History Woobie / AceAttorney

* Maya Fey is the current Master of the Kurain Channeling Technique, but before that, she was a timid teenager accused of murdering her beloved sister. After Phoenix gets her off the hook, she feels worthless in Case 1-4 where she fails to channel her deceased sister to help Phoenix defend Edgeworth and feels she should not have woken up when tazed by Von Karma. In Justice For All, she is then accused of murdering a client by a nurse and her aunt. This pretty much shatters her faith in the Kurain Channeling Technique and tries to be strong for Pearl. Then she is kidnapped by Shelly De Killer, forcing Phoenix to defend the truly awful Matt Engarde in exchange for her life. Of course, Engarde is guilty as sin, and until Phoenix finds a loophole, she feels helpless. Then in the third game's Case 3-5, she is accused by Iris (actually Dahlia Hawthorne being channeled by Maya Fey), for murdering her own mother, and the real culprit is someone close to her sister, making it hard to testify against them. Things start looking up for her until she arrives in the Khura'in Kingdom where she is accused of murder by Prosecutor Nahyuta Sahdmadhi and is nearly convicted with Phoenix under the Defense Culpability Act. It turns out the real culprit did it in self-defense and only framed Maya because they felt powerless against the Ga'ran regime. Then she was supposedly kidnapped by Inga when in reality [[spoiler: she traded places with the still alive Amara channeling Dhurke Sadhmadhi who it turns out, was DeadAllAlong]]. In the end, poor Maya tried to be strong for Pearl Fey but she is hiding deep despair among other things.

* Klavier can also qualify for having prosecuted both [[spoiler: his brother and his best friend and bandmate]] and because of this, having to disband his own band, which he really loved considering how much he gushes about it. You can tell he's putting on a brave face when [[spoiler: he's accusing his brother]]. There's also the implication that he was bullied by [[spoiler: his brother]] shown in the manga and heavily implied in the game by Kristoph threatening him when he's accused. Then, his mentor figure Constance Courte dies, and he just wants to catch the killer to avenge her death, even being extremely helpful to Apollo and Athena. He's pretty much a StepfordSmiler. It helps he's one of the more genuinely nice prosecutors who never did anything amoral and just wanted to find the truth from the start.
* Trucy doesn't get off much better, despite [[spoiler: being adopted by Phoenix]]. [[spoiler: First, her mother supposedly dies while rehearsing a trick with her dad and her uncle, then a few years later her grandfather dies under mysterious circumstances and the only viable suspects are her dad (who gets arrested for it) and her uncle. She gets roped into helping her dad run away from court when she's eight years old and he [[DisappearedDad doesn't return]] for her, leaving her with the guy who just got disbarred because her uncle ends up in jail in lieu of her dad. When her dad finally appears again, when she's 15, he goes to see Phoenix and then gets murdered. Phoenix ends up getting arrested for his murder. [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking THEN her panties get stolen]]. Then next year she gets taken hostage.]] And then, in ''Spirit of Justice'' [[spoiler: she gets accused of murder and almost loses her beloved talent agency due to the jackass former mentor of Troupe Gramarye. Let's just say she's starting to rival Maya in woobieness.]]

** [[spoiler: Armie "Sarge" Buff is a pretty sad case. She's only 12 and her mother died in a fire similar to Apollo's dad. She's bound by a wheelchair, due to the trauma of losing her mother in her father, and only puts on a DrillSergeantNasty facade because that was what her mother was like, and her father was killed when trying to solve a clue on the Founder's Orb by a corrupt politician who wanted to give the orb to Justice Minister Inga. It's only thanks to Apollo's courage that she is able to get on the stand and testify against Paul Atishon, her father's killer and help convict him. You'll want to smile when she finally starts to walk again.]]

