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* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: With the exception of Morgana, everyone in the party is a high school student
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* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: With the exception of Morgana, everyone in the party is a high school studentstudent.
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* SeriesMascot: In May 5 2016, she replaced [[VideoGame/{{Persona 4}} Teddie]] as the host of the official ''Persona'' twitter.
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* SeriesMascot: In May 5 5, 2016, she replaced [[VideoGame/{{Persona 4}} Teddie]] as the host of the official ''Persona'' twitter.
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* SleepMask: Ryuji is seen sleeping with one of these on in one of the trailers form the game. His mask has painted eyes on it.
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* ItsNotPornItsArt: Yusuke tends to stare at Makoto and Anne a lot, to the point that Morgana calls him a pervert. But his interest in the female body is purely because of its aesthetic beauty.
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* CulturedBadass: Just as willing to scrap as the other Thieves, and also happens to be an artist in training.
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* CulturedBadass: Just as willing to scrap as the other Thieves, and also happens to be an artist in training.training and speaks in [[AntiquatedLinguistics very old fashioned Japansese.]]
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A mysterious shapeshifting creature with Persona abilities. Morgana has the form and the habits of a cat, but claims not to truly be one. Morgana takes interest in the protagonist after seeing his power and begins to masquerade as his pet house cat, living with and accompanying him everywhere.
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A mysterious shapeshifting creature with Persona abilities. Morgana has the form and the habits of a cat, but claims not to truly be one. one, trying to find out the secrets to her true form and lost memories. Morgana takes interest in the protagonist after seeing his power and begins to masquerade as his pet house cat, living with and accompanying him everywhere.
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The 9th and apparently final member of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts. Goro is a teenage detective who initially tracks the Phantom Theives, before joining the group to bring the criminals the thieves have been in conflict with to justice.
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The 9th and apparently final member of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts. Goro is a teenage detective who initially tracks the Phantom Theives, Thieves, before joining the group to bring the criminals the thieves have been in conflict with to justice.
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* CovertPervert: Part of his eccentricities as a painter, he has a tendency to stare intently at Anne and Makoto. Morgana even calls him a Japanese hentai in his commercial.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Of [[{{VideoGame/Persona2}} Lisa Silverman]], who expresses distaste in her own game about being considered "exotic" because of her ethnicity.
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* AscendedFanboy: He seems to be obsessed with these "thieves that steals hearts", as he does graffiti about them. The third ''PV'' trailer implies he follows the news about them through the story, and he gets to join them after awakening his Persona.
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!The Phantom Thieves of Hearts
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!The Phantom Thieves of Hearts
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[[caption-width-right:349:The Phantom Thieves.[[labelnote:*]]Counter-Clockwise from the bottom: [[TheHero The Phantom]], [[LoyalAnimalCompanion Morgana]], [[ButNotTooForeign Anne Takamaki]], [[CulturedBadass Yusuke Kitagawa]], [[{{Hikikomori}} Futaba Sakura]], [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Arsène]], [[GreatDetective Goro Akechi]], [[{{Ojou}} Haru Okumura]], [[StudentCouncilPresident Makoto Nijima]], [[JapaneseDelinquents Ryuji Sakamoto]]. [[/labelnote]]]]
The main heroes of ''Persona 5'', the Phantom Thieves of Hearts are high schoolers ([[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and a cat]]) in [[UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}} Shibuya]] out to [[InternalReformist rid the world of evil]] by "stealing the hearts" of corrupt members of society. Their Personas are styled after various {{picaresque}} heroes, both fictional and real.
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* AnimalMotifs: the Protagonist, Anne and Yusuke have bird, panther and fox Persona masks. Further, Anne, Yusuke and Akechi have the heist codenames Panther, Fox and Crow.
* AntiHeroTeam: A group of teenage criminals who use the collective unconscious to force HeelFaceBrainwashing on the corrupt by destroying the embodiments of their sinful hearts.
* TheAtoner: Part of the reason they become thieves is to atone for past mistakes.
* BadassCrew: Shadow-slaying, gun-slinging, heart-stealing thieves.
* BeneathTheMask: It's a series with Jungian psychology as the central theme - what else would you expect?
** The protagonist's public persona gives way to a suave, confident attitude when he's the Phantom. ''Both'' of these masks crack when he's [[EpiphanicPrison imprisoned in the Velvet Room]], as he freaks out and rattles the bars of his cell.
** Anne starts uninterested in her day-to-day life - it's only when she's performing her thieving antics she lets herself be energetic and free.
** Futuba's shut-in public personality hides a CuteAndPsycho private personality she shows online and eventually to her friends, starting with the protagonist.
* CodeNames: Each of the human party members seems to have an ascribed alias when moonlighting as the Phantom Thieves.
* ColorCodedCharacters: Each protagonist wears different-colored gloves in their thief alter-egos -- The Protagonist's gloves are red, Ryuji's are yellow, Anne's are pink, Yusuke's are blue, Makoto's are white, Futaba's are green, Haru's are purple, and Goro's are black.
* CombatStilettos:
** Carmen wears high heels, matching the rest of her fancy attire.
** Arsène has ''knives for stilts'', which reach way past the shoes' soles. They're not just for show: he uses them in his attack animations.
* CoolMask: The party's main Persona each become a mask the thieves wear, and most have masks of their own.
** Arsène becomes a bird mask, and his own "face" is a semi-transparent horned mask.
** Carmen becomes a red panther mask that she herself also wears.
** Captain Kidd becomes a skull mask, matching the skull that serves as his head.
** Zorro becomes the black bandana he wears on his own face.
** Goemon becomes a traditional Japanese fox mask, and wears an armored facemask of his own that leaves his mouth and hair exposed.
** Necronomicon becomes a pair of NightVisionGoggles that look like giant alien eyes.
** Johanna becomes a metal mask, and Johanna's own face is a feminine mask on the front of the bike that serves as her body.
** Milady becomes a black domino mask, and uses a ball gown mask for her "head".
* {{Delinquent}}: All of them beside [[NonHumanSidekick Morgana]] are high school students who moonlight as criminals. Ryuji and Anne also have the standard looks down when attending school.
* {{Escapism}}: It's implied that their cat burglar antics are their way of getting away from the stress and boredom of everyday life.
* {{Fanservice}}: During a trip to the beach, the all rather in shape thieves don swimsuits, allowing for a WalkingShirtlessScene / WalkingSwimsuitScene.
* FiringOneHanded: Anne and the protagonist both fire their guns with only a single hand.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Ryuji and Yusuke have real people as their Personas - William Kidd and Goemon, respectively. Note that Makoto, despite appearances, does ''not'' - Pope Joan is not a historical person, and the historical John VIII was nothing like the legend.
