History Characters / Persona5PalaceRulers

* CorruptedCharacterCopy: A FatBastard with his claws deep in his hometown's criminal underworld, viewed as TheDreaded by both civilians and his underlings alike, and practically untouchable by any conventional form of law enforcement. Perhaps the only thing separating him from [[ComicBook/SpiderMan The Kingpin of Crime]] is the fact that while the Kingpin does genuinely love New York (or at least, some variations of him do), Kaneshiro is ultimately out for himself. Additionally, while the Kingpin is on top of organized crime, Kaneshiro is apparently a relatively low-level thug in the yakuza (and he likely only earned his reputation because he was [[spoiler:fiancing Shido with the money he got from scamming people]]).

[[Characters/Persona5Confidants Confidants]] | [[Characters/Persona5Targets Targets]] - '''Palace Rulers''' ([[Characters/Persona5SuguruKamoshida Asmodeus]]) / [[Characters/Persona5EndgameAntagonists Endgame Antagonists]] ([[Characters/Persona5MasayoshiShido Samael]] | [[Characters/Persona5TakutoMaruki The Dreamer]]) / [[Characters/Persona5MinorTargets Minor]] | [[Characters/Persona5OtherCharacters Other Characters]]]]-]]]

* HateSink: Downplayed significantly compared to the other Palace Rulers. Okumura is a terrible man guilty of rampant worker abuse, corrupt business practices, and trying to marry his daughter off to an abusive spouse for political power, but he is framed more as a man who lost his way a long time ago and could've been genuinely good had things gone differently, unlike the vile bastards Kamoshida, Madarame, Kaneshiro, and [[spoiler:Shido]] are shown to be. This makes [[spoiler:his death]] considerably more tragic, as unlike them there was a genuine chance of him turning over a new leaf.

* CorruptedCharacterCopy: A FatBastard with his claws deep in his hometown's criminal underworld, viewed as TheDreaded by both civilians and his underlings alike, and practically untouchable by any conventional form of law enforcement. Perhaps the only thing separating him from [[ComicBook/SpiderMan The Kingpin of Crime]] is the fact that while the Kingpin does genuinely love New York (or at least, some variations of him do), Kaneshiro is ultimately out for himself. Additionally, while the Kingpin is on top of organized crime, Kaneshiro is apparently a relatively low-level thug in the yakuza.

* CorruptedCharacterCopy: A FatBastard with his claws deep in his hometown's criminal underworld, viewed as TheDreaded by both civilians and his underlings alike, and practically untouchable by any conventional form of law enforcement. Perhaps the only thing separating him from [[ComicBook/SpiderMan The Kingpin of Crime]] is the fact that while the Kingpin does genuinely love New York (or at least, some variations of him do), Kaneshiro is ultimately out for himself.

* BadBoss: Orders his robot minions to self-destruct to damage the party. To a lesser extent, the real Okumura is highly exploitative of his employees, which is why they're represented as robots in the space station.

** When the cognitive version of Haru's fiance complains that Haru has been DefiledForever because of her association with other men and says his own father may not approve of her, Kunikazu's Shadow says that he can simply take her as a lover. Haru's horrified to hear that her father knows her fiance is this kind of person and still would go through with the deal, and thus awakens her Persona.

* ViolationOfCommonSense: In ''Royal'', one way to make the Okumura fight easier if you're stuck is to turn the difficulty '''up''' to Merciless. Due to Merciless multiplying weakness targeting, critical, and technical damage by 3x for enemies as well as the party, the robot waves go down a lot more easily than on the other difficulties. It does not help with the Executive Director battle right after the waves, but that fight is the more straightforward part of the boss battle. This is perhaps the most severe situation that Merciless falls into NonIndicativeDifficulty.
* VirtueIsWeakness: Has this mentality, expressed in his quote. He's willing to trample over others in order to increase and expand his wealth.

* WeHaveReserves: During his boss fight he continually throws employee robots of increasing rank at you, culminating in the cognitive version of the company's second-in-command, and demands they give up their lives for him if necessary. Unfortunately for him, there's only so many troops in his arsenal, and once the Phantom Thieves destroy them all he's left defenseless. ''Royal'' shows that not even his cognitive version of his own daughter is exempt from this, as he uses her as a suicide bomber once he runs out of robots.

* SoftSpokenSadist: His shadow (and to a lesser extent with his real self) speaks very softly, barely above a whisper most of the time, except during a rant or if he's giving a BreakingSpeech. [[SubvertedTrope However]] after transforming into Bael, he is [[LargeHam extremely over-the-top in his mannerisms and speech, shouting most of his dialogue.]]

