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Witnesses and miscellaneous characters that appear in Gyakuten Kenji 2. Here is the main character sheet.

Note 1: Due to the sheer amount of marked spoilers, all spoilers for Gyakuten Kenji 2 are unmarked. It's recommended that you play through the entire game before reading any part of this page, as characters from every case play important roles in the final case. You have been warned!

Note 2: Since Gyakuten Kenji 2 has not received an official localization, the English localization names are taken from the fan translation, Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth: Prosecutor's Path. As such, the names are arranged Japanese Name (Fan Translation Name).

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Turnabout Target (Gyakuten no Hyoteki)

For Shelly de Killer see his respective page.

Mikiko Hayami (Nicole Swift)

A self-proclaimed up-and-coming journalist. She witnessed the assassination attempt at Gourd Lake and recorded the president's speech. She soon becomes one of the suspects. Although she did help set up the fake assassination, she is innocent of murder.

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• Back for the Finale: To search for the real Moozilla (Borumosu in Japanese).
• Bear Trap: Carries one on her parka. It snaps loudly, causing her to jump, during her "shock" animation.
• Going for the Big Scoop: In Case 1.
• Karma Houdini: She never gets charged for her part in the fake assassination plan, telling Edgeworth she was let go immediately by police upon meeting her again in Case 5. This was due to the fact that the president was trying to cover up the fake assassination plan and have Knightley tried for it instead.
• Meaningful Name:
  • "Hayamimi" means "keen on hearing". It is a reference to how she recorded the gunshots during the assassination.
  • Her first name in the fan translation is French for "victory of the people," a reference to how she is ultimately acquitted, and her last name most likely comes from "swift of hearing."
• Motor Mouth: When she hastily tries to get her news out of people.
• Reference Overdosed: The writings on her parka contain numerous references, both In-Universe - KB Security, iFly Airlines, Global Studios, Gatewater Hotel, Will Powers's tracksuit jacket- as well as Shout Outs to the art director Tatsuro Iwamoto in the form of a fictional toy company and a furniture company which apparently decorated Yamazaki's family home. The fan translation localises these to Bland-Name Product logos of Toys R Us and IKEA, respectively.
• The Scapegoat: She was asked to be part of the fake assassination plan on the president of Zheng Fa, but unfortunately another murder took place and she was framed as the murderer for that one.
• Spanner in the Works: In an attempt to gather any information for a story, she resorted to remote-wiretapping in Case 5, which had her latch onto random signals until she held onto one that she liked, which ended up being the Mastermind's bug signal from Kay's Yatagarasu's Badge. Her recordings allow Edgeworth to solve the case.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She very much resembles Lotta Hart in both appearance and profession, and even has similarly accented speech. She's actually an "apprentice" of her, even though she is a writer and Lotta a photographer.
• Too Funny to Be Evil: A minor case, she isn't actually evil but very few players guessed she'd be a willing conspirator in the fake assassination plan. Admittedly she never realized how far it would end up going, or that they'd end up pinning the blame on her.
• Warm-Up Boss: For the game's Logic Chess mechanic, as she initially refuses to give Edgeworth information about the case freely.

Gai Tojiro (Ethan Rooke)

President Huang's head bodyguard. Death caused by gunshot wound inflicted by a jealous third party.

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• Chess Motifs: His last name (in both English and Japanese) is a reference to the rook.
• Cool Shades: He is never seen without his blocky sunglasses.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: His honor kept him from being a part of the fake assassination ploy and Knightley murdered him because he saw him as too righteous and unwilling to be as effective as he saw himself.
• Speak Ill of the Dead: Knightley doesn't hesitate to mock him, much to other characters' disgust.
• Will Not Tell a Lie: The president first came to him with the fake assassination plan, but he wouldn't do it.
• Worthy Opponent: It's extraordinarily rare for someone to even scratch Shelley de Killer. This man broke his goddamn arm. And then shot the broken arm for good measure. De Killer was so impressed by Rooke's fighting skills that he forces Edgeworth to solve his murder in order to get justice for such a worthy opponent.

Manosuke Naitō (Horace Knightley)

Voiced by (Japanese): Tatsuro Iwamoto (AAI2)

Voiced by (English): "Crazed Ninja" (AAI2 Fan Translation)

The bodyguard of a private security company hired by Zheng Fa's president, Di-Jun Huang. Wears a neck brace and is fond of his revolver and playing chess. He killed Ethan Rooke, the head bodyguard, out of jealousy. Unfortunately, his case would never go to trial. Two days later, after being admitted to the Detention Center, he was killed by a stab wound to his neck and his body was left in the prison area workroom.

He and Simon were childhood friends who grew up together after their fathers abandoned them. Horace lost most of his memory when he nearly froze to death. He took Simon's suggestion for the fake assassination attempt, which ultimately led to his downfall and death.

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• Animal Motif: Indirectly - his design is based on a chess knight, which is usually represented by a horse.
• Asshole Victim: Culprit of the first case, victim of the second case. He speaks so derisively about Rooke (the man lying dead at his feet) that you want to punch him through the screen.
• Berserk Button: Do NOT claim Rooke was a better bodyguard in front of him. De Killer presses this a lot as a way of hinting he knows about the murder.
• Butt-Monkey: By De Killer especially. Which may qualify as Fridge Brilliance if you know who his client is.
• Catchphrase: Tends to use おっと　quite a bit, which translates as something along the lines of "Oops, sorry" or "Whoa."
• Chekhov's Gun: His silver ring. It is Pierre Hoquet's personal seal, which he inherited it from his father and had made into a ring. It's later used to prove Simon isn't Isaac Dover's son like he claims.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Literally! His role in the story is a lot more important than one would expect, considering he was the Big Bad's childhood friend.
• Chess Motifs: He represents the knight, right down to his name. He's also a little more direct, peppering in frequent chess metaphors (though this is likely on purpose since he knows that Edgeworth can speak his language).
• Disappeared Dad: He doesn't remember him, but he's dead. And his best friend blames him for it, even though it was his father who murdered him.
• Failure Is the Only Option: Had his last written chess note been delivered to Sirhan Dogen, he would've cornered Dogen on the board that forces him to make either two predicted moves that would've led to his defeat.
• Fall Guy: Later becomes a Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit for the president, although he didn't ask for it.
• Green-Eyed Monster: He killed his partner Rooke out of jealousy, hoping that he would finally be promoted to head bodyguard.
• Gun Twirling: Serves as his major Character Tic. Not quite at Revolver Ocelot levels, but he's a fan of doing this.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Simon. Unfortunately, the feeling wasn't mutual.
• Identical Stranger: He bears a strong resemblance to Luke Atmey, both in appearance and ego.
• I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: His recoil animation has his gun misfiring while he's twirling it, with the bullet coming within millimetres of his face.
• Kick the Morality Pet: Inverted. Simon sets him up to be injured, then to commit murder and eventually be murdered.
• The Killer Becomes the Killed: He is the killer in the first case, but becomes the victim of the second case.
• Klingon Promotion: His objective in murdering Rooke.
• Morality Pet: Simon, to the point where he almost acts like a different person around him.
• Neck Snap: Non-fatal variant, courtesy of Shelly de Killer. It causes the change in the security plans.
• Oblivious to Hatred: He thinks of Simon as a friend, not knowing that Simon wants him dead.
• Pet the Dog: It's heavily implied, if not outright stated, that he has a soft spot for Simon Keyes.
• Posthumous Character: You learn a lot more about him after his death.
• Punny Name:
  • His Japanese first name, Manosuke, sounds like ma no suke (basically, "horse boy"), and his last name, "Naito", is a sound-alike for "knight".
  • Fitting with his Chess Motif of the knight, the fan translation gives him the first name Horace, which sounds like "horse", which is what the knight chess piece looks like. "Knightley" is a more obvious pun on the word "knight".
• Red Herring: Has a rare voiced OBJECTION!, his love of chess indicates that he'll eventually fight Edgeworth in Logic Chess, and threatens Edgeworth after his defeat in Case 1, all suggesting that he'll become a major antagonist. He doesn't survive the events of Case 2, but his involvement in the overarching story affects everyone involved.
• The Scapegoat: Case 2 reveals that after his arrest, he was to be tried as the attempted assassin rather than as a murderer in order to cover up the fact that the assassination was fake.
• Shown Their Work: He loves Chess metaphors. He even makes a few obscure ones referencing Tournament Play rules. All of them are completely accurate.
• Slasher Smile: Does one after twirling his gun and pointing it and someone.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Interestingly, he's somewhat self-aware of this trait. He wanted to be someone important to the President and saw Rooke as someone undeserving of his rank. Everyone around him just sees him as an unrepentant scumbag who talks bigger than he should.
• Starter Villain: The killer of "Turnabout Target".
• Stealth Pun: He looks like a chess piece, and he yells that "This game isn't over yet" as he is taken away. Then, in the next case, he finally gets sacrificed.
• Tsundere: Though he is most certainly tsuntsun by default, Simon is quite possibly the only person he'd show his deredere side to.
• Unique Enemy: The only character in the series to get a voiced "Objection", but not be an attorney or a Final Boss.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Is shown smiling in a photo, and tearfully apologized to Simon when forced to betray him.
• Villainous Breakdown: Knightley bites down on his lip with sunken-looking eyes as he screams bloody murder and twirls his gun even faster than usual until he loses control and starts tossing it and various other objects he has in his pockets up in the air (which include a Thinker statue, a Blue Badger doll, a Samurai Dogs box, and a Mr. iFly statuette). He fails to catch them and they all fall on his head one by one, knocking him into his neckbrace until his revolver hits his head, causing him to fall. Ironically, this makes him the only person in the series to be struck in the head with the Thinker and live, though he was murdered a few days later.
• Villainous Cheekbones: As part of his horse motif.
• We Will Meet Again: Curses Edgeworth after his defeat, claiming that "This game isn't over yet!". He becomes the victim of the next case and never follows through on any threats.

Teikun Ō (Di-Jun Huang) (the body double)

His public persona. ^{Click here to see his true self}

"The battle is not over! ...I declare, here and now! The Hammer of Justice shall be brought down upon all evil!"

The first victim of Gyakuten Kenji 2, and the president of Zheng Fa. Visited the country in order to thank Edgeworth for bringing down the smuggling ring that had been destroying Zheng Fa's economy, but is immediately targeted by an assassin. He lives, but he turns up dead for real in the final case. In the final case, it's revealed that the original president had been assassinated by Sirhan Dogen long ago, and was replaced by a body double.

