History Characters / Persona4ArenaUnaffiliatedFighters

* SkillGateCharacter: Against noobs, her massive Zio spell spells their doom. That said, her massive reliance on Thanatos means that being Persona Broken by skilled players absolutely destroys her.

* {{Deuteragonist}}: The ''Persona 4: Arena'' duology is generally her story primarily, with the first game essentially being a trip through her dungeon and her g.

A Shadow-hunting android similar to Aigis. For reasons yet to be explained, Labrys was thrown into the Midnight Channel, creating a replica of Inaba which serves as the stage of the "P-1 Grand Prix" and as her Midnight Channel dungeon, born out of her desire to go to school and be a real girl. Labrys' Persona, Ariadne, can weave magical threads used to both attack and stun her opponents.

* AscendedExtra: Labrys first appeared in a P3 drama CD entitled ''Moonlight.'' A mostly complete transcription of the Drama CD can be found in [[http://imaginary-numbers.dreamwidth.org/2127.html two]] [[http://imaginary-numbers.dreamwidth.org/2382.html parts]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fETsiltNXg0 (the audio could be heard here)]], but there are Persona 3 spoilers, as it takes place during January, and she doesn't even make an appearance although her name is mentioned.

* BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon: An unhinged fighter who wields an axe.
* CanonImmigrant: Went from a passing mention in a ''Persona 3'' drama CD to being a fully-fledged fighter.

* TheComicallySerious: Has this innately for some reason. Even when she was first being built.
-->'''Researcher''': ''Does it...have an accent?''
-->'''Labrys''': ''Ac...cent? [[Film/RushHour Do you not understand the words comin outta my mouth]]?''

* {{Deuteragonist}}: The Persona 4 Arena duology is generally her story primarily, with the first game essentially being a trip through her dungeon.

* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: The Fifth Generation were intended to build up egos and personalities through combat and occasional interaction, but the researchers actually weren't really paying attention to the right things. Labrys aside, most of the other units had also developed their own egos and merely hid such things. When they finally consider her a success, she's become so human [[spoiler:that she has a breakdown, goes on a rampage and has to be sealed away]].

** During the story, Labrys runs around convinced that she's the student council president and has forgotten who and what she actually is. By choice.

* ImageSong: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pOTgEnPYSg Now I Know]]" -- the credits theme of the first ''Arena'' game, where she has found her new resolve after her struggles.

* {{Joshikousei}}: Pretends to be one.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: In English. It... jumps around, sounding a bit like someone affecting a {{Joisey}} or Bronx accent, making it difficult for many fans to [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent nail it down]]. This might have been due to the voice actor having difficulties with the nuances of the accent, but is {{Justified|Trope}} in her Story Mode: [[spoiler:it sounds like someone imitating an accent because ''that's exactly what it is.'']]

* OneWomanArmy: Her anime cutscene has her decimating an army of herself.

* RageBreakingPoint: After all the experiments, Labrys is holding together and while disillusioned she stays in her expected role. But when the scientists [[spoiler:decide to delete the memories of #024 she finally flips out, goes on a rampage with a proto-Persona and causes intense damage.]]

* RoboticReveal: When she is first introduced, Labrys's robotic parts are hidden by an illusion that makes others (as well as herself) to think that she is human. It's not until meeting her Shadow that the illusion is dispelled. This represents her wanting to be human and refusing to accept her past.
* RobotWizard: Like Aigis, the nature of Personas means, this trope naturally applies to her. Moreso when she inherited hers the same way as the Investigation Team did.

* ShootTheShaggyDog: Becomes absolutely heart-wrenching at some points, particularly at the end where [[spoiler:she finally hits her RageBreakingPoint and actually manages to bust out of the research facility... only to learn that there's no place she can run to because the lab's been on an island the entire time. However, she caused so much damage during her escape that the reseachers no longer had the means to tamper with her memories.]]

* TranslationConvention: In the English dub she occasionally speaks with a [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents North Jersey[=/=]Bronx accent]].

-->Your fate is in the cards...!

* DeathDealer: Some of her normal attacks use tarot cards

* LightEmUp: The light spell Mahamaon creates a OneHitKill trap on the ground.

* {{Kiai}}: When she uses her All-Out Attack, she will whimsically and playfully yell "Chestoo~!"

* {{Leitmotif}}: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWCtuh3p1Ps Battle Hymn of the Soul]]'' -- originally used for the final boss of ''Persona 3''.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Acts extremely laid back and friendly, while also being quite willing to engage some trolling and trash talking. [[spoiler:It turns out to be intentional.]]

