History Characters / Persona4TheInvestigationTeam

->'''Voiced by:''' RomiPark (Japanese), need confirmation of English VA

->'''Voiced by:''' RomiPark (Japanese), Susan Dalian (English)

->'''Voiced by:''' RomiPark (Japanese), MeganHollingshead (English)

* {{Expy}}: Her appearance resembles [[{{Gundam00}} Nena Trinity]], who has the [[RieKugimiya same Japanese voice actress]].
** Like Chie, she is also an expy of [[{{Persona 2}} Lisa Silverman]], taking on most of the personality traits that Chie missed. Some of the earliest concept art of Rise even had her resemble Lisa, but with longer hair, a slightly different hairstyle, and darker eyes.

* [[spoiler: NakedOnArrival: Played with, he arrives in the real world in his {{Mascot}} form; when he complains of being too hot, he removes his head, revealing that he's grown a (naked) human body inside his mascot costume, just so he can score with the girls.]]

[[folder: The Protagonist]]
!The Protagonist (AKA Yu Narukami) (AKA Souji Seta)

-->'''Narukami''': [[ConfusedQuestionMark Huh?]]

-->(Narukami sticks his hand onto the TV, only for Teddie to bite it.)
-->'''Narukami:''' Something bit me.

* [[spoiler:TheGlassesComeOff]]: [[spoiler: He throws away his glasses when he summons Izanagi-No-Okami to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punch out Cthulhu. It's epic.]]

* MagikarpPower:
** She stops gaining useful Physical and Bufu Skills by the time you get Kanji and Teddie, at least mid-game. She does get pretty powerful when leveled high enough, though, gaining Power Charge, Agneyastra, and God's Hand.
** The Golden takes this even further with Haraeda no Okami. To say something of it, she gains a [[GameBreaker FULL PARTY HEAT RISER]] in dragon hustle. To make this even sweeter, it arrives upon maxing her social link which means you can have it VERY EARLY. Putting it into perspective, none of the characters save for the main character can use heat riser and even then, only on himself. Combined with Charge and God's hand, she is essential to the party.

** BadassPacifist: She manages to make a bunch of {{paparazzi}} back down and run away with words alone. Even the haughty Ai is intimidated with just a "I didn't ask you!".
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She is ''scary'' when provoked. Such as {{paparazzi}} incident mentioned above and when she politely and sweetly blackmails Kanji into joining the cross-dressing pageant. Also, this line from the anime:

* TheCameo: In ''{{Persona 3}} Portable'''s female protagonist route, when the PC's sports club goes to a summer fellowship in Inaba and stays at the Amagi Inn. She's younger and has shorter hair, and impresses the Gekkoukan students with her looks and maturity.

* CharacterSelectForcing: The only member of the team aside from [[spoiler:Teddie]] to get anything other than pitiful heals and that character is more of a support role, while Yukiko also has hard hitting Agi spells.
** A variant happens during a stakeout early in the game, you get the choice to team up with Chie, Yosuke or Yukiko, but circumstances will always leave you with Yukiko.

* TheMedic: This aspect of her Persona alone is going to make her a character you keep in your party for a long time, especially since she learns the mother of all healing spells at level 74. [[hottip:*: It restores the HP of all characters ''and'' removes their status ailments.]] It also makes a lot of sense given that the Arcana she represents is The Priestess, i.e. the kind of person you would expect to be a healer.

* WhiteMagicianGirl: She's arguably the best healer in the game (only surpassed by the Protagonist given the right Persona), the [[YamatoNadeshiko most gentle]] player character, uses a [[ImprobableWeaponUser blunt weapon that amplifies her spells ]] and is a potential love interest. The only way she steps outside this trope is her [[PlayingWithFire repertoire of hard-hitting Agi spells]].

* {{Badass}}
** BadassAdorable
** BadassPacifist: Decides at one point to take a beating for a little kid without defending herself to protect him and Yukiko.

* BookDumb: Zigzagged. Chie generally fails most exam subjects, but Yukiko states that Chie gets very good scores on those that she doesn't fail.
** She's also fairly attentive and tends to support conversations about the investigation pretty well.