* InstantCostumeChange: It's shown in a trailer that awakening to Arsène changes the Protagonist's school uniform to his Phantom Thief outfit, and the same can be assumed for rest.
* InternalReformist: They wish to reform their world by stealing the hearts of "corrupt" people.
* {{Irony}}:
** Morgana's Persona is Zorro, a famous rogue who's well-known for his fox [[AnimalMotifs Animal Motif]]. Morgana is a ''cat''.
** Despite being a criminal who wishes to escape the chains of society, the protagonist actually finds wearing his high school's uniform to code rather stylish.
* {{Lovable Rogue}}s: They may be thieves, but that doesn't mean they're bad people. In fact, according to an interview, their goal is to go inside the other world in order to steal the hearts of "bad" people.
* MaskOfPower: They don {{Cool Mask}}s when going into dungeons, similar to the heroes of ''P4'' donning SpecsOfAwesome in the TV world.
* TheMole: While the truth has yet to be revealed, the trailers for the game and the beginning heavily imply that one of the members turns traitor. Who and why is up to speculation however.
* MorphicResonance: [[PlayingWithATrope While there's no transformation involved]], most of the party's other selves still mirror them in appearance in some way:
** Arsène shares the protagonist's penchant for classy attire and black and red color scheme. Tying into the mask motif, Arsène looks to have a mask for a face.
** Carmen has twintails like Anne, but makes them [[MegaTwintails much larger]]. She also wears a panther mask, copying Anne's [[AnimalMotifs cat motif]].
** The NoseArt on Captain Kidd's boat mirrors Ryuji's own [[ScaryTeeth razor sharp teeth]] in his All-Out Attack portrait, and Ryuji's skull mask obviously references Captain Kidd being a skeleton.
** Both Morgana and Zorro are comically [[TopHeavyGuy top heavy]]. In a more traditional shapeshifting example, Morgana, naturally, shares her fur color and patterns between her humanoid and house cat forms. Less noticeably, her house cat collar is the same yellow as the bandana she wears in her other form.
* TheMusketeer: All party members can switch between melee weapons and firearms, in a return to the combat system of ''Persona 1'' and its ''SMT'' ancestors.
* NiceHat:
** Arsène wears an extremely tall metallic top hat.
** Captain Kidd wears a standard pirate hat.
** Haru wears a fancy musketeer hat.
* {{Outlaw}}: they are all this but special mention to Phantom.
* PhantomThief: They're collectively known as "The Phantom Thieves of Hearts", and for good reason: their ability to travel into the collective unconscious makes them untraceable by conventional security measures and law-enforcement.
* PostMortemOneLiner: Depending on who's attack prompted an All-Out Attack, the character will pose in the aftermath.
** PlayerCharacter/Joker: '''THE SHOW'S OVER'''
** Ryuji Sakamoto: '''FREAKIN' BORING'''
** Anne Takamaki: ''OMG!! We are SO awesome!''
** Morgana: '''MISSION ACCOMPLISHED'''
** Yusuke Kitagawa: '''IT WAS FUN WHILE IT LASTED, GOODBYE'''
** Makoto Niijima: '''JUSTICE HAS PREVAILED.'''
** Haru Okumura: ''Adieu''
* PublicDomainCharacter: The protagonist, Anne, Morgana, Makoto, Haru and Futuba all have classical characters as their Personas - Arsène Lupin, Carmen, Zorro, Johanna/Pope Joan[[note]]who doesn't have a confirmed creator - it's arguably between Jean de Mailly and Martin of Opava, but even de Mailly may have culled it from elsewhere[[/note]], Milady de Winter and Creator/HPLovecraft's Necronomicon respectively.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The thieves are a bunch of high school students (and a cat), that include a boy on probation for assault, a self-styled {{Japanese Delinquent|s}}, a girl who's spent most of her life abroad, a painter's apprentice, a recovering {{Hikikomori}}, the StudentCouncilPresident, an [[{{Ojou}} eccentric rich girl]], a teenage GreatDetective, and, again, a cat. Not the best material for becoming famous [[PhantomThief Phantom Thieves]] or fighting a well-funded criminal conspiracy.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Downplayed. The Shujin School uniform is black and red, and all of the party's thieving outfits and Personas have red and/or black on them.
* SecondYearProtagonist: The Phantom, Ryuji and Anne are second years at Shujin High, as is Yusuke at Kousei Public High. Futaba is a first year while Makoto and Haru are Third Years.
* SecretIdentity: High school students by day, picaresque heroes by night.
* ShownTheirWork:
** Yusuke's Persona, Goemon, has "Ixicava" written on his clothes, a nod to the inaccurate transcribing of "Ixicava Goyemon" his name was given after his execution.
** Anne's Persona Carmen is constantly smoking a cigar. In the original novella and play, Carmen worked in a tobacco factory and is often depicted as smoking.
* SlasherSmile: They all indulge in this from time to time, especially during all-out attacks.
** [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/megamitensei/images/1/19/S05_chara.png/revision/latest?cb=20150426202735 The protagonist]] has a [[PsychoticSmirk confidant and taunting smirk]] befitting a criminal mastermind.
** [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/megamitensei/images/3/37/P5_key_art_of_Ryuji_Sakamoto.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150918164133 Ryuji]] sports big, toothy shark-grin.
** [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/megamitensei/images/5/51/P5_key_art_of_An_Takamaki.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150918164835 Anne]] goes for the mishchivous and coy look.
** [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/megamitensei/images/b/bc/P5_key_art_of_Morgana.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150918164912 Morgana]] combines her default CatSmile with a DreamworksFace.
** Yusuke doesn't smile much (and his mask also covers his mouth), but when he does it's best described as reserved, but self-assured.
** Makoto doesn't really smile so much as [[KubrickStare stare her opponents down]] with her [[TechnicallyASmile teeth bared]].
** [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/megamitensei/images/6/6c/P5_Sakura_in_combat.png/revision/latest?cb=20160505212801 Futaba's]] smile is cute, cheeky, and more than a bit [[CuteAndPsycho psychotic]].
** [[http://www.siliconera.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/b5366c71_thumb.jpg Haru's]] is refined, classy, and undeniably dangerous.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Their eyes each turn bright gold, like Shadows, when they first awaken to their Personas. Sans Arsène, all of their Personas have golden eyes.
* ThreeAmigos: The initial trio consisting of the hero, Ryuji, and Anne.
* {{Ubermensch}}: They follow their own sense of justice, regardless of society's rules.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Something they all have in common is that they've all lost a place to live before, which might be the reason they became a team in the story.
