History Characters / Persona5PalaceRulers

* ParentsSuckAtMatchmaking: He wants Hatu to marry Sugimura, the son of a highly influental politician. Unfortunately, Sugimura is also an extremely controlling and unrepentant jerk who reguarly abuses her. Justified, since it is made clear that Kunikazu puts his lust for power above Haru's well-being.

* ParentsSuckAtMatchmaking: He wants Hatu to marry Sugimura, the son of a highly influental politician. Unfortunately, Sugimura is also an extremely controlling and unrepentant jerk who reguarly abuses her. Justified, since it is made clear that Kunikazu puts his lust for power above Haru's well-being.

* FakeSpecialAttack: "Madara-Megido", Shadow Madarame's signature move in his human form. Most people who have played the ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTensei'' series games would be worried to see a Megido attack that hits everyone and cannot be resisted (let alone nullified, repelled or absorbed), especially this early in the game... except that it does ''pitiful'' damage when it hits.

** Throughout the year if you watch the TV in Leblanc you’ll notice a lot of people in the fast food business having psychotic breakdowns or mental shutdowns. [[spoiler:His overuse of Akechi drawing too much attention towards himself was likely part of why he was killed along with his political aspirations.]]

* PoorCommunicationKills: His VillainousBSOD prevents him from answering any of the Thieves' questions about the identity of the Black Mask. [[spoiler:This leads to the Black Mask killing his shadow after they leave, causing a lethal mental shutdown in the real Okumura.]]
* PoseOfSupplication: His shadow does this immediately before and after his fight- the former is a trap and the latter is genuine.

* AssholeVictim: Deconstructed. While Okumura is shown to be a terrible person who has done horrible things to many people, including his own daughter, it does not mean he deserved to [[spoiler:die a horrible death]]. This is even brought up in-universe when the incident was broadcast live. Initially, many people on the Phansite disturbingly rejoice at his fate for all the crimes he had done, but once the euphoria dies down their mood shifts to that of horror.

** Throughout the year if you watch the TV in Leblanc you’ll notice a lot of people in the fast food business having psychotic breakdowns or mental shutdowns, [[spoiler:His overuse of Akechi drawing too much attention towards himself was likely part of why he was killed along with his political aspirations.]]

* FreudianExcuse: Haru notes that when he was a child, his father/her grandfather was a kind businessman, but was often in debt due to his lack of financial skills. Kunikazu had to watch his father undergo this and thus shaped himself to become the opposite; a shrewd and ruthless businessman with little kindness. His Treasure manifested in real life is actually a spaceship model kit he desperately wanted, but could not afford, which also explains the theme of his palace.

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: He could've ended up [[spoiler: in the Prison of Regression]], but is [[spoiler: killed by Black Mask]] before that could happen. This is more pronounced in the anime, as after Haru leaves, Okumura vows to prioritise people over profits from then onward before [[spoiler:being shot dead mid-sentence]].

* NonActionBigBad: Prefers to support from afar while his minions do his work for him. When all his robots are gone, he does nothing and goes down in one hit in ''Royal'' (in Vanilla he has 200 health which is about 2-3 normal attacks at that point in the game)

* PoorCommunicationKills: His VillainousBSOD prevents him from answering any of the Thieves' questions about the identity of the Black Mask. [[spoiler: This leads to the Black Mask killing his shadow after they leave, causing a lethal mental shutdown in the real Okumura.]]
* PoseOfSupplication: His Shadow does this immediately before and after his fight- the former is a trap and the latter is genuine.

* AbusiveParents: Forces his daughter into an ArrangedMarriage with a man he knows is sexually predatory, solely for political gain and while treating Haru like she’s dead to him if she doesn’t go along with it without question. In Royal his cognition of Haru is a mindlessly subservient Corporobo that he orders to suicide bomb the thieves as a last resort without hesitation, showing that he is fully willing to sacrifice Haru for his own gain.
* ActionBomb: He will order his robot minions to self-destruct during his boss battle. He orders Cognitive Haru to do this as a last resort in Royal.

The fifth major target. He is the president of Okumura Foods, a fast food company most famous for the Big Bang Burger chain you can find in various places in the game, and he is Haru Okumura's father. His selfish ambitions to enter the political world at the cost of both his company and employees' livelihoods creates a Palace inside the Metaverse, where he takes the form of Mammon, the demon of Greed.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The anime removes his ISurrenderSuckers moment and has him make a more genuine apology to Haru. [[spoiler:After Black Mask shoots him dead, his last words are reminiscing about happier time with Haru, rather than lamenting the loss of his utopia]].

