History Characters / ShinMegamiTenseiIV

* OhCrap: Implied if you die while still in debt to him. He hastily tells one of his jailers to throw your soul "somewhere over there", suggesting that he's going to get in some sort of trouble because you didn't pay off your end of his underhanded deal.

* BookDumb: He's not book smart and is completely uninterested in reading when the Baker wants to talk about books early into the story. [[spoiler: Borders on a FatalFlaw as he so easily comes to believe what Lilith says and comes to side with the Chaos alignment, and a big part of why Infernal Tokyo's MightMakesRight atmosphere is so appealing to him is ''precisely because'' it's simple and uncomplicated.]]
* CharacterDeath: He dies in all four routes regardless, even in the Neutral Route.

* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: Has dreams of [[spoiler: Flynn]] in ''Demonic Gene'' despite never knowing such a person. [[spoiler: After his minds get zapped with the knowledge from the book that Burroughs translated, he gets a dream of a burning Tokyo with the Black Samurai telling him to come; later still, he has a BodyHorror nightmare with Amaymon, showing he's the demon's carrier.]]

* GodWasMyCoPilot: [[spoiler: It's implied at the ending of the Neutral route that your Burroughs was the Goddess of Tokyo all along.]]

* BonusBoss: Yaso Magatsuhi is the only one that is never a mandatory fight (Yamato Takeru is only fought if you join Walter at the split). His only role in the story is to suddenly appear and cause the below mentioned MushroomSamba which ends with the party being imprisoned. On your way out of the dungeon, you never fight him and only will if you come back later.

* {{Foil}}: To [[spoiler: himself]]. See OrderVersusChaos.

* NobleDemon: Offset a bit by the jerkass moments stated below, but in the end it wouldn't be Lucifer if he didn't have SOME hint of this. At the very least he's reasonable; sternly warning Isabeau that he'll kill her if she tries to stop him while Merkabah expresses desire to kill her no matter what she does. During his battles with you in the Neutral and Law routes he's FAR more respectful than Merkabah overall, and rather than claim Mikado for his own in the Chaos ending, he steps back and suggests Flynn to be the superior choice.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Whatever the demon did to him in ''Prayers'', he's left pretty much hollow, black smoke seeping out of his eye sockets and mouth.]]

* TheChainsOfCommanding: Mentions several times that his position of authority means he can't be as open about his opinions as the samurai under him.

* AssholeVictim: It's hard to feel sorry for him no matter if you side with Jonathan or Walter given the things he's done and how smug he's acted the entire time. If you side with Jonathan, [[spoiler:He's killed offscreen as Walter defeated him all by himself.]] If you side with Walter, [[spoiler:You kick his ass in battle and dragged into the Yamato reactor for who knows what happens to him.]]

* CoDragons: A pair of recurring thugs identified only as "[[DeathGlare The Glaring Man]]" and "[[DumbMuscle The Unfriendly Man]]" appear to serve this role, though the player never meets them in combat. [[spoiler: Both die in Walter's RoaringRampageOfRevenge on the Ashura-kai if Jonathan is sided with, though it is uncertain what happens to them if Walter's side is chosen]].

* EpicFail: In ''Demonic Gene''. He manages to briefly gain control of Gina, but bites more than can chew, costing him a lot of Ashura-Kai manpower and infrastructure.

* KidWithTheLeash: Rare villainous example: Tayama controls six National Defense Divinities because he owns their SoulJar. Each and every one of them despises him, and no few of them are delighted when you slay them. None more so than Yamato Takeru, who's medium is worn by Tayama as an earring.

* TheUnfought: If you side with Jonanthan you never get to face him due to [[spoiler:Walter killing him before you arrive.]]

* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:Like it or not, he's ''not'' bluffing when he explains just how important the Red Pills are.]] Of course, [[spoiler: his own men go around actively antagonizing demons who don't try to eat humans and give out Reds like they're expendable and easy to produce, when they clearly aren't.]]

* FourIsDeath

* ShapeshifterGuiltTrip: Each of them takes on the appearance of one of Flynn's closest allies (K, Hugo, Isabeau, and Issachar) in order to sway him to their side. However as the one that takes Issachar's form puts it, he's the only one who holds true power when compared to the others.

* TragicDream: It is revealed in Hunter Memos DLC in the sequel that their goal is not possible in the grand scheme of things: every possibility observed becomes real and branches off into countless parallel universes, meaning that destroying all existence is impossible and futile from the beginning as their plan only destroys a single universe.
** Of course, it is still possible for them to succeed in a single universe. If anything, this revelation would only reinforce their despair; they can only ever stop a single incarnation of YHVH, not every single one of Him.

-->'''Merkabah:''' "This cannot be... We are... The heralds of the lord... How have we been thus defeated...? The stars... the wind... the beasts... All nature... follows His order... Why, then... do humans and demons... struggle to deviate from it...?"
-->'''Jonathan's voice:''' "Is there... no end to your avarice...? What is it... that you desire...?"

-->'''Lucifer:''' "Once again, I fall to the earth... I could not... surpass God..."
-->'''Walter's voice''': "If... If you've beaten me... then that means... you are the stronger man... Perhaps... that itself means... that you were in the right..."

* BossWarningSiren: She provides them. The most common form is:
--> "I'm detecting a strong demon ahead. Do you want to go on?"

