared retirement and moved to Inaba to help on her grandmother's tofu shop and enroll in Yasogami High as a freshman. Rise is cheerful and bubbly, but also sweet deep down. She is mostly out of the frontlines and prefers [[MissionControl analyzing the enemies and their weaknesses]]. Her Persona is Himiko of the Lovers Arcanum and later evolves into Kanzeon.

Her dungeon in the Midnight Channel is the Marukyu Striptease, wherein her Shadow masquerades as her in a flashy gold bikini and teases a lot about showing off her 'stuff'. This all stems from Rise's fear that everyone stereotypes her as an [[TheDitz airheaded]], [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl indecent]] pop star, while in truth she just wants to be loved for who she is. Rise's Shadow possesses analytical skill that allows it to predict the party's every move, making it impossible to defeat; it takes a HeroicSacrifice from Teddie to finish it. Rise comes to terms with her Shadow and it becomes her Persona, but at the same time Teddie's existential doubt comes to a head and ''his'' Shadow emerges. Rise takes Teddie's place as MissionControl and helps the party defeat it, then she joins the Investigation Team.

Rise's Shadow takes on the form of a naked woman dangling from a striptease pole with technicolor flesh and a fractal satellite dish where its face should be. It constantly shouts for the party to look at it, embodying Rise's concern about being exploited.

In her Social Link, Rise was continuously pestered by her past manager to return to showbiz despite her misgivings. She revealed that as a child she was a shy bully magnet, until her debut as a star, which she thought would help her win some friends; what she saw are people seeing her more as "Risette" than her true self. However, more reminders of her past came from a letter from her number-one fan expressing sadness over her retirement, and the emergence of another idol she once trained and is now taking her spotlight, causing fans to badmouth "Risette", which inadvertently annoyed her. Eventually, Rise realized "Risette" is still an aspect of herself she shouldn't discard and resolves to return to showbiz come spring, evolving her Persona. Rise states that she loves the Protagonist, and will show a very obvious interest in him during the storyline regardless of her Social Link standing or whether you date her.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer
* AnnouncerChatter: She serves as the combat commentator in ''The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena'', similar to the original game. Whether or not it removes any chance of her appearing as a playable character is unknown.
* AttentionWhore: Her Shadow -- FanDisservice incarnate. Outside the stage, Rise would ''rather'' just stay away from the public spotlight.
* {{Badass}}
** BadassAdorable
** BadassDamsel: Everyone else upon getting their Persona needed some downtime afterwards. [[spoiler:She immediately assumes Teddie's role and handles herself decently with Himiko, despite already being weakened.]]
* TheChick: Far and away the most estrogen-fueled member of the main cast, complete with a tendency to cry a lot.
* ClingyJealousGirl: In ''The Golden'' [[spoiler: Rise has some hostilities with Marie if you puruse a romance with the latter.]]
* CryCute[=/=]TenderTears: It's a RieKugimiya thing, after all, {{Tsundere}} or not.
** CryIntoChest: And when she realizes that [[spoiler:her jealousy over a new idol is because Risette IS a part of her, she breaks down crying. The Protagonist can do this optionally in response, [[RelationshipUpgrade which makes the Social Link romantic.]]]]
* TheDitz: She averts this trope, [[RieKugimiya voice]] [[LauraBailey acting]] notwithstanding. She is quite emotionally intelligent (insights into human nature, good at reading groups and people) and more down-to-earth than one might expect. She acts "bubbly" to keep people's spirits up, and to have fun.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Appears at the beginning of the game in a commercial.
* {{Expy}}: Her appearance resembles [[{{Gundam00}} Nena Trinity]], who has the [[RieKugimiya same Japanese voice actress]].
** Like Chie, she is also an expy of [[{{Persona 2}} Lisa Silverman]], taking on most of the personality traits that Chie missed. Some of the earliest concept art of Rise even had her resemble Lisa, but with longer hair, a slightly different hairstyle, and darker eyes.
* FanGirl: Of the Protagonist.
* GenkiGirl: Has her moments.
* GirlishPigtails [[spoiler:which she ditches, at least temporarily, in the epilogue for the True Ending in ''Golden''.]]
* GirlyRun
* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: Shadow Rise
* HeroesWantRedheads: If chosen as the Love Interest. [[spoiler:The manga looks to be favoring her as well.]]
* IdolSinger
* IJustWantToBeNormal: [[spoiler:Subverted -- she eventually realizes Risette is still a part of her and decides to come back to showbiz come spring.]]
* IJustWantToHaveFriends
* [[InkSuitActor Ink Suit Actress]]: Debatable, but Rise's name and appearance are too similar to RieKugimiya to be a mere coincidence. Her {{twintails}} and [[ZettaiRyouiki kneesocks]] may also be an ActorAllusion to the common appearance of the {{Tsundere}} [[LightNovel/ZeroNoTsukaima characters]] [[ShakuganNoShana Kugimiya]] [[Manga/HayateTheCombatButler is]] [[LightNovel/ToraDora usually]] [[HidanNoAria associated]] [[PigeonholedVoiceActor with]].
* [[ItIsPronouncedTroPay It Is Pronounced Ree-Say]]
* {{Kawaiiko}}: Fits both the "need for social acceptance" and "calculated step to stardom" criteria, but in a well-meaning way. She created her "Risette" persona hoping to find genuine friends, having been a bully magnet as a child, only to [[DeconstructedTrope realize that people gravitate more to "Risette" than her real self]], prompting her early retirement. While she initially passed off as a bit surly when the party first met her in person, once she opened up to them (and joins their TrueCompanions) she turns out to be a genuinely bubbly NiceGirl.
* LethalChef: Not as awful as the others, her food is [[CordonBleughChef just REALLY spicy]].
* MissionControl
** CaptainObvious
* MsFanservice: Played straight and [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]]. While she's more confident in her body than the other girls and has no problem entering the School Beauty Pagaent, she also fears that those around her only like her for her "Risette" persona.
** ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Her shadow, on the other hand, is ''way'' too eager to expose herself to the world. While still in normal form, it's just Rise in a two-piece swimsuit. During the boss battle, however, the moans and gestures get a bit disturbing. Even [[ChivalrousPervert Yosuke]] wondered if he should be excited or worried.
* NiceGirl
* PlayingAgainstType: RieKugimiya, ShanaClone specialist... now voicing an extremely bubbly, nicely-proportioned teenage idol. In fact, one ImageBoards commenter said that she's not only "not a {{Tsundere}}," but also an ''anti-Tsundere''.
* SensorCharacter
* ShipperOnDeck: Rise seems to be intentionally angling for the Team to split into couples, actively encouraging Yosuke/Chie, Kanji/Naoto, and of course, herself with the Protagonist.
* ShrinkingViolet: Before she became an idol.
* StepfordSmiler: Type A/B hybrid. Progressing through her Social Link reveals that [[spoiler:"Risette" was constructed as an attempt to make friends due to her past as a bully magnet. Although she says that she feels hollow like a classical Type B, she does indeed have a personality, but simply doesn't realize that her different "constructed" demeanors are actually all authentic facets of it]].
* TheTease: Though not overtly as most examples, Rise is still fairly direct with her flirting with the Protagonist.
* ZettaiRyouiki: ''Almost'' rank S, missing the {{Tsundere}} aspect. The supreme irony in this? She's voiced by the [[RieKugimiya Goddess of Tsunderes]].

!!Teddie/Kuma
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->'''Voiced by:''' KappeiYamaguchi (Japanese), DaveWittenberg (English), SamRiegel (English, Persona4Arena, Persona4TheAnimation, and ''Persona 4: Golden'')

Teddie is a denizen of the Midnight Channel, taking the form of a talking bear plush that actually has nothing inside. He initially is a MissionControl, then after Rise fills in for him, he soon joins in combat, equipped with [[PowerFist claws, knuckles and other hand implements]]. His initial Persona is Kintoki-Douji of the Star Arcanum, which eventually evolves into Kamui. His Persona uses [[AnIcePerson Bufu (Ice) spells]], and has some support and healing skills as well.

Teddie first acts as a reluctant guide of sorts, providing the party with special glasses that allow them to see through the mist and summon their Persona. In the Japanese version, [[VerbalTic his sentences always end with -kuma]], and often addresses the Protagonist as "sensei" out of respect for his abilities (and to [[HelloInsertNameHere avoid using his name during scenes with voice acting]]). He also serves as another comic relief in the story arc (making lame jokes like [[{{Persona3}} Shuji Ikutsuki]]), supported by Yosuke's nagging curiosity about who (or rather, what) he really is. In the English version, [[HurricaneOfPuns his speech is laced with]] [[AWorldwidePunomenon un-bear-ably bad puns]]. Also, even if he is from the Midnight Channel, Teddie knows little about where he came from and what he is supposed to do with his life.

After saving the party from Rise's Shadow almost at the cost of his life (though it only literally flattened him), his fears of having a superficial existence manifests into a bigger Shadow. [[TheReveal It's revealed to everyone near the end of the game that Teddie is really a docile Shadow, preferring to befriend humans instead of killing them, which explains the cute form he manifested]]. After being saved, Teddie gains a degree of human will along with the Persona Kintoki-Douji, allowing him to participate in fights more actively.

As Teddie is a Shadow himself, his own Shadow is a much larger version of him, with a crack in its face showing something squirming under the surface (a visualization of Teddie's fears about his origin).

In the real world, he takes the form of a blonde boy who goes by the name "Kumada" (Japanese -- actually a common surname)/"Teddie" (English), and in a certain school event, [[WholesomeCrossdresser convincingly cosplays]] as [[AliceAllusion Alice]]. He stays at the Hanamuras and often helps Yosuke with part-time work at Junes, either as a {{mascot}} handing out balloons, a cook at the food court, or a grocery stocker when in human form.

