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2'''The Investigation Team''' ([[Characters/Persona4YuNarukami Yu Narukami]] | [[Characters/Persona4NaotoShirogane Naoto Shirogane]]) | [[Characters/Persona4ShadowsAndPersonas Shadows and Personas]] | [[Characters/Persona4SLinksAndNPCs Social Links and NPCs]] | [[Characters/Persona4Antagonists Antagonists]] ([[Characters/Persona4TohruAdachi The Killer]])]]-]]]
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4The main characters of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}''.
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6Due to the nature of the story and wiki policy on spoiler tags, '''all spoilers on this page for the main game and ''The Animation'' are unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.'''
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8For tropes relating to these characters in ''Persona 4: Arena,'' click [[Characters/Persona4Arena here.]]
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14[[caption-width-right:350:The Investigation Team.[[note]]Clockwise from the bottom: [[NewTransferStudent Yu Narukami]], [[ActionGirl Chie Satonaka]], [[ClassClown Yosuke Hanamura]], [[BruiserWithASoftCenter Kanji Tatsumi]], [[IdolSinger Rise Kujikawa]], [[TeamPet Teddie]], [[{{Bifauxnen}} Naoto Shirogane]], and [[YamatoNadeshiko Yukiko Amagi]].[[/note]]]]
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16The Investigation Team are a group of high school students ([[AndZoidberg and one sentient teddy bear]]) that was founded to investigate the strange phenomena caused by the Midnight Channel, and the seemingly unsolvable murder cases in Yasoinaba, the town they live in. Fittingly, they all have the mystical ability to wield Personas -- supernatural manifestations of each user's personality.
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19* '''[[Characters/Persona4YuNarukami Yu Narukami]]'''
20* '''[[Characters/Persona4NaotoShirogane Naoto Shirogane]]'''
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24* EleventhHourSuperpower: ''Golden'' adds third-tier Personas that are unlocked after the December dungeon, done by hanging out with party members who have maxed out Social Links.
25* AchillesHeel: All of them, with the exception of Naoto, have a critical elemental weakness that will put them in the dirt. Maxing out their Social Links will grant them a skill that triples their evasion against the element that they're weak to.
26** While the protagonist's weakness shifts a lot due to his changing Personas all the time, Izanagi is weak to wind. Izanagi-no-Okami, on the other hand, has no weaknesses.
27** Yosuke and Teddie are weak to thunder.
28** Chie is weak to fire.
29** Yukiko is weak to ice.
30** Kanji is weak to wind.
31* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Variation. The Fog inside the TV world isn't toxic but it can make a person rather tired, even ill, after a while. Because of their frequent forays into that World every member of the team eventually develops a resistance to the stuff (their Personas and "Teddie Glasses" also give them a bit of protection). When the Fog starts to leak into the real world late in the game, they're the only people in town who are largely unaffected by it.
32* ActionGirl: Chie, with her focus on strength and physical attacks, is the most straightforward example, but Naoto and Yukiko aren't slouches either. Rise doesn't become one until ''Ultimax''.
33* AdaptationalWimp: A minor example in ''The Animation''; while the game gave them weapons and some degree of fighting skills of their own, in the show, they're entirely dependent on their Personas to fight Shadows.
34* AllLoveIsUnrequited: A bit of a recurring trend with the Investigation Team. Rise and to a lesser degree Yukiko both have crushes on the protagonist and can potentially end up being the RomanticRunnerUp depending on the players choice. Yosuke has an unrequited crush on [[TheLostLenore Saki]], Yukiko, and Rise. Kanji has a crush on Naoto, who is completely [[ObliviousToLove oblivious.]] Teddie flirts with all the girls, who all reject him.
35* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: A pretty common theme with most of them is how they pretty much didn't have much if any friends for one reason or another and felt isolated from others:
36** The PlayableCharacter moved around a lot and never really had the chance to form solid and long-lasting friendships.
37** Yosuke is the new kid town before yours, having moved 6 months prior. His dad is the manager of the new Junes, which has been hurting local businesses. Yosuke is thus treated with a bit of scorn by proxy or as a complaints' box. He didn't really have friends outside of Chie and his crush on Saki.
38** Chie meanwhile is a tomboy who keeps the other guys from hounding her popular best friend. Her lack of traditional femininity and nature harmed her self-esteem as a woman and she had no friends besides Yukiko (and more recently, Yosuke.)
39** Yukiko is the heir of the local inn (considered a pride of the town) and her beauty gives her a lot of unwanted attention and she's pretty isolated from her peers because of this and the aloof reputation she was given. Her OnlyFriend thus far was really Chie.
40** Kanji cultivated a "delinquent" image to protect himself from ridicule due to being teased in the past for his love of adorable and cute things by girls and boys, though the former was especially biting.
41** Rise became an idol because of her friendless childhood, but now has become consumed by the life and has begun losing her passion to the job.
42** Teddie is a Shadow from a world where the other denizens aren't exactly the best conversationalists, leaving him very lonely.
43** Naoto is MarriedToTheJob and her own aloof nature and desire to be seen as an adult leads to her neglecting her social skills and interacting with the others.
44* AmateurSleuth: A whole group of them. Every member of the team save for Naoto, who's an actual KidDetective.
45* AmbiguouslyBi:
46** While the games provide no GayOption, the player is given several opportunities to have Yu express interest in the guys in the group: he can pretty blatantly hit on Yosuke and Kanji a few times, ''Q'' allows him to suggest that gender "doesn't matter" as long as there is love (which the manga [[http://imgur.com/a/oANSG runs with]]), and, most fragrantly of all, he can outright kiss human Teddie in ''Golden'', though they're [[AlmostKiss interrupted]].
47** Although Kanji questions his sexuality at several points in the game, he has an obvious crush on Naoto before and after finding out her actual gender and is just as smitten by Chihiro as Yosuke. Kanji's true sexuality is deliberately left ambiguous.
48** While Yukiko gets teased about Yu possibly being her boyfriend (and she is one of his possible {{Love Interest}}s), it's worth noting that Shadow Yukiko dubbed Chie as one of her "princes." It could just be Shadow Yukiko expressing that Yukiko and Chie are HeterosexualLifePartners, but it's still rather suspect.
49** Yosuke has gone all "HaveIMentionedThatIAmHeterosexualToday" multiple times, and there are DummiedOut lines that suggest he might have been a GayOption because IfItsYouItsOkay.
50** Chie is one of Narukami's possible {{Love Interest}}s, but she has such a PseudoRomanticFriendship with Yukiko that [[WordOfSaintPaul Erin Fitzgerald is of the opinion]] that Chie has a crush on Yukiko.
51* AssassinOutclassin: Each of their Shadow Selves were intended by Izanami to kill them, but she didn't expect them to accept them and turn them into Personas.
52* BadassAdorable: They're all badass enough to use their inner demons to fight for them and fight a PhysicalGod, but all of them are incredibly endearing and dorky enough when off the clock to come across as cute.
53* BadassBiker: All of them in ''Golden'', except Kanji and Teddie, who have to use a regular bike and roller skates respectively.
54* BadassCrew: Badass enough to overcome their inner demons, harness them into {{Guardian Entit|y}}ies, [[DidntSeeThatComing totally against the expectations]] of the BigBad, fight a PhysicalGod and win.
55* BadassInANiceSuit: Can be bought from Okina City as a costume in ''Golden'' (except [[MissionControl Rise]]), complete with CoolShades.
56* BadassLongcoat: Yu's Personas Izanagi and Izanagi-no-Okami, and Yosuke's final Persona in ''Golden'', Takehaya Susano-o.
57* BattleCouple: Yu and any of the girls (minus Rise) he romances become this.
58* BeastAndBeauty: The [[CombinationAttack tag-team combo]] Kanji and Naoto have in ''Golden'' is named Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast. Appropriate in that Kanji is over six feet tall, bulging with muscle, has a delinquent look going on, is feared by his peers as a bit of a brute, and is a grappler/brawler character with some of the most brutal physical skills in the game. Naoto on the other hand is absolutely tiny and exudes an androgynous charm that makes her very popular with the ladies and quite a number of guys (including, naturally, Kanji). Turns out that Kanji's actually a really nice guy, whereas Naoto starts as something of an apathetic jerk before the CharacterDevelopment kicks in.
59* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn:
60** Rise/Yukiko (both have beautiful feminine looks and are popular with males), Naoto (an intelligent detective who frequently exposits) and Chie (a tomboy who is skilled at kung-fu).
61** Also a genderswapped version for the guys: Teddie (in his human form at least) being the Beauty, Yosuke (being one of the more strategic and helpful members) as the Brains, and Kanji (the big, scary, strong member who's capable of throwing around folded chairs) as the Brawn. Yu represents all three.
62* BewareTheNiceOnes:
63** Yukiko can be ''scary'' when provoked. She manages to scare away {{paparazzi}} trying to take advantage of her inn and she politely and sweetly blackmails Kanji into joining the cross-dressing pageant (who simply responds with 'you're a very scary girl, Yukiko-senpai').
64** Among all the party members, Yosuke was the one most determined to kill Namatame after Nanako's apparent death, and Naoto was the one casually suggesting that pushing Namatame into the TV would leave no evidence.
65* BigBrotherInstinct: All of them have this towards [[EveryonesBabySister Nanako]]. The team's collective DarkestHour is when Nanako gets kidnapped and seemingly dies after being rescued from the second suspect; the team is all so furious at Namatame that they seriously consider tossing him into the TV world to die.
66* BigDamnHeroes: In the story, it's a given that they're this as they make it a point to rescue whoever has been thrown into the Midnight Channel. This seeps into the gameplay in ''Golden'' with the Cavalry Attacks which have teammates that aren't even in your party charge in on their bikes (or skates in Teddie's case) to help out if their Social Links are high enough. Rise can also provide buffs and last-second saves if the party is close to defeat in ''Golden''.
67* BigEater: Most often mentioned with Chie - Kanji implies she's the sole reason the Meat Lover's Combo at the Junes food court is always sold out. She actually mentions she's a little self-conscious about eating so much. Beyond her, Kanji can eat quite a bit too, and Teddie at one point eats ''eleven'' bowls of ramen ([[DeconstructedTrope though this results in a stomachache so bad he is unable to move]]). One of the overarching side goals throughout the game is getting Yu to eat the Aiya Rainy Day Special, a comically-oversized beef bowl that requires maxing every social stat but expression to finish it.
68* TheBigGuy: Chie and Kanji, as the two physical-oriented fighters with the highest Strength of the party, both fill this role.
69* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: Most of the cast fills both roles at one point or another, with usually Chie, Yu, and Naoto playing straight man to some of the team's odder moments. Conversely, Yu can flip-flop between both depending on player choice.
70* BookDumb: About half the party, surprisingly.
71** Yosuke is shown to be an incredibly attentive and a quick thinker, but it's implied he does not do well in school. However, this may be BrilliantButLazy on his part as he was shown not to put that much effort into it.
72** Rise's certainly not dumb, but she complains about exams a lot and occasionally fails to pick up on things the rest of the party mentions. She also protests that she doesn't need to learn English if she can hire a translator, implying that she's not good at that subject, and says in the ending that she got a D+ in school.
73** Kanji similarly fails to understand some of the basic concepts the party talks about and is suggested to not do very well in school, but is fantastic at his arts and crafts passions. In the manga, he shows the group a test in which he got a 4, apparently ''out of 100''.
74** [[ZigzaggingTrope Zigzagged]] with Chie - she fails most exams but Yukiko mentions that she does very well on the ones she doesn't fail. It's also indicated that she's less than enthusiastic about studying, but she starts applying herself more by the start of 2012.
75** Since Teddie doesn't go to school, his intelligence is rather low and often says the wrong things or make dumb desicions. Moreover, Teddie, unlike the Kirijo Group or Morgana, doesn't know much about Shadows and Personas and fails to provide knowledge to the Investigation Team regarding the Midnight Channel and its connection to the Sea of Souls.
76* BoyishShortHair: Chie, who wears a Bruce Lee-style bowl cut, and Naoto, for obvious, gender-disguising reasons.
77* BreakoutCharacter:
78** Yosuke stars in his own manga episode, ''Persona 4 The Magician'', and the manga adaptation of ''Arena'' focuses on him/his route.
79** Naoto received a (now non-canon) spinoff novel taking place a year after the events of the game, ''Literature/PersonaXDetectiveNaoto''.
80** Rise serves as the de facto deuteragonist of ''Dancing All Night'', showing off a bit more of her idol career that was only touched upon in the original game.
81* BromanticFoil: Yu and Yosuke: co-leaders of the Investigation Team, Yosuke is loud, spirited, and prone to sometimes screwing up while Yu is quiet, thoughtful, and TheAce. In animations and spin-offs, where Yu is more talkative and speaks as much as everyone else, his quips are more suave compared to Yosuke's chucklefests.
82* TheCameo:
83** In ''Persona 3 Portable'''s (which released after ''P4'') Kotone's (female protagonist) route, a younger Yukiko makes a cameo when the PC's sports club goes to a summer fellowship in Inaba and stays at the Inn. Chie is also mentioned by one of the handmaids.
84** While none of them are playable in ''VideoGame/Persona3DancingInMoonlight'' and ''VideoGame/Persona5DancingInStarlight'', they appear as head accessories in their ''VideoGame/PersonaQShadowOfTheLabyrinth'' appearance.
85* CastingAShadow: Naoto learns these innately, and Yukiko can learn them as bonuses in ''Golden''.
86* CharacterDevelopment:
87** Yosuke starts off bored of the small town and resentful of the circumstances that led him there but goes onto truly loving the town if for his friends and the people there, finding a place where he belongs.
88** Chie begins the story insecure of her femininity and her genuine desire to protect her best friend tainted by envy of her beauty and charm along with a selfish enjoyment of said best friend depending on her. She ends as a strong young woman who wants to protect all of Inaba.
89** Yukiko, initially frustrated at having to inherit her family's inn but afraid to stand up for herself, learns to take charge and decides to run the Amagi Inn not just for her family's sake, but because she ''wants'' to.
90** Kanji starts out confused and terrified of being rejected by others, hiding talents behind a facade, before learning to take pride in his hobbies and not give a damn what others think.
91** Rise starts being sick of the limelight and rejecting "Risette", unsure of who her "true self" even is, before growing to learn she loves performing too much to quit, acknowledging that Risette is a real part of herself.
92** Teddie starts out hollow and unsure of what he really is before realizing that he can still have friends and make a life for himself.
93** Naoto is angry that her age and her gender keep her from being taken seriously by others in her work. She ends up becoming more confident and secure in who she is, still becoming who she wants to be.
94** Yu's Social Stats - Courage, Understanding, Diligence, Knowledge, and Expression - begin as empty. Filling them up allows him access to more dialogue options and Social Links.
95*** In the anime, Yu goes from being stoic, quiet, and unmotivated to becoming gradually friendlier and more open, taking initiative to helping others around him. Ends up going full circle when he becomes terrified of leaving Inaba and back to his isolated state, allowing Izanami to trap him in an illusion. He however confronts his own Shadow and his fears, reasserting that the bonds he and his friends have made would always be there.
96* ChildhoodFriends: Chie and Yukiko. Kanji is also one with Naoki Konishi, the subject of the Hanged Man Social Link.
97* ClingyJealousGirl:
98** If Yu takes Ai on a date on a Sunday, Yukiko catches them together. She questions him on it, snaps at Ai for interrupting, scares her off and spends the rest of her day with him as if nothing was wrong. Interestingly enough, she's relatively quick to forgive Yu if he apologizes.
99** In ''Golden'', Rise has some hostilities with Marie, no matter if Yu pursues a relationship with either girl. This even extends to ''Yosuke'', as Rise expresses displeasure at him fawning over Marie when he's supposed to be a Risette superfan.
100* ColorCodedCharacters:
101** Yu: Gray
102** Yosuke: Orange
103** Chie: Green
104** Yukiko: Red
105** Kanji: Purple
106** Rise: Pink
107** Teddie: Yellow
108** Naoto: Blue
109** This is lampshaded in ''Golden'' during an outing with Marie, where she points out that Chie and Yukiko always wear the same color clothes. The one time Chie manages to pick out an outfit that isn't green, it ends up being blue and yellow: colors that when mixed together make green.
110* CombatMedic: Mostly Yukiko, who learns every healing spell in the game, but also Teddie and, to a much lesser extent, Yosuke. None of them have any less capacity at fighting than the rest of the party. Kanji of all people can also become one in ''Golden'' as part of his hot springs skills.
111* CombinationAttack: Besides the usual All-Out Attack, ''Golden'' introduces a new mechanic where if your party has two members that are especially close- [[HeterosexualLifePartners Yukiko and Chie]], [[VitriolicBestBuds Yosuke and Teddie]], or [[ShipTease Kanji and Naoto]]- they have a chance of performing a special attack to hit all enemies if there are survivors after an All-Out Attack. This special follow-up can only happen once per battle, though.
112* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
113** Yukiko tends to take gross exaggerations and accidental {{Double Entendre}}s at face value.
114** Kanji is completely oblivious to social subtleties, leading to him asking obvious questions (though sometimes this is a good thing)
115** One day in ''Golden'', Teddie will ask Yu what kind of girl's uniform he likes seeing best. Of course, there is the standard third option to say he prefers boy's uniforms, pretty much implying exactly what you think. Teddie still thinks he's talking about girls.
116** Not even Naoto's exempt, as if you talk to her in a dungeon without having started her social link and with Kanji nearby, she'll lament that since Kanji won't talk to her, he must not even consider her a friend. The opposite is true, as Kanji has a crush on her and CannotSpitItOut.
117* CooldownHug:
118** In one of the later parts of his Social Link, Yu can give Yosuke one after he finishes crying over Saki's demise, only if the correct options were always taken earlier in his Link. Switched around in the anime, where Yosuke gives one to a sobbing Yu after Nanako's death.
119** Kanji accepts his Shadow by hugging him in the manga, and Yukiko does the same to hers in the anime.
120* CreepyCrossdresser: When the guys are signed up for the crossdressing pageant against their will during the school festival, the audience is squicked out, especially in regards to Kanji. [[DudeLooksLikeALady But when Teddie comes onstage...]]
121* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: All of the Team except Naoto in the original game who had silver eyes. She was later updated to also fit this trope in the anime and subsequent spinoffs.
122* DareToBeBadass: Despite being ordinary high-school kids, none of them backs down for even a second at the prospect of wandering around in some DarkWorld fighting creepy monsters, all in hopes of thwarting the efforts of some kind of SerialKiller.
123* DeadpanSnarker: Everyone gets their moments at times, but mainly Kanji and Yosuke. Yu has a very weird, dry sense of humor in the anime:
124-->''[Yu sticks his hand onto the TV, only for Teddie to bite it.]''\
125'''Yu:''' Something bit me.\
126'''Chie:''' Whoa! And it left teeth marks too! Are you OK?!\
127'''Yu:''' [[BlatantLies I might be dying.]]\
128'''Chie:''' Mmm... No you're not.
129* DeconstructedTrope: Each member of the team deconstructs at least one trope as part of their characterization or personal story arc during the game. Completing their Social Link usually reconstructs it.
130** Yosuke deconstructs the StepfordSmiler and/or SadClown tropes. His Shadow taunts him over his boredom in the small town alongside with his clownish behavior being based out of a fear of being alone. He puts on a fake smile to hide his resentfulness of being stuck and his insecurities. Though his is not as explored as the others.
131** Chie deconstructs the {{Tomboy}} trope, as it's made clear from encountering her Shadow that she is quite uncomfortable with her lack of femininity. She also mildly deconstructs the BigEater trope, as she mentions that her ravenous appetite is one of the things she finds unfeminine about herself and is thusly ashamed of.
132** Yukiko deconstructs the YamatoNadeshiko trope, as it's noted she feels powerless and weak, as well as not truly wanting to accept her expected inheritance.
133** Kanji deconstructs the RealMenWearPink trope, as his personal storyline is all about how his "un-macho" interests have led to ridicule and rejection from others, especially women, and how he doubts himself as a result of that.
134** Rise deconstructs the IdolSinger and {{Kawaiiko}} tropes, having originally gone into the music business because of a love of singing and a desire to make friends, only to grow fearful of the idea that people only see her for her idol persona.
135** Naoto deconstructs the KidDetective and {{Bifauxnen}} tropes, as the reasons why she dresses like and pretends to be a guy because it's the only way she can get around the chauvinism of the Japanese police system, and, since nobody takes her seriously due to her age, she has to fight to be recognized.
136** Exclusive to the anime, but Yu deconstructs IJustWantToHaveFriends. His fight against Shadow Mitsuo foreshadows this aspect of his personality where he undergoes an existential crisis over the idea of the case being solved and his friends abandoning him. His fight against Izanami solidified this where he almost willingly succumbed to the fog so that he could be in a reality where he remains with his friends.
137* {{Determinator}}: While they lose hope a few times, all it takes is a little pep talk and rethinking to get the group back on track. They stop at nothing to find the source of the murders.
138* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: All the Persona Teams might have this trope solidly under their belts in at least one instance, but the Investigation Team solidly holds the record at a whopping total of ''five''.[[note]]Izanami-no-Okami, Hi-no-Kagutsuchi, and Mikuratana-no-Kami in canonical order, with Chronos and Enlil joint efforts in the canonical Q sidegames.[[/note]] And, if ''all'' divinities of the Sea of Souls are being included in that number, that shoots up to ''eight.''[[note]]Kunino-Sagiri, Ameno-Sagiri and Kusumi-no-Okami, all aspects of Izanami-no-Okami with the last one of particular notice essentially being Izanami's original self.[[/note]]
139* DirtyCoward: A minor example in ''The Animation''. During the fight with Shadow Naoto, Rise, Yukiko, and Chie use Teddie as a HumanShield to save themselves from Shadow Naoto's RapidAging-inducing EyeBeams, and then flat-out bail on the guys to avoid the same fate. This is in stark contrast to their willingness to [[TakingTheBullet shield Yu from fatal attacks]] if their [[RelationshipValues Social Links are progressed far enough]].
140* DisappointedByTheMotive:
141** How they feel upon finding out that Adachi is the Killer and the reasons behind it. As he explains, the reason he committed the first murder was because he found out a celebrity he was crushing on had a sexual affair with a married man, and he threw a temper tantrum. And the second one had a similar reason, when he spotted a high school girl talking to an older man, he accused her of being unchaste and murdered her for being "a whore". From then on, he committed the rest of the attempted murders purely because, in his own words, [[ForTheEvulz he could do so]] and [[ItAmusedMe because it was fun]]. The entire team is absolutely ''aghast'' and call Adachi nothing but a worthless, immature brat.
142** The same goes for the first suspect [[JackTheRipoff killing someone and trying to claim credit for the other two murders]] [[AttentionWhore out of a desire for attention]]. Chie says it bothers her, but denies that it would've been okay if he had a better reason.
143* DrunkOnMilk: Rise, Yukiko, and Teddie during the King's Game scene. It's left ambiguous if Yu also is in the game, but he ''definitely'' is in ''The Animation''.
144* DubNameChange:
145** Kuma's name was changed to Teddie in the English release, and he lost the "Kumada" alias when human.
146** Rise's StageName "Risechi" was changed to "Risette" in the English version.
147* DumbassHasAPoint:
148** Chie spouts the first theories that pop into her head when the Team is discussing the case, but occasionally everyone goes quiet when they realize she's absolutely right.
149--->'''Chie:''' Huh? Y-You guys think that's it? I-I was kinda expecting you to ignore it as Chie being random again...
150** When Kanji is talking to Naoto in his Halloween costume, he mistakenly identifies FrankensteinsMonster as Frankenstein. Naoto corrects him and explains the story to him, only for him to come to the conclusion [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters that Frankenstein was the real monster of the story]], not the Creature, for abandoning his "child" for being ugly. This completely catches her off guard.
151** Kanji also has a tendency to cut straight to the heart of the matter where his more intelligent teammates might be inclined to wallow in angst. He points out that the fact that they saved two people is quite good in and of itself, tells them it's too soon to give up just because a third person got murdered, and says that beating themselves over what happened when Nanako is hospitalized doesn't do any good.
152** Lampshaded when Kanji [[HypocriticalHumor grouses that it would mess with his head if Chie came up with the good ideas]].
153** In the manga, Chie combines this with HypocrisyNod when she notes that Kanji's grades are terrible, even if she's not the best person to say that.
154* ElementalPowers: Each member of the team (except Rise) gets the ability to use an element during battle:
155** Thanks to Izanagi, Yu is primarily seen using [[ShockAndAwe Zio]] spells, though his Wild Card gives him access to every element in the game. With Izanagi-no-Okami, he can learn all the single-target, third-tier elemental spells, as well as Megidolaon.
156** Yosuke specializes in [[BlowYouAway Garu]] spells.
157** Chie has access to [[AnIcePerson Bufu]] spells, though she specializes in physical damage.
158** Yukiko specializes in [[PlayingWithFire Agi]] spells.
159** Kanji has access to [[ShockAndAwe Zio]] spells, though he specializes in physical damage.
160** Teddie specializes in [[AnIcePerson Bufu]] spells.
161** Naoto specializes in [[LightEmUp Hama]], [[CastingAShadow Mudo]], and [[NonElemental Megido]] spells.
162* ElementalRockPaperScissors: All characters resist their main element and are weak to another by default (except Naoto, explained below). Evolved Personas [[NoSell outright block]] their main elements, and third-tier Personas [[ElementalAbsorption absorb them]]. Resistances to other elements are also gained when evolving Personas.
163** Yu's Wild Card lets him be strong or weak to just about anything depending on which Persona he has active. Izanagi resists electricity, is weak to wind, and nullifies darkness. Izanagi-no-Okami resists everything except light and dark, which it is neutral towards. ''VideoGame/PersonaQShadowOfTheLabyrinth'' lets Izanagi-no-Okami keep Izanagi's immunity to darkness, leaving light as the only element it doesn't resist.
164** Yosuke resists wind and is weak to electricity. He gains a resistance to fire with Susano-o, and blocks it with Takehaya Susano-o.
165** Chie resists ice and is weak to fire. She blocks light with a fully evolved Persona.
166** Yukiko resists fire and is weak to ice. She resists electricity with Amaterasu, and blocks it with Sumeo-Okami.
167** Kanji resists electricity and is weak to wind. He resists physical attacks (bash-type physical in ''VideoGame/PersonaQShadowOfTheLabyrinth'') when fully evolved.
168** Teddie resists ice and is weak to electricity. He resists wind and darkness with Kamui, and blocks them with Kamui-Moshiri.
169** Naoto resists light and darkness, while remaining neutral towards everything else. Yamato-Takeru nullifies light and darkness while resisting fire. Yamato Sumeragi ''reflects'' light and darkness, and nullifies fire.
170* EnlightenmentSuperpowers: Accept your most noticeable flaws? Have a Persona. Work your way through more of your flaws? Your Persona takes on a stronger form. And in ''Golden'', come to the realization that you can still change and improve from there? The Persona's power increases even further.
171* EveryoneHasStandards:
172** While no one on the team has a particularly high opinion of King Moron, none of them are celebrating when he is murdered.
173** While some of the boys can act pretty perverted towards the girls (notably Yosuke, Teddie, and potentially Yu), ''everyone'' on the team is rightfully squicked out when facing Rise's Shadow.
174* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: The '''Golden'' epilogue shows that some of the now older cast has different hairstyles that hint at their CharacterDevelopment. [[StatusQuoIsGod Future spin-off titles ignore this and have them all go back to their previous hairstyles]].
175* {{Fanservice}}:
176** The female members in the beauty pageant, but Chie, Yukiko, and Rise in the swimsuit portion.
177** The Investigation Team's trip to the Hot Springs - Everyone's wearing little more than a towel, and the girls take the opportunity to gush over how nice Naoto's skin is. Taken even further in ''Golden'', where the girls first entering the Springs is now a fully animated cutscene.
178** The BeachEpisode in ''Golden''.
179** ''Golden'' adds a second trip to the Hot Springs, where the Investigation Team are joined by Marie in another animated cutscene. However, this time the girls are ''very'' obviously naked ([[SceneryCensor but hidden behind steam]]), and there's a long shot of Marie from the back (and ''not'' covered by steam) that slowly pans upwards, before she pours a bucket of water over herself. Unlike the first trip, the animated cutscene also shows the boys in their towels too.
