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15[[WMG:[[center:'''Main Page''' | [[Characters/PsychoPassMandatoryHappiness Mandatory Happiness]] | [[Characters/PsychoPassTheMovie The Movie]] | [[Characters/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem Sinners of the System]] | [[Characters/PsychoPassProvidence Providence]]]]]]
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19!Inspectors
20!!Division 1
21[[folder:Akane Tsunemori]]
22!!Inspector Akane Tsunemori
23!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KanaHanazawa (Japanese), Creator/KateOxley (English)
24[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/akane_tsunomori_anime.png]]
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26->''Do you know the most demeaning thing you can do to the law that we should respect? Creating and administering a law that is unworthy of protection.''
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28The SupportingProtagonist of Season 1 (and Protagonist proper of Season 2) and female lead of the series, Akane is a rookie Inspector assigned to Unit 1. A well-meaning, idealistic young detective, she works well with the Enforcers but often clashes with her more uptight colleague, Ginoza.
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30* AffectionateNickname: Masaoka calls her ''ojou-chan'', which is an informal way of saying "young lady."
31* AllLovingHero: As much as an Urobutcher protagonist can be. She tries to talk down latent criminals instead of exploding them on the spot, and puts a great deal of faith in her Enforcers. [[spoiler:She even tries to spare both Kougami and Makishima from being judged by the Sibyl System, even though the former is a fugitive and "untamed wolf" and the latter a serial murderer who swiped a razor across her best friend's throat.]]
32* BadassAdorable: Grows into this.
33* BadassBookworm: Really smart and athletic but suffers from NaiveButSkilled. However, once she is determined to take down Makishima, [[spoiler:she knocks him out and arrests him]] and on the movie [[spoiler:She fights Kougami and gains the upper hand despite being ambushed.]]
34* BenevolentBoss: Against Ginoza's wishes, she insists on treating the Enforcers as equals.
35* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:When Makishima is preparing to kill Kogami, guess who shows up with a helmet in her hand to save him?]]
36* BornWinner: Through some unexplained fluke, she has an abnormally low and stable psycho pass. She doesn't have to put any effort into maintaining her mental health and even when stressed out her coefficient stays well within healthy limits. That's a big deal in this society because, combined with her intelligence, she's free to make her own choices in life.
37* BrainyBrunette: She had top marks in all her exams and was stated to be the only one with a perfect score to enter the Public Safety Bureau.
38* BreakTheCutie: A few times, but it never really lasts.
39** [[spoiler: Makishima kills her friend Yuki right in front of her as "punishment" for her inability to kill him without relying on the Sibyl System's judgement.]] She is seen quivering in terror right after that.
40** The whole series serves as a downplayed one for her. [[spoiler:By the end, she has lost faith in the Sibyl System and is more cynical but still cares for and believes in people.]]
41** [[spoiler:When Kasei reported to her the death of her grandmother, which includes showing the picture of her corpse, Akane looked horrified upon seeing it. And when she's alone in the office, she screams in anguish until Kogami shows up in her consciousness]].
42* BrokenPedestal: Upon learning what the Sibyl System is, [[spoiler:Akane saw how flawed they are and believed that one day, someone will pull the plug off. In fact, she let Kamui judge them, removing several of their brains with high crime coefficients. In the movie, the pedestal is broken further when she learned that the system manipulated everybody and had the real Chairman Han killed in order to control [=SEAUn=]]. ]]
43* CharacterDevelopment: After dealing with Makishima and her confrontation with Sibyl System in Season 1, she becomes a more experienced and battle-driven veteran of the bureau.
44* CoolBigSis: Hinakawa considers her this.
45* DemotedToExtra: In Season 3, [[spoiler:she's confined in a facility due to some incident that she did prior to the story. Thus, her appearances are scarce asides from whatever she's planning during her confinement which somehow related to Arata]]. In the sequel, ''First Inspector'', she only appears near the end of the movie [[spoiler:where she was released from the facility and finally reunites with Kougami in person]].
46* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: She did not really know what to do with her life, and her marks were great so they allowed her to pick any job she wanted. Because she was the only one to get a perfect score to join the Public Safety Bureau, she deduced that there was something there only she could do.
47* TheDeterminator: As Shusei puts it:
48--> She might have a cute face, but that girl's got serious guts.
49* {{Deuteragonist}}: Arguably shares equal plot focus and character development with Kōgami in Season 1.
50* DigitalAvatar: 'Lemonade Candy', a moeblob/[[AnimalMotif jellyfish]] version of herself.
51* DistractedByTheSexy: First thing she notices about Shion Karanomori is her rack.
52* EatingTheEyeCandy: In the episode 7, she took a really good look at [[MrFanservice Kougami's abs]]. The same with Tougane during their talk in the gym in Ep. 2.2.
53* FallenHero: [[spoiler:She's confined in a facility due to an incident that happened prior to Season 3. By then, she's referred to as an ex-Inspector who killed someone. In the ''Providence'' movie, it's revealed that she killed Chief Kasei in public to challenge the Sibyl System that the judicial process is still necessary. As a result, she goes to jail and the public sees her as a promising inspector who threw away her entire career and reputation]].
54* TheHeart: She is willing to go against the supposedly-infallible judgment of the Dominators.
55* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:After failing to save Yuki,]] she turns into a shaking wreck who can't stop thinking about it.
56* HeroicSacrifice: Of a non-mortal variant. [[spoiler: In the final moments of the ''Providence'' film, in a ceremony for her sake being sworn in as the new Director of the Ministry of Welfare, Akane publicly on national broadcast tv shoots Chief Kasei dead whilst maintaining a clear hue. Unable to be enforced, she's arrested and detained. Sacrificing her career, civil liberties, freedom and reputation, but she shows that Japan still needs the Ministry of Justice and that even Sibyl has blind spots for which it cannot account]].
57* HeroicWillpower: She can take psychological shocks on the chin that would drive others screaming into latent criminality without flinching.
58* IHaveThisFriend: Her inability to understand Shinya drives her to seek advice online from Talisman in Episode 4, but the rules of the Talisman chat are that "we do not talk about ourselves here, only others," encouraging this trope instead.
59* ILetGwenStacyDie: How she feels after witnessing [[spoiler:Makishima kill Yuki]].
60* IncompletelyTrained: On Akane's first day on the job, Ginoza tells her that he can't treat her like a newcomer (since they are understaffed), so she must learn a lot on the job.
61* IncorruptiblePurePureness: No matter what happens, Akane sticks to her principles, and her Criminality Coefficient never rises above 30 or so. [[spoiler:Nearly subverted at the end of season 2, when Sakuya Tōgane gloats about how he killed her grandmother. Akane almost snaps, having her CC jumping to over 80, before being calmed down by Kamui.]]
62* ItsPersonal: The Makishima case after [[spoiler:Yuki's death.]]
63* KidWithTheLeash: Her job as an Inspector is to supervise the Enforcers and make sure they never go too far.
64* KirkSummation: She gives such a speech to Ginoza after constantly being berated by and demeaned by him, effectively preventing him from doing so again for the most part.
65* LethalChef: In the drama CD, Ginoza and Kagari struggle to eat her cooking and the only one who seems to be unaffected and even ''likes'' her cooking is Kogami.
66* MadnessMantra: [[spoiler: "[[ILetGwenStacyDie I let Yuki die without doing anything...I let Yuki die without doing anything...]]"]]
67* MeaningfulName: The kanji for Tsunemori (常守) roughly translate to "the usual state of things" and "babysitter or protector." Her job as an inspector is to maintain order and despite misgivings with the Sibyl System, she decides to work within it rather than against it.
68* NaiveButSkilled: Suffers from this a lot early on, as she is intelligent and athletic but ''very'' naive. She grows out of it.
69* NaiveNewcomer: Tsunemori is brought onto her first case with little knowledge of what to do, so other characters have to explain everything to her.
70* NiceGirl: A genuinely polite and sweet young woman who tries her best to alleviate situations.
71* OnlySaneWoman: Akane seemed be to the only character who remained level-headed and stable throughout the series. In comparison to the other Inspectors who are afraid of getting demoted to latent criminals, cynical of their work or too rigid to follow the Sibyl System, she managed to keep her sanity in check. [[spoiler:She also one of the few living people who knew what the Sibyl System is and how sociopathic they are while the other (Mika) just accepted them for what they are and moved on]].
72* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler:After being fired from her job as an Inspector and confined by the Sibyl System in Season 3, she entrusts Arata and Kei to continue her and Kougami's goal to bring justice. She also requests Hinakawa to watch over them on her behalf. It also turns out that she's the one who recommended Arata as her replacement]].
73* ThePollyanna: Recovers rather quickly after her BreakTheCutie moment, and when she decides to relive it to [[spoiler:get the recording of Shogo's face]], her Crime Coefficient actually goes ''down'' after she sees that it's successful.
74* TheProfiler: After understudying for Kogami and Saito, she becomes an ace profiler in her own right.
75* PuppyDogEyes: Has noticeably larger oculars than anyone else in the series, which may serve to underscore her initial naievete and WideEyedIdealist character(see below).
76* RousseauWasRight:
77** Akane seemed to have this belief. She's an idealist and believed that people can change better and recover from their trauma which explains her actions of stopping Shinya from firing the rape victim with a Lethal Eliminator mode in the first episode of Seasons 1 and telling the bomber that he's not worthless in the first episode of Season 2. However, in confronting sociopaths like Makishima, she's conflicted until she decided to hand him over to Sibyl System. [[spoiler:By the time she learns what the Sibyl System really is, she realized how flawed they are but she still believed that they can change which explains why in the movie, she convinced the system to have their puppet leader to step down and let the people decide. However, TheStinger revealed that the puppet leader won via reelection which is still debatable whether Akane's attempt to humanize the Sibyl System had an effect or not.]]
78** In Season 3, she trusts that Arata and Kei will find the truth by themselves not to rely too much on the Sibyl System. She has absolute faith in Arata [[spoiler:since she knows he's criminally asymptomatic and he has a good moral compass in contrast to the other criminally asymptomatic people such as Makishima and the brains of the Sibyl System]].
79* SupportingProtagonist: While the focus of the first season's plot is Kōgami and his determination in tracking down Makishima, the audience views the events through Akane and her induction into the PSB.
80* TheIdealist: Always. It fluctuates a bit, but this is probably her most defining characteristic: when she does gain a cynical streak, it serves only to transform her from a WideEyedIdealist to a rational idealist.
81* ThouShallNotKill: Due to her upbringing where direct lethal force is not allowed, she's aware that killing without the use of a Dominator would increase one's crime coefficient and later, believes that there are other ways to apprehend criminals unless she's allowed to use the Lethal Eliminator mode. But this bites back the dust in three occasions:[[spoiler:Makishima tries to force her into breaking this rule by threatening Yuki's life which she failed. Later in episode 16, she tries to kill Makishima in revenge for Yuki's death and at Shinya's urging. She didn't again and apprehends Makishima instead who later, escapes. Then, she tries to stop Shinya, who went rogue, from going after Makishima to kill him. She failed again but she still sticks to her morals]].
82** In the first episode of ''both'' seasons, she refuses to use Lethal Eliminator mode against someone who she thinks she can talk down. In the first episode, this is [[spoiler: an innocent rape victim who has been driven temporarily insane by trauma, and whose Crime Coefficient is in the lethal range because of it]]. In the second, [[spoiler: it's the episode's perp, someone who's declared war on society because the Sibyl System doesn't like his Psycho-Pass' tendency to occasionally cloud over]].
83** In Season 2, she stops Togane from killing Kamui with a rifle when he's about to escape as it reminds her of Shinya. [[spoiler:And then in episode 10, the Sibyl System offers her a SadisticChoice to detonate the bombs to kill Kamui along with the lives of hostages who are in the subway trains. After having an internal dialogue with Shinya, she didn't do it and offers Kamui a way out of the subway so she can talk to him]].
84** A downplayed case in the ''Providence'' movie [[spoiler:where she kills Chief Kasei with a regular gun to prove to the Sibyl System a point that laws are still necessary. However, her crime coefficient isn't shown in public given that she killed a cyborg who can be rebuilt many times and the Sibyl System doesn't want the public to know that.]]
85* TokenGoodCop: She's the only inspector in the Public Safety Bureau who takes her job seriously and manages to keep her hue clear after several inspectors failed to do which led them to their demotion to enforcers or getting killed off. She's also the only character who knows how flawed [[BigBrotherIsWatchingYou the Sibyl System]] is and believes that the human factor is still needed in bringing justice. Her strong sense of justice is the reason the Sibyl System is interested in her because they value her input.
86* TookALevelInBadass:
87** Compare Akane at the beginning to later in the series, when she knocks out [[spoiler:Makishima]] in Episode 16 and even forces [[spoiler:''The Sibyl System'']] into following her terms during Episode 20. Episode 20 shows even her detective skills have greatly increased. Yayoi even Lampshades this in Episode 21, where she points out that Akane now seems like a completely different person.
88** In season 2, Akane seems to have significantly hardened in the one year TimeSkip. She starts off facing down killer robots all by herself, among other things.
89** In the movie, Akane is doing self-defense lessons herself.
90** Despite her small screentime in Season 3, she manages to outwit the Sibyl System by preventing them to get Arata [[spoiler:due to his criminally asymptomatic condition]] and arranging him to be her replacement as a Division One Inspector.
91* TookALevelInCynic: Downplayed, while she retains some of her idealism, she has become more cynical after learning of the true nature of the Sibyl System.
92** This increased more in the 2015 movie after she found out that the Sibyl System [[spoiler:used her to get rid of the defects in the military police and deployed more heinous means (which is staging a foreign intervention and conspiring to have the real Chairman Han assassinated) to control the [=SEAUn=] which Akane regarded as criminal acts.]]
93** Her narration at the start of Season 3 seems to show that she shares Kougami's belief about the Sibyl System. While she agrees that the system brought peace and order to Japan, she wonders the cost for it to achieve. [[spoiler:The incident which led her to her confinement in a facility by the Sibyl System may have contributed to her changing belief and her trust in Arata and Kei to continue the pursuit of bringing justice.]]
94** The ''Providence'' movie reveals that while she still trusts the system, she doesn't believe that it can fully commit to bringing justice given the way they're eager to have the Ministry of Justice abolished. [[spoiler:This led to her shooting Chief Kasei in broad light, while her crime coefficient remained normal, forcing the Sibyl System to have her arrested so that she could be tried in a normal court]].
95* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:The Sibyl System used her to expose the [=SEAUn=] Military Police's deception. which they already know, by tricking her into thinking that Kougami is responsible for sending the terrorists to Japan]].
96* WeWillMeetAgain: In the ''After Stories'' radio drama which is set after the events of Episode 22, Akane received an untraceable call from [[spoiler:Shinya, who contacts her for the last time.]] But Akane believes that there would be one day that they could meet again as normal humans instead of Inspector and Enforcer. They did meet again in the movie for only a short time and in the last episode of Season 3. The ''Providence'' movie shows them working together again despite the small animosity.
97* WideEyedIdealist:
98** She doesn't believe in indiscriminately shooting people with high Crime Coefficients, especially civilians who were only caught into the frenzy by a latent criminal.
99** Also doubles as a literal version, considering her eyes are 25% larger than the rest of the cast's. Season 2 solicits show that the eyes have become a bit smaller, though.
100* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: She manages to talk down the criminal in the second season premiere by convincing him that he is not worthless and he can provide a valuable contribution to society.
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103[[folder:Nobuchika Ginoza]]
104!!Inspector Nobuchika Ginoza
105!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenjiNojima (Japanese), Creator/JoshGrelle (English)
106[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nobuchika_ginoza_anime.png]]
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108->''They say that fools learn from their experiences, while the wise learn from history.''
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110A very strict and professional Inspector in Unit 1, formerly partnered with ex-Inspector Shinya. As Akane's senior, he often berates her naivety and idealistic views on Enforcers. At the end of Season 1, [[spoiler: he got demoted to Enforcer]].
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112* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: In his school days he was picked on for having a latent criminal for a father. Kogami defending him from these bullies is what started their friendship.
113* AloneWithThePsycho: In Season 2. [[spoiler: It's actually retroactive. The second season revealed that his therapist was always Kirito Kamui under a holographic disguise, so the guy he was spilling his soul to in season 1 turned out to be the main antagonist of the second season.]]
114* ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler:Considering he gets his left arm ripped off and in the epilogue, he has both arms as an Enforcer, it seems he has another similarity to his Dad now.]]
115* BigBrotherInstinct: In Season 2, his growing concern for Akane's Psycho-Pass begins to look like this, especially in light of his personality becoming less harsh.
116* BigDamnHeroes:
117** [[spoiler:In the movie, he first frags Nicholas before he could kill Akane and Kougami and later arrived to Kougami's aid to defeat Desmond]].
118** In episode 7 of Season 3, [[spoiler:he saves Kei twice by providing him a way to escape and letting him beat all the guards]].
119* BrokenPedestal: The ''New Edit'' shows that Ginoza used to look up to his father until he got demoted to Enforcer.
120* ButtMonkey: A toned down version given the show's mostly realistic setting, but he's often the brunt of jokes, gets told off a lot, and even gets grabbed by the collar and tossed aside like a cat at one point. [[WordOfGod Urobuchi says]] he likes picking on Ginoza the most.
121* ByTheBookCop: He believes wholly in the judgment cast by the Sibyl System, which puts him at odds with those who suggest deviations from it.
122* CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler:After becoming an Enforcer]], Ginoza is more openminded and is willingly to accept Akane's decision to deal with latent criminals.
123* TheComicallySerious: Tends to be this in [[LighterAndSofter more light-hearted media]] outside of the main series, such as the audio dramas or ''Chimi Chara Psycho-Pass,'' where the cast is put in silly situations such as Kagari's cooking lessons.
124* ADayInTheLimelight: The first movie of the ''Anime/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem'' trilogy puts him as the main character together with Mika.
125* DeathGlare: Almost his default expression, but gives a major one to Akane when she hits a sore spot by asking him about his relationship with Masaoka.
126* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]: It's a hell of a slow thaw, but by the last episode he's more relaxed, smiles often, and is a lot warmer than he previously was.
127** It apparently sped up in the two years passed, as in the second season he's essentially a younger, more sarcastic [[TeamDad Masaoka]].
128* DemotedToExtra:
129** In Season 2, most especially in the second half where he has less screentime.
130** Happens again in Season 3 [[spoiler:due to being transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs]].
131* DigitalAvatar: A big coin with the writing [[IntentionalEngrishForFunny LIVERTY]] on its heads side (which, incidentally, has a Victorian gentlemen face on it a la old POTUS faces on US coins).
132* DisappearedDad: His father, [[spoiler:Masaoka]], became a latent criminal when Ginoza was nine, hence why he hates them so much.
133* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: He and Shinya went to high school together and became best friends. When Ginoza told him his future plans on becoming an Inspector, Kougami quickly decided to also become an Inspector.
134* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: In TheMovie, he grows his hair out and pulls it back into a short ponytail.
135* {{Foil}}: His views on Enforcers clash with Akane's. While she considers them colleagues, Ginoza treats them like hunting dogs in fear of butting his own Psycho-Pass.
136* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler: He is an Inspector descending into distrust of the justice system for which he works, which is reflected in his rapidly-rising Crime Coefficient. Masaoka suffered from more or less the same experience in the past, which is how he became an Enforcer, a fate his son eventually shares. Episode 21 hammers the point home: Masaoka's mechanical arm is his left, the same arm which Ginoza loses.]]
137** Season 2 shows that [[spoiler: in the intervening two years Ginoza slid into his father's mindset ([[TeamDad and role]]) even more completely.]]
138* TheGlassesGottaGo: [[spoiler:He doesn't wear them anymore when he got demoted as an Enforcer. Akane lampshades this by asking if he wears them just for decorative purposes. He says he wore them because he disliked the look of his eyes. An emotional callback to his father's last words to him were how his eyes looked like his dad's when he was young.]]
139* HeroesLoveDogs: He's a dog lover and owns a Siberian husky named Dime. His test attributes reveal that he has a dog therapist's license, and he's allowed to keep his dog in the second season.
140* HeroicBSOD:
141** When [[spoiler:Chief Kasei]] tries to make him shoot [[spoiler:Shinya]] with a lethal Dominator.
142** When [[spoiler:Masaoka dies]], he is reduced to being able to do almost nothing but cry and eventually scream.
143* IAmNotMyFather: Desperately tries not to repeat the same mistakes his father made — [[GenerationXerox and fails]].
144* IAmNotPretty: He admits to Akane that he doesn't like how his face looks, particularly his eyes.
145* InSeriesNickname: His name is often shortened to "Gino" by the other members of Division 1, mostly Kougami and Kagari. Sasayama teasingly calls him "Gino-sensei".
146* {{Irony}}:
147** [[spoiler:In the end, he becomes an Enforcer, despite starting out berating them and believing they were horrible people due to Sibyl's judgment (which he no longer believes in at the end). To add to that he becomes a nicer person. Yes, Ginoza doesnt start becoming a nice person until he is branded a criminal.]]
148** Despite belittling the enforcers as "hunting dogs," he's a dog lover and has an aptitude for dog therapy.
149* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ultimately. While he's far from a nice person in Season 1, he wants what's best for society and tries to help Akane keep her Psycho-Pass clear. [[spoiler:And even if he has difficulty admitting it, he still cares for his father deep down, as seen by his reaction to Masaoka's death.]]
150* KickTheDog: Chastises Akane for making what he deemed a poor decision on her very first day on the job and constantly demeans her in the workplace. He also blames her for Shinya's disappearance in episode 10, which she was already shaken about.
151* TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: He wears his glasses especially low on his nose and always seems to be looking above the frame rather than through the lens. While this may be seen as artistic liberty to show a character's eyes, no other character in the show who wears glasses wears them the same as he does. Becomes relevant in the very last episode.
152* LifeOrLimbDecision: [[spoiler:To escape Makishima's trap in Episode 21, he loses his left arm.]]
153* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Grows his hair out in the movie and ties it in a ponytail.
154* MadeOfIron: In very ridiculous levels as seen in the first ''[[Anime/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem Sinners of the System]]'' movie where he gets tossed around by the villain's mech, thrown off and slammed on the ground. And yet, ''he's doing okay'' despite having a robotic arm.
155* MarriedToTheJob: He keeps a cold distance from most of his coworkers, [[spoiler:even his dad]], preferring to focus entirely on detective work.
156* MissingMom: As revealed in the second ''[[Anime/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem Sinners of the System]]'' movie, his mother is in a nursing home, in a catatonic state.
157* NerdsAreVirgins: WordOfGod has confirmed him to be a "100'''0'''% virgin", focusing far too much on studying to join the MWPSB to ever get around to dating.
158** On the other hand he shamelessly flirts with Risa in Season 2.
159* NomDeMom: According to the ''[[http://xnightrainx.tumblr.com/post/66477984544/psycho-pass-official-profiling Psycho-pass Official Profiling Book]]'', [[spoiler:Nobuchika got his surname from his grandmother (Akiho Ginoza) who is his dad's mother-in-law]].
160* NonActionGuy: While he often does the shooting, he's rarely seen running around and never fights or does anything remotely "macho." [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], given that his job as an inspector means that he shouldn't get too involved in the action to keep his Crime Coefficient as clear as possible.
161** [[spoiler:By the time he became an Enforcer]] in Season 2, [[TookALevelInBadass he can fight and even beat an rogue drone with his fist]].
162* NonActionSnarker: Occasionally.
163* NoSell: In the second season's finale, [[spoiler: he takes multiple crossbow bolts, but they don't harm him because they're hitting his bionic arm.]]
164* NotSoStoic: When [[spoiler: Masaoka]] dies, he completely loses it and is reduced to crying and screaming. Once things settle down, he becomes more mellow, and smiles often with more of a relaxed facial expression than usual.
165* OddCouple:
166** With Mika, after she goes under her CharacterDevelopment. His levelheaded, teasing nature greatly contrasts with Mika's HotBlooded personality but they manage to work together flawlessly regardless. It's even to the point where he's willing to tease her for indirectly complimenting him in season 3.
167** In a downplayed example, with Akane for the first two seasons. Though not without their difficulties, they still managed to work together in a pretty cohesive fashion despite it all.
168* PerpetualFrowner: His stoic and serious expression rarely changes. He starts to subvert this after [[spoiler: being demoted to an Enforcer.]]
169* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Subverted, not because he isn't smart, but because he doesn't actually need them. He only wears them because he thinks they will keep his Psycho-Pass from clouding. [[spoiler:He eventually gives them up.]]
170* TakeUpMySword: Season 2 has him wearing a brown trenchcoat and matching suit, with a glove to hide his artificial limb. He's just like his old man now.
171* TallDarkAndHandsome: Even Urobuchi admits as much.
172* TookALevelInBadass:
173** [[OneHitKO One Shotted a Drone]] with his robotic fist. He can also be seen training in Episode 4.
174** The movie showed how badass he is [[spoiler:where he and Kougami went mano-a-mano with Desmond who has an artificial limb]].
175** Season 3 and ''First Inspector'' take this to another level as he is now [[spoiler: working with the MFA. He fights on an equal level with Kei in episode 2 of the season (although that might be because of his prothetic arm) and is able to take down androids with a handgun and some good ol' fashioned hand-to-hand combat]].
176* TookALevelInKindness: In Season 2, he seems to be nicer [[spoiler:when he became an Enforcer]] and even tells Mika to accept what is happening around her instead of ignoring it based on his own experience.
177* TheStoic: Zigzagged. He's prone to losing his cool from time to time, but ultimately tries to play this role as best as he can, usually succeeding.
178* StoicSpectacles: Thin-rimmed, narrow glasses to compliment his stoic {{bishonen}} look.
179* WeUsedToBeFriends: His relationship with Shinya became this after the latter's demotion to Enforcer.
180--> '''Ginoza:''' I once lost a partner who made a mistake. [[MyGreatestFailure I couldn't stop him.]]
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183[[folder:Mika Shimotsuki]]
184!!Inspector Mika Shimotsuki
185!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyaneSakura (Japanese), Creator/CheramiLeigh (English)
186[[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mika_shimotsuki_anime.png]]
187
188->''It takes those who are capable to do what needs to be done.''
189
190One of the students of the Ousou Girls' Academy. Her close friend was murdered by Rikako. By the end of Season 1, she becomes an inspector and starts working under Akane. By season 3, she has been promoted to Chief Inspector of the CID.
