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'''What's The Work'''

Blue Archive is a mobile game created by Nexon Games and it was released in 2021. It follows the player as they go around investigating criminal activities around the school with some evil-doer causing mayhem or worse.


'''Who Is He? What Has He Done?'''



'''Is He Magnificent'''




'''Is He Too Much Of A Baddie'''



'''Final Verdict'''

I'll leave it up to you guys to decide.

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* ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonvsPhoenixWrightAceAttorney'': The Storyteller

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!Warning! All spoilers below are unmarked.
!!It's virtually impossible to list tropes for this game without spoiling everything or creating [[Administrivia/SelfFulfillingSpoiler Self-Fulfilling Spoilers]] because of the large amount of twists and MurderMystery-related tropes it contains.
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Katsumi Fukuhara (Japanese), Creator/LucienDodge (English)

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The protagonist, an amnesiac detective in training sent to investigate Kanai Ward alongside the Master Detectives. He's accompanied by Shinigami, a Death God bound to him by a pact that cost him his memories in the first place. Despite a lack in confidence due to his strange situation, he nevertheless possesses a strong sense of justice alongside a selfless desire to help those in need.

While he seemingly lacks a Forte due to being a mere trainee detective, he does have Coalescence at his disposal, an ability that allows him to copy others' Forte so long as they are holding hands.
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* AccidentalPervert: His decision to infiltrate an all-girls school (Aetheria Academy) with [[LovableSexManiac Desuhiko]] disguised as a girl, and looking through the lockers of Yoshiko, Waruna, Kurane, and Karen, causes Shinigami to label him a pervert. He has to repeatedly correct her that [[NotWhatItLooksLike he's not doing it for anything scandalous and that's it's only for investigation]].
* AdaptedOut: Due to the protagonist being one of the other NDA members instead, he (and Shinigami by proxy, besides loading screens and tips) is completely absent from the DLC packs, which allows the audience to better understand their behavior whenever he's absent.
* AffectionateNickname: Once Desuhiko warms up to him, he starts calling Yuma "my man" as a sign of their friendship.
* AmbiguousSituation: Just what he remembers of Shinigami after their pact is broken is this. Shinigami treats it as a certainty he will forget everything about her, the only caveat she gives is him potentially remembering "for a moment." Albeit, she also says no one has ever used the Emergency Exit before, so it's possible she was mistaken about the effects. That is, in Yuma's note to Kurumi he states he made "a promise to someone" (which we know to be Shinigami), asks her to look after the Book of Death (where Shinigami resides), and pledges to return for it someday. Taken together, it indicates he may still know enough to remember how important Shinigami became to him.
* AmnesiacHero: The game begins with Yuma waking up in a train station storage room with no idea how he got there. Shinigami reveals the amnesia was due to him giving up his memories in exchange for her power.
* AmnesiacsAreInnocent: Unlike Number One, Yuma is unsure of himself, trusting of others to a fault and needing of the people around him to provide him support. However, Number One actually wanted things to turn out this way, due to realizing Kanai Ward's ultimate secret and the Great Global Mystery couldn't be solved by him alone.
* AttractiveBentGender: Chapter 2 has him investigating an all-girls school disguised as a student, causing some members of the theater club to wonder how they never scouted out such a cute girl before.
* BadassCape: Even though it's actually a rain coat in the style of a cloak, Yuma's rain coat comes off as this. It even flutters like an actual cape in the Mystery Labyrinth.
* BadLiar: He gets a bit better as the game goes along, but initially he's extremely bad at lying, prone to awkward stammering, long hesitations, and messing up words.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Yuma is normally one of the kindest, most empathetic people you could hope to meet. Yet, when phantom Icardi's excuses for Shachi's murder lead to him dishonoring everything Shachi stood for (and these excuses being given by someone Shachi trusted to boot), Yuma's countenance takes a notably dark turn as he becomes truly angry as opposed to the desperation he normally shows during Mystery Labyrinths. In turn, one gets the impression this is the first time Yuma has genuinely wanted to kill the culprit.
--> "You'll pay for this..."
* BreakUpMakeUpScenario: His decision to help Kurumi out and Shinigami's [[ClingyJealousGirl spiteful attitude]] in Chapter 2 causes tensions between himself and Shinigami since she thinks Kurumi's useless and the Aetheria Academy case isn't worth Yuma's time. She eventually reconciles with him when the case turns out to have been worth the time when Kurumi tells him about the homunculus research as his reward.
* BlueBoyPinkGirl: The blue boy to Shinigami's pink girl.
* BlueIsHeroic: Yuma primarily wears dark blue attire and is the main protagonist of the story.
* ButNowIMustGo: He leaves Kanai Ward and the World Detective Organization after the events of the game, setting off on a personal journey of self-discovery.
* ButtMonkey: Is often a victim of Shinigami’s antics.
* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: In Chapter 1, he serves as the smooth to Halara's rough.
* ChainedHeat: Part of Yuma's pact with Shinigami. They have a maximum distance to be apart and when it caps, a chain will appear and drag one along with the other, something Shinigami [[ExploitedTrope uses consistently to get Yuma to go places]].
* TheChessmaster: A protagonist variant. The original Number One took any means necessary to hide his true self in order to play as "Yuma Kokohead".
