History Characters / AceAttorneyWitnessesAndOtherCharactersPhoenixWright

* FromNobodyToNightmare: The ExpandedUniverse novel ''Turnabout of the Time Traveler'' reveals that, 15 years before the beginning of the series, White and Bluecorp were just a no-name start-up no one had heard of. Leaking DL-6 proved to be the chance he needed to begin gaining power, and by the time [[WouldHitAGirl he murdered Mia]] he was running an extensive blackmail network that made him one of the most powerful men in the country.

* WouldHitAGirl: If him killing Mia by clubbing her says anything.

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* SmallRoleBigImpact: He only appears in the second case and never makes an appearance beyond it, but his actions (mostly killing Mia) reach far past his involvement.

* HarmfulToMinors: Averted and then spoofed in the credits -- you would ''think'' seeing a person killed before his very eyes might be traumatizing. However, due to being a young child, he clearly doesn't understand that what he saw was real. He does cry at the witness stand, though only because Phoenix took apart his testimony. But seeing [[spoiler:Will Powers]] come out of a Pink Princess costume? That left a scar.

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->"From hence forth I will be known as the 'bellboy who swore the affidavit'!"

The head bellboy of the Gatewater hotel. While never given a name, he is nevertheless an important witness in the second case of the first game.

* AscendedFanboy: The Bellboy is overjoyed both times a murder occurs in or near the Gatewater Hotel.
* ContinuityCameo: As well as his main appearance in 1-2, he appears briefly in 1-5, is referenced occasionally by Phoenix, [[spoiler:Shelly de Killer]] wears his outfit in the second game, and in ''Investigations'', he appears as [[spoiler:the real Proto Badger]].
* DemotedToExtra: In the anime, he never gets to testify and only appears to tell Phoenix that Redd White was with April May at the hotel in the day Mia's murder happened.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Done on purpose by April May.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: We never hear his true name.
* FlatCharacter: He exists mainly to be a witness who isn't evil and give the player an introduction to cross examinations against characters who aren't killers.
* {{Jumpscare}}: In his cameo in ''Investigations'', he nonchalantly pops out of a trapdoor floor backstage at Whitewater Park to prepare for an event. Not helping is that he was [[spoiler:dressed as the real Proto Badger.]]
* NiceGuy: He's friendly, polite, and helpful, a rarity for witnesses.
* NightmareFetishist: He gets ''really'' into the idea that a murderer might have stayed at the Gatewater, though he claims it's because there's NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity.
* NoNameGiven: His is a particular case in the series as he does not even have a fake name or is called by his alias - he is just the bellboy.
* PutOnABus: Despite Case 2-4 starting in a Gatewater hotel, he doesn't make an appearance. You'd think he would be all over it, given his unbridled enthusiasm for anything related to both hotels and murder. (Somewhat justified, since he doesn't work at the Gatewater Imperial Hotel where 2-4 takes place.)
* SayingTooMuch: While he was merely being used to make an alibi, he screws it up anyway after rattling off the price of the room service order he brought to April May's room, Phoenix freaks out at the price of seemingly ''one'' hot chocolate, only for The Bellboy to instinctively reaffirm that the total bill was that high because it called for ''two'' of them.
* SpannerInTheWorks: He accidentally states in court that April May was not alone in Gatewater Hotel when Edgeworth told him to not say that. This allows Phoenix to track down Mia's murderer.
* WrongGenreSavvy: When he's not being a NightmareFetishist, he seems to think he's in a straightforward murder mystery instead of the {{Animesque}} ''Ace Attorney''.
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[[folder:'''April May''' (''Umeyo Shochiku'')]]
!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/MarikoHonda ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Creator/JeannieTirado ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])

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->"I like a man with a big... vocabulary."

Redd White's secretary. Something of an airhead who easily seduces men because of her looks.
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[[folder:'''Sal Manella''' (''Takuya Uzai'')]]
!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Masato Nishino ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Tyler Walker ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])

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->"I try not to pay much attention to things that don't interest me. LOL."

Director of the Steel Samurai. He embodies the typical image of an obsessive teenage (despite being 32) geeky fanboy, in both appearance, personality, and mannerisms.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: To poor Maya.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the anime, [[spoiler:Vasquez moves the victim's body by herself, leaving him out of the loop.]]
* BigEater: Eats quite a lot.
* CompressedAdaptation: The anime removes Vasquez's FetchQuest for a missing script, which is instead changed to him finding it when first introduced.
* CrushFilter: In the anime, his first look at Maya has him see her with a more adult body, then reimagines ''that'' as a busty kimono-clad MagicalGirl, prompting him to think up plans for a new show called "The Pink Princess".
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The anime shows how he's basically abused by Dee Vasquez, such as making him into a human footstool… while he still is overjoyed writing a script on the floor.
* ExtremeDoormat: Powers and Oldbag describe him as a masochistic suckup to Vasquez willing to do literally everything she says, explaining why [[spoiler:he helped move Hammer's body.]]
* FatIdiot: Evidently he has ''some'' talent given his work as director, but the majority of his screentime shows that when outside of his work he's not exactly bright.
* {{Gonk}}: Is a fat slob with obviously poor hygiene and odious habits.
* LeetLingo: His speech is littered with emoticons, [=LOLs=], and 1337s. He even manages to speak a ":(" at the thought of having not been able to eat a T-bone steak. When he's speaking seriously, though, this gets downplayed to just occasional usage, rather than every other word - thankfully, since trying to decipher actually important information from this kind of speech would just be frustrating.
* KarmaHoudini: If the success of his new show ''Pink Princess'' and his cameo in ''Investigations'' are of any indication, he somehow gets away with [[spoiler:aiding and abetting Dee Vasquez in her coverup of the manslaughter of Jack Hammer and related attempt to frame Will Powers for Hammer's death. While carrying out these acts, he unambigously committed the crimes of conspiracy to obstruct justice, conspiracy to incriminate someone on false charges, tampering with a crime scene, and perjury. In any remotely realistic scenario, he would by all means have been charged as Vasquez's accomplice, but for some reason this is never acknowledged]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: It took being silently intimidated by Edgeworth to get him to speak normally. Well, most of the time, but it made his Witness Testimony a lot easier.
* NerdsArePervs: Sal Manella, the director of ''The Steel Samurai,'' is a sweaty {{otaku}} who speaks in LeetLingo and meme references. He's also disgustingly lustful, literally drooling over the teenage Maya and having a PowerDynamicsKink for his abusive producer, Dee Vasquez. This apparently works its way into his shows at time, as the studio turned down some of his scripts as "not appropriate for children."
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* PrecisionFStrike: He says "WTF" when you first meet him. Later, he says "My ass is p0wned if I don't find [the script]". Especially noticeable as the games generally keep their dialogue swear free.
* PunnyName: He's as sickening as salmonella. "Takuya" comes from "{{otaku}}", and "Uzai" is slang for "annoying", so all together his name is a pun on "annoying otaku."
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: His fate is never revealed after [[spoiler:it's revealed that he helped Dee Vasquez move Jack Hammer's body]]. Despite that, he was able to get ''Pink Princess'' into production and it became a success. He is seen again in ''Investigations'' eating lunch, but it's a cameo appearance that has no relevance to the plot.
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[[folder:'''Dee Vasquez''' (''Sakura Himegami'')]]
!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Yurika Hino ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Janelle Lutz ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])
!!!'''Played by:''' Miho Ninagawa ([[Film/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney film]])

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->"Don't hit your desk. It irritates me."

Global Studios (and Steel Samurai) producer that built the studio back up from the brink of ruin, and apparently is some sort of business genius. She's also got ties to the mob.
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!!The First Turnabout (''Hajimete no Gyakuten'')

[[folder:'''Larry Butz''' (''Masashi Yahari'')]]
!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/MasayaOnosaka (''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice SoJ]]''), Tooru Nara ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Creator/JoshMartin ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]]), Steph Garrett (child - anime)
!!!'''Played by:''' Akiyoshi Nakao ([[Film/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney film]]), Riohei Kamamori (child - film)
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->"We were [[AnalogyBackfire Romeo and Juliet! Mark Antony and Cleopatra]]!"

Phoenix and Edgeworth's "[[TheFriendNobodyLikes lovable]]" loser classmate and one of the series' most frequently reoccurring witnesses. A very over-the-top, downright idiotic playboy-wannabe who always tries to get a girlfriend and fails to keep one; either they dumped him or they get killed (the very first case of the series has his girlfriend murdered). He seems to attract trouble wherever he goes, thus earning him the saying, "When something smells, it's usually the Butz".