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192* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: It's clear that she's jealous of Akane for being an experienced Inspector and remaining at ease during stressful situations which made her hue clear.
193* AmbiguouslyGay: In addition to saying there was something she never had the courage to say to her schoolmate, Kagami, she seems rather enamored with Yayoi in season 2.
194* AscendedExtra: She's just a minor character in the Rikako arc of Season 1 until she joins the main cast in Season 2 as Akane's new partner.
195* BadBoss: With the exception of Yayoi, she treats the Enforcers like crap. Even Ginoza at his worst in Season 1 couldn't hold a candle to her.
196** As Chief Inspector however, she's far more reasonable to her subordinates and more willing to bend the rules to get results. However, she still gets rightfully pissed at them (mostly Arata and Kei) when they toe the line just a little too much.
197* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Despite being mean to Enforcers, she doesn't hold any malice towards Yayoi since the latter comforted her when her best friend was murdered in Season 1. She also has a crush on her.
198* BigotryException: Despite her terrible treatment of her Enforcers and inability to comprehend Akane’s desire to save latent criminals, she evidently looks up To Yayoi and treats her much better. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since Yayoi comforted her after her friends’ murder. {{Downplayed}} however in that despite her respect for Yayoi, even she has trouble convincing Mika to lighten up on her harsher and more rigid traits.
199* BlatantLies: In episode 8 of season 2 she writes up a report and in it she portrays Akane as incompetent and unwilling to listen to the advice of others. Mika seems oblivious to the fact that all of these characteristics are a lot more consistent with herself.
200* BreakTheCutie: When her friend was killed in Season 1.
201** [[spoiler:After she learned the truth about the Sibyl System, she gradually accepts it without any moral struggle. Then, she learns Togane's plan to darken Akane's hue which slowly destroys her morality more]].
202* BrokenSmile: [[spoiler: Learning about Sibyl's true nature seems to have done a number on her psyche, judging by her eyes. Even as she smiles and claps and praises Sibyl, her eyes are watery and wide, making her look like she's about to cry.]]
203* ByTheBookCop: She's even more rigid than Season 1 Ginoza and solely believes to strictly follow Sibyl's judgment instead of one's own.
204** By the time season 3 rolls around, she's more than willing to bend the rules if it means getting results. However, she's more than willing to get pissed at them if they toe the line ''too'' much.
205* CharacterDevelopment: She massively improves in the ''[[Anime/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem Sinners of the System]]'' movie trilogy where she puts her investigative skills into good use and becomes kinder to her co-workers, particularly with Akane. She is also much more critical of the Sybil System and far more aware of their underhanded tactics even as she continues to serve their agenda. This is in stark contrast to Season 2 and the movie where she was essentially their [[YesMan sychopanthic supporter]].
206** This gets taken further in season 3, as she is the Chief Inspector of the CID. While still hot-blooded and prone to outbursts, she is able to make reasonable and calm judgements on her own that benefit both the CID and Sibyl. She remains loyal to Sibyl, but she is extremely toned-down from her YesMan tendencies towards the system. She's way more reasonable to her subordinates now more than ever, even as they (especially Arata and Kei) piss her off for doing things against her orders.
207* ChekhovsGunman: She only appears in the Rikako arc. And at the end of the Season 1, she becomes one of the new inspectors of Unit 1.
208* CommanderContrarian: She firmly believes that the Sibyl System has ''absolute'' judgment and disagrees with Akane's assessment.
209-->'''Mika''': Inspector Tsunemori, you're…wrong.
210* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: As part of her StartOfDarkness, the Sibyl System reveals themselves to Mika as a test whether she can be "an ideal citizen". After learning about the AwfulTruth, she gradually accept that no matter how horrible it is, this is necessary. This explains her actions in the movie where she had overdone the Memory Scoop on the terrorist which caused him to kill himself in order to extract important information and kept Akane in the dark regarding the system's true plans despite how heinous they are.
211* CuriosityIsACrapshoot: In episode 5, she spots Tougane discreetly pointing his Dominator at Akane, which is a huge violation of protocol. She reports this to Chief Kasei, but the chief doesn't consider it a big deal. So in response, she starts conducting her own investigation of Tougane and has discovered things about him that were definitely not meant to be known... [[spoiler: and as of episode 7, Tougane's on to her.]]
212** In episode 8, she discovers [[spoiler: a lot of damning information about the Tougane Foundation and Tougane himself, all of that tying to the true nature of the Sibyl System. She reports all of this directly to Chief Kasei, and knowing what Kasei is...]]
213* ADayInTheLimelight: The first movie of the ''Anime/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem'' trilogy puts her as the main character, together with Ginoza.
214* DaChief: By season 3, she has been promoted to chief of her precinct. She is also much more reasonable than she was as a new recruit.
215* DemotedToExtra: In the movie since the Sibyl System only sent Akane to deal with Kougami.
216* DependingOnTheWriter: In Season 2, she complains how wrong Akane's methods and strategies are behind her back and doesn't even bother to tell it to her face. But in the movie, she had no objections to Akane's strategy in the beginning and has the guts to call her out for being dense to Sibyl's true plan.
217* FatalFlaw:
218** [[GreenEyedMonster Envy]]. She's jealous of Akane being more experienced than her and being favored by Chief Kasei. And instead of working with Akane on some very important information connected to Kamui's case which she just found or telling her about Togane's odd behavior, she does things on her own. [[spoiler:She got herself in trouble on the wrong place at the wrong time]].
219** Also, [[DirtyCoward cowardice]]. She [[spoiler: lacks the courage to either stand up to Sakuya or Chief Kasei, or to later disavow their methods. Instead, to save her own skin, she sells out her partner and becomes the "ideal member of society."]]
220* {{Foil}}: To Akane. Akane is hands-on, treats the enforcers with respect, is willing to go around the rules to actually do good work and is very effective. Mika doesn't seem to do anything, is extremely arrogant towards enforcers, rigid and never seems to do anything other than complain about Akane's methods. [[spoiler:When learning about the truth about Sibyl, Akane lost her faith in them considering that her friend was killed by someone who has the same condition as them while Mika just accepts them without hesitation. Akane acknowledges her flaws and grows out of them, Mika does not and only gets worse as time goes on]].
221* {{Foreshadowing}}: Her "detective's intuition" was hinted at as early as Season 1, when she was the only one of her classmates to see through Rikako's charm, even noticing that [[TheSociopath "her eyes can be so blank sometimes".]] Sadly, it doesn't do her a lot of good in Season 2.
222* HairTriggerTemper: She's prone to exploding if anything remotely pisses her off. Even after becoming Chief Inspector, this aspect stuck.
223* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:After Mika presents her report about Kamui and Togane, Kasei realized that she used the term for the criminally asymptomatic person, ''AA'' (''a priori acquit'') in her report which is supposed to be top secret. When Kasei is thinking on what do with Mika, Togane suggested to let her learn about the truth behind Sibyl after discovering that she might be criminally asymptomatic too]].
224* HeroicBSOD: Seems to have one in episode 4 due to her belief in Sibyl and her desire to help people coming into conflict.
225* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She has absolute faith on the system and instead on relying her partner and teammates, she does things on her own and goes to the boss on her progress. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, said boss happens to be part of the system who are not exactly trustworthy and then, she ended up in a terrible situation]].
226* HotBlooded: Mika is by far one of the most passionate characters of the show, often going into outbursts out of annoyance or anger. It's toned down in season 3, though it's not by a whole lot.
227* ImprobableAge: Joins Division 1 at age 17 at the end of the first season, and by the third season, she's the head of the division at age 24.
228* {{Jerkass}}: She's openly disrespectful to her superior and has a disparaging attitude towards her Enforcers. It does not get better over the course of the season. The movie shows that she's still disrespectful towards Akane.
229** This has definitely lessened as time has gone on however. See CharacterDevelopment and TookALevelInKindness.
230* KarmaHoudini: Unless you count [[spoiler:being threatened by Togane and the Sibyl System to be their pawn and realizing that her investigation led to Aoi Tsunemori's death]], it seemed that she moved on and denied any responsibility for it. Of course, in the world of Psycho-pass, there's no InternalAffairs who would investigate on who is responsible [[spoiler:of leaking the location of Akane's grandma]] and the Sibyl System covered everything up to prevent her from being reprimanded.
231* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Is constantly telling others how to do their jobs (and not just the enforcers under her), as of episode 6 of season 2, she hasn't shown any competence whatsoever and basically doesn't know what she's going to do when bad things happened. However, episode 8 shows that she has good investigative skills except her jealousy on Akane clouded her judgment.
232-->'''Joushuu Kasei''': [[LampshadeHanging She'll be eaten alive.]]
233-->'''Mika''': There's no way that we can deal all of this!
234-->'''Jouji Saiga''': [[BrutalHonesty Don't whine. You're an Inspector, aren't you?]]
235* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Subverted. She had a minor role during Rikako's arc, but you'd be forgiven for not remembering her.
236* MyGreatestFailure: Since she told Kagami to go to talk to Rikako, she felt partially responsible for her death.
237** Appears to be updated at the end of the second season: for all her hypocrisy and self-righteousness, it is ultimately revealed that Mika cannot bring herself to justify [[spoiler: allowing Akane's grandmother to be tortured and killed just to save her own ass.]] When Yayoi (whom until then Mika seemed to have a crush on, perhaps making this particularly painful for her) says that if she ever finds out that person she'll "never forgive them", Mika simply replies that ''neither would she.''
238* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Even though she knew the real truth about the Sibyl System and what kind of methods did they used, she slowly accepted it. This is shown in the movie that despite how terrible their methods are, she knew that it's for the benefit of the society.
239* NaiveNewcomer: Similarly to how Akane used to be at the beginning during her first job as an inspector. Apparently, she grows out of it at Season 2, reminding Akane that she can handle herself.
240* NeverMyFault: So, she didn't read Hinakawa's report, the one that turned out to be vital to figuring out who Kamui was. Obviously, Hinakawa should have followed proper procedure and told her verbally.
241** She shows no competence as a commander and no effectiveness in enforcing the law, so what does she do, put in effort to become better at her job? Nope, she pins it all on Akane (twice) and Tougane (though he was indeed a threat).
242** [[spoiler: This gets taken to a horrific new level when Sibyl has her investigate and find the location of Akane's grandmother Aoi, who is kidnapped and later murdered by Togane. She ''knows'' her investigation led to it, but still denies being responsible.]]
243* NewMeat: She thinks that Akane treats her like a rookie despite working with the bureau for a year and a half.
244* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Many innocent civilians die in episode 4, partly due to her inaction and strict adherence to the rules. If she had acted earlier, it's possible the situation wouldn't have ever escalated to the degree it did.
245** In addition, had she not tried to get Akane dismissed or suspended in her report to the Chief, she would have [[spoiler: not only saved herself from being Sibyl's pawn, but also saved Aoi Tsunemori from being beaten to death by Togane.]]
246* OddCouple: With Ginoza, after she goes through her CharacterDevelopment. It's to the point where - even though she very much would not like to admit it - she does care about him and greatly admires his skillset.
247* OnlySaneMan: [[spoiler: She’s the only person who realizes Rikako is hiding something nasty.]]
248* PoorCommunicationKills: If it weren't for her jealousy or paranoia, she could have told Akane about some very important things about Kamui's case and Togane's troubling behavior [[spoiler:which could have prevented herself from being Sibyl's pawn and the death of Aoi Tsunemori]].
249* ProperlyParanoid: As it turns out, she was right to be worried about her Hue darkening by talking to Professor Saiga, as he has a long history of darkening people's Hues due to the nature of the subject matter he discusses with them. [[spoiler: That is, if she was a normal person and not (possibly) criminally asymptomatic.]]
250* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mika appears to become this by Season 3, where despite being frustrated by the trouble Arata and Kei cause, she trusts their investigative instincts enough to overlook most of it. And while she expects them to toe the line, she's also willing to offer an explanation for her orders.
251* TheResenter: She often undermines Akane's authority and questions what the Chief sees in her, despite Akane having more experience. She's also terrified of clouding her hue and resents Akane for the ease with which she keeps her own hue clear. She seems to have gotten over this in season 3, holding Akane in a fairly high manner, if not with a bit of hesitancy.
252* StartOfDarkness: Season 2 sets her up to eventually become a loyal servant of Sibyl that follows their orders without question even after learning the AwfulTruth. She proceeds to fulfill her role in the movie by following Kaisei's orders and knowing of the full extent of Sibyl's plan for [=SEAUn=] and their plan to get Akane out of the way.
253* ThisIsUnforgivable: Her true reaction to [[spoiler:helping Togane]], but ultimately subverted since she still follows Sibyl and doesn't try to atone.
254* TookALevelInKindness: In the ''[[Anime/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem Sinners of the System]]'' movie trilogy, she's no longer has antagonistic feelings towards Akane and has a good working relationship with Ginoza. In the first movie, she becomes kinder and more heroic after helping a latent criminal who wants to protect her best friend's son and tries to expose the wrongdoings of "Sanctuary". Concurrently, she is now willing to call out Sybil for it's morally dubious actions even as she continues to serve them. This gets taken further in season 3. She's still hot-blooded as ever, but she is far more reasonable than when she was a new recruit and much more affable to her subordinates. She gets relatively pissed-off at them nonetheless (not without reason however), but she's willing to oversee things if it means that the criminal gets apprehended.
255* TookALevelInBadass: Not a super blatant one, but she goes from an obstructive inspector and rabid supporter of Sibyl to an effective and reasonable leader capable of making and handling her own decisions.
256* TragicBigot: It’s heavily {{Implied}} that her dislike of those judged as criminals by the Sybil System, [[BadBoss which includes most of the Enforcers under her command]], is because of how she lost two of her friends to [[TeensAreMonsters Ōryō’s]] killing spree. This is also likely what spurs her resentment of Akane for going out of her way to save latent criminals, seeing her as a CategoryTraitor.
257* {{Tsundere}}: In season 3. Though she tries to hide it, she has come to care for former enforcers (particularly Ginoza and Yayoi) she used to work with and is upset at Frederica for taking them from the PSB.
258* VomitDiscretionShot: She vomits in the bathroom after seeing several innocent people get blown up by the Dominators, people taken hostage by one of Kamui's followers who had been forced to witness others get murdered right in front of them, had their stress levels spike and were made targets for enforcement action.
259* WellIntentionedExtremist: In the movie, she had overdone the Memory Scoop on one of the terrorists just to find out more on the identities of the rebels on Sibyl's orders. Later on, [[spoiler:she's fully aware of Sibyl's trick on Akane which would keep her from meddling their affairs with [=SEAUn=] unless it's a must and didn't told this or Sibyl's plans to anyone, including Akane, despite how despicable they are]]. Her page quote above proves that she's willing to do what needs to be done in order to get results.
260* YesMan: In the movie, she follows orders of Chief Kasei [[spoiler:and by extension, the Sibyl System]] through and through.
261* YouthfulFreckles: They emphasize how young and inexperienced she is in comparison to Akane or Ginoza, and how young and inexperienced she thinks she isn't.
262[[/folder]]
263
264[[folder:Arata Shindo]]
265!!Inspector Arata Shindo
266!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuukiKaji (Japanese), Creator/DallasReid (English)
267
268An Inspector from Division 1 in Season 3. He is a specialist class A mentalist and has the ability to cross the mental boundaries and identify himself with the subject he's chasing through an advanced empathy. He comes from a rich background and his father was from the Ministry of Welfare who puts him in the Public Safety Bureau to protect him from an unknown threat. He is recommended by Akane to be her replacement.
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270* AmbiguouslyEvil: At the Season 3 Finale, he comments that he knows how the criminal thinks because "It's something I would do." He also hopes in a monologue at the end that he'll stay on the right path so long as he seeks the truth, hinting at some malevolence on his part. [[spoiler:The nature of him being criminally asymptomatic is also interesting, since despite that, he seems to be empathetic to people around him.]]
271* BadassInDistress: In the first part of ''First Inspector'', [[spoiler:Asuzawa abducts him as part of his plan to break into the Nona Tower where the Sibyl System is stationed]].
272* BigDamnHeroes: He rescues Karina Komiya who is nearly killed by Enomiya's men. After the case is closed, Arata goes on a date with her.
273* BigEater: He has a huge appetite and at one point enjoys eating one bowl of ramen which nearly made him fat.
274* BunnyEarsLawyer: Some people see him as a [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} weirdo]] but he's actually a competent investigator.
275* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: His "Mentalist" ability could be considered this as his extensive training and naturally empathic nature allows him to cross mental boundaries through Mental Tracing. The biggest downside to this is that it leaves him extremely vulnerable to going in too deep into a suspect or [[spoiler:himself, as seen in ''First Inspector''.]]
276* ChildhoodFriends: With his fellow inspector and partner, Kei.
277* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: He has to be kept on a leash at all times when he does a Mental Trace as he is exceptionally vulnerable and at risk of going in too deep. Case in point, he goes into a catatonic state if someone (namely Kei) doesn't snap him out of it.
278* TheEmpath: He has a "Mentalist" ability that lets him empathize with his surroundings which is useful in helping him retrace the steps of the subject he's investigating. However, he can go too deep into his Mental Tracing which causes some concern from his coworkers who feared that may darken his Hue and at one point, he nearly goes in a catatonic state until Kei puts him in the car's backseat to revive him. [[spoiler:His condition as a criminally asymptomatic prevents his Crime Coefficient from increasing which makes him as an ideal Inspector and possibly a candidate to join the Sibyl System. Even though he chooses not to, the system still values his insight.]]
279* HeterosexualLifePartners: He's Kei's best friend and he trusts him to watch his back whenever he gets too deep in his Mental Tracing. It's even more interesting that his father was a suspect on the murder of Kei's brother and eventually committed suicide. This causes the two friends to work together to find the truth behind this case.
280* LeParkour: He's skilled at it to where he can jump over ledges and buildings with ease.
281* LonelyBachelorPad: He lives alone and [[MenCantKeepHouse his apartment is a mess]] with trash bags littered around and yet, he sleeps in his car.
282* MartialPacifist: Arata is a friendly and caring individual, so he never resorts to fighting as his first option.
283* {{Nepotism}}: His late father was from the Ministry of Welfare; though there is no drama involving nepotism on Arata's part since he's also been called out by Mika due to his and Kei's recklessness.
284* NiceGuy: He's very friendly to people whether they're latent criminals or not.
285* TheNicknamer: He calls Yayoi "Legendary Lady Detective" much to her chagrin.
286* OddCouple: With Kei. He's more of the cheerful and emotional type compared to Kei's professional attitude. Despite this, they view each other as best friends and have each other's backs no matter what, even if there are major roadblocks.
287* AnOddPlaceToSleep: He sleeps in the backseat of his car because of his past case.
288* ThePollyanna: For an Inspector investigating violent crimes, he's very cheerful and upbeat which makes several people view as an idiot who gets into trouble and doesn't take his job seriously. When he uses his Mentalist ability, it's a different story. And despite his mother being euthanized and his father being a murder suspect who killed himself, Arata's Hue remains clear. [[spoiler:Turns out his Psycho-Pass is clear because he's criminally asymptomatic.]]
289* TheProfiler: His "Mentalist" abilities combined with his high empathy allows him to identify the motives, thoughts, and emotions of a subject by crossing the mental boundary.
290* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
291** Unlike most Inspectors, he treats Enforcers kindly and sees them as people not hunting dogs. And like Kei, he believes in pursuing justice [[spoiler:which is why Akane trusts them to continue this belief]].
292** [[spoiler:He's able to detect that the Sibyl System tampered Azusawa's crime coefficient so they force him to get rid of him lethally. He even admits that he hates using the Dominators but fortunately, they have triggers so that no one would abuse it]].
293* SecretSecretKeeper: As revealed in ''First Inspector'', [[spoiler:he's actually the very first character who knows what the Sibyl System is because his late father brought him to their main hub when he was a little boy and told him he might join them soon. Arata chose not to because he wants a normal life which his father respected. By then, Arata's memories of that encounter were surpressed throughout his life until he had to relive them again so he can use this information to defeat Azusawa.]]
294* ShipTease: He seems to be paired with Karina Komiya after he saved her from her would-be killers. After that, Karina asks him on a date while in incognito. While on their date, Arata admits that he voted for her during the gubernatorial elections. He keeps her number, which he uses in the next arc to call and warn her that she's the target of a suicide bomber. She acts very much like a {{Tsundere}} toward him.
295* ShipperOnDeck: He's the one who convinces Kei to propose to Maiko.
296* TriggerPhrase: Whenever he does a mental trace, he often utters "the rain is falling" or "it's raining". Kei has to say "the rain is over" or some other variant to stop his Mental Tracing before he goes in too deep. [[spoiler:This becomes much more important in ''First Inspector'' as it's one of the key things that his father told him before he suppressed his memories of Sibyl. It's also a key part in why he is the person that he is today.]]
297* WhatTheHellHero: Kei calls him out and punches him for not protecting his wife [[spoiler:which led to her abduction and confinement in the rehabilitation facility]].
298* YouRemindMeOfX: Mika notices the similarities between Arata and Akane due to their desire to protect people. It even comes to head in ''First Inspector'' where like Akane, [[spoiler:Arata calls out on the Sibyl System for their bias particularly tampering his Dominator into lethal mode so they can force him to kill Azusawa]].
299[[/folder]]
300
301[[folder:Kei Mikhail Ignatov]]
302!!Inspector Kei Mikhail Ignatov
303!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuuichiNakamura (Japanese), Eduardo Vildasol (English)
304
305An Inspector from Division 1 in Season 3. He's a second-generation Russian immigrant, naturalized Japanese. Kei's a former military veteran who excels in fighting and shooting and has a strong sense of justice. He's Arata Shindo's childhood friend and decides to become an inspector for some purpose they both in common with him. He's married to Maiko Maya Stronskaya, a fellow immigrant who is blind. He is recommended by Mika to be her replacement.
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307* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Is an absolute beast in hand-to-hand combat. He is just not as good as Kougami. Although, it's implied that [[WillfullyWeak he does hold himself back]] to keep himself in check.
308* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler:After he and Mao were discovered by Torii, they were both captured and tortured. He can still fight with the help from Ginoza.]]
309* BaritoneOfStrength: He has one of deepest voices in the cast and has extensive military training.
310* ChildhoodFriends: With his fellow inspector and partner, Arata.
311* ChildhoodFriendRomance: In ''First Inspector'', he met Maiko when he was a boy and Arata convinced him to propose her.
312* ExperiencedProtagonist: A beast in hand-to-hand combat, a skilled marksman, and a competent investigator due to his time in the Russian army.
313* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: ''First Inspector'' shows that he was blonde as a child, but dyed it black around high school.
314* HappilyMarried: To Maiko, who is blind and undergoing treatment.
315* HazyFeelTurn: [[spoiler:Homura offers him to be a Bifrost "Inspector" so he arranged Maiko's release from the rehabilitation facility. Kei eventually takes it out of desperation considering the growing anti-immigrant discrimination and issues that prevented Maiko's release, all thanks to Azusawa's manipulation. Fortunately, Homura is actually on the bureau's side, meaning Kei never turns on Arata and their teammates]].
316* HeterosexualLifePartners: He's Arata's best friend and trusts his Mentalist ability to solve crimes. He also watches his back to ensure that he doesn't get lost in his Mental Tracing. In fact, his late brother, Akira, is said to be murdered by Arata's father who eventually killed himself. Both he and Arata are working together to find the truth behind it.
317* LockedOutOfTheLoop: As revealed in the ''Providence'' movie, [[spoiler:Kei has no idea that Akira was an undercover agent under Atsushi's command. The only bits he knows are that Atsushi killed him but he never knows that Akira told him to because he was nearly brainwashed. Kei would also never know that Akira killed Maiko's mother, who requested to do the deed, as part of his cover]].
318* NotSoStoic:
319** Kei punches Tenma's stepbrother in the face when he takes his insults too far.
320** In general, anti-immigrant sentiment doesn't sit well with him as he is an one himself. He indirectly calls out a lot of people on this, specifically Governor Komiya when she replaced all of her immigrant staff (though it was against her will mind you).
321** [[spoiler:After Maiko's kidnapping at the hands of Toori, he punches Arata in the face as Kei thinks he failed to protect her. Their interactions after that become contentious for a bit, mostly on Kei's end.]] He makes up with Arata in ''First Inspector''.
322* OddCouple: With Arata. He has a more professional, if not stoic attitude compared to Arata's more emotional nature, but they work together flawlessly despite their compatibility rates being frowned upon by Sibyl. This even extends to their skillsets - Arata's a hardcore profiler that only has his parkour skills to back him up; Kei has extensive military training in both firearms and hand-to-hand combat.
323* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Unlike most Inspectors and Enforcers, he rarely uses his Dominator to subdue suspects unless it's necessary and uses his martial arts instead. He keeps his Enforcers in line and is willing to bring criminals to justice.
324* TheStoic: Downplayed. He's mostly levelheaded under duress and doesn't lose his cool that often, but he's more than willing to show emotion in casual settings or when someone really pisses him off.
325* ThirteenIsUnlucky: [[spoiler:He's the thirteenth inspector for Bifrost.]]
326* WillfullyWeak: Maiko mentions in episode 7 that Kei could probably kill everyone in the vicinity, but chooses not to for her sake.
327* WhatTheHellHero: Chief Shimotsuki gives him a well-deserved tongue-lashing after he punched out Tenma's stepbrother and suspends his badge. No matter how offended he was at the stepbrother's insulting words to Tenma, he had absolutely no justification to commit physical battery on a civilian. [[spoiler:Apparently, Azusawa and Obata use this incident to increase the public's anti-immigrant sentiment which puts Kei into a corner and eventually leads him to take Homura's offer to be a Bifrost "Inspector" in exchange of Maiko's release.]]
328[[/folder]]
329
330!!Division 2
331[[folder:Risa Aoyanagi]]
332!!Inspector Risa Aoyanagi
333!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MasumiAsano (Japanese), Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard (English)
334[[quoteright:235:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/80345_5419.jpg]]
335->''I feel that this lid starts to come off when I'm holding a Dominator. Because it starts to, my rationality stops it. That rationality is what makes me an Inspector.''
336
337An Inspector from Division 2.
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339* AgentScully: Blithely brushes aside Kitazawa's assertions that he had a friend who was helping him because there is absolutely no evidence or scan data of anyone assisting him with his crimes. While Akane is convinced this person exists, Risa dismisses it as "a ghost."
