History Characters / Persona4ArenaAntagonists

* AChatWithSatan: Comes with being a [[EnemyWithout Shadow]]. She exists to show Labrys the parts of herself the original refuses to acknowledge.

* CovertPervert: Remember the quote under this trope in General Teddie's folder? Yeah, that's Shadow Labrys in disguise. Either she's a really good actor, or [[LesYay there's something going on there]].

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: In ''Ultimax'', you can play as Shadow versions of most characters, which trade out the ability to use bursts and raw damage for doubled SP gain and other bonuses. Interestingly, Labrys is one of these characters you can use the Shadow mode on, despite Shadow Labrys already being a separate character on the roster (With a completely different Persona to boot; Shadow Labrys uses Asterius, but Labrys in Shadow mode still uses Ariadne). Averted in the story mode, where Shadow mode Labrys is one of the many Shadow doppelgangers made by Sho.

* TheHeavy: She is General Teddie after all.

* IgnoredEnemy: To Elizabeth.

* LiteralSplitPersonality: Comes part and parcel with being a Shadow, of course. [[spoiler:Gets inverted in ''Ultimax'' when she's revealed to still be around because of Labrys' black box and is developing her own personality, but is now confined to said black box... unless Labrys consciousness somehow weakens, in which case she can [[SplitPersonalityTakeover take over the body.]]]]

--> ''[[spoiler:Stop ignoring me, '''bitch'''!]]''
** [[spoiler:In Ultimax, she taunts down Sho after he attempted to control Labrys. It really pissed her off, and she took the opportunity to taunt him down.]]
--> ''[[spoiler:Kiss my skinny metal '''ass''', you punk kid!]]''
* PsychoticSmirk: As with most other Shadow Selves. Especially noticeable in the Instant Kill portrait. Plenty of her win poses feature one as well.

-->'''Illusion''': I had to keep killing, over and over... all because of you humans! It hurts... [[MadnessMantra It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts]]...

* SuperMode: Titanomachia allows Asterius to execute up to 3 powered up attacks in succession before finishing with a full-screen blast of flames. The full-screen attack can also be preformed on its own.

--> '''Shadow Labrys:''' *Laughing* You're so cute... and weak...

* TheRival: Somewhat to Labrys, but his real target to assert himself as this towards is Yu. [[spoiler: In the end of it all, Yu accepts this position, to boot.]]

* SirSwearsALot: Somebody needs to wash this boy's mouth out with soap because he's worse than Kanji and Yosuke combined. (Hell...er, heck he's probably just as bad as [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Ragna the Bloodedge]].)

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Shares some odd similarities with Ikutsuki from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}''. [[spoiler:Turns this is because he's Ikutsuki's "son", as [[KidnappedForExperimentation one of the orphans Ikutsuki experimented on]].]]

* TeamNormal: He was originally an ordinary human who lacks a Persona and couldn't even enter the TV world.

* MindControlEyes: When Labrys is hacked by him, her eyes lose their red glow and become completely gray.

* {{Shotoclone}}: Both variants of Sho are ''[[IncrediblyLamePun sho]]''tos in their own way: Sho's fireball is a charge motion and acts more like Sagat's Tiger Shot, but he has an uppercut special in addition to their shared Furious Action; MINAZUKI (the version with Tsukiyomi) has the traditional motion for his fireball (in exchange for it being slower to use) and has a unique super projectile, but the second uppercut becomes little more than a followup to their shared hurricane kick equivalent and his version of their shared uppercut super does less damage than Sho's.

** He also acts like this towards Teddie, calling him out as a Shadow, despite his humanity and bonds, even using his [[IncrediblyLamePun bear puns]] as a means to bear-ate Teddie.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Shares some odd similarities with Ikutsuki from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}''. [[spoiler:Turns this is because he's Ikutsuki's "son", as one of the orphans Ikutsuki experimented on.]]

* MultiSlotCharacter: Shares a roster spot with his host, SHO, the difference being that SHO doesn't have access to a MINAZUKI's Persona, Tsukiyomi. MINAZUKI shares the same moveset as SHO, with his Persona providing [[CastingAShadow darkness-based]] moves. The true end of ''Ultimax'''s story mode reveals that [[spoiler:after the true villain's defeat, Sho can't sense Minazuki anymore, and that he now has access to Tsukiyomi as his Persona. It's implied that Minazuki became Tsukiyomi, and that Minazuki was Sho's Shadow. This is followed up with a TrueFinalBoss fight against Sho, where he uses his physical-based gameplay style while also having access to Tsukiyomi's power, though this variant isn't playable and can only be fought in the game's story mode]].

[[folder:The Malevolent Entity (Spoilers)]]

* AntagonisticOffspring: His actions nearly kill [[spoiler:Marie / Izanami]], his mother in Myth/JapaneseMythology. His father in those myths, [[spoiler:Izanagi / Magatsu-Izanagi]], also ultimately defeats him. If you're familiar with Japanese Myth, this shouldn't be surprising (he's the reason Izanami died in the first place).

A character sheet for the antagonists ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' and ''VideoGame/Persona4ArenaUltimax'', the FightingGame sequels of the {{Eastern RPG}}s ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}''. More tropes can be found in the character sheets of ''Characters/{{Persona 3}}'' and ''Characters/{{Persona 4}}''. For a full index of characters from the ''Arena'' duology see [[Characters/Persona4Arena here]], for the whole ''Persona'' series, see [[Characters/{{Persona}} this page.]]

!Antagonists '''*MAJOR SPOILERS*'''

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* AvengingTheVillain: [[spoiler:Wants revenge on the Shadow Operatives for killing his adoptive father Ikutsuki, though Sho himself claims that it's one of his least-prioritized things by the time it's been brought it up.]]

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:The Malevolent Entity is just using his human partner to obtain "The one true vessel". True to form, the minute Kagatsuchi has what he needs, he possesses Sho and uses him to make a new body.]]