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Defendants, victims, witnesses, and other minor characters from The Great Ace Attorney. See here for the main characters and here for major characters. See here for the character sheet of the entire Ace Attorney series.

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The Jurors

The Jurors

Six civilians randomly chosen to preside over the trial and make a verdict. Each case in The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures from Case 3 onward and in The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve's case 2 and 3 features a different jury.

Ax-Crazy: Juror No. 3 from Case 1-3.
Bratty Half-Pint: Juror No. 5 in case 2-3 is a young girl who spends her time eating corn on the cob, and spends more time thinking about the corn rather than the case.
The Cameo: Juror No. 1 in 1-3 appears unconscious on the floor of Madame Tusspells wax museum during Case 2-3 after he was caught trying to steal a waxwork's arm and wound up getting smashed on the head with it by Tusspells. He has no relevance to the case, and does not wake up before the investigation there is finished. Juror No. 5 in Case 1-3 appears as a porter at the hotel where Jigoku and Mikotoba stay at the start of Case 2-4.
Contrived Coincidence:
- Despite London having a population of 6 million people at the time and the jury being randomly-chosen, some Jurors actually end up having some relation to the case at hand, like Cases 1-4 and 2-2's Jurors 5 and 6 (construction worker and old man, respectively) being proven to be possible witnesses in favor of the defendant (never mind Juror 4, Joan, who was not only directly involved in the case but is the true culprit of it, and is eventually replaced by Quinby Altamont). Case 1-5 takes the cake though, with Jurors 3 and 5 (stereoscope and telegraph experts, respectively) giving vital contribution to the case through their talents, as well as the surgeon (Juror 4) who actually operated on Sholmes (a victim of the same case) requiring the opinion of a firearms expert at one point, which Vilen (Juror 6) is. To top it off, Ashley Graydon's identity was learned of in court through Juror 5, who was one of Graydon's coworkers. This is Lampshaded by Naruhodo, who wonders if the selection process is actually random.
  Ryunosuke: ...I'm fairly sure I recognise these jurors. Almost all of them, in fact.
- The jury selection for Case 2-2 is somewhat justified, as Van Zieks mentions that they tried to call upon the same jurors as in 1-4, which, in-universe, only happened two days before, with Quinby Altamont replacing Joan Garrideb.
- Despite having an entirely fresh set of Jurors, 2-3 still has this trope, as Jurors 3 and 4 being a Magician and member of the Royal Society, both of whom are familiar with Enoch Drebber, Juror 6 being the undercover cop at Esmeralda Tusspells' gallery, and Juror 2 being Evie Vigil would would appear in the next case.
Eat the Rich: Juror 3 from Case 1-3 clearly has a low opinion of rich folks like Magnus McGilded. Ultimately he ends up being right in his conviction.
Greek Chorus: They'll comment on Naruhodo's strategies and the cases' twists and turns. Their moods are an indicator for how well his defense is going.
Grumpy Old Man: Juror No.6 in case 2-3 is an old policeman who constantly complains that things weren't like what they used to be in his days.
Improbable Age: Juror No. 5 in case 2-3 is a young girl who appears to be not even ten years old. In real life, one has to be at least 18 to be eligible for jury duty.
It Will Never Catch On: Juror No. 5 in case 1-5 claims that stereoscopes have no future. In a Nintendo 3DS game, a system that uses stereoscopic technology. When the game was ported to consoles without 3D functionality, the context behind this joke was completely changed, seeing how the late 2000s/early 2010s 3D fad had largely died out by that point.
Meido: The maid Juror, who shows up as Juror 2 in both Cases 1-3 and 1-5.
No Name Given: With a couple of exceptions, namely previous witnesses, Joan, Quinby, and Vilen, none of the jurors are given names.
No-Nonsense Nemesis: A majority of the jurors in Case 2-3 are notably more stern and less comical that the previous ones such as Juror No.4 who's a member of the Royal Society and the current case involves determining whether the defendant's experiment is real or a sham, save for the magician, corncob girl and Evie Vigil (and even then, the latter is noted by Ryunosuke to be a lot more astute than she lets on). They're also more reasonable than the previous jurors, and even support Ryunosuke's arguments with their knowledge if they hold water, but they have their limits when he presents an argument that's ridiculous on surface-level and push for Judicial Reasoning with much less biased reasons, given that he's accusing a highly-respected coroner of being a conspirator to murder and faking the death of a notorious Serial Killer and the corncob girl correctly points out that at present, there's no evidence that the Professor waxwork was used in the murder.
Plot Tailored to the Party: Each case usually involves at least one juror's expertise in some form or another.
The Professor: Juror No. 4 in case 2-3 is a member of the Royal Society who uses science in his decisions.
Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite mild xenophobia and classism from some of them, the jurors as a whole tend to be willing to listen to reason, and should Ryunosuke manage to point out a flaw in their argument they usually change their verdict without much issue. The best example comes from Case 2-3 of with Jurors No. 3 and 4, being a magician and Royal Society member (a scientist), who give their expertise to support Ryunosuke's arguments especially since they're dealing with a crime involving a scientific magic trick.
Shoo Out the Clowns: The jurors as a whole generally lean towards the sillier side of Ace Attorney characters; the final case, which is much more serious, is conducted with a closed court and therefore has no jury.
Stage Magician: Juror No. 3 in case 2-3 is a stage magician. He is not amused by the possibility of stage magic being used in murder.
Telegraph Gag STOP: Juror No. 5 in case 1-5 does this.
Two Girls to a Team: With the exception of case 1-3, all the juries have four men and two women on them.
Typewriter Eating: Juror No. 5 in case 2-3 eats several cobs of corn while making typewriter sounds.
You All Look Familiar: Ryunosuke winds up having this thought in Case 1-5, where the jury consists of John Garrideb from Case 1-4, Juror No. 2 (the maid) from Case 1-3, two Jurors who look uncannily like Jurors from past cases (the female communications officer looks like the woman with the typewriter from Case 1-3, while the doctor looks like the man with the green coat from Cases 1-4 and 2-2), and, most perplexingly of all, Vilen Borshevik from Case 1-2.
You Are Number 6: Nearly the whole time, jurors are only referred to by their numbers, even if they are characters whose name is actually known.

Debuted in Adventures

The Adventure of the Great Departure (Oinaru Tabidachi no Bouken)

John H. Wilson (John H. Watson)

Voiced by (Japanese): Takayuki Sugo (GAA)

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A visiting doctor and professor from England, who has been teaching at Yūmei Academy for three years. Was shot and killed in the restaurant La Carneval (La Quantos).

Adaptational Villainy: The degree of 'adaptation' is debatable, considering by the nature of the story they're two unrelated characters, but the person named John H. Watson (or Wilson, in the case of the localization) in this game was involved in the plot to frame Genshin Asogi by forging Klint van Zieks' autopsy report and produced Genshin's ring as fake evidence against him. Yujin even recalls how John insisted that he knew what he was doing as the leading forensic despite Yujin's claims that the ring's sharp claws would have very obviously created internal damage. There's also the matter of being a member of the Reaper conspiracy, using his position as coroner to tamper with the autopsies of the victims in order to fuel the public perception of the Reaper 'curse'.
Canon Character All Along: A complete inversion. Case 2-5 reveals that, not only is he not Iris's father, he was not the great partner of Herlock Sholmes either; that was Yujin Mikotoba. Thus, beyond sharing the name and medical background, he is completely unrelated to the original version of John Watson.
Cruel and Unusual Death: The effects of the poison Curare are total paralysis, including the muscles for breathing. He suffocated to death while unable to cry for help, in the middle of a restaurant.
Decomposite Character: Of the original Watson, with Ryunosuke and Iris. And Yujin, the actual partner of Sholmes, meaning he's In Name Only compared to the other three.
Disappeared Dad: To Iris Watson, as he left her in Sholmes' care when she was young. Except he actually isn't at all, and is in fact completely unrelated to Iris entirely.
In Name Only: Is this in relation to the original Dr. John Watson, as he is revealed to be neither Iris's father nor Sholmes' partner.
He Knows Too Much: Stronghart had him killed as a loose end in "The Professor" case.
Narrator: He narrates the introductions to each of the cases despite being the first case victim. Justified for the second case onwards as the intros are either excerpts from actual Holmes stories (cases 2 and 5) or are Holmes stories written in-universe (cases 3 and 4), all of which are told in Wilson's perspective. As Iris is the author of the stories in-universe, she is the actual narrator.
Public Domain Character: Yes, he's that Dr. John Watson. Except not really.
Red Herring: A twofer:
- Both Ryunosuke and Susato truly believe that he is Iris's father due to the same last names but refuse to tell her about his death for obvious reasons. However, Resolve reveals that he's not related to Iris in any way.
- Given "The Adventures of Herlock Sholmes", the pair also deduces that he's Herlock's partner. This also proves to be false.
Same Surname Means Related: Just one reason why he's suspected of being Iris' father. He's not.
Walking Spoiler: For a victim of the first case of a game, he's got a lot more significance in the duology.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: With Stronghart planning to take the office of Attorney General and already having employed Dr. Wilson's protege, Dr. Sithe, as his new right hand in the field of forensics, Wilson's knowledge of the frame-up made him nothing more than a liability to be assassinated.

Iyesa Nosa (Taizou Uzukumaru)

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A sergeant of the Imperial Japanese Army who witnessed Wilson's murder in the restaurant La Carneval (La Quantos).

Busman's Vocabulary: Even though he's not on duty, Sergeant Nosa certainly acts like he is. For example, he calls Ryunosuke a "cadet" and Dr. Wilson a "civilian" during his testimony.
Classified Information: Tries to claim this after making a comment about being told not to mention anything about a gentlewoman.
Foreshadowing: When his co-witness acts angry about the disappearance of his coin, Iyesa panics more than when told about the murder. He is the thief, but not the killer.
Good Parents: He even takes his baby with him to court, and his motive for thievery is to give the kid proper hot food.
Justified Criminal: He is unable to support his family because of his low salary and the high taxes that haven't been lowered from the last war, leading to him committing the series of thefts in La Carneval, so his son can have real food.
A Lighter Shade of Black: Most criminals in Ace Attorney are killers. He is merely a thief with a good motive, like Ron DeLite.
Meaningful Name:
- 'Uzukumaru' means 'to crouch'. His son's name, Kuroumaru, comes from 'kurou', meaning hardship.
- His name in English is taken from "Yes, sir! No, sir!" - a la a private responding to a superior officer. His son's name, Aido Nosa, is taken from "I don't know, sir!"
Spanner in the Works: An unusual example, in that he very nearly ends up being this to the player rather than the culprit. Hiding Korekuta's koban under his beef steak, followed by swapping said beef steak with Jezaille's own steak, means that he unwittingly concealed the evidence that proves Jezaille's guilt in the murder. If not for Jezaille making a careless remark that proved the steak actually wasn't hers, he'd have caused Ryunosuke to be convicted instead of her.
Trademark Favorite Food: Japanese-style beef cutlets. Even his Verbal Tic in the Japanese script forms 'cutlet' together!
Villainous Breakdown: Once he is exposed for the string of thefts, Aido grabs his mustache and rides him like a horse before bending his back so far that the baby carrier flings to his front. The both of them then do a military salute.
Would Hurt a Child: Not directly, but in his panic of being ousted as the Le Carneval Bandit, he quickly tries to pin the thefts on Aido, his infant son. Ryunosuke is quick to call him out on this, leading to his Villainous Breakdown.

Kyurio Korekuta (Sanmon Sonohigurashi)

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An antique dealer and owner of a store, 'Rasu-Tei' (Ponkotsu Hall). Lost a koban at the time of the murder.

Alliterative Name: Kyurio Korekuta, In the original script, Sanmon Sonohigurashi.
Antiquated Linguistics: His method of speech, so much so that it baffles Ryunosuke.
Chekhov's Gun: His koban ends up becoming important evidence to prove Ryunosuke's eyewitness account and Jezaille's guilt.
Iconic Item: His koban. He's also examining a vase and a knife in some of his sprites, but these pale in comparison.
Meaningful Name:
- His name in Japanese means 'making a pittance day by day'.
- In English, his name is read as "curio collector", which fits with his profession.
Non-Standard Character Design: He's rather short and strange-looking compared to the more realistic looks of everyone else in the courtroom.
Skewed Priorities: He seems more concerned with examining his artifacts than giving reliable testimony, as he's fiddling with them while he speaks. And, as eventually revealed, he was more interested in finding his missing koban coin than he was about a man having just been murdered, meaning he actually didn't see the moment it happened.
Worthy Opponent: Despite his previous anger, he actually seems impressed by Iyesa's plot to steal his Koban.
Younger Than They Look: He's only in his sixties, the same age as the far less withered-looking Manfred von Karma.

The Adventure of the Unbreakable Speckled Band (Tomo to Madara no Himo no Bouken)

Bif Strogenov (Mitrov Stroganov)

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A senior board officer aboard the SS Burya (SS Alaclair). Was in charge of monitoring and security in the first-class cabin.