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• Adipose Rex: The body double's true appearance's is that of an obese man.
• Animal Motifs: He strongly resembles a lion in appearance.
• Assassin Outclassin': The assassination plot was fake though, so it's no wonder he didn't die. He actually planned to invoke this trope to make himself more popular.
  • The real president is implied to have used body doubles for this purpose.
• Asshole Victim: His impostor anyway. Not only was he a criminal, but he was also planning to kill Courtney and Marsh to keep his cover safe when he got killed.
• Body Double: The Huang we actually meet.
• Break the Haughty: He initially comes off as a bombastic, intimidating and arrogant man, but after Edgeworth exposes the fake assassination plot, he becomes much more subdued and meek, and his appearance changes accordingly. At the end of the case, he owns up to the role he played in helping cause Rooke's murder, and apologizes. Subverted when it turns out that he never changed for the better.
• Broken Pedestal: Not directly for any one character, but seeing people speak so highly of him comes off as this after seeing his true character. Later used as a plot point, where the discrepancy between these two images becomes so extreme Edgeworth uses it as reasoning that the president he met wasn't who he claimed to be.
• Cadre of Foreign Bodyguards: He hired a private security firm during his visit at Gourd Lake. It is eventually explained that the reason for this was a combination of Di-Jun Huang's strained relationship with the police force of Zheng Fa as well as his popularity numbers being in the gutter.
• Chess Motifs: A king, obviously. It's rather fitting for the body double especially, as in chess, the king is relatively weak and needs protection, which ties in well to the Dirty Coward the body double is.
• Clean Dub Name: While the Fan Translation continues Capcom's practice of using the Chinese reading of the kanji in the names of characters from Zheng Fa, the actual Chinese reading of his name is "Di-Jun Wang," which was changed to "Di-Jun Huang" likely because they thought people couldn't take a president named "Wang" seriously.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: One of the strangest and most brutal in the series, this guy was crushed to death, and his autopsy indicates nearly every bone in his body was broken. At first he was thought to have been stepped on by a monster. Naturally this turns out to be wrong... or not quite, as a prop monster head for a film set had fallen around the time of his death. But this too isn't what did it. The real cause, perhaps even stranger than any of those? His killer landed a hot air balloon on him.
• Dead All Along: The real president was killed 12 years before the events of the game.
• Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit: Or rather, "Arrested-for-Murder Fall Guy Gambit", but it unintentionally became this in the end. He pinned the assassination attempt on Knightley after his arrest to cover up the fact it was fake.
• Dirty Coward: The body double. And both de Killer and the Big Bad call him out on it.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: The body double's motivation for planning the real president's death. He figured that since he was the one out there putting his ass on the line, he should be the one in charge.
• Even Evil Has Standards: For everything he's done, he chastises Knightly for talking about the recently deceased Rooke in a bad way.
• Fake King: The real Huang was assassinated and replaced 12 years before the events of the game by his own Body Double, who was jealous of his boss. The fake and his comrades then betrayed and planned to kill the hitman responsible. This leads to the Big Bad of the game murdering him, as a way of repaying the hitman for saving the Big Bad's life.
• Fat Bastard: The body double can make himself look muscular, but is actually fat, and is definitely a villain.
• Greater-Scope Villain: The body double is directly or indirectly responsible for the entire plot of the game, but he only appears in the first case and is next seen... when he becomes the victim of the fifth. The vast majority of his villainy takes place offscreen.
• Hate Sink: He participated in a presidential assassination, took his place and dragged the president's name through the dirt by tarnishing his legacy, and enabled the corruption and decay of Zheng Fa by using it as a base of operations for any smuggler who needed it. He was also willing to murder those who got in his way, only being defeated because Simon crushed him with a hot air balloon.
• Impersonation-Exclusive Character: The real Di-Jun Huang was murdered twelve years before the game takes place; we only meet his body double.
• Inadequate Inheritor: Self-inflicted. The body double killed Di-Jun Huang to take his position, but it turned out that while he was great at impersonating the president, he was really bad at actually running a country, resulting in the smuggling ring running riot in Zheng Fa.
• Large Ham: Huang is loud and bombastic, with many of his lines being shouted by him. Presumably this was a trait of the real Huang, as the impostor loses it after his breakdown when he reveals his true appearance and personality.
• Leitmotif: "Zheng Fa ~ Land of the Phoenix".
• Meaningful Name: His name is just a series of words for rulers—"king", "emperor", "monarch".
• No Name Given: The body double's real name is never given, being referred to as Di-Jun Huang before the reveal, and as 'the body double' afterwards.
• Impersonation-Exclusive Character: He was assassinated 12 years before the events of the game, being replaced by his body double until he too was murdered.
• President Evil: While he doesn't seem to be an actively malevolent ruler, he does stage an assassination attempt on himself as a publicity stunt. Oh, and he's actually an impostor who hired a real assassin to kill the real president so that he could take over.
• Out-of-Character Alert: While it's not obvious to the player at the time (since Edgeworth's never met Huang before), this is what tips off Shelly de Killer to the fact that he's not the real president. The real Huang is implied to have been A Father to His Men who would have surrendered himself to save Knightley's life, but the double's refusal to surrender himself derails de Killer's plan, and leads to him finding out the truth and then turning on Simon Keyes.
• Redemption Rejection: At the end of "Turnabout Target", he actually seems shocked and remorseful enough to start turning over a new leaf. It's all an act — he then proceeds to try to scapegoat Horace Knightley in "The Imprisoned Turnabout"; and "The Grand Turnabout" ultimately reveals that he's actually a fake President, responsible for the real one's murder out of petty jealousy, and the leader of an international conspiracy that are even willing to kill children in order to cover their tracks (it's even heavily implied that the fake would've killed John Marsh, the real President's long-lost son, had the Big Bad not stepped in and killed the fake first).
• Temporary Bulk Change: Inverted, the fake initially starts off imposing and muscular, but when the plan to assassinate him has been shown to be a publicity stunt,...
• Villainous Breakdown: ...he lets out all the air he's been holding in, revealing that he's actually fat and has flabby cheeks. The real one, presumably, actually was that muscular.
• Would Hurt a Child: The Big Bad states that the body double was willing to kill John Marsh, as he could be evidence that the body double is a fake.

The Imprisoned Turnabout (Gokuchu no Gyakuten)

For Regina Berry and Frank Sahwit see respective pages.

Sōta Sarushiro (Simon Keyes)

^{Click here to see his true persona}

Horace Knightley's best friend, an animal trainer at the Berry Big Circus, and the suspect in this case. When he and Horace were children, Horace kidnapped him and tied him up on his father's orders, locking them both in a car where they nearly froze to death, but were rescued by Sirhan Dogen and brought to an orphanage. Simon's memories became muddled due to the trauma of this incident, but he remembered his savior, Dogen, who became his new father figure. He held a grudge against the conspirators who hired Dogen for an assassination job and then attempted to betray and kill him to keep his mouth shut. He also held an unwarranted grudge against Knightley, as his muddled memories caused him to believe that Isaac Dover was his father and Dane Gustavia, the man who killed Dover, was Knightley's father, when it was actually the other way around.

