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* ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorneyChronicles'': "[[PsychoForHire Jezaille Brett]]", real name [[MeaningfulName Asa Shinn]], is in truth a sadistically xenophobic assassin sent by the justice system of Britain, one of the most important members of the main conspiracy in the game, and the most despicable of them for lacking any of the [[WellIntentionedExtremist good intentions]] of her co-conspirators. Already known as an assassin in the dark corners of London, Shinn was hired by [[BigBad Mael Stronghart]] to assassinate every person who escaped the guilty verdict from the cases of Barok van Zieks, with a total of 16 victims killed in numerous "accidents", effectively being the one who made van Zieks into "The Reaper of The Bailey". Later on, Shinn would be sent to Japan under a fake identity to be a student of John Wilson, only for her to assassinate him with an [[CruelAndUnusualDeath agonizing]], undiscovered [[MasterPoisoner poison]], and later shooting the corpse for Ryunosuke Naruhodo to take the fall. When Brett was pulled to the trial of the murder, she would [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain make racist remarks against the Japanese throughout the trial]], and at one point, break an important piece of evidence just to laugh about her untouchable superiority. Taking pleasure in the pain of others, especially of other races, it's her own hatred and narcissism that [[TheKillerBecomesTheKilled leads to her death]], even when she was already about to remain scot-free from her crimes.
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* ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorneyChronicles'': "[[PsychoForHire Jezaille Brett]]", real name [[MeaningfulName Asa Shinn]], is in truth a sadistically xenophobic assassin sent by the justice system of Britain, one of the most important members of the main conspiracy in the game, and the most despicable of them for lacking any of the [[WellIntentionedExtremist good intentions]] of her co-conspirators. Already known as an assassin in the dark corners of London, Shinn was hired by [[BigBad Mael Stronghart]] to assassinate every person who escaped the guilty verdict from the cases of Barok van Zieks, with a total of 16 victims killed in numerous "accidents", effectively being the one who made van Zieks into "The Reaper of The Bailey". Later on, Shinn would be sent to Japan under a fake identity to be a student of John Wilson, only for her to assassinate him with an [[CruelAndUnusualDeath agonizing]], undiscovered [[MasterPoisoner poison]], and later shooting the corpse for Ryunosuke Naruhodo to take the fall. When Brett was pulled to the trial of the murder, she would [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain make racist remarks against the Japanese throughout the trial]], and at one point, break an important piece of evidence just to laugh about her untouchable superiority. Taking pleasure in the pain of others, especially of other races, it's her own hatred and narcissism that [[TheKillerBecomesTheKilled leads to her death]], even when she was already about to remain scot-free from her crimes.
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* ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorneyChronicles''' ''The Adventure of the Great Departure'' & ''The Adventure of the Blossoming Attorney'': "[[PsychoForHire Jezaille Brett]]", real name [[MeaningfulName Asa Shinn]], is in truth a sadistically xenophobic assassin sent by the justice system of Britain, one of the most important members of the main conspiracy in the game, and the most despicable of them for lacking any of the [[WellIntentionedExtremist good intentions]] of her co-conspirators. Already known as an assassin in the dark corners of London, Shinn was hired by [[BigBad Mael Stronghart]] to assassinate every person who escaped the guilty verdict from the cases of Barok van Zieks, with a total of 16 victims killed in numerous "accidents", effectively being the one who made van Zieks into "The Reaper of The Bailey". Later on, Shinn would be sent to Japan under a fake identity to be a student of John Wilson, only for her to assassinate him with an [[CruelAndUnusualDeath agonizing]], undiscovered [[MasterPoisoner poison]], and later shooting the corpse for Ryunosuke Naruhodo to take the fall. When Brett was pulled to the trial of the murder, she would [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain make racist remarks against the Japanese throughout the trial]], and at one point, break an important piece of evidence just to laugh about her untouchable superiority. Taking pleasure in the pain of others, especially of other races, it's her own hatred and narcissism that [[TheKillerBecomesTheKilled leads to her death]], even when she was already about to remain scot-free from her crimes.
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* ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorneyChronicles''' ''The Adventure of the Great Departure'' & ''The Adventure of the Blossoming Attorney'': ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorneyChronicles'': "[[PsychoForHire Jezaille Brett]]", real name [[MeaningfulName Asa Shinn]], is in truth a sadistically xenophobic assassin sent by the justice system of Britain, one of the most important members of the main conspiracy in the game, and the most despicable of them for lacking any of the [[WellIntentionedExtremist good intentions]] of her co-conspirators. Already known as an assassin in the dark corners of London, Shinn was hired by [[BigBad Mael Stronghart]] to assassinate every person who escaped the guilty verdict from the cases of Barok van Zieks, with a total of 16 victims killed in numerous "accidents", effectively being the one who made van Zieks into "The Reaper of The Bailey". Later on, Shinn would be sent to Japan under a fake identity to be a student of John Wilson, only for her to assassinate him with an [[CruelAndUnusualDeath agonizing]], undiscovered [[MasterPoisoner poison]], and later shooting the corpse for Ryunosuke Naruhodo to take the fall. When Brett was pulled to the trial of the murder, she would [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain make racist remarks against the Japanese throughout the trial]], and at one point, break an important piece of evidence just to laugh about her untouchable superiority. Taking pleasure in the pain of others, especially of other races, it's her own hatred and narcissism that [[TheKillerBecomesTheKilled leads to her death]], even when she was already about to remain scot-free from her crimes.
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* ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorneyChronicles''' ''The Adventure of the Great Departure'' & ''The Adventure of the Blossoming Attorney'': "[[PsychoForHire Jezaille Brett]]", real name [[MeaningfulName Asa Shinn]], is in truth a sadistically xenophobic assassin sent by the justice system of Britain, one of the most important members of the main conspiracy in the game, and the most despicable of them for lacking any of the [[WellIntentionedExtremist good intentions]] of her co-conspirators. Already known as an assassin in the dark corners of London, Brett was hired by [[BigBad Mael Stronghart]] to assassinate every person who escaped the guilty verdict from the cases of Barok van Zieks, with a total of 16 victims killed in numerous "accidents", effectively being the one who made him into "The Reaper of The Bailey". Later on, Brett would be sent to Japan under a fake identity to be a student of John Wilson, only for her to assassinate him with an [[CruelAndUnusualDeath agonizing]], undiscovered [[MasterPoisoner poison]], and later shooting the corpse for Ryunosuke Naruhodo to take the fall. When Brett was pulled to the trial of the murder, she would [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain make racist remarks against the Japanese throughout the trial]], and at one point, break an important piece of evidence just to laugh about her untouchable superiourity. Taking pleasure in the pain of others, including those of her own ethnicity, Asa demonstrates how low the British could go in terms of hating other races.
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* ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorneyChronicles''' ''The Adventure of the Great Departure'' & ''The Adventure of the Blossoming Attorney'': "[[PsychoForHire Jezaille Brett]]", real name [[MeaningfulName Asa Shinn]], is in truth a sadistically xenophobic assassin sent by the justice system of Britain, one of the most important members of the main conspiracy in the game, and the most despicable of them for lacking any of the [[WellIntentionedExtremist good intentions]] of her co-conspirators. Already known as an assassin in the dark corners of London, Brett Shinn was hired by [[BigBad Mael Stronghart]] to assassinate every person who escaped the guilty verdict from the cases of Barok van Zieks, with a total of 16 victims killed in numerous "accidents", effectively being the one who made him van Zieks into "The Reaper of The Bailey". Later on, Brett Shinn would be sent to Japan under a fake identity to be a student of John Wilson, only for her to assassinate him with an [[CruelAndUnusualDeath agonizing]], undiscovered [[MasterPoisoner poison]], and later shooting the corpse for Ryunosuke Naruhodo to take the fall. When Brett was pulled to the trial of the murder, she would [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain make racist remarks against the Japanese throughout the trial]], and at one point, break an important piece of evidence just to laugh about her untouchable superiourity. superiority. Taking pleasure in the pain of others, including those especially of other races, it's her own ethnicity, Asa demonstrates how low the British could go in terms of hating other races.
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* ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'': [[AmoralAttorney Manfred von Karma]] is an amoral prosecutor who [[ThePerfectionist uses underhanded tactics to maintain his perfect win streak]]. When defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth gets him penalized in a trial by exposing his illegal tactics, Manfred [[DisproportionateRetribution becomes enraged despite still winning said trial]], taking the chance given by an earthquake striking the courtroom to catch up with Gregory and his son [[Characters/AceAttorneyMilesEdgeworth Miles]] in an elevator and murdering Gregory. Taking Miles under his wing, Manfred raises him to become a cold, ruthless prosecutor who cares for nothing but always winning a guilty verdict. Setting up a second murder, Manfred plans to frame Miles for both it and his own father's death, intending to see his adoptive son convicted for murder as the [[RevengeByProxy final act of his revenge]] against Gregory.
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* ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'': Wright]]'':
** ''Turnabout Sisters'': [[SmugSnake Redd White]] is the flamboyantly narcissistic [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO]] of Bluecorp, a company that specializes in "buying and selling information"--which translates to the systemic {{blackmail}} of hundreds. Redd White holds the lives of hundreds of people in his sway with his industrial blackmail, such as [[Characters/AceAttorneyTheFeyClan the Fey clan]], whom he ruined by exposing their part in the DL-6 investigation, and Marvin Grossberg, whom he's turned into his tormented stooge for 15 years by threatening to leave him to the police for his role in the DL-6 catastrophe. Redd has ruined so many lives he's [[DrivenToSuicide driven a sizable amount of people to suicide]], to the point it takes up the largest space in the evidence folder Mia Fey compiled against him. Redd personally murdered Mia [[HeKnowsTooMuch because of this]], attempting to frame her younger sister Maya for it. When Phoenix Wright comes onto the case, Redd attempts to frame Phoenix for Mia's murder.
** ''Turnabout Goodbyes'': [[AmoralAttorney Manfred von Karma]] is an amoral prosecutor who [[ThePerfectionist uses underhanded tactics to maintain his perfect win streak]]. When defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth gets him penalized in a trial by exposing his illegal tactics, Manfred [[DisproportionateRetribution becomes enraged despite still winning said trial]], taking the chance given by an earthquake striking the courtroom to catch up with Gregory and his son [[Characters/AceAttorneyMilesEdgeworth Miles]] in an elevator and murdering Gregory. Taking Miles under his wing, Manfred raises him to become a cold, ruthless prosecutor who cares for nothing but always winning a guilty verdict. Setting up a second murder, Manfred plans to frame Miles for both it and his own father's death, intending to see his adoptive son convicted for murder as the [[RevengeByProxy final act of his revenge]] against Gregory.
** ''Turnabout Sisters'': [[SmugSnake Redd White]] is the flamboyantly narcissistic [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO]] of Bluecorp, a company that specializes in "buying and selling information"--which translates to the systemic {{blackmail}} of hundreds. Redd White holds the lives of hundreds of people in his sway with his industrial blackmail, such as [[Characters/AceAttorneyTheFeyClan the Fey clan]], whom he ruined by exposing their part in the DL-6 investigation, and Marvin Grossberg, whom he's turned into his tormented stooge for 15 years by threatening to leave him to the police for his role in the DL-6 catastrophe. Redd has ruined so many lives he's [[DrivenToSuicide driven a sizable amount of people to suicide]], to the point it takes up the largest space in the evidence folder Mia Fey compiled against him. Redd personally murdered Mia [[HeKnowsTooMuch because of this]], attempting to frame her younger sister Maya for it. When Phoenix Wright comes onto the case, Redd attempts to frame Phoenix for Mia's murder.
** ''Turnabout Goodbyes'': [[AmoralAttorney Manfred von Karma]] is an amoral prosecutor who [[ThePerfectionist uses underhanded tactics to maintain his perfect win streak]]. When defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth gets him penalized in a trial by exposing his illegal tactics, Manfred [[DisproportionateRetribution becomes enraged despite still winning said trial]], taking the chance given by an earthquake striking the courtroom to catch up with Gregory and his son [[Characters/AceAttorneyMilesEdgeworth Miles]] in an elevator and murdering Gregory. Taking Miles under his wing, Manfred raises him to become a cold, ruthless prosecutor who cares for nothing but always winning a guilty verdict. Setting up a second murder, Manfred plans to frame Miles for both it and his own father's death, intending to see his adoptive son convicted for murder as the [[RevengeByProxy final act of his revenge]] against Gregory.
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* ''[[VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney Apollo Justice]]'': [[AmoralAttorney Kristoph Gavin]] is a seemingly-helpful mentor who is really one half of the diabolical duo to usher in "The Dark Age of the Law" by disbarring Phoenix Wright. Kristoph did this out of a [[DisproportionateRetribution petty grudge]] for Phoenix being chosen as a lawyer for a client instead of him, and so murders said client and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] a shy artist and [[CainAndAbel his own brother]] to enact his vengeance. Poisoning both the artist and her father, Kristoph intended for both to die, gloating to Apollo that he knew the latter's line of questioning would make her nervously bite her nails, where he had put the poison. Having started poisoning the artist when she was only [[WouldHurtAChild twelve]], Kristoph is happy to then sit back and watch her face conviction for her own father's murder committed by himself.
* ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies Dual Destinies]]'': "[[MasterOfDisguise the phantom]]" is a [[TheSpook mysterious]] international super spy and the other figure responsible for "The Dark Age of the Law". Murdering multiple people to [[KillAndReplace assume their identities]], the phantom has no qualms over the suffering his actions cause, allowing the neighbors of one of his victims to believe she had been killed by her 11-year-old daughter. Sabotaging a rocket, the phantom nearly kills the astronaut aboard and years later [[MadBomber bombs]] an entire space station; he later murdered yet another astronaut, Apollo's best friend, and [[FrameUp framed]] the astronaut's coworker. Attempting to bomb a courtroom to destroy a piece of evidence, the phantom is willing to kill hundreds to get away and tries to frame Athena and her friend for his atrocities.
* ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies Dual Destinies]]'': "[[MasterOfDisguise the phantom]]" is a [[TheSpook mysterious]] international super spy and the other figure responsible for "The Dark Age of the Law". Murdering multiple people to [[KillAndReplace assume their identities]], the phantom has no qualms over the suffering his actions cause, allowing the neighbors of one of his victims to believe she had been killed by her 11-year-old daughter. Sabotaging a rocket, the phantom nearly kills the astronaut aboard and years later [[MadBomber bombs]] an entire space station; he later murdered yet another astronaut, Apollo's best friend, and [[FrameUp framed]] the astronaut's coworker. Attempting to bomb a courtroom to destroy a piece of evidence, the phantom is willing to kill hundreds to get away and tries to frame Athena and her friend for his atrocities.
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* ''[[VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney Apollo Justice]]'': Justice]]'''s ''Turnabout Trump'' & ''Turnabout Succession'': [[AmoralAttorney Kristoph Gavin]] is a seemingly-helpful mentor who is really one half of the diabolical duo to usher in "The Dark Age of the Law" by disbarring Phoenix Wright. Kristoph did this out of a [[DisproportionateRetribution petty grudge]] for Phoenix being chosen as a lawyer for a client instead of him, and so murders said client and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] a shy artist and [[CainAndAbel his own brother]] to enact his vengeance. Poisoning both the artist and her father, Kristoph intended for both to die, gloating to Apollo that he knew the latter's line of questioning would make her nervously bite her nails, where he had put the poison. Having started poisoning the artist when she was only [[WouldHurtAChild twelve]], Kristoph is happy to then sit back and watch her face conviction for her own father's murder committed by himself.
* ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies Dual Destinies]]'':"[[MasterOfDisguise the phantom]]" [[MasterOfDisguise The Phantom]] is a [[TheSpook mysterious]] international super spy and the other figure responsible for "The Dark Age of the Law". Murdering multiple people to [[KillAndReplace assume their identities]], the phantom has no qualms over the suffering his actions cause, allowing the neighbors of one of his victims to believe she had been killed by her 11-year-old daughter. Sabotaging a rocket, the phantom nearly kills the astronaut aboard and years later [[MadBomber bombs]] an entire space station; he later murdered yet another astronaut, Apollo's best friend, and [[FrameUp framed]] the astronaut's coworker. Attempting to bomb a courtroom to destroy a piece of evidence, the phantom is willing to kill hundreds to get away and tries to frame Athena and her friend for his atrocities.
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* ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations Investigations]]'': [[AssInAmbassador Quercus Alba]], while initially seeming like a [[ObfuscatingDisability frail]], kind [[EvilOldFolks old man]], turns out to be the hardened, cold-hearted boss of [[TheSyndicate a large and powerful smuggling ring]]. Thanks to him putting many highly-convincing counterfeit bills into circulation, the country of Zheng Fa has been thrown into economic chaos due to [[TheChessmaster his machinations]]. He also ordered the deaths of Cece Yew, Deid Mann, and Byrne Faraday due to their efforts in trying to expose his role in the smuggling ring, and personally murdered Mask*[=DeMasque=] II and his subordinate Manny Coachen: [=DeMasque=] II for stealing the fake statue that contained the plates used for creating counterfeit bills, and Coachen due to him seeking to steal power of the smuggling ring from under Alba's nose. Ruthless and rotten to the core, Alba will kill anyone without so much as a second thought for the sake of keeping his criminal empire running.
* ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorneyChronicles'': [[ManipulativeBastard Mael Stronghart]] is the Lord Chief Justice of Britain, and the one responsible for all of the major events in the game. [[FromNobodyToNightmare Originally a regular prosecutor]] with [[AmbitionIsEvil grand ambition]], Stronghart blackmailed Klint van Zieks into assassinating other nobles, including the previous Lord Chief Justice, causing the infamous "Professor Killings". Stronghart orchestrated the trial against Genshin Asogi for Klint's crimes by manipulating many members of Scotland Yard's police into faking evidence, while also faking an execution sentence to supposedly let him free, only to convince his friend Seishiro Jigoku to shoot him when a bystander witnessed his escape. Later, Stronghart created an organization of assassins to kill anyone who escaped the guilty verdict, which would follow Barok van Zieks for years, and have him be known as "The Reaper of the Bailey". Eventually, Stronghart would want to ascend into the higher position of Attorney General, so he planned to blackmail Seishiro into both of them sending assassins to kill targets from their respective countries [[HeKnowsTooMuch who knew "too much"]] of his involvement with any of the other conspiracies. Although Stronghart claims to [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist have done it all in the name of making Britain into a better country]], the heroes call him out on his [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocrisy]], and Stronghart would in the end admit that all of his crimes and [[FauxAffablyEvil affable persona]] are just because [[ControlFreak he liked everything to run like a well-oiled machine]].
* ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorneyChronicles'': [[ManipulativeBastard Mael Stronghart]] is the Lord Chief Justice of Britain, and the one responsible for all of the major events in the game. [[FromNobodyToNightmare Originally a regular prosecutor]] with [[AmbitionIsEvil grand ambition]], Stronghart blackmailed Klint van Zieks into assassinating other nobles, including the previous Lord Chief Justice, causing the infamous "Professor Killings". Stronghart orchestrated the trial against Genshin Asogi for Klint's crimes by manipulating many members of Scotland Yard's police into faking evidence, while also faking an execution sentence to supposedly let him free, only to convince his friend Seishiro Jigoku to shoot him when a bystander witnessed his escape. Later, Stronghart created an organization of assassins to kill anyone who escaped the guilty verdict, which would follow Barok van Zieks for years, and have him be known as "The Reaper of the Bailey". Eventually, Stronghart would want to ascend into the higher position of Attorney General, so he planned to blackmail Seishiro into both of them sending assassins to kill targets from their respective countries [[HeKnowsTooMuch who knew "too much"]] of his involvement with any of the other conspiracies. Although Stronghart claims to [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist have done it all in the name of making Britain into a better country]], the heroes call him out on his [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocrisy]], and Stronghart would in the end admit that all of his crimes and [[FauxAffablyEvil affable persona]] are just because [[ControlFreak he liked everything to run like a well-oiled machine]].
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** First game's ''Turnabout Ablaze'': [[AssInAmbassador Quercus Alba]], while initially seeming like a [[ObfuscatingDisability frail]], kind [[EvilOldFolks old man]], turns out to be the hardened, cold-hearted boss of [[TheSyndicate a large and powerful smuggling ring]]. Thanks to him putting many highly-convincing counterfeit bills into circulation, the country of Zheng Fa has been thrown into economic chaos due to [[TheChessmaster his machinations]]. He also ordered the deaths of Cece Yew, Deid Mann, and Byrne Faraday due to their efforts in trying to expose his role in the smuggling ring, and personally murdered Mask*[=DeMasque=] II and his subordinate Manny Coachen: [=DeMasque=] II for stealing the fake statue that contained the plates used for creating counterfeit bills, and Coachen due to him seeking to steal power of the smuggling ring from under Alba's nose. Ruthless and rotten to the core, Alba will kill anyone without so much as a second thought for the sake of keeping his criminal empire running.
** Second game: [[AmoralAttorney Blaise Debeste]] is the Chairman of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee--P.I.C.--whose cruel nature has led to the corruption of the justice system. A self-proclaimed sadist and bully, [[PsychopathicManchild Blaise]]'s greatest joy has always been ruining lives with his prosecution tactics, boasting that he has sent hundreds of people to life imprisonment after pretending he would offer them a plea bargain. Blaise has fabricated evidence, faked autopsies, and [[FrameUp framed]] innocents for decades, abusing the prosecution system so freely that he hosts BlackMarket auctions of important evidence. Blaise is the [[GreaterScopeVillain one who]] drove [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Manfred von Karma]] to murder by tricking him into using a fake autopsy to send an innocent man to prison, only to then penalize ThePerfectionist von Karma for fun. A [[AbusiveParents dreadful father]] to his son Sebastian, Blaise has abused the boy for years and tried to mold him into a perfect prosecutor, and responds to Sebastian's repeated failures by bullying him into a total breakdown. Having helped murder the President of Zheng Fa to empower his body double to take his place, Blaise also helps murder reporter Jack Cameron to cover it up, and later kills Cameron's girlfriend when she comes seeking revenge. Blaise then tries to frame an amnesiac Kay Faraday for the killing, and when he is eventually exposed for his many crimes, Blaise tries to kidnap the judge's son and threaten him with death to get away scot-free.
*''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorneyChronicles'': [[ManipulativeBastard ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorneyChronicles''' ''The Adventure of the Great Departure'' & ''The Adventure of the Blossoming Attorney'': "[[PsychoForHire Jezaille Brett]]", real name [[MeaningfulName Asa Shinn]], is in truth a sadistically xenophobic assassin sent by the justice system of Britain, one of the most important members of the main conspiracy in the game, and the most despicable of them for lacking any of the [[WellIntentionedExtremist good intentions]] of her co-conspirators. Already known as an assassin in the dark corners of London, Brett was hired by [[BigBad Mael Stronghart]] is the Lord Chief Justice of Britain, and the one responsible for all of the major events in the game. [[FromNobodyToNightmare Originally a regular prosecutor]] with [[AmbitionIsEvil grand ambition]], Stronghart blackmailed Klint van Zieks into assassinating other nobles, including the previous Lord Chief Justice, causing the infamous "Professor Killings". Stronghart orchestrated the trial against Genshin Asogi for Klint's crimes by manipulating many members of Scotland Yard's police into faking evidence, while also faking an execution sentence to supposedly let him free, only to convince his friend Seishiro Jigoku to shoot him when a bystander witnessed his escape. Later, Stronghart created an organization of assassins to kill anyone assassinate every person who escaped the guilty verdict, which would follow verdict from the cases of Barok van Zieks for years, and have Zieks, with a total of 16 victims killed in numerous "accidents", effectively being the one who made him be known as into "The Reaper of the The Bailey". Eventually, Stronghart Later on, Brett would want be sent to ascend into the higher position Japan under a fake identity to be a student of Attorney General, so he planned John Wilson, only for her to blackmail Seishiro into both of them sending assassins to kill targets from their respective countries [[HeKnowsTooMuch who knew "too much"]] of his involvement assassinate him with any an [[CruelAndUnusualDeath agonizing]], undiscovered [[MasterPoisoner poison]], and later shooting the corpse for Ryunosuke Naruhodo to take the fall. When Brett was pulled to the trial of the other conspiracies. Although Stronghart claims murder, she would [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain make racist remarks against the Japanese throughout the trial]], and at one point, break an important piece of evidence just to [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist have done it all laugh about her untouchable superiourity. Taking pleasure in the name pain of making Britain into a better country]], others, including those of her own ethnicity, Asa demonstrates how low the heroes call him out on his [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocrisy]], and Stronghart would British could go in the end admit that all terms of his crimes and [[FauxAffablyEvil affable persona]] are just because [[ControlFreak he liked everything to run like a well-oiled machine]].
hating other races.
** First game's ''Turnabout Ablaze'': [[AssInAmbassador Quercus Alba]], while initially seeming like a [[ObfuscatingDisability frail]], kind [[EvilOldFolks old man]], turns out to be the hardened, cold-hearted boss of [[TheSyndicate a large and powerful smuggling ring]]. Thanks to him putting many highly-convincing counterfeit bills into circulation, the country of Zheng Fa has been thrown into economic chaos due to [[TheChessmaster his machinations]]. He also ordered the deaths of Cece Yew, Deid Mann, and Byrne Faraday due to their efforts in trying to expose his role in the smuggling ring, and personally murdered Mask*[=DeMasque=] II and his subordinate Manny Coachen: [=DeMasque=] II for stealing the fake statue that contained the plates used for creating counterfeit bills, and Coachen due to him seeking to steal power of the smuggling ring from under Alba's nose. Ruthless and rotten to the core, Alba will kill anyone without so much as a second thought for the sake of keeping his criminal empire running.
** Second game: [[AmoralAttorney Blaise Debeste]] is the Chairman of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee--P.I.C.--whose cruel nature has led to the corruption of the justice system. A self-proclaimed sadist and bully, [[PsychopathicManchild Blaise]]'s greatest joy has always been ruining lives with his prosecution tactics, boasting that he has sent hundreds of people to life imprisonment after pretending he would offer them a plea bargain. Blaise has fabricated evidence, faked autopsies, and [[FrameUp framed]] innocents for decades, abusing the prosecution system so freely that he hosts BlackMarket auctions of important evidence. Blaise is the [[GreaterScopeVillain one who]] drove [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Manfred von Karma]] to murder by tricking him into using a fake autopsy to send an innocent man to prison, only to then penalize ThePerfectionist von Karma for fun. A [[AbusiveParents dreadful father]] to his son Sebastian, Blaise has abused the boy for years and tried to mold him into a perfect prosecutor, and responds to Sebastian's repeated failures by bullying him into a total breakdown. Having helped murder the President of Zheng Fa to empower his body double to take his place, Blaise also helps murder reporter Jack Cameron to cover it up, and later kills Cameron's girlfriend when she comes seeking revenge. Blaise then tries to frame an amnesiac Kay Faraday for the killing, and when he is eventually exposed for his many crimes, Blaise tries to kidnap the judge's son and threaten him with death to get away scot-free.
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* ''Farewell, My Turnabout'' 2016 stage play: [[DrivenByEnvy Matt Engarde]] shows himself to be far worse than his already-loathsome [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll original incarnation]]. A famous idol-turned-television star with a bitter hatred for fellow actor Juan Corrida, a few years ago, Matt had set about to ruin Juan's life by [[RapeByProxy tricking Juan's fiancée]] Celeste Impax into [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil getting raped]], ruining her reputation with the public and convincing her to commit suicide. Having Juan killed years later to cover up his impact on Celeste, Matt plans to {{blackmail}} his own assassin Shelly de Killer in an attempt to hold one over him, while having him threaten the life of Maya Fey if Phoenix Wright doesn't acquit him of Juan's murder and declare his manager, Adrian Andrews, the culprit.
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* ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations Trials and Tribulations]]'': [[Characters/AceAttorneyDahliaHawthorne Dahlia Hawthorne]] is a [[EvilIsPetty petty]] sociopath who [[TheFakeCutie hides]] her [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon devilish personality]] underneath an elegant façade. Having previously [[ManipulativeBitch manipulated]] her boyfriend Terry Fawles into assisting her in a robbery meant to spite her family, before killing her stepsister Valerie and framing him for the murder, Dahlia ensured Fawles's suicide to warrant her freedom. Poisoning defense attorney Diego Armando as revenge against Mia Fey for almost getting her convicted, Dahlia seduced Phoenix Wright to cover her tracks, killing his friend Doug Swallow for trying to warn him and framing Phoenix for it after her attempts to poison him failed. Despite being executed, Dahlia returns as a vengeful ghost, aiding her mother Morgan Fey in her plan to kill Maya Fey solely to spite Mia's spirit.
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->''"I killed a man named 'Smith' with a bottle because I am an evil human being. ...Isn't that enough?"''
-->-- '''The true villain''', ''[[VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney Apollo Justice]]'', ''Episode 4: Turnabout Succession''
In the world of ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', [[Characters/AceAttorneyPhoenixWright Phoenix Wright]], [[Characters/AceAttorneyApolloJustice Apollo Justice]], and [[Characters/AceAttorneyWrightAnythingAgency their allies]] face all kinds of criminals. Some are [[LaughablyEvil goofy]], some are {{tragic|villain}}, some are magnificent...and then there are [[CompleteMonster these nastiest criminals that have taken the stand]].
![[Administrivia/SpoilersOff All spoilers are unmarked]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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[[AC:Main series]]
* ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'': [[AmoralAttorney Manfred von Karma]] is an amoral prosecutor who [[ThePerfectionist uses underhanded tactics to maintain his perfect win streak]]. When defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth gets him penalized in a trial by exposing his illegal tactics, Manfred [[DisproportionateRetribution becomes enraged despite still winning said trial]], taking the chance given by an earthquake striking the courtroom to catch up with Gregory and his son [[Characters/AceAttorneyMilesEdgeworth Miles]] in an elevator and murdering Gregory. Taking Miles under his wing, Manfred raises him to become a cold, ruthless prosecutor who cares for nothing but always winning a guilty verdict. Setting up a second murder, Manfred plans to frame Miles for both it and his own father's death, intending to see his adoptive son convicted for murder as the [[RevengeByProxy final act of his revenge]] against Gregory.
* ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations Trials and Tribulations]]'': [[Characters/AceAttorneyDahliaHawthorne Dahlia Hawthorne]] is a [[EvilIsPetty petty]] sociopath who [[TheFakeCutie hides]] her [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon devilish personality]] underneath an elegant façade. Having previously [[ManipulativeBitch manipulated]] her boyfriend Terry Fawles into assisting her in a robbery meant to spite her family, before killing her stepsister Valerie and framing him for the murder, Dahlia ensured Fawles's suicide to warrant her freedom. Poisoning defense attorney Diego Armando as revenge against Mia Fey for almost getting her convicted, Dahlia seduced Phoenix Wright to cover her tracks, killing his friend Doug Swallow for trying to warn him and framing Phoenix for it after her attempts to poison him failed. Despite being executed, Dahlia returns as a vengeful ghost, aiding her mother Morgan Fey in her plan to kill Maya Fey solely to spite Mia's spirit.
* ''[[VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney Apollo Justice]]'': [[AmoralAttorney Kristoph Gavin]] is a seemingly-helpful mentor who is really one half of the diabolical duo to usher in "The Dark Age of the Law" by disbarring Phoenix Wright. Kristoph did this out of a [[DisproportionateRetribution petty grudge]] for Phoenix being chosen as a lawyer for a client instead of him, and so murders said client and [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] a shy artist and [[CainAndAbel his own brother]] to enact his vengeance. Poisoning both the artist and her father, Kristoph intended for both to die, gloating to Apollo that he knew the latter's line of questioning would make her nervously bite her nails, where he had put the poison. Having started poisoning the artist when she was only [[WouldHurtAChild twelve]], Kristoph is happy to then sit back and watch her face conviction for her own father's murder committed by himself.
* ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies Dual Destinies]]'': "[[MasterOfDisguise the phantom]]" is a [[TheSpook mysterious]] international super spy and the other figure responsible for "The Dark Age of the Law". Murdering multiple people to [[KillAndReplace assume their identities]], the phantom has no qualms over the suffering his actions cause, allowing the neighbors of one of his victims to believe she had been killed by her 11-year-old daughter. Sabotaging a rocket, the phantom nearly kills the astronaut aboard and years later [[MadBomber bombs]] an entire space station; he later murdered yet another astronaut, Apollo's best friend, and [[FrameUp framed]] the astronaut's coworker. Attempting to bomb a courtroom to destroy a piece of evidence, the phantom is willing to kill hundreds to get away and tries to frame Athena and her friend for his atrocities.
* ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice Spirit of Justice]]'': [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Ga'ran Sigatar Khura'in]] is the sadistic megalomaniac responsible for the [[KangarooCourt draconic legal system]] of the [[Characters/AceAttorneyKingdomOfKhurain Kingdom of Khura'in]]. After being passed over for the throne in favor of her gentle sister Amara due to lacking spiritual power, jealously led to [[CainAndAbel Ga'ran orchestrating multiple attempts on Amara's life]] in order to strong-arm her into going into hiding while [[FrameUp framing]] Amara's husband Dhurke for her apparent murder. After seizing the throne, Ga'ran passed the [[DisproportionateRetribution Defense Culpability Act]], which would force a defense attorney to suffer the same fate as the accused upon losing a case; this led to hundreds, if not thousands, of unjust deaths of defendants and lawyers alike under Khura'in's one-sided court system. Completely uncaring towards her own family, Ga'ran forces Amara and her nephew Nahyuta to cater to her whims on threat of ruining her niece Rayfa's life, and doesn't hesitate to blackmail them into taking the fall for a murder she committed or secretly ordering for Amara to be shot in court. Heartless enough to leave the [[WouldHurtAChild baby Apollo Justice]] to die in a fire which she started--and [[YouKilledMyFather killing Apollo's father]] while leaving--and egomaniacal to the point of making standing up to her a crime worthy of execution, Ga'ran proved to be among Phoenix Wright and Apollo Justice's most depraved foes yet.
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* ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations Investigations]]'': [[AssInAmbassador Quercus Alba]], while initially seeming like a [[ObfuscatingDisability frail]], kind [[EvilOldFolks old man]], turns out to be the hardened, cold-hearted boss of [[TheSyndicate a large and powerful smuggling ring]]. Thanks to him putting many highly-convincing counterfeit bills into circulation, the country of Zheng Fa has been thrown into economic chaos due to [[TheChessmaster his machinations]]. He also ordered the deaths of Cece Yew, Deid Mann, and Byrne Faraday due to their efforts in trying to expose his role in the smuggling ring, and personally murdered Mask*[=DeMasque=] II and his subordinate Manny Coachen: [=DeMasque=] II for stealing the fake statue that contained the plates used for creating counterfeit bills, and Coachen due to him seeking to steal power of the smuggling ring from under Alba's nose. Ruthless and rotten to the core, Alba will kill anyone without so much as a second thought for the sake of keeping his criminal empire running.
* ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorneyChronicles'': [[ManipulativeBastard Mael Stronghart]] is the Lord Chief Justice of Britain, and the one responsible for all of the major events in the game. [[FromNobodyToNightmare Originally a regular prosecutor]] with [[AmbitionIsEvil grand ambition]], Stronghart blackmailed Klint van Zieks into assassinating other nobles, including the previous Lord Chief Justice, causing the infamous "Professor Killings". Stronghart orchestrated the trial against Genshin Asogi for Klint's crimes by manipulating many members of Scotland Yard's police into faking evidence, while also faking an execution sentence to supposedly let him free, only to convince his friend Seishiro Jigoku to shoot him when a bystander witnessed his escape. Later, Stronghart created an organization of assassins to kill anyone who escaped the guilty verdict, which would follow Barok van Zieks for years, and have him be known as "The Reaper of the Bailey". Eventually, Stronghart would want to ascend into the higher position of Attorney General, so he planned to blackmail Seishiro into both of them sending assassins to kill targets from their respective countries [[HeKnowsTooMuch who knew "too much"]] of his involvement with any of the other conspiracies. Although Stronghart claims to [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist have done it all in the name of making Britain into a better country]], the heroes call him out on his [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocrisy]], and Stronghart would in the end admit that all of his crimes and [[FauxAffablyEvil affable persona]] are just because [[ControlFreak he liked everything to run like a well-oiled machine]].
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* [[Film/AceAttorney2012 2012 film]]: Manfred von Karma, [[FauxAffablyEvil while hiding under a polite exterior]], proves to be just as vile as his [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney game counterpart.]] To maintain a perfect win streak, Manfred has falsified and concealed evidence for years, [[HeKnowsTooMuch murdering Gregory Edgeworth]] when he attempts to find proof of this. When Mia Fey is on the verge of solving said murder, known as the DL-6 Incident, Manfred hires the reporter, Redd White, to murder her. Later on, he sends a letter to Yanni Yogi, the suspect of the DL-6 Incident, detailing a plan to murder Robert Hammond and how to {{frame|Up}} Manfred's adoptive son, Miles Edgeworth for it. When Phoenix finds out there's a connection between the DL-6 incident and the Robert Hammond murder, Manfred has Redd White poisoned to death to ensure Phoenix can't get information from him. He then intends to have Miles be declared guilty for the murder of Gregory. While he claims that his actions are for the sake of ensuring criminals are punished, von Karma proves himself to simply be an arrogant hypocrite willing to commit any atrocity for [[ItsAllAboutMe the sake of his reputation]].
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->''"I killed a man named 'Smith' with a bottle because I am an evil human being. Isn't that enough?"''
-->--'''The real killer''', ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'', Episode 4: "Turnabout Succession"
The ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' franchise has produced its fair share of [[CompleteMonster monstrous villains]].
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''[[AC:VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'']]
* [[spoiler:Manfred von Karma]] is the BigBad of ''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney''. [[spoiler:A prosecutor obsessed with perfectionism]], he had a flawless, decades-long win streak fueled by extremely dirty tactics, until defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth managed to have him penalized for illegal workings in the courtroom, causing him to be enraged by the stain on his perfect records. Right after the end of the case, an earthquake struck the courthouse, and [[spoiler:Manfred]] came upon Gregory, his nine-year-old son Miles, and a bailiff trapped inside an elevator. Sensing a chance for [[DisproportionateRetribution revenge]], he picked up the bailiff's gun and shot the unconscious Gregory in the heart. Afterwards, he took Miles under his wing and raised Miles to be the antithesis of everything that Gregory was, [[TheCorrupter twisting the boy]] into a ruthless, cold-hearted prosecutor who cared for nothing but getting a guilty verdict every time. Finally, a few days before the Gregory Edgeworth murder case was closed forever, [[spoiler:Manfred]] set up a murder and [[FrameUp framed it on Miles]], intending to have his own foster son executed to complete his revenge on Gregory, planning it so that Miles would be convinced that he himself had killed his father and would confess to and be charged with that murder as well. When the case became troublesome, he personally went to the police records to destroy crucial evidence, and used a stun gun to assault Miles's lawyer who discovered his actions.
* [[spoiler:Dahlia Hawthorne]], the BigBad of ''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations'', previously manipulated [[ManChild her boyfriend]] into assisting her in a crime, before framing him for murder and ensuring [[DrivenToSuicide his suicide to cover her tracks]]. She later poisoned the lover of the prosecutor Mia Fey when he got too close to her crimes, before she seduced Phoenix Wright as well. When her [[spoiler:twin sister Iris]] fell for Phoenix, she accelerated her plans to poison him. When an ex-lover of tried to warn Phoenix, she murdered him and tried to frame Phoenix. Despite being executed, she returned as a vengeful ghost, aiding her mother to kill [[spoiler:Dahlia's cousin Maya Fey]] solely to spite [[spoiler:her elder sister Mia's]] spirit. Taking steps to manipulate [[spoiler:her twin]] again to help with the murder, she came back from the dead to possess Misty Fey--albeit due to Misty's desire to protect her niece Pearl--and attempted to murder Maya, being stopped only by the intervention of Godot who killed her host. But despite this she became convinced that she had forced Maya to murder her own mother and caused her to commit suicide, which she gloated over to their faces. She's also a giant {{hypocrite}}, as she shows nothing but disgust towards Morgan Fey because of the "petty revenge" that she was after, but at the same time was going along with Morgan's plan specifically in order to get her own revenge on Mia.
''[[AC:VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney]]''
* [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]] is introduced as a supposedly helpful mentor. He is also one of the two people responsible for ushering in “The Dark Age Of The Law” by getting Phoenix Wright disbarred. After he ended up taking a massive blow to his ego when a magician and prospective client, Zak, rejected him as his lawyer. When Zak hired Phoenix instead of him due to a poker game, he became furious and decided to get revenge. He had gotten a shy artist named Vera to unknowingly create fake evidence for the trial, but after Phoenix was hired, he used the evidence to get him disbarred. He also manipulated his own brother, [[spoiler: prosecutor Klavier]], by using him to disbar Phoenix and cheating the honorable [[spoiler:Klavier]] out of a fair trial. [[spoiler:Klavier]], who knew something wasn't right, was haunted for years. When Zak resurfaced under a new identity years later, he took the chance to murder him and frame Phoenix. After this, it was revealed he had poisoned Vera and her father Drew, intending both to die. Vera survived, barely. To pour salt on the wound, he then gloated about how Apollo and Phoenix had triggered his plan-their questioning caused Vera to bite her nails- when he had planted the poison as nail polish, knowing her nervous habit. He had even started poisoning her when she was only twelve. After her survival, he simply enjoyed seeing Vera face conviction for her own father's murder. In the end, he was little but a cruel, petty, selfish man obsessed with glory and destroying those who stood in his way
''[[AC:VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations]]''
* While initially seeming like a [[EvilOldFolks frail and kind individual]], BigBad [[spoiler:Quercus Alba]] turns out to be the hardened, cold-hearted boss of a large and powerful smuggling ring. Thanks to him putting many highly-convincing counterfeit bills into circulation, the country of Zheng Fa has been thrown into economic chaos due to his machinations. He also ordered the deaths of Cece Yew, Deid Mann, and Byrne Faraday due to their efforts in trying to expose his role in the smuggling ring, and personally murdered Mask*[=DeMasque=] II and his subordinate Manny Coachen: [=DeMasque=] II for stealing the fake statue that contained the plates used for creating counterfeit bills, and Coachen due to him seeking to steal power of the smuggling ring from under [[spoiler: Alba's]] nose. Ruthless and rotten to the core, [[spoiler: Alba]] will kill anyone without so much as a second thought for the sake of keeping his criminal empire running.
''[[AC:VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies]]''
* The internationally-hired [[PsychoForHire mercenary spy]] known only as [[TheSpook the phantom]] is a nasty piece of work, and is the second figure, after [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]], who ushered in "The Dark Age Of The Law." His plan begins when he murders the cheerful [[spoiler:Bobby Fulbright to assume his identity and become Simon Blackquill's handler]]. Before that, he killed Athena Cykes's mother and pretended to be her, and using a Noh mask hanging from her wall, as well as her jacket, he [[FrameUp fooled the helper robots]] into thinking Athena--then an 11-year-old child--had killed and disassembled her mother. By doing so, he gets the noble Prosecutor Blackquill convicted and proceeds to sabotage the HAT-1 rocket, causing the astronaut to barely escape with his life. After that was all done, some 7 years later, he sent a warning to the director Yuri Cosmos, and when that was ignored, bombed the space station. Afterwards he killed [[spoiler:Apollo's best friend, Clay Terran]], who tried to fight back, and threatened to expose his identity, framed the other astronaut and big brother figure to Apollo and Clay for the crime, and when that failed, bombed the courtroom to destroy a piece of evidence, nearly causing the deaths of hundreds, then framing Athena for this. He was also able to frame Athena's best friend, [[IllGirl Juniper Woods]], for the courtroom bombing. Had it not been for Athena's moon rock earring being able to be compared with the destroyed moon rock, he would have gotten away with everything. Be that as it may, he also doesn't feel emotions the way a normal person does, and as such, is a chillingly realistic example of [[TheSociopath a sociopath]] in a video game.
''[[AC:VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice]]''
* The heartless and egomaniacal [[spoiler:Ga'ran Sigatar Khura'in]] is [[BigBad the figure responsible]] for ushering in the kingdom of Khura'in's equivalent to the Dark Age of the Law. [[spoiler:A woman born to the royal family yet possessing no spiritual power, Ga'ran was passed over for the throne in favor of her kind and gentle sister Amara.]] Jealousy and hatred towards Amara led to [[spoiler:Ga'ran]] making an attempt on her life by setting her residence on fire. In the chaos, [[spoiler:Ga'ran]] murdered the [[spoiler:musician Jove Justice]] and left his infant son to die, then went on to {{frame|Up}} the lawyer Dhurke Sahdmadhi for Amara's death. In the wake of the queen's assassination, [[spoiler:Ga'ran]]'s actions led to the passing of the Defense Culpability Act, which would force defense attorneys and anyone associated with them to suffer the same fate as the accused, which led to the deaths of thousands of innocent defendants and lawyers alike, and in the present day lawyers are all but extinct and the accused are helpless against the prosecution. In the meantime, [[spoiler:Ga'ran is keeping Amara hidden away and forces her and her son Nahyuta to cater to her every whim on threat of ruining her daughter Rayfa's life.]] [[spoiler:Ga'ran]], finding out that [[spoiler:her husband Inga is planning to overthrow her]], without hesitation kills him and frames Dhurke for it. During Dhurke's trial, [[spoiler:Ga'ran]] takes up the role as the trial's prosecutor and wastes no time in doing the damnedest to win the trial and get anyone who showed support for Dhurke executed under the DC Act. When it becomes apparent that Dhurke isn't the murderer thanks to Apollo's efforts, [[spoiler:Ga'ran]] tries to throw [[spoiler:Amara]] under the bus and has her shot when Apollo proves otherwise. When the court reconvenes, [[spoiler:Ga'ran]] forces [[spoiler:Nahyuta]] to take the fall instead, and, once backed up against the wall by Apollo, [[spoiler:she passes a law that makes standing up to her punishable by death and tries to have him, Phoenix, and Nahyuta all executed on the spot for defying her.]]
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-->--'''The real killer''', ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'', Episode 4: "Turnabout Succession"
The ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' franchise has produced its fair share of [[CompleteMonster monstrous villains]].
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''[[AC:VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'']]
* [[spoiler:Manfred von Karma]] is the BigBad of ''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney''. [[spoiler:A prosecutor obsessed with perfectionism]], he had a flawless, decades-long win streak fueled by extremely dirty tactics, until defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth managed to have him penalized for illegal workings in the courtroom, causing him to be enraged by the stain on his perfect records. Right after the end of the case, an earthquake struck the courthouse, and [[spoiler:Manfred]] came upon Gregory, his nine-year-old son Miles, and a bailiff trapped inside an elevator. Sensing a chance for [[DisproportionateRetribution revenge]], he picked up the bailiff's gun and shot the unconscious Gregory in the heart. Afterwards, he took Miles under his wing and raised Miles to be the antithesis of everything that Gregory was, [[TheCorrupter twisting the boy]] into a ruthless, cold-hearted prosecutor who cared for nothing but getting a guilty verdict every time. Finally, a few days before the Gregory Edgeworth murder case was closed forever, [[spoiler:Manfred]] set up a murder and [[FrameUp framed it on Miles]], intending to have his own foster son executed to complete his revenge on Gregory, planning it so that Miles would be convinced that he himself had killed his father and would confess to and be charged with that murder as well. When the case became troublesome, he personally went to the police records to destroy crucial evidence, and used a stun gun to assault Miles's lawyer who discovered his actions.
* [[spoiler:Dahlia Hawthorne]], the BigBad of ''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations'', previously manipulated [[ManChild her boyfriend]] into assisting her in a crime, before framing him for murder and ensuring [[DrivenToSuicide his suicide to cover her tracks]]. She later poisoned the lover of the prosecutor Mia Fey when he got too close to her crimes, before she seduced Phoenix Wright as well. When her [[spoiler:twin sister Iris]] fell for Phoenix, she accelerated her plans to poison him. When an ex-lover of tried to warn Phoenix, she murdered him and tried to frame Phoenix. Despite being executed, she returned as a vengeful ghost, aiding her mother to kill [[spoiler:Dahlia's cousin Maya Fey]] solely to spite [[spoiler:her elder sister Mia's]] spirit. Taking steps to manipulate [[spoiler:her twin]] again to help with the murder, she came back from the dead to possess Misty Fey--albeit due to Misty's desire to protect her niece Pearl--and attempted to murder Maya, being stopped only by the intervention of Godot who killed her host. But despite this she became convinced that she had forced Maya to murder her own mother and caused her to commit suicide, which she gloated over to their faces. She's also a giant {{hypocrite}}, as she shows nothing but disgust towards Morgan Fey because of the "petty revenge" that she was after, but at the same time was going along with Morgan's plan specifically in order to get her own revenge on Mia.
''[[AC:VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney]]''
* [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]] is introduced as a supposedly helpful mentor. He is also one of the two people responsible for ushering in “The Dark Age Of The Law” by getting Phoenix Wright disbarred. After he ended up taking a massive blow to his ego when a magician and prospective client, Zak, rejected him as his lawyer. When Zak hired Phoenix instead of him due to a poker game, he became furious and decided to get revenge. He had gotten a shy artist named Vera to unknowingly create fake evidence for the trial, but after Phoenix was hired, he used the evidence to get him disbarred. He also manipulated his own brother, [[spoiler: prosecutor Klavier]], by using him to disbar Phoenix and cheating the honorable [[spoiler:Klavier]] out of a fair trial. [[spoiler:Klavier]], who knew something wasn't right, was haunted for years. When Zak resurfaced under a new identity years later, he took the chance to murder him and frame Phoenix. After this, it was revealed he had poisoned Vera and her father Drew, intending both to die. Vera survived, barely. To pour salt on the wound, he then gloated about how Apollo and Phoenix had triggered his plan-their questioning caused Vera to bite her nails- when he had planted the poison as nail polish, knowing her nervous habit. He had even started poisoning her when she was only twelve. After her survival, he simply enjoyed seeing Vera face conviction for her own father's murder. In the end, he was little but a cruel, petty, selfish man obsessed with glory and destroying those who stood in his way
''[[AC:VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations]]''
* While initially seeming like a [[EvilOldFolks frail and kind individual]], BigBad [[spoiler:Quercus Alba]] turns out to be the hardened, cold-hearted boss of a large and powerful smuggling ring. Thanks to him putting many highly-convincing counterfeit bills into circulation, the country of Zheng Fa has been thrown into economic chaos due to his machinations. He also ordered the deaths of Cece Yew, Deid Mann, and Byrne Faraday due to their efforts in trying to expose his role in the smuggling ring, and personally murdered Mask*[=DeMasque=] II and his subordinate Manny Coachen: [=DeMasque=] II for stealing the fake statue that contained the plates used for creating counterfeit bills, and Coachen due to him seeking to steal power of the smuggling ring from under [[spoiler: Alba's]] nose. Ruthless and rotten to the core, [[spoiler: Alba]] will kill anyone without so much as a second thought for the sake of keeping his criminal empire running.