Adaptational Heroism: Not Bif himself (he's original to the games), but his pet snake. The original "speckled band" snake was used as a murder weapon; Pirozhko is just Bif's pet and doesn't even seem to be venomous.
The Atoner: After his role in the Frame-Up becomes clear, he decides to follow Roylott into exile in America, personally apologizing to Ryunosuke for his treatment of him first.
The Dragon: Even though he didn't kill anyone, Strogenov assisted Nikolina in covering up the crime scene for her supposed murder of Asogi. He wasn't aware that she pushed Asogi in the first place while doing so, as he assumed it was entirely her cat's fault. He was also behind the Frame-Up that made it seem like Ryu was the main culprit and even before all of that, he and the rest of his crewmates drugged everyone else on board with sleeping pills in order to make an emergency stop to pick up Nikolina.
Facial Markings: His head seems to have strange red stripes running across it like camouflage paint. It's a physical sign of his beloved pet snake Pirozhko liking to coil around his skull.
Hair-Trigger Temper: It doesn't take much to set this guy off, though he never actually physically assaults anyone.
Head Pet: Pirozhko, the snake that is supposed to be the "speckled band" of the case, is actually his pet and a Red Herring to the murder. Once the snake is revealed, it wraps around his head without any panic on Strogenov's part.
Husky Russkie: He's pretty big and strong. Ryunosuke comments that his massive arms are the size of tree trunks when he claims he couldn't fit them through a vent.
Love Makes You Evil: Downplayed, but his desire to protect Nikolina leads him to try to frame an innocent man for murder, something he himself admits in the finale of the case.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Definitely not a nice fellow as he treats everyone (especially Ryu) with hostility. However, he does have a soft side, as shown with how he cares for Pirozhko and Nikolina.
Morality Pet: Literally Pirozhko, and figuratively Nikolina, though in the latter case he's willing to get his hands very dirty because he cares about her.
Papa Wolf: Even though she isn't his daughter, Strogenov is fiercely protective of Nikolina and isn't afraid to fight for her safety.
Poirot Speak: Downplayed, but he sometimes drops articles and almost invariably pronounces the word criminal as "kriminal."
Punny Name: Meatloaf and stroganoff. In the English version, beef stroganoff.
Red Right Hand: Downplayed. He's not evil, but he has strange red markings all over his face from the snake coiling around it all the time, and he frames Ryunosuke for murder to cover up that Nikolina was the one who attacked Kazuma.
Shown Their Work: All his strange-looking word constructions are actual Russian proverbs and idioms.
- "When the lobster whistles on the mountain" is explained in-game: equivalent to "When pigs fly".
- "I'll show you where the lobsters spend winter" means "I'll give you hell".
- "Even a hedgehog understands" means "It's incredibly obvious".
- "They say they milk chickens" (full version "They say they milk chickens in Moscow") means "It's easy to tell or repeat a lie".
- "I give my tooth" means "I swear it's true".
Sibling Yin-Yang: To his brother Tchikin. Both break the law in order to protect people accused of wrongdoing, but while Bif is motivated by loyalty to the person in question, Tchikin was bribed. Bif also protects his culprit who had no malicious intent and is very remorseful of her "killing" Kazuma, but Tchikin protects his culprit, who deliberately killed Gregson.
Snakes Are Sinister: Subverted. He owns the snake standing in for the eponymous Speckled Band from the original Holmes story. However, in this question the snake turns out to be harmless - or, at least, nonvenemous. It's not clear whether it could harm anybody who wasn't built like a brick shithouse by coiling around their heads, but Bif is impervious to it.
A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: After seeing Nikolina in the corridor and learning what she'd done, he sent her to her room and quickly and clumsily tried to frame Ryunosuke for the crime after discovering him in the wardrobe (by writing the Russian word for "wardrobe", namely, "GARDEROB" in the Cyrillic alphabet). Notably, his Frame-Up had several gaping holes, suggesting it was the work of a rushed, distracted mind.
True Companions: To Grimesby Roylott. Nikolina Pavlova's father was a sailor, and she used to dance in her ship's band before being headhunted by the Russian ballet. When she fled the ballet, citing abuse, the sailors were the only family she had left, and they helped her escape.
Visual Pun: His tie is shaped like a fish. And it's red. Think about it. While he isn't the culprit of the case, he's still an accomplice, so this is zig-zagged.

Grimesby Roylott

Grimesby Roylott / Nikolina Pavlova (Nikomina Borshevic)

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A Russian gentleman who resides in the room next to Asogi's.

Adaptational Heroism: In the original Adventure of the Speckled Band, Roylott is a violent, short-tempered, horrible human being who had killed one of his stepdaughters and intended to kill another to obtain their parts of his dead wife's inheritance; in here, Nikolina is a meek ballet dancer seeking asylum in America who befriends a man in the neighboring cabin, but accidentally injures him following a misunderstanding.
Adaptational Nationality: Roylott in the original SPEC descended from an aristocratic Anglo-Saxon family. Here? Russian.
Affectionate Nickname: She is often called "Nina" by her guardian Bif Strogenov.
- Alternatively, this might be her real name, and she took "Nikolina" as a grander-sounding stage name.
Anti-Villain: She really did not mean to injure Asogi. She just went through one of the most stressful days of her life, was already walking a tightrope trying to run from the Russian authorities, and had to reveal her true identity to a total stranger to get her cat back... then Asogi appeared to be going for the cabin's bell cord, and Nikolina panicked.
Big "NO!": When it's revealed that she's the culprit, her reaction is this (in Russian, no less).
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Once the original facade crumbles, the real Roylott seems like a shy and gentle person. Ultimately averted. Nikolina is every bit the scared teenage girl in over her head she seems like, and Asogi's death, while something she is responsible for, was a horrible accident and the result of her panicking and pushing him without meaning to knock his head into the bedpost.
Composite Character: While Nikolina may just be an In Name Only adaptation of Grimesby Roylott, her actual role in the case is more similar to, of all things, the titular horse of The Adventure of Silver Blaze; the subject of a mysterious disappearance who turns out to be responsible for the death of the murder victim in the case, albeit in an accident. The case even uses a variation of the now-famous 'curious incident of the dog in the night-time' clue with Strogenov's log book. Both Nikolina and Silver Blaze even have happy endings at the end of their stories, albeit for very different reasons (in the latter's case, the victim turned out to have been intending to injure the horse in order to fix an upcoming race; while in the former, the victim turned out to have never died in the first place).
Earn Your Happy Ending: After the case's conclusion, Herlock cleared up the situation regarding Asogi to her and then helped her escape to America as she intended (since she still committed theft). Considering what she'd gone through, it's well-deserved.
Foregone Conclusion: Played with. Case 2 is based on 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band', and those who did read it would know that Roylott is the killer - and then Roylott is revealed to be Nikolina. From that point, the details between SPEC and Case 2 begin to differ to the point of Deconstruction; in fact, the original solution is outright dismissed for reasons familiar to Holmes readers! Pavlova IS the "killer," as such, but everything else is different.
Gender Flip: From a male, English doctor to a female, Russian ballerina.
Go and Sin No More: Once the events of the case are fully revealed, Ryunosuke, seeing that Nikolina is consumed with remorse over the results of a moment's panic, strongly admonishes her never to forget that what she's done cost a man his life... but then asks Stroganov to take care of her following the events of the case, still concerned for what will happen to her following her defection from Russia. Afterwards, without Ryunosuke and Susato's knowledge, Herlock confirms her victim's survival to her and then helps her escape to America, beyond the reach of her abusive masters.
In Name Only: His Holmesian namesake is a late-middle-aged British aristocrat. This Roylott is a Russian nobleman. Downplayed, since "Grimesby Roylott" is a psuedonym. She is Russian, but Pavlova is not nobility, and is quite female.
Little Stowaway: Subverted; not only do the crew know she's on the ship, but they're in on it.
My God, What Have I Done?: Roylott's reaction when she learns what Asogi was really going to do after she told him of his identity is pure shock and regret.
Paper-Thin Disguise: Roylott's disguise consists of a brown fake beard, Groucho Marx-esque glasses, and an Ushanka... with Nikolina's long, flowing blonde hair dangling out behind her. In her defense, she had boarded the ship the night before and was just about to cut her hair off before Ryu, Susato, and Sholmes barged into her cabin.
Perpetual Frowner: As Nikolina, she keeps a fearful and nervous expression on her face the whole chapter, which makes sense considering the horrible mess she's got into. The only smile we ever get from her is in a photo with her cat..
Poor Communication Kills: She pushes Asogi to his (assumed) death after wrongfully assuming the "second opinion" he talks about getting was from his detective friend.
Punny Name: For her Japanese name, Nikomina Borshevic, Nikomi is Japanese for stew. Borshevic may come from the Bolsheviks or borscht. For her English name, Nikolina Pavlova, "Pavlova" comes from a meringue cake named after a famous Russian ballet dancer, but it could also be a reference to "Pavlov" and her spur-of-the-moment attack was driven by her fear that someone was about to ring a bell.
The Runaway: Of the Abused and Orphan variety. She ran away from the Novavich ballet troupe after being exploited for her fame, has no surviving family or real friends except for the SS Burya crew and her cat, and no money to her name either since the troupe never paid her. She got along with Asogi nicely, but ends up accidentally injuring him in a panic when she thought he was going to reveal her to the ship's captain.
Samus Is a Girl: Though it's not long after we meet Nikolina that the identity is revealed.
Shout-Out: Shares the same name as the antagonist of the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Speckled Band. Not so for her true identity.
Shrinking Violet: Roylott's real personality is quite shy and timid. This doesn't change when Nikolina is revealed as the culprit. Concept art showing her in America◊ indicates she's growing out of it now.
Small Role, Big Impact: See Spanner in the Works. A character who only appears in a single chapter and is rarely mentioned afterward drastically changes the course of the story for the entire duology.
Spanner in the Works: Roylott couldn't have possibly known about any of this and probably still doesn't, considering she's at the other side of the Atlantic ocean at the series' conclusion, but incapacitating Asogi - and in the aftermath of the ensuing fake murder scenario, Herlock appointing Ryu as the replacement transfer student - meant Jigoku couldn't fulfill his part in the transfer assassination plot until a nearly a year after the case...where he decides to do it himself, leading to a series of events that led to Ryu unraveling the Reaper conspiracy.
A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: When seeing Asogi seemingly reaching for the bell cord, Roylott panicked and reacted in such a way as to set off the grim events of the case.

Vilen Borshevik (Dmitri Demiglaski)

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A notorious Russian revolutionary who had apparently fled to London. Herlock suspects Roylott of being him.

Affably Evil: He's a notorious revolutionary, but he's an extremely patient man who looks down on people who judge others by their appearances. He ends up helping solve Case 5, too.
Alliterative Name: Dmitri Demiglaski in the original script.
Brick Joke: He appears for real in Case 5, as Juror No. 6.
Chekhov's Gunman: When "disappearing bullets" are brought up, he recalls an earlier incident where he was seemingly shot, but the medics were unable to find any bullets despite there being a very prominent wound. Turns out it was actually a shrapnel explosion from the bullet hitting some ice near him, and the ice melted inside of him. The same thing happened with Herlock where the third bullet hit his vial satchel and he was wounded from the compounds exploding.
Eloquent in My Native Tongue: Vilen clearly hasn't fully mastered the English language, and while he has an okay vocabulary, he has to look up several words over the course of the trial he serves as juror for.
Gun Nut: He hasn't been seen with any guns but he does claim to know a lot about firearms, having researched many of them and offers his knowledge to the court.
Pet the Dog: He tenderly strokes his little pet mouse while speaking very calmly. Subverted when his anger is roused; he then squeezes the poor creature in one of his fists.
Punny Name: Demiglaski is from demi-glace. In the English version, "villain" and "Bolshevik" (the winning party of the Russian Revolution).
- The name Vilen doubles as a Call-Forward Meaningful Name: in the Soviet time, some people gave their children "revolutionary names" which were abbreviations of the Russian Revolution heroes and concepts. Vilen, in particular, means Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
- Another Bilingual Bonus (seemingly intentional, since it's written this way in the Russian newspaper): the surname, Borshevik (Борщевик), is, in addition to the intended pun, the Russian word for hogweed, a nasty invasive weed in Eastern Europe.
Red Herring:
- Despite having a distinctive design and being a dangerous revolutionary, he ultimately has no relevance to Case 2 and after the first Dance of Deduction sequence, is never mentioned again for the rest of the case.
- Although he seems to be planning to do something to the Crystal Tower in Adventures, this doesn't appear in Resolve when the tower in question is a central location in Case 3 nor is he connected to the actual incident that takes place near it.
Refuge in Audacity: He's an outright juror in Adventures' Case 5 but no law enforcement officer connects the dot, except for Ryunosuke, who points out right away the stupidity of his appearance... only for all the other British members of the court to shrug it off, except for the understandably-nervous juror seated immediately next to him.
Right-Hand Cat: Or in his case, a Right-Hand Mouse. He pets it while talking and tends to squeeze the mouse when angered.
Suspiciously Specific Denial: He would like you to know that he's just a regular tourist off to see the Crystal Tower, and definitely not a Russian revolutionary.
Western Terrorist: He is one of these.

The Adventure of the Runaway Room (Shisso suru Misshitsu no Bouken)

"Thrice-Fired" Mason (Thrice-Fired Mortar)

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A poor brick-layer. Was stabbed to death inside the Phoenix Wright Omnibus.

Alliterative Name: In both the original script (Mortar Milverton) and the localization (Mason Milverton).
Chekhov's Gunman: Seemingly just a regular run-of-the-mill victim, except for the fact that his meeting with his killer leads directly to Case 5, happening two months afterward. In addition...
Luke, I Am Your Father: He's Ashley Graydon's father.
Meaningful Name: "Mortar" and "Mason", being architecture-themed names related to his job.
So Proud of You: In the flashback, he's shown to be overjoyed at what a success his son grew up to be.
Take Me Instead: Once he suspected that his son is involved in a shady business, he voluntarily go trade with McGilded in his place to deflect the blame away from his son, not knowing what the trade really is about.
True Craftsman: Is noted to be the one of the best brickmakers in London. It's actually the reason why his son chose him to create the disks encoded with national secrets, his skill ensures the quality of the disks and his honesty means he won't question the idea they're simply for music. Sadly, the sheer amount amount of money he gets given for his work causes him to realize something fishy was going on anyway which leads to the events of his death and everything that followed.
Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Described by his son as a honesty soul who never became corrupted by poverty. He gets murdered by McGilded for trying to get his son out of a deal to commit treason.

Beppo

The coachman of the Phoenix Wright Omnibus, and a witness to the murder. He later moonlights as a street vendor under the alias 'Sandwich' (see Twisted Karma and His Last Bow below).

Back for the Finale: He reappears in Case 2-4 under a pseudonym, although Ryunosuke's not fooled.
Chekhov's Gunman: See Small Role, Big Impact.
Laser-Guided Karma:
- He charged a higher fee for each passenger on the day of the murder of Mason, resulting in one passenger's worth of extra profit. And yet there was a stowaway on his Omnibus, resulting in him driving an extra passenger without knowing it.
- As Sandwich, he steals Gregson's metal trunk hoping to pawn it for money, only to get tackled by Toby and Gina.
Shout-Out: From the Holmes' story The Adventure of the Six Napoleons.
Small Role, Big Impact:
- Only revealed after Case 3, but McGilded bribed him into taking his bloodstained coat to Windibank's pawn shop. The coat happened to contain one of the discs with state secrets on it, which results in McGilded's accomplice needing to break into the pawn shop to get it back. Without this, Case 5 would never have occurred.
- Happens again in Case 2-4, where he appears even more briefly and does only one significant thing: Him stealing Gregson's metal trunk, which he hoped to pawn for money, means that it was never officially entered into evidence itself, which catches Kazuma in an I Never Said It Was Poison moment later on when he somehow knows that Gregson's passport was found inside it anyway.

Bruce Fairplay (Oscar Fairplay)

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A banker who witnessed the crime onboard the omnibus at the time of the murder. He later acts as Juror No. 1 in both of Soseki Natsume's trials.