* [[AnIcePerson An Ice]] [[AWorldwidePunomenon Bear-sona]]
* [[spoiler:AttractiveBentGender: The only guy from the Team who can actually look convincingly female. One of the judges openly even says "I'd hit that".]]
** [[spoiler:EvenTheGuysWantHim]]
** [[spoiler: Possibly including the Protagonist in ''Golden''. See AlmostKiss above.]]
* {{Badass}}: [[spoiler:Your party is getting beaten up by Shadow Rise. He gives her a OneHitKill.]]
** BadassAdorable: In bear form.
* [[JustForPun Bear-]][[BerserkButton serk Button]]: He got pretty angry when [[spoiler:Mitsuo]] called him a freak.
* BearyFunny
* BigEater
* [[spoiler:{{Bishonen}}: With lots an' lots of BishieSparkle.]]
* BrutalHonesty: "Wow, this tastes awful!", said in one of the cheeriest tones imaginable.
* CaptainErsatz: [[spoiler:His human form looks a lot like [[OuranHighSchoolHostClub Hani]].]]
* CasanovaWannabe: [[spoiler:Subverted. Initially, he just comes off as overestimating his charm to the ladies...[[TheCharmer until he gets his]] [[{{Bishonen}} human form]]. He can even [[StupidSexyFlanders charm guys]], if he [[AttractiveBentGender needs too]].]]
* CombatMedic: Has access to a wide variety of magic, including [[AnIcePerson Bufu]] spells and healing spells that restore HP and remove negative status effects. His SP pool isn't as large as Yukiko's, but he has higher Strength and is a slightly more effective physical attacker.
* [[spoiler:DarkIsNotEvil]]
* HandsomeLech: The "handsome" part only applying to his [[spoiler:human form]].
* [[spoiler:HairOfGold: His human form]].
* HeroicResolve: [[spoiler:When he returns to the hospital room where Nanako is resting, he realizes that despite [[TomatoInTheMirror his nature]], there must still be something he can do. Then his Persona evolves and he runs to meet with the team again.]]
* HeroWorshipper: A mild case of it.
* [[spoiler:HumanoidAbomination: He is [[TheHeartless a Shadow]] that turned himself into a cute bear mascot and eventually ''grew himself a human body inside his empty bear suit'' so people would like him.]]
* LargeHam: As Yosuke says, he has a tendency to speak like TV commercials [[spoiler:after becoming human]].
* LovableSexManiac: Although whether or not he actually understands the concept of "scoring" is left open.
* {{Mascot}}
* [[spoiler: MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: He's a Shadow who wants to befriend, rather than kill people.]]
* [[spoiler: NakedOnArrival: Played with, he arrives in the real world in his {{Mascot}} form; when he complains of being too hot, he removes his head, revealing that he's grown a (naked) human body inside his mascot costume, just so he can score with the girls.]]
* [[spoiler:NietzscheWannabe: Shadow Teddie. To further drive the point home, Shadow Teddie's Ultimate Move is appropriately named [[ShoutOut "Nihil]] [[Creator/FriedrichNietzsche Hand]]".]]
* PluckyComicRelief: The most qualified party member for the role.
* PowerFist[=/=]WolverineClaws: Uses claws and spiked gloves as his preferred weapon.
* PrivateEyeMonologue: Gives a particularly menacing one when the group goes to [[spoiler:Tatsumi Port Island, and don't take him. He appears afterwards, surprising the group]].
* PungeonMaster: ''And how''.
** "''BEAR''-sona!"
** Parodied [[http://hiimdaisy.livejournal.com/26044.html here]], slightly more than halfway down the page.
** Fan-subs of the anime keep the bear puns rather than use the -kuma tic.
* [[RedBaron Red]] [[JustForPun Bear-on]]: "[[LovableSexManiac Beast of Libido]]" in VideoGame/Persona4Arena.
* [[spoiler:StepfordSmiler: Initially a Type B, but he is forced to confront this issue and [[CharacterDevelopment gets better]] by the end of the game.]]
* SadisticChoice: His moveset actually inflicts one on the player. He learns moves that allow him to be the team healer, the ice mage, and the support specialist. An uncommon, but not too unheard of complaint is that he's got too many good moves to choose from.
* ScrewDestiny: See HeroicResolve.
* TeamPet: As much as there's one.
* TheNoseKnows
* [[spoiler:StupidSexyFlanders: In human form, especially when [[AttractiveBentGender crossdressing]]...]]
* [[spoiler:TomatoInTheMirror: Turns out, he's actually a ''[[TheHeartless Shadow]]''. Though this does not come as to big a surprise to the rest of the party, as it would make the most sense.]]
* [[IncrediblyLamePun Un-bear-ably Lame Pun]]: More than a few of his puns elicit this kind of reaction from the cast. Even Yukiko, who tends to laugh at a drop of a hat, finds them unfunny.
* WholeCostumeReference: One of his outfits in ''The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena'', with its JapaneseDelinquents style hat/golden skull and lightning bolt motif/purple cape/etc, looks suspiciously like [[StreetFighter a certain martial arts tournament hosting dictator's]].
* [[spoiler:WholesomeCrossdresser: To the point that EvenTheGuysWantHim, although most of them are just really freaked out that he does it that well (or at least Naoto is that good at dolling him up).]]
* UpToEleven: [[spoiler:Apparently even a Shadow can have a Shadow of its own. Not surprisingly, such a creature is borne of near-complete existential despair and insists everything is pointless.]]

!!Naoto Shirogane
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->'''Voiced by:''' RomiPark (Japanese), MeganHollingshead (English)

A [[{{Bokukko}} tomboyish girl]] who is a famous high-school detective, given the glorious title of "[[BornDetective Detective Prince]]" by the media. Naoto is adept with [[TheGunslinger revolvers]], and her Persona is summoned by shooting the card. Naoto's initial Persona is Sukuna Hikona of the [Wheel of] Fortune Arcanum, which later becomes Yamato Takeru. They are well-rounded with [[OneHitKill Light, Dark]], [[NonElemental Almighty]] and [[CastFromHitPoints physical skills]] at her disposal.

[[ParentalAbandonment Orphaned at a young age]] [[RaisedByGrandparents and raised by her detective grandfather]], she yearns to emulate the cool male sleuths she read in novels, accepting the family tradition and aiding her grandfather in his own cases, eventually creating a favorable reputation for herself. She was sent to Inaba by the prefecture police, to gain insight for the murders happening there.

Naoto is yet another survivor of the Midnight Channel, bound by [[IJustWantToBeSpecial her resentment at being talked down to and treated like a child by the police]], as well as her views on the police force being dominated by men. This manifests in a volatile Shadow that also creates a high-tech facility reminiscent to that of futuristic military bases from science fiction. Her Shadow wears a dress shirt and tie, while wearing an oversized white lab coat, and can act like a serious scientist one minute and like a child the next, further referencing her true feelings. Her Shadow claims she will perform [[GenderBender "body modification" to turn Naoto into an adult male so that she can be respected by her fellow cops]]. However, unlike other victims, she [[BatmanGambit willingly put herself at risk by volunteering for a TV interview, hoping she can become a bait]]; she was convinced the Investigation Team had not caught the real killer. The Team promptly tears into her for being so stupid, then welcome her as the last addition to their team.

Naoto's Shadow takes on the form of a robotic version of her, and includes childish attachments like wings and twin ray guns that wouldn't look out of place on action figure. This references her obsession with gender roles--being a tomboy who likes sleuthing and science fiction--while the action-figure qualities of her Shadow mirror her resentment of having her talents belittled due to her age.

In her Social Link, Naoto has several of her possessions stolen, and receives taunting riddles from a GentlemanThief. The Protagonist helps her retrieve them, and she becomes more comfortable with his assistance. It is eventually revealed that the "thief" is actually her grandfather, who simply did it to help reignite her passion. If the player openly aims so through their choices, she becomes somewhat more feminine, but will keep it mostly just to herself and the Main Character; following a series of options, she even dresses in the female school uniform on Christmas.

In the extended true ending of ''Persona 4: The Golden'', [[spoiler:she has stopped worrying about being ignored for being a woman. She now sports longer hair, along with a light, form fitting sleeveless shirt and knee-length skirt that shows off her figure.]]