** The reason he had Shinigami possess him was to hide his Coalescence from others and pretend it was someone else's, and convincingly, it worked, to the point that "Yuma" even convinced ''himself'' it wasn't his own Coalescence. It was also to wipe his memory of being Number One completely so he'd be convinced to get help from others than work by himself.
** He specifically arranged for a BodyDouble to pretend to be him in order to serve as his replacement and give orders on his behalf. Thankfully, it worked, as the Nocturnal Detective Agency was convinced the old man was the true Number One and followed his every word, including "Yuma" himself.
* ChickMagnet: He gains the affection of four different girls by the end of the game. He makes Pucci's heart skip a beat in Chapter 0, gets confessed to by Fubuki in her final Gumshoe Gab (wherein she also notes she finds him physically quite attractive), and it's made clear that both Kurumi and Shinigami have romantic feelings for him. Safe to say, he's popular with the ladies.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: In Chapter 1 when he sees a kid surrounded by the Peacekeeper goons, he rushes to his aid despite wanting to avoid trouble with the authorities.
* ClassicalAntiHero: Yuma is unsure of himself, constantly battles with how and why he became a detective, and the morality and consequences of his actions, this drives his character for most of the game.
* ClearMyName: Chapters 0, 3, and 4 have him accused for the crimes committed in said chapters, forcing him to try and clear his name and escape from the Peacekeepers' wrath.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: He often tries to keep [[TheDitz Fubuki]] and [[LazyBum Vivia]] motivated when they accompany him, especially in the Mystery Labyrinth.
* CombatPragmatist: While being chased around Kanai Ward by the Peacekeepers with Fubuki in Chapter 3, upon crossing paths with one, he throws a ''brick'' at one of them with great precision to knock them out before fleeing.
* CovertPervert: When a jealous Shinigami accuses him of being a closet perv who is always staring at women's breasts, his only defense is that he doesn't stare "that often."
* CursedWithAwesome:
** His amnesiac status causes him no end of grief and suspicion from the other Master Detectives on the Amaterasu Express. But it's that same suspiciousness that convinces Zilch to use him as a patsy for his murders instead of killing him along with the others.
** Invoked by his past self, Number One, prior to the events of the story. Even though he would lose all of his memories as well as his ace detective personality, he also gained Shinigami's help and a personality more suited towards relationships with other people, things he needed to solve the case.
* DeadpanSnarker: Occasionally dips into this when dealing with Shinigami or the more eccentric Master Detectives.
* DealWithTheDevil: He made a pact with Shinigami in exchange for his memories.
* DisguisedInDrag: During Chapter 2's investigation while in Aetheria Academy, he masquerades around as Yoshiko, Waruna, and Kurane, who also happen to [[EverybodyDidIt be the case's culprits]], as well as [[ArcVillain Martina Electro]]; his cover is blown when he and Martina accidentally meet one another, however.
* DistractedFromDeath: The Master Detectives in Chapter 0, besides "Zilch" due to being the culprit, get killed off-screen after Yuma gets caught up in his bind regarding Shinigami in the train's bathroom.
* DistressBall: In Chapter 3, he agrees to help the Resistance with equipment to spy on the Peacekeepers despite Shinigami encouraging him to stay out of trouble and to look for the lost detectives instead. Naturally, [[MadBomber Icardi]], the dissent in the Resistance, ends up using this against Yuma and framing him as a terrorist, causing him a whole lot of issues with near-death experiences and for him to be chased around by the Peacekeepers with Fubuki until the rest of the NDA return to clear his name, all of which could've been avoided if he [[MundaneSolution had just said "no"]], especially since the leader would have let him go.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: A protagonist variant. Being the true Number One despite his BodyDouble being believed as such at first, ''he'' is technically the one who spearheaded the Nocturnal Detective Agency's mission to investigate Kanai Ward's Ultimate Secret, despite initially being perceived as a woeful trainee detective who ranked below the rest of them.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: One that results in a misunderstanding that lasts until the final Mystery Labyrinth of the game. Namely, in Chapter 1 Yuma sees a homunculus corpse for the first time, and is weirded out by the neon pink blood. Instead of saying this though, he asks Shinigami if what he is seeing is real, if she is at all weirded out by it like he is. Shinigami (who doesn't think much about the color of blood at all), assumes he is asking if the corpse itself is normal and she assures him that from her perspective there is nothing unusual about the body. Yuma then decides this must mean that his pact with Shinigami has caused him to see blood as a different color, and proceeds to not ask anything more about it.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: When he’s disguised as a girl his face is left completely unchanged, the only things different being his hair-length and a girl's school uniform.
* EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: Yuma is particularly a good person who does care for all people equally, and he does want to help others. He doesn't accept Icardi or Makoto when discovering their motives for their actions in Chapter 3 or Chapter 5, however; in fact, he goes into a rage when he finds out what the two of them were really doing behind the scenes in their respective chapters. The difference is, while he can forgive ''Makoto'' and tries to help him out of his dilemma, he doesn't hold back on killing Icardi.
* EvilMeScaresMe: [[BigBad Makoto Kagutsuchi]] is Yuma's clone GoneHorriblyRight, with them both being the famed Number One of the WDO, and understandably, he's terrified of the actions he's committed throughout the plot when he finally realizes he's the one behind everything going on in Kanai Ward.
* ExperiencedProtagonist: {{Inverted}}. As the Number One he actually is, he is an expert detective in just about every sense of the word, and possesses great self-confidence and a grand reputation in the WDO for how intelligent he is. As "Yuma Kokohead" with those memories erased, however, he's quite the opposite, especially with him taking the role of a trainee to hide his true self, requiring him to be trained by [[TricksterMentor Shinigami]] to become a GreatDetective again.
* FallGuy: He became the fall guy for the culprit's crimes twice. First when Yuma is intended to be this for the killings on the Amaterasu Express, but is able to clear his name. Then again in Chapter 3 when he's framed as a terrorist.
* GreatDetective: His goal in making the pact with Shinigami was apparently to become one. Though he was already one pre-amnesia as well, as it turns out.
* HeroesPreferSwords: Uses the Solution Blade in the Mystery Labyrinths.