Awesome Aussie: "Awesome" is a bit of a stretch, but the localization gives him a lot of Australian-isms. Pressing him as Juror No. 1 in Case 4 reveals that he's a Londoner, but he did spend a period of time in Australia to take advantage of the gold rush there during the period.
Demoted to Extra: While he had a large role in the first game as a witness to the murder in case 3 and as a juror in case 4, in the second game he only returns once as a juror in the second case (which is a flashback case that takes place during the first game.)
Framing the Guilty Party: Lies on the stand saying he saw the exact moment McGilded stabbed Mason to guarantee McGilded's conviction. This is partly because he has a large outstanding debt to McGilded, but he also truly (and correctly) believes McGilded to be guilty of the murder.
The Gambling Addict: Heavily implied to be the reason for the debts he owes to McGilded.
Know When to Fold 'Em: He's a very abrasive personality, but true to his name, he knows when to fold.
Morally Bankrupt Banker: Subverted. Ryunosuke briefly considers his debts to McGilded a possible motive, but he's not the killer. The worst thing he does besides borrow his bank's money to bet on horses is commit perjury, and even then he was Framing the Guilty Party anyway.
Punny Name: Refers to the term "fair play," referencing his personality.
Reasonable Authority Figure: Although he's clearly bitter against Ryunosuke when he returns as the foreman of the jury in Natsume's trial, he ends up being surprisingly willing to hear out the defense's arguments. He even speaks up against van Zieks, arguing that they must examine every possibility.
Red Herring: At some point in the trial, Ryunosuke establishes a possible motive involving his debts to McGilded. It turns out to be irrelevant to the case.
Visual Pun: His habit of looking profile at his sides looks like how faces are rendered on pennies, befitting his banker job.

Lay D. Furst (Adam Ladyfirst)

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A milliner-in-training who witnessed the crime along with Fairplay.

Cloudcuckoolander: His "angry" animation has him riding an invisible horse. In court. Complete with galloping noises!
Dumb Blond: He's not stupid, but still not the brightest bulb.
Inconsistent Spelling: In the JP script, Ladyfirst or Readifast?
Punny Name: Ladies first.
Too Much Information: His stories tend to go into this territory.
Terrible Artist: His hat-making skills leave a lot to be desired, such as his own one and the victim's, who he incidentally sold one to.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Furst's fate after the third case is never shown. Though Fairplay becomes a juror in the next case and reveals that the police let him go after questioning him, Susato wonders what happened to Furst.

The Adventure of the Clouded Kokoro (Wagahai to Kiri no Yoru no Bouken)

John Garrideb

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Soseki's landlord, and a retired veteran who received a knee injury back when he was in service. He rents out rooms in his house.

Returns in Case 5 as Juror No. 1.

Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Despite the repeat violent interplay between the two, the conclusion to Case 4 shows he still genuinely loves Joan, and she loves him right back.
Busman's Vocabulary: He describes many things with analogies towards war battles, such as calling Joan's Domestic Abuse as "being under enemy fire".
Bridal Carry: Joan does this to him after he faints once Herlock and Ryunosuke figure out that Joan is his wife and they had a quarrel the night of the attempted murder. Attempts to do this with a fainted Joan in their breakdown once their part in the incident is revealed in court, with less successful results. Their wedding picture seems to display a much-younger John holding Joan in this position as well (though the cracks on the frame's glass prevent us from seeing Joan's face).
Decomposite Character: He's one of the many characters to have traits inspired by John Watson in the Sherlock Holmes stories. In his case, being a former member of the British Army that was wounded in the Battle of Mainwand.
Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: He's always seen holding a pipe, though he doesn't appear to actually be smoking it. It contains a vital clue to finally prove Soseki's innocence as inside the pipe is a small piece of metal that is the broken tip of the knife found at the crime scene.
Dual Boss: With Joan, as they're the last two witnesses of the case they appear in, and accordingly both are the last obstacles to proving Soseki's innocence.
Fat and Skinny: The skinny to Joan's fat.
Graceful Loser: Downplayed. While he's still very frustrated over the arrest of his wife in GAA 2-2 (and he uses it to snarkily dismiss Ryu's appeal of having solved the mysteries in his house if you press him as one of the jurors in GAA 1-5), he does willingly give Ryu a lot of vital information needed to solve the Shamspeare poisoning case (which, mind you, happened the day after the trial for Olive Green's stabbing).
Henpecked Husband: To Joan. When Naruhodo and Susato arrive, his wife had previously subjected him to a particularly violent rampage due to a misunderstanding caused by a previous owner’s love letter being in one of his pre-owned books. She spends most of the ensuing conversation boiling hot tea on his lap whenever he starts talking too much.
Mistaken for Cheating: A love letter was used as a bookmark by a previous owner of the second-hand book he brought. Joan sees it, goes ballistic, and thus led to Olive Green's accidental and non-lethal stabbing.
My Greatest Failure: He doesn't have this during his military service, but when it comes to being the landlord Duncan Ross's death is this. It is why he monitors the gas line when it comes to his tenants.
One-Steve Limit: Averted. He shares the first name as John Wilson.
Phony Veteran: Well, he's an actual military veteran, but he's not as decorated or well-compensated as he would want people to think he is. He owns a run-down building, and he can't rent its rooms for more than a pittance, so the Garridebs' finances leave them on the edge of low class, hence his wife posing as his maid to appear as middle class.
Shout-Out: The surname comes from the Sherlock Holmes story 'The Adventure of the Three Garridebs'.
Solar and Lunar: The Lunar to Joan's Solar. His hair and beard give his head the shape of a crescent moon. Also, his wedding ring has a moon design.
Visual Pun: While the name Garrideb is taken from the Holmes stories, his and his wife's designs are built from a Japanese pun made from that name - 'garigari' meaning skinny and 'debu' meaning fat.
Younger Than They Look: The Court Record lists his age as 46 but he can easily be mistaken for someone a decade or two older. This could be justified by accumulated stress and declining health brought on by his living situation and wounded leg.

Joan

Joan Garrideb

Garrideb's maid. She is selected by the courts to be the fourth juror in the Olive Green assault trial.

Accidental Murder: Well, accidental "attempted" murder. The knife that could have easily killed John through stabbing his face ended up falling down the window at the precise moment Olive was bending down to pick the fallen burning book Joan had tossed prior, falling and stabbing straight into her back.
Bridal Carry: She carries Garrideb like this after he faints following the Dance of Deduction segment. Garrideb later tries to do this with her after she faints in court, with less successful results.
Clingy Jealous Girl: The reason why she keeps assaulting John is she saw a love note left for a "James" in one of his second-hand books, and the thought of him cheating on her makes her so angry and jealous that she can't think straight.
Collateral Damage: She threw a knife intending to cut her husband when she wrongly believed him to be cheating on her. She missed, so the knife went out the window and into Olive Green's back while the latter was bent over to pick up a book on the street, making her guilty of assault and reckless endangerment.
Domestic Abuse: She commits this crime, assault, and reckless endangerment when she discovered some other couple's love letter in a used book that her husband bought. On another note, she also frequently overfills her husband's teacup, causing scalding tea to spill in his lap, as well as slapping him in the face powerfully enough to leave a mark, intentional or otherwise.
Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Even a quarter of what she does to John Garrideb would be viewed as horrifying were the genders swapped. She threw several items at him, including a knife, repeatedly slaps him in the face hard enough to leave a clear handprint, and frequently pours boiling tea on him. She even extends this abuse to the juror sitting next to her in case 1-4. All of this is Played for Laughs, to the extent that the adjacent juror in question is unfazed because his wife hits harder than she does.
Dual Boss: With Garrideb.
Fat and Skinny: The fat to Garrideb's skinny.
Fat Bitch: She repeatedly commits Domestic Abuse, and is the culprit of Case 1-4. The case wouldn't have happened at all if she hadn't tried to effectively murder her husband over a note in a secondhand book. She later tries to weasel her way out of the situation, remains uncooperative to the bitter end, and becomes increasingly insulting and racist towards Ryunosuke the closer he gets to the truth.
Food Slap: In her disguise as maid, repeatedly pours hot tea onto John's lap either to keep him quiet about certain details or in anger at his perceived infidelity. When the Garridebs are on the stand she continues to pour hot tea even though they are under oath.
Foreshadowing: There's a few hints to her being the true, albeit accidental, culprit of Case 4.
- When we first meet her and Mr. Garrideb, she often cuts him off from telling Ryunosuke and Susato what he knows by pouring hot tea on his lap and then, without prompting despite her position as a maid, she rambles about how suspicious Soseki is and claims that he must be the culprit, likely realising that one of their knives were missing after her rampage and potentially linking it to the stabbing.
- During the trial where she appears a juror, she and Juror 5, a road worker who wants the trial to end quickly, are quick to express aggravation with Juror 6, an old man, over his choice of overcoat being the same colour as the victim's when Ryunosuke suggests that he was the one walking in front of Natsume when the stabbing occurred, since it'd be grounds the extend the trial. Unlike the road worker, she has less obvious reason to be upset, with her making no claims to be in a urgent hurry, further suggesting that she knows more than she lets on.
- On a minor note, she's the only Juror to never change her stance after a Summation Examination.
Green-Eyed Monster: She mistakenly believes that her husband is having an affair with a woman who had accidentally left a love letter allegedly for him in a book John rented at the bookstore. Even after the altercation and proving he wasn't seeing someone else, she is still fuming about it to the point of violence whenever it's brought up again.
Heel Realisation: When her actions are revealed, she finally accepts that she almost killed someone and expresses genuine remorse over what she has done.
I Need a Freaking Drink: Non-alcoholic version. When worrying about something, she proceeds to repeatedly pour herself some tea and drink it. She humorously pours too much scalding tea on her husband's teacup/smoking pipe because she's still pissed about the so-called affair.
My God, What Have I Done?: She is distraught when she realises she almost killed someone, finally accepting her punishment at the chapter's end.
Pet the Dog: She apparently let Natsume borrow a bike, even if she was rather forceful about getting him to use it. Pursuing her while unprompted at any point in the trial also reveals she's still wondering about what she and John would give him as a welcoming present.
Scullery Maid: She appears to be this. Subverted since this is a disguise to make her husband look like a middle-class man since hiring a maid is the barrier between lower-class and middle-class society.
Shout-Out: Her real surname, "Garrideb", comes from the Sherlock Holmes story 'The Adventure of the Three Garridebs'.
Solar and Lunar: The Solar to John's Lunar. Her wedding ring is shaped like the sun, and her maid's headgear around her round face and cheeks resemble the sun sending out rays, in contrast to John's long, thin face and pointed hair and beard looking like a crescent moon.

Roly Beate (Patrick O'Malley)

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A constable devoted to his duties, and a witness to Olive Green's stabbing.

Dirty Cop: Downplayed. He did tamper the crime scene but not out of self-interest nor ill will towards Natsume Soseki. Finagle's Law had to kick in at a time he didn't want to be a cop. He and Patricia were spending their anniversary together when the stabbing incident happened, and to make matters worse it was at HIS beat. This would kill their anniversary plans so he moved the victim and the books from the crime scene to outside his beat, but he lost his gift to Patricia in the process of tampering the crime scene. He also flat out apologizes once the truth is exposed about this incident.
Easily Forgiven: Implied. As he and Patricia leave the court after his crime scene tampering is exposed, Van Zieks warns him, in reference to him not noticing the rose Patricia dropped, that he should be more aware of his surroundings in the future, and warns him to not to make a repeat of his actions, hinting that he plans to use his influence to make sure he isn't too severely punished.
Everyone Has Standards: He states that while he did tamper with the scene so it would be out of his jurisdiction, he states in no uncertain terms that he wouldn't have done so if he knew Olive Green was still alive, showing clear regret at having left a unconscious woman out in the cold. He also made it a rule to make sure Olive was in the exact position she was in when he and Patricia found her, which helps Ryunosuke when he goes as far as to make sure "The Lion's Pride", John Garrideb's book that was thrown out the window during his fight with Joan, was in Olive's hand, not only allowing the crime to be linked to the Garrideb's, but also allow him to prove how the knife ended up in her back.
Henpecked Husband: Downplayed, especially compared to John Garrideb. Because of how sleepy he is during the trial, Patricia has to forcefully tug on his scarf several times to get him to speak for himself, and sometimes she uses his fists to make little punching motions at the defense and prosecution.
Moment of Weakness: As he puts it, when he realized how close the crime was to the border of his beat, he started lying about what beat the crime was on and he couldn't believe the words were coming out of his mouth. When his actions come to light in court, he clearly feels quite terrible about having tarnished Scotland Yard's reputation so horribly.
Noble Bigot with a Badge: During his testimony, he, like his wife (and most of the jury during the trial), makes some insulting remarks towards Natsume in his testimony.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When Ryunosuke suggests that Joan Garrideb may be the culprit on account of the John's book being found at the scene, he's suddenly up and at them when asked to explain how that's impossible, catching Ryunosuke and Susato off-guard. This is because he realizes that his crime scene tampering is at the risk of being exposed.
Overworked Sleep: Is mostly drowsy throughout his testimony. As pointed out by the Old Bailey's judge, he basically has to patrol about 20 miles of London's streets on foot.
Punny Name: His and Patricia's first names are a play on "patrol". The pun actually serves to further show how in love the two are. In addition, the jurisdiction of his patrol beat turns out to be a critical piece of evidence.
Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Patricia. The two of them take nearly every opportunity to show their affections for each other.
Villainous Breakdown: Heavily downplayed. He isn't the culprit but when his tampering is exposed, Roly truly wakes up and when he gave his account that confirms Ryunosuke's theory he breaks down and apologizes over the disgrace he gave to Scotland Yard.
What You Are in the Dark: His decision to move the crime scene to the next beat was spontaneous. Upon realizing they were on his beat, he yells to Patricia directions towards the other bobby's beat as she's rushing to the police box before he realizes what he's doing.

Patricia Beate (Rola O'Malley)

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Roly's wife, and a witness to the incident. Very proud of her husband.

Dual Boss: With her husband Roly, of whom you spend most of the case's trial dismantling their testimony.
Everyone Has Standards: Is quite appalled by the stories of domestic abuse coming from Jurors 4 and 5.
Foil: To Joan. While Patricia is blissfully in love with Roly and thinks he can do no wrong, Joan is extremely distrustful of her husband John Garrideb and believes he is cheating on her thanks to a completely unrelated bookmark. It's also worth noting that Patricia only pulls on Roly's scarf in order to wake him up from his Overworked Sleep, while Joan regularly makes a habit of pouring boiling-hot tea in her husband's lap and is shown to be violently abusive to him.
Inconsistent Spelling: In the JP script, Rola or Lola?
Motor Mouth: Does most of the talking when called up to the stand with her husband, since Roly is exhausted from the constant patrols. However, her volunteering more testimony to prove herself right and protect her husband's reputation inadvertently leads to...
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: While not a villain, she does end up accidentally saving Ryunosuke from disaster twice over the course of the trial. Her and husband's testimonies are rock solid until she goes out of her way to supplement them with extra information that gives the defence an opening to object. Her commenting on the number of books helps link the Garridebs to the stabbing, and her commenting on Roly's patrol beat ultimately causes Roly to reveal that he had moved the scene of the crime, thus offering the defence the possibility of a different attacker.
No Sense of Direction: Which is why she doesn't notice that the victim had been moved to the other side of the street.
Punny Name: Pat+Roly = Patrol, a pun carried over from the original script (albeit reversed).
Sickeningly Sweethearts: With Roly.
Take Me Instead: After Roly confessed to moving the crime scene so that he could have a proper anniversary dinner with his wife, she begs to be punished in place of her husband.