* ActionGirl
* {{Adorkable}}
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer
* AllYourPowersCombined: In ''Golden'' She possesses EVERY kind of magic except for status effects and healing spells.
* {{Badass}}
** [[spoiler: BadassBiker: If the cover of the Persona X Detective Naoto spin-off novel is anything to be believed.]]
** BadassBookworm: She is an ace detective ''and'' a Persona user.
* BerserkButton: Never give her weird nicknames, or call her "useless".
* BlackMage: Specializes in attacking and in ''Golden'' gains a wide variety of elemental spells as well as [[ChargedAttack Mind Charge]].
* BornDetective
* BreakoutCharacter: In the middle of Atlus' SpinOff and UpdatedRerelease fanfare for Persona 4, Naoto got a big share of it along with Yosuke. She gets to star in her own story in a LightNovel where she is TheProtagonist. The light novel takes place during her senior year of high school and isn't set in Inaba, rather a whole different school and city entirely.
* CaptainObvious: [[spoiler:Tends to explain what's evident at crucial times in the most anticlimactic way.]]
* CastingAShadow[=/=]LightEmUp: Has access to both Mudo and Hama spells.
* ChasteHero[=/=]CelibateHero: Completely oblivious to Kanji's crush, but otherwise writes off advances from other classmates [[spoiler: and Teddie]].
* ClosetKey: Subverted for Kanji.
* TheComicallySerious
* CriminalMindGames: Has them played on her by the "Phantom Thief", but this trope gets subverted when it turns out [[spoiler: that there was no criminal. Her grandfather gave her stolen items to Yakushiji, the family secretary and created the riddles to challenge Naoto. His hope was that solving the riddles would convince Naoto to stop solving cases for the sake of her family name and do it because she loved it, the way she used to.]]
* CrutchCharacter: An odd example. Naoto's unique skill set lets her tear through lots of common enemies like a buzzsaw, including many only she and the Protagonist can effectively fight at all. The catch: most of those same abilities are either severely inefficient or outright useless against bosses as well as require a lot of SP to cast.
** ''The Golden'' corrects this for the most part. Naoto has the capability of learning the top tier (Not SignatureMove) spells of every element, as well as Heat Riser and Mind Charge, making her one of the most useful party members.
* DarkIsNotEvil
* {{Determinator}} - PluckyGirl
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Was already solving the murder case quite well without the police or The Investigation Team, to the point were she was able to come to certain conclusions like [[spoiler:Morooka's murderer being a copycat by noting that, unlike the previous victims who had unknown causes of death, his was due to blunt-force trauma]], before anyone else. Once she joins the party, she's pretty much necessary to solving the case in full.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: To the point where Naoto [[spoiler:won the beauty pageant because of the female vote]] and Chie, Yukiko, and Rise [[SkinshipGrope compliment]] her smooth skin.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Her TV World dungeon.
* [[spoiler:GenderBender: Her Shadow attempts to do a, er, "body altering operation" on the real Naoto.]]
* GenreSavvy: Correctly deduces that there are victims besides those the police know about and that the Investigation Team has been rescuing them, even though she is LockedOutOfTheLoop.
* GlassCannon: In both versions of the game (but especially''Golden'') Naoto can throw out a variety of powerful attacks, but doesn't take that much punishment before going down, though she has no weaknesses.
* GuileHero: [[spoiler:Intentionally gets herself kidnapped, hoping to figure out who the kidnapper was, while at the same time completely expecting the "Investigation Team" to come to her rescue.]]
* TheGunslinger: Like [[{{Persona 3}} Takaya]] before her, Naoto uses revolvers because her Arcanum is the [Wheel of] Fortune.
** RevolversAreJustBetter
** MoreDakka: For [=P4G=], Naoto appears to be adding machine pistols to her arsenal. In Persona4Arena, one of Naoto's attacks has her using a Heckler and Koch [=MP5=] sub-machine gun.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: In both the game and the anime, is very rough on herself for asking [[spoiler: Namatame]] too many questions and putting the solution to the case ahead of [[spoiler: Nanako's]] safety.
* HiddenBuxom: Mentioned once. They're implied to be of a bigger size than one would think.
** In some extra artworks in Soejima's (character designer) artbook, she has a much more feminine appearance, with prominent lips and eyelashes. It's quite clear she no longer, uh, keeps them under wraps too.
*** The anime confirms this during the hot springs scene, as we can finally see her curves. She's not super buxom, but not a UsefulNotes/{{Pettanko}} either.
* HolyHandGrenade: Naoto has access to the Megido family of spells and is the only party member (save for Yu) that can learn them on their own.
** AwesomeButImpractical: See CrutchCharacter above.
* HollywoodNerd: Type 2. Naoto is a fan of tokusatsu, is rather socially awkward, very intelligent, and pretty much everyone in the game thinks she's an absolute stunner.
* InadequateInheritor: Subverted. Naoto believes she's this. However her grandfather seems to be quite proud of her and is concerned that she believes this.
* InformedAbility: Despite her reputation as a "genius detective", she really does no better at solving the case than the rest of the Investigation Team or even the Police Department. In fairness to her though, this isn't exactly a '''normal''' crime. Even the best detectives can't solve a case with no evidence.
* InsufferableGenius: The first few times you meet her, Naoto is ''really'' hard to like.
* KidDetective
* LateArrivalSpoiler: Naoto is a girl. Although the publicity for the upcoming anime is noticeably missing her, despite this being one of the most well known spoilers about the game.
** The game doesn't really try to keep it secret either; if you wait at the title screen and watch the trailer video, she noticeably uses her "girl" voice when attacking.
* MoodSwinger: Shadow Naoto, who alternates between a MadScientist and a FragileFlower.
* [[MrExposition Ms. Exposition]]: Her main role in the story is to piece together the clues and discuss it with the team.
* NiceHat: It looks like Raidoh Kuzunoha's.
* ObliviousToLove: Poor Kanji...
* PetTheDog: In Episode 13 of ''Persona 4 The Animation'', Nanako is disheartened about being left alone by her father during the Summer Festival, and considers giving up pursuing the mystery behind Yu's numerous absences and odd activities. However, Naoto discovers her, and tells her that "the case can never be closed if the detective gives up. So don't drop the case until it's over."
* PlayingWithFire: ''The Golden'' adds fire spells to Naoto's arsenal, as [[WhatCouldHaveBeen she was supposed to be]] the party's second fire user (noticeable in her Shadow's resistance to fire).
* ProfessorGuineaPig: Not her herself, but her Shadow claimed that it wanted to be "experimentor and experimentee" in the aforementioned Sex Change Operation.
* ThePowerOfTrust: Her decision to get herself attacked by the killer exemplifies this: She was completely willing to trust the Investigation Team to save her, even though her belief that they had the power to do so at all was only a guess. Subverted when the Investigation Team utterly blast her for this, pointing out that if they had failed, she would be ''dead''.
* RaisedByGrandparents
* [[spoiler: RapunzelHair: In the Persona X Dectective Naoto spin-off, her hair somehow reached this length in only a year.]]
* RedBaron: Repeatedly referred to as "Detective Prince" in her TV interview prior to her kidnapping.
** She's called the "2000 IQ [[CaptainObvious Killjoy Detective]]" in VideoGame/Persona4Arena.
* SamusIsAGirl: In a bit of a switch, rather than find this out after she rescues them, they find out when ''they'' come to rescue ''her''.
* ShoutOut: Her Shadow looks like {{Kikaider}} combined with AstroBoy while wearing MazingerZ's Scrander.
** Chie compared her to Kindaichi, protagonist of a famous line of detective novels.
* SheCleansUpNicely: If Yu chooses to spend Christmas Even with Naoto, she will end up wearing the female school uniform to the date. She also sports a new, more feminine look in the Golden's new ending sequence. There is also the fact that by the time ''Persona X Detective'' comes, Naoto has really long hair, making her look more girly.
* ShutUpHannibal
* [[spoiler:ShrinkingViolet: Covertly; only when she is being romanced by the Protagonist or otherwise needs to justify being a girl to everyone else.]]
** [[spoiler:ShyBlueHairedGirl]]
*** [[spoiler: Also when she enters the Beauty Contest. She's so cute she wins the contest despite never showing up for the swimsuit portion.]]
* SingleTargetSexuality: She's completely [[CelibateHero turned off by the idea of romance]], or completely oblivious when it comes to Kanji. Despite this, she does fall for the Protagonist if her romance is pursued.
* TheSmartGirl: Once she joins the Investigation, it actually begins to make some progress on discovering who the culprit is and other unanswered questions.
** ShorterMeansSmarter: She's the smallest playable character and is the brains of the team.
* SixthRanger: Of sorts. She's the final character to join, and before she did she had something of a rivalry with the Investigation Team.
* StupidSexyFlanders: Many women in the game itself agree that she's one ''hot'' babe.
* SugarAndIceGirl
* SureWhyNot: The saga over Naoto's actual bust size, the fandom went on wondering if her breasts are bigger than they seem or not big at all; those who concluded she has a Hidden Buxom were apparently right, other games and side-materials just won't stop mentioning how Naoto has "excessive fat" under her wraps, ''P4: Arena'' and ''PX Detective: Naoto'' in particular.
* SweetPollyOliver
* {{Tomboy}}: In particular:
** {{Bifauxnen}}: To the point where Kanji is [[SweetOnPollyOliver immensely relieved to find out she's a girl]]. She is also the only character who has a Persona of the opposite sex.
** {{Bokukko}}: When you max out her Social Link, she asks you whether it's okay for you if she keeps referring to herself as "boku" (a low-pitched voice in the English version). If you say that you would like her to stop (or to use her natural, more feminine voice), she would actually come to the Christmas date in a schoolgirl uniform (though she's still not really used to it)!
** TomboyishName: Even called out by her Shadow.
** OneOfTheBoys: She pretty much grew like a boy, never caring for dolls and dresses, but more for action figures and boyish stuff. This is reflected in her dungeon, which is designed like the lair of a tokusatsu villain. (She doesn't look down on the other girls for being more feminine, though.)
* TransferStudentUniforms: Sort of. After transferring to Yasogami, she ''is'' always wearing that school's uniform -- the ''male'' version -- even after her real gender is made public.
* UnusualEuphemism: Just like the english dub skirts around the word "gay", it also skirts around the idea of transgenderism and sex-change operations - this leads to the phrase "Body alteration procedure", which stands out as sounding very odd.
* VocalEvolution: Subverted in the anime. After TheReveal, RomiPaku's tone switches to a slightly more feminine tone of voice... and almost immediately reverts to the usual deep tone.
* WhatTheHellHero: The Investigation Team's response to her BatmanGambit.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: To the point where Naoto only appears in female clothing on the Christmas date in a schoolgirl uniform.
* YinYangBomb: Her Persona both high Hama and Mudo skills, which is unique among the characters except for the customisable ones, but even with those it's pretty hard.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:S-Links and Major NPCs]]
!!Igor
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Isamu Tanonaka (Japanese) and DanWoren (English)

Igor is the mysterious proprietor of The Velvet Room. His noticeable appearance comes from his [[{{Youkai}} Tengu]]/Pinocchio-like long nose. In [[{{Persona}} Megami Ibunroku Persona]], Igor has calls himself "a servant of Philemon". He is always found in The Velvet Room, a realm between the conscious and unconscious planes. His function is twofold: he makes cryptic comments that vaguely steer the player in the right direction, and fuses Personas the player collects in the dungeons to create stronger Personas.

He has an assistant named Margaret in this game, who keeps a record of all the Personas the player has acquired.

* ActorExistenceFailure: With the recent passing of Isamu Tanonaka, anything Igor says in the anime is recorded right out of his in-game dialogue and thus he doesn't get that many lines in the show proper. Margaret takes over the rest.
* AllThereInTheManual: The source of his powers and his origins are not revealed in-game and will not be obvious to those who haven't played the previous Persona games.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Welcome to the Velvet Room."
* CheshireCatGrin: Permanently etched onto his face.
* CoolCar: In this game, the Velvet Room takes the appearence of a pimped out blue stretch limo with a television and mini-bar.
* DarkIsNotEvil: He's one of the good guys. ''Really.''
* DemotedToExtra: In the anime. As a result of his seiyuu passing away, his lines are being pulled from the game itself, so there's a very limited range for him. Margaret ends up taking over most of his role. His main function too, that of fusing Personas, is obsoleted by the fact that Yu himself takes care of that.
* GagNose: Dear God, '''LOOK AT THAT THING.'''
* TheIgor: InNameOnly. He is more of a SpiritAdvisor who helps with one function.
* TheMentor: In his own, purposefully obtuse way.
* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: He certainly looks evil, but he's really a nice guy (though he could be a bit more forthcoming with information).
* PowersThatBe: Whatever Igor is exactly, he's almost certainly one of these.
* SinkOrSwimMentor: With elements of the TricksterMentor.
* SpiritAdvisor: Only the main character can see the door leading into the Velvet Room.

!!General Social Links
* CharacterDevelopment: The entire driving force of the gameplay is to make choices that would influence the greatest amount of this.
* DysfunctionJunction: Social Links are back, complete with a host of tarot-based neuroses.
* GuideDangIt: Though the correct DialogueTree response is very obvious in some cases, many more will be a hassle.
* LevelUpAtIntimacy5
* PowerOfFriendship: Aside from increasing your persona potential, [[spoiler:they also encourage you to beat the final boss]].
* SliceOfLife: Social Link plots are somewhat like this, considering the game is half RPG and half dating sim.
* TarotMotifs: Each Social Link is represented by one of the major tarot arcana and their personalities and life situations match the arcana accordingly.

!!Ryotaro Dojima
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-->'''Voiced by:''' UnshoIshizuka (Japanese) and David Lodge (English)

The Hierophant Social Link and the Protagonist's uncle, whom he welcomes into his household while his parents are away. He is the detective assigned to investigate the murders. He is able to make some progress on the case, but without understanding the supernatural element to the case his progress is limited. He initially suspects the Protagonist as one, but cannot bring himself to arrest his nephew. The long hours he spends at his job frequently keep him from taking care of his daughter Nanako. He is the direct superior to Tohru Adachi.

In his Social Link, Dojima gets a lead on the hit-and-run case that killed his wife, making him stay out even later, to Nanako's distress. Eventually he admits that he has been avoiding his daughter because she reminds him of his late wife, but vows to get over it and spend more time with her daughter. When the lead does not pan out, he decides to let it go.

* AdultFear: Near the end of the game, Nanako is kidnapped by someone he [[LivingWithTheVillain didn't even consider suspecting]]. That's a nightmare for any parent, especially a widowed workaholic, but [[ItGotWorse it gets even worse]]. [[spoiler:Nanako dies ''anyway'', with Ryotaro bursting in literally seconds after she flat-lines, calling for him with her last breath]].
* BadassNormal: Despite working more or less alone with only half the clues, he manages to stay relatively close with the Investigation Team on solving the murders. [[spoiler:After Nanako's kidnapping he actually manages to discover that Namatame isn't the culprit]].
* CoatOverTheShoulder
* DaChief: He frequently yells at Adachi for the rookie detective's bumbling.
* [[HotDad Hot Detective Dad]]
* GuideDangIt: After [[spoiler: Nanako's kidnapping]], you're effectively locked off from his Social Link, no matter how far along in it you are. Leads to some frustrations in most people's first playthroughs.
* MarriedToTheJob: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]; the vast amount of time Ryotaro spends at work is because he wants to catch his wife's killer and because he feels he doesn't know how to raise Nanako properly. This is shown to have repercussions in his personal life. Thankfully his nephew is a WarriorTherapist...
* ParentsAsPeople: Goes hand-in-hand with the above trope.
* PermaStubble
* PetTheDog: A heroic example -- [[spoiler:even though he had good reason to hate him for nearly killing his daughter, he allows the accosted Adachi some medical treatment, partly in recognition to their past as teammates]].
* PoliceAreUseless: When they don't have all the info.
** Somehow subverted: He does [[spoiler: manage to corner Namatame as he is kidnapping Nanako and almost catches him]].
* RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler: Subverted in the Normal/True Ending. After calming down, he pieces together the clues himself and realizes Namatame couldn't have been the true killer. He even gets angry at Adachi for sending him off to another hospital before he got a chance to interrogate Namatame personally.]]
* SupportingLeader: He's had a head start on the murder case investigation, but lost steam when The Investigation Team is formed, and ends up reaching the same conclusions about the case's twists after the party does. The largest effect he has on the plot is [[spoiler: chasing after Nametame to rescue Nanako, a move that forces Nametame to enter the TV World himself to escape.]]