* HeroicBSOD: Under goes several as he investigates Kanai Ward, with the two biggest ones happening during Chapter 4 and 5. In Chapter 4, it's because he's realizing that Yakou is the culprit of the murder. In Chapter 5, it's because he's both reeling from the realization he's actually Number One and how he's connected to the homunculi.
* HiddenDepths: Despite his amnesia and believing himself to be a rookie detective with next to no experience, Yuma often waxes poetic in ways and on subjects that show a deep and somewhat jaded nature within him.
* HiddenInPlainSight: His role as the true Number One. How? By having the ability of Coalescence without any consequences, and being able to access the Book of Death from within the WDO vault in order to make a pact with Shinigami, both things of which the Mystery Labyrinth rely on Yuma's control of for the events of the '''whole game''' to even ''exist''.
* IdentityAmnesia: Before making a pact with Shinigami, Number One arranged things so he wouldn't remember his true identity, but instead think he was the detective in training Yuma Kokohead.
* IdiotHair: Yuma has a noticeable ''ahoge'' on his head. Its curl typically makes it look like a question mark. Succeeding in a Reasoning Death Match makes it stand up, looking more like an exclamation point.
* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: Being Number One of the WDO, naturally, he has a superior mind; one so superior that he has to isolate himself from others and has the capacity to do things by himself. The exception to this is when he found out about [[BigBad Makoto Kagutsuchi]], who was [[NotSoDifferentRemark essentially his equal]], and had to manipulate circumstances to ensure that he would be able to combat him by making friends with others, specifically the Nocturnal Detective Agency.
* InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn: In the battle between himself and the BigBad. Besides [[NonHumanSidekick Shinigami]], except she isn't a fellow ''human''. The NDA, who are his fellow detective assistants, on the other hand, are human, and despite working with them over the course of the game between Chapter 1 to 4, he ends up with none of them when solving the game's OntologicalMystery. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since Makoto specifically made it so Yuma would go alone to the Mystery Labyrinth, separating him from and faking the deaths of the rest of the NDA.
* {{Irony}}:
** Yuma, at first, believes himself to only be a trainee detective, therefore being lower in status and not even officially having a detective role in the first place, and constantly bemoans his inadequacy and irresponsibility due to a lack of confidence. His former, and true, self turns out to be the exact opposite, actually being the ''top'' Master Detective of the WDO, Number One, famous for solving cases on his own and regarded as having the greatest mind on the planet.
** The guy who [[IWorkAlone insisted on doing everything by himself with no help]] ended up with [[PowerCopying a Forte]] that is utterly useless without someone else's help. Even if the rule about consent was made up (given that Makoto doesn't seem to need it), help from an unwilling person is still help, so he probably didn't want that either.
** Throughout the story, everyone in the NDA assumes that Number One of the WDO hasn't shown up to solve Kanai Ward's Ultimate Secret and wish he would due to his reputation of solving cases on his own, thinking them to be the old man posited all the way back at the WDO. It turns out ''[[PlayerCharacter we]]'' are actually Number One, playing as him under the false identity of "Yuma Kokohead".
* IWorkAlone: Number One stubbornly insisted on solving every case he worked on by himself, refusing to accept help from others. He was so stubborn that, when faced with a case he realized he couldn't solve by himself, he had to ''completely wipe his own memory and trick himself into thinking he was someone else'' because he knew it was the only way he could force himself to actually ask for and accept help.
* JobsOnlyVolunteer: Yuma is typically the one to lead investigations of cases against the desires of an Amaterasu Corporation Peacekeeper or follow Chief Yakou's hedonistic demands out of everyone in the NDA. The former case has him lead investigations pretty much every time, and the latter only happens when Yakou doesn't have anyone else to boss around.
* JourneyToFindOneself: Yuma, now having returned to himself as Number One following his resignation from the WDO, leaves Kanai Ward and the NDA for this reason after the events of the story.
* KingIncognito: The detective-in-training "Yuma Kokohead" the Nocturnal Detective Agency thought had no experience as a detective turns out to be the true identity of the rumoured Number One, the top detective of the WDO and the greatest mind in the world InUniverse, all along.
* LateToTheRealization: In Chapter 5's Mystery Labyrinth, he thinks the Makoto that is '''holding a Solution Blade and just took out an actual Mystery Phantom''' is a Mystery Phantom. It eventually comes to him when the stab wound he gives him via the blade causes him to bleed, and he realizes the actual Makoto somehow got into the Mystery Labyrinth. Cue Makoto's DramaticUnmask and MotiveRant after that.
* LeadPoliceDetective: Yuma mostly serves as the one to investigate the cases in Kanai Ward while another member of the NDA accompanies him, and he ''somewhat'' reports back with new information when necessary.
* LetsGetDangerous: He isn’t combamatic in the real world at all, but in the Mystery Labrynth [[PintSizedPowerhouse he manages to take down Mystery Phantoms at ease with his sword.]]
* LethalChef: According to his profile, he's ''supposed'' to be a SupremeChef, but his amnesia has caused him to forget everything he ever knew about cooking, resulting in this trope. Of course, it turns out that he's not the real Yuma, so he might not have known anything about cooking in the first place.
** Zig-zagged by the fact that the only person we ever see "Yuma" cook for turns out to be one of the homunculi with an extreme dietary restriction even they didn't know about. Even the real Yuma Kokohead, who genuinely is a master chef, mentions having trouble making food edible to the people of Kanai Ward, and spent almost the entire runtime of the game working on a ramen substitute. As for our Yuma, because he never taste checks the omurice himself, we have no way of knowing if his food was genuinely inedible or not.
* MasculineFeminineAndrogyneTrio: In Chapter 1, he serves as the masculine to Shinigami's feminine and Halara's androgyne.
* MasqueradingAsTheUnseen: As the true Number One, while his own BodyDouble pretends to be him as Number One for the NDA, ''he'' pretends to be "Yuma Kokohead", a former WDO trainee.
