History Characters / TheGreatAceAttorneyMinorCharacters

* InnocentBystander: She had nothing to do with any of the characters. She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time... [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope except not really]]. She was actually there to kill William Shamspeare... of course given what Shamspeare did she is in fact innocent... just not of the crime or a bystander. ]]

* NiceGirl: She doesn't have a bad bone in her body and is an extremely kindhearted women, [[spoiler: unlike other culprits in the franchise this is played straight given she was 100% justified in wanting revenge against Shamspeare as well as her additional motive being to prevent anyone else from being killed the same way as her husband.]]

* InsaneTrollLogic: [[spoiler:He claims that, since Brett was killed via a poisoning, that means he's innocent because all he did was ''stab her in the back''.]]

* PunnyName: Funnily enough, an inversion, as the name Garrideb is taken from the Holmes stories; instead, his [[spoiler: and his wife's]] designs are built from a Japanese pun made from that name - 'garigari' meaning skinny and 'debu' meaning fat.

* InnocentBystander: She had nothing to do with any of the characters. She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time... [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope except not really]]. She was actually there to kill William Shamspeare.]]

* IDidntMeanToKillHim: [[spoiler:After his breakdown, he confesses that he wanted only to drive Ross out of his room. He never meant to kill him.]]

[[folder:'''Enoch Drebber''']]
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A mechanic and 'magiscientist' who has a reputation of swindling government grant money by disguising stage magic as legitimate science. Built Harebrayne's teleporter for the Great Exhibition.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Downplayed: The Enoch Drebber of ''Literature/AStudyInScarlet'' was an AssholeVictim who drove a woman to death in an abusive ArrangedMarriage, was complicit in her father's murder when he tried to intervene, and nearly did the same to her true love, as well; Here, [[spoiler:while Drebber murders a man and coerces the coroner into helping pin the crime on an innocent, his life had been effectively ruined for simply being an unfortunate passerby to a national conspiracy, and both his victim and the coroner in question had been complicit in it.]]
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:His grand plan to kill the man who ruined his life, pin the death on an aspiring scientist whom he considered an insult to the craft, and humiliate Scotland Yard? Fails on every count as it turns out Sithe was using ''him'' in the end to get away with the murder she committed, leaving him nothing but a failed murder scheme and an incrimination charge. It just underpins how pitiful he really is. However, he does end up with his worst enemy now dead and Ryunosuke actually saved him from being charged with first-degree murder.]]
* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:With Sithe in the third case.]]
* BornUnlucky: Extremely. [[spoiler:He was low on money in college and resorted to graverobbing. This led to him being a witness to an international conspiracy in-progress and giving him such a scare that his hair went white at age 25. Then poor journalist ethics on the part of Odie Asman exposed his identity to the public, revealing him as a graverobber to his school and getting him expelled. Ironically, this actually ends up benefitting him in the end slightly; by pure chance Odie Asman survives his fall and is killed by Dr. Sithe afterwards, reducing his charge to attempted murder while his target still died as planned.]]
* CompositeCharacter: While he only bears a resemblance to the Enoch Drebber of ''Literature/AStudyInScarlet'' InNameOnly, he shares many similarities with the German counterfeiter Fritz, a.k.a. Colonel Lysander Stark from ''The Adventure Of The Engineer's Thumb,'' being [[spoiler:a sinister conman who employs an unwitting young man to work on a machine for his own unsavory purposes; Harebrayne even mentions being blindfolded whenever Drebber took him to his workshop, much like the Stark of the original Holmes canon kept Victor Hatherly in the dark about the exact location of their workplace. Both men are also described as being exceedingly thin.]]
* ConMan: While his engineering skills ''are'' legitimate, [[spoiler:he uses them to swindle the government out of research grant money.]]
* {{Cyborg}}: He resembles a {{steampunk}} cyborg; his movements are mechanical-looking, and often include whirring, ratcheting, clicking noises. There's no indication he's faking it, either, since he retains this trait even during his 'damaged' and [[spoiler:'breakdown']] animations. Notes on his concept art clarifies that this behavior is a result of his trauma, and identifies his "cyborg" hand as a gauntlet he wears to aid in his work, making this more thematic than literal.
* DestroyTheEvidence: [[spoiler:He does this twice. Each time, he plants an IncrediblyObviousBomb whenever he needs to do so.]]
* TheDreaded: There is 'zero' trust in either the scientific community [[spoiler:or the stage magician industry]] in Drebber's ability to be a trustworth individual. Upon learning from Harebrayne's testimony that he was being assisted by Drebber, Jurors No.3 and 4, a [[spoiler:StageMagician]] and royal scientist respectively, are equally horrified knowing that he is directly connected to the case.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:While he has no qualms about him potentially killing several police officers who got caught in the explosion of the fake machine he set to destroy, the time bomb in his workshop was set to give anyone who managed to find it enough time to run, but didn't expect Herlock to mistake it for an ''anti-gravity device'' and stick around.]]
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:He used to be a promising young scientist, who won a royal award and was considered a genius...until Asman's newspaper publicized his discovery of "the Professor", which exposed him as a grave robber and got him expelled from university.]] He's held a serious grudge against Asman ever since.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: [[spoiler:Ryunosuke says that it's unfortunate that other people's wrongdoing ruined his life, but it doesn't justify him ruining an innocent young man's life.]]
* GraveRobbing: [[spoiler:His "side business" while he was a university student. If he's to be believed, he wasn't the only student who did this.]]
* HiddenDepths: Enoch Drebber was a very brilliant scientist [[spoiler:in fact, he is awarded the Royal Society trophy for excellence (the highest honor for aspiring scientists whose futures are set in stone); however because of his [[BornUnlucky lifestyle and horrible luck]], he resorted to GraveRobbing to obtain funds for his research and during one shift he was [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom at the wrong place at the wrong time]] (e.g. involved in an international conspiracy and witness the "revival" of [[SerialKiller the Professor]]). His life turned for the worse when Asman reveals his name in his publication and from there Drebber's future is stolen, he got expelled from college, and his former award [[TragicDropout is now a curse over the future that he could no longer have]] which is why [[ItsAllJunk he toppled it over instead of proudly displaying it]] when it was discovered at his workshop.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** [[spoiler:His IncrediblyObviousBomb is nowhere near powerful enough to destroy the transmission device, so the bomb instead blows the trapdoor under it used for the stage magic inward and wide open, allowing the open trapdoor to be photographed and used as evidence in court against him.]]
** [[spoiler:His "insurance" is the contract he signed with the victim, stating that if either party dies, the grant money at stake wouldn't be given to either of them. He repeatedly holds onto this as proof he doesn't have a motive to kill Asman, but the latter's signature on it is used to prove he ''did'' have a motive, since Asman signed his drawing on the article he wrote that ousted Drebber as the witness of the Professor's resurrection, ruining his life.]]
* InNameOnly: The Enoch Drebber of ''Literature/AStudyInScarlet'' was a corrupt Mormon businessman from Utah. This Drebber has absolutely nothing in common with his namesake, other than similarly low scruples. Presumably somebody on the writing team decided it was too snappy a name to go to waste and just rolled with it.
* ItsAllJunk: [[spoiler:That Royal Society Trophy of his hasn't done him any favours, since he was [[TragicDropout expelled from school]] and now has to make a living by using his engineering skills for [[ConMan fraud]].]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NS1nLErW9A "The Link Between Science and Magic"]], a frantic-yet-mechanical tune that incorporates a clock's ticking. It also incorporates the sounds of a typewriter, [[spoiler:alluding to the newspaper article that ruined his career.]]
* LockedIntoStrangeness: He used to have normally coloured hair, but [[spoiler:witnessing "[[SerialKiller the Professor]]" rise from his grave]] terrified him so much that he [[PrematurelyGreyHaired went prematurely grey]].
* MadBomber: [[spoiler:He has a habit of planting an IncrediblyObviousBomb wherever he needs to DestroyTheEvidence.]]
* MadScientist: [[spoiler:Ryunosuke proved that Drebber is a scientist as part of the proof that he is one of the conspirators who murdered Asman.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Somewhat downplayed, but when [[spoiler:Ryunosuke makes it clear that his attempts to frame Albert Harebrayne for murder caused the young scientist to go through exactly what Asman put Drebber himself through 10 years ago, [[YouAreWhatYouHate he hangs his head low in regret and is speechless]]]].
* ObviouslyEvil: The moment you track this guy down, the game makes no attempt to hide that he'd bad news: it's clear he hastily destroyed evidence just before you searched his room, and the second investigation day ends with him indirectly confessing to [[spoiler:setting a time bomb at the crime scene, possibly killing several police officers]]. However, [[spoiler:while he had a big role in Asman's murder, he wasn't the one who dealt the killing blow]].
* PaintingTheMedium: Whenever he speaks, almost every text box will have a word or phrase [[RainbowSpeak highlighted in red]], usually used to indicate something of importance, but what's actually highlighted is typically just as meaningful as anything else he's said. The suggestion seems to be that he is simply emphasizing those words a bit more to seem more sinister or robotic. Notably, he stops doing this when he demands Naruhodo show proof that he was happy to leave the University because he lacked talent.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler:Odie Asman ruined Enoch Drebber's "future" of being a great scientist, so Enoch Drebber thought it was only fair that he end Asman's "present" by killing him in the fake kinesis machine; though the machine didn't actually kill him, it did put him in a direct position to be killed by Sithe, regardless.]]
* PrematurelyGreyHaired: A wax figure of his past self sports normal-looking hair. Only ten years later, his hair's gone completely white. In fact, his hair apparently went white ''immediately after'' witnessing [[spoiler:the Professor's "resurrection"]].
* RedHerring: Downplayed. [[spoiler:He was the one who planned the murder. However, he didn't directly kill Asman and was unaware of how the man actually died.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler:His motive against Asman, for publishing the newspaper article that got him expelled. He also wants revenge against all of Scotland Yard for their involvement in his humiliation, which is why he coerced Sithe into helping him.]]
* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler:The main reason why he went to the trouble of stealing a waxwork of "The Professor" from Tusspells to use as Asman's double in the fake teleportation experiment rather than Asman's actual waxwork which would've been more practical. "The Professor" was the root of his problems, and he knew that Sithe would recognise him. The waxwork is also close enough in looks to Asman that nobody would be able to tell the difference from a distance.]]
* ShoutOut: Named after the victim in the Sherlock Holmes story ''A Study in Scarlet''.
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Him witnessing 'The Professor' rising from his grave forced Jigoku to kill Genshin, ruining their plan to stage the execution]].
* StageMagician: [[spoiler:After Drebber was expelled from college for GraveRobbing, he became skilled in stage magic, and used his knowledge of both science and stage magic to perpetrate frauds to scam research grants.]]
* TragicDropout: [[spoiler:He was expelled from school after [[ImmoralJournalist Odie Asman]] published his story about the Professor, which exposed him as a grave robber... even though many of his classmates were guilty of the same.]]
* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:The trophy he received for outstanding scientific achievement when he was in college is still there in his laboratory, even though it's long since [[ItsAllJunk lost all its meaning]] to Drebber.]]
* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:His motives for killing Asman are relatively understandable. In spite of everything he's guilty of, he still has morals enough to be shamed speechless when Ryunosuke points out that he's become just as bad as Asman for trying to frame Harebrayne]].
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:His stumbling onto "The Professor" rising from his coffin while gravedigging is what prompts Stronghart forcing Jigoku to kill Genshin before anyone can find out his execution was staged.]]
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Completely white hair, and one of the most sinister characters in the entire duology.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler:He loathes Asman for ruining his future as a scientist, but in his path towards revenge he was blindly doing the same to Albert Harebrayne, [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse a point noted by Ryunosuke at the end of the trial]].]]
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!!Twisted Karma and His Last Bow (''Nejireta Otoko to Saigo no Aisatsu'')