340* ApologeticAttacker: She whispers a brief "sorry" right before she vaporizes her rebellious Enforcer Ryougo Kouzuki in ''New Edit'' episode 9.
341* AscendedExtra: She appeared very briefly in episodes 17 and 18 of the first season, then had a special scene in the ''New Edit'' and eventually a larger role in the second season. She's also one of the main characters of ''[[Anime/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem Sinners of the System - Case 2: First Guardian]]'' alongside Masaoka and Sugo.
342* BondOneLiner: [[spoiler: She delivers one to Kitazawa before killing him.]]
343--> [[spoiler: Kitazawa: ''Hey, tell me something, will you? What color am I?'']]
344--> [[spoiler: Risa: ''What color? Let's call it..."Raw Sewage Red."'']]
345* {{Determinator}}: She took one whole of a beating in episodes 3 and 4, but would not stop fighting back against the criminal. [[spoiler: It took a new model of Dominator, the Assault long-range model, to kill her.]]
346* FanDisservice: [[spoiler:She spends the entirety of episode 4 in her black bra and panties and handcuffed while the latent criminal at the mental care facility is terrorizing the other hostages, who have also been stripped to their underwear. Then she gets her head put through a light fixture and blood pours all over her face before being killed by a Dominator shot.]]
347* FatalFlaw: {{Pride}}. In the hostage crisis, the person who had the nail gun actually had the chance to shoot the villain, but Risa insisted that she should be the one to save everyone. [[spoiler: Seeing as that person is a holographed Kamui, [[FlawExploitation her flaw might have been part of his plan altogether.]]]]
348* HeroicResolve: Knowing the hostages at the mental health facility are in danger is what gives her the strength to stand up again after being thrown through a light fixture and keep fighting.
349* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: Admits to having one to Ginoza in the second season — which, [[NerdsAreVirgins ironically]], gives him a chance to flirt with her.
350* KnightTemplar: When one of her Enforcers tried to escape during the chaos of the riots Makishima started, she hunted him down and killed him with no mercy, per Sibyl's policy. This was only implied during the original season 1, but the ''New Edit'' episode 9 explicitly shows her executing him.
351* LoopholeAbuse: The plan to get Kougami out of Nona Tower was to have her swap out a Division 2 Enforcer with him so he could leave without technically breaking any rules. Too bad Chief Kasei was one step ahead of the game for all involved.
352* PetTheDog: In the second ''[[Anime/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem Sinners of the System]]'' movie, she treats Masaoka with respect despite his status as an Enforcer since she knows his past. She even lets him visit his wife at a nursing home in Okinawa despite his son's objection.
353* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Aoyonagi could have ended things earlier if she shot the villain in episode 4 with the Nail Gun. Heck, it didn't have to be lethal, it could just be to incapacitate the guy. But she insisted in using the Dominator and doing things right.
354* YourHeadAsplode: Admits she enjoys doing this to others with the Dominator somewhat. [[spoiler:Then it happens to her due to Kamui's manipulations.]]
355[[/folder]]
356
357[[folder:Mizue Shisui]]
358!!Inspector Mizue Shisui
359!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MarinaInoue (Japanese), Creator/MonicaRial (English)
360
361[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mizue_129.jpg]]
362[[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here to see a major spoiler]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/evil_mizue_girl_6723.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
363
364Mizue Shisui is an inspector of Division 2 in Psycho Pass season 2. Her parents are both officials. She has quite a sense of inferiority about her relatively unstable Crime Coefficient.
365----
366* {{Brainwashed}}: Due to the injection Kamui gave her in episode 1, [[spoiler:made worse in episode 3. By the start of episode 5 she is fully Main/DrinkingTheKoolAid.]]
367* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: [[spoiler: She resorts to using a crossbow in the final episode.]]
368* ByTheBookCop: Disapproves of Akane's tactics like letting two Enforcers go after the suspect without a supervising Inspector.
369* CopKiller: Of the KillerCop variety after she teams up with Kamui to gether Dominators by killing Inspectors and Enforcers.
370* {{Determinator}}: In the finale, [[spoiler: she has doped herself up on so many stimulants that multiple Paralyzer shots only stun her briefly. Sugo finally drops her when he hits her with a Paralyzer from the Assault Dominator.]]
371* TheDragon: [[spoiler:To Kamui.]]
372* EvilCostumeSwitch: [[spoiler: Now in a red leather outfit complete with red lipstick shown in the new trailer. ]]
373* EyepatchOfPower: [[spoiler: Going with her new red outfit seen in the new trailer for the season. ]]
374* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Thanks to Kamui's work she is without her right eye.]]
375* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Stunned by Kamui's ability to decrease her Crime Coefficient, she joins Kamui's side and promises to stay with him]].
376* FatalFlaw: {{Lust}}. [[spoiler: Her desire to go by the rules not to mention keeping her Crime Coefficient clean drove her into accepting Kamui's ideas and perhaps even wanting to love him considering how hard she fought for him. In the end, she is now a traitor locked up all by herself…]]
377* GenerationXerox: Her family is known to be working in the Ministry of Welfare.
378* ImageSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTK2NuR2wx8 Fallen]], the second ending of Season 2, [[spoiler:describing her MadLove and single-minded devotion to Kamui after he cleared her Hue]].
379* MonsterFangirl: [[spoiler:Eventually. It's also '''strongly''' implied that she's attracted to him.]]
380* MoreThanMindControl: [[spoiler: By the time we get to episode 6, she's definitely with Kamui out of her own free will rather than any coercion on his part.]]
381* RogueAgent: [[spoiler:Betrays the bureau and personally murders several agency members when she joins Kamui's side.]]
382* StockholmSyndrome: [[spoiler:Despite being abducted and mutilated by him, she becomes a fervent supporter of Kamui after he decreases her CC.]]
383* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: In episode 10 she is completely obsessed with Kamui believing he will truly clear the entire world of its color. It's unsure if this is because of the medicine, Kamui's words to her before, or just her own desires for him.]]
384* SoleSurvivor:[[spoiler: Of Kamui's team, as even Kamui himself is killed.]]
385* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Tried to blow herself up during the raid but she was stopped in time. ]]
386* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Thanks the corrupt politicians for fulfilling their roles but, in light of what occurred afterwards, she was really making use of this trope.]]
387[[/folder]]
388
389!Enforcers
390[[folder:Shinya Kōgami]]
391!!Enforcer Shinya Kōgami
392!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomokazuSeki (Japanese), Creator/RobertMcCollum (English)
393->''Being a detective isn't about bringing someone down, but rather protecting someone.''
394
395[[quoteright:275:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shinya_kogami_anime.png]]
396
397The main character of the series, Shinya is an Enforcer in Unit 1. In the past, he used to be an Inspector, but after a certain unsolved case, his Psycho-Pass exceeded the acceptable level and he was demoted to Enforcer. While a skilled fighter who trains his body daily, where he truly shines is in figuring out how a criminal's mind and motives work.
398----
399* AnimalMotifs: All the Enforcers have a dog motif going on, but he's explicitly described as a ''wolf''; a wild animal that's leashed but untamed, and is both vicious and relentless when tracking down prey.
400* AntiHero: Generally [[KnightInSourArmor cynical but well-meaning]] but has a darker side that comes out on occasion, ''especially'' when fighting Makishima. That part of him tends to bump him up to a [[PayEvilUntoEvil more vicious person]] temporarily.
401%%Do not put Badass with a single asterisk and the subtropes with two asterisks below. That goes against example indentation.
402* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Kogami's deductions about a criminal's behavior and background are often accurate. His deductions are made even more impressive considering that they're often pulled from extremely small details from crime scenes and that he tends to make them before most of his colleagues. [[spoiler: All expected of a former Inspector turned Enforcer.]]
403* BadassInANiceSuit: Proficient in guns, hand-to-hand combat and always wearing the standard black Public Bureau suit. Back when he was an Inspector, his suits were specifically tailored. After he leaves the Bureau, he wears fatigues and casual clothing more often to signify that he's become a drifter, and eventually part of the MFA.
404* BadassNormal: In the movie, he is more than able to hold his own against heavily augmented cyborg mercenaries in hand-to-hand combat.
405* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: He believes this is what makes him valuable to inspectors:
406-->'''Kogami:''' Inspectors can't play vigilante, but I can.
407* BatDeduction: His profiling is always on the money, even if there's a significant number of facts not in evidence. He tends to draw these facts from extremely small details like the placement of body parts when a murder victim is displayed.
408* BigBrotherInstinct: To Tenzing Wangchuk, a Japanese-Tibetan refugee who wants to avenge her family's death and asks Kougami to be her mentor in learning how to fight. Kougami does his best to teach her self-defense instead so he can get her away from following his footsteps. When he learned that she was critically injured, he's very pissed.
409* BloodKnight: He gets very excited when fighting criminals. Akane compares him to a carnivore that's cornered its prey.
410* BrutalHonesty: He never filters himself, which makes him come of as extremely cold, especially towards Akane who's sensitive and new to his behavior. The others just seem to pass this off, and she learns to do the same eventually.
411* ByronicHero: Well-meaning, cynical, follows his own rules, emotional (at least for the standards of his society), cultured, likes violence, unpredictable to many while still being highly competent at his job? Check and check.
412* ColdSniper: In the 2015 movie, he's introduced with the rebels as being their sniper.
413* CulturedBadass: Very much so, so much so to the point he can quote Ortega as a counterpoint to Makishima quoting Blaise Pascal.
414* DeadpanSnarker: Makes jokes with a completely straight face, making it difficult to tell when they're actually jokes
415-->'''Kagari:''' Hm? Your wounds are okay?
416-->'''Kogami:''' I told my doctor that I'd set fire to my room if he kept me there any longer.
417-->'''Kagari:''' That's the Ko we know and love!
418-->'''Kogami:''' I was kidding.
419* DeathGlare: Shoots an extremely toxic look at Makishima when they first meet.
420* DecoyProtagonist: The promotional videos and general marketing seemed to make him out to be the protagonist, mostly ignoring Akane in favor of featuring him with Makishima in photos. While he's still the main character alongside Akane, he takes quite a backseat to her, who grows significantly more as a character and ultimately receives the most spotlight. This is averted in the third ''[[Anime/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem Sinners of the System]]'' movie where he's the protagonist.
421* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: [[spoiler:After getting his revenge against Makishima and fleeing Japan after the first season, his whole life spirals into this. He spends the next 4 years aimlessly wandering across Asia, fighting in the [=SEAUn=] civil war that ultimately turns out to be a meaningless FullCircleRevolution, and generally just trying to be a KnightErrant across the continent, but there is no larger purpose or goal in sight. It isn't until ''[[Anime/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem Sinners of the System: Case 3]]'' where Frederica Hanashiro finally calls him out on this and offers to take him back to Japan to give him some direction and meaning to his life]].
422* {{Determinator}}: Nothing stops him from trying to do what is right, not even [[spoiler:getting shot by a nail gun or getting his ''skull cracked'', or even discovering the Public Safety Bureau is ''very'' corrupt. In the latter case, it just inspires him to do what's right outside of the law.]]
423* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: In the side materials, he and Ginoza went to the same high school and became best friends. When Ginoza told him his future plans on becoming an Inspector, Kougami quickly decided to also become an Inspector.
424* ExperiencedProtagonist: Trained in martial arts and was an inspector who was respected by his colleagues before the series started. [[TookALevelInBadass He only gets more badass from there.]]
425* {{Foil}}: To Makishima, in everything from appearance to personality to even fighting style. However; they both are cultured, determined and [[BloodKnight like violence]].
426* GeniusBruiser: He trains his body almost every day to keep it fighting fit, because he knows he can't always rely on the Dominators. His training shows, since he quite obviously has a lean and muscular body. He's also way smarter than he looks, able to deduce what the mind of the un-sub of the current case thinks faster than most Enforcers.
427* GreatDetective: Kogami's enmity with Makishima draws some pretty obvious parallels with Sherlock and Moriarty. Namely, how good Kogami is at figuring out how criminals think and act from only a handful of details, mimicking Holmes' [[SherlockScan incredible powers of observation]].
428* HardboiledDetective: He's got shades of this. Kogami's a grizzled man with a rough past that led to him becoming an Enforcer. That past has something to do with how good he is at figuring out how criminals act and think because [[spoiler: he used to do it as an Inspector until an Enforcer under his watch was murdered and he sought revenge, driving his Crime Coefficient up until dramatically]].
429* InSeriesNickname: Like Ginoza who is nicknamed "Gino", his name is often shortened to "Ko" by the other members of Division 1, mostly Kagari. Heck, he even called him "Ko-chan".
430* ItsPersonal: Everything that is connected to Makishima since the death of Sasayama and his demotion. [[spoiler:This is also his reason why he left the bureau at the end of episode 18.]]
431* InvincibleHero: Not so much in combat, where he does tend to get seriously injured, but as far as detective work goes, his guessing ability is effectively always correct, sometimes accurately predicting rather outrageous scenarios.
432* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He has noble intentions and morals and is fairly nice in certain settings, but most of the time, he's rude, stoic, cynical, and a bit of a BloodKnight.
433* {{Hunk}}: See MrFanservice
434* KnightInSourArmor: Gruff as hell but actually means well in helping society. As seen in 2nd episode during his interactions with Akane in the hospital after she stun-gunned him into not killing the victim turned latent criminal, he actually wishes to be a real detective helping to make society a better place instead of just a 'hunting dog' of Sibyl System.
435* MadeOfIron: [[spoiler:Many examples, but most notably: survives from a massive kick to the head, by Makishima, which ''cracks'' his skull]].
436* MightyGlacier: Downplayed, but his fighting style has elements of this. He can run, but he often gets into a fighting stance and stays in one place while trying to hit his opponents until he walks or runs again. His fight against [[spoiler:Makishima]] highlights this, with his opponent using much more agile and graceful moves to dodge around Shinya's punches and kicks and take him down.
437* MirrorCharacter: With Makishima, something he [[spoiler:learns to use to help him figure out Makishima's motives and plans in Episode 19.]]
438* MrFanservice: He is featured in many, many [[ShirtlessScene shirtless scenes]] that show his nicely-shaped torso. It can't be accidental.
439* OnlyAFleshWound: [[spoiler:Near fatal gun wounds? Never mind that, Tsunemori's in trouble!]]
440* OnlyICanKillHim: Towards Makishima. "It has to be me."
441* PerpetualFrowner: His default expression is this, though he smiles a few times. Contrasts [[PerpetualSmiler Makishima]].
442* TheProfiler: Given that he studied Social Psychology before and since he's now an Enforcer, he has a better understanding of the criminal mind.
443* PunctuationShaker: "Shin'ya" is the proper romanization of his first name.
444* PutOnABus: Given his actions in the Season 1 finale, he's absent in Season 2. His only presence is in the opening credits and episodes 7 and 10, where he exists only in Akane's mind when discussing about Kamui's case and comforting her [[spoiler:after being offered a SadisticChoice by the Sibyl System]]. He returns with a vengeance in [[Anime/PsychoPassTheMovie the movie]] and Season 3.
445* SilentScapegoat: In ''[[Anime/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem Sinners of the System: Case 3]]'', the Tibet-Himalaya United Kingdom government and the guerrilla factions in the peace talks blame him for killing Garcia and a leader in the Purple Dragon clan. Kogami, however, doesn't think much of it since this allows him to go back to Japan with Frederica by the time the announcement was made. In fact, if the public learns about Garcia being the mastermind, the peace talks would fall part.
446* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: [[spoiler:Quits the Public Safety Bureau when he finds out Chief Kasei wants to protect Makishima, who is responsible for numerous deaths, rather than arrest or kill Makishima. He even admits to Akane in his letter that this is the only way where he can go after Makishima.]]
447* SlasherSmile: While gleefully taunting a latent criminal in Episode 3.
448* SmokingIsCool: Chain smoker extraordinaire.
449* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His first name can be spelled "Shinya" or "Shin'ya", while his last name can be spelled "Kōgami", "Kougami", or "Kogami".
450* SpiritAdvisor: Metaphorically. Since he's [[PutOnABus on a bus]] in Season 2, he only appears in Akane's mind when she's dealing with difficult situations.
451* StartOfDarkness: He was originally an Inspector, until during a particularly nasty case when [[spoiler:he saw the mutilated corpse of Sasayama, an Enforcer who worked under him who was captured by the un-sub & killed.]] [[DespairEventHorizon This caused his Psycho-Pass to exceed safe levels]], which resulted in a subsequent demotion to Enforcer.
452* TheStoic: If it doesn't involve Makishima, he rarely ever loses his cool.
453* StrongAndSkilled: He's got an impressive level of raw athleticism, chasing criminals on foot and taking some major punishment during some more brutal fights. All of this goes hand in hand with his extremely refined martial arts skills, making him a threat even without his Dominator.
454* TallDarkAndHandsome: In stark contrast to Makishima's white hair.
455* ThouShallNotKill: [[spoiler:He tries to adapt this in ''Case 3'' but backfired badly when one of the guys he spared faked his surrender and shot him at the back. Kougami would have been killed if weren't for Frederica's sniper shot]].
456* WalkingTheEarth: [[spoiler:After leaving Japan, he goes around in wartorn countries, particularly in Asia, helping refugees and aiding resistance groups]].
457* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: [[spoiler:After killing Makishima to avenge Sasayama's death, he leaves Japan and wanders around Asia only to realize that revenge cost him his home, his job and his friends while Makishima's ghost haunts him wherever he goes. ''Case 3'' is about coming into terms with his vengeance and putting closure to it]].
458* VictoryByEndurance: This was Kougami's initial plan to deal with [=SEAUn=]'s ruling body and their aid from the Sibyl System in ''Anime/PsychoPassTheMovie''. Hoping that they realize how [[DealWithTheDevil working with Sibyl would eventually backfire]]. Unfortunately this falls through as they continue being backed by Sibyl. [[spoiler:Because Sibyl already planned ahead for that scenario]].
459* VigilanteMan: [[spoiler:Becomes this at the end of episode 18 since this is the only way where he could go after Makishima.]]
460* YouCantGoHomeAgain: At the end of the first season, [[spoiler:Shinya must leave Japan or the Sibyl System will find him and execute him for killing Makishima.]] However at the end of ''[[Anime/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem Sinners of the System Case 3 - Beyond Love and Hate]]'', [[spoiler:[[HesBack he plans to go back to Japan]] after accepting Frederica's offer to join her team at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs because she believes that he has some unfinished business and people to save. Plus MOFA's Overseas Coordination Bureau wants an Enforcer-type officer of his background.]]
461[[/folder]]
462
463[[folder:Tomomi Masaoka]]
464!!Enforcer Tomomi Masaoka
465!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KinryuArimoto (Japanese), Creator/JasonDouglas (English)
466-> ''Everything you've been taught is based on theories and logic. Soon, you'll come to realize how pointless they are.''
467
468[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tomomi_masaoka_anime.png]]
469
470The oldest Enforcer in Unit 1. A veteran in his job, he provides exposition and helps Akane learn the ropes in her newfound job. He serves as the voice of reason in most circumstances.
471----
472* TheAlcoholic: He's frequently seen carrying around an alcohol bottle and even uses it to light a flamethrower in Episode 5.
473* ArtificialLimbs: Has a robotic left arm.
474* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Like Shinya, he is very analytical when it comes to the workings of the criminal mind.
475* CoolOldGuy: Kind and supportive of Akane, and very friendly when not on the job; Even on the job, he is generally a pretty decent guy.
476* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: He was (and still is) a latent criminal.
477* ADayInTheLimelight: The second movie of the ''[[Anime/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem Sinners of the System]]'' trilogy puts him as the main character, investigating a case involving a rogue unmanned combat drone fired on the Ministry of Defense.
478* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:In the arms of his son, Nobuchika.]]
479* FinalSpeech:
480-->[[spoiler:I'm not fit to be called a detective. You are my son after all. Your eyes....look just the same as mine..when I was young.]]
481* FunctionalAddict: He is almost always drinking, yet keeps a clear and rational head at all times and is in near-perfect fighting condition for a man who should be past his physical prime.
482* GenderBlenderName: The phonetic name of ''Tomomi'' is more commonly used as a girl's name; however, his particular way of writing it (智己) isn't particularly feminine, since it's neither in kana nor with the kanji 美 ("beauty") on the end.
483* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:In Episode 21, he dies protecting his son, Ginoza, from dynamite that Makishima tossed.]]
484* HiddenSupplies: From back when he was a normal police officer before the Sibyl System was implemented. [[spoiler:He lets Shinya take them when the latter quits the bureau in order to hunt down Makishima.]]
485* HowDareYouDieOnMe: [[spoiler:He gets scolded by his own son for letting Makishima escape in order to save him.]]
486* InSeriesNickname: Kogami and Kagari call him "Pops", underlining his role as TeamDad.
487* IWantGrandkids: According to [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary materials.]] [[spoiler:Sadly, he doesn't live to see if Nobuchika makes him any.]]
488* MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler:Being a mentor to his young teammates, he's not exempted from following this fate.]]
489* NiceGuy: A nice man who is supportive of his co-workers. He has never shown a hint of jerkassery.
490* OlderSidekick: Older than Akane and (so far other than Kogami) has been her most reliable Enforcer partner.
491* OlderThanTheyLook: Looks no older than his mid-fifties, but is eventually revealed to already having been the officer with the Tokyo's old Metropolitan Police Department ''before'' the Sibyl System was established, which was about 50 years ago.
492* OldSoldier: Physically strong (enough to wrestle Makishima into submission and lift Ginoza by his shirt collar with ''one hand''), focused while working and can detect people with elevated Psycho-Pass just by reading their body language. [[spoiler: Masaoka was able to pin down and probably would have successfully captured ''Makishima'' had he not had to save Ginoza. Remember that Makishima is a much younger man and the same person who handed Shinya his ass.]]
493* PapaWolf:
494** [[spoiler:His final act was saving his son Ginoza from Makishima's bomb. Rest in peace, Pops.]]
495** In the second ''[[Anime/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem Sinners of the System]]'' movie, he nearly strangles a general who threatens his son and wife's lives.
496* TheProfiler: See AwesomenessByAnalysis. He shares this role with Shinya. In Episode 2, he mentions that this is the reason he was deemed a latent criminal: Being able to think like a criminal in this setting is essentially the same as being one.
497* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler:Faced with one in Episode 21 -- don't let go of Makishima, who he has in a choke hold, and let the grenade blow up Ginoza, or save Ginoza but let Makishima escape. With seconds to make his decision, he chooses the latter at the cost of his own life]].
498* ScarsAreForever: He has a small one running vertically across his lips.
499* TeamDad: Whether you're an Enforcer or an Inspector; he knows that when things go wrong between them, he has to remind them that there are more important things which need to be deal with. [[spoiler:Bonus points for being Ginoza's actual father.]]
500[[/folder]]
501
502[[folder:Shūsei Kagari]]
503!!Enforcer Shūsei Kagari
504!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkiraIshida (Japanese), Creator/ScottFreeman (S1, English), Creator/KyleIgneczi (''Sinners of the System'', English)
505->''Both you and I are trash who simply envy the happiness others have.''
506
507[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shusei_kagari_anime.png]]
508
509A happy-go-lucky and flirtatious young man, Shūsei has been diagnosed as a latent criminal since the age of 5. Contrary to the other characters who are very serious, he provides comic relief by, among other things, flirting with Akane.
510----
511* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: This explains his hatred of the Sibyl System and the privileged citizens of its society.
512--> '''Kagari''': No matter where I went, I was treated like a murderous animal.
513* AntiHero: Less (if he is at all) concerned about civilians and more about taking down criminals.
514* BewareTheNiceOnes: Ironically, while Shūsei is the nicest and friendliest member of Unit 1, he is also the [[TokenEvilTeammate most anti-heroic]] member of the team.
515* BewareTheSillyOnes: He is very easygoing and chatty, but his status as a latent criminal and Enforcer is proof enough that he is quite capable.
516* BigEater: His meal with Akane has him eating quite a bit.
517* CantHoldHisLiquor: While Akane managed to compose herself even after a few drinks, Shūsei is shown to get drunk easily.
518* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He’s cheerful and generally easy-going. He’s also a latent criminal and does his job to a T.
519* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Via a hacked dominator.]] The only real consolation is that [[spoiler:the Dominator was using the setting normally reserved for destroying nonhuman foes. He's essentially disintegrated rather than gruesomely exploded.]]
520* DyingSmirk: [[spoiler:He smiles as the Chief fires the Dominator at him.]]
521* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:As soon as the Chief fires the Dominator at him, he just smiles and calmly accepts his death]].
522* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:[[DefiedTrope Defied]], Shūsei is offered this by Choe Gu-Sung and seems to consider it...then turns it down. However, he ''does'' want Choe to destroy the Sibyl System.]]
523* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner
524-->[[spoiler:'''Kagari''': Oh, give me a break... This bites.]]
525* FriendlyEnemies: [[spoiler: While he makes it quite clear that he is not going to betray the rest of his Unit, becomes amiable with Choe.]]
526* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Sees inside the Sibyl System and is killed by the Chief of Police moments later.]]
527* InformedAttribute: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] and [[DiscussedTrope discussed]]. Since the age of five years old - younger than our society deems able to take responsibility for their choices - the Sibyl System branded him a Latent Criminal, and he has been treated as a wild and criminal danger to society ever since. However, he's never felt any inclination to commit any crimes - at least not unprovoked by his awful situation in life. So, naturally, he has lived his entire life in rejection from society, and the resulting sullen resentment towards the Sibyl system.
528** Further emphasized by the information that in the early days of the Sibyl System, it wasn't unheard of for entire families to be classified as Latent Criminals if just one of them actually was. Much like Masaoka, he's one of those who was essentially sacrificed during the transition into the Sibyl System.
529* KillTheCutie: A generally nice person whose had massive issues, but still made it through. [[spoiler: His death is a massive warning that no one is safe.]]
530* {{Manchild}}: There are hints to this behavior whenever he's not on the job, such as having dinosaur figures near his desk, playing on a handheld gaming console, eating candy out of a jar, etc. Justified in that he grew up in a mental health facility where those things would have been denied to him, so he's only recently experiencing them to make up for a lost childhood.
531* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:Though this is due to that no one on the police force can actually enter the room where Shusei was shot in. It also doesn't help that Shusei was shot with the Dominator in Destroy Decompose mode - normally used on robots rather than comparatively squishy human bodies - rather than the normal Lethal Eliminator mode, so there wasn't much left of his body to ''find''.]]