* TenMinuteRetirement: In the first ''Investigations'' game he declares that he's no longer interested in being an artist, and has decided that his true calling is acting. In the second game, however, he's gone back to being an artist, with ''Spirit of Justice'' demonstrating that he stuck with that career choice in the longer run.
* AdaptationalHeroism: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. At the end of ''Turnabout Goodbyes'' in the game, it's revealed that Larry stole Edgeworth's lunch money out of boredom, which led to Phoenix getting blamed. In the anime, he instead finds it picked up by a stray dog on the street and, after getting guilt-tripped by the dog, responsibly turns it over to the police and claims it legally when no one else does. However, he still doesn't chime in about finding the money during the class trial, which could've saved Phoenix a lot of trauma.
* AdaptedOut: {{Inverted|Trope}} ''twice''; Larry appears in both the stageplay and anime adaptations of "Farewell, My Turnabout", even though he didn't in the game.
* ArtsyBeret: He always wears a beret when he is in his painter persona.
* BackForTheFinale: Larry has the tendency to show up early on in a game, only to return in the final case as well. The only exceptions are the two ''Investigations'' games (in the first one, he only appears in the last case; in the second one, he only appears in the middle case), and ''Spirit of Justice'' (where he only appears in a DLC case).
* BigDamnHeroes: Multiple:
** In 1-4, right as Edgeworth is declared guilty, Larry rushes in, yelling for the Judge to wait, and demands to testify, and sheds new light on the case in the process. This provided a large hole in Von Karma's case, which, in the end, cost him the trial. Due to this, he also saved Edgeworth's life. He pretty much saved the entire case for Phoenix, really.
** And in the [[spoiler:final]] case of ''Ace Attorney Investigations'', [[spoiler:he and Oldbag burst in with decisive evidence, helping to bust Alba for good.]]
* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: The witnesses this doesn't apply to can be counted on one hand, but things are ''never'' made easier for the protagonist in question whenever Larry is involved as a witness (or even nearby). Usually the truth has to be dug out of him due to either his genuine idiocy mistaking what he witnessed for something else entirely, or his deliberate coverup of details that implicate him in something embarrassing but inconsequential to the case at hand. It comes to a head in ''Investigations'', when Edgeworth has to argue Larry's innocence to Shi Long Lang (who's looking to arrest him). Larry then interjects, forcing Edgeworth to prove to ''him'' that he couldn't have done it all while trying to refute Edgeworth... right in front of Lang. Edgeworth points out that if he were to win this "battle of wits", [[PyrrhicVictory Larry's victory prize would be his arrest]].
* BitchInSheepsClothing: A light example. He generally comes off as an easygoing and friendly guy, but is also a lazy liar who frequently intentionally hides important details about cases to save his own skin, often for petty reasons. Phoenix and Edgeworth, who have known him for most of their lives, are the only characters who are initially aware of this side of him, [[TheFriendNobodyLikes and react accordingly]] when around him as a result.
* BlatantLies: In "Turnabout Time Traveler," he claims he has nothing to do with the case, despite having brought Ellen to Phoenix's office and having left his business card wallet behind at the reception hall.
-->'''Phoenix''': If you have to lie, at least do a better job of it!
* BlushSticker: Pops up whenever he's flustered, which is often, as he has plenty of good reasons to be ashamed...
* BrokenPedestal: While Phoenix certainly never looked up to Larry, [[spoiler:the reveal that he stole Edgeworth's lunch money as a kid (which in turn, caused the class to think Phoenix had done it)]] made Phoenix stop viewing him as a close ChildhoodFriend and instead as a nuisance.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: He's a talented artist, despite his many flaws.
* TheBusCameBack: After being absent from the series since ''Investigations 2'', he returns in the DLC case "Turnabout Time Traveler" in ''Spirit of Justice''.
* ButtMonkey: He gets absolutely zero respect. Even Phoenix considers him less of a friend and more of an annoying pest after learning that [[spoiler:he was the one who stole Edgeworth's lunch money back in the day]]. The Judge, despite having both tried him for murder and seen him in court as a witness, doesn't remember him in 3-2. He also refers to him as a 'useless-looking young man' and says that 'just looking at his picture makes the bile start to rise in (his) throat'.
* CasanovaWannabe: His bad luck at love is pretty much a running gag. In the manga, [[spoiler:his girlfriend Belle turns out to be the murderer; the only reason she ever talked to him was for an alibi - though she wasn't planning on framing him]]. He also seems to distinguish each of his ex-girlfriends by the way they slapped him. None of this stops him from hitting on every single woman he meets.
* ChickMagnet: Say what you will about his ability to ''keep'' girlfriends, but he's had at least nine girlfriends over three games, and most of them were models or worked other professions where good looks matter.
* ChivalrousPervert: He is quite the pervert, but he is also a murderer's worst nightmare. When he is in a murder scene or other scene where someone is in danger, Larry will (inadvertingly) collect critical evidence, deliver critical testimony after his lies are broken through, save lives, create enough chaos to cause a murderer to make a mistake that allows the murder to be solved or otherwise interferes with a murderer's plans, and/or foil murder plots. He often does many of these things by accident.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He has his moments in which he draws the most ridiculous conclusion from what he saw or heard. He often shares very valuable information or evidence in the cases he appears in, but just as often the challenge comes from getting what that evidence ''really'' means, or proving that it's even relevant to the Judge. For example, in the final case of ''Trials and Tribulations'', he saw "something amazing": [[spoiler:Iris flying over a burning bridge, with Larry being concerned over her health if she kept trying to do such stunts; in reality, Larry was looking upside down, and what he saw was actually Misty Fey's corpse being swung under the burning bridge]].
* CommutingOnABus: His overall relevancy in the series varies wildly. In the first game he's one of the main secondary characters, appearing in all but one case, but then hes gone completely for ''Justice for All''. ''Trials and Tribulations'' brings him back prominently for 2 cases. The ''Investigation'' games give him a couple of appearances, but after that he was gone for years until a DLC case for ''Spirit of Justice''.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Throughout the third game, during which he is heavily implied to be going through a crisis over being vastly overshadowed by Phoenix and Edgeworth. By the end of it, he seems to settle on being an artist, a field where he actually possesses talent. This decision paid off in the long run, as he ends up making a name for himself as an illustrator by the events of ''Spirit of Justice''.
* TheDitz: Probably ''why'' trouble follows him everywhere.
* DumbassHasAPoint: [[spoiler:Edgeworth]] has to concede that he both saved [[spoiler:Phoenix]]'s life and got [[spoiler:Edgeworth]] back into the country in record time. He just wishes that Larry would apply that kind of motivation to himself once in a while.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: Barely averted, given that Larry could have been called Harry.
* {{Flanderization}}: In the first game, while Larry was a massive screw-up and [[spoiler:guilty of stealing Phoenix's lunch money in the backstory]], he was still well-meaning and even tried to genuinely help during 1-4 after realizing his testimonial might be valuable. Later games, especially those written by Takeshi Yamazaki, would exaggerate his stupidity and chronic lying streak to where he actively makes cases more difficult due to his selfishness. His relationship with Phoenix and Edgeworth also goes from VitriolicBestBuds to almost completely one-sided, as the two are left constantly questioning why they ever made friends with him.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes:
** While Phoenix at first considers him a well-meaning goofball, his repeated screw-ups try the attorney's patience to a point where he groans at the sight of him. Things are even worse between him and Edgeworth, who makes it no secret that he has no idea how they became friends in the first place and never has anything nice to say to or about him.
** Made especially apparent in ''Spirit of Justice'', when Phoenix introduces Larry to Athena reluctantly as "an old friend" but in his thoughts he says Edgeworth is his childhood friend without hesitation.
* GeniusDitz: He's actually a good artist, in more ways than one. He made two replica statuettes of "The Thinker" in his first appearance (with functional integrated clocks with voiced lines telling the time, no less), his sketches during ''Bridge to the Turnabout'' are on par with the rest of the game's art, and his stage performance as the Steel Samurai fooled even Edgeworth (a passionate Steel Samurai fan). He eventually managed to gain some success as a picture book author and a wedding sign maker as a side business... which is how he got involved with the whole mess of ''Turnabout Time Traveller'' in the first place.
* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: One of his new animations in ''Spirit of Justice''.
* HandsomeLech: He's rather attractive, and an unashamedly desperate womanizer.
* HiddenDepths:
** During his appearance in case 3 of ''Investigations 2'', a pair of his sketches become evidence. After his drawing in ''Trials and Tribulations'', you wouldn't expect much, but they're actually pretty good, especially for ones he drew on the spot. He might actually have talent as an artist, which would explain why it's the only profession you see him in multiple times.
** His appearance in the original ''Investigations'' reveals that he's apparently also an excellent actor, to the point of putting on a performance as the Steel Samurai in a stage play that was so excellent that even the notoriously critical Steel Samurai fanboy [[{{Otaku}} Edgeworth]] was moved to ''tears'' by it.
** In ''Spirit of Justice,'' [[spoiler:upon Edgeworth mocking him a little too much, he reveals his hand and shows he had gathered a lot more evidence than it initially appeared. He also ends up perfectly replicating the image of a sign chunk whipping by his window in high-pressure winds despite only seeing it for half a second... though he's convinced that he saw a pterodactyl.]]
* HotBlooded: He has a tendency of abruptly screaming mid-sentence, and his screams are loud enough to shake the screen.
* IdiotSavant: He's rather dim, yet he's an excellent artist and actor.
* TheIllegible: When he tried to write "Mindy" on a love note, he wrote it so sloppily that it looked like "Wéndy" at first glance. Other characters initially thought that the note was for [[OldWindbag Wendy Oldbag]].
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Hinted at in the third game's end credits. Both of his friends are legendary lawyers and pioneers in their field, while he can't keep a job or a girlfriend. Even his "thumbs up" sprite gives him an expression that makes him look like he'll burst into tears at any minute. Finally finding a profession that he's ''good'' at makes him ecstatic.
* InformedFlaw: People constantly make fun of his art and call it bad, but all things considered, it actually is pretty good. This is demonstrated most clearly in the end credits of ''Trials and Tribulations'', the end of which shows an excellent drawing of the main cast done by Larry. Later games do have characters acknowledge his art skill, however; In ''Investigations 2'' Edgeworth does end up internally admitting that Larry's art is not bad (not that he'll ever admit it out loud, mind you), and by the time of ''Spirit of Justice'' he's become a picture book author of some renown.
* InsistentTerminology: When he's working as an artist (and later picture book author) in ''Trials and Tribulations'', ''Investigations 2'' and ''Spirit of Justice'', he insists on being called Laurice Deauxnim (''Mashisu Tenryuusai''). Few people seem to humor him.
* KarmaHoudini: He somehow got away with making a bomb threat to the police while under the belief he was "eloping" with Ellen Wyatt.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "When Something Smells, It's Usually Me", in the third game. It returns in ''Ace Attorney Investigations 2'', and gets remixed for the DLC case in ''Spirit of Justice''. In the first game he has "Blissful People", sharing it with several other characters.
* {{Manchild}}: He's quite immature, although it only really starts to show after his {{Flanderization}}. Edgeworth even quips that talking to him is tantamount to speaking with a child in ''Ace Attorney Investigations 2''. He reaches his nadir in ''Spirit of Justice'', where even after nearly a decade, he's essentially the same person as before and even has his testimony named "Nick Is A Jerkface!".
* MysteryMagnet: He stumbles into many different murder scenes without ever intending to be there, and murder attempts happen around where he is. This is a somewhat good thing because his art and his testimony become critical more often than not once you manage to expose all of his lies that he habitually makes in his testimony by cross-examining him, and manages to foil some of the murderers' plans including saving at least one victim's life.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: He has a new job (and girlfriend) every time he appears. He's a hot-dog vendor, a security guard, and an artist over the course of the original trilogy, which results in him being a frequent witness. After realizing his talent as an artist at the end of the third game, he's stuck to the profession in each of his most recent chronological appearances (aside from a TenMinuteRetirement in order to pursue an acting career in the first ''Investigations'' game), to the point of becoming an acclaimed illustrator by ''Spirit of Justice''.
* TheNicknamer: "Nick", "Edgey", and "Franzy" for Phoenix, Edgeworth, and Franziska respectively.
* OcularGushers: He tends to show his emotions in a very over-the-top way, including streams of tears flowing from puppy-dog eyes.
* OlderThanHeLooks: In ''Spirit of Justice'', even nine years after the events of the ''Investigations'' games, he's barely shown any signs of ageing, unlike his friends. He certainly has not matured either.
* OneHitWonder: InUniverse example. While he has found professional success with "Franzy's Whippity-Whip Trip" by the time of ''Spirit of Justice'', he's now struggling to make another big seller. He's not too pleased when Phoenix calls him as such and his efforts to avoid going down as one gets pretty desperate, like mailing the Wright Anything Agency ten copies of his new book, ''and the bill.'' He did seem to get a temporary break when he was commissioned by the hyper-rich Sprocket family to paint a wedding sign though.
* PaperThinDisguise: In the anime, the defense tries to delay Edgeworth's trial so [[spoiler:he and Maya can retrieve some of the DL-6 evidence from Manfred's office]], but because the recess was short due to Edgeworth faking an injury, Larry tries to disguise himself as the former using his jacket and cravat. He doesn't last ten seconds.
-->'''The Judge:''' Who are you?!
-->'''Larry:''' Uh... I'm Edgey! [[VerbalBackspace I-I mean]], I'm Miles Edgeworth; an innocent man.
-->'''Manfred von Karma:''' [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe Remove this cheeky impostor from the courtroom NOW!]]
* PenName: Does art under the pseudonym of "Laurice Deauxnim," which he appears to have picked up apprenticing under Elise Deauxnim in 3-5.
* PhraseCatcher: "When something smells, it's usually the Butz."
* RenaissanceMan: Shockingly enough, Larry is naturally gifted in pretty much all artistic fields, including sculpting, painting and acting.
* SerialRomeo: Larry seems to always date models, but he's not above constant flattery of any other woman in range, including Maya, who is [[GenericCuteness supposedly kind of plain]]. If you show him a picture of Pearl in ''T&T'', he'll call her a "cutie" and only back off when he realizes she has the same name as a girl he once dated, not because she's ''nine''. (In this case, it's a sign that he's a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, not a ComedicLolicon pervert.)
* SpannerInTheWorks: Pretty much every case he was present in and his mishaps were the main reasons why Phoenix and Edgeworth were able to win their cases.
** "Turnabout Goodbyes" (Case 1-4): Edgeworth states that Larry was the first witness Von Karma was unable to manipulate in advance, and thus the first unplanned element in his 40 years of prosecution. Basically, what was a screwup with his latest business venture featuring [[spoiler:a dumb idea to re-inflate his Steel Samurai mascot balloon with a gas canister which sent the whole lot into Lake Gourd, inadvertently creating a fake monster hoax which introduced another Spanner; Lotta Hart into providing photographic evidence. Larry was stuck trying to find his balloon for several days until he found it floating in the lake late into Christmas Eve, going back ashore ''right'' when Hammond was shot at the Boat Rental Shop and hearing the first bullet being fired.]]
** "The Stolen Turnabout" (Case 3-2): The culprit of the case hit an alarm buzzer so that a guard would come rushing to the crime scene, and see the victim and a different suspect. However, the only guard at that time was Larry, who didn't go to the crime scene because he was confronting one of his exes' boyfriend.
** "Bridge to the Turnabout" (Case 3-5): Larry ends up being a witness to the [[spoiler:cover-up of the]] murder thanks to being the only "idiot" to wander around a snowstorm, let alone one staying in a broken-down hut instead of the main lodge nearby. He even makes a drawing of what he saw, though he didn't realize what it was.
** "Turnabout Ablaze" (Case 5 of ''Investigations''): His accident in rehearsal leads to an in-universe case of RealLifeWritesThePlot that catches the BigBad in a lie.
** "The Inherited Turnabout" (Case 3 of ''Investigations 2''): His drawing of Katherine Hall pulling a trolley showed a contradiction that allowed Edgeworth to discover [[spoiler:who was hiding Isaac Dover's body]], thus allowing him to find the culprit behind the IS-7 incident.
** In the manga, by getting arrested as the suspect in Turnabout With the Wind by various things he does to make himself seem suspicious (calling Bright Bonds to demand that he back out of Belle's life, and running from the cops), [[spoiler:Belle ends up having to prove his alibi, and ends up incriminating herself with her own testimony]].
** "Turnabout Time Traveller": His return in ''Spirit of Justice'' proves this to be as much a part of his being as hopelessly falling in love and driving his old friends up the wall. To wit, [[spoiler:his act of sneaking into a wedding reception derails the whole time travel cover up and forces the villain to kill his accomplice earlier than intended, making it possible to catch him.]]
* SurpriseWitness: [[spoiler:He realizes that he is a witness in a murder and busts into the courtroom just in time to stop a MiscarriageOfJustice with his testimony. Even then, Phoenix had to correct several errors in Larry's testimony to make it useful.]]
* TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity: Phoenix never agreed to defend Larry for free; he just assumed. It's also sometimes hard to draw the line on where he's mooching off his girlfriends or being an extreme doormat to them (e.g. Kiyance's gifts & suggestions on how to run his hot dog stand).
* TerribleArtist: Subverted. Both Phoenix and Edgeworth constantly insult his artistic abilities, but this is suggested to be a result of them being unable to get past the fact that [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Larry]] made them, as all other characters praise his work. This is supported in ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Investigations]]'', where Edgeworth is nearly brought to tears by Larry's performance in a play when he didn't know that it was him, but then immediately scoffs at it after learning that fact. In ''Spirit of Justice'', he's gained enough prestige as an artist for the influential Sprocket household to hire him as a wedding reception sign designer. He's also infamously known for his ability to create high-quality statue clocks, which are noted to be so well-made that a witness thinks it was sold in a shop.
* UnfortunateNames: His last name is Butz, a misspelling of "butts". If his first name is corrupted by changing the "L" to an "H" like how Dick Gumshoe and Mia Fey did, you get a PunnyName that refers to hairy butts.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Played with; his gifting Mia the Thinker clock winds up giving Redd White the ideal murder weapon. However, White would otherwise have probably just killed Mia with whatever he had to hand, and his and April May's knowing details they shouldn't have known about the clock ends up exposing their guilt.
* VitriolicBestBuds: His relationships with both Phoenix and Edgeworth can be summarized as this. In Edgeworth's case there's barely any friendship at all. Notably, Phoenix's opinion of him seems to gradually drop throughout the series, initially seeing him as a well-meaning goofball in the first game before acknowledging him as an obnoxious liar that he can barely tolerate in the third.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Generally, more of a liability and mooch than an ally. [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold He does genuinely care about both Phoenix and Edgeworth, just less than he does about himself]].