[[folder:'''Evie Vigil''' (''Anna Mittlemont'')]]
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Juror No. 2 for the Asman murder trial in the previous case, she comes to Sholmes' office looking for her husband, Daley, who ran away from home.
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[[folder:'''Courtney Sithe''']]
!!Doctor Courtney Sithe, née Stevens (''Simon'')
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The head coroner of Scotland Yard, who works at the forefront of the legal system's march towards forensic science.

* AdvertisedExtra: Promotional materials made it looks like she'd be a recurring rival character. [[spoiler:She's really just a one-off "killer of the week", not having much of a role beyond Case 3.]]
* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler: With Enoch Drebber for Case 3 of [=GAA2=]. He planned the murder and she was his accomplice, forging the autopsy report to frame the defendant.]] Except [[spoiler: it's twisted a bit when it turns out, unbeknownst to him, she murdered the victim herself since she had a very good reason to want him dead.]]
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: [[spoiler: According to a ledger in her lab, she orders 500 scalpels every month. This is just a cover for the blackmail money she's been paying Asman for 10 years.]]
* ConfessToALesserCrime: [[spoiler: When the truth about Drebber's plan is proven, Sithe confesses to being his accomplice and demands the trial end in a Not Guilty verdict for the defendant. This is because she's hiding more than that: she's Asman's actual killer.]]
* DarkSecret: [[spoiler:She signed the autopsy report confirming The Professor dead. However, he was actually alive. Sithe is willing to go to ''any'' lengths to make sure this secret doesn't get out.]]
* DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler:To Enoch Drebber. She helped him cover up his murder plot, but she actually killed the victim herself for reasons separate from his.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: With the later reveal that her maiden name is Stevens, a coroner's report in the first game's fifth case signed by 'Dr. Stevens' becomes this.
* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Though she acknowledges Sithe's crimes, Maria's admiration of her does not end in a BrokenPedestal, [[spoiler:and the epilogue shows she visits her in prison for some mother-daughter bonding]].
* {{Leitmotif}}: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfIogMO2dng Solitary Coroner]]'', a sombre and taciturn theme to represent isolation.
* MeaningfulName: "Sithe" comes from "shishu", meaning "to die". "Courtney" could be an allusion to "coroner". [[spoiler:With her position as Stronghart's right hand, she could also be considered "the Reaper's scythe". Also, 'Cat Sith' (pronounced 'cait shee')]].
* MirrorCharacter: Has a number of Stronghart's design elements: platinum hair in a cone-shaped style with a loose strand in the front, vaguely cross-shaped black ornaments (his is on the back of his coat, hers is on her lab coat's lapel and sleeves) and the distinctive "clock hands" (his are on his jabot, hers are made out of her hair).
* PragmaticVillainy: [[spoiler: Unlike many other killers, she's perfectly willing to accept a Not Guilty verdict for the defendant if it means the trial ends before the evidence can point to her. Ryunosuke has to request the verdict be postponed, even though he's about to win, because he's that committed to seeing the real killer brought to justice.]]
* SarcasticConfession: A rare example that's done in print rather than verbally. [[spoiler:In her autopsy report for Asman, she says the cause of death was a stab wound from the defendant's screwdriver. Later we find out that she tampered with the evidence and crime scene to cover for Drebber, so it's assumed the autopsy report is a lie... except that really ''was'' the cause of death, as she stabbed the victim herself.]]
* StealingFromTheTill: [[spoiler:As Odie Asman's {{Blackmail}} victim, she cooked the books to embezzle the money that she needed to pay him off.]]
* TheStoic: Doesn't show much emotion, and is one of the least over-the-top witnesses in the series. [[spoiler: This even extends to her VillainousBreakdown, which is much more subdued than the average one.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Slams her fist down on the witness stand while grimacing, warning the court of [[AwfulTruth the secret she's been trying to hide for the past ten years]]. Compared to most other breakdowns in the series, hers is so far one of the most subdued]].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: She's a highly respected member of the Scotland Yard, And the London public has a lot of good things to say about her too. Ryunosuke lampshades that a mere mention of her name in the accusation can turn the entire courtroom against him.
* WhiteCollarCrime: [[spoiler:Was blackmailed by Asman regarding her falsifying the Professor's death certificate, which had her cook the books by listing his monetary extortions as "scalpels".]]
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[[folder:'''Esmeralda Tusspells''' (''Connette Rozaic'')]]
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A wax sculptor and the curator of a waxworks museum set up in the Great Exhibition.
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[[folder:'''Maria Gorey''' (''Maria Goulloyne'')]]

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Another Scotland Yard coroner who works alongside her mother, Dr. Sithe.

* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: An extremely notable aversion. In a franchise where the only characters who willingly help the defense in court are usually the defendants themselves, [[spoiler:Maria willingly cooperates with Ryunosuke, and becomes one of the biggest possible spanners in Stronghart's machinations. This is particularly notable because - as she points out herself in her default response if you present her with unrelated evidence in conversation - Ryunosuke ''did'' send her mother to jail]].
* BrokenPedestal: Downplayed. While she still loves and deeply respects [[spoiler:her mother, Dr. Sithe]], the reveals that [[spoiler:Sithe helped cover up both Asman's murder and The Professor's staged execution]] cause her no small amounts of anguish.
* ConsummateProfessional: She ''lives'' for her job. [[spoiler:She actually isn't upset her own mother was arrested, given that Sithe forged evidence and broke the code of ethics.]]
* TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: [[spoiler:Like her mother, Stronghart makes Maria omit some of Gregson's autopsy details so that inconvenient details won't be revealed in court - but the most he gets out of her is a ''blank'' time of death, which is blatantly suspicious, rather than the falsified one that he heavily implies that he wanted. After getting chewed out by Ryunosuke about this, she updates the report to accommodate her actual findings. Maria herself averts this trope ''hard'' further in court, revealing the truth about the ring recovered from the Professor's autopsy 10 years prior; she specifically states she won't help cover up the truth like her mother did]].
* CreepyChild: {{Downplayed|Trope}}, as she's in her late teens, but still present due to her childish demenor. Her first reaction to seeing Ryunosuke is asking her mother if she can ''cut him open''. This is mostly because she didn't realize he was still breathing, but it's still morbid.
* CreepyGood: She's introduced wearing a creepy steampunk gas-mask, says that she remembers people by the experience of cutting them open rather than by their face, and goes on a frankly disturbing tangent about how much she enjoyed her autopsy of [[spoiler:Gregson]]. Her idle animation is sharpening a dissection knife and a cleaver against each other while staring straight at the camera. She's still an honest coroner - so much so that she [[spoiler:defies Stronghart's orders and assists Ryunosuke. If not for her cooperation, Barok would have certainly been found guilty, and Stronghart would have gotten away scot free]].
* CreepyMortician: While her mother is simply stern, Maria has an unsettling enthusiasm for her work and the dismemberment it entails.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Desire to autopsy everything aside, she's actually a fairly nice, if introverted, person who mostly just wants to do her job without corruption interfering in it.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Makes a brief appearance in Case 3 before being properly named in Case 4.
* ElegantGothicLolita: Practically this with a labcoat.
* IAmNotMyMother: [[spoiler:Upon realizing following Stronghart's orders to withhold information would make her a criminal just like her mother did, she rebels by clarifying what she can conclude of Gregson's time of death and illegally brings out the falsified evidence of the Professor's true identity without permission, stating her own desire to seek and reveal the truth her mother had hidden.]]
* ImprobableAge: She's only 19, and yet she's a coroner, which generally requires a bachelor's degree in the sciences and hundreds of hours of experience with dead bodies. Being the daughter of Britain's chief coroner [[{{Nepotism}} probably helps with that]].
* {{Leitmotif}}: Shares 'Untouchable Coroner' with her mother, Dr. Sithe.
* NoodleIncident: Why her last name (Gorey) differs from her mother's original (Stevens) and married (Sithe) last names was {{hand wave}}d as just "unusual circumstances" with her family.
* NothingPersonal: [[spoiler:She rather bluntly states that while she's upset Sithe was arrested, she ''was'' a DirtyCop and covering up something very dark - when Ryunosuke goes to her for her unredacted report, she doesn't treat him any more coldly or viciously, recognizing he was just doing his job.]]
* NightmareFetishist: Loves her job a little too much. When Ryunosuke asks her about [[spoiler:Gregson]]'s autopsy, she goes off on a long, unsettling tangent about how delightful it was to cut him apart instead of explaining the report conclusions, even praising his corpse for being much easier to cut than previous attempts.
* ParentalTitleCharacterization: Her rather childish nature comes through when she calls Sithe "Mama"; compare Susato, who's younger than her and calls Yujin "Father."
* PlagueDoctor: Wears a plague doctor mask when first introduced.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: Albeit a harmless one. Her childlike fascination with cutting up bodies extends to ''living'' ones. However, while she's highly prone to express her interest in dissecting whoever she meets, [[DarkIsNotEvil she also recognizes that actually doing such is a heinous crime]] and that she'll simply have to wait until they die first.
* PunnyName: "Goulloyne" comes from ''guroi ne'' (グロいね), meaning "grotesque, isn't it?". Meanwhile, "Gorey" is derived from, well, "gory", as well as a ShoutOut to Creator/EdwardGorey, whose oeuvre is both grotesque and pseudo-Edwardian.
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Stronghart ordered her to obscure critical information after her autospy of Tobias Gregson; but she leaves the field ''blank'', which is blatantly suspicious, rather than falsify it. Once Ryunosuke follows up on this and points out that complying would make her no better than her mother, she immediately tells Ryunosuke what he wants to know, as well as a good deal of other, equally-critical information]].
** Later on, [[spoiler:when she's called as a witness to Klint van Zieks' autopsy, she brings the ring extracted from Klint's stomach and presents it unprompted to Ryunosuke and the court. When Stronghart calls her out on this, she declares that she's not going to be hiding any more secrets, unlike her mother.]]
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[[folder:'''The Fresno Street Pedlars''']]
!!"Venus", "Gossip", and "Sandwich"
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[[caption-width-right:100:Venus]]
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[[caption-width-right:100:Gossip]]
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[[caption-width-right:100:Sandwich]]
A trio of street vendors who were working near the crime scene when the murder happened. 'Venus' peddles wares (fireworks in particular), 'Gossip' is an information broker, and 'Sandwich' is a 'sandwich man' (i.e. a homeless man paid to advertise) who looks like Beppo, the carriage driver from the previous game, though Ryunosuke describes him only as "familiar".
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* {{Catchphrase}}: "Get thee to a nunnery!" Lampshaded when, after being pursued without any prompting, he states that he had once visited a nunnery, even when it was closed, simply because he couldn't tell people to go to a nunnery without going there himself.