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• Accidental Hero: He interrupted the body double's meeting with Justine Courtney on complete accident while he was carrying out his revenge against Blaise, which meant that the double didn't get the chance to kill Courtney for knowing too much.
• Ace Pilot: Is skilled enough to fly a hot air balloon at night while at close proximity to a 51 floor-high tower, squash someone to pieces with it, and lower said someone's corpse to the ground via rope that makes it look like they got squashed with a prop/stomped by a Kaiju.
• Alliterative Name: His original name, Sōta Sarushiro
• Animal Motif: Monkeys. His name in both versions relates to monkeys, he tends to make the Monkey Morality Pose, and Money the Monkey often hangs around with him.
• Anti-Villain: Downplayed, as he's still very evil and incredibly self-centered, projecting his trauma onto others and painting all cops and prosecutors as terrible, manipulative people who are all out to get him. His misanthropy is understandable when you realize he's been hounded by terrible trauma and despicable people all his life. He also grew up in an orphanage run by the corrupt Patricia Roland after being abandoned by his father, and after he witnessed her and Blaise Debeste at the scene of the president's murder, she interrogated him day in and day out, trying to get him to admit that he was the one who set the fire that got rid of the evidence implicating Dogen as the killer. He cried every night, both in fear of Patricia, and sorrow at the fact that his father never even tried to look for him after he went missing. After he left the orphanage, he lived in constant fear of Blaise and his men killing him so he could never expose them, jumping at the slightest noise and never getting a full night's sleep. Furthermore, Blaise rigged the justice system so badly that if Simon had ever talked to the police or presented any kind of evidence, it would immediately be destroyed; the only way he could get any justice for all he went through was to either trick the other corrupt parties into turning on each other or to kill them himself.
• Apparently Powerless Puppetmaster: He's a very clear Type 2; unlike Blaise, Patricia, and the body double, he can't make people do as he says. He compensates by being very good at making people do what he wants, and without himself being seen to be involved at all.
• Asian Airhead: He appears dumb, but it turns out to be intentional. He's really just using Obfuscating Stupidity.
• Assassin Outclassin': After his breakdown, Shelly de Killer tries to kill him for hiding information. However, Sirhan saves him.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Sure, he was caught, but his main objective was revenge and he got it, big time. Given who his targets were, he probably made the world a better place in the process, too. He also gets Sirhan Dogen for company as his only real father figure in prison and can possibly claim self-defense for the fake Di-Jun Huang's death.
• Batman Gambit: His favorite method. This is how he coerced Roland into killing Knightley and Blaise into killing Jill. He also designed the fake assassination plan to allow the jealous Knightley a perfect opportunity to kill his co-worker. He takes advantage of the trope to try and pull a Karma Houdini, since he never actually told anybody to commit murder - he just gave them some crucial information and watched the results unfold. He also kidnapped Kay Faraday and planted a letter on her suggesting that she was working with Jill Crane before leaving her at Blaise Debeste's doorstep, expecting that Blaise would either kill her or (as what happened) use her as a scapegoat for Jill Crane's death. Either way, Blaise would bring Miles Edgeworth's wrath upon himself.
• Badass Normal: Other major villains like Manfred von Karma, Blaise Debeste and Quercus Alba tend to rely on exploiting loopholes and corruption in the law, using their positions of power to change the situation to their benefit. Compared to them, Simon has very little power, yet he still manages to take down an international conspiracy and achieve all of his goals before finally being captured.
• The Beastmaster: His claims of being just an animal tamer is a cover; as shown in his interrogation animations, they do tricks for him like clockwork.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Nobody would have guessed that the wacky circus performer who's found innocent in the second case would turn out to be the mastermind behind most of the events in the game.
• Big Bad: Catalyzes the events of four out of five of the cases in the game (the third being the origins to his Start of Darkness).
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: When he introduces himself, he's very cheerful, shy, and charismatic in his own quirky way. Once he's revealed in the final case, you begin to see the deeply scarred psyche he has, as well as his callous and manipulative true personality.
• Break the Cutie: Lost his only family at a very young age, as well as his only friend during the events of the game. His faith in both the law and humanity was shattered fairly early on, which twisted him badly.
• Broken Bird: A rare male example, but being abandoned by your father for something you couldn't control (being held captive), being traumatized so badly by the subsequent near-death experience that your memories became distorted and you spent considerable time completely silent, being brought to an Orphanage of Fear where the adult in charge interrogated you ever day so she could tie up a loose end by having her fellow criminal allies kill you the crime you witnessed them commit, and knowing that no adult would ever help you, let alone believe you, because the justice system was controlled by an utter Hate Sink of a man who would dispose of any evidence or testimony you provided.
• Catchphrase: "Nowaynowaynoway!"
• Chekhov's Gunman: Met as a falsely indicted suspect, and turns out to be the Big Bad.
• The Chessmaster: He even refers to himself as an "animal tamer who tames humans."
• Complexity Addiction: Lang thinks that this is what did him in in the end.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: The previous game's Big Bad, Quercus Alba, was a Greater-Scope Villain in charge of a criminal group with significant international influence and was even protected by his country's laws as ambassador, and was a Hate Sink with no redeeming traits. Simon Keyes, on the other hand, is working alone, does not have access to significant resources (beyond being able to hire Shelly de Killer), gets the members of a criminal group with significant international influence killed or arrested, and is a Sympathetic Murderer outside of his sociopathy towards the innocents that get killed, framed, or otherwise caught up in his schemes.
• The Corrupter:
  • He convinced Knightley to conspire with the body double to stage a fake assassination attempt, thus setting him up to murder Rooke.
  • He revealed to Jill Crane that Blaise was responsible for her boyfriend's death, thus setting her up to try and kill him during the black market auction.
  • Subverted at the end. He encourages John to take revenge on Dogen for murdering his father, but this leads John to realize how badly things will turn out if he takes up Dogen's offer.
• Crazy-Prepared: He knew the evidence at Patricia's trial would be tampered with, so he prepared a hostage to force a Guilty verdict, out-gambitting Blaise in the process. He also prepared several methods of escape in case he got caught by the police.
• Cute and Psycho: Under the fragile, cowardly exterior is an extremely cruel and bitter young man.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Oh, boy, where to start. His father never once looked for him after he went missing as a child, his best friend was forced to hold him captive in a car whose doors quickly froze over and trapped them both inside, the subsequent trauma of the near-death experience leading to amnesia and selective mutism, witnessing an assassination and helping protect the assassin who was the one who rescued him from the car, being brutally interrogated every day by the matron of the orphanage he lived in because she was involved in the aforementioned murder and she needed to know how much he knew, and eventually going on the run for years and never being able to relax or sleep at night because he knew that one of the criminals from the murder plot, an extremely powerful man, was still gunning for that one loose end of a kid with the knowledge that could bring him and his accomplices down.
• Disappeared Dad: Supposedly died years ago. Actually, his real father is very much alive and a murderer who went missing to cover up his crime.
• Does Not Like Spam: Has a disdain for sweets. Granted, since his former love for them was the reason why he was kidnapped and nearly killed by accident.
• The Dog Was the Mastermind: The assassination attempt on Zheng Fa's president, the exposure of the crimes of a prison warden and the P.I.C. chairman, the deaths of two highly trained bodyguards, an attorney, and a president were ultimately masterminded by an orphan monkey trainer.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Long red hair (with pigtails no less) and slender build. It helps that he has a somewhat feminine outfit.
• Even the Dog Is Ashamed: Taken to its logical conclusion in his Villainous Breakdown. All the animals in the Berry Big Circus disown him via beating the crap out of him.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He can't comprehend why Kay and Edgeworth wanted to help him before without some ulterior motive. He has no concept of trust either.
• Eviler than Thou: Played With. Sure, Simon is the Big Bad, a sociopath, and caused multiple deaths, but he comes out as the lesser evil because his actions led to the dismantling of the entire conspiracy that took the life of the real president of Zheng Fa by taking down three people that were far more of a threat due to their positions and influence.
• Evil Laugh: Just like his father.
• Evil Is Hammy: Far more prone to bursting out into maniacal laughter than any other final boss in the series, with exaggerated sprite animations to go along with it.
• Evil Redhead: He used to have black hair.
• False Friend: To Kay and especially Regina and Knightley. Chillingly, this is reflected in a brutal Meta Twist in the latter case; the end of Case 2 has Edgeworth present Dogen's chisel to Simon as a symbol that Knightley always considered him a friend, only for the final confrontation to reveal in flashback that Simon had given it to Knightley himself (Knightley didn't even ask him to do so), all to prompt Roland into killing him.
• Fluffy Tamer: As an apprentice animal tamer at the Berry Big Circus.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Blaise Debeste wore the mask of Zuruwan during the auction. Zuruwan is the nemesis of Global Hero Onyankopon. Simon's wearing a blue shirt with Onyankopon's insignia. This foreshadows their enmity, although Debeste isn't his top target.
  • At the end of Case 2, Regina mentions that he isn't as dumb as he looks. That turns out to be a massive understatement.
• Found the Killer, Lost the Murderer: Being the Murderer manipulating Blaise Debeste and Patricia Roland to be the Killers via forged messages to exploit their paranoia, Simon tries to invoke the Lost part on himself when confronted.
• Friend to All Living Things: He's an animal tamer for a reason. He even got Money the Monkey to be friends with him! But when his true nature is made clear they turn on him. Also, despite being hostile to nearly everyone else in the game, Anubis the dog is said to be fond of him.
• Gender Flip: See Identical Stranger - the similarities in design were likely intentional.
• He Knows Too Much: He's the sole witness to the assassination of the real president Di-Jun Huang. Thus, the conspirators tried to find and kill him to cover their tracks... to no avail, as Simon got them first.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Seemed like this with Knightley. Unbeknownst to Knightley, Simon hated him ever since the incident with their fathers.
• He Who Fights Monsters: In trying to take down the conspirators, he winds up using the same methods that they did, to the point that he and Blaise wind up trying to kidnap the same kid in order to manipulate the same trial, albeit with a completely different verdict in mind. It especially bothers him to learn that Dane Gustavia had tried to throw off the estimated time of death in the same way that he did with Huang's body double. When cornered, he reacts the exact same way his father did: confessing to everything before pointing out a legal loophole that prevents you from arresting him.
• Identical Stranger: When his character design was first released, he was criticized for looking like a male Dahlia Hawthorne. He certainly acts like her too (albeit a bit more sympathetically).
• I Did What I Had to Do: Claims he had no choice but to become a Vigilante Man in order to protect himself from Fake!Huang, Roland, and Blaise. Given the massive corruption at play, he wasn't exactly wrong (except for his Collateral Damage in the process).
• I Have No Son!: Inverted. In his mind, he has practically disowned his own father (and it goes both ways, so there's no love lost there).
• Indirect Serial Killer: While he did commit one murder himself, the rest he manipulated others into committing for him. He tries to exploit this fact by pointing out that he never actually told anyone to kill; he just told them information, and they chose to kill.
• Irony:
  • He asks Edgeworth whether or not Knightley really trusted him, thinking that if Knightley had confided with him, he could have convinced his best friend that there was no need to hate someone so much. Fast forward to Case 5...
  • He is not as different from his father as he thinks he is.
• Killing in Self-Defense: His murder of the fake Di-Jun Huang started with the latter trying to shoot him down, only to get crushed by the hot air balloon he was riding in.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: He forgot who his father was, and when news of the IS-7 Incident reached him, he assumed his father was the victim and Knightley's was the murderer, when it was really the other way around.
• Leitmotif: Restless People when you first meet him. Strange People when you talk to him. And when he reveals himself, The Man Who Masterminds The Game.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: To Blaise Debeste, Patricia Roland, and Fake Di-Jun Huang. Simon is a sadistic psychopath who is fine with ruining the lives of innocents if his intended victims are taken down, yet his primary goal is to take down a group of criminals who have all contributed to destabilising an entire country and ruining countless innocent people's lives through their corruption of the legal system. He's an odious bastard, but compared to his victims, he almost seems like the good guy.
• Like Father, Like Son: Though he would claim otherwise, Simon turns out to be similar to his father, Dane Gustavia. He even freezes the body of his victim in order to throw off the time of death, not knowing that Gustavia did the same thing, or even that Gustavia was his father in the first place.
• Laughing Mad: After he learns that he ended up getting Knightley killed for no reason. His tendency to burst into laughter starts at this point.
• Madden Into Misanthropy: His experiences have given him a chronic distrust of other people, and an obsession with being strong.
• Meaningful Name: "Saru" means monkey. His first name can also be read as "Kusata", a pun on "Kusatta" (rotten). Combined with his real family name (Kazami), his name means "Rotten Flavour". His name in the Fan Translation sounds like "Shy monkeys" when said quickly. Additionally, "Simon" could be a reference to "Simon Says", because of his being able to manipulate people into doing whatever he wants, while "Keyes" refers to him being where all five cases connect - in other words, the key.
• Monkey Morality Pose: He's often shown covering his eyes, mouth, or ears in various sprites, evoking this image.
• Morality Pet: Implied to have been this to Knightley. A rare example in which the Morality Pet is crueler and more hate-filled than the one he humanizes. His own Morality Pet would be Dogen, who is basically the only person Simon considers trustworthy.
• Monster Clown: Dressed like this during the final confrontation, complete with a Psychotic Smirk and deranged facial expressions.
• My God, What Have I Done?: He has a brief moment of this after realizing that his father was actually Dane Gustavia, not Isaac Dover, meaning that his main reason for setting up Horace Knightley to be killed by Patricia Roland was a complete misunderstanding. That being said, his reaction is clearly more a result of shock at having made such a massive screw-up than any regret at his actions, as he himself notes that he had plenty of other reasons to want Knightley dead.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: His role in Dogen's escape resulted in him having to spend the rest of his childhood hiding in fear of Dogen's ex-employers. This, understandably, changed his whole worldview from The Golden Rule to Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us.
• Not Me This Time: While admitting to his schemes, including the fake assassination, Edgeworth accuses of him planning Rooke's death. Simon is quick to defend himself, stating that Rooke's murder was entirely Knightley's doing.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Edgeworth calls him out on his revenge scheme this way. Whether he realizes it or not, he embodies qualities from the four people he happens to despise the most:
  • As mentioned above, he thinks of the same method Dane Gustavia used to preserve his victim's body, despite having no knowledge Gustavia had done so. Edgeworth also points out that both of them have no problem with sacrificing others to protect themselves.
  • He disguises his true appearance and personality, just like the body double.
  • He's just as good if not better at taming animals than Patricia Roland, and uses them for Mundane Utilities — Patricia has live foxes cling to her body to make a fur coat, Simon has various animals stack on top of each other to give him something to lean on.
  • He had the same idea as Blaise Debeste of kidnapping John Marsh to force the verdict he wanted for Patricia, and even succeeded where Blaise failed. He also has no qualms about pinning the murder he committed himself on John, an innocent minor, just like what Blaise did to Kay.
  • He even manipulated and kidnapped two innocent women into being used in a broader scheme, much the way Knightley manipulated Nicole into being a patsy for the fake assassination and later Rooke's murder.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: His easily frightened, quirky, and airheaded demeanor hides a ruthless, calculating sociopath.
• Once Killed a Man with a Noodle Implement: The one murder he personally commits is done in a way that is outlandish even by Ace Attorney standards. He kills the president of Zheng Fa... by crushing him with a hot air balloon.
• The Paranoiac: Believes everyone (excluding Dogen) is out to get him and/or has ulterior motives. Given how he nearly froze to death due to his best friend's betrayal when they were kindergartners, was constantly interrogated by an abusive orphanage-owner, and then had to spend most of his life hiding from a trio of corrupt officials (one of them being the aforementioned owner, no less) in an international conspiracy because He Knows Too Much, you can't exactly blame him.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: If it hadn't been for all the collateral damage like Jill's death or Kay's and John's abduction, it would be hard to even think of him as an enemy, considering who his intended victims were.
• People Puppets: When Money the Monkey appears, he immediately starts to control Simon's arms using his hair.
• Real Men Hate Sugar: Claims he dislikes sweet things when Raymond offers him candy. Suggested to be a result of his abandonment issues. That or they bring back memories of his days as a taste tester for his dad, which are probably not something he wants to remember either.
• Real Men Wear Pink: He is usually seen with a pink hoodie and shoes on. At the circus, he wears a pink and purple clown costume and has pink makeup on.
• Right-Hand Cat: His Slouch of Villainy pose involves various animals climbing on top of each other to make a tower for him to lean on. At the top is a big, fluffy, white cat fit for a Bond villain.
• The Runaway: A combination of Orphan and Circus type. He actually did it because he was on the run from Blaise's henchmen looking to Leave No Witnesses.
• Sadist: Some unsettling dialogue shows that he genuinely enjoys causing and watching people's suffering, whether deserved or undeserved. He expresses glee over how he set up Knightley's death, even after he knew that his grudge against Knightley was misplaced.
• Shaking Her Hair Loose: When he drops his shy and lovable act, a couple of birds undo his pigtails, turning him into the bastard love child of Ronald McDonald and Nathan Explosion. He even has a couple of squirrels comb his hair down straight.
• Sexy Jester: The clown costume he wears doesn't detract from his handsomeness.
• Smarter Than They Look: He's actually damn near one of the smartest culprits in the series, (which is saying something when said series contains Damon Gant, Quercus Alba, Kristoph Gavin, and Roger Retinz.) as all the tropes under The Plan would show. It's only through bad luck and circumstances outside of his control that he's even caught.
• The Sociopath: While he's never explicitly called a sociopath, it's made repeatedly clear that he trusts no-one but himself, and can't comprehend why anyone would want to help another. Granted, this was probably brought on by his past, and he's still capable of a certain degree of empathy (mostly toward Dogen).
• Spanner in the Works: To the group who assassinated the President of Zheng Fa. They tried to silence him for years, but he was just too smart for them.
• Stepford Smiler: Type A. He maintains a friendly smile in almost all his appearances, despite having just lost his best friend. Considering his misanthropic, vengeful personality, he's also a type C.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Implied as an attempt via letting his hair down in the end to resemble Isaac Dover, who he mistook for his father.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Though whether or not he's truly a devil is up to you.
• Sympathetic Murderer: His victims tried to have many people killed, including Simon's father figure, Sirhan Dogen. He also has one doozy of a tragic backstory.
• Tragic Villain: One of the most sympathetic villains in the series. His mother died when he was young, his father only used him as a taste tester and abandoned him as soon as he didn't need one anymore, his best friend betrayed him, he was raised in an Orphanage of Fear, and his father figure - the one person in his life to ever show him kindness without later screwing him over - was an assassin. Even Edgeworth felt sorry for him, and cites that while his actions were heinous, Simon was ultimately a victim of a corrupt legal system, thus giving Edgeworth the resolve to start working his way up to change it for the better.
• Troll: During the final confrontation, he steals Edgeworth's voice to object to Edgeworth's statements, constantly provokes Kay and Edgeworth to get a rise out of them, fakes a Villainous Breakdown, tells Courtney that she almost got her child killed and Lang that his father was incompetent for no reason other than to cause them psychological pain. Edgeworth mentions that striking people's psychological weak point is his strategy to get an emotional response and divert them from the subject (they were trying to prove his guilt at the time).
• Trouble Magnet Gambit: The chisel he hid in Knightley's chess set. He knew that Patricia would think that the chisel was proof that Knightley was in cahoots with Sirhan Dogan, and would be so paranoid she'd kill Knightley on the spot.
• Unintentional Backup Plan: He never expected to be arrested as a potential suspect for Knightley's murder, which was a very big problem since he technically did cause it. But who should happen to be there but Miles Edgeworth... acting as an assistant to a Defense Attorney. Not only did this get him out of prison, it allowed him to work Edgeworth into the later part of his plan.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: He's shown smiling in the flashback picture with Knightley.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: When Dogen gives John permission to kill him to avenge his father, Simon, in one of his most chilling moments, admits that getting his own revenge has made him feel this way... and that he sees it as a good thing, since the hollowness has allowed him to forget all the pain that his life has been.
• Voice Changeling: Mocked Edgeworth by imitating his voice.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • All of his animal friends beat the crap out of him when he is exposed.
  • He also has a fake one, complete with Skyward Scream and his dad's theme music, then both abruptly cut out and he says "Just kidding!"
• Walking Spoiler: His true colors are not revealed until the very end.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He's a scheming, Manipulative Bastard through and through, but his ultimate goal was to enact vengeance and justice upon much worse and truly villainous people, who directly control the law and thus are impervious to being convicted legally.
• Who's Laughing Now?: He's gleeful about seeing the conspirators who ruined his life, and who once terrified him be charged with murder (Blaise, Patricia) or end up dead (the body double).
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: After all the crap he went through, you almost can't blame him for becoming a Monster Clown.
• Xanatos Gambit: How he dealt with Blaise. He sent letters to both him and Jill exposing the other's secrets and telling them to meet at the same place. There were two possible outcomes here: either Jill kills Blaise, or Blaise kills Jill (the one that ended up happening) and goes down for murder. Either way, he would get his revenge.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: He's very capable of working things into his plans on the fly. The fake President just happened to show up during one of his plans, so he took the opportunity to kill him personally. Edgeworth showing up was also a complete fluke, but he was able to turn him into the best Unwitting Pawn he could ever ask for with an on-the-spot Wounded Gazelle Gambit.
• You Killed My Father: His hatred of Knightley resulted from his mixed-up memories. Simon believed that his father was Isaac Dover and that Knightley's father was Dane Gustavia, Dover's murderer, when it was actually the other way around. He's quite shocked to find out that one of the reasons he had hated and orchestrated the death of his only friend was completely invalid, but he's still too much of a misanthropic jerk to feel any remorse for it and he has plenty of other cause, what with the whole tied up in a car thing and all.

Marī Miwa (Patricia Roland)

"A proper greeting should begin with a hug AND a kiss!"

The director of the prison and the detention center. She is an animal lover who believes in animal therapy.