* Where do we begin with [[spoiler: Viola Cadaverini]]? [[spoiler: First, she got into a traffic accident like Mimi above, only instead of her face being destroyed, she suffers a severe blow to the head which probably gave her nasty brain damage. The guy who caused the accident: Furio Tigre only paid her medical bills because her grandfather was the boss of the most dangerous criminals in the entire country. He feels no remorse for what he's done, and forces Viola to help him frame an innocent waitress and kill an unlucky guy, just so he can get the money to pay Viola's medical bills, again not because he cared. It's also revealed that she's not really a bad person (just a tad homicidal probably from her head injury) and thanks Phoenix after he brings Tigre to justice.]]
* [[spoiler: Diego Armando/Godot]] is a good example of JerkassWoobie. [[spoiler: He's a real jerk to Phoenix and his plan of dealing with Morgan Fey's plan to kill Maya was stupid and self-centered, a fact he himself admits despite protecting Maya, and he personally killed Misty. But come on! He got poisoned by a murderous bitch, the woman he loves was murdered while he was in a six-year coma, and he has to constantly go through agonizing medical treatments just to stay alive. Deep down, he's hiding so much despair, guilt, and self-loathing that it's amazing he can even show up to court.]]

* Simon Keyes (known in the original Japanese version as Sota Sarushiro) [[spoiler:was abused by his biological father, who used him as a taste-tester for sweets because he had lost his own sense of taste. One day, he was tied up and locked in a car by one of the kids be befriended, Manosuke Naito (aka Horace Knightley), whose father also happened to be a JerkAss. Knightley and Keyes nearly froze to death there, but were saved by the assassin Sirhan Dogen. They were then adopted by [[OrphanageOfFear abusive orhanpage.]] Upon meeting Dogen again during an incident at that orphanage, and having learned the assassin was in danger, Keyes [[StartOfDarkness started a fire to buy him an opportunity to escape.]] This became the first step in Keyes' dedication of his life to paying back the only man who ever treated him with any measure of kindness by destroying the lives of Dogen's enemies. With time and through increasingly violent and manipulative methods, Keyes managed to get all of them arrested, including Knightley, who he viewed as having betrayed him, but could only accomplish this by manipulating others into betrayal and murder. In summary, a miserable, friendless childhood [[JerkassWoobie drove him into misanthropy,]] and his efforts to pay back the only man who treated him with kindness took a hard turn into HeWhoFightsMonsters as he repeatedly brought down those who had wronged Dogen or himself by manipulating them into paranoia and murder, leading to the deaths and endangerment of multiple people totally unrelated to his problems in the first place.]]

** Robin Newman could be seen as one, given she was forced to live life as a guy for most of her life thanks to her dad, her two best friends are accused of murder by the police and Athena, and she feels envious of Juniper's popularity implying she's not very popular with the guys or girls like her friend is.

** Hugh O'Conner may seem like a typical {{Jerkass}} InsufferableGenius who brags about his good grades to everyone. [[spoiler: Except that he's not. He's been held back ''at least 7 years'' and the only reason he has high grades in the first place is because his parents were fed up with him failing tests so they bribed Aristotle Means, the teacher, to give him straight As. He's a woobie in the same vein as Yumihiko. He tries to take the heat for Juniper along with her other best friend Robin, and goes completely insane. That's right, this young man is willing to confess to a crime he didn't commit if it will save his best friends.]] That's true loyalty, right there. [[spoiler: Thankfully, he's given a bone by winning the mock trial and presumably getting better grades.]]

** In case 6-2, Bonny de Famme. She's a shy, clumsy, humble magician who admires Trucy so deeply and is thrilled to be performing with her. But then, [[spoiler: she and her twin sister are tricked into aiding Roger Retinz in committing a murder to ''frame'' Trucy and ruin her reputation. Said twin sister also constantly bullies her into silence, poses as Bonny to make you think she's turned against Trucy, and at the end of the trial she feels ''awful'' for having helped Roger. Luckily, she's also gained a little self-confidence by that point so she can at least stand up to her sister.]]

* Acro in the [[ThatOneLevel much-hated]] Case 2-3: a former acrobat and FriendToAllLivingThings orphaned at a young age and adopted by the circus owner, now [[WheelchairWoobie confined to a wheelchair]] and unable to leave his room by himself after [[spoiler:a stupid prank by the girl his brother was in love went wrong, leaving him crippled and his brother in a permanent coma, and the girl blissfully unaware that she could possibly have done anything wrong]]. And to make things worse, [[spoiler:when he tried to get revenge on her for effectively killing his brother, he accidentally murdered his beloved adoptive father instead]].