* CompositeCharacter: Of Birdly and Richard Wellington. He has an appearance and theatricality similar to the former, while he [[spoiler: puts up a front of elegance, but is revealed to be a violent crook, like the latter.]]
* DramaQueen: Male example. He's pretty theatrical in his movements, especially when he bids farewell to others. After Herlock's Dance of Deduction segment regarding his poisoning when he was passed out on his table, he briefly wakes up and recites the 'sound and fury' soliloquy from Macbeth (or at least ''tries'' to - he forgets the line halfway and has Gregson finish it) before collapsing.

* ShoutOutToShakespeare: Constantly references Shakespeare and thinks himself good at debating others about his works. [[spoiler:He specifically references Macbeth, a fact reflected in his first lines, being a man driven mad after being promised great treasures by a shady figure, only to be done in by the vengeful loved one of one of his victims.]]

* InnocentBystander: She had nothing to do with any of the characters. She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time...[[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope except not really]]. She was actually there to kill William Shamspeare.]]
* ItsAllMyFault: She blames herself for [[spoiler: Duncan Ross' death, thinking that, if she had tried harder to get him out of his deadly apartment before the night he suffocated, he would've survived.]]

* {{Leitmotif}}: [[spoiler: Reminiscing - Intersecting Murders. This piece highlights [[CrusadingWidow her tragic tale and her revenge against the murderer who took away her fiancé's life]].]]

* OutGambitted: Everything she did [[spoiler: after finding out that Shamspeare killed her fiancé she stops at nothing to ruin Shamspeare. First, she bought strychnine from the black market, then lured him out of his home, breaking and entering it to set her poisonous trap and discovers Selden's key (although she didn't know about its significance), and during the trial when she finally learns about Selden's stolen treasure she gives the key to Sholmes to put the final nail in Shamspeare's coffin. She ends up in prison for attempted murder but is able to utterly stop Shamspeare and knows for sure he has far worse punishments (multiple accounts of gas theft, one account of actual murder, multiple accounts of attempted murder, and being denied of Selden's stolen treasure). The only things she didn't plan on being the '[[CuriosityKilledTheCast stabbing incident]]' and her HappilyFailedSuicide.]]

[[folder:'''Soseki Natsume''']]
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The famous poet and author of Japanese literature, and defendant of the fourth case.

* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: He gets a bit of an inflated ego in the first case of ''Resolve'', following the success of ''Literature/IAmACat'''s serialization.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: All his posing is accompined by alliterative statements (in the official localization).
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Soseki's personal timeline appears to have been hyper-compressed. His age is given as 33, setting the game in 1900, but he wouldn't even ''arrive'' in London until 1901 (though considering the Anglo-Japanese treaty was signed in 1902, it also may be that he was made a few years younger), and stayed there for a whole two years, whereas in the game he chooses to leave after just one. Then, in 2-1 (set in August of the same year), he's already gotten famous writing ''I Am A Cat'', something that wouldn't even be published until ''1905!''
* BrickJoke: The credits of Adventures reveal Natsume has [[spoiler:smuggled Wagahai's kittens aboard his ship back to Japan.]] In the credits of Resolve, [[spoiler:he has three cats with him.]]
* ButtMonkey:
** While he's never accused of murder, his life in Britain was completely miserable as almost everyone made fun of him and barely anyone respected him due to him being Japanese. This culminated in him almost never leaving his lodgings. However, just staying home didn't stop the fact that [[spoiler:he was accused of two instances of attempted murder and witnessed one murder.]]
** Every night, he felt that [[spoiler: someone was trying to strangle him, later on this was revealed to be Shamspeare who was blowing in gas-induced asphyxiation into his room in an attempt to make Soseki leave his room, so he could have his hands on Selden's treasure. Shamspeare previously did this exact same plan against Duncan Ross, Soseki's life was at stake every night.]]
** [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Upon his return to Japan, he ends up getting his personal Papparazzo in the form of Menimemo who irritates the hell out of him with his journalistic pursuits]].
* CowardlyLion: In ''Resolve'', despite his mousy behaviour, he manages to kick down a door and won a literal (unrelated) fight against the victim the night of the incident.
* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: While his grammar and vocabulary are just fine, he speaks English with a "strange accent", and his English fluency can be shaken if he goes into a panic. When first arrested, he inadvertantly confesses to Olive's attempted murder by defaulting to stock English phrases like "Yes, I do!" and "I'm fine!" when interrogated. He also remarks that British people would [[TeasingFromBehindTheLanguageBarrier mock him in English]] assuming he couldn't understand what they were saying.
* EpicFail: His bicycle trip ended up with him falling over multiple times and destroying the bike. Even he acknowledges that he's not cut out to be a cyclist.
* ExposedToTheElements: He wears ''geta'' sandals without socks in the frigid London winter.
* FishOutOfWater: He hasn't been in England for very long when the case starts. [[spoiler:It's part of the reason why no one would defend him; no one in England would rush to the defense of a strange foreigner who fled from the crime scene, on top of the fact that "The Reaper" was taking the case. In fact, when he sees Ryunosuke and Susato, he was more ''ecstatic'' at seeing other Japanese people in London rather than Ryunosuke being a defense attorney.]]
* {{Hikikomori}}: In ''Adventures'', Soseki has been reduced to an unfortunate shut-in who'd rather spend his nights reading and immersed in research than socialize. Considering the [[DeliberateValuesDissonance brutal racism he was subjected to at the time]], this is understandable.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: A first for the series.
* HistoricalDowngrade: Soseki Natsume was, and still is, considered a strong contender for the greatest author in the history of Japanese literature. While the Soseki of GAA is a talented literary scholar and writer (and has already achieved national acclaim by the time of GAA 2-1), he's also an insanely paranoid NervousWreck who is mainly used as comic relief due to his overblown mannerisms and LargeHam tendencies. The RealLife Natsume, however, did have a miserable time in London, and really was a paranoid shut-in who surrounded himself with books.
* JustGotOutOfJail: Swears to the Old Bailey judge that he'll never set foot in the courtroom following his acquittal... and then winds up on trial for another attempted murder two days after.
* KindheartedCatLover: He owns a cute cat. Ryunosuke and Susato later name it Wagahai.
* LargeHam: When he gets emotional.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "I Am Not Guilty".
* NervousWreck: A very anxious man with trouble fitting with the Londoners, all while looking behind himself periodically for no other reason but general paranoia.
* NeverMyFault: Repeatedly blames Sholmes for his arrest, and the detective eventually calls Soseki out on it by pointing out that [[spoiler:Scotland Yard were the ones who made the accusation, based on the testimony of the Beates, and that all he did was find out exactly who Soseki was and where he lived. And had Soseki actually stopped to help Olive Green instead of just running away, he probably would never have been a suspect in the first place]]. He also did nothing to help himself while being interrogated, being so panicked while they were yelling at him in English that he just kept repeating "Yes, I do!" and "[[MythologyGag I'm fine!]]" until he wound up in handcuffs.
* NiceGuy: When he's not overly paranoid, anyway, he's a pretty pleasant guy. The second case he's embroiled in unfortunately hinges on that fact, as when he went to visit his neighbor he brewed and brought over tea to serve him since he knew Shamspeare couldn't afford his own tea. This tea is then under suspicion when Shamspeare ends up with strychnine poisoning.
* OcularGushers: He often cries waterfall tears that flow down his face.
* OutOfTheFryingPan: He narrowly gets acquitted for an attempted murder he didn't commit, goes home, [[spoiler:is nearly killed himself]], and is then arrested for another attempted murder.
* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler:Turns out he was a bit more right about someone trying to kill him than it appeared, as Shamspeare was actively trying to put his life in danger every night in order to get him to leave his room.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: Fits the bill in every case he stars in.
** Him being a witness (and later suspect) to the stabbing of Olive Green [[spoiler:makes the domestic troubles of the Garridebs public]].
** His experiences in his apartment (namely the gas issues) [[spoiler:corroborate Olive Green's suspicions regarding the death of Duncan Ross, motivating her to take action against William Shamspeare. This results in Shamspeare's arrest and the discovery of a clue about The Professor]].
** He's able to identify the photographer who was present at the murder of [[spoiler:Jezaille Brett]] thanks to a crack in the camera lens that was also visible in a photo of his interview from Yujin Mikotoba. His role in [[spoiler:Jezaille Brett]]'s last moments suggest the idea of [[spoiler:her killer having struck from outside the beach hut]].
* StockPoses: From SuperSentaiStance poses to {{pec flex}}ing, Soseki is rather fond of pulling various poses. One such pose is reminiscent of [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Natsume_Soseki_photo.jpg the most widely-recognized photograph]] of the actual Natsume.
* TemptingFate: After being declared Not Guilty in ''Adventures'', he promises that he'll never set foot in a courtroom ever again. ...only to go home and get arrested for murder/assault ''again the very next day''. [[RuleOfThree Then he ends up in the Japanese court]] in ''Resolve'', but he's thankfully just there as a witness to a completely different incident. [[spoiler:The credits has him show up to court yet again as Hosonaga's defense attorney, somehow.]]
* UnluckilyLucky: He displays just as much bad luck in getting into dangerous situations as he does good luck in getting out of them. Over the course of his association with Ryunosuke and co., he [[spoiler:survives several attempts by his neighbor to murder him]], gets caught up in a domestic dispute that leads to him being accused of attempted murder, gets put up against the Reaper of the Bailey (a prosecutor whose every acquitted defendant mysteriously ended up dead), gets acquitted, [[spoiler:survives ''another'' attempt to kill him]], gets accused of attempted murder ''again'', gets put up against the Reaper of the Bailey ''again'', gets acquitted ''again'' ([[spoiler:with the neighbor that was trying to kill him getting caught in the process]]), runs screaming back to Japan, and ends up witnessing ''another'' murder.
* WardrobeFlawOfCharacterization: He wears ''geta'' with his otherwise very Western suit, to emphasize just how much he fails to fit in London's society no matter how hard he tries.
* WhamLine: At the end of Case 1 of ''Resolve'', it's revealed that he was involved in ''two'' cases instead of the single one in ''Adventures'' due to Sholmes directly ordering everyone involved in it to never speak of the second one in public.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: He dresses up like Juliet when he and Shamspeare have a sparring match to decide "who is stronger, Romeo or Juliet".
* YoungFutureFamousPeople: Ryunosuke meets him when he's a broke foreign exchange student in London, shortly before he wrote [[Literature/IAmACat the book that would make him famous]].