[[folder:'''Frank Sahwit''' (''Hoshio Yamano'')]]
!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Shinya Takahashi ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Ben Phillips ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])
!!!'''Played by''': Ayumu Saito ([[Film/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney live-action film]])

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A door-to-door salesman and the alleged sole witness of Cindy Stone's murder. This guy got the raw end of the deal when it comes to murderers in the series, for the same reason that a statement like that isn't a spoiler: he's blatantly shown to be the murderer of Cindy Stone before Phoenix even gets his ''name'' shown for the first time (bar the title screen on non-Japanese versions), [[BadLiar and you can get him guilty without even having to press anything]]. He reappears in jail in the second case of ''Investigations 2'', training as an animal groomer.

* BadLiar: Unlike most other murderers, whose lies only become obvious when presented with evidence they would otherwise be unaware of or forced to elaborate on their stories when being pressed, his contradictions are completely obvious. Much less so when he appears again in ''Investigations 2'', where he still isn't an especially adept liar, but compared to the likes of Larry and Sebastian Debeste he's practically a master of deception.
* BaldOfEvil: Downplayed variant. Sahwitt is partially bald (though it's usually hidden with a toupee), but the evil part still stands.
* BitchInSheepsClothing:
** In the original game, his remarkable politeness hides the fact that he's a petty criminal who's willing to get an innocent man convicted for murder to save himself.
** In ''Investigations 2'', Sahwitt portrays himself as a genuinely changed man who is now a model prisoner and running a legitimate business doing pet grooming for the prison's animals. In reality, he's still an unrepentant thief and murderer, and is just behaving so to get a reduced sentence.
* TheBusCameBack: Reappears in ''Investigations 2'', a whole ten years after his sole appearance in the very first ''Ace Attorney'' game!
* ChekhovsGunman: A minor example in ''Investigations 2''. He seems to be just another witness in ''The Imprisoned Turnabout'' [[spoiler:only he turns out to have been an essential part in Dogen's prison goods operations.]]
* DodgyToupee: His toupee makes him look younger by hiding his baldness. It'd likely be a lot more convincing if it didn't jump off his head whenever he gets surprised, though.
* EyesAlwaysShut: In the first phase of the trial with him, before he throws his toupee and sheds his facade.
* FakeUltimateMook: Sahwit's first testimony is one of the longest in the entire ''series'', having 10 different statements. It also contains one of the most obvious contradictions in the entire series.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Polite, friendly, and utterly amoral, Sahwit is not to be trusted at any time.
* FlatCharacter: In ''The First Turnabout'', he doesn't get much time to get a unique personality due to how short the case is. His return substantially fleshes him out, while surprisingly changing very little about him.
* HandRubbing: Does it all the time, which in Japan is a sign of someone trying to suck up to his superiors.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Frank reveals that "The Thinker" is a clock, something he would not have known if he had not entered Cindy's room (which he claimed not to have done).
* ImprovisedWeapon: He [[WouldHitAGirl clubbed Cindy Stone]] with the “Thinker” clock.
* IronicName: He's anything but frank, and he didn't just see the murder, he committed it.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Heavily averts the {{Mukokuseki}} art style typical of the series, which is probably why he was given a Southeast Asian-sounding surname in the English version as opposed to the European-style names most characters get.
* NotMeThisTime: Played With in ''Investigations 2''. [[spoiler:Despite being the killer in the first case, he's not the killer when he reappears. However, he's their accomplice.]]
* PunnyName: "Frank saw it" and his name is Frank Sahwitt. Phoenix even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this.
-->'''Phoenix''': Proof enough for you, Mr. Sahwit? Or should I say... Mr. Did It!
* {{Retcon}}: He's 36 in the first game, but in ''Investigations 2'', which takes place 3 years later, he's 47. Recent re-releases of the original trilogy change his age to 44 accordingly.
* RobbingTheDead: [[spoiler:Planned to rob Horace Knightley's corpse in ''Investigations 2'', particularly his ring with a snowflake design.]]
* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:His attempt at running a legitimate pet-grooming business when he's served his prison sentence goes out of the window when his sentence is extended for being an accomplice to prison goods smuggling. He outright gives up after that.]]
* StarterVillain: The very first culprit of the series, and the one with very obvious contradictions in his testimonies.
* StepfordSmiler: When wearing the wig he smiles perpetually, but he does so to conceal his crimes.
* StupidEvil: Up there with Furio Tigre and Terry Fawles. Frank is as abysmal at killing someone as he is at lying. Phoenix only has to sit back and watch as Frank digs himself into a corner.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Practically the master of this in ''[=AAI2=]''. The whole Logic Chess battle against him pretty much consists of waiting for him to make one and catching him out on it.
-->'''Sahwit:''' I-If you're looking for the person who discovered the body... You should try someone else...
* TookALevelInBadass: His time in jail has made him a slightly better liar, and he's able to put up a much tougher fight than his first appearance. [[spoiler:Though this could be due to Patricia Roland feeding him lies and information.]]
* VileVillainLaughableLackey: [[spoiler:In Investigations 2, he's one of the more lighthearted villains, being rather ineffective and docile when compared to the ruthless sociopaths that Edgeworth encounters throughout the game. This also proves to be a direct constrast to Patricia Roland, who is possibly one of the darkest villains in the series.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: After enough holes get poked through his testimony, Frank angrily throws his toupee at a displeased Wright (and Edgeworth in ''[=AAI2=]'') and then froths at the mouth like he has rabies, before collapsing. He doesn't do the latter in ''[=AAI2=]''.
* WakeUpCallBoss: In ''Investigations 2'', his Logic Chess forces Edgeworth to shift tactics as he doesn't change his facial expressions and body language ''at all'' unless he's caught in a lie unlike the previous Logic Chess opponents. The strategy is to pay attention to what he says.
* WarmUpBoss: As he is the first culprit in the entire series, his case is the only one in which you ''never'' need to press a statement to find contradictions (pressing is instead explained in the next case). He's also probably the easiest culprit to defeat in the entire series.
* WouldHitAGirl: Given that he killed Cindy Stone via conking her.

!!Turnabout Sisters (''Gyakuten Shimai'')

[[folder:'''The Bellboy''']]
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->"From hence forth I will be known as the 'bellboy who swore the affidavit'!"

The head bellboy of the Gatewater hotel. While never given a name, he is nevertheless an important witness in the second case of the first game.

* AscendedFanboy: The Bellboy is overjoyed both times a murder occurs in or near the Gatewater Hotel.
* ContinuityCameo: As well as his main appearance in 1-2, he appears briefly in 1-5, is referenced occasionally by Phoenix, [[spoiler:Shelly de Killer]] wears his outfit in the second game, and in ''Investigations'', he appears as [[spoiler:the real Proto Badger]].
* DemotedToExtra: In the anime, he never gets to testify and only appears to tell Phoenix that Redd White was with April May at the hotel in the day Mia's murder happened.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Done on purpose by April May.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: We never hear his true name.
* FlatCharacter: He exists mainly to be a witness who isn't evil and give the player an introduction to cross examinations against characters who aren't killers.
* {{Jumpscare}}: In his cameo in ''Investigations'', he nonchalantly pops out of a trapdoor floor backstage at Whitewater Park to prepare for an event. Not helping is that he was [[spoiler:dressed as the real Proto Badger.]]
* NiceGuy: He's friendly, polite, and helpful, a rarity for witnesses.
* NightmareFetishist: He gets ''really'' into the idea that a murderer might have stayed at the Gatewater, though he claims it's because there's NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity.
* NoNameGiven: His is a particular case in the series as he does not even have a fake name or is called by his alias - he is just the bellboy.
* PutOnABus: Despite Case 2-4 starting in a Gatewater hotel, he doesn't make an appearance. You'd think he would be all over it, given his unbridled enthusiasm for anything related to both hotels and murder. (Somewhat justified, since he doesn't work at the Gatewater Imperial Hotel where 2-4 takes place.)
* SayingTooMuch: While he was merely being used to make an alibi, he screws it up anyway after rattling off the price of the room service order he brought to April May's room, Phoenix freaks out at the price of seemingly ''one'' hot chocolate, only for The Bellboy to instinctively reaffirm that the total bill was that high because it called for ''two'' of them.
* SpannerInTheWorks: He accidentally states in court that April May was not alone in Gatewater Hotel when Edgeworth told him to not say that. This allows Phoenix to track down Mia's murderer.
* WrongGenreSavvy: When he's not being a NightmareFetishist, he seems to think he's in a straightforward murder mystery instead of the {{Animesque}} ''Ace Attorney''.
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[[folder:'''April May''' (''Umeyo Shochiku'')]]
!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/MarikoHonda ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Creator/JeannieTirado ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])

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->"I like a man with a big... vocabulary."