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: With the exception of Morgana, everyone in the party is a high school student
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->''The show's over.''
-->'''Arcana:''' 0. Le Mat (The Fool)\\
'''Persona:''' [[Literature/ArseneLupin Arsène]]\\
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'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JunFukuyama (JP)
The game's main character, a second-year high school student who is transferred to Shujin High School in Tokyo after being put on probation for assaulting a molester. While he seems meek and passive, this behavior hides the heart of a trickster that eventually leads to him becoming "The Phantom," a notorious GentlemanThief.
His Persona is Arsène, the hero of Maurice Leblanc's ''Literature/ArseneLupin'' novels. One of fiction's most famous thieves, Lupin is the [[TropeCodifier archetypal]] PhantomThief, a [[GentlemanThief gentleman]] who steals [[AntiHero from criminals worse than himself]], both for profit and for the fun of it. As a Persona, Arsène looks like an almost demonic version of the original hero, combining his standard [[SharpDressedMan classy attire]] with massive black wings, long-fingered hands, and a constant CheshireCatGrin, all topped off with red and black attire.
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* AllYourPowersCombined: Like previous protagonists following ''VideoGame/Persona3'', the Phantom has access to the "Wild Card" ability, which allows him to control hundreds of different Personas and increase their power through the bonds he forms with his friends and accomplices.
* BadassInANiceSuit:
** As the Phantom, the Protagonist wears a fancy dress suit.
** His Persona, Arsène, wears a [[ClassyCravat white cravat]], waistcoat, and an oversized top hat.
* BadassLongcoat: As the Phantom, he sports a fancy black longcoat over his [[BadassInANiceSuit nice suit]].
* {{Bishonen}}: The Phantom may be the prettiest ''Persona'' protagonist yet.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: In February 2015, Atlus put out a CutAndPasteNote newspaper ad where the Phantom declared he would crash an upcoming ''Persona'' concert. Sure enough, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxLpadvQOPE near the end of the event,]] the lights were "shot out", and he proceeded to [[StealthPun steal the show]] with ''P5''[='=]s first gameplay trailer.
* CanonName: While he has no [[HelloInsertNameHere static given name]], he does have an official ''nom de guerre'' in "The Phantom". In fact, as with most Atlus games, in promotional material the creators enter his name as "Protagonist".
* CastingAShadow: Arsène naturally has darkness element abilities.
* ClarkKenting: Wears [[PurelyAestheticGlasses glasses]] outside of his "Phantom" identity.
* ClassyCravat: His Persona wears a cravat around its neck, to go with its classy top hat.
* CheshireCatGrin: Arsène is constantly sporting a demonic grin.
* ChickMagnet: The Phantom has the option to date multiple female party members and accomplices. %%confirmed
* CodeName: The Protagonist goes by "Joker" during his criminal activities.
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter:
** The ''P3'' protagonist works for the express purpose of saving the world from Shadows, while the ''P5'' protagonist and his crew are imparting justice on those they believe deserve it.
** The ''P4'' protagonist, Yu Narukami, is a model student who works in secret to help the police solve a series of crimes. He wears his uniform in a casual style, but in contrast, his hair is neatly styled. Meanwhile, the ''P5'' protagonist is a delinquent who ''commits'' crimes. He wears his uniform quite professionally, but his hair is unkempt.
** Previous protagonists generally tend to lean towards swordsmanship. The Phantom is a [[TheGunslinger Gunslinging]] KnifeNut.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Protagonist and his Persona wear black clothing, and Arséne naturally uses darkness spells, but are anti-heroes fighting [[TheHeartless Shadows]] and far worse criminals, rather than outright villains.
* DominoMask: His bird-styled mask covers only his eyes.
* EtTuBrute: After his capture in the prologue, he keeps struggling even when pinned to the ground...but when he's told that he's been sold out (presumably by one of his friends), he gives up.
* {{Expy}}: Game director Katsura Hashino stated the Phantom was based on elements from [[GentlemanThief picaresque]] heroes that include Literature/ArseneLupin, [[Film/K20LegendOfTheMask The Fiend With Twenty Faces]], and UsefulNotes/IshikawaGoemon.
* FlashStep: The Protagonist can jump from place to place at super speed as "The Phantom".
* GeekPhysique: Seems easily winded after a few pull ups among other things.
* GentlemanThief: His "Phantom" identity certainly seems to evoke this, judging by his [[BadassInANiceSuit Nice Suit]], DominoMask, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxLpadvQOPE dramatic performance]] at the ''Night of the Phantom'' event.
* GoodWingsEvilWings: His Persona Arsène sports black angel wings, to match his AntiHero personality.
* {{Handguns}}: His firearm of choice.
* HelloInsertNameHere: Like previous games, the protagonist has no given name other than using "Protagonist" or "Yourself" in previews. His title "The Phantom", however, is static, as is his heist codename "Joker".
* HeroicMime: Downplayed. He's a man of few words, but he does speak every now and then in cutscenes.
--> '''Phantom:''' See ya!
* HornedHumanoid: Arsène has the appearance of a man with two black and red horns coming out of its forehead.
* KnifeNut: Wields knives as a melee weapons, in contrast to most ''Persona'' protagonists, who [[HeroesPreferSwords prefer swords]].
* LargeHam: Dramatically introduced himself at the first ''Persona 5'' gameplay trailer unveiling.
-->'''Phantom:''' [[GratuitousEnglish Welcome to the Night of the Phantom!]]
* MessyHair: He has unkempt, curly black hair.
* NewTransferStudent: Becoming a trend for ''Persona'' protagonists. In this guy's case, he arrives in Tokyo from a small town at the beginning of the game.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: He got arrested in the past for assaulting a molester. And based on a flashback, he didn't so much assault him as much as he was simply trying to pull him away from a woman he was attempting to molest, inadvertently causing the molester to fall over.
* OpaqueLenses: Tying into his meek public personality, the lenses on his glasses sometimes seem to block out his eyes entirely.
* PhantomThief: As the leader of the supernaturally untraceable Phantom Thieves, he gets the title "The Phantom."
* PlayingCardMotifs: His Persona has multiple hearts on its shoulders, and his heist code name is JOKER.
* PsychoticSmirk: He [[http://www.siliconera.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/p5_150623.jpg strikes]] [[http://www.siliconera.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/p5_1506231.jpg these]] [[http://www.siliconera.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/p5_1506233.jpg a lot.]]
* PurelyAestheticGlasses: The protagonist doesn't appear to need the glasses he wears at school, performing heists and firing guns with pinpoint accuracy even when he takes them off as the Phantom.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His eyes are dark gray, but in the stylized red and black scenes they're depicted as bright red. Considering his anti-heroic nature, it's fitting. Arsène actually does have red eyes.
