History Characters / Persona5Tactica

!!Note: Due to {{Plot Twist}}s that happen as early as both the first and second Kingdoms, this character page contains several [[Administrivia/SelfFulfillingSpoiler Self-Fullfilling Spoilers]] for ''Tactica''[='s=] plot. For the sake of simplicity, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff all spoilers for the game's story are unmarked]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.

* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: During high school, he made himself student council president because it would look good on his college resume and his father encouraged him to take that position. This led to him meeting Natsuhara, who turned his own student council into some sort of counseling room and prefect organization. At its apex, Toshiro and Natsuhara even managed to launch a full-blown investigation against a corrupt vice principal and put him to justice.
* AmbiguousSituation: Is his relationship with Eri Natsuhara purely platonic? Given that Erina, a personification of his hidden courage modeled after Eri, was first met in Marie's Kingdom opposing a cognition of his arranged fiancée that he has no good feelings with, and the post-credits reunion between the two, there might be some romantic subtext between them. Adding to this is when you complete one of the quests in Nakabachi's Kingdom, he reveals that he received a love letter from an unknown admirer and kept it hidden from her, and Toshiro insists he did that because he doesn't want her pestering him about it and finding out who sent him that letter.
* AmnesiacHero: While he has most of his memories, Toshiro mentions chunks of his memories are missing, including how and why he ended up in the Kingdoms.
* ArrangedMarriage: He was forced to marry Marie Anto by his father Yoshiki so he could secure his son's premiership. Given Marie is a bossy and commanding {{Jerkass}} (and [[AmbiguousSituation depending on situation]] he might be in love with Natsuhara instead), he's not too happy about it.

* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: When he was a young boy and teenager, he let his hair down in a bowl-like fashion, highlighting his youth. As an adult, it's been swept up and slicked-back, making him look more like a proper and charismatic politician, even though he's a bit of a coward.

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: After Toshiro awakens his Persona Ernesto, he effectively becomes a locked-in fourth party member to the three-man Phantom Thief party, and unlike the rest of the playable cast, he functions much differently than the Phantom Thieves and Erina. Since he's unarmed, he has no access to melee attacks or traditional gun attacks; instead, all his attacks come from Ernesto, with whom he can cast a free Gun magic attack as well as a few other powerful Almighty attacks, but at the cost of not being able to utilize melee attacks at all. Also, since he and Erina are basically the same being, any buffs one gets will apply to the other.

* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Back in high-school, he wore a pair of oversized rim glasses while keeping his hair down, which compliments how he is a rather neurotic and intelligent first-year student and became the student council president. As an adult, he's still rather smart, but has ditched them for presumably contacts, though a flashback shows that he wore rectangle-framed glasses when he visited Leblanc.

* SurvivorGuilt: He believes that he killed his mother by asking her out to a balcony park. His father further reinforcing this belief doesn't help him either.

* ArtificialLimbs: Ernesto's right foot is a semi-automatic Tokarev pistol and her left leg is a much larger revolver that goes all the way up her thigh. This corresponds to how Natsuhara ends up being crippled during the train station incident. On the other hand, her base form has a metal greave on her left leg that she seemingly can remove as shown during a cutscene.

* ButNowIMustGo: After the final battle, she returns to being part of Toshiro's heart, but not before saying goodbye to him and the Phantom Thieves.

** In Yoshiki's Kingdom, after Toshiro theorizes the Kingdoms are tied to his cognition and is responsible for their creation, Erina wonders what role she has to play since as far as she and the others know, she has no connection to Toshiro unlike the cognitive tyrants. In Nakabachi's Kingdom, however, the party discovers Erina bears an uncanny resemblance to Eri Natsuhara, Toshiro's friend from high school who acts suspiciously similar to Erina herself. The injuries she sustains from being run over by a train also match Erina's eye-covering bang and armored leg. The WhamEpisode finally clears things up and reveals that Erina is not only based off of Eri Natsuhara, but is also Toshiro's feelings of hope and his "spark" of rebellion made manifest.

* GiverOfLameNames: She calls the Rebel Corps's final operation against Marie as "Operation: BOOM! Explosive Panic", then "Operation: Sneaky Sneaky Bang Bang". These aren't the best names to begin with.

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Much like [[VideoGame/PersonaQShadowOfTheLabyrinth Zen and Rei]] before her, Erina is unique in that she's the only party member who cannot equip sub-Personas, and thus cannot benefit from the extra HP/SP or bonus skills they offer. To compensate for this, she has higher base HP and SP by default and a very powerful showtime attack that makes all nearby enemies vulnerable to crits even if they're behind cover. This is because she's the physical embodiment of Toshiro's hope and his Persona.

* TomatoInTheMirror: During a skit in the first arc, she tries to practice summoning a persona to no avail. Turns out she ''is'' a Persona herself, specifically Toshiro's.

* LargeAndInCharge: One of the tallest tyrants in the game, mainly to show her being a towering, dominating tyrant in comparison to the SuperDeformed and underdog Phantom Thieves and rebels.

* NoblewomansLaugh: Marie has an appropriately pompous laugh, which the brainwashed Thieves occasionally mimic.

* StarterVillain: Outside the DLC campaign, she's the first villain the Phantom Thieves run into in the game. That said, she's still way more dangerous than [[VideoGame/Persona5Strikers Alice]] or Kamoshida, since she manages to brainwash all of the Phantom Thieves bar Joker, Morgana, and Erina, something that no other villain could even try to do.

* {{Thememobile}}: Rides around in a wedding getaway car (with a "just married" banner and all) covered in [[SpikesOfVillainy spikes]] and with tank treads in place of wheels, so as to reflect her aim to host "the perfect wedding" as well as her ruthlessness, particularly the joy she takes from subjugating others.

* {{Ojou}}: The daughter of the CEO of a corporate conglomerate, whose ArrangedMarriage with Toshiro can secure enough power for his premiership. As a member of high social standing, she treats commoners with as much disdain as possible.

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* BigBrotherIsWatching: His real-world counterpart's ControlFreak tendencies towards his son was exaggerated into outright surveillance spycams all over the place looking for people who speak ill of him.

* MoodSwinger: When Yoshiki confronts the Phantom thieves for the first time, he constantly switches from being affable to ''screaming'' when speaking to Toshiro.

The real-world counterpart of Lord Yoshiki and Toshiro's father. He is a prestigious member of the Diet nicknamed "Buddha Kasukabe" because of his serene nature and (supposedly) clean record. In actuality, he is a highly controlling and fearsome parent towards his son Toshiro and seeks to mold him into a prestigious politician by any means necessary.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: Unlike the first two tyrants, he doesn't show up on his own and only communicates through a speaker. The Phantom Thieves' goal is to find the four keys to his room and confront him. Subverted, it turns out he's a cut-out -- the true ruler of the Nakabachi Kingdom is Shadow Toshiro, who was following you all along.
* OutOfCharacter: The ruler Nakabachi is very out of character even when compared to the ruler Marie or Yoshiki. The first thing he says when being confronted is to reprimand Toshiro that he doesn't believe in his convictions and only briefly going back to character once he actually does fight the party. This is likely because he's a cutout that Shadow Toshiro uses to hide behind, and he's a manifestation of Toshiro's guilt of going against him and causing lots of people to be hurt and arrested.

A former music teacher who went right away into becoming the vice principal of Toshiro's school, and was about to become principal. He is a shady and manipulative man who cleverly uses blackmail to encourage students to turn against and backstab each other, prompting the student council president Toshiro and his cohort Natsuhara to investigate him. Unfortunately, this is one game-changing moment for Toshiro, and not in a good way...

