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!!Iris Wilson (''Iris Watson'') [[spoiler:('''van Zieks / Baskerville''')]]

* ConsummateProfessional: He takes his job completely and utterly seriously to the point where [[spoiler: he'll try to debunk an argument that could prove him not guilty of murder just because it has a potential hole in it]].

* DecompositeCharacter: He and Kazuma are this to [[Franchise/AceAttorney Miles Edgeworth]], with Barok having his stoic demeanor, upper-class posturing, some of his design elements [[spoiler:and past cases that haunt them into adulthood, one of which involves a notorious serial killer]].

* NotSoStoic:
** Despite earning the moniker Reaper of the Old Bailey and being seemingly uncaring of it, [[spoiler:this was actually the reason he decided to take 5 years off of prosecuting; he couldn't handle the stress and burden of being called the Reaper and being associated with so many deaths.]]

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: It's noted that the cases he prosecutes after returning from retirement are a stark departure from his original MO, as if he's picking cases based on how likely Ryunosuke will take up the defense counsel. [[spoiler:He's doing exactly that. [[YouRemindMeOfX Though not because he's seeking to defeat him...]]]]

* TheStoic: Hardly shows changes in emotion, and it's pretty hard to make him even flinch. He gradually loses this trait as the games go on and become more prone to doing his "damage" animation.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: He prosecuted the Professor trial despite a clear conflict of interests... and completely screwed it up because he couldn't be objective.[[spoiler: Stronghart had allowed him to take the case specifically because Barok ''couldn't'' prosecute fairly- he'd never realize Genshin was framed because to do so would be to admit that Klint was the Professor, and his obvious motive for convicting Genshin would mean that any suspicions of foul play would be directed at him.]]

* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[spoiler:Harebrayne describes him as 'a gentle, good-natured guy' in his university days. As we later learn, much of his current attitude stemmed from the murder of his brother Klint shortly after he graduated.]]

* InsaneTrollLogic: He almost always comes up with Larry Butz-style faulty logic in his "great" deductions, fixating on {{Red Herring}}s that he has MistakenForEvidence. Ryunosuke has to redirect Sholmes and set him back onto the right logical course. [[spoiler:The final case of ''Resolve'' shows him perform the final Dance of Deduction flawlessly, and this time around, ''he'' corrects ''you'' for 'playing games' if you presents incorrect evidence]].

* SpannerInTheWorks: His last-minute decision to become a law student [[spoiler:in Asogi's place not only deprives Stronghart and Jigoku of their expected assassin, but shuts off the opportunity to send a replacement without drawing suspicion]].

** He also becomes dead serious when insisting that Iris not publish her "Hound of the Baskervilles" manuscript, or anything related to the case in 2-2.

** The final Dance of Deduction has him specifically tell the player "no games" as they were under a considerable time crunch, [[spoiler:and this is thus the only deduction sequence where he makes no outlandish theories and simply comes to the correct conclusions the first time around.]]

* MoneyDumb: Some of the escapades and ''Resolve'' reveals him to be pretty prone to frivolous spending. Perhaps the most notable example is in ''Twisted Karma and His Last Bow'', where he reveals he's spent most of his earnings from resolving Madame Tusspells' waxwork kidnapping in ''The Return of the Great Departed Soul'' on a ''motor car''.

* PhotographicMemory: He claims to have a very good memory to even the smallest detail, [[spoiler:which is why it all but turns the case around when he remembers that the steak plate that was on Wilson's table had blood on it.]]

* CrusadingLawyer: Not at first and [[spoiler: Magnus [=McGilded=]]] really threw a wrench at this role, [[CharacterDevelopment as he gains more experience]] he became this by the time [[spoiler: he ends the Reaper conspiracy to protect Barok and bring justice to Mael Stronghart.]]

** Many of his objections to Ryunosuke's positions tend to be reasonable, but very abrasive in their wording. One example is his dismissing Ryunosuke's attempt to link a witness to the scene of a crime using a blood-typing chemical. He does so by belittling its inventor, Herlock Sholmes, but also by pointing out that the chemical and what the defense claims it does has not been officially verified in any way--something which Ryunosuke even admits he knew would be a problem when presenting it.