The Adventure of the Unspeakable Story (Katararenai Monogatari no Bouken)

Pop Windibank (Hatch Windeback)

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The pawnbroker of the pawn shop Herlock frequents. Killed by a shot to the heart.

Cowardly Lion: He's a stout older man whose go-to response to conflict is putting a gun to his head, yet he's able to put up a decent fight against two burglars who've broken into his shop while also managing to shoot their leader. He likely would've lived if his killer hadn't impulsively shot back in shock.
Meaningful Name: His surname, Windibank/Windeback, sounds like "wind it back", something you do to a music box to make it play. "Pop" and "Hatch" refer to either the music box which has "hatches" that "pop" open, or to both a stereoscope (where an image "pops" out at you) and the peephole (or "hatch")
Mood-Swinger: Generally seems like a down-to-earth guy who's a little exhausted by Sholmes' antics. But when it comes to his business, well, see Suicide as Comedy.
Punny Name: His localized name is a play on "pop in the bank," referencing how his pawnshop doubles as a bank for patrons to "pop" items for safe keeping.
Reasonable Authority Figure: Demonstrates a surprising level of kindness when the events his final moments are revealed. He willingly allows Gina to enter his storeroom when he realizes she isn't actually planning to rob him. He also protects her with his life and keeps her out of danger when things quickly go off the rails.
Shout-Out: His character design is modeled after the Granada adaptation's portrayal of pawnbroker Jabez Wilson from the Sherlock Holmes story "The Red-Headed League"; during a Dance of Deduction sequence, Sholmes' initial deduction references the scheme from the original story.
Suicide as Comedy: Has a habit of putting a gun to his head over the most minor mistakes, which is Played for Laughs.

Eggert Benedict (Egg Benedict)

Eggert Benedict (Egg Benedict) / Ashley Graydon (Robert Crogrey)

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A mysterious gentleman who appears in Windibank's pawn shop. Has a tendency to twirl around like a ballroom dancer.

The Ace: Case 5's Juror No. 5 is one of his co-workers and shows him as this in his line of work.
Accidental Murder: Played with. He really didn't mean to kill Windibank, he just fired his gun out of panic and happened to hit him in the heart. However he was at the pawn shop to steal back the discs containing state secrets, which is already a capital crime in itself and his murder of McGilded months back was very much planned.
Adaptational Attractiveness: This version of Milverton, King of Blackmailers is considerably younger and easier on the eyes than the literary version.
Adaptational Heroism: Heavily downplayed, but the Charles Augustus Milverton of the Holmes canon was a despicable blackmailer without any redeemable traits who seemed to take a perverse joy in extorting his targets into oblivion. Here, while Ashley is a ruthless criminal who has stolen British government intelligence and will do anything to escape justice, his childhood of poverty and the death of his father at McGilded's hands are still regarded as tragic.
Adaptation Name Change: From Charles Milverton to Ashley Milverton. In-universe, it's entirely possible that Iris renamed him for her stories.
Big Bad Duumvirate: Despite not being as powerful or influential as McGilded, he is still considered a force to be reckoned with, due to his easy access to top-secret government info.
Canon Character All Along: "Benedict" is revealed to have been born into the Milverton family, and is the game's equivalent of the infamous titular villain of The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton.
Classy Cane: He has a walking stick he can strike poses with. It has his real initials, A.G. for Ashley Graydon, engraved on it.
Childhood Friends: With the Skulkin Brothers, which is why they are helping him out with the pawn shop job. He's ashamed of this as they are a reminder of his childhood in London's poor population, and tries to conceal this for most of the case.
Cold Ham: Being an archetypal British gentleman, he is usually composed and almost expressionless. No, instead he emotes by constantly striking poses like he's a JoJo character.
The Cracker: A late 19th century example. He's an expert communications officer famous among the department for solving all sorts of ciphers, and he uses his position to sell government secrets to Magnus McGilded.
Cut Lex Luthor a Check: He's already cashed his checks with his skills at being a communication officer with a large paycheck, but his determination to never return to poverty again like his childhood led to him committing treason and murder.
The Dandy: Meticulously groomed from head to toe, and is constantly making flamboyant poses in all his appearances. Gina outright calls him a dandy in their first meeting. Given his background, keeping an immaculate appearance is likely part of his attempts to distance himself from his days growing up in poverty.
Decomposite Character: To Charles Augustus Milverton. Ashley gets his name and his vast information network (via working in the communications sector).
Dragon Their Feet: He is The Dragon to Magnus McGilded, and gets fought after Graydon murdered McGilded.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He cares about the Skulkins, his childhood friends, and part of the whole series of events that led to Windibank's death was him avenging his father's death.
Evil Brit: A high-class British antagonist.
Final Boss: The final witness and murderer. However, the Big Bad is someone else.
Foil: Slowly revealed to be one to Gina Lestrade, of all people. Both of them were individuals with troubled home lives born into extreme poverty and were forced to find less than legal means to survive on their own. They're both haughty and rough, but surprisingly clever when push comes to shove. However, Gina has lines she won't cross and grows to trust the people around her. After GAA2, she decides to follow Gregson's example and fight for justice. Benedict, on the other hand, chooses never to trust a soul, hurts others for his own profit, and makes deals with Gregson for the sake of escaping his own crimes.
Freudian Excuse: He was born in the slums, a life of poverty that he deeply resented. This gave him an unhealthy obsession for hoarding money to cope with the memories of his miserable childhood. Even after managing to achieve a respectable and well-paid career as a telecommunicator by his own, he couldn't let go his obsession with amassing more money, which led him to accept McGilded's deal and steal secret information from the British government.
Gender-Blender Name: Justified as Ashley is a masculine name in Britain, while "Ashleigh" is the feminine variation.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: With the Skulkin brothers.
He Who Fights Monsters: Admits he became just as bad as McGilded in his scheme to get revenge on him. Van Zieks even paraphrases the trope-naming quote when he calls him out on this, and the man himself agrees.
Light Is Not Good:
- Dons a gaudy white suit with a matching top hat, but this does nothing to hide how truly sinister he is.
- It's also hinted at in his real surname, which in EN combines with his first name to make 'ash gray', and in JP Chrogray, as it's a romanized portmenteau of kuro-grey (black-grey).
Marathon Boss: Takes the entirety of the last two parts of the final case's trial to defeat. Not helped by the fact that he's assisted by Gregson in the last legs of the trial.
Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Graydon was loyal to McGilded until the latter murdered the former's father.
The Mole: He was McGilded's mole in the British government who stole government secrets to sell to McGilded.
Obviously Evil: The fact that he pulls a gun on the protagonists over a minor dispute before the murder plot even starts is proof enough that he's not just your average witness.
Opportunistic Bastard: Strikes a deal with Inspector Gregson while on the witness stand, giving Gregson the second music box disk in exchange for details about the crime scene that he can use in his testimony.
Past Experience Nightmare: Even after growing out from poverty, he admits to having nightmares during his time as a communication officer and wanted more money just to forget his past.
Punny Name: "Eggs benedict." His name might also be a play on Benedict Arnold, an American traitor, since Eggert committed treason by stealing government secrets to sell to Magnus McGilded, who in turn sold those secrets to foreign governments.
Rags to Riches: Grew up poor before getting a comfortable, well-paid job.
Repetitive Name: In the JP script, his birthname, as rendered in literal Romaji, would be "Rubaato Mirubaaton"
Self-Made Man: Went from the poor son of a brickmaker to a highly paid communications officer.
Spectacular Spinning: Some of his damage animations cause him to spin out of control.
Surrounded by Idiots: Childhood Friends or not, his choice in using the Skulkin Brothers as accomplices for his heist turns out to be one of the biggest reasons for his defeat, as the two of them constantly blab his secrets - often without even realizing it - and flounder and fumble through their role before finally fingering him outright out of panic. As the crime scene is described, they didn't even do an especially good job helping during the heist itself, with him doing everything while they panicked and made even more incriminating evidence.
Sympathetic Murderer: He killed two people, but one of the deaths was effectively an accident, and the other deserved everything that happened to him.
Theme Song Reveal: McGilded's theme, Suspect from the Fog, typically plays alongside him. Sure enough, he's been selling government secrets to the man, and on top of that, he was the one who burned McGilded alive out of revenge.
Tragic Villain: Despite his crimes, Graydon is painted as a tragic figure whose obsession with lifting himself out of poverty, while initially both inspiring and respectable, overpowered everything else about him once he achieved his lifelong goal of escaping his humble roots. Notably, neither of his murders are wholly villainous actions, he specifically killed McGilded in revenge for his father's murder, and only killed Windibank in a freak accident while trying to steal back the government information he leaked.
Villain in a White Suit: He's rather suspicious from the word go, and he turns out to be leaking government secrets to Magnus McGilded and one of the main antagonists of The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures.
Villainous Breakdown: He breaks his cane on the witness stand, then he attempts to strangle Gregson with it.
"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Notably the first murderer in the entire series to actually have one in the game he debuted in, which he shares with the Skulkin Brothers. He sulks a bit before the Skulkin brothers cheer him up, vowing to break all three of them out of prison to start new lives as dairy farmers.
You Killed My Father: His motive to kill McGilded.

The Skulkin Brothers

Nash and Ringo Skulkin (Nemmy and Tully Tinpillar)

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Nash

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Ringo

A small-time criminal duo. They broke into Windibank's pawn shop and witnessed the murder.

Alliterative Name: In the JP script, Tully Tinpillar.
Bad Liar: Just like basically everything else they do, they're also bad at lying. Though they are quite good at inadvertently telling the truth...
Big Little Brother: Despite their appearances, Nash is the younger brother of the two.
Blatant Burglar: Including Domino Mask and everything, which they wear to testify in court.
Blunt "Yes": When the judge asks them if they broke into Windibank's with Ashley Graydon, they say, "WE DID, GUV, WE DID!!!"
Bumbling Henchman Duo: A classic pair of bumbling burglars working under a more serious criminal, in this case Ashley Graydon.
Card-Carrying Villain: They are fully aware they are Blatant Burglars, and introduce themselves as professional baddies.
Childhood Friends: They've known Graydon since they were kids. This proves important, as it exposes Graydon's true identity as Mason Milverton's son and McGilded's former accomplice and killer.
Department of Redundancy Department: They're introduced as Mr. and Mr. Skulkin.
Dual Boss: They testify together.
Even Evil Has Standards: They may be self-proclaimed villains, but they draw the line at national treason upon hearing that they were hired to steal government secrets. They're unabashed crooks, but by the Crown they're British crooks through and through. Also, while they did panic fire at Holmes and seriously injure him, they admonish Graydon for killing the innocent pawnbroker who - in Ringo's words - "didn't have to die."
Fat and Skinny: Nash is skinny, Ringo is fat.
Funetik Aksent: They have prominent Cockney accents. For example, the game brands them as "the Skulkin Bruvvers" due to their accent.
Laughably Evil: While they do commit one serious act of violence against Herlock Sholmes, it was more out of panic than anything else and they're otherwise portrayed as comedic, hopeless criminals. They provide much of the comedy in the final case as bumbling fools.
Lost in Translation: The large T embroidered on the back of their jackets makes a lot more sense with their Japanese names, but it helps that the skull on top makes it look like a cross instead.
Long-Lost Relative: For whatever reason, they believe Gregson to be their long-lost brother.
Loose Lips: They accidentally revealed the truth many times.
Minion with an F in Evil: They actually hinder their "mate" Graydon more than truly help them, frequently through slips of their tongues or contradicting testimonies. They also weren't very helpful to Graydon during the pawn shop job, but he needed some extra hands.
Not-So-Harmless Villain: For all their comedic antics, it's worth noting they nearly killed Sholmes when they shot at him, though they were panicking at the time due to the situation.
Punny Name: Their Japanese last name sounds like "chinpira" or "small-time crook". Their English names refer to the Japanese words for pear and apple respectively, and their last name "Skulkin" is either a play on the word "skulking" ("sneaking about") or the skulls on the backs of their coats.
Shout-Out: With their color scheme and Ringo being the shorter yet elder brother, it brings the brotherly duo of Mario and Luigi to mind.
Skeletons in the Coat Closet: They each have a letter T on the back of their clothes with a skull on top. The overall symbol looks a bit like a cross.
Stupid Crooks: They're both dim-witted and incompetent, both as criminals and as witnesses.
Terrible Trio: With their "mate" Graydon included, they actually form a classic one; a haughty, intelligent leader and two buffoonish minions.
Trademark Favorite Food: Pears for Nash, apples for Ringo.

Escapades

Madam Rosie

The victim of a murder trial in which Herlock Sholmes is accused of.

All Just a Dream: Her 'murder trial' turns out to be this by a tired Barok, who had been waiting at Stronghart's office for several hours at that point. While she did get accidentally crushed between a door and a doorframe by Gregson, she was immediately taken care of and is in good health by the time of Escapade 8.
All of the Other Reindeer: Was originally Stronghart's parakeet until his doves started picking on her for being different, at which point he assigned Gregson to take care of her. By the time of Escapade 8 though, it appears the doves have started to accept her back.
Sustained Misunderstanding: Ryunosuke, Barok, and the Judge are all under the impression that Madam Rosie is a human person. She's not - she's a parakeet.

Debuted in Resolve

The Adventure of the Blossoming Attorney (Bengo Shoujo no Bouken to Kakusei)

Raiten Menimemo (Heita Mamemomi)

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A journalist who was following Soseki around for a story regarding his visit to Yumei University.