532* NiceGuy: Contrary to the other very stoic members of Unit 1, he's genuinely relaxed and friendly.
533* TheNicknamer: Likes shortening people's names, like "Gino" for Ginoza and "Ko-chan" for Kogami.
534* NominalHero: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] as Shūsei is still pretty much a good guy. That said, he does hate the Sibyl System, and only works as an Enforcer as he has no other choice due to being a latent criminal. In addition, he is apathetic to the safety of the town's citizens and also doesn't mind the destruction of the Sibyl System. However, Shūsei makes it clear that he hates Makishima, just as much as Sibyl, for his manipulation of others and genuinely wants to kill him for his crimes.
535--> '''Kagari''' (to Choe Gu-Sung): Sibyl is a load of shit, but you guys reek just as badly.
536* PayEvilUntoEvil: This is his only motivation to stop Shōgo Makishima.
537* RealMenCook: He is a very good cook and even made a meal for Akane.
538* RealMenWearPink: Besides the barrettes in his hair, he also prominently wears purple socks.
539* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:The first member of Unit 1 to die.]]
540* ShooOutTheClowns: [[spoiler:Once the riots start and society is at stake, he survives for a bit...then is killed by Kasei.]]
541* SweetTooth: He has a giant jar of jellybeans on his office desk.
542* TokenEvilTeammate: Not exactly evil, but unlike the other Enforcers and Inspectors who try to improve society, he genuinely hates the Sibyl system and the society it has created. Also, he completely agrees with Choe Gu-Sung that the town's citizens deserved to die in the city riots for their [[HumansAreBastards mistreatment of latent criminals]]. Shūsei even went as far as allowing time for Choe to open and destroy the Sibyl System.
543* VerbalTic: Uses a ''-ssu'' in the end of some of his lines. In later episodes, he seems to be using a lot of word contractions.
544[[/folder]]
545
546[[folder:Yayoi Kunizuka]]
547!!Enforcer Yayoi Kunizuka
548!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShizukaIto (Japanese), Creator/LindsaySeidel (English)
549->''I will become an enforcer.''
550
551[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yayoi_kunizuka.png]]
552
553A former guitarist who was recruited by Kōgami before Sasayama's death. She seems to spend time with Shion Karanomori.
554----
555* ActionGirl: As a Enforcer, this is a given. Season 3 shows that she hasn't lost her touch, [[spoiler:even after reintegrating into society and becoming a freelance journalist.]]
556* ADayInTheLimeLight: Episode 12 is essentially a WholeEpisodeFlashback centered around how she became a latent criminal and joined the bureau.
557* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: She pats Mika's head as a way to comfort her after the incident [[spoiler:which killed Aoyanagi.]]
558* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Stoic, detached and a popular former musician.
559* AmbiguouslyLesbian: Yayoi has quite a lot of subtext throughout the show, but for the most part it is just limited to implications. But then it becomes not so ambiguous in episode 22, when [[spoiler:she is seen naked getting dressed while talking to an equally nude Shion on a bed.]] Further supported by the ''About A Girl'' novel, which explicitly confirms that she and Rina Takizaki were once lovers.
560* AscendedExtra: After staying on the sidelines in the first two seasons and the 2015 movie, she becomes more involved in the first ''[[Anime/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem Sinners of the System]]'' movie and in Season 3.
561* AutopsySnackTime: She continues eating her noodles while looking at pictures of an ''exceptionally'' gruesome murder case.
562* BadassInANiceSuit: Quite capable and drawn in this aesthetic.
563%%* BrokenBird
564* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Yayoi returns in episode 3 of season 3, now a freelance journalist.]]
565* CoolBigSis: To Mika, sort of. Regardless of positions, she is the only Enforcer who Mika is willing to talk to since [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe she's the one who comforted her]] when her best friend was killed by Rikako in Season 1. Except Yayoi and Mika don't had the same dynamic that Akane had with [[TeamDad Masaoka]] and [[ShipTease Shinya]]. Yayoi doesn't seemed to have influence on Mika's character, considering that the latter is acting like a [[KnowNothingKnowItAll hotshot]] by the time the viewers saw her in Season 2.
566* HeartbrokenBadass: Implied in [[WholeEpisodeFlashback Episode 12]], [[spoiler:since someone she was very close to, turned out to not just rebel against the Sibyl System in music but also through usage of Molotov Cocktails and was implicated in burning down areas and murders. Yayoi tried to use the Dominator on this person but it didn't work as at the time, she was not an Enforcer. These events left her visibly saddened and traumatized for the only time in the series so far until she decided to become an Enforcer.]]
567* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[spoiler:After she reforms with her Hue clear, she works as a freelance journalist and has connections to two religious leaders]].
568* IntrepidReporter: After her Crime Coefficent dropped down between the ''[[Anime/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem Sinners of the System]]'' movies and Season 3, she left the bureau and became a freelance journalist. Episode 8 shows her interviewing the current Division 1 members about their life in the PSB and asking their own definition of justice. [[spoiler:Being a journalist makes her a target which leads to her "car accident" arranged by Azusawa]].
569* NightmareFetishist: [[{{Squick}} Plastinated bodies]] do not faze her at all. Shion claims that she is into "more violent and passionate stuff".
570* OutOFFocus: Regardless that she's the only character who has a backstory episode, Yayoi doesn't do much in both seasons, most especially Season 2. While she did get into some meaningful conversations with Akane, Shion and Mika, [[FlatCharacter she's just on the sidelines]]. It's even worse in the 2015 movie where ''she barely had lines''. She becomes more involved in ''[[Anime/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem Sinners of the System - Case 1]]'' where her investigation gives Mika and Ginoza the upper hand against the villains and in Season 3 where she helps out the new members of Division 1 in their investigation.
571* ReformedCriminal: [[spoiler:In season 3, it's revealed that she is completely reformed and managed to reintegrate into society which includes getting a job as a freelance journalist and getting showbusiness offers.]]
572* RelationshipUpgrade: At the end of the events of "First Inspector" both Yayoi and Shion agree to move in together.
573* SheKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Her current investigation which is related to her documentary on the CID and the previous cases led to Azusawa arranging a car accident on her]].
574* TheStoic: She is always calm and collected, brushing off even gruesome crimes.
575* SugarAndIcePersonality: In episode 2 she seems cold at first as she ignored Akane's greeting but then she also smacked Kagari for teasing the girl and even let Akane borrow her tablet. She also acts compassionate towards a civilian when the latter sees the body of her dead friend.
576* ThisIsUnforgivable: At the end of Season 2, Yayoi found out someone within the bureau leaked information [[spoiler: about Aoi Tsunemori's location which resulted to her death]]. She hopes that the one responsible for the leak will pay for it. The irony is that [[spoiler:she happens to be talking to Mika, who is responsible for it though she denies it. Despite that she doesn't know it ''yet'', the way Yayoi says it really sends some chills to Mika]].
577[[/folder]]
578
579[[folder:Mitsuru Sasayama]]
580!!Enforcer Mitsuru Sasayama
581!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShintaroAsanuma (Japanese), Jonathan Brooks (English)
582[[quoteright:264:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mitsuru_sasayama_8250.jpg]]
583
584A former Enforcer who was under Inspector Shinya's supervision while he was still alive. Three years before the start of the series, he was involved in the unsolved "Specimen Case" where he found a lead concerning the gruesome death of the victims. However, this eventually led to his death.
585----
586* AbusiveParents: In the prequel novel, Sasayama's father was very abusive to him and his sister, whom he also raped. One time, he thought that he killed him in self-defense and turned himself to the police. He became an Enforcer after that.
587* AntiHero: Sasayama was willing to use his Dominator to take out a hostage taker and his human shield because she was almost becoming a latent criminal according to Sibyl's diagnosis.
588* BigBrotherInstinct: He was very protective to the would-be victim, Tohko Kirino, who reminded him of his sister in the prequel novel.
589* BloodKnight: He doesn't mind shooting latent criminals down and seems to enjoy it.
590* ChivalrousPervert: He was described as a womanizer who constantly harassed his female co-workers and had a short temper, but he nearly killed a guy after seeing him on top of the girl he kidnapped.
591* CowboyCop: He would really go against standard procedure in dealing suspicious people despite Shinya's order on not to do something stupid. In the ''New Edit'', this leads to his death.
592* FatalFlaw: His recklessness and obsession to take down Touma and Makishima got himself killed by them.
593* HotBlooded: Very reckless as Shinya described where [[NiceJobBreakingItHero he's the one who started the panic in the club which also results into a large fire in the area.]]
594* PosthumousCharacter: He died before the start of the series.
595* PreciousPhoto: Shinya has a picture of him as a reminder for his revenge.
596* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler:His death is the cause of Shinya's demotion to Enforcer, and why he's so determined to hunt down Makishima.]]
597* SmokingIsCool: Like his buddy Shinya.
598[[/folder]]
599
600[[folder:Sakuya Tōgane]]
601!!Enforcer Sakuya Tōgane
602!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KeijiFujiwara (Japanese), Creator/ChristopherSabat (English)
603->''After all I'm my mother's child... [[spoiler:that is, a child of Sibyl]]. My will is society's will. My eyes are society's eyes.''
604
605[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sakuya_togane_anime.png]]
606
607Sakuya Tougane is one of main characters of Psycho-Pass Season 2 who joins Akane's team. He used to be a therapist whose family worked in pharmaceuticals.
608----
609* AmbiguouslyEvil: This becomes apparent about midway through the second season, though the opening also drops hints that he might not be what he seems. [[spoiler:Apparently, it seems he's very interested in Akane's Psycho-Pass with the intent of darkening it and is aware that Mika's watching him. Becomes pretty clear once we find out he reports directly to Sibyl and is now planning to kill Akane along with Kamui.]]
610* BadassInANiceSuit: Sharper dressed than most characters in the show.
611* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's polite and friendly, but he also has the highest Crime Coefficient '''ever''' recorded in Sibyl's history. [[spoiler:In Episode 7, a line of text [[FreezeFrameBonus briefly shown]] on his personnel file reveals that at the age of 10, his Coefficient was '''''769.''''' He's also Sibyl's personal assassin.]]
612* TheCorrupter: Wants to do this to [[spoiler:Akane, obsessing over "painting her black".]]
613** [[spoiler:Has a habit of doing this to all Inspectors he's assigned to, making them a target for Lethal Eliminator and executing them. His personnel file mentions '''five''' instances of this happening and it's not even a full record.]]
614* DeadpanSnarker: Even more than Kougami, if that's at all possible.
615* EnfantTerrible: [[spoiler:He's a test tube baby designed from the ground up to be criminally asymptomatic, but backfired, causing him to have a high coefficient.]]
616* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Everything he does is for his twisted love of his mother.]]
617* {{Foil}}: To Kamui. Whereas Kamui clears people's Hues, Tougane darkens them. [[spoiler: While Kamui is trying to destroy the Tougane Foundation along with the Sibyl System because they caused the plane crash that destroyed his life, Tougane is devoted to protecting both as they quite literally created his life.]]
618* GoneHorriblyWrong: [[spoiler: He is a [[DesignerBabies Designer Baby]] that was meant to artificially create a criminally asymptomatic person. But instead of having a pure Psycho-Pass, the experiment backfired and resulted in him having an incredibly high Crime Coefficient.]]
619* HiddenAgendaVillain: He wants to [[spoiler:corrupt Akane,]] so something's definitely up. [[spoiler:Turns out he was planted in Akane's team in order to "take care of her" for the system.]]
620* {{Hunk}}: Just as his prototype, again giving Akane a chance of EatingTheEyeCandy.
621* IfICantHaveYou: He loves his mother so much that [[spoiler:as a child he killed her to prevent her from leaving him, directly causing his crime coefficient to rise]].
622* KickTheDog: Quite literally. [[spoiler: Well, more like ''kill'' the dog]]. ''Twice''.
623** He also manhandled Mika when she was terrified and is generally quite cruel towards her. And in episode nine, he killed [[spoiler: Akane's Grandmother]] in TheStinger in an attempt to [[spoiler: corrupt Akane]].
624* LifeOrLimbDecision: In order to hunt down [[spoiler:Kirito Kamui, he cuts off his hand due to being handcuffed to a pole.]]
625* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: Togane intends to provoke Akane into killing Kamui, thus eliminating two threats to the Sibyl System.]]
626* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler:The syllables of his first name, Sa-ku-ya, respectively match the numbers 3, 9, and 8 in Japanese. Together, they form [[YouAreNumberSix the experiment number]] his mother gave to him as a child.]]
627* MommasBoy: Is really devoted to his mother, Misako Tougane, who is [[spoiler:part of the Sibyl System. And in the final episode, he's horrified when he learned that she was killed by Kamui.]]
628* MutualKill: [[spoiler:With Kirito Kamui, though he survives for a while afterwards as only his arm is blown off. Of course, he still bleeds out and dies soon after.]]
629* NonIdleRich: Is supposedly a heir to a large pharmaceutical company, but got his degree and practiced independently as a psychologist before showing an actionable Crime Coefficient.
630* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler: He is rather accepting of his death, after he sees that Mika is just as much of a slave to the system as he is and will do whatever it takes to protect Sibyl.]]
631* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler: He keeps a hidden camera recording everything in his own room. Just in case some Inspector decides to go through his belongings on a whim.]]
632* PsychoPsychologist: Received his therapist license after his high criminal coefficient was discovered.
633* StalkerShrine: [[spoiler:Has a downplayed one to Akane in his room. Hidden in his room is a LOT of pictures of Akane. The strangest thing is these pictures have circles around her eyes, ears, and mouth.]]
634* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Of Kougami, naturally. The opening even shows some parallels between them. This is likely intentionally [[InvokedTrope invoked]] by him.
635** EvilCounterpart: Has an agenda of his own, involving [[spoiler: corrupting Akane.]]
636* TallDarkAndSnarky: To the point of sarcastically telling off Mika at any possible opportunity (he apparently takes offense at her "seen-it-all" haughtiness and fanatical attitude).
637* TokenEvilTeammate: He has the highest Crime Coefficient in Sibyl's history [[spoiler:and serves as Sibyl's loyal assassin who wants to corrupt Akane]].
638* VillainousBreakdown: He goes completely off the deep end when [[spoiler:Akane refuses to succumb to his corruption, let him kill Kamui, or prevent Kamui from judging Sybil.]]
639* WaistcoatOfStyle: Wears one under his jacket.
640* YouAreNumberSix: [[spoiler:His name literally means "398", the number assigned to him by his mother, reflecting how he was born as her experiment to create a criminally asymptomatic person.]]
641[[/folder]]
642
643[[folder:Sho Hinakawa]]
644!!Enforcer Sho Hinakawa
645!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakahiroSakurai (Japanese), Zach Bolton (English)
646
647[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sho_hinakawa_anime.png]]
648
649Sho Hinakawa is one of the main characters of Psycho Pass 2 who joined Akane's team. Formerly a holo-tech designer, he still uses his skills to help out the team.
650----
651* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Was able to detect a lapse in the rendering of Kamui's holographic disguise while at the medical facility.
652* TheCracker: A non-malicious variant. He uses his skills in ''First Inspector'' to take back the NONA tower system in Shion's absence.
653* DemotedToExtra: In the 2015 movie since the Sibyl System only sent Akane to deal with Kougami. And like Yayoi and Teppei, he barely had lines.
654* TheEeyore: Being a PerpetualFrowner aside, he's revealed to have suffered from severe depression.
655* FunctionalAddict: Similar to Masaoka with his alcohol, his dependence on drugs doesn't seem to hinder his skill as an Enforcer. He once empties an entire bottle of assorted medicines into his rice bowl while still working.
656* HiddenDepths: We learn that he is still in contact with Akane who has been imprisoned by Sibyl in season 3, clearly involved in whatever she's planning despite his generally apathetic outward personality. [[spoiler: He also had suspicions about Mao being a Mole and even gathered intel on her.]]
657* MessyHair: A dark reddish mop that hides his left eye.
658* NonActionGuy: Downplayed. While he can hold his own in a fight and wield the Dominator, it's clear that he's not a skilled fighter by any means and prefers being in the background.
659* TheQuietOne: He doesn't speak much and tends to give very short answers.
660* ShrinkingViolet: Justified in that he's been suffering from severe depression for a long time. Also {{Subverted}} in that while he does suffer from depression, he does speak up for himself when he needs to and doesn't let it hinder him in his duties.
661* SpeechImpediment: He speaks with a slight stutter, due to nervousness.
662** All three of the above are downplayed from Season 3 onwards; while still soft-spoken, he can hold fairly decent conversations, join in on them on his own volition, and has managed to overcome his stutter.
663* SpottingTheThread: As a result of his experience with creating Holos, he has a sharp eye and can tell the difference between a real person/object and a Holo, even an extremely advanced one.
664[[/folder]]
665
666[[folder:Teppei Sugo]]
667!!Enforcer Teppei Sugo
668!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/HirokiTochi (Japanese), Creator/MikeMcFarland (English)
669
670An Enforcer who worked under Division 2 Inspector Risa Aoyanagi. [[spoiler:After Aoyanagi's death]], he is reassigned to Division 1 under Akane's command. He used to work in a military drone construction facility and before that, he was an accomplished former drone pilot.
671----
672* ChekhovsSkill: After we learn his background in drone construction, it becomes crucial in the next episode [[spoiler: when the military drones are hacked and run amok throughout the base. He knows their weapons & limitations and comes up with the plan to destroy them.]]
673* ADayInTheLimelight: The second movie of the ''[[Anime/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem Sinners of the System]]' trilogy puts him as the main character, together with Masaoka where he used to be a former drone pilot.
674* DemotedToExtra: In the 2015 movie since the Sibyl System only sent Akane to deal with Kougami. And like Yayoi and Hinakawa, he barely had any lines.
675* ILetGwenStacyDie: He blames himself [[spoiler:for killing Aoyanagi without knowing that it's really her]]. He tries to apologize to Ginoza about it but Ginoza tells him that he was just following protocol... right before he then says not to come anywhere near him for a while. [[spoiler: ''First Guardian'' shows this is not the first time he was manipulated like this.]]
676* MyGreatestSecondChance: In the finale, [[spoiler: he uses the Assault Dominator again... except this time he non-lethally paralyzes Inspector Shisui and saves the lives of Ginoza as well as the hostages.]]
677* {{Revision}}: All we learn of his backstory in the second season was that he used to be a military drone construction worker prior to his descent into a latent criminal and Enforcer. However, ''[[Anime/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem Sinners of the System: Case 2 - First Guardian]]'' reveals that he was actually an accomplished drone pilot of the National Defense Force's 15th Integrated Task Force. At the end of the movie, he is transferred away from active duty piloting to the drone research & development facility because of his deteriorating Hue. In addition, the additional backstory of him knowing Aoyanagi during ''First Guardian'' goes a long way to show why he was so devastated upon [[spoiler: unwittingly killing her... just likewhen he was manipulated into killing Otomo and Oscar Team.]]
678** Granted, it is possible that his job in drone R&D before being sent to the Public Safety Bureau also involved drone construction.
679* SurvivorGuilt: Strongly implied to be suffering from this after episode 4. [[spoiler: He was already suffering from this in ''Case 2 - First Guardian'' especially after he learns he was the one who killed Otomo and the rest of Oscar Team with his "supply drop."]]
680* UnfriendlyFire: [[spoiler: He's the one killed Aoyanagi with the Assault Dominator, not knowing the person with the 300+ Crime Coefficient was his own boss.]]
681* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: His AccidentalMurder of Aoyanagi was all a ploy engineered by Kamui to ensure that she would have the highest Crime Coefficient reading at the pharmacy, [[BatmanGambit betting that the Bureau would target that person first.]] In addition, in ''Case 2 - First Guardian'', dropping off a "supply pod" for Oscar Team turned out to have been a [[DeadlyGas pod full of nano-enhanced VX gas]] designed to instantly pacify the entire battlefield.]]
682* YouCantGoHomeAgain: While not really his home, it's clear that his coworkers at the drone facility didn't know he'd become an Enforcer for the Public Safety Bureau since he left the factory, and he is not comfortable making small talk with men who were once his friends.
683[[/folder]]
684
685[[folder:Kazumichi Irie]]
686!!Enforcer Kazumichi Irie
687!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JunichiSuwabe
688
689[[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/69407_1850138411.png]]
690
691One of the new Enforcers under Arata and Kei. He's initially from the abandoned zone managed by the Sibyl System where all latent criminals are gathered and used to be under Haruko Enomiya, who is a broker of the abandoned zone.
692----
693* CastingGag: A man who's jaded with the idea of Justice? Sounds like someone Creator/JunichiSuwabe [[Anime/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorks voiced before.]] Or [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind someone else.]]
694* HiddenHeartOfGold: As smug as he may be, he still has friends that he cares about, something that Arata quickly figures out.
695* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He doesn't respect his Inspectors because he sees them as newbies. He and Todoroki also try to mess around with their Dominators in front of the immigrants until Kei put a stop on it. Fortunately, he wises up and becomes good friends with Arata. However, he develops the "Heart of Gold" after working with Kei and Arata.
696* LaserGuidedKarma: He gets his comeuppance when trying to fight Kogami, who briefly gives Irie some good smacks before clearing up the situation.
697* ReformedCriminal: He's from one of the abandoned zones and used to work under Enomiya before he joins the PSB. His knowledge of the underground world and abandoned zones are very useful in the investigations.
698* TookALevelInCynic: During his interview with Yayoi, he admits he doesn't believe in justice anymore, saying that it's a word used by loser and it got his father killed.
699* TookALevelInKindness: Shortly after the conclusion of the first case, Irie has become more cooperative and outgoing towards Arata and their team.
700* {{Tsundere}}: He was shown as a jerk in the beginning, but he soon gets along with Arata once they start working together.
701[[/folder]]
702
703[[folder:Tenma Todoroki]]
704!!Enforcer Tenma Todoroki
705!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkioOtsuka
706
707[[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/69407_1203128206.png]]
708
709One of the new Enforcers under Arata and Kei. His relatives are supporters to the gubernatorial candidate, Kosuke Yakushiji, and they see him as an embarrassment to their family.
710----
711* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Initially, he doesn't like Kei because of his immigrant status. After he punched his stepbrother on his behalf, his view on Kei changes and he becomes more caring and concerned to him.
712* BlackSheep: When he became a latent criminal, he's rejected by his family who blames him and his mother for having inferior genes. It becomes very awkward for him when he meets two of his relatives in a case and one of them, who is his stepbrother, tells him to disappear just like his mother.
713* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:His mother had problems with her hue, which Tenma inherited. Both ended up latent criminals, with Tenma ending up in Sibyl's "care". While this was going on, his mother ended up commiting suicide. The utter lack of empathy shown by his stepbrother as he tells him only made things worse.]]
714* HiddenDepths: He has a surprisingly informed philosophy on politics, of all things.
715* HollywoodAtheist: He believes there's no God and is perplexed about the Sibyl System, being a product of science, allowing religion in the country.
716* INeedAFreakingDrink: He chugs down a can of beer in depression after seeing his stepbrother again.
717* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Very abrasive and hard to get along with, but he has good morals and intentions despite his rough nature.
718* NobleBigotWithABadge: He belittles Kei for being a Russian immigrant who got a job in the Public Security Bureau. Though he's willing to help around in the investigation and follow his bosses' orders.
719* TookALevelInKindness: While still abrasive as ever, he shows more concern toward Kei's wellbeing and is more trusting towards the new inspectors. He's also a lot more cooperative than in the beginning.
720[[/folder]]
721
722[[folder:Mao Kisaragi]]
723!!Enforcer Mao Kisaragi
724!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KaoriNazuka
725[[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mao_kisaragi.png]]
726
727One of the new Enforcers under Arata and Kei. She became an Enforcer prior to the incident that led to the imprisonment of one of the Unit 1 Inspectors.
728----
729* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: During her interview with Yayoi, she thanks Kei and Maiko for changing her life which makes dedicated to protecting her friends in Division One.
730* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: While she respects her Inspectors and doesn't care about their background, she doubts Arata because of his antics and his peculiar method of investigating.
731* HideTheEvidence: While investigating Rick Fellows' death, she finds a business card containing the name of Kōichi Azusawa, the First Inspector of Bifrost. Then, she hides it while Sho watches on. Turns out that she actually took a small note with the fox logo containing the words, "Don't forget me".
732* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:She and her boyfriend got into a car accident and with their Hues deteriorating, they were both confined in the rehabilitation facility. Her boyfriend died during recovery and Mao blames the perpetrator of the car accident who got away with it.]]
733* TheMole: [[spoiler:She's actually one of the Bifrost "foxes" hired by Azusawa but she got scared and decided not to go any further. Thanks to Kei and Maiko, her faith in herself renews and she swears to help her friends in Division One.]]
734* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Her reaction to Joseph Auma's death exposes her cover to Torii who eventually suspects that Heaven's Leap has been infiltrated by the PSB. As a result, she and Kei are captured and tortured while the latter's wife, Maiko, had been kidnapped by Heaven's Leap members.]]
735[[/folder]]
736
737!Public Safety Bureau Support Personnel
738
739[[folder:Shion Karanomori]]
740!!Shion Karanomori
741!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MiyukiSawashiro (Japanese), Creator/LydiaMackay (English)
742[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shion_karanomori.png]]
743
744A latent criminal employed by the Public Safety Bureau's Analysis division. She provides backup in most of Division 1's cases by analyzing data, samples and evidence. It is hinted she is close to Yayoi.
745----
746* TheConstant: She is the only member of the team who has been present in the franchise since the first season who continues to appear regularly and whose role has never changed. In a period spanning 8 years of both in-universe and real life time, Shion is still the same systems analyst she's always been while everyone else from the Division has either been promoted, demoted, or is otherwise no longer part of the bureau. She also is the only member of the cast from the first season [[LimitedWardrobe whose outfit has never changed.]]
747** This actually becomes a DiscussedTrope in ''First Inspector'' when she admits to Komiya that she has grown too comfortable doing the same old thing for years in the Bureau watching everyone else taking action while sitting behind a desk, and that even though her Psycho-Pass is on the road to recovery and she may be able to leave the Bureau soon, she is scared of what to do in the outside world. [[spoiler: In the ending of the movie, her Psycho-Pass has cleared up enough that she is discharged and moves in with Kunizuka.]]
748* CouldSayItBut: Variation, she tells Shinya in Episode 18 that he shouldn't take Makishima's helmet and that he was taken off the Makishima case. Shion says this as she turns off the security features guarding the helmet and then adds that maybe she isn't sure that he was taken off any case.
