History Characters / Persona4TheInvestigationTeam

* InsufferableGenius: The first few times you meet her, Naoto is ''really'' hard to like.

* UnusualEuphemism: Just like the english dub skirts around the word "gay", it also skirts around the idea of transgenderism and sex-change operations - this leads to the phrase "Body alteration procedure", which stands out as sounding very odd.

* CatchPhrase: The anime turns some of the narration's comments from the game into phrases Narukami says, for instance "Let's leave him be" shows up a fair bit.

** Chie compared her to Kindaichi, protagonist of a famous line of detective novels.

* DeadpanSnarker: Emphasis on '''Deadpan'''. Narukami has a dry sense of humor and a very strange one at that. When he's not being snarky he's known for acting like a Cloudcuckoolander because he finds it funny. This coupled with his [[TheStoic Poker Face]], makes it hard to tell if he's kidding or not. To provide one example...

** Just how smart is she? She figures out that [[spoiler: Morooka's murder is a copycat crime]], that people being shown on TV are potential victims, (which she deduced ''before'' the Investigation Team), that the disappearance are connected to the Serial Killer, and that your party is somehow rescuing the victims...and she does all this with the same limited evidence available to the Inaba police.

* [[ItIsPronouncedTroPay It Is Pronounced Ree-Say]]

*** [[spoiler: BeautifulAllAlong: The new epilogue for the true ending in ''Golden'' shows that he has stopped dyeing his hair, revealing its natural color to be dark brown. He's also had it styled into more of a corporate cut.]]

** [[spoiler: DelinquentHair[=/=]DyeHard: Recent images for The Golden has shown that Kanji has been bleaching his hair.]]

* AdultFear: Her family's inn goes through bad times to the point she has to leave school to provide assistance, causing her to fear for her future. Before getting her Persona, she desires to run away and thinks she can't do it alone. [[spoiler: Post-Persona, when she drives out the Paparazzi, the Amagi Inn starts to recover and she decides to stay, to take charge of the Inn and be with her family.

* DeadpanSnarker: Emphasis on '''Deadpan'''. Narukami has a dry sense of humor which, and a very strange one at that. When he's not being snarky he's known for acting like a Cloudcuckoolander because he finds it funny. This coupled with his [[TheStoic Poker Face]], makes it hard to tell if he's kidding or not. To provide one example...

* CaptainErsatz: [[spoiler:His human form looks a lot like [[OuranHighSchoolHostClub Hani]].]]

* AcceptableFeminineGoals: Gets a double-helping of this trope. She spends most of her Social Link trying to break free and study to become an interior designer -- until she realizes she's happy to inherit her family's inn, and goes back to her job within the Inn as a hostess and room service waitress.

* AdultFear: Her family's inn goes through bad times to the point she has to leave school to provide assistance, causing her to fear for her future. Before getting her Persona, she desires to run away and thinks she can't do it alone. [[spoiler: Post-Persona, when she drives out the Paparazzi, the Amagi Inn starts to recover and she decides to stay, to take charge of the Inn and be with her family. If the Protagonist romances her, she looks to the future one last time, telling him she knows that they will ultimately part, [[LovedINotHonorMore but it doesn't stop her from loving him.]]]]

* AdultFear

* DeadpanSnarker: Narukami has a very dry sense of humor which, coupled with his [[TheStoic Poker Face]], makes it hard to tell if he's kidding or not. To provide one example...

* DeadpanSnarker: Narukami has a very snarky (and a little odd, but funny) sense of humor, with an emphasis on '''Deadpan'''; it's hard to tell if he's kidding or not. To provide one example...

-->'''Yu:''' I think I'm going to cry.

** 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.

--> '''Yu''': [[http://images.wikia.com/megamitensei/images/b/b0/Yu_remark_that_was_an_accident..jpg (completely deadpan)]] Oops, wrong guy.

* MrFanservice: Episode 15. [[FemaleGaze Aw yeah......]]

* 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.

This page lists tropes related to the main characters of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}''.

For the full list of characters from the game, see the ''Persona 4'' [[Characters/{{Persona 4}} character index]].

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The main characters of VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}.

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* AnIcePerson[[AWorldwidePunomenon a]]: Though she's more on physical beatdown, so she only learns up to mid-level Bufu skills. Teddie fills in this role more completely once he joins the party.

Teddie first acts as a reluctant guide of sorts, providing the party with special glasses that allow them to see through the mist and summon their Persona. In the Japanese version, [[VerbalTic his sentences always end with -kuma]], and often addresses the Protagonist as "sensei" out of respect for his abilities (and to [[HelloInsertNameHere avoid using his name during scenes with voice acting]]). He also serves as another comic relief in the story arc (making lame jokes like [[{{Persona3}} Shuji Ikutsuki]]), supported by Yosuke's nagging curiosity about who (or rather, what) he really is. In the English version, [[HurricaneOfPuns his speech is laced with]] [[AWorldwidePunomenon un-bear-ably bad puns]]. Also, even if he is from the Midnight Channel, Teddie knows little about where he came from and what he is supposed to do with his life.

* [[AnIcePerson An Ice]] [[AWorldwidePunomenon Bear-sona]]

* MeaningfulName: ''Nao'' means ''Truth.''

* TeamMom: Naoto's first action as a member of the Investigation Team? Get the party to the hospital for check-ups. No idea what that TV World could do to you, after all. And after that, she helps the team properly deduct things that the player may have realized a few months ago.

** [[spoiler: In the anime. Yu's biggest fear is that after the investigation is over, the group will go their seperate ways and he'll be by himself again. Mitsuo's shadow exploits this fear and causes him to have a ''tremendous'' HeroicBSOD. It's possible that Yu has not had any lasting friendships before now, which would explain his [[SugarAndIceGuy Sugar and Ice personality]].
** [[Episode 26 (the True End episode) has Yu finally face his own Shadow, who says that he doesn't even care if the world is lost in fog as long as it meant he did not have to go back to a life without any friends. Yu freely admits this as the truth.]]

* IJustWantToHaveFriends: [[spoiler: In the anime. Yu's biggest fear is that after the investigation is over, the group will go their seperate ways and he'll be by himself again. Mitsuo's shadow exploits this fear and causes him to have a ''tremendous'' HeroicBSOD. It's possible that Yu has not had any lasting friendships before now, which would explain his [[SugarAndIceGuy Sugar and Ice personality]].]]

* {{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.