* ThePowerOfHate: Fittingly for the palace that represents the sin of wrath, Futaba's Shadow encourages IRL Futaba to vent her anger at the adults responsible for not only killing her mother, but also faking a suicide note which mentally wrecked her for years under the pretense that she was responsible.

The fourth major target. Futaba Sakura's feelings of SurvivorGuilt and self-hatred creates a Palace inside the collective unconscious, where her emotions manifest as the Sphinx, avatar of Wrath. Unlike the other Shadows, Shadow Futaba isn't the Sphinx. Rather, Futaba's Shadow represents her suppressed ''positive'' feelings about herself. Meanwhile, the Sphinx is Futuba's misguided projection of her dead mother, whose passing has been driving Futaba deeper and deeper into self-loathing. After realizing the Thieves are trying to help Futuba, she willingly aids them, and eventually becomes the Persona Necronomicon to protect her other self.

** The dungeon is based on Futaba's thoughts and controlled by her Shadow, so things are expected to occur like they did in ''VideoGame/Persona4'', right? Nope, Futaba's Shadow is ''not'' the boss of the dungeon, and Futaba accepts and converts into a Persona without a fight, using it to pull a BigDamnHeroes on the real boss: a false version of Futaba's mother created by her mind, a manifestation of her belief that her mother blames her for her death. To top off the switch, ''Futaba herself'' is the treasure of her palace: by "stealing" her own heart, she is able to reform from a suicidal shut-in to a happier and more confident young woman who overcomes her fear of her mother. It also prevent her from suffering the usual fates of those who have their treasure stolen as she was able to maintain her free will instead of ending up being in the prison of regression as a docile and eerily tranquil girl and oh, getting arrested as Literature/{{Ali Baba|andTheFortyThieves}}.

* GoodCounterpart: Unlike the Shadows in ''VideoGame/Persona4'', who was born of the repressed negative feelings of their hosts, Futaba's Shadow is her hidden ''positive'' feelings, since Futaba outwardly is filled with self-loathing.
* GoodIsNotNice: Despite wanting Futaba to live and overcome her grief, the first time they meet, she asks Futaba how long she's going to to ignore the truth and rely on the Phantom Thieves. She then says that if Futaba keeps acting this way Shadow Futaba will just kill the Thieves in the Palace, and insinuates it would be the real Futaba's fault.

* TheHighQueen: Is described as "Queen Futaba" by the shadows of her palace, and while she's antagonistic at first, Both the shadow and Futaba herself are significantly better people then the other palace rulers.

* ThePowerOfHate: Fittingly for the palace that represents the sin of wrath, Futaba's Shadow encourages IRL Futaba to vent her anger at the adults responsible for not only killing her mother, but also faking a suicide note which mentally wrecked her for years under the pretence that she was responsible.

* SevenDeadlySins: The palace overall has two of them. One is the [[UnstoppableRage Sphinx]], which to summarize is Futaba's perception of her mother's hatred against her, representing the dungeon's main sin, Wrath. The other is Sloth, represented by Shadow Futaba, or moreso her IRL counterpart, as she was looking for an easy way to recover from her trauma and being a {{Hikikomori}}, her shadow never actually fights you (in fact her overall resistance is comparatively token to the other palace rulers), let alone take a monstrous form (a feature only shared with one other palace ruler) and the persona Shadow Futaba turns to doesn't fight much either, being a SupportPartyMember, and sloth would be the dungeons dedicated sin if not for the Sphinx and Mementos. As you can tell, they directly oppose each other. The trophy for completing the Palace refers to it as the "Pyramid of Wrath," since Sloth is associated with [[spoiler:the people of Tokyo.]]

* SugarAndIcePersonality: One moment she asks the party for help, only to immediately let them fall into a death trap afterwards. This is a representation of the real Futaba's desire to be saved and her instinct to push people away as a defence mechanism.

** Her sin and motif is Wrath - The Sphinx, that is, as she appears to Futaba as a massive beast fueled with anger and a need for vengeance stemming from Futaba being born. The Wrath also manifests herself in the real Futaba - in an ironic twist, her anger and hatred is directed towards ''herself''. Shadow Futaba herself does not embody Wrath at all, but is instead accused of Sloth (in it's [[DespairEventHorizon despair]] and [[HopeIsScary fear]] aspects) by the CallingCard-and even that's a bit downplayed, as Shadow Futaba's initial antagonism is born of Futaba's social anxiety, and she actually wants Futaba to break out of her isolation and shell. However, the organization that she led and is impersonated by Shido's cronies, Medjed represents this as the Cleanse is utterly indiscriminate in whom it targets and that includes her and everyone she knows.