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• Alliterative Name: Mari Miwa. The fan translation forgoes this for a Punny Name instead.
• And Your Little Dog, Too!: Her fear and hatred of Dogen also extends to his dog, and she almost quotes the line word-for-word at one point. Justified though, as said dog is far from little and has been trained to kill.
• Animal Motifs: Foxes. Despite being rather weak physically, she's sly, cunning, and dangerous, singling out prey to kill by dragging them into her den (be it an orphanage backyard or her office).
• Asshole Victim: It becomes increasingly hard to feel sorry for her the more we realize why Dogen blackmailed her.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Other than being an accomplice to the murder of the Zheng Fa president and murdering a prisoner out of fear, she's a pretty nice person. Actually, no she's not that either- she's quite willing to forget her maternal nature in return for money, as shown by how screwed up Simon became under her care.
• Crazy Cat Lady: More like "Crazy Fox Lady", but similar principle. Though she tries to come off as a kindhearted animal lover.
• Cuddle Bug: In her own words, "A proper greeting should begin with a hug AND a kiss."
• Expressive Accessory: The silver fox on her neck is alive and usually copies her facial expressions. One of her animations shows her speaking through her fox. Probably as a result of her paranoia.
• Evil Orphanage Lady: What she used to be, as we find out in Case 5.
• Friend to All Living Things: She's sweet and motherly almost to excess, allowing prisoners to have animal companions and claiming they're all a happy family. Even her fur coat is still alive.
• The Glomp: With Raymond Shields. When it comes to hugging, they're soulmates. She makes a habit of greeting everyone like that. And kissing them, which often leads to accidental Squick on the receiver's end.
• Hate Sink: A minor one, but still one nonetheless. Despite being excellent at appearing to be a caring and friendly woman, she's a truly nasty piece of work, willing to kidnap, psychologically abuse, and traumatise children to save her hide. This is revealed in chapter 5, when she's shown to be a truly cruel, smug, and ruthless woman who will sink to any low and become downright vicious when she needs to be.
• He Knows Too Much: Subverted. She's actually the one who's threatened with death. Although one must wonder if she deserves it since her family was threatened too. Later Inverted when it's revealed she tried to pull this on someone herself once.
• I Have Your Wife: More like "I have your family", but similar principle. Sirhan constantly threatens that his 'dogs' will go after her family. It's the main reason she eventually snaps.
• Interface Spoiler: If you ask her about Sirhan Dogen's black dog, she adopts a stunned expression hiding her face, which clearly hints to her villainous nature. This is a big tip-off that she is the case's true killer.
• Leitmotif: The stuffy and deep "Hugs and Kisses". Which she herself does. A lot.
• Live Mink Coat: As mentioned, her fox fur stole is a real fox — and her coat is foxes too. They bristle up when she's startled and flee entirely when she breaks down.
• Meaningful Name: Her name comes from mimawari, which means patrol. "Patrol" is also the source of her name in the fan translation.
• Murder by Mistake: Kills Knightley, fearing he is one of Dogen's henchmen.
• Orphanage of Love: She ran the "Happy Family" orphanage. Possibly subverted, since the one character who remembers living there says it was awful — but said character is the very definition of Unreliable Narrator.
• Pretty in Mink: Wears a fur coat that is actually made of multiple live foxes.
• Properly Paranoid: Though she takes it a little too far. If her suspicions had stopped at Dogen, she would have been completely right.
• Smug Snake: Not so much this during her first appearance in case 2, but it comes out in full force during her brief appearance in case 5. She smugly treats her own trial as a complete waste of her time, feeling secure in the knowledge that the evidence implicating her was disposed of.
• Sympathetic Murderer: She freaked out after years of bullying by Dogen and thought she was acting in self-defense. Then subverted, when it's revealed that the reason Dogen blackmailed her to begin with was entirely the fault of her own selfishness.
• Tsundere: Clearly deredere by default, she goes tsun on the guards big time once she realizes Elbird has escaped. Even Edgeworth notes the abrupt change. Although it may be a hint to her serious side, it could just be dedication to her job.
• Turns Red: She doesn't make much of an attempt to argue back during her testimony... until you REALLY push her and she completely overturns Edgeworth's logic with just one sentence!
• Villainous Breakdown: She starts screaming her Motive Rant as the sound of Dogen's bells continuously play and her pet fox jumps off her neck...and then her fur coat turns into multiple foxes, all of which jump off her body and flee, leaving a much skinnier-looking Patricia Roland standing there hugging herself while dressed in a prisoner's uniform.
  • Has a second more minor one during case five after its proven that she made a deal with Blaise Debeste to have the evidence implicating her disposed of. Her previous smug mood breaks down completely and she angrily rants about how Blaise had boasted about his ability to create his own Not Guilty verdicts, how she had contacted him with the belief that he would have helped her get off scott free, and capping the tirade off by screaming about how completely useless Blaise is. Naturally this whole tirade only serves to implicate Blaise and herself further, although by that point her situation couldn't really get much worse.
• Wardens Are Evil: A prison warden who murdered one of her own prisoners, tried to frame another, and took part in an assassination.
• Weasel Mascot: More like "Fox Mascot", but similar principle. She has a very strong affiliation with foxes.
• Wham Line: When she says there is a huge contradiction in Edgeworth's logic. It even uses a sprite animation you've never seen from her before.

Shūji Orinaka (Jay Elbird)

One of the prisoners in the jail. Jay is a former boxer who continues practicing in prison. His prison number is D-259. He has a polar bear called Rocky, who's always (literally) hanging around with him. He tried to escape the prison by having Rocky knock a guard unconscious, allowing Jay to steal his keys and disguise himself as a guard. His plan was foiled when Rocky recognized him in disguise.

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• Busman's Vocabulary: Both he and Edgeworth use a lot of boxing terminology to describe their battles of wits, with their logic and evidence being their "punches".
• Dressing as the Enemy: He disguised himself as a guard as part of his plan, who would be the natural enemy of a prisoner.
• Gonk: Just as how you'd expect a boxer from a prison to look like.
• Mugged for Disguise: He even mugged another guy just to have someone to pin it on.
• Noodle Incident: It's never explained exactly what he's in for. He can get quite violent when provoked, and threatens to kill Edgeworth on at least one occasion, which could imply something. But then again, Dogen says several of the inmates were falsely accused, so you never know.
• Punny Name: His full name is a pun on "ori no naka shūjin", which means "prisoner in a cage". His name in the Fan Translation sounds like "Jailbird", a slang term for a prisoner.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: His polar bear buddy Rocky hangs off his chest with its tongue out and has the cutest puppy dog eyes. It loves him so much that it knows when he's in disguise... which foils his escape attempt.
• Shipped in Shackles: His wristbands have two small weights chained to them.
• Tunnel King: He dug a tunnel in his cell that connected to Horace's cell, where he stole a guard's uniform.
• Villainous Breakdown: His face repeatedly snaps every which way like he's being punched in the face, then he collapses with his mouthpiece knocked out.
• Weight Woe: As a former boxer, he is obsessed with exercising and losing weight, trying to "make the weight limit". However, with the reveal of his escape plan it's possible that his real reason for losing weight is so that he could fit through his escape tunnel and/or into the guard's uniform he stole.

Ryōken Hōinbō (Sirhan Dogen)

A former assassin whose weapons of choice are a long knife and his large black dog, Anubis (Kuro in Japanese). The ringing of his signature bells - one attached to the handle of his knife and another to Anubis's collar - is said to be the last sound his victims hear before their deaths. He is blind and Anubis is his guide dog. He saved Horace and Simon and brought them to an orphanage. Later, when he was asked to assassinate Di-Jun Huang near this very orphanage, Simon recognized him and saved his life. He was eventually caught, prosecuted, and imprisoned.

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• Affably Evil: He might be a creepy assassin, but he can still be surprisingly cooperative and has enough of a heart to save children from dangerous situations. He also loves his dog.
• Anti-Villain: Type I. He's ruthless, make no mistake, but he's still honorable enough to refrain from any "needless" cruelty, and he also has a soft spot for children (such as when he saves the lives of two dying kids in a genuine Pet the Dog moment rather than any Pragmatic Villainy, as well as when he gives John a chance to kill him for Revenge over Huang's assassination).
• Assassin Outclassin': Case 5 has him pulling this on Shelley De Killer to protect Simon, leading to a Mexican Standoff. It ends up falling to Edgeworth to defuse the situation.
• The Bad Guy Wins: In a sense. By the end of the game, his enemies have gotten their comeuppance and he will have Simon for company. However, he also doesn't do anything villainous in the present day aside from blackmailing another villain for small luxuries in prison.
• Bald of Evil: Downplayed. He may be an assassin, but he's not completely evil.
• Blind Seer: Not on Daredevil levels, but his skill with carving is very impressive, and is very competent at playing chess.
• Blind Weaponmaster: Granted, one of those weapons is Anubis, but he is also said to be just as deadly with his knife.
• Canine Companion: Anubis.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Zig-zags repeatedly between this and Red Herring.
  • You first meet him after a very ominous buildup, he's practically the definition of Obviously Evil and you don't really get much worthwhile information out of him. But later, he falls under suspicion when it appears that the victim was killed by a dog. By the time you confront him again, Edgeworth is utterly convinced he's the killer. He isn't. Later subverted again when you find out that while he didn't commit the murder, he indirectly caused it.
  • As if that weren't enough, in Case 5 you find out he was hired to kill the real president of Zheng Fa 12 years ago so that the body double could replace him. Said double turns up dead in the present. It appears that he must be the killer this time, but he isn't. However, he does provide the final piece of the puzzle Edgeworth needs to deduce who the real mastermind is.
• Contract on the Hitman: His clients planned to kill him after he assassinated the real Di-Jun Huang to ensure his silence on the matter. He was able to escape with Simon's help.
• Cool Old Guy: A semi-villainous example.
• Death Seeker: He offered John a chance to kill him, saying he is already tired of carving statues anyway. Being reunited with Simon seems to bring back his will to live though.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Of Case 2. Notable since even Edgeworth is convinced he's the killer, and the scene is set up just like a final confrontation.
• The Dreaded: Has a fearsome reputation that ensures anyone who actually knows who he is gives him a wide berth. He's especially this to Patricia Roland, to such a degree that he can have basically anything he wants; in fact he's this to her so much that his infamous bells even feature in her Villainous Breakdown.
• Evil Old Folks: While his exact age is never given, he's clearly an old man, though not entirely evil.
• Graceful Loser: Implied, he basically accepted his incarceration, and is consigned to living out his punishment in prison. He even promises to head back to the prison after solving the mystery behind his acolyte.
• Handicapped Badass: He's blind, but neither age nor blindness were enough to keep him from keeping rival Professional Killer Shelly de Killer from killing Simon in the game's climax.
• Hell Is That Noise: The ringing of his bells is said to be the last thing his targets hear before their deaths. Patricia Roland seemed to think so, given how the sound features in her breakdown.
• Hitman with a Heart: Despite it not being part of his task and no financial/personal incentive, he saved two children who'd been abandoned in a freezing car. He also has a very loyal/heartfelt relationship with his dog, Anubis.
• Karma Houdini: He dodges nearly everything the police tries to do to him, except for his arrest, which he isn't that disappointed about.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Skilled as he is, his blindness means he would still get his ass kicked if a bunch of guys rushed him at once. Once a young Simon informed him that his clients planned on killing him to ensure his silence, he opted to escape rather than fight.
• Leitmotif: "Tone of an Assassin," a brooding, sinister theme featuring his signature bell.
• Luxury Prison Suite: Perhaps even more so than Kristoph. Kay lampshades it during an investigation. Later deconstructed when it's revealed he gets his luxury treatment by threatening the warden.
• Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All: Though he can't directly kill anymore, he still maintains the influence he once had. The mere knowledge that he has "dogs" outside the prison and that they know where her family is allows him to manipulate the warden into giving him anything he wants. Through this he established himself as the prison's "supplier", acquiring items for other prisoners in exchange for favors. Hell, his imprisonment allows him to play a major role in the Big Bad's plan.
• Named After Somebody Famous: In the fan translation, he's named after Sirhan Sirhan, the man who assassinated US Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: The way how he operates and describes his assassination plots are perturbing.
• Noble Demon: It turns out that his treatment of Roland was based on the knowledge that she made his godson suffer greatly, and he still cares deeply for said godson.
• Non-Standard Character Design: A blind, corpse-looking old man who can most likely kill you.
• Noodle Incident: We never find out exactly how he got caught and imprisoned— though it's implied that Edgeworth had a hand in bringing him to justice.
• Parental Substitute: A father figure to Simon Keyes.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: What morality he has seems to be based around this. It's why he felt justified putting Roland through mental hell (she was a terrible caretaker to Simon), and when Marsh confronts him, he cheerfully submits to whatever punishment Marsh feels is necessary. Given the concept of karma in Buddhism, this makes quite a bit of sense.
• Pet the Dog: He is fond of his dog Anubis and he also rescued Horace and Simon when they were children, being a father figure to Simon.
• Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You: Offers this to John, who turns it down, though he does admit it would satisfy him.
• Professional Killer: Rivals even Shelly de Killer in this department, although he's just as much a general crime lord.
• Prophet Eyes: He has cataracts.
• Punny Name: Dogen. Sure, it's probably pronounced "Doh-gen", but the letters are still there.
• Retired Monster: He quit the assassination business, and is fine with living out the remainder of his days in prison. He also has no remorse for having murdered people in the past.
• Right-Hand Attack Dog: Pretty much his whole gimmick. In fact, it's the main reason he ends up the primary suspect at one point.
• The Rival: Shelly. As the dialogue during their standoff reveals, Shelly and Dogen knew each other in the past.
• Sinister Minister: Edgeworth refers to him as a fallen priest at one point, implying he was one prior to being an assassin.
• Sweet Tooth: There's a half-eaten tray of brownies found inexplicably in his cell. It's later revealed that it was from Jeff Masters who regularly baked treats for the inmates.
• Vague Age: His age is always listed as ??? in his profile.
• Villain Respect:
  • Harbors no ill will towards Edgeworth who was the one that helped put him behind bars even cooperating with him in his own way. He is also this towards his rival, Shelly, who returns the sentiment.
  • Implied with President Huang, who he killed twelve years ago. Dogen was relatively surprised and impressed by Huang's pleading, as the latter was concerned more with losing the chance to meet his own illegitimate child than actually dying.
• Villains Out Shopping: He's taken up wood carving as a hobby while in prison, and also plays correspondence chess.