* FusionDance: Both in the main game ''and'' ''Demonic Gene''. In the first, [[spoiler:he fuses with Lucifer to restore his power;]] in the second, [[spoiler:he absorbs Hiruko through Amaymon's mouths, resulting in a monstrous, ''unwilling'' fusion of all three participants. What's worse, Hiruko is still alive in there, and it looks like she wants to further add Gina to the mix. In the end he's successful in ejecting Hiruko, but remains a HalfHumanHybrid with Amaymon.]]

* StatusQuoIsGod: He wants everything to stay the same so that "peace" may last forever, to the point that it seems he has a fear of change. He even states at one point that neither Mikado or Tokyo should change. [[spoiler:Ironically, in his own path he goes with the Archangels' plans to ''destroy Tokyo''.]]
** That he has a genuine fear of change is cemented when he prepares to go [[spoiler: kill Lilith without Walter at his side. He'll tell you that reform invariably brings chaos because the innovations are necessarily unproven and uncertain. For that reason, the way things have been must ''never'' change. It's not even a matter of the best of all possible worlds; ''any'' discord is hideous in his eyes. While he has pretty much the opposite reaction to the Archangels' plans, this is justified by his strong faith blinding him to their manipulations.]]

* {{Adorkable}}: She gets a tad Otaku when Manga is involved.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Appears to be the Realist at first, but as Navarre steps out as the conflicted, she begins [[TheDitherer faltering on the harder questions]], and even leaving the party due to ideology during the [[spoiler:hunt for Tayama/Lilith]]. [[spoiler: By the time the alignment lock occurs, she tries to stop all parties from destroying the world (starting with Flynn), but eventually caves in her resolve, committing suicide near death. However, if you keep neutral, [[{{Reconstruction}} she regains some fortitude]], rejoins the party, and even helps evacuate Mikado as it crumbles.]]

* NeutralityBacklash: By the time of the alignment lock, she's one of the few Samurai that doesn't want to [[spoiler:commit genocide, one way or another.]] Unfortunately, not only does Lucifer and his demons hate her for [[MightMakesRight fighting]] [[LonersAreFreaks alone]], but the Archangels can't bear to look at her because she read {{manga}} for [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill entertainment]]. Cue [[spoiler: Flynn]], siding with said maniacs, heading off to pillage. [[FightingYourFriend What little strength she had to fight]] [[spoiler: Flynn]] erodes when [[spoiler: Flynn]] wins - [[TheWoobie she takes it ''very'' hard.]]
* SummonMagic: Like all Samurai, she can use her Gauntlet to contract and summon demons.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Her design borrows a number of elements from the Heroine from ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiI''.
** She similarly uses Zio and Dia spells and is the most prominent female party member.
* TheUnchosenOne: While Flynn, Jonathan and Walter are from the very beginning pointed as key players in the fate of humanity, and both Jonathan and Walter appear in Flynn's prophetic dreams, Isabeau doesn't seem to have any mystical default backup, and thus has much less extreme points of view than the other main characters.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: An InUniverse example. If she didn't pass the Gauntlet Rite, she'd have become a nun for the Monastery.

-->'''Isabeau:''' [[spoiler:''"It must be this way...?" I never thought I would hear such pessimism from you. You disappoint me, Flynn.'']]
-->[[spoiler:''Flynn lost his fighting spirit...'']]

* BodyHorror: Walter volunteers to be [[spoiler:absorbed by Lucifer, only to become Lucifer's engorged, pulsating left arm.]] Gets even creepier in Lucifer's second form, where [[spoiler:Walter becomes a grotesque fetus-like creature still attached to Lucifer's left arm.]]

* ThatManIsDead: In the Neutral route, his response to Isabeau calling him Jonathan is this.

* WorthyOpponent: Seems to regard Flynn as this if you respond correctly to his first BossBanter question, calling Flynn the "Light for the Unclean Ones" in contrast to his "Light for the Lord", inviting you to test your resolve against his. Though he subverts it in his second form where he cannot comprehend how mere filth can still be standing against him.

* [[ManInWhite Woman In White]]: Like all monk outfits save for Hugo.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AtsukoTanaka (JP), Creator/TaraPlatt (EN)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YosukeAkimoto (JP), Creator/GrantGeorge (EN)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MarinaInoue (JP), Creator/JulieAnnTaylor (EN)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AtsukoTanaka (JP), Creator/TaraPlatt (EN)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JojiNakata (JP)

* MeaningfulName: Her name, Yuriko, means "lily child" as a play on [[spoiler:Lilith]].

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DavidLodge (EN)

* BeleagueredBureaucrat: Has to fill extensive paperwork on the souls he ferries.

* EyesOfGold: Amber eyes to match his scarf, and complete the analogous color scheme between himself, Flynn, and Walter.

* CoolOldGuy: The first time you die, you get a free pass, and he's willing to give you a tab for a single resurrection if you don't have the cash on hand to pay him immediately and the option to pay him in Play Coins. On the other hand, the instant you have the money, he'll appear and help himself, and if you die again without having ponied up, he'll resign himself, hand you a number and tell you to go to the end of the queue. And if you make it clear you don't want to pay up one way or the other, he'll just have his assistants throw you into a ditch.

->'''Voiced by:''' [[Creator/YuichiNagashima Cho]] (JP)