''[[AC:VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies]]''
* The internationally-hired [[PsychoForHire mercenary spy]] known only as [[TheSpook the phantom]] is a nasty piece of work, and is the second figure, after [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]], who ushered in "The Dark Age Of The Law." His plan begins when he murders the cheerful [[spoiler:Bobby Fulbright to assume his identity and become Simon Blackquill's handler]]. Before that, he killed Athena Cykes's mother and pretended to be her, and using a Noh mask hanging from her wall, as well as her jacket, he [[FrameUp fooled the helper robots]] into thinking Athena--then an 11-year-old child--had killed and disassembled her mother. By doing so, he gets the noble Prosecutor Blackquill convicted and proceeds to sabotage the HAT-1 rocket, causing the astronaut to barely escape with his life. After that was all done, some 7 years later, he sent a warning to the director Yuri Cosmos, and when that was ignored, bombed the space station. Afterwards he killed [[spoiler:Apollo's best friend, Clay Terran]], who tried to fight back, and threatened to expose his identity, framed the other astronaut and big brother figure to Apollo and Clay for the crime, and when that failed, bombed the courtroom to destroy a piece of evidence, nearly causing the deaths of hundreds, then framing Athena for this. He was also able to frame Athena's best friend, [[IllGirl Juniper Woods]], for the courtroom bombing. Had it not been for Athena's moon rock earring being able to be compared with the destroyed moon rock, he would have gotten away with everything. Be that as it may, he also doesn't feel emotions the way a normal person does, and as such, is a chillingly realistic example of [[TheSociopath a sociopath]] in a video game.
''[[AC:VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice]]''
* The heartless and egomaniacal [[spoiler:Ga'ran Sigatar Khura'in]] is [[BigBad the figure responsible]] for ushering in the kingdom of Khura'in's equivalent to the Dark Age of the Law. [[spoiler:A woman born to the royal family yet possessing no spiritual power, Ga'ran was passed over for the throne in favor of her kind and gentle sister Amara.]] Jealousy and hatred towards Amara led to [[spoiler:Ga'ran]] making an attempt on her life by setting her residence on fire. In the chaos, [[spoiler:Ga'ran]] murdered the [[spoiler:musician Jove Justice]] and left his infant son to die, then went on to {{frame|Up}} the lawyer Dhurke Sahdmadhi for Amara's death. In the wake of the queen's assassination, [[spoiler:Ga'ran]]'s actions led to the passing of the Defense Culpability Act, which would force defense attorneys and anyone associated with them to suffer the same fate as the accused, which led to the deaths of thousands of innocent defendants and lawyers alike, and in the present day lawyers are all but extinct and the accused are helpless against the prosecution. In the meantime, [[spoiler:Ga'ran is keeping Amara hidden away and forces her and her son Nahyuta to cater to her every whim on threat of ruining her daughter Rayfa's life.]] [[spoiler:Ga'ran]], finding out that [[spoiler:her husband Inga is planning to overthrow her]], without hesitation kills him and frames Dhurke for it. During Dhurke's trial, [[spoiler:Ga'ran]] takes up the role as the trial's prosecutor and wastes no time in doing the damnedest to win the trial and get anyone who showed support for Dhurke executed under the DC Act. When it becomes apparent that Dhurke isn't the murderer thanks to Apollo's efforts, [[spoiler:Ga'ran]] tries to throw [[spoiler:Amara]] under the bus and has her shot when Apollo proves otherwise. When the court reconvenes, [[spoiler:Ga'ran]] forces [[spoiler:Nahyuta]] to take the fall instead, and, once backed up against the wall by Apollo, [[spoiler:she passes a law that makes standing up to her punishable by death and tries to have him, Phoenix, and Nahyuta all executed on the spot for defying her.]]
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* [[spoiler:Manfred von Karma]] is the BigBad of ''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney''. [[spoiler:A prosecutor obsessed with perfectionism]], he had a flawless, decades-long win streak fueled by extremely dirty tactics, until defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth managed to have him penalized for illegal workings in the courtroom, causing him to be enraged by the stain on his perfect records. Right after the end of the case, an earthquake struck the courthouse, and [[spoiler:Manfred]] came upon Gregory, his nine-year-old son Miles, and a bailiff trapped inside an elevator. Sensing a chance for [[DisproportionateRetribution revenge]], he picked up the bailiff's gun and shot the unconscious Gregory in the heart. Afterwards, he took Miles under his wing and raised Miles to be the antithesis of everything that Gregory was, [[TheCorrupter twisting the boy]] into a ruthless, cold-hearted prosecutor who cared for nothing but getting a guilty verdict every time. Finally, a few days before the Gregory Edgeworth murder case was closed forever, [[spoiler:Manfred]] set up a murder and [[FrameUp framed it on Miles]], intending to have his own foster son executed to complete his revenge on Gregory, planning it so that Miles would be convinced that he himself had killed his father and would confess to and be charged with that murder as well. When the case became troublesome, he personally went to the police records to destroy crucial evidence, and used a stun gun to assault Miles's lawyer who discovered his actions.
* [[spoiler:Dahlia Hawthorne]], the BigBad of ''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations'', previously manipulated [[ManChild her boyfriend]] into assisting her in a crime, before framing him for murder and ensuring [[DrivenToSuicide his suicide to cover her tracks]]. She later poisoned the lover of the prosecutor Mia Fey when he got too close to her crimes, before she seduced Phoenix Wright as well. When her [[spoiler:twin sister Iris]] fell for Phoenix, she accelerated her plans to poison him. When an ex-lover of tried to warn Phoenix, she murdered him and tried to frame Phoenix. Despite being executed, she returned as a vengeful ghost, aiding her mother to kill [[spoiler:Dahlia's cousin Maya Fey]] solely to spite [[spoiler:her elder sister Mia's]] spirit. Taking steps to manipulate [[spoiler:her twin]] again to help with the murder, she came back from the dead to possess Misty Fey--albeit due to Misty's desire to protect her niece Pearl--and attempted to murder Maya, being stopped only by the intervention of Godot who killed her host. But despite this she became convinced that she had forced Maya to murder her own mother and caused her to commit suicide, which she gloated over to their faces. She's also a giant {{hypocrite}}, as she shows nothing but disgust towards Morgan Fey because of the "petty revenge" that she was after, but at the same time was going along with Morgan's plan specifically in order to get her own revenge on Mia.
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* [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]] is introduced as a supposedly helpful mentor. He is also one of the two people responsible for ushering in “The Dark Age Of The Law” by getting Phoenix Wright disbarred. After he ended up taking a massive blow to his ego when a magician and prospective client, Zak, rejected him as his lawyer. When Zak hired Phoenix instead of him due to a poker game, he became furious and decided to get revenge. He had gotten a shy artist named Vera to unknowingly create fake evidence for the trial, but after Phoenix was hired, he used the evidence to get him disbarred. He also manipulated his own brother, [[spoiler: prosecutor Klavier]], by using him to disbar Phoenix and cheating the honorable [[spoiler:Klavier]] out of a fair trial. [[spoiler:Klavier]], who knew something wasn't right, was haunted for years. When Zak resurfaced under a new identity years later, he took the chance to murder him and frame Phoenix. After this, it was revealed he had poisoned Vera and her father Drew, intending both to die. Vera survived, barely. To pour salt on the wound, he then gloated about how Apollo and Phoenix had triggered his plan-their questioning caused Vera to bite her nails- when he had planted the poison as nail polish, knowing her nervous habit. He had even started poisoning her when she was only twelve. After her survival, he simply enjoyed seeing Vera face conviction for her own father's murder. In the end, he was little but a cruel, petty, selfish man obsessed with glory and destroying those who stood in his way
''[[AC:VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations]]''
* While initially seeming like a [[EvilOldFolks frail and kind individual]], BigBad [[spoiler:Quercus Alba]] turns out to be the hardened, cold-hearted boss of a large and powerful smuggling ring. Thanks to him putting many highly-convincing counterfeit bills into circulation, the country of Zheng Fa has been thrown into economic chaos due to his machinations. He also ordered the deaths of Cece Yew, Deid Mann, and Byrne Faraday due to their efforts in trying to expose his role in the smuggling ring, and personally murdered Mask*[=DeMasque=] II and his subordinate Manny Coachen: [=DeMasque=] II for stealing the fake statue that contained the plates used for creating counterfeit bills, and Coachen due to him seeking to steal power of the smuggling ring from under [[spoiler: Alba's]] nose. Ruthless and rotten to the core, [[spoiler: Alba]] will kill anyone without so much as a second thought for the sake of keeping his criminal empire running.
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* The internationally-hired [[PsychoForHire mercenary spy]] known only as [[TheSpook the phantom]] is a nasty piece of work, and is the second figure, after [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]], who ushered in "The Dark Age Of The Law." His plan begins when he murders the cheerful [[spoiler:Bobby Fulbright to assume his identity and become Simon Blackquill's handler]]. Before that, he killed Athena Cykes's mother and pretended to be her, and using a Noh mask hanging from her wall, as well as her jacket, he [[FrameUp fooled the helper robots]] into thinking Athena--then an 11-year-old child--had killed and disassembled her mother. By doing so, he gets the noble Prosecutor Blackquill convicted and proceeds to sabotage the HAT-1 rocket, causing the astronaut to barely escape with his life. After that was all done, some 7 years later, he sent a warning to the director Yuri Cosmos, and when that was ignored, bombed the space station. Afterwards he killed [[spoiler:Apollo's best friend, Clay Terran]], who tried to fight back, and threatened to expose his identity, framed the other astronaut and big brother figure to Apollo and Clay for the crime, and when that failed, bombed the courtroom to destroy a piece of evidence, nearly causing the deaths of hundreds, then framing Athena for this. He was also able to frame Athena's best friend, [[IllGirl Juniper Woods]], for the courtroom bombing. Had it not been for Athena's moon rock earring being able to be compared with the destroyed moon rock, he would have gotten away with everything. Be that as it may, he also doesn't feel emotions the way a normal person does, and as such, is a chillingly realistic example of [[TheSociopath a sociopath]] in a video game.
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* The heartless and egomaniacal [[spoiler:Ga'ran Sigatar Khura'in]] is [[BigBad the figure responsible]] for ushering in the kingdom of Khura'in's equivalent to the Dark Age of the Law. [[spoiler:A woman born to the royal family yet possessing no spiritual power, Ga'ran was passed over for the throne in favor of her kind and gentle sister Amara.]] Jealousy and hatred towards Amara led to [[spoiler:Ga'ran]] making an attempt on her life by setting her residence on fire. In the chaos, [[spoiler:Ga'ran]] murdered the [[spoiler:musician Jove Justice]] and left his infant son to die, then went on to {{frame|Up}} the lawyer Dhurke Sahdmadhi for Amara's death. In the wake of the queen's assassination, [[spoiler:Ga'ran]]'s actions led to the passing of the Defense Culpability Act, which would force defense attorneys and anyone associated with them to suffer the same fate as the accused, which led to the deaths of thousands of innocent defendants and lawyers alike, and in the present day lawyers are all but extinct and the accused are helpless against the prosecution. In the meantime, [[spoiler:Ga'ran is keeping Amara hidden away and forces her and her son Nahyuta to cater to her every whim on threat of ruining her daughter Rayfa's life.]] [[spoiler:Ga'ran]], finding out that [[spoiler:her husband Inga is planning to overthrow her]], without hesitation kills him and frames Dhurke for it. During Dhurke's trial, [[spoiler:Ga'ran]] takes up the role as the trial's prosecutor and wastes no time in doing the damnedest to win the trial and get anyone who showed support for Dhurke executed under the DC Act. When it becomes apparent that Dhurke isn't the murderer thanks to Apollo's efforts, [[spoiler:Ga'ran]] tries to throw [[spoiler:Amara]] under the bus and has her shot when Apollo proves otherwise. When the court reconvenes, [[spoiler:Ga'ran]] forces [[spoiler:Nahyuta]] to take the fall instead, and, once backed up against the wall by Apollo, [[spoiler:she passes a law that makes standing up to her punishable by death and tries to have him, Phoenix, and Nahyuta all executed on the spot for defying her.]]
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* [[SmugSnake Redd White]] from ''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney'' is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive amoral CEO]] of Bluecorp, a business that profits off of obtaining incriminating information and {{blackmail}}. In the past, Redd White [[spoiler:leaked information about Misty Fey's involvement with the police investigation of Gregory Edgeworth's murder, which resulted in the Fey clan of spirit medium's name being soiled]]. In the present day he has kept numerous influential people under his thumb such as Marvin Grossberg, forcing them to cater to his whims on threat of leaking their deepest secrets to the public, which would ruin their lives. He has driven numerous people to suicide as a result, and doesn't care in the slightest while fully intending to continue his blackmailing operations. When Mia Fey was preparing to bring evidence of his culpability in the suicides to the public, he stole the information she had and beat her to death before trying to pin the blame on her younger sister Maya. When Phoenix Wright uncovers the truth, Redd throws him under the bus instead, fully intent on using his connections in the legal world to crush him in court.
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* The internationally-hired [[PsychoForHire mercenary spy]] known only as [[AllLowercaseLetters the phantom]] is a nasty piece of work, and is the second figure, after [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]], who ushered in "The Dark Age Of The Law." His plan begins when he murders the cheerful [[spoiler:Bobby Fulbright to assume his identity and become Simon Blackquill's handler]]. Before that, he killed Athena Cykes's mother and pretended to be her, and using a Noh mask hanging from her wall, as well as her jacket, he [[FrameUp fooled the helper robots]] into thinking Athena--then an 11-year-old child--had killed and disassembled her mother. By doing so, he gets the noble Prosecutor Blackquill convicted and proceeds to sabotage the HAT-1 rocket, causing the astronaut to barely escape with his life. After that was all done, some 7 years later, he sent a warning to the director Yuri Cosmos, and when that was ignored, bombed the space station. Afterwards he killed [[spoiler:Apollo's best friend, Clay Terran]], who tried to fight back, and threatened to expose his identity, framed the other astronaut and big brother figure to Apollo and Clay for the crime, and when that failed, bombed the courtroom to destroy a piece of evidence, nearly causing the deaths of hundreds, then framing Athena for this. He was also able to frame Athena's best friend, [[IllGirl Juniper Woods]], for the courtroom bombing. Had it not been for Athena's moon rock earring being able to be compared with the destroyed moon rock, he would have gotten away with everything. Be that as it may, he also doesn't feel emotions the way a normal person does, and as such, is a chillingly realistic example of [[TheSociopath a sociopath]] in a video game.
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* The internationally-hired [[PsychoForHire mercenary spy]] known only as [[AllLowercaseLetters [[TheSpook the phantom]] is a nasty piece of work, and is the second figure, after [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]], who ushered in "The Dark Age Of The Law." His plan begins when he murders the cheerful [[spoiler:Bobby Fulbright to assume his identity and become Simon Blackquill's handler]]. Before that, he killed Athena Cykes's mother and pretended to be her, and using a Noh mask hanging from her wall, as well as her jacket, he [[FrameUp fooled the helper robots]] into thinking Athena--then an 11-year-old child--had killed and disassembled her mother. By doing so, he gets the noble Prosecutor Blackquill convicted and proceeds to sabotage the HAT-1 rocket, causing the astronaut to barely escape with his life. After that was all done, some 7 years later, he sent a warning to the director Yuri Cosmos, and when that was ignored, bombed the space station. Afterwards he killed [[spoiler:Apollo's best friend, Clay Terran]], who tried to fight back, and threatened to expose his identity, framed the other astronaut and big brother figure to Apollo and Clay for the crime, and when that failed, bombed the courtroom to destroy a piece of evidence, nearly causing the deaths of hundreds, then framing Athena for this. He was also able to frame Athena's best friend, [[IllGirl Juniper Woods]], for the courtroom bombing. Had it not been for Athena's moon rock earring being able to be compared with the destroyed moon rock, he would have gotten away with everything. Be that as it may, he also doesn't feel emotions the way a normal person does, and as such, is a chillingly realistic example of [[TheSociopath a sociopath]] in a video game.
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* [[spoiler: Matt Engarde]] from the ''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for All'' case "Farewell, My Turnabout" threw away his loving and devoted manager Celeste Inpax once he was done using her to further his career. When Celeste was engaged to his rival, [[spoiler: Engarde]] told him Celeste was "[[DefiledForever used goods]]" to trick him into calling off the wedding. Celeste [[DriventoSuicide killed herself]], to [[spoiler: Engarde's]] delight. [[spoiler: Engarde]] later hired professional assassin [[MeaningfulName Shelley de Killer]] to murder his rival, but kept blackmail material to betray de Killer as well. To force Phoenix Wright to acquit him for murder, [[spoiler: Engarde]] had de Killer kidnap the innocent Maya Fey and attempted to pin his crimes on the innocent, miserable and insecure Adrian Andrews partly for the thrill of hurting her.
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* [[spoiler:[[BitchInSheepsClothing Dahlia]] [[EnfantTerrible Hawthorne]]]], the BigBad of ''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations'', previously manipulated [[ManChild her boyfriend]] into assisting her in a crime, before framing him for murder and ensuring [[DrivenToSuicide his suicide to cover her tracks]]. She later poisoned the lover of Mia Fey when he got too close to her crimes, before she seduced Phoenix Wright as well. When her twin sister Iris fell for Phoenix, [[spoiler:Dahlia]] accelerated her plans to poison him. When an ex-lover of hers tried to warn Phoenix, [[spoiler:Dahlia]] murdered him and tried to frame Phoenix. Despite being executed, [[spoiler:Dahlia]] returned as a vengeful ghost, aiding her mother to kill [[spoiler:Dahlia's cousin Maya Fey]] solely to spite [[spoiler:her elder sister Mia's]] spirit. Taking steps to manipulate [[spoiler:her twin]] again to help with the murder, she came back from the dead to possess Misty Fey--albeit due to Misty's desire to protect her niece Pearl--and attempted to murder Maya, being stopped only by the intervention of Godot who killed her host. But despite this she became convinced that she had forced Maya to murder her own mother and caused her to commit suicide, which she gloated over to their faces. She's also a giant {{hypocrite}}, as she shows nothing but disgust towards Morgan Fey because of the "petty revenge" that she was after, but at the same time was going along with Morgan's plan specifically in order to get her own revenge on Mia.