* AFoolForAClient: Ends up doing this in his ''very first case'', though at the least he has the legally qualified Asogi assisting him. The original plan was for Asogi to represent Ryunosuke in court, but that came with the risk of Asogi losing an opportunity to study in Great Britain, something Ryunosuke didn't want to happen. Asogi realizes that Mikotoba had Ryunosuke act in his own defense so Asogi could assist him without risking losing the opportunity to study abroad (although Asogi would have given it up if he'd lost). [[spoiler:Following this, Ryunosuke does it ''again'' in the subsequent case - just not in the courtroom.]]

** [[spoiler:The reason why he's put into a top-secret trial - even though everyone in the restaurant knows Jezaille exists, the Japanese government can't accuse an Englishwoman of killing another Englishman in a foreign country without an irrefutable basis, lest they risk Japan-British relations.]]

* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:He's one of Miles Edgeworth (main character's best friend and motivation to become a lawyer, became a prosecutor through a tragic crime that led to his father's death, FinalBoss of the second game where he teams up with his best friend facing him in court in order to catch the true culprit), Mia Fey (main character's mentor and inspiration who dies early in the story - although it was staged in Kazuma's case), and Godot (former defense attorney who 'came back from the dead' in a mask, goes on a personal quest to seek vengeance against the man he believes to be responsible for the death of a loved one).]]

* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler:If he had told Nikolina the 'friend' he mentioned was inside the wardrobe, he probably wouldn't have nearly died.]]
* RevengeBeforeReason: In [[spoiler:the finale of the second game]]. He's determined to prove that [[spoiler:Barok, the person who got his father convicted for murder,]] is the true mastermind behind the [[spoiler:Reaper Organisation]] - despite the mounting evidence to the contrary.

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: [[spoiler: As [[SweetPollyOliver Ryutaro Naruhodo]], nearly every man involved in the case comments on her dashing and elegant looks, even prosecutor Auchi.]]
* {{Fangirl}}: Of Herlock Sholmes, thanks to Iris's "The Adventures of Herlock Sholmes".

* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Tampering with the crime scene of Windibank's murder using Iris's Cat-Flapomat, [[IDidWhatIHadToDo in order to leave evidence for Ryunosuke to capture the culprit]]. It almost made her throw her law book to the ocean in shame before Ryu arrives and reassures her about it.]]

* BumblingDad: At times, Susato wonders if he's really Iris's ParentalSubstitute rather than the other way around.

* ExtremeOmnivore: Has a habit of ingesting potentially hazardous substances such as soaps or alkaloids in Iris's medicine cabinet. Sometimes it's out of curiousity, but he also does it just because he's hungry. This is another shout-out to the original Doyle canon, where Holmes was so into this that he [[spoiler:willingly poisoned himself and Watson]] to test a hypothesis.

--> '''Sholmes:''' Great detectives are wont to lie.
** This is something that's actually subtly foreshadowed in the second case in the first game; [[spoiler:when everyone, including Susato, was willing to accept that Kazuma's 'death' was an accident caused by Darka and Nikolina merely had the scene covered up with Bif's help to remove suspicion from herself, it was ''Sholmes'' who immediately pointed out that there's still something strange with the crime scene (namely, Kazuma's clenched fist), and after he has Ryunosuke point this out to the assembled crew and passengers, he reveals what was in said fist - Nikolina's crescent moon earring fixture, making it known that he knew ''from the beginning'' who Kazuma's attacker was.]]

* ProfessorGuineaPig: Consuming questionable mixtures of chemicals he's raided from Iris's medicine cabinet is his biggest hobby.

** [[spoiler:He knows the identity of Iris's birth family. In fact, he refuses to publish or let her see the manuscript of ''The Hounds of Baskervilles'' because it contains the truth about her family.]]

* CulturedBadass: About as cultured and about as badass as a ten year old girl can be, anyways. She's well-informed on Japanese culture, easily recognizing Ryunosuke's katana and Susato's kimono. She is also the true author of the world-famous original Holmes stories. On top of all that, she cheerfully threatens Gina Lestrade with a ''steampunk bazooka'' in order to get the streetwise pickpocket to surrender a stolen portable smokebomb launcher. Said smokebomb gun was also Iris's invention.
* DeadGuyJunior: [[spoiler:Yujin ended up being the one to name her, and eventually settled on giving her the English variant of his beloved wife's name - Ayame.]]

* DeceptiveLegacy: [[spoiler:Klint van Zieks]]'s dying request was for Iris's true parentage to be kept under wraps, fearing the stigma that would fall upon her should London at large ever learn [[spoiler:he was [[SerialKiller the Professor]]; which Yujin Mikotoba held as a personal vow both for her sake and that of his friend Genshin's own final request. However the trial of van Zieks gives Yujin a new perspective and he decides at some point the truth is something she should be allowed to know]].