* {{Expy}}: Not in looks, but in attitude: Chie shares a ''lot'' of characteristics with Lisa Silverman, the most obvious of which being enamored with kung-fu movies and BruceLee in particular.
* FoodAsBribe: Inverted in the anime. When Yu and Yosuke return from their second trip into the TV World in the second episode, she says the only way she'll forgive them is if they buy her [[BigEater 10 orders of both beefsteak and nikudon]].

* JerkAss: Chie has so many shades of this, mainly due to constantly yelling at Yosuke, as if she has a HairTriggerTemper. This is shown much more in the Anime of the Game.

* TheLancer: Could double as this with TheBigGirl, but she makes for a more useful right-hand girl for Yu than Yosuke in the anime once she gets her Persona.

* MagikarpPower: She stops gaining useful Physical and Bufu Skills by the time you get Kanji and Teddie, at least mid-game. She does get pretty powerful when leveled high enough, though, gaining Power Charge, Agneyastra, and God's Hand.
** The Golden takes this even further with Haraeda no Okami. To say something of it, she gains a [[GameBreaker FULL PARTY HEAT RISER]] in dragon hustle. To mkae this even sweeter, it arrives upon maxing her social link which means you can have it VERY EARLY. putting it into perspective, none of the characters save for the main character can use heat riser and even then, only on himself. Combined with Charge and God's hand, she is essential in the party.

** PoisonousFriend

** [[BlatantLies No, it's pudding.]]

** {{Tsundere}}: She has moments of this. Yosuke is usually on the receiving end of the "tsuntsun" (including [[GroinAttack critical hits to the nads]]) while Yukiko gets a good part of her "deredere." [[YuiHorie Naru]] [[LoveHina Narusegawa]], [[ActorAllusion anyone]]?
*** To a lesser degree, the Protagonist as well. It's more noticeable if you pursue her romance.

** MrViceGuy: His vices primarily being [[SmallTownBoredom bored of Inaba]] and [[HonorBeforeReason difficulty considering the ramifications of his words and actions]], which often leads to MoralDissonance and his being on the receiving end of LaserGuidedKarma.
* {{Badass}}
** HeartbrokenBadass: Part of his motivation in being a Persona user is kicking the ass of the one who murdered Saki.
** TookALevelInBadass: Which doubles as CharacterDevelopment.
* BerserkButton: Disrespecting Saki or the Protagonist.
** [[spoiler:Hurting Nanako]].
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:Among all the party members he was the one most determined to kill Namatame after Nanako's apparent death]].

* CombatMedic: In the earliest parts of the game, he fills this role until Yukiko comes along, then he becomes a JackofAllStats.

* {{Determinator}}

* FemaleGaze: In the anime, [[http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsnye3Sa771qf95ibo5_250.png quite]] [[http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsnye3Sa771qf95ibo7_250.png a]] [[http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsnye3Sa771qf95ibo3_250.png lot]] of shots are focused on his butt.

* JackOfAllTrades[=/=]TheRedMage: Jiraiya has good buffs, physical skills, Garu spells and an odd healing ability. Towards the end of the game, he (and Jiraiya's successor, Susano-O) begins trending toward LightningBruiser, especially with good equipment. His [[TheRedMage Red Mage]] status comes with a solid dose of FridgeBrilliance: It's a more literal interpretation of "The Magician."

* ThePowerOfFriendship: Plays a major role in plot and gameplay.
** More to the point, the main character gets his strength from this.

** [[spoiler: Quite possibly more than a joke. The very first scenes of the anime are glimpses of the game's Bad End. Coupled with the fact that if you take the Personas he uses to win fights in the anime and look at their minimum level in the game, Yu is MUCH higher level than he should be at every point in the story.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: The personality stats return from {{Persona 3}}, except there are now five attributes rather than three: Knowledge, Courage, Diligence, Understanding, and Expression. Maxing them out opens up new Social Links and gives you more dialogue choices.

* ChickMagnet: Recognized in the anime. He's called a gigolo by Margaret of all people. Nobody argue about this.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZoSgivgRHk Case in point.]] Why does his shirt open itself? Because it must.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: If you perform the Social Links, it is almost impossible to stop him from helping others.