* ShirtlessScene: Doesn't wear a shirt in the training dummy minigame.
* SuperWindowJump: He can be seen jumping straight out of a stained glass window in one scene, perfectly landing on the street stories below.
* TheSlacker: Doesn't seem too invested in class.
* TricksterArchetype: His quiet and docile mask hides a GentlemanThief who is a trickster at heart.
* WaistcoatOfStyle: Arsène, a Persona reflecting the protagonist's stylish GentlemanThief tendencies, wears a black waistcoat.
* WifeBasherBasher: At the start of the story, the protagonist ends up on probation after getting arrested for picking a fight with a man harassing a woman.
* WingedHumanoid: His Persona, Arsène, is a masked man with giant bird wings.
* WolverineClaws: Arsène has metal claws on the ends of each of its fingers.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ryuji Sakamoto]]
!Ryuji Sakamoto / Skull
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Captain Kidd]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_791.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:The First Attacker of the Phantom Thieves]]
->''Freakin' boring!''
-->'''Arcana:''' VII. Le Chariot (The Chariot)\\
'''Persona:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy Captain Kidd]]\\
'''Weapons:''' [[CarryABigStick Bludgeons]] and [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter Shotguns]]\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MamoruMiyano (JP)
A boy from the protagonist's school whose combination of attitude and appearance gives off the air of a delinquent. He's considered a "problem child" at school due to his rude and gruff-mannered speech and behavior, although [[UsedToBeASweetKid it's said he wasn't always this way]]. In fact, he used to be a rather prolific member of his school's Track Club before leaving.
Ryuji's Persona is Captain Kidd - as in William Kidd, a real life Scottish sailor who lived in the 17th and early 18th centuries. After years of sailing, Kidd was arrested in Boston and executed by the British Parliament for five counts of piracy and one act of murder - despite no evidence that Kidd ever did anything illegal, and instead was simply a privateer. Captain Kidd appears as a [[GhostPirate skeletal pirate]], complete with hat, eyepatch, and a miniature boat he triumphantly rides in on.
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* ArmCannon: His Persona Captain Kidd's right arm is a more literal example than most - it appears as an ''actual'' cannon, complete with cannonballs.
* TheBigGuy: His choice of weapons and brutish behavior give off this impression. In trailers, he's seen having the most health in the party.
* ButtMonkey: Seems to be taking on the role of comic relief like Junpei and Yosuke before him. For instance, his unique All-Out Attack finisher has him land face first in a PoseOfSupplication like Yosuke's defeat pose in the ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' duology.
* DelinquentHair: Going by his eyebrows, he's bleached his hair, and his natural hair color is a dark brown.
* DemBones: Besides Ryuji's skull mask, Captain Kidd is a skeleton pirate.
* EyepatchOfPower: Not only does Captain Kidd sport one, the skull on his hat ''also'' has one.
* FunTShirt: Wears one under his blazer, labelled '''''ZOMG!'''''
* GhostPirate: His Persona Captain Kidd is a skeleton pirate.
* HellBentForLeather: His thieving attire is "high-end" biker leathers.
* HiddenDepths: He used to be the ace of the Track and Field club before he changed.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: One of his goals in forming the Phantom Thieves of Hearts is to make their names infamous around the world.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Much like previous [[TheBigGuy Big Guy]] Kanji from ''Persona 4''. Ryuji uses blunt instruments in combat, like pipes.
* JapaneseDelinquents: He fits the mold appearance-wise, with his brightly-dyed hair, punkish attire, and preference for blunt weapons.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite his persistent and rude personality, his heart is in the right place.
* JumpedAtTheCall: It's his idea to start the thief group. Out of the party, he's the one most excited in changing the world.
* NonUniformUniform: Ryuji wears his jacket open and trades off the school turtleneck for a FunTShirt reading "ZOMG!". He also rolls up the cuffs of his uniform pants, has a visible white belt, wears canvas sneaks instead of dress shoes, and discards the suspenders of his uniform, making them hang from his waist.
* NoseArt: Kidd's boat sports a SlasherSmile and angry eyes.
* PipePain: One of the bludgeon weapons he can use appears to be an oversized pipe segment.
* PoisonousFriend: He's described as being a bad influence on the protagonist.
* AProtagonistIsRyu: Interestingly enough, he has a "Ryu" to his name, reinforcing the animal motif but referencing a dragon.
* RecurringElement: Seems to be the latest "best friend" party member, carrying on from [[VideoGame/{{Persona 2}} Eikichi]], [[VideoGame/{{Persona 3}} Junpei]] and [[VideoGame/{{Persona 4}} Yosuke]]. However, his Arcana is Chariot and not Magician, just like [[VideoGame/{{Persona}} Masao]].
* ScaryTeeth: He makes a grin with pointy-looking shark teeth during an All-Out attack.
* ShockAndAwe: Captain Kidd's primary element is lightning.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Ryuji's weapon of choice when ranged weapons are needed in a fight.
* SkullForAHead: His mask makes the upper portion of his head resemble a jawless skull, completing his WholeCostumeReference to Hell Biker.
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: When checking out Anne in a bikini, Ryuji bites down on his Popsicle stick causing it to [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/d2bc6a7558586ca1f7bf5f6bfc10de2b/tumblr_o6pnv1PZCr1uz2482o2_400.gif suddenly rise up]].
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Ryuji's relationship to the Protagonist is that of a "bad influence."
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Supposedly, he wasn't so bad when he was younger.
* WholeCostumeReference: His skull-faced biker outfit borrows heavily from Hell Biker, a RecurringCharacter in the ''[=MegaTen=]'' franchise (who himself is a ShoutOut to ''ComicBook/GhostRider'').
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Anne Takamaki]]
!Anne Takamaki / Panther
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Carmen]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/s06_chara69jsyf.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:The Actress of the Phantom Thieves]]
->''OMG!! We are SO awesome!''
-->'''Arcana:''' VI. L'Amoureux (The Lovers)\\
'''Persona:''' {{Theatre/Carmen}}\\
'''Weapons:''' [[WhipItGood Whips]] and [[MoreDakka Submachine guns]]\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NanaMizuki (JP)
A [[ButNotTooForeign quarter-white]] girl who has lived abroad for much of her life. Due to her "exotic features", strange rumors about her have been circulating. Withdrawn in her daily life, Anne is much livelier and expressive in her thief persona.