Redd White's secretary. Something of an airhead who easily seduces men because of her looks.
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* AnimalMotifs: Cats. Her standard pose has her holding her hands up close to either side of her face like a cat pouncing, she uses words like "Rowr!" when she gets angry, and her 'Pressured' sprite has her adopt an angry, Cheshire Cat-esque grin.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Has a cute seemingly ditzy exterior, but reveals her true personality and becomes hostile under enough pressure.
* BrainlessBeauty: Zig-zagged. While she seems like one at first glance, it's revealed to be [[ObfuscatingStupidity mostly an act she puts on to divert suspicion away from herself]]. That being said, she still makes some rather boneheaded moves, and her downfall comes from her assumption that anything can be bought in a store.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Has both pink hair and eyes.
* DeathGlare: When pressed and cornered.
* DistractedByTheSexy: She ''weaponizes'' this trope, using her charm to get the court on her side and make them believe her. Unfortunately for her, neither Phoenix nor Edgeworth are buying it.
* DoubleEntendre: With her, it's just asking for trouble.
* FauxAffablyEvil: She may seem bubbly and flirty, but she's a cold hearted criminal behind her seductive smile.
* FeetFirstIntroduction: In the 2016 anime, the first glimpse of April is her bare leg which she uses while in the bathroom to point where she wants the wine to be placed by the bellboy (actually Phoenix).
* {{Gonk}}: Normally she looks pretty, but once she's pissed off her face contortions look so bad it's ridiculous.
* HeadTurningBeauty: She has no problem to show her sex appeal, using a combination of ample cleavage, an innocent expression and a cutesy style of speech. Every man who meets her (except [[IgnoreTheFanservice Phoenix and Edgeworth]]) is instantly smitten.
* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: She has no problem using her assets, her cutesy demeanor, and her general charm to sway people to her side. She even deliberately wears short skirts and a CleavageWindow to give men a good look at her "goods" (no pun intended).
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: When Phoenix calls her a "big fat liar" her only response is "...FAT!?"
* MsFanservice: She's a [[BeautyIsBad criminal who gets by on her looks]]. This is emphasized in the anime and some of the concept art.
* NaughtyNurseOutfit: [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/aceattorney/images/f/fc/Gsds_10.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090822155350 There's official concept art of her in a sexy nurse uniform]].
* ObfuscatingStupidity: She's not the cleverest wire-tapper, but she's far more competent than she seems at first.
* PsychoPink: She's evil and wears a lot of pink.
* PunnyName: April and May, obviously. The three kanji in her Japanese name idiomatically mean "high-, middle-, low-ranking" (and literally "pine, bamboo, plum". It's a Japanese thing). In fact, it's her and Redd's fault that the series has characters with punny names in the first place.
** Several characters address her as "Miss May", which is the sort of title one would expect to see bestowed on [[Magazine/{{Playboy}} Playboy centerfold models.]]
** In French, she's called 'Masha Vril'; a combination of 'Mars' and 'Avril', which mean 'March' and 'April', respectively.
* RoseHairedSweetie: Subverted. Her pink hair may be natural, but her sweet demeanor is only an act.
* SexySecretary: She was the secretary of Redd White, the CEO of Bluecorp.
* TakingTheHeat: Tries to do this for Redd White, denying her connections with him.
* TheTease: She likes to tease people and knows how to get her way.
* ThirdPersonPerson: In the Japanese version.
* TwitchyEye: The left side of her face twitches up every time she's caught off-guard.
* UndyingLoyalty: Surprisingly, considering the kind of man he is and the kind of woman she is, April May is ''very'' loyal to her boss, Redd White, and is even willing to take the heat for him. When Phoenix originally tries to crack her, she outright asks him if he'd give up Mia Fey and insists she's just as loyal to her own boss. [[spoiler: Potentially subverted, if Phoenix managed to convince her that he has her dead to rights, in which case she gives him a bit of information out of concern that he'll have her killed.]]
* TheVamp: She ''tries'' to be, but she fares poorly against anybody who can [[NotDistractedByTheSexy ignore her charms]].
* VillainousBreakdown: After Phoenix manages to figure out April May's role in the crime, April May screams and causes one of the buttons of her top to pop off, allowing her breasts to bounce, before her face suddenly becomes Hulk-like and she starts screaming at everyone.
-->'''April May:''' What's it to you, porcupine-head!? That stupid clock doesn't matter, okay!? She did it! And she should die for it! Die! […] Shut up, all of you! What gives you the right to talk to ME like that! You… you LAWYER!
* WickedHeartSymbol: She wears a few hearts on her clothing, but she's a bitch and a criminal behind her sweet, cutesy façade.
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[[folder:'''Redd White''' (''Masaru Konaka'')]]
!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Hiromichi Tezuka ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Larry Brantley ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])
!!!'''Played by:''' Makoto Ayukawa ([[Film/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney film]])

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->"I am always abso-posi-lutely perfect!"

The wealthy president of Bluecorp who built his powerful company through blackmailing lawyers, judges, politicians, police, and all sorts of other people. Thanks to him, word of the police using a spirit medium for DL-6 got leaked to the press. So if not for him, Mia wouldn't have (specifically) become a lawyer herself. Then again, he's the one who kills her.

In the film, his involvement in the DL-6 Incident is the same, but he is instead a writer for a magazine and wrote the article that exposed police use of a spirit medium. He is also the witness to Maya's alleged murder of Mia as opposed to the Bellhop.
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[[folder:'''Will Powers''' (''Saburo Niboshi'')]]
!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Shota Yamamoto ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Creator/ChrisRager ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])

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->"The Steel Samurai is the lead character in a popular kid's show. He walks the streets of Neo Olde Tokyo... Fighting battle after battle against the Evil Magistrate and his minions. Of course, he never really defeats the Evil Magistrate. Although... I guess he did defeat him this time..."

A TV star, and the first client Maya assisted Phoenix defending. Most well-known for his role as the [[ShowWithinAShow Steel Samurai]]. He's also a [[NiceGuy total sweetheart.]] Appears again in 2-4 and in an ''Investigations 2'' case, both of which have something to do with show business.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: No one seems to ever let him forget his brutish appearance. [[{{Jerkass}} Oldbag in particular]].
* AnimalMotifs: Phoenix compared him to a lion in 2-4. His hairdo and buff physique probably helps in that comparison.
* ApologisesALot: Taken to hilarious levels when you present Pearl's picture to him in case 2-4, since both of them have this trope, when he tries (and fails) to guess her relationship to Phoenix and Maya.
* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: Subverted, and hard. Befitting his kindhearted nature, Powers is one of the few witnesses in the series to be entirely honest and informative in his testimony. [[spoiler:Which makes it all the more awful that Phoenix is forced to desperately find faint contradictions in an attempt to buy time for Maya's rescue.]]
* BigBrotherMentor: Describes himself as one to Matt Engarde.
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Jack Hammer was his role model. Hammer accidentally killed someone and, while trying to kill Dee Vasquez, tried to frame Will Powers for it out of jealousy]].
* TheBusCameBack: Twice. After appearing as the defendant in Case 1-3, he disappears for the rest of the game, as most defendants do. However, he reappears in Case 2-4, and even later on, in ''Investigations 2''.
* ButtMonkey: At one point Dee Vasquez notes that he's so ordinary looking, he's sometimes left behind by mistake when the rest of the company comes back from a trip.
* CarpetOfVirility: To match his large, mane-like hair, he's got a hairy, masculine chest.
* CrossCastRole: InUniverse: He plays the titular Pink Princess in a new show, although it helps that the costume is also a full bodysuit like the Steel Samurai.
* DemotedToExtra:
** He's the defendant of "Turnabout Samurai" and plays a major role in "Farewell, My Turnabout" as a key witness, but his third appearance in "The Grand Turnabout" sees him as a mostly superfluous character there to give a bit of exposition. Penny ends up with more lines than him.
** He does show up in the anime for "Farewell, My Turnabout", but only in the beginning. He disappears completely for the rest of the arc.
* FaceOfAThug: A RunningGag for him. Poor guy. He almost breaks into tears when Pearl says that she thinks his face makes him look kind. A rather foolish cop made this mistake and arrested him in case 2-4 as someone who must have done something. Upon interrogation, he is cleared and promoted from suspect to that case's [[HeroAntagonist star witness]]. Earlier, in case 1-3, Maya sees him and immediately says:
-->'''Maya''': Um, maybe I shouldn't be saying this… But he definitely did it. Murder. At least once. Maybe twice.
* FallGuy: [[spoiler:Hammer]] ''intended'' to make him this; let's just say it didn't quite work out as planned, especially once Phoenix takes his case.
* FriendToAllChildren: He doesn't just play the role of the Steel Samurai for the money, he also does it because he loves being someone for kids to look up to. In fact, the reason he never publicly revealed himself as the Steel Samurai is because he didn't want to scare the children with his [[FaceOfAThug intimidating appearance]].
* GenreSavvy: When pressed in a part of his testimony in "Farewell, My Turnabout", he expresses concern how Phoenix managed to get a witness a Guilty verdict during every previous trial, and if that means he's going to get falsely blamed himself.
* GentleGiant: He's a big guy with the FaceOfAThug, but he's probably the sweetest guy you'll ever meet.
* GossipyHens: Rare male example. Despite being a celebrity himself, Powers loves celebrity gossip, seeing the world of celebrities as glamorous. Of course, that's partially because the poor guy perpetually has an outsider's perspective due to his appearance and meek personality.
* HeroAntagonist: As a result of becoming the prosecution's star witness in case 2-4, he becomes this because Phoenix is ForcedIntoEvil by Shelly de Killer's {{Blackmail}}. He testifies truthfully unlike most witnesses you encounter in the Ace Attorney series from the get-go, and the only things that Phoenix can contradict are rather minor errors.
* HeroicBuild: Extremely tall and buff. This is used as evidence against him in ''Turnabout Samurai'', since he's seemingly the only one who could've worn the very large and bulky Steel Samurai suit and kill the victim. [[spoiler:That is, until it turned out the victim himself, who is of a very similar build, was the one who wore the suit.]]
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: He doesn’t think very highly of himself, as evident by some of his lines in 2-4.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Most of the time, Will simply can't believe who the real culprit is in a case because it's someone he trusts as a coworker. He just doesn't see the worst in people.
* InformedDeformity: His face, while rough, doesn't seem frightening to the viewer at all. Although this might simply be a case of him ''thinking'' he's genuinely ugly, and the only one who really rags on him for it is [[ScrewPolitenessImASenior Wendy Oldbag.]]
* IOweYouMyLife: He is eternally grateful for being saved in case 1-3, which is why he invites the heroes along to the awards ceremony in case 2-4.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: While his most famous role was the heroic Steel Samurai, he also played [[NotZilla The Mighty Moozilla]].
* NiceGuy: Truly one of the most gentle and kind-hearted characters in the series. He is so nice that he is one of the few witnesses in the Ace Attorney series that testifies truthfully on the stand from the start, leaving only minor errors for Phoenix to contradict. [[spoiler:Upon learning that the victim of 1-3 was jealous of him being the main hero of the Steel Samurai, Powers admits that if Hammer told him about this, he would've been glad to swap places with him.]]
* PeopleInRubberSuits: Reappears in ''Ace Attorney Investigations 2'' to play the title role in the new [[{{Kaiju}} Moozilla]] movie. [[spoiler:The suit was also used for less pleasant reasons, but not by him]].
* PunnyName: He's got willpower. "Niboshi" is dried sardines [[FluffyTheTerrible (yes, it's ironic)]]. "Saburo" means "third son" or "three lights" depending on the kanji and could also be a pun with "niboshi" which could also be read with other kanji as "two stars."
* WholesomeCrossdresser: After the events of case 1-3, he stars as the title character of ''The Pink Princess: Warrior of Little Olde Tokyo''.
* YoungerThanHeLooks: He's 23 in his first appearance, making him younger than Phoenix, not that he looks the part.