* CloudCuckooLander: Narukami in the anime. ''[[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Possibly.]]'' He's a master of [[TheStoic the poker face]], so it's hard to tell when he's being [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]] or serious.
** TheGadfly: Another possible explanation is that he's well grounded and simply likes to tease his friends by saying outrageous things with a strait face. Take your pick.
* TheComicallySerious: The anime ''loves'' doing this with [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111104041510/megamitensei/images/e/ed/Persona_4_Yu_2.jpg Narukami]], as he's amusingly stoic when most people would be either laughing or screaming, such as [[ItMakesSenseInContext when he puts Teddie's head back on his body]]. Yosuke even lampshades it.

* CovertPervert: Some of his text options are pretty perverted.
** In the anime his response to Shadow Yukiko talking about scoring a hot stud is to remark to Yosuke ([[DeadpanSnarker coolly]]) that he wished he had taped it. As of Episode 7, [[BrickJoke he did start recording it.]]
** It's becoming something of a RunningGag that Yu and Yosuke will say something equally perverted, [[ButtMonkey but only Yosuke will get hit for it.]]
*** Chie actually says at one point that the girls don't find it creepy when it's Yu whose doing it, but it is when the other guys are acting preverted.
** The "Covert" part has pretty much flown out the window; Yu once delivered ''[[CrowningMomentofFunny a very passionate 30 minute rant]]'' as to why the girls should enter a beauty pageant.

** [[spoiler:TheGlassesComeOff]]: [[spoiler: This is HOW he punches out Cthulhu.]]
* [[spoiler:EarnYourHappyEnding]]: Well, [[spoiler: "Earn Your BittersweetEnding" [[ButNowIMustGo is probably more accurate]].]]
* [[spoiler:EleventhHourSuperPower]]: Initiated by [[spoiler: ThePowerOfFriendship.]]

* ExtremeOmnivore: You have the option of eating anything you find in the fridge, regardless of how inedible it is (at one point you can even eat a ''pot of grass''.)
** He does get sick a few times, though.

* FemaleGaze: In the anime, after he summons Izanagi for the first time. The camera pans down his chest as he opens his jacket so he can breathe better. [[DistractedByTheSexy It's, um... impressively distracting.]]

* FirstKiss: [[spoiler:Margaret]] steals his in a moment of GenreBlindness to romance. Unless you date anyone else beforehand.
** In the anime, he gets his first kiss from Ai instead.
* TheFool: His [[spoiler:(initial)]] Arcana.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Does this to Yosuke in the Manga when he meets his Shadow.
** This happens in the anime as well; made more awesome as he decks Yosuke in sync with Izanagi as it lands a good punch to Yosuke's Shadow. Then made [[MoodWhiplash hilarious]] by Yu's response:

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Like in {{Persona 3}}, you are given the opportunity to sleep with almost any of the girls' whose Social Links you've completed. The scenes are not given explicit detail since this isn't an {{eroge}}, but it's heavily implied that both Yu's are very loving and gentle.

** TheHeart
** HeartIsAnAwesomePower: When the quality of your relationships actually power your Personas to fight against the Shadows, of course this trope applies.
* HelloInsertNameHere: While the manga and anime give him a name, the initial game does it. In fact, The Golden simply refers to him as "Hero" when it lists everyone's names.

* [[spoiler:HeroicBSOD: Happens in Episode 12 of the anime, Yu is hit by a Lotus-Eater Machine set by Shadow Mitsuo in the form of experiencing his worst nightmare. All of his friends in the Investigation Team leaving his life gradually, Yosuke being the last to leave and ending with Shadow Mitsuo appearing in his room as Yu fails to summon any Personas as his Social Links have all broken. Shadow Mitsuo grows to a large size and begins strangling Yu to death. He Gets Better by Yosuke bailing him out.]]

* HeroesPreferSwords: Or bats, or golf clubs, but mostly swords.
** KatanasAreJustBetter: His weapon of choice in ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena''.
* HotBlooded[=/=]BloodKnight: He's mostly stoic and calm in conversation but loosens up a bit during fights; shouting and throwing out the occasional swear word.
** NotSoStoic: After summoning Izanagi for the first time, he can be seen enjoying a taste of his new power.