* BodyHorror: His second form, titled "Eri Natsuhara", is a hideous, blood-stained corpse of the girl with the same name with a missing right eye, likely a reflection of the injuries Natsuhara endured when Nakabachi pushed her in front of the moving train.

* RedshirtArmy: Played with. They aren't capable of fighting the Legionares on their own, because they seem to be physically incapable of killing them. They still serve as information-gatherers, however, and do manage to help the Thieves at a few crucial points.

The leader of the rebel corps of the Yoshiki Kingdom, saving whatever few of its citizens she can.

* DelicateAndSickly: She was suffering from a terminal illness and was constantly in and out of a hospital. One fateful day, it got her.

* PinkySwear: The last the Phantom Thieves hear from Toshiro's memory about her is the two making a pinky promise for Toshiro to never regret doing what he thinks is right, and the two sing a small tune together about it.

* EyeScream: It's heavily implied that she lost her right eye after the fallout with Nakabachi. The game does not speak it out loud, but she covers that eye with her hair after getting hospitalized, Erina covers her right eye with her bangs, and Shadow Toshiro's second form (which takes the form of Natsuhara) has a hollowed-out eye socket in place of her right eye.
* HidingBehindYourBangs: After being hospitalized, she starts hiding her right eye using her hair just like Erina's. It's implied that she can't see with that eye after being severely injured trying to run from Nakabachi.
* IntrepidReporter: She wanted to become a journalist in high school, traveling the world, talking to people, and speaking out against injustice wherever she can see it. It never gets mentioned again after she gets injured.

* MetaTwist: If a public transport runs over somebody in an anime or Eastern-made video game, they are guaranteed to die instantly. Erina surviving the train station incident is actually a surprising twist.

* OldFlame: The game is [[AmbiguousSituation not entirely clear about it]], but it's implied Eri was either Toshiro's old girlfriend from high school or the two might have had a mutual crush on each other but didn't act on their feelings. After Toshiro dumps Marie on live television, he is seen greeting her fondly, implying they may restart their relationship, romantic or platonic.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Toshiro tends to claim that her upfront personality and her tendency to exaggerate trivial things as "torture" was annoying, but his behavior suggests otherwise. It's even discussed as one of Joker's possible responses to that conversation is it reminds him of Ryuji and Morgana.

* BodyHorror: His second form, titled "Eri Natsuhara", is a hideous, blood-stained corpse of the girl with the same name with a missing right eye.

* AmbiguousSituation: Is his relationship with Eri Natsuhara purely platonic? Given that Erina, a personification of his hidden courage modeled after Eri, was first met in Marie's Kingdom opposing a cognition of his arranged fiancee that he has no good feelings with, and the post-credits reunion between the two, there might be some romantic subtexts between them. Adding to this is when you complete one of the quests in Nakabachi's Kingdom, he reveals that he received a love letter from an unknown admirer and kept it hidden from her, and Toshiro insists he did that because he doesn't want her pestering him about it and finding who sent him that letter.

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: After Toshiro awakens his Persona Ernesto, he effectively becomes a fourth party member to the three-man Phantom Thief party, and unlike the rest of the playable cast, he functions much differently than the Phantom Thieves and Erina. Since he's unarmed, he has no access to melee attacks or traditional gun attacks; instead, all his attacks come from Ernesto, with whom he can cast a free Gun magic attack as well as a few other powerful Almighty attacks, but at the cost of not being able to utilize melee attacks at all. Also, since he and Erina are basically the same being, any buffs one gets will apply to the other.

* SevenDeadlySins: He's the closest thing the Kingdoms have to a master of a Palace, though they are a creation of Salmael rather than his distortion - however, he has '''[[DespairEventHorizon Sloth]]''' in its incarnation as despair and apathy; rather than being lazy, he's had all self-confidence beaten out of him and is easily bullied into doing things that are morally wrong out of lack of faith in his own moral sense. Downplayed, however, in that he [[HeroicWillpower never completely lost hope that his ideals were good things]], meaning that he retained his sincerity as a politician, eventually leading Salmael to [[GodzillaThreshold directly intervene]] due to Toshiro's refusal to abandon his virtues completely.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: While Toshiro admits he understands the goal of the Phantom Thieves, he finds their methods a tad extreme. He's not thrilled to be working with them at first, but the Marie Arc helps soften his stance since they're his best shot at getting out of the Kingdom. It's later revealed to be subverted; Toshiro has been a fan of the Phantom Thieves ever since their calling card against Masayoshi Shido. In fact, both this and Guernica's latest piece are what reignited his ideals and passions.

* ButNowIMustGo: After the final battle, she returns to being part of Toshiro's heart, but not before saying goodbye to him and the Phantom Thieves]].

* LeeroyJenkins: Just like the actual Natsuhara, she has a tendency to rush herself into dealing with unjust situations without thinking.]] Toshiro often admonishes her for her ChronicHeroSyndrome and rushing into battle heedless of her own safety. Given what she represents, this is him subconsciously lashing out at ''his past self'' for the exact same reasons, or his belief that Natsuhara's sense of justice only led to her getting hurt.
* MadeOfGood: She is actually Toshiro's subconscious desires to resist Salmael's attacks against his mind taking a form similar to his upperclassman and friend Natsuhara. She managed enough of a resistance that Salmael had to directly drag him into his world instead.

* SignificantBirthDate: Erina birth date is stated as December 17, the same day where the Phantom Thieves send the calling card to Shido. This indicates that she was born from Toshiro's heart after the broadcast hijack against Shido.
* SpannerInTheWorks: When Toshiro saw the Phantom Thieves' Calling Card to Shido, Erina was born as Toshiro's rebellious spirit was reignited. Erina's mere existence as Toshiro's budding Persona prevented Salmael from brainwashing Toshiro, as Erina fought back against all of Salmael's attempts. This forced Salmael to physically kidnap Toshiro when its attempts to break him mentally failed thanks to Erina.

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* {{Bridezilla}}: To an exaggerated degree. All she wants is to get married, but she wants the whole Kingdom to witness her wedding. As such, she takes over a town in Metaverse, turns it into her Kingdom, brainwashes its inhabitants into mindlessly worshipping her, and forces them to work to make it absolutely perfect. Not stopping at just a regular cake and wedding car, Marie rides around in a ''tank'' with spiked tracks and uses anyone who rebels against her as ingredients for the cake.

* LargeAndInCharge: One of the tallest tyrants in the game, mainly to show her being a towering a dominating villainous tyrant in comparison to the SuperDeformed and underdog Phantom Thieves and rebels.

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* HappinessIsMandatory: How he runs his kingdom. All the citizens are required to be happy at all times, any showing of unhappiness results in the citizens being "disappeared."

* LoneWolfBoss: Despite being a corrupt politician himself, he was never affiliated with Shido's conspiracy. In fact, he took advantage of the resulting chaos following Shido's downfall to jockey Toshiro into position to become the next prime minister so that he could further his own political goals.
* ManipulativeBastard: On the surface, he's a serene and long-running politician with a prestigiuous reputation. Behind the scenes, he's playing all sorts of shady political games in a bid to turn his son into the future Prime Minister.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: Unlike the first two tyrants, he doesn't show up on his own and only communicates through a speaker. The Phantom Thieves' goal is to find the four keys to his room and confront him. Subverted, it turns out he's a cut-out - the true ruler of the Nakabachi Kingdom is Shadow Toshiro, who was following you all along.