[[folder:'''Wagahai''']]
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Soseki's cat. Made her brief appearance in the first game when she is examined in his room before running off, and then made her "official" appearance during the second crime scene investigation while she's meowing for food in the second game. She has since been adopted by Ryunosuke and friends in the first game.

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:Not exactly her, but the cat door maker Iris made for her ends up being important in Case 1-5.]]
* CuteKitten: She's not a kitten, [[spoiler:but she does have quite a few of them!]]
* PunnyName: Her name comes from ''Wagahai wa Neko de Aru'', or ''Literature/IAmACat'', by Natsume Soseki.
* TeamPet: Becomes this to Ryunosuke and friends after Soseki [[spoiler:leaves for Japan]]. She even follows Iris to court during the 5th case and appears in the group shot during the final credits.
* YourTomcatIsPregnant: During the fifth case, Ryunosuke and company refer to her as a "he". [[spoiler:It turns out in the end credits that Soseki is getting frustrated about not wanting to take Wagahai's kittens with him aboard the S.S. Burya, indicating that "Waggy" is indeed a "she".]]

[[folder:'''John Garrideb''']]
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Soseki's landlord, and a retired veteran who received a knee injury back when he was in service. He rents out rooms in his house.

Returns in Case 5 as Juror No. 1.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler:Despite the repeat violent interplay between the two, the conclusion to Case 4 shows he still genuinely loves Joan, and she loves him right back.]]
* BridalCarry: Joan does this to him after he faints [[spoiler:once Herlock and Ryunosuke figure out that Joan is his wife and they had a quarrel the night of the attempted murder. Attempts to do this with a fainted Joan in their breakdown once their part in the incident is revealed in court, with less successful results. Their wedding picture seems to display a much-younger John holding Joan in this position as well (though the cracks on the frame's glass prevent us from seeing Joan's face).]]
* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: He's always seen holding a pipe, though he doesn't appear to actually be smoking it. [[spoiler:It contains a vital clue to finally prove Soseki's innocence as inside the pipe is a small piece of metal that is the broken tip of the knife found at the crime scene.]]
* DualBoss: [[spoiler:With Joan, as they're the last two witnesses of the case they appear in, and accordingly both are the last obstacles to proving Soseki's innocence.]]
* FatAndSkinny: The skinny to Joan's fat.
* GracefulLoser: Downplayed. While he's still ''very'' frustrated over [[spoiler:the arrest of his wife]] in GAA 2-2 (and he uses it to snarkily dismiss Ryu's appeal of having solved the mysteries in his house if you press him as one of the jurors in GAA 1-5), he does willingly give Ryu a lot of vital information needed to solve the Shamspeare poisoning case (which, mind you, happened the day after the trial for Olive Green's stabbing).
* HenpeckedHusband: [[spoiler:To Joan. When Naruhodo and Susato arrive, his wife had previously subjected him to a particularly violent rampage due to a misunderstanding caused by a previous owner's love letter being in one of his pre-owned books. She spends most of the ensuing conversation boiling hot tea on his lap whenever he starts talking too much]].
* MistakenForCheating: A love letter was used as a bookmark by a previous owner of the second-hand book he brought. [[spoiler:Joan sees it, goes ballistic, [[DisasterDominoes and thus led to Olive Green's accidental and non-lethal stabbing.]]]]
* MyGreatestFailure: He doesn't have this during his military service, but when it comes to being the landlord [[spoiler:Duncan Ross's death is this. It is why he monitors the gas line when it comes to his tenants.]]
* OneSteveLimit: {{Averted|Trope}}. He shares the first name as John Wilson.
* PhonyVeteran: Well, he's an actual military veteran, [[spoiler:but he's not as decorated or well-compensated as he would want people to think he is. He owns a run-down building, and he can't rent its rooms for more than a pittance, so the Garridebs' finances leave them on the edge of low class, hence his wife posing as his maid to appear as middle class.]]
* PunnyName: Funnily enough, an inversion, as the name Garrideb is taken from the Holmes stories; instead, his [[spoiler: and his wife's]] designs are built from a Japanese pun made from that name - 'garigari' meaning skinny and 'debu' meaning fat.
* ShoutOut: The surname comes from the Sherlock Holmes story 'The Adventure of the Three Garridebs'.
* SolarAndLunar: The Lunar to Joan's Solar. His hair and beard give his head the shape of a crescent moon. Also, [[spoiler:his wedding ring]] has a moon design.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: The Court Record lists his age as 46 but he can easily be mistaken for someone a decade or two older. This could be justified by accumulated stress and declining health brought on by his living situation and wounded leg.

[[folder:'''Joan''']]
!!Joan [[spoiler:Garrideb]]
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Garrideb's maid. She is selected by the courts to be the fourth juror in the Olive Green assault trial.

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Well, accidental "attempted" murder. The knife that could have easily killed John through stabbing his face ended up falling down the window at the precise moment Olive was bending down to pick the fallen burning book Joan had tossed prior, falling and stabbing straight into her back.]]
* BridalCarry: She carries Garrideb like this after he faints [[spoiler:following the Dance of Deduction segment. Garrideb later tries to do this with her after she faints in court, with less successful results.]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: The reason why she keeps assaulting John is [[spoiler: she saw a love note left for a "James" in one of his second-hand books, and the thought of him cheating on her makes her so angry and jealous that she can't think straight.]]
* CollateralDamage: [[spoiler:She threw a knife intending to cut her husband when she wrongly believed him to be cheating on her. She missed, so the knife went out the window and into Olive Green's back while the latter was bent over to pick up a book on the street, making her guilty of assault and reckless endangerment.]]
* DomesticAbuse: [[spoiler:She commits this crime, assault, and reckless endangerment when [[MistakenForCheating she discovered some other couple's love letter]] in a used book that her husband bought. On another note, she also frequently overfills her husband's teacup, causing scalding tea to spill in his lap, as well as slapping him in the face powerfully enough to leave a mark, intentional or otherwise.]]
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Even a ''quarter'' of what she does to John Garrideb would be viewed as horrifying were the genders swapped. She threw several items at him, [[spoiler:including ''a knife'']], repeatedly slaps him in the face hard enough to leave a clear handprint, and frequently pours boiling tea on him. She even extends this abuse to the juror sitting next to her in case 1-4. All of this is PlayedForLaughs, to the extent that the adjacent juror in question ''is unfazed because his wife hits harder than she does''.
* DualBoss: [[spoiler:With Garrideb.]]
* FatAndSkinny: The fat to Garrideb's skinny.
* FatBitch: She repeatedly [[spoiler:commits DomesticAbuse, and is the culprit of Case 1-4]]. The case wouldn't have happened at all if [[spoiler:she hadn't tried to effectively murder her husband over a note in a secondhand book]]. She later tries to weasel her way out of the situation, remains uncooperative to the bitter end, and becomes increasingly insulting and racist towards Ryunosuke the closer he gets to the truth.
* FoodSlap: [[spoiler:In her disguise as maid, repeatedly pours hot tea onto John's lap either to keep him quiet about certain details or in anger at his perceived infidelity. When the Garridebs are on the stand she continues to pour hot tea even though they are under oath.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: There's a few hints to her being [[spoiler: the true, albeit accidental, culprit of Case 4.]]
** When we first meet her and Mr. Garrideb, she often cuts him off from telling Ryunosuke and Susato what he knows by pouring hot tea on his lap and then, without prompting despite her position as a maid, she rambles about how suspicious Soseki is and claims that he must be the culprit, [[spoiler: likely realising that one of their knives were missing after her rampage and potentially linking it to the stabbing.]]
** [[spoiler: During the trial where she appears a juror, she and Juror 5, a road worker who wants the trial to end quickly, are quick to express aggravation with Juror 6, an old man, over his choice of overcoat being the same colour as the victim's when Ryunosuke suggests that he was the one walking in front of Natsume when the stabbing occurred, since it'd be grounds the extend the trial. Unlike the road worker, she has less obvious reason to be upset, with her making no claims to be in a urgent hurry, further suggesting that she knows more than she lets on.]]
** On a minor note, [[spoiler: she's the only Juror to never change her stance after a Summation Examination.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler:She mistakenly believes that her husband is having an affair with a woman who had accidentally left a love letter allegedly for him in a book John rented at the bookstore. Even after the altercation and proving he wasn't seeing someone else, she is still fuming about it to the point of violence whenever it's brought up again.]]
* HeelRealisation: [[spoiler:When her actions are revealed, she finally accepts that she almost killed someone and expresses genuine remorse over what she has done.]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Non-alcoholic version. When worrying about something, she proceeds to repeatedly pour herself some tea and drink it. [[spoiler:She humorously pours too much scalding tea on her husband's teacup/''smoking pipe'' because she's still pissed about the so-called affair.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:She is distraught when she realises she almost killed someone, finally accepting her punishment at the chapter's end.]]
* PetTheDog: She apparently let Natsume borrow a bike, even if she was rather forceful about getting him to use it. Pursuing her while unprompted at any point in the trial also reveals she's still wondering about what she [[spoiler:and John]] would give him as a welcoming present.
* SculleryMaid: She appears to be this. [[spoiler:Subverted since this is a disguise to make her husband look like a middle-class man since hiring a maid is the barrier between lower-class and middle-class society.]]
* ShoutOut: [[spoiler:Her real surname, "Garrideb",]] comes from the Sherlock Holmes story 'The Adventure of the Three Garridebs'.
* SolarAndLunar: The Solar to John's Lunar. [[spoiler:Her wedding ring]] is shaped like the sun, and her maid's headgear around her round face and cheeks resemble the sun sending out rays, in contrast to John's long, thin face and pointed hair and beard looking like a crescent moon.