* JapaneseDelinquents: At first it was just a FanNickname, but is now officially canon, as in ''Arena'' he is described as a "steel siscon banchou!"
** Even his persona has a BadassLongcoat that gives off this vibe.
* {{Jerkass}}: Most of the dialogue trees in the game have at least one "asshole" option. However, the game discourages you from choosing these, as by doing so, [[YouLoseAtZeroTrust it causes your friends to lose their trust in you,]] [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment resulting in broken Social Links which leads to depowering your character's Persona growth potential.]]
** Dialogue choices tend to push him more into DeadpanSnarker and ObfuscatingStupidity territory.

* KnightTemplarBigBrother: [[spoiler:You're given the option to throw Namatame in the television in retribution for Nanako's death. Yu nearly DID do this in the anime, but managed to stop himself.[[DownerEnding Things will only get worse though.]]]]

* MeaningfulName: "Narukami" means "lightning god", to which Izanagi is of the lightning element. Alternatively, "Narukami" can also mean [[spoiler:"to become a god"]]. Now consider the name of the protagonist's ultimate Persona and the mythology behind it.
** It also so happens that one of the readings of "Yu" is "[[TheQuietOne quiet]]".
** Not sure if it was intentional, but there's a pun in the English language regarding the name "Yu". In the game, the player character could be named and modeled after anyone playing. So, in a sense, "Yu" could be ''you''.
* TheMessiah[=/=]TheParagon: He helps almost everyone he meets overcome their deep-seated psychological issues, [[spoiler:convinces his friends to spare the man who almost killed his cousin/little sister figure, and saves the world thanks to a literal application of the PowerOfFriendship]].
** Attention is drawn to this by Igor and Margaret in the anime, who refer to Narukami as a "chosen one".

** The OP even gets in on it with the stressed line "I believe in you." One imagines it was actually part of the point, with HelloInsertNameHere causing the characters to refer to him as you, him, sensei, big bro, etc.
* TheQuietOne: In the [[ComicBookAdaptation manga]] where he is allowed to talk, he (as Souji) is still awfully quiet, only speaking at crucial moments and when he's the one initiating a conversation; it creates quite a parallel to his SilentProtagonist role in the game.
** In the anime he -- as [[MeaningfulName Yu]] -- is portrayed as a calm, composed, and soft-spoken individual.

* ScaryShinyGlasses[=/=]SlasherSmile: The first time he summons Izanagi is a rare completely heroic example of both.
** Seen here [[http://tonkuniverse.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/zero-raws_persona_4_-_01__mbs_1280x720_x264_aac_-mkv_001288412.jpg from episode 1 of the anime.]]
* [[SempaiKohai Sempai]]: In contrast to {{Persona 3}}'s protagonist, he's older than most other characters and gets called this.

* TheStoic: He never speaks outside battle and often has the option to tell others to calm down; there are only two points in the game where he has the option to become visibly angry. The eyes of his model are pretty cold too.

** NotSoStoic: However, there are plenty of moments where he breaks his stoicism. He often shows when he's concerned or surprised about something, rather friendly during conversations with his friends, and there's a distinctively afraid/shocked tone in his voice when he and his friends stumble into Mayumi's Shadow room during the first. episode. He's also smiles at least once an episode. He may be more of a SugarAndIceGuy than Stoic.
*** PlayedForLaughs in Episode 20, when Nanako asks if he and Teddie are perverts. Both of them go BlueWithShock.
*** And, in Episode 21, it's played far more seriously. [[spoiler: He starts to lose it when he sees Nanako on the Midnight Channel and, shorty after, discovers that she's been kidnapped. Then, when they find the kidnapper's truck, but with neither of them at the scene, his reaction pretty much borders on a HeroicBSOD. Teddie has to physically restrain him as he makes a desperate attempt to dive into the TV in the truck, and it isn't until Rise talks some sense into him that he (only barely) regains his composure.]]