!!Nanako Dojima
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->'''Voiced by:''' AkemiKanda (Japanese) and KarenStrassman (English)

The Justice Social Link, Dojima's daughter and the Protagonist's cousin, though she soon sees the Protagonist as an older brother. Because of her father's workaholic tendencies, she has taken upon herself to run the household while going to school, despite being six years old. She is frequently disappointed when her father does not come home, but the Protagonist's friends eventually become a surrogate family for her.

In her Social Link, Nanako asks the Protagonist questions about the afterlife and her late mother. The Protagonist also helps her come to terms with her father's job.

[[spoiler:She is kidnapped near the end of the game by Namatame and thrown into the [=TV=] world. She is rescued by the party, but is injured and taken to the hospital. If the player makes the wrong choices, the DownerEnding occurs and she dies. Otherwise she survives -- though bedridden -- and in the HappyEnding she gets released from hospital in time to bid her cousin a fond farewell.]]

In the extended true ending of ''Persona 4: The Golden'', [[spoiler:an older, longer haired Nanako has taken up the piano in memory of her mother, who is revealed to have been a piano teacher.]]

* ADayInTheLimelight: Episode 13 of the anime focuses on her and her attempts to find out where Yu keeps disappearing to during the summer.
* {{Catchphrase}}: "Everyday's great at your Junes!"
** "Welcome home, Big Bro!" [[spoiler: You'll miss that one when she's gone.]]
* CheerfulChild: Sadly averted. She has her happy moments, but much of the time her sad, lonely side is more prominent. [[VideogameCaringPotential You will work like hell to fix that.]]
* TheCutie: So mind-bogglingly cute. Admit it, you ''want'' a little sister just like her!
--> ''Welcome home, Big Bro!''
** [[spoiler: KillTheCutie]]: [[spoiler: In the worst ending.]]
* GirlishPigtails
* GuideDangIt: [[spoiler:Her Social Link can no longer be advanced after she's kidnapped, so max it while you have the chance.]]
* KidDetective: Becomes one as she imitates her favorite anime character and tries to finds out about Yu's movement in the Anime.
** Which happens to be "Magical Witch Detective" of all things.
* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal: In the ending in which the team throws Namatame into the television, Nanako stays dead.]]
* PrecociousCrush: She develops one for [[KissingCousins the Protagonist]] over the course of the game.
** [[spoiler:ChildhoodMarriagePromise]]: If her Social Link is maxed out, [[spoiler:[[FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother she decides that she wants to marry]] [[KissingCousins the Main Character]] when she grows up. Depending on whether or not her father's Social Link is also maxed, he'll either support or be opposed to the idea]].
* StepfordSmiler
* TagalongKid[=/=]TeamPet: Doesn't do anything, but the entire party cares deeply about her.
** She gives the Protagonist special accessories if he scores highest in his class on exams.
* ThirdPersonPerson: In the Japanese versions of the game.
* TokenMiniMoe
* VideoGameCaringPotential: All Social Links have this, but Nanako takes the cake. [[spoiler: In fact, considering what happens to her and what you can do to the one responsible, the game makers almost certainly did it [[InvokedTrope on purpose]].]]

!!Margaret
->'''Voiced by:''' SayakaOhara (Japanese) and Michelle Ann Dunphy (English)

The Empress Social Link, Igor's new assistant and older sister of [[{{Persona 3}} Elizabeth and Theodore]]. She takes over her younger siblings' role of tasking the Protagonist to create certain Persona through fusion. [[spoiler:Upon completion of her S.Link you can challenge her to a fight, but only if you're on your second playthrough.]]

* AdaptationExpansion: Gets much more spotlight in the anime due to Igor's role being diminished for reasons already explained.
* [[spoiler: BonusBoss]]
* PowerFloats: [[spoiler: She does this during the BonusBoss fight.]]
* ShipTease: [[spoiler: Margaret will kiss the Protagonist at the end of the game if her Social Link is completed.]]
* SoUnfunnyItsFunny: She has a tendency to make truly awful jokes with a completely straight face and is disappointed that the protagonist doesn't laugh.
* SugarAndIceGirl: Subverted. She comes off this way in the beginning, but actually show a [[TheTease bit of a flirty side as you complete her requests]].
* [[TallDarkAndBishoujo Tall Blonde And Bishoujo]]

!!The Fox
An old fox who lives around the old shrine in the Central Shopping District and serves as The Hermit Social Link for the game. The fox initially recruits The Protagonist to help fulfill wishes written on ema left at the shrine, in hopes it will help increase donations to the dilapidated shrine. The fox also offers to sell the Investigation Team healing leaves the restore all HP and SP in order to raise money for the shrine. Though the price for the fox's services are initially extremely high, they do go down the more requests Yu help's the fox grant.

After granting the various wishes of people around town, Yu and the fox succeed in saving the shrine, and eventually the donations to its offering box are used to build an entirely new shrine next to the old one, now plated in gold. If the Hermit S-Link has been completed by the end of the game, it is also revealed during Yu's last day in town that [[spoiler: The Fox has 3 cubs.]]

* [[spoiler:BabiesEverAfter: C-cubbies! ]]
* FetchQuest: The Social Link! These quests are basically the protagonist giving hope to the town, so the Fox gets more donations.
* RetiredBadass: Seems to be this, with the scars on its head.
* TeamPet: Less so than Teddie, but more than Nanako, in that it actually does something for your team (restoring SP for a price).

!!Kou Ichijo and Daisuke Nagase
->'''Voiced by:''' DaisukeOno (Kou) and TomokazuSugita (Daisuke) (Japanese)

Kou and Daisuke are two friends at Yasogami High who are also the unofficial leaders of Yasogami's Basketball and Football teams respectively, and together serve as the Strength Social Link. The focus of their Social Link does however depends on which sports team you join.

Choosing Kou's route, Daisuke explains the protagonist that Kou comes from a wealthy family that sticks to traditions so much that the head of the family, Kou's grandmother, looks down upon his obsession with basketball. Kou also feels burdened that he's actually adopted (he lost his bio family and the lived in an OrphanageOfLove), and that the customs of the family will ultimately fall onto his sister. Although it makes him happy, it also makes him feel shunned by the family as a whole. By the end of his Social Link, Kou learns that his adopted family truly cares for him and gives the Protagonist the letter that his parents left for him, and he decides to study overseas to pursue what he wants to do in life.

Choosing Daisuke's route, the protagonist learns from Kou that Daisuke feels really bad for a middle school break-up with his first girlfriend that he fears failing at doing his very best in either at soccer or getting a girlfriend. With that in mind, Kou and the protagonist try to set him up with blind dates, but Daisuke gets irritated by this. At the end of his Social Link, Daisuke finds the strength to move on [[spoiler:by speaking to the same girlfriend that left him behind]].

* BigBrotherInstinct: Kou, by the end of his Social Link.
* GuileHero: Daisuke is quite good at retaining blackmail material for later use.
* HeManWomanHater: Daisuke at the start of his Social Link.
* HeterosexualLifePartners - HoYay: Every so often.
* TheLastDance: Kou's parents object to his sport, and so he makes it his vow to win his last game. [[spoiler:The team still loses, but by then he has already decided that at least he went down fighting.]]
* LimitedWardrobe: Daisuke wears his gym uniform even during school and on his days off.
* ParentalAbandonment: Kou. OrphanageOfLove included.
* RelationshipVoiceActor: [[TomokazuSugita Daisuke]] and [[DaisukeOno Kou]] are basically [[SuzumiyaHaruhi Kyon and Itsuki]], except less the tension and closer to each other. They're even more like [[UminekoNoNakuKoroNi Ronove and Battler.]]
* StepfordSmiler: Kou
* ThoseTwoGuys: Their Social Link is even called Fellow Athletes.

!!Naoki Konishi
->'''Voiced by:''' TsubasaYonaga (Japanese) and DerekStephenPrince (English)

The Hanged Man Social Link, a freshman, and younger brother of Saki, the second murder victim.

Due to the death of his older sister, all the people start pitying him for losing her forever, which makes him feel really sick. However, he slowly realizes that he could never mourn her dead sister like everyone else did, feeling very different from the rest of the people. At the end of his Social Link, he cries and finally mourns Saki's death, allowing him to move on alone. He gives the Protagonist the Junes Receipt.

* AdaptationExpansion: Befriends the entire Investigation Team and not just the Protagonist.
** CompressedAdaptation: Although what may be his entire Social Link is compressed into two scenes spanning five minutes.
* ChekhovsGunman: He is first mentioned on one of your earlier days at school, before Saki even goes missing. You finally meet him a few months later.
* [[DeadLittleSister Dead Big Sister]]
* DontYouDarePityMe: Aboslutly ''hates'' the fact that all he's getting from people is sympathy now. It's also preventing him from properly mouring his sister's death.
* FreudianExcuse
* IncriminatingIndifference: A variant in that he's not a suspect, but is accused of being cold and indifferent about her death. [[spoiler: Towards the end of his Social Link, he's finally able to mourn and move on.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: CharacterDevelopment brings him out of this.
* UnableToCry: Very troubled by his inability to mourn for his sister.

!!Hisano Kuroda
->'''Voiced by:''' Ikuko Tani (Japanese) and MaryElizabethMcGlynn (English)

An elderly widow who calls herself "death". If her self-proclaimed title didn't give her away, she's the Death Social Link.

The Protagonist meets Hisano by the river, and she slowly but surely tells him about how her late husband and herself loved each other so much up till the point he suffered from a "disease" that made him forget who she was every day, only making her feel deep emotional pain until he passed away. By talking to the Protagonist, Hisano manages to understand that she needs to move on with her life. At the end of her Social Link, Hisano thanks the Protagonist by giving him her old ink pen and leaves Inaba to live with her children.

* AdultFear: Her Social Link touches pretty close on how awful it is to watch your spouse die before you, as well as the pain of old age and having a loved one suffer from memory loss.
* EasyAmnesia: Harshly subverted in her backstory, where her aging husband contracts dementia and forgets he ever loved her.
* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: Oh ''come on'' Atlus -- it's pretty obvious her husband was dying of ''Alzheimer's'', not some "disease" (although it's possible Hisano simply didn't know what it was called).
* ItsAllJunk: When the Protagonist recovers the letters she wrote to her husband, Hisano attempts to burn them. In the anime, it's a flower-pattern hairclip that she tosses into the river that's later stuck into the fins of the Guardian, but Yu, after many misadventures, gets the hairclip back. She actually keeps it.
* IWasQuiteALooker: A brief flashback in the anime shows her to be this.
* IWishedYouWereDead: When her husband became ill and began forgetting who he was, Hisano wished he would die so neither of them would have to suffer anymore. She considered his death a MercyKill since the husband she'd known was already 'dead'.
* LoveHurts:
-->'''Hisano''': ''(on refering to a love letter she sent to her husband)'' I loved him this much and because I loved him, it saddened me when he forgot my love.
* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: She was one.

!!Eri Minami
->'''Voiced by:''' MikiIto (Japanese)

The Temperance Social Link and a stepmother to a boy who frequents the daycare the Protagonist can work at.