[[folder:'''Roly Beate''' (''Patrick O'Malley'')]]

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A constable devoted to his duties, and a witness to Olive Green's stabbing.

* DirtyCop: Downplayed. [[spoiler:He did tamper the crime scene but not out of self-interest nor ill will towards Natsume Soseki. FinaglesLaw had to kick in at a time he didn't want to be a cop. He and Patricia were spending their anniversary together when the stabbing incident happened, and to make matters worse it was at HIS beat. This would kill their anniversary plans so he moved the victim and the books from the crime scene to outside his beat, but he lost his gift to Patricia in the process of tampering the crime scene. He also flat out apologizes once the truth is exposed about this incident.]]
* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler: {{Implied}}. As he and Patricia leave the court after his crime scene tampering is exposed, Van Zieks warns him, in reference to him not noticing the rose Patricia dropped, that he should be more aware of his surroundings in the future, and warns him to not to make a repeat of his actions, [[PetTheDog hinting that he plans to use his influence to make sure he isn't too severely punished.]]]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: [[spoiler:He states that while he did tamper with the scene so it would be out of his jurisdiction, he states in no uncertain terms that he wouldn't have done so if he knew Olive Green was still alive, showing clear regret at having left a unconscious woman out in the cold. He also made it a rule to make sure Olive was in the exact position she was in when he and Patricia found her, which helps Ryunosuke when he goes as far as to make sure "The Lion's Pride", John Garrideb's book that was thrown out the window during his fight with Joan, was in Olive's hand, not only allowing the crime to be linked to the Garrideb's, but also allow him to prove how the knife ended up in her back.]]
* HenpeckedHusband: {{Downplayed|Trope}}, especially compared to [[spoiler:John Garrideb]]. Because of how [[OverworkedSleep sleepy]] he is during the trial, Patricia has to forcefully tug on his scarf several times to get him to speak for himself, and sometimes she uses his fists to make little punching motions at the defense and prosecution.
* MomentOfWeakness: [[spoiler: As he puts it, when he realized how close the crime was to the border of his beat, he started lying about what beat the crime was on and he couldn't believe the words were coming out of his mouth. When his actions come to light in court, he clearly feels quite terrible about having tarnished Scotland Yard's reputation so horribly.]]
* NobleBigotWithABadge: During his testimony, he, like his wife (and most of the jury during the trial), makes some insulting remarks towards Natsume in his testimony.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Ryunosuke suggests that [[spoiler: Joan Garrideb may be the culprit on account of the John's book being found at the scene]], he's suddenly up and at them when asked to explain how that's impossible, catching Ryunosuke and Susato off-guard. [[spoiler: This is because he realizes that his crime scene tampering is at the risk of being exposed.]]
* OverworkedSleep: Is mostly drowsy throughout his testimony. As pointed out by the Old Bailey's judge, he basically has to patrol about 20 miles of London's streets ''on foot''.
* PunnyName: His and Patricia's first names are a play on "patrol". The pun actually serves to further show how in love the two are. [[spoiler:In addition, the jurisdiction of his patrol beat turns out to be a critical piece of evidence.]]
* SickeninglySweethearts: With Patricia. The two of them take nearly every opportunity to show their affections for each other.
* VillainousBreakdown: Heavily downplayed. [[spoiler:He isn't the culprit but when his tampering is exposed, Roly truly wakes up and when he gave his account that confirms Ryunosuke's theory he [[TearsOfRemorse breaks down]] and apologizes over the disgrace he gave to Scotland Yard.]]
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [[spoiler:His decision to move the crime scene to the next beat was spontaneous. Upon realizing they were on his beat, he yells to Patricia directions towards the other bobby's beat as she's rushing to the police box before he realizes what he's doing.]]

[[folder:'''Patricia Beate''' (''Rola O'Malley'')]]
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Roly's wife, and a witness to the incident. Very proud of her husband.

* DualBoss: With her husband Roly, of whom you spend most of the case's trial dismantling their testimony.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Is quite appalled by the stories of domestic abuse coming from Jurors 4 and 5.
* {{Foil}}: To Joan. While Patricia is [[SickeninglySweethearts blissfully in love]] with Roly and thinks he can do no wrong, Joan is [[ClingyJealousGirl extremely distrustful]] of her husband [[spoiler:John Garrideb]] and believes he is [[MistakenForCheating cheating on her]] thanks to [[spoiler:a completely unrelated bookmark]]. It's also worth noting that Patricia only pulls on Roly's scarf in order to wake him up from his OverworkedSleep, while Joan regularly makes a habit of [[spoiler:[[FoodSlap pouring boiling-hot tea in her husband's lap]] and is shown to be [[DomesticAbuse violently abusive to him]]]].
* InconsistentSpelling: In the JP script, Rola or Lola?
* MotorMouth: Does most of the talking when called up to the stand with her husband, since Roly is exhausted from the constant patrols. However, her volunteering more testimony to prove herself right and protect her husband's reputation inadvertently leads to...
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:While not a villain, she does end up accidentally saving Ryunosuke from disaster twice over the course of the trial. Her and husband's testimonies are rock solid until she goes out of her way to supplement them with extra information that gives the defence an opening to object. Her commenting on the number of books helps link the Garridebs to the stabbing, and her commenting on Roly's patrol beat ultimately causes Roly to reveal that he had moved the scene of the crime, thus offering the defence the possibility of a different attacker]].
* NoSenseOfDirection: [[spoiler:Which is why she doesn't notice that the victim had been moved to the other side of the street.]]
* PunnyName: Pat+Roly = Patrol, a pun carried over from the original script (albeit reversed).
* SickeninglySweethearts: With Roly.
* TakeMeInstead: [[spoiler:After Roly confessed to moving the crime scene so that he could have a proper anniversary dinner with his wife, she begs to be punished in place of her husband.]]
[[/folder]]

!!The Adventure of the Unspeakable Story (''Katararenai Monogatari no Bouken'')

[[folder:'''Pop Windibank''' (''Hatch Windeback'')]]
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The pawnbroker of the pawn shop Herlock frequents. Killed by a shot to the heart.
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* CowardlyLion: He's a stout older man whose go-to response to conflict is putting a gun to his head, yet he's able to [[spoiler:put up a decent fight against two burglars who've broken into his shop while also managing to shoot their leader. He likely would've lived if his killer hadn't impulsively shot back in shock.]]
* MeaningfulName: His surname, Windibank/Windeback, sounds like "wind it back", something you do to a music box to make it play. "Pop" and "Hatch" refer to either the music box which has "hatches" that "pop" open, or to both a stereoscope (where an image "pops" out at you) and the peephole (or "hatch")
* MoodSwinger: Generally seems like a down-to-earth guy who's a little exhausted by Sholmes' antics. But when it comes to his business, well, see SuicideAsComedy.
* PunnyName: His localized name is a play on "pop in the bank," referencing how his pawnshop doubles as a bank for patrons to "pop" items for safe keeping.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Demonstrates a surprising level of kindness when the events his final moments are revealed. [[spoiler:He willingly allows Gina to enter his storeroom when he realizes she isn't actually planning to rob him. He also protects her with his life and keeps her out of danger when things quickly go off the rails.]]
* ShoutOut: His character design is modeled after the Granada adaptation's portrayal of pawnbroker Jabez Wilson from the Sherlock Holmes story "The Red-Headed League"; during a Dance of Deduction sequence, Sholmes' initial deduction references the scheme from the original story.
* SuicideAsComedy: Has a habit of putting a ''gun'' to his head [[DisproportionateRetribution over the most minor mistakes]], which is PlayedForLaughs.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:'''Eggert Benedict''' (''Egg Benedict'')]]
!!Eggert Benedict (''Egg Benedict'') [[spoiler:/ Ashley Graydon (''Robert Crogrey'')]]
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A mysterious gentleman who appears in Windibank's pawn shop. Has a tendency to twirl around like a ballroom dancer.
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[[folder:'''Jezaille Brett''']]
!!Jezaille Brett [[spoiler:/ Asa Shinn (''Ann Sasha'')]]
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A transfer student from England who studied in Wilson's laboratory in Yumei.