[[folder:'''Wendy Oldbag''' (''Kaoru Ohba'')]]
!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Yuu Sugimoto ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Creator/AnastasiaMunoz ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])
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->"Shush! I'm talking to my dear Edgey-Wedgey right now! Don't interrupt us, gramps!"

A hard-ass old woman who for some reason is a security guard, and another one of the series' frequent witnesses. Goes on long-winded rants at a moment's notice, and has a thing for soon-to-be dead actors and Edgeworth, the latter of whom (un)affectionately dubs her the "wicked witch of the witness stand".

* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Miles "Edgey-Poo" Edgeworth, who is usually the sole target of her affection. She also start swooning for Lang at some point but she insists to herself she's Edgeworth's girl.
* AffectionateNickname: "Edgey-Poo", for Edgeworth.[[note]]"Michan" in Japanese for Mitsurugi.[[/note]] It's as cringe-worthy as Edgeworth thinks it is.
* BerserkButton: Inverted. She usually calms down when Edgeworth shows up. For Edgeworth, though, she serves as his TraumaButton.
* BigDamnHeroes [[spoiler: A very unexpected one alongside Larry in ''Turnabout Ablaze''. The two manage to show up just in time to prevent Alba from making good on one of his many attempts to get out of the embassy. Oldbag then proceeds to deliver a piece of evidence that is so crucial to proving he murdered Coachen that, for once, Edgeworth feels nothing but ''genuine gratitude'' towards her.]]
* BlushSticker: Pops up at the thought of her latest celebrity obsession. Best not thought about at any length.
* ContinuityCameo:
** Only appears in the third game in the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue. She still wears the astronaut costume for some reason.[[note]](The developers had wanted to give her an entirely new outfit but ran out of time to create the required artwork, and so ended up going with the astronaut costume, rather than her security guard outfit from the first game, because of RuleOfFunny)[[/note]]
** She appears in a trailer for ''Apollo Justice'', despite her not showing up in the game. An old woman that appears in Case 2 resembles Oldbag in both looks and attitude, but it's never confirmed to be her. It was ''supposed'' to be her, but this ended up an OrphanedReference.
** She appears in the Japanese trailer advertising the DLC case for ''Spirit of Justice'' despite not showing up in that either.
* DirtyOldWoman:
** She make several lecherous comments towards Edgeworth, much to his embarrassment and disgust.
** She also mistakes Shi-Long Lang's polite request for questioning as if it also were a pick-up line. She insists she's loyal to Edgeworth, however, even if she does say the thought was somewhat tempting.
** Her fangirlism towards Juan Corrida has shades of this.
* DonutMessWithACop: A security guard, but she's quite fond of donuts.
* FanDisservice:
** [[spoiler:''Investigations'' puts her in an extremely busty Pink Princess outfit.]]
** You get to collect [[spoiler:her undershirt]] as evidence. Edgeworth is rightfully shaken by the very thought.
* {{Flanderization}}: In the first game Oldbag, while unpleasable and prone to insulting people, did have a reasonable side, and even helped Phoenix once it's proven that [[spoiler:Hammer was trying to frame Will Powers.]] Later appearances would make her more and more abrasive and obnoxious, and ''especially'' her adoration of Edgeworth.
* GrumpyOldMan: She has a horribly bad temper.
* HoistByHerOwnPetard: In ''Turnabout Samurai'', the reasons she gives for suspecting Will Powers when she's on the witness stand are eventually used by Phoenix to cast suspicion on her.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Her choice in celebrity crushes aren't exactly the best people to put faith in. Jack Hammer was a man who committed manslaughter and planned to pin the blame on his co-star after his attempted murder of Dee Vasquez after all. Not learning her lesson, she falls for Juan Corrida in the second game, a man so vain that he broke up with his fiance to avoid Matt Engarde scoring a point on him and used her suicide to boost his own career instead of bring Engarde to justice. Her UndyingLoyalty to these two [[AssholeVictim Asshole Victims]] naturally makes the case much more difficult.
* HypocriticalHumor:
** She will occasionally make comments about the judge being old. For obvious reasons, she has absolutely no room to talk.
** In ''Investigations'', she complains about a stalker letter she received ([[spoiler:which was actually intended for someone else]])... while she's been sending Edgeworth flowers for years.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Or so she says. In the manga, her grandmother Wendolyn is channeled and everyone mistakes her for Wendy because they look just like each other. There is an image of her as a younger girl, and if this can be used as an example, then it's actually true.
* {{Jerkass}}: Very reluctant to give help, especially if she thinks you're trying to smear the name of someone she adores. Usually you have to pay her off with something to get her to talk and even then she won't say it nicely.
* JerkassToOne: While she’s not very nice to anyone outside of Edgeworth, she seems to be rather harsh toward [[NiceGuy Powers]] in general.
* {{Leitmotif}}: She doesn't technically have a specific leitmotif, but "Noisy People" from ''Investigations'' tends to play specifically in scenes involving her.
* MotorMouth: To the point of Edgeworth [[ThatWasObjectionable raising an objection to stop one of her near-infinite rambles in the first game]]. It gets pretty silly in JFA when she goes into one of her sprees while in an airtight helmet. This doesn't change in the anime, where she speaks at an annoyingly fast pace.
* MysteryMagnet: People keep getting murdered in or near areas that she has been in except for the courtroom. She is not culpable in any of them, but that doesn't stop Phoenix from suggesting she should stop being a security guard in ''Farewell, My Turnabout'', for other people's sake.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: She's a security guard in all of her appearances save ''Investigations'', but she has a new employer each time, including [[spoiler:2 over the course of 2 days in ''Investigations.'']]
* OldWindbag: To everyone's dismay, especially Phoenix's in the first case she appears in and Edgeworth's afterwards. Even her name is a pun on that, and the lampshades fly thick and fast.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** In Case 1-3, she goes silent and very calm the moment you irrevocably prove the victim (who she idolized) drugged the defendant shortly before he was murdered. She then proceeds to tell you VERY important information without ever raising her voice or spilling into a ramble. It is the only time in the entire series she acts this way.
** In the manga, she pleads with Phoenix to defend Julie, insisting that she couldn’t have murdered Flip. Maya notes that she's "[[LampshadeHanging never seen Ms. Oldbag like this]]".
* PunnyName: Last name refers to the term "old bag" for an ugly old woman, and combined with her first name, also applies to her long-windedness ("windy old bag"). Her Japanese name is a combination of "old lady" ("''obachan''") and "idiot" (Oh Bakaoru).
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: She is this in her first appearance in ''Turnabout Samurai'' - In the previous two cases, the first witness to accuse the defendant turned out to be the real murderer and conspirator helping the real murderer, respectively. Additionally, she is immediately hostile to Phoenix and Maya. Those two facts in combination make her the most obvious suspect [[WrongGenreSavvy to anyone expecting the case to follow the same formula as the first two]], but in the end it turns out her testimony is mostly accurate (Save for a lie of omission only indirectly related to the case.) and she has nothing to do with the murder.]]
* RightForTheWrongReasons: She accuses Matt Engarde in Case 2-4 of being Juan Corrida's murderer because he's an evil person that wanted to get close to Juan and his manager to cause an scandal. [[spoiler:Only the "wanting to cause a scandal" part is wrong, in fact Matt's motive was to ''avoid'' a scandal (although Matt had someone else commit the murder for him)]].
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: She rambles on and on about insignificant points, and gets pissed when anyone asks her to keep on track, and often calls poor Nick a "whippersnapper".
* ScrollingText: At [[UnreadablyFastText very fast speeds]].
* SpannerInTheWorks:
** She provides critical information in ''Turnabout Samurai'', first by revealing to the courtroom that Hammer, Powers and herself weren't the only ones present in the studios at the time of the murder, and then by telling Phoenix how Vasquez ended up being so controlling over Hammer, that allow Phoenix to find the true killer in the case.
** Manages to be such a major one in ''Turnabout Ablaze'' that it actually manages to get Edgeworth to ''thank'' her. [[spoiler: Had she not held onto the specific box of Samurai Dogs that Alba bled on, there would be no way to dispute his claims of merely being lost on the way to the bathroom, which would keep Edgeworth from being able to decisively link him to Coachen's murder in the dressing room.]]
* ThirdPersonPerson: In the Japanese version she always calls herself the very cutesy "Oba-chan".
* UnfortunateNames: Merely calling her by her last name ends up sounding like an insult to her age. Interestingly, she is identified in the text box by her last name, rather than "???" like everyone else, even before you learn her name. Maybe because it's a MeaningfulName.
* UnreadablyFastText: Once she [[MotorMouth gets going]], it's nearly impossible to keep up.
* VagueAge: Always written as "???". An easy to miss line in 2-4 reveals she stopped counting.
* ZeroEffortBoss: Of a sort in ''Justice for All''. Four psyche-locks appear when she is asked about what she witnessed on the night of the murder and she refuses to speak about it unless you get her a present. Because she adores Juan greatly, all it takes is showing her his autograph to her to break all four locks at once.

[[folder:'''Penny Nichols''' (''Yumiko Mamiya'')]]

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->"I don't care what kind of girl you might think I am; I need that card!"

An assistant for Global Studios who was present the day of Hammer's murder. Despite this, she doesn't play much of a role.

* BespectacledCutie: She wears big round glasses, contributing to her cute, dorky nature.
* TheBusCameBack: Like Sahwit, Penny finally returns in the final case of ''Investigations 2'' after a 10-year hiatus from the series. Unlike Sahwit, her role is only marginally more important there than in the original ''Ace Attorney''. Even Edgeworth [[LampshadeHanging barely remembers who she is]].
* ContrivedCoincidence: Like Cody Hackins, she collects Steel Samurai trading cards. She was looking for an Ultra Rare card that Cody happened to have a double of and was willing to give it away, and she herself was willing to trade an Ultra Rare Premium that Cody was looking for.
* DemotedToExtra: The anime severely reduces her already small role by not giving her any spoken lines, and she only gets occasional shots.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Her name is only directly mentioned once in "Turnabout Samurai". Every other time she's mentioned, she's just "the assistant". Even her profile is "Assistant", and only mentions her real name in the details.
* {{Fangirl}}: She ''flips out'' when she discovers that Phoenix has the last Steel Samurai trading card she needs.
* FlatCharacter: Word has it the reason why she was even included in ''Investigations 2'' was because of a popular in-joke among the staff as to who even ''remembered'' her, due to her incredibly insignificant role.
* TheGenericGuy: She's possibly the most 'normal' and well-adjusted person in the entirety of ''Ace Attorney''. The fact that having a grounded look and personality makes her stand out in this wacky CastOfSnowflakes is likely the main reason she is remembered in the fandom at all, and her small appearance in ''Investigations 2'' plays up her basicness.
* TheKlutz: Implies that she's this during a conversation with Phoenix and Maya, stating that when she handles the props, they tend to be in worse condition than they were before.
* OnlySaneWoman: of the employees we meet at Global Studios, she's the only one who seems completely well-adjusted, in comparison to Will's weepiness and self-esteem issues, Sal's horrific man-child tendencies, Wendy's anger issues, and Dee's dominating treatment of her staff.
* {{Otaku}}: At least she is a ''much'' more adorable fan than the ugly Manella.
* PunnyName: Pennies and nickels. "Mamiya" might be a pun on "[[{{Otaku}} mania]]".
* YouthfulFreckles: Understandably, as she's only 18.