->''"The cold reality of kicking people down is a part of business! Virtue and sentiment are for losers."''

* VillainousGlutton: His sin and motif. He's a crime boss who flaunts his power with money and objects and isn't afraid to trample over others to gain even more of it. In fact, he becomes incredibly distressed when his bank runs out of money after using all of them to finish the Phantom Thieves in ''Royal''. His Palace being a massive bank ties to {{Greed}} as well, but the main difference between him and Okumura (who better embodies the latter sin) is that Kaneshiro is satisfied overindulging as an ''oyabun,'' whereas Okumura has ambitions beyond being president of his company. His need for overindulgence can be tied to having grown up poor.

* WolfpackBoss: Kaneshiro's second phase in ''Royal'' has his flanked by two [[EliteMook Elite Mooks]], Hitman-for-Hire and Bodyguard-for-Hire. Individually they are all weaker than Piggytron, but together they form a powerful team. Knocking either of the guards out of the fight makes it easier, and when it's down to just Kaneshiro the fight gets very simple.

-->Money...is power..
* MoneyIsNotPower: He's obsessed with money, thinking that having enough of it will let him do anything and shield him from all consequences. The Phantom Thieves prove this completely wrong. ''Royal'' plays the trope even straighter, when he uses his Make It Rain attack to drop his vault's money on the Phantom Thieves it leaves him broke, at which point his powerful hired goons instantly desert him.

* PersonalMook: In ''Royal'', the Piggytron goes first and he fights on foot once it's destroyed, summoning two flies that are known as Hitman-for-Hire and Bodyguard-for-Hire, which he claims to be hired with money to protect him. True to the word, they are incredibly tough due to resisting everything, but it just takes a simple Dormina or Makajam to neutralize them and go for Kaneshiro

* BigCreepyCrawlies: Bael is based on Beelzebub (The lord of the flies)/Baal, so of course Kaneshiro's Shadow turns into a bugman.
* {{Blackmail}}: Takes photos of the protagonists inside his club, with alcohol and cigarettes in the shot when they try to confront him, and threatens to release the pictures in three weeks they don't pay him 3 million yen.[[labelnote:*]]At the time of the game's release, that would be about $26,500 US dollars.[[/labelnote]] The party has to clear his dungeon before he makes good on this threat.

* MurderByInaction: Yusuke's mother had a seizure in front of him one faithful day. While Madarame didn't cause the seizure, he did let her die when he could've called for help in order to exploit the Sayuri for profit. Yusuke [[YouKilledMyMother isn't impressed with the difference]], and Yusuke declares that "[[BeyondRedemption every reason for [him] to forgive [Madarame] has disappeared without a trace]]" when he finds it out.

* TheSociopath: Other than the implications he felt guilt over his role in Yusuke's mother's death and has a sliver of genuine affection for the boy, Madarame is an egotistical and manipulative hedonist that cultivates a lifestyle abusing and exploiting children. The fact one of his victims committed suicide from this [[LackOfEmpathy never even registers on his radar,]] hence why the Phantom Thieves fail to mention it in the calling card- the target has to be ''aware of'' the crimes.

* TookALevelInBadass: Subverted. The ''Royal'' trailer shows that, rather then being defenseless when taken out of his Azazel form, he summons four elemental copies of himself to keep fighting. Unfortunately, the clones don't do anything other than spamming his portrait form's elemental attacks that hit for pitiful damage because they have very low stats, and they can be easily defeated and abused for 1 Mores. The only catch is the clones repel attacks of the same typing as them, making crowd control difficult. They can also sometimes be summoned with negative status effects already applied if Madarame summons them too often. It symbolizes how low and pathetic he has sank to for resorting to producing nothing and plagiarizing his students work beneath his artificially bloated ego.

* TwoFaced: The real Madarame acts quite calm and collected for such a twisted person. It is impossible to know what he's actually like before you end up crossing him.... or you meet his Shadow, who blatantly spills everything about him without remorse, and he even looks proud of it.

* ItsAllAboutMe: His sin and motif, an older sin (Vainglory) that would be folded along with {{Pride}}. For years he has not made a single piece of art on his own, taking credit for his disciples'. The resulting fame has given way to self-idolatry on his part, using his status for money and to stroke his ego (his Palace, a grandiose art museum, is based in his own run-down house in the real world, is proof that his humble behavior is little more than an act, as his Shadow claims he has a grander house under a mistress's name). His refusal to make any work of his own also gives him elements of [[LazyBum Sloth]].