749* {{Hackette}}: Also performs hacking duties for the Bureau when needed, such as in the second season when she had to break into the Ministry of National Defense's servers. In "First Inspector", her hacking skills also give the PSB the momentum to win against Azusawa after he and Obata hijacked their headquarters and servers.
750* TheLabRat: She's in charge of analyzing evidence and never goes out in the field since she's also a latent criminal who isn't allowed to leave the PSB headquarters without permission from those in charge.
751* LadyInRed: Wears a red and black dress under her white lab coat.
752* LovableSexManiac: [[spoiler: The only thing she had to say to Shinya before he left? "Wait, I haven´t slept with you, have I?]]
753* MissionControl: Asides from analyzing evidence, she relays information to the team when they need help in tracking down the suspect.
754* MsFanservice:
755** First time we saw her onscreen, she's ''putting her pantyhose back on''. In episode 6, she's ''betting her bra''. Ookay...
756** There's a scene of her discussing [[spoiler:the fate of her former]] teammates with Yayoi in episode 22, after having sex with both of them naked. Happens again in season 2's episode 7.
757* RelationshipUpgrade: At the end of the events of "First Inspector" both Yayoi and Shion agree to move in together.
758* SmokingHotSex: In Episode 22, while in bed with Yayoi.
759* SmokingIsCool: She's very fond of smoking. You rarely see her without a cigarette on her hand or mouth.
760* TheTease: She’s a MsFanservice and will use it to joke with the guys.
761* UnknownRival: To Chiyo Obata in ''First Inspector'' due to being both skilled hackers. After Shion programmed her pillbug to destroy all of her drones, Obata is completely pissed to the point that she calls her a hag.
762[[/folder]]
763
764[[folder:Jyoji Saiga]]
765!!Jyoji Saiga
766!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KazuhiroYamaji (Japanese), Michael Federico (English)
767[[quoteright:260:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jouji_saiga_2403.jpg]]
768-->''There are times when you can't solve the problem by following the manual.''
769
770A former professor in criminology and social psychology who is also an expert in criminal profiling. Shinya Kougami is one of his former students. He lives secluded from society and dislikes the Sibyl System. In Season 2, he's now part of the Public Safety Bureau as an analyst.
771----
772* BrutalHonesty: He doesn't sugarcoat things and is quick to point out that there are situations don't need to be resolved systematically.
773* ChekhovsGunman: Appears early on to help Shinya and Akane with their investigations, [[spoiler:and again to help Shinya deduce Makishima's plans on how to make the Sibyl System obsolete after Makishima's first attempt to destroy the Sibyl System failed.]] In Season 2, he's recruited by Akane into the Public Safety Bureau as an analyst.
774* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: His last appearance is in the 2015 movie; though it was hinted that he's on the verge of recovery which might explain not appearing in the later materials. Though, he finally makes his return in the ''Providence'' film [[spoiler:[[BackForTheDead only to end up getting killed off]]]].
775* CoolTeacher: He's friendly to Shinya and is willing to teach Akane in a crash course on profiling.
776* {{Foreshadowing}}: Both the script and the camera place a huge deal of attention, during his interactions with Kougami in episode 20, to the fact that he grows his own real food rather than relying on processed hyper-oats like most Japanese. [[spoiler: Incidentally, by the end of the episode he and Kougami correctly conclude that Makishima's master plan involves destabilizing Japanese society by sabotaging the hyper-oat crops that everyone depends on.]]
777* ItsAllMyFault: A minor one. He thinks it's his fault that [[spoiler:Shinya went rogue and left Japan after killing Makishima]] which is why he turns himself in to the bureau. When Akane asked for his help for the Kamui case, he's a little hesitant at first until Akane reminded him that he helped her become a better detective.
778* LuxuryPrisonSuite: His cell in the isolation facility, as shown in Season 2 after he turned himself in. It even has a coffee maker.
779* MustHaveCaffeine: You could frequently see him brewing and drinking coffee in most of his scenes.
780* NiceGuy: Though he has a sour expression often, he is always willing to help Shinya and gives his advice to anyone who comes to him. Same with Akane in the second season.
781* TheProfessor: Before the Sibyl System was established. But now, he's out of the job.
782* TheProfiler: He used to be one before he took up teaching.
783* SherlockScan: One look at Akane, a person he'd never met before, and he could tell everything about her from her relationships to her inability to swim. In season 2, [[spoiler: it's also how he identifies that Representative Masuda is an imposter.]]
784* SupremeChef: While the extent of his skills is never outright confirmed, the mere fact that he insists on doing all of his own cooking from real ingredients he grows by himself appears to make him quite exceptional by [[SoylentSoy 2110's standards.]]
785* UndyingLoyalty: Despite that Shinya is just his former student, he knows that telling him how to find and understand Makishima will make it so that if he ever gets scanned by the Sibyl System again, he will either be jailed or killed. [[spoiler:He helps Shinya anyways, and ends up jailed for it in season 2.]]
786[[/folder]]
787
788[[folder:Joushuu Kasei ('''Warning: WalkingSpoiler''')]]
789!!Director Joushuu Kasei
790!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YoshikoSakakibara (Japanese), Linda Leonard (English)
791[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/joushuu_kasei_7852.jpg]]
792
793The Director of the Public Safety Bureau who fully believes in the Sibyl System but still trusts the Enforcers and Inspectors to enforce the law. As Makishima becomes more and more of a threat, she gets more involved and leads the Enforcers and Inspectors to stop Makishima's plan. She also allows the Enforcers and Inspectors to use whatever means necessary to stop Makishima, seeing the threat he is becoming to society, as long as society is still standing.
794
795In the second season, we find out that [[spoiler: the Kasei body is modeled after an aged-up version of Misako Tougane, the first brain integrated into Sibyl.]]
796----
797* BadBoss: [[spoiler: More than willing to let Ginoza take the blame for Kagari's disappearance...which arguably she/the Sibyl System killed.]]
798* ChekhovsGunman: Appears in a few scenes to establish her position as the head of the Public Safety Bureau, then [[spoiler:kills Choe and Shusei and is revealed to be a cyborg that shares similarities with the Dominator in terms of design motifs inside her cyborg body.]]
799* DaChief: The director of the Public Safety Bureau. Unlike most examples, she’s not exactly a ReasonableAuthorityFigure.
800* GuileHero: Quickly creates a counter-plan to Makishima's [[spoiler:fake]] master plan. [[spoiler:Her actions, combined with Shinya and Akane's action defeat Makishima anyways.]] Turns out [[spoiler:she's not such a hero after all]].
801* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Kills Shusei as soon as he sees inside the Sibyl System.]]
802* HollywoodCyborg: [[spoiler:With an inside similar to the Dominators, in terms of design.]]
803* IronLady: Literally and figuratively.
804* KilledOffscreen: A screenshot of a series of news articles in Season 3's second episode indicates that Chief Kasei was "killed" sometime before the season started. While [[spoiler: the Kasei body has died before, this one somehow seems to be permanent since Mika reports to a new Bureau director named Hosorobi. However, this seems to be solely for public relations purposes: after the Hosorobi body "kills" itself to avoid being exposed by the Pathfinder mercenary, Sibyl activates another Kasei body to contact Shimotsuki upon locating Bifrost's hideout. In ''The Providence'' movie, it is revealed that it was Akane Tsunemori who shot her, thus leading to Akane's incarceration.]]
805* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: [[spoiler:She's not a real person, but rather the robotic avatar controlled by the many brains of the Sibyl System. Individual brains can speak through her as they please.]]
806* MouthOfSauron: While she's the director, she speaks in behalf of the Sibyl System when meeting people [[spoiler:or we could say, she's literally a mouthpiece of the system depending on whose brain is residing in her body]].
807* MutualKill: [[spoiler:Subverts this to Shusei's surprise, when her being a cyborg allows her to survive a point-blank shot (though her flesh comes off) and kill Choe with the Dominator.]]
808* NeutralFemale: Prefers to lead and give her employees support and tactical advice. {{Justified}} due to her age. [[spoiler:Or maybe not, considering she is a cyborg capable of surviving Makishima's goons and a direct shot to her face.]]
809* NoSell: She brushes off all of Mika's concerns with Akane and reflects that Mika's own faults will probably end up getting her killed.
810* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler:Subverted, kills Shusei and has the audacity to blame Ginoza.]]
811* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler:And a brutal one at that, see MutualKill.]]
812* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: She provides the only time in the series where [[spoiler: a Dominator's trigger is unlocked and fired ''without'' registering the target's data when she kills Choe Gu-sung in Nona Tower's secret basement. Then when pointed at Kagari, the Dominator is overridden to change into Decomposer Mode when Kagari's CC should only be enough to warrant Paralyzer Mode. This almost happens again in episode 18 when she forcibly changes Ginoza's Dominator into Eliminator Mode to make him kill Kougami, but fortunately Akane paralyzes Kougami first before that can happen.]]
813* SharingABody: [[spoiler:The external "face" of the Sibyl System, she can be controlled by different brains/personalities that take turns inhabiting her.]]
814%%SlasherSmile
815* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:If Joushuu had not shown up to kill Choe and Shusei, Makishima's plan to create societal breakdown and destroy the Sibyl System would probably have worked.]]
816* TalkingToThemself: There are several instances where she is alone in her office, but talking as if she is in a conversation. [[spoiler: That means she's plugged into the interface in her chair and is consulting with the other brains in the Sibyl System.]]
817* WalkingSpoiler: See the spoiler tags?
818* WellIntentionedExtremist: This trait is shown when she talks about how the Sibyl System is not perfect, but steps "must" be taken to make people think it is perfect to keep order. She also seems to think that the truth must be hidden from people.[[spoiler:Which probably ties into why she killed Shusei as soon as he saw what the Sibyl System really is.]]
819* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Tries this on [[spoiler:Shinya]], but is thwarted by Akane.
820* YoungerThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Depends on which brain is using the body.]]
821[[/folder]]
822
823!Ministry of Foreign Affairs
824
825[[folder:Frederica Hanashiro]]
826!!Frederica Hanashiro
827!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakakoHonda (Japanese), Erin Kelly Noble (English)
828[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fredericatv3.png]]
829
830Assistant Officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Suppressing Action Department (SAD), under the Overseas Coordination Bureau, and temporary Assistant Inspector of the Ministry of Welfare's Public Security Bureau. She first appears in ''Sinners of the System: Case 2 - First Guardian'' and plays an important role in ''Case 3 - Beyond Love and Hate''.
831----
832* ActionGirl: Being a MOFA SAD officer has her on the frontlines commanding other SAD officers in cases involving foreign-based criminal and terrorist elements.
833* ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory: [[spoiler:She claims that she arrives in Tibet to find Japanese citizens who are unable to return to their home country because of the implementation of the Sibyl System. She further supports it by saying the system is only accepting those with good Hues. Kougami is able to see that this is a cover story because he knows that the system is going to execute him for Makishima's death and Frederica just lets it roll and tells him that she's actually recruiting him to join her team]].
834* FriendlySniper: She mainly uses a Barrett [=M90=] anti-materiel sniper rifle during the Tibet-Himalayan conflict.
835* HeroOfAnotherStory: In Season 3, she and her teammates are working together with Mika's Division 1 on the case connected to Bifrost.
836* MsFanservice: ''Case 3'' shows her attractive, nude body when she's taking a bath.
837* NiceGirl: She's friendly and willing to help the refugees who are affected by the conflict.
838* PhenotypeStereotype: Judging by her appearance and name, she's half-Japanese who is blonde and white.
839* SherlockScan: She's able to read Kougami's body language and correctly guesses what he's thinking, much to his astonishment. Being a former student of Professor Saiga's really helps.
840* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite her minor role in the movies, her presence shapes up what's coming in Season 3: [[spoiler:she's looking for people who have law enforcement or paramilitary backgrounds to join her team as Special Investigators. So far, she extended an offer to Sugo who initially chooses to stay with the Bureau for a while before eventually joining, and Kougami who decided to go back to Japan with her. Ginoza somehow joins her too between the movies and Season 3]].
841[[/folder]]
842
843!Tokyo Metropolitan Government
844[[folder:Karina Komiya]]
845!!Karina Komiya
846!!!Voiced by: Creator/YokoHikasa
847[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/karina_komiya02.png]]
848
849A former idol singer who used to be a member of the Sibyl-approved idol group, Existence, which was disbanded after most of its members ended up becoming latent criminals. She became a solo artist and a celebrity in the fashion industry who also advocate mental health. After her music career hits sky high, she pursues a career in politics by seeking elections to win the seat of Governor of Tokyo under the Affirmation Party.
850
851----
852* AlliterativeName: '''K'''arina '''K'''omiya
853* BadassBureaucrat: After becoming governor, she's very willing to aid Division 1 whenever she can. This is more evident in ''First Inspector'' [[spoiler:where she personally rescues Arata after he was kidnapped by Azusawa and lets Division 1 use Ma-Karina to trick the Pathfinders and Azusawa.]]
854* ChekhovsGun: Her A.I., Ma-Karina, which she used for her election campaign, ends up being very instrumental in defeating Bifrost in ''First Inspector''. [[spoiler:She and Division 1 used it to trick Azusawa into thinking she was killed by the Pathfinders. Then, Kei uploads her data to Homura, who uses it against Shirogane, giving him the upper hand to win the game and letting the Sibyl System to shut the Roundrobin system for good]].
855* IdolSinger: A former one but even after the elections, she still performs as a means to increase the public's Hues.
856* IDidWhatIHadToDo:
857** She admits that she's willing to take advantage of other people to further her goals. This is her reason for using Ma-Karina so she can win the elections despite the possible public backlash for using an A.I. to impersonate her. But eventually, the Sibyl system approves Ma-Karina as an individual.
858** She does warn Ignatov to back away from her close protection detail and has told Arata that she laid off En. Justified that AP members have (behind the scenes) pressured her to not allow immigrants to be with her 24/7 due to concerns about her hue/withdrawal of support since the AP is publicly known to be an pro-isolationist party. This was in contrast to her views that immigrants have a place in Japan.
859* NiceGirl: Arata thinks there's something dark about her. But after the elections, he sees her as a nice person despite her political position and her claims of being evil.
860* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She's very willing to serve the people as a public servant. During ''First Inspector'', she apologizes to Ignatov for relieving him of his post and eventually trusts him of his protection from the Pathfinders. In Season 3, she also told Arata that she'll do everything to help Maiko leave the rehab center.
861* {{Tsundere}}: Ever since after Arata saved her, she acts harshly towards him but deep down, she cares for him.
862[[/folder]]
863
864[[folder:En Owanee]]
865!!En Owanee
866!!!Voiced by: Creator/YukaKomatsu
867
868A Japanese of foreign origin who worked with Karina back from when she was in the entertainment industry. She was laid off near the end of Season 3 and was used by Azusawa to frame her for his siege on the PSB building in the ''First Inspector'' movie.
869----
870* {{Frameup}}: In ''First Inspector'', Azusawa plans to use En during the siege on the PSB building in order to drive up anti-immigration support and force Division 1 to get rid of her. Arata and Division 1 were able to foil his plans.
871* UndyingLoyalty: Not only does she put Karina's safey and well-being before her own, but she continues supporting her even when Karina is forced to lay her off due to the anti-immigrant policy.
872[[/folder]]
873
874!Civilians
875
876[[folder:Yoshika Okubo]]
877!!Yoshika Okubo
878!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AiKayano (Japanese), Ashleigh Domangue (English)
879
880A student of Ousou Academy, a private institute where the rich send their daughters to prevent their Psycho-Passes from becoming cloudy. She harbors an admiration for the SchoolIdol, Rikako Oryo.
881----
882* ChildhoodFriends: With Mika Shimotsuki and Kagami Kawarazaki.
883* DarkSecret: She confesses to Rikako that her stepfather is behaving lecherously towards her and has been going into her room when she's not there, but she can't do anything about it because her family needs his money to pay off a large debt, and the stress is causing her Psycho-Pass to darken.
884* DeadGuyOnDisplay: Rikako kills her and Kagami, turning their plastinated corpses into a gruesome work of art.
885* DisappearedDad: Her father died and left her family with a large amount of debt, and her stepfather is the only one with the funds to pay it off.
886* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She isn't able to sense anything dangerous or off-putting about Rikako (to be fair, no one else can either, besides Mika), and isn't even disturbed when the other girl begins lovingly describing the gruesome murders in ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus.''
887* ImpoverishedPatrician: Her family is (or was) rich enough to be able to send her to the upper-class Ousou Academy, but they're also suffering from a large debt that can only be paid off by her stepfather.
888* LipstickLesbian: While not explicitly stated, she appears to be only into girls. She's attracted to Rikako, and her Hue matches very well with her friend Kagami.
889* OffWithHerHead: Post-mortem, she and Kagami are made into an art installation with their heads severed from their bodies and held up by each others' hands.
890* VictimOfTheWeek: Is lured in by Rikako, murdered and turned into an art installation.
891
892[[/folder]]
893
894[[folder:Kagami Kawarazaki]]
895!!Kagami Kawarazaki
896!!!'''Voiced by:''' Aiko Kusumi (Japanese), Kristi Kang (English)
897
898Another student of Ousou Academy, a childhood friend of Mika and Yoshika. She tries to investigate Yoshika's disappearance, with tragic consequences.
899----
900* AlliterativeName: '''K'''agami '''K'''awarazaki.
901* BoundAndGagged: When she gets too curious about Yoshika's disappearance, Rikako knocks her out with a sedative, ties her up and takes her down to the basement. When she comes to, the first thing she sees is a glass tank filled with the plastination liquid, containing Yoshika's severed head.
902* ChildhoodFriends: With Mika Shimotsuki and Yoshika Okubo.
903* DeadGuyOnDisplay: Rikako kills her and Yoshika, turning their plastinated corpses into a gruesome work of art.
904* HeKnowsTooMuch: Killed by Rikako for getting too curious about the whereabouts of her dead friend, though it's possible that Rikako always intended to kill her anyway for her artwork, and silencing her was just a bonus.
905* OffWithHerHead: Post-mortem, she and Yoshika are made into an art installation with their heads severed from their bodies and held up by each others' hands.
906* VictimOfTheWeek: Rikako's fourth and final victim, made into an art piece along with Yoshika.
907
908[[/folder]]
909
910[[folder:Roichi Oryo]]
911!!Roichi Oryo
912!!!'''Voiced by:''' None
913
914A master artist and the father of Rikako Oryo. After the Sibyl System was instituted and he was no longer allowed to create art in his signature style, he lost sight of his artistic vision and then lost his reason to live.
915----
916* BodyHorror: He created many paintings of girls' bodies twisted and contorted into strange and anatomically impossible forms. Rikako desires to do the same...with real people.
917* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: As a result of suffering from eustress deficiency syndrome, a condition of the brain shutting down due to lack of stimulation.
918* EmptyShell: Eustress deficiency syndrome has made him essentially a living corpse, unable to do anything for himself.
919* FlowerMotifs: His paintings heavily feature flowers, particularly roses.
920* GoneHorriblyRight: It is implied that his condition is the result of the Sibyl System taking all stress away from him, both bad (distress) and good (eustress). Without either, his brain stopped receiving or processing any and all stimulation, causing his body to shut down.
921* MadArtist: He created gruesome paintings that featured girls' dead bodies contorted into bizarre positions and surrounded by flowers. Still, despite the disturbing nature of his work, he was a good man at heart, according to Makishima.
922* TheVoiceless: During what little screentime he has, he does not speak a single word. He might not be able to, considering his condition.
923
924[[/folder]]
925
926[[folder:Yuki Funahara]]
927!!Yuki Funahara
928!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KotoriKoiwai (Japanese), Creator/AlexisTipton (English)
929
930A therapist-trainer for a local gym and Akane's best friend.
931----
932* BookDumb: Flashbacks indicate such, with Yuki bemoaning the liklihood of low test scores (of which turns out to be true).
933* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Makishima slits her throat while forcing Akane to watch, with Yuki helplessly crying out to Akane.]]
934* DamselInDistress: Makishima and Senguji kidnap her to lure Shinya and Akane into their "hunting game".
935* KillTheCutie: A generally friendly young woman and reliable friend. [[spoiler: Makes her murder all the more heartbreaking.]]
936* SacrificialLamb: The circumstances of [[spoiler:her murder]] mark a crucial turning point for the series by [[spoiler:showing the Sibyl System's inability to judge criminally asymptomatic individuals]] and [[spoiler:giving Akane more reason to arrest Makishima]].
937* ThoseTwoGirls: Normally seen with Kaori Minase, another of Akane's friends. [[spoiler:Fittingly, both Akane and Kaori attend her funeral.]]
938* VictimOfTheWeek: Senguji’s for that matter.
939[[/folder]]
940
941[[folder:Aoi Tsunemori]]
942!!Aoi Tsunemori
943!!!'''Voiced by:''' Ikuko Tani (Japanese), Creator/KateOxley (English)
944
945Akane's paternal grandmother, who is bedridden and lives in a healthcare facility.
946----
947* ColorfulThemeNaming: Her name can mean "blue" or "green", while Akane's means "red". How appropriate, considering the ArcWords of Season 2 are "WC?" ("What Color?")
948* DefiantToTheEnd: According to Togane, she put up quite a struggle before dying.
949* FamilyThemeNaming: See above.
950* FingerInTheMail: Kuwashima gives her severed ear to Akane in a box, trying to darken her Psycho-Pass.
951* NiceGirl: She has a sweet, pleasant and caring personality.
952* SignificantDoubleCasting: In English, she shares a voice actress with her granddaughter.
953* StrongFamilyResemblance: Looks like an older version of Akane, with the same short hair and wide brown TaremeEyes.
954
955[[/folder]]
956
957[[folder:Maiko Maya Stronskaya]]
958!!Maiko Maya Stronskaya
959!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RisaShimizu (Japanese), Naya Moreno (English)
960
961A Russian immigrant who is married to Kei, her childhood friend. Like her husband, she was enlisted in the Russian army until she was discharged after losing her eyesight in an explosive fire.
962----
963* BadassInDistress:'The Heaven's Leap cult takes her as a hostage to force Kei to talk about the undercovered Foreign Ministry agents. Being an ex-soldier, Maiko is capable to hold on to her own [[spoiler:and eventually kills her hostage-taker with his own gun]].
964* ChildhoodFriend: She met Arata and Kei when she was a young girl.
965* ChildhoodFriendRomance: She marries Kei before the start of the show. Arata is the one who encouraged Kei to propose to her.
966* DisabledLoveInterest: To Kei who is trying to get her eyes treated. Eventually, her are treated after an operation before she gets kidnapped by the Heaven's Leap cult.
967* HappilyMarried: With Kei. They maintain a strong and loving relationship despite how risky Kei's job is as an Inspector.
968* SilkHidingSteel: She maybe just a housewife but this woman is a war veteran.
969* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Don't ever hurt or threaten her husband. [[spoiler:Torii finds this out the hard way when she disarms him and fills him with lead]].
970[[/folder]]
971
972!Antagonists
973!!Season 1
974[[folder:Shōgo Makishima]]
975!!Shōgo Makishima
976!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakahiroSakurai (Japanese), Creator/AlexOrgan (English)
977->''I want to see the splendor of people's souls. I want to check and see if it really is precious. However, when humans base their lives around Sibyl’s, without ever consulting their own wills, do they really hold any value?''
978
979[[quoteright:175:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shogo_makishima.png]]
980
981The main antagonist of the first season. A gifted individual with natural charisma at manipulating people and bringing their darkest urges to light, he serves as the mastermind behind many of the cases the Public Safety Bureau has to solve.
982----
983* AboveGoodAndEvil: How he views his actions. He questions whether Sibyl's judgement can truly tell good and evil apart.
984* AlasPoorVillain: There's a certain melancholy to Makishima's death. With how he never had a chance to fit into society, it's no wonder he ended up as what he was.
985* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: [[spoiler:Shinya comes to believe that Makishima being criminally asymptomatic separated him from society, leading to Makishima not caring what he does to society.]]
986* ALighterShadeOfGrey: According to [[spoiler: the Sibyl System itself]] he is actually a far less vicious criminal than a good number of people [[spoiler: that make up the system itself]].
987* ArchEnemy: To Shinya, due to being involved with the case that killed Sasayama three years ago. Makishima also arguably becomes this to Akane, when [[spoiler:he murders Yuki in front of Akane.]]
988* BadassBookworm: One of the smartest characters in the series, if not THE smartest. He´s also a flippin´ ninja.
989* BadBoss: He has allies, but he’ll have them killed when they’re of no use to him.
990* BadassLongcoat: At the end of Episode 20, he has one.
991* BadassNormal: No fancy guns or weapons, no particularly high-tech equipment and no incredibly huge database to go through, just a genius sociopath and his old-fashioned razor blade.
992* BigBad: The mastermind behind many, ''many'' murders.
993* BloodKnight: Not only is he not actually an NonActionBigBad, he just doesn't like fighting since most people "bore" him and are no challenge. He fights Shinya and barely wins, but is shown to be ''loving'' the fight and sad it ended too quickly.
994* ByronicHero: An EvilCounterpart to Shinya. The villain status makes him somewhat of a deconstruction, showing that when you put such character in a society which literally denies him right to exist, [[spoiler:except as a brain in a jar,]] his go-to solution would be attempt to destroy said society, killing everyone who get in the way.
995* ContemplateOurNavels: Makishima is really fond of having philosophical and literary discussions when he monologues or is with someone else. The ''New Edit'' ramps it up.
996* TheCorrupter: Provides tools and advice to others just to bring out their darkest instincts.
997* CulturedBadass: Well acquainted with literature, music and philosophy as well as ass-kicking. He even used a book [[spoiler:to help him take down Touma.]]
998* CursedWithAwesome: When Kougami and Prof. Saiga are brainstorming together and trying to get a handle on Makishima's personality, Kougami speculates that the turning point in Makishima's life was when he realized he was criminally asymptomatic. But while most people would think this was great, Makishima would have seen this as a constant reminder of how isolated he is from society.
999* DarkMessiah: Has committed a number of terrible murders in order to [[spoiler:provide awareness for people to live like human beings.]]
1000* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler: Doesn't [[AintTooProudToBeg beg]] for his life in his last moments and just mocks Kogami over the fact that he'll find someone like him to replace.]]