180** Some of the more risque costumes (For all of the characters) added in ''Golden'' are very much this.
181--->'''Teddie:''' What's this outfit called? "Naked?"
182* FemaleGaze: The anime shows some pretty good shots of Yu's chest and Yosuke's butt at times.
183* FireForgedFriends: It helps that part of their CharacterDevelopment, both as individuals and as a team, includes learning each other's deepest shames and accepting themselves and each other for who they are.
184* {{Flanderization}}:
185** Invoked by their Shadows, which take their most prevalent character flaws and insecurities and exaggerate them to the point of coming off as cheap mockeries of the character they're based on.
186** In the game, Yosuke acted as the unofficial mouthpiece for Yu, so he was quite talented at deductive reasoning. In the anime, this aspect of his character was given to Yu, so Yosuke's ButtMonkey and LovableSexManiac aspects have increased instead.
187** To a smaller degree in ''Golden'''s new events, where their funniest traits tend to overtake their characters.
188** Pretty much all of the spinoff installments do this to a degree - see [[Flanderization/VideoGames the page]] for more information.
189* {{Foil}}
190** Yosuke admits that while he and Yu both came from the city to live in the countryside, Yu's apparent ease with the transition and becoming the party's leader is one of the reasons why Yosuke was jealous of him.
191** Yukiko and Naoto contrast with each other in a few regards. They're two of the most intelligent characters in the party, but while Naoto is quite serious, Yukiko's more ditzy and silly. They both are born into families who have carried out certain careers for generations (detectives for the Shiroganes, innkeepers for the Amagis), and while Naoto wants to follow in her parents' and grandfather's footsteps a detective but struggles with the male-dominated police, Yukiko initially doesn't want to inherit the inn, but faces no issues relating to her gender (her mother is the current manager). The latter regard may be why Yukiko's encouragement helps Naoto accept her Shadow.
192** Kanji and Naoto are even bigger [[{{Foil}} Foils]] than Yukiko and Naoto. To start off, both of them [[NoSocialSkills don't have any social skills]]. They both ended going against some gender roles which leads them to receive AllOfTheOtherReindeer treatment and causes their biggest insecurities to happen. They both acted a bit unfriendly towards the main party at first, but they warm-up to them as the story goes along. However, while Kanji is much more louder and more straightforward, Naoto is quieter and more analytical. While Naoto is very much TheSmartGirl of the Investigation Team, Kanji is the least the intelligent party member. In addition, Naoto speaks in SpockSpeak, Kanji uses mostly uses slang words (in which that is something that was brought up in ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena''). The amount of similarities and differences between those two are the main reason why they have a lot of ShipTease together.
193* FourTemperamentEnsemble: This actually extends to the genders as there are four boys and four girls.
194** Males: Teddie (Sanguine), Kanji (Choleric), Yu (Melancholic), Yosuke (Phlegmatic)
195** Females: Rise (Sanguine), Chie (Choleric), Naoto (Melancholic), Yukiko (Phlegmatic)
196* TheGadfly:
197** When it's time to induct Kanji, Yukiko has Teddie give him two pairs of failed Groucho Glasses (which she and a reluctant Chie tried out earlier) before finally handing him the real ones, entirely to see his reaction.
198** The option for Yu to say completely random and weird things just to get a reaction out of other characters pops up frequently, and this is carried over into his character when he is allowed to speak, particularly when he's around Yosuke.
199** Yosuke himself is this in comparison to his Shadow's {{Troll}}ish personality, as he enjoys getting a rise out of people with some well-placed snark. He usually gets a physical response, though.
200* GenderEqualEnsemble: While there's a slight leaning toward the male side for most of the game, the final team is made up of four boys and four girls.
201* GiftedlyBad: Yukiko, Chie, and Rise have the utmost confidence in their cooking skills and are seemingly oblivious to the fact that they're [[LethalChef absolutely terrible at it]], no matter how many times they're told as such and how many times their meals have made the others sick, chalking up their failures to getting the ingredients wrong. Yosuke even lampshades it in ''Persona Q'', outright asking them ''how'' they haven't realized how badly they suck at cooking.
202* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday:
203** Unsurprisingly for a teenager, Yosuke is clearly insecure about his own sexuality and will immediately assert that [[ThatCameOutWrong he "didn't mean it that way"]] and that [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial he's "not into that kind of thing"]] whenever anything that could even be ''vaguely'' interpreted as homosexual comes up. He also tends to tease Kanji about his [[AmbiguouslyGay ambiguous sexuality]] to feel more confident in himself. It should be noted that unused game files suggest Yosuke was almost certainly intended as a GayOption romance and was likely written this way, but this was cut in the final version.
204** Kanji's defensive attitude about his masculinity and sexual identity verges on this early on. His Social Link is mostly spent helping him getting past it, and it eases up a fair amount once Yosuke stops holding his Shadow against him.
205* TheHeart:
206** Yu is the emotional and mental center of the Investigation Team, which is part of the reason that he's their de-facto leader. He also has an affinity for forming emotional bonds with others and helping them overcome troubles.
207** Kanji also counts too. There are several points in the story when the rest of the team become discouraged, only for him to step up to the plate with a pep talk focusing on what they've been through and accomplished - essentially, "We can't give up after going through all that".
208* HeroicSelfDeprecation: [[ThrowTheDogABone Throw these kids a bone.]]
209** Kanji makes a lot of jokes about himself, particularly in his insistence in his lack of intelligence.
210** While it's downplayed, Chie has a nasty habit of putting herself down whenever she praises anyone else. Her Shadow actually attacks her on her inferiority complex, accusing her of being friends with Yukiko because it makes Chie feel better about herself.
211** Yukiko herself has indications of low-self esteem, not thinking much of herself, putting aside being the sole inheritor of her family's reputable inn. In fact, the only reason she donned her trademark cardigan and hairband (and likely why she loves the color red) is simply because Chie said "it looked good" on her.
212** In both the game and the anime, Naoto is very rough on herself for asking Namatame too many questions and putting the solution to the case ahead of Nanako's safety.
213** Yosuke ''in general,'' being of ButtMonkey status. For the most part, his mishaps are generally PlayedForLaughs and his friends really do cherish him underneath it all.
214* HeterosexualLifePartners: While all eight of them are very close, some of them have friendships that are more emphasized than the rest of the group:
215** Yu with Yosuke, as well as Teddie and Kanji to a lesser extent. It's especially notable with Yosuke, who repeatedly refers to him as "Partner" throughout the course of the game, and ''Arena'' canonizes that Yu refers to Yosuke in the same way. In ''Q'', if Yosuke is chosen as Yu's life partner, Yosuke is at first overjoyed that they get to be "partners" for life before [[EntendreFailure realizing what it's actually suggesting]].
216** Chie and Yukiko have known each other since they were children. While Shadow Chie highlights a certain element of codependency, the two manage to resolve the problem and remain close throughout the game, with Yosuke noticing that they seem even closer after facing their Shadows.
217* HiddenDepths:
218** Probably Kanji's most important character aspect, as he hides a genuine talent and love for several traditionally-feminine hobbies behind a gruff exterior. He also sometimes makes surprisingly wise and mature observations, such as how there's nothing "manly" about forgoing safety, and despite being BookDumb, his texts to Yu contain perfect spelling and grammar.
219** There are a few moments where Yu cheers up a saddened Nanako with magic tricks, and his Halloween costume is a stage magician, suggesting an interest in magic.
220** Yukiko initially comes off as a classic example of the serene YamatoNadeshiko, but proves to be one of the goofiest and most fun loving members of the team once she joins.
221** Apart from professional idol Rise, ''Dancing All Night'' reveals that Yosuke has the most dancing talent among all of his friends.
222** Despite her bubbly personality, Rise is fairly insightful and much smarter than she lets on. She plays up her GenkiGirl attitude to be cheerful for the group and to have fun.
223* HopelessSuitor:
224** Yosuke's halfhearted attempts to flirt with Yukiko and Rise also get rejected and ignored respectively.
225** Kanji simply CannotSpitItOut when it comes to Naoto.
226* HotBlooded:
227** While he's normally pretty chill, Yosuke gets ''very'' passionate when he's riled up, particularly in relation to the killer. His argument with Yu over Namatame's fate and his yelling at Adachi about being "a worthless criminal" are both good examples.
228* HotterAndSexier: They were already a very good-looking bunch, but in ''[[VideoGame/Persona4DancingAllNight Dancing All Night]]'', the female members and Kanji have switched to more revealing outfits.
229** Rise wears a revealing concert "uniform", complete with NavelDeepNeckline.
230** Chie opens up her signature green jacket and wears a midriff-barring tanktop.
231** Naoto has stopped [[HiddenBuxom binding her chest]] and undone the first few buttons on her dress shirt.
232** Kanji's taken off his jacket and switched to a tight, sleeveless shirt.
233** Yukiko switched her ProperTightsWithASkirt for one that leaves part of her thighs exposed.
234* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Kanji and Naoto, the tallest and shortest member of the Team respectively.
235* HypocriticalHumor: All of them (except Teddie and Yukiko) think that dressing up as the ''Neo Featherman'' Phoenix Rangers is a rather silly, if not stupid, thing to do; some even claim not to be all too familiar with the franchise because it's for kids. However, winning a battle while these costumes are equipped reveals that not only are they aware of each of the Phoenix Rangers' code names, but their trademark poses as well.
236** When Nanako pulls through, Chie tells Yukiko and Rise not to cry as she's breaking down in TearsOfJoy herself.
237* AnIcePerson: Chie begins with Ice spells but never evolves past the middle range and instead focuses on physical attacks - Teddie takes over as the real Ice mage of the party.
238* IdleAnimation: All of them have one in battle:
239** Yu relaxes his stance and rolls his neck. Outside of battle, he'll scratch his head, look around, and yawn.
240** Yosuke will [[JugglingDangerously play catch with one of his weapons and nearly drop it, snatching it out of the air at the last second]].
241** When not constantly bouncing in place, Chie will copy Bruce Lee's thumb-nose flick.
242** Yukiko stretches out her fan.
243** Kanji lays his weapon down and cracks his knuckles.
244** Teddie is continually rocking back and forth.
245** Naoto [[GunTwirling twirls her revolver]].
246* IJustWantToHaveFriends: An extensively underlying commonality between the entire team is a deep desire to be accepted for how they are as people. All of them put up various fronts to deal with their loneliness that they suffer for a variety of reasons whether it be personality traits at odds with traditional Japanese standards such as with Kanji or not being able to form those bonds because they lacked the chance like the protagonist and Yosuke). Even Chie and Yukiko, each other's best friends, fit this because they're not being entirely honest with themselves or each other and indeed were hiding stuff they were ashamed of. This makes it all the more heartwarming as they all come together as the Investigation Team; they quickly grow to treasure each other and having a place they feel they can belong and be themselves with.
247* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim : ''All'' of them experience this when they hear of [[EveryonesBabySister Nanako]]'s kidnapping and apparent death. When they catch Namatame, they seriously consider taking their revenge against him, only to be talked down by Yu at the last moment.
248* ImplausibleHairColor: Surprisingly averted, although the two main exceptions - Yu and Naoto - glaringly stick out: Yu has steel gray eyes and hair, much like Akihiko in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'', and Naoto has deep blue eyes and hair that's blue enough to not believably come off as black. Neither of their unusual looks get commented on. Meanwhile, Yukiko and Rise have more believable looks (especially the former, being a deconstruction of the YamatoNadeshiko trope), Kanji's hair is bleached (and he even gets rid of the bleach post-Golden/''Dancing All Night''), the Caucasian-looking Teddie [[TomatoInTheMirror isn't human]], and this game's art book note that the sandy-haired Yosuke and Chie both lighten their hair with dye.
249* InfinityPlusOneSword: All seven playable members of the team can get the strongest of their weapon type by defeating the Reaper. Following that, they can defeat the Reaper again to get a Godly Robe (which has the strongest defense modifier in the game and adds 10 to all stats) or on rarer occasions, an [[ArmorOfInvincibility Omnipotent Orb]]. A player capable of getting all of this probably doesn't need to in the first place.
250** Yu gets the Blade of Totsuka, which gives him a higher chance of inflicting a critical hit.
251** Yosuke gets the Malakh, which triples his evasion against physical attacks.
252** Chie gets the Moses Sandals, which give her a higher chance of inflicting a critical hit.
253** Yukiko gets the Boundless Sea, which has a high chance of inflicting exhaustion.
254** Kanji gets the Perun Plate, which has a built-in Elec Boost effect.
255** Teddie gets the Seireiga, which increases his defense against magic.
256** Naoto gets the Black Hole, which has a high chance of inflicting any ailment.
257* InstantCosplaySurprise: How the party reacts to some of the more out there costumes in ''Golden''.
258* InstantExpert: In ''Golden'', the team have to learn how to play as a music band after a failed concert promotion at Junes could have Yosuke transferred out of Inaba if it fails due to his father doing lots of preparations for it. Turns out most of them are unable to read sheet music and their first attempt sounds dreadful. They manage to pull it off and provide the music for Rise's song ''True Story''.
259* InvisibleParents: Only Kanji's mother is ever shown. Justified in the cases of Yu, Rise, Naoto and Kanji whose parents are either overseas or, in Naoto's and Kanji's father's case, dead. Dojima is, of course, still around and Rise's grandmother appears a few times, but Yosuke, Yukiko and Chie's families are never shown once, which is especially odd in Yosuke's case as his father is not only frequently mentioned, but also runs the highly-critical-to-the-plot Junes, while in Yukiko's case her family owns a local cultural landmark. Chie's parents are pretty much never even mentioned, though her mother is finally heard from off-screen in ''Arena''.
260* ItsPersonal: Everyone on the team is either a victim or the friend of a victim, giving them all a personal reason to hunt the killer down. And then [[EveryonesBabySister Nanako]] gets kidnapped....
261* JackOfAllStats:
262** Izanagi, if the time is taken to keep leveling him up, has well-rounded stats not leaning towards any particular specialization. While Yu's stats are usually determined by his equipped Persona, his two dedicated attributes - his HP and SP ratings - are firmly middle-of-the-road, and his swords have good accuracy and damage compared to the rest of the party while not being the best at either. ''Golden'' makes it easier due to skill inheritance, allowing Izanagi to have easier access to spells the player wants him to have.
263*** Yu's ''Persona Q'' stats are very balanced. Less strength or magic than dedicated bruisers and casters, enough speed to act before many enemies, but after the faster characters, and so on. It's worth noting that his SP is exceptionally high in comparison to all bruisers, and his endurance easily eclipses that of all casters, giving him the best of both worlds. Graduates to MasterOfAll when his Persona evolves and loses its sole weakness (gaining a resistance to every single attack type in the game barring Light in the process).
264** Yosuke's Persona is very balanced in terms of what he can do. His main focus is Wind spells with some single-target Physicals thrown in, plus Agility buffs and a single-target heal. The Social Link skills and "bike skills" added in ''Golden'' add to this, giving him some more out-there skills to contrast Naoto, who mostly learns skills the other members excel at. These include [[AntiArmor Makara Break]] and [[InfinityPlusOneElement Megido]]. If the player is diligent in evolving Yosuke's skillset, he'll end with Garudyne, Brave Blade, and Diarahan, making him a consistently useful character in almost any situation.
265* JapaneseDelinquents:
266** Kanji is a seemingly-textbook example of this and his design definitely invokes this look, but it turns out he's not much of one and is hiding behind a facade.
267** Not Yu himself, but Izanagi's design deliberately invokes this kind of look, and his outfit for the cross-dressing pageant, specifically the seifuku with the long skirt and wooden sword, does so as well. In the anime, Yu even briefly plays the part during his bit in the pageant. In ''Arena'', he's described as the "steel siscon banchou" (Japanese slang for a leader of school delinquents), which is translated as "Sister-Complex Kingpin of Steel" in the English version.
268* KirkSummation: Nearly everyone gets their moment of either this or ShutUpHannibal during the final confrontation with the Killer:
269-->'''Yosuke:''' 'Favored by the world' my ass, I'm gonna say it flat out: You're just a worthless criminal!\
270'''Chie:''' Nobody wants anything like that! It's just you, dumbass!\
271'''Yukiko:''' You're just throwing a tantrum like a kid who can't have his way!\
272'''Rise:''' That's complete BS!\
273'''Naoto:''' Your twisted logic is like that of an immature, egotistic brat!
274** Yu gets one in the anime:
275--->'''Yu:''' I've heard enough. It's all ''bullshit!'' No matter what you say, you won't get away with this. And that, ''is the truth''.
276* LargeHam:
277** Yosuke points out Teddie has a tendency to speak like TV commercials after becoming human.
278** Shadow Naoto is hilariously dramatic, reflecting Naoto's childish desires to be a hero.
279** In battle, every line of Kanji's is shouted at the top of his lungs.
280--->'''Kanji:''' '''''SUCK IT!'''''
281* LaserGuidedKarma: At the end of the game, they inflict this on Adachi, who murdered people by throwing his victims into the TV World and leaving them to be killed by the Shadows. After they corner and defeat him, the kids drag him to the ''real world'', so he could receive justice for his crimes.
282* LeftForDead: Averted. Adachi fully expected the Investigation Team to do this to him once he's defeated; instead, the kids drag him to the real world so he'll receive justice for his crimes.
283* LightEmUp: Part of Naoto's speciality, and can also be learned by Chie as a bonus skill in ''Golden''.
284* LovableSexManiac: Constantly-flirting Teddie and, to a much lesser degree, Yosuke.
285* ManlyTears:
286** In the anime, the entire team is practically bawling after Nanako's "death". Yu manages to hold on until the end of the day after dealing with Namatame. He begins tearing up when he's by himself though Yosuke comes back, sensing Yu's strife. Yu lets himself cry with Yosuke being his support.
287** Kanji is clearly holding back tears on Yu's last day in town in the Good Ending.
288* MassOhCrap: The entire team flies into a panic when Nanako appears on the Midnight Channel.
289* MeaningfulName:
290** One reading of Yu Narukami approximately translates respectively as "[[TheQuietOne quiet]] [[ShockAndAwe thunder god]]". Narukami can also be read as "to become a god", foreshadowing how Yu manifests the World Arcana in the true ending. Beyond that, he's the player character. He's [[AudienceSurrogate y(o)u]].
291** "Yosuke" can mean "to give help" or "support", reflecting his role as TheLancer to the protagonist and [[GoodFeelsGood the pride he takes in helping others]].
292* MorphicResonance: The Investigation Team's Personas resemble their owners and/or their owner's Shadow Selves, combining them with some interpretation of how they appeared in myth. Even as they evolve, their keep the same basic template they taken from their users as their previous form, like how Rise's Personas are faceless like her Shadow and Naoto's Personas are male in their original myths.
293* MrFanservice:
294** Kanji's the most buff guy on the team and is the one shown shirtless most frequently, to the point where his Shadow only wears a towel.
295** Teddie's human form plays it up for all it's worth, with his debut appearance being completely naked and sweating with sparkles cascading off of him. In-universe as well, where women who aren't aware of what he's like fawn over him immediately.
296* MurderByInaction:
297** After Nanako's apparent death, the entire Team is so outraged at Namatame for his role in it that they seriously consider just tossing him into the TV world and leaving him to be ripped apart by the Shadows within as revenge; doing so leads to the Bad Ending. In ''The Animation'', Yu very nearly does just that, with everyone but Yukiko, Chie, and Rise supporting him, before [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim managing to stop himself]]. Turns out they were right to do so, as Namatame was technically an UnwittingPawn.
298** Averted at the end of the game; when they defeat Adachi, he fully expects them to just leave him to die in the TV world. Instead, they drag him back to the real world, wanting him to actually face justice for what he's done.
299--->'''Yosuke''': If we leave you here dying... and a dead body eventually appears, then what? What's that accomplish for anyone...?
300* MushroomCloud: The end of an All-Out Attack, which is shaped like a skull. If Rise joins in in ''Golden'', it turns into a pink version with GirlishPigtails.
301* NiceGuy: Really, ''all'' of them count for this, but it's especially emphasized with Yu, who's always portrayed as a thoughtful and caring individual, Rise, who's unfailingly sweet and cheerful to everyone she talks to, Yukiko, who's kind and polite with most people and, surprisingly, Kanji, who's generally the least likely to be openly hostile to the rest of the Team.
302* NotAGame: Yosuke sternly tells Chie that exploring the TV world is dangerous, and he won't take her along if she won't agree to listen to him. The Investigation Team as a whole largely dislikes the notion that their AmateurSleuth activities are a game, as when Naoto tells them all that their game will be over, Rise accuses Naoto of being the one who sees it as a game, and Yosuke says that with Saki dead and his promise to Teddie, he can't think of it that way either.
303* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Yukiko, Kanji, Rise, and to a lesser extent Naoto are all incredibly embarrassed by their shadows’ behavior and the dungeons they created and would much rather forget they ever happened. Naturally the others refuse to do that and tease them mercilessly.
304* PluckyComicRelief: Pretty much everyone plays this role at times, but officially it's Teddie. He tries very hard to be this in-universe as well, but the party are annoyed by it more than anything, with even [[TheHyena Yukiko]] not laughing at his jokes.
305* ThePowerOfFriendship: A defining role of the plot and gameplay; they all become better people and more confident in themselves because of their undying support for each other and it's where the protagonist draws hs powers of
306* PubertySuperpower: Everyone who's not Teddie received their Personas while still in high school. It also counts as EnlightenmentSuperpower, since the process of evolving their Personas involves reconciling with the living embodiments of their own insecurities and fears.
307* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The team consists of a NewTransferStudent (Yu), the ClassClown who was the former transfer student (Yosuke), an ActionGirl (Chie), a YamatoNadeshiko (Yukiko), a BruiserWithASoftCenter (Kanji), an IdolSinger (Rise), the TeamPet (Teddie), and a {{Bifauxnen}} KidDetective (Naoto). [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld Everyone except for the Team Pet is in high school]].
308* RammingAlwaysWorks: Half of their Cavalry Attacks involve this, with Chie's being the most powerful.
309* RealMenWearPink:
310** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] by Kanji, and ''not'' just by his Shadow. Kanji's entire list of self-esteem issues can be traced back to the fact his feminine interests and behaviors have elicited scorn from other guys and from girls alike. His Social Link involves helping him grow to not care how others perceive him and to go on doing what he wants with his full effort.
311** Yu's a good cook, is seen taking care of children in one of his jobs while wearing an apron, and tutors another kid in another job. Another job has him cleaning, while the other three are housework, not to mention how good an influence he is in raising Nanako. The guy's the ideal HouseHusband.
312** In ''Golden'''s epilogue, Yosuke's eased up on his HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday stance, in a literal example of the trope with his pink shirt.
313* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
314** Aside from Yu, the lot of them suffer this at the hands of their Shadow. They get over it quickly though.
315** Later, they each give their own speeches to Adachi, the true murderer and the BigBad, all mixed with ShutUpHannibal.
316* {{Reconstruction}}: Thanks to the Midnight Channel, the entire investigation team is painfully aware of the various flaws in their character types. Much of their S-Links are spent accepting and overcoming these flaws.
317* RedHerring: When trying to deduce who the Killer is, selecting any of the team's names throws all suspicion on them out of the window since as shown by Chie and Yosuke touching the Junes TV screen before they first went to the Midnight Channel, none of them weren't able to interact with the TV screens until well after Mayumi and Saki's deaths since they didn't have a Persona at that point.
318* RedOniBlueOni:
319** Yosuke is very passionate when he sets his mind on something, compared to the protagonist's stoic nature.
320** Chie initially comes off as the cheerful and HotBlooded red oni to Yukiko's blue, but actually ends up becoming the suffering StraightMan to most of her bizarre antics.
321* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: A majority of their Personas are named after figures from Myth/JapaneseMythology. See each character folder for more details.
322* SecretRelationship: It's implied that Yu and his girlfriend(s) on the Investigation Team have this, and not just because of [[GameplayAndStorySegregation them not being shown in story events]]. At Rank 10, Yu's girlfriend will be relatively shy or embarrassed when spoken to during an encounter in the dungeon, with the other person nearby misinterpreting her actions, and if Yu hints at going to the summer festival again with someone else, Chie, Yukiko and [[TheTease even Rise]] will be relatively shocked and embarrassed. When they're alone, though, such as with nighttime conversations, the girls of the Investigation team who are in a relationship with Yu tend to flirt with him significantly more.
323* SelectiveObliviousness: Even after repeated failures at cooking and being specifically told as such to their faces, Chie, Yukiko, and Rise seem completely incapable of understanding that they're {{Lethal Chef}}s. In Yukiko's Social Link, she's a bit more self-aware, and realizes that the boxed lunch she handed you probably isn't any good, so she decides not to give any to Nanako.
324* {{Sentai}}: Just for fun, ''Golden'' allows them to wear dungeon-crawling costumes from ''Phoenix Ranger Featherman R'', an oft-mentioned ShowWithinAShow ever since ''Persona 2''. Party members will even [[SuperSentaiStance strike a pose]] after winning a fight!
325* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend:
326** Yosuke has this reaction to Chie when his crush on Saki becomes extremely obvious.
327** Gender-inverted during Chie's festival date with Yu as her romantic partner: she has a kneejerk reaction to a vendor calling Yu her boyfriend... only to realize that that is in fact, true. She does the same in The Animation when she calls out Ai on how she's been pushing him around- when Ai suggests that she's doing so because she likes Yu, Chie insists "He's my friend!"
328** Yukiko goes out with Yu so much during her Social Link that her family starts to assume he is. She denies it. But at that point, it's pretty clear that even when she's shouting this trope, she ''really'' wants to be proven wrong. It's all up to the player to pursue her.
329* ShockAndAwe: Yu's initial Persona and Kanji's Personas specialize in Electric magic.
330* ShutUpHannibal:
331** [[BerserkButton Doing this is generally what causes their Shadow to attack them]]. "You're not me!" never ends well.
332** The team as a whole does this more successfully with the main antagonists. After Adachi gives a HannibalLecture to paint himself as a WellIntentionedExtremist, everyone proceeds to call him out on his bullshit and compare him to a little kid throwing a tantrum. The Wikipedia article quite succinctly sums it up: "his claims are dismissed by the party as the rantings of a madman."
333* SmartBall: All of the characters have their own ways of thinking which help shine light on different aspects of the case.
334** Yu is calm, levelheaded, and decisive. He (and by extension, [[FairPlayWhodunnit the player, by solving a puzzle]]) is the one who identifies the true Killer.
335** Yosuke has good deductive reasoning and a knack for planning and strategy, if a little impulsive. Unfortunately this leads the team to focus on some red herrings.
336** Chie is good at sniffing out rumors, gossip, etc., and occasionally hits a bullseye with her wild theories. Unfortunately, she's also a bit impetuous and sometimes has trouble following things.
337** Yukiko has a non-linear thinking style that allows her to look at things from different angles. Unfortunately, sometimes, it takes her a while to do this, as she figures out Naoto's motive after Naoto's already been kidnapped.
338** Kanji can be surprisingly insightful at times, and is often the one who keeps the group focused on what they ''can'' control instead of what they cannot. His HotBlooded-ness can be distracting, though.
339** Teddie knows the ins and outs of the TV world, and how Shadows behave, but knows next to nothing about the human world.
340** Rise is the most socially sensitive of the group, giving her great insight into people's feelings and their behavior.
341** And Naoto, being an actual detective, is perceptive, well-read, and great at logical reasoning. However, she has a problem of consistently not sharing her ideas with the rest of the gang.
342* SpannerInTheWorks: The entire group foiled Ameno-sagiri's plan to merge the TV World with the real world, and turned mankind into Shadows as he didn't expect humans to develop Personas and fight back.
343* SpecsOfAwesome: Get these once they join the team. Wear them, and it's as if the supernatural fog in either world isn't there at all. {{Averted|Trope}} by Teddie, their creator, whose eyes are themselves lenses.
344* SquishyWizard: Yukiko and Teddie. Yukiko learns the strongest heal spells and is the strongest spell caster, at the expense of having the worst defense and no physical attacks. Teddie meanwhile learns the most buffs out of the party and has healing nearly on-par with Yukiko, but has similarly bad physical damage, defense, and weaker magic attacks.