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* [[spoiler:[[BitchInSheepsClothing Dahlia]] [[EnfantTerrible Hawthorne]]]], [[spoiler:Dahlia Hawthorne]], the BigBad of ''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations'', previously manipulated [[ManChild her boyfriend]] into assisting her in a crime, before framing him for murder and ensuring [[DrivenToSuicide his suicide to cover her tracks]]. She later poisoned the lover of the prosecutor Mia Fey when he got too close to her crimes, before she seduced Phoenix Wright as well. When her twin [[spoiler:twin sister Iris Iris]] fell for Phoenix, [[spoiler:Dahlia]] she accelerated her plans to poison him. When an ex-lover of hers tried to warn Phoenix, [[spoiler:Dahlia]] she murdered him and tried to frame Phoenix. Despite being executed, [[spoiler:Dahlia]] she returned as a vengeful ghost, aiding her mother to kill [[spoiler:Dahlia's cousin Maya Fey]] solely to spite [[spoiler:her elder sister Mia's]] spirit. Taking steps to manipulate [[spoiler:her twin]] again to help with the murder, she came back from the dead to possess Misty Fey--albeit due to Misty's desire to protect her niece Pearl--and attempted to murder Maya, being stopped only by the intervention of Godot who killed her host. But despite this she became convinced that she had forced Maya to murder her own mother and caused her to commit suicide, which she gloated over to their faces. She's also a giant {{hypocrite}}, as she shows nothing but disgust towards Morgan Fey because of the "petty revenge" that she was after, but at the same time was going along with Morgan's plan specifically in order to get her own revenge on Mia.
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* [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]] is introduced as a supposedly helpful mentor. He is also the first man responsible for ushering in "The Dark Age Of The Law" by getting Phoenix Wright disbarred. [[spoiler:Kristoph]] ended up taking a massive blow to his ego when a magician and prospective client, Zak, rejected [[spoiler:Kristoph]] as his lawyer. When Zak hired Phoenix instead of him due to a poker game, a furious [[spoiler:Kristoph]] decided to get revenge. He had gotten a shy artist named Vera to unknowingly create fake evidence for the trial, but after Phoenix was hired, [[spoiler:Kristoph]] used the evidence to get him disbarred. [[spoiler:Kristoph]] also manipulated his own brother, [[spoiler: prosecutor Klavier]], by using him to disbar Phoenix and cheating the honorable [[spoiler:Klavier]] out of a fair trial. [[spoiler:Klavier]], who knew something wasn't right, was haunted for years. When Zak resurfaced under a new identity years later, [[spoiler:Kristoph]] took the chance to murder him and frame Phoenix. After this, it was revealed [[spoiler:Kristoph]] had poisoned Vera and her father Drew, intending both to die. Vera survived, barely. To pour salt on the wound, [[spoiler:Kristoph]] gloated how Apollo and Phoenix had triggered his plan-their questioning caused Vera to bite her nails- when he had planted the poison as nail polish, knowing her nervous habit. He had even started poisoning her when she was only twelve. After her survival, [[spoiler:Kristoph]] simply enjoyed seeing Vera face conviction for her own father's murder. In the end, he was little but a cruel, petty, selfish man obsessed with glory and destroying those who stood in his way.
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* [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]] is introduced as a supposedly helpful mentor. He is also one of the first man two people responsible for ushering in "The “The Dark Age Of The Law" Law” by getting Phoenix Wright disbarred. [[spoiler:Kristoph]] After he ended up taking a massive blow to his ego when a magician and prospective client, Zak, rejected [[spoiler:Kristoph]] him as his lawyer. When Zak hired Phoenix instead of him due to a poker game, a he became furious [[spoiler:Kristoph]] and decided to get revenge. He had gotten a shy artist named Vera to unknowingly create fake evidence for the trial, but after Phoenix was hired, [[spoiler:Kristoph]] he used the evidence to get him disbarred. [[spoiler:Kristoph]] He also manipulated his own brother, [[spoiler: prosecutor Klavier]], by using him to disbar Phoenix and cheating the honorable [[spoiler:Klavier]] out of a fair trial. [[spoiler:Klavier]], who knew something wasn't right, was haunted for years. When Zak resurfaced under a new identity years later, [[spoiler:Kristoph]] he took the chance to murder him and frame Phoenix. After this, it was revealed [[spoiler:Kristoph]] he had poisoned Vera and her father Drew, intending both to die. Vera survived, barely. To pour salt on the wound, [[spoiler:Kristoph]] he then gloated about how Apollo and Phoenix had triggered his plan-their questioning caused Vera to bite her nails- when he had planted the poison as nail polish, knowing her nervous habit. He had even started poisoning her when she was only twelve. After her survival, [[spoiler:Kristoph]] he simply enjoyed seeing Vera face conviction for her own father's murder. In the end, he was little but a cruel, petty, selfish man obsessed with glory and destroying those who stood in his way.
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* [[spoiler:Manfred von Karma]] is the BigBad of ''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney''. [[spoiler:As a prosecutor]], he had a flawless, decades-long win streak, until defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth managed to have him penalized for his illegal workings in the courtroom, causing [[spoiler:von Karma]] to become enraged by the black mark on his previously-perfect record. Right after the end of the case, Gregory Edgeworth, his nine-year-old son Miles, and a bailiff become trapped inside an elevator. When the bailiff panicked and attacked Gregory, Miles tried to stop the fight by throwing a piece of evidence which turned out to be a gun. The gun fired and hit [[spoiler:Von Karma]], who came upon them, in his shoulder. For revenge, [[spoiler:von Karma]] picked up the gun and shot the unconscious Gregory in the heart. Afterwards, [[spoiler:von Karma]] took Miles under his wing and, for fifteen years, raised Miles to be the antithesis of everything that Gregory Edgeworth was, [[TheCorrupter twisting the boy to fit his views]] and become a ruthless, cold-hearted prosecutor who cared for nothing but getting a guilty verdict every time. Finally, on the very last day before the Gregory Edgeworth murder case was closed forever, [[spoiler:von Karma]] set up a murder and [[FrameUp pinned the blame on Miles Edgeworth]], intending to have his own foster-son executed for a murder he didn't commit. [[spoiler:Von Karma]] also planned it out so that Miles would be convinced that he himself was the one who had killed his father and would confess to and be charged with that murder as well.
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* [[spoiler:Manfred von Karma]] is the BigBad of ''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney''. [[spoiler:As a prosecutor]], [[spoiler:A prosecutor obsessed with perfectionism]], he had a flawless, decades-long win streak, streak fueled by extremely dirty tactics, until defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth managed to have him penalized for his illegal workings in the courtroom, causing [[spoiler:von Karma]] him to become be enraged by the black mark stain on his previously-perfect record. perfect records. Right after the end of the case, Gregory Edgeworth, an earthquake struck the courthouse, and [[spoiler:Manfred]] came upon Gregory, his nine-year-old son Miles, and a bailiff become trapped inside an elevator. When the bailiff panicked and attacked Gregory, Miles tried to stop the fight by throwing Sensing a piece of evidence which turned out to be a gun. The gun fired and hit [[spoiler:Von Karma]], who came upon them, in his shoulder. For revenge, [[spoiler:von Karma]] chance for [[DisproportionateRetribution revenge]], he picked up the bailiff's gun and shot the unconscious Gregory in the heart. Afterwards, [[spoiler:von Karma]] he took Miles under his wing and, for fifteen years, and raised Miles to be the antithesis of everything that Gregory Edgeworth was, [[TheCorrupter twisting the boy to fit his views]] and become boy]] into a ruthless, cold-hearted prosecutor who cared for nothing but getting a guilty verdict every time. Finally, on the very last day a few days before the Gregory Edgeworth murder case was closed forever, [[spoiler:von Karma]] [[spoiler:Manfred]] set up a murder and [[FrameUp pinned the blame framed it on Miles Edgeworth]], Miles]], intending to have his own foster-son foster son executed for a murder he didn't commit. [[spoiler:Von Karma]] also planned to complete his revenge on Gregory, planning it out so that Miles would be convinced that he himself was the one who had killed his father and would confess to and be charged with that murder as well.well. When the case became troublesome, he personally went to the police records to destroy crucial evidence, and used a stun gun to assault Miles's lawyer who discovered his actions.
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* The heartless and egomaniacal [[spoiler:Ga'ran Sigatar Khura'in]] is [[BigBad the figure responsible]] for ushering in the kingdom of Khura'in's equivalent to the Dark Age of the Law. [[spoiler:A woman born to the royal family yet possessing no spiritual power, Ga'ran was passed over for the throne in favor of her kind and gentle sister Amara.]] Jealousy and hatred towards Amara led to [[spoiler:Ga'ran]] making an attempt on her life by setting her residence on fire. In the chaos, [[spoiler:Ga'ran]] murdered the [[spoiler:musician Jove Justice]] and left his infant son to die, then went on to {{frame|Up}} the lawyer Dhurke Sahdmadhi for Amara's death. In the wake of the queen's assassination, [[spoiler:Ga'ran]]'s actions led to the passing of the Defense Culpability Act, which would force defense attorneys and anyone associated with them to suffer the same fate as the accused, which led to the deaths of thousands of innocent defendants and lawyers alike, and in the present day lawyers are all but extinct and the accused are helpless against the prosecution. In the meantime, [[spoiler:Ga'ran is keeping Amara hidden away and forces her and her son Nahyuta to cater to her every whim on threat of ruining her daughter Rayfa's life.]] [[spoiler:Ga'ran]], finding out that [[spoiler:her husband Inga is planning to overthrow her]], without hesitation kills him and frames Dhurke for it. During Dhurke's trial, [[spoiler:Ga'ran]] takes up the role as the trial's prosecutor and wastes no time in doing the damnedest to win the trial and get anyone who showed support for Dhurke executed under the DC Act. When it becomes apparent that Dhurke isn't the murderer thanks to Apollo's efforts, [[spoiler:Ga'ran]] tries to throw [[spoiler:Amara]] under the bus and has her shot when Apollo proves otherwise. When the court reconvenes, [[spoiler:Ga'ran]] forces [[spoiler:Nahyuta]] to take the fall instead, and, once backed up against the wall by Apollo, [[spoiler:she passes a law that makes standing up to her punishable by death and tries to have him, Phoenix, and Nahyuta all executed on the spot for defying her.]]
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* [[spoiler:[[BitchInSheepsClothing Dahlia]] [[EnfantTerrible Hawthorne]]]], the BigBad of ''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations'', previously manipulated [[ManChild her boyfriend]] into assisting her in a crime, before framing him for murder and ensuring [[DrivenToSuicide his suicide to cover her tracks]]. She later poisoned the lover of the prosecutor Mia Fey when he got too close to her crimes, before she seduced Phoenix Wright as well. When her twin sister Iris fell for Phoenix, [[spoiler:Dahlia]] accelerated her plans to poison him. When an ex-lover of hers tried to warn Phoenix, [[spoiler:Dahlia]] murdered him and tried to frame Phoenix. Despite being executed, [[spoiler:Dahlia]] returned as a vengeful ghost, aiding her mother to kill [[spoiler:Dahlia's cousin Maya Fey]] solely to spite [[spoiler:her elder sister Mia's]] spirit. Taking steps to manipulate [[spoiler:her twin]] again to help with the murder, she came back from the dead to possess Misty Fey--albeit due to Misty's desire to protect her niece Pearl--and attempted to murder Maya, being stopped only by the intervention of Godot who killed her host. But despite this she became convinced that she had forced Maya to murder her own mother and caused her to commit suicide, which she gloated over to their faces. She's also a giant {{hypocrite}}, as she shows nothing but disgust towards Morgan Fey because of the "petty revenge" that she was after, but at the same time was going along with Morgan's plan specifically in order to get her own revenge on Mia.
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* [[spoiler:[[BitchInSheepsClothing Dahlia]] [[EnfantTerrible Hawthorne]]]], the BigBad of ''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations'', previously manipulated [[ManChild her boyfriend]] into assisting her in a crime, before framing him for murder and ensuring [[DrivenToSuicide his suicide to cover her tracks]]. She later poisoned the lover of the prosecutor Mia Fey when he got too close to her crimes, before she seduced Phoenix Wright as well. When her twin sister Iris fell for Phoenix, [[spoiler:Dahlia]] accelerated her plans to poison him. When an ex-lover of hers tried to warn Phoenix, [[spoiler:Dahlia]] murdered him and tried to frame Phoenix. Despite being executed, [[spoiler:Dahlia]] returned as a vengeful ghost, aiding her mother to kill [[spoiler:Dahlia's cousin Maya Fey]] solely to spite [[spoiler:her elder sister Mia's]] spirit. Taking steps to manipulate [[spoiler:her twin]] again to help with the murder, she came back from the dead to possess Misty Fey--albeit due to Misty's desire to protect her niece Pearl--and attempted to murder Maya, being stopped only by the intervention of Godot who killed her host. But despite this she became convinced that she had forced Maya to murder her own mother and caused her to commit suicide, which she gloated over to their faces. She's also a giant {{hypocrite}}, as she shows nothing but disgust towards Morgan Fey because of the "petty revenge" that she was after, but at the same time was going along with Morgan's plan specifically in order to get her own revenge on Mia.
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* The spy known as [[AllLowercaseLetters the phantom]] is the BigBad, extremely nasty and is the second figure, after [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]], who ushered in "The Dark Age Of The Law." He started off by disguising himself with a mask he found and killing Athena Cykes's mother when Athena was only 11 years old, in front of her no less, and ended up getting [[spoiler:Prosecutor Blackquill convicted]]. He also sabotages a national symbol of pride, the HAT-1 rocket, almost killing the astronaut on board. Six years later, he likely killed [[spoiler:the real Detective Bobby Fulbright and assumed his identity in order to be Simon's handler]]. He also killed Apollo's best friend since junior high, Clay Terran, because Clay almost revealed his identity. He has ruined the lives of several people besides the aforementioned Athena Cykes and [[spoiler:Prosecutor Simon Blackquill]] and is indirectly responsible for almost every murder in the game, including setting off the bomb in the courtroom that was thought to be the work of Ted Tonate, which could have caused massive amount of death. Oh, and he [[FrameUp framed]] two girls, [[spoiler:Athena]] and her best friend, an IllGirl; [[spoiler: the aforementioned Prosecutor Blackquill]]; and an astronaut for his crimes. To top it all off, if one counts the murder done by his associate, Ted Tonate, he has the highest death toll of the entire franchise. What's really disturbing is that nobody knows his true identity and he doesn't feel emotions the same way "normal" people do. Because of this, he is a chillingly realistic version of a [[TheSociopath Sociopath]] in a video game.
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* The spy internationally-hired [[PsychoForHire mercenary spy]] known only as [[AllLowercaseLetters the phantom]] is the BigBad, extremely a nasty piece of work, and is the second figure, after [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]], who ushered in in "The Dark Age Of The Law." He started off by disguising himself with a mask His plan begins when he found murders the cheerful [[spoiler:Bobby Fulbright to assume his identity and killing become Simon Blackquill's handler]]. Before that, he killed Athena Cykes's mother when Athena was only 11 years old, in front of and pretended to be her, and using a Noh mask hanging from her no less, wall, as well as her jacket, he [[FrameUp fooled the helper robots]] into thinking Athena--then an 11-year-old child--had killed and ended up getting [[spoiler:Prosecutor disassembled her mother. By doing so, he gets the noble Prosecutor Blackquill convicted]]. He also sabotages a national symbol of pride, convicted and proceeds to sabotage the HAT-1 rocket, almost killing causing the astronaut on board. Six to barely escape with his life. After that was all done, some 7 years later, he likely sent a warning to the director Yuri Cosmos, and when that was ignored, bombed the space station. Afterwards he killed [[spoiler:the real Detective Bobby Fulbright and assumed his identity in order to be Simon's handler]]. He also killed Apollo's [[spoiler:Apollo's best friend since junior high, friend, Clay Terran, because Terran]], who tried to fight back, and threatened to expose his identity, framed the other astronaut and big brother figure to Apollo and Clay almost revealed his identity. He has ruined for the lives of several people besides the aforementioned Athena Cykes crime, and [[spoiler:Prosecutor Simon Blackquill]] and is indirectly responsible for almost every murder in the game, including setting off the bomb in when that failed, bombed the courtroom that to destroy a piece of evidence, nearly causing the deaths of hundreds, then framing Athena for this. He was thought also able to be the work of Ted Tonate, which could have caused massive amount of death. Oh, and he [[FrameUp framed]] two girls, [[spoiler:Athena]] and her frame Athena's best friend, an IllGirl; [[spoiler: [[IllGirl Juniper Woods]], for the aforementioned Prosecutor Blackquill]]; and an astronaut courtroom bombing. Had it not been for his crimes. To top it all off, if one counts Athena's moon rock earring being able to be compared with the murder done by his associate, Ted Tonate, destroyed moon rock, he has the highest death toll of the entire franchise. What's really disturbing is would have gotten away with everything. Be that nobody knows his true identity and as it may, he also doesn't feel emotions the same way "normal" people do. Because of this, he a normal person does, and as such, is a chillingly realistic version example of a [[TheSociopath Sociopath]] a sociopath]] in a video game.