** That's not even the half of it. Regina first lost her mother when she was very young, [[spoiler: her big brother figure tried to kill her and ended up killing her dad instead]], her first boyfriend got into a coma from an accident she unknowingly started, one of her boyfriends is a total jackass who's only real redeeming quality is his love for her, and then her next two boyfriends are accused of murder. [[spoiler: That's not even going into the fact that her fourth boyfriend is a murderer himself, and ends up being one of the series' most clever villains.]] And then there's her Scrappy status with the fandom for her accidental role in Bat getting into a coma even in spite of her [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone coming to realize the seriousness of it]] and [[MustMakeAmends trying her best to make up for it.]]

** And then there's his early career. [[spoiler:First, Phoenix believed for many years that he fell madly in love with a manipulative serial killer who, after tricking him into helping her escape being convicted for killing the boyfriend of his beloved mentor and the woman who saved his life, tried to kill him and ended up killing someone else trying to warn him about her. Then, shortly after he becomes a lawyer, his friend and mentor is murdered, and the actual murderer tries to frame HIM for it. Then comes a series of trials where he is continually bullied and disrespected by EVERYONE, and not to mention put in severe danger and huge dilemmas numerous times, because he is pretty much the only one who can help his clients. He constantly puts his career, reputation, and sometimes his own life on the line for the sake of those who have nobody on their side, and doesn't get shit in return. His second-to-last trial reveals that the girl he fell in love with was the twin sister, yet completely different person, of the aforementioned monster. Though he still clearly cares for her, it seems he can't be with her, at least partially because she is put in jail for being an after-the-fact accomplice to murder. THEN, after winning that case and surpassing his mentor (and thus her spirit leaving him), he loses his job, reputation, and (maybe) friends because he fell into a trap set by another monster who decided to destroy his life just because the client hired Phoenix over the asshole, and because said client was also a jackass who wouldn't give Phoenix the damn evidence that would have cleared him immediately. Phoenix spends the next seven years as a hobo, playing poker and caring for the abandoned daughter of that jackass client, before he FINALLY makes everything right.]] How he is still able to be a good, determined, and unbreakable man, let alone SANE, after all this crap is nothing short of a MIRACLE! He needs A LOT of hugging!
** It gets better! [[spoiler:In ''Apollo Justice'', he's also injured several times because he hasn't already been a ButtMonkey enough, has he?]]
** And it doesn't stop there either. [[spoiler: In ''Dual Destinies'', things seemed to be looking up. He got his badge back courtesy of Edgeworth, he has a new protege in Athena Cykes alongside ''Apollo Justice'' and they were going on as well as they could. Then Apollo's best friend gets murdered and Athena's inadvertent connection to the case plus his Perceive ability makes him take a leave of absence due to being unable to fully trust her (and he already had some unresolved issues with Phoenix still lingering from ''[=AA4=]''). On top of that, after turning a case around Athena gets accused which sends her off to prison. And then, Trucy gets taken hostage by a staged robot rebellion. Oh, and the favor that he was supposed to do for Edgeworth is in danger of failing as he was supposed to absolve Blackquill for his crime 7 years ago and he was due for execution tomorrow! In the middle of this Nick had walked back to the Agency a sorrowful and beaten man. The only thing that saved him was the fact that he and Maya Fey have grown so close that she was able to feel his sorrow all the way from Kurain Village and sent Pearl and a letter to him to immediately pick his spirits back up. If not for her, Phoenix would've lost everything all over again in the span of one day]].
** Then there's ''Spirit of Justice'' where [[spoiler: Phoenix travels to the distant Japan inspired kingdom of Khura'in to meet Maya, but gets caught up in a trial in a country where being a defense attorney is outlawed and punishable by death. Phoenix goes through hell and back to save his clients in this mysterious foreign land, including Maya (again) putting his life on the line (literally this time thanks to the Defense Culpability Act) and pretty much lost everything when Maya gets kidnapped by Justice Minister Inga, forcing him to defend yet another client he knows is guilty. Turns out, she was really channeling Dhurke Sadhmadhi so Apollo could see his father again, but is accused of murdering Justice Minister Inga in the final case. If it hadn't been for Apollo stepping up and putting his life on the line, Phoenix would have lost everything AGAIN.]]