Anne's Persona is Carmen, the protagonist of French writer Prosper Mérimée's 19th century novella of the same name, and Georges Bizet's more well known [[Theatre/{{Carmen}} opera adaptation]]. Carmen was a fiery gypsy woman and smuggler who used her exotic features to seduce men for fun and profit, before inevitably becoming bored and dumping them - which eventually leads to one of her jilted lovers, a mentally unstable man, killing her. As a Persona, Carmen wears a PimpedOutDress with fancy rose designs, her face hidden by a panther mask and a cigar always in mouth. Most noticeably, she drags along two lovesick butlers with a vine leash.
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Anne's Persona, Carmen, has red skin.
* ButNotTooForeign: One of her grandparents was American, but she's otherwise entirely Japanese.
* ClassyCatBurglar: Dresses as a rather literal one in her thieving clothes.
* CleavageWindow: Her catsuit has one.
* CigarChomper: Carmen is always seen with a cigar in her mouth.
* FourLeafClover: Has a four-leaf clover on the back of her hoodie, making her stand apart from the rest of the class.
* GirlishPigtails: She wears her hair in twintails, which Carmen mirrors.
* GrewASpine: She is described as restrained in daily life, but lively and energetic in her life as a thief.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: Not a ninja per sé, but wearing a candy apple red catsuit with neon pink gloves (in contrast to her teammates, who wear mostly black) might not be the best choice for someone who calls themselves a thief.
* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: Anne's Persona, Carmen, has one low enough it looks like it should surely expose her breasts.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Carmen's regal, intricately-designed ballgown doesn't impede her from kicking butt.
* LustObject: Is the unfortunate victim of this from the School's Gym Teacher, Kamoshida.
* MegaTwintails: Carmen mirrors Anne's twintails but exaggerates their size.
* MoreDakka: Her firearm of choice is a submachine gun.
* {{Mukokuseki}}: Actually part of her character: she has blonde hair and blue eyes, despite being born in Japan to Japanese parents, due to one of her grandparents being an American. Her foreign features makes her the subject of numerous rumors at the school.
* NonUniformUniform: Anne wears her blazer open. Rather than a regular shirt, she wears a long white hoodie underneath it, with red leggings and brown boots.
* OjouRinglets: Carmen has these, a notable contrast to Anne's own straight hair.
* PimpedOutDress: Carmen rocks an incredibly fancy red and black dress.
* PlayingWithFire: Her Persona can create fireballs in her hands.
* RegalRinglets: Her Persona is quite regal, and sports some [[MegaTwintails massive]] curls.
* SmokingIsCool: Carmen always has a cigar in her mouth. [[ShownTheirWork The original character worked in a tobacco factory, and is often depicted smoking in some capacity]].
* SomethingAboutARose: Carmen's waist is covered in roses like a belt, and she uses the vines from them to drag along two butlers.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The kanji for her first name (杏) can be read as "Anzu", "An", "Ann", "Anne", "Azumi", "Anri", "Kyouji", "Kou", or even "Momo", which led to quite a bit of confusion before the official reading was confirmed to be Ann... until shortly after PV#4 was released, when it was quietly changed to [[http://persona5.jp/character/anne.html Anne]].
* SpyCatsuit: Wears a red leather jumpsuit, complete with a tail even.
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: Implied by her character bio, with her living abroad and returning home only to become the subject of certain distasteful rumors. It's currently unclear how long she's been back in Japan.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Of [[{{VideoGame/Persona2}} Lisa Silverman]], who expresses distaste in her own game about being considered "exotic" because of her ethnicity.
* TheVamp: Somewhat similar to the opera, Carmen's design gives this impression. Besides the story of her origin, she uses vine leashes to carry along two lovestruck male butlers and is constantly smoking on a cigar.
* WhipItGood: Her primary melee weapons are whips.
* {{Zipperiffic}}: Her catsuit has four zippers.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Morgana]]
!Morgana / Mona
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Zorro]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zorro.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:The Pilot of the Phantom Thieves]]
->''Mission Accomplished''
-->'''Arcana:''' I. Le Bateleur (The Magician)\\
'''Persona:''' Franchise/{{Zorro}}\\
'''Weapons:''' [[LethalJokeWeapon Toy Swords]] and [[BratsWithSlingshots Slingshots]]\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/IkueOtani (JP), Creator/CassandraLee (EN)
A mysterious shapeshifting creature with Persona abilities. Morgana has the form and the habits of a cat, but claims not to truly be one. Morgana takes interest in the protagonist after seeing his power and begins to masquerade as his pet house cat, living with and accompanying him everywhere.
Morgana's Persona is Zorro, a [[PulpMagazine pulp]] hero created in the early 20th century by American Johnston [=McCulley=] for his stories [[Franchise/{{Zorro}} of the same name]]. A LovableRogue at heart, Zorro is a swashbuckling defender of the weak who fights against an oppressive regime in Spanish California. As a Persona, Zorro is a top-heavy man with a rapier, cape, and spurs, notably lacking any sort of fox motif the classic hero is well-known for.
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* AmbiguousGender: Morgana has a feminine voice and name, but a masculine Persona. In Japan, she also uses masculine first-person pronouns. The director refers to her with [[http://i.imgur.com/1gZpEwU.jpg male pronouns.]]
* {{Animorphism}}: She can seemingly transform between a normal cat and a [[SuperDeformed cartoonish, humanoid form]].
* BadassAdorable: She's a big-headed, incredibly cute cat who fights alongside the rest of the party.
* BadassArmFold: Makes an attempt at this in her All-Out Attack cut-in portrait and in her artwork above. Somewhat undermined by her adorable little paws.
* BadassesWearBandanas: She wears a yellow bandana around her neck.
* BlowYouAway: Zorro's primary element is Wind.
* ButtMonkey: In the DancingTheme intro, Ryuji picks her up by the scruff of her neck and flings her towards the game's logo. She gets thrown [[RunningGag again]] in the beginning of the third trailer, this time by Anne.
* CallingCard: She suggests leaving one when committing heists.
-->'''Morgana:''' We need a calling card that says, "We will come and take your heart!"
* CatSmile: But of course!
* EarlyBirdCameo: A variation. During September 2015, Morgana briefly hijacked the official in-character ''Persona'' Twitter from [[VideoGame/{{Persona 4}} Teddie]]. She officially became the account host the following May.
* FunnyAnimal: In her humanoid form, she puts on clothes like a bandana and a utility belt, stands on two feet, and exhibits other non-animal behaviors.
* JapanesePronouns: Uses "''wagahai''," an archaic form of 'I', with all the pretentiousness of something like "ore-sama". Likely a reference to the Japanese novel ''Literature/IAmACat'' (in Japanese: ''Wagahai wa Neko de Aru'').