Eri's story revolves around her stepson, Yuuta. The Protagonist finds out that the two of them are very distant: Eri can't seem to get close to Yuuta, and Yuuta doesn't accept her as his mother. Using really vague tips from TV and magazines, Eri does a rather bad job at getting Yuuta to like her. Through interactions, the Protagonist helps the two of them to become united. At the end of the Social Link, Eri finds out that she never had the strength to face Yuuta directly, so now he and Yuuta recognize each other as a family, and Eri thanks the Protagonist for helping them by giving him a clover bookmark.

* [[WickedStepmother Aloof Stepmother]]: She behaves a bit like this in the beginning (and her stepson likely sees her as one), but a good part of the Social Link is getting the two to realize that they do care for each other.
* ChildrenRaiseYou
* [[HotMom Hot Stepmom]]
* TakingTheBullet: In the anime, Eri is injured via trying to help Yuuta when he's harrassed by another kid ''and'' his mom in the festival.

!!Sayoko Uehara
->'''Voiced by:''' NatsukoKuwatani (Japanese) and WendeeLee (English)

The Devil Social Link and a nurse the Protagonist meets while on his part-time job as a hospital janitor.

Flirting with the Protagonist at first, Sayoko opens up to him and reveals her backstory. Because of her behavior, she dated a married doctor that ended up flirting with other girls even though she left him behind. After dealing with the doctor's wife, things [[ItGotWorse get worse]] for her after hearing that a patient of hers in the last hospital died. She feels extremely saddened by the news that she becomes a workaholic, demanding everyone to do their very best, and eventually collapses. By the end of her Social Link, Sayoko realizes that she was trying to flee from her feelings by working hard, and that she was losing her goal to care for others, and she gives the Protagonist her hospital ID. Before the ending, the Protagonist hears that she joined a medical association and went to Africa [[spoiler:and also finds out the implication that she genuinely held a bit of a crush toward him]].

* BottleFairy: In the anime.
* ChristmasCake: She's older than the protagonist by ten years.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife
* HelloNurse
* HospitalHottie
* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler: At the end of her Social Link, she transfers to another hospital, but she still refers to the Protagonist as her "boyfriend".]]
** Before that she dated a married doctor older than her. It didn't end well.
* ReallyGetsAround[=/=]{{Workaholic}}: Pre- and post-CharacterDevelopment.
* TheTease: At the start of her Social Link.

!!Shu Nakajima
->'''Voiced by:''' MitsuhiroIchiki (Japanese)

The Tower Social Link and a young boy the Protagonist could tutor as a part-time job.

After becoming smarter, the Protagonist takes on the job to tutor Shu. At first, Shu asks him how school is until he tells him how he has the pressure of being the very best of his class for his mom, and things start getting bad after a talented and athletic guy joined the school. When Shu becomes a bit paranoid and [[spoiler:cheats on the test]], his mother scolds him. With the Protagonist's help, Shu learns that he doesn't need to be the best all the time, and so cancels the tutoring so that he can play baseball. At the end of his Social Link, he thanks the Protagonist by giving him his test results, and later on before the ending, [[spoiler:he befriends the very same student that he wanted to beat in grades]].

* TheBGrade: Fear of getting a B and disappointing his mother is what eventually drives Shu to [[spoiler:cheat on a test]]
* CramSchool: Previously attended this, but quit because it ''wasn't rigorous enough''.
* EducationMama[=/=]MyBelovedSmother: Revealed to be the source of his {{Jerkass}} attitude -- she continually pressures him to study regardless of his misgivings so he can get into a competitive university.
* HeroicBSOD: Has quite the breakdown in the anime.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: In the anime, replacing the tension between him and his mother.
* InsufferableGenius: Initially.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* MeaningfulName: One of the readings of his name is "Genius".

!!Ai Ebihara
->'''Voiced by:''' KanaeIto (Japanese) and JulieAnnTaylor (English)

The Moon Social Link and manager of whatever sports team you join.

Upon joining a sports club, the Protagonist meets Ai. Once the Social Link starts, Ai takes him out to become friends. Once she tasks him with asking Kou or Daisuke what kind of girl he likes, she ends up being devastated upon eavesdropping on them (Kou likes Chie Satonaka, and Daisuke likes a nice girl) and almost is [[SpurnedIntoSuicide driven to commit suicide]]. Thanks to the Protagonist, she slowly opens up to him and becomes a bit enamored with him. At the end of her Social Link, Ai learns that being just beautiful isn't all there is to her and so gives the player the compact she used to compare herself to what she was before, understanding that people were better "mirrors" to show her true self.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: She falls in love with either Daisuke or Kou, but then she finds out that they like "nice girls" and Chie, respectively.
** In the anime, she retains her crush on Kou even after learning that he was interested in Chie.
* AlphaBitch: pre-CharacterDevelopment.
** LovableAlphaBitch
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Likes Kou due to this trope.
* CompensatedDating: Discussed in regards to her. Ai doesn't do it as far as we know, but since she has good looks (especially a nice butt), she's rumored to have a sugar daddy. Kou is rather angry when he hears about it, though, and lectures the tattletales.
* CryCute: In Episode 5 of the anime (where Narukami joins the Basketball team), after Narukami stops her from jumping off the school's rooftop after overhearing Kou saying he likes Chie, wondering if all her dieting and prettifying were for naught.
* CustomUniform
* CuteSportsClubManager: Unusually for this trope, she didn't become the manager by choice. She was forced into the job to pass due to low attendance, and even then she does next to nothing of actual managerial work.
* DefrostingIceQueen
* EmbarrassingNickname: [[spoiler: "Piggy-Hara"]]
* [[FormerlyFat Former]] FatGirl: It's amazing what constant dieting can do!
* FreudianExcuse: Ai's harsh personality is due to being picked on as a child for being fat and poor.
* GreenEyedMonster: Her jealousy of Chie is played up considerably more in the anime, resulting in a downright ''hilarious'' slap fight between the two.
* IJustWantToBeBeautiful: A major theme of her Social Link. By the end Ai becomes a {{Reconstruction}} of the trope, as she realizes that [[TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside true beauty is more than just fashion and good looks]].
* InLoveWithLove: This is a big point in her Social Link as it is revealed that she just wanted to be in a relationship. In fact, [[spoiler:if you accept her when she first asks, the Link will just be a meaningless love relationship that will break up at Rank 9. However, keep yourself a friend and if you gain the right flags, she will fall in genuine love with you and can be a LoveInterest. Trips up many a CasanovaWannabe player.]]
* HeroicBSOD: She gets one when she finds out that Kou/Daisuke isn't interested in her.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Hate her for being a {{tsundere}} that's astoundingly heavy on the tsuntsun. Then get her Social Link to Level 6 and beyond, and then hate yourself.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: In Episode 5, she got annoyed when Narukami called her "Ebi" (which, in Japanese, also means "shrimp").
* NouveauRiche - RichBitch: Subverted. She initially comes off as beautiful but cold-hearted, but it's revealed that her family used to be poor and she, in her own words, a "stinkin' fatso", making her prone to mockery. When her father struck gold in real estate (just a short while ago), she decided to change her image so she wouldn't be mocked anymore.
* SecondLove: Possibly with the Protagonist after she realized Kou/Daisuke doesn't like her.
* SpurnedIntoSuicide: After overhearing that Kou/Daisuke doesn't care for her, she runs to the school rooftop and prepares to jump over the edge. Luckily, the Protagonist gives chase and manage to talk her out of it.
** SuicideAsComedy: The deal is PlayedForLaughs... [[SubvertedTrope Until she reveals her backstory.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Type A

!!Yumi Ozawa
->'''Voiced by:''' KanaeIto (Japanese), MelissaFahn (English)

One of two potential candidates for the Sun Social Link and unofficial leader of the Drama Club.

By joining the Drama Club, the Protagonist quickly makes a bond with Yumi. As time passes on, he learns about Yumi's father being bedridden in the hospital. Through family drama, Yumi cannot forgive how her father left her and her mother for another woman, even though he's going through his final moments. [[spoiler:After her father passes away]], Yumi can't tell how she actually felt about him. When she realizes that their parents tried hard to come up with a good name for her, she laments [[spoiler:how she never got to thank her father at all]]. At the end of her Social Link, Yumi quits the Drama Club to help her mother, realizing that acting was a way for her to hide her sorrow, and she gives the Protagonist her annotated script.

* ActorAllusion: In English -- [[MelissaFahn Yumi's]] tumultuous relationship with her parents has a number of parallels with [[DigimonTamers Rika Nonaka/Ruki Makino's.]]
* DisappearedDad: Her father left Yumi and her mother for another woman, but came back when he was dying of illness.
* {{Foil}}: To Ayane.
* MeaningfulName: This is brought up in her Social Link, where her dying father said it meant "to bear fruit".
* OutOfFocus: The anime prefers Ayane over her, but she can be seen in the background sometimes.

!!Ayane Matsunaga
->'''Voiced by:''' Tomoka Endou (Japanese), Michelle Ann Dunphy (English)

The other potential candidate for the Sun Social Link and a freshman who manages the Music Club.

Ayane is often mistaken as an "apple" due to her shyness and face's expression. After the Protagonist joins the Music Club, he gets to spend the time with Ayane. Throughout their meetings, Ayane tells him how she doesn't like to play the trombone and would rather play the flute instead, but her parents couldn't afford to buy her an actual flute. Moreover, her shyness prevents her from participating in band performances. Once she starts to be a little bit more selfish so that she can stop backing out from events, Ayana is grateful to the Protagonist. By the end of her Social Link, Ayane decides to study music abroad after finishing graduation, and she thanks the Protagonist by giving him a homemade ticket with her name printed on it so that he would watch her perform later.

* BlushSticker: Yep. She earns her nickname "apple" for when she actually blushes.
* {{Expy}}: Of pre-time-skip [[{{Naruto}} Hinata]]
* {{Foil}}: To Yumi.
* OlderThanTheyLook: [=NPCs=] frequently mistake her for a middle-schooler.
* PluckyGirl: Eventually becomes this.
* ShrinkingViolet: But the point of her S-Link is helping her grow out of this.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Minor NPCs]]
!!Kinshiro Morooka
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->'''Voiced by:''' Osamu Ryutani (Japansese) and KirkThornton (English)

The protagonist's homeroom teacher. He really dislikes unruly students and looks down (or outright curses) any popular trends in the school. [[DirtyOldMan That doesn't stop him from being a Risette fanatic behind the scenes]]. [[spoiler:Eventually murdered by Mitsuo Kubo.]]

* [[spoiler: AssholeVictim]]
* DirtyOldMan[=/=]HypocriticalHumor: While he rails against teenagers for such things, he's stated to be a Rise fan.
* {{Gonk}}: Just... look at those teeth! The guy looks like SteveBuscemi.
* {{Jerkass}}: That nickname is well-warranted.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Seriously, he looks like SteveBuscemi.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Rarely is he ever called anything other than "King Moron" ("Morokin" in Japanese) by the protagonists.
* PetTheDog: One girl on the school hallway reveals that he once gave her a piece of candy to cheer her up.
* ProperlyParanoid: Possibly. Morooka accuses the Protagonist of being a {{casanova}} since he's a city kid. Depending on how you develop your Social Links, [[JerkassHasAPoint he might be right]].
* SadistTeacher
* TheScrappy: InUniverse, his students don't like him and his foul attitude. The Protagonist can even tell him off when the latter was insultingly introducing him with "You callin' me a loser?".
** [[spoiler: AlasPoorScrappy: In-universe -- after his death, Yosuke expresses pity for him.]]