[[folder:'''Cody Hackins''' (''Kyuta Ohtaki'')]]
!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/ShizukaIshigami ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Creator/KaraEdwards ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])

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->"I go to every live performance! I always take a picture when the Steel Samurai lands the final blow! Whizzam! I got 'em all! I never missed one! A perfect collection!"

A bratty seven-year-old Steel Samurai-obsessed fanboy. He's been to every live performance of it and decides that just once he'd like to see an actual filming of the show. The end result is he saw Jack Hammer get murdered.

* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: He testifies that the assailant dressed as the Steel Samurai dispatched the victim with a Samurai Punch, a Samurai Kick, and a Samurai ''Slap'', the last one arousing Phoenix's suspicions that he's lying about what happened during the confrontation because that's clearly made up.
* BlushSticker: Has two pink circles perpetually on his cheeks.
* BrainBleach: His reaction after seeing that Will Powers also plays the role of Pink Princess.
* BrattyHalfPint: He's obnoxious and sasses off to every character save Mia, whom he seems to like [[MsFanservice for some reason]]. He does ultimately volunteer a genuinely helpful photo in the end, though.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: WordOfGod says that he was introduced as a witness because a child's reasons for lying would not be the same as an adult's in the same situation. It takes a lot of pressing to get the truth out of Cody, but it isn't out of malice; he genuinely doesn't understand the gravity of what he saw and doesn't see why certain things are important. [[spoiler: The reason he refuses to say what he witnessed about the murder was because the victim was wearing a Steel Samurai costume, and he doesn't want to admit Steel Samurai lost a fight. He's simply too young to realize that the victim wasn't really Steel Samurai and had been killed, and treats the case like another Steel Samurai episode.]]
* DemotedToExtra: The anime doesn't hold a court hearing for his testimony because Nick and Maya decide to lure him out with the info (by way of Nick binge-watching Steel Samurai movies all-night long...and failing to recall the right stuff with Cody around but still gets the job done) without even having to require Penny's help with their fascination for collecting Steel Samurai cards (thus diminishing her role further). However, despite this, his role is more active in the events and he becomes a SpannerInTheWorks who convinces a heartbroken Wendy to speak up and give Nick the crucial evidence to indict the culprit in the case.
* ExactWords: He boasts about his 100% complete photo collection of every single one of the Steel Samurai's victories onscreen or in public performances. [[spoiler:Note the word "''victories''". Phoenix realizes that the real reason why he didn't take a photo of the attack despite being literally in front of it was that the Steel Samurai ''lost''.]]
* HarmfulToMinors: Averted and then spoofed in the credits -- you would ''think'' seeing a person killed before his very eyes might be traumatizing. However, due to being a young child, he clearly doesn't understand that what he saw was real. He does cry at the witness stand, though only because Phoenix took apart his testimony. But seeing [[spoiler:Will Powers]] come out of a Pink Princess costume? That left a scar.
-->'''Cody''': It was kind of a shock for a boy of my tender age.
* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: He's a minor so it's kept innocent, but there is a reason why he's a lot more willing to talk to Mia than Maya.
* InnocentInaccurate: When he testifies, it's plain that he doesn't realize what he witnessed was a murder. [[spoiler:Well, a killing, at any rate]].
* InsufferableGenius: When Phoenix tries to buy him back with his own Steel Samurai card.
-->'''Cody''': By offering me something I already own, you're in effect eschewing the very basis of our consumer society, namely the principle of fair trade! Man, for a grownup, you sure are dumb!
-->'''Phoenix''': [[LampshadeHanging W-what do they teach these kids in school these days!? Quantum physics!?]]
* IntrepidReporter: He claims to have taken pictures of every single one of the Steel Samurai's victories from the TV show to physical live-action public performances which he publishes in a book.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Despite the fact that the Steel Samurai mainly uses a spear, he carries around a katana on his back. He can't get it out of the sheath, though.
* OcularGushers: When Phoenix finally succeeds in taking apart his testimony. It sure doesn't feel good to make a child burst into tears as he realizes that his idol was killed.
* {{Otaku}}: As his Japanese name spells out.
* PunnyName: Code-hacker. As for his Japanese name, the first three kanji characters (in Eastern name order) form "''{{otaku}}''".

[[folder:'''Sal Manella''' (''Takuya Uzai'')]]
!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Masato Nishino ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Tyler Walker ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])

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->"I try not to pay much attention to things that don't interest me. LOL."

Director of the Steel Samurai. He embodies the typical image of an obsessive teenage (despite being 32) geeky fanboy, in both appearance, personality, and mannerisms.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: To poor Maya.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the anime, [[spoiler:Vasquez moves the victim's body by herself, leaving him out of the loop.]]
* BigEater: Eats quite a lot.
* CompressedAdaptation: The anime removes Vasquez's FetchQuest for a missing script, which is instead changed to him finding it when first introduced.
* CrushFilter: In the anime, his first look at Maya has him see her with a more adult body, then reimagines ''that'' as a busty kimono-clad MagicalGirl, prompting him to think up plans for a new show called "The Pink Princess".
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The anime shows how he's basically abused by Dee Vasquez, such as making him into a human footstool… while he still is overjoyed writing a script on the floor.
* ExtremeDoormat: Powers and Oldbag describe him as a masochistic suckup to Vasquez willing to do literally everything she says, explaining why [[spoiler:he helped move Hammer's body.]]
* FatIdiot: Evidently he has ''some'' talent given his work as director, but the majority of his screentime shows that when outside of his work he's not exactly bright.
* {{Gonk}}: Is a fat slob with obviously poor hygiene and odious habits.
* LeetLingo: His speech is littered with emoticons, [=LOLs=], and 1337s. He even manages to speak a ":(" at the thought of having not been able to eat a T-bone steak. When he's speaking seriously, though, this gets downplayed to just occasional usage, rather than every other word - thankfully, since trying to decipher actually important information from this kind of speech would just be frustrating.
* KarmaHoudini: If the success of his new show ''Pink Princess'' and his cameo in ''Investigations'' are of any indication, he somehow gets away with [[spoiler:aiding and abetting Dee Vasquez in her coverup of the manslaughter of Jack Hammer and related attempt to frame Will Powers for Hammer's death. While carrying out these acts, he unambigously committed the crimes of conspiracy to obstruct justice, conspiracy to incriminate someone on false charges, tampering with a crime scene, and perjury. In any remotely realistic scenario, he would by all means have been charged as Vasquez's accomplice, but for some reason this is never acknowledged]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: It took being silently intimidated by Edgeworth to get him to speak normally. Well, most of the time, but it made his Witness Testimony a lot easier.
* NerdsArePervs: Sal Manella, the director of ''The Steel Samurai,'' is a sweaty {{otaku}} who speaks in LeetLingo and meme references. He's also disgustingly lustful, literally drooling over the teenage Maya and having a PowerDynamicsKink for his abusive producer, Dee Vasquez. This apparently works its way into his shows at time, as the studio turned down some of his scripts as "not appropriate for children."
%% * {{Otaku}}: In its worst form possible.
* PrecisionFStrike: He says "WTF" when you first meet him. Later, he says "My ass is p0wned if I don't find [the script]". Especially noticeable as the games generally keep their dialogue swear free.
* PunnyName: He's as sickening as salmonella. "Takuya" comes from "{{otaku}}", and "Uzai" is slang for "annoying", so all together his name is a pun on "annoying otaku."
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: His fate is never revealed after [[spoiler:it's revealed that he helped Dee Vasquez move Jack Hammer's body]]. Despite that, he was able to get ''Pink Princess'' into production and it became a success. He is seen again in ''Investigations'' eating lunch, but it's a cameo appearance that has no relevance to the plot.

[[folder:'''Dee Vasquez''' (''Sakura Himegami'')]]
!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Yurika Hino ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Janelle Lutz ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])
!!!'''Played by:''' Miho Ninagawa ([[Film/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney film]])

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->"Don't hit your desk. It irritates me."

Global Studios (and Steel Samurai) producer that built the studio back up from the brink of ruin, and apparently is some sort of business genius. She's also got ties to the mob.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: The anime removes the implication that Jack Hammer ''might'' have deliberately killed Manuel, along with the detail of Vasquez having been close to Manuel, which makes her less sympathetic than the game attempted to frame her as.]]
* ArcVillainess: [[spoiler:She plays this role for 1-3 as she's the killer in that case]].
* AntiVillain: Zigzagged. [[spoiler:It's easy to see her as sympathetic in the game, as her murder was in self defense and it's implied that Manuel was close to her, but it's important to remember that she was still a petty blackmailer who spent years threatening and abusing Jack Hammer over Manuel's accidental death. Likewise, she's established to have been a member of the mob and ordered her goons to kill Phoenix and Maya so casually that it couldn't have been the first time she's given such an order.]]
* BerserkButton: When Maya mentions [[spoiler:the incident where Manuel was killed by Hammer as an accident]], she drops her stoic facade for a bit to yell at her before regaining her composure, angry that [[spoiler:Maya believes it was an accident]].
* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler:She was blackmailing Jack Hammer after he accidentally killed another actor.]]
* BluntNo: During her testimony she, at first, answers the questions asked by Phoenix with either a very deadpan "No" or [[BluntYes "Yes"]].
-> '''Phoenix''': By yourself?
-> '''Vasquez''': Yes.
-> '''Phoenix''': And you didn't stop at the Employee Area?
-> '''Vasquez''': No.
-> '''Phoenix''': ...
-> '''Phoenix''': Are you always this... terse?
-> '''Vasquez''': Yes.
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:Five years ago, she watched Manuel die in an accident at Jack Hammer's hands. In the flashback, she is incredibly distraught at his death, the only time you see her act emotionally.]]
* EvilVersusEvil: [[spoiler:The confrontation between Jack Hammer, who had no issues in trying to frame Will Powers of a murder out of jealousy, and herself, a blackmailer with ties to the mafia.]]
* EvilWearsBlack: Marks her as a menacing, secretive woman.
* AGlassInTheHand: She breaks her pipe during her VillainousBreakdown.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: In the promotional manga ''Turnabout Crossover'', she has a sister, Tampopo Himegami (Dandee Vasquez in the FanTranslation), who is (surprise!) also a producer. [[invoked]]
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: She's always smoking, and evidently has [[SmokyVoice smoker's lung]], since her speech is indicated by the lower-pitched beep-de-beeps usually reserved for males. [[note]]This may have been a glitch. It's changed to the standard female beeps in the iOS ports, though it's oddly restored in the 3DS ports based on the iOS port.[[/note]] Notably the only character in the series to be shown actually smoking, rather than using something like a lollipop or a bubble pipe.
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:Once she is finally caught out as the killer (though in self-defense), she accepts her loss with dignity.]]
-->[[spoiler:"...Yes. I am guilty. It was me... Congratulations, Mr. Wright. I lose... again."]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:When Phoenix and Maya refuse to hand over the five-year-old picture of Manuel's death, she calls in her "boys" to "[[DeadlyEuphemism erase]]" them.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Her attempt to kill Phoenix and Maya isn't even mentioned in court despite [[PoliceAreUseless Gumshoe]] catching her in the act. Though seeing as she got arrested for voluntary manslaughter, this trope could be considered subverted, or at least downplayed. Also, the mafia connections were irrelevant to the murder trial, so mentioning them would have breached the court rules that could result in a valid objection.]]
* KillingInSelfDefense: [[spoiler:At the climax of the case, Phoenix correctly deduces that her killing of Jack Hammer was an act of self-defense. She doesn't become more sympathetic because of it, however, seeing as Hammer's attempt was prompted by the fact that she had ruined his career by blackmailing him into submission.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler:Sahwitt was mostly a joke, and White while a despicable bastard was also StupidEvil the moment he was forced to speak in court. Vasquez meanwhile is ''much'' better at covering her tracks, and is the first time the heroes have to work to take out a culprit. Her backstory and the circumstances behind Hammer's death also begins when the series begins showing the culprits in a more three-dimensional light, with actions that are more complex than simple pursuits of wealth and power.]]
* TheMafia: She's got major connections in this criminal organization.
* NoOshaCompliance: [[spoiler:Those spiky fence posts that Jack Hammer died by. One would think that the crew would have removed them after the same thing happened five years ago.]]
* NotSoStoic: [[spoiler:When cornered during the trial.]]
* PunnyName: She's a diva. "Sakura" [[CherryBlossoms is obvious]], and "Himegami" means "princess-goddess".
* TheQuietOne: Part of why her Cross-Examination is so difficult is that she is very terse in everything she says, leaving very little to call her out on.
* TheStoic: Throughout much of 1-3, she doesn't seem to be concerned at all with the proceedings.
* UncertainDoom: Averted. Although Dee did kill Jack Hammer and murder is normally punished with the death penalty in the Ace Attorney universe, she very likely escaped the death penalty and got a prison sentence instead. This is due to the facts that she lacked premeditation, killed Jack in self defense as Jack was the one trying to kill her, and the killing was technically an accident and Dee never intended to impale Jack on the fence.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Once her role in Jack Hammer's death is proven, she squeezes her pipe so hard that she breaks it. Compared to almost every villain in the series, her breakdown is rather mild.]]
* WakeUpCallBoss: She's much tougher than the previous villains Phoenix faces off in court, and actually holds her own for a while. This serves to mark a shift in difficulty for the game, as the following antagonists are even more wily and hardened than she is.
* YoungerThanSheLooks: Despite looking middle-aged, she's only 34.
[[/folder]]