* LongLostRelative: Case 5 of the second game reveals her to be [[spoiler:Barok's niece - shocking Barok, who didn't even know his brother ''had'' a child.]]
* MysteriousParent: Her father. She's under the impression that his identity is that of Dr. John H. Wilson. [[spoiler:Case 2-4 reveals that this is not the case - instead implying that it's actually ''Yujin''.]] [[spoiler:Case 2-5 finally reveals her to be the daughter of ''Klint van Zieks'', making ''Barok'' her ''uncle''.]]

* PintSizedKid: Iris is ten years old, but according to character designer [[https://twitter.com/nurikazu_/status/676759050218967040 Kazuya Nuri]], she's only 120 centimeters (3'11") tall - the size of a girl about half that age.

* ColdHam: Van Zieks is probably the most theatrical prosecutor in the entire series - and trust us, that's '''[[WorldOfHam really saying something]]'''. He manages to achieve this feat despite never raising his voice, other than to shout the obligatory "OBJECTION!" He doesn't need to, the way he swans about in a vampiric cloak, drinks glasses of fine wine, throws bottles into the gallery, and ''slams his foot onto his desk to make a point''.

-->'''Gregson:''' ... No, you really don't have a clue, do you? What happened to that bloke in the end, eh? [[spoiler:He's ''dead''... Magnus [=McGilded=] came a cropper in that omnibus when it went up in flames]]. So you can't rightly say you ''saved'' the defendant, can you?

* DoomMagnet: Somehow, the defendants of the cases he tackled in the past that were declared 'Not Guilty' eventually died under various mysterious circumstances; run over by carriages, sickness, mugged by highwaymen, drowning in the Thames, etc. He has no idea why this is, though he's aware of it and gives [[LoanShark McGilded]] a [[ImpliedDeathThreat warning]] about it after it appears the man has become a KarmaHoudini - [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty quite accurately]], as it turns out. [[spoiler:As ''Resolve'' reveals, however, this is due to a conspiracy by an organization of people headed by Mael Stronghart.]]

* HeroWithBadPublicity: [[spoiler:He really is an honest prosecutor; the Reaper of the Old Bailey is a GovernmentConspiracy, designed to present Barok Van Zieks as an embodiment of divine justice, striking down criminals who are too wealthy or well-connected for the courts to touch]]. Despite his on-screen actions being, at worst, rude and racist, the public views him so negatively that there's an exhibit based on him at Madame Tusspells - "for public scorn," as he puts it.

** He makes a point of asking after Soseki Natsume, despite his hatred of the Japanese; this is one of the earlier hints that [[spoiler:Barok's reputation as the Reaper weighs on him since he's well aware that Natsume truly ''is'' innocent - twice over]].

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He calls [[spoiler:Kazuma]] out on his incredibly shaky case, and accurately points out that his goal is to see Barok dead for what happened to [[spoiler:Genshin]] - not to see justice done. He also remarks that this would make [[spoiler:Kazuma]] "a far more sinister Reaper" than Barok was ever claimed to be.

->''"What must I give up on?" is not the question you have to ask yourself here. It's "What can I protect?"''

* GreatDetective: Interestingly enough for a version of the TropeCodifier, this is PlayedWith. Sholmes' powers of observation and deduction are just as flawless as the legend goes. The problem is that he's severely limited by his ignorance of matters outside of criminology and his tendency to jump to conclusions from nothing more than a glance. While he is quick to pick up on the suspect's psychology, he deduces from flawed premises, quickly leading his deduction off the rails to erroneous conclusions. Ryunosuke has to step in and correct him multiple times before they can get to the right answer, which comprises the "Dance of Deduction" segments of gameplay. [[spoiler:His deductions are flawless when he's with Yujin and on a time crunch, which supports [[{{Reconstruction}} a different interpretation]]--that, although he is undeniably scatterbrained and ignorant on some things, Sholmes was purposely flubbing his deductions, specifically so Ryunosuke would step in and correct them.]]
* TheGadfly: Finds much amusement in annoying people, especially Ryunosuke. In his introductory case, [[spoiler:he's taking Ryunosuke and Susato for a complete ride, both to obfuscate Kazuma's "death" and [[ItAmusedMe to mess with Ryunosuke.]]]]