1001* DissonantSerenity: Has the biggest smile when he [[spoiler:is about to destroy all of Japan's food, ruin the Sibyl System and cause societal breakdown.]]
1002* DyingSmirk: [[spoiler:True to his character, he seems almost happy that Kougami is the one to execute him, and dies with a gentle smirk on his face.]]
1003* EvilCounterpart:
1004** To Shinya. Although they are {{foil}}s, they have many similarities. Shinya is a GeniusBruiser BloodKnight while Shogo is a BadassBookworm BloodKnight, and both are very cultured and have talents for planning, even if the planning is improvised. It gets {{Lampshaded}} and invoked in episode 19.
1005** He could also be considered this to Akane: Both of them have [[spoiler:unusually low Crime Coefficients and have their issues with the Sibyl System]].
1006* EvilLaugh: [[spoiler:After killing Masaoka, he has the nerve to smile while looking at Ginoza grieving and then outright laughs at Shinya's disapproval of Makishima.]]
1007* EvilMentor: To Kozaburo Toma and Rikako Oryo, as he facilitated and encouraged the murders they committed. He even says it himself [[spoiler:during his last message to Rikako, when Senguji is hunting her down]].
1008* EvilVersusEvil: [[spoiler:With the Sibyl System. Which of them is ALighterShadeOfBlack has yet to be shown]].
1009* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Realizing that his plan failed and that he's bleeding very badly, Makishima accepts his fate as Shinya executes him with his pistol.]]
1010* FarEastAsianTerrorists: He's considered as one by the Sibyl System in the 1st season [[spoiler:until they asked him to join him due being asymptomatic]].
1011* FauxAffablyEvil: Can go from nice and charming to violent and sociopathic, in no time at all.
1012* {{Foil}}: Set up as Shinya's foil, evident even in their contrasting appearances. Shinya has fairly normal but obviously muscular looks while Makishima is white-haired, thin and with golden eyes. Shinya is a BloodKnight, Makishima prefers to not fight if needed; Shinya wants to improve society but (mostly) follows the laws that the Sibyl System has created, Makishima is an {{Ubermensch}} whose actions are dangerous for society and does not care for the Sibyl System's laws, etc. Even [[FragileSpeedster their]] fighting [[MightyGlacier styles]] are downplayed {{foil}}s.
1013* FeetFirstIntroduction: In the ''New Edit'' of episode 1, the first thing we see Makishima is a close-up of his shoe tapping on the stairway while narrating.
1014* FragileSpeedster: Makishima is fast and strong enough to fight and defeat [[spoiler:an admittedly-wounded Shinya, in addition to previously quickly and easily taking down three armed thugs, but Akane knocks him out with a single surprise helmet-strike to the back of the head]].
1015* GenreSavvy: Really loves dystopian fiction and social satire. He readily finds parallels and distinctions between the world around him and the works of Creator/GeorgeOrwell, Creator/WilliamGibson, Creator/PhilipKDick, and Creator/JonathanSwift. An official character book reveals that his favorite books are Orwell's ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' and Foucault's ''Discipline and Punishment,'' which opened his eyes to the true nature of the Sibyl System.
1016* GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: White hair, golden eyes and a completely pure Crime Coefficient. Overlaps heavily with LightIsNotGood because he's a mass-murdering psychopath whose impossibly low CC renders him immune to Sibyl's judgement, so they decide that the only other option is to add him to their ranks. [[spoiler:Kougami makes sure that doesn't happen.]]
1017* HannibalLecture: Fond of giving these to people he's lost interest in. Long winded lectures of why they failed to keep his interest and tearing down the concept behind the Sibyl system are his favourites.
1018* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Gets taken down by Akane with one of his own helmets. Akane then promptly arrests him.]]
1019* IndirectSerialKiller: Prefers to corrupt people and give them tools and information to become {{serial killer}}s.
1020* LaResistance: He works to bring the Sibyl system down behind the scenes because he believes it's bringing society into stagnation.
1021* TheLeader: He's an evil Mastermind who manipulates people for his own entertainment and to further his plans.
1022* {{Leitmotif}}: An EtherealChoir backed by a OneWomanWail.
1023* LightIsNotGood: Dresses all in white, has platinum hair and looks quite angelic. Don't let it fool you for a second.
1024* ManipulativeBastard: Since he doesn't jump into the action himself, he relies on his evangelist-like talents to convince people. Very fond of using others' weaknesses to turn them into killers and eventually discarding them when they bore him.
1025* MotiveRant: [[spoiler:Has one in Episode 21 before him and Shinya get ready to have a knife fight.]]
1026* MuggingTheMonster: Three thugs in Episode 14 decide Makishima will be easy pickings for them. [[CurbStompBattle They are wrong]]. [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown VERY wrong.]]
1027* MysteriousPast: There is almost nothing known about his past. Even the "Official Profiling" databook indicates that his age, birthplace, and educational and occupational history are all unknown. The closest we ever get is when Kougami and Saiga theorize about what made him turn to crime.
1028* NonActionBigBad: Subverted, he may not like to fight but he certainly knows how to. Though he will like to fight if he feels he'll get a challenge from someone.
1029* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Makishima claims that Sibyl is detrimental to humanity and that all humans should be able to decide and feel for themselves. While he does [[VillainHasAPoint make a point about the former]], his idea for the latter involves [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] people into giving into their darkest desires and become [[SerialKiller serial killers]] for his amusements and has no problem offing these people off when [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they are no longer amusing him]]. In short while the ideologies Makishima and the Sybil System share [[OrderVersusChaos are polar opposites]] he proves to be [[EvilVersusEvil just as bad]], [[EvilerThanThou if not WORSE]] than the Sybil System.
1030* PerpetualSmiler: In contrast to the usually frowning Shinya.
1031* PrettyLittleHeadshots: [[spoiler:How he dies from Shinya using Masaoka's revolver.]]
1032* PsychoticSmirk: Gets this expression when he is having a fight he enjoys or has just done something truly terrible. His biggest smirk is after killing [[spoiler:Masaoka in front of Ginoza.]]
1033* PureIsNotGood: [[spoiler:The Sibyl System doesn't recognize him as an unstable person, to the point where his Psycho-Pass slowly drops to 0 while he is killing someone.]]
1034* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: His actions to oppose the Sibyl system include really gruesome murders.
1035* SatanicArchetype: His rebellion against Sibyl involves tempting people and manipulating them to give in to their worst desires. He is also a {{Bishonen}} with white hair, gold eyes and a pure ([[PureIsNotGood 0%]]) Crime Coefficient, so his general theme is all about [[LightIsNotGood light]]. Additionally, Sibyl is often compared to {{God}}, yet he chose to rebel against, corrupt and destroy it, so the ''Literature/ParadiseLost'' parallels are not too far off.
1036* ShutUpKirk: Does this to [[spoiler:Shinya's accusations of his motivations]] in Episode 21.
1037* TheSociopath: Shows very little empathy towards those who suffer or die as a result of his machinations.
1038* {{Ubermensch}}: Values the free will of humanity and 'tests' people to act in accordance to their true will and desires, and holds the Sibyl system and what it has done to Japan as a corrupt religion. Like the TropeNamer in Nietzsche's writings, he is ''literally'' impossible to judge by the 'slave morality' imposed by Sibyl.
1039* VillainHasAPoint: What makes him so appealing is that his criticisms of the Sibyl System are actually spot on.
1040* VillainousFriendship: With Choe. [[spoiler:When Makishima sees video footage of Choe's death, he is shown to be momentarily disturbed; a huge contrast to how Makishima normally [[LackOfEmpathy reacts]] to death.]] Is also on an amiable basis with Senguji.
1041* WhiteHairBlackHeart: While the rest of the cast has fairly realistic colors, Makishima has white hair and sinister golden eyes.
1042* WickedCultured: Very refined and always seen with a book. He enjoys literature the most, quotes Shakespeare and Creator/PhilipKDick, and discusses political, societal and literary issues and philosophy with Senguji or Choe Gu-Sung, while drinking [[TeaIsClassy tea]] with them.
1043* WorthyOpponent: Sees Shinya more and more as one as the series goes on. [[spoiler:The last episode has Makishima and Shinya knife fight, and Makishima seems to appreciate and admire Shinya, so much that he might even see Shinya as a kindred spirit or even a warped version of a friend. Makishima's last words have him wondering if Shinya will ever find someone who could replace him, just before Shinya shoots him.]]
1044* WouldHitAGirl: He won't just hit one; he'll ''kill'' one. [[spoiler:[[SlashedThroat Slashing Yuki's throat]], for instance.]]
1045* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: Indirectly is responsible for Rikako’s death via sending Senguji to off her.]]
1046* YellowEyesOfSneakiness: A talented SerialKiller and manipulator, with the yellow-golden eyes to match.
1047* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Or rather, 'you have outlived your entertainment value'. He abandoned Mido and Rikako, two he had turned into murderers. If you're not entertaining anymore, you are most likely dead.
1048[[/folder]]
1049
1050[[folder:Choe Gu-Sung]]
1051!!Choe Gu-Sung
1052!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YasunoriMasutani (Japanese), Creator/DavidWald (English)
1053[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/choe_gu-sung_anime_1987.jpg]]
1054-->''When you know there is something behind the curtain, you just got to look.''
1055
1056A [[UsefulNotes/KoreansInJapan Korean immigrant]] hacker who has known Makishima for years and is instrumental in advancing his plans.
1057----
1058* ALadyOnEachArm: When we first meet him in Episode 4.
1059* AffablyEvil: Had a friendly conversation with Shūsei and was even hoping to be friends with him.
1060* AfraidOfBlood: Which is why he never stays around when the serial killers start doing their thing.
1061* AllThereInTheManual: Some of the novels mention that he used to serve in the Korean People's Army before North Korea was dissolved as a state.[[note]]This was not mentioned in the anime/manga at all.[[/note]]
1062* TheCracker: Responsible for spreading misinformation in the internet during the riots and locating the mainframe of the Sibyl System.
1063* DarkAndTroubledPast: Lived in Japan at a young age due to another Korean War that broke out years before the show started.
1064* TheDragon: To Makishima's BigBad.
1065* EvilSoundsDeep: David Wald's voice gives Choe this in the English dub.
1066* EyesAlwaysShut: Probably because [[ElectronicEyes they are cybernetic]].
1067* FarEastAsianTerrorists: He is one along Makishima as a cyberterrorist and later as an anti-Sibyl System terrorist.
1068* FriendlyEnemy: To Shūsei.
1069* HolographicDisguise: Has a holographic device that changes his appearance and voice.
1070* MutualKill: [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Attempts this on Joushuu Kasei, but she is a cyborg and so she survives her flesh being burnt off. Choe, on the other hand, gets [[YourHeadASplode his head exploded]]]].
1071* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His surname has a distinction of being pronounced radically different in the Northern and Southern dialects of Korean. Northerners pronounce it as "Tsoi", while southerners lean to "Chwe". Anime seems to take the middle ground and renders it as something like "Cho-".
1072* TokenMinority: By modern standards, [[UsefulNotes/KoreansInJapan Koreans aren't all that prevalent in Japan]]. And considering that all the other named characters are Japanese, it can be inferred that this is still the case. He explicitly calls himself a foreigner as well.
1073* VillainousFriendship: Apparently childhood friends with Makishima.
1074* WickedCultured: Always polite and composed, and no less well-read than Makishima, to the point of knowledgeable discussion of century-old {{Cyberpunk}} literature.
1075* YourHeadASplode: See MutualKill.
1076[[/folder]]
1077
1078!!Season 2
1079[[folder:Kirito Kamui]]
1080!!Kirito Kamui
1081!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyoheiKimura (Japanese), Creator/CliffordChapin (English)
1082->''"The fact that something is false does not invalidate its existence. You all failed to recognize that."''
1083
1084[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kirito_kamui_anime.png]]
1085
1086The main antagonist of season 2. He believes that latent criminals can be still be saved.
1087----
1088* AffablyEvil: Although Kamui seems obsessed with making peoples' hues clear and still allowing them to do whatever they want (even crime), he can be quite friendly to people even [[spoiler: when removing one of their eyes and forcibly drugging them, as he did to Inspector Shisui, all while giving her life advice.]]
1089* AlliterativeName: '''K'''irito '''K'''amui
1090* AloneInACrowd: This is depicted as [[spoiler: we find out how he gradually became less and less recognized by Sibyl, to the point that nobody in society would ever acknowledge his existence.]]
1091* AntiTrueSight: Somehow, he is completely invisible to the Sibyl System. [[spoiler: It's because he's a WalkingTransplant who has so many foreign organs implanted in him that the overload of clashing biometric data renders Sibyl unable to get any kind of read on him.]]
1092* AntiVillain: Brutal as his measures may be, Kamui does genuinely believe he's bettering society by forcing Sibyl to reevaluate it's criteria and thinks he's paving the way for a better future.
1093* AscendedExtra: A rather unusual example. Kamui did in fact make a few appearances during the advents of Season 1, [[spoiler: disguised as the minor character Riku Mukojima, Ginoza's therapist. He later goes on to becoming the BigBad of Season 2]].
1094* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: He got exactly what he wanted in the end: the LogicBomb nature of his existence and death forced Sibyl to ''judge itself'', causing them to execute some of their more 'unstable' members.]]
1095** [[SubvertedTrope However]], [[spoiler:driving the Sibyl System 'less insane' had consequences: it made them more dangerous and powerful than before considering that they expanded their control outside Japan]].
1096* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: For a guy who was [[spoiler:sewn together from multiple bodies]], he looks pretty fine, with only a few scars near his jaw line as far as we can tell. [[spoiler:Averted though in the final episode where we see his appearance is really just another hologram. In reality, he looks pretty ugly with multiple different colored sections of skin clearly sewn together, so one can understand why he always uses a hologram.]]
1097* BestServedCold: Almost literally in episode 9. [[spoiler: With the help of a friend of his who is an official in the Ministry of Transportation, he manages to gather all the [[CorruptPolitician politicians]] who covered up the Season of Hell in one place and has them served food that is actually human organs under a holo-disguise. This causes their Crime Coefficients to shoot up to triple digit levels as Kamui's followers then shoot them with Dominators.]]
1098* BigBad: Replacing Makishima for the second season, where he's now the one disrupting the status quo with his schemes.
1099* BodyHorror: There's [[http://i.imgur.com/LaAXzgk.jpg a good reason]] why he wears holographic disguises.
1100* BorrowedBiometricBypass: He takes out Inspector Shisui's eye and replaces one of his own with it so he can use her Dominator. Later, he tasks Dr. Masuzaki with finding a way to equip the rest of his followers with Dominators, which Masuzaki does by creating some kind of glove that is keyed to Shisui's biometrics.
1101* TheChessmaster: Kamui moves several pieces ahead of time such as [[spoiler:prepping his followers by using the identities of those who died in the plane crash, kidnapping and convincing Shisui to join his side, tricking several members of PSB into vulnerable areas so he can steal the Dominators along with killing several people and causing chaos along the way]]. In the end, he outsmarts [[spoiler:the ''friggin' Sibyl System'' and forced them to eliminate several of their members. Even Akane can't do anything to stop him and lets him do the deed considering that she saw the system flawed. Killing him with the Dominator is actually his death wish]].
1102* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Both Makishima and Kamui are against the Sybil System, but their ways and the problems they pose for the system are quite different. Where Makishima and his methods was centered around a theme of individualistic anarchy, Kamui's running theme was the idea of collectivised crime. This is also neatly reflected in their character designs; where Makishima has highly distinctive looks, Kamui is a very generic looking person, even with his scars and mismatched eyes. Finally, unlike Makishima, who employs people so long as they keep on entertaining him, Kamui appears to be genuinely concerned for their well-being.
1103* TheCorrupter: Unlike Makishima who attempts to show a person's darkest instincts regardless of increasing one's crime coefficient, Kamui is focused on lowering the crime coefficient to make the hues clear but at the same time, lets them commit crimes whatever they want.
1104* TheCracker: A truly vicious one. [[spoiler: In Episode 5, he links a whole fleet of military attack Drones to a portable video game. People think they're playing one of those harmless portable game wherein you shoot harmless chickens and pixels on a screen. In reality, they're unwittingly controlling military attack drones armed with miniguns who are shooting actual ''people''. He does this to portable devices all over the city of Tokyo.]]
1105* DarkMessiah: This man inspires followers to cult-like devotion, to the point where they are even willing to commit suicide just to protect him.
1106* EvenEvilHasStandards: He can't stand the corrupt politicians who enabled the Season of Hell to occur, for what happened during said time and for what they've done to others.
1107* EvilCounterpart: Is shaping up to be one to Tsunemori as he is showing signs of a WideEyedIdealist believing that the Sibyl System is wrong in judging people.
1108* FarEastAsianTerrorists: Is this for the second season, being an anti-Sibyl system terrorist.
1109* TheGhost: Is this in-verse to Sibyl who is informed about his existence by Akane, but is not able to measure his CC and therefore cannot "see" him. [[spoiler: They could measure his Crime Coefficient if they measured collective Psycho-Passes but that would mean they could be judged.]]
1110* KillAndReplace: One major facet of his plan involves [[spoiler: killing high-ranking members of society, and inserting his men in their place after they have undergone numerous organ transplants and plastic surgery to resemble them, such as Representative Masuda.]]
1111* LimaSyndrome: [[spoiler: He becomes very close with Inspector Shisui after kidnapping her and taking her eye out, regularly holding her tight and apologizing for what he did to her.]]
1112* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: Considers himself the amalgam [[spoiler: of all the people whose organs were used to reconstruct his body.]] Unlike most examples of the trope, this is meant to be metaphorical and not literal.
1113* MasterOfDisguise: [[spoiler: He has 184 disguises to choose from.]]
1114* MasterOfIllusion: He's an expert programmer when it comes to generating holograms. He was able to fool the entire CID in the first episode through the use of a holographic female hostage and holographic bombs. Hinakawa's analysis of the hostage's image reveals that it was based off of an 8-year old girl who died 15 years ago and aged up appropriately, wrapped in layers and layers of holo-fields that would fool even the most sophisticated scanners.
1115* MeaningfulName: While his first name is practically guaranteed to bring to mind [[Literature/SwordArtOnline another popular anime character]], his last name is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamuy the Ainu word for a divine being]] and is a very rare Japanese name. For an even bigger meaning, he uses an ''extremely'' unusual choice of kanji: Kamui is usually written as 神威 ("powerful god") but his last name is written as 鹿矛囲 ("deer surrounded by spears")... which is [[FridgeBrilliance a perfect description of Japan's population ruled by Sibyl.]]
1116* MixAndMatchMan: [[spoiler:The reason for his invisibility. He's got the parts of 184 other people grafted into him. As far as the Sybil system can measure, he's a massive group of people in one, and the Sybil System cannot measure a large collective, without allowing itself to be judged.]]
1117* MutualKill: [[spoiler: Dies blowing off Tougane's arm, which later kills Tougane.]]
1118* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Though he did get what he wanted in the end, [[spoiler:it turns out that his "judgment" on the Sibyl System via forcing them to remove their defective brains made them more dangerous, more powerful and more manipulative than before as demonstrated in the movie where they tricked everyone in order to expand their control on [=SEAUn=] and possibly, the whole world. In the ''Providence'' movie, the Sibyl System plans to replace the world's judicial systems which starts by abolishing the Ministry of Justice]].
1119* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler: Before he dies, he admits that he wants Akane to one day judge the Sibyl System and knows that someone will one day continue to do so.]]
1120* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: Numerous instances. He ensured that Shisui was unconscious and sedated, and remained alive when he removed her eye. He lowered Inspector's Shisui's psycho-pass when her crime-coefficient was too high. He was able to rescue the elderly hostage taker from Episode 4 from eustress defficiency (a coma-like illness), and even offered to help the man escape from the surrounding inspectors. Compared to Makishima at least, Kamui is far more polite and considerate to his cohorts.]]
1121* PsychoPsychologist: Very effective as a therapist and not unwilling to kill others if necessary.
1122* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: He's the sole survivor of a horrific plane crash, caused by the Sibyl System, that killed over 200 people, including all his classmates. His body was repaired by taking body parts from the other survivors, then grafting and implanting into his ruined body. The surgeries were very difficult and painful, and had almost non-existant chance of survival. Miraculously, he survived again. As his body gradually accepted the new body parts, the Sibyl System gradually lost its ability to scan him. As far as the Sibyl System is concerned, he's nothing more than a pile of corpses. When he tried to talk to people, they just ignored or dismissed him. He eventually became completely isolated from society. He eventually investigated what happened during the Season of Hell, and he discovered that the plane crash was caused by the Sibyl System. During that time, there was a replacement for the Sibyl System called Panopticon. When Panopticon was tested on traffic monitoring to see if it was ready, the Sibyl System used bribes and intimidation, as well as caused accidents, to cause the number of accidents to spike. The Sibyl System arranged for all those deaths in order to avoid being replaced. When he found out that all the horror and pain he suffered was due to the Sibyl System, he decided to take action against Sibyl. He acquired the skills and knowledge to lower other people's Hues, and started installing his followers into key positions of power, all to take down the Togane Foundation, and the Sibyl System]].
1123* TheShrink: Can reduce the crime coefficient of others [[spoiler: to the point that they can be considered criminally asymptomatic. Also masqueraded as Ginoza's therapist.]]
1124* SoleSurvivor: He's the only survivor of a plane crash incident which killed 205 people. [[spoiler:Apparently, he's using the identities of the deceased to have his followers impersonate them for his plan and to remain hidden from the Sibyl System]].
1125* SurvivorGuilt: It is strongly implied that he suffers from this, [[spoiler: and that his whole mission is to find justice for the other people who died on that fateful plane crash.]] His friend Koichi Kuwashima most definitely feels this, [[spoiler: as in a twist of fate, he happened to be moving the week before the plane took off and missed his flight.]]
1126* TakeThatKiss: Planted one on Inspector Shisui right after he paralyzed her with a hypodermic injection, then forced her hand up and made her pull the trigger on Enforcer Yamatoya.
1127* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: [[spoiler: What his goal all along essentially was. In the ending, he forces the Sibyl System to acknowledge a major flaw in its methods (its inability to only judge individuals and not a collective), and the realization of this causes the Sibyl System to terminate a large number of its brains (which would almost certainly be the most violent criminals it integrated) in order to reduce its own Crime Coefficient to zero.]]
1128* UndyingLoyalty: He inspires this among his followers. These include [[spoiler: Inspector Shisui, the doctor who operated on him as a child, and illegal immigrants he has recruited to take the place of certain individuals in society.]]
1129* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He only wants revenge on Masako Togane and the Sibyl System [[spoiler:for stitching him with several organs and body parts of the people who died in that plane crash which the system committed and covered up. He finally got what he wanted by killing Masako and forcing the system to judge itself via eliminating the brains with high Crime Coefficient. What he didn't anticipated is that the system is doing an internal clean-up to remove those brains that contributed to their weaknesses, leaving the real criminally asymptomatic ones (read: the sociopathic ones) in charge. Because of his actions, the system can focus on extending its control outside Japan and possibly the whole world by manipulating everyone including Akane to control [=SEAUn=], getting the leader of the region assassinated once he realized what they really are and distracting Akane to chase Kougami which nearly got her killed. It's even worse that in the ''Providence'' movie, the Japanese government plans to abolish the country's judiciary and replace it with the Sibyl System. Too bad Kamui isn't alive to see what he had done]].
1130* VillainHasAPoint: He is completely correct in his opinion of the flaws and failings of the Sibyl System. Of course, his methods for showing it are often horrific.
1131* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler: He shows up at the end of episode 10 during Tougane and Akane's confrontation, then in the finale, when Tougane is doing his hardest to darken Akane's Hue, he terminates Tougane at the cost of his own life.]]
1132* WalkingTechbane: [[spoiler: The insanely high number of foreign organs in his body cause his Psycho-Pass readings to register [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale so far beyond the margins of error Sibyl is supposed to recognize]] that it ends up not registering at all.]]
1133* WellIntentionedExtremist: Kamui is willing to kill innocents and corrupt whoever he needs but at the end of the day, all he's hoping to do is [[spoiler:force Sibyl to improve so it will be a better ruling system for humanity]]. Clifford Chapin shares his views and at one point, got into a debate with Zack Bolton when the English dub track of the 2nd season was in production.
1134* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler: He was the pharmacist being attacked by the old man at the mental care facility. He and his accomplice were clearly waiting for Aoyanagi to show up before staging the attack.]]
1135* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler: The Sibyl System is either forced to admit it can't judge Kamui, indicating that it isn't fit to rule, or it forgoes the inability to be judged in order to eliminate him, rendering it susceptible to society's laws (i.e. judgment due to the crimes committed by the brains compromising it).]]
1136** And it works, forcing [[spoiler:the Sibyl System to allow numerous of its members to die.]]
1137[[/folder]]
1138
1139!!Season 3
1140[[folder:Bifrost]]
1141
1142A secret organization that influences the economics, politics, and religious communities of Japan while hiding from the Sibyl System. It has three individuals known as "Congressmen" who gamble on the events that occur throughout Season 3. Their agents are called "Inspectors" who arrange crimes that perform the "Congressmen's" bidding.
1143----
1144* AnimalMotifs: Foxes. They have a fox logo on the back of their cards and they like to sneak around and scheme in the shadows.
1145* BadBoss: The "Congressmen" don't have any problem in getting rid of the "Inspectors" who don't do their job well. They can also do this to other "Congressmen" who don't play by the rules [[spoiler:as Kyoko finds out]].
1146* BigBad: They're the antagonists in Season 3.
1147* TheChessmaster: The three "Congressmen" are aware of the cases that Division 1 is investigating. With this knowledge, they can plan for any possible outcome that benefits the group.
1148* TheConspiracy: They operate from the shadows while hiding away from the Sibyl System. They are even capable of maintaining and hiding their Hues so they won't draw suspicion.
1149* GratuitousEnglish: Their titles of "Congressman" and "Inspector" are spoken in English. For the later, this is a contrast to Public Safety Bureau's position of "Inspector" which uses the Japanese word ''Kanshikan''. The criminal schemes they plan and execute are also referred to as "Relations" and the AI that manages their game is called "Roundrobin."
1150* HiddenAgendaVillain: There's nothing much about them or what their exact goal is except they see the events as a game.
1151* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: They arrange accidents in order to divert suspicion from the authorities.
1152* TheManBehindTheMan: As seen in the pyramid diagram presented during the PSB and Foreign Affairs briefing, the "Congressmen" are on the top and they had the "Inspectors" do their crimes on their bidding.