The Inherited Turnabout (Uketsugareshi Gyakuten)

For Larry Butz, Gregory Edgeworth and Manfred von Karma see respective pages.

Issei Tenkai (Jeffrey Master)

Present day ^{Click here to see him during the IS- 7 case}

The main suspect in the IS-7 case. A professional chef with a TV show where he sings, dances, and makes sweets. He's also slowly losing his sense of taste, but he's working on a cure. Gregory Edgeworth was his defense attorney. Since Edgeworth revealed that the autopsy report was fake because the victim's body was missing, the prosecutor, Manfred von Karma, had to charge him with accomplice to murder instead.

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• Chekhov's Gun: While in the detention center, he discovers he has an illness that leaves him unable to taste salt. It turns out that the real killer has a more severe form of the same illness and can't taste anything, which played a part in his motive.
• Cold Ham: He is normally an intense man who often spontaneously breaks into song, although this is downplayed in his actual interactions with Gregory, where he chooses instead to be serious and polite most of the time due to perfectly understanding the gravity of his own situation.
• Cool Old Guy: His present self is a Perpetual Smiler who baked sweets for other prison inmates and guards.
• Cruel to Be Kind: Master bluntly told Katherine to stop focusing on his own imprisonment, as well as himself and his well being altogether, which breaks Katherine's heart. He did so to try to get Katherine to focus on her own life. Sadly deconstructed, because Katherine never really took his words to heart and ended up planning revenge for nearly two decades afterward.
• Didn't Think This Through: His plan on awarding the Angel Recipe for his contest was meant to help publicize the recipe, but the finalists ended up being a pair of greedy and unscrupulous men and an agent of the pharmaceutical company said recipe belongs to that was specifically tasked to keep the recipe under wraps, all of whom ended up cheating in various ways.
• Doomed by Canon: Since it's an established fact that von Karma was unbeaten for 40 straight years prior to Turnabout Goodbyes and said prosecutor is revealed early on to be in charge of the case, the player can guess that Master is not really escaping a guilty verdict, regardless of his evident innocence.
• False Confession: He eventually cracked under the pressure and confessed. The fact that von Karma questioned him day and night, causing his hair to turn white, helped a lot.
• Good Parents: Though it may not seem like it due to his stoic nature, he loves Kate very dearly, even taking a false murder charge to protect her.
• I Will Wait for You: As thanks to Katherine for visiting him during his imprisonment, he promises to visit her at prison after his false conviction was overruled until she's served her time for hiding/stealing evidence and premeditated assault.
• Leitmotif: "Sweet Happiness".
• Prematurely Gray Haired: If you want proof of how scary Manfred von Karma is, just look at this man's hair. It went white after a single day of interrogation.
• Punny Name: His name comes from the phrase "tenka ichi", meaning "the best on earth", referencing his reputation of his pastries being the best around. For once, the pun is actually acknowledged in-game, since it's his nickname. Meanwhile, his Fan Translation name refers to him being a master at pastry-making. In other words, a "Masterchef."
• Nice Guy: An extraordinarily kind and humble man, a fact which underscores the tragedy of his false imprisonment.
• Parental Substitute: To Katherine Hall, whom he adopted when she was a baby.
• Perpetual Frowner: Only his past self.
• Sweet Tooth: He mentions that he only ever eats sweets, which is how he never noticed that he can't taste salt until he was locked up in the Detention Center and had nothing to eat other than the food provided.
• Throwing Off the Disability: He eventually gets over his taste disorder due to a drug produced by the Master Group which can cure it.
• Wealthy Philanthropist: In the foyer of his mansion, several awards for charity work are displayed.

Delicy Scone (Delicia Scones)

A pastry chef who participated in the dessert-making contest, hailing from England. She is actually a pharmacist who works for the Master Group, who was sent to oversee the secret Master Recipe. She acts as an old lady and is the only character who hasn't changed a bit in 18 years.

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• Big Eater: She snacks on the other contestants' works. It depends how much she snacks on them but Gustavia doesn't seem to take kindly to that habit.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She may still appear as a chef even though she now identifies herself as a pharmacist, but her knowledge in the latter field and chemistry is very vast. She even proves one of Edgeworth's points by stating that the sherbet sculptures couldn't be replicas due to the matching composition of the sugar between now and 18 years ago. She's also part of an exclusive group who were allowed to view the Angel's Recipe.
• Character Tic: Most of the time, you'll see her stirring in her bowl or holding it.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: She apparently cheated her way into the competition so she can do her job: never let Master's works go public. That's one more reason for the murderer to attempt to frame her.
• Feminine Women Can Cook: Subverted. She's not incompetent, but she herself admits she can't really cook at the level required by the competition and is honestly surprised that her own corner-cutting wasn't discovered until Gregory Edgeworth came along.
• Frame-Up: Gustavia tried to frame her by placing the murder weapon in her room. She only becomes a suspect for a short while as a result.
• He Knows Too Much: The Master Group sent her to spy on Master and made sure his work never went public.
• The Mole: Her true purpose in the competition was to get the Angel's Recipe and the pharmaceutical genius contained within. Since the organization that sent her technically owns the Angel's Recipe, it's not held against her.
• My Friends... and Zoidberg: Manfred calls a few witnesses to the IS-7 incident in for questioning, then adds Delicia "while (he's) at it." She's offended at being treated like an afterthought.
• The Napoleon: Only partly. She's not evil, but she can get angry real fast when you insult her.
• The Nicknamer: To everyone. Including Manfred von Karma (or "Manny", as she calls him).
• Non-Standard Character Design: Her eyes look different from the rest of the Ace Attorney characters, but no one comments on it.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Multiple layers of it, in fact! When Gregory first exposes the fact that she doesn't know the first thing about cooking and her contest entries are just props, she claims she is just a Big Eater who entered the contest on a whim because she loved sweets, and never expected to get all the way to the finals. Naturally, it's much more complicated than that, and when you meet her in the present it's clear she's much smarter than she acts. She's able to produce irrefutable evidence clearing her name when accused, for one.
• Older Than They Look: Her exact age is unknown but she claims to be very old. It's a running joke in the case. Notably, she looks exactly the same in the present day as she did during IS-7, while everyone else involved has clearly aged almost 20 years.
• Punny Name: Delicious scone. A scone is a small British quick bread of Scottish origin, and she claims to be from England.
• Rummage Fail: Does one when looking for the theft report giving her a perfect alibi, but it's played with: it's a blink-and-you-miss-it moment, but one of the "wrong" objects she produces actually is relevant to the case, it just won't play a part until later.
• The Scapegoat: Not only does Dane Gustavia try to frame her for his killing Isaac Dover in the past, but Katherine Hall sets her up to take the blame for her own attempt to poison Gustavia.
• Secret Identity: Not really a "secret", but she's actually a pharmacist.
• Spanner in the Works: Her habit of sampling the other contestant's dishes actually undermined the plan to frame her for Issac's murder. How? She snacked on something that was to be a support for a large model ship made of chocolate, eating enough that the support collapsed and the ship fell onto a life-sized chocolate chest where the body was hidden, leading to its early discovery by Katherine. Gustavia intended to freeze the body to throw off the time of death, but with the early discovery, he chose to hide it in one of Issac's sherbet sculptures until he had an alternative plan.
• Vague Age: Her age is listed as "??" and a Running Gag about her is just how old she is. Especially since everyone in the IS-7 incident has aged appropriately over the last 18 years and she doesn't look any different.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Hates cockroaches with a passion, so much so that she carries an incredibly strong pesticide with her at all times.

Tsukasa Oyashiki (Katherine Hall)

In the present. ^{Click here to see her during the IS- 7 case}

Jeffrey Master's adoptive daughter who assists him on his show. She hid the body of the IS-7 victim and prepared a trap for the real murderer, knowing that he would eventually return.

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• Anti-Villain: She obstructs a crime scene, lies to authorities, and tried to kill Dane Gustavia, though this was in a misguided attempt to avenge Jeffrey Master rather than out of malice. Like Godot from Trials and Tribulations, she was well-intentioned but incredibly misguided.
• Curtains Match the Window: She has brown eyes and hair.
• Doorstop Baby: How she first appeared to Master.
• Drama Queen: A classic and justified example. Her body language is very emotive and dramatic, taking after typical Melodrama conventions and befitting her former occupation as an actress.
• Framing the Guilty Party: Tries to do this 18 years after the murder by setting a trap and knowing Gustavia would try to cover up his own crime.
• Happily Adopted: By Master, though it's hard to see this relationship at first glance.
• High-Class Fan: Has one in the present. Justified since she's a retired movie star.
• Implied Love Interest: To Raymond, who not only treats her more seriously than other female characters, but offers to defend her in a manner very similar to a marriage proposal.
• I Will Wait for You: She visited Master Jeff in prison for the past 18 years. Their roles are reversed when his sentence is overruled but she has to serve her own sentence.
• Leitmotif: "Sweet Dance".
• Punny Name:
  • Her name contains the kanji for "resident of mansion" and "blanket", a reference to how she first hid the body.
  • Her full name is a pun on "o yashiki o tsukasadoru" which means "[to be] responsible for the residence". She takes care of Master's mansion.
  • Her surname Oyashiki may be a pun on "okashi", which means sweets.
  • Her name in the fan translation is a pun on "catering hall."
  • "Katherine" may also be a reference to Catherine Douglas, who (according to legend) tried to block the door to prevent a mob from getting in and murdering King James I of Scotland. (This is the probable origin of the phrase "Katy, bar the door.")
• Meido: Acts as this during the show and outside of it.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: True, she tried to poison someone, though her intended victim was a remorseless bastard who had escaped justice for eighteen years.
• Red Herring: Edgeworth concludes fairly early on in the case's present-day segment that she was responsible for the murder 18 years ago and the attempt on Gustavia's life. She was responsible for the present-day attempted murder, but her only crime 18 years ago was accidental obstruction of justice.
• Self-Made Woman: After Jeff Master was declared guilty, it is mentioned that she was chased off from his estate by the executives of Master's company. She then entered show biz in order to become big enough to be able to buy her former home back, as her previous experiences at Piece of Cake where the only skills she had at the time.
• Sexy Backless Outfit: Best shown when she dances as an adult.
• She Is All Grown Up: Compare how she looks now to 18 years ago and it's clear she's really blossomed.
• Shoo the Dog: Master flatly tells her to forget about him and get on with her life. She doesn't.
• Single Tear: When she breaks down, she reaches a hand up dramatically and cries a single tear.
• Spanner in the Works: Her stealing Dover's ice sculptures along with his body hidden inside one accidentally set up the bizarre circumstances of IS-7 and ruined Gustavia's plans to just frame Scones for the murder, leading to Jeff's conviction and DL-6.
• Sympathetic Murderer: More like Sympathetic Attempted Murderer. After losing both Master and her home for almost two decades, combined with believing that Gustavia got Off on a Technicality, it's no surprise that she finally snapped and attempted a Vigilante Execution.
• Tears of Remorse: Subverted. She is arrested for poisoning, but she's glad that Master will finally go free.
• Undying Loyalty: Her devotion to Master, which worries him because he wants her to live her own life.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: By hiding the sculpture that contained Dover's body, she ended up sparking a chain of tragic and horrible events: the forgery of an autopsy report, which led to von Karma's penalty and the DL-6 incident, which in turn caused the fall of the Fey Clan and the events of the first three Phoenix Wright games. However, as Raymond points out, there's a good chance that things would have unfolded as they did anyway, except with Delicia Scones being falsely convicted instead of Master.
• Vigilante Execution: By the present, she's fairly sure that Dane Gustavia killed Isaac Dover... but because it took 18 years for her to figure this out, the Statute of Limitations had already passed (or, so she thinks), and so she resolved to kill him herself for what he did since the law couldn't.
• The Woobie: Considered one in-universe by Gregory and Raymond. Her backstory even makes Gregory shed a few tears.
• You Are Too Late: By the time she was able to buy back the mansion and find out that she accidentally hid the body with the sherbet sculptures she stole and hid in the freezer, the Statute of Limitations had already (seemingly) expired at that point, so she couldn't simply report the body to the police to help clear up the misunderstanding.

Yutaka Kazami (Dane Gustavia)

In the present. ^{Click here to see him during the IS- 7 case}

A confectioner without the ability to taste. He and the victim of IS-7, Isaac Dover, secretly collaborated in a dessert-making contest. Gustavia was in charge of the flavor, while Dover handled the design. Dover called off the deal at the last minute, abducted Gustavia's son (who was his taste tester) and blackmailed him when he found out about his condition. Gustavia killed him and fled the country. After his return with an expert set of skills, the cure for his condition was published and he regained his ability to taste.