* MeaningfulName: Yuma’s name is spelled as “ユーマ” in Katakana, which is also used for UMA (it stands for Unidentified Mysterious Animal and is a Japanese term used for cryptids). “Koko” in “Kokohead” comes from the Japanese characters meaning “here”, making his surname a pun on how he’s not all there in the head. His name is very fitting for an amnesiac detective until it’s revealed that “Yuma Kokohead” is not his actual name.
* MysteriousPast: Aside from his true identity as Number One of the WDO, possibly coming from a city like Kanai Ward (as implied when Yuma said that Kamasaki District made him feel nostalgic in the prologue), and being implied to have gun training when investigating Shachi's body in Chapter 3, Yuma's background is never revealed and remains completely unknown.
* NaiveNewcomer: Justified as not only is he a trainee detective, but has LaserGuidedAmnesia, and his CharacterDevelopment is learning how to be a detective, emotionally and physically.
** InvertedTrope in regards to his true self, being the experienced and expert Number One.
* NervousWreck: Don't expect him to stand up for himself, especially against [[HatesEveryoneEqually a wrathful Halara]] according to their Gumshoe Gab interactions, unless you're [[TreacheryIsASpecialKindOfEvil treacherous]], as Icardi learns the hard way. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] for his true self, who has enough self-confidence that he works alone, barring the Great Global Mystery case the game revolves around.
* NeverFoundTheBody: His rationale when he gets separated from the rest of the NDA after Yomi blows up the submarine at the end of Chapter 2 in that, since the others weren't ''confirmed'' dead, they ''aren't'' dead. And he turns out to have been [[InvokedTrope right]], as the NDA ''was'' still alive after that. On the other hand, when seeing their fake corpses in Chapter 5, he doesn't apply it twice, since this time around, there ''is'' what looks like a body before him, though they were indeed still alive then.
* NonActionGuy: In a relative rarity for a main character, Yuma is not physically or martially impressive at all outside of the Mystery Labyrinths, being about as strong as one would expect a person of his size and build to be. About all he can do when confronted with a physical threat in the real world is dodge and run. He is admittedly quite quick and agile, managing to avoid a lot of Peacekeepers over the course of the game simply by weaving out of the way of their grasps.
* NotWhatISignedOnFor: He's fine with setting up cameras around Kanai Ward for the Resistance... until he found out the cameras were actually bombs and he accidentally ended up framing himself as a terrorist and led himself into a deadly situation, leading to him becoming a target for Guillaume Hall. Thanks to the NDA, he escapes from the Peacekeepers' wrath eventually, and is cleared of the crime, but when he had to deal with it at the time, he absolutely regretted agreeing to help.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: This results when someone, particularly [[ImpliedLoveInterest Kurumi]], sees him using his Coalescence, since it requires him to hold hands with someone to share their Forte.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The Number One behind the "Yuma Kokohead" decided he had to work with others ''and'' betray his whole identity by erasing his memories, resigning from the WDO, and signing a pact with a death god just to be a match for [[BigBad his own homunculus clone, Makoto Kagutsuchi]], despite both his honor as a detective ''and'' his usual willingness to [[IWorkAlone work alone]].
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Halara Nightmare being TheAce they are, Shinigami is repeatedly impressed by Halara's physical capabilities, no-nonsense attitude, and overwhelming self-confidence, despite her spiritual pact being with Yuma. Thankfully, Halara [[HatesSmallTalk couldn't care less]] about such things regarding themselves and is only focused on the job, so Yuma doesn't have to worry too much about it.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: AvertedTrope in the real world. Yuma is very short and noticeably can’t do anything in the fights in the real world, usually having to flee or have a more combat-capable character save him. However, in the Mystery Labyrinth, this is played straight as he makes dozens of acrobatic flips and dodges as he fights his way to the truth and with the magic sword he wields can overpower people far larger than him.
* PowerCopying: Through "Coalescence", Yuma can share the Forensic Forte of any Master Detective he's working with.
* ProneToTears: Is shown crying the most often out of the entire cast, mostly as a result of all of the trauma and betrayal he has to deal with during the game.
* PsychicLink: While its full potential involves using the actual Fortes of other people, Yuma's Coalescence in its base state allows him to form one of these with other Forte users. It does not allow communication, but he can sense when someone's Forte is being used, and he can to some degree experience how it makes them feel. Notably, when touching Fubuki's hand he outright experiences the extreme fatigue she is feeling after using her Forte.
* RedHerringMole: [[DownplayedTrope Technically]], he's not an imposter when it comes to his infiltration of the WDO's mission to investigate Kanai Ward, as he was actually part of the WDO like the other Master Detectives on the train. The ''actual'' [[TheMole mole]] turns out to be [[ProfessionalKiller "Zilch Alexander"]], who was a hitman-for-hire sent by Amaterasu Corporation to kill any WDO Master Detectives entering Kanai Ward. This time around, "Zilch" was infiltrating the Amaterasu Express route.
* RookieRedRanger: Is Number One of the WDO and has an incredibly powerful Forte, but he spends most of the game acting as and believing himself to be an in-over-his-head trainee entirely dependent on the other detectives.
* RudeHeroNiceSidekick: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. Yuma is the nice hero to Shinigami's and Halara's rude sidekick.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: The savvy guy to Kurumi's energetic girl.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Defies Chief Yakou's orders not to defy the Peacekeepers three times in order to defy the Peacekeepers and find the truth of the cases between Chapter 1 to Chapter 3. As for Chapter 4, the case was Yakou's own doing due to his strong sense of vengeance.