* {{Leitmotif}}: Alongside the usual "Objection! 2015", there's also "Prelude to an Adventure", a slower rearrangement that often plays when he's making a point. A passage from his theme also appears in "Pursuit ~ The Grand Turnabout". [=GAA=] 2-5 gives him a special Pursuit theme for the episode as well, a more bombastic rendition of Objection! 2015 entitled "Great Pursuit ~ The Resolve of Ryunosuke Naruhodo", as he's about to deliver the final blow to the BigBad.

* PersonaNonGrata: [[spoiler:Was stripped of his qualifications of being a defense attorney and barred from entering the British courts after the events of [=GAA=] 1-5 (which, considering he accepted and defended Gina's false testimony and advocated for the corrupt [=McGilded=], is not surprising). Fortunately for him, he manages to appeal to Chief Justice Stronghart to overturn it six months later in time for [=GAA=] 2-3.]]

* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Set up one for the real killer in [=GAA=] 1-5; after witnessing the murder by creating a peeking window on the crime scene's door, she takes advantage of the fact that said killer doesn't know of the existence of the window, and thus she set out to keep the cat door maker's existence a secret, followed by having Herlock give it to Ryu in the case that the killer tried to use it to claim to be a witness to the crime.]]

** Outside of gameplay it's PlayedForLaughs in the second game; Sholmes correctly deduces Ryunosuke has received shocking news based on the untidiness of his appearance, only for Ryunosuke to point out that his untidy appearance is [[RightfortheWrongReasons due to completely unrelated factors]] which Sholmes forgot about, and that he had already mentioned the shocking news he received a few moments earlier--Sholmes just hadn't been paying attention.
* ShooOutTheClowns: [[spoiler:Is absent for most of [=GAA1=]-5, after being hospitalized for suffering glass wounds and chemical burns from a gunshot to his pouch. Even when he shows up, he quickly has to bow out due to running on fumes]].

* AdaptationalDumbass: To the point that correcting his wrong assumptions is a game mechanic. [[spoiler:Subverted in that the games heavily imply that [[ObfuscatingStupidity he makes them deliberately wrong]] to [[StealthMentor help Ryunosuke improve his deductions]]; in particular, in the final case when he's paired with Mikotoba instead and both are pressed for time, despite it having the most difficult deductions in the series, he instead remains effortlessly a step ahead of Mikotoba the entire time without making a single mistake.]] Nonetheless, Sholmes is still [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} extremely scatterbrained]].

* NoHeroToHisValet:

* {{Cuckoosnarker}}: For a guy who thinks antigravity devices look like IncrediblyObviousBomb[=s=], Sholmes can be ''snarky'' when he wants to be. [[spoiler: This is one of the first signs that his apparent idiocy is [[ObfuscatingStupidity obfuscative.]] ]]

* MeaningfulRename: When legal disputes with the Doyle estate forced Capcom to change his name, the localizers pointedly renamed him after Creator/MauriceLeblanc's CaptainErsatz of Holmes, created for much the same reason.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: For all his CloudCuckooLander tendencies and him being somewhat ignorant of the proceedings of court and British culture in general, he is, by all accounts, a legal prodigy, facing off against Barok van Zieks, a formidable prosecutor even disregarding the Reaper legends, and almost always coming out on top, as well as [[spoiler:solving a decade-old string of murders and uncovering a decade-long conspiracy born from these killings]].

* CloudCuckoolander: His deductions can get a bit... out there. He's not even necessarily a ''bad'' detective, really: he reads people extremely well and often catches them dead to rights when they're trying to hide things. It's just that when he goes from that to making deductions, he focuses on the most ''insane'' of details which causes him to go on wild and clearly erroneous conclusion jumps that lead to ridiculous ends. Even in his mannerisms, he plays himself up more like an eccentric, artsy genius than a detective. He even seems aware of how skewed his thought process is on occasion, not that it stops him, and once put on the right track he usually gets the job done without problem. [[spoiler:It's also implied he's doing this on purpose for a lot of the game, deduction wise. During his Dance of Deduction with Yujin in 2-5, he's far more focused, and doesn't stray onto wild tangents ''once''. He still has his quirks, like a poor memory and an impulsive nature, just not enough to actually interfere in his work.]]