* AssholeVictim: One of the biggest examples in the series, since [[spoiler:her awful personality was the reason she was murdered in the first place. That's also putting aside her many, ''many'' illegal activities, and the fact that she effectively got [[KarmaHoudini a slap on the wrist]] for her murder of Wilson.]]
* BigShutUp: ''Shut up!'' is her personal speech bubble, and it is rendered in GratuitousEnglish even in the Japanese-language game. It's even rendered in a fancy script! She's also the only one who uses it.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: She originally seems like your typical refined British lady. She's actually an incredibly racist and xenophobic [[spoiler:assassin who murdered Wilson]]. She drops the act when she gets sufficiently angry at the defense, complete with yelling "SHUT UP!" at anyone who tries to interrupt her.
* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler:Used curare, a poison that not only is totally unknown in Japan, but one that is only lethal by administering it through the bloodstream, and thus she (temporarily) disproves Ryunosuke's theory of her murdering Wilson using poison by drinking the poisoned tonic water with no hesitation.]]
* CoDragons: [[spoiler:Alongside Gregson; she was the one who actually carried out the murders he and Stronghart planned]].
* CulturalPosturing: Her favorite hobby, which lands her into some major trouble when she decides to tear down Japan's "caveman" criminal investigation methods and investigative journalism.
* DeadlyDoctor: She's a medical student studying under Dr. Wilson, and also [[spoiler:his remorseless killer. The poison she used to kill him, curare, is one focus of her research... though the fact that she's [[MasterPoisoner so knowledgeable about poisons]] might have something to do with her [[ProfessionalKiller real job]].]]
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler: Her drink was spiked with a very unique poison, and she was stabbed in an attempt to hide her true cause of death. Just like how she slipped curare into John Wilson's drink and then shot his dead body to frame Ryunosuke Naruhodo.]]
* DeathByRacism: Probably would have gotten away with murder even after her arrest [[spoiler:if she didn't do all that CulturalPosturing against a Japanese journalist who happened to be smuggling poison in his pen for a completely different reason.]]
* DiplomaticImpunity: She's no diplomat, but as she is a British citizen in Japan, she must be tried in a British court... and since the nearest court is in Shanghai, evidence for crimes committed in Japan isn't going to transfer all that well. [[spoiler: This is the entire point of the 'student exchange', as the two assassins would have the next best thing to diplomatic immunity in the other country.]]
* EarlyBirdBoss: As the most antagonistic witness in her case and [[spoiler: the first major culprit]], she is the biggest obstacle to Ryunosuke's first trial, and, like Dahlia Hawthorne before her, she gives the defense a run for their money.
* EvilBrit: [[WalkingSpoiler All these spoiler tags]] should make it pretty obvious that something's wrong with her. [[spoiler:Her being British and committing murder in Japan actually causes a lot of problems, as the Japanese government wants to outright avoid prosecuting her out of fear of hurting fragile Japanese-British relations.]]
* ExpressiveMask: Her mask glares and shows smiling eyes to match her own emotions. Her hat does something similar, but what keeps it from being an ExpressiveAccessory is that the swan on top is actually alive.
* EyeObscuringHat: When she doesn't use a mask to cover her eyes, her hat is always tipped in a way to keep them hidden.
* FatalFlaw: Her racism and tendency to mock the Japanese has bitten her in the ass several times.
** [[spoiler: When mocking Japan's "primitive" investigation methods, this presses Hosonaga's BerserkButton about his perfect investigations, causing him to become more cooperative and show the court multiple pieces of evidence to help condemn her.]]
** [[spoiler: An offhand insult she makes about a Japanese witness not knowing how to use and knife and fork tips Ryunosuke off to the fact that the same witness had tampered with the evidence at the crime scene, leading directly to her undoing.]]
** [[spoiler: While he was already considering the idea, it's evident that her racist remarks to Menimemo, such as insulting his journalism and calling him a caveman, pretty much solidified his decision to kill her.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** In the first game's first case, she rattles off a pretty extensive list of ways to kill someone that leave traces. [[spoiler:Of course she'd be aware of that kind of information, given what she ''actually'' does for a living.]]
** Her breakdown in the first game's first case involves her swan hat getting out of control before she imitates being raptured into the air, complete with holy light and divine organ notes. [[spoiler:She would end up dying for real at the start of the next game]].
* GenderBlenderName: In the second game, we find out that [[spoiler:her real name is Asa Shinn. Asa is typically a male given name]].
* HateSink: She's a narcissistic and ''incredibly'' racist xenophobe who spends the entire trial mocking the Japanese, knowing full well they can't do a thing to her, telling people to shut up, ''including the prosecutor that helps her'', and that's before getting into the fact that she's the murderer [[spoiler: and an assassin]]. Hard not to cheer when [[spoiler: Menimemo kills her.]]
* HeadPet: She wears a live swan on her head. [[spoiler:It freaks out and hatches several chicks during her VillainousBreakdown.]]
* HeadTurningBeauty: When she arrives in court for the first time, her beauty and charm captivates and silences the entire courtroom. Even Asogi, who by this point has implied he already [[spoiler: suspects her of being the true murderer]], gently mocks his friend for somehow failing to notice or remember "a woman like that" sitting across from Dr. Wilson in the restaurant.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: [[spoiler: She claims she had no motive for killing Wilson. Her true motive is revealed in GAA 2; she's an assassin sent by Stronghart to kill Wilson in an area where extradition rights apply, since Wilson knew too much regarding the truth of the Professor case.]]
* TheHilarityOfHats: She has a hat that has a swan on it. It's not a design -- it's a ''real, living swan''.
* HolyPipeOrgan: [[spoiler:At the end of her VillainousBreakdown, a few pipe organ notes are heard as she prays and her swan drags her into the air, giving her an angelic appearance.]]
* InconsistentSpelling:
** Giselle or Jezail? Bullet or Brett? The English version goes with Jezaille Brett.
** In the JP script, her real name's an in-universe example when it first comes up at the end of G1-5, namely that Susato and Ryunosuke are unsure whether it was "Satsushiya" or "Sasha" (due to how [[spoiler: Japanese Morse Code doesn't distinguish between regular 'tsu' and the small vowel-lengthener]]). It's confirmed to be Sasha in the next game.
* {{Jerkass}}: As soon as she stops relying on Hosonaga's [[spoiler:[[CompletelyUnnecessaryTranslator completely unnecessary]]]] translations and speaks for herself, she can barely go ''one sentence'' without [[SmugSnake smugly taunting the defense]] or saying something [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain extremely racist]] against the Japanese.
* KarmaHoudini: Downplayed and eventually [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty subverted]]. [[spoiler:After her guilt is revealed, the Japanese court is unable to prosecute her for her crimes, due to the extradition treaty between Japan and England, but she is scheduled to be dropped off to British authorities in Shanghai with her fate after that unknown... until the sequel, where she is found dead in a beach house in the first case, a day before her scheduled deportation.]]
* KickTheDog: With the context of the sequel, turns out that she has nothing to gain from framing Naruhodo at all as [[spoiler:she already has a [[DiplomaticImpunity get out of jail free card]] the whole time.]] She even ask the judge to punish Naruhodo as harsh as possible too.
* TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: [[spoiler:Aside from her murder of John Wilson in the first case of GAA, she's also killed many others during her career as an assassin, only to end up becoming the victim of the first case in GAA 2.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Elegance... and Excellence"
* MasterPoisoner: She's studying toxicology (specifically [[spoiler:curare, which she used to murder Dr. Wilson]]) as part of her medical coursework. [[spoiler:It's just one of the methods she's used to kill people [[ProfessionalKiller in the past]].]]
* MeaningfulName:
** Jezail bullet, as in a bullet from a Jezail rifle. [[spoiler: Like the one that causes John Watson's injury in Holmesian canon.]] It also can mean Jezebel, who [[spoiler:violently purged the prophets of Yahweh from Israel, damaging the reputation of the Omride dynasty, which is similar to how Jezail purged her Japanese target while damaging the reputation of the British empire.]] "Brett" also sounds a lot like "brat"; which is a fair warning for [[HateSink how unpleasant she is]], and derives from the name Briton, which is fitting for a British nationalist.
** [[spoiler:Her real name, Asa Shinn, is quite clearly 'assassin'. The equivalent in Japanese, Ann Sasha, is from ''ansatsusha'' - assassin.]]
* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:By ''Resolve'', she was about to be sent back to England after getting off scot-free from her murder crimes and was even able to coerce the Japanese government into letting her go to the beach, but her insulting a reporter who happened to had stolen a powerful poison and was carrying it at the time sealed her fate.]]
* NotMeThisTime: [[spoiler:When Rei accuses her of being the poison thief, she states to her that she had nothing to do with it before dying. As it turns out, she actually wasn't lying for once; that was Menimemo's doing.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: The Court Record officially pins her age at 24, [[spoiler: but given how she's been a professional assassin working for the Reaper conspiracy for ten years by that point, she must be at least somewhat older than that. [[VagueAge Though her true age ultimately remains unknown.]]]]
* OutsideContextProblem: [[spoiler:She uses curare to kill John Wilson, knowing that it's near-impossible for the Japanese authorities to discover because nearly no one in the entire country knows it exists, so there isn't a test available for it.]]
* PaintingTheMedium: Some of Jezaille's dialogue is rendered first in a font that makes it look like complete gibberish, then an elegant cursive font. It's to show that she's speaking English - the unintelligible font is what Ryunosuke and the others hear, and the cursive is a TranslationConvention for the audience once her [[HateSink true colours]] come to light.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Along with [[spoiler:killing Wilson and being an assassin]], she's very racist towards the Japanese. While [[DeliberateValuesDissonance this would have been fairly normal at the time]] the game is set (she's British and British values tended to consider the WhiteMansBurden as valid), she is [[{{Jerkass}} by far]] the most openly hateful and bigoted British character across the duology, even when compared to [[NobleBigot Barok van Zieks]] who spends a sizable chunk of his character arc unlearning his anti-Japanese racism.
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:The nature of her real identity and reasons for killing Dr. Wilson are revealed well after her own death]].
* ProfessionalKiller: [[spoiler:Her real job. When a criminal prosecuted by Barok escapes getting a guilty verdict, she is usually the one to kill them afterwards as part of the Reaper conspiracy.]]
* RefugeInAudacity: [[spoiler: She destroys crucial evidence related to the case, ''in front of the entire courtroom''. And she (almost) gets away with it too!]] This actually turns out to be a justified bit of foreshadowing that [[spoiler:Jigoku is not on the up-and-up, as while the judge could have her brought up on contempt of court and obvious suspicious behavior, Jigoku is secretly one of her employers, and so was letting her get away with any excuse.]]
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Or at least to a select few people who were aware of her. [[spoiler:Sholmes had mistakenly assumed Asa Shinn had died months before the duology began after she seemingly vanished from the face of London, and seeing her name in the 'four names' telegram some time after her disappearance followed by receiving the word that John H. Wilson had been murdered only solidified that assumption. In truth, she had already been transferred to Japan, under the name 'Jezaille Brett'.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: {{Subverted|Trope}}. [[spoiler: The closer Naruhodo gets to exposing her as the culprit, she makes more frequent attempts to leave only to be stopped each time.]]
* SmallRoleBigImpact: She only appears twice throughout the entire duology - once as a witness, [[spoiler:and once as a victim]]. She's much more involved with the overarching plot than either appearance would suggest. [[spoiler:Namely, she's the Reaper Conspiracy's hatchet-woman]].
* SmugSnake: Jezaille acts absolutely ''insufferable'' throughout her time on the witness stand, up to and including [[spoiler:'''''destroying evidence''''' in full, brazen view of the entire courtroom]], because [[spoiler:as a British foreign exchange student, she knows the Japanese government cannot actually arrest her without inflaming tensions between the two countries. After the trial, she leaves for Shanghai, [[KarmaHoudini having gotten off more or less scot-free]] -- at least until the first case of ''2'', where she reappears as the murder victim.]]
* StarterVillain: The first culprit of the game. And she [[EarlyBirdBoss gives you a run for your money too]].
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:The plot of the second game begins with her death.]]
* SugaryMalice: Even when she's going off on CulturalPosturing rants against the Japanese, she delivers all her hateful remarks with all the poise and grace of an English gentlewoman. She's so sugary, in fact, that Prosecutor Auchi interprets her saying "[[PrecisionFStrike damn you]]" as "bless you".
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: After her arrest, Ryunosuke encounters the unfortunate reality of [[DiplomaticImpunity consular jurisdiction]]. [[spoiler:This is actually the first hint that she's a government-backed assassin--as Kazuma notes, the recent treaty with Britain restricted the power of consular courts only to serious extraterritorial crimes of a highly political nature.]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To [[spoiler:Dahlia Hawthorne. Both are elegant, finely dressed and beautiful women who appear charming on the surface, yet their true personalities are full of contempt and greed. Both are also specialized in using poison as a means of murder weapon as well as being culprits in the first case of their respective games. The major differences between the two are that Brett is considerably more competent than Dahlia, taking advantage of the very limited knowledge the court has about curare to look more like she wasn't the murderer, and that while Dahlia's killings stemmed from having to cover her tracks from previous crimes, Brett killed for a living.]]
* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:The chosen assassin for the fearsome Reaper conspiracy in London...is suddenly killed by some random journalist a hemisphere away]].
* UngratefulBitch: She tells a lot of people to shut up in courtroom... even Auchi who is on her side.
* TheUnintelligible: Downplayed. Her 'English' dialogue is rendered as unreadable [[TheIllegible doctor's cursive]], and Hosonaga has to translate for her. Justified, as she is an English speaker in a Japanese court. Some of her cursive text is intelligible English words like "Oh", or "Sorry" or "Amen". [[spoiler:She eventually drops her "monolingual British foreigner" façade and speaks Japanese, [[ElectiveUnintelligible revealing herself to be fluently bilingual]].]]
* TheUnreveal: Her eyes are almost always hidden by her hat or mask. This is still mostly played straight in ''Resolve'' where it's mentioned about [[spoiler:her pupils having extreme dialation being an important plot point, until another photo does show the upper part of her face and her eyes, ...completely shut.]]
* TranslationConvention: {{Subverted|Trope}} when she speaks English, which is rendered as illegible cursive aside for some words which can be read more clearly. Ryunosuke and Kazuma can understand this perfectly themselves, but PlayedStraight when she shifts to speaking Japanese, much to her chagrin.
* VillainHasAPoint: While she's a [[{{Jerkass}} thoroughly unpleasant]], [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]] murderer [[spoiler:and an [[ProfessionalKiller assassin]]]], her criticisms of the Japanese police aren't entirely unfounded, given that they'd have allowed several key pieces of evidence to be lost had Hosonaga not secretly taken the evidence himself.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: She clutches her heart, then the swan on her head suddenly goes berserk and drags her around the room while she screams as baby chicks fly everywhere on the court. They then both fly towards a beam of light from the sky, before she's right back at the witness stand.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Despite only appearing twice [[spoiler: and that second time being [[TheKillerBecomesTheKilled her last]]]] Jezaille is one of the most important characters of the story [[spoiler: specifically her real name and that she is in Mael Stronghart's assassin exchange program.]]
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!!The Adventure of the Unbreakable Speckled Band (''Tomo to Madara no Himo no Bouken'')