* ShadowDictator: Unlike the fake Marie and Yoshiki who frequently comes out in the open, Nakabachi mostly hides inside his room and encourages his fellow students to snitch at each other for him.

A former musical instructor who went right away into becoming the vice principal of Toshiro's school, and was about to become principal. He is a shady and manipulative man who cleverly uses blackmail to encourage students to turn against and backstab each other, prompting the student council president Toshiro and his cohort Natsuhara to investigate him. Unfortunately, this is one game-changing moment for Toshiro, and not in a good way...

* HatedByAll: Deconstructed. Once his crimes are made known to the public, all of the students despised him so much that they started blaming him for petty grievances that have nothing to do with him and started a lynch mob that would go as far as raiding his house. This drove him so insane that he absentmindedly tried to kill Natsuhara as revenge and causing her to slip into the train tracks and getting badly injured. It led to Toshiro regretting standing up against him for Natsuhara, even though the incident wasn't his fault (and was in fact, an unfortunate accident that nobody really saw coming).

* TheManBehindTheMan: He's the true ruler of Nakabachi's Kingdom, with the cognitive Nakabachi being a easy target for his fellow rebel corps.

* VillainousBreakdown: For all his calm facade, once he's been beaten by the Phantom Thieves and Erina and Toshiro he loses it. Just as he's about to be defeated, all he can say is "Destroy".

* OldFlame: The game is [[AmbiguousSituation not entirely clear about it]], but it's implied Eri was either Toshiro's old girlfriend from high school or the two might have had a mutual crush on each other but didn't act on their feelings. After after Toshiro dumps Marie on live television, he is seen greeting her fondly, implying they may restart their relationship, romantic or platonic.

* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Had this dynamic with Toshiro, with her serving as a driver for his duties as StudentCouncilPresident despite his natural introversion.

* StarterVillain: Retroactively. As the ''Repaint Your Heart'' DLC campaign takes place prior to the main story of ''Tactica'', Jerri is actually the first villain the Phantom Thieves (or rather, Joker, Akechi, and Kasumi) fight chronologically in the game. She would also retroactively be the first god the characters would fight in ''Persona 5'' as a whole, given ''Repaint Your Heart'' takes place some time before Sae Niijima's palace in November, and way before the Phantom Thieves would fight Yaldabaoth in December.

* AmbiguousSituation: Is his relationship with Eri Natsuhara purely platonic? Given that Erina, a personification of his hidden courage modeled after Eri, was first met in Marie's Kingdom opposing a cognition of his arranged fiancee that he has no good feelings with, and the post-credits reunion between the two, there might be some romantic subtexts between them]]. Adding to this is when you complete one of the quests in Nakabachi's Kingdom, he reveals that he received a love letter from an unknown admirer and kept it hidden from her, and Toshiro insists he did that because he doesn't want her pestering him about it and finding who sent him that letter.

* MalevolentMaskedMen: While battling Joker, Akechi, and Kasumi, she wears a black gas mask and becomes completely unhinged. When she falls under Jerri's control, she brandishes the mask.

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-->'''Default form:''' Creator/TomoakiMaeno (Japanese), [=MacLeod=] Andrews (English)
-->'''Transformed:''' Creator/RieTakahashi (Japanese), Leeanna Albanese (English)

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* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Mrs. Kasukabe was way less controlling of him compared to his father, who would do anything to make sure his son becomes a prestigious politician like him no matter how unpleasant. Therefore, he likes his mother a lot more since he'll have more freedom to do things he wants to do rather than following a fixed path set by his father. It's made even worse when he believed that he led her to her death and his father reinforced such thoughts.

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A talented, yet highly controversial graffiti artist infamous for blatantly defacing public buildings. She was captured by Jerri and brainwashed into an OmnicidalManiac pawn carrying out her will.

* AnimalMotifs: Surprisingly, Mice, representing her background as a StreetUrchin. The graffiti mural on a public building at the start of the DLC campaign depicts three mice leashed in chains, the PortalPicture that acts as the entrance to the other world depicts a mouse devouring Arsene, and the "Mouscots" she's slaughtering and the copy of Luca inside her Kingdom wear mice costumes. According to Luca, they also have to fight with rats for food.

* BlatantLies: She tries convincing Kasumi, Joker and Crow to let her kill them by saying that anyone who dies in the Streets will automatically come back to life. Crow very quickly points out that that's bullshit.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Is seemingly a DistaffCounterpart of [[VideoGame/Persona4Arena Sho Minazuki]]. Both of them are misanthropes with an utterly horrible childhood who are introduced as depraved and vulgar {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s as a result of a godly entity manipulating them to annihilate mankind, and make a HeelFaceTurn to turn against the beings who enslaved them. Minazuki was used by Ikutsuki as a lab rat to develop artifical persona-users and there's no evidence that he was scraping by, whereas Tao was dumped directly on the streets alongside her elder sister Luca and had to scrape for waste in the backalley to survive. Minazuki's destructive impulses is fully organic courtesy of Ikutsuki's horrible treatment against him and his beliefs that people cannot be relied upon, turning him into a raging maniac who seeks to destroy everything so only he can exist and allowing Hino-Kagutsuchi to manipulate him to join his cause without much issues. On the other hand. Guernica dealt with the death of her sister and the unfairness of society though vandalizing public buildings, which was still a marginally healthier way to cope than what Minazuki did, and her destructive personality is a result of Jerri outright brainwashing her and removing her heart. Finally, while Minazuki is a capable persona-user of his own regard, Guernica doesn't have a persona and her role in the final confrontation against Jerri sums up as assisting the party by creating tiles they can walk through, allowing them to reach Jerri, and also defacing her and heavily weakning her at the final act of the fight.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: When being brainwashed by Jerri, her hair and the apron wrapped around her waist is white. When she's freed, she reverts to her usual appearance, having cobalt blue hair like Luca's and the color of her apron becomes black.

* {{Leitmotif}}: "[[https://youtu.be/6lS8HUjQSw4?si=E7B6kRzlguuI9Pcw Artist of Death]]", an ominous ambient noise track that also acts as the Street's main theme.

* MadeOfGood: She was made out of Guernica's subconscious memories of her elder sister with the same name. Therefore, Jerri cannot directly remove her from The Streets.

* StreetUrchin: She was abandoned alongside Tao at a very young age and had to sell scraps and eat leftovers from trash to survive. According to her copy, they even had to fight with rats in the backalley for food.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Is seemingly one with [[VideoGame/Persona4ArenaUltimax Hi-no-Kagutsuchi]]. Both of them are gods of evil who team up with humans to bring forth the end of humanity. However, Kagutsuchi's plan is to manipulate all persona users and Minazuki into giving him a body so he can encroach into the human world and obliterate it himself to enforce eternal solitude, while Jerri wants to enforce eternal tranquility by molding Guernica into an AxCrazy omnicidal maniac and release her back to the real world so she would cause people to kill each other through influencing their emotions with her graffiti. Furthermore, while Hino Kagutsuchi is an independent entity that answers to no one, it is implied that Jerri is a fellow shadow that serves Salmael.

* DependingOnTheArtist: Her 3D model has four toes like a real parrot, but her sprite only has three.

* GracefulLoser: For an arrogant god of tranquillity who desires the eradication of mankind, she takes her defeat and failure surprisingly well. Even if she reports to her boss (implied to be Salmael) and returns to the void as a result, she gleefully accepts her fate and bids them good luck.