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: He enshrines betrayal as a ''family motto'', which backfires on him when Haru takes his words to heart and betrays ''him'' to the Phantom Thieves. [[spoiler:The Antisocial Force kills him because he was planning to betray Shido by running against him.]]

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: He enshrines betrayal as a ''family motto'', which backfires on him when Haru takes his words to heart and betrays ''him'' to the Phantom Thieves.[[spoiler: The Antisocial Force kills him because he was planning to betray Shido by running against him.]]

* TragicVillain: Between the numerous accounts that he used to be a better man, his [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes genuine love for Haru beneath his cold-hearted behavior]] and his [[spoiler: horrifyingly heart-breaking death,]] Okumura is easily one of the game's more sympathetic antagonists.

* FatalFlaw: {{Greed}}, obviously. Literally in this case, as it's implied his political ambitions put him into conflict with [[spoiler:Shido and partly fueled the decision to knock him off]].

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: His shadow has blue skin.

* OnlySaneMan: She's the only part of Futaba's pysche that kept a clear head instead being overcome with self-targeted wrath at the reading of the suicide note and realized that it was fake, because [[OutOfCharacterAlert Wakaba was a loving mother and never would've blamed her problems on Futaba]].

* OnlySaneMan: She's the only part of Futaba's pysche that kept a clear head instead of knee-jerk accepting the suicide note and realized that it was fake, because [[OutOfCharacterAlert Wakaba was a loving mother and never would've blamed her problems on Futaba]].

* FashionVictimVillain: His shadow. While Madarame himself wears muted colors, his shadow has goofy red lipstick and a gaudy gold robe, befitting someone who only wants to be seen and doesn't care how.

* WhamLine: "She just so happened to have a seizure in front of me." Shadow Madarame says this when [[YouKilledMyMother Yusuke asks if Madarame killed his mother]]. And while Madarame technically didn't kill her, the fact that Madarame intentionally let Yusuke's mother die for the sake of getting the Sayuri for himself makes it MurderByInaction. At this point, Yusuke declares that "[[BeyondRedemption every reason for [him] to forgive [Madarame] has disappeared without a trace]]", and the boss fight against the Shadow starts.

* AdaptationalJerkass: He's arguably even worse in ''Royal'', having a cognitive copy of Haru as an android completely loyal to her father. Once the Execurobo is defeated, he orders her to step in and turns her into a robot that self destructs after two turns. This means that if there is nothing left for him, he's not above throwing his own daughter under the bus to save his own skin. In addition to this, when he is referring to the real Haru during the whole fight with him, he even calls her an imitation that looks like his daughter, indicating that if she didn't go by the arranged marriage at that point, she is no longer his daughter, or even human for him.

* LaboriousLaziness: He goes through a great amount of effort to find and mentor pupils, and even let a woman die so he can steal her masterpiece and take her son as well, rather than make good art on his own.

->''"You were used! They forged her suicide note and laid the blame of her death upon you! They trampled all over your young heart! Get mad! Don't forgive those rotten adults!"''

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Aside from his treatment of his daughter, his boss fight in ''Royal'' has him derogatorily call Ann a slut. Her aside, he also throws other ''incredibly derogatory'' insults against anyone whom he wants to target with his robots.

* 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 make an effort to 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.

* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: Madarame feels entitled to profit from the works of his pupils and that they should feel grateful towards him for providing something as basic as a roof over their heads despite the abuse he puts them through.

* XanatosSpeedChess: Despicable as he is, it takes a special kind of criminal to go from having his hideout discovered by a bunch of kids to fabricating blackmail material on the five of them by simply pulling out his cell phone and taking a photo. Furthermore, his Shadow revealed that extorting money out of them wasn't his real objective; Kaneshiro was hoping that Makoto would fail to pay him and then use her as leverage against her sister the prosecutor, who he knew was trying to send him to prison, a chance he spotted the moment his men brought Makoto to him.

* AGodAmI: One of his Will Seeds echoes him proclaiming something along the lines of being revered as a god.

** Right before his arc kickstarts, Igor will warn you to not let your guard down by the heights of your popularity. Afterwards, everyone bandwagons on the Phantom Thieves and [[spoiler:Shido's men]] start flooding the Phan-Site with requests for the Phantom Thieves to take Okumura down. [[spoiler:Akechi]] then assassinates him and everyone cheers for his death. It's implied that [[spoiler:the public's cognition was manipulated by the Holy Grail (who was disguised as Igor at that time) just so he could get his twisted "game" going.]]