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Sure, he's a genius that can invent things to analyze a crime scene through forensic science, but his CloudCuckoolander tendencies and general eccentricity make it so he never thought to actually ''register'' his inventions or patent them, meaning the British courts have a hard time accepting his findings as evidence in trials. The only reasons as to why Scotland Yard ends up using his security camera prototypes as evidence of the murder in [=GAA1=]-5 are that the victim did pay Herlock to have those installed in his pawn shop, the incident is a LockedRoomMystery they have very little leads for, and they consist of photographic prints which are commonplace in trials as evidence and thus accepted much more easily.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[Franchise/SherlockHolmes Quite literally]]. Sholmes is often working on his own cases while Ryunosuke is investigating his, though it's not uncommon for them to overlap.
* InsaneTrollLogic: He almost always comes up with Larry Butz-style faulty logic in his "great" deductions, fixating on {{Red Herring}}s that he has MistakenForEvidence. Ryunosuke has to redirect Sholmes and set him back onto the right logical course. [[spoiler:The final case of ''Resolve'' shows him perform the final Dance of Deduction flawlessly, and this time around, ''he'' corrects ''you'' for 'playing games' if you presents incorrect evidence]].

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-->'''Ryunosuke''': [[spoiler:Kazuma...open your eyes.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Kazuma''': R-Ryunosuke?]]
-->'''Ryunosuke''': [[spoiler:You must know deep down...The truth can be completely obscured even when your judgement is only slightly clouded. But at the moment...you seem to be floundering through a dense fog. Is that why you were so insistent I should be present in this trial? To see you like this?]]

-->[[spoiler:'''Asogi''': If you were to [[DareToBeBadass become an attorney]], then, surely...]]

--> '''Ryunosuke:''' Well... By fair means or foul, I'm prepared to do [my duty].\\
[[spoiler: '''Gregson:''']] Don't you dare ...\\

* SherlockScan: Somewhat - he is able to follow witnesses' cues to correct Herlock's deductions by finding the correct evidences and details. [[spoiler:He does a decent job doing it himself for a bit when Herlock is momentarily knocked unconscious by Iris' boxing glove trap in the living room chest during GAA 2-4's Dance of Deduction, though when Herlock gets back up he points out Iris is still hiding something very important that Ryunosuke hasn't caught yet.]]

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* NecroNonSequitur: [[spoiler:At the end of Case 2's second Dance of Deduction session, Ryunosuke and Herlock come to the conclusion that he tripped on a cat, slipped on a puddle of shoe polish, and broke his neck on the floor, killing him. [[SubvertedTrope The actual truth is much simpler, though:]] Nikolina pushes him and the back of his neck hits the bed post, killing - or rather, incapacitating him.]]

-->'''Kazuma:''' There's nothing I wouldn't have done to get here, be that agreeing to [[spoiler:assume the role of assassin]]... or betraying people's trust.
-->'''[[spoiler:Jigoku]]:''' Well, you certainly did a fine job of betraying mine, Asogi.
* YouKilledMyFather: This is the reason why Kazuma [[spoiler:prosecutes Barok van Zieks,]] as he believes the latter prosecuted his father--and thus sent him to his death--by deliberately using forged evidence. He's wrong; someone else gave [[spoiler: Barok]] the forgery because he knew [[spoiler: Barok]] would make the perfect UnwittingPawn for it. He similarly becomes enraged with [[spoiler:Inspector Gregson, who admits to forging said evidence]] and finally sets his sights on [[spoiler:Mael Stronghart]] when he learns the man was ultimately responsible for all of these events. In a twist, he never confronts the man literally responsible for his father's death, [[spoiler:Jigoku, as he was already in custody by the time Kazuma learned he shot Genshin.]]

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* AttractiveBentGender: [[spoiler:Rei Membami finds her male disguise in the first case of [=GAA=]2 quite "gallant and dashing". Raiten Menimemo frequently refers to her as a mysterious handsome lawyer.]]

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* BewareTheSillyOnes: For all his CloudCuckooLander tendencies and him being somewhat ignorant of the proceedings of court and British culture in general, he is, by all accounts, a legal prodigy, facing off against Barok van Zieks, a formidable prosecutor even disregarding the Reaper legends, and almost always coming out on top, as well as [[spoiler: solving a decade-old string of murders and uncovering a decade-long conspiracy born from these killings]].

* BirdsOfAFeather: He and Barok van Zieks share some funny and serious similarities: they both have a tendency of misplacing their own stuff recklessly and [[spoiler:they both are implicated as culprits from being found picking a dropped gun near a dead body.]]