* OneWingedAngel: When fighting the Phantom Thieves and Guernica, she transforms into a massive bird statue made of marble.
* StarterVillain: Suprisingly. As the ''Repaint Your Heart'' DLC campaign takes place prior to the main story of ''Tactica'', Jerri is actually the first villain the Phantom Thieves fought chronologically in the game.

* TomTheDarkLord: Though a servant of Salmael with an angelic form reminiscent of his own, the game never gives her an ancient, divine-sounding name appropriate of a god when she reveals her true form. She's just Jerri.

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** At the start of the game, he's extremely popular with the public and is considered an ideal choice to be Prime Minister. Toshiro willingly tanks his own reputation at the end of the game to expose his father and Marie's crimes to the public.

* LovableCoward: He's a NonActionGuy and he knows it, being the first to panic at the supernatural crap around him and constantly pressuring the Phantom Thieves into less dangerous plans. Since he's doing it for their sake as well, the Phantoms are never worse than moderately annoyed and snarky with him. His FatalFlaw is that his same lack of confidence is why he's easily talked into the schemes of other people he's afraid of, but he never enjoyed it enough to be considered a true DirtyCoward. After he finds his confidence and will to rebel, he becomes a full CowardlyLion.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: During the epilogue, he confesses to the media about his father and Marie's crimes, causing both of them to be arrested. It doesn't mean he gets off scot-free, however; as he enabled his father's rigging of the election and Tokyo is still reeling from the Antisocial Force's corruption being exposed, Toshiro's own reputation goes down the drain and now has to work to regain the public's trust.

* SpiritualAntithesis: To Shadows. While she represents a repressed emotion within Toshiro, she embodies his ''hope''. Fittingly, she becomes his Persona after Toshiro finally confronts his Shadow.

* StarterVillain: Excluding Jerri from the DLC campaign, she's the first villain the Phantom Thieves run into in the game. That said, she's still way more dangerous than [[VideoGame/Persona5Strikers Alice]] or Kamoshida, since she manages to brainwash all of the Phantom Thieves bar Joker, Morgana, and Erina, something that no other villain could even try to do.

* {{Ojou}}: The daughter of the CEO of a corporate conglomerate, whose ArrangedMarriage with Toshiro can secure enough power for his premiership.

* PenalColony: He has a series of labor camps that he calls "Labors of Love" that he puts citizens that he doesn't like in. It's likely an exaggeration of the real deal's overly strict methods in raising his son to become an upstanding politican.

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!Supporting Characters

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* BigBad: The arch-villain of the DLC story ''Repaint Your Heart'', who brainwashed Guernica to annihilate mankind and is heavily implied to be a servant of Salmael.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Is seemingly one with [[VideoGame/Persona4Arena Hi-no Kagutsuchi]]. Both of them are gods of evil who team up with humans to bring forth the end of humanity. However, Kagutsuchi's plan is to manipulate all persona users and Minazuki into giving him a body so he can encroach into the human world and obliterate it himself to enforce eternal solitude, while Jerri wants to enforce eternal tranquility by molding Guernica into an AxCrazy omnicidal maniac and release her back to the real world so she would cause people to kill each other through influencing their emotions with her graffiti. Furthermore, while Hino Kagutsuchi is an independent entity that answers to no one, it is implied that Jerri is a fellow shadow that serves Salmael.

* TheDragon: She's serving an entity she calls "Lord". Her motive of enforcing tranquility upon mankind and the cog-filled place where she meets her boss implies that said "Lord" is [[BigBad Salmael]].

* OldFlame: [[AmbigiousSituation Not entirely clear about it]], but it's implied Eri was either Toshiro's old girlfriend from high school or the two might have had a mutual crush on each other but didn't act on their feelings. After after Toshiro dumps Marie on live television, he is seen greeting her fondly, implying they may restart their relationship, romantic or platonic.

!!Note: Due to {{Plot Twist}}s that happen as early as both the first and second Kingdoms, there are a number of [[Administrivia/SelfFulfillingSpoiler Self-Fullfilling Spoilers]] present for ''Tactica'', both marked and unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.

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* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: During high school, he made himself student council president because it would look good on his college resume and his father encouraged him to take that position. This led to him [[spoiler:meeting Natsuhara, who turned his own student council into some sort of counseling room and prefect organization. At its apex, Toshiro and Natsuhara even managed to launch a full-blown investigation against a corrupt vice principal and put him to justice.]]
* AmbiguousSituation: Is his relationship with [[spoiler:Eri]] purely platonic? [[spoiler:Given that Erina, a personification of his hidden courage modeled after Eri, was first met in Marie's Kingdom opposing a cognition of his arranged fiancee that he has no good feelings with, and the post-credits reunion between the two, there might be some romantic subtexts between them]]. Adding to this is when you [[spoiler:complete one of the quests in Nakabachi's Kingdom, he reveals that he received a love letter from an unknown admirer and kept it hidden from her, and Toshiro insists he did that because he doesn't want her pestering him about it and finding who sent him that letter.]]

* ArrangedMarriage: He was [[spoiler:forced to marry Marie Anto by his father Yoshiki so he could secure his son's premiership]]. Given [[spoiler:Marie]] is a bossy and commanding {{Jerkass}} (and [[AmbiguousSituation depending on situation]] he might be in love with [[spoiler:Natsuhara]] instead), he's not too happy about it.
* BeneathTheMask: [[spoiler:He initially claims that his relationship with the Phantom Thieves is TeethClenchedTeamwork. In reality, he's a huge fan because their epic calling card aimed at Shido impressed him enough that he regained some degree of HeroicWillpower, creating Erina from his reignited idealism.]]
* ButtMonkey: Gets this worse than Ryuji, which is understandable given that he's [[TheLoad a non-fighter who frequently cowers away from potential harm and chaos]] and lambasts the Thieves for their own recklessness. This slowly lessens over the first and second Kingdoms as he shows more of his tactical mind and charisma, becoming an asset to the Phantom Thieves even without entering the fray. Then it disappears entirely when [[spoiler:his courage finally crystalizes, and he Awakens to a Persona]].
* ClothingConcealedInjury: From his first appearance, Toshiro wears a white glove on his right hand, but not his left; in the Third Kingdom, the glove comes off to reveal [[spoiler:a large scar.]] It's heavily implied he got it during the [[spoiler:tragedy at the train station.]]

* DarkSecret: The Kingdom rulers all accuse him of having committed some horrible crime in the past, which Toshiro conveniently doesn't remember. [[spoiler:The "crime" they speak of is the Nakabachi debacle in which Toshiro's friend Eri Natsuhara was hospitalized after Nakabachi pushed her and got her run over by a train, which Toshiro feels directly responsible for despite it being in no way his fault.]]

* ExtremeDoormat: While Toshiro does have a spine, he has a bad habit of letting people steamroll right over him. Marie even intends to exploit this, stating he's too weak and cowardly to do anything meaningful by himself. [[spoiler:After Eri Natsuhara's hospitalization and his father sinking his claws into him, Toshiro began to exert himself less and less as he held himself responsible for what happened to his friend. This made it easy for Yoshiki to press his son into an ArrangedMarriage with a woman who saw him as her personal plaything and mold him into his personal political tool. By the end of ''Tactica'', Toshiro manages to regain his confidence and resolves to do better, starting by airing his father's dirty laundry and having both him and Marie Anto arrested for their corruption.]]