!!Hanako Ohtani
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->'''Voiced by:''' Ryou Agawa (Japanese) and Jessica Straus (English)

A fat girl and the Protagonist's schoolmate. Just like Noriko, she thinks of herself as being beautiful, and insults any prettier girl because of her views.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: The anime briefly sets her up to look like one of these when she confronts Kanji at the end of the camping trip. In reality, she was there to apologise for giving him the wrong idea. 
* BigBeautifulWoman: Seem to think she's this when she's really...
** FatBastard: ...a hideously fat, selfish, vain creature with only one redeeming quality: because she secretly has a crush on [[spoiler:the Protagonist, she occasionally leaves useful items as gifts in his shoe locker]]. In the anime, while still somewhat obnoxious, she's noticeably nicer, especially when she shows a degree of reluctance and guilt at having to [[spoiler: reject Kanji after an awkward, accidental, intimate encounter between the two.]]
* FanDisservice: She ''joins'' the beauty pageant.
* {{Gonk}}
* {{Jerkass}}: [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Less so]] in the animated adaptation.
* PetTheDog: Her only redeeming quality is that sometimes she leaves useful items in the Protagonist's shoe locker.
** Also in the anime, one of her {{Jerkass}} moment of not sharing her mountain of food during the Camping Trip is omitted and replaced by offering to eat [[LethalChef Chie and Yukiko]]'s [[RunningGag Mystery Food X]]... and ''[[ExtremeOmnivore liking it]]''.
* SmallNameBigEgo: The hideous {{Gonk}} thinks of herself as a gorgeous beauty and lords herself over everyone else. No wonder [[BirdsOfAFeather she and Kashiwagi-sensei are friends]].

!!Noriko Kashiwagi
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->'''Voiced by:''' SayakaOhara (Japanese, game), HitomiNabatame (Japanese, anime) and MaryElizabethMcGlynn (English)

The protagonist's second homeroom teacher after [[spoiler:his first one gets murdered during the course of the story]]. She honestly believes that she's the most gorgeous woman against the obviously popular girls within the school.

* AnythingThatMoves
* TheCameo: Makes one during "Operation Babe Hunt" in ''[[{{Persona 3}} Persona 3 Portable]]''. As you would expect, HilarityEnsues.
* ChristmasCake: [[ExaggeratedTrope An exaggerated version]] -- Kashiwagi-sensei is not only "on the wrong side of 40", says one of the Protagonist's classmates, but continually hits on her male students, and enters a beauty pageant against girls less than half her age. ''And she thinks she'll win.''
* GagBoobs: In the Anime.
* {{Expy}}: She could easily be mistaken for a parallel universe equivalent of [[DearS Mitsuka-sensei]].
* HotForStudent: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] and PlayedForLaughs. While this leads to a hilarious scene after the beauty pageant, her ChristmasCake status left her so bitter and desperate for attention from males she's willing to settle for anything she can get.
* HotTeacher: Her character's portrait isn't unattractive, but her [[{{Jerkass}} personality]] and [[ChristmasCake desperation for male attention]] completely diminish any beauty she has.
* HypocriticalHumor[=/=]GreenEyedMonster: She calls Rise an "inexperienced jailbait" despite the fact that she's probably worse than Shadow Rise in terms of personality, whereas Rise is an experienced model with a [[NiceGirl pleasant personality]].
* {{Jerkass}}
* OlderThanTheyLook: Implied that she's considerably older than she looks and acts.
* ReplacementScrappy: InUniverse -- the class considers her this compared to Morooka-sensei (which is impressive, considering the latter was a supreme {{Jerkass}}).
* {{Sensei-chan}}: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. Her immaturity is not treated an endearing characteristic and is seen by the students as a desperate act to act young.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Is earnestly shocked when she loses the beauty pageant, despite being regarded as a creepy old hag by her students. It's also ''the reason'' she's a ChristmasCake. No wonder [[BirdsOfAFeather she and Hanako get along well]].
* UnknownRival: Considers herself Rise's rival as school idol. Boy does she underestimate Rise's popularity (and kindness).
* TheVamp

!!Chihiro Fushimi
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->'''Voiced by:''' AiMaeda (Japanese) and WendeeLee (English)

Once an incredibly shy girl, Chihiro, now a third-year student of [[{{Persona 3}} Gekkoukan High School]] whom the Investigation Team meet during their visit to Tatsumi, has since revamped herself into a much more confident lady and Student Council President.

* TheCameo: During Yasogami's field trip to Tatsumi.
* DudeMagnet: Both Yosuke ''and'' [[AmbiguouslyGay Kanji]] quickly become attracted to her.
* HotterAndSexier[=/=]OlderAndWiser: She's no longer the ShrinkingViolet from two years ago -- and now she has a new character portrait to give some emphasis.
* {{Meganekko}}
* ShesAllGrownUp
* StudentCouncilPresident

!!Aika Nakamura
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->'''Voiced by:''' AoiYuki (Japanese)

Appearing only in ''[[TheAnimeOfTheGame Persona 4: The Animation]]'', she is minor recurring character who attends Yasogami High and works at her family's restaurant Aiya as a waitress and delivery girl. Aika has quite the ability to appear out of nowhere just to deliver fresh food to her customers [[TheStoic without saying much of a word]].

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Will literally deliver Chinese food anywhere, including to people running for their lives and people who had just suffered really nasty stomaches by something close to food poisoning away from the city.
** She makes an appearance in the Hagakure near the end of Episode 15, citing that she's been working there during the trip for temporary training.
* CanonForeigner
* CanonImmigrant: She has been mentioned by name in Persona4Arena.
* ComfortFood: In episode 22 Aika offers Yu the infamous beef bowl to cheer him up [[spoiler: after Nanako's "death"]]. Yu ''eats it whole''.
** Doubles as a ContinuityNod as he had also maxed out the stats necessary to complete it by that point.
* DissonantSerenity: The Investigation Team might be running from an enraged Kanji, but she remains oddly calm whilst driving a scooter and delivering food.
* StealthMentor: In episode 11 the team meet up in the restaurant she works in when they think they are back at square one [[spoiler: because Morooka turned up dead even though he wasn't on the Midnight Channel]], she suddenly gives them an enormous beef bowl each for free that they eat for 40 minutes without getting to the rice. They're about to give up when they realize they can get to the bottom of it if they persevere.
* TheStoic: Even moreso than Yu.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Antagonists '''(MAJOR SPOILERS)''']]
!!Mitsuo Kubo
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->'''Voiced by:''' Tsuyoshi Takahashi (Japanese), KyleHebert (English)

A student from another school in Inaba. Eventually turns out to be Morooka's killer. After he's dealt with, it's stated that he was tossed into an asylum.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: He didn't become a handsome guy in it, but the anime noticeably scales down his creepy face a bit, as it looks proportional now.
** In his first appearance, he looks almost identical to the game portraits. It's only later when they enlarge his eyes, reduce the definition of his lips, and generally give him a more boyish appearance.
* AttentionWhore
* AxCrazy: He even gets thrown into the loony bin at the end.
* BarrierChangeBoss: To some extent since his shadow uses wall spells.
* BeYourself: Subverted. He refuses to accept his Shadow since it'd mean accepting that he's nothing but an EmptyShell.
* BigBadWannabe: Claims responsibility for killing Mayumi Yamano, Saki Konishi and Kinshiro Morooka; the latter is only true.
* BlackEyesOfEvil
-->'''Kanji:''' "Looking at those fish eyes really pisses me off!"
* ChekhovsGunman
* CreepyMonotone[=/=]DullSurprise: Not so much himself but his Shadow.
* DiscOneFinalBoss
* EmptyShell: His Shadow even provides the page quote.
* EvilCounterpart: In the anime to Yu Narukami. They both suffer from loneliness (Mitsuo [[IJustWantToBeSpecial wants to be special]] while Yu [[IJustWantToHaveFriends wants friends]]), and Mitsuo's shadow even pulls a NotSoDifferent on Yu.
* FetusTerrible: His shadow is this.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In his dungeon, notice how the game text says that he "defeated" Yamano and Konishi, but "killed" Morooka. That's a large hint at the fact that he ''isn't'' the real killer.
** There is also another large hint: His Shadow has the normal boss battle music, "I'll Face Myself -Battle-". For someone who is claiming to be the main killer, you'd think he'd have a special boss theme, but he does not.
* ForTheEvulz: [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity He only killed Morooka and claimed responsibility for the murders to garner attention]].
* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] While he ''did'' kill Morooka, he ultimately never becomes any more dangerous than the next kid. His Shadow then manifests how terrible he can possibly become.
* {{Gonk}}: His eyes and facial expression make him look like a deranged Gerber Baby.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] as it drives Mitsuo to commit murder just to get attention.
* ItsAllAboutMe: His motive.
* KickTheDog: In the anime, he threatens Nanako when she tries to get the same item as he does in Junes.
* LonersAreFreaks: Was already a creep before the events of the story.
* MachineMonotone: His Shadow's true form.
* MythologyGag: His Shadow Boss seems similar to the final boss of ''ShinMegamiTenseiIf'', the game that started this series, which certianly fits with his dungeon theme.
* ObviouslyEvil
* {{Otaku}}
* RedHerring: His entire purpose in the plot, as his actions and claims throw the Investigation Team off the trail of the real killer.
* PsychopathicManchild: Type B.
* SlasherSmile: Does one of these at the beginning of episode 11.
* StalkerWithACrush: Appears this way towards Yukiko, though nothing really comes of it. In the anime, he tries it while on the end of his power trip from killing Morooka, but gets scared away by Chie and Kanji.

!!Taro Namatame
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->'''Voiced by:''' Koji Haramaki (Japanese) and J. B. Blanc (English)

Once secretary in the Yasogami City Council, Taro Namatame's affair with news reporter Mayumi Yamano was a hot local topic by the time the Protagonist arrives in town. It ultimately cost him his job, and by the time the Protagonist arrives, he has been reduced to a mere deliveryman.

After kidnapping Yukiko, Kanji, Rise, Naoto and Nanako, he becomes the Team's chief suspect. He is confronted and defeated inside a manifestation of Heaven created by his self-delusions of messianic grandeur. He also plays a pivotal role in determining the outcome of the case; should the player take the easy way out and blame him for all of the murders, thus throwing him in the TV world, they will be "rewarded" with the Bad Ending. If he is spared and the Protagonist convince his teammates that something still seems off about the case, the game will move the player closer to the Normal and True Endings.

As it turns out, Namatame was one of three people granted the power to enter the Midnight Channel by Izanami, representing Despair in her experiment. After witnessing the deaths of Mayumi and Saki, Namatame concludes that anyone who appears on the Channel will die and makes it his life's mission to "save" them by throwing them into the television. Unfortunately, he fails to recognize that the Channel is potentially lethal on its own.

Should he be spared, Namatame, still recovering from his experiences, will aid the Investigation Team by offering his perspective on the game's events thus far. In the extended true ending of ''Persona 4: The Golden'', [[spoiler:he can be seen running again for public office, determined to be a political force for good and make Inaba a better place as penance for his actions.]]