-->'''Elizabeth:''': Such parlour tricks [[SophisticatedAsHell can get stuffed!]]

* ContinuityNod: Elizabeth's Mortal Blow is the same [[ThatOneAttack 9999 damage Megidolaon]] she uses as a {{Superboss}} in ''Persona 3'', complete with ''Persona 4'''s 9999 damage icon. All of her other skills also come from her boss moveset in that game. As an SNKBoss, she will use Diarahan to completely heal herself the first time you push her below 50% health.

* CriticalStatusBuff: In Ultimax, entering Awakening causes Elizabeth to gain much more powerful variants of her special moves in addition to the Awakening supers everyone else gets access to.

* HealThyself: When using Diarahan, she quickly restores a significant portion of her health (though not so quickly that she can't be attacked before the healing finishes). In Ultimax, the B and SB versions can be held to increase the amount of healing, but this will leave her vulnerable to attack.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Margaret states that Elizabeth's journey will likely bring her back to the Velvet Room in the end- not as an attendant, but a visitor.

* SNKBoss: In Score Attack Mode, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzNqUUd-lsY&feature=related to an absurd degree]]. She has a faster SP recovery rate, roughly 20,000 (slightly less than three times the normal) HP, uses a full HP restore Diarahan once awakened, her [[OneHitKill Mudo and Hama]] Supers activate instantly instead of after 10 seconds and she can have multiple traps active instead of just one, her OneHitKill only requires 1 hit to activate the CounterAttack instead of 3, and she deals multiple times normal damage with each hit, especially if you're suffering [[StatusEffects fear status]].

* TheBattleDidntCount: Typical of Arc, her defeat pose doesn't consist of her being knocked out, just laying down and deciding to stop the fight. Likewise, anytime you fight her in story mode, your character is shown beaten and exhausted while Elizabeth is barely trying.

--->'''Elizabeth''' It's a hardcover, leather-bound edition and is quite powerful. Enough to do [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall over four digits on average]], I'd say.
* UndyingLoyalty: Ever since the end of ''The Answer'', she has not stopped trying to figure out how to rescue [[spoiler:P3's protagonist from his seal]]. That's ''three years'' so far.

* AntiHero: Adachi's ultimate motivation is to ensure the consequences of his failure and arrest are kept in tact, to the point that he'd try to stop anybody else from causing another stir about his case if it meant people thought he may not be the killer after all. This being said, he's still a complete misanthrope who'd only do such a thing because of his skewed worldview, although he does show signs of regretting his actions.

* EvilerThanThou: Considers himself to be more hateful and wretched than Sho, [[spoiler:which is why he believes that it's not too late for Sho to atone.]]

* FailedASpotCheck: He had everything set up perfectly, but failed to realize one thing: [[spoiler:that Sho could use his MindControl powers without Minazuki being in control.]]

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: On one hand, he's a convicted serial killer and a nihilistic sociopath. On the other hand, he at least has a decently functioning (if somewhat warped) grasp of the concept of "You do the crime, you do the time." Also, while he'd never blatently admit it, he does hold a great deal of respect for the Investigation Team and still considers Dojima to be a close friend.

-->'''Yu''': (paraphrased) [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe I don't even]]..... What are you doing here?

* VillainBall: Completely averted; Adachi knows full well what he's doing and flawlessly manipulates both sides to reach the resolution he wants, albeit until his alliance with Sho went south. Played with in that he pretends to invoke this trope via SayingTooMuch "accidentally".

* BigGood: Due to Igor being a case of RealLifeWritesThePlot, she's the most active force of heroism in the game, and serves as a direct mentor figure.

* {{Leitmotif}}: Unlike her {{Superboss}} battle in ''Persona 4'' where she used "I'll Face Myself", the standard battle theme against the Shadow bosses, Margaret comes with her own version of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o01IIevhAm4 Battle Hymn of the Soul]]", a remix of the Velvet Room's theme, "The Poem For Everyone's Souls", as her battle theme.

Unaffiliated fighters in ''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.]]