* LoyalAnimalCompanion: She's the protagonist's constant feline companion, stowing away in his bag and accompanying him everywhere, from school to gym to late night video game binges.
* {{Mascot}}: For the game as a whole, similar to Teddie, even getting to succeed him as host of the series official twitter account.
* MentorMascot: Morgana gives info on Persona lore and the Palace to the rest of the group, and gives pointers to the protagonist when he's training / working / studying / etc.
* MascotWithAttitude: In contrast to previous ''Persona'' mascots Morgana has a [[DeadpanSnarker smart mouth]] and enjoys belittling the rest of the team, Ryuji in particular ([[ButtMonkey no surprise there)]].
* MissExposition: She provides most of the information to the party members about Shadows and Personas.
* MysteriousPast: One of the mysteries in ''P5'' is what exactly she is, how and why she has a Persona, and what is her relation with the dungeons.
* MysteriousWaif: She doesn't really look like one, but she fulfills the role of a walking plot device that pretty much kickstarts the plot.
* NonHumanSidekick: Like Teddie and Koromaru before, she's the sole nonhuman member of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts.
* OccultBlueEyes: When appearing as a house cat, her eyes glow a vivid blue, tying into her mysterious, shapeshifting nature. They don't seem to glow at all in her humanoid form.
* RightHandCat: Inverted. She accompanies the Phantom everywhere and is always on hand, but they're the heroes.
* RuleOfFunny: Presumably the only reason her weapons - toy swords and slingshots - aren't grossly ineffective.
* RunningGag: Party members grabbing and throwing her absurdly far distances.
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Has been the greatest source of slapstick humor so far throughout the trailers, though the fact she's ([[AmbiguousGender supposedly]]) a girl is [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] slightly by her being a cartoon-y cat person.
* SeriesMascot: In May 5 2016, she replaced [[VideoGame/{{Persona 4}} Teddie]] as the host of the official ''Persona'' twitter.
* SmokingIsCool: One of the official artworks shows her smoking a cigar.
** She also smokes a cigar in the aftermath of an All-Out Attack
* SuperDeformed: In her humanoid form, she has a giant head that's nearly the size of the rest of her body.
* TokenNonHuman: Like Aigis and Koromaru in ''P3'', or Teddie in ''P4'', she fills the "not-quite-human" position in your crew.
* TopHeavyGuy: In her humanoid form, she has a massive head and a tiny torso. Mirrored with Zorro, who has a muscular upper half and skinny, long legs.
* TwinkleInTheEye: She gets a star-shaped gleam in her eyes when preparing for an All-Out Attack.
* VisualPun: She is a cat that's part of a group of thieves. She's a literal cat burglar.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Not only can she transform into a regular or anthromorphic cat, she can also turn into a car dubbed the Morganamobile!
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yusuke Kitagawa]]
!Yusuke Kitagawa / Fox
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Goemon]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goemon.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:The Artist of the Phantom Thieves]]
-> ''It was fun while it lasted. Goodbye.''
-->'''Arcana:''' IV. L'Empereur (The Emperor)\\
'''Persona:''' [[UsefulNotes/IshikawaGoemon Goemon]]\\
'''Weapons:''' [[KatanasAreJustBetter Katanas]] and Rifles\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomokazuSugita (JP)
A student attending Kousei Public High School as part of the school's art course and currently live-in disciple to a local painter named Madarame. Eccentric and seemingly obsessed with the Thieves, he can be seen painting cryptic graffiti about them in the intro cinematic. At some point, he gains a Persona and joins the crew as a party member.
His Persona is Goemon - UsefulNotes/IshikawaGoemon, a real world {{ninja}} who would [[JustLikeRobinHood steal from the rich to give to the poor]] in 16th century Japan. After a failed assassination on a civil war-era warlord, Goemon and his son were executed. Persona Goemon is dressed in exaggerated classical Japanese attire, complete with massive sandals and garish robes.
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* AnimalMotifs: Foxes. More precisely, his outfit seems modelled on Inari, the Japanese God of Fertility often associated with the animal.
* AscendedFanboy: He seems to be obsessed with these "thieves that steals hearts", as he does graffiti about them. The third ''PV'' trailer implies he follows the news about them through the story, and he gets to join them after awakening his Persona.
* BadassBaritone: Appearances aside, Yusuke in the JP version speaks with a very deep baritone.
* {{Bishonen}}: Yusuke has a graceful demeanor, a well proportioned face, a thin but muscular build, and long hair.
* CulturedBadass: Just as willing to scrap as the other Thieves, and also happens to be an artist in training.
* EarlyBirdCameo: He can be seen in the first trailer for around ''two seconds'' before being properly introduced in the second trailer. The third trailer reveals he's also a Persona user and a party member.
* GrayEyes: He's the only ally with gray eyes, alongside the protagonist.
* IaijutsuPractitioner: Unlike many previous sword-wielders in the series, Yusuke keeps his sword sheathed when not attacking with it.
* AnIcePerson: His Persona, Goemon, can be seen using a single ice attack to take out multiple Shadows in one scene.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Battle footage shows him wielding a hiltless katana as his melee weapon.
* ManInWhite: His school uniform is almost entirely white, in contrast to the Thieves' black blazers. His thief outfit, however, has a white collar but is otherwise all black.
%%* NoCelebretiesWereHarmed: A Japanese artist Utamaro Kitagawa, sharing his surname (with his first name being a pseudonym Utamaro used), profession and background as the live-in pupil to another artist.
* NotSoStoic: He's normally a calm CulturedBadass...until you see his cut-in.
* ParentalAbandonment: Both of his parents are deceased, with him being taken in by the artist Madarame Ooka.
* PeekABangs: Seen from the right angle, his bangs cover his left eye.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Bears more than a passing resemblance to Jun from ''Persona 2''. In [[https://40.media.tumblr.com/2a9cd9ed3ba725843053cceb50ca78a2/tumblr_nuuac7ZhGd1u3ubaso1_1280.jpg another shot from the third trailer]], he even looks like Tatsuya. And of course, in certain shots like the example picture, he's not dissimilar to the ''Persona 3'' protagonist.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: His hair is a deep blue.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Makoto Niijima]]
!Makoto Nijima / Queen
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Chief Operator of the Phantom Thieves]]
->''Justice has prevailed!''
-->'''Arcana:''' II. La Papesse (The Priestess)\\
'''Persona:''' Johanna\\
'''Weapons:''' [[BareFistedMonk Knuckledusters]] and [[RevolversAreJustBetter Revolvers]]\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RinaSato (JP)
The President of Syujin High's student council, a third year high school student known for her rigid morals and sense of responsibility. She's a straight-laced Honors student who can't be compromised with... though once she awakens to her Persona, she seems to have quite a ''bit'' more anger in her about things than she initially lets on. In combat, she utilizes knuckledusters and high-power revolvers, and her Persona doubles as an ethereal motorcycle.