Anti-Villain:
- Despite undeniably being an arrogant jerk with no qualms about letting an innocent woman be convicted for his own crime, he shows shades of this. He has convinced himself that his own justice is the only absolute kind, and that he has to take it into his own hands to uncover the truth at any cost.
- His murder is yet another heat of the moment murder in which he killed Brett especially after she was racist towards him. He planned on killing her before, but this sealed the deal.
Chekhov's Gunman: His first appearance in the case is as an animation gag regarding Soseki's poses before being brought in as a proper witness to the case.
Curtains Match the Window: His hair and eyes are both brown.
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Him killing Jezaille, the murderer back in "The Adventure of the Great Departure", is enough to count as The Killer Becomes the Killed on her part, but it becomes even more bold for Menimemo when it turns out the woman he killed was the trigger finger for the entire Reaper conspiracy.
Flechette Storm: It doesn't hurt anyone, but at one point in the trial, he angrily tosses pencils everywhere in this fashion.
Going for the Big Scoop: He appears in the case because he was following Soseki around for a story. He was aiming for another story as well, namely the poisoning of Dr. Wilson, but when he came to Brett for an interview she rudely dismissed him. On another note, a story he wrote regarding government backdoor deals prolonging Brett's deportation was rejected by the newspaper he worked for. He also stole the poison to get it analyzed and expose the secret project in an article, not to use it as a murder weapon.
His Name Is...: In a fit of rage after his arrest, he confronts Yujin Mikotoba about him knowing what happened to Kazuma on the SS Burya, and was about to say something else before getting thrown and knocked out by Judge Jigoku. After this, Susato later visited him in prison and asked him what he was about to say then. He reveals to her that his investigations also discovered that Kazuma's body completely vanished in Hong Kong before it could get picked up.
Hypocrite: Despite his claims about justice, which he cites as his motive for killing Brett, "Ryutaro" is quick to call him out on the fact that he tried to frame an innocent girl for his crime. He finds that he has no retort to this.
Immoral Journalist: He's the killer of the first case, and has little qualms about invading Rei and Jezail's privacy for the sake of a scoop even before he's exposed.
Improbable Weapon User: Used his fountain pen to conceal and carry poison to later spike a drink with it. However, he wasn't planning to kill anyone with the poison he stole and planned to analyze it, only using it in the spur of the moment after Brett insulted him.
Inappropriate Pride: He openly boasts about not intervening in a conflict that could lead to murder for the sake of a news scoop. Whether he subtly express his frustrations about the media or not remains unclear.
Insane Troll Logic: He claims that, since Brett was killed via a poisoning, that means he's innocent because all he did was stab her in the back. While it actually makes sense because it would be an attempted murder rather than a murder itself, it's one of the wildest claims a witness has made in the franchise.
Intrepid Reporter: Subverted in the case of Brett's murder, as he turns out to be the murderer. Played straight for the other things he was investigating, like the backdoor deals and the matter of Kazuma Asogi not making it to England.
Knight Templar: Seems to have originated as a fair and honest journalist, but the things he learned about his country, and Jezaille Brett's lack of punishment drove him to his cynicism and led to his crime.
Leitmotif: "One Journo's Menimemoism"
Oh, Crap!: While eavesdropping over Membami and Brett's argument over the poison he just put in her drink earlier, he freaks out after learning just how secret it was, since if the authorities and the university learnt that it was used in this case, they would only have to investigate a very few number of people who were present at the time, so he had to cover up the method by backstabbing Brett with a knife.
Older Than They Look: Would you believe he's 38?
Punny Name: His localized name sounds like "writin' many memo[s]", perfect for a journalist who eagerly jots down notes for his latest article.
Spanner in the Works: His murder of the Reaper Conspiracy's go-to assassin causes them a problem one year later regarding Gregson's murder since his planned assassin Kazuma was already presumed dead, but even after he was found alive, he had other ideas and ultimately gave up on it, leaving only Seishiro Jigoku the only suitable alternative to finish the job, and is ultimately caught.
Starter Villain: Surprisingly, this trope is very much Played Straight. While all games following Trials and Tribulations have the first culprits be somewhat important to the overall plot of each game, Raiten basically has very little impact on the main plot following the first chapter of Resolve as the game talks far more about his victim than himself.
Stealth Pun: He spikes Jezaille Brett's drink with toxic alkaloids he keeps concealed in his fountain pen. In other words, a literal poison pen.
Sweet on Polly Oliver: Downplayed, but Menimemo notes that "Ryutaro" is "strangely handsome" when he first appears on the witness stand.
Sympathetic Murderer: Of a sort. His murder of Brett is entirely understandable (especially since it happened in the heat of the moment after she referred to him with a racial slur), but his framing of Rei was not, something he bitterly admits to when confronted over it.
Villain Has a Point: While it doesn't justify his attempted Frame-Up of Rei, it's hard to blame him for his murder of Jezaille Brett, considering how she became a Karma Houdini after Naruhodo exposed her and the likelihood that, based on the British Empire's previously shown corruption and the Japanese Empire's utter subservience to their whims, that she would have remained one. He also chews out Yujin for hiding the fact that not only Kazuma didn't make it to England, but his body also vanished from Hong Kong.
Villainous Breakdown: He swings his camera around, ranting that nothing of this is ever his fault, the Japanese empire is bending to foreign powers so he had to do it, he battles day and night for the sake of news and works only for justice, until Rei stops him by grabbing and putting down his swinging arm. Then she and Susato toss him up high into the air and get into fighting stances right before he lands.
Wild Take: When contradicted, Raiten either clutches a pencil in his fist hard enough to break the pencil, or he rears back with his arms outstretched as his cap falls over his face. Later, as he testifies with his cap off, he does the same rearing-back pose but without the hat over his face.
Wolverine Claws: His "angry" pose shows him wearing an improvised set made out of pencils. He also combines this with a Flechette Storm at one point.

The Memoirs of the Clouded Kokoro (Wagahai to Kiri no Yoru no Kaisou)

Olive Green (Viridian Green)

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An art student from Thorndyke University, and the victim of GAA 1-4 who was stabbed in the back in the knife. The first victim (outside of Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney) to be still alive after the incident (she was put in a comatose state). She returns in GAA 2 after she recovers from her coma.

Always Murder: Seemingly averted in her case (unusually for this series), as she is not dead at all. Indeed, even her intended victim was not killed either. However, this trope is double subverted since she tried and failed to murder her fiancé's murderer.
Anti-Villain: She only wanted to kill Shamspeare because he, as part of a scheme of his to force him out of his room, instead unwittingly killed her fiancé. She also set up her poison in such a way that Shamspeare would only poison himself if he was truly guilty of her fiancé's death and tried to do the same thing to someone else.
Big Bad Ensemble: With Shamspeare in GAA2-2. Both of them are culprits, but aren't working together: Shamspeare unwittingly killed Duncan Ross a month prior and might have done the same to Soseki, while Olive attempted to kill him both as revenge for Ross (her fiancé) and to protect Soseki.
Convenient Coma: Goes into a coma after being stabbed, and starts to recover from it after G1-4 is solved.
Crusading Widow: Her failed murder attempt against her fiancé's murderer makes her one.
Curiosity Killed the Cast: How she got stabbed. She tried to pick up a burnt book that seemingly fell from nowhere, only for a knife to fall from the same source blade first into her back.
Despair Event Horizon: After Ross' death, she fell into a deep, deep depression.
Driven to Suicide: She tried to kill herself while in the hospital with the same poison she used to attempt to kill Shamspeare. Herlock saves her just in time, but it ends up implicating her later.
Eat the Evidence: Attempts to commit suicide by drinking the remaining poison she used on Shamspeare. Luckily, she's interrupted and talked down.
"Eureka!" Moment: Has one when she hears Soseki talking about the "cursed apartment" and the gas lights going out, leading her to realize that Duncan Ross' death might not have been an accident after all.
Happily Failed Suicide: Even though it results in charges of attempted murder, she remarks that she's happy to have been talked out of it because it means that Shamspeare wouldn't get away with murdering her fiancé.
Innocent Bystander: She had nothing to do with any of the characters. She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time... except not really. She was actually there to kill William Shamspeare.
It's All My Fault: She blames herself for Duncan Ross' death, thinking that, if she had tried harder to get him out of his deadly apartment before the night he suffocated, he would've survived.
Jerkass to One: She's normally meek and quiet, but has nothing but contempt for Shamspeare, the man who killed the love of her life, outright calling them a villain and claiming they deserve to die.
Leitmotif: "Reminiscing - Intersecting Murders". This piece highlights her tragic tale and her revenge against the murderer who took away her fiancé's life.
Nice Girl: She's generally kindhearted and softspoken. Even considering she's the culprit behind Shamspeare's poisoning, given that Shamspeare killed the man she loved and was essentially trying to do the same to Soseki, this doesn't negate her kindness; once she's sure Shamspeare will be receiving justice for his crimes, she's happy to serve her time in prison for what she did.
Only Mostly Dead: She's comatose in Adventures' case 4, and several characters who see her collapse assume that she's dead at first.
Out-Gambitted: Everything she did after finding out that Shamspeare killed her fiancé she stops at nothing to ruin Shamspeare. First, she bought strychnine from the black market, then lured him out of his home, breaking and entering it to set her poisonous trap and discovers Selden's key (although she didn't know about its significance), and during the trial when she finally learns about Selden's stolen treasure she gives the key to Sholmes to put the final nail in Shamspeare's coffin. She ends up in prison for attempted murder but is able to utterly stop Shamspeare and knows for sure he has far worse punishments (multiple accounts of gas theft, one account of actual murder, multiple accounts of attempted murder, and being denied of Selden's stolen treasure). The only things she didn't plan on being the 'stabbing incident' and her Happily Failed Suicide.
Repetitive Name: Olive and Viridian (her first name in EN and JP respectively) are shades of green (her surname).
Sympathetic Murderer: Would-be murderer, anyway. She attempted to murder Shamspeare, in an act of revenge for the death of her fiancé as well as preventing his reckless criminal behavior from harming anyone else.
Villainous Breakdown: She falls down and knocks her easel over on top of herself when she is accused of attempting to murder Shamspeare. This is a rather minor breakdown, all things considered.
Walking Spoiler: It's a bit hard to talk about her without revealing her true motives for being at Briar Road or her relationship to G2-2.
When She Smiles: While she spends most of the case glum and self-defeating, after she explains her reasoning to attempt to kill Shamspeare after the latter's Villainous Breakdown, she smiles and bows at Ryunosuke, thanking him for helping her choose to live in the face of her grief.

William Shamspeare (William Petenshy)

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A mysterious fancily dressed man who is first seen in Case 4 of the previous game as one of the tenants of the Garrideb household. A "dead loss actor", as Gregson (and others) would describe him, and once spent jail time for petty crimes. Winds up a victim of strychnine poisoning, though he recovers and accuses Soseki of attempting to kill him.

Accidental Murder: He makes it clear that killing Duncan Ross wasn't his intention. He just wanted to scare Duncan out of staying in the room so he could move in. But this doesn't stop him from trying to pull the same ploy on Soseki, repeatedly.
Asshole Victim: He's not dead, but he's an ex-convict willing to do anything to get his hands on a fellow inmate's treasure, and in his attempt to get Duncan Ross out of his apartment by causing a gas leak ended up killing him. Not only that, he planned on doing the same thing to Soseki, despite knowing someone died the last time he tried that. Olive Green actually set it up this way: she put strychnine on the end of the gas pipe so Shamspeare would only poison himself if he tried the same gas trick again.
Big Bad Ensemble: With Olive in GAA2-2. Both of them are culprits, but aren't working together: Shamspeare unwittingly killed Duncan Ross a month prior and might have done the same to Soseki, while Olive attempted to kill him to avenge Ross (her fiancé). However, he's the only one to be given the villain treatment in this case, complete with the obligatory "breakdown" sequence. Olive, despite being the "culprit" of the case, is shown in a very sympathetic light.
Big Entrance: His entrance into the courtroom.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Behind his hammy exterior lies a ruthless criminal who's willing to go to any lengths to get his hands on 1000 pounds of treasure.
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: He didn't know Olive Green even existed or was of any importance before he meets her alongside himself at the witness stand. Unfortunately for him, killing Duncan Ross earned him all of her emnity.
Character Catchphrase: "Get thee to a nunnery!" Lampshaded when, after being pursued without any prompting, he states that he had once visited a nunnery, even when it was closed, simply because he couldn't tell people to go to a nunnery without going there himself.
Coin-on-a-String Trick: Of a sort. In order to get free gas, he used a threepenny coin to create an indentation on several bars of soap, filled them with some kind of liquid (usually water, but Soseki's tea on the night of his poisoning due to the water pipes being frozen), and left them outside in the cold weather to create fake ice-coins, and then paid the gas machine with those, with the hole he made at the bottom of the coinbox ensuring that when the coins melted, they would leak out and cover up their use.
Composite Character: Of Birdly and Richard Wellington. He has an appearance and theatricality similar to the former, while he puts up a front of elegance, but is revealed to be a violent crook, like the latter.
Drama Queen: Male example. He's pretty theatrical in his movements, especially when he bids farewell to others. After Herlock's Dance of Deduction segment regarding his poisoning when he was passed out on his table, he briefly wakes up and recites the "sound and fury" soliloquy from Macbeth (or at least tries to — he forgets the line halfway and has Gregson finish it) before collapsing.
Dramatic Spotlight: When he awakens from his poisoning and when he enters the courtroom, a spotlight is shone on him.
Early-Bird Cameo: Is introduced in the first game, though he has no importance in the case itself.
Foreshadowing: John Garrideb recalls Shamspeare being very insistent on taking residence in the middle floor of his apartment building, despite its poor reputation.
Giant Poofy Sleeves: As part of his getup.
Gratuitous Iambic Pentameter: Befitting someone who routinely references Shakespeare scripts, his syllables constantly alternate between stressed and unstressed.
Hate Sink: He's a rather unpleasant person at heart with a long list of crimes, from killing Duncan, to trying to kill Soseki (and failing that, trying to get Soseki convicted of his attempted murder) to the crimes that got him sent to prison in the first place.
I Didn't Mean to Kill Him: After his breakdown, he confesses that he wanted only to drive Ross out of his room. He never meant to kill him, Downplayed as he didn’t care that he killed Ross and likely still would have done the deed if he knew Ross would die.
Incoming Ham: His courtroom entrance. Him regaining consciousness from his strychnine poisoning also counts.
Inconsistent Spelling: In the JP script, Petenshy or Petency?
I Resemble That Remark!: He likes using the Hamlet quote "one may smile, and smile, and be a villain" in reference to others, not realizing it sums him up pretty well.
Irony: The case makes it seem that Soseki Natsume poisoned William Shamspeare with tea after Olive Green's stabbing. In reality, Shamspeare was poisoning Natsume via the faulty gas pipes in his apartment in order to obtain it for himself. How Shamspeare got poisoned himself was Olive Green's doing.
Karmic Death: He didn't actually die, but he was the target of one of these. Olive poisoned the end of his room's gas pipe so that if he attempted to gas Soseki's room in the same way he did Duncan's, he'd poison himself.
Large Ham: As shown by almost every pose he does. Even during his Sanity Slippage he still acts like this.
Leitmotif: "Elegance...and Excellence" in GAA 1, and "Back Alley Bard" in GAA 2.
Meaningful Name: His first name's an obvious reference to William Shakespeare, and his surname, Petenshy, means "crook" in Japanese. According to him Shamspeare is an anagram of "me's a seraph" and proves his good character, but really (and much more obviously) it's a play on Shakespeare and Sham, which means false. He's an ex-prisoner who has done a few nefarious things to get a treasure promised him by a serial murderer.
The Nicknamer: Calls everyone "Horatio" when acting like Hamlet.
No Name Given: In the first game and is known only as "Mysterious Man A" in that game's artbook.
Not Quite Dead: Much like Juliet, the strychnine poison leaves him in a deathlike coma which he awakes from the next day, scaring the daylights out of the party assembled at the crime scene. Unlike Juliet, the poisoning wasn't his doing.
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: His dramatic posh accent briefly gives out to a Cockney one after Ryunosuke proves that Olive had snuck into his flat a few days prior, just before the events of GAA 1-4 occured.
Opportunistic Bastard: It's unclear whether or not he truly believed Soseki poisoned him, but it's evident that he used the circumstances to accuse him and get him arrested so he could get Selden's room and get the treasure.
Pet the Dog: Implied. While it is possible that Shamspeare cared for the sickly Selden during their time as cellmates simply to learn about Selden's treasure, there likely wasn't a guarantee that the hardened robber and Serial Killer would actually tell him.
Regal Ruff: Wears one as part of his thespian garb.
Sanity Slippage: After Ryunosuke reveals his motive for killing Duncan Ross, he becomes rather unhinged and starts making numerous Nightmare Faces, all the while mumbling about his intentions to get his hands on Selden's treasure.
Shout-Out to Shakespeare: Constantly references Shakespeare and thinks himself good at debating others about his works. He specifically references Macbeth, a fact reflected in his first lines, being a man driven mad after being promised great treasures by a shady figure, only to be done in by the vengeful loved one of one of his victims.
Slasher Smile: He starts smiling like this after his intent to obtain Selden's treasure is found out. It, along with his usual posing, makes him look like a madman.
Smug Smiler: Is one by default, at least in his first appearance.
Staff of Authority: Frequently shown holding one and using it in his poses.
Starving Artist: He seems to have spent all his money on stage props and costumes, which leaves him unable to afford gas or basic commodities.
Villainous Breakdown: Grimacing and clutching his chest, he then stumbles across the witness stand as confetti bursts from his chest, and one of the jewels on his chest falls off. This happens twice as he gets into two theatrical poses. Eventually, he jumps up and strikes one more pose before being felled by a final burst of confetti.
Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: Speaks in an archaic and poetic way so as to sound like Shakespeare. He drops it when he's either angry or surprised.