!!Turnabout Goodbyes (''Gyakuten, soshite Sayonara'')

[[folder:'''Lotta Hart''' (''Natsumi Ohsawagi'')]]
!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Creator/ReikoTakagi ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Creator/WhitneyRodgers ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])
!!!'''Played by:''' Mitsuki Tanimura ([[Film/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney film]])

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->"Hey! You! Hold on, now! This gal's got a few questions to ask!"

Freelance photographer with a southern accent and a lotta hair. She occasionally appears as a witness when trying to capture some paranormal event or other hot gossip.
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* AdaptedOut: Lotta does not appear in the anime version of "Farewell, My Turnabout". Larry takes her role.
* AscendedExtra: She goes from a spriteless cameo and a single line in the final case of ''Investigations'' to having a significantly larger role in the last two cases of the sequel.
* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: Played with. Lotta is actually quite truthful in her testimonies and rarely lies. The problem is she's also prone to make some ''very'' absurd assumptions, and her incredibly misleading photos do not help.
* BerserkButton: Lotta ''loves'' her camera. She always has it, and does NOT like seeing any abuse come to it, she will go nuts if it does. The first time you run into her she screams at you because you wasted all of her film by setting off the camera she was using. Maya forces Phoenix to pay for the expenses.
* BootstrappedLeitmotif: Her theme, "Simple Folk", was also used as Larry Butz, and April May's theme in the first game, before becoming attached to Lotta ion the second.
* CameraFiend: As noted above, she's never without her trusty camera.
* ConvenientPhotograph: In every single case she's ended up in, because she has her camera on hand or somewhere in the vacinity, there's always a photo that shows exactly what happened or has a vital clue. Even though her photos aren't always clear, they're clear enough and have the relevant details necessary to help solve the case.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Manages to correctly identify the murderer in Case 2-2; [[spoiler:Ini Miney, by pointing out that if Maya is innocent, she's the only one who doesn't have an alibi]]. In the same case, she's the only one who calls Franziska out on whipping people, and tries to get the judge to do something about it.
* FailedASpotCheck:
** Much of the first day of the trial in 1-4 involves establishing that she could not have seen the murder in question, due in part to not looking at the boat.
** "There ain't no way anyone was hangin' out behind that foldin' screen!" This is a subversion because there's good reason she couldn't see anyone. [[spoiler:Maya was hidden in a box, and the person who had been hiding there was out in front, pretending to be Maya.]]
* FieryRedhead: She has a red afro and she gets angry quite often, either at something Phoenix did or something bad that happens to her.
* FunnyAfro: In the second game, she asks if you remember her name. "Lotta Hair" is one of the possible answers. Pearl remembers her as that woman with "cotton candy" hair.
* GoingForTheBigScoop: This is Lotta's ONLY reason for being on ANY of the crime scenes she shows up at.
* TheIdiotFromOsaka: Lotta [[PlayedStraight plays this trope straight]] with her brash personality, though she claims the stereotype is completely wrong - it's just her who acts that way. In the US version, she's [[HalfWittedHillbilly The Idiot From The South]], instead.
* IntrepidReporter:
** Subverted. She thinks she's this, but she doesn't really do any hard digging for info, and she contemplates a career switch whenever the going gets rough.
** Case 4 of ''Investigations 2'' has this played straight, where she, along with Nicole Swift, personally track down the black market auction at the [[spoiler:P.I.C. offices in the Grand Tower]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Lotta isn't exactly what one would consider the nicest person in the world. In fact, the first time you find her she not only seems ABSOLUTELY NUTS but is loud and rude. Until you tell her she might be a witness to a murder. Despite being hot-tempered and sassy, she's actually one of the most willingly helpful recurring characters.
* LaughingMad: Happens once in case two in the second game. It scares the heck out of Phoenix Wright.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Blissful People". While she also shares it with other characters in the first game, it becomes associated solely with her from ''Justice For All'' onward. She even has this as her theme in ''Investigations 2'', which otherwise uses its own set of "People" themes.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Lotta keeps cycling through photography-related careers as she appears throughout the original trilogy. This leads to her being near the crime scenes and taking incredibly important photographic evidence, while also leading to her being a witness.
* {{Paparazzi}}: After Case 2-2, Lotta decided to pursuit a career with "more glamour and less gore". Obviously, this was the next logical step.
* PunnyName: She's got a lot of heart, especially for photography and her camera. "Ohsawagi" means "big commotion". When she shows up in 2-2 and asks if you remember her name, one of the gag choices is "Lotta Hair" playing off her actual name, and her funny afro.
* SelfDeprecation: Lotta is often pretty hard on herself. She often compares herself unfavorably to other Southerners. She also goes into a mini-HeroicBSOD in 2-2, for relatively trivial reasons, where she runs away from Phoenix yelling about how she's 'lower than garbage'.
* ShutterBug: Lotta always has her camera on hand and you can tell she's nearby either by her mouth or by her snapping photos. Except in case four of ''Justice For All'' when it was stolen by Wendy Oldbag.
* SillyWalk: Or silly run. Her run-cycle in ''Investigations 2'' is quite goofy, to be frank.
* SpannerInTheWorks:
** Setting up her camera to automatically take photos upon hearing a loud noise in the first game ends up being critical to find out that the murder scene in a boat in Gourd Lake [[spoiler:was actually a FrameUp, and that the real murder happened earlier]].
** It's implied that she's the one that took the photo that depicts the Yatagarasu flying between the two embassies in the final case in ''Investigations''. [[spoiler:It ends up helping prove how the two Primidux statues were switched.]]
** [[spoiler:The killer in the fourth case of ''Investigations 2'' may have never been caught were it not for Lotta sneaking into the black market auction. The picture she takes also manages to clue Edgeworth in to who the mastermind really is when what she believes to be Moozilla turns out to be the hot air baloon from the Berry Big Circus.]]
* StopBeingStereotypical: A weird case of this trope in the first game, in that she does it to ''herself''. Specifically, when Phoenix and Maya first meet Lotta, Lotta admonishes them not to go thinking all Southerners are like Lotta, because "I'm the exception!"
* TalksLikeASimile: Related to her DeepSouth stereotype.
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[[folder:'''Old Caretaker/"Uncle"''']]
!!!'''Voiced by (Japanese):''' Takehiro Hasu ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])
!!!'''Voiced by (English):''' Creator/RBruceElliott ([[Anime/AceAttorney2016 anime]])
!!!'''Played by:''' Fumiyo Kohinata ([[Film/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney film]])

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->"Ayup... ZZZ"

An eccentric old man that owns the boat rental shack on Gourd Lake, though he's convinced it's a pasta joint called the "Wet Noodle". He owns a pet parrot named Polly. [[WalkingSpoiler He's a lot more connected to the case than is initially apparent]].[[labelnote:Click here to see spoilers]]He's really Yanni Yogi, the suspect in the DL-6 case.[[/labelnote]]
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* AdaptationPersonalityChange: In TheMovie, he's a creepy old hermit who lacks the comedic traits of the game version of the character. [[spoiler:Though both end up fake.]]
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: He went through the effort of killing his laywer, Robert Hammond (and trying to frame Miles Edgeworth for the crime) because he was forced to declare his innocence through an insanity plea, resulting in him pretending to be unstable and crazy for fifteen years of his life, furthermore resulting in losing of his job and social status and his fiancee, Polly Jenkins committing suicide. And now he will spend the rest of his life in prison and his pet parrot will possibly be passed over to another owner. It's hard not to feel sorry for him albeit it doesn't excuse his attempts to frame Edgeworth.]]
* AlliterativeName: His real name, which is [[spoiler:"Yanni Yogi." Not so much in the Japanese, where it is "Kotaro Haine."]]
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:While he did commit murder and willfully framed an innocent man for the crime, it is only because his scumbag attorney had him plead innocence by reason of insanity to a crime he ''didn't'' commit, forcing him to not only put up with the consequences of his actions in the eyes of the public and destroyed his personal life when his fiancee ended her life but also to act like a bumbling fool for over a decade just to maintain the illusion that he really was not of sound mind. He's a fundamentally decent person caught under awful circumstances and pushed to the brink.]]
* TheBadGuyWins: Downplayed. [[spoiler:He is revealed to be the killer but ultimately gets revenge on the 2 men who ruined his life, by killing Robert Hammond, the lawyer who made him plea insanity and unintentionally lead to the path that would expose Manfred von Karma as the real culprit of the DL-6 case, the case he was blamed. That being said, he is still alone and miserable without a job, without a positive social status, and with his fiancee still dead. He even loses his ownership of Polly, a pet parrot named after his late fiancee, once he is incarcerated.]]
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler:A quirk of the first game [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness not carried over to subsequent installments]] was that largely irrelevant characters with little significant role in the story would be given the label of their occupation in their character profiles, labeling them as unimportant. The old man is seemingly this, but turns out to be the culprit of the present-day murder, as well as one of the most important figures in the backstory.]]
* FollowInMyFootsteps: He [[spoiler:as part of his ObfuscatingStupidity]] mistakes Phoenix and Maya for his children and wants them to take over the "noodle shop" after he's gone.
* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:When Phoenix manages to prove his true identity without any doubt against it, he drops the act completely and fully admits to the court that he killed Hammond and Edgeworth is innocent for that.]]
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:He spends his testimony playing into the hands of Manfred Von Karma, the person that set his downward spiral into motion. Him and his parrot are also responsible for presenting vital clues that help bring Von Karma to justice.]]
* TheKillerWasLeftHanded: The clue that revealed [[spoiler:him as the killer was a picture of him shooting the victim with his left-hand.]]
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:Gives up and admits to what he did after strong evidence is shown that he's Yanni Yogi. Justified, as he really wanted to stop pretending he is insane and has a good excuse for his crime.]]
* ObfuscatingInsanity: [[spoiler:For fifteen years he acted insane to back up Hammond's insanity plea. He wasn't too happy about it.]]
* PunnyName: [[spoiler:His name and his SplitPersonality resemble [[Anime/YuGiOh Yami Yugi.]] Meanwhile, "Kotaro Haine" is a reference to the poets Kotaro Takamura, who died of a broken heart; and Haine, who valued youth and romance.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:For ''fifteen years'' he was seen as Gregory Edgeworth's murderer (after being accused by Gregory when he was channeled by Misty Fey), having only obtained his innocence by a plea of insanity. Turns out he indeed wasn't the murderer.]]
* RedRightHand: [[spoiler: It's not immediately apparent, but he doesn't have any fingerprints.]]
* ScatterbrainedSenior: He's clearly disconnected from reality and can't stay on topic for long. Not to mention the fact that he thinks he runs a noodle shop that, for some reason, also rents boats. It doesn't get more scatterbrained than that. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Except]], not really. [[ObfuscatingInsanity The whole thing is an act]] and he's still entirely lucid.]]
* ASinisterClue: [[spoiler:He fires a gun with his left hand.]]
* SeniorSleepCycle: He keeps falling asleep standing as soon as he stops talking, and takes a second to wake up whenever he's spoken to. [[spoiler: All part of his act.]]
* SnotBubble: Appears whenever he falls asleep, which is often.
* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler:Robert Hammond prevented him from being convicted but ruined his life in the process. Yanni Yogi wanted and took revenge through a gun.]]
* TalkativeLoon: He doesn't seem to have much of a grasp on reality. [[spoiler:Subverted. He's faking it.]]
* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:He murdered the man that had ruined his life with a plea of insanity. He expresses no remorse for what he did, but the victim is painted in a worse light InUniverse than him after the truth is exposed. TheMovie plays this up with a brutal TearJerker flashback to him witnessing his fiancee commit suicide]].
* UnwittingPawn: To [[spoiler: Manfred von Karma]], who exploited his belief that [[spoiler: Miles killed Gregory]] and entirely understandable grudge against [[spoiler: Robert Hammond]] to get him to play a crucial role in framing Miles for ''two'' murders he didn't commit.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:One of the few killers to avert this. In fact, he inverts this. When exposed, he simply reverts to his more composed true self and calmly admits his crime.]]
* VigilanteExecution: [[spoiler:Killed Robert Hammond for ruining his life and driving his fiancee to suicide.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: About 90% of this article is spoilered out. It doesn't take much to figure out that there's a lot more to this odd old man than meets the eye.
* WeaponSpecialization: It's revealed that [[spoiler:his weapon is a semiautomatic pistol, both as a baliff and as the culprit of Case 1-4. It can be easily lost on non-Japanese players, but the fact that he has a functioning gun while the other killers had to use improvised weapons sets him up as more of a threat]].
* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: [[spoiler:Names his parrot after his fiancee.]]
* WhamLine:
** Not said by him specifically but [[spoiler:when his parrot suddenly says "Don't forget [[ArcWords DL-6]]!", his antics soon stop being funny]].
** He's convinced that Hammond's murderer is [[spoiler:"little Edgey", the way he says it hinting about his past, and that he had met Edgeworth before]].
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!!Rise from the Ashes (''Yomigaeru Gyakuten'')