* Simon Keyes (known in the original Japanese version as Sota Sarushiro) had a terrible father too. [[spoiler: In fact, that's probably why he did what he did. He just couldn't stand up to his father's expectations.]] Let's talk about him more. [[spoiler: Basically he was abused by his biological father, who made him taste sweets because he lost his sense of taste. He was tied up and locked in a car by one of the kids be befriended, Manosuke Naito (aka Horace Knightley), who's father also happened to be a JerkAss. Horace and Keyes nearly froze to death there but were saved by the assassin Sirhan Dogen. They were then adopted by an OrphanageOfFear. Since then, Keyes had dedicated his entire life to ruining the lives of Dogen's enemies and manages to get all of them convicted, including Knightley who betrayed him. So to summarize, he had basically no real childhood friends which made him something of a misanthrope, and wanted to pay back the only man who treated him with kindness. Sure he did use unethical methods such as kidnapping a 13-year old boy with the intention of framing him for murder, and framing the innocent Kay Faraday for another murder in order to get Blaise Debeste convicted, making him something of a HeWhoFightsMonsters, but his childhood was practically nonexistent. To pay him back for what he did, the assassin Dogen saved Simon after De Killer turned on him and tried to kill him.]]

* Apollo Justice is the main protagonist of both the game sharing his name as well as ''Spirit of Justice'', sharing the title with his boss Phoenix Wright. While Apollo’s childhood was implied to never have been very peaceful, ''Spirit of Justice'' shows the full extent of it, and boy, it’s not pretty. [[spoiler:When Apollo was an infant, his father Jove Justice took him to Khura'in for a show but was killed by then minister of justice Ga'ran. [[GoodParents Dhurke Sahdmadhi]] rescued him, but was branded a criminal due to the arson on Amara's residence being blamed on him. After living on the lam with Dhurke and his adopted brother Nahyuta until he was about 10, Dhurke [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou left Apollo]] in Japan (the US in the localization).]] There, Apollo met Clay Terran and the two became fast friends. Later on in life, Apollo was mentored by Kristoph Gavin before [[spoiler:proving him guilty of Shadi Smith’s murder]] and gaining a disbarred Phoenix Wright as a mentor. In the fifth game, [[spoiler:his best friend Clay is murdered by the phantom, causing Apollo to take a leave of absence.]] In ''Spirit of Justice'', [[spoiler:he finds out that Dhurke has been dead and that Maya and still alive Amara had been channeling him.]] This young man has gone through hell and almost got killed by the DCA which makes attorneys as guilty as their clients thanks to the tyrant known as [[spoiler:Ga'ran.]]

** Nahyuta Sadhmadhi qualifies in a similar vein to Edgeworth. The guy used to be a sweet kid if flashbacks are anything to go by and [[spoiler: his jerkass attitude is a facade he's using to keep tyrannical Queen Ga'ran from executing his sister and mother. He's actually a member of the resistance group the Defiant Dragons and is secretly helping his defense attorney father Dhurke escape from the eyes of Ga'ran. Unfortunately he is forced to prosecute his own father knowing very well that by doing so is sentencing his foster brother and biological father to the gallows should he win. Turns out Dhurke was killed by Justice Minister Inga and the Dhurke that is getting prosecuted is his mother the previous queen, who is shot by a royal guard, meaning his only living relatives are Rayfa his sister and his foster brother. Then later on he gets accused of murder himself by Ga'ran and it takes Apollo's unyielding will to defeat Ga'ran and save his foster brother.]]