345* StatusBuff: Yosuke learns ones that increase hit and evasion ratings, Chie can increase damage, Kanji and Teddie can increase damage or defense, Rise can heal the party, and Naoto can learn powerful single-target boosts.
346* StormOfBlades: The second phase of Yosuke and Teddie's Junes Bomber attack.
347* SuperMode: Their ultimate Personas are basically this and seven of them would later gain a third-tier form in ''Golden''.
348* TakingTheBullet: Any character with a sufficiently high Social Link will do this for Yu once per battle. During the final boss fight all of your party members will do this to protect Yu from its instant death attack. It doesn't work. Rise learns to do this in ''Golden''.
349* TeamPowerWalk: All of them does this when they're ready to confront their last battle with Izanami.
350* TearsOfJoy: In the anime, ''everyone'', along with Dojima, after Nanako's recovery. In the game, you can see Yukiko and Rise crying, and [[HypocriticalHumor Chie soon joins in after telling them not to cry]].
351* ThroughHisStomach: Yukiko, in her Social Link, and Rise both attempt this to woo the protagonist. [[LethalChef Neither ever gets it right]] while working alone, although Yukiko can make good food with the help of her inn's chefs.
352* TomboyAndGirlyGirl:
353** Chie is the tomboy to Yukiko's girly girl, though their relationship is, surprisingly, reversed in certain areas - Chie is easily scared by scary stories, thunderstorms and bugs while Yukiko is a NightmareFetishist.
354** On a lesser scale, we have Naoto, the intellectual detective who disguises herself as a boy, and Rise, the IdolSinger.
355* TookALevelInBadass:
356** They transform from a bunch of ordinary teenagers with deep-seated psychological issues to an [[BadassCrew effective fighting team]] with supernatural powers, that not only solves a murder case and catch the Killer, but also take on a god-like being (and win).
357** Upon maxing out their Social Link, the Personas will evolve, giving a stat boost and more damage resistances.
358* TheThreeFacesOfEve: Chie's the Child, Yukiko's the Wife and Rise's the Seductress.
359* TrademarkFavoriteFood:
360** Chie likes meat in general, but especially steak. She can give the protagonist ''meat-flavored gum''.
361** Kanji brings up animal crackers a few times.
362** Teddie really likes "Topsicles", presumably an in-universe brand of ice pops.
363** The booklet that comes with the second official Drama CD actually reveals the official TrademarkFavoriteFood of 6 of the 8 party members: Yosuke loves fried ginger-pork and meat-potato Stew, Chie (as mentioned) loves meat in general, Yukiko's favorite is potato salad with a dessert of candied sweet-potato, Kanji likes pork stew and pudding, Rise's favorite is vichyssoise and Naoto loves california rolls. All these picks are based on actual food-items you can give to them in-game, to improve their relationship with them. The booklet also points out that Teddie is incredibly blunt when it comes to food, as demonstrated during the cook-off halfway through the game.
364* TrueCompanions: Even though they bicker often with each other, there's no doubt that each and every single one of them treasure and value each other for who they are.
365* {{Tsundere}}: Pretty much all of the girls show some aspect of this at one point or another.
366* {{Ubermensch}}: The True Ending implies that the protagonists have risen above ordinary humans in that they now have the ability to use and control their Personas (the masks that humans wear to deal with various ordeals and stimuli). If the Midnight Channel, the fog, and Izanami herself are indeed the {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of the human subconscious, then the protagonists have proven their egos to be more powerful than ''all of humanity's combined emptiness'' and strong enough to completely sweep away the delusions clouding the human subconscious.
367* UnbelievableSourcePlot: Pretty much the reason they can't tell anyone about their after-school activities. Oddly enough, Yu can repeatedly avert this, getting stuck with [[CassandraTruth people just not buying it]]. Yet he doesn't ever try to explain much of Marie's situation to them, and as Yosuke says, they probably wouldn't have bought "she's a friend from another world". [[ArbitrarySkepticism Despite hanging out with Teddie and having long since suspected his true nature, who is exactly that]].
368* TheUnfairSex: PlayedForLaughs during any of the Team's outings where nothing seems to go right for the boys:
369** A trip to Okina City to hit on girls ends with Yosuke's scooter being destroyed by Hanako sitting on it.
370** During a school camping trip, the girls end up giving the boys food poisoning via Mystery Food X, Kanji is knocked unconscious by Chie after she mistakes him for a pervert, and the boys are pushed to the bottom of a waterfall where their teacher is vomiting upstream.
371** When the Team and Nanako stay at the Amagi Inn for the night, the girls fail to leave the bath when it's time to switch, and when the boys enter, they are labeled as perverts and have buckets thrown at them.
372** On the last day of their trip to the ski resort, they (Or rather, just Yosuke and Teddie) are caught trying to peep at the girls and are struck by a lightning bolt summoned by Marie. At least [[AccidentalPervert Yu and Kanji]] resist Electric...
373* UnwittingPawn:
374** To Adachi. By saving people, they unintentionally reinforced Namatame's delusions which led to more people getting kidnapped. Considering the alternative is that the people Namatame "rescued" would ''die'' if the Team didn't find them in the TV, their actions are still for the better. It's zigzagged in that their saving people is a source of great irritation to him even if it took attention off of him.
375** Yu serves as one to Izanami, as one of the three granted powers by her. He represents "hope", and sadly for her, [[SpannerInTheWorks he refuses to accept her gambit and turns the power against her]].
376* VictoryIsBoring: Whenever the case looks resolved, the team becomes melancholic that their adventures are over, and that they'll have to go back to their normal lives. After Nanako seemingly perishes, this attitude is dropped and they're nothing short of relieved when they finally solve the mystery once and for all. Yu's LotusEaterMachine nightmare deconstructs the first case resolution by showing the Investigation Team dissolves as Yu freaks out about losing his friends.
377* VitriolicBestBuds: From the outside, it seems that all they ever do is annoy and bicker with one another, even the friendlier ones like Yukiko, Rise, and Naoto. On the inside, nothing in the world comes between them, and they are a united ass-kicking, crime-solving, god-killing fighting force.
378* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: In between school and hanging out, they solve a double homicide and multiple kidnappings over the course of slightly less than a year.
379* WhatTheHellHero:
380** Yu delivers one to the rest of the Investigation Team in the Good Ending - the only time he gets visibly angry - when Yosuke's contemplating killing Namatame. To a lesser extent, [[WomenAreWiser Chie, Yukiko and Rise try to do this]], but they end up being ineffectual, in part because they're also angry themselves.
381** The group also gets impatient with the player character if you wait around for too long before completing a dungeon.
382* WomenAreWiser: When the group's considering [[RevengeBeforeReason killing Namatame]], the girls are the most opposed to it, although they'll reluctantly give in if Yu fails to convince Yosuke. Averted with Naoto, who's just as pissed as the boys and is the one who suggests throwing Namatame into the TV world in the first place.
383* YouMeddlingKids: They are the bane of the main villain and it's acknowledged by them as such.
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386[[folder:Yosuke Hanamura]]
387!Yosuke Hanamura
388[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yosuke_hanamura_p4.png]]
389[[caption-width-right:350:''"Let's do this, Jiraiya!"'']]
390
391-->''"[[HeterosexualLifePartners Let's go, partner!]]"''
392
393->'''Arcana:''' The Magician\
394'''Persona:''' [[Myth/JapaneseMythology Jiraiya, Susano-o, Takehaya Susano-o]] (''Golden'')\
395'''Weapons:''' [[DualWielding Twin daggers]]\
396'''Voice actors:''' Creator/YuriLowenthal (English), Creator/ShowtaroMorikubo (Japanese)\
397'''Stage actors:''' Takahisa Maeyama (''[=VisuaLive=]'' and ''[=VisuaLive=] Evolution''), Ryo Hirano (''Arena'')\
398
399
400A second-year student at Yasogami High School, Yosuke Hanamura moved to the town about six months before the events of the game. His father is the manager of the local department store Junes, and as such he is usually treated as an unofficial complaints box, much to his chagrin. Yosuke serves as the [[HeterosexualLifePartners best friend and partner]] of Yu, although he's often the butt of his other friends' jokes.
401::
402He dual-wields various small weapons, usually kunai. He serves a role as the party's JackOfAllStats: Yosuke can use physical attacks and Wind magic fairly effectively, and he also has access to support spells that confuse and debuff enemies, augment accuracy and evasion, and provide minor healing. He's also by far the fastest person in the party.
403::
404During the second trip to the Midnight Channel and shortly after witnessing Yu's Persona awakening, Yosuke was faced with the horrible truth: his crush and the second murder victim, third-year Saki Konishi, had always hated him. When Yosuke refused to admit this, his Shadow emerged and taunted that he's only being cheerful as a facade and sees everything, including Saki, as a tool to block out his extreme loneliness. Yosuke angrily retorted and it caused the Shadow to reveal its true form, but was eventually defeated by Yu. Encouraged by him and Teddie, Yosuke painfully accepts that he did feel that way, but he resolves to get better, which causes the Shadow to turn into his Persona. He goes on to co-found the Investigation Team, along with Yu and Chie.
405::
406Shadow Yosuke consists of a featureless figure in a ridiculous ninja outfit, with a giant frog making up their lower body. It represents his resentment towards Inaba, his boredom and his wish for excitement. Aside from the reference to the original character Jiraiya, the frog theme is also wordplay: In Japanese, "frog" is pronounced the same as "return" which plays into Yosuke's desire to leave Inaba.
407::
408Upon the defeat of Shadow Yosuke, he morphs into Yosuke's Persona: Jiraiya of the Magician Arcana. Jiraiya is a ninja from Japanese folklore, who uses magic to transform into a gigantic toad. After completing his Social Link, Jiraiya ascends into Susano-o, the Japanese god of the sea and storms. Susano-o, brother of Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi, was born from the filth Izanagi washed away after his trip to Yomi. Much like Yosuke, Susano-o is perverted and a bit of a jerk, but still a competent hero. Additionally, much like Yosuke with his Social Link development, he learns to overcome many of the negative aspects of his personality. In ''Golden'', Susano-o can further evolve into Takehaya Susano-o, whose name is derived from one of the long-form names given to Susano-o; ''Takehaya'' translates into "fast building". Takehaya Susano-o learns the special skill Youthful Wind, which provides a good deal of healing and a hit/evasion rate buff to the entire party for several turns.
409::
410In his Social Link, Yosuke reveals that he initially hated Inaba but has grown to love it and despite being hated by Saki, he did genuinely love her. He later reveals that he was jealous of Yu and used the murder case to play hero and hide his insecurities. Yosuke later asks him to punch him to get rid of his jealousy and frustration, and they end up in a brawl; Yosuke realizes that he can form genuine, close relationships with people regardless of where he is and resolves to live his life to the fullest. He gives the protagonist a bandage after their fight, representative of their friendship, and allowing the protagonist to fuse Mada.
411::
412During the ''Golden'' concert scene, Yosuke plays the electric guitar.
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414
415* AdaptationalProtagonist: Whilst he and the rest of the Investigation Team are protagonists of their own playable stories in ''Persona 4 Arena'', it's Yosuke who is considered to be the protagonist of the manga adaptation as a whole.
416* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Played with: although he crushes on Saki, she secretly finds him annoying, at least according to what Yosuke believes are her true feelings while exploring the space she created after being thrown into the TV. He's aware, though, that she must have disliked him, though he believes she was a good person at heart and decided that he'll still love her anyway. He also (halfheartedly) hits on Yukiko and Rise who both either ignore and reject his affections.
417* AmbiguouslyBi: Yosuke's clearly attracted to girls (especially [[HospitalHottie nurses]]) but many, many moments during the story bring his sexuality into question. Namely his tendency for [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday denying he's into guys]] even when [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial nobody brought that up]]. That's not even getting into the massive amount of HomoeroticSubtext during his social link, including being able to give him a CoolDownHug and him claiming [[PlayerCharacter Yu]] is more than a friend to him late into his social link.
418** In fact, there are DummiedOut dialogue lines in the game implying that he was meant to be a GayOption, but the actual route was cut in the release version, leaving only hints.
419** ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' takes it one step further when he meets Mitsuru and Akihiko: he specifically refers to the latter as being "not too shabby either" when compared to him also noting how hot Mitsuru and Aigis are.
420* AttractiveBentGender: Subverted. Despite being relatively {{Bishonen}}, Yosuke looks pretty terrible in drag. This is even [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when one of the crowd members mentions that he thought he'd be able to pull it off better.
421* BadassAdorable: The ''badass'' part of him unleashes after he faces himself with his shadow and ''adorable'' part is for both his handsome looks and him being very awkwardly adorable for [[BreakTheCutie numerous reasons]].
422* BerserkButton:
423** Being told that the investigation is "a game" to him becomes this in the manga. When Naoto tells the Investigation Team that their "game" will soon be over now that the police have a suspect, he gets up and angrily grabs Naoto by the shirt, saying that since someone close to him died, he couldn't possibly think of it as such (in the game, he gives a relatively calm but firm rebuttal while remaining seated).
424** Speaking ill of Saki. In-game, he loses his shit when he overhears two girls mocking her after her death.
425* BestFriend: He and the protagonist of course. So much so they call one another "partner."
426* BirdsOfAFeather:
427** He and the protagonist are a platonic example. Both of them are outsiders to the town and their childhood implied to have been pretty lonely. They're also very reliable people and willing to protect their friends. Little wonder why they became so close so quickly.
428** Persona Q2 has Yosuke admit that he actually use to move a lot when he was young, giving him more in commonality with the protagonist. Both moved around frequently (Yu because of his parents' job and likely the same for Yosuke) and unable to form meaningful friendships until Inaba.
429* BlowYouAway: Yosuke specializes in Garu skills.
430* BoringButPractical: Yosuke for the most part isn't really a stand out party member; he's not as strong or durable as Chie and Kanji, as strong of a mage as Teddie, as good at healing as Yukiko, or even as good with clearing mobs as Naoto is. However, what Yosuke ''is'' good at is Speed, being the fastest party member. And even though he's unremarkable at everything he can do, [[JackOfAllStats he can do just about everything.]] This allows Yosuke to be a vital part of the team composition solely by being the guy to do whatever you need in an emergency and lower the work load for Yu when it comes to covering for his party's shortcomings.
431* BornUnlucky: Even his Luck stat is the lowest in the party.
432* BullyingADragon:
433** Does this to Chie in the anime where he often criticizes her at some points. The result is her attacking him, even on the littlest insult.
434** Bothering Kanji about his sexuality. Don't tease people who beat up biker gangs, kids.
435--->'''Kanji:''' [[TranquilFury Ohhh... I get it. What you're really asking is "Will you please beat the shit out of me, Kanji?"]]
436* ButtMonkey: The game starts with him getting stuck in a trash can and getting [[GroinAttack ball busted]], and generally gets no better from there. He knows about this, complaining in the anime that nothing good ever happens to him.
437* CallBack: [[VideoGame/{{Persona 3}} Fuuka]]'s bullying and subsequent disappearance were mentioned by Yosuke as his ghost story during the ski trip. He got that story back when he's in middle school when his friend told Yosuke about that. His friend said that he got that story from his sister, meaning that the friend's sister is either Natsuki or one of her cronies.
438* CallingYourBathroomBreaks: At completely inopportune times, such as the group's first foray in the Midnight Channel.
439* CasanovaWannabe: Somewhat. While he does come off as flirtatious, he really only had eyes for Saki and his attempts at flirting with Rise and Yukiko are half-hearted at best. They turn him down or ignore him (though it's unknown if him being half-hearted plays into it.)
440* ChivalrousPervert: When it comes to Rise, at least. When her Shadow offers to "bare it all" for her fans, he clearly can't decide whether to be worried or excited.
441* ClassClown: Just like Junpei before him. Comes with being a [[TarotMotifs Magician]]. It is explored a bit more here that his clownish behavior is to cope with his resentful boredom of being in a small town like Inaba and his own insecurities of wanting to fit in.
442* ClassicalAntiHero: Yosuke is overall a very courageous person who is held back by his own human flaws. He may not be as heroic as Yu is, but he's certainly more relatable in this regard.
443* TheConsigliere: Played with. Whilst Yu is still the leader and decides on many of the group's plans, Yosuke is also shown to be integral with figuring out the killer's modus operandi and he helps shapes the group's strategy thanks to his calm rationality. However, he becomes blinded with rage during Nanako's kidnapping to the point that following his advice leads to the bad ending. It’s only when he's calmed down by Yu that he regains his focus, and both him and Naoto help Yu connect the dots on who the real killer is.
444* CrazyPrepared: During the school camping trip, he picked out and brought swimsuits for Chie and Yukiko on the off chance they didn't bring their own. Both girls are [[SickAndWrong rightfully weirded out]].
445* DemotedToExtra: Yosuke in the anime has much less overall importance than he did in the game, and is much more of a comedic character. This is probably the result of the fact that his role as ExpositionFairy is irrelevant when Yu can speak for himself.
446* DiggingYourselfDeeper: When he shows off the fake swords he got for himself and Yu [[DidntThinkThisThrough in public]], a patrol officer sees them and believes he is wielding real swords. Yosuke's defense is saying "We're just two ordinary kids who like weapons and...". [[ExplainExplainOhCrap He immediately relizes how bad that sounds]], and the two boys get arrested.
447* DisasterDominoes: That bike crash in his introduction? The manga explains that the crash was how he managed to crack Chie's ''Trial of the Dragon'' DVD. [[GroinAttack Things go downhill for him after that]].
448* DualWielding: Whether it's knives, kunai, [[WrenchWhack wrenches]], or [[ShamuFu fish]], he will always have one in each hand. He's normally depicted using kunai.
449* DudeWheresMyRespect: Yosuke pushes Teddie for calling Yu "Sensei" and not getting respected.
450-->'''Yosuke:''' Dude, you call [Yu] Sensei and then don't show me any respect?!
451* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His very first scene is him [[ButtMonkey crashing his bike on the way to school]], and it doesn't get any better from there.
452* ExpositionFairy: On account of Yu's [[HeroicMime quiet nature]], he usually tends to speak on his behalf and explain everything the team knows about the case so far. He's not the only one to do this though, but he takes on this role the most.
453* {{Facepalm}}: He does one during the Episode 15 of the anime at the nightclub. [[DrunkOnMilk The situation called for it]].
454* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: During his Social Link event in Yu's room, Yosuke decides he can't be with a girlfriend until he avenges Saki.
455* FlowerMotifs: Best showcased with his swimming trunks and how his Youthful Wind spell causes flowers to sprout around him and his allies. "Hana" is part of his last name after all.
456* FoodFight: If you grow Tetracorn and Makaracorn and have it cooked at the Daidara Metalworks, you'll get a weapon called Grilled Corn.
457* {{Foreshadowing}}: After seeing the protagonist phase through the large Junes TV for the first time, he wonders if it's a magic trick and asks him "what's the '''magician's''' secret". His Arcana shortly after is revealed to be '''The Magician'''.
458* FromNewYorkToNowhere: Moved to Inaba from a bigger city six months before the start of the game after his dad was assigned to manage the new local Junes branch. A big part of his character arc is overcoming the resultant SmallTownBoredom.
459* GameplayAndStoryIntegration:
460** He's the ButtMonkey of the team and associated with the Magician Arcana, whose bearers are commonly BornUnlucky. He also has by far the worst Luck growth of the playable cast, despite otherwise being the JackOfAllStats.
461** A major aspect of his character arc is feeling that he lacks any direction in life outside of the investigation. Fittingly, while he can [[JackOfAllTrades cover almost any role in combat]], [[MasterOfNone he lacks a clear specialization compared to the other playable characters]].
462* GroinAttack: Within five minutes of the audience being introduced to him, he receives a "Critical hit to the nads", courtesy of Chie. In the manga, Shadow Chie delivers a devastating kick to Jiraiya's crotch, which Yosuke feels, of course.
463* HandsomeLech: Was designed to be a rather handsome young man. In-universe, his peers think that he's good-looking enough to stand a chance at cross-dressing, but this admiration is offset by him being "pure disappointment the moment he opens his mouth."
464* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: Yosuke is almost always seen with his headphones, usually around his neck. This seems to be done purposefully to make him seem unapproachable and keep a distance from others, as he wasn't particularly close to anyone in Inaba before Yu arrived. By the time of ''Golden'''s epilogue, he's seen without them.
465* HealerSignsOnEarly: He's the first party member available and knows [[HealingHands Dia]] right off the bat, but passes the role off to [[WhiteMagicianGirl Yukiko]] after the first dungeon. From then on he grows into more of a generalist, though still good for spot heals in a pinch.
466* HealingWinds: Yosuke's unique skill is Youthful Wind, a skill that moderately heals the party as well as buffing accuracy and evasion. He's also the team's main [[BlowYouAway Wind user]] and first Healer.
467* HeroWithBadPublicity: He's very infamous around the Shopping District due to his father's role of managing Junes, which is running all the local shops out of business.
468* HeartbrokenBadass: Though he knows she never liked him to begin with, Yosuke was utterly heartbroken over Saki's death and his main motivation for joining the team was to find her killer.
469* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Normally averted, but played straight in a bad ending. His main motivation for joining the Investigation Team was to find Saki's killer, but he ends up murdering Namatame in the same way Yosuke believed he murdered Saki.
470* HormoneAddledTeenager: Though he's definitely not as bad as [[LovableSexManiac Teddie]], Yosuke is without a doubt the most perverted human member of the Investigation Team.
471* ImprobableWeaponUser: In addition to knives and maintenance tools, Yosuke can also use bones, maracas, and ''corn'' against his foes. These joke weapons tend to have higher stats than their more serious counterparts.
472* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Acts quite cocky sometimes but was self-conscious and suffered from feelings of inadequacy even before Yu came to town. He outright says that Yu is more talented than him in ''Dancing All Night'', but is clearly over it at this point.
473* InnocentlyInsensitive:
474** The first time he, Chie, and Yukiko meet Nanako he challenges Chie to a cook-off, offering to have Nanako judge and saying that one of them would probably "make something that ranks up there with your mom's cooking." Nanako points out that her mother died in an accident, and forgives him for saying that when he quickly apologizes.
475** He has a bad habit of poking at his friend's insecurities, such as with Kanji's sexuality or Naoto's height, despite it being rather evident given their Shadows just how sore a spot they are. He gets better about this with time.
476* InsistentTerminology: Sure, you could call them scooters, but he'd rather you refer to them as motorbikes.
477* JackOfAllTrades: Most of Yosuke's stats are reasonably high [[BornUnlucky aside from his Luck]], and he learns a variety of magic and physical skills to go with them, along with healing skills and the occasional ailment skill. His main weakness is that he doesn't excel in anything, as Chie and Kanji are better physical attackers, Yukiko and Teddie are better magic attackers who can also heal the party, and Naoto learns a much wider variety of magic skills, allowing her to hit almost any enemy's weakness. His Bike skills in ''Golden'' also offer other utility skills of varying quality.
478* TheLancer: Serves as this to the protagonist, by virtue of effectively being his mouthpiece in the original game[=/=]''Golden''.
479* LastNameBasis: In the original Japanese, most of the Investigation Team refers to him by his surname.
480* LickingTheBlade: He does this in the [[http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltdmhgH8pn1qej5zpo1_500.gif anime]]. They're fake blades.
481* LightningBruiser: With his Agility being his highest stat and his Strength or Magic often not too far behind, Yosuke frequently hits fast and hard.
482* TheLostLenore: Saki is this to him, even after he learns what she really thought about him.
483* MagicKnight: Sports almost perfectly even physical and magical stats, and learns both the full suite of [[BlowYouAway Garu]] spells and a handful of physical skills. His main weakness is lacking a clear focus compared to the party's more dedicated warriors (Kanji and Chie) and spellcasters (Yukiko and Teddie).
484* MagikarpPower: Although his wind magic is consistently competent, Yosuke's physical damage output falls into this trope, as he learns no new physical skills between Sonic Punch and Brave Blade, at least until ''Golden'' gives him Power Slash as an intermediate. His utility as a JackOfAllTrades downplays its severity, though.
485* MrViceGuy: His vices primarily being [[SmallTownBoredom bored of Inaba]] and [[HonorBeforeReason difficulty considering the ramifications of his words and actions]], which often leads to him being on the receiving end of LaserGuidedKarma.
486* {{Ninja}}: While he isn't actually one himself, he does carry a subtle ninja motif. His weapons are typically depicted as [[StockNinjaWeaponry kunai]] and his initial Persona, [[HighlyVisibleNinja Jiraiya]], is based off of a famous fictional ninja.
487* NoRespectGuy: Despite being one of the founding members of the team, along with one of the most proactive ones, Yosuke tends to get kicked around and ignored pretty regularly. Considering his [[{{Jerkass}} behavior]] sometimes, it's understandable.
488* TheNotLoveInterest: Yosuke's friendship with Yu is one of the strongest relationships in the game to the point where Yosuke states outright that "We're so close that "Best Friend" just doesn't describe what he means to me. He's my partner" in ''Arena'''s narration. (While Yosuke does state the same about the team in general when he recalls how they survived the events of the first game, nearly all "partner" references are him addressing Yu, and he even takes offense to anyone else doing so.) In the anime, due to the lack of any actual relationships forming between Yu and the girls beyond ShipTease, Yosuke actually steps in to play the love interest role several times.
489* NumberTwo: Clearly Yu's confidant, to the point where the two discuss the team's next moves in private. Yosuke also sometimes acts as the leader of the team, as the protagonist doesn't talk much.
490* OddFriendship: With Naoki, Saki's younger brother. It's played up in the manga, as Yosuke's the one who takes part in some of Naoki's Social Link scenes, rather than Yu.
491* OneHitKill: His ultimate skill in ''Q'' has this as an added effect. It happens more often against enemies with status effects on them.
492* OvershadowedByAwesome:
493** Yosuke's clearly both intelligent and a natural-born leader, but he'll never be able to match Yu. This is even reflected in his Persona's abilities, which are by far the most versatile of the entire group... after Yu, who has access to all of the abilities due to his Persona switching.
494** Gameplay-wise, Yosuke falls into this in ''Golden''. He's a JackOfAllStats still, but the buffs that the rest of the cast received mean that he's overshadowed by everyone else.
495* PornStash: He used to keep it under his futon until his mother found it and read the contents aloud to his family. He's since found another place to hide it.
496* PottyEmergency: His freaking out over having to pee results in him accidentally knocking Yu and Chie into the television, where they first discover the TV World. When they become TrappedInTVLand he's still desperate and almost relieves himself in there, but Chie and Yu refusing his NoPeekingRequest causes him to give up.
497* PowerupLetDown: His level 8 Social Link in ''Golden'' gives him Diarama, a medium-strength single-target heal, but by the time you've actually gotten him up to that point you'll have likely found stronger sources of healing.
498* TheResenter: Near the ending of his Social Link route, he admits he was jealous of how successful Yu was in everything he did, especially compared to him. Nonetheless, he knows he shouldn't feel that way, and he respects Yu for everything he does. He does have Yu punch him and it becomes a light-hearted fistfight.
499* RevengeBeforeReason: He really wants to avenge Saki, and while usually one of the most rational and level-headed of the team, he tends to get more rash and impulsive whenever he gets (or seems to get) closer to accomplishing that goal. This manifests near the end of the game, where Yosuke's the most vocal about killing Namatame.
500* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: When he's resigned to being signed up for the cross-dressing pageant, he asks what kind of a "joke" it is. Chie quickly reminds him that it's the same one he pulled on them.
501* SayingTooMuch: When Chie and Yukiko confront him for signing them up without their permission, and say that they can't back out of it, he remarks that there "must have been something in the fine print (he) overlooked."
502* SecretArt:
503** His unique skill in ''Golden'' is Youthful Wind, a skill that combines the effects of Mediarama and Masukukaja.
504** His unique skill in ''Persona Q'' is Death Needle, which has a chance of instant death that increases if the target has an ailment.
505** His unique skill in ''Q2'' is Kunai Backup, which causes him to follow-up on his row's actions with a normal attack. This upgrades to Kunai Dance which has increased damage.
506* SecretKeeper: In ''Golden'', it's possible for him to be the only other person to know that the protagonist failed to reason with Adachi on his own.