Adron B. Metermann (Decargo Mieterman)

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An irritable, large-chinned man who works for Altamont Gas Company. He is called as a witness to William Shamspeare's poisoning.

Animal Motif: Bees, mostly noticeable when he points sideways, trailing his yellow-striped bag behind him. Fittingly, he's something of an Extreme Doormat to Quinby Altamont, making him the drone to her queen. Whenever he freaks out and his head practically vibrates as it bounces, it also resemble's a bee's buzzing.
Early-Bird Cameo: Though he's formally introduced in this game, he appears in a single scene during The Adventure of the Clouded Kokoro, arguing with Shamspeare.
Lantern Jaw of Justice: Not quite heroic, but he has a massive chin.
Professional Butt-Kisser: Is always at the beck and call of his boss Quinby Altamont.
Punny Name: His Japanese name's a portmanteau of 'dekai' ('big') and 'ago' ('chin'). His last name ('mitaman') is a pun meaning either 'man who saw it' or 'saw it all'. In the English localization, his first name and middle initial sound like "a drone bee", befitting his Animal Motif. And his last name sounds like "meterman," fitting his job.^note
Stalker without a Crush: He's been keeping his eye on Shamspeare at Quinby's behest, since they're reasonably certain Shamspeare is defrauding them out of money. He's called to the witness stand after watching Shamspeare all night.
Stealing from the Till: Defied. Ryunosuke briefly wonders if Metermann helped Shamspeare get away with not paying for gas. Metermann and his boss rebuff him, since the money he collects from the meters is part of his salary.
Triple Shifter: Implied. He collects money from the East End's gas meters by day, and keeps an eye on Shamspeare by night. It's unclear exactly when Metermann gets the opportunity to rest.
Yes-Man: Downplayed. Due to the wife of his boss being right there, he repeatedly sings the praises of the company to impress her.
Younger Than They Look: Looks quite a bit older than 23.

Quinby Altamont

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Juror No. 4 for the Shamspeare poisoning trial, and the wife of Altamont Gas Company director Augustus Altamont (Valve Altamont). She had been sending Metermann over to Shamspeare's place over suspected gas theft.

Animal Motif: Like her employee above, also bees. Her dress is yellow with black stripes with a blue sash evoking wings, and she has a yellow-striped umbrella which she uses to playfully "sting" those who upset her.
Arch-Enemy: The extra-strength security she's developed for her gas meters was meant specifically to stop Shamspeare from defrauding her company, even having it named the "Shamspeare Special". Sadly, he found a loophole for that, too.
Honest Corporate Executive: While she's initially impatient due to a board meeting, she gives Shamspeare the benefit of the doubt despite suspecting (correctly) he's a gas thief from her company.
Meaningful Name:
- Her name is a play on "Queen bee", and she certainly acts the part. Her last name is a reference to Holmes' alias in His Last Bow.
- In the original script, her husband's name is Valve, and he's the director of a gas company.
Only One Name: In the original script, she's never given a first name and is only referred to as Mrs. Altamont.
Punny Name: Her first name in the localization sounds like "queen bee", which fits her Animal Motif.
Redeeming Replacement: She plays a more cooperative role to the defence council compared to her predecessor juror Joan Garrideb. While Joan purposefully obstructed Ryunoske because she was ultimately responsible for Olive Green's stabbing, Quinby's suspicions regarding Shamspeare's tampering with the gas systems end up buying the defence council valuable time during the trial's first summation examination.
Satellite Character: Her husband is never seen, making Quinby the de facto face of the Altamont Gas Company.
This Cannot Be!: Quinby takes great pride in her gas meters and proclaims no criminal can use them to get free gas. As a result, she's incredulous when she finds out Shamspeare managed to cheat her using pieces of ice that are shaped exactly like the threepennies the meter accepts.

Selden

A death row inmate who had previously lived in the Garrideb's complex and was convicted of serial murder and robbery. Died of illness three months ago in his prison cell in Manchester, having never revealed the location of his total stolen wealth of 1000 pounds in treasure.

Because You Were Nice to Me: On his deathbed, he entrusted Shamspeare with the location of the 1000 pounds of treasure (his flat) and the key to it because he took care of him when he was ill.
Chekhov's Gun: His treasure, a bloody, jewel-studded dog collar that he had stolen some years back. It's only at the end of the game its importance is revealed as the collar of Balmung, Klint van Zieks' hunting dog as well as the Professor's attack dog.
Shout-Out: His name's a reference to a character from the Sherlock Holmes story The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Duncan Ross

An art student who had previously resided in the flat Soseki lives in (the same flat Selden once lived in) and mysteriously died of asphyxiation, starting the rumor of the cursed flat.

The Lost Lenore: A male version. He was Olive Green's fiancé and his death causes her so much grief that she attempts to murder the culprit and attempts suicide later on.
Shout-Out:
- Shares the same name with a character from the Sherlock Holmes story The Red-Headed League.
- Furthermore, his given name is the same as that of the king who is killed by the titular character of Macbeth.

The Return of the Great Departed Soul (Mirai Kagaku to Bourei no Kikan)

Albert Harebrayne (Benjamin Dobinbough)

Voiced by (English): Tom Allenby (GAA 2)

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A Germany-stationed English scientist who is arrested for murder after his presentation of an electricity-based teleporter at the Great Exhibition seemingly explodes and kills a volunteer.

Absent-Minded Professor: Has this sort of air about him. Barok even remarks that Albert has forgotten his name on numerous occasions (and they were university buddies)!
Awful Truth: A key point of his trial is that he has to come to terms that his beloved thesis is completely impossible.
Comically Missing the Point: Insists he would never use his screwdriver to stab someone...because that would be an improper use of his tools.
Companion Cube: He considers all his tools "friends" and has names for them all. The screwdriver that was the murder weapon is "Andrew", and he has another screwdriver named "Michael".
Eat the Evidence: Played for Laughs if pursued on the stand without prompting, as he writes down some notes and then proceeds to eat it (with a unique animation) to avoid anyone else reading it.
Funny Afro: A puffy blond one.
Honor Before Reason: Ironically, he tries to out himself as the culprit in order to keep his hypothesis of the teleporter as a real scientific achievement, or else admitting that he's not the culprit would mean the experiment is a sham. Fortunately, he's convinced to see actual reason.
Horrible Judge of Character: He's easily taken in by notorious criminals like Odie Asman and Enoch Drebber. Ryunosuke treats his assessment of Barok van Zieks with equal incredulity, though van Zieks pulls through in the end.
Large Ham: Harebrayne has this in spades. He is heard announcing his experiment through a microphone during the Great Exhibition at the beginning of the chapter; his reaction in the trial segment has him shouting out, "Great Scott!"; and his "HOLD IT!!!" shout sounds more like a high-pitched scream.
Leitmotif: "Student of Science"
The Load: He's more of a hindrance than a help during the first day of his trial, constantly implicating himself and disproving Ryunosuke's defense arguments. It gets to the point where he tries to actually confess to the crime for the sake of his hypothesis before Ryunosuke manages to talk him down. He gets better after that, helping the police track down Drebber.
Meaningful Name: "Harebrayne" is taken from 'harebrained'. His Japanese name "Dobinbough" comes from "do binbou" or "lack of money".
Morality Pet: Van Zieks has a big soft spot for him even while prosecuting him for murder (which he later reveals was a Batman Gambit to prove Albert's innocence), and their friendship serves as Ryunosuke's first big hint that he's not the cold Persecuting Prosecutor he's appears to be.
Nice Guy: Very good-natured and friendly guy.
Odd Friendship: He was Barok's best friend in university, despite them being in two completely different courses and being nothing alike in personality. The end of the case shows their friendship still holds ten years later.
Perpetual Poverty: Struggles a lot with getting funding for his research, which is in part his motive for entering the Great Exhibition, as entrants receive official government grants money for their work. So desperate is he that he objects to Ryunosuke, his own defense attorney, when he declares that the "teleporter" is a magic trick Albert's client created to scam the government - primarily because he does believe in his life's work that much, but also outing such a thing would leave him penniless.
Room Full of Crazy: Downplayed. The second time you visit him in prison, the fact he's been writing out his equations and mathematics on the walls of his cell is plain to see. He's a bit kooky for sure, though he's not completely insane and he was using the walls simply because he didn't have anything else to use for working out the science in his head. When asked about it, he comments that it's his autobiography...somehow.
Scary Shiny Glasses: He keeps trying to pull this off. Unfortunately for him, his glasses just slip back down the bridge of his nose.
Shockingly Expensive Bill: In the credits, he's arrived back in England now that the Reaper curse is gone, but is stuck with a massive hotel bill and hopes that Barok can help pay it.
Shoo the Dog: On the recieving end after his acquittal courtesy of van Zieks, who arranges for his immediate departure from England back home to Germany out of fear that "the Reaper" will kill him.
Skewed Priorities: He holds the sanctity of his research above his own life, and deliberately sabotages your arguments on two separate occasions in order to protect his hypothesis. When he figures out he was set up, he stops acting like this.
Unwitting Pawn: Twofold, even. Asman funded his experiment and collaborated with Drebber to get the funding money, while Drebber worked on his machine as a part of a ploy to kill Asman.
Wearing a Flag on Your Head: A very subtle case, but his nametag is colored black, white, and red from top-to-bottom, which were the colors of the flag of the Second German Reich◊ from 1871-1919.
Wide-Eyed Idealist: He has a LOT of passion for his super-high-voltage-instantaneous-kinesis hypothesis, which sadly makes him getting exploited by both Asman and Drebber for different reasons, and almost got him to confess about the murder he didn't commit.

Odie Asman (Eraida Meningen)

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A businessman and investor, who also happens to be the leader of a notorious crime syndicate. Died in the middle of an experiment involving a teleporter.

Asshole Victim: It's even spelled out in his name. In addition to being the leader of a crime syndicate, he published a newspaper article that ruined Enoch Drebber's life, and was blackmailing Courtney Sithe for years.
Attack on the Heart: While he was supposed to die from the fall in Enoch's machine, his actual cause of death was a screwdriver to his heart.
Blackmail Backfire: An interesting case, given that his blackmailing didn’t lead to his death for a good while, as Odie Asman was able to blackmail Courtney Sithe for 10 whole years. She only finally kills him because someone unrelated to her also wanted to kill him, and his trap gave her the opportunity.
Born Lucky: Zig-zagged; he somehow survives being dropped thirty feet to the ground by Drebber's fake teleportation machine almost totally unscathed. However, he then has the misfortune to have the other person with a reason to want him dead, Courtney Sithe, come across him, and she doesn't waste the chance to dispatch him.
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: He evidently didn't remember Drebber from his reporter days, despite the shockwaves his story sent through Great Britain, or else he wouldn't have so carelessly approached him to build Harebrayne's machine. This ends up really biting him in the ass.
Con Man: He was hoping to scam funding out of the teleportation experiment. It did not work out for him, to say the least.
He Knows Too Much: Part of the reason Dr Sithe killed him, in addition to him blackmailing her.
Immoral Journalist: One even worse than Menimemo. Before he became a crime boss, Asman was the reporter who ruined Enoch Drebber's life. It's stated that he used his journalistic connections to find his place in the criminal underworld.
Jury and Witness Tampering: Barok prosecuted him in court a month before his murder, but Asman escaped conviction by bribing the jury.
Karmic Death: He was murdered while participating in a scheme to use stage magic to defraud the government out of a grant of money meant for genuine scientists to pursue research. By the accomplice of a man whose life he ruined back in his reporter days who he was also blackmailing, no less.
Punny Name: "Odious man". His name in Japan is a pun on "erai dame ningen", meaning 'incredibly bad person'.
Red Herring: Having been acquitted in trial offscreen and ended up being the victim of case 2-3, the cast assume he's fallen prey to the Reaper's curse. Like with McGilded, the culprits that conspired to kill him acted of their own accord, without any connection to the actual Reaper conspiracy. One of them did work for the mastermind of the Reaper conspiracy, but not in that particular department.
Villain with Good Publicity: He has a good reputation as an investor who funds many science projects, and is highly held in many regards by aspiring scientists such as Harebrayne.
Who Murdered the Asshole: Shortly after his death, his criminal activities come to light, with him revealed as a crime boss. His actions also earned the ire of two people he wronged in the past, with both willing to kill him.