** The King's Game scene in TheAnimeOfTheGame, when he unbuttons his shirt and goes deep straight into MemeticSexGod territory.

** Can also potentially be a LethalChef when cooking school lunches, if the player chooses the wrong options.
*** At one point, you have the option to ''[[CordonBleughChef spray cologne on creme caramel]]''.

** RealMenWearPink
* TeamChef: Among the Investigation Team members, he is the only one who can put together a good meal as an individual, though this is largely contingent on the player's own cooking skill.
** Canon in ''The Animation'' where Yu is shown to be a pretty good cook.
* ThousandOrigamiCranes: He can volunteer to fold origami cranes for charity as a part time job.
** The anime promotes this trope into his (as Narukami) hobby when killing time. He's pretty good at it too. He made a crane out of a paper napkin, which is harder to fold than regular paper.
*** Episode 9 shows that Origami Cranes is SeriousBusiness for Narukami.

* [[spoiler:UnwittingPawn]]: [[spoiler: One of the three people to whom Izanami granted the power to enter the TV. He represents "Hope."]]
** [[spoiler:SpannerInTheWorks]]: [[spoiler: Too bad for Izanami, he refuses to accept her gambit and eventually turns his given power on her.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: Delivered to the entire Investigation Team in the Normal/True route -- the only time he gets visibly angry[[hottip:*:(Unless you choose a certain option during Yosuke's Social Link)]] -- when the rest are contemplating [[spoiler: killing Namatame]].

* YinYangBomb: Her Persona has both Hama and Mudo skills, which is unique among the characters except for the Protagonist, but even with his customizable Personas it's pretty hard.

* YinYangBomb: Her Persona both high Hama and Mudo skills, which is unique among the characters except for the customisable ones, but even with those it's pretty hard.

As Teddie is a Shadow himself, his own Shadow is a much larger version of him, with a crack in its face showing something squirming under the surface (a visualization of Teddie's fears about his origin).

** [[Spoiler: Quite possibly more than a joke. The very first scenes of the anime are glimpses of the game's Bad End. Coupled with the fact that if you take the Personas he uses to win fights in the anime and look at their minimum level in the game, Yu is MUCH higher level than he should be at every point in the story.]]

* RedBaron: The trailers for ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' have the LemonyNarrator giving insulting nicknames to each of the Team's members in the trailers. [[InteractiveNarrator Naturally, they complain about this]].

* RedBaron: "The [[BigBrotherComplex Sister Complex]] Kingpin of Steel" in trailers for ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena''.

* RedBaron: "Captain Ressentiment" in trailers for ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena''.

* RedBaron: "The [[BigEater Carnivore]] [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon Whose Discarded Womanhood]]" in trailers for ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena''.

* RedBaron: "[[TallDarkAndBishoujo Unconquerable Snow Black]]" in trailers for ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena''.

* RedBaron: "[[ManlyGay Bloodcurdling Beefcake Emperor]]" in trailers for ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena''.

* [[RedBaron Red]] [[JustForPun Bear-on]]: "[[LovableSexManiac Beast of Libido]]" in VideoGame/Persona4Arena.

** She's called the "2000 IQ [[CaptainObvious Killjoy Detective]]" in VideoGame/Persona4Arena.

* FiveManBand: The early group, later broken.
** TheHero: The Protagonist.
** TheLancer: Chie.
** TheSmartGuy: Teddie.
** TheBigGuy: Kanji.
** TheChick: Yukiko.
** TheSixthRanger: Rise and Naoto.
** TagalongKid: Yosuke (becomes practically useless in the anime).

** TheLancer: Yosuke.

** TheBigGuy: Chie.

** TheSixthRanger: Kanji, Rise and Naoto.

* TheLancer

[[folder: The Protagonist/Yu Narukami (AKA Souji Seta)]]

[[folder:Teddie/Kuma]]

* BadassLongcoat: Both his starter Persona, Izanagi, and his ultimate Persona, [[spoiler:Izanagi-no-Ookami]] have one.