507* SelfDeprecation: A rather dark example: During his Social Link, he yells at some girls for [[NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead insulting]] [[BerserkButton Saki]], and in response, they freak out and scatter. On realizing how badly he lost it there, he gives a sad smile to Yu and says "Another embarrassing display from Yosuke, huh?".
508* ShyBladder: During their first visit into the TV World, Yosuke gets so desperate for a bathroom that he tries to simply relieve himself on a wall. Of course, even with Yu and Chie turning their backs, he still can't go with them standing there.
509* SinsOfTheFather: His HeroWithBadPublicity status is because he's the son of the manager at Junes, which many in the shopping district resent.
510* SmallNameBigEgo: Downplayed when compared to Teddie but there are times where he acts almighty to himself such as considering himself as the chief of operations of the team in ''Q2''.
511* SmallTownBoredom: What's he characterized for. He ended up in Inaba after his dad transferred the family there. Despite this mentality, he grows to love the town, namely because of the people he cares about.
512* SpinAttack: For his follow-up attack, Yosuke Strike, he extends his arms and spins, whacking an enemy with a Critical Hit.
513* SpectacularSpinning: His fighting style is full of acrobatic flips and twirls, with his Follow-Up Attack being a straight-up SpinAttack.
514* StatusEffects: He will only ever learn two: the first is Makajam, which has a 40% chance to Mute one enemy. The second is Tentarafoo, which has a chance to Confuse all enemies.
515* StepfordSmiler: Combined with SadClown, this quality tends to crop up whenever Saki is brought up and is much more obvious in his Social Link, where he acts bubbly and jokes around a lot to hide his insecurity and feelings of incompetence. Shadow Yosuke calls him out on this in ''The Animation'', citing that he was one of these even before the events of the main game took place.
516* StockNinjaWeaponry: Yosuke is usually depicted with kunai in artwork and ''Persona 4 Arena''.
517* StraightMan: Compared to the rest of the team, he's a pretty normal guy, so he's often roped into playing this to the others, particularly Teddie.
518* StrawLoser: In both the game and especially the anime, Yosuke serves as a way of making Yu look even cooler, being a CasanovaWannabe who [[ButtMonkey can't seem to be taken seriously by anyone]]. This actually gets played for drama in his Social Link, where he admits he developed a grudge from living in the protagonist's shadow.
519* ThatCameOutWrong: Has a knack for spouting out innuendo.
520* ThisIsUnforgivable: Upon the reveal that Adachi is the killer, as well as his [[ForTheEvulz reasons]] for it, Yosuke is absolutely furious and outright tells Adachi that he'll never forgive him; Adachi simply tells him to [[ShutUpKirk keep his forgiveness]].
521* ThisLoserIsYou: While all of the other members of the team have varying degrees of fantastical elements to them, Yosuke's pretty much a completely average, fairly-relatable teenager. Naturally, he's treated as the biggest loser of the bunch.
522* ThoseTwoGuys: Occasionally plays this with Teddie, to the point of sharing a goodbye with Yu at the end of the game.
523* UnfazedEveryman: He manages to be this despite having Persona powers, and is usually the one to lampshade the weird stuff they encounter in the TV World.
524-->''[after Teddie somehow grows himself a human body inside his suit]''\
525'''Yosuke:''' What kind of creature would do that?! I mean… What IS he? (...) ''[sigh]'' Then again, this is hardly the first bizarre thing we've seen...\
526''[leading into the TrueFinalBoss fight]''\
527'''Yosuke:''' Come on! You know we've been through way worse than this thing! This is just the send-off our leader deserves! Time for the {{grand finale}}.
528* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: After being so insistent that the team throw Namatame into the TV for what he did to Nanako, he somberly admits that it isn't what she would have wanted on her deathbed if they do just that.
529* VocalEvolution: Creator/YuriLowenthal's take on Yosuke has gotten significantly higher-pitched and whinier in later appearances, in part to differentiate it from his voice for the male ''VideoGame/Persona3'' protagonist. This fittingly became more apparent in ''Q'', where both the ''[=P3=]'' protagonist and Yosuke are part of the main party.
530* WeaponTwirling: He does this while in battle and in the opening animation. It backfires when he nearly drops his dagger in both.
531* WhatTheHellAreYou: To Teddie after he is unmasked to see nothing inside early in the game. He says this again after Teddie enters the real world having grown a human body inside of his empty bear suit.
532* WhatTheHellHero: Gives a mild example to the protagonist in ''Golden'' if he decided to try and reason with Adachi by himself, albeit unsuccessfully. He does forgive him and promises not to tell the others.
533* WrenchWhack: His special weapon hidden in the area his Shadow was defeated is a pair of pipe wrenches. It gives a +40 boost to SP, making it extremely useful in the early game, and unlike the others, you don't need to defeat an optional boss for it.
534[[/folder]]
535
536[[folder:Chie Satonaka]]
537!Chie Satonaka
538[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chie_satonaka_p4.png]]
539[[caption-width-right:350:''"Protect me, Tomoe!"'']]
540
541-->''"[[BruceLeeClone Don't think - feel!]]"''
542
543->'''Arcana:''' The Chariot\
544'''Persona:''' [[Myth/JapaneseMythology Tomoe, Suzuka Gongen, Haraedo-no-Okami]] (''Golden'')\
545'''Weapons:''' [[KickChick Boots]]\
546'''Voice actors:''' Tracey Rooney (English, original game), Creator/ErinFitzgerald (English, all installments thereafter and replaces Rooney in ''Golden''), Creator/YuiHorie (Japanese)\
547'''Stage actors:''' Minami Tsukui (''[=VisuaLive=]'' and ''[=VisuaLive=] Evolution''), Makoto Koichi (''Arena'')\
548
549
550Chie Satonaka is another second-year student at Yasogami High. An upbeat girl with an obsession with martial arts action films, she is generally friendly, cheerful, and energetic, but has a short temper, especially with Yosuke. She's been friends with Yukiko since they were children.
551::
552Chie appropriately attacks with numerous kung-fu kicks - rather, she [[IKnowMortalKombat imitates what she watches in movies]] - and as such, her weapons are various boots and greaves. While she begins the game with Ice magic and physical skills, she soon leaves behind Ice entirely to focus on physical output, usually in the form of multi-target attacks and damage buffs. In ''Golden'', she was slightly reworked to focus more on critical hits.
553::
554After obtaining their own Personas, Yosuke and Yu take their third trip into the TV World to rescue Yukiko. Chie follows and bolts ahead of the group, finding herself lost in Yukiko's Castle. There she's confronted with her Shadow, who derides her for a perceived selfishness in her friendship with Yukiko - finding enjoyment in how much Yukiko relies on her for emotional stability and support, a twisted perversion of Chie's desire to protect others. After the protagonist and Yosuke defeat Shadow Chie, Chie acknowledges that part of her did enjoy being relied upon and asked to help, but despite that is still Yukiko's friend and will work harder than ever to make sure she doesn't lose it. Accepted, Shadow Chie morphs into Chie's Persona. She goes on to co-found the Investigation Team with Yosuke and the protagonist.
555::
556Chie's Shadow takes the form of a long-haired, masked dominatrix supported by three pale Yukiko mannequins. The dominatrix has long black hair, similar to Yukiko's. It represents her jealousy of Yukiko's natural gifts and talents, as well as her wish and need of control over Yukiko.
557::
558Shadow Chie becomes Tomoe, of the Chariot Arcana. Tomoe Gozen was a samurai who served in the Genpei War, a powerful warrior who disappeared after the Battle of Awazu - what happened to her afterwards is unclear, and to this day it's unknown if she ever actually existed. Upon completion of her Social Link, Tomoe evolves into Suzuka Gongen, another legend of Japanese folklore from the Kakamura period, whose appearances have been everything from demon to bandit to a warrior goddess. In ''Golden'', Suzuka Gongen can further grow into Haraedo-no-Okami, a generic reference to several Shinto goddesses of purification who were among those born after Izanagi washed away the filth of Yomi. Haraedo-no-Okami learns the special move Dragon Hustle, which boosts the attack, defense, and hit/evasion rate of the entire party for three turns.
559::
560Through her Social Link, the protagonist and Chie become closer through training together at the Samegawa Floodplain. Over time, the protagonist learns of how Chie enjoys creating notoriety for herself, in hopes of being feared by delinquents and protecting the weak. Chie also reveals some halfhearted fears that others don't see her as feminine due to her attire and behavior. She and the protagonist protect several students from gangs of bullies, including a middle school friend of Chie's. Late in the Link, the protagonist has the option of beginning an intimate relationship with Chie - whatever the player decides, Chie resolves to protect the town she loves and will give the protagonist some matching wristbands, allowing him to fuse Futsunushi. If her Link was finished, she reveals on the hero's second-to-last day in town that she wants to become a police officer under Dojima's guidance. By the time of ''VideoGame/Persona5'', she's mentioned on a TV show that while she's still in training, she's notable for knowing kung fu.
561::
562During the ''Golden'' concert scene, Chie plays the trumpet.
563----
564
565* AccidentalProposal: Believes she gave one to Yu during her Winter S-Link Event in ''Golden'' if romanced. She quickly verifies that it wasn't one, though she doesn't seem to mind the thought of it.
566* ACupAngst: It's never stated, [[ImpliedTrope but it's very much implied]]. Chie's Shadow goes on for an [[AmbiguouslyBi uncomfortably long time]] about Yukiko's physique and "[[UnusualEuphemism fair skin]]", and given Chie's envy towards Yukiko's more traditionally feminine appearance, it's not at all a large jump to gather at what [[ACupAngst two reasons]] Chie would be envious over. This is doubly implied given how insecure Chie is in her femininity, or lack thereof; she gets more than a bit annoyed with Rise being pretty proudly sexual, outright calling her "dangerous," yet at the same time is clearly comforted in her Social Links if you regard her as clearly feminine (such as when the grasshopper jumps on top of Chie's back), which only further indicates Chie sees very little reason, if any, to really be proud of her body image.
567* AggressiveSubmissive: [[PlayedWith In an interestingly non-sexual way]]. Chie's for the most part a straight up NiceGirl, but her Shadow manifests as a brutally jerkish Dominatrix who represents Chie's repressed desires to leverage Yukiko's popularity to look better for herself. Even outside of her Shadow, she can lose her temper easily and can likewise act quite aggressive when angry... but when flustered or flirted with, she immediately freezes up and gets extremely bashful. She's arguably ''the'' most insecure in her own sexuality out of any of the girls in the Investigation Team aside from Naoto, with her oftentimes seizing up and begin to babble awkwardly whenever anyone flirts or teases her.
568* AmazonianBeauty: Yu can mention finding her musculature attractive in her Social Link.
569* AngerBornOfWorry: As soon as Yu and Yosuke return from the TV world with their Personas, she looks worried, but she gets pissed off soon enough after Yosuke asks her what's with the teary face and storms off.
570* ArmedLegs: Her weapon set is composed of shoes and other assorted footwear.
571* AssKicksYou: In the opening of Persona 4: Dancing All Night, she delivers a bump to Yukiko.
572* BadassAdorable: [[ActionGirl She's one of the toughest members of the team]] and is [[CuteBruiser certainly adorable]].
573* BestFriend: She and Yukiko have been best friends since [[ChildhoodFriends they were children]] and often hang out together.
574* BigEater: Chie most notable trait is her craving for food nearly all the time, especially meat. She tends to be able to eat large portions of food, though the Mega Beef Bowl Challenge is too much even for her. She finds this trait of hers a little embarrassing however as she believes no boys would want to date a girl with a large appetite.
575-->'''Yosuke:''' Is food all you can think about?
576* BigFriendlyDog: ''The Animation'' shows she has an enormous dog who is responsible for her and Yukiko meeting as children.
577* BigStupidDoodooHead: If Yu picks her up after she's chosen as his destined partner in the Group Date Café labyrinth, she's so flustered that she can only call him a "meanie" and a "dummy".
578* BoyishShortHair: She has short hair and is into many "boyish" things like martial arts.
579* BreakOutCharacter: ''Especially'' Western-side. She's adored on both coasts, but internationally she's definitely on the same level of Naoto for the most popular love interest in ''Persona 4'', a fact that Atlus themselves are coyly aware of with her dorkiness becoming more and more prominent in spin-offs. She's also one of the few characters from that game that are popular enough to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chie_Satonaka have a page]] on [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]], which should be a sign of how popular she is on the wholesale.
580* BruceLeeClone: [[PlayingWithATrope She herself isn't]], but she does emulate her martial arts idol's fighting style during combat and makes numerous references to him and other Hong Kong action movie stars, complete with lines like [[DontThinkFeel "Don't think, feel"]]. She does sport a bowl cut and Tomoe wears [[Film/GameOfDeath a yellow jumpsuit]], which becomes an alternate costume for Chie herself in ''Golden''. Chie, appropriately, geeks out over it.
581* BullyHunter: Her Social Link includes her defending an old friend and a young boy from a GangOfBullies.
582* BystanderSyndrome: Earlier on, Chie suggested just letting the police handle the investigation on Saki's death. Yosuke points out that the police wouldn't be able to figure anything out due to the whole "supernatural abomination world" in the TV. Averted later on, though, as she chooses to go in the TV world to save Yukiko, realizes that the police are no help, and insists on going after the bullies, approving the most if you enthusiastically agree.
583* ByTheBookCop: If she's talked to on the second-to-last day after maxing out her Social Link, she states that she's aspiring to become a police officer so that she can protect Inaba more officially, and that she hopes to be tutored by Dojima.
584* BustContrastDuo: She and Yukiko have this dynamic on top of their [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl usual one]]. Chie has a very boyish, androgynous frame that she's deeply insecure of, while Yukiko -- [[HiddenBuxom while the definition of conservative modesty in public]] -- has a very feminine frame overall that Chie can't help but be envious over. This is actually [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]], as Chie has such intense envy over Yukiko's femininity that she feels like she needs to have her rely on Chie to give her any sort of self-importance.
585* TheCameo: While not making a physical cameo, in the female protagonist's route in ''Persona 3 Portable'', Kasai tells Yukiko that Chie needs help from her with her homework.
586* CharacterSelectForcing: The bonus boss in the Heaven dungeon seems designed to make Chie completely and utterly useless. It is immune to Physical attacks and ''drains'' Ice attacks, removing any chance she has of dealing damage to it.
587* ChildhoodFriends: She and Yukiko have been friends since they were very little, which is why they're so close.
588* CriticalHitClass:
589** In ''Golden'', where she gains a passive ability that increases critical hit rate, as well as buffs to increase everyone's critical hit rate. She also learns physical moves with high critical hit chance, compensating for her lower damage compared to fellow attacker Kanji. Sadly, this works in her favor but not enough. On the one hand, additional critical hits combined with certain moves such as Black Spot and Rainy Death means that she's likely to land more critical hit chances for One More strikes. But that still relies on chance to actually happen, so if the criticals don't land, she's still not as efficient or deadly on the offense as Kanji is. Finally, she still has lackluster magical options opposed to Teddie (though she gets Light Magic if you can make time to bike trip with her), meaning that Kanji still outperforms her in raw damage output (doubly so now that Kanji gets Power Charge in Golden). Chie's ultimately up to your luck. If it's good, Chie's good. If not, she's inferior to Kanji.
590** ''Persona Q'' further emphasizes this aspect by giving her a passive that increases the critical hit damage she inflicts and a support skill that raises her and the party's critical hit rate.
591* CryIntoChest: In ''The Animation'', she's briefly shown sobbing into Yukiko's chest upon Nanako's death.
592* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Soejima mentions in ''Persona 4: Official Design Works'' that Chie dyes her hair brown, making this an InvokedTrope.
593* CuteBruiser: After Kanji, (and potentially Yu), she's the best physical damage dealer of the group.
594* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: She's initially unsure of where her life is going, as she believes she's only good at eating meat and doing kung-fu (notably, she's the only member of the Investigation Team to not have a job). Over the course of her Social Link, she concludes she can use her skills to protect the weak and aims to join the police force when she graduates.
595* DontLookAtMe: She says this Yu and Yosuke when they see her confronting her Shadow Self.
596* DontThinkFeel: One of her quotes at the end of a battle.
597* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: In ''The Animation'', she's prone to physically assaulting [[ButtMonkey Yosuke]] over the slightest transgressions, like simply saying she has sloppy handwriting. All PlayedForLaughs, of course.
598* DumbMuscle: [[DownplayedTrope Not to the extent of Kanji]], but Chie is a physical fighter who tends to get poor grades in school and her contributions to the team's investigations usually boil down to saying the first thing that pops into her head. That said, some of her deductions surprisingly turn out to be [[DumbassHasAPoint correct]], and she has other moments of insight throughout the game. She is aware of her status as this, and starts making an effort to study and apply herself in her Winter S-Link in ''Golden''.
599* EndearinglyDorky: Despite being a tough, energetic {{Tomboy}}, Chie's social awkwardness is easily one of her most endearing traits. It's to the point that this trait [[{{Flanderization}} is exaggerated with each spin-off]] in order to make her even more popular [[BreakOutCharacter than she already is]] - [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools and it]] ''[[Administrivia/TropesAreTools works.]]'' This is also something that's very often the source of Yu or someone else teasing her over it, especially a Yu who is romantically inclined towards her. As for some examples of how much her behavior can come of as awkward to observers:
600** Ironically, she's utterly ''terrified'' [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes of insects and lightning.]] The former is revealed in her social link when a Grasshopper leaps on her back and she promptly freaks out, and the latter is expanded upon in ''Golden'' during a thunderstorm. You have the option of [[VideoGameCaringPotential comforting her]]... or just trolling her and [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential telling her a ghost story.]]
601** Speaking of which, Chie becomes amusingly unglued when confronted with "spooky" stuff: she's the first to crack when told a ghost story, which is best evidenced by the Ski Trip event. As for spin-offs, ''VideoGame/PersonaQShadowOfTheLabyrinth'' has her ''completely'' freak out during the horror-themed Evil Spirits-Club, and for those particular instances in question, she definitely becomes something of a cosmic chew-toy based on the group musing and unintentionally (and in Yu's potential case, not-so-intentionally) letting her panic... then again, [[NightmareFuel/PersonaQShadowOfTheLabyrinth we really can't blame her.]]
602** On the flip-note, she has an almost child-like glee in regards to action films, acting as excited as a kid getting a new toy when taken to a kung-fu film in ''Golden.'' Whenever Chie worries about this behavior not being "good enough," Yu can reassure her it's perfectly fine and actually quite endearing.
603* ExtremityExtremist: Save for using items, everything she does in battle she does with her feet, even guarding. She throws a few punches as part of her moves in ''Arena'', though.
604* FearOfThunder: ''Golden'' reveals that Chie is scared of thunderstorms.
605* FirstGirlWins: If her romance is pursued. She's the first romanceable female character the protagonist meets (not counting Marie in ''Golden''), and the first one the protagonist spends a significant amount of time with.
606* {{Flanderization}}: Chie's [[TrademarkFavoriteFood steak-fixation]] and [[EndearinglyDorky general awkwardness]] has gotten exaggerated with each new spin-off, and she's a lot quicker to anger with Yosuke as well.
607* FoodAsBribe:
608** Inverted in the anime. When Yu and Yosuke return from their second trip into the TV World in the second episode, she says the only way she'll forgive them is if they buy her [[BigEater ten orders of both beefsteak and nikudon]]. By comparison, in the game, she forgets about it and changes the subject to Yukiko appearing on the Midnight Channel.
609** Inverted and played straight in the game. Chie makes Yosuke buy her food as repayment for destroying her DVD and he bribes her and Yukiko with steak when he and the protagonist devour their noodles.
610* {{Foreshadowing}}: This conversation happens with Teddie when she's at Rank 9, although whether it's subtle is to be decided:
611-->'''Teddie:''' Chie-chan's on fire! She almost punched me in the face a second ago!\
612'''Chie:''' I-It's because I thought you were a Shadow... I felt an evil presence behind me!
613* FunnyBruceLeeNoises: Occasionally does this in battle.
614* GenkiGirl: She's very energetic and HotBlooded, frequently [[NoIndoorVoice shouting all her lines]] (particularly after Creator/ErinFitzgerald took over as her voice) and bouncing around in combat.
615* GirlNextDoor: Compared to the other the romanceable Social Links such as IdolSinger Rise or NouveauRiche AlphaBitch Ai, Chie is pretty normal and easy to relate to even in spite of (or perhaps even because of) her {{Tomboy}} traits. This is lampshaded somewhat as Chie remarks just how surprised she is that the protagonist fell for her instead of the more "exotic" girls if you go that route. On a more meta-level, she's the [[FirstGirlWins first girl]] you can start a Social Link with and has no special requirements to finish.
616* GlassCannon: Suffers from Physical skills which [[CastFromHitPoints consume HP]] and mediocre defense. However, she hits like a truck once God's Hand comes along and has a Follow-Up Attack (and, in ''Golden'', access to Social Link-granted spells) that can ''instantly kill'' enemies. By the end of the game, she's got some extra defense, though not great. Her most powerful multi-target attack, Agneyastra, still costs a massive 24% of her HP to cast.
617* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: The biggest aversion. Yukiko and Naoto use ranged weapons and Rise mostly offers support. Chie kills Shadows by ''kicking the crap out of them''.
618* HairTriggerTemper: As would be expected of a [[TarotMotifs Chariot]].
619* HeroesLoveDogs: Chie has a dog called Muku, which was given to her when she first met Yukiko (who wanted to adopt him but wasn't allowed to because her family runs the inn). We never see him in the games, but in the anime, he's [[http://i.imgur.com/AEGjV5F.png depicted as a massive St. Bernard.]]
620* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Yukiko; the two have been best friends long before the events of the game.
621* HiddenDepths: In spite of her cheerful, boisterous nature, Chie actually suffers from an InferioritySuperiorityComplex in that she's [[GreenEyedMonster secretly jealous]] of all the attention Yukiko gets, and thinks herself unattractive as a result. Best shown if you hook up with Chie during her Social Link, causing her to become noticeably [[ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe shocked that you'd choose someone "ordinary" like her]] over the likes of Yukiko, Rise, or Naoto.
622* HollywoodHomely: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]]. She was specifically designed to be realistic but still attractive, especially compared to the intentionally unrealistic Rise and traditionally beautiful Yukiko.
623* HypocriticalHeartwarming: She often gets exasperated with Yukiko's laughing fits, but when Takeshi says he's not fond of that part of Yukiko and accuses her of having made Yukiko this way, Chie angrily tells him that Yukiko is naturally that way.
624* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: Chie's romantic Social Link ends up as this on Valentine's Day, as she is surprised that the protagonist would choose her over someone like Yukiko, Rise, or Naoto.
625* AnIcePerson: Downplayed -- Chie learns a few Bufu skills early and backs them up with Ice Boost, but eventually stops learning them entirely and begins focusing on her physical skills instead, with Teddie taking her place as the party's primary ice spellcaster. ''Persona Q'' forgoes even giving her any ice skills, while ''Q2'' replicates this behavior -- Chie again starts with Icestrike Link as her only source of ice damage, partially develops it with Ice Boost and Double Link, and then discards any focus on it to expand her physical repertoire. ''Golden'' does let her learn Bufudyne, a heavy single-target Bufu skill, but it takes five bike rides with her to get.
626* IKnowMortalKombat: She doesn't really know kung-fu at all. She simply emulates the movies she watches.
627* KickChick: Complete with FunnyBruceLeeNoises.
628-->"HWA-TAAAAAAA!"
629* KungFuWizard: Of the "predominantly physical kicks with some spells for flavor" variety. Chie's techniques are mostly physical attacks, with a few buffs and low to medium-level ice spells thrown in for variety. She has the opposite problem that Kanji does with magic, having a magic stat that isn't terrible and healthy SP but simply not learning a whole spell line. ''Golden'' balances the flavor out a little by adding some Hama spells to her arsenal via her Social Link.
630* LastNameBasis: In the Japanese version, she calls Yosuke by his last name, even in the manga's localization, which has most of the characters on a FirstNameBasis. During the cooking competition, when Chie starts getting annoyed at Rise's needling her over "Mystery Food X," she calls her "Miss Kujikawa" before warning her that she's about to make Rise eat her words.
631* LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone: If Yu is in a monogamous relationship with Chie, the girls of the Investigation Team will attempt to leave the two of them alone during Valentine's Day. Neither catches on until Yukiko all but spells it out by accident, prompting Chie to eventually flee to meet up with Yu later, much to Yosuke's amusement.
632* LeeroyJenkins: Decides to run off after Yukiko early in the game, leaving Yu and Yosuke to catch up with her. As she is not a Persona-user at this point and has no clue what is waiting for her there, this does not end well.
633* LegFocus: Discussed. Yu thinks her legs are "fine", while Yosuke disagrees.
634* LethalChef: Applies to all of the girls besides Naoto, but Chie stands out as the worst. Yukiko at least manages to make completely tasteless food while Rise simply makes it unbearably spicy. Chie never once makes something that doesn't taste awful.
635* MagicallyIneptFighter: Downplayed. Chie starts off with some ice spells and has both a decently high magic stat and enough SP to reliably use them, but eventually stops learning ice skills once Teddie joins the party and focuses purely on physical damage instead, which she excels in due to her high attack and luck stats. She does gain access to a few other spells (including Bufudyne and Hamaon) through bike rides, but they remain secondary to her physical skills.
636* MagikarpPower: She stops gaining useful Physical and Bufu Skills by the time you get Kanji and Teddie. This leaves her with only "medium" damage skills for a long time -- the gap between her picking up Black Spot and Rainy Death is a staggering 29 levels, and after getting Ice Boost she doesn't upgrade past Bufula and Mabufu. Once leveled high enough though, she learns multiple powerful skills in rapid succession, like God Hand, Agneyastra (one of the final boss's skills no less!), and Power Charge. ''Golden'' attempts to smooth this out with her Social Link and Bike skills, giving her access to Bufudyne and Hamaon so that she stays competent at something in between.
637* ModestyShorts: Always wearing bike shorts under her skirt, and [[KickChick for good reason]].
638* TheMuse: Meta example. The thought put into her character [[http://globegander.tumblr.com/post/70037353506/p4-official-design-works-records-chie-satonaka "singlehandedly set the design foundation"]] for the game.
639* MyGodYouAreSerious: When she asks Yu what his study habits are like on the way to school, this is her response if the protagonist chooses the option to say that [[BrilliantButLazy he doesn't ever study]].
640* NeverGetsDrunk: When Rise seemingly accidentally orders alcohol for everyone when she meant to get soft drinks, Chie and Naoto are the only two girls who end up not getting tipsy. Chie mentions that she feels a bit hot, but otherwise, her athletic lifestyle allows her to keep her alcohol level down.
641* NiceGirl: While she has a bit of a temper, Chie is generally a friendly person who wants to protect the innocent and easily befriends the protagonist when he moves to Inaba.
642* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Chie has a bit of a complex about this; she considers the more feminine Yukiko the ideal girl to be like and is [[ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe surprised if the MC pursues a romance with her instead]]. Though even if she isn't pursued as a romance, the game hints at various times that this is still all in Chie's head. She has her own assortment of secret admirers, including Kou.
643* NoIndoorVoice: At least when portrayed by Creator/ErinFitzgerald, it's probably more notable when Chie has a line that she doesn't shout.
644* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: During the first visit to Yukiko's Castle, she's fought her way up to the third floor, while being blinded by the fog due to not wearing glasses or without even a Persona, instead using her own brute strength.
645* OneHitKill: Her "Galactic Punt" follow-up attack is capable of instantly killing even mid-bosses, and is easily the best in the game for this reason alone. ''Golden'' also allows her to learn Hama and Hamaon.
646* OrwellianRetcon: Her original VA is Tracey Rooney. When she was replaced in ''Arena'' with Erin Fitzgerald, the latter voiced her in every single appearance afterward, up to re-recording all of Rooney's dialogue in ''Golden''. This was likely done due to Golden adding several new scenes and voiced dialogue for Social Link events, resulting in large amounts of additional voiced dialogue.
647* OutOfSightOutOfMind: Initially reluctant to continue the investigation after the fake final boss, though does anyway.
648* PlainJane: Considers herself inferior to Yukiko because of this.