** In Futaba's case, [[spoiler:both believed that they are responsible for their mothers' death and that their mothers died hating them for it. However, Futaba became suicidally depressed whereas Toshiro became unwilling to act on his own. Furthermore, Futaba's mother was murdered by an utterly depraved madman through a proxy killer using fantastic means (who also blamed her for her mother's death ForTheEvulz), while Toshiro's mother died to a mishap that he blamed himself for because he was the one who asked her to go to the balcony park with him.]]
** In Haru's case, both of their [[spoiler:fathers intended to use them as a political pawn to up their standing, by marrying them off to {{Jerkass}}es they don't love.]] However, [[spoiler:while Haru's father was arranging the marriage simply to satiate his greed for power and her fiance can act as blatantly abusive as possible, Toshiro's father arranged his marriage with Marie to grant his son enough power to attain premiership, since he does not want the power for himself. Marie also didn't have much of a desire but to marry the prime minister of Japan and she could probably only "abuse" him in a way where she would play political games using him as a front.]]
** In Makoto's case, [[spoiler:both of them were student council presidents who wanted to do their school a service. However, Makoto was unable to do anything without Kobayakawa's permission and was thus barred from investigating Kamoshida. Kobayakawa also forcing her to investigate the Phantom Thieves while holding her scholarship for a college of her choice over her head did her no favors, either. Toshiro, on the other hand, was able to make the student council at his school into a veritable force with his friend Eri Natsuhara's help, even having enough power to get vice-principal Nakabachi fired after exposing his corruption.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In Marie's Kingdom, he's able to use Erina's flag to expunge Marie's corrupting influence from Yusuke and Makoto. Even though said flag seemingly manifested in response to Erina's own will to continue fighting against a corrupt ruler, she developed this power after encouraging Toshiro to stand up for himself after Marie disparages and talks down to Toshiro. [[spoiler:Given how it's later revealed that Erina is part of Toshiro and embodies his feelings of hope, Erina's flag is an extension of Toshiro's own abilities.]]

** At the start of the game, he's extremely popular with the public and is considered an ideal choice to be Prime Minister. [[spoiler:Toshiro willingly tanks his own reputation at the end of the game to expose his father and Marie's crimes to the public.]]
** After the incident that [[spoiler:led to Natsuhara being ran over by a train, Toshiro became TheScapegoat for Nakabachi's fallout because the students want someone to blame for their woes. According to him, it went so bad that he was unable to go to school for a while until it died down one day, heavily implied to be a result of Yoshiki using his status to silence the students.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: He remembers who he is, but doesn't know how he ended up in the Kingdoms and large portions of his life. Specifically, he doesn't remember he knows the real-life versions of the Kingdom rulers and why he's afraid of them. It's implied that [[spoiler:Salmael removed them when he dragged him into his world, given the real counterparts of Marie and Yoshiki are literally still around and he has no way to forget what they did or forcefully conceal his memories out of trauma.]]
* LeeroyJenkins: During his high school days, he spotted a group of pickpockets trying to mug another student and rushed in directly to stop them without thinking. It led to him being beaten. However, [[spoiler:Natsuhara was also present and saw him trying to stop the pickpockets, so she went into the student council room to meet Toshiro unprompted and kickstarted their friendship with each other.]]
* LovableCoward: He's a NonActionGuy and he knows it, being the first to panic at the supernatural crap around him and constantly pressuring the Phantom Thieves into less dangerous plans. Since he's doing it for their sake as well, the Phantoms are never worse than moderately annoyed and snarky with him. [[spoiler:His FatalFlaw is that his same lack of confidence is why he's easily talked into the schemes of other people he's afraid of, but he never enjoyed it enough to be considered a true DirtyCoward. After he finds his confidence and will to rebel, he becomes a full CowardlyLion.]]
* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: [[spoiler:After Toshiro awakens his Persona Ernesto, he effectively becomes a fourth party member to the three-man Phantom Thief party, and unlike the rest of the playable cast, he functions much differently than the Phantom Thieves and Erina. Since he's unarmed, he has no access to melee attacks or traditional gun attacks; instead, all his attacks come from Ernesto, with whom he can cast a free Gun magic attack as well as a few other powerful Almighty attacks, but at the cost of not being able to utilize melee attacks at all. Also, since he and Erina are basically the same being, any buffs one gets will apply to the other.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: When Nakabachi terrorized his high school with a spy network of students, he teamed up with Natsuhara to expose him, eventually succeeding after [[spoiler:arranging a group of his victims and presenting to him recorded evidence of his schemes.]] Unfortunately, [[spoiler:after they kicked Nakabachi out, he was harassed by a lynch mob formed by the student body to the point of insanity, at which point he stalked him and Natsuhara to a train station where he attempted to kill Natsuhara by pushing her into the on-coming train. His reputation tanked to the point that he couldn't return to school until (what was suggested to be) Yoshiki silenced the students using his political status. This incident ''traumatized'' him and to an extent, he believed he ruined Natsuhara and regretted meeting her.]]
* NonActionGuy: Unlike the Phantom Thieves or Erina, he lacks the power to directly participate in combat, though he's not TheLoad since he stays away from the fighting or manages to pull his weight when the going gets tough. [[spoiler:Towards the end of the game, however, he officially joins their ranks after Erina turns into his Persona.]]
* SevenDeadlySins: [[spoiler:He's the closest thing the Kingdoms have to a master of a Palace, though they are a creation of Salmael rather than his distortion - however, he has '''[[DespairEventHorizon Sloth]]''' in its incarnation as despair and apathy; rather than being lazy, he's had all self-confidence beaten out of him and is easily bullied into doing things that are morally wrong out of lack of faith in his own moral sense. Downplayed, however, in that he [[HeroicWillpower never completely lost hope that his ideals were good things]], meaning that he retained his sincerity as a politician, eventually leading Salmael to [[GodzillaThreshold directly intervene]] due to Toshiro's refusal to abandon his virtues completely.]]
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: During the epilogue, [[spoiler:he confesses to the media about his father and Marie's crimes, causing both of them to be arrested. It doesn't mean he gets off scot-free, however; as he enabled his father's rigging of the election and Tokyo is still reeling from the Antisocial Force's corruption being exposed, Toshiro's own reputation goes down the drain and now has to work to regain the public's trust]].
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He's similar to Toranosuke Yoshida in that he's an upstanding politician, so much in fact he's considered a shoe-in for Prime Minister. [[spoiler:His reputation also takes a massive hit when he reveals his father and fiancée's crimes to the public, putting him in the same position as Toranosuke after his "three strikes".]]
* SurvivorGuilt: He believes that he [[spoiler:killed his mother by asking her out to a balcony park. His father further reinforcing this belief doesn't help him either]].
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: While Toshiro admits he understands the goal of the Phantom Thieves, he finds their methods a tad extreme. He's not thrilled to be working with them at first, but the Marie Arc helps soften his stance since they're his best shot at getting out of the Kingdom. [[spoiler:It's later revealed to be subverted; Toshiro has been a fan of the Phantom Thieves ever since their calling card against Masayoshi Shido. In fact, both this and Guernica's latest piece are what reignited his ideals and passions.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Joins the front lines after Erina is revealed to be his Persona, Ernesto.]]
* UniformityException: [[spoiler:Unlike prior members who joined the Phantom Thieves, Toshiro does not get a new outfit nor codename upon awakening his Persona, though his mask is briefly seen during his awakening.]]
* VillainTakesAnInterest: [[spoiler:The whole reason ''Tactica'' happens at all. Salmael believes that Toshiro's "spark" of rebellion will lead the people of Japan to suffer if he becomes Prime Minister and attempts to extinguish that "spark" by trapping him in the Kingdoms to break his spirit.]]