* SNKBoss: In Score Attack Mode, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzNqUUd-lsY&feature=related to an absurd degree]].[[note]]she gains a faster SP recovery rate, roughly 20,000 (slightly less than three times the normal) HP, uses a full HP restore Diarahan once awakened, her [[OneHitKill Mudo and Hama]] Supers activate instantly instead of after 10 seconds and she can have multiple traps active instead of just one, her OneHitKill CounterAttack takes only 1 hit to activate instead of 3, and she deals multiple times normal damage with each hit, especially if you're suffering [[StatusEffects fear status]].[[/note]]

* {{Leitmotif}}: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5-3EQ0itcY A Fool or Clown?]]''

* StealthMentor: To [[spoiler:the Investigation Team. Since he can't share information directly without being killed, he pushes them in the right direction by mocking them. He also goads the Shadow Operatives into helping them out by doing the same thing.]]

* {{Tritagonist}}: He's one of the main players of Ultimax's story, his appearance reinforces his CharacterDevelopment from the end of ''Persona 4'', and [[spoiler:he helps Yu finish off Hi-no-Kagutsuchi at the end of Episode P4]].

* VocalEvolution: For the English dub, in order to differentiate him from Narukami, Bosch uses a middle ground between his tone from the original games and The Animation (higher-pitched like The Animation, but without the rasp).

* AscendedExtra: Went from a Social Link turned boss into a fully playable character.

* LateArrivalSpoiler:Multiple scenes and a number of her attacks give away that she's an aspect of Izanami, the former BigBad of ''Persona 4''.

* AscendedExtra: Like Marie, she was originally a social link and an optional boss in ''Persona 4''. Now she's a playable character.

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[[caption-width-right:325:Don't break the rules, or you'll get Chain Knuckled!]]
[[caption-width-right:325:[[labelnote:Click here to see Ariadne]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_018.jpg Goddess of the Labyrinth[[/labelnote]]]]

* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: The Fifth Generation were intended to build up egos and personalities through combat and occasional interaction, but the researchers actually weren't really paying attention to the right things. Labrys aside, most of the other units had also developed their own egos and merely hid such things. When they finally consider her a success, she's become so human [[spoiler:that she has a breakdown, goes on a rampage and has to be sealed away.]]

** Her personality is based on that of a real human girl, but the details of this life were locked away with special equipment [[spoiler:that is also the basis for her illusion abilities.]] This is not viewed as particularly important in itself by the story since Labrys is her own individual.

* ImageSong: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JCl8yivdvc Now I Know]]''.

* {{Leitmotif}}: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLLNFb61YZQ Spirited Girl]]'' and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3Dqanj4ThI The Ultimate]]'' for her boss battle. For Shadow-Type Shadow Labrys, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=535yJPAAH7M The Almighty]]''.

** Yosuke also develops a crush on her in his Story Mode and becomes overprotective over her, not wanting her to suffer the same fate as Saki. He also treats their walk towards the annoucement room as a date.

* CatchPhrase: Doubling as a PreAsskickingOneLiner:

* GrimReaper: The Myth/{{Greek|Mythology}} God of Death, Thanatos.

* ImplacableWoman: Shrugs when hit by lightning, enjoys the view if knocked out of the air, and even if you beat her... [[http://i47.tinypic.com/250nm6b.png she doesn't exactly sweat over it]].

* {{Leitmotif}}: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWCtuh3p1Ps Battle Hymn of the Soul]]''

-->'''Elizabeth:''' I believe our encounter has borne much [[{{Malaproper}} flute]].\\

[[quoteright:325:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/adachi_p4u_artwork.png]]
[[caption-width-right:325:This world is shit as always!]]

* GotMeDoingIt: Sho's habit of cracking {{Incredibly Lame Pun}}s rubs off on him.

* UnexpectedCharacter: While some joked about Marie being in, nobody was serious about it. Then, Atlus pulled a fast one and announced her anyway!

* PowerFloats: One of her opening animations has her floating in the air, looking for a suitable Persona in her grimoire.
** [[VideoGame/{{Persona 4}} Like before]], Margaret has little reason to touch the ground during combat. Even her idle stance has her at least an inch off the ground.

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* HiddenDepths: Episode Adachi goes to great lengths to show Adachi is not just a simple AffablyEvil {{Jerkass}}. For example, despite his claim in ''Persona 4'' that he only wanted to be a cop to use a gun, he has large bits of the Detective Instruction Guide memorized. All and all, it helps make Adachi much more complex of a character, and makes his AntiVillain status more believable.

* BonusBoss: She serves as the final boss of the bonus Score Attack mode.