** In ''Royal'', he is somehow made even more pathetic, as after the painting is removed, he will start summoning clones of himself that cast the same "unique" attacks in his painting form that somehow do even less damage. Your area-of-effect spells are more of a threat than the clones are. In fact, when he summons too much clones, somehow they will be summoned with status conditions on them and very low HP that they can be killed in 1 hit.

* GoldMakesEverythingShiny: His Palace and a lot of the things inside are gold or painted gold. Shadow Madarame wears robes like his real self entirely of gold. All of the gold is considered a gaudy eyesore by the phantom thieves.

* DrivenToSuicide: Not him, but Nakanohara (one of Madarame's former pupils) informs the Thieves that another of Madarame's pupils found Madarame's conditions untenable and left, later finding out that Madarame had been using pupil's art for master's own gain; said ex-pupil subsequently ended his own life.

* GenreSavvy: While Madarame's own artistic talent is questionable, he certainly has an eye for what will and will not become popular in the art world. For instance, by painting over baby Yusuke in the original Sayuri, making it so that the woman in the painting is looking and smiling at nothing in particular, he not only obscures the painting's true origin, but also creates a MonaLisaSmile situation that causes the painting to skyrocket in popularity.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: In keeping with the BuildLikeAnEgyptian motif, Shadow Futaba is dressed like an Egyptian priestess and is completely barefoot.

* MeaningfulName: Kaneshiro literally means "Money Castle". Nothing could be more appropriate for a target whose Palace is a bank.

* AbusiveParents: Despite having adopted Yusuke, he exploits the hell out of him, barely furnishing him while leeching off his talent. However, he treats Yusuke with enough kindness to earn his deep respect until the full extent of his corruption is revealed, and Sojiro wonders whether Madarame actually cared for Yusuke to some extent. Yusuke's confidant reveals that he did in fact ''genuinely'' care for Yusuke deep down in his greedy blackened heart, at least before he openly turns against him, although what happens is heavily implied to be Stockholm Syndrome on Yusuke's part, and it's also implied that the man does genuinely care for his pupils enough to prevent them from speaking against him so he can fleece them whatever way he wanted to without their knowledge. Furthermore, in ''Strikers'', Yusuke also implies that he doesn't even bother giving all of his pupils a proper bed and some pupils have to sleep on the ground.

* AuthorAppeal: He's always had a love of space and sci-fi, which bleeds not only into his palace, but also his restaurants' atmosphere.

* ClosetGeek: While Okumura puts up a front of a respectable man in a business suit, his shadow seems to relish in [[LargeHam theatrical villainy]] and wears an obvious Darth Vader knockoff suit, and his Palace has an outlandish sci-fi theme that turns out to be directly based on his treasure, a model spaceship kit that his father refused to buy him when he was a kid.

* FallenHero: According to Kawanabe, Madarame was at one point a legitimately passionate artist before his spirit was crushed by the politics of the art world. It's also shown that he legitamitely taught students like Yusuke how to paint (even if Yusuke inherited his mother's natural talent for it), [[CutLexLuthorACheck and could have had a decent career as an artist if he'd stayed on the straight and narrow]].

** To a lesser extent, his Palace in ''Royal'' is where the game sets up a tutorial for the player to the revamped Technical hits system.[[note]]While Technicals can be performed in the previous two Palaces, ''Royal'' adds the ability to upgrade them through playing billiards in Kichioji, which is unlocked directly after clearing Madarame's Palace and in turn sets this up for use in Kaneshiro's.[[/note]] This directly sets the player into using them against both of Kaneshiro's new minions in his boss fight, both of whom are vulnerable to status ailments.

* BigBadWannabe: Okumura tries to climb his way up to the political ladder, and its even implied that he plans on running against [[spoiler:Shido]] in the elections. Unfortunately, he's nothing more than another loose end for [[spoiler:the Antisocial Force to tie up]].

* KickTheDog: Saddling Makoto and the Phantom Thieves (when he thought the latter were still ordinary high-schoolers) with a 3 million yen debt basically out of spite, and then threatening to make Sae and Makoto {{Sex Slave}}s if they can't pay. That last one [[HoistByHisOwnPetard ends up triggering Makoto's Awakening]].

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He is not as lustful as Kamoshida, but Kaneshiro is still considered one of the most deplorable targets of Phantoms Thieves due to his desire of wanting to force both Niijima sisters to a life of sex slavery. He even stated that he was planning on making Sae his "personal slave", something that greatly angered Makoto.