* SecretIdentityVocalShift: As Yuma, he always sounds a little anxious and unsure, his voice wavering slightly at all times. In contrast, the flashbacks to his identity as Number One have him speaking more confidently and calmly, even when preparing to do something bold and dangerous.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The sensitive guy to Desuhiko's manly man.
* ServileSnarker: Yuma is very much willing to snark back at [[CluelessBoss Chief Yakou]] when he wants to whenever he acts particularly eccentric or demanding towards him in particular.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: He's very short for his age, yet he's also among the top detectives in the World Detective Organization.
* ShipTease: Not by choice, but he is subjected to it through four characters over the course of the game, those characters in question being [[GreatDetective Halara]], [[DudeMagnet Fubuki]], [[ImpliedLoveInterest Kurumi]], and [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Shinigami]].
* SignificantBirthDate: Yuma was born on May 22nd, the International Day for Biological Diversity.
* SignatureHeadgear: He occasionally wears a blue bucket hat.
* StraightMan: Between his [[BunnyEarsLawyer eccentric]] co-workers and [[HeroicComedicSociopath Shinigami]], Yuma is almost always this.
* TeamChef: PlayedForLaughs and [[SubvertedTrope subverted]]. Yakou asks Yuma to cook something for him after finding the information about him being "a great cook". However, it turns out that Yuma isn't experienced with cooking as Yakou immediately rejects the food he offers, and this is the truth; it isn't related to Yakou being a homunculi and not being able to eat anything besides human flesh, as [[BrutalHonesty Halara]], whom is already proven to be human, bluntly tells Yuma in the Gumshoe Gab that he can't cook, suggesting he even offered something to Halara at one point.
* ThatLiarLies: Yuma, in secret, questions Halara's insincerity when they decide to lie about being an Amaterasu Corporation detective to the churchgoers and the art gallery staff for the Nail Man investigation in Chapter 1. The response he earns each time is [[DirtyBusiness "Deception is necessary to solve a case."]]
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: A major source of angst for him, as destroying a Mystery Labyrinth kills the culprit who made it, and he has to do it. It's especially severe in Chapter 2 (where the culprits are three high school-age girls who were avenging their dead friend and had their whole lives ahead of them) and Chapter 4 (where the culprit is Yuma's own mentor Yakou, who has been helping to take care of him and the other detectives since he arrived in Kanai Ward).
* TomatoInTheMirror: "Yuma Kokohead" is actually Number One of the WDO, who struck a deal with the real trainee detective Yuma Kokohead in order to use his name and identity as part of his MemoryGambit.
* UnknownRival: Him mainly solving the crimes in the Mystery Labyrinth instead of the real world means the culprits aren't aware of him and the threat he poses. Most of them have very few direct interactions with him, especially Chapter 2's culprits, who only know Yuma as a guy they saw on the stage for a few moments before they died.
* VagueAge: It's very unclear just how old Yuma is supposed to be exactly. When he's offered an opportunity to drive a car, he declines by stating he doesn't have a driver's license, which could imply that he is old enough to obtain one. He's old enough to be Number One of the WDO and for his clone to head an extremely powerful company (with no one claiming they are too young for the work), but one of his implied love interests is a teenager and she and the other students of her school tower over him. Further, Shinigami repeatedly chastises him for having an interest in teenagers, as if he isn't one himself, but this could simply be an excuse she is using to vent her jealousy. Further, at other points she claims he is too young for romance, but this contradicts how she is clearly interested in romancing him herself, making it come across as an excuse she uses to try to dissuade him from being interested in other girls. In one bit of exploration dialog Shinigami asks him if he is old enough to drink alcohol, Yuma's reply only being a noncommittal "that's a good question."
* TheWatson: Being an amnesiac, Yuma is on the receiving end of all the exposition surrounding WDO, Amaterasu Corporation, and the detective work in general.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Becomes one in Chapter 2, where he needs to disguise as a female student to investigate a case in an all girls school.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Frequently butts heads with [[AntiHero Shinigami]] and [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits the other Nocturnal Detective Agency members]] what with their opposing viewpoints. However, [[DarkestHour Chief Yakou's death in Chapter 4]] shows [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther how much they do care about each other in the end]].
* AWolfInSheepsClothing: To an outsider, Yuma is a very green detective in training with amnesia, who is overly reliant on the people around him and trusting of strangers to a fault. While all of the above is true, he's far from harmless. Whenever he solves a mystery, the culprit behind it dies without ever knowing of the danger they're in. They also don't even need to have directly met him for this to happen. He's killed more than a handful of murderers this way, not that he's proud of it. Since the rules of the pact state he can't tell others about it, he keeps this side of himself hidden from his fellow Master Detectives. Once Vivia figures him out, he's fully prepared to kill Yuma if that's what needs to be done.
* WorldsSmartestMan: As Number One of the WDO, naturally. This came with the DNA that was extracted from him and [[GoneHorriblyRight applied to Makoto Kagutsuchi, who turned to evil as a result]].
* YouWakeUpInARoom:
** His first scene (and the first event in the story) involves him waking up in a train station's lost and found room, [[IdentityAmnesia unsure of who he is and why he's there in the first place]]. He eventually finds out that it's because [[DealWithTheDevil he signed a pact with Shinigami in exchange for his memories, and she made a promise to never tell him what happened prior to the pact]] from before his memories were erased.
** In an IronicEcho, this happens again at the beginning of Chapter 5 where he mysteriously wakes up in the dingy cottage in the abandoned village within the restricted area, following Makoto knocking him and the rest of the agency out with sleeping gas.
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This will be another Man of The Internet candidate that I have been planning on for some time