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* AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[spoiler:She's the embodiment of Toshiro's hope, fittingly taking a form that resembles Toshiro's high school senpai Eri Natsuhara, who always stood up against injustice no matter what.]]
* ArmedLegs: [[spoiler:Ernesto]] has revolvers in place of legs. They can shoot too.
* ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler:Ernesto's]] right foot is [[spoiler:a semi-automatic Tokarev pistol and her left leg is a much larger revolver that goes all the way up her thigh.]] This corresponds to [[spoiler:how Natsuhara ends up being crippled during the train station incident.]] On the other hand, her base form has a [[spoiler:metal greave on her left leg that she seemingly can remove as shown during a cutscene.]]

* ButNowIMustGo: After the final battle, [[spoiler:she returns to being part of Toshiro's heart, but not before saying goodbye to him and the Phantom Thieves]].
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Oddly enough, to Metis from ''[[VideoGame/Persona3 Persona 3 FES]]''. Both are brand new characters who become involved with the main party after they get wrapped up in a new incident after their story concluded, though their importance and roles differ: Whereas Metis is a central figure to ''The Answer'' and allied with S.E.E.S. to help dispel the Abyss of Time and said alliance was TeethClenchedTeamwork due to having previously tried to kill them, Erina allies with the Phantom Thieves and enlists their help in overthrowing Marie before deciding to continue assisting them when she learns other Kingdoms are suffering under the control of brutal tyrants. [[spoiler:Metis is initially presented as being an Anti-Shadow Weapon like Aigis, but is later revealed to be the embodiment of Aigis' repressed emotions and feelings of self-loathing after her failing to protect the protagonist. Erina is the exact opposite, representing Toshiro's feelings of hope and rebellion from both his high school days and his reignited passion after witnessing the downfall of Masayoshi Shido.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The game subtly hints that Erina [[spoiler:is Toshiro's Persona]] well before TheReveal toward the end of the game.

** In Yoshiki's Kingdom, after Toshiro theorizes [[spoiler:the Kingdoms are tied to his cognition and is responsible for their creation]], Erina wonders what role she has to play since as far as she and the others know, she has no [[spoiler:connection to Toshiro unlike the cognitive tyrants]]. In Nakabachi's Kingdom, however, the party discovers Erina bears an uncanny resemblance to Eri Natsuhara, Toshiro's friend from high school [[spoiler:who acts suspiciously similar to Erina herself. The injuries she sustains from being run over by a train also match Erina's eye-covering bang and armored leg]]. The WhamEpisode finally clears things up and reveals that Erina [[spoiler:is not only based off of Eri Natsuhara, but is also Toshiro's feelings of hope and his "spark" of rebellion made manifest]].
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Why is Erina unable to summon a Persona, much less equip a sub-Persona like the rest of the Phantom thieves? [[spoiler:Because she's a Persona herself.]]

* HidingBehindYourBangs: Her right eye is never seen as it's always covered by a portion of her hair. [[spoiler:The person she was made after was heavily implied to have used her hair to cover for a lost eye after her accident.]]
* IdenticalStranger: Shortly after arriving in the third Kingdom, the Phantom Thieves discover that Erina bears an uncanny resemblance to Eri Natsuhara, Toshiro's friend from high school. [[spoiler:The reason for this is because Erina is modeled after Eri herself.]]
* IHatePastMe: A ''very'' weird example in that Erina [[spoiler:is the past self in question. Erina embodies Toshiro's hopes and desires from his high school days, which he's since come to disdain in the present day due to a belief that his ideals are what nearly led his friend Eri Natsuhara to her death during the Nakabachi debacle. In hindsight, this also makes Toshiro's criticism of Erina come off as him criticizing his "foolish" younger self]].
* JeanneDArchetype: A female revolutionary figure with a strong sense of justice that rallies and inspires her fellow citizens and rebels into overthrowing tyrannical despots and [[spoiler:protecting Toshiro's mind from Salmael's attacks]].
* LeeroyJenkins: Just like [[spoiler:the actual Natsuhara, she has a tendency to rush herself into dealing with unjust situations without thinking.]] Toshiro often admonishes her for her ChronicHeroSyndrome and rushing into battle heedless of her own safety. [[spoiler:Given what she represents, this is him subconsciously lashing out at ''his past self'' for the exact same reasons, or his belief that Natsuhara's sense of justice only led to her getting hurt]].
* MadeOfGood: She is actually [[spoiler:Toshiro's subconscious desires to resist Salmael's attacks against his mind taking a form similar to his upperclassman and friend Natsuhara. She managed enough of a resistance that Salmael had to directly drag him into his world instead.]]
* MeaningfulName: Her English name is the first 5 characters of [[spoiler:the name of the person she's based on, '''Eri Na'''tsuhara]]. Her Japanese name is the first two katakana letters of [[spoiler:"Ernesto", her persona form]].
* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Much like [[VideoGame/PersonaQShadowOfTheLabyrinth Zen and Rei]] before her, Erina is unique in that she's the only party member who cannot equip sub-Personas, and thus cannot benefit from the extra HP/SP or bonus skills they offer. To compensate for this, she has higher base HP and SP by default and a very powerful showtime attack that makes all nearby enemies vulnerable to crits even if they're behind cover. [[spoiler:This is because she's the physical embodiment of Toshiro's hope and his Persona.]]
* SignificantBirthDate: Erina birth date is stated as December 17, the same day where the Phantom Thieves send the calling card to Shido. This indicates that [[spoiler:she was born from Toshiro's heart after the broadcast hijack against Shido]].
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:When Toshiro saw the Phantom Thieves' Calling Card to Shido, Erina was born as Toshiro's rebellious spirit was reignited. Erina's mere existence as Toshiro's budding Persona prevented Salmael from brainwashing Toshiro, as Erina fought back against all of Salmael's attempts. This forced Salmael to physically kidnap Toshiro when its attempts to break him mentally failed thanks to Erina.]]
* SpiritualAntithesis: [[spoiler:To Shadows. While she represents a repressed emotion within Toshiro, she embodies his ''hope''. Fittingly, she becomes his Persona after Toshiro finally confronts his Shadow.]]
* TerribleArtist: When she draws to explain [[spoiler:Salmael]] to the rest of the Phantom Thieves for Lavenza, her drawings are pretty... interesting, to say the least.
* TomatoInTheMirror: During a skit in the first arc, she tries to practice summoning a persona to no avail. Turns out [[spoiler:she ''is'' a Persona herself, specifically Toshiro's]].

!Main antagonists (Unmarked Spoilers for First and Second Kingdoms)

* StarterVillain: Excluding [[spoiler:Jerri]] from the DLC campaign, she's the first villain the Phantom Thieves run into in the game. That said, she's still way more dangerous than [[VideoGame/Persona5Strikers Alice]] or Kamoshida, since she manages to brainwash all of the Phantom Thieves bar Joker, Morgana, and Erina, something that no other villain could even try to do.

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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:In the epilogue, once Toshiro announces the details of her crimes and breaks up with her, she is taken into custody while throwing a fit live on TV.]]

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* AbusiveParents: Of the KnightTemplarParent sort. He will subject his son to corporal punishment if he fails to meet his demands, and constantly controls his future career path, doing any means necessary to ensure Toshiro climbs to the peak of the political ladder. [[spoiler:He also holds Toshiro responsible for his mother's death despite it being an accident.]]

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:In the epilogue, once Toshiro announces the details of his crimes and breaks up with Marie, he is taken into custody while throwing a fit live on TV.]]