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• Anti-Villain: Played with. Gustavia is absolutely an asshole and not at all sympathetic, getting Masters framed, abandoning his son when the kid outlived his usefulness as a taste-tester, and showing no remorse for the above. However, the actual murder he committed was because his victim had betrayed him first; they'd planned to work together for the competition, but once Dover found out about his taste disorder, he instead kidnapped Dane's son (thus severely handicapping him prior to finals) and threatened him with exposing his taste disorder if he didn't pay up. Nobody in the audience would really have cared about Isaac's death if it hadn't meant framing an innocent person.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: He's a professional pastry chef who considers his work almost akin to martial arts.
• Asshole Victim: Almost became this when a Despair Event Horizon-crossing Kate tried to get Revenge for Master.
• The Bad Guy Wins: It's a distinct possibility he ultimately got away with murder in the end, due to Master's trial now having to be filed as a mistrial and thus possibly removing the stipulation that allowed IS-7 to still be within the statute of limitations (a 'contradiction in the law', as Edgeworth and Raymond state), and even if he didn't he still evaded justice for nearly twenty years and managed to pursue and fulfill his goal during his long freedom. He might lose his freedom but his talents can still be appreciated.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He's actually quite helpful during the flashback portion of the case. It's not until the very end where we realize what kind of person he truly was.
• Bring My Red Jacket: He claims that he frequently manages to burn or cut himself when cooking, so he started wearing red so that his clothes won't show bloodstains. It probably came in handy when he was killing someone else, too.
• Chekhov's Gunman: At the end his role becomes a lot more important. He's not just a simple criminal. He's the father of Simon Keyes.
• Corpse Temperature Tampering: Attempted this with Dover's corpse, but because of a series of circumstances beyond his control, the frozen body went missing and Gustavia was unable to execute his original plan, although he ended up benefitting from the fact than von Karma had already arrested Masters beforehand (von Karma could never back down for the sake of his perfect record, even if it meant using forged evidence).
• Deaf Composer: A chef who lost the ability to taste.
• Dirty Coward: His reaction to killing someone on the spur of the moment is running off, abandoning his son, and letting an innocent man take the blame.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He heavily respected Jeff Masters and had no intention to frame him for the murder. Becomes subverted when he never admits earlier that he was behind the murder to exonerate Masters, choosing to save his own reputation instead.
• Evil Chef: A pastry chef and the culprit of the case he appears.
• Evil Gloating: Once his true colors have been exposed, he gloats that yes, he did kill Isaac Dover, but since the statute of limitations has expired, there's nothing anyone can do about it.
• Evil Laugh: Even more proof that he's Simon's father. Edgeworth actually sees the resemblance.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: When he's asked about how long his training trip in Zheng Fa was, he sweats bullets and speaks in a halting tone as he answers that it lasted three years, knowing that this means the Statute of Limitations can't protect him.
• For Want Of A Nail: Gustavia's whole feud with Dover is what essentially kickstarts the whole series's plot. After Dover is murdered, Gregory Edgeworth meets von Karma, then the latter's forgeries are exposed (though the one that was exposed actually wasn't his doing) and he gets his first penalty ever. Then DL-6 happens. Him severing ties with his son and then fleeing the country instead of searching for him causes Simon to enact his successful revenge against the Zheng-Fa conspiracy.
• Hate Sink: Gustavia was an abusive, cowardly, arrogant opportunist who threw out his son like trash when he was no longer needed. While it takes a while to reveal how horrible of a person he really is, when he is cornered as the killer, every positive trait he may have held disappears to reveal an extremely loathsome individual, only beaten by Blaise Debeste and Huang's body double for most loathsome character in the game.
• I Have No Son!: Claims this in the present. He pretty much only valued his son as a guinea pig for his cooking, and once he started to get his taste back, his son had outlived his usefulness.
• Ironic Name: His English fan-translated name comes from the same Latin root word "to enjoy or rejoice" (which many characters do not do directly or indirectly as a result of his actions). This word also happens to be the root for the word "gustatory", as in "gustatory system", the combination of saliva and taste buds that facilitate the sense of taste, which Gustavia lacks.
• It's All About Me: He cares for nothing apart from his own reputation as the world's greatest pastry chef, to the point of not caring that he abandoned his own son to pursue training abroad, and allowed an innocent man to take the fall for his crime.
• Jerkass: Once his son didn't show up for the last legs of the competition and Gustavia recovered his sense of taste after the event was over, he never went back to look for him. He also gloats about causing so much trouble to Katherine and Master, as well as how he's supposedly untouchable under the law.
• Karma Houdini: At the very least, he managed to get away with his crime for the better part of two decades. On top of that, Raymond Shields says that he's going to try and get Jeffrey Master's conviction expunged, even though this will potentially bring the statute of limitations for Dover's murder back down from 19 years to 18, and thus prevent Gustavia from being charged. Gustavia's ultimate fate is never revealed, however.
• Kick the Dog:
  • He smugly says that he no longer has any connection to his son, who is no longer useful to him now that he's regained his sense of taste. Even Justine, who's defending him, calls this behavior "inhumane."
  • Despite professing respect for Master, he's completely unapologetic about letting Master be imprisoned for 18 years for a crime he committed. This earns him the normally unflappable Raymond's Tranquil Fury.
• Leitmotif: "Brandished Flavor"
• Lone Wolf Boss: The case he's the villain of is the only case in the game that wasn't orchestrated in some way by Simon Keyes, although it's still relevant to his backstory.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Simon Keyes learns that Gustavia is his father late in the final case.
• Never My Fault: Since he didn't plan for Masters to be accused of killing Issac Dover, he takes no responsibility for the fact that Master is falsely serving time for a crime he didn't commit.
• Not So Stoic: He normally speaks very polite, somewhat archaic language and acts like your typical Cool Old Guy in the present. He has one hell of an Evil Laugh, and practically borders on Evil Is Hammy once he's cornered.
• Punny Name:
  • His name means "full of flavor", which he most certainly isn't. His surname contains the kanji for "weathercock".
  • In the fan translation, his first name can be seen as a shortened form of "danish," and Gustavia is a corruption of the Spanish for taste buds 'gustativa', as well as a name associated with Sweden, which would make him sweetish.
• Real Men Cook: He's a pastry chef, and he's very serious about it too.
• Seppuku: Uses a dough effigy of himself as a surrogate for this in his Villainous Breakdown.
• Serious Business: Desserts. So much so that he framed Delicia simply on account of her being "not a real pastry chef", and is deeply disappointed Jeffrey was suspected instead, as he considered him a Worthy Opponent.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Among the villains of the game, he has the smallest role in the plot and doesn't contribute much to the final case beyond being Simon Keyes's father, in addition to his murder being separate from the overarching plot. Yet for a man who's pretty much the game's only filler villain, his impact within the game and series is rivaled only by Blaise Debeste:
  • Abandoning his son was the first step in twisting him into a revenge-seeking misanthrope. Simon would go on and cause every case in the game except the third, which Gustavia started.
  • As mentioned below, his murder of Dover ultimately led to DL-6, which motivated every major character, good and evil, from the original trilogy in some way.
• Smug Snake: Gustavia really should have studied the statute of limitations before boasting about how he has become a Karma Houdini. If he had, he'd have realized that he was still culpable as a murderer. This was an especially stupid move when facing a prosecutor who knows the law extremely well and has a law book to prove his point. Raymond even calls him "an amateur at law."
• To Be a Master: This is his claimed motive for entering the competition. And he's not lying- it's just that he's taking an indirect route to doing so. His greatest obstacle to mastering his art is his lack of taste, and the Angel's Recipe prize for winning would allow him to rectify it.
• Took a Level in Badass: Uh, as "badass" as pastry sculpting can be. He absolutely sucked in the flashback portion. In the present, he's creating works of art in seconds (including a life-sized replica of himself). Also seems to have become a bit of a callous Insufferable Genius in the meantime.
• Throwing Off the Disability: His own taste disorder is later cured by the widespread drug made by the Master Group.
• The Unfettered: Being a pastry chef is Serious Business, and he will do anything to advance his own skill and career, up to and including murder.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His murder of Dover indirectly caused almost every tragedy in the original trilogy. Gregory Edgeworth got Manfred von Karma his one and only penalty at the resulting trial, and in revenge von Karma killed Gregory and raised his son Miles to be a prosecutor. Misty Fey conducted a seance that resulted in Yanni Yogi being falsely named; Misty was exiled and the Kurain Technique was disgraced. Mia Fey left to become an attorney and was killed by Redd White; Dahlia (and Iris) were thrown out, kickstarting Dahlia's life of crime; Diego Armando was poisoned, came back as Godot, and killed Misty to kill Dahlia. Oh, and some art student named Phoenix Wright became a lawyer...
• Villainous Breakdown: Carves a dough effigy of himself with his bare hands, then slices it in half.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: His testimony is considerably harder to crack than anything beforehand. And even then, he still has the Statute of Limitations on his side...
• Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: You prove his motive, means and opportunity and then, in a shock subversion of the series' normal conventions, he proceeds to flat-out admit everything you said is true and gives a full confession. It seems like it's all over... until he goes Laughing Mad and reminds you of the Statute of Limitations.

Isaku Hyōdō (Isaac Dover)

A pastry chef who competed in Jeff Master's contest. Found dead in Master's chocolate treasure chest with a bleeding head wound.

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• Abusive Parents: He ordered his own son to kidnap Gustavia's son. According to the flashback, Dover's kid carried it out because he was that scared of his father.
• Asshole Victim: He betrayed Dane Gustavia, kidnapped his young son, tried to blackmail him and then assaulted him for the hell of it. Up until the actual moment of the murder, he was indisputably the real villain of the case.
• Blackmail Backfire: When Dover finds out that Gustavia has a taste disorder where Gustavia cannot taste anything at all, Dover threatens to tell the world this fatal secret unless Gustavia pays him an extortionate sum. Unfortunately for him, Gustavia chooses to kill Dover to silence him forever instead of paying the exhorbitant blackmail amount.
• Dead Man's Chest: Said chest happened to be a sculpture made of chocolate.
• French Cuisine Is Haughty: Subverted. He isn't a chef. He would be a pretty textbook French Jerk, though, except he's not even French.
• Greed: Charged a lot for his designs and planned to win the Angel's Recipe solely to sell it, not caring for its actual contents whatsoever. And if that wasn't enough, he still tried to blackmail Gustavia into giving him even more money.
• Hate Sink: Like Gustavia, he was more than willing to use his child as a tool for his own selfish desires, threatening a young Horace Knightley into kidnapping Simon Keyes, his best friend. He also tried to murder Gustavia when he lashed out at him for kidnapping his son. The only reason he did the kidnapping in the first place was to sabotage his competition.
• Kick the Dog: Not only was he a greedy, blackmailing Jerkass, he also physically assaulted Gustavia for no particular reason.
• Money Dumb: The apparent reason for his Greed and why he even competed for the Angel's Recipe in the first place. He was said to be very bad at managing his finances, and tried to compensate it by charging premium for his artwork. That was not enough, however, so he planned to sell the Angel's Recipe due to its priceless nature at the time.
• Never Found the Body: For 18 years.
• Peek-a-Boo Corpse: One that took 18 years to reveal itself.
• Pen Name: "Pierre Hoquet", the French sculptor. Dover was not French however, implying that he was trying to make his work look more sophisticated than it actually was to justify its high prices (although he did have genuine talent).
• Punny Name:
  • His first name, Isaku, contains the kanji for "work" (as in a work of art). His surname is written with the kanji for "ice" and hall" which was where his body was hidden.
  • His fan translation name: "iced over". It's more clear when Delicia refers to him as "Icy".
  • His Japanese nom de plume "Paul Holic" is a pun on "digging one's own grave". The fan-translation's "Pierre Hoquet" and also means "Stone Hiccup" in French.
• Serious Business: Desserts. He was willing to have a child kidnapped over it.
• Seven Deadly Sins: Isaac Dover's Deadly Sins are Pride and Greed, his Pride causes him to betray his collaborating partner in the Contest, Dane Gustavia. He refused to help him when Dane Gustavia made Isaac Dover the Delicious Sherbet he needed to win the Contest, he also had his son tie up Dane Gustavia's son so that Dane Gustavia wouldn't know how his entries tasted, with no way for Dane Gustavia to win the Contest and get the Angel's Recipe which has a cure for taste disorders that he needs, he tries to take a picture of the cure for the taste disorder with an instant camera but Isaac Dover catches him in the act, finds out that Dane Gustavia cannot taste anything and mocks him, His greed causes him to try to blackmail Gustavia into paying him an extortionate sum of money to keep silent about his condition. Isaac Dover's Pride and Greed turn out to literally be his Deadly Sins as betraying Dane Gustavia and then Blackmailing Him results in Dane Gustavia murdering Isaac Dover. Had Isaac Dover not tried to blackmail Dane Gustavia, Dane Gustavia would most likely have hated him but he would not have killed him, had he kept his end of the deal, the prize might have been shared by the both of them. So in Hindsight, Isaac Dover Unwittingly caused his own death.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Probably the biggest one in Investigations 2 and maybe the whole series. Ordering his son Knightley to kidnap Keyes 18 years ago pretty much kickstarted all of the game's events. And that's not even counting the indirect consequences that cascaded from his death, like the DL-6 Incident.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He inadvertedly turned Gustavia and Keyes into monsters, leading to catastrophic events far beyond his death.
• Walking Spoiler: There's far more to him than there seems.

Wataru Shirase (Rip Lacer)

A detective and frequent colleague of Manfred von Karma. He was initially the lead detective on the IS-7 incident, only to be reassigned to interrogating the suspect after apparently screwing up and forgetting to inform von Karma about important information.

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• The Ghost: He's mentioned during the third and fourth cases but never actually seen, mostly because he was handling Jeff Master's interrogation in the past segment, and had long-since been fired during the present-day segment.
• Jerkass: One of his interrogations was enough to turn Jeff Master's hair white overnight. And from Badd's dialogue, it seems obvious that this is par for the course with the interrogations that he and von Karma carried out.
• Punny Name: His name in the fan translation is a pun on "replacer", in reference to the fact that he got replaced by Tyrell Badd early in the investigation, only to take over from Badd again after he refused to co-operate with von Karma.
• The Scapegoat: After von Karma got a penalty during the IS-7 trial, Lacer took the fall and got fired. Not only that, but the only reason he didn't tell anyone the body went missing was because Blaise Debeste had decided to go ahead and charge Master without consulting von Karma, and "persuaded" Lacer to keep quiet.