Her Persona is Johanna, a Latin variation of the given name of the apocryphal religious figure, Pope Joan. According to legend, Joan was a talented and learned [[SweetPollyOliver woman who disguised herself as a man to hold a position]] in the [[UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} Catholic Church]] in the UsefulNotes/MiddleAges. Due to her abilities, she rose through the ranks and was even elected [[UsefulNotes/ThePope Pope]], only to be branded a criminal when her true sex was discovered. In Protestant cultures Pope Joan was considered to be the person the ''La Papesse'' tarot card depicted. Interestingly, Makoto's Persona is the only one ''not'' associated with thievery in the traditional sense (beyond "[[MetaphoricallyTrue stealing]]" a role meant for a man), matching her own straight-laced personality. As a Persona, Johanna manifests as a large motorcycle with her face inside a dome on the front of the bike.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The President of the Syujin High school council also happens to be pretty badass.
* BadassBiker: Her Persona, Johanna, doubles as a motorcycle, and she's a skilled fighter.
* BareFistedMonk: Utilizes various kinds of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cestus caesti]] and other fist implements as melee weapons and happens to be the most physical of the thieves in combat.
* BloodKnight: The previews have given the distinct impression that, once she awakens to her Persona, her "real face" as a thief involves acting like this due to her apparent anger at the things wrong with the world. Her combat style is by ''far'' the most distinctly brutal of all the thieves, she is ''very'' eager to fight in her appearances in the 4th trailer, and [[http://i.imgur.com/OOTlPQU.png her spell/critical cut-in]] has the finest DeathGlare the franchise has ever seen.
* CoolBike: Her persona Johanna is a sleek, ethereal motorcycle with a face on the front that she rides in battle.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Dives like she fights: with ''extreme'' aggression ([[http://cdn3.dualshockers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Persona5-10.jpg much to the distress of the rest of the team]]).
%%* GlassCannon: From what we've seen of her (heist) personality and gameplay, she seems to be a heavy offense character. Which is somewhat unusual since the Priestess Arcana is commonly associated with healing and support attributes.
* IronLady: President of Syujin High's student council and a rigid, no-nonsense type of gal. Reflected in her thief costume, decorated with various metal implements.
* ILoveNuclearPower: Uses Frei, which is Nuclear-element, an element not seen since ''Persona 2''.
* MeaningfulName: Her codename is Queen, and she holds the top position in the student council.
* NonUniformUniform: She wears a black WaistcoatOfStyle instead of a blazer.
* ProperTightsWithASkirt: Wears long black leggings with her skirt, and she's a upstanding person.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Has ''bright'' brown eyes that look distinctly red in certain lighting conditions, and her fighting style involves savagely beating the snot out of her opponents. Take extra warning when she lands a critical; those red eyes become [[DeathGlare terrifying]].
* RevolversAreJustBetter: Her firearm specialty is revolvers.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: Wears a long black scarf while in her thief outfit.
* StudentCouncilPresident: She's the head of the student government at Syujin High.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Being a student council president with strong morals and is a biker? Many were reminded of [[{{Persona 3}} Mitsuru Kirijo]].
* WaistcoatOfStyle: She wears a black one as part of her NonUniformUniform.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Futaba Sakura]]
!Futaba Sakura / Navi
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Genius Hacker of the Phantom Thieves]]
->"''Super move! Ultraaaa Charge!''"
-->'''Arcana:''' IX. L'Hermite (The Hermit)\\
'''Persona:''' [[Creator/HPLovecraft Necronomicon]]\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AoiYuuki (JP)
A 15 year old programming prodigy with inhuman coding skills who lives with the Protagonist. Though technically a first year high school student, due to an incident in her recent past she has become an anti-social [[{{Hikkikomori}} shut-in]] and hasn't attended classes since her middle school graduation. Per WordOfGod, she has an critical role in the story.
Her Persona is ''Necronomicon'', the TomeOfEldritchLore from Creator/HPLovecraft's Franchise/CthulhuMythos. Despite its name, Necronomicon takes the appearance of a [[FlyingSaucer UFO]], the {{urban legends}} infamous in rumor and fiction for abducting [[AlienAbduction people]] and [[AliensStealCattle livestock]].
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* CuteAndPsycho: She may look cute like the rest of the squad, but in the 4th trailer, the look on her face when she's summoning her Persona is ''terrifying''.
* FlyingSaucer: Her Persona, Necronomicon, takes the shape of giant circular spacecraft with a gargoyle on top.
* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: Futaba is almost always seen wearing headphones, and she's a known shut-in.
* {{Hikkikomori}}:
** Her storyline centers on her withdrawing from interaction with others after a traumatic incident a year earlier. She spends most of the game learning to overcome her agoraphobia and desire for isolation with the help of the rest of the team.
** Her Persona also reflects her isolationist tendencies, as it's basically a mobile "computer cave" on the inside, and lets her accompany the team while still maintaining distance from the action.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Futaba is a quite a bit shorter than the Phantom and the two of them [[RomanceSidequest can be romantically involved]].
* InnocentCohabitation: Futuba and the Phantom live in the same house after he moves to Tokyo, and you can choose to keep their relationship entirely platonic...[[SubvertedTrope or not]].
* LiteralMetaphor: In its first mention in ''[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos The Hound]]'', the Necronomicon was only described as "something so strange and out-of-place, you knew what it was and what it stood for". Not unlike an Unidentified Flying Object covered in runes.
-->'''Lovecraft:''' Alien it indeed was to all art and literature which sane and balanced readers know, but we recognized it as the thing hinted of in the forbidden Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred; the ghastly soul-symbol of the corpse-eating cult of inaccessible Leng, in Central Asia.
* MeaningfulName: She shares a name with [[ImageBoards Futaba Channel / 2chan]].
* NerdGlasses: She has large, circular glasses that go up to her forehead.
* RedheadsAreUncool: She's a nerdy shut-in with red hair.
* SheCleansUpNicely: The rest of the team is rather impressed how she looks in a swimsuit... after she removes the towel wrapped around her entire face.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Serves as the Navigator once she's recruited, and '''wow''', she is small, especially standing next to the Phantom.
* ShrinkingViolet: As a recovering [[{{Hikkikomori}} shut-in]], she suffers anxiety around others and prefers to wear headphones in public. The protagonist is initially the only person she's comfortable being around, as he already lives with her.