Esmeralda Tusspells (Connette Rozaic)

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A wax sculptor and the curator of a waxworks museum set up in the Great Exhibition.

Consummate Professional: Her clan is extremely adamant and persistent about creating real lifelike wax models of anyone that she will stop at nothing to fulfill her works. She even managed to capture the "Professor" Genshin Asogi's face's likeness, but she was coerced by Mael Stronghart to put a mask to the model to keep his nationality a secret. All this happened when she was 16.
Hot Witch: Although just for publicity, she's dressed as a very attractive witch who even carries around a cauldron full of boiling wax.
Improvised Weapon: After catching a visitor trying to steal a waxwork mannequin's arm, she ended up smashing him on the head with it during the ensuing scuffle.
Leitmotif: "Mysteries Encased in Wax"
Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: She can go on at length about some... disturbing subjects, such as making wax figures from dead bodies. In fact, she's physically handled corpses before in order to capture their likeness. She doesn't seem to realize or care that she's creeping people out.
No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Pretty much GAA's version of Marie Tussaud (of Madame Tussauds fame) - aside from the whole three generations down thing. Complete with the Madame Tusspells' museum being a Bland-Name Product of the aforementioned museum!
Poirot Speak: In the localization, she peppers her speech with various French words and phrases, such as "oui", "bien sûr", "comme ça", etc., as well as using French courtesy titles, such as "mademoiselle" on Susato.
Punny Name:
- Her surname in the JP script comes from the Japanese word for waxworks.
- Her English localization name is a pun on Madame Tussaud, and "spells", a reference to her witch costume.
Red Herring: She's introduced early on and doesn't testify in the first day of the trial, her Leitmotif sounds very sinister and it becomes increasingly apparent that her wax museum is important to the case. If you think that means she's the culprit... you're wrong. It's also mentioned in her Court Record profile that her family specialises in making exact replicas of people through waxworks. When Ryunosuke suggests that a body double was used, it can imply that she made a replica of the victim for the sham experiment and is a co-conspirator. Although the victim did legitimately have his own waxwork which traditionally would've been a much more suitable body double, one of the true culprits instead opted for Rule of Symbolism and stole The Professor waxwork despite obviously not looking like him from a general view.
Secret-Keeper:
- As the one who sculpted The Professor's wax figure, she's one of the few people who have seen his face. As his identity is considered a national secret, the wax figure is stored in a secret room in her museum, covered with a mask that can be opened only with her key.
- She also knew Stronghart and Jigoku shot the Professor in the graveyard. They bought her silence by giving her full access to the corpse for her wax mold.

Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond Ormstein

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A boy from Bohemia who witnessed Harebrayne's experiment from a hot-air balloon.

Bratty Half-Pint: A very obnoxious little kid, to be frank.
Brick Joke: Iris implies that the name "Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond Ormstein" was made up when Susato brought up 'A Scandal in Bohemia' in the previous game's Case 4. As it turns out, there actually is a Bohemian royal with that name (maybe even two!).
Contrived Coincidence: Due to miraculous timing, he manages to take a photo of the supposed rogue green balloon at the same time Enoch Drebber fired a flaming crossbow bolt at it.
Establishing Character Moment: He buys a balloon from the impresario when stating his name and profession, then succinctly summarizes his views as follows:
Gotts: ...I’m very rich.
Gotts: ...I still have lots of money.
Full-Name Basis: Demands everyone refer to him by his full name. Naturally, no one is able to, only calling him "Gotts".
Never My Fault: When he produces a photo to prove he's not lying about seeing a green balloon... and it's in black and white, he demands the court blame whoever made the camera.
Nice to the Waiter: Although he threatens war against Balthazar Lune's country several times, he immediately forgets about this after willingly paying him for several small balloons which he keeps losing.
Overly Long Name: Ryunosuke can't even come close to memorizing his name because it's too long for him to remember, instead calling him "Master Gotts". He is even listed in the Court Record as Bohemian Boy.
Royal Brat: His royal status is ambiguous, but he's definitely a brat, throwing a tantrum in court if anyone disagrees with him.
Shout-Out:
- Shares the same name with the Bohemian king featured in the Sherlock Holmes story A Scandal in Bohemia. Apparently said king does exist in this universe and this Gotts is his son according to Herlock in Case 4's Dance of Deduction segment, but considering that Herlock misremembered his nationality, that may be up for debate.
- His voice in the reaction shots sounds a little like a carbon copy of Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory.

Balthazar Lune (Rumba Marmatch)

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An impressario of gas balloons being used on the fair.

Berserk Button: Doesn't take lightly to even the implication that his balloons might be unsafe.
Big Fun: A rotund and jolly man. Most of the time, anyway.
Can't Take Criticism: Appears to be incapable of taking criticism of his balloons or his character.
Meaningful Appearance: Wears a hat that looks (and functions) like a hot-air balloon.
Punny Name: For his Japanese name, "Rumba" is nearly an anagram of "balloon" (in Japanese), and "Marmatch" comes from "marumachi", "round". As for the English version... well, his name's Balthazar Lune.
Rambunctious Italian: In the localization.

Twisted Karma and His Last Bow (Nejireta Otoko to Saigo no Aisatsu)

Evie Vigil (Anna Mittlemont)

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Juror No. 2 for the Asman murder trial in the previous case, she comes to Sholmes' office looking for her husband, Daley, who ran away from home.

Ascended Extra: In-universe, most of the jurors Ryu meets are never seen again... except for her. She kickstarts a major portion of the fourth case, which is locating her husband.
Expy: Pretty much GAA's version of Mrs. St. Clair from The Man with the Twisted Lip, including the missing husband and not knowing about his secret life.
High-Class Gloves: She definitely looks the part of a high-class woman.
Meaningful Name: Her Japanese name, "Anna", originates from Hebrew and can mean "grace" or "beautiful".
Properly Paranoid: It's lampshaded In-Universe that coming to a private investigator to find someone who's been missing for a single day might be jumping the gun, but Evie points out that the police would've laughed her out of the station if she'd gone to them. While it turns out her husband wasn't in any real danger, the man was assaulted and held captive by a pair of con artists.
Punny Name: Following the theme of her husband, her English name ("Evie Vigil") is a pun on "evening vigil".
Right for the Wrong Reasons: She does figure out that there's likely a relationship between Prosecutor van Zieks and the defendant Albert Harebrayne, but thinks of it in a romantic sense rather than it being platonic.
Shipper on Deck: She mentions as a juror that she views everything in terms of relationships. Including the trial.
Evie: One might wonder about a possible relationship between the defendant and this coroner woman. Or perhaps between the defendant and the handsome prosecutor just there.
Ryunosuke: (This woman...may be more astute than I've been giving her credit for.)

Daley Vigil (Everyday Mittlemont)

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Evie's husband and the former chief jailer of the Barclay Prison. Forcibly retired from the position 10 years ago.

The Alibi: He's Gregson's. Vigil was regularly paid by the inspector to take his badge and impersonate him to ensure people knew "Gregson" was seen at a specific place and time, allowing the real Gregson to conduct his clandestine operations.
Becoming the Mask: Played for Laughs. When he's summoned as a witness for the Professor's escape, he gives the same introduction he gave as Gossip, complete with posing, before being reminded that he's out of the disguise.
Driven to Suicide: He had attempted suicide by jumping off a five-story window from Caidin's office after being fired for his (supposed) involvement in the Professor's escape. He lives through it, though it altered his memories of the event.
Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Subtle and downplayed, but when Daley starts to remember the events of ten years ago, his eyes seem to lose much of their shine.
The Eeyore: He seems perpetually upset about something and has languid, downcast movements. Being fired for something that was very much not your fault and forced to spend ten years as a beggar will do that.
Final Boss: Him and Caidin are the final two witnesses called in GAA 2-5, and their testimonies hold the key to the truth about the Professor case.
Grew a Spine: Finally sticks up for himself against Caidin in the final trial when the two of them are called to testify about the Professor's escape. It's what pushes Caidin to admit to his own guilt.
He Cleans Up Nicely: In his disguise as "Gossip/Hugh Boone", he's a dirty, odd-looking Gonk with a giant swollen lip. Once cleaned up and the fake lip is removed, he turns out to be a bit of a Bishōnen.
Heroic BSoD: After remembering that he was fired, and the truth about the Professor case, the screen smashes like a window, and he screams and faints, falling onto the floor.
Hidden in Plain Sight: He's been masquerading as the fat-lipped "Gossip" for 10 years, and Naruhodo points out that because he looks completely different and average without his fake lip, his normal appearance is actually the perfect disguise.
Intergenerational Friendship: With the other two Fresno Street pedlars. By the time of the credits sequence, he's also become friends with the Red-Headed League.
Older Than They Look: Looks substantially younger than his given age of 40. Flashbacks to 10 years ago show he looked no differently then, either.
Punny Name:
- In Japanese, "Mittlemont" is a pun on miteiru mon/"I'm watching". Combined with his first name, it becomes "Everyday I'm watching".
- In the localization. It puns off of "daily vigil".
Rejected Apology: Does this to Caidin over the latter ruining his life by making him The Scapegoat.
Caidin: Losh, Vigil... I cannae apologise enough.
Vigil: No, Governor, I don't believe you can. It won't change what happened.
The Scapegoat:
- He was fired from being a prison warden when the blame for the Professor's escape from prison was pushed onto him.
- He was the originally planned fall guy for Gregson's murder, and only dodged that bullet due to Barok falling into the trap first.
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Regardless if it was at Gregson's request, impersonating a member of law enforcement is a serious crime. Daley himself admits this when Ryunosuke visits him in the hospital and anticipates that he'll be arrested once he's recovered enough. The credits show that he is indeed in jail, but plans on starting a more legitimate business with Fabien and Peppino once they are released.
Unconfessed Unemployment: He hid the fact he was no longer working at the prison from his wife and working for Inspector Gregson under his Hugh Boone identity.
Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: In the Japanese version, his name is Everyday (his name in the localization is actually fairly normal-sounding). Although his wife seems to use it to call him her everything...

Barry Caidin (Harry Barricade)

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The prison governor of Barclay Prison.

All There in the Manual: Artist Kazuya Nuri mentions a bit of backstory about Barry that wasn't mentioned in the game. He carries so many tools - notable the axe - with him ever since a few escapees attacked him in an attempt to escape prison, which led to gaining the scar on the back of his head. Since then, he is prepared for another prison break in self-defense.
Bad Boss: Strongly implied to be this. While testifying, whenever Daley Vigil angers him, he violently shakes him by the cravat. Daley implies that this is a common occurance. He justifies this by saying that it is his job to make sure everyone does a good job doing what they're supposed to do.
Blind Obedience: According to him, he never asked any questions about who was responsible for the plan to stage Genshin's execution, nor did he have any reservations about breaking the law by enabling a death row prisoner to escape.
Deliberate Values Dissonance: Incredibly racist and abrasive to Ryunosuke and Susato until Yujin sets him straight with a letter of introduction. Even after this moment, his treatment of the heroes is barely restrained manners at best and outright offensive at worst.
Final Boss: He and Vigil are the last two witnesses to be called to the stand in GAA 2-5.
Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has a large scar on the back of his head showing through his hair which is visible when he turns around. Supplementary materials state that he got it while stopping a prison break.
Jerkass: One of the most unpleasant characters in the series, with him literally turning his back to Ryunosuke when he visits the first time, calling them suspicious foreigners. He changes his tune when you namedrop Yujin with a letter of introduction. Even after said introduction, he's rather annoyed by the protagonists' questioning and demands they never speak to him again. There's also the fact that he's perfectly complicit in the Professor's fake execution, and knowingly scapegoated Daley Vigil in the name of his country.
Just Following Orders: He uses this justification to defend staging the fake execution for Genshin Asogi and using Daley Vigil as The Scapegoat for the plan.
Large and in Charge: Head of Barclay Prison, and is also quite imposing in physical stature.
Leitmotif: "The Prison Warders".
Meaningful Name: The man is certainly large enough to BE a barricade, but it also references his profession as a jailer.
Military Salute: Does this when he declares that he did his duty for the British Empire.
Mundane Utility: He uses the Guillotine-Grandfather clock in his office to chop vegetables.
My Country, Right or Wrong: His sole motivation for why he did the unthinkable things he did at the prison. He never questioned it- he just followed orders, even when they were unsavory. He comes to realize just how horrible a person this mentality turned him into during his cross-examination.
My God, What Have I Done?: Cross-examining him reveals he severely regrets the horrible things done to Daley Vigil. The latter rightfully scorn him for life and refuses to even give him the time of day during said cross-examination when it's revealed that Vigil talked about the will Genshin Asogi wrote.
"Not So Different" Remark: He comes to realize the unforgivable things he's done to Daley Vigil and comes to realize he's no different from the very criminals he's put in prison.
Punny Name: His name in the English localization is Barry Caidin, which is a pun on "barricade".
Violent Glaswegian: While he maintains enough civility to not threaten to outright beat Ryunosuke and Susato, he does repeatedly threaten to have them thrown out of his prison whenever his patience with them runs short (which it does, frequently). His speech features a fairly thick Scottish accent.
We Used to Be Friends: Very distant friends with Yujin Mikotoba. There's also an implication he was this to Daley Vigil. The latter just wistfully remarks when this is revealed that those days are gone and never coming back, and they are 100% on Caidin.
What Happened to the Mouse?: His fate after the secret trial is never clarified.

The Fresno Street Pedlars

"Venus", "Gossip", and "Sandwich"

Venus

Gossip

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Sandwich

A trio of street vendors who were working near the crime scene when the murder happened. 'Venus' peddles wares (fireworks in particular), 'Gossip' is an information broker, and 'Sandwich' is a 'sandwich man' (i.e. a homeless man paid to advertise) who looks like Beppo, the carriage driver from the previous game, though Ryunosuke describes him only as "familiar".