649* PsychoSidekick: While she does genuinely want to help and protect Yukiko, it's indicated that her jealousy of Yukiko's beauty and popularity eventually corrupted that desire, and she subconsciously took pleasure in having Yukiko be dependent on her. Her Shadow calls her out on this and she determines to stop being one after accepting it as Tomoe.
650* TheResenter: Shadow Chie reveals that Chie resents Yukiko for being more feminine than her. Grows out of this afterwards.
651* RightForTheWrongReasons: She has a really uncanny tendency to blurt out something that she claims is something she just made up, but it ends up being ''exactly'' the case.
652* RoundhouseKick: How she breaks her Persona card.
653* RuleOfThree: Haraedo-no-Okami is a composite of three Shinto goddesses, is Chie's third-tier Persona, and its unique Dragon Hustle spell buffs the party's Attack, Defense, and Hit/Evasion Rate. Chie is also the third formal member of the Investigation Team.
654* SecretArt:
655** Her unique skill in ''Golden'' is Dragon Hustle, which acts as a party-wide Heat Riser.
656** Her unique skill in ''Persona Q'' is Furious Fists, which greatly raises her CriticalHit rate.
657** Her unique skill in ''Q2'' is Counter Stance, which unleashes a CounterAttack if her row is attacked. This upgrades to Counter Bash which has stronger retaliations.
658* {{Shorttank}}: Fits the archetype pretty well, and her summer outfit, especially in ''Golden'', is the iconic dress-style.
659* SickAndWrong: Her response to Yosuke having come to the school camping trip with swimsuits picked out for her and Yukiko just on the off chance that they wouldn't have brought their own, particularly since Yosuke tries to guilt-trip them into wearing them.
660* StatusEffects: Two of her available moves, Skull Cracker and Mind Slice, have a chance to inflict the Panic ailment.
661* {{Squee}}: Her reaction after taking her to watch the ''Trial of the Dragon'' sequel at Okina City and if you have her wear a Creator/BruceLee-esque yellow jumpsuit.
662* ThisIsUnforgivable: Her opinion on the Killer kidnapping females, as she comments he's a pervert. She also feels this way about the bullies picking on the weak.
663* TheThreeFacesOfEve: The Child to Yukiko's Wife and Rise's Seductress.
664* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Fits this much better than a straight-up {{tomboy}}. She's headstrong, brash, athletic, energetic, into martial arts, a glutton with a particular hankering for meat, and a huge LethalChef. But, at the same time, she's deeply concerned with how unfeminine she is, appreciates being seen as a girl by guys (the best way for Yu to romance her, in fact, is to compliment her on being girly when she displays such traits), and has several phobias (scary stories and bugs, with ''Golden'' adding thunderstorms) traditionally seen as feminine. In the anime, she straight out runs away with Rise and Yukiko from Naoto's Shadow [[ItMakesSenseInContext because she didn't want to turn old and ugly]]. All of these traits could be seen as her not so much desiring to act un-feminine, as many other characters with this trope fall under, but rather taking the better traits of the "tomboy" aspect such as an active lifestyle and layering them on top of a traditionally "girly" personality.
665* TrademarkFavoriteFood: She's a massive carnivore. Rarely will you ever see her eat veggies or anything not meat-based.
666* ATwinkleInTheSky: Her "Galactic Punt" Follow-Up Attack results in this happening to the victim.
667* VerbalTic: In the English dub, she always drops the G at the end of -ing words.
668* WeUsedToBeFriends: With Takeshi, an old friend of hers you meet in her Social Link. There's a certain element of familiarity between them, but Takeshi makes Chie uncomfortable with his infatuation with Yukiko. After Chie saves Takeshi from the bullies, causing him to run off, she gets annoyed with his refusal to admit that he ran away and infuriated when he [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint insists that]] [[TheHyena Yukiko's laughing fits]] are uncharacteristic of her. The two-part on bad terms and Takeshi is never seen again.
669* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Her fear of bugs, revealed during her third Social Link Event.
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671
672[[folder:Yukiko Amagi]]
673!Yukiko Amagi
674[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yukiko_amagi_p4.png]]
675[[caption-width-right:350:''"Come! Konohana-Sakuya!"'']]
676
677-->''"[[YamatoNadeshiko Fall with the petals!]]"''
678
679->'''Arcana:''' The Priestess\
680'''Persona:''' [[Myth/JapaneseMythology Konohana Sakuya, Amaterasu, Sumeo-Okami]] (''Golden'')\
681'''Weapons:''' [[CombatHandFan Paper fans]]\
682'''Voice actors:''' Creator/AmandaWinnLee (English), Creator/AmiKoshimizu (Japanese)\
683'''Stage actors:''' Risa Yoshiki (''[=VisuaLive=]''), Yumi Sugimoto (''[=VisuaLive=] Evolution''), Creator/ShikiAoki (''Arena'')\
684
685
686The last of the Investigation Team's second-year members and the heiress to the generations-old Amagi Inn, Yukiko Amagi is a smart, beautiful, yet rather socially awkward girl - despite her popularity among Yasogami High's student body, her only real friend before the events of the game is [[ChildhoodFriends Chie]]. While initially introduced as a prim-and-proper lady, it becomes quickly apparent that Yukiko has a somewhat bizarre sense of humor and thinking.
687::
688Yukiko fulfills the party's [[TheRedMage Red Mage]] role - she has the highest SP and Magic stats of anyone in the party and receives every healing and Fire spell in the game as she levels up. While she does have a weapon in the form of paper fans, she's much better suited to sticking to magic, as her physical damage is the lowest in the party. She also has [[SquishyWizard very low physical defense]].
689::
690Yukiko is the third subject of the Midnight Channel and the first that has the chance to be rescued by the Investigation Team. Her inner thoughts and desires created a dungeon in the form of a European castle, while her Shadow masqueraded as a princess searching for a "prince" to whisk her away. The castle and her Shadow were born of her repressed yearning to break free from her designation as heiress to the Inn, instead privately wishing for someone to alleviate her responsibilities. Yu, Yosuke, and Chie manage to defeat her Shadow, and she becomes a member of the Investigation Team upon receiving her Persona.
691::
692Yukiko's Shadow looks like a giant, red-feathered bird with her head, kept inside a giant birdcage atop a chandelier -- a literal "bird in a gilded cage", reflecting how Yukiko feels trapped in her life.
693::
694After being defeated, Shadow Yukiko becomes Konohana Sakuya, of the Priestess Arcana. The Shinto goddess of Mount Fuji and all volcanoes, Konohana Sakuya is considered to be an avatar of life and is symbolically tied to cherry blossoms - reflecting Yukiko's use of fire attacks and her own flower motif. When Yukiko's Social Link is completed, Konohana Sakuya evolves into Amaterasu, the Japanese goddess of sunlight, born from the Yomi taint Izanagi washed himself of. In ''Golden'', Amaterasu can further evolve into Sumeo-Okami, an epithet for Amaterasu. Sumeo-Okami will learn Burning Petals, which deals massive Fire damage to all enemies in battle.
695::
696In the earlier stages of her Social Link, Yukiko still desires to leave Inaba and pursue interior design in order to become more independent. However, friendly teasing from the Inn's staff and pestering from an [[{{Paparazzi}} irresponsible TV crew]] who want to make a program that would ruin the reputation of the Inn eventually make her realize that she has a supportive family and friends that she wants to help and defend - the protagonist/Yu can choose to pursue a romantic relationship with Yukiko at this point. Regardless of what is chosen, she will give the protagonist a charm from the Tatsuhime Shrine, where the two spent much of their discussing Yukiko's future, which allows him to fuse Scathach. She resolves to accept her duty and manage the inn when the time comes.
697::
698During the ''Golden'' concert scene, Yukiko plays the saxophone.
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700
701* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: She was introduced in ''4'', but has a cameo in the PSP port of ''Persona 3''.
702* AffectionateNickname: Some adults in Inaba, and Rei in Persona Q, call her "Yuki-chan."
703* AloofDarkHairedGirl: A subversion. Though she has the looks and is thought as aloof and hard-to-get by her peers due to her fairly reserved nature, Yukiko is revealed to be a complete goofball who laughs at the silliest jokes, has a bit of a hidden perverted side, and gets really excited about telling scary stories when she's comfortable with the people around her.
704* AlphaBitch: {{Averted}}. Yukiko is popular at her school because she's very intelligent and beautiful; in truth, she's a SpoiledSweet [[NiceGirl sweetheart]] who tries not to hurt anyone's feelings.
705* AlwaysWithYou: Her gift of the shrine charm is meant to have this effect if she's romanced.
706-->'''Yukiko:''' I'm staying here... This charm will protect you in my place... Then... we'll always be together...
707* AnimalMotifs: With birds. Her Shadow Self transforms into one after she rejects it and her Personas resemble birdmen. In the anime, she used to own a pet bird before it escaped from its cage. Yukiko sees the bird as a spitting image of herself, wanting to be free from her own cage (the inn) but unlike the bird, she lacks the resolve and courage to do so.
708* AntiMagic: One of her top tier standard weapons. It does less damage, but has a high chance of Silencing the target and making it helpless.
709* BadassAdorable: After she faces herself, she is definitely this while looking rather very beautiful.
710* BadassBookworm: Scores the highest among her class during exams, and often tutors Chie over the same content. While she may not look physically imposing, she can stand up for herself and others, and she's quite fierce with her Persona and fire spells alongside her.
711* {{Ballet}}: Her style in ''Dancing All Night'' is a combination of this and traditional Japanese dance. Most noticeable in "Snowflakes" when she does a soutenu during the Fever portion and fouettés later on in her performance.
712* BerserkButton: Don't even think about taking her picture without her consent. Or saying she looks bad in red.
713* BestFriend: She and Chie have been best friends since [[ChildhoodFriends they were children]] and often hang out together.
714* BewareTheNiceOnes: The boys (especially Teddie) learn that provoking Yukiko is a bad idea. Not only she will slap them out of the blue, but she can also hurt them emotionally using only her sharp tongue when the situation calls for it.
715** She also seems to take a particular amount of glee out of teasing boys she knows except for a notable few like Yu and ''Persona Q'''s Zen. If offended enough, she will reflexively [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale slap them]], regardless of the other person's intentions (though she usually apologizes for it). This is done as part of how she plays with the YamatoNadeshiko trope; she's clearly not as submissive as she seems at first glance.
716* ABirthdayNotABreak: Her birthday is on December 8, the first day that the DiscOneFinalDungeon of Magatsu Inaba is available for completion. Since the town of Inaba is shrouded in fog, Nanako is still in critical condition, the killer has been identified and things will get much worse by the end of the year, it's safe to say Yukiko doesn't feel like celebrating.
717* BrutalHonesty: When things get serious, she doesn't hesitate to tell it like it is and not hold back either, even if she doesn't like it. Not even [[BestFriend Chie]] [[https://youtu.be/N19NoKukWTM?t=4m9s is an exception]].
718* BustContrastDuo: She and Chie have this dynamic on top of their [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl usual one]]. Chie has a very boyish, androgynous frame that she's deeply insecure of, while Yukiko -- [[HiddenBuxom while the definition of conservative modesty in public]] -- has a very feminine frame overall that Chie can't help but be envious over. This is actually [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]], as Chie has such intense envy over Yukiko's femininity that she feels like she needs to have her rely on Chie to give her any sort of self-importance.
719* TheCameo:
720** A 14-year-old Yukiko appears in the female protagonist route of ''Persona 3 Portable''.
721** In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', the Amagi Inn is mentioned on a TV show that Joker can watch at [=LeBlanc=], where she's now the owner of the inn.
722* CantHoldHerLiquor: When Rise seemingly accidentally orders alcohol for everyone when she meant to get soft drinks, she and Yukiko become completely buzzed. Yukiko is the less inebriated of the two, but she still acts rather loopy.
723* CharacterDevelopment: It should go without saying in such a game of bonds and friendship, but Yukiko's case is unique in the case of her self-esteem. In the initial stages of ''P4,'' according to Chie's dungeon, Yukiko shows signs of very low self-esteem, feeling worthless and hating herself, not even mustering up the strength to turn down even the most persistently aggressive boys at her school (without Chie). If you were unfaithful to her on Valentine's Day, she sadly admits how low her confidence is and feels that she at best, could only share you. In due time, though, [[ThePowerofFriendship with the help of her friends]], she's slowly coming around to herself, taking the lead in battles (and dances), and showing surprise and a little pride in her successes.
724-->P4 (Inner thoughts during Chie's Shadow encounter): "...apart from inheriting the inn, I'm worthless..."
725-->P4:DAN (Clearing a stage with a KING CRAZY!!! rating): "Can I be more confident in myself now...?"
726* CharacterSelectForcing: A variant happens during a stakeout early in the game, where in Yu gets the choice to team up with Chie, Yosuke or Yukiko, but circumstances will always leave him with Yukiko -- it's how her Social Link is established.
727* ChasteHero: She often indicates that she doesn't know much about teen romance and doesn't even seem to realize that she's turning down her suitors. However, there are plenty of signs of her crush on the protagonist.
728* CherryBlossomGirl: Her initial Persona fits the theme, both from her appearance and folklore story. Yukiko provides [[YamatoNadeshiko the personality]], and her ultimate ability is called "Burning Petals".
729* ChildhoodFriends: There are several notable characters that Yukiko has known since childhood.
730** Chie has been Yukiko's [[HeterosexualLifePartners closest friend]] since childhood.
731** Yukiko and Kanji were also childhood friends due to their families' business connections.
732** Naoki's evening conversations reveal that he and Yukiko used to play together when they were kids.
733* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She has, on more than one occasion, been shown to have a pretty ''out there'' thought process. It contrasts her seemingly proper appearance as a YamatoNadeshiko.
734* CombatHandFan: Fitting her {{Ojou}} role, her weapon is a fan.
735* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In ''Golden'', she brings a ''gong'' to the band practice intended for Chie since she assumes that she'll like it because it sounds "Chinese-ish", forgetting that it's near impossible to play one during a fast-paced song.
736* CovertPervert: She's usually the shy one, but expresses a surprising amount of sultriness when "drunk" during the trip to Tatsumi Port Island. Beyond that, when given one of the sexier alternate costumes when in an intimate relationship in ''Golden'', she mentions she's happy to dress up, but she would prefer it be in private....
737* CripplingOverspecialization:
738** Yukiko in the original ''4'' only does two things: [[CombatMedic keep the party's HP up]] or blow the shit out of Shadows with fire magic. Because most people don't keep Fire Break on endgame sets, she can turn into dead weight if the player brings her along and enemies resist fire (though healing is always welcome, especially the broken-as-hell Salvation). ''Golden'' adds Mudo spells to her S.Link level-ups, giving her more use, but even then...[[AwesomeButImpractical they're Mudo spells]].
739** ''Persona Q2'' offers some slight variation in her skill set, giving her Mudo early on, and later Makajam and Salome's Kiss for bind infliction. She is still limited greatly by the game's mechanics, as her six skill slots see heavy competition between her unique skill, three individual healing skills, her fire -dynes, and potentially Mind Charge.
740* TheCutie: Just like Rise, she has beautiful feminine looks, but once you get to know her, she's a lovable goofball and a sweetheart.
741* DeadpanSnarker: She has her moments. For example, during the ski trip, she bluntly shuts down Yosuke's proposal for a nighttime activity, and when he claims he didn't mean what he was implying, saying, "Sorry, were you going to say, 'play cards'?"
742* DitzyGenius: While a straight-A student and overall ''very'' intelligent, she still ''is'' a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who does have a particular thought process when it comes to certain topics, like taking strange delight on someone described as "legendary".
743* DudeMagnet: She's rejected so many guys by the start of the game that "the Amagi Challenge" of asking her out on a date has become something of a rite of passage at Yasogami High.
744* EverybodyKnewAlready: She's initially extremely scared to tell her family and servants that she doesn't want to inherit the Amagi Inn, as she believes they'll view her as tarnishing their reputation. When she comes clean and admits it to them, they all laugh and point out that they already knew she didn't want to become the Inn's heiress.
745* FieryStoic: Fits this trope to a tee (her main offensive element is fire and she's the [[YamatoNadeshiko demure daughter of the local innkeeper]]), right down to occasionally showing flashes of a much more brutal personality (most notable after scoring a critical hit). She's contrasted with [[TomBoy Chie]] who similarly [[PowerStereotypeFlip inverts the personality associated]] with AnIcePerson.
746* FireIsRed: Gifted with the powers of fire while adorned in red clothing.
747* FirstNameBasis: Since she typically refers to everyone using proper and respectful honorifics[[labelnote:Examples]]She uses first names and "-kun" on the protagonist, Yosuke, Kanji and Naoto, although she uses the former two's surnames in the original Japanese. Meanwhile, she uses "-chan" on Rise, Nanako and Marie.[[/labelnote]], the fact she simply calls Chie by only her name represents how special and familiar she is to Yukiko.
748* GirlyBruiser: Traditionally feminine, well-mannered, and the best magic-user within the team.
749* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Has shades of this. She's traditionally feminine and well-mannered but is also a NightmareFetishist.
750* GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: Amaterasu and Sumeo-Okami.
751* GoodParents: Implied. Her Social Link concludes with her finding out her parents and everyone at the Inn knew she was planning to leave the whole time, and that they would love and support her no matter what she chose. If romanced, they also support her marrying Yu.
752* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Chie; the two have been best friends long before the events of the game.
753* HiddenBuxom: [[ImpliedTrope Hilariously implied as a wholesale]]. Yukiko up-front is the definition of conservative modesty with how she dresses, but her Shadow is proudly and cheerfuly unafraid to strut her "[[BigBreastPride lacy unmentionables, top to bottom]]". Later on in the story, when Yukiko begs the group not to read her own measurements, Rise teasingly comforts her by insinuating modest breasts would be perfectly fine in a kimono. Going by Yukiko's [[BigWHAT immediate reaction to that]], she seems less taken aback by Rise's comment and moreso [[EntertaininglyWrong completely baffled as to why Rise would reach that conclusion]].
754* HimeCut: Part of her YamatoNadeshiko image is the long hair with straight bang and sidetails look.
755* HoistByHerOwnPetard: None of Yukiko's Personas are immune or even resistant to Darkness spells, meaning she's in serious trouble if she uses her Mudo attacks on a Shadow that reflects them.
756* HotWitch: Her Halloween costume has wearing a witch hat and a tiny red dress with a corset.
757* HumorDissonance: Invoked, Yukiko finds humor in the most bizarre places. Her friends just leave her be.
758* TheHyena: Her laughing fits can last for several minutes. Chie even calls her a "crazy hyena" once (or "Demon Queen" in the Japanese version). [[InherentlyFunnyWords This only makes her laugh harder]].
759* HypocriticalHeartwarming: A relatively subtle example happens in her Social Link. Despite being unhappy with the idea that her only choice in life is to inherit the inn and feeling stuck in Inaba, she politely disagrees with the reporters who call Inaba a dump and gets angry when they badmouth the inn. In the end, she realizes that she does cherish the inn and the people who work for it.
760* IfOnlyYouKnew: [[spoiler:In ''Q2'', during exploration dialogue, she jokingly states that Akechi is hiding a terrible secret. She has no idea that's an understatement.]]
761* INeedToGoIronMyDog: If the protagonist takes the friendship route instead of romancing her, she quickly says she has errands to run and runs off on the brink of tears. In a more lighthearted note, after her slapping Yosuke causes Yosuke to blame Chie for suggesting that Yukiko tutor him, and Chie to point out that it was his fault for asking for "[[DoubleEntendre private lessons]]," she says she has to get going.
762* IncorruptiblePurePureness: She doesn't have a mean bone in her body and is very kind and selfless, always being ready to help and fight to protect her loved ones, taking her supportiveness of them very seriously. That said, BewareTheNiceOnes has to be taken into account.
763* InsistentTerminology: She insists on calling the dog that Chie adopted for her when they first met "Chosokabe" rather than "Muku".
764* InVinoVeritas: In fake liquor, no less; Yukiko and, with some prodding, Rise spill the beans about the secrets of the team to then-not-a-member Naoto. [[CassandraTruth Naoto doesn't believe them]].
765* ItSeemedTrivial: Her knowledge that Adachi was at the inn spending a lot of time with Ms. Yamano just before she died is the first non-circumstantial piece of evidence the group has towards finding out his identity as the true Killer, but she doesn't make this known unless the player casts suspicion on Adachi in the first place... ''at the very end of the game''. To be fair, none of them had thought to suspect Adachi until then.
766* IWillWaitForYou: Essentially what she tells the protagonist (who is destined to leave Inaba at the end of the school year) if romanced. She'll never stop loving him, and on Valentine's Day in ''Golden'' she says she'll wait for his return so they can get married.
767* KimonoIsTraditional: She wears a pink kimono while working for the inn. It and a black ceremonial kimono can be purchased as costumes for her.
768* KlingonPromotion: She says that if she had been born a boy or if there was a precedent for female leaders in ''Neo Featherman'', she would have battled the protagonist for the Red Phoenix Ranger position with the party's ''Featherman'' get-ups. Referenced again in ''Ultimax'', where Yukiko excitedly volunteers to take over Yukari's role after defeating her in a match.
769* LadyOfBlackMagic: She's very elegant, and very deadly with fire spells despite being a healer. On top of that, Golden gives her the option to learn magics that cause rage or even instant death.
770* LadyOfWar: In accordance with her YamatoNadeshiko exterior, she's graceful while using her fans on the battlefield.
771* LethalChef:
772** To say the least, she believes that adding squid ink to chocolate would help give the treat some "character", entirely basing this assumption on how the two are of a similar color. In a more memorable instance, she somehow manages to make ''completely flavorless food''.
773** In ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'', one of her endings involves her force-feeding her horribly ruined boxed lunch to all of her friends under the assumption that their physically-repulsed reactions to it are a sign of them being so amazed by it that they can't stand.
774* LonelyRichKid: Before meeting Chie.
775* LostFoodGrievance: Very saddened over losing her fried tofu early on in the story, and when Teddie steals her ramen at Hagakure Ramen.
776* LoveAtFirstSight: If romanced, she confesses this to Yu on Christmas Eve.
777* LovedINotHonorMore: When romanced, she repeatedly expresses that she's aware the protagonist will leave to return home one day, but it doesn't stop her from loving him.
778* LoveHurts: Out of all the girls on the Investigation Team she takes it hardest if the protagonist befriends rather than romances her, and leaves hints of lingering bitterness on Valentine's Day.[[note]]While she does display a similar attitude on Valentine's Day on routes where she's dating the protagonist, meeting up with her for their date afterward reveals that this is mainly due to nervousness.[[/note]] In spite of that, she's grateful for his friendship and seems to consider him her closest male friend.
779* LovingAShadow: On the receiving end of this from some of her male admirers. Takeshi, an old friend of Chie's, is shocked to hear her "funky laugh," and [[DramaticallyMissingThePoint accuses Chie of changing her, not realizing that Yukiko was always this way]]. By comparison, though, if you tell Yosuke that you're interested in Yukiko, he'll admit that he likes Yukiko better now that he has an idea of her HiddenDepths.
780* MeetCute: Technically their ''second'' meeting, but Yu runs into her when she's wearing a kimono. Subverted if the player decides not to romance her. Can be hilariously subverted anyways, as Yu can choose to say he doesn't even remember it happening.
781* ModestyShorts: She has them under her skirt while wearing her summer outfit.
782* NerdsLoveToughSchoolwork: The smartest member of the team (save perhaps for the protagonist) is also the only one who's actually ''excited'' by getting to spend a day attending special lectures during the school trip on Tatsumi Port Island.
783* NeverMyFault: In episode 20 of the anime, she joins the other girls in chewing out the boys for their AccidentalPervert moment in the hot spring, conveniently choosing to ignore that the entire mess was Yukiko's own fault because she mixed up the times for when the boys and girls use the springs.
784* NiceGirl: While a bit [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} kooky]], Yukiko is a kindhearted girl who sincerely cares for her friends and will do anything to protect them.
785* NightmareFetishist: Absolutely adores ghost stories, as shown in the ski trip. She's one of the few characters in ''Q'' that doesn't freak out during the Evil Spirit Club dungeon. This also provides an amusing contrast with [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Chie and to a lesser extent, Naoto]]: she likes hearing scary stories (a trait normally associated with a {{Tomboy}}) while Chie freaks out a lot.
786* NoblewomansLaugh: When summoned using her Cavalry Attack, she has the possibility of letting one out while she crashes her scooter into an enemy.
787* NonIndicativeName: "Yuki" is a name more often associated with "snow", whereas Yukiko uses Fire and is weak to Ice. She initially feels that it's a MeaningfulName because she's "worthless" like snow.
788* NonSequitur: A RunningGag with her.
789* {{Ojou}}: Of a generations-old inn.
790* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Shadow Yukiko once said she wanted to "score with a hot stud." Teddie brings it up sporadically throughout the game. He's still bringing it up in ''Arena'' which is ''over a year later'', much to Yukiko's irritation. Especially since her inner monologue insists that she is not interested in such things. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Really.]]
791* OneHitKill: ''Golden'' grants her access to the Mudo spell line via her Social Link, though said spells are as [[UselessUsefulSpell unreliable as ever]].
792* ParasolOfPrettiness: Holds one when wearing her yukata in the opening sequence.
793* PervertRevengeMode: In ''Persona Q'', when Teddie takes advantage of being temporarily shrunken to [[PowerPerversionPotential look up her skirt]], Yukiko's immediate response is to stomp the ground with enough force to send him flying.
794-->'''Yukiko:''' [[TranquilFury Oh, sorry. Guess I missed.]]
795* PinkIsFeminine: Yukiko's signature color is red but her Persona, Konohana Sakuya, wears a lot of pink to go along with the [[CherryBlossoms cherry blossom motif.]] She's also wearing a pink yukata when working for her family's inn. Yukiko is the one who wears the pink Featherman Ranger costume for dungeon exploration in the UpdatedRerelease.
796* PlayingWithFire: Yukiko's primary attack spells are fire-related and her third-tier Persona gains Burning Petals, which may well be the strongest spell in the game.
797* PrecisionFStrike:
798** Yukiko rarely swears, so if she tells you to ''shut the hell up'' as she does to those reporters in her Social Link, you know she's angry. Shadow Yukiko's speech is practically a ClusterFBomb by her standards.
799** In the manga, she admits that her inn's prestige and tradition "can go to hell," as a way of admitting that a part of her did agree with her Shadow, but then says that the inn is home to her family and many of the people she cares about, which is why she genuinely wants to help them.
800* PrecisionGuidedBoomerang: Her fan always returns to her hand after it's thrown.
801* PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo: Inverted in ''Persona 3 Portable'' if you're the female protagonist. She makes a Future Player Character Cameo during the trip to Inaba.
802* ProperTightsWithASkirt: She's a proper YamatoNadeshiko while wearing black tights with her winter uniform.
803* RavenHairIvorySkin: She has fair skin and long black hair, and has gathered quite a fan club because of her beautiful looks.
804* RedIsHeroic: She's one of the protagonists, and constantly wears a red hairband and sweater.
805* TheRedMage: Provides healing magic to the party and damaging Fire magic to the enemy.
806* RyokanInn: The Amagi Inn takes this appearance.
807* SayingTooMuch: During the King's Game scene, in a moment of drunken silliness she accidentally spills the beans about the Shadow World and the Personas to Naoto, [[CassandraTruth who doesn't believe it]].
808* SchoolIdol: Is very sought-after by the male students of Yasogami, to the point where the frequently-failed "Amagi Challenge" is based on scoring a date with her.
809* SecretArt:
810** Her unique skill in ''Golden'' is Burning Petals, an extremely powerful fire attack that hits all enemies.
811** Her unique skill in ''Persona Q'' is Inferno Boost which greatly raises her fire damage, more so than Fire Boost or Fire Amp.
812** Her unique skill in ''Q2'' is Illusive Dance, which raises her evasion rate. This upgrades to Mirage Dance that has a higher evasion boost. Note that these skills are similar to those learned by Morgana. Yukiko also learns the Mamutudi skill which removes binds from the entire party, and no other playable individual -- not even Sub-Personas -- learns this.
813* ShipperOnDeck: Regardless of whether Yu romances Yukiko, she thinks that Chie and Yosuke would make for a cute couple. In ''Q'', she thinks that Kanji and Rise are perfect for each other.