* AGodAmI: Develops a messiah complex at some point when he is saving people; this is his most major flaw that Kunino-sagiri, his Shadow, expresses. He eventually realizes his mistakes.
* TheAtoner: Subverted, then played straight. Promises to "save" people in memory of his dead lover Mayumi without realizing the ramifications of his actions, and then helps the Investigation Team once they reveal the truth of his actions to him.
* AntiVillain: Namatame blurs the line between a Type II and a ''very'' tragic [[SlidingScaleofAntiHeroes Type I]].
* BarrierChangeBoss
* BigBadWannabe: If you go through the DownerEnding and think everything else doesn't matter anymore.
* CassandraTruth: Attempts to warn Saki about what will happen to her, but she's creeped out and doesn't listen.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He's got to have some combat experience to take on Kanji (a biker-gang crusher) and Naoto (a petite {{Gunslinger}}).
* DrowningMySorrows: His initial coping mechanism to the leaking of his affair with Mayumi.
* ForcedToWatch: Sorta. In the anime he witnessed [[spoiler: Mayumi's death in the Midnight Channel]] and tried to save her [[spoiler: via attempting to take her hand through the TV right before it happened]], but he failed to [[spoiler: bring her back]].
* TheMessiah: Subverted. Although he was granted the power to enter the Midnight Channel and genuinely cares about people, his actions did more harm than good, and he never develops the Persona powers that his counterparts -- the Protagonist and Adachi -- do. Izanami implies this is because he fails to grasp the truth behind the Channel on his own.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After he realizes that his actions could have potentially killed more people.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Subverted oh so very hard.
* RedHerring
* TragicHero: You can't help but feel sorry for the guy.
* UnwittingPawn: His original idea to throw people into the Midnight Channel came from [[spoiler: Adachi]], who would continue to sit back and enjoy the suffering he was obliviously causing. Ultimately, along with the Protagonist and [[spoiler:Adachi]], he is one of [[spoiler:Izanami's three "game pieces" -- Despair, in his case -- so that she can determine what humanity desires most.]]

!!Tohru Adachi[=/=][[ComicBookAdaptation Tamotsu Adachi]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' MitsuakiMadono (Japanese) and JohnnyYongBosch (English)

A bumbling dectective, he was transfered to Inaba due to an unknown incident (presumably one of his many screw-ups). One of the main authorities on the murder cases along with Dojima, he has a habit of divulging critical information to the Investigation Team, making him a useful ally.

Turns out that not only is this all just an act, but he's ''the one'' behind the murders. After trying to force himself upon Mayumi in a fit of lust, he accidentally pushed her into the television world, discovering the powers that had been (unknowingly) given to him by Izanami. He then used Saki as a guinea pig to confirm his powers after she came to the police station to help with the investigation into Mayumi's murder. Seeing the murders as a source of entertainment within a sleepy rural town he found insufferably boring, he manipulated Namatame into becoming his cat's paw by implying that the Midnight Channel predicted the murders and that the television world was a safe haven.

While he claims to be much more mature than the Investigation Team, it's clear the whole affair comes down to him throwing a tantrum over all the crap he's had to deal with. After he's exposed, he is chased into the Midnight Channel, where he reveals Persona powers not unlike the Protagonist's, and possessed by Ameno-Sagiri. Defeated by a mere bunch of teenagers, he is arrested and sent to jail for his crimes. Despite this, he mails a letter to the Team, claiming he'll follow society's rules and giving them a clue to the truth of the Channel.

Ultimately he's nothing but a pawn of Izanami, who wanted to determine humanity's true desire, as expressed by Adachi, Namatame, and the Protagonist. Adachi represents "Emptiness" in the experiment, but because his actions are the most prolific, he unintentionally sentences humanity to an AssimilationPlot.

In ''Persona 4: Golden'' he also serves as a Social Link, the [[EvilCounterpart Pierrot (0) Arcana]]. [[spoiler:If his Social Link is Rank 9 by the endgame, the Protagonist can choose to either confront Adachi alone, or keep quiet about his suspicions. Choosing the former will shatter Adachi's Social Link and mutate it into the Lust (XI) Arcana. If the Protagonist remains quiet, he is given the choice to aid Adachi by destroying a vital piece of incriminating evidence, increasing the Pierrot Social Link to Max Level and invoking the [[NonStandardGameOver Accomplice Ending]]]].

* TheAtoner: Becomes this to some degree in the True Ending by sending a letter stating his suspicions about a higher being orchestrating the entire thing, after being recently convicted for his crimes.
* AttemptedRape: To Mayumi and Saki; he apparently failed both attempts -- Mayumi fell into the Midnight Channel before he can have his way with her, and Saki gets thrown into it.
* [[BitchInSheepsClothing Asshole in Sheep's Clothing]]
* AxCrazy
* BeamMeUpScotty: He never actually utters the [[MemeticMutation memetic]] "Bitches and whores" line. That one came from a doujinshi that was edited by [[ImageBoards 4chan]]. However, considering his misogynistic attitude towards women, the line is in character.
** And in TheAnimeOfTheGame, a paraphrased version of this very line becomes an AscendedMeme.
* BeneathSuspicion: No one suspects the goofy, bumbling detective... [[SarcasmMode right]]? No one but the GenreSavvy.
* BeYourself: An evil version.
* BigBadFriend: [[UpdatedRerelease Persona 4 Golden]] adds him as a Social Link. Max it out, and you'll be able to summon Magatsu Izanagi. Also if you became great friends with him but don't choose to follow with the Accomplice End, Adachi's dialogue during the Team confrontation against him changes slghtly, [[WeUsedToBeFriends it becomes more of a discussion between ex-friends]] (the Protagonist and Adachi).
* BreakoutCharacter: Got Social Links in ''The Golden'', [[spoiler:and actually invokes the option of becoming great friends with the protagonist to the point of his crimes never being exposed, the protagonist leaves the town without telling anyone about Adachi's deeds; the Accomplice End]].
* ButtMonkey
* CaptainErsatz: Looks and acts like Matsuda from Manga/DeathNote.
** And when his TrueColors are shown, he becomes more like [[XMeetsY the lovechild of]] Light and [[CodeGeass Lelouch]]. Ironic considering who voices the latter in the English version.
* DetectiveMole
* DirtyCop: Claims the only reason he became a cop was so he could legally carry a gun -- which is justifiable enough, given Japan's strict gun control laws. Though the veracity of those words is ambiguous, given his immaturity and tendency to run from the truth.
* TheDitz: Or at least, [[ObfuscatingStupidity plays a very good one]].
* EvillyAffable: He's an loopy, AxCrazy SerialKiller. That said, he's pretty funny.
* ForTheEvulz[=/=]ItAmusedMe : Had a hell of a time with all the crap he's stirred up.
* FreudianExcuse: He is really, really sick of being the ButtMonkey.
* GracefulLoser: After he's defeated, he agrees to accept punishment for his crimes in whatever manner you choose. To his surprise, they instead drag him out into the real world and force him to take account for his actions.
* HeelRealization: Of the sorts. His VillainousBreakdown and subsequent defeat by the Investigation Team was extremely humiliating, and it left him humbled and at their mercy. Instead of killing him (as he expected), they instead haul him back to the real world (metaphorically and literally), demanding him to face the consequences of his actions just like eveyone else. The final nail comes when he learns that Ryotaro (who had pretty good reasons to hate him) had requested, as personal favor, that an EMT with a stretcher be sent out to treat and apprehend the exhausted Adachi (because they had been partners). Adachi does not say anything, but he seems both ashamed and touched at the same time. He later confesses to the first two murders, and shows full cooperation with police.
** In the True Ending, the Team receives a letter from the recently-convicted Adachi, which contains his suspicions about a higher being orchestrating the entire thing, the few vague clues he can offer, and encouragement to the Protagonist, stating it is up to him to solve the mystery. Seems like he's trying to turn over a new leaf.
* HannibalLecture: While making your way through Adachi's dungeon, he insists the Investigation Team did all this, pursuing the true killer, out of boredom with their ordinary lives. He asks how is that any different from him killing Mayumi and Saki because he too was bored.
* {{Hypocrite}}
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: See SayingTooMuch below.
* IShallTauntYou: In ''Persona 4: The Golden'', [[spoiler: Adachi mocks you for actually burning the evidence that could've convicted him if you actually pursue the Accomplice Ending. He even takes your cell number and taunts you as you're boarding the train, knowing that he's getting off scott-free.]]
** [[spoiler: This is his primary tactic when dealing with the Investigation Team. He even does it as the protagonist is helping him free during the Accomplice Ending.]]
* JerkAss: Once he shows his true colors, he fits a little too comfortably into them.
* KickTheDog: "I was just trying to punish the stupid bitch a little for betraying me."
* {{Lestrade}}: Justified -- since he was behind the whole scheme, he was always a step ahead of the Team. Therefore, it was imperative for him to play dumb as to not arouse suspicion.
* LivingWithTheVillain: Your biggest hint to finding the killer is the fact that he's welcome at the Dojima household any time.
* ManipulativeBastard: He first manipulated Namatame into attempting to commit the murders with delusions of messianic grandeur, then tries to manipulate the Investigation Team into [[RedHerring chasing after Namatame]].
* NeverMyFault
* NietzscheWannabe: Delves into a rant about the pointlessness of life and how much easier it would be if everyone were to become Shadows. Needless to say, [[ShutUpHannibal the protagonists don't buy it]].
* NoodleIncident: What got him transferred to Inaba. While he claims it was a small slip-up that got blown out of proportion, his crimes in this game imply it was ''much'' more serious.
* ObfuscatingStupidity
* PsychopathicManchild: Outright called immature by Naoto and Yukiko. Despite his claims to the contrary, it's quite clear that he's basically throwing a massive temper tantrum.
* SayingTooMuch: "Namatame was the one who '''threw them in'''!"
* ShadowArchetype: Persona-wise, to the Protagonist (his being the EvilTwin of Izanagi); motive-wise, to Yosuke (both share the same SmallTownBoredom); but most of all, to the whole Investigation Team -- whereas its members [[BeYourself learn to accept themselves and each other for who they are and take responsibility their actions]], Adachi [[NeverMyFault ignores his own faults, blames others for his problems, and keeps running away from the truth]].
** He's actually meant to be a counterpart to the main character in the sense that the MC uses his power to help people, while Adachi uses his power to harm. This is more apparent in the anime where [[Persona4TheAnimation Yu]] has his own personality.
** Made even more aparent in Persona 4: The Golden. He becomes a Social Link representing the Pierrot Arcana, which is an alternate version of the Fool Arcana that the Protagonist represents.
* SlasherSmile: Once you when chase him into the Midnight Channel. [[spoiler:In the Accomplice End, when you burn the letter incriminating him, he laughs with a new character sprite.]]
* SmallTownBoredom: Being "stuck in the boonies", as he called it.
* SmugSnake: Overly confident in his plans? Check. Outwardly arrogant and mocking of the heroes? Check. Aspiring for greater power only to turn out to be a pawn of a BiggerBad? Oooohh, check.
* TheSociopath
* StalkerWithACrush: To Mayumi and, to a lesser extent, Saki (because he thought Namatame, who "stole" Mayumi, was her sugar daddy).
* StrawMisogynist: Considers any woman who doesn't willingly give themselves in to him either a bitch or a whore.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Subverted. He doesn't like cabbage that much; he eats it a lot because he's on a budget. However, the fandom ran with it and turned it into CargoShip. The anime has now made this into an AscendedMeme and plays this trope straight.
* TrickBoss: You defeat him, then [[FinalBoss Ameno-Sagiri]] [[DemonicPossession possesses him]] and takes over.
* {{Troll}}: Adachi taunts your party as you progress through his dungeon.
-->"Ahaha! I told you all to come, and you actually came!? Don't you guys have anything better to do? What a bunch of losers... 'Let's find the culprit ourselves!' 'Let's meet up today at the special headquarters today!' Am I right, or am I right? Man, it's embarrassing. How old are you guys? Ahahahahahahaha! Oh crap, my stomach's hurting... C'mon... You're all students, right? Shouldn't you be studying instead of wasting your time with this? Study hard, get into a good college, work at a respectable company, marry a cute girl... Why are you guys so desperate when it comes to something so useless? Won't you regret it once you're adults?"
* UnwittingPawn: To Izanami; he represents Emptiness in her game.
* VillainousBreakdown: When confronted at the end by the team.
* VomitingCop: His first appearance. [=YMMV=] on whether he was faking it or not.
* WalkingSpoiler

!!Marie
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->'''Voiced by:''' KanaHanazawa (Japanese)

A new character introduced in ''Persona 4: Golden'', and the Aeon (XX) Social Link.