1153* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: They know a lot of PSB personnel and the people involved in the cases. There's a lack of information about them and how many members are there.
1154* StartMyOwn: As revealed in ''First Inspector'', [[spoiler: Bifrost was the codename for the programmers who were the Sibyl System's debuggers when it was still in the early stages of development, and Roundrobin was the actual debugging program being used. It ended up becoming its own entity where it could exploit Sibyl's vulnerabilities when the investors behind the Roundrobin program started using it to make money]].
1155* WeAreEverywhere: Their "Congressmen" and "Inspectors" can be anyone ranging from an owner of some business establishments to a leader of the criminal underground. One of the former Division 1 Inspectors, Kira, warns Kei that there are "foxes" within the bureau.
1156* YouHaveFailedMe:
1157** If one of their "Inspectors" makes a mistake which can possibly lead them to get caught by the PSB and expose the group, the other Inspectors and their cronies would dispose of them.
1158** Even "Congressmen" are not spared from this. If they lose the game or if they meddle with an "Inspector's" work during Relations, they can be enforced by Roundrobin. [[spoiler:And enforcement means vaporizing them into oblivion]].
1159[[/folder]]
1160
1161!!!"Congressmen"
1162
1163[[folder:Shizuka Homura]]
1164!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MamoruMiyano
1165
1166A Bifrost "Congressman" and the youngest member of the group.
1167----
1168* AdvertisedExtra: He's featured prominately in the ''First Inspector'' poster together with Arata, Kei and Azusawa. Except he's only seen sitting down in the Bifrost main hub for the rest of the movie until the last minutes [[spoiler:where he has the Sibyl System shut down the Roundrobin system and gets promoted as the new Public Safety Bureau chief.]]
1169* CreepyGood: [[spoiler:He may be an agent of the bureau, but his stoicism and clinical methods make him rather creepy to be around. He lightens up just a bit near the end of ''First Inspector''.]]
1170* DaChief: [[spoiler:He becomes the chief - namely the first human chief - of the PSB at the end of ''First Inspector''.]]
1171* EveryoneHasStandards: He admits to Azusawa that he despises games and never views people as cogs in the machine. The only reason he joins Bifrost is on behalf of his bedridden father who wants him to "win the game at all costs". [[spoiler:Seeing as how he's GoodAllAlong, who knows how much of his statement was actually true.]]
1172* GenderBlenderName: "Shizuka" is usually used for females, although his given name uses different kanji than the usual spelling.
1173* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:Turns out that he's infiltrating Bifrost so he can have the Sibyl System to shut it down and is actually working with the Public Safety Bureau. In the end, he's promoted as the new PSB chief and has requested Sibyl to free Akane and let her work as a "statutory enforcer".]]
1174* HiddenDepths: Though he is one of the members of a very secret cabal that is hiding from the Sibyl System, he seems to be gambling for the Public Safety Bureau's success in every case presented in the show. [[spoiler:This is because he's an agent of the bureau who has to sabotage Bifrost from within]].
1175* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:He knows Kei and Maiko's situation and offers the former a position as an "Inspector" so he can arrange the latter's release from the rehabilitation facility. After Kei eventually takes the offer, Homura upholds his promise and has Maiko free]].
1176* TheStoic: He's calm and collected and doesn't even flinch [[spoiler:when Kyoko got vaporized]], knowing it's part of the game.
1177* TwoFirstNames: Inverted. Shizuka and Homura are considered to be last names in Japan, though the former is far less common.
1178* UndercoverCopReveal: [[spoiler:Towards the end of ''First Inspector'' movie, it's revealed that Homura is working with the Sibyl System after he asked the Roundrobin to have the Sibyl System to be the new "Congressman". This allows the Sibyl System to take over and shut down the Roundrobin for good.]]
1179[[/folder]]
1180
1181[[folder:Kyoko Saionji]]
1182!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AtsukoTanaka (Japanese), Creator/ElizabethMaxwell (English)
1183
1184A Bifrost "Congressman" and the only female member of the group.
1185----
1186* BetrayalByOffspring: [[spoiler:In his last video message prior to his death, Torii condemns her to enforcement after learning the truth of his parentage and blames her for his cloudy Hue because of her incestuous affair with her brother. With that, he announces his plan to be a "Congressman" by replacing her]].
1187* FamilyBusiness: Her brother, Toya Saionji, used to be one of the "Congressman". Kyoko declares she won't end up like him. Her son is also an "Inspector" who also wants to be "Congressman."
1188* FemmeFatale: She's very alluring and seductive.
1189* MsFanservice: She's very well endowed and wears a very revealing dress.
1190* OhCrap: [[spoiler:When she finds out that Torii was killed and when she receives his last video message, blaming her for his cloudy Hue because he's a product of incest between her and her brother, she is promptly indicted by the Roundrobin system]].
1191* {{Sadist}}: Her official profile notes her having a sadistic side as first seen in episode 6 [[spoiler:where she enjoys seeing Kei being tied up and tortured]].
1192* SmugSnake: She thinks she can win her game against Homura who stole her brother's "Congressman" seat. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Shirogane doesn't like those who break the rules and has the Roundrobin obliterate her into nothingness]].
1193* VillainousFaceHold: [[spoiler:She does this to Kei, who was beaten and tied up by her son. She's even aware of his identity as the brother of the late Akira Vasily Ignatov while laughing and smearing his blood on his lips]].
1194* VillainousMotherSonDuo: Her son, Torii, is the current leader of Heaven's Leap and one of the "Inspectors". They are both working together to undermine the PSB and Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1195[[/folder]]
1196
1197[[folder:Haruki Shirogane]]
1198!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HiroshiNaka (Japanese), R Bruce Elliot (English)
1199
1200A Bifrost "Congressman" and the oldest member of the group.
1201----
1202* EvilOldFolks: Being the oldest among the three "Congressmen" and has more experience on how the Roundrobin works.
1203* GracefulLoser:
1204** He seems to be okay of losing the bet whenever Homura won.
1205** In ''First Inspector'', [[spoiler:he accepts his defeat and smiles as the Roundrobin vaporizes him]].
1206* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:He seems to know what criminally asymptomatic means and what the Sibyl System are composed of. Do note that criminally asymptomatic is Sibyl's greatest secret and the only two living people who know about it are Akane and Mika]]. How Shirogane knew about this is a mystery which says a lot about his identity.
1207* OutOfFocus: Compared with his other "Congressmen", he doesn't get a whole lot of focus both in the season and ''First Inspector''. All we really get is that he's been playing the game for quite a while now and [[spoiler:knows what the Sibyl System is.]]
1208* OnlyInItForTheMoney: He's only interested in how the money flows during the cases regardless of how illegal were the methods used.
1209[[/folder]]
1210
1211!!!"Inspectors"
1212[[folder:Koichi Azusawa]]
1213!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenyuuHoriuchi
1214
1215The First Inspector of Bifrost.
1216----
1217* AffablyEvil: He's very willing to commit crimes on behalf of Bifrost and yet, he's a friendly guy who sometimes gets mistreated by his hacker assistant who is also an "Inspector".
1218* BigBad: Naturally given that his position is [[AntagonistTitle the movie title for the sequel]], he's the antagonist.
1219* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:After the Sibyl System bluntly rejects him to join them because he's not crminally asymptomatic and calls him a " self-righteous game enthusiast", he loses his confident charm and, while still adamantly believing in Sibyl, tries to force Arata to use an Eliminator on him, since his life just lost its whole meaning]].
1220* TheChessmaster: Out of all the "Inspectors" seen in the show, he's actually the smartest because he never underestimates the PSB and has a lot of connections which keeps him alive. This makes him a possible candidate for "Congressman" of Bifrost. He nearly won in "First Inspector" if it weren't for his ignorance on [[spoiler:criminally asymptomatic individuals]].
1221* DragonWithAnAgenda: He wants to become a "Congressman" because he likes to be on top and enjoys manipulating people. He's willing to throw his fellow "Inspectors" and a "Congressman" under the bus so he can reach his goal. [[spoiler:In truth he always aimed to meet Sibyl, the "only physical god in this world", which would become possible after joining the "Bifrost"]].
1222* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His first appearance is watching Rick Fellows fall to his death from a plane. Then, he takes a selfie and says [[GratuitousEnglish "I'm happy!"]] with a smile on his face.
1223* FaceHeelTurn: His profile in Episode 5 shows that he was an Inspector for Division 2 for 13 years before joining Bifrost.
1224* FinishHim: [[spoiler:Happens after Sibyl rejects Azusawa. Sibyl orders (and repeats it several times) Arata to prosecute Azusawa. Arata, [[SaveTheVillain on the verge of screaming]], manages to convince Sibyl to reconsider. Arata is then left to do as he sees fit, with the Dominator returned to non-lethal mode]].[[spoiler:Turns out its an UnwantedRescue]].
1225* TheHeavy: He does all the heavy lifting in the entire season and helps out his fellow "Inspectors" until they become useless to him.
1226* ItAmusedMe: He likes to tinker people around him because he sees them as cogs in a machine and views the world as a huge puzzle for him to play. [[spoiler:In the film he is revealed to have been forcing people into 2-choices situations, where chosing poorly means demise. He keeps it up out of personal sense of values and believes it makes him worthy of joining Sibyl]].
1227* KarmaHoudini: By the end of Season 3, the PSB and Foreign Affairs are unable to capture him. [[spoiler:Then, he arranges a car accident on Yayoi because of her investigation.]] Fortunately in ''First Inspector'', [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty he gets comeupperance]].
1228* ManipulativeBastard: He likes to manipulate people for the sake of his plans and even uses his fellow "Inspectors" until they fail their jobs. [[spoiler:However, due to his personal agenda he always leaves them with two choices, one of which is wrong and the other allows to survive]].
1229* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:Does this on Arata following his VillainousBreakdown.]]
1230* NotSoAboveItAll: He [[SpitTake barfs his noodles]] after listening to the news regarding the death of Yakushiji's secretary. Then, his partner, Obata, throws her stuffed animal at him for making a mess, much to his confusion.
1231* RogueAgent: His profile in Episode 5 when Kei and Arata are looking up info on the foxes they know about indicates that Azusawa used to be an Inspector with the Public Safety Bureau's Division 2 from 2097 to 2100. This was not translated on the Amazon release.
1232* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: He is able to stay alive because he has connections with the upper echelons and has his own criminal empire.
1233* SmugSnake: He's very interested in Arata and wants to break him except Shirogane warns him that [[spoiler:Arata is born as criminally asymptomatic just like the brains of the Sibyl System and Shogo Makishima]]. Azusawa doesn't understand what that term meant considering that the only living people who know about it are [[spoiler:Akane, Mika, and the Sibyl System]]. This proves to be his downfall because [[spoiler:he desires to join the Sibyl System except the system rejects him for not fitting the criteria of being criminally asymptomatic]].
1234* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:He loses it when the Sibyl System rejects his offer of wanting to join them because he's not criminally asymptomatic like Arata. Then, [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown he pummels Arata]] to force his own Crime Coefficient to exceed non-lethal Dominator mode, basically trying to commit an assisted suicide.]]
1235* WorthyOpponent: He considers Arata as this because of his father, Atsushi, who is also Azusawa's mentor and wants to "crack" him.
1236
1237[[/folder]]
1238
1239[[folder:Haruki Enomiya]]
1240!!!'''Voiced by:''' Tomoko Miyadera
1241
1242The Second Inspector of Bifrost and the underground leader of Myogadani.
1243----
1244* BadBoss: They treat their subordinates like trash which caused Irie to leave and join the PSB instead.
1245[[/folder]]
1246
1247[[folder:Torii Aschenbach]]
1248!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KaitoIshikawa
1249
1250The Third Inspector of Bifrost and the representative of the Sibyl-approved religious group Heaven's Leap.
1251----
1252* IHaveYourWife: He kidnaps Maiko in order to force Kei to talk about the undercover Foreign Affairs agents. Too bad he didn't realize that Maiko is a former soldier...
1253* InbredAndEvil: [[spoiler:He's a product of incest between his mother and her brother. He's very furious when he learned the truth from Shirogane to the point of blaming his mother for his cloudy Hue. Though his actions are his own before this revelation.]]
1254* PathOfInspiration: Heaven's Leap is nothing more than a tool for him to earn a seat as a Congressman in Bifrost. [[spoiler: His method of inducing eustress deficiency syndrome is sold to his followers as attaining bliss as "Eternal White," but it's merely a means for him to neutralize any opposing forces. The original founder of Heaven's Leap was rendered catatonic by this very method, allowing him to take control of the cult.]]
1255* VillainousBreakdown: After the PSB raided the Heaven's Leap headquarters, he takes Maiko with him as they escape. When Kei confronts him and dares him to shoot him instead of Maiko, Torii rants on the concept of love and tells Kei that it's false. [[spoiler:Turns out learning the truth about his mother's incestuous affair and him being a product of it led him into that breakdown]].
1256* VillainousMotherSonDuo: His mother is Kyoko Saijoiji, one of the "Congressmen" of Bifrost. They are both working together to undermine the PSB and Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1257* WhiteHairBlackHeart: His hair is white but he's very deceptive as his Hue is very cloudy. He manages to keep his Crime Coefficient lower to 90 so that he won't be enforced by the Sibyl System.
1258[[/folder]]
1259
1260[[folder:Chiyo Obata]]
1261!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SayuriYahagi
1262
1263The Eleventh Inspector of Bifrost and Azusawa's partner who is a hacker.
1264----
1265* TheCracker: She's a talented hacker who helps Azusawa with his plans. She even has a bunch of surveillance drones that help her spy on her targets. She gives a lot of contributions to Azusawa's plan in ''First Inspector'' when they hijack the PSB headquarters and their servers.
1266* {{Jerkass}}: She's very mean-spirited towards Azusawa who is trying to be nice to her.
1267* PerkyGoth: She wears a lot of gothic clothes and tends to snark at Azusawa.
1268* StraightManAndWiseGuy: She's the "Straight Woman" to Azusawa's "Wise Guy". She even throws her stuff animal at him when he spits his noodles after listening to the news of Lee Aki's death.
1269* VitriolicBestBuds: Even though she and Azusawa bicker all the time, they have a good working relationship. Azusawa is the one who made her into a Bifrost "Inspector".
1270[[/folder]]
1271
1272!!!Associated criminals
1273
1274[[folder:Jackdaw]]
1275!!Jackdaw
1276!!!Voiced by: Atsushi Ono
1277
1278A mercenary working for the Pathfinders, he works with Azusawa behind the scenes in Season 3 and works with Vixen during the siege of the PSB building.
1279----
1280* CopKiller: Kills several Inspectors/Enforcers during the attack on the PSB building.
1281* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Formerly with the Peacebreakers until MOFA forces disbanded the group. Then he later went further with the Pathfinders.
1282* {{Revenge}}: He and Vixen have a grudge against Kougami for killing their students.
1283* TheWorfEffect: The movie shows very extensively that he is a force to be reckon with. Up against Kougami, he loses pretty hard, even with an assault rifle and multiple knives on his person.
1284[[/folder]]
1285
1286[[folder:Vixen]]
1287!!Vixen
1288!!!Voiced by: Yukari Nozawa
1289
1290A mercenary working for the Pathfinders, she works with Azusawa behind the scenes in Season 3 and works with Jackdaw during the siege of the PSB building.
1291----
1292* CopKiller: Kills several Inspectors/Enforcers during the attack on the PSB building.
1293* DarkActionGirl: An old woman who can still fight on equal terms against Ginoza, Sugo and Kogami.
1294* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Formerly with the Peacebreakers until MOFA forces disbanded the group. Then she later went further with the Pathfinders.
1295* {{Revenge}}: He and Vixen have a grudge against Kougami for killing their students.
1296* TheWorfEffect: Shown in the movie to be a force to be reckon with. Up against Kei however, she quickly gets overpowered and gets gibbed soon afterwards.
1297[[/folder]]
1298
1299!Latent Criminals
1300[[folder:Season 1]]
1301!!Nobuo Okura
1302!!!'''Voiced by:''' Shouto Kashi (Japanese), Creator/IanSinclair (English)
1303[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nobuo_okura_anime_2444.jpg]]
1304
1305The perp in the first episode, which also happened to be the Akane's [[FishOutOfWater first day on the job]]. A harried office drone with permanently butted Psycho Pass, he was frequently harrassed and bullied for his high Crime Coefficient until he finally snapped and kidnapped a woman from the street.
1306----
1307* FourEyesZeroSoul: Wears glasses and is a latent criminal.
1308* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Meets his end when his entire upper half is blown up by the Dominator shot.
1309* LoneWolfBoss: He is the only villain in the entire show to have no connection to the BigBad.
1310* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The only villain to be shown raping anyone onscreen so far. Also the only named character to get [[LudicrousGibs gibbed]] for a few episodes.
1311* StarterVillain: The first villain shown in the show.
1312* ThenLetMeBeEvil: See TragicVillain. He specifically mentions that since he was scanned with a high enough Psycho Pass, his life is basically ruined at this point, so he might as well beat and rape his hostage.
1313* TragicVillain: In a disturbing way, he shows that if the Sibyl System didn't exist, a lot of problems could have been avoided. He most likely wouldn't have snapped and committed horrible crimes if he wasn't constantly bothered about his Psycho-Pass rating for years. Unfortunately, he decides that if everyone believes he is a criminal, then he will fulfill their expectations... and goes too far to prove everyone right.
1314* VillainOfTheWeek: Number 1, as he appeared in Episode 1.
1315
1316!!Masatake Mido
1317!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakahiroMizushima (Japanese), Creator/EricVale (English)
1318[[quoteright:273:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/masatake_mido_2269.jpg]]
1319
1320Some people just take the 'Net life [[SeriousBusiness too seriously]], and Mido definitely was one of them. A big fan of countercultural 'Net personalities, he took upon himself to preserve the "purity" of their mission, lest they "sell out".
1321----
1322* AxCrazy: Not as apparent as his successors, but he’s quite unhinged.
1323* {{Determinator}}: Will do anything to interact with the online avatars he enjoys, even [[spoiler:running away from police while he has only one arm, since the other was exploded by a Dominator.]]
1324* EmptyShell: [[spoiler:Makishima believes Mido relies so much on other peoples' online identities because Mido doesn't know or have his own identity. Mido doesn't really have a good response against this accusation.]]
1325* FourEyesZeroSoul: Wears glasses and has no problem relying on murder and identity theft.
1326* InternetMimic: He pretended to be both [[spoiler:Talisman and Spooky Boogie]] after killing both their original owners. The avatars and their Commu-Fields became more popular while he was impersonating their owners.
1327* KilledOffscreen: Not him, but Spooky Boogie’s owner.
1328* LoonyFan: Believes that he is setting his victims' avatars free by killing them.
1329* OhCrap: [[spoiler: When he realizes Makishima has no more use for him and is sending him off to his death.]]
1330* TheStoic: Barely raises his voice and doesn’t emote much. [[spoiler: At least, until the end.]]
1331* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:He gets shot '''[[RuleOfThree THREE]]''' times by the lethal Dominator.]]
1332* WouldHitAGirl: ''Throttles'' Akane’s schoolmate to death so he may take her avatar.
1333* WouldHurtAChild: It’s implied he had something to do with Rainy Blue’s owner’s death.
1334* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Once Makishima has no interest in him anymore, [[spoiler:he leaves him at the mercy of the Enforcers.]]
1335
1336!!Rikako Ōryō
1337!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MaayaSakamoto (Japanese), Creator/BrinaPalencia (English)
1338[[quoteright:287:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rikako_332ry333_anime_6304.jpg]]
1339
1340A student in one of the nowadays rare [[OneGenderSchool Girls School]] where the rich and powerful send their daughters to protect them from the ouside world and keep their Psycho Passes clear. A daughter of the once famous surrealist painter, who gradually lost the will to live[[note]]A frequent condition in this world, where due to the low level of eustress the brain stops getting stimulated and gradually shuts down.[[/note]] and was hospitalized till his death, she wanted to preserve his legacy by building the sculptures inspired by his paintings.
1341----
1342* AloofDarkHairedGirl: She has long, black hair, pale skin and looks imposing compared to her classmates, befitting the traditional ideal of beauty present in the trope. She is also shown to be aloof and popular at school because of the proper lady image she puts forward.
1343* AntagonisticOffspring: Her father was a good man despite his art saying otherwise, but she isn’t.
1344* AssholeVictim: She gets [[spoiler:chased by mechanical dogs in an underground complex, steps on a bear trap, gets her hand sliced up by one of said mechanical dogs, and then gets shot point blank in the face with a shotgun.]] But after everything she has done, it’s hard to feel too bad.
1345* AxCrazy: Her idea of honouring her father's work is to butcher people and turn them into deranged sculptures.
1346* BitchInSheepsClothing: She treats her schoolmates politely and even comforts one of her soon-to-be victims...but it's just a ruse to get close to them and turn them into one of her "artworks".
1347* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:She meets her death by Senguji firing a gun point-blank in her face.]]
1348* BrokenAce: Beautiful, charming, intelligent and talented, she has it all. Underneath that though, she's a psychotic SerialKiller who brutally murders her victims and turns them into grotesque human sculptures.
1349* ClubPresident: She's the president of the Art Club.
1350* CoolBigSis: Acts this way toward her classmates, personally inviting two girls to her art club and comforting Yoshika about her problems with her stepfather. It's a ruse to lure them in so she can murder them and deform their bodies into grotesque art pieces.
1351* DaddysGirl: Her love of art comes from her father's work. The twisted lengths she'll go to in order to create it, however, are an extremely warped and terrifying extension of this trope. [[spoiler:She even tries to call him when she knows her death is near despite knowing that he's already dead.]]
1352* DissonantSerenity: She keeps her calm and graceful composure even when she's talking to a corpse in her bed or when about to work on her "art".
1353* DramaticIrony: Her father made gruesome paintings to teach others how cruel violence can be according to Makishima, but was genuinely a good man. Let's just say, Rikako does not make art with this in mind.
1354* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Her eyes barely have a shine to them. It’s {{Lampshaded}} by [[OnlySaneMan Mika.]]
1355* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: She has long black hair and skin pale as a ghost. She's also a SerialKiller who turns her victims into morbid horror-sexual sculptures.
1356* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Because she is refined, dignified and elegant, her schoolmates admire her and even fall for her.
1357* {{Expy}}: She shares a lot of similarities with Toko Kuchiki from VisualNovel/KaraNoShoujo. The looks, the soft voice, the popularity, the artistic inclination... the main two things that differentiates them is that Rikako is only interested in girls and is an actual sociopath.
1358* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: A beautiful, intelligent and well-read teenage girl who just happens to be a SerialKiller, PsychoLesbian, and MadArtist. In that order.
1359* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: Despite being wounded by a bear-trap, having her hand sliced open and facing the end of a shotgun, her last act is to defiantly tell Senguji that he will eventually meet a fate like hers. Ironically, he’s the only one of the QuirkyMinibossSquad that Makishima didn’t leave to his fate directly.]]
1360* FatalFlaw: Her [[CreativeSterility lack of imagination,]] shown in the fact that her art and M.O. are influenced wholesale by her father, Titus Andronicus and Makishima. [[spoiler:Ultimately this is what allows Kogami to get a lead on her and Makishima to lose interest in her]]
1361* FauxAffablyEvil: She still keeps the jovial act even when murdering her schoolmates.
1362* FemmeFatale: A much younger example. She uses her good looks to get on the girls’ good grace, but will kill them without hesitation.
1363* HimeCut: A pristine version. It compliments her appearance as a perfect high-class lady.
1364* ILoveTheDead: In one scene, she's talking to someone she has in her bed...and then she pulls back the cover to reveal that her bedmate is already dead.
1365* IronicHell: She is an artist above all, using living bodies as materials for her sculptures. [[spoiler:In the end, Senguji makes smoking pipes out of her bones.]]
1366* KnightOfCerebus: While her predecessor was a piece of work, she proves to be much more brutal than Mido and her presence darkens the show further.
1367* LoonyFan: She holds her father's art in very high regard and took it upon herself to continue making art like him only now with actual people.
1368* MadArtist: Her paintings and sculptures, inspired by the work of her late father, depict female bodies in rather gruesome and uncanny positions and shapes. This reflects on Rikako herself who is rather...unhinged.
1369* MercyKill: Zig-Zagged, her targets are vulnerable girls whose Hues are at risk of becoming cloudy and is heavily implied to give them a relatively painless death. However, this is a result of her wanting to recreate Lavinia's death from ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus,'' rather than any concern for the individual in question.
1370* NightmareFetishist: She loves her father's gruesome art and wants to continue making art like him, only ''with actual people''.
1371* ObviouslyEvil: She has blank eyes and there’s very clearly something wrong with her.
1372* OffWithHerHead: [[spoiler:Courtesy of a rifle [[BoomHeadshot to the face]], at close range.]]
1373* OhCrap: She's horrified [[spoiler:when she realizes Makishima has no more interest in her and is sending her off to her grave.]]
1374* ParentalAbandonment: Her mother is nowhere to be found and her father was hospitalized until his death.
1375* PsychoLesbian: Heavily implied that she seduces her female schoolmates before killing them.
1376* RavenHairIvorySkin: She has long black hair and really pale skin and she's popular among the girls of her school for her beauty.
1377* {{Revenge}}: In a way, Rikako wanted this for what society and the Sibyl System had done to her Dad. By the Sibyl System taking away her father's ability to make art, he lost the will to live. Makishima believes Rikako makes "real" versions of her father's violent art as a way to "get back" at society. Considering the only person Rikako has any respect for is her father, and how Rikako tells Makishima about how she despises her society and the Sibyl System...
1378* SchoolIdol: She's very popular at her school because of her looks and intelligence.
1379* SerialKiller: Her on-screen kill count is the highest in the show. Her M.O. is always the same: lure in or kidnap girls from her school, kill them, and plastinate them into weird, contorted "art pieces" and display them for the world to see.
1380* SmallRoleBigImpact: She only appears in one arc, yet it’s thanks to her [[spoiler: Mika joined the force.]]
1381* TheSociopath: She hides her emotionless nature behind a polite and friendly facade, manipulates her victims by pretending to care about them before murdering them in gruesome ways, and she wants to attract as much attention as possible with her "art".
1382-->'''Shimotsuki''': Her eyes...are sometimes blank.