The Forgotten Turnabout (Bokyaku no Gyakuten)

For Lotta Hart, see her respective page.

Bansai Ichiyanagi (Blaise Debeste)

Voiced by (Japanese): Koutarou Ogiwara (AAI2)

Voiced by (English): "Crazed Ninja" (AAI2 Fan Translation)

Debut: Gyakuten Kenji 2

"That takes me back. When I was young, I'd always butt heads with this brash detective... A-and then one day... He just disappeared. I hope... he's still doing well..."

Sebastian's prosecutor father, and head of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee. He used to be the Chief Prosecutor and he was the one who delivered Manfred von Karma his only penalty. His manner of dress resembles that of a WWI-era German airman. He has a tendency to play with his lighter.

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• Abusive Parents: Comes off as an emotionally abusive parent that constantly berates Sebastian for his incompetence. Sebastian isn't affected at first because he seems to be used to these types of comments, but eventually, it gets to the point where he deliberately breaks his son just to make him shut up and everyone present (even Franziska) is appalled by his attitude toward him.
• Amoral Attorney: Even more so than Manfred von Karma. He holds secret auctions of evidence from past cases, murdered a journalist and his defense attorney girlfriend when they were investigating him, and gets anyone else who crosses him sentenced to life in prison. In fact, he isn't blameless for Manfred's most disgusting actions. He doesn't even deny it.
• Badass Biker: Given that he has a large motorcycle with a skull on it in his garage and maintains it as a hobby, he seems to be trying to go for this image.
• Bald of Evil: Revealed after he burns his wig away in his breakdown.
• Berserk Button: In his logic chess segment, if Edgeworth says anything that denies his Might Makes Right thinking, he gets ticked off and responds differently to dialogue choices. He also doesn't like it if Edgeworth glares at him. It makes him want to do the same back to Edgeworth.
  Edgeworth: I do not live for the sake of my badge! Status means nothing to me. Do you understand?
  Blaise: .....Young... So young... Let me teach you something as your senior in life. What you're saying right now... Is far too naïve, y'see?
  (Blaise ignites an alarmingly large fire with his lighter and scowls at Edgeworth.)
  Edgeworth: (The look in his eyes has changed! He might respond differently to some of my questions now. This is my chance!)
• The Bully: Sort of. He has a rather childish personality and even admits that he likes to bully youngsters that piss him off. He even has a testimony titled "'Cause I'm Gonna Bully You"!
• Chest of Medals: As one of only two prosecutors to actually wear their prosecutor's badge (the other one being his son) instead of keeping it in their pocket, Blaise seems to have taken it upon himself to make up for the rest of his profession by wearing about thirty of them, arranged in this fashion (it's implied that these are the badges of the prosecutors he took down as part of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee). His own badge is separated from the rest and pinned to his lapel instead.
• Climax Boss: Twice. The confrontation with him at the conclusion of The Forgotten Turnabout comes after a series of intense emotional developments and resolves one of the games main plotlines. Then in the following case he's fought again in what resolves Sebastian's arc and closes out the first half of the case, leading into finding out both the true backstory and the identity of the Big Bad.
• Cool Bike: Has a skull on it to match his outfit.
• Did You Actually Believe...?: Besides the notable scene where he reveals to his son that he manipulated all of his grades, he seems to enjoy tricking people in general, mainly to watch their reactions:
  Blaise: This takes me back, y'know. All those defendants who came to me, asking for a plea bargain. They trusted me, y'know. Told me every one of their dirty little secrets, y'see. And when it came time for the trial, I'd get them sentenced to life in prison... Th-They... were all completely dumbstruck, y'know. Each and everyone one of them... Ha ha ha...! Oh, how I wish you all could have seen it, y'know... th-the stupid looks on their faces!
• Disproportionate Retribution: Well, disproportionate something, given that he puts his son through an emotional trainwreck (in the space of about 5 minutes, no less) just to get him out of the room.
• The Dragon: Initially seems like the Big Bad, until The Reveal that he and Patricia Roland are in fact Co-Dragons to the Di-Jun Huang body double. And then all three of them get upstaged by Simon Keyes in the end.
• Dramatic Unmask: He burns away his wig and fake beard during his breakdown.
• The Dreaded: Despite his arrogance and stupidity, he is this to to a degree, thanks to his ruthlessness and the amount of power he holds, to the point even the fearsome Von Karma was put on edge by him. Sebastian is terrified of his father due to his upbringing, and everyone trying to dig up dirt on him is extremely cautious with Blaise in their presence, knowing full well he wouldn't hesitate to have them "disappear" thanks to his status and connections.
• Early-Bird Cameo: He was the unnamed Chief Prosecutor who gave Manfred von Karma his one and only penalty, as depicted in "Turnabout Goodbyes".
• Evil Sounds Raspy: His voiced objection is very raspy and sounds borderline demonic. It manages to sound even worse than Von Karma's and Alba's.
• Eviler than Thou: To Manfred Von Karma. While Von Karma ruined countless lives to maintain his perfect record, Debeste ruined lives for shits and giggles. He's far more sadistic and murderous than Von Karma and was far more directly abusive to his son. In fact, even von Karma is a victim of his villainy.
• Fangs Are Evil: Applies to both his teeth AND the skull on his belt.
• Faux Affably Evil: He frequently teases his son in a way that a Doting Parent would do, he also makes himself appears childish... and then he says that "the truth can be created", he murdered lots of people, and never drops his childish persona.
• Fiery Cover Up: One of his animations has him burning an undisclosed paper with his lighter. Considering his character, they could very well be incriminating documents from ongoing or past cases. And he's not afraid of doing this in plain sight.
• Goggles Do Nothing: He wears aviator's goggles which he occasionally has to empty of collected fluid. He literally says as much when he burns away his wig and fake beard during his Villainous Breakdown.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has a skull-shaped burn scar on his chin, underneath his beard.
• Greater-Scope Villain:
  • This guy has his fair share of responsibility for the whole series happening. Manfred von Karma ended up using evidence forged by Blaise in court, and when Gregory pointed it out, Blaise had to penalize von Karma in order to divert the blame from himself, leading the perfectionist prosecutor to start the DL-6 incident, which would change the lives of Miles Edgeworth (and Phoenix Wright by association) and Mia Fey (who also had considerable influence over Phoenix), as well as the rest of the Fey Clan (Misty went missing because of her involvement in the DL-6 incident, which caused the clan to lose prestige and Mia to become an attorney. Morgan and her daughter Dahlia would also have life-changing events happen to them because of this) and Godot/Diego.
  • And to top it all off, he is also involved in several international conspiracies and illicit dealings, being The Dragon to the president of a foreign nation. His influence over the setting more or less rivals that of Redd White, Damon Gant and Quercus Alba.
  • His alliance with Huang's body double and influence over the legal system is part of the reason why the real Big Bad of Investigations 2 is a paranoid and misanthropic mastermind.
• Hate Sink: He's in the running for the most vile sack of shit in the entire series, and it's only really because Ace Attorney is so good at creating some absolutely nasty pieces of work that he can't take that honor by a mile. There is literally nothing positive that can be said about him as a person. He is abusive, creepy, corrupt and is not even that intelligent or competent considering his status, unlike Manfred.
• Humiliation Conga: Exposed as a murderer and insanely dirty prosecutor, arrested, upstaged by his "idiot" son and the guy he tried to have disbarred and jailed, and his accomplice yells at him in court about what an Epic Fail his plot turned out to be. Plus when you get down to brass tacks, the whole thing was set in motion by an orphaned circus clown (though Blaise didn't find that last one out). All in the space of two days. That's gotta smart.
• I Have No Son!: Effectively says this to Sebastian near the end of the fourth case. The sentiment may not have been genuine, as he was intentionally trying to drive Sebastian from the room when even he had started to doubt Blaise and had knowledge that could damn him.
• It's All About Me: He only cares about himself. He doesn't care about a perfect record like most of other prosecutors do, he only cares to accomplish his goals. Even his "love" for Sebastian is just a façade, he only cared as Sebastian could be as Unwitting Pawn, and when Sebastian outlived his usefulness, he didn't care to say that everything Sebastian had become was because of Blaise.
• Jerkass: He makes Roland look tame and since he is the one behind the beginning of DL-6 (although someone else caused him to start the incident) and SS-5 (most of which was on him, especially the murder), you can't help but feel happy when you finally take him down.
• Knight of Cerebus: Investigations 2 was already Darker and Edgier than the rest of the series, but Blaise steps the tone up another level by virtue of how utterly malicious and cruel he is.
• Large and in Charge: Blaise holds the largest amount of status and power in the series when it comes to judicial system. In addition, he is shown to be significantly taller than most of the other characters in the game.
• Lean and Mean: In addition to being a corrupt official, he's extremely evil and has a very lean and narrow-shouldered frame.
• Leitmotif: "Prosecutorial Investigation Committee ~ Rigorous Justice". Technically the theme of the P.I.C., but it's very much associated with Blaise in particular, especially due to how sinister and oppressive it sounds.
• The Man Behind the Man: To Manfred von Karma, albeit indirectly.
• Meaningful Name:
  • His name can be read as banzai, an expression of celebration or cheering. Along with his surname, which can be read as Ichiryuu (meaning "first class"), it could translate as "forever number one" - a reference to his self-loving attitude.
  • Meanwhile, in the fan translation, "Blaise" (pronounced "blaze") certainly is fitting considering the lighter that he carries around.
• Might Makes Right: He makes fun of Edgeworth's righteous ideals while nonchalantly informing him that, once you get to his position, "the truth" is something that can easily be created.
• "Not So Different" Remark: He claims that Justine is no different from him in that she also used Sebastian as a pawn. She admits he was useful in getting close to Blaise, but that she respects Sebastian's efforts to try and solve cases despite his lacking intelligence far more than Blaise ever could.
• Obviously Evil: He makes no attempt to hide his villainous nature. It's really telling when his preferred animation is him giving a Slasher Smile. With his general philosophy of Screw the Rules, I Make Them!, he probably thinks he doesn't need to bother hiding it.
• Ocular Gushers: Whether it's all an act or whether he really is that sentimental, the man cries buckets at the drop of a hat, wringing the tears out of his beard and emptying them out of his goggles. With the reveal that his hair and beard are both fake, it's possible it's an allergic reaction to whatever material they're made of.
• Older Than They Look: He's neither balding nor graying and has some impressive abs. He's sixty-eight. Except it turns out he's actually completely bald, and wears a wig and fake beard. Though the abs are apparently real.
• Parental Betrayal: He's only too quick to discard Sebastian once he becomes a liability.
• Playing with Fire: Quite literally. And he has the burn scars to show for it, which ''really'' comes back to bite him in the ass later.
• Pragmatic Villainy: This is the central difference maker between Blaise and Manfred von Karma. Von Karma was more Lawful Evil (committing evil acts for the sake of his perfect win record) whereas Blaise is okay with losing cases if it fits his agenda, since he's playing a long game. As a result, he becomes Chief Prosecutor and later head of the P.I.C., commanding a great deal more power than von Karma ever did.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Certainly gives off this vibe. Him being 68 makes it even more disturbing.
• Pyromaniac: He likes to play with his lighter a lot. One of his animations even involves him waving it around while lit with a transfixed expression and his eyes following the flame.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He doesn't miss a chance to pour salt on others' wounds. A good example can be found in Case 5, when he believes Sebastian's efforts were useless and proceeds to rub in how incompetent he's always been:
  Blaise: Y'know, you've always called yourself a genius prosecutor, haven't you? Didn't I explain to you this morning why you were a genius up until now? That's right. It was all because of me. Because of my authority. You were always being protected. By people like Courtney... and me.
• Sadist: Blaise Debeste enjoys tormenting innocent people and making their lives hell for a quick laugh. He even humuliates his own son For the Evulz.
• Say My Name: Delivers an epic one to his Sebastian when finally beaten in court
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: His position as Chief Prosecutor and head of the PIC puts him in direct control of much of the legal system, therefore allowing him to get way with almost everything he does.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Used his connections to help Sebastian get ahead and gleefully rubs this in his face when he starts becoming a liability.
• Skeletons in the Coat Closet: He wears a skull on his belt.
• Slasher Smile: Quite frequently even during normal conversation!
• Small Role, Big Impact: He only appears in the last two cases of AAI2, the latter of which has him on trial, but there's almost nothing in the series that wouldn't have happened without his machinations.
• The Sociopath: A low functioning example, as he isn't particularly charismatic or intelligent. He treats everyone around him like crap, including his own son, constantly boasts about how his connections and influence allow him to simply "manufacture" the truth, and was involved in three separate murders. And it's implied he's had countless others "disappeared." Including his own wife. Much like Matt Engarde from Justice For All, he seems to take pride in being a completely awful human being, but unlike him, he can't hide it well in public.
• Stupid Crooks: For all the crap he gives Sebastian for being stupid, he's hardly any smarter, at least when it comes to committing crimes. In addition to being Obviously Evil, he seems to take precautions to cover his tracks in such a way that they end up all but pointless. To wit:
  • In Case 4, he wears a mask during the black market auction to cover his face and disguise his voice, but he picks the one mask out of over a dozen that leaves his chin exposed. Which is exactly where he happens to have a uniquely-shaped burn scar that gives his identity away to Jill Crane immediately. You'd think the Conductor who organized the whole auction would have had first pick of the masks.
  • Also in Case 4, he says that Kay's memories cannot be trusted after she reveals that the victim had a bull doll while trying to arrest her based on those memories not five minutes prior, saying that her confession was all they needed.
  • In Case 5, he tries to kidnap Courtney’s adoptive son to force her into acquitting Patricia Roland. The problem, though, is that he instructed his men only to verify that the boy they planned to kidnap knew Courtney, not that he was her son. Not only does this cause them to kidnap Sebastian by mistake, it allows the Big Bad to successfully kidnap Courtney’s son for the opposite reason.
  • Also in case 5, he's smart enough to wear gloves so his fingerprints won't show on the evidence, but he's also dumb enough to wear the same pair of gloves that he uses to work on his very oily bike. These gloves have letters on the fingertips spelling "D-E-A-T-H", which is left on the evidence due to the aforementioned oil. He gives the obvious excuse that anyone could go out to the store and buy the same kind of gloves, but the "A" is partially worn off on his pair, creating a unique "fingerprint" that can only be linked to him. So yeah... he forfeits his right to comment on anyone's intelligence.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He's the one who penalized Manfred von Karma, kickstarting the DL-6 Incident.
• Verbal Tic: He often tosses "ね ねー" or "ねえ" onto his sentences ("y'know" or "y'see" in the fan translation). The only time he seems to drop it is when he's working as the P.I.C. chairman.
• Villain Has a Point: When Justine has enough of his treatment of Sebastian and calls him out, Blaise counters that Justine used Sebastian as a pawn to help bring Blaise down. Justine admits he has a point, but counters that she actually had some appreciation for Sebastian's good intentions in spite of his ineptitude, unlike Blaise.
• Villainous Breakdown: Usually, during his "shock" animation, when he accidentally sets his beard on fire with his lighter, he's able to douse it by using tears collected in his goggles. During his breakdown, however, he doesn't react quickly enough and he presses way too hard on his lighter, causing it to shoot a towering column of flame before burning off his beard and hair.
• Villainous Cheekbones: He has very prominent cheekbones.
• You Fool!: He often calls his son an idiot, both in times when it is justified and when it is not justified.