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-->--'''The real killer (spoiler)''', ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'', Episode 4: "Turnabout Succession"
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The ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' franchise has produced its fair share of [[CompleteMonster monstrous villains]]:
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-->--'''The real killer (spoiler)''', killer''', ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'', Episode 4: "Turnabout Succession"
The''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' franchise has produced its fair share of [[CompleteMonster monstrous villains]]:villains]].
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* [[spoiler:Manfred von Karma]] is the BigBad of the first game. [[spoiler:As a prosecutor]], he had a flawless, decades-long win streak, until defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth managed to have him penalized for his illegal workings in the courtroom, causing [[spoiler:von Karma]] to become enraged by the black mark on his previously-perfect record. Right after the end of the case, an earthquake hit the building. It trapped Gregory Edgeworth, his nine-year-old son Miles, and a bailiff inside an elevator. As oxygen was beginning to run out, the bailiff panicked and attacked Gregory. Miles threw a piece of evidence from the trial at them to get them to stop fighting, which turned out to be a gun, which fired once, a terrible scream was heard, and then Miles passed out from lack of oxygen. [[spoiler:Von Karma]] had come across them. The bullet from the gun shot through the glass and hit his shoulder, causing him to scream. For revenge, [[spoiler:von Karma]] picked up the gun and shot the unconscious Gregory in the heart. Afterwards, [[spoiler:von Karma]] took Miles under his wing and, for fifteen years, raised Miles to be the antithesis of everything that Gregory Edgeworth was, [[TheCorrupter twisting the boy to fit his views]] and become a ruthless, cold-hearted prosecutor who cared for nothing but getting a guilty verdict every time. Finally, on the very last day before the Gregory Edgeworth murder case was closed forever, [[spoiler:von Karma]] set up a murder and [[FrameUp pinned the blame on Miles Edgeworth]], intending to have his own foster-son executed for a murder he didn't commit. [[spoiler:Von Karma]] also planned it out so that Miles would be convinced that he himself was the one who had killed his father and would confess to and be charged with that murder as well.
* [[spoiler: Matt Engarde]] from the second game threw away his loving and devoted manager Celeste Inpax once he was done using her to further his career. When Celeste was engaged to his rival, [[spoiler: Engarde]] told him Celeste was “[[DefiledForever used goods]]” to trick him into calling off the wedding. Celeste [[DriventoSuicide killed herself]], to [[spoiler: Engarde's]] delight. [[spoiler: Engarde]] later hired professional assassin [[MeaningfulName Shelley de Killer]] to murder his rival, but kept blackmail material to betray de Killer as well. To force Phoenix Wright to acquit him for murder, [[spoiler: Engarde]] had de Killer kidnap the innocent Maya Fey and attempted to pin his crimes on the innocent, miserable and insecure Adrian Andrews partly for the thrill of hurting her.
* [[spoiler:[[BitchInSheepsClothing Dahlia]] [[EnfantTerrible Hawthorne]]]], the BigBad of the third game, previously manipulated [[ManChild her boyfriend]] into assisting her in a crime, before framing him for murder and ensuring [[DrivenToSuicide his suicide to cover her tracks]]. She later poisoned the lover of the prosecutor Mia Fey when he got too close to her crimes, before she seduced Phoenix Wright as well. When her twin sister Iris fell for Phoenix, [[spoiler:Dahlia]] accelerated her plans to poison him. When an ex-lover of hers tried to warn Phoenix, [[spoiler:Dahlia]] murdered him and tried to frame Phoenix. Despite being executed, [[spoiler:Dahlia]] returned as a vengeful ghost, aiding her mother to kill [[spoiler:Dahlia's cousin Maya Fey]] solely to spite [[spoiler:her elder sister Mia's]] spirit. Taking steps to manipulate [[spoiler:her twin]] again to help with the murder, she came back from the dead to possess Misty Fey--albeit due to Misty's desire to protect her niece Pearl--and attempted to murder Maya, being stopped only by the intervention of Godot who killed her host. But despite this she became convinced that she had forced Maya to murder her own mother and caused her to commit suicide, which she gloated over to their faces. She's also a giant {{hypocrite}}, as she shows nothing but disgust towards Morgan Fey because of the "petty revenge" that she was after, but at the same time was going along with Morgan's plan specifically in order to get her own revenge on Mia.
* [[spoiler:Manfred von Karma]] is the BigBad of the first game. [[spoiler:As a prosecutor]], he had a flawless, decades-long win streak, until defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth managed to have him penalized for his illegal workings in the courtroom, causing [[spoiler:von Karma]] to become enraged by the black mark on his previously-perfect record. Right after the end of the case, an earthquake hit the building. It trapped Gregory Edgeworth, his nine-year-old son Miles, and a bailiff inside an elevator. As oxygen was beginning to run out, the bailiff panicked and attacked Gregory. Miles threw a piece of evidence from the trial at them to get them to stop fighting, which turned out to be a gun, which fired once, a terrible scream was heard, and then Miles passed out from lack of oxygen. [[spoiler:Von Karma]] had come across them. The bullet from the gun shot through the glass and hit his shoulder, causing him to scream. For revenge, [[spoiler:von Karma]] picked up the gun and shot the unconscious Gregory in the heart. Afterwards, [[spoiler:von Karma]] took Miles under his wing and, for fifteen years, raised Miles to be the antithesis of everything that Gregory Edgeworth was, [[TheCorrupter twisting the boy to fit his views]] and become a ruthless, cold-hearted prosecutor who cared for nothing but getting a guilty verdict every time. Finally, on the very last day before the Gregory Edgeworth murder case was closed forever, [[spoiler:von Karma]] set up a murder and [[FrameUp pinned the blame on Miles Edgeworth]], intending to have his own foster-son executed for a murder he didn't commit. [[spoiler:Von Karma]] also planned it out so that Miles would be convinced that he himself was the one who had killed his father and would confess to and be charged with that murder as well.
* [[spoiler: Matt Engarde]] from the second game threw away his loving and devoted manager Celeste Inpax once he was done using her to further his career. When Celeste was engaged to his rival, [[spoiler: Engarde]] told him Celeste was “[[DefiledForever used goods]]” to trick him into calling off the wedding. Celeste [[DriventoSuicide killed herself]], to [[spoiler: Engarde's]] delight. [[spoiler: Engarde]] later hired professional assassin [[MeaningfulName Shelley de Killer]] to murder his rival, but kept blackmail material to betray de Killer as well. To force Phoenix Wright to acquit him for murder, [[spoiler: Engarde]] had de Killer kidnap the innocent Maya Fey and attempted to pin his crimes on the innocent, miserable and insecure Adrian Andrews partly for the thrill of hurting her.
* [[spoiler:[[BitchInSheepsClothing Dahlia]] [[EnfantTerrible Hawthorne]]]], the BigBad of the third game, previously manipulated [[ManChild her boyfriend]] into assisting her in a crime, before framing him for murder and ensuring [[DrivenToSuicide his suicide to cover her tracks]]. She later poisoned the lover of the prosecutor Mia Fey when he got too close to her crimes, before she seduced Phoenix Wright as well. When her twin sister Iris fell for Phoenix, [[spoiler:Dahlia]] accelerated her plans to poison him. When an ex-lover of hers tried to warn Phoenix, [[spoiler:Dahlia]] murdered him and tried to frame Phoenix. Despite being executed, [[spoiler:Dahlia]] returned as a vengeful ghost, aiding her mother to kill [[spoiler:Dahlia's cousin Maya Fey]] solely to spite [[spoiler:her elder sister Mia's]] spirit. Taking steps to manipulate [[spoiler:her twin]] again to help with the murder, she came back from the dead to possess Misty Fey--albeit due to Misty's desire to protect her niece Pearl--and attempted to murder Maya, being stopped only by the intervention of Godot who killed her host. But despite this she became convinced that she had forced Maya to murder her own mother and caused her to commit suicide, which she gloated over to their faces. She's also a giant {{hypocrite}}, as she shows nothing but disgust towards Morgan Fey because of the "petty revenge" that she was after, but at the same time was going along with Morgan's plan specifically in order to get her own revenge on Mia.
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* [[SmugSnake Redd White]] from ''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney'' is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive amoral CEO]] of Bluecorp, a business that profits off of obtaining incriminating information and {{blackmail}}. In the past, Redd White [[spoiler:leaked information about Misty Fey's involvement with the police investigation of Gregory Edgeworth's murder, which resulted in the Fey clan of spirit medium's name being soiled]]. In the present day he has kept numerous influential people under his thumb such as Marvin Grossberg, forcing them to cater to his whims on threat of leaking their deepest secrets to the public, which would ruin their lives. He has driven numerous people to suicide as a result, and doesn't care in the slightest while fully intending to continue his blackmailing operations. When Mia Fey was preparing to bring evidence of his culpability in the suicides to the public, he stole the information she had and beat her to death before trying to pin the blame on her younger sister Maya. When Phoenix Wright uncovers the truth, Redd throws him under the bus instead, fully intent on using his connections in the legal world to crush him in court.
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* [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]] is introduced as a supposedly helpful mentor. He is also the first man responsible for ushering in “The Dark Age Of The Law” by getting Phoenix Wright disbarred. [[spoiler:Kristoph]] ended up taking a massive blow to his ego when a magician and prospective client, Zak, rejected [[spoiler:Kristoph]] as his lawyer. When Zak hired Phoenix instead of him due to a poker game, a furious [[spoiler:Kristoph]] decided to get revenge. He had gotten a shy artist named Vera to unknowingly create fake evidence for the trial, but after Phoenix was hired, [[spoiler:Kristoph]] used the evidence to get him disbarred. [[spoiler:Kristoph]] also manipulated his own brother, [[spoiler: prosecutor Klavier]], by using him to disbar Phoenix and cheating the honorable [[spoiler:Klavier]] out of a fair trial. [[spoiler:Klavier]], who knew something wasn't right, was haunted for years. When Zak resurfaced under a new identity years later, [[spoiler:Kristoph]] took the chance to murder him and frame Phoenix. After this, it was revealed [[spoiler:Kristoph]] had poisoned Vera and her father Drew, intending both to die. Vera survived, barely. To pour salt on the wound, [[spoiler:Kristoph]] gloated how Apollo and Phoenix had triggered his plan-their questioning caused Vera to bite her nails- when he had planted the poison as nail polish, knowing her nervous habit. He had even started poisoning her when she was only twelve. After her survival, [[spoiler:Kristoph]] simply enjoyed seeing Vera face conviction for her own father's murder. In the end, he was little but a cruel, petty, selfish man obsessed with glory and destroying those who stood in his way.
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* The spy known as [[AllLowercaseLetters the phantom]] is the BigBad, extremely nasty and is the second figure, after [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]], who ushered in "The Dark Age Of The Law." He started off by disguising himself with a mask he found and killing Athena Cykes's mother when Athena was only 11 years old, in front of her no less, and ended up getting [[spoiler:Prosecutor Blackquill convicted]]. He also sabotages a national symbol of pride, the HAT-1 rocket, almost killing the astronaut on board. Six years later, he likely killed [[spoiler:the real Detective Bobby Fulbright and assumed his identity in order to be Simon's handler]]. He also killed Apollo's best friend since junior high, Clay Terran, because Clay almost revealed his identity. He has ruined the lives of several people besides the aforementioned Athena Cykes and [[spoiler:Prosecutor Simon Blackquill]] and is indirectly responsible for almost every murder in the game, including setting off the bomb in the courtroom that was thought to be the work of Ted Tonate, which could have caused massive amount of death. Oh, and he [[FrameUp framed]] two girls, [[spoiler:Athena]] and her best friend, an IllGirl; [[spoiler: the aforementioned Prosecutor Blackquill]]; and an astronaut for his crimes. To top it all off, if one counts the murder done by his associate, Ted Tonate, he has the highest death toll of the entire franchise. What's really disturbing is that nobody knows his true identity and he doesn't feel emotions the same way "normal" people do. Because of this, he is a chillingly realistic version of a {{Sociopath}} in a video game.
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* The spy known as [[AllLowercaseLetters the phantom]] is the BigBad, extremely nasty and is the second figure, after [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]], who ushered in "The Dark Age Of The Law." He started off by disguising himself with a mask he found and killing Athena Cykes's mother when Athena was only 11 years old, in front of her no less, and ended up getting [[spoiler:Prosecutor Blackquill convicted]]. He also sabotages a national symbol of pride, the HAT-1 rocket, almost killing the astronaut on board. Six years later, he likely killed [[spoiler:the real Detective Bobby Fulbright and assumed his identity in order to be Simon's handler]]. He also killed Apollo's best friend since junior high, Clay Terran, because Clay almost revealed his identity. He has ruined the lives of several people besides the aforementioned Athena Cykes and [[spoiler:Prosecutor Simon Blackquill]] and is indirectly responsible for almost every murder in the game, including setting off the bomb in the courtroom that was thought to be the work of Ted Tonate, which could have caused massive amount of death. Oh, and he [[FrameUp framed]] two girls, [[spoiler:Athena]] and her best friend, an IllGirl; [[spoiler: the aforementioned Prosecutor Blackquill]]; and an astronaut for his crimes. To top it all off, if one counts the murder done by his associate, Ted Tonate, he has the highest death toll of the entire franchise. What's really disturbing is that nobody knows his true identity and he doesn't feel emotions the same way "normal" people do. Because of this, he is a chillingly realistic version of a {{Sociopath}} [[TheSociopath Sociopath]] in a video game.
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* [[spoiler: Manfred von Karma]] from the first game. As a prosecutor, he had a flawless, decades-long win streak, until defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth managed to (rightfully) have [[spoiler: von Karma]] penalized for his illegal workings in the courtroom. Although Gregory still lost the case, [[spoiler: von Karma]] was enraged by the black mark on his previously-perfect record. Unfortunately, right after the end of the case, an earthquake hit the building. It trapped Gregory Edgeworth, his nine-year-old son Miles, and a bailiff inside an elevator. As oxygen was beginning to run out, the bailiff panicked and attacked Gregory. Miles threw a piece of evidence from the trial at them to get them to stop fighting, which turned out to be a gun. The gun fired once, a terrible scream was heard, and then Miles passed out from lack of oxygen. Unbeknownst to the people in the elevator, [[spoiler: von Karma]] had come across them. The bullet from the gun shot through the glass and hit his shoulder, causing him to scream. In revenge for the black mark against his record, [[spoiler: von Karma]] picked up the gun and shot the unconscious Gregory in the heart. Afterwards, [[spoiler: von Karma]] took Miles under his wing and, for fifteen years, raised Miles to be the antithesis of everything that Gregory Edgeworth was, twisting the boy to fit his views and become a ruthless, cold-hearted prosecutor who cared for nothing but getting a guilty verdict every time. Finally, on the very last day before the Gregory Edgeworth murder case was closed forever, von Karma set up a murder and pinned the blame on Miles Edgeworth, intending to have his own foster-son executed for a murder he didn't commit. [[spoiler: Von Karma]] also planned it out so that Miles would be convinced that ''he himself'' was the one who had killed his father and would confess to and be charged with that murder as well.
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* [[spoiler: Manfred [[spoiler:Manfred von Karma]] from is the BigBad of the first game. As [[spoiler:As a prosecutor, prosecutor]], he had a flawless, decades-long win streak, until defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth managed to (rightfully) have [[spoiler: von Karma]] him penalized for his illegal workings in the courtroom. Although Gregory still lost the case, [[spoiler: von courtroom, causing [[spoiler:von Karma]] was to become enraged by the black mark on his previously-perfect record. Unfortunately, right Right after the end of the case, an earthquake hit the building. It trapped Gregory Edgeworth, his nine-year-old son Miles, and a bailiff inside an elevator. As oxygen was beginning to run out, the bailiff panicked and attacked Gregory. Miles threw a piece of evidence from the trial at them to get them to stop fighting, which turned out to be a gun. The gun gun, which fired once, a terrible scream was heard, and then Miles passed out from lack of oxygen. Unbeknownst to the people in the elevator, [[spoiler: von [[spoiler:Von Karma]] had come across them. The bullet from the gun shot through the glass and hit his shoulder, causing him to scream. In revenge for the black mark against his record, [[spoiler: von For revenge, [[spoiler:von Karma]] picked up the gun and shot the unconscious Gregory in the heart. Afterwards, [[spoiler: von [[spoiler:von Karma]] took Miles under his wing and, for fifteen years, raised Miles to be the antithesis of everything that Gregory Edgeworth was, [[TheCorrupter twisting the boy to fit his views views]] and become a ruthless, cold-hearted prosecutor who cared for nothing but getting a guilty verdict every time. Finally, on the very last day before the Gregory Edgeworth murder case was closed forever, von Karma [[spoiler:von Karma]] set up a murder and [[FrameUp pinned the blame on Miles Edgeworth, Edgeworth]], intending to have his own foster-son executed for a murder he didn't commit. [[spoiler: Von [[spoiler:Von Karma]] also planned it out so that Miles would be convinced that ''he himself'' he himself was the one who had killed his father and would confess to and be charged with that murder as well.