[[folder:'''Angel Starr''' (''Kyoka Ichinotani'')]]
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->"The name is Angel Starr. Don't you go forgetting it. Or before you know it I'll have you whimpering at my heels."

A former detective whose ability to wring information out of suspects earned her the nickname the "[[RedBaron Cough-Up Queen]]". Like Marshall, Starr worked on the SL-9 case, but in her case was fired instead of demoted and now works as a lunch vendor (hence why she's not in the law enforcers' section). With her connections (boyfriends) in the police department, she joined Marshall's attempts to continue the investigation of SL-9. Since the case ended she developed a hatred for prosecutors, and is the primary witness of Goodman's murder.
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* TheAlibi: As you play through ''Rise from the Ashes'', a large amount of evidence accumulates against Miles Edgeworth which heavily implies that someone was trying to do a FrameUp against him. Angel Starr's witnessing of a stabbing in the alleged crime scene in the garage proved that Edgeworth was nowhere near the alleged crime scene, so Edgeworth was called to prosecute his boss instead of sitting in the defendant's chair in that case because he is the highest-ranking prosecutor under the chief prosecutor.
* ABloodyMess: Her "Crime Scene" lunch box evokes this: it's rice with a lot of red sauce covering it and a single fork stuck into it, resembling a murder weapon drenched with blood. That said, nobody mistakes it for blood, since she's very obviously using it to show off.
* BusmansVocabulary: Since she's a lunch vendor, she tends to make puns and metaphors based on food.
* CordonBleughChef: Played with, as most of her lunches are delicious. That said, some of the lunches she prepares are questionable, such as "The Fingerprint",[[note]]A box of nothing but rice sprinkled with sesame seeds on top; not ''bad'', but so basic as to question why you'd be ordering food,[[/note]] "squid wheels",[[note]]A box of rice with an absolutely overkill amount of calamari on top; worse dishes exist, but Phoenix remarks that it's "inedible,[[/note]] or "peppered fish guts".[[note]]Perfectly edible, assuming the fish is cooked correctly, but it specifically being called "fish guts" might turn off some eaters.[[/note]] She likes to give these particular lunches out to people she doesn't like.
* {{Dominatrix}}: Implied, as she offers to crush Phoenix under her heels.
* DualityMotif: It's very subtle, but her "good mood" eye is dark blue while her "don't mess with me" eye is silvery blue.
* EdibleThemeClothing: Her hat has a pair of onigiri rice balls attached to it and her choker has an octopus-cut hot dog decoration on it, indicating that she's a food vendor.
* ExpressiveHair: Her mood is indicated by which eye is covered by her bangs.
* EyepatchOfPower: Which eye gets covered by her hair depends on her current personality.
* GoldDigger: She admits to having multiple "boyfriends" at the Police Station. [[spoiler:It's not money she's after, she uses them for information regarding SL-9. Although it's not stated if they're literal boyfriends or just friends in high places.]]
* GoodCopBadCop: She's implied to have been so effective at getting suspects to confess (thus earning her the title "Cough-up Queen") because she's capable of doing the good-cop-bad-cop thing ''by herself''.
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: Has one of each: her left eye is the "good one" and the right is evil. She'll flip her hair to hide one, depending on how vindictive she's going to be for her next dialogue line.
* {{Hypocrite}}: In court, she keeps insisting that prosecutors forge evidence and twist testimonies to get the verdicts they want, at the same time Angel herself is giving false testimony to get the verdict she wants.
* LittleBlackDress. Hard to see in the game, but she wears a dress under her coat.
* MeaningfulName: "Kyoka" refers to the flowers you leave at a grave, and "Ichinotani" is a famous battlefield from the Sengoku period.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Check out that Japanese name.
* NavelDeepNeckline: Her LittleBlackDress outfit has a low neckline that just barely reaches her abdomen.
* {{Pride}}: A notable and obvious aspect of her personality.
** She won't let people forget that she's 'the' Cough-Up Queen, threatening them in case they forget and bringing it up when pressed as a deterrent.
** During the trial she boasts about various aspects of herself, ranging from relevant(deductive skills and testimony quality) to passingly tangential to the current conversation(her speed, lunch quality, and fashion sense). These are usually unprompted.
** This ends up being her downfall in court. [[spoiler:She has the trial heading exactly where she wants it to go, but she can't stand the idea of Ema besmirching her good name and provides additional testimony when provoked, extending the trial.]]
* RedBaron: Known as the "Cough-up Queen" during her detective years due to her ability to get confessions from suspects. The Judge's reaction implies that she was better known by her title than by her name.
* PrettyInMink: Wears a gray fur coat, trimmed with light gray fur.
* PunnyName: She's the prosecution's ''starr'' witness.
* ReallyGetsAround: She has a bunch of boyfriends... [[spoiler:although it's not made clear whether they are genuine boyfriends, or if she was just using them to find means to investigate the SL-9 incident]].
* SingleIssueWonk: On the stand, she's obsessed with proving that Lana planned to murder Bruce Goodman. Edgeworth actually doesn't care all that much about this and is quite prepared to believe it was spur-of-the-moment, but her attempts to prove her own theory end up undermining Edgeworth's case.
* SilkHidingSteel: She's elegant with a gentle appearance and sophisticated manner of speech. However, when it comes to getting what she wants, she's completely ruthless, having no qualms with breaking people's spirits or manipulating their emotions. [[GuileHero She outright states she's totally aware of the disparity between how people see her and how she acts and uses it as a tool.]]
-->'''Angel''': You know, I may seem like a demon sometimes... But I can be an angel, too.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Downplayed. To her credit, she ''was'' a skilled detective, enough so that The Judge eventually remembers, and she's shown to be quite tenacious and perceptive in her own right. However, she remains confident and continues to brag even after Phoenix shoots her down multiple times.
-->'''Angel''': How dare you! My powers of deduction are not to be underestimated!\\
'''Phoenix''': (Really now...)
* SpannerInTheWorks: The fact that she witnessed Lana Skye stabbing Bruce Goodman[[spoiler:'s already lifeless body]] threw a giant monkey wrench in whatever plans Lana [[spoiler:and more importantly, Damon Gant]] had for covering it up.
* TheTease: She has shades of this. One of her sprites has her pulling back her coat to reveal a bit of bare shoulder, with a knowing look in her eye.
* ThisCannotBe: After her third testimony is cracked [[spoiler: and it's made clear she wasn't where she said she was]]:
--> "How many years have I been getting the better of men...? To think that the tables could be turned..."
* {{Tsundere}}: To the point where ''her hair flip and revealed eye indicate which "mode" she's in.''
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Phoenix and Edgeworth's "lovable" loser classmate and one of the series' most frequently reoccurring witnesses. A very over-the-top, downright idiotic playboy-wannabe who always tries to get a girlfriend and fails to keep one; either they dumped him or they get killed (the very first case of the series has his girlfriend murdered). He seems to attract trouble wherever he goes, thus earning him the saying, "When something smells, it's usually the Butz".

* {{Flanderization}}: In the first game Oldbag, while unpleasable and prone to insulting people, did have a reasonable side, and even helped Phoenix once it's proven that [[spoiler:Hammer was trying to frame Will Powers.]] Later appearances would make her more and more abrasive and unhelpful.

* InformedFlaw: People constantly make fun of his art and call it bad, but all things considered it actually is pretty good. This is demonstrated most clearly in the end credits of Trials and Tribulations, the end of which shows a excellent drawing of the main cast done by Larry. Later games do have characters acknowledge his art skill, however; In ''Investigations 2'' Edgeworth does end up internally admitting that Larry's art is not bad (not that he'll ever admit it out loud, mind you), and by the time of ''Spirit of Justice'' he's become a picture book author of some renown.

* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: The witnesses this doesn't apply to can be counted on one hand, but things are ''never'' made easier for the protagonist in question whenever Larry is involved as a witness (or even nearby). Usually the truth has to be dug out of him due to either his genuine idiocy mistaking what he witnessed for something else entirely, or his deliberate coverup of details that implicate him in something embarrassing but inconsequential to the case at hand. It comes to a head in ''Investigations'', when Edgeworth has to argue Larry's innocence to Shi Long Lang (who's looking to arrest him). Larry then interjects, forcing Edgeworth to prove to ''him'' that he couldn't have done it all while trying to refute Edgeworth... [[TooDumbToLive right in front of Lang]]. Edgeworth points out that if he were to win this "battle of wits", [[PyrrhicVictory Larry's victory prize would be his arrest]].

* SmugSnake: By the truckload. His overconfidence in his blackmail network proves to be his undoing when he decides to testify in court, despite the fact that it would be more pragmatic to remain out of the spotlight. Why did he decide to testify? Because he's annoyed at Phoenix not backing down at his threats and decides that he will have Phoenix convicted for the murder to get back at him, despite having [[TooDumbToLive no way to prove this beyond his word]]. The next day in court, Phoenix easily blows his shoddy testimony to smithereens (for reference, he doesn't even bother ''corroborating his testimony to match April May's'') and it's not like he can threaten to blackmail anyone right out in the open in public court since blackmail itself is a crime. If it hadn't been for Edgeworth repeatedly throwing him lifelines, Phoenix would probably have gotten him convicted all on his own.