1383* TeensAreMonsters: Made especially clear by the fact that she has the highest Psycho-Pass rating [[spoiler: until Sakuya Togane is introduced]], displayed in the entire series to date, well over ''400.''
1384* TsurimeEyes: Shows how cold she is.
1385* TheVamp: She uses her charm and beauty to seduce her victims.
1386* VillainousBreakdown: She suffers this after [[spoiler:Makishima grows bored of her and leaves her to die.]]
1387* WickedCultured: Like Makishima, she displays an interest in Shakespeare's tragedies, particularly ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus,'' which she uses as an influence.
1388
1389!!Senguji Toyohisa
1390!!!'''Voiced by:''' Katsumi Chou (Japanese), Charlie Campbell (English)
1391[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/untitled_93.png]]
1392
1393[[WickedCultured Rich and cultured industrialist]] behind the influential company producing bionic limbs and stuff, he's a complete {{cyborg}} and advocates the cyborgization as a way to the better world (and immortality). Unfortunately, his company still haven't perfected the way out of TheFogOfAges, so he's fighting it for now [[spoiler:by [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunting people]] for fun.]]
1394----
1395* AxCrazy: When you hunt people in order to feel alive, it's safe to say you might not be right in the head.
1396* CreepySouvenir: Uses [[spoiler:Rikako's bones]] to make smoking pipes.
1397* CulturedBadass: Enjoys having intellectual discussions with Makishima [[spoiler:and is able to fight toe-to-toe with Kogami in a gun fight.]]
1398* {{Cyborg}}: His body is completely robotic except his brain and spinal column.
1399* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Kills people for Makishima, ends up (indirectly) killed by him.]]
1400* EvilOldFolks: Much older than the usual examples, but he’s very much batshit.
1401* FauxAffablyEvil: Acts rather jovial, but he’s very much insane and he makes that known when no one’s looking.
1402* TheFogOfAges: Senility is the only affect of aging relevant to his cyborg body (they've been unable to keep brains working past 150), and he hopes that science would make it irrelevant by full brain digitization — a technology he's lavishly funding. For now he tries to stave it off [[spoiler: by HuntingTheMostDangerousGame]].
1403* ForeignCultureFetish: Dresses and lives in a fashion to akin to that of an English gentleman from the Victorian/Edwardian period.
1404* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:When he's shot in the back with the dominator most of his back seems to explode leaving just the front half of his body, with his creepy face intact]].
1405* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: [[spoiler:His M.O. Is supplied 'prey' by Makishima.]].
1406* ItsAllAboutMe: In one of his speeches with Makishima he refers wistfully to his victims as "sacrifices" necessary to keep himself feeling young.
1407* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:Smiles even when he is just about to be exploded by Shinya's Dominator]].
1408* {{Leitmotif}}: Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Fourth Movement.
1409* NotAfraidToDie: Despite seeking immortality, he doesn't fear death and enjoys dangerous situations. [[spoiler:When he sees the killshot that will deliver his death approaching, he welcomes it with a smile.]]
1410%%zce* RightHandAttackDog
1411* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney[=/=]ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Openly despises the Sibyl System and calls himself "a player" for whom it doesn't count.
1412* SerialKiller: When the team find [[spoiler:his hunting ground they come to the conclusion that he has "hunted" dozens of people]]
1413* TheSociopath: He has no regard for human life and cures his boredom by hunting people.
1414* ThousandYardStare: Because of the cybernetics making up his face, he is [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/psychopass/images/f/f5/Senguji.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121217192735 prone to this.]]
1415* UncannyValley: His cybernetic body isn't as advanced as [[spoiler: Chief Kasei's]], so while it looks realistic in a still photograph actually interacting with him reveals a disturbing lack of body language, blinking, and breathing motions.
1416* VerbalTic: [[spoiler: Has a habit of metaphorically referring to his victims to the type game animal he thinks they are most similar to.]] Something that Makishima briefly teases him about.
1417* VillainousFriendship: Is on amiable terms with Makishima, who he often hosts at his manor. [[spoiler: He’s the only one of the antagonists sent by him not disposed of directly. It certainly helps he’s the only one who can actually fight back.]]
1418* WickedCultured: Of course, given that he's rich, mentions Plato in his interview and discusses societal issues and philosophy with Makishima.
1419* WorthyOpponent: How he ultimately comes to view his hunt of [[spoiler:Kogami, even as he is about to be killed by the Dominator.]]
1420* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: Rikako aside, he tries to attack Yuki.]]
1421* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: He shows no qualms about shooting Rikako. Unlike most examples, Rikako certainly deserved it.]]
1422
1423!!Tōma Kōzaburō
1424!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenichiSuzumura (Drama CD)
1425[[quoteright:251:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/touma_kouzaburou_6373.jpg]]
1426-->''There's a limit to the amount of pleasure a person can obtain. But pleasure brought out by intellect is infinite.''
1427
1428Touma was a criminal in the {{backstory}} who killed many and turned their corpses to plastic, [[MadArtist to make "art"]]. He eventually managed to kill Sasayama before being caught. After Touma was captured, he disappeared. Touma was at least friends with Makishima at some point in the past.
1429----
1430* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:Believes this has happened to him, since he is a part of the Sibyl System.]]
1431* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Even as Kasei, he has this trait.]]
1432* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:Believes this once he has become part of the Sibyl System.]]
1433* DarkAndTroubledPast: In the prequel novel, Touma's childhood wasn't really a happy one. He never met his dad and his mom resorted into drugs to clear her hue. She never lets him and his twin sister out of the house until she overdosed. His sister started stealing and killing people and even has a [[BrotherSisterIncest disturbing affection]] to her brother. But Touma strangled her to death and stuffed her in the freezer where he could talk to her everyday until he was found by a charity group.
1434* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:Goes from a teacher to a SerialKiller to part of the Sibyl System.]]
1435* TheGhost: Never has a physical appearance in the story, [[spoiler:until we find out that Touma's brain is in the Police Chief's body in Episode 17.]]
1436* HobbesWasRight: [[spoiler:Believes that humans need leaders more intelligent than they are.]]
1437* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:A serial killer masquerading as the Director of Public Safety Bureau. Yeah, doesn't need much more explanation.]]
1438* MadArtist: [[spoiler:Formerly]].
1439%%* PredecessorVillain
1440* PrinceCharming: Acts and thinks a lot like this, all while being a SerialKiller. [[spoiler:Although at the point he became a part of the Sibyl System, this trait was mostly suppressed by his [[AGodAmI god complex]].]]
1441* {{Pride}}: [[spoiler:Seriously underestimates Makishima and this becomes his undoing.]]
1442* SerialKiller: [[spoiler:Used to be one.]]
1443* SlasherSmile: [[spoiler:Even as Director Kasei, he does this.]]
1444* WalkingSpoiler: Certain parts of his character are linked to a huge [[TheReveal reveal]] in the show.
1445* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Tries this on Makishima when Makishima makes it clear he will not join the Sibyl System. It horribly backfires on him.]]
1446[[/folder]]
1447
1448[[folder:Season 2]]
1449!!Akira Kitazawa
1450!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakuyaSato (Japanese), Duncan Brannan (English)
1451[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/akira_kitazawa_1849.png]]
1452
1453A demolition site supervisor. He could have become an elite member of society because of his high intelligence, but the Sibyl System decided that his irregular temperament butted his Hue too frequently and that his current job suited him better. His disillusionment over his life being chosen for him has led him to denounce the System through terrorist bombings.
1454----
1455* ChekhovsGun: He mentioned he had other bombs ready to explode in episode 2, but he got eliminated before he could detonate them. [[spoiler: These bombs reappear in episode 10, when Division 3 attempts to use them to destroy the hijacked subways. Unfortunately for them, Kitazawa had already provided Kamui with the detonation codes and the bombs fail to explode.]]
1456* FarEastAsianTerrorists: Becomes one after he got disillusioned over how the Sibyl System affected his life.
1457* HopeSpot: Akane's words of encouragement to him allow him to be taken in alive and perhaps to give him a second lease on life. [[spoiler: Then his Coefficient somehow drops like a rock while in custody, which clears him to be transferred out of prison, and he uses the opportunity to try to escape and continue his crimes, this time lethally.]]
1458* MadBomber: While he might not enjoy it he does seem mad enough to use a bomb on himself. [[spoiler: It gets worse in episode 2. ]]
1459* NeverHurtAnInnocent: His intention is to inspire the populace to revolt against Sibyl. To that end, he ensures that his publicly placed bombs will not harm anyone and will only raise Area Stress levels. However, he has no qualms against killing members of the Public Security Bureau, since they ''are'' the arms of Sibyl. [[spoiler: Subverted in the second episode when the bomb he detonates does kill almost a dozen people.]]
1460* StarterVillain: For season 2.
1461* TakingYouWithMe: When cornered on a rooftop, he reveals that he has bombs strapped to his chest and will press the detonator. Fortunately, the situation is able to be solved.
1462* WellIntentionedExtremist: Considering the nature of the Sibyl System...
1463
1464!!Koki Mima
1465!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MasashiEbara (Japanese), Sean Hennigan (English)
1466
1467An elderly man who previously suffered from eustress deficiency syndrome and was cured by Kamui. He is convinced by Kamui to kill people in a medical center with the intention of setting them free from the Sibyl System.
1468----
1469* AxCrazy: He takes a bunch of innocent people hostage and stomps a man's head into paste in front of them, trying to raise their stress levels and make them "alive".
1470-->'''Mima:''' ''(repeatedly stomping on a man's head)'' Feel it! Feel the pain! Feel your heart beating! Feel your life!
1471* DissonantSerenity: He remains completely calm even while covered in the blood of his hostages, blown up by Dominators.
1472* EmptyShell: Previously, he suffered from eustress deficiency syndrome which turned him into a living corpse, much like Roichi Oryo. Kamui was able to help him recover through unknown means, leading Mima to become one of his followers.
1473* EvilOldFolks: He has ''no'' qualms brutally killing innocent people to further Kamui's ideology, or watching them get killed by the Dominators, for that matter.
1474* IOweYouMyLife: How he feels about Kamui, who was able to cure his eustress deficiency syndrome and revive him to full health, something previously considered to be impossible.
1475* LudicrousGibs: After his "work" is done, he peacefully says goodbye to Kamui before getting blown into a bloody paste by the Assault Dominator.
1476* ShamefulStrip: He forces his hostages to strip down to their underwear and calls it "the natural them".
1477* WellIntentionedExtremist: By taking a bunch of people hostage and forcing them to witness multiple people getting brutally killed in front of them, causing their stress levels to spike, he believes he is setting them free from the confines of the Sibyl System, which categorizes anyone with a high level of stress as a criminal who must be punished, regardless of the reasons behind it. His point is made when his hostages flee the building crying for help and get gibbed by the Dominators, because their stress levels are insanely high from seeing multiple people get killed right in front of them.
1478* WouldHitAGirl: He throws Aoyanagi headfirst through a light fixture.
1479
1480[[/folder]]
1481
1482!Others
1483[[folder: Other (Spoilers!)]]
1484!!The Sibyl System
1485!!![[spoiler:'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NorikoHidaka (Japanese), Creator/StephanieYoung (English)]]
1486[[quoteright:270:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sibyl_62.png]]
1487--->''The greatest happiness of the greatest number''.
1488
1489The system that monitors all data registered from Psycho-Passes. [[spoiler: It turns out that they are composed the minds of criminally asymptomatic individuals.]]
1490----
1491* AMillionIsAStatistic: In episode 10 of Season 2, [[spoiler:when Kamui has taken hostage of the passengers in the subway, the system offers Akane to detonate bombs in order to eliminate him. When Akane points out that detonating the bombs will also kill the hostages, they explain that it's a necessity to get rid of Kamui once for all before he kills more people]].
1492* AntiVillain: Surprisingly enough, both Season 3 and ''First Inspector'' do a lot to paint the Sibyl System in a more benevolent light. It generally stays in the background to let the humans do most of the work, and even accepts their input to the point where [[spoiler:they decide to honor Shindo's personal choice to continue to exist as an individual, no longer consider Yayoi and Shion as latent criminals, and release Akane from confinement and allow her to reunite with Kogami. It's even willing to recognize the rights of borderline self-aware AI like Ma-Karina.]]
1493* AboveGoodAndEvil: [[spoiler:The Sibyl System also sees itself as above the common notions of morality, and, according to its own logic, this is what enables it to judge other people.]]
1494* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler:The Sibyl System is composed of the minds of criminally asymptomatic individuals, turned into a HiveMind that controls society via controlling the internet and [[EverythingIsOnline everything that relies on it]].]]
1495* BigBrotherIsEmployingYou; Well, if you're working under the Public Safety Bureau, you're working for the Sibyl System.
1496* BigBrotherIsWatching: They have the authority to scan a person's mental state, personality, and the probability that a person will commit crimes and judge them on the basis of that. They also have the means to suppress and regulate the media.
1497* BrainInAJar: [[spoiler:All that is left are the brains of criminally asymptomatic individuals who are in control of Sibyl.]]
1498* CharacterDevelopment: Yes, surprisingly. [[spoiler: In the Season 1 finale, the Sybil System ''laughed'' at Akane when she stated one day someone will come to Sybil to turn it off, with a better solution in hand. After Kamui's actions in Season 2 which led to a massive purge amongst the brains allowing it to be 'humbled', the System quietly agrees with Akane when she repeats her conviction after considering to join them in the future.]]
1499* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:The Sibyl System revealed itself to Akane because it correctly deduced that she would not reveal its true nature to the world. Despite allowing Akane to pursue Makishima on her own terms, it still successfully used Akane's own ideals against her.]]
1500** In Season 2, [[spoiler:they're fully aware about Kamui and the threat he imposes. Though they never disable Shisui's authority on the Dominator after she went rogue, they still let Akane continue the investigation while observing her and Kamui in the shadows]].
1501** In the movie, [[spoiler:they manipulate ''everyone'' in order to take over [=SEAUn=]. This includes the implications that they let the terrorists into Japan in order to distract Akane with Kougami, replacing the [=SEAUn=] with a cyborg after Nicholas and Desmond have him killed, and killing Nicholas and all his men once they were no longer useful.]]
1502* ComputerVoice: It has a female voice [[spoiler:which is the same voice as the Dominator.]]
1503* {{Cyborg}}: [[spoiler:Cyborg bodies are used to let some members go into society to perform certain tasks. Chief Kasei's body is one of their often used bodies.]]
1504* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: [[spoiler:Inverted, as being soulless monsters is why they were chosen to be cyborgs in the first place.]]
1505* DemotedToExtra: In Season 3, they're essentially on the background and the only time they become relevant is when they order Mika to hunt down Bifrost and converse with Akane [[spoiler:about Arata's condition as criminally asymptomatic]]. This is because the new Division 1 members rarely use their Dominators and seldom question the moral implications of using the Sibyl System. Even the antagonists, who are hiding from them, never discuss their reasons for opposing them. However, they do play a prominent role in ''First Inspector'' [[spoiler:where they reject Azusawa's offer to join them because he's not criminally asymptomatic]].
1506* DeusEstMachina: [[spoiler:Touma has this view of the Sibyl System and implies the others in it do as well. Sibyl, as TheOmniscient and the ruthless and totalitarian ruler of Japan, is also often compared to {{God}}, with Makishima as [[SatanicArchetype Satan]].]]
1507* EverythingIsOnline: [[spoiler:Including them, but they control everything through this trope.]]
1508* EvilLaugh: [[spoiler:Combined with KickTheDog, this is their response in the last episode to Akane's belief that humans will outgrow the Sibyl System and that humans always try to make the world better.]]
1509* EvilVersusEvil: [[spoiler:Makishima (TheSociopath) versus them (an entire hive of sociopaths), this continues after they manage to arrest him since he denies joining them and escapes. Then Kamui in the second season, who is so dangerous they want him dead with no questions asked. In Season 3, they have Bifrost who are hiding from them and are considered as opposites.]]
1510* EvilerThanThou: [[spoiler: They openly admit to Akane that a significant number of their members have committed more heinous crimes than Makishima.]]
1511* TheExtremistWasRight: Regardless of their methods, Japan doesn't suffer as much war, terrorism, drug dealing, human trafficking, and other various organized crimes compared to the past, with the exception of individual crimes. Even Akane has to admit that they managed to keep the people safe and provided their essential needs. In the climax of the movie, they pointed out to Akane that if it weren't for them, the [=SEAUn=] would still be a wartorn country mired with violence, corruption, and discrimination.
1512* FatalFlaw: {{Pride}}. [[spoiler: Given how much they rule Japan witn an iron fist, and are proud of what they have done for the country, they failed to foresee the amount of subversion and violence created by Makishima. And not to mention, they failed to convince him to join their cause since Makishima is too GenreSavvy which also results in his escape. And related to the below, one reason why they refuse to disable the Dominators Kamui obtains in the second season.]]
1513* FromNobodyToNightmare: This system started off as an automated ''job placement database'' build in the mid-21st century to match candidates with occupations that would ideally suit their strengths. It still continues to do this, but [[spoiler:after incoporating sociopathic brains into itself to improve itself]] it has expanded its responsibilities to the point where it now controls the entirety of Japanese society.
1514* GenderBender: [[spoiler:Male brains using Joushuu Kasei's body. At any given time, it's impossible to tell what gender her brain is because she acts in a very androgynous manner.]]
1515* HiveMind: [[spoiler:Though some get to have individuality when they go in {{Cyborg}} bodies and into society briefly.]]
1516* HobbesWasRight: They seemed to follow this, according to Touma. They believed that people are prone to commit criminal acts due to high levels of stress which is why they exist to regulate them to bring peace and order. In the 2015 movie, [[spoiler:this is their reasoning for intervening the wartorn region of [=SEAUn=] and in fact, TheStinger reveals that their puppet double body of Chairman Han got reelected which further implies that they might be right all along.]]
1517* {{Irony}}:
1518** [[spoiler:The vast majority of citizens were told that the Sibyl System's computers were superior to human thought for judgment. Yet, the Sibyl System is mainly made out of human brains.]]
1519** [[spoiler:The criminally asymptomatic individuals that make up the HiveMind of the Sibyl System [[{{Ubermensch}} highly value their individuality and believe their unique personalities and philosophies]], according to Touma. Touma also says that they believe [[TheSocialDarwinist their uniqueness makes them better than the average citizen]], and therefore, more fit to rule society. Yet, for all their love of uniqueness, they don't see the {{irony}} of them becoming a HiveMind...until Makishima sarcastically points this out to Touma.]]
1520* KarmaHoudini: Despite being outmaneuvered by Makishima and Kamui, they still remain standing and continue to rule Japan. [[spoiler:Likewise, they got Mika wrapped under their finger as their new pawn and might not rely on Akane anytime soon. And since they’re expanding their control outside Japan, it might be difficult for the rebels to take them down because Kamui only helped them in getting rid of their defective brains]].
1521* ManipulativeBastard: In the movie. [[spoiler:They tricked Akane into letting her think that Kougami had crossed the line by sending terrorists to Japan so they have her expose the Military Police's deception of hiding latent criminals with high crime coefficients which they're already aware of because they hired them in the first place]].
1522* MasterComputer: What it essentially is. [[spoiler: But it's much more than just a computer.]]
1523* MirrorCharacter: [[spoiler:Highly value their own "individuality", prideful, criminally asymptomatic, sociopathic, brilliant at manipulation, understanding of society and its effects on people...are we talking about Makishima or the Sibyl System? The only major difference between them is their ideologies, with the Sibyl System valuing order at any cost to others and Makishima valuing freedom at any cost to others, ultimately landing him in the chaos territory.]]
1524* MoleInCharge: [[spoiler:They use cyborg bodies of Chief Kasei to do this to the protagonists in Unit 1.]]
1525* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Their philosophical belief is that individual sacrifices needed to be made in order to achieve [[ForHappiness a perfect and happy society]].
1526** Eventually, they are forced to accept that [[spoiler:they are also subject to this philosophy, and in response to their own psychotic actions during Season 2, take neural pruning to another level. It's all to sustain the perfection of the system that keeps everything running, after all]].
1527** To a lesser degree, [[spoiler:Kiroto Kamui is similar to them. Both are composed of a HiveMind (at least Kamui views himself as one composed of the wishes of those who died due to Sibyl forcing a plane crash to save face), both go to extremes for their philosophies about judging others, both can't be judged by others until Kamui forces the Sibyl System to judge collectives like Kamui and the Sibyl System.]]
1528* PrinciplesZealot:
1529** [[spoiler: The major reason why they refuse to revoke Shisui's authorization to use a Dominator, even though it would cripple Kamui's plans if they did. If they do such a thing, it would be the same as admitting that their system is flawed and can be compromised, and this is something that Sibyl absolutely cannot allow anyone to think. As Kasei said in first season, it does not matter if Sibyl is perfect; what matters is that everyone ''thinks'' it is.]]
1530** Played with in ''First Inspector'', where [[spoiler:they override the nonlethal paralyzer in Shindo's Dominator in an effort to force him to kill Azusawa. Arata then calls them out, pointing out the hypocrisy in entrusting Dominators to regular humans if Sibyl is going to try to override their decision to pull the trigger anyways. This causes Sibyl to reconsider its actions and reactivates the paraylzer mode. Though it should be noted that Arata is criminally asymptomatic, thus is qualified to join the Sibyl System.]]
1531* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Despite that the correct spelling of the system is ''S'''i'''b'''y'''l'' as seen in its logo (see the page image), most fans would still spell it as ''Sybil''. It doesn't help that there are even instances in the official Funimation subtitles that spell it like that.
1532* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem:
1533** [[spoiler:There are several occasions where they override the Dominators to change their setting, even if the target's true Crime Coefficient does not warrant the use of that setting.]]
1534** [[spoiler:Since they can't judge Kamui, they want him murdered extrajudicially to avoid having to create a collective Psycho-Pass.]]
1535* ShadowDictator: [[spoiler:Most people think the Sibyl System is an unbiased computer. The "unbiased" part is wrong, and the computer part is only partially right; as most don't know about the criminally asymptomatic brains controlling the Sibyl System and by extension, society.]]
1536* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:An entire hive mind of them, in fact Sibyl only selects criminally asymptomatic individuals, as in people who can commit the worst acts of brutality without raising their emotional criminality coefficient, as members.]]
1537* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:They finally manage to capture Makishima and put him under their custody. However, they don't bother restraining him or even have guards nearby in case he gets violent. Once Makishima realizes there's no serious security measures keeping him from escaping, he manages to escape Sibyl's custody in a matter of seconds, killing Touma in the process.]]
1538* TookALevelInBadass: Though the movie seemed to elevate them into this status, the Sibyl System is already known by the viewers to be manipulative. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] that none of the movie antagonists have the same level of intelligence or charisma that Makishima and Kamui both possessed. Likewise, their critics, such as Kougami and Akane, have no idea of their true plans until the end.
1539* TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler:By the third season and First Inspector, they've become more flexible in administrating Japan, differing more to their non-Sybil counterparts, acknowledging the rights of Ma-Karina, letting Arata, and most tellingly, they plan to reveal their true nature to the public in the very near future, even if it means the scope of their authority might diminish from it. However, it should be noted that these are also a case of PragmaticVillainy rather than moral reasons. The latter three cases are tied to one another as Sybil considers it inefficient to continue to hide their nature to the public when the success of Ma-Karina shows that they potentially wouldn't care so long as the stability and prosperity of Japan is maintained.]]
1540* TotalitarianUtilitarian: [[spoiler: The philosophy they claim to cling to. Their ''stated'' desire is the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of people. Their actual results tend to vary.]]
1541* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler:They try to convince Makishima to join their cause. He's not interested: he might be a villain himself, but it doesn't necessarily mean that he has similar goals.]]
1542* WellIntentionedExtremist: On paper, they did bring order and peace in the country despite that they degraded society into losing their free will and becoming emotionally stagnant and their methods are very morally and ethically questionable [[spoiler:just to prevent others from knowing the truth about them]]. However, they become irrational and petty when Kamui came into existence. But once he's out with a [[IncrediblyLamePun bang]], they extended their influence outside Japan. They even claim that their objectives, no matter how heinous their methods are, are bring peace and order to the [=SEAUn=] and not primarily for power.
1543* WetwareCPU: [[spoiler:They are composed of psychopath brains kept in some form of liquid.]]
1544* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:[[spoiler:Does this to a lot of people but the most surprising time is when due to Kirito and Akane's manipulations, they are forced to do this to a minority of brains within their own system.]]
1545
1546!!Misako Togane
1547!!!'''Voiced by''': Kazuo Komiya (Japanese), Creator/RachelRobinson (English)
1548[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/misako_togane.png]]
1549
1550Sakuya's mother who is a researcher and the founder of the Togane Foundation. She passed away prior to the events of the TV series. [[spoiler: But she's actually criminally asymptomatic and her brain was one of the first ones (if not the first) to be integrated into the Sibyl System]].
1551----
1552* EvilMatriarch: While she does loved her son, she's a terrible mother. [[spoiler:Her way of raising Sakuya resulted to being what he is at present as an adult]].
1553* FatalFlaw: {{Pride}}. She's so proud that all of her work is for the benefit of society. [[spoiler:Until Kamui showed up and everything went downhill]].
1554* ForScience: Her experiments are considered unethical and yet, she keeps doing it for the benefit of society.
1555* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:She's responsible for her son's "troubling" behavior and was in charge of Kamui's surgery which caused him much grief and led him to his StartOfDarkness and mission to overthrow the Sibyl System]]. In addition to that, [[spoiler: the brain-removal technology she invented was what allowed Sibyl to become the WetwareCPU it currently is.]]
1556* MyBelovedSmother: Dear God, this woman [[spoiler:forced her son to kill puppies when he was a kid just to see if he was criminally asymptomatic. And even when her son is all grown up, she expects him to be obedient]].
1557* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Nice going, doc! [[spoiler:Now your former patient is hellbent in rebelling against the system that you're part of and finding your weaknesses by forcing the system to judge you]].
1558* PosthumousCharacter: She died in 2099, years before the events of the TV series. [[spoiler:It turns out that her brain was integrated into the Sibyl System]].
1559* ThisCannotBe: [[spoiler: She's shocked that a criminally asymptomatic person like herself got judged by the very system she's a part of]].
1560* TrulySingleParent: [[spoiler:Artificially created her son Sakuya Tougane.]]
1561* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:When Kamui's Dominator scanned her crime coefficient (which turned out to be 300) and shot her, she panicked and wondered how this could have happened before her head exploded]].
1562-->''"You can't!"''
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