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* [[spoiler: [[BitchInSheepsClothing Dahlia]] [[EnfantTerrible Hawthorne]]]], the BigBad of the third game, previously manipulated her ManChild boyfriend into assisting her in a crime, before framing him for murder and ensuring [[DrivenToSuicide his suicide to cover her tracks]]. She later poisoned the lover of the prosecutor Mia Fey when he got too close to her crimes, before she seduced Phoenix Wright as well. When her twin sister Iris fell for Phoenix, [[spoiler: Dahlia]] accelerated her plans to poison him. When an ex-lover of hers tried to warn Phoenix, Dahlia murdered him and tried to frame Phoenix. Despite being executed, [[spoiler: Dahlia]] returned as a vengeful ghost, aiding her mother to kill Dahlia's cousin Maya Fey solely to spite her elder sister Mia's spirit. Taking steps to manipulate her twin again to help with the murder, she came back from the dead to possess Misty Fey (albeit due to Misty's desire to protect her niece Pearl) and attempted to murder Maya, being stopped only by the intervention of Godot who killed her host. But despite this she became convinced that she had forced Maya to murder her own mother and caused her to commit suicide, which she gloated over to their faces. She's also a giant hypocrite; she shows nothing but disgust towards Morgan Fey because of the "petty revenge" that she was after, but at the same time, [[spoiler: Dahlia]] was going along with Morgan's plan specifically in order to get her own revenge on Mia.
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* [[spoiler: [[BitchInSheepsClothing [[spoiler:[[BitchInSheepsClothing Dahlia]] [[EnfantTerrible Hawthorne]]]], the BigBad of the third game, previously manipulated [[ManChild her ManChild boyfriend boyfriend]] into assisting her in a crime, before framing him for murder and ensuring [[DrivenToSuicide his suicide to cover her tracks]]. She later poisoned the lover of the prosecutor Mia Fey when he got too close to her crimes, before she seduced Phoenix Wright as well. When her twin sister Iris fell for Phoenix, [[spoiler: Dahlia]] [[spoiler:Dahlia]] accelerated her plans to poison him. When an ex-lover of hers tried to warn Phoenix, Dahlia [[spoiler:Dahlia]] murdered him and tried to frame Phoenix. Despite being executed, [[spoiler: Dahlia]] [[spoiler:Dahlia]] returned as a vengeful ghost, aiding her mother to kill Dahlia's [[spoiler:Dahlia's cousin Maya Fey Fey]] solely to spite her [[spoiler:her elder sister Mia's Mia's]] spirit. Taking steps to manipulate her twin [[spoiler:her twin]] again to help with the murder, she came back from the dead to possess Misty Fey (albeit Fey--albeit due to Misty's desire to protect her niece Pearl) and Pearl--and attempted to murder Maya, being stopped only by the intervention of Godot who killed her host. But despite this she became convinced that she had forced Maya to murder her own mother and caused her to commit suicide, which she gloated over to their faces. She's also a giant hypocrite; {{hypocrite}}, as she shows nothing but disgust towards Morgan Fey because of the "petty revenge" that she was after, but at the same time, [[spoiler: Dahlia]] time was going along with Morgan's plan specifically in order to get her own revenge on Mia.
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* BigBad [[spoiler: Quercus Alba]] is the head of a large smuggling ring. The other criminals of the game (except Lance) [[TheManBehindTheMan ''answer'' to this guy.]] He is the one who ordered the deaths of Cece Yew and Byrne Faraday and killed Mask*[=DeMasque=] II and Manny Coachen with his own hands (well, with a statue and a knife, but you know what I mean). His reasons for these killings are as follows: Cece Yew was a witness who needed to be silenced, Byrne Faraday was a member of the Yatagarasu whose goal it was to expose his operation, [=DeMasque=] II was going to steal his fake statue and, with it, some plates used for a large-scale counterfeiting operation, and Manny Coachen because he ordered [=DeMasque=] II to steal it. Manny ordered the theft because he was planning to betray and usurp Alba and was unaware that the fake statue had been switched with the real one.
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* While initially seeming like a [[EvilOldFolks frail and kind individual]], BigBad [[spoiler: [[AssInAmbassador Quercus Alba]] is Alba]]]] turns out to be the head hardened, cold-hearted boss of a large and powerful smuggling ring. The other criminals of Thanks to him putting many highly-convincing counterfeit bills into circulation, the game (except Lance) [[TheManBehindTheMan ''answer'' country of Zheng Fa has been thrown into economic chaos due to this guy.]] his machinations. He is the one who also ordered the deaths of Cece Yew Yew, Deid Mann, and Byrne Faraday due to their efforts in trying to expose his role in the smuggling ring, and killed personally murdered Mask*[=DeMasque=] II and his subordinate Manny Coachen with his own hands (well, with a statue and a knife, but you know what I mean). His reasons for these killings are as follows: Cece Yew was a witness who needed to be silenced, Byrne Faraday was a member of the Yatagarasu whose goal it was to expose his operation, Coachen: [=DeMasque=] II was going to steal his for stealing the fake statue and, with it, some that contained the plates used for a large-scale counterfeiting operation, creating counterfeit bills, and Manny Coachen because he ordered [=DeMasque=] II due to him seeking to steal it. Manny ordered power of the theft because he was planning to betray smuggling ring from under [[spoiler: Alba's]] nose. Ruthless and usurp Alba and was unaware that rotten to the fake statue had been switched with core, [[spoiler: Alba]] will kill anyone without so much as a second thought for the real one.
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* Phantom, [[spoiler: AKA Fake Detective Bobby Fulbright]], is extremely nasty and is the second figure (after [[spoiler: Kristoph Gavin]]) who ushered in “The Dark Age Of The Law.” He started off by disguising himself with a mask he found and killed [[spoiler: Athena Cykes' mother]] when she was only 11 years old, in front of her no less, and ended up getting [[spoiler: Prosecutor Blackquill]] convicted. Before that, he killed the [[spoiler: real Detective Bobby Fulbright]] and assumed his identity. He also sabotages a national symbol of pride, known as the HAT-1, a rocket, almost killing the astronaut on board. He also killed Apollo's best friend since junior high, Clay Terran, because Clay almost revealed his identity. If that wasn't bad enough, he's ruined the lives of several people besides the aforementioned Athena Cykes and [[spoiler: Prosecutor Simon Blackquill]] and is indirectly responsible for almost every murder in the game, including setting off the bomb in the courtroom that was thought to be the work of Ted Tonate, which could have caused massive amount of death. Oh, and he framed two girls ([[spoiler: Athena]] and her best friend, an Ill Girl), [[spoiler: the aforementioned Prosecutor Blackquill]], and an astronaut for his crimes. To top it all off, if you count the murder done by his associate, Ted Tonate, he has the highest death toll of the entire franchise. He's not sorry for any of this, folks. What's really disturbing is that nobody knows his true identity. He also doesn't feel emotions the same way "normal" people do. Because of this, he is a chillingly realistic version of [[TheSociopath a sociopath]] in a video game.
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* Phantom, [[spoiler: AKA Fake Detective Bobby Fulbright]], The spy known as [[AllLowercaseLetters the phantom]] is the BigBad, extremely nasty and is the second figure (after [[spoiler: Kristoph Gavin]]) figure, after [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]], who ushered in “The "The Dark Age Of The Law.” " He started off by disguising himself with a mask he found and killed [[spoiler: killing Athena Cykes' mother]] Cykes's mother when she Athena was only 11 years old, in front of her no less, and ended up getting [[spoiler: Prosecutor Blackquill]] convicted. Before that, he killed the [[spoiler: real Detective Bobby Fulbright]] and assumed his identity. [[spoiler:Prosecutor Blackquill convicted]]. He also sabotages a national symbol of pride, known as the HAT-1, a HAT-1 rocket, almost killing the astronaut on board.board. Six years later, he likely killed [[spoiler:the real Detective Bobby Fulbright and assumed his identity in order to be Simon's handler]]. He also killed Apollo's best friend since junior high, Clay Terran, because Clay almost revealed his identity. If that wasn't bad enough, he's He has ruined the lives of several people besides the aforementioned Athena Cykes and [[spoiler: Prosecutor [[spoiler:Prosecutor Simon Blackquill]] and is indirectly responsible for almost every murder in the game, including setting off the bomb in the courtroom that was thought to be the work of Ted Tonate, which could have caused massive amount of death. Oh, and he framed [[FrameUp framed]] two girls ([[spoiler: Athena]] girls, [[spoiler:Athena]] and her best friend, an Ill Girl), IllGirl; [[spoiler: the aforementioned Prosecutor Blackquill]], Blackquill]]; and an astronaut for his crimes. To top it all off, if you count one counts the murder done by his associate, Ted Tonate, he has the highest death toll of the entire franchise. He's not sorry for any of this, folks. What's really disturbing is that nobody knows his true identity. He also identity and he doesn't feel emotions the same way "normal" people do. Because of this, he is a chillingly realistic version of [[TheSociopath a sociopath]] {{Sociopath}} in a video game.
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->''"I killed a man named "Smith" with a bottle because I am an evil human being. ...Isn't that enough?"''
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-->--'''The real killer (spoiler)''', ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'', Episode 4: "Turnabout Succession"
-->--'''The real killer (spoiler)''', ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'', Episode 4: "Turnabout Succession"
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* Phantom, [[spoiler: AKA Fake Detective Bobby Fulbright]], is extremely nasty and is the second figure (after [[spoiler: Kristoph Gavin]]) who ushered in “The Dark Age Of The Law.” He started off by disguising himself with a mask he found and killed [[spoiler: Athena Cykes' mother]] when she was only 11 years old, in front of her no less, and ended up getting [[spoiler: Prosecutor Blackquill]] convicted. Before that, he killed the [[spoiler: real Detective Bobby Fulbright]] and assumed his identity. He also sabotages a national symbol of pride, known as the HAT-1, a rocket, almost killing the astronaut on board. He also killed Apollo's best friend since junior high, Clay Terran, because Clay almost revealed his identity. If that wasn't bad enough, he's ruined the lives of several people besides the aforementioned Athena Cykes and [[spoiler: Prosecutor Simon Blackquill]] and is indirectly responsible for almost every murder in the game, including setting off the bomb in the courtroom that was thought to be the work of Ted Tonate, which could have caused massive amount of death. Oh, and he framed two girls ([[spoiler: Athena]] and her best friend, an Ill Girl), [[spoiler: the aforementioned Prosecutor Blackquill]], and an astronaut for his crimes. To top it all off, if you count the murder done by his associate, Ted Tonate, he has the highest death toll of the entire franchise. He's not sorry for any of this, folks. What's really disturbing is that nobody knows his true identity. [[TheSociopath He also doesn't feel emotions the same way "normal" people do. Because of this, he is a chillingly realistic version of a sociopath in a video game]].
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* Phantom, [[spoiler: AKA Fake Detective Bobby Fulbright]], is extremely nasty and is the second figure (after [[spoiler: Kristoph Gavin]]) who ushered in “The Dark Age Of The Law.” He started off by disguising himself with a mask he found and killed [[spoiler: Athena Cykes' mother]] when she was only 11 years old, in front of her no less, and ended up getting [[spoiler: Prosecutor Blackquill]] convicted. Before that, he killed the [[spoiler: real Detective Bobby Fulbright]] and assumed his identity. He also sabotages a national symbol of pride, known as the HAT-1, a rocket, almost killing the astronaut on board. He also killed Apollo's best friend since junior high, Clay Terran, because Clay almost revealed his identity. If that wasn't bad enough, he's ruined the lives of several people besides the aforementioned Athena Cykes and [[spoiler: Prosecutor Simon Blackquill]] and is indirectly responsible for almost every murder in the game, including setting off the bomb in the courtroom that was thought to be the work of Ted Tonate, which could have caused massive amount of death. Oh, and he framed two girls ([[spoiler: Athena]] and her best friend, an Ill Girl), [[spoiler: the aforementioned Prosecutor Blackquill]], and an astronaut for his crimes. To top it all off, if you count the murder done by his associate, Ted Tonate, he has the highest death toll of the entire franchise. He's not sorry for any of this, folks. What's really disturbing is that nobody knows his true identity. [[TheSociopath He also doesn't feel emotions the same way "normal" people do. Because of this, he is a chillingly realistic version of [[TheSociopath a sociopath sociopath]] in a video game]].game.
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* Phantom, [[spoiler: AKA Fake Detective Bobby Fulbright]], is extremely nasty and is the second figure (after [[spoiler: Kristoph Gavin]]) who ushered in “The Dark Age Of The Law.” He started off by disguising himself with a mask he found and killed [[spoiler: Athena Cykes' mother]] when she was only 11 years old, in front of her no less, and ended up getting [[spoiler: Prosecutor Blackquill]] convicted. Before that, he killed the [[spoiler: real Detective Bobby Fulbright]] and assumed his identity. He also sabotages a national symbol of pride, known as the HAT-1, a rocket, almost killing the astronaut on board. He also killed Apollo's best friend since junior high, Clay Terran, because Clay almost revealed his identity. If that wasn't bad enough, he's ruined the lives of several people besides the aforementioned Athena Cykes and [[spoiler: Prosecutor Simon Blackquill]] and is indirectly responsible for almost every murder in the game, including setting off the bomb in the courtroom that was thought to be the work of Ted Tonate, which could have caused massive amount of death. Oh, and he framed two girls ([[spoiler: Athena]] and her best friend, an Ill Girl), [[spoiler: the aforementioned Prosecutor Blackquill]], and an astronaut for his crimes. To top it all off, if you count the murder done by his associate, Ted Tonate, he has the highest death toll of the entire franchise. He's not sorry for any of this, folks. What's really disturbing is that nobody knows his true identity. He also doesn't feel emotions the same way "normal" people do. Because of this, he is a chillingly realistic version of a sociopath in a video game.
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* Phantom, [[spoiler: AKA Fake Detective Bobby Fulbright]], is extremely nasty and is the second figure (after [[spoiler: Kristoph Gavin]]) who ushered in “The Dark Age Of The Law.” He started off by disguising himself with a mask he found and killed [[spoiler: Athena Cykes' mother]] when she was only 11 years old, in front of her no less, and ended up getting [[spoiler: Prosecutor Blackquill]] convicted. Before that, he killed the [[spoiler: real Detective Bobby Fulbright]] and assumed his identity. He also sabotages a national symbol of pride, known as the HAT-1, a rocket, almost killing the astronaut on board. He also killed Apollo's best friend since junior high, Clay Terran, because Clay almost revealed his identity. If that wasn't bad enough, he's ruined the lives of several people besides the aforementioned Athena Cykes and [[spoiler: Prosecutor Simon Blackquill]] and is indirectly responsible for almost every murder in the game, including setting off the bomb in the courtroom that was thought to be the work of Ted Tonate, which could have caused massive amount of death. Oh, and he framed two girls ([[spoiler: Athena]] and her best friend, an Ill Girl), [[spoiler: the aforementioned Prosecutor Blackquill]], and an astronaut for his crimes. To top it all off, if you count the murder done by his associate, Ted Tonate, he has the highest death toll of the entire franchise. He's not sorry for any of this, folks. What's really disturbing is that nobody knows his true identity. [[TheSociopath He also doesn't feel emotions the same way "normal" people do. Because of this, he is a chillingly realistic version of a sociopath in a video game.game]].
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* [[spoiler: Matt Engarde]] from the second game threw away his loving and devoted manager Celeste Inpax ones he was done using her to further his career. When Celeste was engaged to his rival, [[spoiler: Engarde]] told him Celeste was “[[DefiledForever used goods]]” to trick him into calling off the wedding. Celeste [[DriventoSuicide killed herself]], to [[spoiler: Engarde's]] delight. [[spoiler: Engarde]] later hired professional assassin [[MeaningfulName Shelley de Killer]] to murder his rival, but kept blackmail material to betray de Killer as well. To force Phoenix Wright to acquit him for murder, [[spoiler: Engarde]] had de Killer kidnap the innocent Maya Fey and attempted to pin his crimes on the innocent, miserable and insecure Adrian Andrews partly for the thrill of hurting her.
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* [[spoiler: Matt Engarde]] from the second game threw away his loving and devoted manager Celeste Inpax ones once he was done using her to further his career. When Celeste was engaged to his rival, [[spoiler: Engarde]] told him Celeste was “[[DefiledForever used goods]]” to trick him into calling off the wedding. Celeste [[DriventoSuicide killed herself]], to [[spoiler: Engarde's]] delight. [[spoiler: Engarde]] later hired professional assassin [[MeaningfulName Shelley de Killer]] to murder his rival, but kept blackmail material to betray de Killer as well. To force Phoenix Wright to acquit him for murder, [[spoiler: Engarde]] had de Killer kidnap the innocent Maya Fey and attempted to pin his crimes on the innocent, miserable and insecure Adrian Andrews partly for the thrill of hurting her.
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* [[spoiler: Manfred von Karma.]] As a prosecutor, he had a flawless, decades-long win streak, until defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth managed to (rightfully) have [[spoiler: von Karma]] penalized for his illegal workings in the courtroom. Although Gregory still lost the case, [[spoiler: von Karma]] was enraged by the black mark on his previously-perfect record. Unfortunately, right after the end of the case, an earthquake hit the building. It trapped Gregory Edgeworth, his nine-year-old son Miles, and a bailiff inside an elevator. As oxygen was beginning to run out, the bailiff panicked and attacked Gregory. Miles threw a piece of evidence from the trial at them to get them to stop fighting, which turned out to be a gun. The gun fired once, a terrible scream was heard, and then Miles passed out from lack of oxygen. Unbeknownst to the people in the elevator, [[spoiler: von Karma]] had come across them. The bullet from the gun shot through the glass and hit his shoulder, causing him to scream. In revenge for the black mark against his record, [[spoiler: von Karma]] picked up the gun and shot the unconscious Gregory in the heart. Afterwards, [[spoiler: von Karma]] took Miles under his wing and, for fifteen years, raised Miles to be the antithesis of everything that Gregory Edgeworth was, twisting the boy to fit his views and become a ruthless, cold-hearted prosecutor who cared for nothing but getting a guilty verdict every time. Finally, on the very last day before the Gregory Edgeworth murder case was closed forever, von Karma set up a murder and pinned the blame on Miles Edgeworth, intending to have his own foster-son executed for a murder he didn't commit. [[spoiler: Von Karma]] also planned it out so that Miles would be convinced that ''he himself'' was the one who had killed his father and would confess to and be charged with that murder as well.