* Detective Gumshoe, a lovable kind-hearted character who is constantly getting his salary cut and often whipped by Franziska for simple mistakes, some of which are not even his fault. Gumshoe was even accused of murder by a corrupt prosecutor, and at the point of the flashback case, he ''didn't even have enough money for a snack'', but pooled in his money with a little girl and they shared a snack together, showing just how kind-hearted Gumshoe can be. This is BEFORE his salary got cut. If it lessens the blow a bit, [[spoiler: he DID eventually get a salary raise at the end of Investigations 2.]] But his fate in Apollo Justice and beyond is left ambiguous, and it's implied he was fired by Klavier. However, a bit of optional dialogue in ''Spirit of Justice'' that appears when [[spoiler: Phoenix presents evidence to Edgeworth that he has no opinion on (such as his attorney's badge) during Case 6-5]], implies that he is still working as a detective, though [[spoiler: the same dialogue also implies that Edgeworth is back to cutting his salary]].

* Apollo Justice is the main protagonist of both the game sharing his name as well as Spirit of Justice, sharing the title with his boss Phoenix Wright. When Apollo was an infant, his father Jove Justice took him to Khura'in for a show but was killed by then minister of justice Ga'ran. [[GoodParents Dhurke Sahdmadhi]] rescued him, but was branded a criminal due to the arson on Amara's residence being blamed on him. After living on the lam with Dhurke and his adopted brother Nahyuta until he was about 10, Dhurke [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou left Apollo]] in Japan (the US in the localization). There, Apollo met Clay Terran and the two became fast friends. Later on in life, Apollo was mentored by [[BigBad Kristoph Gavin]] before proving him guilty and gaining disbarred Phoenix Wright as a mentor. In the fifth game, his best friend Clay is murdered by the phantom causing Apollo to take a leave of absence. In Spirit of Justice, he finds that Dhurke has been dead and that Maya and still alive Amara had been channeling him. This young man has gone through hell and almost got killed by the DCA which makes attorneys as guilty as their clients thanks to tyrant Ga'ran.

* And to round out the case 2-3 characters, we have Moe. He's a BumblingDad figure to the rest of the circus, especially Regina after the Ringmaster is killed, he has a divorced wife and child who presumably hate him and has to pay alimony to with what little money he gets, and his best friend the Ringmaster was killed by [[spoiler: Acro, who was like a son to him]]. That's not even going into the fact that ''no one'' laughs at his jokes no matter how hard he tries, he's a bit of a klutz, and is one of the most hated characters in the entire franchise.

* Simon Keyes (known in the original Japanese version as Sota Sarushiro) had a terrible father too. [[spoiler: In fact, that's probably why he did what he did. He just couldn't stand up to his father's expectations.]] Let's talk about him more. [[spoiler: Basically he was abused by his biological father, who made him taste sweets because he lost his sense of taste. He was tied up and locked in a car by one of the kids be befriended, Manosuke Naito (aka Horace Knightley), who's father also happened to be a JerkAss. Horace and Keyes nearly froze to death there but were saved by the assassin Sirhan Dogen. They were then adopted by an OrphanageOfFear. Since then, Keyes had dedicated his entire life to ruining the lives of Dogen's enemies and manages to get all of them convicted, including Knightley who betrayed him. So to summarize, he had basically no real childhood friends which made him something of a misanthrope, and wanted to pay back the only man who treated him with kindness. Sure he did use unethical methods such as kidnapping a 13-year old boy with the intention of framing him for murder, and framing the innocent Kay Faraday for another murder in order to get Blaise Debeste convicted, making him something of a HeWhoFightsMonsters, but his childhood was practically nonexistent. To pay him back for what he did, the assassin Dogen saved Simon after De Killer turned on him and tried to kill him. It helps that Keyes is regarded as one of the series best villains.]]

** That's not even the half of it. Regina first lost her mother when she was very young, [[spoiler: her big brother figure tried to kill her and ended up killing her dad instead]], her first boyfriend got into a coma from an accident she unknowingly started, one of her boyfriends is a total jackass who's only real redeeming quality is his love for her, and then her next two boyfriends are accused of murder. [[spoiler: That's not even going into the fact that her fourth boyfriend is a murderer himself, and ends up being one of the series most clever villains.]] And then there's her Scrappy status with the fandom for her accidental role in Bat getting into a coma...

* Franziska, who - it is implied - has become this sealed-off whip-wielding Ice Queen due entirely to [[spoiler: her father and his (likely rather soul-killing, given his personality) demand for perfection]], as well as some kind of complex and a fear that [[spoiler: she'll never be as worthy in her father's eyes as her adopted brother Edgeworth]].