Man on the Internet is a YouTube channel that is well-known for creating video game songs covering many songs such as Megaman and many more.

Ridley is the main antagonist of the song Vs Ridley. Assuming the backstory remains the same he is responsible for the death of Samus's parents without knowing much about him. The song shows Ridley wanting to bring everything in ruins with destroyed planets or cities and he's proud of it. He even sings about bringing pain and death to everyone especially when it's indicated he has destroyed other worlds stating that the stars will be stained red.

He's completely just like his original counterpart who wants to bring death and destruction to everything.

Ridley wants to bring everything to destruction killing countless lives in his life just like what the lyric says even going far as to say every drop of blood spilled, every life taken, every city burned, every planet scorched, he takes joy in it all. Also, I feel like a lot of people have seemed to miss the entire fact that lyrics heavily indicate, if not, ''outright confirm'' he's an omnicidal maniac who wants to end all life out of shere sadism if that was not enough.

Ridley wants to bring everything to destruction killing countless lives in his life just like what the lyric says. Also, I feel like a lot of people have seemed to miss the entire fact that lyrics heavily indicate, if not, ''outright confirm'' he's an omnicidal maniac who wants to end all life out of shere sadism if that was not enough.

Piggy is a ROBLOX game created by MiniToons. Oh yeah before you even ask '''NO'''. It may have started as a parody but as it progressed it became a completely different story. It turned into a very dark and serious work with a clear story as time progresses. I rather not have this abuse consistently if anything. That's saying because you did something in the past even after reforming automatically no go.

TIO was once a friend of a person but when realizing TIO is becoming a monster he was banished to a different realm. He then decides to toy with people's minds for his own amusement. TIO observed that Mr. P had the desire to cure his wife of the Linnaeoma virus by using Substance 128. However, the doctors were cautious about using the substance as they believed it was unstable and could cause serious harm. TIO decided to manipulate Mr. P's thoughts and send him hallucinations that would persuade him to go through with the plan. Unfortunately, this led to a catastrophic error and the virus began to spread rapidly, turning the population into mindless zombies. Mr. P's insanity grew, and he even betrayed his allies, infecting them with the virus. Throughout the game, TIO continued to torment the protagonist and Mr. P, making it impossible for Mr. P to distinguish reality from hallucinations.

During his quest for a cure, TIO encountered Pony mentally and offered him a deal, promising to reunite him with his parents. However, Pony refused, having previously experienced distress and pain from TIO's manipulations. TIO was able to do this because Pony had been suffering from guilt after infecting Doggy with Substance 128. He even warned the protagonist they would regret searching for a cure and revealed that he was responsible for the hallucinations in the game after the hallucination failed on him before attacking the player hitting Pony and returning to reality.

He sends Zizzy to a distorted version of the refinery creating hallucinations of her two infected little sisters who were attempting to kill her. Zizzy managed to escape and later met TIO in person. He attempted to manipulate her into joining him by promising that she would be reunited with her friends. When she questioned his honesty, he conjured a hallucination of Pony to guilt-trip her. Zizzy fell for the ploy and attempted to follow TIO, only to be abruptly pulled away by an unknown force. He kills the protagonist to successfully reach the cure. TIO enters the player's mind, transforms into his distorted self, and pursues the player, but his own hallucinations are used against him, resulting in his defeat and allowing for Zizzy's cure.

In a series where every villain is considered sympathetic, has remorse, cares for someone or everything above there is nothing redeeming about TIO at all. Not only is he completely sane in his actions but as it goes on he subverts some of his qualities such as his care for his friend where now the only thing he cares more about is himself in the present. His backstory is also not played with sympathy as the reason why he was banished is because his friend became someone he did not like meaning TIO just became a danger to other lives. Lastly, even though he states he is saving other people this is clearly bullshit as not only do his actions only worsen the effect but also the fact he willingly manipulates other lives into becoming brainless beings who are murderous thanks to the virus giving them zero free will if anything. Therefore, his actions speak louder than words. If TIO really did want good he would not make Mr. P create the deadly virus that caused outbreaks and yet did not give a damn about it.

So overall TIO is just a monster from the outside as he is on the inside.

He's pretty much the one responsible for everything that happened in the series meaning the dude is the heinous standard itself.

Here is my next EP right now and it's from another game series of course. This one is going to be a keeper right now. I'll be listening to his [[https://youtu.be/-TT9GfDydxY theme song]] while at it.

Black Suit is a member of Gematria as he recruited Takanashi in the past only having her agree for his colleagues until he imprisons her instilling fear from her. If the Kaiser company takes over Abydos School into a private school he would believe it would be a great experiment to try. When the teacher, who had been following Hoshino, paid a visit, Hoshino politely greeted him and logically responded to his inquiries. Hoshino explained that the previous advisor teacher had already resigned voluntarily and that it would be respectful to leave her alone. However, the letter of resignation had no effect, and Hoshino was still a student that needed protection from the current advisor teacher. Back suit remained silent and tried to persuade the teacher to stop using the adult card which would lead to bad things. Eventually, the negotiations broke down, and the teacher was informed that Hoshino was detained in the Kaiser PMC, where they were experimenting to inject fear into her. Lia promised to keep an eye on the teacher and withdrew. The teacher later shared information about black suit with the student council but could not find any history about him.

Gematria experienced confusion and uncertainty following the Eden Treaty and Divi:SION incidents. During the Gematria meeting, an unknown force disrupted proceedings and Beatrice claimed to have communicated with it. Despite the low probability of this being true, Beatrice shared coordinates with the group. Black suit expelled Beatrice from the group but later faced a sudden attack from Shiroko. The attack left Gematria destroyed and the group disbanded for the safety of Maestro.

Later, the teacher sought a way to stop the color invasion and advised Sensei to use the Utnapishtim's Ship buried in the Abydos desert. They were convinced that challenging the future was the only way to make a difference and headed to space to protect the students. This was the last time we see Black Suit and it's unknown if he will return.