814* ShrinkingViolet: [[SubvertedTrope She appears this way at first]], but as she gets more comfortable around Yu and Yosuke, her [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} true personality traits]] emerge.
815* SilkHidingSteel: Seems soft-spoken and inoffensive, but has a strong will and a fierce temper. Completing her Social Link gives her the courage to use her steely side a little more.
816* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Because of her looks, Yukiko is quite popular at school and has been asked out by ''a lot'' of male students (including ''Yosuke''). However, this unwanted attention only made her feel awkward and uncomfortable. She admired and depended on Chie, who would often scare off the boys who tried to pressure her into dating them. By the time she accepts her Persona, [[TookALevelInBadass she begins to learn how to stand up and speak for herself.]]
817* SpectacularSpinning: In ''Dancing All Night''. Especially noticeable during "Snowflakes", which has its fair share of ballet tours, including a soutenu and a fouetté.
818* SquishyWizard: Probably the worst character in terms of defensive stats, but hits anything not resistant or immune to Agi like a truck.
819* StatusEffects: She can gain Valiant Dance (enrages all enemies) the same way, dropping evasion and defense to zero.
820* StealthPun: Yukiko's weapon of choice is a Japanese fan, and she specializes in fire based attacks, so you could say she's "fanning the flames".
821* ThatCameOutWrong: When Chie mentions that Yukiko is popular but has never had a boyfriend, she gets flustered and protests that neither is true, before correcting herself and saying that she means that she doesn't need a boyfriend.
822* TheThreeFacesOfEve: The Wife to Chie's Child and Rise's Seductress.
823* TookTheWifesName: If the protagonist romances Yukiko, on Valentine's Day, she will reveal that should he marry her, he will have to marry into her family and take on the Amagi name. It is implied that because Yukiko comes from a family business owning a renowned inn, with high social standing as a result, she is effectively safe from having to change her surname and whoever she marries will take on her surname instead.
824* UselessAccessory: Don't expect Amaterasu or Sumeo-Okami to ever use those katanas.
825* VerbalBackspace: In Dancing All Night, when Yosuke begins a dance with her as a partner.
826-->'''Yukiko:''' Yosuke-kun! For once in your life- I mean, good luck!
827* YamatoNadeshiko: Played with. She fits the archetype, then her Shadow deconstructs it and shows its opposite. She ultimately shows a modern version of this trope: soft-spoken, strong-willed and polite yet not afraid to stand up to herself and get dangerous if necessary, as an unfortunate group of paparazzi discovered.
828* YaoiFangirl: In ''The Animation'', Yukiko covers her eyes to avoid seeing Kanji straddling his almost naked Shadow... [[http://i.imgur.com/9QvPZ9P.png badly]].
829* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: In the manga, after Yukiko accepts her shadow, she responds to Chie tearfully apologizing for her jealousy of Yukiko and vowing to get stronger by hugging her and saying "You're plenty strong already."
830* YouDidntAsk: [[spoiler:Of the ItSeemedTrivial variety. Yukiko knew from even before Mayumi Yamano's death that Adachi went to the Amagi Inn to "protect" her due to the media swarm hounding her. She doesn't bring it up until the protagonist suggests that Adachi is the Killer since it didn't seem suspicious at the time.]]
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833[[folder:Kanji Tatsumi]]
834!Kanji Tatsumi
835[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kanji_tatsumi_p4_1.png]]
836[[caption-width-right:350:''"C'mere, Take-Mikazuchi!"'']]
837
838-->''"[[AmbiguouslyGay Are you sayin' that I'm strange!?]]"''
839
840->'''Arcana:''' The Emperor\
841'''Persona:''' [[Myth/JapaneseMythology Take-Mikazuchi, Rokuten Maoh, Takeji Zaiten]] (''Golden'')\
842'''Weapons:''' [[ShieldBash Shields]] and other [[ChairmanOfTheBrawl large]] [[ImprobableWeaponUser objects]]\
843'''Voice actors:''' Creator/TroyBaker (English), Creator/MatthewMercer (English, ''The Animation'' episodes 13-26, ''Ultimax'', ''Q'', ''Dancing All Night'', ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCrossTagBattle''), Creator/TomokazuSeki (Japanese)\
844'''Stage actors:''' Youichirou Oumi (''[=VisuaLive=]'' and ''[=VisuaLive=] Evolution''), Eiji Takigawa (''Arena'')\
845
846
847The youngest member of the Team, Kanji Tatsumi is a first-year at Yasogami and a delinquent whose mother runs the local textile shop. Kanji's rough exterior hides a genuinely caring, kindhearted man [[RealMenWearPink with a talent for handicrafts]] - that caused people to shun him for his "girly" hobbies and to make him hide his own sexuality.
848::
849Kanji is the team's resident MightyGlacier, with abysmal Agility but the highest Strength and Endurance in the party. Take-Mikazuchi provides powerful [[ShockAndAwe Electric]] attacks to foes, but with a low Magic stat and small SP pool, Kanji's true assets lie in his aforementioned absurd Strength, focused on delivering physical attacks the Shadows won't get up from. He fights with assorted blunt objects, beginning with a folding chair.
850::
851When thrown into the Midnight Channel, his inner thoughts and fears generate the Steamy Bathhouse dungeon. His Shadow masquerades as him wearing nothing but a towel and speaking like a CampGay looking for "love". At first, he seems to taunt Kanji regarding him hiding his sexuality, but this gives way to Kanji's true fears - he's "just scared shitless of being rejected" after suffering the mockery of his peers for his hobbies. The Team defeats his Shadow and Kanji accepts his flaws.
852::
853Shadow Kanji takes on the form of his upper body atop a ridiculously masculine male form with a rose garden where the head should be, carrying two Mars symbols which it uses as weapons and flanked by two MachoCamp bodybuilders. This ludicrous exaggeration of masculinity and homosexuality is a distillation of all of Kanji's fears about his orientation.
854::
855Kanji's Persona is Take-Mikazuchi of the Emperor Arcana. A Shinto god of thunder and winner of the first sumo match in history, he was born from the blood on the sword of Izanagi after the slaying of Kagutsuchi. When Kanji's Social Link is completed, Take-Mikazuchi evolves into Rokuten Maoh, a Buddhist deity made to tempt followers from the righteous path. In ''Golden'', Rokuten Maoh can further evolve into Takeji Zaiten, an alternate name for Rokuten Maoh. Takeji Zaiten learns the signature skill The Man's Way, which has a chance of knocking down and dizzying all foes on the field.
856::
857In his Social Link, Kanji meets a little boy who lost his friend's doll and to cheer him up, he makes him a new doll, which turns out to be so impressive the boy offers to buy more for his friends. Kanji [[NotWhatItLooksLike is later accused of bullying the boy because people saw him giving money to a scary-looking man and assumed the worst]], but the protagonist/Yu encourages him to tell the truth about his dolls instead of hiding it and inviting trouble from the police. Kanji learns to take pride in his hobby and opens up his own handicraft class. He gives the protagonist a cute strap from his handmade work, allowing him to fuse Odin.
858::
859During the ''Golden'' concert scene, Kanji plays drums.
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861* AdaptationalBadass: In the game, he took down an entire Biker Gang with a shield. In the anime, where the characters' weapons were AdaptedOut in order to let the Personas do all the fighting, he beat down the same Biker Gang '''[=BAREHANDED=]'''. He's also the one to outright defeat his own Berserk Shadow with a MegatonPunch.
862* AllDrummersAreAnimals: Invoked and justified with a side of lamp-shading to go with it. During the concert Rise ''assigns'' Kanji to the drums instead of letting him choose. When he protests, Rise points out that if Kanji's up front "it'll look like a Metal Band".
863* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: As a kid, he had no male friends since he preferred to stay inside and do arts and crafts instead of going outside and playing with them. However, he also had no female friends since they thought a boy doing feminine activities was weird. As a result, he often got into fights with others and bleached his hair, becoming a delinquent. It isn't until he meets the Investigation Team where he begins to have friends.
864* AmbiguouslyBi: While [[AmbiguouslyGay the story often focuses on him being]] [[NoBisexuals gay or straight]], it's more like that he's bisexual.
865** Disregarding [[CampGay his Shadow]], he instantly crushes on the male-presenting [[KidDetective Naoto]], which, coupled with his 'unmasculine' interests, flares up Kanji's [[StupidSexyFlanders insecurity]] that he might be attracted to men. But even after Naoto reveals herself to be female, he still remains attracted to her.
866** Besides Naoto, he also shows attraction towards Yu on multiple occasions, blushing when he invites him to the hot springs, or when giving him a Valentine's chocolate. His comments about Yu's clothing in the dungeons are also flirtatious sometimes. Even more explicit in "Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth", where he's totally okay with the idea of marrying Yu, as long as he plays the part of the groom. He also gets a nosebleed in the latter game, when Yosuke accidentally kisses him.
867** He never shows any interest in another man. Regardless, [[WordOfSaintPaul he has been confirmed to be attracted to men by Troy Baker]], his voice actor and his shadow (his true self) talks about how much he loves men. He doesn’t show attraction to most other women for that matter, but does swoon alongside Yosuke over Chihiro Fushimi. He also reveals during his Social Link that he had a crush on a girl in his class when he was in middle school.
868** In the first ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' stage play, Kanji hits on Yu with very explicit innuendos, including wanting to see his "hospitality juice" splatter on him. It turns out to be a higher force manipulating Yu's thoughts--though you can't really fault Yu for having these thoughts to begin with, considering Kanji's attitude towards his sexuality in general.
869** When Yosuke is forced to hitch a ride back home on Kanji's back at the end of "Operation Up Close And Personal", Kanji remarks (while blushing) that this was what Yosuke meant by up close and personal. Yosuke is not amused.
870* AngerBornOfWorry: He's the most upset about Naoto's BatmanGambit, in part because he has feelings for her. Rise teases him about it. In his Social Link, he also gets quite upset when he learns that his mother wasn't at the hospital because she was injured or sick, but because she took a young boy there after he got hit by a bicycle.
871* BadassAdorable: He was already badass before he joined the team; the tallest, but youngest, male of the team took down a ''entire gang of bikers'' who woke his mother up, due to making loud noises. And he has a socially awkward and endearing personality, is genuinely caring and a kindhearted teenager.
872* BadassCape: His ultimate Persona in ''Golden'', Takeji Zaiten, has one, once his Social Link is maxed out even further.
873* {{Ballet}}: In ''Dancing All Night'', whenever he gets paired with Yukiko.
874* BaritoneOfStrength: Thanks to Troy Baker and [[TheOtherDarrin Matthew Mercer]], Kanji's voice is the deepest of the male Investigation Team members to compliment him being a physical-focused fighter and having the strength to fight a whole biker gang.
875* BeautifulAllAlong: The epilogue for the true ending in ''Golden'' shows that he has stopped dyeing his hair, revealing its natural color to be dark brown. He's also had it styled into more of a corporate cut.
876* BerserkButton: Implying that he's gay. Leads to him chasing Yosuke and Chie halfway around the shopping district. He does grow out of it.
877** Any harm towards his mother, no matter how small. This guy will beat up whole biker gangs singlehandedly for keeping her up at night.
878* TheBigGuy: Literally the tallest of the Investigation Team at 6'0 (6'1" in ''Golden'') despite being the ''youngest'', and also has one of the highest Physical stats of the party.
879* BookDumb: It's mentioned that his school performance is abysmal; one of his tests showed off a ''4 out of 100''. Despite this, he was able to correctly discern, without reading it, that the villain of ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' is Victor Frankenstein himself, as his ParentalAbandonment of the Creature for being "ugly" caused the Creature's RoaringRampageOfRevenge in the first place.
880* ButtMonkey: Frequently suffers a great deal of misfortune and is often teased by the others for his hobbies, older looks, sexuality, and lack of intelligence. In game mechanics, he gets slapped with this at the last minute -- the TrueFinalBoss ''absorbs electricity'', meaning he's a bad choice unless you built him solely for physical attacks or took the precaution to keep his Elec Break skill.
881* CannotSpitItOut: To Naoto. He has a huge crush on her even after discovering that Naoto is actually a girl masquerading as a guy, and gets nosebleeds every time they make physical contact, but he doesn't have the guts to confess to her.
882* CharacterCatchphrase: People note how Kanji often yells "Damnit" whenever he is frustrated or excited. Yukiko makes fun of this in ''Q2'' by giving him the codename "Damnit Skull".
883* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: His default weapon is a steel folding chair. As of ''Arena'' it's become his signature weapon.
884* CharacterTics: Whenever he's pumped, Kanji flexes his right elbow while putting his left hand on his right arm.
885* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Even ignoring the Persona aspect, Kanji's physical capabilities are frankly ridiculous. Even before getting his Persona, he, a High School first year, was able to go OneManArmy on an entire biker gang and could chase them down ''on his bicycle''.
886* ChildhoodFriends: Turns out he's one with Yukiko due to their families' businesses working together in the past.
887* CoatCape: Provides the current trope picture. He wears his leather jacket on Sundays properly, though.
888* ConservationOfNinjitsu: He takes on a whole biker gang solo, and ''wins''.
889* CoolBigBro: In ''Q'', Kanji plays the role of an older brother figure to Ken, coming to understand about his problems. Through Kanji, Ken begins to [[spoiler:reconsider his attempt to kill Shinjiro]]. Hilariously, it turns out Ken sees Kanji more of a father than a brother.
890* CutenessProximity: He had one of these moments when he first met Teddie, even asking if he could pet the little guy.
891* DarkAndTroubledPast: His father suddenly died, and he never got to say goodbye. Then, he got bullied and ostracized by both men and women for liking feminine hobbies such as crocheting and making dolls, which drove him to act out what he thought was "manly" to compensate for this, becoming a feared delinquent. It also led to him developing a phobia towards women, since he [[NeverBeHurtAgain fears being bullied again]] if he publicly revealed his hobbies again.
892* DelinquentHair: Bleaches his hair. He stops dyeing it in ''Golden'''s epilogue, but decides to dye it again in ''Anime/Persona4TheGoldenAnimation'' after being made fun of.
893* DisappearedDad: Kanji's father is dead, [[PosthumousCharacter long before the game started]]. According to Kanji's mom, Mr. Tatsumi collapsed and died [[NeverGotToSayGoodbye when Kanji wasn't at home]].
894* DivergentCharacterEvolution: His gameplay is pretty much identical to that of Ryuji Sakamoto from ''VideoGame/Persona5'', both being electric-based {{Mighty Glacier}}s. When the two fight alongside each other in ''VideoGame/PersonaQ2NewCinemaLabyrinth'', the two are differentiated by Kanji focusing on being a defensive tank with some more magic options (getting a unique defend passive and Ziodyne) and Ryuji focusing on being a physically-offensive tank (getting Power Charge, a unique counter passive, and the strongest physical skill in the game).
895* DoesNotLikeWomen: Well, scared and anxious of them. He developed a phobia of women because, although he has plenty of "feminine" hobbies, they all mocked him for [[NoTrueScotsman not behaving like a "real" man]] and rejected him. He found guys much easier to get along with, but at the same time he felt he had to hide those feminine aspects of his from them out of fear of being mocked. In fact, his mother noted how he actually wasn't popular with either gender. It's likely this that led to his belief he may have been gay.
896* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: He admits later on in his route that a great deal of his behavior was out of the belief that his late father didn't think he was strong enough (based on his father telling him to "become strong") along with a misguided belief in what it means to be strong.
897* DumbassHasAPoint: Kanji makes a number of astute observations throughout the game, often to the surprise of his friends. Just goes to show that there are different kinds of "smart" besides books.
898** As mentioned above, despite having not read ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' once, he correctly discerns that the true villain is [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Doctor Frankenstein himself]], who abandoned his "child" out of disgust and fear. [[StunnedSilence Naoto could not respond to his logic]].
899** He also points out that the Investigation Team shouldn't feel too bad about their initial lack of progress, since they saved his and Yukiko's lives. After Mitsuo commits a copycat murder, demoralizing the others, he insists that they continue because the police are incompetent.
900** He is the only one that is savvy enough to recognize that violence is the healthier answer when facing their Shadow. When Shadow Naoto tries to force Naoto's rejection to go berserk and transform, the rest of the Investigation Team panic to try to stop her, but Kanji calmly decides it is better for Naoto's growth to reject it, and have the team defeat the Shadow.
901** When Inaba is covered by the fog, he quickly gets the idea to use his TV World glasses to see through it.
902** There's one moment that's easy to miss, occurring about mid-game during Rise's introduction. When the guys go down to scope out the Tofu shop, Kanji is the only one who questions why Adachi, a plainclothes detective, is out front directing traffic instead of a regular beat cop.
903* DumbMuscle: It's rather self-designated as he is neither very good at nor interested in the more intellectual processes of the investigation. That being said, [[GeniusDitz even he can]] [[HiddenDepths be surprisingly insightful]].
904* DynamicEntry: Kanji's way of saving the protagonist from danger is drop-kicking him out of the way.
905* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Took down an entire biker gang singlehanded sometime before the events of the game, and in the anime punched his own Shadow's lights out.
906* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: The cause of his infamous beatdown of a biker gang? They were making too much noise and bothering his mother. As much as he bickers with her, Kanji clearly adores his mom.
907* EurekaMoment: When fog from the TV World seeps into the real world, he's the first to discover this when hearing Yukiko compare the abnormal fog to the fog there.
908* FaceOfAThug: He has an intimidating face, with a scar above his left eye, bleached-blond hair and a prominent nose and ear piercings. Ironically he's a big softie deep down.
909* FanDisservice:
910** His swimsuit amounts to a tiny speedo, then he ends up losing it and has to cover himself with seaweed. Thankfully, they find it.
911** When it came to the "Miss" Yasogami pageant, "Kanji-chan" (a mockup of Creator/MarilynMonroe) received... less than favorable reactions from the crowd.
912* FriendToAllChildren: Though his thuggish looks scares people, he is actually affectionate towards younger children.
913* GenderNormativeParentPlot: Played with, in that Kanji's mother is entirely supportive of his endeavors - it's his deceased father's advice to be strong as a man (which Kanji later admits that he misinterpreted) and the teasing from his classmates that prompt him to try and hide his talents away.
914* GeniusDitz: Time and time again, Kanji proves himself to be, while not quite ''stupid'', far from the smartest member of the Investigation Team. Despite all this, he's very good at his arts and crafts hobbies.
915* {{Gonk}}: Due to the artstyle of the ''Q'' series, his model is a very-exaggerated TopHeavyGuy.
916* GoodParents: Mrs. Tatsumi is depicted as kind and supportive of Kanji, and sticks up for him when a police officer suspects him of bullying children.
917* GossipEvolution: His brawl against a biker gang just so they could stop keeping his mother up at night sparks up the rumors that he did so for a KlingonPromotion to become their leader.
918* GradualRegeneration: In ''Golden'', he's capable of learning the best health regeneration skills, which help offset [[CastFromHitPoints the cost]] of his Physical attacks.
919* GroinAttack: If the player visits the Junes Food Court shortly after the Culture Festival has finished up, Yukiko will reveal that Chie delivered this to him during the school campout, much to Chie's dismay (who [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain wanted to keep it a secret from everyone]]).
920* HairTriggerTemper: He gets angry easily over real or imagined slights, and one part of his CharacterDevelopment is getting over this.
921* HeCleansUpNicely: Throughout the game, he looks like a stereotypical punk, with a leather jacket and, according to his mother, bleached hair. In the True Ending, however, he's practically unrecognizable, as he wears glasses, has a clean, white shirt, and has his natural black hair combed over.
922* HellBentForLeather: Sometimes he dons a Schott-Perfecto leather jacket with a fur collar.
923* HiddenDepths: His biggest one is his love for crocheting and making dolls. [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer He got tormented for that by people of both genders]]. He's also surprisingly emotionally mature, being able to serve as a support for his friends.
924* HiddenHeartOfGold: While he is naturally short-tempered, he plays up his facade as a {{Delinquent}} to seem "manly." It's justified in that he received a lot of crap from both men and women for liking feminine hobbies like crocheting and making dolls when he was younger, but it's also deconstructed in that how he acts is what he ''thinks'' as manly, which really doesn't do favors for him or everyone around him. His Social Link focuses on learning how to stay true to himself and be proud of his hobbies, no matter what people think of him. Deep down, he is an incredibly kind and soft, albeit sensitive person.
925* HumongousMecha: His Persona takes this form, a gigantic stylized combat robot with a skeleton paint job. The evolutions are even more stylized, keeping the Mecha theme but adding molded muscles and a comically oversized mustache.
926* ImprovisedWeapon: Mainly shields and other large blunt objects. His starting weapon is ''a folding chair''.
927* IResembleThatRemark: He's reluctant to wear the Kingpin Duster because it makes him look violent, and when Yosuke teases him about it, Kanji angrily threatens to fight him, before remembering that the duster was worn by one of the bike gang members he beat up.
928* ItTastesLikeFeet: During the omelette cook off, when he tries Yukiko's omelette, he initially describes the taste as "boneless" ("sterile" in the manga localization). Yukiko angrily points out that that is ''not'' a word you use to describe taste, and demands that he tell her whether it tastes good, at which point Kanji clarifies that it's because the omelet has no taste at all.
929* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Well, the "Jerk" part was mostly a [[HiddenHeartOfGold facade]] put up to mask personal insecurities, but he can be hot-tempered, rash, and dumb as rocks. He's actually a sweet young man who likes making dolls and crocheting.
930* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: A game mechanics. Kanji learns two attacks (''Cruel Attack'' and ''Vile Assault'') that inflict bonus damage to a "Downed" enemy.
931* KnuckleCracking: His idle battle animation has him cracking his knuckles in anticipation.
932* LaserGuidedAmnesia: After deciding to sneak into the girl's tent during the camping trip, he doesn't remember what happened after he went in and somehow woke up back at the boy's tent. Chie and Yukiko actually beat him into unconsciousness.
933* {{Leitmotif}}: The track "Time for True Revelation" from the anime seems to have become Kanji's own theme, as it plays into his CharacterDevelopment into someone who's at ease with himself and people's opinions of his hobbies.
934* LiteralMinded: When told that the Killer is killing people via TV's, his initial thought is that they're physically beating them to death with one. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] due to him not being aware yet that it’s how you enter the Midnight Channel.
935* MaamShock: He's embarrassed about how old he looks when a little boy calls him "Mister" in his Social Link, though he's polite enough that he says it out of earshot.
936* MagicallyIneptFighter: While he does get access to the full range of [[ShockAndAwe Zio]] spells, his Magic stat is very, ''very'' low. In most cases, he's better off dishing out massive Physical beatdowns. This is reflected in his Persona's appearance, looking like a superhero-themed muscleman that channels its attacks through a weapon.
937* MagicKnight: In ''Persona Q''. To differentiate him from [[StoneWall Shinjiro]], Kanji has a bigger mix of physical and elemental attacks, but Shinjiro hits harder.
938* MeaningfulName: Kanji is named after a language system that's rather notorious for being difficult to translate, speak, or write, resulting in grave mistakes. Due to his HiddenHeartOfGold-hiding facade, he's often taken for a delinquent and a bully, but deep down he's a sweet-hearted young man who likes crocheting and making dolls, which got him bullied by both men and women for being "unmanly". More humorously, despite being BookDumb, his messages to the protagonist are always spelled correctly and grammatically correct along with proper punctuation.
939* MightyGlacier: Kanji has higher HP and Endurance than Chie and hits harder than her, but is a bit slower. In ''Q'', he's the slowest party member, but quickly learns a skill that lets him move first and buffs his physical attack for a few turns.
940* MommasBoy: Kanji really loves his mother. He is even willing to take down an entire biker gang by himself just so she can sleep well at night.
941* MusclesAreMeaningful: Has the highest Strength and Endurance stats in the party, and is shown to have ripped abs and well-defined shoulders ([[DependingOnTheArtist though his 3D sprite doesn't fully reflect this]]) compared to the slimmer Yu and Yosuke.
942* NakedPeopleAreFunny: While on the beach, he comes wearing a speedo. In the process of trying to stop Teddie from taking off the girls' bathing suits, he [[SlipperySwimsuit loses his speedo]] in the process and unknowingly walks up naked to Yu and Yosuke. Yosuke promptly freaks out, with Kanji [[DelayedReaction not immediately getting the memo]], before Yosuke tells him to cover himself with some seaweed.
943* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: To his father, who collapsed and died while he wasn't home.
944* NoodleIncident: The incident where he singlehandedly beats down a biker gang, which is briefly shown in the original opening sequence.
945* NonconformistDyedHair: He dyes his hair blonde in order to make himself look manlier and like a JapaneseDelinquent. During the ''Golden'' epilogue, he 's shown with his natural black hair, symbolic of him no longer being insecure of his own looks.
946* {{Nosebleed}}: Kanji has numerous moments of sexual attraction related nosebleeds:
947** Suffers one after seeing Chie and Yukiko in bikinis for the first time.
948** Gets one in the anime during the school's beauty pageant, when he sees Naoto being reluctant to come out on stage also in a bikini.
949** He also gets one after Naoto crashes into him while skiing down a snowy hill; when he finds Naoto on top of him, he responds this way.
950** However, it's hilariously subverted the first time he sees Rise in a bikini due to his [[NotDistractedByTheSexy utter disinterest in her.]]
951* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Oddly enough, Kanji is this towards Rise: despite his crush on Naoto and his acknowledgment of Chie and Yukiko's good looks, he seems almost ''confused'' at the idea that he might find Rise attractive. Rise, for her part, seems almost [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe insulted by this]], as noted when he sees her in a bikini.
952-->'''Rise''': Wait, Kanji. How come you're not getting a nosebleed over me?\
953'''Kanji''': Huh? Why would that happen?\
954'''Rise''': [[BigWhat What?!]]
955* NoTrueScotsman: His identity issues are mostly caused by his love of cute and flamboyant things and delicate artistry. Most people, especially girls, considered this improper behavior for a man.
956-->'''Shadow Kanji:''' ''[mockingly]'' "But you're a guy." "You don't act like a guy." "Why aren't you manly?" ''[angry]'' What does it mean to be "a guy"? What does it mean to be "manly"?
957* NotWhatItLooksLike: Kanji ends up in this situation when someone thought he bullied a young boy into giving him money when actually the boy was buying a doll he made. It gets the police on him, but with the help of his friends, he reveals the truth of the situation.
958* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Prior to his kidnapping, Kanji not only beat up [[OneManArmy an entire motorcycle gang by himself]], he also chased them riding a bicycle.
959* PaperThinDisguise: Although he didn't try to do this himself, the news report he appears on does a very poor job of disguising his identity since only his eyes are blurred out and anyone even remotely familiar with his appearance recognized him on sight. This even extends to his Shadow appearing on the Midnight Channel which despite having a very blurred-out and blanked silhouette, the team still recognized him and correctly predicted that he was the next target.
960* PunchAWall: His reaction to Nanako's death is to punch the wall and [[DeathWail scream in anguish]].
961* QuitYourWhining: He tells the other Investigation Team members to stop beating themselves over Nanako's hospitalization, saying that obsessing over how things should have gone won't do any good.
962* RealMenWearPink: His conflict. He has several girly hobbies but believes real men shouldn't be into them, though in the resolution of the Emperor Social Link is that one's hobbies do not equate to one's sense of self.
963* SecretArt:
964** His unique skill in ''Golden'' is The Man's Way, which can inflict all enemies with Down and Dizzy.
965** His unique skill in ''Persona Q'' is Uprising which increases the damage he deals to enemies with higher health.
966** His unique skill in ''Q2'' is Machismo Wall, which lets him take hits for the whole party and reduces any incoming damage this way. This upgrades to Machismo Barrier, with greater damage reduction.
967* SecretKeeper: In ''Q'', Kanji is one of the few members of the P4 cast that knows about [[spoiler:Ken's mom's death.]] Part of the B-plot of the ''P4'' side is how he's going to handle said secret.
968* SheCleansUpNicely: Male version; he ditches his thug look for a more business casual attire in the ''Golden'' True Ending.
969* ShieldBash: How he attacks when using his shields. And prior to the game's story, he also did this to a biker gang because they were annoying the hell out of his mom by making a huge racket outside Kanji's house late at night. Around the same time, a shield from Daidara's Metalworks was missing...