* Before her, there was the flight attendant, Rhoda Teneiro. Similar to Adrian Andrews, this poor young woman just wants to accomplish something, but she's TheUnfavorite to the Captain, she designs a suitcase she poured her heart and soul into. Naturally everyone hates it, and she feels bad about it not selling that she buys one herself. After Miles clears his name, she gets fingered as the suspect and the poor thing suffers a HeroicBSOD. This woman just wants to be loved and for just one person to buy her suitcases. [[PetTheDog Which Edgeworth does.]] She even has an unrequited crush on Miles.

* Before her, there was the flight attendant, Rhoda Teneiro. Being TheUnfavorite to the Captain, she designs a suitcase she poured her heart and soul into. Naturally everyone hates it, and she feels bad about it not selling that she buys one herself. After Miles clears his name, she gets fingered as the suspect and the poor thing suffers a HeroicBSOD. This woman just wants to be loved and for just one person to buy her suitcases. [[PetTheDog Which Edgeworth does.]] She even has an unrequited crush on Miles.

* Before her, there was flight attendant Rhoda Teneiro. Being TheUnfavorite to the Captain, she designs a suitcade she poured her heart and soul into. Naturally everyone hates it, and she feels bad about it not selling that she buys one herself. After Miles clears his name, she gets fingered as the suspect and the poor thing suffers a HeroicBSOD. This woman just wants to be loved and for just one person to buy her suitcases. [[PetTheDog Which Edgeworth does.]] She even has an unrequited crush on Miles.

* Maya Fey gets put through Hell and back in the original trilogy. Case 1-2 has her accused of the murder of her own sister. Case 1-4 has her feeling utterly useless for being unable to channel Mia when they needed her most. Case 2-2 has her believe she allowed a spirit she channeled to murder someone, traumatizing her to the point of stopping her spirit medium training altogether. Case 2-4 has her kidnapped by an assassin for ransom and nearly starved to death. Case 3-5 has her finally regain enough confidence to continue her training, only to be caught in a plot to have herself killed which is only foiled by [[spoiler:her own mother essentially sacrificing herself]]. By this point, she is so broken she doesn't want anything to do with the Fey clan, opting to give her occupation as the assistant manager at Wright & Co. Law Offices (which, while true, is not her primary obligation) when called as a witness. Somebody give this girl a hug. Then in Spirit of Justice when she returns [[spoiler: She's almost kidnapped but saved by Defiant Dragon Nahyuta, accused of murder AGAIN, and then accused of murder one more time while channeling Nahyuta and Apollo's father Dhurke Sadhmadhi.]]

* [[VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney Apollo]] [[ButtMonkey Justice]] counts just as much as his mentor by taking ButtMonkey to a somewhat unfunny extreme, especially during ''Dual Destinies''. First off, he's an orphan mentored by [[BigBad Kristoph Gavin]]. In addition, in ''Apollo Justice'', everyone mocks him for his loud voice including his own biological mother. (To be fair, she didn't even know she had children. And Klavier, Trucy and Phoenix were more friendly teasing.) Unlike Phoenix, he's also treated like a high schooler when he's 23 years old and barely gets any respect from the police officers. And it only gets worse in ''Dual Destinies'' when it turns out his best childhood friend was killed and the suspect is his longtime idol. During the trial for his idol, a bomb goes off and Apollo heroically protects Juniper Woods from the rubble sustaining serious injuries. Finally, he's struck on the head by the bomb operator [[spoiler: suspect]] and ends up in a hospital. At last, it becomes too much for poor Apollo and he takes a leave of absence. Ouch...
** [[spoiler: It gets worse in ''Spirit of Justice'' where he learns that his father died in a fire caused by the usurper queen of Khura'in -- a fire in which the infant Apollo also nearly died, and the trauma of which caused his mother to flee the country. He was adopted by defense attorney and previous king Dhurke Sadhmadhi, who raised him alongside his own son until he was about 13 and then took him to America [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou to keep him safe from Ga'ran]]. When Apollo finally reunited with Nahyuta, his foster brother, he saw a cold, hyper-religious man who acted like they'd never met. Then, when Dhurke finally came back for him and it looked like their father-son bond could be restored, Apollo learned that Dhurke had already been murdered by Justice Minister Inga, and Maya had been channeling him the entire time. So Apollo has lost ''two'' fathers, and the only family he has left are Nahyuta (now much nicer since he's out from under Ga'ran's thumb), his sister Trucy, and their mother Thalassa -- and he isn't even aware of his relationship to the last two.]]