He is one of the most magnificent, pragmatic, charismatic, and intelligent characters in the series. He is shown to be an enigmatic person who despite his evil deeds can be heroic at times such as saving Sensei from the colors. He fully respects his workers and members considering them researchers like him (except Beatrice which he disgusts) even going far as to make sure their safety is alright. Unlike Beatrice, he doesn't do his evil actions for power but rather for research, exploration, and rescue instead of selfish deeds. He managed to manipulate Hoshino into signing a fraudulent contract and manipulated the Kaiser Corporation to conduct experiments on the students of Abydos. Even if things do go wrong he does have a backup in case the operation goes wrong by blaming the crimes on the director.

He also has a sense of honor despite using cheat codes for his goals such as when he recognizes his defeat after telling Sensei he was trying to do an experiment. He also is shown to care for the Sensei as when acknowledging his defeat to him he gives him information about Hoshino's kidnapping even going far as to warn him about the use of an adult card which would lead to worse situations for him. He even killed the Hate Sink Beatrice for her super heinous crimes. After the battle, he helped Sensei one more time by giving him information about the Utnapishtim's ship which played a huge role in saving Kivotos. After the arc ended Black Suit in the end pretty much get's away with his crimes completely making him a karma houdini.

Overall, Black Suit is a very affable, charming, and smart individual who has zero prettiness over his actions and in the end, proves himself to be an amazing villain.

He is responsible for numerous attacks in Kivotos, scammed Hoshino into a fraudulent contract, tried to inject terror in her, and helped Beatrice with her crimes. While he is indeed heinous enough, like I said not only is he very pragmatic because he values pragmatism, and guards against insanity but also the fact his many redeeming qualities do not detract from his magnificence in question. Not to mention his crimes are literally a saint compared to other villains who have done way worse deeds than Black Suit such as Beatrice who he completely despises. For anyone who doesn't know she does a massive psychological abuse of so many students and brainwashed them into becoming nihilistic serial killers and attempts to destroy Kivotis completely to become a god. If Beatrice isn't worse there is also the future version of Shiriko who is alongside Beatrice the most heinous villain in Blue Archive due to destroying her entire universe, bringing many deaths and destruction to other universes, and attempting to destroy all Kivotos in the Multiverse which is pretty much mass omnicide with every single one of them being on-screen. She cannot qualify due to being too broken and very heinous.

So while Black Suit does pass the standard given the fact there are many villains who commit vile crimes unlike him he in comparison is nothing in return from the top ones I mentioned.

Piggy is a ROBLOX game created by MiniToons

TIO

'''Who Is She? What Has She Done?'''

Black Suit is a member of Gematria as he recruited Takanashi in the past only having her agree for his colleagues until he imprisons her instilling fear from her. If the Kaiser company takes over Abydos School into a private school he would believe it would be a great experiment to try. When the teacher, who had been following Hoshino, paid a visit, Hoshino politely greeted him and logically responded to his inquiries. Hoshino explained that the previous advisor teacher had already resigned voluntarily and that it would be respectful to leave her alone. However, the letter of resignation had no effect, and Hoshino was still a student that needed protection from the current advisor teacher. The black suit remained silent for a while and desperately tried to persuade the teacher to stop using the adult card. Eventually, the negotiations broke down, and the teacher was informed that Hoshino was detained in the Kaiser PMC, where they were experimenting to inject fear into her. Lia promised to keep an eye on the teacher and withdrew. The teacher later shared information about black suit with the student council but could not find any history about him.

Gematria experienced confusion and uncertainty following the Eden Treaty and Divi:SION incidents. During the Gematria meeting, an unknown force disrupted proceedings and Beatrice claimed to have communicated with it. Despite the low probability of this being true, Beatrice shared coordinates with the group. The black suit expelled Beatrice from the group but later faced a sudden attack from a variant of Shiroko. The attack left Gematria destroyed and the group disbanded for the safety of Maestro.

Here is my next EP right now and it's from another game series of course. This one is going to be a keeper right now.

Black Suit is a member of Gematria as he recruited Takanashi in the past to

So while Black Suit does pass the standard given the fact there are many villains who commit vile crimes his crimes in comparison is nothing in return from the top 2 I mentioned. Heinous? Yes but vile? Far from it.

So while Black Suit does pass the standard given the fact there are many villains who commit vile crimes his crimes in comparison is nothing in return from the top 2 I mentioned. Heinous? Yes but vile? Absolutely not.

He is one of the most magnificent, pragmatic, charismatic, and intelligent characters in the series. He is shown to be an enigmatic person who despite his evil deeds can be heroic at times and fully respects her workers and members considering them researchers like him (except Beatrice which he disgusts). Unlike Beatrice, he doesn't do his evil actions for power but rather for research, exploration, and rescue instead of selfish deeds. He managed to manipulate Hoshino into signing a fraudulent contract and manipulated the Kaiser Corporation to conduct experiments on the students of Abydos. Even if things do go wrong he does have a backup in case the operation goes wrong by blaming the crimes on the director.

He also has a sense of honor despite using cheat codes for his goals such as when he recognizes his defeat after telling Sensei he was trying to do an experiment. He also is shown to care for the Sensei as when acknowledging his defeat to him he gives him information about Hoshino's kidnapping even going far as to warn him about the use of an adult card which would lead to worse situations for him.

He is responsible for numerous attacks in Kivotos, scammed Hoshino into a fraudulent contract, tried to inject terror in Hoshino, and helped Beatrice with her crimes. While he is indeed heinous enough, like I said not only is he very pragmatic because he values pragmatism, he guards against insanity but also fact his many redeeming qualities do not detract from his magnificence in question. Not to mention his crimes are literally a saint compared to other villains who have done way worse deeds than Black Suit such as Beatrice who he completely despises. It also does show he has some standards against her due to Beatrices massive psychological abuse to so many students

I have some ROBLOX villains I have found that could qualify here. Trust me, there is plenty more where that's coming from.