Compulsive Liar: While most witnesses lie because they're hiding something, Venus is simply a pathological liar. Kazuma especially keeps calling her out on it. Her decision to refer to herself as one in her own testimony is bold, to say the least.
Failed a Spot Check: Somehow, all three of them mistook Jigoku, a hulking Japanese man, for Inspector Gregson, who is neither large nor Japanese, solely due to the former wearing a red wig that he then places on the latter's corpse. Even Gossip/Vigil, who has been working with Gregson for several years at this point.
Gonk: Gossip, what with his twisted lip. It's a disguise, as you will have figured, if you've read The Man with the Twisted Lip.
Ice-Cream Koan: Sandwich is particularly fond of saying things in this manner.
Intergenerational Friendship: Venus appears to be a young adult or possibly even a teenager, while Gossip is in his forties and Sandwich is an old man.
Knowledge Broker: Gossip works as an information broker.
Mad Bomber: Venus is very enthusiastic about her (usually harmless) firecrackers.
Only Known by Their Nickname: All three, though only Venus' real name remains unclear by the trial's end.
Playing Both Sides: Venus at least claims that she makes most of her money this way: she sells firecrackers to middle-schoolers, and then rats them out to their teachers, who confiscate the crackers. That way she gets tips from the teachers, and the kids are always back to buy more.
Shameless Fanservice Girl: Venus plays up her sultriness for all it's worth, with her kissing her firecracker stashes and striking matches on her ass.
Shout-Out: Venus resembles B.B. Hood, being a Red Riding Hood Replica with a cute look, a distinct lack of morals and an obsession with explosives that she keeps in her basket, although hers aren't nearly as destructive as Hood's.
Spanner in the Works: Sandwich steals Gregson's suitcase from the crime scene, which later catches Kazuma in a lie since he couldn't have looked into it until Gina managed to retrieve it, proving he was with Gregson the night of his death.
Trauma Button: Bringing up Sandwich's past as Beppo the omnibus driver causes him to retreat into his sandwich board while yelling out carriage directions.
Token Good Teammate: Sandwich appears to be very averse to lies on the court, with him remarking whenever one of his fellow pedlars lies on the stand and giving further insight as to their actions on the day of the murder. It becomes subverted later on when it's revealed that he stole Gregson's trunk the following day.
Vague Age: All three's ages are listed as "??" in the court record. Venus is the only one whose age remains a mystery since Daley and Beppo have their ages listed elsewhere.
Villainous Breakdown: While Gossip isn't really a villain by any stretch of the imagination, his deception and actions on the day of Gregson's death make the bulk of Case 4's trial, and as the case's "antagonist" a la Yuri Cosmos from Dual Destinies, he gets one; after Ryunosuke proves that Gossip, aka Hugh Boone, is actually former Barclay chief warder Daley Vigil, the Judge demands the Red-Headed League to restrain him while they clean him off his disguise, upon which the two hold him down while he protests. One fade to black later, he looks up as his 'twisted lip' falls to the ground, revealing the earlier assertion to be true.

The Red-Headed League

Fabien de Rousseau (Maurice de Quilco) and Peppino de Rossi (Marco di Gicho)

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Fabien

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Peppino

Two European nobles and con artists who are members of the Red-Headed League, a scam group under investigation. They met each other in a European boarding school for aristocrats called Temsik Boarding School (Ashtar Boarding School).

Big Eater: Peppino's shown eating food when he and Fabien appear on the stand.
Blue Blood: According to the two of them, Fabien is descended from French aristocrats and Peppino is the third son of an Italian landowner.
Boomerang Bigot: They were bullied at their boarding school for their red hair, which causes them to come up with a scam..... which directly targets other redheads.
Card-Carrying Villain: Fabien proudly proclaimed that he's a genius criminal mastermind and he tried (and failed) to remind Peppino how to behave like one.
Evil Duo: A very downplayed and incompetent example. Like the Skulkin Brothers from Adventure, they're a pair of small-time criminals involved (albeit indirectly in this case) with the final murder of the game, and testify together. That said, they don't bother with trying to be that much of an obstruction and become helpful witnesses after their first testimony.
Fat and Skinny: Fabien is skinny, and Peppino is fat.
Heel–Face Turn: They're a pair of con-artists who spend the majority of the time after being called on stand actively trying to hide information, but once their lies are exposed, they testify honestly and follow orders. The credits indicate they plan to start a more legitimate business with Vigil once they get out of jail.
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Fabien tries to paint himself out to be a genius criminal mastermind, but said image shatters thanks to Peppino's mistakes and honesty.
Intergenerational Friendship: Implied to have picked this up with Daley Vigil in the credits scenes, who is about a decade and a half their senior.
Loose Lips: During their testimony, Peppino keeps trying to talk about the officer that went to the Red-Headed League, though Fabien tries to tell him to shut up about it. And it's Peppino who reveals that Gossip's name is Hugh Boone.
Meaningful Name: Their last names are both related to the word "red" in their respective native languages.
Military Salute: They enthusiastically give one after the judge orders them to detain Hugh Boone.
Minion with an F in Evil: While neither of them is really "evil", Peppino is a terrible assistant in Fabien's plans, as shown by their performance in court together.
Ocular Gushers: Peppino is quite prone to breaking into these, while Fabien is less so.
Older Than They Look: Peppino looks and acts like a child, but according to his Court Record profile, he's 25 years old.
Redhead In Green: Peppino's clothing. Fabien's is more blueish.
Shout-Out: Peppino likes to perform the Shoryuken for absolutely no reason. Kazuya Nuri notes that they added the animation..."because [the dev team] can." It unintentionally comes across as a Super Mario reference given his short size, colors, and nationality.
- The name of their boarding school in both versions is a reference to Shu Takumi's game Ghost Trick in which Temsik Park (Ashtar Park) is an important location.
Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: Peppino's eyes seem to be the same shade of green as his outfit.
Spanner in the Works: Their attempt at running a small-time Con Artist scheme goes completely south when they in a panic kidnap and imprison someone they believe to be a detective (in reality, Vigil impersonating Gregson on the latter's orders, which then exposes the inspector's secret activities and movements before his death).
Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Downplayed. Their color palettes both match the flags of their respective countries.
Visual Pun: An important detail revealed in the latter half of their testimony is that Peppino has a red ring on his neck due to bruises. In other words, there's a ring around de Rossi....'s neck.

The Resolve of Ryunosuke Naruhodo (Naruhodo Ryunosuke no Kakugo)

Tchikin Strogenov (Mapotov Strogannov)

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A sailor on-board the SS Grouse (SS Balabrook), and Bif Strogenov's brother.

6 Is 9: Coincidentally, Jigoku's trunk code is almost "SHOLMES" (or "HOLMES" in the original script) if written upside-down like he did on his arm.
Bad Liar: Most people in Sholmes' deductions involuntarily glance at what they're trying to hide. Tchikin turns his whole head to look at the trunk Jigoku is hiding in.
Human Notepad: When you first encounter him in the English localization, he has a crudely-written tattoo on his arm that appears to say "Sholmes" on it, but during the final Dance of Deduction, if you turn the writing upside-down (which is what works only on 3DS, Android, iOS, and Switch's handheld mode)^note it turns out to be hastily scribbled or doodled numbers that say "5231045" on it, which is the combination number needed to open the trunk in which Judge Jigoku is locked inside. ^note
Punny Name: Chicken stroganoff. In the Japanese script, mapo tofu and stroganoff.
Sibling Yin-Yang: To his brother Bif Both break the law in order to protect people accused of wrongdoing, but while Bif is motivated by loyalty to the person in question, Tchikin was bribed.
Strong Family Resemblance: Looks identical to Bif, to the point that the only distinguishing features between the two of them is are Tchikin's fringe of blonde hair, his two-fish necktie (as opposed to Bif's one-fish tie) and Bif's snake-induced facial welt.

Sholmes' Ally (Major Spoilers!)

Queen Victoria

The Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India. Ends up being made audience to the Gregson murder trial thanks to Sholmes' Remote Cinematograph.

Artistic License – History: Around the time the game is set, Victoria was extremely ill to the point of being unable to make public appearences of any kind, and would pass away in 1901. Here, not only is she alive, but is healthy enough to share tea with Iris without any problems.
The Ghost: Never actually seen on screen.
Historical Domain Character: Yes, that Queen Victoria.
Last Episode, New Character: She's introduced near the end of the final trial of the duology.
Minor Major Character: She's the Queen of England, making her the highest legal authority in Britain, but aside from ousting Stronghart from his position, the player neither hears her nor sees her. Arguably justified, as the real Queen Victoria would have been deathly ill at the time the game is set in.
Reasonable Authority Figure: She's quick to take action against Stronghart when she learns what he's been doing.
Small Role, Big Impact: She never appears on screen or gets any spoken dialogue, but makes what is likely the most meaningful action in the entire duology. After secretly watching in on the final trial she strips Mael Stronghart of his position of Lord Chief Justice when he tries to cover up the trial he was presiding over and decrees that his crimes will be prosecuted in public court destroying any chance he had of hiding his wrongdoings from the public.
Summon Bigger Fish: How Herlock deals with the possibility of Mael Stronghart using his position to escape justice- expose his corruption to Queen Victoria, who outranks him and any possible ally he'd have.

The Great Turnabout Court Theatre

Japan Chapter

Tadashi Sodenoshita

Apparently the highest scoring candidate in the tests for the Law Exchange Program.

Punny Name: The name "Sodenoshita" means to pay someone under the table (ie, bribe), and "Tadashi" means "correct". Fitting, as he was disqualified for bribing his way to a high score.

Takeshi Auchi

Taketsuchi Auchi's son, and the third-ranking candidate... scoring 200 points below Kazuma Asogi.

England Chapter

Polan Musgrave

Chalan Musgrave's younger brother. Herlock arrested him on the way to the trial.

Other Minor Characters

Mentioned Posthumous Characters

The Former Chief Justice

The former Lord Chief Justice of England and Klint van Zieks' mentor, who became the third victim of the Professor killings.

Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Totally incorrupt, and victim of the Professor. Mael Stronghart had him killed purely to take his job, and killing him sent Klint over the Despair Event Horizon because of how utterly unjust the act was.
Reasonable Authority Figure: A honest judge who mentored Klint van Zieks in British law.

Lady Baskerville

A noblewoman who is mentioned only at the very end of the story.

Death by Childbirth: Died shortly after giving birth to Iris, prompting Yujin to give the child to Sholmes as a guardian.
No Name Given: Her name is never given.
Satellite Character: Given her lack of screentime, her character is basically defined by being Klint van Zieks' wife and Iris Wilson's biological mother.
Unknown Character: She exists only to explain the "Baskerville" name and Iris' true parentage. She has no other importance otherwise.

Ayame Mikotoba

Yujin's wife and Susato's mother, who died 16 years ago.

Dead Guy Junior: Not herself, but Yujin named Iris after her.
Death by Childbirth: Died after giving birth to Susato.
The Lost Lenore: To Yujin.
One-Steve Limit: Averted - she shares her name with Ayame from Gyakuten Saiban 3/Trials and Tribulations (localized as Iris).

Chalan Musgrave

The head of a criminal organization. Was the defendant of the first trial Barok had lost, and subsequently the first victim of the "Reaper" curse, being killed by the fallen debris of a construction site 3 days afterward.

All There in the Manual: While his case, crime, and cause of death were stated in the main game (with regard to the beginning of Barok's reputation as the Reaper), his name's never mentioned in it - rather, his name was revealed through the semi-canonical Great Ace Attorney Theatre London episode.
Shout-Out: His name is a reference to the Sherlock Holmes story "The Musgrave Ritual".

Characters / The Great Ace Attorney: Minor Characters

The Jurors

Debuted in Adventures

The Adventure of the Great Departure (Oinaru Tabidachi no Bouken)

Voiced by (Japanese): Takayuki Sugo (GAA)

The Adventure of the Unbreakable Speckled Band (Tomo to Madara no Himo no Bouken)

Grimesby Roylott / Nikolina Pavlova (Nikomina Borshevic)

The Adventure of the Runaway Room (Shisso suru Misshitsu no Bouken)

The Adventure of the Clouded Kokoro (Wagahai to Kiri no Yoru no Bouken)

Joan Garrideb

The Adventure of the Unspeakable Story (Katararenai Monogatari no Bouken)

Eggert Benedict (Egg Benedict) / Ashley Graydon (Robert Crogrey)

Nash and Ringo Skulkin (Nemmy and Tully Tinpillar)

Escapades

Debuted in Resolve

The Adventure of the Blossoming Attorney (Bengo Shoujo no Bouken to Kakusei)

The Memoirs of the Clouded Kokoro (Wagahai to Kiri no Yoru no Kaisou)

The Return of the Great Departed Soul (Mirai Kagaku to Bourei no Kikan)

Voiced by (English): Tom Allenby (GAA 2)

Twisted Karma and His Last Bow (Nejireta Otoko to Saigo no Aisatsu)

"Venus", "Gossip", and "Sandwich"

Fabien de Rousseau (Maurice de Quilco) and Peppino de Rossi (Marco di Gicho)

The Resolve of Ryunosuke Naruhodo (Naruhodo Ryunosuke no Kakugo)

Queen Victoria

The Great Turnabout Court Theatre

Tadashi Sodenoshita

Takeshi Auchi

Polan Musgrave

Other Minor Characters

The Former Chief Justice

Lady Baskerville

Ayame Mikotoba

Chalan Musgrave

Alternative Title(s): Ace Attorney Witnesses And Other Characters The Great Ace Attorney

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The Jurors

Debuted in Adventures

The Adventure of the Great Departure (Oinaru Tabidachi no Bouken)

Voiced by (Japanese): Takayuki Sugo (GAA)

The Adventure of the Unbreakable Speckled Band (Tomo to Madara no Himo no Bouken)

Grimesby Roylott / Nikolina Pavlova (Nikomina Borshevic)

The Adventure of the Runaway Room (Shisso suru Misshitsu no Bouken)

The Adventure of the Clouded Kokoro (Wagahai to Kiri no Yoru no Bouken)

Joan Garrideb

The Adventure of the Unspeakable Story (Katararenai Monogatari no Bouken)

Eggert Benedict (Egg Benedict) / Ashley Graydon (Robert Crogrey)

Nash and Ringo Skulkin (Nemmy and Tully Tinpillar)

Escapades

Debuted in Resolve

The Adventure of the Blossoming Attorney (Bengo Shoujo no Bouken to Kakusei)

The Memoirs of the Clouded Kokoro (Wagahai to Kiri no Yoru no Kaisou)

The Return of the Great Departed Soul (Mirai Kagaku to Bourei no Kikan)

Voiced by (English): Tom Allenby (GAA 2)

Twisted Karma and His Last Bow (Nejireta Otoko to Saigo no Aisatsu)

"Venus", "Gossip", and "Sandwich"

Fabien de Rousseau (Maurice de Quilco) and Peppino de Rossi (Marco di Gicho)

The Resolve of Ryunosuke Naruhodo (Naruhodo Ryunosuke no Kakugo)

Queen Victoria

The Great Turnabout Court Theatre

Tadashi Sodenoshita

Takeshi Auchi

Polan Musgrave

Other Minor Characters

The Former Chief Justice

Lady Baskerville

Ayame Mikotoba

Chalan Musgrave

Alternative Title(s): Ace Attorney Witnesses And Other Characters The Great Ace Attorney

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