* ContinuityNod: Elizabeth's Mortal Blow is the same [[ThatOneAttack 9999 damage Megidolaon]] she uses as a BonusBoss in ''Persona 3'', complete with Persona 4's 9999 damage icon. All of her other skills also come from her boss moveset in that game. As an SNKBoss, she will use Diarahan to completely heal herself the first time you push her below 50% health.

* {{Leitmotif}}: Unlike her SecretBoss battle in ''Persona 4'', where she used "I'll Face Myself", the standard battle theme against the Shadow bosses, Margaret comes with her own version of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o01IIevhAm4 Battle Hymn of the Soul]]", a remix of the Velvet Room's theme, "The Poem For Everyone's Souls", as her battle theme.

* {{Determinator}}: Ever since [[spoiler: Persona 3 Protagonist died]] Elizabeth has been looking for a way to [[spoiler: save him from his fate as the Great Seal and ''refuses'' to give up on achieving that goal]].

* Determinator: Ever since [[spoiler: Persona 3 Protagonist died]] Elizabeth has been looking for a way to [[spoiler: save him from his fate as the Great Seal and ''refuses'' to give up on achieving that goal]].

* Determinator: Ever since [[spoiler: Persona 3 Protagonist died]] Elizabeth has been looking for a way to [[spoiler: save him from his fate as the Great Seal and ''refuses'' to give up on saving him]].

* CallBack: Her four Personas, Yoshitsune, Cu Chulainn, Ardha, and Helel, are all Personas she uses in the optional boss fight against her in ''Persona 4''.

* SuplexFinisher: Her Furious Action has her reforming an Izuna-style German Suplex which launches her really high in the air. It gets even more ridiculous in Boss Mode, as she leaps off screen and stays there for several seconds before slamming back down like a meteor.

* {{Bishonen}}: Her Personas are a CastFullOfPrettyBoys (well, with the possible exception of [[{{Hermaphrodite}} Ardha]]). Her title even hangs a giant lampshade on the fact she's gotten nothing but attractive men for Personas.

* KansaiRegionalAccent: In the Japanese track. In ''Ultimax'', the version of [[ShadowArchetype Shadow Labrys]] who uses Ariadne retains it.

* ChainPain / WhipItGood: Her Instant Kill mainly consists of her using her axe a flail by using the chain on her arm.

* EvolvingAttack: Her strength increases the more attacks she lands, allowing her to reach GameBreaker strength if she attacks frequently.

* RobotWizard: Like Aigis, the nature of Personas means, this trope naturally applies to her. Moreso when she inhereted hers the same way as the Investigation Team did.

* VariableLengthChain: inside her arms, letting them extend to almost any length.

-->'''Elizabeth''': ''Such parlour tricks [[SophisticatedAsHell can get stuffed!]]''

--> Your fate is in the cards...!

-->'''Elizabeth''': (After winning a match) This is for ''him''...

--->'''Elizabeth''': ''(after randomly deciding to break a window)'' Pardon my dynamic entrance.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Margaret states that Elizabeth's journey will likely bring her back to the Velvet Room in the end, but not as an Attendent, but its vistor.

* {{Kiai}}: When she uses her All Out Attack, she will whimsically and playfully yell "Chestoo~!"

-->'''Elizabeth:''' I believe our encounter has borne much [[{{Malaproper}} flute]].
-->'''Yu:''' "Flute"…?
-->'''Elizabeth:''' …Flue? …Chimneys?

-->'''Elizabeth''': Such parlor tricks can get stuffed!

-->'''Elizabeth''': In the end, I could not feel that same frisson as when I faced him...

* MeaningfulName: Her name is the ancient Greek term for [[AnAxeToGrind a symmetrical doubleheaded axe]] that originally came from Crete; it is often associated with goddesses and femininity. In addition, the Japanese pronunciation of her name[[note]]''Rabirisu'', as opposed to ''Raburyusu''[[/note]] is one kana away from "labyrinth"[[note]]''Rabiri'''n'''su''[[/note]], the palace of Knossos which was designed to hold the Minotaur of Crete and is also derived from "labrys". Furthermore, it is believed that the goddess of the double-axe presided over Minoan palaces, especially the palace of Knossos.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: In English. It... jumps around, sounding a bit like someone affecting a {{Joisey}} or Bronx accent, making it difficult for many fans to [[{{WhatTheHellIsThatAccent}} nail it down]]. This might have been due to the voice actor having difficulties with the nuances of the accent, but is {{Justified|Trope}} in her Story Mode: [[spoiler:it sounds like someone imitating an accent because ''that's exactly what it is.'']]