Marie is a mysterious [[TheFashionista fashionista]] who has an unknown connection to the Velvet Room. She is suffering from amnesia and asks the Protagonist to help her contact Igor so she can regain her memories.

Her true identity is Kusumi-no-Okami, a divine subordinate of Ameno-Sagiri and one of Izanami's many avatars. Her role is to act as an observer to the unfolding events of Izanami's experiment. If you complete the Aeon Social Link, she falls under the control of Ameno-Sagiri after his initial defeat, making her the new FinalBoss if you fail to unlock the True Ending on your last day in town.

In the True Ending, she becomes a weather forecaster, using her rediscovered powers to control the weather in the region and more or less ''announce what she's going to do each day on TV''. If romanced, she'll also confess her love for the Protagonist at the end of her weather report.

* AmnesiacDissonance
* AmnesiacGod: Is actually a divine underling of Ameno-Sagiri called Kusumi-no-Okami
* AntiVillain
* BarrierWarrior: As Kusumi-no-Okami she can automatically reflect every kind of attack except almighty.
* BecomingTheMask: In the true ending, like Teddie she abandons her life as a Shadow and becomes more or less human. In her case, she becomes a weather forecaster under the alias '[[MeaningfulName Mariko Kusumi]]'.
* TheBerserker: Fights like one in her battle, as she's attempting to resist Ameno-Sagiri's influence.
* BigBadFriend: Is one of Izanami's multiple avatars.
** DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu
** DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu
* BonusBoss
* DemonicPossession: When the Investigation team reach her and nearly convince her to come back with them, the two Sagiris possesses her in an attempt to kill the team.
* DisneyDeath: Seems to disappear back into Izanami along with the other avatars after Izanami's defeat, only to shows up in the Epilogue as a weather forecaster.
* TheDragon: She's an observer for Ameno-Sagiri and Kunino-Sagiri, and like them is also an avatar of the [[ManBehindTheMan true orchestrator]], Izanami.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: When she regains her memories, she switches from her purple ensemble to a white and red costume similar to Izanami's.
** GoldAndWhiteAreDivine
** InTheHood
** LightIsNotGood
** MismatchedEyes: One iris turns white.
* FinalBoss: If you complete the Aeon Social link but fail to get the true ending.
* HumanoidAbomination
* IconicItem: Her padlock choker.
* IdentityAmnesia
* LoveConfession: In the True Ending Epilogue, she does this to Yu. ''On live television no less.''
* NiceHat
* OneWingedAngel: Her goddess form: a caped, mothlike giant.
* ShadowArchetype
* ZettaiRyouiki

!!Izanami
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaisukeNamikawa and RomiPark (Japanese), RyuseiNakao (Japanese, as Ameno-Sagiri, Persona4TheAnimation), KarenStrassman (English)

An extremely ancient and powerful [[AnthropomorphicPersonification manifestation]] of the [[CarlJung collective unconscious]] styled after a goddess from [[JapaneseMythology traditional Japanese folklore]], [[SchrodingersButterfly or perhaps its basis]]. You initially hear her name during a class lecture midway through the game. The wife of the god Izanagi, she died in childbirth. Saddened by her death, Izanagi visted the underworld, Yomotsu Hirasaka, and persuaded her to return to the living with him. But as they began to leave the darkness of the underworld, Izanagi saw that Izanami's body had become a rotting corpse, and terrified ran from her. Enraged, Izanami sent various creatures that chased after Izanagi as he fled the underworld. However they were unable to catch him, and once he reached the surface again Izanagi sealed the entrance with a boulder. Now even angrier, Izanami threatened she would curse 1,000 people to die every day unless she was freed, but Izanagi responded that in that case each day he would give life to 1,500 new ones.

While Izanami herself doesn't specify how much of the legend is true, she is the mastermind behind all the events in Inaba. In an attempt to fulfill the desires of humanity, she creates the world inside the TV and grants three [[UnwittingPawn Unwitting Pawns]], the Protagonist, Namatame, and Adachi, the power to enter. Her plan is to then create a new world for humanity that matches the quality of the pawn whose actions are the most prolific. Because Adachi, who represents Emptiness, has the greatest effect, Izanami deems that humanity wants to live in self-deception and [[AssimilationPlot plans to slowly turn all of humanity into Shadows]].

In the True Ending, after Adachi and Ameno-Sagiri are defeated, the Protagonist may surmise that something about the case still seems unresolved, and traces the events in Inaba back to Izanami, who has been watching the events in Inaba unfold [[FullBodyDisguise as the local gas station's attendant]]. She reveals that Ameno-Sagiri was merely an alter-ego that she created long ago, and she still plans on granting Adachi's wish despite his defeat.

After the Investigation Team chases her through Yomotsu Hirasaka, Izanami nearly manages to kill them all. However, the power of the Protagonist's Social Links revives him, and he destroys her in a single attack with the power of the [[AllYourPowersCombined World Arcana]] in the form of Izanagi-no-Ookami.

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: In both her goddess and persona forms. [[EldritchAbomination Doesn't last]] [[OneWingedAngel when she gets serious.]]
* AntiVillain: Type III. Turns out to be a WellIntentionedExtremist who only wanted to discover what mankind truly desired and then try to give it to them. Too bad she mistook one crazed sociopath's bleak outlook on life as the embodiment of humanity's true desire.
* AssimilationPlot: Her plan after determining Adachi was the winner of the [[HumanityOnTrial experiment]].
* BigBad: By the time Adachi is discovered, she begins actively involving herself in events through Ameno-Sagiri.
** BiggerBad: That being said, after giving her three [[UnwittingPawn pawns]] their powers, she doesn't do anything but watch for the majority of the year.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: See Doppelganger.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: She genuinely wants to make the world a better place for humans. The problem is that she really does not understand them all that well, and the "true desire" she perceived came from a misogynistic loon.
* CharacterPortrait: It's worth noting that even though she's the third character you meet and appears on rainy days throughout the entire game, she doesn't get a portrait until ''after'' you've figured out she's the one responsible for everything that happened in The True Ending.
* TheChessmaster: Used three {{Unwitting Pawn}}s in trying to figure out [[BlueAndOrangeMorality mankind's desires.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: In her human form. The game is actually very subtle about it (see CharacterPortrait above).
** KingIncognito
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Like all [[OurGodsAreGreater deities]] in the [[TheVerse Persona universe]], [[AnthropomorphicPersonification she comes from and sees herself as an agent of humanity's desires]]. As such, [[InvokedTrope she gives this as the reason you'll never be able to beat her]].
* CreepyGasStationAttendant: Double subverted, as the gas station itself is well off and in a town and that she's pretty friendly. Later ...
* DamageSpongeBoss
* DarkReprise: her second theme ''The Genesis'' incorporates an extremely creepy, dirge-like version of the investigation team's main theme ''I'll Face Myself''.
* {{Doppelganger}}: As seen from her CharacterPortrait, her goddess form looks disturbingly like the Protagonist, [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith at least from his]] [[AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder point of view]]. This also serves a bit of a CallBack to ''[[{{Persona 2}} Persona 2: Innocent Sin]]'', [[spoiler:where [[EldritchAbomination Philemon's]] own UnwittingPawn Tatsuya [[CallingTheOldManOut punches him]] [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu in the face]], only to find that behind Philemon's mask... [[AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder is Tatsuya's own face]]. Or to [[BigBad Nyarlathotep]] in ''[[{{Persona 2}} Persona 2: Eternal Punishment]]'' for that matter, who starts wearing Tatsuya's face as his [[ShapeshifterDefaultForm default form]] after Tatsuya unwittingly becomes his pawn instead.]]
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette
* EldritchAbomination: Her degraded appearance was so legendarily hideous this is the best description for it.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: She's incapable of understanding why the Investigation Team resists her plan. Subverted, however, in that she isn't technically "evil".
* FallenHero: [[SchrodingersButterfly At least in her myth.]]
* FightingAShadow: Her first boss form is this, forcing you to use the "Orb of Sight" to reveal her true self.
* FullBodyDisguise: Twice; not only is her gas station attendant form fake, but so is the goddess form she initially presents to the Protagonist.
* GodCouple: With Izanagi.
* GracefulLoser: "Children of man... Well done...!"
* [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Hoist By Her Own Petard]]: She is defeated by one of her three {{Unwitting Pawn}}s and his newfound friends, who refused her Adachi-derived judgment on humanity.
* HumanoidAbomination
* HumanityOnTrial: Her motivation for giving the Protagonist, Namatame and Adachi their powers.
* KnightTemplar
* LightIsNotGood
* TheManBehindTheMan: Technically, the goddess behind the three men and two minor gods.
* MasterOfIllusion: A relatively rare BigBad example.
* MythologyGag: ''Persona 4'' is the first ''ShinMegamiTensei'' game since the original ''Megami Tensei'' Famicom duology ([[TitleDrop in which she was reincarnated]]) that a version of Izanami is a key participant in the plot.
* NominalImportance: Cleverly subverted. She doesn't get a name or a portrait until after TheReveal.
* OneWingedAngel: "Well then...allow me to show you my full splendor..."
* RedEyesTakeWarning
* RealityWarper: Turned Yomotsu Hirasaka into the Midnight Channel, and by extension is responsible for it morphing with each new victim. By the end of the game [[AssimilationPlot starts affecting the real world]].
* SealedEvilInACan: Averted. Her myth makes it sound like she should be sealed away on the other side of the TV. In actuality, [[VillainsOutShopping she's been working at the gas station all year]].
* ShadowArchetype: For the entire human race. Though if her myth and motivations are to be believed, [[FallenHero this wasn't always the case]].
* ShapeShifter
* StupidGood: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] horrifyingly. Izanami [[BlueAndOrangeMorality sees all humans equally]], to the point she decides that a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] [[AxCrazy who murdered two people]] [[ForTheEvulz for fun]] is the best example of humanity's true desire [[FromACertainPointOfView because his actions were the most prolific]] amongst her three pawns, and then tries to help him give everyone what he believes they want: [[AssimilationPlot Oblivion]].
* TrueFinalBoss
* TheUnfettered
* TheVirus: How her fog works, slowly turning humanity into Shadows.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Ameno-sagiri and Izanami just want to give humanity what they've always wanted: everlasting peace. The only problem -- and a large one at that -- is that they [[BlueAndOrangeMorality don't quite get humans]]. Because of this they eventually decide that [[TheSociopath one crazy killer]]'s actions summed up humanity's true desire the best, and thus the best way to achieve their goal is to turn everyone into Shadows, living mindless, meaningless existences.
* WorthyOpponent: Lauds the Investigation Team's efforts after they defeat her.

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