* [[spoiler: Matt Engarde]] threw away his loving and devoted manager Celeste Inpax ones he was done using her to further his career. When Celeste was engaged to his rival, [[spoiler: Engarde]] told him Celeste was “[[DefiledForever used goods]]” to trick him into calling off the wedding. Celeste [[DriventoSuicide killed herself]], to [[spoiler: Engarde's]] delight. [[spoiler: Engarde]] later hired professional assassin [[MeaningfulName Shelley de Killer]] to murder his rival, but kept blackmail material to betray de Killer as well. To force Phoenix Wright to acquit him for murder, [[spoiler: Engarde]] had de Killer kidnap the innocent Maya Fey and attempted to pin his crimes on the innocent, miserable and insecure Adrian Andrews partly for the thrill of hurting her.
* [[spoiler: [[BitchInSheepsClothing Dahlia]] [[EnfantTerrible Hawthorne]]]], the BigBad of the third Ace Attorney game, previously manipulated her ManChild boyfriend into assisting her in a crime, before framing him for murder and ensuring [[DrivenToSuicide his suicide to cover her tracks]]. She later poisoned the lover of the prosecutor Mia Fey when he got too close to her crimes, before she seduced Phoenix Wright as well. When her twin sister Iris fell for Phoenix, [[spoiler: Dahlia]] accelerated her plans to poison him. When an ex-lover of hers tried to warn Phoenix, Dahlia murdered him and tried to frame Phoenix. Despite being executed, [[spoiler: Dahlia]] returned as a vengeful ghost, aiding her mother to kill Dahlia's cousin Maya Fey solely to spite her elder sister Mia's spirit. Taking steps to manipulate her twin again to help with the murder, she came back from the dead to possess Misty Fey (albeit due to Misty's desire to protect her niece Pearl) and attempted to murder Maya, being stopped only by the intervention of Godot who killed her host. But despite this she became convinced that she had forced Maya to murder her own mother and caused her to commit suicide, which she gloated over to their faces. She's also a giant hypocrite; she shows nothing but disgust towards Morgan Fey because of the "petty revenge" that she was after, but at the same time, [[spoiler: Dahlia]] was going along with Morgan's plan specifically in order to get her own revenge on Mia.
* [[spoiler: Manfred von Karma.]] As a prosecutor, he had a flawless, decades-long win streak, until defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth managed to (rightfully) have [[spoiler: von Karma]] penalized for his illegal workings in the courtroom. Although Gregory still lost the case, [[spoiler: von Karma]] was enraged by the black mark on his previously-perfect record. Unfortunately, right after the end of the case, an earthquake hit the building. It trapped Gregory Edgeworth, his nine-year-old son Miles, and a bailiff inside an elevator. As oxygen was beginning to run out, the bailiff panicked and attacked Gregory. Miles threw a piece of evidence from the trial at them to get them to stop fighting, which turned out to be a gun. The gun fired once, a terrible scream was heard, and then Miles passed out from lack of oxygen. Unbeknownst to the people in the elevator, [[spoiler: von Karma]] had come across them. The bullet from the gun shot through the glass and hit his shoulder, causing him to scream. In revenge for the black mark against his record, [[spoiler: von Karma]] picked up the gun and shot the unconscious Gregory in the heart. Afterwards, [[spoiler: von Karma]] took Miles under his wing and, for fifteen years, raised Miles to be the antithesis of everything that Gregory Edgeworth was, twisting the boy to fit his views and become a ruthless, cold-hearted prosecutor who cared for nothing but getting a guilty verdict every time. Finally, on the very last day before the Gregory Edgeworth murder case was closed forever, von Karma set up a murder and pinned the blame on Miles Edgeworth, intending to have his own foster-son executed for a murder he didn't commit. [[spoiler: Von Karma]] also planned it out so that Miles would be convinced that ''he himself'' was the one who had killed his father and would confess to and be charged with that murder as well.
* [[spoiler: Matt Engarde]] threw away his loving and devoted manager Celeste Inpax ones he was done using her to further his career. When Celeste was engaged to his rival, [[spoiler: Engarde]] told him Celeste was “[[DefiledForever used goods]]” to trick him into calling off the wedding. Celeste [[DriventoSuicide killed herself]], to [[spoiler: Engarde's]] delight. [[spoiler: Engarde]] later hired professional assassin [[MeaningfulName Shelley de Killer]] to murder his rival, but kept blackmail material to betray de Killer as well. To force Phoenix Wright to acquit him for murder, [[spoiler: Engarde]] had de Killer kidnap the innocent Maya Fey and attempted to pin his crimes on the innocent, miserable and insecure Adrian Andrews partly for the thrill of hurting her.
* [[spoiler: [[BitchInSheepsClothing Dahlia]] [[EnfantTerrible Hawthorne]]]], the BigBad of the third Ace Attorney game, previously manipulated her ManChild boyfriend into assisting her in a crime, before framing him for murder and ensuring [[DrivenToSuicide his suicide to cover her tracks]]. She later poisoned the lover of the prosecutor Mia Fey when he got too close to her crimes, before she seduced Phoenix Wright as well. When her twin sister Iris fell for Phoenix, [[spoiler: Dahlia]] accelerated her plans to poison him. When an ex-lover of hers tried to warn Phoenix, Dahlia murdered him and tried to frame Phoenix. Despite being executed, [[spoiler: Dahlia]] returned as a vengeful ghost, aiding her mother to kill Dahlia's cousin Maya Fey solely to spite her elder sister Mia's spirit. Taking steps to manipulate her twin again to help with the murder, she came back from the dead to possess Misty Fey (albeit due to Misty's desire to protect her niece Pearl) and attempted to murder Maya, being stopped only by the intervention of Godot who killed her host. But despite this she became convinced that she had forced Maya to murder her own mother and caused her to commit suicide, which she gloated over to their faces. She's also a giant hypocrite; she shows nothing but disgust towards Morgan Fey because of the "petty revenge" that she was after, but at the same time, [[spoiler: Dahlia]] was going along with Morgan's plan specifically in order to get her own revenge on Mia.
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* [[spoiler: Matt Engarde]] from the second game threw away his loving and devoted manager Celeste Inpax ones he was done using her to further his career. When Celeste was engaged to his rival, [[spoiler: Engarde]] told him Celeste was “[[DefiledForever used goods]]” to trick him into calling off the wedding. Celeste [[DriventoSuicide killed herself]], to [[spoiler: Engarde's]] delight. [[spoiler: Engarde]] later hired professional assassin [[MeaningfulName Shelley de Killer]] to murder his rival, but kept blackmail material to betray de Killer as well. To force Phoenix Wright to acquit him for murder, [[spoiler: Engarde]] had de Killer kidnap the innocent Maya Fey and attempted to pin his crimes on the innocent, miserable and insecure Adrian Andrews partly for the thrill of hurting her.
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* [[spoiler: Kristoph Gavin]] is introduced as [[BitchInSheepsClothing a supposedly helpful mentor]]. He is also the first man responsible for ushering in “The Dark Age Of The Law” by getting Phoenix Wright disbarred. [[spoiler: Kristoph]] ended up taking a massive blow to his ego when a magician and prospective client, Zak, rejected Kristoph as his lawyer. When Zak hired Phoenix instead of him due to a poker game, a furious [[spoiler: Kristoph]] decided to get revenge. He had gotten a shy artist named Vera to unknowingly create fake evidence for the trial, but after Phoenix was hired, [[spoiler: Kristoph]] used the evidence to get him disbarred. [[spoiler: Kristoph]] also [[ManipulativeBastard manipulated]] his own brother, [[spoiler: prosecutor Klavier]], by using him to disbar Phoenix and cheating the honorable [[spoiler: Klavier out of a fair trial]], which haunted [[spoiler: Klavier]], who knew something wasn't right. for years. When Zak resurfaced under a new identity years later, [[spoiler: Kristoph]] took the chance to murder him and frame Phoenix. After this, it was revealed [[spoiler: Kristoph]] had poisoned Vera and her father Drew, intending both to die. Vera survived, barely. To pour salt on the wound, [[spoiler: Kristoph]] gloated how Apollo and Phoenix had triggered his plan-their questioning caused Vera to bite her nails- when he had planted the poison as nail polish, knowing her nervous habit. [[WouldHurtAChild He had even started poisoning her when she was only twelve]]. After her survival, [[spoiler: Kristoph]] simply enjoyed seeing Vera face conviction for her own father's murder. In the end, he was little but a cruel, petty, selfish man obsessed with glory and destroying those who stood in his way.
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* [[spoiler: Kristoph [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]] is introduced as [[BitchInSheepsClothing a supposedly helpful mentor]].mentor. He is also the first man responsible for ushering in “The Dark Age Of The Law” by getting Phoenix Wright disbarred. [[spoiler: Kristoph]] [[spoiler:Kristoph]] ended up taking a massive blow to his ego when a magician and prospective client, Zak, rejected Kristoph [[spoiler:Kristoph]] as his lawyer. When Zak hired Phoenix instead of him due to a poker game, a furious [[spoiler: Kristoph]] [[spoiler:Kristoph]] decided to get revenge. He had gotten a shy artist named Vera to unknowingly create fake evidence for the trial, but after Phoenix was hired, [[spoiler: Kristoph]] [[spoiler:Kristoph]] used the evidence to get him disbarred. [[spoiler: Kristoph]] [[spoiler:Kristoph]] also [[ManipulativeBastard manipulated]] manipulated his own brother, [[spoiler: prosecutor Klavier]], by using him to disbar Phoenix and cheating the honorable [[spoiler: Klavier [[spoiler:Klavier]] out of a fair trial]], which haunted [[spoiler: Klavier]], trial. [[spoiler:Klavier]], who knew something wasn't right. right, was haunted for years. When Zak resurfaced under a new identity years later, [[spoiler: Kristoph]] [[spoiler:Kristoph]] took the chance to murder him and frame Phoenix. After this, it was revealed [[spoiler: Kristoph]] [[spoiler:Kristoph]] had poisoned Vera and her father Drew, intending both to die. Vera survived, barely. To pour salt on the wound, [[spoiler: Kristoph]] [[spoiler:Kristoph]] gloated how Apollo and Phoenix had triggered his plan-their questioning caused Vera to bite her nails- when he had planted the poison as nail polish, knowing her nervous habit. [[WouldHurtAChild He had even started poisoning her when she was only twelve]]. twelve. After her survival, [[spoiler: Kristoph]] [[spoiler:Kristoph]] simply enjoyed seeing Vera face conviction for her own father's murder. In the end, he was little but a cruel, petty, selfish man obsessed with glory and destroying those who stood in his way.
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* [[TheFaceless Phantom]], AKA [[spoiler: Fake Detective Bobby Fulbright]], is extremely nasty and is the second figure (after [[spoiler: Kristoph Gavin]]) who ushered in “The Dark Age Of The Law.” He started off by disguising himself with a mask he found and killed Athena Cykes' mother when she was only 11 years old, in front of her no less, and ended up getting Prosecutor Blackquil convicted. Before that, he [[spoiler: killed the real Detective Bobby Fulbright and assumed his identity]]. He also sabotages a national symbol of pride, known as the HAT-1, a rocket, almost killing the astronaut on board. He also killed Apollo's best friend since junior high, Clay Terran, because Clay almost revealed his identity. If that wasn't bad enough, he's ruined the lives of several people besides the aforementioned Athena Cykes and Prosecutor Simon Blackquil and is indirectly responsible for almost every murder in the game, including setting off the bomb in the courtroom that was thought to be the work of Ted Tonate, which could have caused massive amount of death. Oh, and he framed two girls, the aforementioned Prosecutor Blackquill, and an astronaut for his crimes the two girls being Athena and her best friend, an Ill Girl. To top it all off, if you count the murder done by his associate, Ted Tonate, he has the highest death toll of the entire franchise. He's not sorry for any of this, folks. What's really disturbing is that nobody knows his true identity. He also doesn't feel emotions the same way "normal" people do. Because of this, he is a chillingly realistic version of a sociopath in a video game.
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* [[TheFaceless Phantom]], AKA Phantom, [[spoiler: AKA Fake Detective Bobby Fulbright]], is extremely nasty and is the second figure (after [[spoiler: Kristoph Gavin]]) who ushered in “The Dark Age Of The Law.” He started off by disguising himself with a mask he found and killed [[spoiler: Athena Cykes' mother mother]] when she was only 11 years old, in front of her no less, and ended up getting [[spoiler: Prosecutor Blackquil Blackquill]] convicted. Before that, he killed the [[spoiler: killed the real Detective Bobby Fulbright Fulbright]] and assumed his identity]].identity. He also sabotages a national symbol of pride, known as the HAT-1, a rocket, almost killing the astronaut on board. He also killed Apollo's best friend since junior high, Clay Terran, because Clay almost revealed his identity. If that wasn't bad enough, he's ruined the lives of several people besides the aforementioned Athena Cykes and [[spoiler: Prosecutor Simon Blackquil Blackquill]] and is indirectly responsible for almost every murder in the game, including setting off the bomb in the courtroom that was thought to be the work of Ted Tonate, which could have caused massive amount of death. Oh, and he framed two girls, girls ([[spoiler: Athena]] and her best friend, an Ill Girl), [[spoiler: the aforementioned Prosecutor Blackquill, Blackquill]], and an astronaut for his crimes the two girls being Athena and her best friend, an Ill Girl.crimes. To top it all off, if you count the murder done by his associate, Ted Tonate, he has the highest death toll of the entire franchise. He's not sorry for any of this, folks. What's really disturbing is that nobody knows his true identity. He also doesn't feel emotions the same way "normal" people do. Because of this, he is a chillingly realistic version of a sociopath in a video game.
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* [[spoiler: Kristoph Gavin]] spends much of the game as [[BitchInSheepsClothing a supposedly helpful mentor.]] He is also the first man responsible for ushering in “The Dark Age Of The Law” by getting Phoenix Wright disbarred. [[spoiler: Kristoph]] had initially planned on framing an innocent woman for a crime committed by one of his former students, Zak. When Zak hired Phoenix instead of him due to a poker game, a furious [[spoiler: Kristoph]] decided to get revenge. He had gotten a shy artist named Vera to unknowingly create fake evidence to deal with Phoenix. When Zak resurfaced under a new identity years later, [[spoiler: Kristoph]] took the chance to murder him and frame Phoenix. After this, it was revealed [[spoiler: Kristoph]] had poisoned Vera and her father Drew, intending both to die. Vera survived, barely. To pour salt on the wound, [[spoiler: Kristoph]] gloated how Apollo and Phoenix had triggered his plan, causing Vera to bite her nails- when he had planted the poison as nail polish, knowing her nervous habit. He had even started poisoning her when [[WouldHurtAChild she was only twelve.]] After her survival, [[spoiler: Kristoph]] simply enjoyed seeing Vera face conviction for her own father's murder. In the end, he was little but a cruel, petty, selfish man obsess with glory and destroying those who stood in his way.[[/quoteblock]]
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* [[spoiler: Kristoph Gavin]] spends much of the game is introduced as [[BitchInSheepsClothing a supposedly helpful mentor.]] mentor]]. He is also the first man responsible for ushering in “The Dark Age Of The Law” by getting Phoenix Wright disbarred. [[spoiler: Kristoph]] had initially planned on framing an innocent woman for ended up taking a crime committed by one of massive blow to his former students, Zak.ego when a magician and prospective client, Zak, rejected Kristoph as his lawyer. When Zak hired Phoenix instead of him due to a poker game, a furious [[spoiler: Kristoph]] decided to get revenge. He had gotten a shy artist named Vera to unknowingly create fake evidence for the trial, but after Phoenix was hired, [[spoiler: Kristoph]] used the evidence to deal with Phoenix.get him disbarred. [[spoiler: Kristoph]] also [[ManipulativeBastard manipulated]] his own brother, [[spoiler: prosecutor Klavier]], by using him to disbar Phoenix and cheating the honorable [[spoiler: Klavier out of a fair trial]], which haunted [[spoiler: Klavier]], who knew something wasn't right. for years. When Zak resurfaced under a new identity years later, [[spoiler: Kristoph]] took the chance to murder him and frame Phoenix. After this, it was revealed [[spoiler: Kristoph]] had poisoned Vera and her father Drew, intending both to die. Vera survived, barely. To pour salt on the wound, [[spoiler: Kristoph]] gloated how Apollo and Phoenix had triggered his plan, causing plan-their questioning caused Vera to bite her nails- when he had planted the poison as nail polish, knowing her nervous habit. [[WouldHurtAChild He had even started poisoning her when [[WouldHurtAChild she was only twelve.]] twelve]]. After her survival, [[spoiler: Kristoph]] simply enjoyed seeing Vera face conviction for her own father's murder. In the end, he was little but a cruel, petty, selfish man obsess obsessed with glory and destroying those who stood in his way.[[/quoteblock]]
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