* BerserkButton: In the anime, Yu's only real weak spot is his BigBrotherInstinct towards Nanako. While he does have other buttons, endangering Nanako is the only guaranteed way to make him lose his composure. First shown when [[spoiler: Mistuo]] tried to do... something... to her when she bumped into him at the grocery store, only to be scared away when Yu jumped to her defense with a rather uncharacteristic "[[DeathGlare Back off or I]] ''[[DeathGlare will hurt you]]''" expression.

* PunnyName: "Yu Narukami", his name in ''The Animation'' and ''The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena'', has caused quite a few bad puns among the English fandom involving the pronoun "You".
** The OP even gets in on it with the stressed line "I believe in you". One imagines it was actually part of the point, with HelloInsertNameHere causing the characters to refer to him as you, him, sensei, big bro, etc.

* [[spoiler:UnwittingPawn]]: [[spoiler: One of the three people to whom Izanami granted the power to enter the TV. He represents "Hope".]]

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Well, grey-haired. Also, CurtainsMatchTheWindow

** [[spoiler:Hurting Nanako]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:Among all the party members he was the one most determined to kill Namatame after Nanako's apparent death.]]
* BlowYouAway

* CasanovaWannabe: Has three crushes throughout the game, all of which don't turn out too well -- Saki outright hated him, Yukiko shot him down, and Rise only has eyes for the Protagonist.

* CombatMedic: In the earliest parts of the game, he fills this role until Yukiko comes along, then he becomes a JackofAllStats

-->'''Yosuke:''' Don't tell me, did Chie-- D-Don't answer that. I'm not sure I want to know for sure that a friend of mine has the appetite of a starved wolf...

* KickChick
* LeeroyJenkins: Decides to run off after Yukiko early in the game. This does not end well.
* LightTheWay: Gains light spells from her social link in ''Golden''

** {{Tsundere}}: She has moments of this. Yosuke is usually on the receiving end of the "tsuntsun", while Yukiko gets a good part of her "deredere". [[YuiHorie Naru]] [[LoveHina Narusegawa]], [[ActorAllusion anyone]]?

* CastingAShadow: Gains [[OneHitKill mudo]] spells if you level up her social link in The Golden

* NeverLiveItDown: {{In-universe}} -- Shadow Yukiko once said she wanted to "score with a hot stud". Teddie brings it up sporadically throughout the game.
* NonindicativeName: "Yuki" is a name more often associated with "snow". Although, she initially feels that it's a MeaningfulName because she's "worthless" like snow.

* PlayingWithFire

* WhiteMagicianGirl: She's arguably the best healer in the game (only surpassed by the Protagonist given the right Persona), the [[YamatoNadeshiko most gentle]] player character, uses a [[ImprobableWeaponUser blunt weapon that amplifies her spells ]] and is a potential love interest. The only way she steps outside this trope is her repertoire of hard-hitting Agi spells.

* BerserkButton: Implying that he's gay. Or insulting Naoto.

* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: One of his main weapons. Used as his primary weapon in ''The Ultimate''.

* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: His defensive attitude about his masculinity and sexual identity verges on this early on. His social link is mostly spent helping him getting past it.It also eases up a fair amount once Yosuke stops holding his shadow against him.

* ShockAndAwe

A [[{{Bokukko}} tomboyish girl]] who is a famous high-school detective, given the glorious title of "[[BornDetective Detective Prince]]" by the media. Naoto is adept with [[TheGunslinger revolvers]], and her Persona is summoned by shooting the card. Naoto's initial Persona is Sukuna Hikona of the [Wheel of] Fortune Arcanum, which later becomes Yamato Takeru. They are well-rounded with [[OneHitKill Light, Dark]], [[NonElemental Almighty]] and [[CastFromHitPoints physical skills]] at her disposal.

Naoto is yet another survivor of the Midnight Channel, bound by [[IJustWantToBeSpecial her resentment at being talked down to and treated like a child by the police]], as well as her views on the police force being dominated by men. This manifests in a volatile Shadow that also creates a high-tech facility reminiscent to that of futuristic military bases from science fiction. Her Shadow wears a dress shirt and tie, while wearing an oversized white lab coat, and can act like a serious scientist one minute and like a child the next, further referencing her true feelings. Her Shadow claims she will perform [[GenderBender "body modification" to turn Naoto into an adult male so that she can be respected by her fellow cops]]. However, unlike other victims, she [[BatmanGambit willingly put herself at risk by volunteering for a TV interview, hoping she can become a bait]]; she was convinced the Investigation Team had not caught the real killer. The Team promptly tears into her for being so stupid, then welcome her as the last addition to their team.