Tsubasa Kagome (Jill Crane)

A defense attorney who investigated a corrupt prosecutor’s illegal activities. She confronted him in private. He killed her straight away.

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• Asshole Victim: We're led to believe she is the "Conductor" behind the illegal evidence auctions. Subverted, this turns out to be a lie. In fact, she was killed for attempting to turn the real Conductor into this as Revenge for him killing her lover.
• Bludgeoned to Death: Killed by a whack to the head with the gavel used in the auctions.
• Curtains Match the Window: Brown hair and brown eyes.
• Dead Man's Chest: She was hidden in a trunk in the evidence storage area.
• Improbable Age: Downplayed. She would've been in her very early 20s at the time of the SS-5 Incident, meaning she would've been fresh out of law school at best if she was the defense attorney for that case.
• It's Personal: She suspected that Blaise killed her boyfriend.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Her name could mean "a bird in a cage", which is a reference to Kagome Kagome, a Japanese children's game.
  • A question in the rhyme is "who is behind the falling of the turtle and the crane" - who is about to stab her in the back. Her boyfriend represents the "turtle", and the person who is behind his falling is Blaise Debeste - the same person who killed her.
  • In the fan translation, her first name comes from Jack and Jill, while her last name comes directly from her Japanese name. Particularly fitting since her boyfriend Jack "fell" first, then Jill "went tumbling after" when she tried to avenge him.
• Posthumous Character: The same as Robert Hammond. Miles's job is to find the truth behind her death.
• Sweet Polly Oliver: Someone else dressed her up like that, however.
• Sympathetic Murderer: More like Sympathetic Attempted-Murderer. She was killed by her would-be Asshole Victim instead.

Tōko Mutō (Karin Jenson)

A university hospital nurse. She's Bonnie Young's granddaughter and she assists her from time to time. She found and treated Kay after she fell down and lost her memories. She was coerced into working with Blaise Debeste. He made her don a mask and the victim's clothes to pretend that she was one of the auction customers.

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• Blackmail: If she didn't help with Blaise's plan to kill Jill Crane, her grandmother will be prosecuted for producing the false autopsy report for the IS-7 Incident.
• Curtains Match the Window: She has black eyes and hair.
• Dead Person Impersonation: After Blaise killed Jill during the auction, he made Karin switch clothes with her and pretend she was one of the customers.
• Generation Xerox: She ended up just like her grandmother.
• Kawaiiko: In comparison to her grandmother, she's immensely adorable.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: While her treatment of patients is a little over the top (Kay didn't need to be covered up so much with bandages), her clumsiness comes to a full stop when she deliberately puts false information into patient records only because her grandmother was being threatened.
• Punny Name:
  • Her Japanese name comes from the word for glucose (budoutou).
  • Her name in the Fan Translation comes from "care" and "injection".
• Translator Buddy: To her grandma.
• Villainous Breakdown: Has one with her grandmother, she laps her grandmother's bun so fast and rapidlly that it pops, knocking her down to the floor in the process.

Otome Itami (Bonnie Young)

A coroner and the director of the Dye-Young hospital (Itami Hospital in Japanese) who works with Karin Jensen;, her grandchild. She's very old and when speaking she always whispers it to Karin who then relays it loud enough to the others. She was forced to work with Blaise Debeste. He made her create a fake autopsy report, which he then gave to von Karma. Blaise then threatens to ruin her and her hospital's reputation with this fact, in order to get Karin to work for him.

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• Anime Hair: She has an orb-shaped bun that's as large as her entire head. It's also lavender-colored. It pops when Karin hits it too much.
• Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: Acts as the tsukkomi to Karin's boke. Gumshoe lampshades this upon your initial meeting with them together, wondering if they're currently witnessing a comedy act at the moment.
• The Dividual: She never appears without her granddaughter.
• Gonk: She has a very old and wrinkly face with spectacles thicker than Coke bottles.
• Non-Indicative Name: Usually, "otome" is used to describe a young lady. She most definitely isn't. The same applies to her Fan Translation name: "Bonnie" is Scottish slang for "pretty," and "Young" is self-explanatory.
• Punny Name: "Itami o tome" means "stop the pain".
• Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: She's kind to those she likes. Not so much to everyone else.
• The Voiceless: She does talk, but the player never gets to hear her.
• Younger Than They Look: She looks like she's in her eighties or nineties, but she's only sixty years old. This is especially weird when you look at Blaise Debeste, who is 8 years older than she is and quite spry by comparison.
• Villainous Breakdown: Has one with her granddaughter, who starts it. Karin slaps her Bonnie's bun so fast and rapidlly that it pops, knocking Karin down to the floor and knocking Bonnie's glasses off her face in the process.

The Grand Turnabout (Oinaru Gyakuten)

For Penny Nichols and Will Powers see respective pages.

Shimon Aizawa (John Marsh)

A 13-year old child actor often mistaken for an elementary school student. He has a starring role in the upcoming Moozilla movie. He is being raised by Justine Courtney, his late mother's cousin. He is the son of the real Di-Jun Huang.

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• Adorably Precocious Child: He is surprisingly sharp and perceptive for someone his age, a fact that catches Edgeworth off-guard more than once. He is also noted by Will Powers to be as professional as an adult actor.
• Animal Motif: Based around the cow theme.
• Badass Adorable: When he's introduced, he impresses Edgeworth by holding his ground against Lang. In the end, he even almost kills a professional assassin, and his reason for ultimately stopping from doing so isn't cowardice, but love for his adoptive mother.
• Berserk Button: Don't call him an Elementary School student.
• Bratty Half-Pint: He addresses adults as old people and doesn't like to be seen with his mother whenever she wants him to behave.
• Chekhov's Gunman: He first appears during Case 3 in the gallery, then in Case 4 while working on the Moozilla movie before finally becoming a witness in Case 5.
• Dark Is Not Evil: He has imp-like horns, but isn't a bad guy.
• Disappeared Dad: His dad's been dead for a long time.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Visited Zodiac Art Gallery in The Inherited Turnabout and filmed a scene in front of the Grand Tower in The Forgotten Turnabout.
• Failed a Spot Check: Completely failed to notice Blaise Debeste hiding in the lot and Simon Keyes lowering a body into the lot from a hot-air balloon. Granted, he had earphones in at maximum volume and was talking on the phone for the latter event, but still.
• Happily Adopted: He's aware that Judge Courtney is not his biological mother, yet he calls her as his mother anyways and genuinely does think of her as family.
• Heroic Bastard: He is the offspring of an affair. He is still good, if somewhat bratty and rude, and loves his mother and colleagues.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's about as brash and cranky as you'd expect a 13-year old boy to be, but he cares about his adoptive mother and can show respect to people if they impress him. He also refuses Dogen's Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You, not because of If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!, but because becoming a murderer would hurt his adoptive mother and everyone else who cares about him.
• Leitmotif: "Pointed Age," a cool and slightly funky theme that reflects how assertive and uncaring he is.
• Meaningful Name: "Shimon" means fingerprints. In the fan translation, John's name is shared with a prominent real-life rancher who lived in California.
• Missing Mom: She died a few years ago so he was adopted by her cousin.
• The Napoleon: He's as short as an elementary school student and isn't proud of it. It's possibly also the reason why he's keen on drinking so much milk.
• Older Than They Look: He's a 13-year old middle school student, who looks young for his age and wears an elementary schooler's backpack due to playing one in the film. Most people are surprised once they find out.
• Perpetual Frowner: He always has this "not impressed" look throughout the entire case. The one other emotion he shows besides this one is shock.
• Punny Name: In the fan translation, his given name "John" sounds similar to his father's "Di-Jun."
• The Stoic: He doesn't smile throughout most of the game. Once you startle him though, he's just like any other boy.
• Tell Me About My Father: The Di-Jun Huang he saw killed was an imposter. And only the imposter, Patricia Roland, Blaise Debeste, Sirhan Dogen, and Simon Keyes knew about the real one. So it's perfectly understandable.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Milk. His damage sprite shows that his backpack contains more milk cartons, and when he gets kidnapped, a milk carton is used to track him down.
• You Killed My Father: To Dogen. He contemplated Revenge for a while, but ultimately decided against it, claiming that while he might enjoy it, his mother won't.

Dairyuu Rou (Dai-Long Lang)

The late father of Shi-Long Lang. He was the main investigator of the SS-5 incident. He realized that there was a conspiracy and started investigating it. However, the evidence was manipulated by a corrupt prosecutor, who then blamed him and his investigators. The scandal tarnished the reputation of the House of Lang and caused Shi-Long Lang's grudge against prosecutors.

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• Death by Origin Story: He's long dead by the time the game is set. His death in disgrace is what made Shi-Long Lang what he is today.
• He Knows Too Much: His (and his clan's) fall from grace was set up because of this.
• Meaningful Name: Like his son, his English name is a Mandarin reading of his Japanese name. "Dai-Long" by itself means "great dragon".
• My Greatest Failure: The SS-5 incident became one not only for him, but for his entire family.
• Secret-Keeper: He deduced that Di-Jun-Huang was killed and replaced by a body double, but never disclosed it to avoid political chaos.

Ryūji Kamei (Jack Cameron)

A freelance journalist who died 12 years ago. He was the only known victim in the SS-5 Incident. He and his lover, defense attorney Jill Crane were investigating a prosecutor, whom they suspected of secretly selling evidence.

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• Age-Gap Romance: Jack and Jill were both murdered in their thirties, meaning there was an over 10-year age gap between them.
• Bludgeoned to Death: He was killed by the back of his head being smashed with a brick.
• Going for the Big Scoop: Proved lethal.
• Gonk: Although one of the few examples of this trope to have a girlfriend despite his looks.
• Meaningful Name:
  • His last name contains the word kame (turtle). One of the lines from the chant in the Japanese children's game "Kagome Kagome" (referenced in his girlfriend, Tsubasa Kagome's name) is about a turtle and crane slipping. Since turtles and cranes are symbols of good fortune, it's been theorized that their slipping is a bad omen.
  • His first name in the fan translation is a reference to the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill" (also see Tsubasa Kagome/Jill Crane). Particularly fitting since Jack "fell" first, then Jill "went tumbling after" when she tried to avenge him.
• Punny Name: His last name in the fan translation is a play on "camera".

Ami Aizawa (Amy Marsh)

John's mother. She worked at the orphanage "Happy Family" with Patrica Roland. She died when John was 8 so her cousin, the judge Justine Courtney adopted him.

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• Alliterative Name: In Japanese, Ami Aizawa.
• Punny Name: In the fan translation her name is a multi-layered reference to her original Japanese name. "Amy" not only sounds similar to Ami, but its etymological meaning is love, which can be read in kanji as "ai". "Marsh"—which does derive from the English word of the same spelling—is one way to interpret "zawa".
• Posthumous Character: She is dead by the time the story begins. Also, she seems to have died of natural causes.

The real Teikun Ō (Di-Jun Huang)

The president of Zheng Fa, who was assassinated 12 years prior in what came to be known as the 'SS-5 Incident', and his identity was assumed by his body double.

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• Face Death with Dignity: The real president, upon meeting his assassin, did not beg for his life or try to bribe Dogen to spare him. He explained to Dogen that he was there to meet his illegitimate infant son for the first time, and simply asked for permission to do so before being killed.
• Heroic Build: And unlike his body double, his seems to be genuine.
• Kill and Replace: The president's body double replaced him after planning his murder.

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