History Characters / AceAttorneyDetectivesAndOtherLawEnforcementOfficers

* AffablyEvil: Need fifty bucks? He's your guy! [[spoiler: Try to reopen that case Damon doesn't want anyone looking at? You get stabbed! He maintains an almost grandfatherly demeanor even when flagrantly threatening Phoenix and Edgeworth during Lana's trial]]. Additionally, [[spoiler:after his VillainousBreakdown, he expresses sad self-reflection over his actions, regret over losing The Judge's friendship, and good wishes for Phoenix's and Edgeworth's futures.]]

* {{Leitmotif}}: "I Want to Protect You", a simple, catchy song, perfect for a mascot. It's used quite often in Rise from the Ashes to invoke SoundtrackDissonance, especially when [[spoiler:its head appears in a drawing Ema made during the SL-9 Incident]].

* ABirthdayNotABreak: He dies on his birthday.

* OlderSidekick: To Edgeworth, and occasionally Franziska. [[WhipItGood He prefers Edgeworth.]] In I-4, it's shown that he initially thought of Edgeworth as a kid, but by the time Edgeworth cleared his name, he'd earned Gumshoe's respect.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Let's face it, it's par for the course at this point. He's a literal CowboyCop who nevertheless was inclued in a task force to investigate a SerialKiller who never left any evidence behind and tirelessly works to reopn the case.

* MarathonBoss: [[spoiler:He's only beaten by Quercus Alba in this regard. He has two entire days worth of testimonies, providing lengthy and complex testimonies that require multiple corrections and objections each. He also brings in witnesses to testify on his behalf, making it take even longer to defeat him. Besting him takes several hours at the very least.]]

* InterfaceSpoiler: [[spoiler:It's possible to recognise him as the culprit or at least someone involved in the crime by spotting an oddity in his sprites. His PsychoticSmirk is used when he believes he's a few steps ahead of everyone else. This tends to be one of the only visual ways to recognise when he's withholding information or deflecting questions. He noticably does this before faced in court, showing that he's deceptive long before being cross examined.]]

* InventionalWisdom: His Blue Badger animatronic in Case 1-5 has no off switch, so it just dances until the batteries die. This causes a problem for the court when it was still active at a crime scene as it covered the face of a suspect on a CCTV recording. [[spoiler:This also put a hole in the true killer's plans, as it covered a bloody handprint which combined with the ID Card Record, proved the victim only could've been murdered at the same time the ID Card Holder "7777777" (Damon Gant) was at the crime scene.]]

* SmallRoleBigImpact: In Case 1-5, he gives Phoenix an incomplete missing item report slip from the victim of said case, dismissing it as unimportant. [[spoiler: The missing report was for the victim's police ID. This helps Phoenix deduce that the victim needed someone else's ID to enter the evidence room. Someone who wanted to silence the victim...]]

* TheBlank: He’s never shown clearly, meaning he doesn’t have any unique facial features.

* TheBlank: He's always in the background, so he's never shown clearly.

* UncannyValley: InUniverse. Edgeworth in particular finds the Blue Badger unsettling in Case 1-5.

* CoolPet: He's a hawk, and his purpose is to make Simon look even cooler.

* PutOnABus: In the post-timeskip games. He appears during Phoenix's flashback in ''Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney'', but that's it. ''Spirit of Justice'' implies that he's still on the force, though.

* DarkSkinnedBlond: At least used to be one in his younger days.

* MyGreatestFailure: As a teen, it's [[spoiler: being too traumatized to testify about SL-0, which she believed led to the forgeries and the rumors surrounding Edgeworth. Making up for this is her main motivator for wanting to become a forensic scientist.]] As an adult, it's not getting into forensics, though this is only temporary.

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* MeaningfulName: Her Japanese first name is derived from the word meaning "corner" and the surname comes from the word meaning "to conceal". Her English name is a pun on "can disarm," a reference to her position on the bomb squad.

* NumberOneDime: Not only does he set aside time every week to make sure his police ID is meticulously polished, but he keeps it in a shoulder holster so he can flash it at appropriate times.

* WalkingSpoiler: There is one major revelation about him in the final case of ''Dual Destinies'' that has a ''massive'' effect on the plot. If you have not yet played/finished the game, exercise caution when looking up information about him.
** Also it's advisable you play the DLC case, "Turnabout Reclaimed", in chronological order (between cases 2 and 3) instead of after the main game as his presence there can be disruptive or even unnerving after the major reveal at the end of the game.

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* UnwillingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: As Mia put it, Valerie played a large part in "making a demon of Dahlia", as securing her as an accomplice to her diamond theft gave Dahlia her first taste of committing a crime and getting away with it at someone else's expense...and Dahlia liked that taste ''quite a lot''.]]

* DirtyCop: [[spoiler:She was an accomplice to Dahlia's crime]].

* HeelFaceTurn: One of the saddest examples of this trope, since not only does she get killed for it, but [[spoiler:the guy she initially screwed over and later tried to save through her HeelFaceTurn ends up dying anyway.]]

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