The Mimic is a 2021 ROBLOX horror game that is based on urban legends. It stars Yasu and her friends as they go to an old high school not being aware of the dangers they are gonna come across such as the Freddy Krueger monster Kintoru.

Kintoru is the main antagonist of Book 1. She is the Four Beasts alongside Enzukai, Netamo, and Yuma who caused havoc for ten days. All of them were stopped by Kusonoki sealing them away before both Kusonoki and his daughter falls under the control of Sama. Kaito decided to help Kintoru but little did he know she made him fall for the trap by giving him a cursed biwa. This caused him and Biwaki to be under control leaving them to become puppets. She met Futaomote who had a mental breakdown of abusing her daughter and a disorder she has. Kintoru tricks her into believing if she consumed her spirit she would be back to normal leading her to become a puppet and die just like her other victims.

Kintoru was sealed in a Sakura tree until Hiachi found her. She finds her and manipulates her into believing she is lonely when in actuality she wanted to curse her after her seal gets opened leading to her having her powers back. It wasn't until Yasu appeared in the old high school to find her parents not being aware they were cursed by Kintoru. Kintoru tries many times to kill him but never does until the end of the chapter. She appeared in front of him to end his life but after the three hearts are destroyed she gets weakened to battle. Yasu finally kills her using Kusonoki’s blessed blade. His family and every one of her victims was finally freed from her tormented curse.

None I can find. While she is created by the Evil Gods there is zero indication she has a moral agency issue. Not only that but she also proves it when she pretty much shows many signs of sadism, implying she wanted to toy with Yasu and the fact she is seen to be manipulative with her friendly facade with no problem. Unlike many other villains in the series, she lacks anything redeeming whether it's a tragedy or not.

Kintoru honestly stands out even if the other beast does do heinous actions. She turned many people into her puppets with examples being the family being alive just like others, while also the fact for ten days made a huge rampage across the world and it's pretty much shown on-screen what happened. To make matters even worse aside from the parent everyone else is confirmed to be dead in the good ending which I guess you can call a fate worse than death. If that's not all she's the one responsible for the downfall of Kusunoki, cursed the bloodlines of the Yasu and Juno family, killed Cecil, Kayla, Jason, William, Leon, and Daniel, turning their souls into butterfly spirits even admitting it to the player and cursed countless villagers of Akuyami putting them in fleshes made from her own named Fleshbags.

Kintoru was sealed in a Sakura tree until Hiachi finds her. She finds her and manipulates her into believing she was lonely when in actuality she wanted to curse her after her seal gets opened leading to her having her powers back. It wasn't until Yasu appeared in the old high school to find her parents not being aware they are cursed by Kintoru. Kintoru tries many times to kill him but never does until the end of the chapter. She appeared in front of him to end his life but after the three hearts are destroyed she gets weakened to battle. Yasu finally kills her using Kusonoki’s blessed blade. His family and every one of her victims were finally freed from her tormented curse.

''sigh'', hi I guess? After my biggest failures on that happened here, I was actually on the verge of losing myself thanks to my idiocy.

'''Who Are They? What Have They Done?'''

'''Who Is He? What Has He Done?'''

I might have found a candidate that is clearly gonna leave all of you speechless after reading this EP. I'm actually not fucking with your minds when I say this is the worst candidate I have ever chosen in this thread. You will see why in a second.

Hope is a 2013 Korean movie that is based on a true story as it follows a case of a girl who was raped by a drunk dude at a young age. When only being sentenced to 12 years the public was completely outraged by the system due to how heinous his crimes are.

Choi Jong-sul is a child rapist who was convicted of raping several children with So-won being one of them. After seeing So-won at school he decides to make her a target by abducting her in a container, before proceeding to rape and torture the poor girl brutally resulting in her vile organs and uterus being permanently damaged while also having severe mental issues along with PTSD from the aftermath.

He was arrested by the police

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIFtz7bPuUk NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!]] How do you give a child-rapist/pedo a redeeming qualify?!

He is the only villain for raping children besides So-won and tries to do it again after his bracelets are gone. Due to this So-Won organs and uterus were completely destroyed by the assault itself '''(You cannot get any more serious than this movie!)'''. It even left her severely mentally damaged with PTSD from the after-effects of the crime itself. Do you know what the worst part about it all? Not only do people like him exist but it's also the fact he's based on a '''real killer''' and he's still out there believe it or not. In my eyes, this makes him not just even worse but also makes him even more realistic for his crimes if anything and I think you can all agree on this statement about realistic crimes in general.

Your choice as always. As my good friend would say "Rape is a special kind of evil" and I believe you can all agree with this statement whenever this happens and it shows why it's the worst crime in history.

* ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonvsPhoenixWrightAceAttorney'': High Inquisitor Darklaw was a childhood friend to Espella until accidentally caused a fire in the town killing almost everyone. She gets revenge on the Storyteller for her father's suicide. She disguised herself as the great witch to lure Layton and Luke into Labyrinthia so they could reveal the truth. She tricks everyone to believe Layton was turned to gold when he was really knocked out. Until she revealed herself as the identity of the great which saves Espella from committing suicide before being in [[HeelFaceTurn peace with Storyteller and Espella]].

I might have found a candidate that is clearly gonna leave all of you speechless after reading this EP. I'm actually not fucking with your minds when I say this is the worst candidates I have ever chosen in this thread. You will see why in a second.

He is the only villain for raping children besides So-won and tries to do it again after his bracelets are gone. Due to this So-Won organs and uterus were completely destroyed by the assault itself '''(You cannot get any more serious than this movie!)'''. Do you know what the worst part about it all? Not only do people like him exist but it's also the fact he's based on a '''real killer''' and he's still out there believe it or not. In my eyes, this makes him not just even worse but also makes him even more realistic for his crimes if anything and I think you can all agree on this statement about realistic crimes in general.