* MinorMajorCharacter: His cognition was only a simple ArcVillain and he himself only has a few lines during the beginning of the game and the ending cutscene, but he ends up being the one who shaped most of Toshiro's life (bar [[spoiler:Natsuhara, and even then he did inadvertently encourage Toshiro to put himself in a position where he would meet her by circumstance]]) and it's suggested that he even saved his son [[spoiler:from the fallout caused by Nakabachi's outing through silencing the school's students using his status.]]

[[folder:The False Tyrant ('''Unmarked Spoilers''')]]

* AssholeVictim: Deconstructed. As horrible as Nakabachi's manipulations against his fellow students are, even Toshiro and Natsuhara believed that the students barging into his house to harass him after he got kicked out of their school is way too overboard. Even worse, Toshiro's actions against Nakabachi would bite him in the back hard when he went so crazy that he tried to take revenge on Natsuhara by pushing her into the path of an incoming train. It ends up with her being hospitalized and [[spoiler:crippled for life]].

[[folder:The True Tyrant ('''Unmarked Spoilers''')]]

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!Supporting Characters (Unmarked Spoilers for First and Second Kingdoms)

* TokenHeroicOrc: In sharp contrast to most denizens of the Metaverse, they're outright helpful and friendly to the Thieves, serving as backup and aiding them numerous times against the rulers of the Kingdoms. [[spoiler:Up until the second half of the third Kingdom, that is...]]

[[folder:Toshiro's Friend ('''Spoilers for the Third Kingdom''')]]

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* AnArmAndALeg: After the fallout with Nakabachi, [[spoiler:she was no longer capable of walking on her own and had to use a walking cane for movement.]] This likely corresponds to [[spoiler:Erina's left leg, which is usually covered with a full-leg metal greave, as well as Ernesto's revolver legs.]]
* BookEnds: Toshiro first met Natsuhara during high school when she spotted him being beaten by pickpockets and sneaked into the Student Council Room to meet him. [[spoiler:She meets Toshiro again in the present day by approaching him from behind.]]

* MetaTwist: If a public transport runs over somebody in an anime or Eastern-made video game, they are guaranteed to die instantly. [[spoiler:That she survives the train station incident is actually a surprising twist.]]
* MinorMajorCharacter: Only shows up in flashbacks and [[spoiler:a single post-credits scene taking place in the present day]], but ends up being likely the most important person in Toshiro's life.

* OldFlame: [[spoiler:Implied to have been Toshiro's girlfriend in high school and after he gleefully dumps Marie he is seen greeting her fondly, implying they may restart their relationship.]]
* RedHerring: After she was pushed into the incoming train by Nakabachi's attempted murder, the game makes it looks like she succumbed from her injuries and died. During a post-credits scene, [[spoiler:she shows up in front of Toshiro as a grown woman, although the incident at the train station did irreparably cripple her and she has to use a walking cane.]]

* TruthInTelevision: Although getting run over by a train is typically fatal, [[spoiler:survival cases are common enough that it is plausible, though generally with permanent life-changing injuries (permanent nerve damage, loss of mobility, reoccuring pain, loss of limbs). During the epilogue it is revealed that Eri may indeed be permanently disabled, and now uses a cane to walk.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Knowing the person that Erina is made after and the one who is most integral to Toshiro's past is definitely of this trope. Even more so about TheReveal that she [[spoiler:actually survives the train station incident, which isn't even revealed until you reach the post-credits]].

!''Repaint Your Heart'' DLC (All spoilers unmarked)

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'''Just like the main page, spoilers for the original ''VideoGame/Persona5'' are left unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.'''

!! Main antagonists (unmarked spoilers)

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[[folder:The True Tyrant (All spoilers unmarked)]]

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!!Supporting Characters

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! DLC only (All spoilers unmarked)

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Spin-Offs: ''[[Characters/Persona5Strikers Strikers]]'' ([[Characters/Persona5StrikersJailMonarchs Jail Monarchs]]) | '''''Tactica''''' | ''[[Characters/Persona5ThePhantomX The Phantom X]]'' -]]]]]

* CloudCuckoolander: Toshiro has shades of this throughout the game, mostly shown for his [[GiverOfLameNames poor penchant for naming things]]. But there's also the part where he initially mistakes Morgana for a catfish, followed by an ''eel.''

* OffModel: Her 3D model has four toes like a real parrot, but her sprite only has three.

This is the character sheet for ''VideoGame/Persona5Tactica''. For a full index of characters from the ''Persona'' series, go [[Characters/{{Persona}} here]].

* [[Characters/Persona5GoroAkechi Goro Akechi]]
* [[Characters/Persona5SumireYoshizawa Kasumi Yoshizawa]]

Spin-Offs: ''[[Characters/Persona5Strikers Strikers]]'' [[[Characters/Persona5StrikersJailMonarchs Jail Monarchs]]] | '''''Tactica''''' | ''[[Characters/Persona5ThePhantomX The Phantom X]]'' -]]]]]

This is the character sheet for ''VideoGame/Persona5Tactica''. See the links below for the Phantom Thieves and other returning characters. For a full index of characters from the ''Persona'' series, go [[Characters/{{Persona}} here]].

* [[Characters/Persona5ThePhantomThievesOfHearts The Phantom Thieves of Hearts]]
** Characters/Persona5StartingMembers [[note]]Ryuji Sakamoto / Skull, Morgana / Mona ('''Unmarked Spoilers!'''), Ann Takamaki / Panther[[/note]]
*** [[Characters/Persona5Joker Joker]]
** Characters/Persona5LaterMembers [[note]]Yusuke Kitagawa / Fox, Makoto Niijima / Queen, Futaba Sakura / Oracle, Haru Okumura / Noir[[/note]]
* [[Characters/Persona5Confidants Confidants]] (Lavenza)

* ContinuityNod: Though the circumstances are different, Shadow Toshiro's form and purpose harkens back to 'VideoGame/{{Catherine}} and the various killers that take turns to torment Vincent in the dream world. Being the personification of fear and guilt hell bent on killing their respective victim, Shadow Toshiro's appearance is also similar to the Fist of Grudge/Doom's Bride; a giant pair of hands that reach out and drag up a demented mirror of a close loved one which is the source of the victim's guilt; in this case Eri Natsuhara. She even screams out quotes like "How could you do this?!" or "This is all your fault!" Similar to how the Killers in Catherine would scream out when chasing down Vincent.

** [[Characters/Persona5Joker Joker]]
** [[Characters/Persona5RyujiSakamoto Ryuji Sakamoto]]
** [[Characters/Persona5Morgana Morgana]]
** [[Characters/Persona5AnnTakamaki Ann Takamaki]]
** [[Characters/Persona5YusukeKitagawa Yusuke Kitagawa]]
** [[Characters/Persona5MakotoNiijima Makoto Niijima]]
** [[Characters/Persona5FutabaSakura Futaba Sakura]]
** [[Characters/Persona5HaruOkumura Haru Okumura]]

* TruthInTelevision: Although getting run over by a train is typically fatal, [[spoiler:survival cases are common enough that it is plausible, though generally with permenant life-changing injuries (permenant nerve damage, loss of mobility, reoccuring pain, loss of limbs). During the epilogue it is revealed that Eri may indeed be permenantly disabled, and now uses a cane to walk.]]

* TerribleArtist: When she draws to explain [[spoiler:Salmael]] to the rest of the Phantom Thieves for Lavenza, her drawings are pretty...interesting, to say the least.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: Unlike the first two tyrants, he doesn't show up on his own and only communicates through a speaker. The Phantom Theives' goal is to find the four keys to his room and confront him. Subverted, it turns out he's a cut-out - the true ruler of the Nakabachi Kingdom is Shadow Toshiro, who was following you all along.