Naoto's Shadow takes on the form of a robotic version of her, and includes childish attachments like wings and twin ray guns that wouldn't look out of place on action figure. This references her obsession with gender roles--being a tomboy who likes sleuthing and science fiction--while the action-figure qualities of her Shadow mirror her resentment of having her talents belittled due to her age.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: To the point where Naoto only appears in female clothing on the Christmas date in a schoolgirl uniform.

* {{Badass}}: He can reprimand Morooka with "You calling me a loser?", summons Persona not by attacking his card with his WeaponOfChoice, but by ''crushing it with his hands''.
** It also helps that he's probably the first ''Megami Tensei'' protagonist to get [[spoiler:[[EarnYourHappyEnding a perfectly happy]] Normal and True ending]]. Thanks to him, the deaths in Inaba were kept to a minimum [[spoiler:(In the Normal and True Endings, only three die: Mayumi, before he even returned from his first day at school; Saki, just before he discovered his powers; and Morooka, killed by a random psycho he had no preliminary warning of)]]. In fact, all the casualties are minor characters which, by the franchise's tradition of killing party members (or at least major characters) out of the blue, is a huge difference. It takes a very special kind of {{Badass}} to make that possible.
** Exaggerated in the anime: Yu basically takes out the bosses singlehandedly. It's gotten to the point where some Imageboards joke that he's obviously on a NewGamePlus.
*** FridgeBrilliance comes into play when you remember that Yu gets his strength from ThePowerOfFriendship. If he didn't have the backing of his friends and teammates, he'd be screwed [[spoiler: which is actually shown in episode 12 after getting trapped in a Lotus-Eater Machine set by Shadow Mitsuo.]]
** BadassBookworm: Seen more prominently in the anime, which features Yu actually commenting on the books he reads.
** BadassLongcoat: Both his starter Persona, Izanagi, and his ultimate Persona, [[spoiler:Izanagi-no-Ookami]] have one.

** TranquilFury: How he expresses his anger. Particularly in episode 23 [[spoiler: when he [[http://images.wikia.com/megamitensei/images/a/a4/Yu_was_about_to_throw_Namatame_into_the_Tv_world.jpg comes within a hair's breath from tossing Namatame into the TV world]] (basically a death-sentence) in retaliation for Nanako's apparent death, and without any hint of emotion on his face]]. It's one of the most chilling scenes in the anime.

** BigBrotherMentor: The Protagonist adopts this role with several of his Social Link contacts, notably Kanji and Teddie, and to a lesser extent Shu Nakajima and Naoki Konishi.[[hottip:*:Special mention for Kanji who will even, albeit sarcastically, refer to the Protagonist as "Big Bro" during his Social Link.]]
** KnightTemplarBigBrother: [[spoiler:You're given the option to throw Namatame in the television in retribution for Nanako's death. [[DownerEnding Things will only get worse though.]]]]
*** [[spoiler: Yu nearly DID do this in the anime, but managed to stop himself.]]

* KindheartedCatLover: Shows signs of this if you follow the various 'Feed the Cat' sidequests.
** That, and he can spend a whole afternoon doing nothing but petting a cat outside his house.

!!The Entire Team

!! The Protagonist/[[CanonName Yu]] [[AnimeOfTheGame Naru]][[VideoGame/Persona4Arena kami]] (AKA [[ComicBookAdaptation Souji Seta]])

!!Yosuke Hanamura

!!Chie Satonaka

!!Yukiko Amagi

!!Kanji Tatsumi

* [[YoungerThanTheyLook Younger than He Looks]]: His official bio shows he is younger than all the party members, even classmates Naoto and Rise

!!Rise Kujikawa

!!Teddie/Kuma

!!Naoto Shirogane