* Franziska, who - it is implied - has become this sealed-off whip-wielding Ice Queen due entirely to [[spoiler: her father and his (likely rather soul-killing, given his personality) demand for perfection]], as well as some kind of complex re:Edgeworth and a fear that [[spoiler: she'll never be as worthy in her father's eyes as her adopted brother]].

* Simon Keyes (known in the original Japanese version as Sota Sarushiro) had a terrible father too. [[spoiler: In fact, that's probably why he did what he did. He just couldn't stand up to his father's expectations.]] Let's talk about him more. [[spoiler: Basically he was abused by his biological father, who made him taste sweets because he lost his sense of taste. He was tied up and locked in a car by one of the kids be befriended, Manosuke Naito (aka Horace Knightley), who's father also happened to be a JerkAss. Horace and Keyes nearly froze to death there but were saved by the assassin Sirhan Dogen. They were then adopted by an OrphanageOfFear. Since then, Keyes had dedicated his entire life to ruining the lives of Dogen's enemies and manages to get all of them convicted, including Knightley who betrayed him. So to summarize, he had basically no real childhood friends which made him something of a misanthrope, and wanted to pay back the only man who treated him with kindness. Sure he did use unethical methods such as kidnapping a 13-year old boy with the intention of framing him for murder, and framing the innocent Kay Faraday for another murder in order to get Blaise Debeste convicted, making him something of a HeWhoFightsMonsters, but his childhood was practically nonexistent. To pay him back for what he did, the assassin Dogen saved Simon after De Killer turned on him and tried to kill him. It helps that Keyes is regarded as one of the series best villains.

* Simon Keyes (known in the original Japanese version as Sota Sarushiro) had a terrible father too. [[spoiler: In fact, that's probably why he did what he did. He just couldn't stand up to his father's expectations.]] Let's talk about him more. [[spoiler: Basically he was abused by his biological father, who made him taste sweets because he lost his sense of taste. He was tied up and locked in a car by one of the kids be befriended, Manosuke Naito (aka Horace Knightley), who's father also happened to be a JerkAss. Horace and Keyes nearly froze to death there but were saved by the assassin Sirhan Dogen. They were then adopted by an OrphanageOfFear. Since then, Keyes had dedicated his entire life to ruining the lives of Dogen's enemies and manages to get all of them convicted, including Knightley who betrayed him. So to summarize, he had basically no real childhood friends which made him something of a misanthrope, and wanted to pay back the only man who treated him with kindness. Sure he did use unethical methods such as kidnapping a 13-year old boy with the intention of framing him for murder, and framing the innocent Kay Faraday for another murder in order to get Blaise Debeste convicted, making him something of a HeWhoFightsMonsters, but his childhood was practically nonexistent. To pay him back for what he did, the assassin Dogen saved Simon after De Killer turned on him and tried to kill him. It helps that Keyes is regarded as one of the series [[MagnificentBastard best villains]].]]

** Jinxie and Mayor Damian Tenma. Jinxie is extremely superstitious seeing Apollo as a demon, thinking she saw an ancient demon when really it was [[spoiler: Mayor Tenma's own aide Florent L'Belle in disguise]] saw the Amazing Ninetails mask over the killer who she thought was her own father [[spoiler: again, Florent L'Belle in disguise]] having just killed the alderman. Her father is a nice innocent guy similar to Will Powers who cares for his daughter enough to attempt a [[PapaWolf prison break]] to stop her tormentors and is very shy with people [[spoiler: and is really a badass wrestler]]. Both of them lost Jinxie's mom who was from Nine tails vale and Jinxie carries a flower to remind herself of her deceased mother.