* AssholeVictim: Deconstructed. As horrible as Nakabachi's manipulations against his fellow students are, even Toshiro and Natsuhara believed that the students barging into his house to harass him after he got kicked out of their school is way too overboard. Even worse, Toshiro's actions against Nakabachi would bite him in the back hard when he became so insane that he attempted revenge by trying to kill Natsuhara by pushing her into the incoming train. It ends up with her being hospitalized and [[spoiler:crippled for life]].

* HatedByAll: Deconstructed. Once his crimes are made known to the public, all of the students despised him so much that they started blaming him for petty grievances that have nothing to do with him and started a lynch mob that would go as far as raiding his house. This drove him so insane that he absentmindedly tried to kill Natsuhara as revenge and causing her to slip into the train tracks and getting badly injured. It led to Toshiro regretting standing up against him for Natsuhara despite the incident wasn't his fault (and was in fact, an unfortunate accident that nobody really saw coming).

[[folder:Yuki]]
!!Yuki
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ReinaUeda (Japanese), Creator/AbbyTrott (English)
The leader of the rebel corps of the Yoshiki Kingdom, saving whatever few of its citizens she can.

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: [[spoiler: After Toshiro awakens his Persona Ernesto, he effectively becomes a fourth party member to the three-man Phantom Thief party, and unlike the rest of the playable cast, he functions much differently than the Phantom Thieves and Erina. Since he's unarmed, he has no access to melee attacks or traditional gun attacks; instead, all his attacks come from Ernesto, with whom he can cast a free Gun magic attack as well as a few other powerful Almighty attacks, but at the cost of not being able to utilize melee attacks at all. Also, since he and Erina are basically the same being, any buffs one gets will apply to the other.]]

* GiverOfLameNames: Just like with Erina, the name he gives to the Rebel Corps and Phantom Thieves' operation against Lord Yoshiki leave much to be desired. "Operation Sneaky, Sneaky, Bang, Bang" isn't the coolest name for an operation to begin with. Takes on a more tragic light when the game reveals he got it from his late mother.

** After the incident that [[spoiler:led to Natsuhara being ran over by a train, Toshiro became the scapegoat for Nakabachi's fallout because the students want someone to blame for their woes. According to him, it went so bad that he was unable to go to school for a while until it died down one day, heavily implied to be a result of Yoshiki using his status to silence the students.]]

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He's similar to Toranosuke Yoshida in that he's an upstanding politician, so much in fact he's considered a shoe-in for Prime Minister. [[spoiler:His reputation also takes a massive hit when he reveals his father and fiance's crimes to the public, putting him in the same position as Toranosuke after his "three strikes".]]

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[spoiler:She's the embodiment of Toshiro's hope, fittingly taking a form that resembles Eri Natsuhara, who Toshiro respected and considered a friend.]]

* TomatoInTheMirror: During a skit in the first arc, she tries to practice summoning a persona to no avail. Turns out [[spoiler:she's a Persona herself, specifically Toshiro's]].

* MeaningfulName: She's named after the last queen of France, '''Marie Anto'''inette. Fittingly, she's the future first lady.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Much like his cognitive form, he's a corrupt, power-hungry and opportunistic politician with many scandals under his belt who hides behind a veneer of good publicity and a long-standing career. While not as exaggerated as his cognitive form, he's not a particularly intimidating-looking man, but he's extremely draconian towards his son.

* AssholeVictim: Deconstructed. As horrible as Nakabachi's manipulations against his fellow students are, even Toshiro and Natsuhara believed that the students barging into his house to harass him after he got kicked out of their school is way too overboard. Even worse, Toshiro's actions against Nakabachi would bite him in the back hard when he was so insane that he attempted revenge by trying to kill her by pushing her into the incoming train. It ends up with her being hospitalized and [[spoiler:crippled for life]].

* RedHerring: After she was pushed into the incoming train by Nakabachi's attempted murder, the game makes it looks like she succumbed from her injuries and died. During a post-credits scene, [[spoiler:she shows up in front of Toshiro as a grown woman, although the incident at the train station did irreparably cripple her and she had to use a walking cane to walk.]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: During the epilogue, [[spoiler:he confesses to the media about his father and Marie's crimes, causing both of them to be arrested. It doesn't mean he gets off scott-free, however; as he enabled his father's rigging of the election and Tokyo is still reeling from the Antisocial Force's corruption being exposed, Toshiro's own reputation goes down the drain and now has to work to regain the public's trust]].

* UniformityException: [[spoiler:Unlike prior members who joined the Phantom Thieves, Toshiro does not get a new outfit nor codename upon awakening his Persona.]]

* ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler:Ernesto's]] right foot is [[spoiler:a semi-automatic Tokarev pistol and her left leg is a much larger revolver that goes all the way up her thigh.]] This corresponds to [[spoiler:how Natsuhara ends up being crippled during the train station incident.]] On the other hand, her base form has a [[spoiler:metal greave her left leg that she seemingly can remove as shown during a cutscene.]]

** Occasionally, Toshiro and Erina come to some very strange conclusions, such as mistaking Morgana for a ''catfish''[[note]]This is not localization-exclusive, as they also call Morgana a catfish in the original Japanese script[[/note]]. They're also both GiverOfLameNames when it comes to naming their operations.

* HidingBehindYourBangs: Her right eye is never seen as it's always covered by a portion of her hair. [[spoiler:The person she was made after was heavily implied to have been used her hair to cover for a lost eye.]]

* CharmPerson: At the start of the game, she brainwashes all of the Phantom Thieves bar Joker and Morgana via a magical kiss. The latter two are only spared because they dodged the attack and were saved by Erina, who says Marie had used said trick on her allies in the past. A large portion of the first arc is spent on snapping party members out of their brainwashing.

* NoblewomansLaugh: Marie has an appropriately pompous laugh, which brainwashed Thieves occasionally mimic.
* StarterVillain: Excluding [[spoiler:Jerri]] from the DLC campaign, she's the first villain the Phantom Thieves run into in the game. That said, she's still way more dangerous than [[VideoGame/Persona5Strikers Alice]] or Kamoshida, since she manages to brainwash all of the Phantom Thieves bar Joker, Morgana, and Erina, something that no other villain managed to do or could do.

Toshiro's arranged fiancee and the real-world counterpart of the tyrant Marie, she is the daughter of the CEO of a corporate conglomerate. Because of her unpleasant attitude, Toshiro does not like her.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Subverted. Toshiro is the unfortunate soul whom Marie has picked to be her groom, except it is ''not'' out of any sort of romantic feelings. Marie explicitly sees Toshiro as little more than a puppet and a valuable political asset who can do nothing without her say so, and it's heavily exaggerated by her cognitive copy who views him as an outright plaything.

* PenalColony: He has a series of labor camps that he calls "Labor of Love" that he puts citizens that he doesn't like in. It's likely an exaggeration of the real deal's overly strict methods in raising his son to become an upstanding politican.

** In Futaba's case, [[spoiler:both believed that they are reasonable for their mothers' death and that their mothers died hating them for it. However, Futaba became suicidally depressed whereas Toshiro became unwilling to act on his own. Furthermore, Futaba's mother was murdered by an utterly depraved madman through a proxy killer using fantastic means (who also blamed her for her mother's death ForTheEvulz), while Toshiro's mother died to a mishap that he blamed himself for because he was the one who asked her to go to the balcony park with him.]]