970* ShutUpHannibal: Delivers one to Adachi, in response to his HannibalLecture.
971-->'''Kanji:''' ''You're'' the only boring one here! If you wanna disappear, go ahead! ''Stop dragging us into it!''
972* SickeninglySweet: Kanji describes the dolls he makes as "So cute they'll give you diabetes".
973* SirSwearsALot: Though nobody on the team is necessarily averse to swearing, Kanji curses the most by a long shot, especially when angry.
974* SweetOnPollyOliver: To Naoto. After her gender is revealed, he still shows signs of attraction and is relieved to discover that she had been a girl the entire time.
975* TakingTheBullet: His skill set in ''Persona Q2'' lets him function as a party tank as his signature skill lets him take hits for the whole party, and his HP and Endurance are high enough for him to take all that punishment. The uniquity wears off towards the late-game as other party members (especially Ryuji, who has a very similar stat spread and elemental specialization) can learn All Guard to fill a similar role.
976* TattooedCrook: {{Downplayed|Trope}}; he's a JapaneseDelinquent with a tattoo of a black skull on his left arm.
977* ThrowingYourShieldAlwaysWorks: As part of his critical hit, he hurls his shield/piece of furniture at a foe.
978* UnmanlySecret: This is his main issue. His mother owns a textile shop, and he likes to make little dolls for people, which directly contrasts from the tough badass persona that he tries to project to people. His entire character arc/Social Link is about learning to overcome his hangup about this and accept himself as a whole.
979* UnusualEuphemism: The word "gay" is never said in-game, which leads to some odd phrasings. Chie finally flat out says it in the English dub of the anime.
980* UsedToBeASweetKid: Kanji was apparently far less angry and focused on appearing "tough" as a child, as his mother and Yukiko (who was acquainted with him when he was younger) point out.
981* WellDoneSonGuy: Downplayed, but he was visibly choked up when repeating how his mom said she and his father were proud of him.
982* WhatTheHellHero: He calls Naoto out on her plan to lure the killer out. Rise teases him about his attraction to Naoto, while Yukiko defends Naoto's strategy, saying that without her they wouldn't have realized that the culprit is still active.
983* YoungerThanTheyLook: At 15, he's actually the youngest of the team, despite appearing to be the oldest. Ends up getting PlayedForLaughs in ''Golden'' when the gang decides to ride motorcycles: Kanji is forced to ride a bicycle since he's the only one not old enough to get his motorcycle license.
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985
986[[folder:Rise Kujikawa]]
987!Rise Kujikawa
988[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rise_kujikawa_p4.png]]
989[[caption-width-right:350:''"Let's go! Himiko!"'']]
990
991-->''"[[IdolSinger It's showtime! Are you ready?]]"''
992
993->'''Arcana:''' The Lovers\
994'''Persona:''' [[Myth/JapaneseMythology Himiko]], [[Myth/ChineseMythology Kanzeon, Kouzeon]] (''Golden'')\
995'''Weapons:''' [[SupportPartyMember N/A]]\
996'''Voice actors:''' Creator/LauraBailey (English), Creator/AshlyBurch (English, ''Dancing All Night''), Creator/RieKugimiya (Japanese)\
997'''Stage actors:''' Yuriya Suzuki (''[=VisuaLive=] Evolution''), Natsuko Aso (''Arena'')\
998
999A teenage IdolSinger nicknamed "Risette" ("Risechi" in the Japanese version), she suddenly retires from her work and moves to Inaba to help her grandmother's tofu shop, enrolling in Yasogami as a freshman. Despite being genuinely cheerful and bubbly, Rise is frustrated at her fans seeing her as [[PainfulPersona Risette rather than her true self]].
1000::
1001Rise serves a MissionControl role for the Team, taking over from Teddie after they both gain their Personas. Himiko allows her to scan the enemy for weaknesses and resistances. As she levels up, her Persona gains new skills that further augment her scanning abilities or allow her to provide passive buffs to the party.
1002::
1003The third rescue subject of the Investigation Team, her Midnight Channel dungeon is the Marukyu Striptease, wherein her Shadow appears as her in a flashy gold bikini and teases a lot about showing off her "stuff". This all stems from Rise's fear that everyone stereotypes her as an airheaded, indecent pop star, while in truth she just wants to be loved for who she is. Shadow Rise possesses analytical skills that allows it to predict the party's every move, eventually making it impossible to beat; it takes an inexplicable surge of power from Teddie to defeat it. Rise comes to terms with her Shadow and it becomes her Persona, but at the same time Teddie's existential doubt comes to a head and ''his'' Shadow emerges. Rise takes Teddie's place as MissionControl and helps the party defeat it, then she joins the Investigation Team.
1004::
1005Rise's Shadow takes on the form of a naked woman dangling from a striptease pole with technicolor flesh and a fractal satellite dish where her face should be. She constantly shouts for the party to look at her, embodying Rise's concern about being exploited.
1006::
1007Her Persona is Himiko of the Lovers Arcana. Himiko was a shaman queen of Yamataikoku, a country with the islands that would eventually become Japan. Strict yet peaceful, Himiko was so beloved by the people of Yamataikoku that the king who became the ruler after her demise was ignored by the country's citizens. Upon completing Rise's Social Link, Himiko evolves into Kanzeon, the Japanese name for the Chinese goddess of mercy and compassion, Guan Yin. In ''Golden'', Kanzeon can eventually evolve into Kouzeon, an alternate translation of Kanzeon. She learns the skill Complete Analysis, which instantly reveals the elemental weaknesses and resistances of all enemies.
1008::
1009In her Social Link, Rise is continuously pestered by her past manager to return to showbiz despite her misgivings. She reveals that as a child she was a shy bully magnet, until her debut as a star, which she thought would help her win some friends; what she saw was people seeing her more as "Risette" than her true self. Eventually, after numerous reminders of her past, Rise realizes "Risette" is still an aspect of herself she shouldn't discard and resolves to return to showbiz come spring, evolving her Persona. She gives the protagonist/Yu a signed photo of herself genuinely smiling, which allows him to fuse Ishtar. Like the other girls, a romantic relationship can be pursued with Rise in the later stages of her Link, but she very clearly has a crush on Yu and will flirt with him numerous times regardless of whether a relationship is actually taken with her.
1010::
1011During the ''Golden'' concert scene, Rise fronts the team as lead singer.
1012----
1013* ActionInitiative: In ''Q'' and ''Q2'' her signature skill as a navigator is Spotlight, which lets a party member move before any other combatant.
1014* ACupAngst: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. Rise, by her own admission from her first character introduction when Yosuke begins asking her about the Midnight Channel rumors, cites that hers' are "not that big" - while not having a particularly large chest, she's by no means small and is definitely much more prideful of her form compared to the other girls. However, [[NormalFishInATinyPond she also doesn't have a lot of obvious competition in her group when it comes to sex appeal]], so when she gets outshone by somebody with a bigger form than her she gets ''very'' envious.
1015** She notes that her shadow appears to have a bigger chest than her when Yosuke, Yu and Kanji question her about said Shadow's first appearance on the midnight channel, and is a little embarrassed about it.
1016** During the check-up at the hospital, when Teddie and Yosuke threaten to reveal everyone's measurements, Rise does not mind, proudly claiming her bust is 2 cm smaller than what her agency prints.. However, when she sees Naoto's measurements, she is shocked and tries to question if it is measured wrong, seemingly out of jealousy that ''someone'' has bigger breasts than her.
1017** Also in ''Dancing All Night'', when Rise sees how extremely well-endowed Kanami is. She lashes out in jealousy and accuses Kanami of getting breast implants (note: in the Japanese version, she is simply shocked that Kanami's breasts have grown even bigger than in the last time she saw her). In this case, Rise's breasts have grown larger since the events of ''Persona 4'', and she is seemingly proud of having naturally large breasts, causing her to become jealous that Kanami managed to surpass her in that regard.
1018* AllWomenAreLustful: Rise is very ''forward'' in her attraction with Yu. When he maxes out her Social Link, she'll ask him if he has a stash of porn in his room. If he says no, she'll offer him pictures of her in swimsuits.
1019* AngerBornOfWorry: When Teddie returns to the group after a long absence shortly after the group discovers that Adachi is the killer, Rise pulls this off, hugging him and crying while chewing him out for disappearing:
1020-->'''Rise:''' You idiot! Bad bear! Bad! You're so late! Who do you think you are?!
1021* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: PlayedForLaughs. Due to her being a ProudBeauty, she gets peeved when Kanji is NotDistractedByTheSexy or won't react when she's being TheTease.
1022* AssKicksYou: In episode 15 of the anime, she knocks Yukiko off of Yu's lap this way.
1023* BadassAdorable: Right after accepting her Shadow and gaining her Persona, she helps the team defeat Shadow Teddie ''while still being injured'' and still looks undeniably cute doing it.
1024* BeehiveBarrier: Once her Social Link is high enough, she and her Persona can form these around the Team on occasion to protect them from enemy attacks.
1025* BigBreastPride: PlayedWith. She is a believer in the BuxomBeautyStandard and is proud of her figure and likes to tease girls that have smaller chests, but she's only above average and it's a RunningGag that she gets jealous of girls who are bustier than her such as Naoto, Kanami and [[SexierAlterEgo her own shadow.]]
1026* BigDamnHug: Yu can get a RelationshipUpgrade with Rise by hugging her during her Rank 8 Social Link event in order to comfort her after her manager reveals that Rise's been set aside in favor of a rival idol.
1027* TheCameo: She appears in ''VideoGame/Persona5'' on [[http://i.imgur.com/OFI2mqc.jpg posters for one of her works titled "Sapphire"]], which can be seen by Joker around subway stations. She's even mentioned on a specific show on the TV at [=LeBlanc=].
1028* CantHoldHerLiquor: When Rise seemingly accidentally orders alcohol for everyone when she meant to get soft drinks, she and Yukiko become completely buzzed. Of the two, Rise ends up being the one who's more off her rocker.
1029* CerebusRetcon: Her Social Link in vanilla ''Persona 4'' ends with her receiving a fan letter from a girl, whom she's giving advice to be braver and less shy, thanking her and telling stories that she made some friends. Rise then resolves she's needed as Risette not only as an entertainment figure but also as moral support and role model. In ''Golden'', said girl sends her another letter that [[invoked]][[FanHater her friends hate Risette, and if she doesn't stop liking Risette, then they will stop being her friends]]. Rise accordingly feels dejected, [[PluckyGirl but she presses on with her career anyway]].
1030* ChekhovsGunman:
1031** Appears at the beginning of the game in a commercial - other than Igor and Margaret in the opening cutscene, she's the very first character ever seen.
1032** Her grandmother's tofu shop is also seen at the shopping district.
1033* ClarkKenting: All it takes for people to mistake her for her grandmother is to wear a kerchief and not show her face.
1034* ClingyJealousGirl: She isn't fond of Yu's relationship with Marie and gets jealous whenever the two are close. In ''Q'', Rise is the most vocal whenever Yu is paired up with anyone who isn't her.
1035* CordonBleughChef: Unlike Yukiko and Chie, who are outright {{Lethal Chef}}s, Rise isn't that bad of a cook; she just makes everything ''very'' spicy.
1036* ContrivedCoincidence: In ''Golden'', the fact that she's a famous idol is really convenient when Yosuke needs the team to replace a concert event at Junes, otherwise, his father gets fired.
1037* CovertPervert: During her New Year's Day date with the protagonist in ''Golden'', Rise will mention that the two of them will be alone if they go back to her place and trails off. She then says "raise your hand if you're thinking of something dirty" and immediately raises her own hand.
1038* CrocodileTears: Chie lampshades her attempts at this, noting how she immediately stops when Nanako praises her omelette. Played with in ''Dancing All Night'''s optional prologue, when Rise seemingly starts crying over how difficult it has been to make a comeback. While the other Investigation Team members suggest that she's faking it, Inoue points out that her eyes were red when she asked for him to let her friends participate. Subverted when Teddie returns to the group shortly after the discovery that Adachi is the killer, where she hugs Teddie and starts bawling; when Teddie asks if she's faking it, [[SincerityMode Rise makes it clear she's not]].
1039* CryIntoChest: When she realizes that her jealousy over a new idol is because Risette ''is'' a part of her, she breaks down crying. The protagonist/Yu can do this optionally in response, [[RelationshipUpgrade which makes the Social Link romantic]].
1040* TheCutie: Despite her beautiful looks and bubbly personality, she seems to intentionally play this up to keep the rest of the team in high spirits.
1041* DamselInDistress:
1042** She gets kidnapped and locked away by General Teddie in the first ''Arena'' game because her Persona's scanning abilities would immediately have revealed him as a fake.
1043** In ''Q2'' she has been poisoned by a strange plant when meeting up with the ''P4'' team, hampering her ability to navigate them towards an exit. She gets better after everyone returns to the movie theater and Margaret can prepare some proper medicine.
1044* DeadHatShot: In the anime, the same night Yu sees Shadow Rise present her show on the Midnight Channel, Rise's phone with the ganmodaki toy strap is seen on the floor in the rain outside her shop, indicating that she has already been kidnapped.
1045* {{Deuteragonist}}: Fitting for the idol singer in the spin-off about dancing, she becomes this in ''Dancing All Night'', being the one who taught the Investigation Team their moves, being the designated leader of the story mode's B-Team- the younger members and Teddie- and the Coup de Grace at the end of the FinalBoss is following a three-way performance between Yu, Kanami, and her.
1046* DistractedByTheSexy: In ''Golden'', if the protagonist/Yu puts on the [[ModestyTowel Bath Towel costume]] and then talks to Rise, she will [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn ask you to put some clothes on because she can't concentrate]].
1047* TheDitz: Subverted: she acts "bubbly" to keep people's spirits up, and to have fun. She is quite emotionally intelligent (insights into human nature, good at reading groups and people) and more down-to-earth than one might expect.
1048* DoggedNiceGirl: Rise is going to flirt with Yu. A lot. Far, ''far'' above and beyond every other girl. Even if he turns down her romance.[[note]]Which, unlike the girls, doesn't require outright rejection or friendzoning her, but simply not hugging her at Rank 8.[[/note]] Even in the ''Golden'' epilogue, ''months'' after the conclusion of the game.
1049* DontCallMeSir: In ''Persona Q'', she tells Fuuka that she doesn't need to be so formal around her since Rise's actually a year younger than Fuuka (actually three years, given the time gap). Amusingly, in the localization of the manga, Fuuka almost stammers out a "Yes, ma'am" before saying "Okay."
1050* DudeMagnet: Due to being an idol she has a countless number of male fans and admirers. She‘s even noted to be in the running for most popular girl at school against Yukiko, who before Rise’s arrival was well noted to be this, to the point it’s often discussed among students of the school. It probably helps that due to being the resident MsFanservice, her good looks are brought up often. Kanji is probably one of the few guys who are not attracted to her in any way.
1051* EarnYourHappyEnding: Despite accidentally convincing her manager to work with Kanami and nearly destroying her own career, she's managed to bring her career back successfully by the time of ''Dancing All Night'', and is still working several years later, as posters of her can be seen prominently displayed in Tokyo in ''VideoGame/Persona5''.
1052* FanGirl: Of the protagonist/Yu.
1053* FanservicePack: Her chest grows quite a bit in the epilogue, if the character portrait is anything to go by.
1054* TheGadfly: She has a mischievous sense of humor and enjoys sassing or teasing her friends.
1055* GenkiGirl: When she's first introduced, Rise is dispirited and acts rather dull, but after being rescued, she blossoms into this, becoming one of the most cheerful and energetic of the group.
1056* GirlishPigtails: She almost always has her hair tied into two pigtails, fitting with her being a youthful and cheery GirlyGirl. During the ''Golden'' epilogue she seems to have ditched that hairstyle and [[LettingHerHairDown wears her hair down]], symbollic of her being older and more mature.
1057* GirlyGirl: Far and away the most estrogen-fueled member of the main cast, complete with a tendency to cry a lot. Even Yukiko, a feminine YamatoNadeshiko, has an air of restraint about her feminine wills.
1058* GracefulLoser:
1059** Downplayed -- She'll cheerfully hand Yu some friendship chocolate if she isn't romanced by Valentine's Day, but her AnguishedDeclarationOfLove during the True Ending and flirting during the ''Golden'' epilogue indicate that she hasn't given up.
1060** The player has options many times over during her Social Link to turn away her advances - surprisingly, she almost always takes rejection extremely well, and the player needs not to fear offending or saddening her by refusing her most of the time. At Rank 8, if you choose ''not'' to hug her (the decision necessary to turn the social link romantic), she won't even consider it a rejection and will reach [[YouAreNotAlone the same realization]] that she does if you hug her.
1061* HatesTheJobLovesTheLimelight: She's tired of playing Risette, but she cares a lot about her fans, and will occasionally humor them.
1062* HiddenInPlainSight: Manages to dupe an entire swarm of her fans into thinking that she's an old lady by simply donning work clothes and keeping her head down.
1063* IAmNotSpock: Invoked. When most people look at her they only see Risette, much to her frustration.
1064* ICantSenseTheirPresence: A variation at the end of the game. While she ''is'' able to sense that Adachi is in the TV World, she can't pinpoint his exact location.
1065* IdolSinger: She's one before the events of the game, but gives it up to work in her family's tofu shop. Her social link has her coming to terms with the fact that she enjoyed being an idol, even if she was burned out. ''Dancing All Night'' focuses on this aspect.
1066* IJustWantToBeNormal: Subverted if you complete her Social Link -- she eventually realizes Risette is still a part of her and decides to come back to showbiz in the spring.
1067* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Her biggest desire (as revealed through her social link), and her ultimate motivation for becoming an idol singer.
1068* ImageSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tGLzVC_zPA "True Story"]] from ''Anime/Persona4TheAnimation'', which carried over into ''Golden''. It even received a localized version performed by Creator/LauraBailey.
1069* InVinoVeritas: In fake liquor, no less; Yukiko and, with some prodding, Rise spill the beans about the secrets of the team to then-not-a-member Naoto. Naoto doesn't believe them.
1070* InelegantBlubbering: In the game's ending, she starts sobbing and completely loses her composure when saying goodbye to Yu.
1071* InsultOfEndearment: She frequently calls Kanji "Moronji", both when annoyed with his stupidity and when she's simply teasing him.
1072* {{Irony}}: Downplayed. Her Shadow notes that Rise doesn't really like handsome-looking guys, but she ends up falling for Yu, a ChickMagnet whose good looks are repeatedly brought up in-universe. However, her Shadow also points out that Rise's ideal guy is someone who's "kind and clean", with these traits also applying to Yu as well.
1073* ItsAllMyFault: She blames herself for Naoto trying to lure out the kidnapper, saying that her accusing Naoto of thinking of the investigation as a game drove her to it (since Naoto remarks that "[[MeaningfulEcho this is not a game for me, either]]" the last time the Investigation Team saw her).
1074* {{Kawaiiko}}: Fits both the "need for social acceptance" and "calculated step to stardom" criteria, but in a well-meaning way. She created her "Risette" persona hoping to find genuine friends, having been a bully magnet as a child, only to [[DeconstructedTrope realize that people gravitate more to "Risette" than her real self]], prompting her early retirement. While she initially passed off as a bit surly when the party first met her in person, once she opened up to them (and joins their TrueCompanions) she turns out to be a genuinely bubbly NiceGirl.
1075* LampshadeHanging: When you pick the most agreeable dialogue choice during one of her Social Link events, she laughs and tells you it's bad to tell people only what they want to hear (which can often be a profitable strategy for completing Social Links).
1076* LegFocus: Both Kanji and Yosuke think she has "beautiful, slim legs."
1077* LethalChef: Not as awful as the others, her food is [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce just REALLY spicy]]. She will give the player chocolate with habanero and durian on Valentine's Day in an effort to do something different. On the other hand, during the Omelette Cook-Off, one bite of Rise's omelette made Yukiko choke and pass out on the spot.
1078* LettingHerHairDown: In the ''Golden'' epilogue, her pigtails are untied, and her hair becomes extremely long and flowing.
1079* LovingAShadow: Rise has come to realize that many people like Risette, her persona as an idol, rather than the real Rise, such as all the people who started talking to hereafter her debut. In the end, though, she comes to realize that even Risette is part of her.
1080* MadeOfIron: When everyone else got their Personas, they were exhausted for days afterward before they could use them. When she got hers, not only could she immediately use it and save everyone from Shadow Teddie, but she did it ''without'' the Teddie glasses. ''Golden'' takes it one step further, where she can protect the entire party from attacks, even [[OneHitKO instant kills.]]
1081%%* MindOverMatter: How she breaks her Persona card.
1082* MissionControl: Takes over the role of navigator once she joins the party, with Teddie joining the active party.
1083* MsFanservice: Played straight and [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed for her shadow]]. While she's more confident in her body than the other girls and has no problem entering the school's beauty pageant, she also fears that those around her only like her for her "Risette" persona.
1084* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
1085** When Rise tells her manager she's done with show business once and for all, the manager expresses that he'll probably never find anyone as naturally talented and gifted as her. When Rise realizes that her talent and success was all her doing, and not ''Risette'', she realizes she threw her career away and is devastated.
1086** She also regrets accusing Naoto of treating the case like a game. Since Naoto insisted that it wasn't the case the last time they saw her before Naoto's kidnapping, Rise briefly assumes that she drove Naoto into trying such a reckless plan.
1087* NormalFishInATinyPond: PlayedForLaughs. She's the Investigation Team's most sex-appeal intensive character and the one where she's most up front about her own sexuality, [[BigBreastPride namely her own assets]]. However, it's pretty painfully clear that it's only because her competition is two girls with massive insecurity in their own genders, and one who ''is'' implied to be quite stacked but [[CovertPervert good luck getting her to admit it in public]]. When she gets outshone by somebody who clearly does have a bigger size management on the wholesale (like in Naoto's check-up exam and Kanami), she gets ''very'' defensive.
1088* NoSell: For [[ItOnlyWorksOnce one-time only in every single battle]], she's capable of taking ''any'' multi-target attack that would kill at least one party member. This includes [[OneHitKO instant kills (like Mahama and Mamudo)]] and ''a 9999 Megidolaon from [[{{Superboss}} Margaret]]!'' And she keeps buffing you up like nothing's happened!
1089* NoYou: A relatively serious example happens when Naoto concludes that the Investigation Team's "game" will be over, prompting Rise to say that Naoto's the one thinking of it as a game.
1090* ObliviousToHerOwnDescription: Initially this if you take her to the Summer Festival. She wins a phone strap with a character attached to it, which she calls ugly, ...only to recognize it's modelled after ''herself''.
1091* OlderThanTheyLook: On a [[http://i.imgur.com/rJ2s10o.jpg poster]] for her new single named "Sapphire" in ''VideoGame/Persona5'', she doesn't look much different at 20-21 then she did at the end of ''Persona 4'' at 16. However, an EasterEgg in an InUniverse TV show aired on 7/1 remarks that "she's really gained a lot of sex appeal since she hit 20", meaning that the poster's design may have been an {{Invoked|Trope}} example.
1092* OneTrueLove: While Rise is a bit of a [[TheTease tease]], pursuing a relationship with her will show that she is legitimately a romantic.
1093* PainfulPersona: No, summoning her persona does not hurt her in any way. All jokes aside, the reason she even came to Inaba was because her idol life as Risette was wearing on her, especially since it felt like no one really liked "Rise". Luckily, after spending some time with the Investigation Team, she eventually comes to value ''both'' versions of herself.
1094* PluckyGirl: Despite the grim nature of the case, Rise is constantly remaining positive and attempts to boost the morale of the team. This aspect of her character gets tested during her Social Link where it's shown that she's also a bit of a StepfordSmiler.
1095* ProudBeauty: While Rise doesn't tend to brag about her looks, she's ''easily'' the most sexually-confident out of the female members of the Investigation team: she has no problem wearing a swimsuit for the pageant while Chie and Yukiko are extremely embarrassed and Naoto outright [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere runs away]], and shrugs when Teddie offers to reveal the girls' measurements, noting hers have been public knowledge for a while. She's also shocked and slightly affronted to learn that Naoto [[HiddenBuxom has a bigger bust than her]], and is outright [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe offended]] when she realizes that Kanji [[NotDistractedByTheSexy has absolutely no interest in her.]]
1096* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to Naoto in response to Naoto condescendingly saying that the Investigation Team's game will be over, a speech Rise eventually comes to regret.
1097-->'''Rise:''' A game? [[NoYou Aren't you the one who thinks of this as a game]]? ''[Naoto gasps]'' I don't care if you're a special investigator or an amateur sleuth... All you're doing is solving mysteries. What could you possibly know about us? You're the one who's playing a game here.
1098* RedIsHeroic: She has red hair, and is one of the game's protagonists.
1099* RescueRomance: She begins to hero-worship the protagonist after the team rescues her from her dungeon, and is the only girl who will flirt with him regardless of how far you've progressed in her Social Link (which extends to the Summer Festival in ''Golden'' as well, where she is the only girl who will always be available as a potential option to go with).
1100* SelfDuplication: Can form duplicates of herself to shield her teammates in battle.
1101** Her Shadow does this in the anime to deliver some rather brutal verbal bullying on the original.
1102* SensorCharacter: Her persona has sensor skills that are much more potent than Teddy's nose when it comes to navigating and exploring the TV world, which is why she takes over as MissionControl once she joins. Leveling up also grants Rise the ability to improve the minimap's radar, showing the positions of Shadows from farther away. Her persona's even have radar motifs.
1103* ShamelessFanserviceGirl:
1104** Her Shadow is ''way'' too eager to expose herself to the world. While still in normal form, it's just Rise in a two-piece swimsuit. During the boss battle, however, the moans and gestures get a bit disturbing. Even [[ChivalrousPervert Yosuke]] wonders if he should be excited or worried.
1105** Extends to Rise herself. She reacts indifferently when Teddie reveals her measurements, saying it's been public knowledge for a while now.
1106* ShipperOnDeck: She often teases Kanji on his feelings for Naoto and finds many ways to get the two together such as pairing them together during the ski trip. She also endorses Yosuke and Chie getting together and suggests that they date in Golden, while also pairing them together during the ski trip. In ''Q'', she tasks the P3 protagonist to look after Yukari after she has a heart-to-heart talk with the latter.
1107* ShrinkingViolet: She was revealed to be this before she became an idol. She had a FriendlessBackground by her own admission, and ultimately constructed "Risette" as a means to get people to like her more. While she ultimately got just that, it still felt hollow to her that the person people love isn't Rise, but the fabrication she had made for herself. This is present to a lesser extent even after her rescue from the TV World; she may seem exuberantly bubbly when around friends, but can actually be rather quiet and pensive when around people she isn't clearly familiar with, and clearly would rather just want some alone time whenever she feels down or stressed than to actively seek validation from other people.
1108* SincerityMode: When Teddie shows up near the end of the game and she's so angry and relieved that she starts crying.
1109-->'''Teddie:''' Um, Rise-chan? Are you faking?\
1110'''Rise:''' No, stupid!
1111* SingleTargetSexuality: Whether Yu romances her or not, she makes it abundantly clear her flirtations aren't just a game to her and she's never expressed even a passing interest in any other character.
1112* SorryToInterrupt: When sitting on the girls' side of the table during the group-date café, Rise walks in to say hi to Yu, only to immediately [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere walk back out]] when she sees what he's doing.
1113* StepfordSmiler: Progressing through her Social Link reveals that "Risette" was constructed as an attempt to make friends due to her past as a bully magnet. Although she says that she feels hollow, she does indeed have a personality but simply doesn't realize that her different "constructed" demeanors are actually all authentic facets of it.
1114* SupportPartyMember: Her powers aren't suited to direct combat, but she is more than capable of providing buffs and regeneration, spotting weak points, and performing non-combat tasks like searching out the next murder victim. In ''Golden'', if you get lucky, she'll simultaneously charge and focus the whole party, even members who can't do so on their own.
1115* TheTease: Though not overtly as most examples, Rise is ''very'' direct with her flirtations with Yu.
1116** To quote Chie after Rise uses her charms to divert the conversation away from more depressing matters:
1117--->'''Chie:''' Damn, this girl's dangerous....!
1118* TheThreeFacesOfEve: The Seductress to Chie's Child and Yukiko's Wife.