[[folder:'''Bif Strogenov''' (''Mitrov Stroganov'')]]
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A senior board officer aboard the SS Burya (''SS Alaclair''). Was in charge of monitoring and security in the first-class cabin.
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[[folder:'''Magnus [=McGilded=]''' (''Cosney Megundal'')]]
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A rich businessman, philanthropist and park owner. The defendant of the third case.

* AdaptationalNationality: He was simply a British businessman in the Japanese version. In the localization, he's made into an Irishman, and Gina calls him the [[NWordPrivileges highly offensive]] "bogtrotter" several times [[spoiler:once the truth comes to light.]]
* AlliterativeName: '''M'''agnus '''M'''cGilded in the official localization.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Downplayed. [[spoiler: It's rather obvious that he's not the kind old philanthropist he makes himself out to be, and it's blatantly evident that he's at the very least tampered extensively with the crime scene, but Case 3 ends without a definitive answer to whether he murdered Mason or not, leaving it up in the air for a while whether or not he deserved to die moments later.]] The climax of ''Adventures'' eventually reveals that [[spoiler:he was indeed behind Mason's death, much to Ryunosuke's chagrin.]]
* AssholeVictim: He dies [[spoiler: at the end of Case 3]], and he's not exactly the paragon of morality.
* TheBadGuyWins: Subverted. [[spoiler:He is wrongfully acquitted, but is murdered very soon after.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Ultimately he's this for ''The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures'', even in death.]]
* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:He's involved in shady dealings involving [[TheMole government secrets]] along with Ashley Graydon.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: On the surface, he's a kind, generous, and well-respected man. Underneath, however, lies a [[spoiler: LoanShark who is more than willing to get his own hands dirty.]]
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: [[spoiler: To Matt Engarde. Both of them are defendants who [[BitchInSheepsClothing turn out to be far eviler than they first appear]] and both of them are guilty of the murders they're accused of. However, while Matt Engarde specifically engineered a kidnapping plot to force Phoenix into being his lawyer, Magnus does no such thing, with Chief Justice Stronghart being the one to assign Ryunosuke to the case. Most crucially, Magnus is far more effective at concealing his own culpability, with Ryunosuke not suspecting anything until it's too late to change the verdict, and only learning the truth a good two cases later, while Matt himself is revealed to be the true culprit well before the trial is over, and Phoenix eventually finds a way to get him to admit to his crimes. However, things end up worse for Magnus, as Engarde admits his guilt in order to avoid suffering the fate that befell Magnus; being brutally killed by someone he wronged.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: While not actually running an industry ([[spoiler:he's a LoanShark]]), his overall design and presenting himself as a wealthy philanthropist who donates parks and libraries [[spoiler:through unsavory means]] evokes the robber barons of the contemporary Gilded Age - which his localization name references.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Getting locked inside a carriage and [[MurderByCremation being burned alive]]]] definitely counts as this.
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:After his trial, he's [[MurderByCremation burned alive]] in the very same omnibus where he killed Mason.]]
* DecompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:To Charles Augustus Milverton. Magnus gets his personality, power, wealth, coercion tactics, and the ultimate fate of death at the hands of one of his victims.]]
* EvilBrit: In Japanese, anyway - in the English localization, he's an Irishman.
* EvilLaugh: [[spoiler: The laugh he gives off when he wins the trial counts as this at that point in time, complete with EvilGloating, to boot!]]
* EvilWearsBlack: [[spoiler:Killed Mason Milverton while wearing a black coat, which he sent off to Windibank's pawn shop before the police could arrest him.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Though damn good at hiding it.]]
* Fiction500: He's said to be rich enough to buy London three times over.
* FunetikAksent: Speaks with a slight Irish accent in the English localization (e.g. pronouncing "thing" as "ting").
* HateSink: One of the worst ones of the entire duology. He has a few characteristics from other ''Ace Attorney'' {{Hate Sink}}s [[spoiler: specifically Redd White, Matt Engarde, and Furio Tigre. He is a brutal LoanShark and a CorruptCorporateExecutive who also has a blackmailing system and someone who turns out to be far eviler than they first appear. He also is the first notable culprit that the protagonist [[NotProven unknowingly acquits]] and [[JuryAndWitnessTampering that road is]] [[DestroyTheEvidence full of illegalities]].]]
* HiddenAgendaVillain: [[spoiler:While the motive for the murder of Mason Milverton is clear, the reason why he was to leak government secrets]] remains unknown. [[spoiler:It is possible that if he ''did'' survive, he would blackmail Mael Stronghart with those government secrets.]]
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:Even though he hides his guilt better than his modern counterpart, Engarde, he still gets beaten the same way, as someone he had wronged brutally kills him after the trial... the threat of which had forced Matt to confess.]]
* JuryAndWitnessTampering: [[spoiler:He blackmailed Gina Lestrade into committing perjury by threatening to have her group of {{street urchin}}s rounded up if she did not comply. According to Barok, this isn't the first time he meddled with witnesses and juries in prior cases.]]
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:Exaggerated. He wins his case, but is ambushed by the son of the man he killed and [[MurderByCremation burned alive]] before he even leaves the courthouse.]]
* TheKillerBecomesTheKilled: [[spoiler: Killer of Case 3, ends up being killed himself in the same case.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: He is killed by Ashley Graydon, the son of the man he murdered, shortly after winning the case in which he was accused of the murder. And in the very same crime scene! To add to it, Graydon used the very same money that [=McGilded=] had used to manipulate him into giving him government secrets to pay off the bailiffs.]]
* LoanShark: [[spoiler: What he actually is. It's implied in Case 3 that this is his motive for murdering Mason, though this is proven false later on.]]
* MeaningfulName:
** "Magnus" means "great" in Latin and is the origin of the word "magnanimous" (meaning noble and generous), while "gilded" means rich, fitting for a powerful businessman and philanthropist like him. [[spoiler: "Gilding" is also a process for applying gold decorations to a much less valuable item, hinting he's a VillainWithGoodPublicity.]]
** His name from the Japanese version is a play on ''"kozeni megundaru"'', a casual [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseDialects Kansai-ben]] inflection of "(I'll) give you some change", reflecting the same idea as his dub name.
* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:Sort of. While he did get an undeserved Not Guilty verdict, he doesn't even get to enjoy it beyond the courthouse due to being shortly killed after by Ashley Graydon.]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Him [[spoiler: successfully getting rid of most of the evidence of Mason's murder]] turns out to have significantly screwed with the BigBad of the second game. [[spoiler: Mael Stronghart's conditions for Naruhodo to take Kazuma's place on the study tour was that Magnus be found not guilty, which in hindsight was meant to be an ImpossibleTask, but Naruhodo succeeds thanks to [=McGilded's=] [[JuryAndWitnessTampering witness tampering]] and [[DestroyTheEvidence evidence spoilage]]. However, Stronghart specifically needed an assassin masquerading as a visiting student, a job that Naruhodo can't be trusted with. Thanks to [=McGilded=]'s trickery, he's stuck with a non-assassin lawyer instead.]]
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Though his sort of style is the standard for most Londoners.
* NotProven: [[spoiler: He is the culprit, but due to technicalities, [[JuryAndWitnessTampering blackmailing another witness to commit perjury on the stand]], and intentional evidence spoilage, [=McGilded=] got a not guilty verdict.]]
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: Despite Ryunosuke all but turning on him during the trial, once he's acquitted anyway, he ''does'' hold up his end of the deal and pays Ryunosuke and Susato upfront for their defense, seemingly for no reason beyond a rather twisted sense of gratitude.]] Or at least he offers; Ryunosuke and Susato decline his reward.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He somewhat condescendingly phrases his hiring Ryunosuke, a Japanese man, [[WhiteMansBurden as doing his duty to help the underprivileged even at great risk to himself]] to look good in front of the jury, as well as initially assuming that Ryunosuke and Susato were vagrants just because they were foreigners. He also briefly lets out some choice phrases about Ryunosuke's heritage when his barrister starts to harm Magnus' case. These attitudes would have been typical for the era, however.
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Remains an important character in the game even after his death.]]
* PsychoticSmirk: [[spoiler: When [=McGilded=] starts testifying in his own defense later in the trial, he has a sprite where he chuckles evilly to himself. Ryunosuke [[FailedASpotCheck fails to notice this]], only saying that [=McGilded=] looks deep in thought.]]
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:He got his not guilty verdict after tampering with the evidence and witnesses, but his victory is short-lived as he's killed by the son of the man he murdered.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:His death is initially thought to be the work of the infamous Reaper phenomenon associated with Barok Van Zieks. ''Resolve'' shows that the death of [=McGilded=] was an entirely separate affair, as Ashley Graydon had no connection with the Reaper conspiracy that killed all of the other defendants]].
* RefugeInAudacity: [[spoiler:He arranges things so that evidence is tampered ''in the middle of his own trial'' to avoid a Guilty verdict. Despite it being quite obvious that something is wrong with the omnibus, he still gets a Not Guilty verdict as it can't be proven he got it tampered.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: [[spoiler:He was very quick at using his large sums of money to pay witnesses to conceal the events that happened in the omnibus. That, and some blackmailing, got him the Not Guilty verdict he wanted.]]
* SmugSnake: Once it's clear that his guilt can't be proven on the trial, he proudly taunts Barok Van Zieks and the jurors that they can't convict him; [[spoiler: he gets burnt alive soon after.]]
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler: Revealed to be this. He has no loyalty to either persons or institutions; he murdered his criminal partner's father (a poor bricklayer) to keep said partner on his side, and gets away with it by threatening Gina into perjuring herself, and freely lies in court. And the crime he committed murder for was treason, meaning that he really does have no respect for England or its laws.]]
* UnclePennybags: Is a rich guy who hands out money like cheap candy to the poor, and is well-liked by most of London. [[spoiler:It's all a front.]]
* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:Regardless of his guilt or not, he is entitled to a fair trial and he's correct in saying that Ryunosuke has an obligation to defend him no matter what. What he conveniently ignores is that Ryunosuke's caught on to the fact he's blackmailed some of the jurors and tampered with witness testimonies, something Ryunosuke would rightfully get called out for if he was to look the other way.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:When Ryunosuke begins to catch on to what he's actually doing, he blows up in anger and bangs the witness stand with his fist, while insulting Ryunosuke and Barok. He regains his composure when it turns out it's too late to change his verdict, leading to him applauding on the stand as the gallery reacts in confusion and anger.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: He's well-respected among the community, but in reality, he's [[spoiler: a heartless LoanShark who is willing to murder]].
* WalkingSpoiler: It's really hard to talk about him without giving away that [[spoiler:he's the killer of case 3's victim and dying in the same episode he was accused in (plus the whole information stealing that serves as an important backdrop in the last case)]].
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[[folder:'''"Thrice-Fired" Mason''' (''Thrice-Fired Mortar'')]]
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A poor brick-layer. Was stabbed to death inside the Phoenix Wright Omnibus.
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[[folder:'''Rei Membami''' (''Haori Murasame'')]]
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A forensics student under Yujin Mikotoba and Susato Mikotoba's close friend, who is put on trial for the sequel's first murder. Was formerly under Dr. John Wilson's department before the latter's death.

* AdvertisedExtra: Despite having a prominent position on the cover of the second game and the ''Chronicles'' release, Rei only appears as the defendant of the first case, and is never mentioned again until the credits scenes. This is mainly because of her being the personal creation of artist Kazuya Nuri, who thus has a habit of inserting her into official art.
* AmbiguouslyBi: She's ''very'' taken with Susato's [[SweetPollyOliver male disguise]], frequently blushing and referring to "him" as gallant and dashing. On the other hand, she doesn't seem particularly discouraged even after finding out Ryutaro is really Susato in disguise, most blatantly in her suggestion that she take her out for sweets after the trial is concluded. The artbook even outright states she "yearns" for Susato.
* BadassBookworm: A kimono-clad medical student she may be, but Rei is ''tough''. [[spoiler:Tough enough to judo-toss a [[{{Hunk}} grown, muscular man]] like Menimemo, no less!]]
* BadLiar: To say she's bad at playing along with Susato's "Ryutaro" disguise would be an understatement. She slips up and calls her by her real name constantly.
* CharacterDevelopment: Over the course of the trial, Rei goes from clumsily referring to Susato by her real name instead of her disguise name to [[spoiler:''judo-tossing the culprit'' (with Susato's help).]]
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Her eyes and hair are both black.
* CrushBlush: The narrative makes a point of mentioning how flustered and overcome she is at the sight of [[AttractiveBentGender "Ryutaro"]].
* CuteBruiser: [[spoiler:It isn't clear if she knows judo, but she pulls it off when restraining Raiten.]]
* GayEuphemism: Auchi pointedly calls her an "unrefined tomboy" after she accidentally outs her "gallant and dashing" lawyer as a girl, his dialogue making it clear he actually means "lesbian" (whether Auchi connects the dots to 'Ryutaro' is unclear).
* {{Foil}}: Artist Kazuya Nuri mentions that she was created as a best friend for Susato to mirror Ryunosuke and Kazuma's relationship (and because otherwise the case where she debuts would be filled with older men, despite Susato disguising as a man anyway).
* HimeCut: Rei wears her hair in this style, complementing her traditional Japanese wear.
* MeaningfulName:
** In Japanese. A haori is a Japanese garment that resembles a coat, and Haori (Rei) dresses in a very formal fashion. "Murasame" can translate into either "rainy season" or "autumn rain", and "murasame" typically refers to rain that starts and stops suddenly, or falls hard and then gently in fits and starts. This fits Rei going from reserved to [[spoiler:judo-tossing the culprit.]]
** Her English name, a pun on 'remember me', also references the forget-me-nots in her design, which expresses that sentiment in the language of flowers.
* PunnyName: Her English name ("Rei Membami") is a play on "remember me".
* RedOniBlueOni: The Red to Susato's Blue.
* RememberTheNewGuy: [[PunnyName Name puns aside,]] Rei is introduced in ''Resolve'' as one of Susato's closest childhood friends and a student under both John Wilson and Yujin Mikotoba, despite never having been mentioned or alluded to once in ''Adventures''.
* SaveTheVillain: [[spoiler:Despite hating Jezaille Brett for killing Professor Wilson, Rei tries to save Brett by pulling the knife out of her body after noticing that Brett has been poisoned.]]
* TeenGenius: She's only 16, and yet she's studying medicine and toxicology at a ''university level''.
* TookALevelInBadass: At the end of the first case's trial, Rei becomes one of the first defendants in the series to [[spoiler:deal with the culprit who framed her personally, by ''physically stopping his breakdown sequence'' and then giving him a judo toss with Susato's help.]]
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[[folder:'''Raiten Menimemo''' (''Heita Mamemomi'')]]
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A journalist who was following Soseki around for a story regarding his visit to Yumei University.
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* RefugeInAudacity: [[spoiler:He arranges things so that evidence is tampered ''in the middle of his own trial'' to avoid a Guilty verdict. Despite it being quite obvious that something is wrong with the omnibus, he still gets a not guilty verdict as it can't be proven.]]