1119* TookALevelInBadass: In ''Golden'', her support abilities allow her to inflict extra damage on enemies during special All-Out Attacks and, in ''Arena Ultimax'', Elizabeth helps awaken her Persona's direct combat abilities, finally allowing her to become a front-line fighter.
1120* UnaffectedBySpice: She appears to have a proclivity for spicy foods, as [[LethalChef her cooking]] tends to be exceedingly spicy (much to Nanako's dismay) and she'll sometimes give the player some Blue Pepper Chips, which are described as being "super spicy", if you hang out with her at night. Rather amusing, considering her family runs the local tofu shop.
1121* WasTooHardOnHim: She regrets giving Naoto a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on July 11, and during the fireworks festival a month and a half later, expresses a desire to apologize so they don't part on bad terms now that the case is apparently over. In the manga, she apologizes to Naoto during the fight with Naoto's Shadow.
1122* WolverinePublicity: ''VideoGame/Persona4DancingAllNight'' features her on the limited edition box cover with Yu, most posters have her share prominence with Yu over other members of the team, and she was the first character to show up in the first teaser trailer. She was also the only character to be given a Dollfie Dream ball-jointed-doll. Given that she's an idol in a dancing spin-off game, a lot of the marketing and storylines naturally went to her.
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1124
1125[[folder:Teddie]]
1126!Teddie (Kuma)
1127[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/teddie_p4.png]]
1128[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see his human form]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/teddieboy.png[[/labelnote]]]]
1129[[caption-width-right:350:''"Go, Kintoki-Douji!"'']]
1130
1131-->''"[[PungeonMaster Bear-sona!]]"''
1132
1133->'''Arcana:''' The Star\
1134'''Persona:''' [[Myth/JapaneseMythology Kintoki-Douji, Kamui, Kamui-Moshiro]] (''Golden'')\
1135'''Weapons:''' [[NaturalWeapon Claws]]\
1136'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaveWittenberg (English, original game), Creator/SamRiegel (English, all installments thereafter and replaces Wittenberg in ''Golden''), Creator/KappeiYamaguchi (Japanese)\
1137
1138
1139Teddie is a denizen of the Midnight Channel, taking the form of a talking bear mascot that actually has nothing inside. In the early stages of the game, he helps the party navigate the TV World and exposits about the nature of the fog and Shadows. During summer break, he leaves the TV and is revealed to have grown a human body - from then, he freely explores Inaba with the rest of the group and takes up residence with Yosuke. While friendly and cheerful, Teddie is also rather selfish and whiny, constantly annoying the party with his antics. He seems to have some sort of amnesia and doesn't really know what he is or what to do with his life.
1140::
1141He initially acts as MissionControl before both he and Rise gain their Personas. He then joins in combat, equipped with [[PowerFist claws, knuckles and other hand implements]]. He serves another [[TheRedMage Red Mage]] role, like Yukiko, but is focused on Ice damage rather than Fire. He's slightly inferior to Yukiko in both damage and healing, so he focuses more on status buffs, debuffs, and curing detrimental effects.
1142::
1143After saving the party from Rise's Shadow almost at the cost of his life, his fears of having a superficial existence manifests into his Shadow. Shadow Teddie taunts Teddie about his hollowness and meaningless existence before mocking the rest of the Team, claiming their search for the truth is fruitless. After being saved, Teddie gains a Persona, allowing him to participate in fights more actively.
1144::
1145Teddie's Shadow is a much larger version of him, with a crack in its face showing something squirming under the surface, a visualization of Teddie's fears about his origin. It is implied that Teddie's Shadow was somehow hijacked by the endgame boss, the supporting evidence being his Shadow's baleful eye floating in the emptiness inside him being identical to the eyes possessed by said boss's avatar. Outright confirmed in the anime - when fighting Shadow Teddie, Rise scans the eye and detects a presence hiding inside it. Using her visor, we can see an image of the boss's avatar itself, which appears in Episode 25.
1146::
1147His persona is Kintoki-Douji, a hero from Japanese folklore who wielded a tomahawk (referenced by the Tomahawk missile), grew up on a mountain, defeated a powerful {{Oni}} known as Shuten-douji, and became a retainer to the legendary warrior [[UsefulNotes/{{Fujiwara}} Minamoto no Yorimitsu]]. After completing Teddie's social link, Kintoki-Douji evolves into Kamui, derived from "kamuy," the Ainu word for "bear." In Ainu mythology, bears are incarnations of powerful spirits, and the Arrow missile references the practice of Iomante, where a bear is returned to the spirit world by ritual sacrifice with arrows. In ''Golden'', Kamui can evolve further into Kamui-Moshiri, derived from "Kamuy-Mosir," the home of the Ainu gods and spirits.
1148
1149While completing Teddie's Social Link does not end with him giving an item to the protagonist, it does allow the latter to fuse Helel.
1150::
1151During the ''Golden'' concert scene, Teddie plays the tambourine.
1152----
1153* AdventureRebuff: Initially kicks Yosuke, Chie and the protagonist out of the TV World because of how dangerous it is for them there. Later, he argues that the fact that they insist on coming back means they are the culprits behind the murders and refuses to trust them and only changes his mind when they swear to capture the real culprit. Later deconstructed with the realization that Teddie never actually wanted them to leave--secretly, he was lonely and wanted human company, but was too filled with compassion and self-loathing (assuming that he is a Shadow) to accept them.
1154* AlmostKiss: An optional scene in ''Golden'' has this happen between him and Yu. They're interrupted by a returning Dojima.
1155* AntiNihilist: Teddie represents "Emptiness" just as Adachi does, but from the opposite perspective. While Adachi sees Emptiness [[StrawNihilist as an excuse to say life has no point]], Teddie (through the party) comes to understand that being empty [[DarkIsNotEvil is not a bad thing.]] Because it means you can fill your life with something good and create your ''own'' meaning.
1156* AscendedDemon: Teddie was once a Shadow just like most of the enemies of the game, but gains a Persona and eventually a human body.
1157* AttractiveBentGender: The only guy from the Team who can actually look convincingly female as shown in the "Miss" Yasogami pageant. One of the judges openly even says "I'd hit that". This possibly includes Yu in ''Golden'', evidenced by their potential AlmostKiss.
1158* BadassAdorable: Played straight in bear form, and ditto for his human form.
1159* BadassCape: On all three of his Personas, and his human form in ''Dancing All Night'' wears a golden cape.
1160* BearyFriendly: He's the nicest guy you'll ever meet.
1161* BearyFunny: He's a bear who's constantly played for comic relief throughout the game, making terrible bear puns and generally being a nuisance to the team.
1162* BigEater: He ate 11 bowls of ramen in one sitting and it's implied he spends all of his Junes wages on Topsicles.
1163* BigNo: In the game, after Yu pushes him, he yells this while struggling to get up.
1164* BrutalHonesty: In the Omelette Cook-Off after tasting Chie's omelette, he says, "Wow, this tastes awful!", said in one of the cheeriest tones imaginable.
1165* CartoonBomb: As part of the "Junes Bomber" attack he can perform with Yosuke, he drops one themed after him.
1166* CasanovaWannabe:
1167** Subverted. Initially, he just comes off as overestimating his charm to the ladies… [[TheCharmer until he gets his]] [[{{Bishonen}} human form]]. He can even [[StupidSexyFlanders charm guys]], if he [[AttractiveBentGender needs too]]. [[LaserGuidedKarma This comes back to bite him in the ass, however,]] [[VideoGame/PersonaQShadowOfTheLabyrinth when he tries hitting on]] [[VideoGame/Persona3 Mitsuru.]]
1168--->'''Mitsuru:''' All right, time for your execution. Now which would you rather be: a welcome mat or an ice sculpture?
1169** Also worth pointing out: despite his repeated references to "scoring" with the girls, it's clear he's just parroting what he's heard other people say or what he thinks is "appropriate" for the given situation. In reality, he has no idea what he's talking about.
1170** It's hinted that his supposed casanova attitude stems from his desire to not be alone again. His wedding scene in PQ has him outright stating this, saying that he plans to marry everyone, starting with Yu, so that he'll never be alone.
1171* TheCharmer: Well, he tries to be. And in human form, he manages it to people who don't know him.
1172* ChivalrousPervert: He's quite perverted, yes, but in the way a child whose only knowledge of sex came from his school friends would be, without meaning any real harm. He's still a NiceGuy who's loyal to his friends.
1173* ClosetSublet: It's revealed in ''Persona Q'' that he sleeps in Yosuke's closet.
1174* CurbStompBattle: In the manga, Kintoki-Douji loses badly against a mind-controlled Izanagi during the fight with Kunino-Sagiri. While Izanagi is an AdaptationalBadass, this makes sense, since Teddie's weak against electricity, which happens to be Izanagi's primary element.
1175* DangerousForbiddenTechnique:
1176** PlayedForLaughs. His Superultramegahyperuber Teddie Nose can pick up even the slightest scent. But after three minutes, he gets an ungodly amount of snot.
1177--->'''Rise:''' Eww! ''[pushes Teddie]''
1178** Played straight with... ''whatever'' that was he uses to defeat Shadow Rise.
1179* DarkIsNotEvil: He's actually a Shadow, but is still a heroic character and member of the Investigation Team.
1180* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: During the quiz show, he refers to the finale as the "Last Ultimate Finale". Yosuke points out that they all mean the same thing.
1181* DidNotThinkThisThrough: PlayedForLaughs on both accounts:
1182** During the Junes week, he spends his jobs in the food court kitchens wearing his bear costume, which happens ''during a heatwave''. This comes to a head when he ends up still like this [[FromBadToWorse when cooking with the meat griddle]]. Yosuke's impressed that he's still conscious from the extreme heat.
1183** After he snuck onto the school trip to [[VideoGame/Persona3 Tatsumi Port Island]] via saving up money from Junes to buy a train ticket, he realises at the end of the trip that he ''forgot'' to save up for a return ticket.
1184* ADogNamedDog: "Kuma" Is Japanese for "bear", so in the Japanese version he's a Bear Named "Bear". His English name Teddie is more in the spirit of ALizardNamedLiz.
1185* EatTheDog: PlayedForLaughs during the ski trip. During a topic regarding meat, the group looks at Teddie, who can only freak out, believing they want to eat him.
1186* {{Expy}}: Was designed as a DeconReconSwitch of the classic Japanese children's character Manga/{{Doraemon}}.
1187* ExtremeOmnisexual: After getting a human body, Teddie tries to "score" with anyone he sees, be they male or female. He flirts mostly with the girls, but he also displays an attraction to Yu and even puts the moves on ''[[EveryonesBabySister Nanako]]'' at one point (though he chooses to [[TheJailbaitWait wait until she's older]]).
1188* FetchQuest: Starting with Kanji, he asks for more information on the missing person due to not getting a good scent. Averted in the anime, where he's simply presented with something that belonged to the victim.
1189* FlippingHelpless:
1190** When Yosuke knocks him over during their first meeting, Teddie is rendered completely helpless and struggles to get back up under his power.
1191** In battle, he falls over and struggles to get up if nailed with an electric attack or critical hit.
1192* TheFriendNobodyLikes: The girls are annoyed by his constant flirting, the guys are exasperated by his complete lack of shame, and everyone hates his badly-timed jokes or complaints, often insulting him or outright ignoring him. But when push comes to shove, he is part of the team, and the gang really love him despite his insanity.
1193* FriendToAllChildren: When he becomes the unofficial mascot of Junes, he's seen giving out balloons to children. He's also the third-closest to Nanako besides Ryotaro and the protagonist, who's the main reason why he continues to live in the real world by making a promise to her, and he takes her death extremely hard. He's also popular with the general children populace as evidenced in ''Golden'', as Nanako reveals that everyone at her school made Teddiemen.
1194* FunnyXRay: An X-Ray reveals that he has no skeleton, dumbfounding many doctors.
1195* GeniusDitz: He's often clueless about the human world and is often seen as annoying to his friends, but when it comes to locating people and the Midnight Channel, he's able to outclass Rise at least once and comes up with a very plausible explanation about how the Midnight Channel works on the real world's side after watching it with Yosuke. He's also very skilled at making fog-clearing glasses on the fly.
1196* GoodCounterpart: To Adachi. (See AntiNihilist above.) Rise herself even says it.
1197-->'''Rise:''' "Teddie's a Shadow who blended in with us. Adachi on the other hand, is a human who likes watching people suffer."
1198* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: His human form had light blond hair, and he is very sweet and innocent in the ways of the world.
1199* HandsomeLech: The "handsome" part only applying to his human form.
1200* HeroicBSOD: He suffers one upon Nanako's apparent death, to the extent that he leaves the team. He returns upon discovering that Nanako survived.
1201* HeroicResolve: When he returns to the hospital room where Nanako is resting, he realizes that despite [[TomatoInTheMirror his nature]], there must still be something he can do. Then his Persona evolves and he runs to meet with the team again.
1202* HeroWorshipper: A mild case of it once the protagonist earns his Persona. It's implied that by the end of the game it's been developing into full emotional attachment.
1203* HumanoidAbomination: He is [[TheHeartless a Shadow]] that turned himself into a cute bear mascot and eventually ''grew himself a human body inside his empty bear suit'' so people would like him. When Naoto takes him to be examined in a hospital, his human body seems indistinguishable from a regular human... except all the X-rays come out too blurry to read.
1204* IChooseToStay: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zagged]]. At first, it seems to be his wish to stay in the real world to avoid the loneliness of his world. In the Bad Endings, he goes back to the TV World after the death of Nanako, because he's unable to cope with failing her. In the Good Ending, he gets his wish to stay in Inaba. In the True Ending, he declares his resolves to stay behind in the beautiful new TV World and act as its lone protector. However, this declaration is ignored by the rest of the cast to his dismay. When he protests their indifference, Yosuke calls him out on trying to sound cool for virtually no reason, because it's not like he can't come and go as he pleases anyway. ''Arena'' and later material confirms that he spends about equal amounts of time on either side of the TV.
1205* IJustWantToHaveFriends: He's a Shadow born from this trope. It's the reason he appears as a cuddly bear, and the reason he comes to hate the TV World after a while.
1206* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: His Kamui and Kamui-Moshiri Personas are impaled with a large missile as an allusion to the Ainu bear god of the same name. To elaborate, one of the ways that the Ainu people worship Kamui is by killing a bear cub with a barrage of arrows or "missiles."
1207* InnocentBlueEyes: Doubling with OccultBlueEyes. In his human form Teddie's eyes are an extremely vivid shade of blue, reflecting his innocence as a newly created human and his past as a Shadow. Add ElementalEyeColors on top of that, due to him being the party's primary ice magic user.
1208* InspectorJavert: Due to having little information and even fewer suspects, he initially believes that Yu and Yosuke are the ones throwing people into his world. When that doesn't seem to be the case, he threatens to trap them in the TV World if they don't agree to help him find the real culprit. Even then, he quietly maintains the belief that the two might be the criminals responsible until Yukiko is saved and provides new insight pertaining to the investigation.
1209* JackOfAllTrades: Like Naoto, Teddie learns a ton of useful skills, but [[LimitedMoveArsenal because he only can have eight slots]], it's difficult to outline a clear role for him to play as. His ice skills require 4 slots for full optimization. He learns two group buffs, and has 4 slots' worth of useful healing skills. ''Golden'' also adds some physical variety and a few extra passives, which adds to the problem. In the end, Ted's useful but he's always set to lose something.
1210* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Initially comes off as a fairly meek NiceGuy but quickly becomes one of these after gaining a human form. He's still a very compassionate guy, just a very narcissistic one.
1211* KickTheDog: Near literally. If Koromaru and Teddie are in the party in the ''Q'' series, Teddie will sometimes mock Koromaru whenever the latter is knocked out during a battle. In ''Q2'', he constantly mocks Morgana, making the latter even more self-conscious of himself.
1212* LamePunReaction: More than a few of his puns elicit this kind of reaction from the cast. Even Yukiko, who tends to laugh at a drop of a hat, finds them unfunny.
1213* LargeHam: He frequently acts in an over-the-top, cartoony way, with deliberately exaggerated reactions and a silly voice.
1214* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Since he leaves the group shortly after Nanako's temporary death, he ends up being the only member of the Investigation Team who doesn't know that Nanako pulled through. He only finds out from Yu in the Velvet Room.
1215* LostInTranslation: In the original Japanese version, Teddie is known as "Kuma" ([[ADogNamedDog Japanese for "bear"]]) and, in his human form, uses the alias "Kumada". Besides being an actual, common Japanese surname, "Kumada" can be interpreted as meaning "It's kuma", creating two puns. Sadly, the joke was lost with the localized name, and Teddie never uses an alias (though there is a moment where he is asked who he is and is misinterpreted as Terry or Eddie, and retorts "Duh, Teddie" in the anime and is mistaken for saying his name is ''Doug'' Teddie).
1216* {{Mascot}}: A DeconstructiveParody of one. In-universe, he actually ends up becoming the unofficial mascot for Junes when hanging out in the real world in his bear suit.
1217* MeaningfulName: Played for laughs in Persona Q. The group discusses what the kanji in their names can be read as. "Teddie" isn't written in kanji, so Yu observes that it sounds like the characters Te and Dei which evidently can be read as "[[LovableSexManiac dirty hands]]".
1218* MorphicResonance: Explicitly averted with his two forms to make the contrast all the stronger.
1219* MrViceGuy: He becomes swayed by the material pleasures of the human world which causes him to [[TookALevelInJerkass become even more obnoxious]], but is still a nice guy at heart.
1220* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: He's a Shadow who wants to befriend, rather than kill people. This makes sense when you remember that Jungian Shadows are the parts of themselves they least want to admit exists: as most people are decent, they have malicious Shadows, while a cruel or stand-offish person would have a Shadow that just wants to be loved.
1221* NakedOnArrival: Played with, he arrives in the real world in his {{Mascot}} form; when he complains of being too hot, he removes his head, revealing that he's grown a (naked) human body inside his mascot costume, just so he can score with the girls ([[OnceDoneNeverForgotten much to Yukiko's bemusement]]).
1222* TheNicknamer: He calls the protagonist/Yu "Sensei" and the girls "Chie-chan", "Yuki-chan", "Rise-chan", "Nao-chan", "Nana-chan", and "Marie-chan" (or "Emmy-chan"). He also refers to Dojima "Pops" and Adachi "Adachi-baby" ("Ada-chi" in the Japanese version).
1223** In the Nico Nico Live special announcing ''VideoGame/PersonaQShadowOfTheLabyrinth'', the console version of ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena Ultimax'', ''VideoGame/Persona4DancingAllNight'', and ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'', he calls [[VideoGame/Persona3 Fuuka]] "Fuu-chan".
1224* NonIronicClown: The bottom-half of his costume resembles a clown suit.
1225* TheNoseKnows: Used word for word as well.
1226* NotSoDifferentRemark: Get lost with Rise during the ski trip in ''Golden'', and at one point he will come to the conclusion that she is little different from [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl her own Shadow]].
1227-->'''Teddie:''' Rise-[[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics chan]]… Don't tell me… Were you waiting for an audience!? What daring lovers…! H-How shameless! You're no different from your Shadow!
1228* OlderThanHeLooks: While his human form looks to be around the age range of the other members of the team, it's implied from Izanami stating that she simply made a bridge between the Midnight Channel to reality that he may be several decades or centuries old, given that he's been around the Midnight Channel for an unspecified amount of time due to no indication there.
1229* PerpetualPoverty: Heavily implied by him simply not eating Topsicles just to afford a train ticket, suggesting that Yosuke isn't paying him much, or he's spending his entire salary on snacks.
1230* PoisonousPerson: The one move, Poison Javelin, that he starts with can obviously inflict Poison.
1231* PowerFist: Uses [[WolverineClaws claws]] and spiked gloves as his preferred weapon.
1232* PowerPerversionPotential:
1233** Invoked; he claims he grew a human form purely to try to score with the girls.
1234** Played straight in the first dungeon of ''Persona Q'', where he takes advantage of being temporarily shrunken to look up Yukiko's skirt. Yukiko [[PervertRevengeMode is not amused]].
1235* PrettyFreeloaders: He eventually gets a modest salary, but usually spends most of it on ice cream, leaving him dependent on his friends.
1236* PrivateEyeMonologue: Gives a particularly menacing one when the group goes to Tatsumi Port Island and don't take him. He appears afterwards, surprising the group.
1237* PungeonMaster: In the Japanese version, [[VerbalTic he tacks on -kuma]] to all of his sentences. The English version turns this into a series of gloriously bad puns, most often, his battle shout of "''BEAR''-sona!"
1238* RandomEffectSpell: The Kamui Miracle Spell. Its description is simply, "Anything can happen!" Casting it results in a lovely display of cartoon stars and rainbows followed shortly after by something horrible or awesome happening to you and/or your foes.
1239* ReedRichardsIsUseless: He's able to invent glasses that see clearly through fog with little-to-no resources to make them, yet the idea to sell them never comes across him when he apparently has money problems from his snacking. Although it's implied that they only work on the yellow Midnight Channel fog.
1240* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Admit it, he's extremely adorable!
1241* RollerbladeGood: In ''Golden'', since he has no means of legally acquiring a license to operate a bike like the rest of the team save Kanji. He usually gets tied to the back of Kanji's bicycle.
1242* SadClown: Despite his jovial and downright silly nature, Teddie is really, ''really'' hurting inside.
1243* SecretArt:
1244** His unique skill in ''Golden'' is Kamui Miracle, which can randomly heal, knock down, or inflict a status ailment on all allies and/or enemies, or just flat-out fail to do anything.
1245** His unique skill in ''Persona Q'' is Amrita, which fully heals an ally and removes any ailments and binds they suffer from.
1246** His unique skill in ''Q2'' is Immunity Bod which lets him occasionally nullify physical attacks he takes. This upgrades to Invincible Bod with a higher activation rate. Note that these skills are similar to those learned by Haru.
1247* SensorCharacter: By way of [[SuperSenses smell]]. As the plot progresses, though, his senses dwindle to the point of being obsolete when Rise joins, which frustrates him, but he becomes instrumental in finding Adachi, someone even ''Rise'' couldn't sense. It's implied to be because Adachi's personality afforded him greater control over the TV World than most of its prior victims, enabling him to shield himself from Rise's scrying abilities. As an original occupant of said world, Teddie's weaker sensing abilities are nonetheless able to pick up Adachi's trail even through his defences.
1248* ShapedLikeItself: Believes himself to be this due to his name, but no one who's met him thought he looked like a bear at first.
1249* SharpDressedMan: In his human form. Just ''look'' at that suit!
1250* SitcomArchNemesis:
1251** In ''Q'', he develops a one-sided rivalry with Koromaru, jealous that the dog has more luck in grabbing the girls' attention than him. Even Kanji finds Koromaru cuter and fluffier than him, which only further escalates Teddie's hatred for him (not like Teddie ever let Kanji pet him). One side quest involves Teddie challenging Koromaru to see who is the better animal and the only reason he won is because Koromaru willingly forfeits the challenge. Being a nice dog and all, Koromaru simply plays along with Teddie but even he has limits to his patience.
1252** In the sequel, he also forms a rivalry with Morgana. Despite their similarities, Morgana cannot stand Teddie at all. There's even a side quest involving all three mascots, though the rivalry is mostly between Teddie and Morgana. In the end, Koromaru wins while Teddie and Morgana end up having a slap fight but are unable to reach each other due to their short arms.
1253* SmallNameBigEgo: Teddie is this game's [[Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow Ted Baxter]], more so after he takes on a human form.
1254* SpannerInTheWorks: When cornered, Adachi flees into the TV World to escape the team's pursuit, discovering that his similar desires to the shadows around him enable him [[RealityWarper greater control over his surroundings]] compared to past victims. He outright gloats that it feels like the world itself is protecting him, enabling him to thwart Rise's scanning abilities to locate him in the fog, but as an original inhabitant of the TV World, Teddie's weaker sensing abilities are nonetheless able to find Adachi despite his obfuscation.
1255* SpinAttack: His Follow-Up Attack and Cavalry Attack.
1256* SquashedFlat:
1257** Becomes this after defeating Rise's Shadow.
1258** After an unfortunate encounter with Hanako, he shows up like this, heavily implying that she sat on him.
1259* SquishyWizard:
1260** Like, Yukiko, Teddie has access to fantastic offensive and defensive spells, but he's physically weak. His Persona upon transformation gains a LOT of resistances, the most of any party member, but he's still weak to lightning, which is one weakness you don't want in this game.
1261** In ''Persona Q2'' Teddie holds the distinction of being a flexible unit, boasting good ice attacks of both physical and magic varieties on top of good healing magic. His HP and Endurance are not his strong suits, however, which can create problems if he's in the front line.
1262* StepfordSmiler: He is forced to confront this issue and [[CharacterDevelopment gets better]] by the end of the game.
1263* StupidSexyFlanders: In human form, especially when [[AttractiveBentGender crossdressing]]...
1264* SupernaturalAid: Without Teddie, the Investigation team would have been doomed before it started. It's only because of his ability to return them to Inaba, his glasses that reduce the fog, his keen senses that sniff out trapped humans, and his battle support that they have any chance at all.
1265* TeamPet: A slight parody. He's a cute bear-thing that is constantly cracking jokes and acting hammy... which only ever annoys the rest of the team to a point where they barely tolerate his presence sometimes.
1266* ThirdPersonPerson: In the Japanese version, Teddie often speaks of himself in third person in his mascot form.
1267* ThoseTwoGuys: Shifts between being this with either Yosuke or Kanji, depending on the situation.
1268* TokenHeroicOrc: He's the only inherently good Shadow in the game.
1269* TomatoInTheMirror: Turns out, he's actually a ''[[TheHeartless Shadow]]''. Though this does not come as to big a surprise to the rest of the party, as it would make the most sense.
1270* TookALevelInBadass: Goes from getting knocked over and [[FlippingHelpless rendered completely defenseless]] from a single push from Yosuke to one-shotting a Shadow the ''entire team'' couldn't defeat and gaining his own Persona.
1271* TookALevelInJerkass: He starts out as a timid, antisocial hermit who becomes increasingly more obnoxious, egotistical and rude as the story progresses. This can be excused due to his having NoSocialSkills and balanced out by him becoming more kind and courageous in the process.
1272** How bad it is depends entirely on timeline placement: He is at his brattiest and most insufferable during the Fall months (October through the first few days of December) in ''Persona 4'', due to trying to drown out his frustration with his continuous failures in his QuestForIdentity with earthly pleasures and others' affections. Unfortunately the entirety of ''VideoGame/{{Persona Q|Shadow Of The Labyrinth}}'' takes place in this time frame. By the time of ''VideoGame/Persona4DancingAllNight'' he has thankfully mellowed out a lot and is a lot sweeter again.
1273* ToughRoom: He continues making his bad jokes and Bear puns despite them rarely if ever drawing a laugh from the rest of the team. Even [[TheHyena Yukiko]], who laughs at the slightest provocation, doesn't find him funny.
1274* UndeadTaxExemption: {{Downplayed|Trope}}, as he can't attain his own motorcycle license, but he can easily work at Junes at the store mascot and as a floor hand, although it's likely that Yosuke is pulling strings for him. An evening conversation with Yosuke in January reveals that some "bigwig from the Junes main office" wants Teddie to be the company's exclusive mascot, but the problem is they're not after the bear costume's appearance but rather Teddie's human form which Yosuke fears will cause major problems if they end up finding out Teddie doesn't legally exist.
1275* VocalEvolution: As he delivers the closing speech of the game, Teddie's voice is noticeably lower and more mature, finally cementing that he has found his humanity in contrast to the over-the-top cartoony voice he puts on for most of the game to attempt to mimic it.
1276** Zig-zagged in later games, but the ''Arena'' subseries best shows it off. Teddie retains the cartoony voice whenever he's in his bear costume, but reverts back to the mature one as a human.
1277* WholeCostumeReference: One of his outfits in ''Arena'', with its JapaneseDelinquents style hat/golden skull and lightning bolt motif/purple cape/etc, looks suspiciously like [[Franchise/StreetFighter a certain martial arts tournament hosting dictator's]].
1278* WholesomeCrossdresser: To the point that EvenTheGuysWantHim, although most of them are just really freaked out that he does it that well (or at least Naoto is that good at dolling him up).
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