* StatusBuff: Like Rise's Persona in ''VideoGame/Persona4Golden'', Necronomicon seems to grant some buffing to the active party members during battles.
* TronLines: Her thief outfit is sci-fi themed to emphasize that her Persona is based in part on stories featuring aliens.
* WhoWearsShortShorts: Futaba dons a black pair in her casual outfit.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Grade B in her street clothes as seen [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/megamitensei/images/9/95/P5_Futaba_Sakura.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/180?cb=20160511195141 here]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Haru Okumura]]
!Haru Okumura / Noir
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Fair Lady of the Phantom Thieves]]
->''Adieu.''
-->'''Arcana:''' III. L'Imperatrice (The Empress)\\
'''Persona:''' [[Literature/TheThreeMusketeers Milady]]\\
'''Weapons:''' [[AnAxeToGrind Axes]] and [[ThrowDownTheBomblet Grenade Launchers]]\\
'''Voiced by:''' HarukaTomatsu (JP)
A third year high school student and daughter of the president of a large food manufacturer. She is refined and good at communicating with others, but naive to the ways of the world.
Her Persona is ''Milady'', as in Milady de Winter, a spy and thief in Creator/AlexandreDumas' famous 1844 novel ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers''. As a Persona, Milady takes an appearance of a living ball gown with a fan and a domino mask serving as a face, which she holds with her hand. Her dress also hides myriad of firearms beneath it.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Her primary weapon.
* ArchnemesisDad: According to a ''Dengeki UsefulNotes/PlayStation'' article, her father is one of the Phantom Thieves' targets. Given that she's a member of said Phantom Thieves, one assumes this trope is in play.
* BladeOnAStick: Uses halberds as her melee weapons.
* ClassyCravat: Her costume comes with a fancy cravat.
* DelayedCausality: She's able to perform this after using an All-Out Attack, using the pause to set up a MidBattleTeaBreak and taking a sip of the tea just in time for the enemies to start spurting HighPressureBlood.
* TheFace: Befitting her status as the {{Ojou}} she has good communication skills.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: She wears a violet hat and gloves in her thief costume, and is an elegant and refined girl from a wealthy family.
* GratuitousFrench: Seems to favor using French words, with her Heist ID being "Noir" and saying "Adieu" in her All-Out Attack.
* HiddenBuxom: Her cardigan appears to hide a great deal of her bosom, which becomes obvious when she's in her Noir outfit because of its puffier nature.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Her Persona Milady is a living Victorian-style ball gown which hides many firearms inside that it uses to attack. Haru herself doesn't exactly skimp on the clothing budget for her thief outfit, either.
* MoreDakka: Milady hides an absurd amount of firepower underneath that gown.
* NiceHat: Wears a spiffy-looking hat with a large feather in it as part of her thief costume.
* NonIdleRich: She's a rich {{Ojou}} who moonlights as a classy thief, fighting with supernatural powers in order to change her corrupted city.
* NonUniformUniform: She wears a pink sweater in place of the blazer.
* {{Ojou}}: The daughter of a food manufacturing company's president who lives a sophisticated life.
* PinkMeansFeminine: She dons a pink cardigan in her regular outfit, and is a graceful young lady.
* ProperTightsWithASkirt: She wears white, star-patterned tights with her uniform, is the daughter of a bigwig, and has a prim personality.
* PsychicPowers: Milady can be seen using Mapsydyne, a psychic skill.
* PostMortemOneLiner: "Adieu."
* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: Downplayed. Haru is naive about how the world normally works so she's seen as eccentric by others.
* SmallGirlBigGun: This dainty little lady wields the largest, and ''loudest'', weapons out of the entire crew.
* TheSouthpaw: So far, in concept art and battle gameplay, she's been shown to hold her melee weapon in her left hand. Milady also holds her fan with the left hand.
* SpoiledSweet: Despite her naivety, she has a good heart and a strong moral compass, to the point of awakening her Persona in order to stop her own father.
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Uses grenade launchers in combat.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Goro Akechi]]
!Goro Akechi / Crow
-->'''Arcana:''' ???\\
'''Persona:''' ???\\
'''Weapons:''' ???\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SoichiroHoshi (JP)
The 9th and apparently final member of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts. Goro is a teenage detective who initially tracks the Phantom Theives, before joining the group to bring the criminals the thieves have been in conflict with to justice.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Tends to be obsessed with the Phantom Thieves to a fanboy-ish degree. He also has a tendency to ramble, before apologizing and getting back on topic.
* {{Bishonen}}: Goro has slender features and shoulder length hair, giving him an attractive, slightly androgynous appearance.
* ChickMagnet: He apparently has quite the fanbase in law enforcement, particularly among the younger female members.
* {{Foil}}: Seems to be billed as this to the Protagonist.
** Also to [[VideoGame/Persona4 Naoto Shirogane]] from the previous game. Both are well-known [[GreatDetective Great Detectives]], but Naoto is noticeably more introverted and focused. Goro, on the other hand, seems to be a bit of a celebrity, appearing in several talk shows and has his own in-universe fangirls.
* GreatDetective: He's a teenage detective who's initially after infamous Tokyo thieves and later the criminal conspiracy the thieves have been targeting.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Calls himself an "insignificant high-school student" on public TV.
* MeaningfulName: He's named after Kogoro Akechi, a famous Japanese {{Expy}} of Franchise/SherlockHolmes created by novelist Edogawa Ranpo in 1925.
* SharpDressedMan: He looks to be a very well dressed young man.
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Played with. While he's on the games cover and has appeared in streams and promotion, Goro has been noticeably absent from much of the direct publicity material (most obviously the trailers) and doesn't seem to be in the OP. Considering his role, this is likely to avoid potential plot developments being spoiled before release.
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: He starts as a detective trying to capture the Phantom Thieves, before joining them to fight TheConspiracy they stumbled upon.
* SixthRanger: Is the last character to join the team.
[[/folder]]
!The Phantom Thieves of Hearts
[[folder:In General]]
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[[caption-width-right:349:The Phantom Thieves.[[labelnote:*]]Counter-Clockwise from the bottom: [[TheHero The Phantom]], [[LoyalAnimalCompanion Morgana]], [[ButNotTooForeign Anne Takamaki]], [[CulturedBadass Yusuke Kitagawa]], [[{{Hikikomori}} Futaba Sakura]], [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Arsène]], [[GreatDetective Goro Akechi]], [[{{Ojou}} Haru Okumura]], [[StudentCouncilPresident Makoto Nijima]], [[JapaneseDelinquents Ryuji Sakamoto]]. [[/labelnote]]]]
The main heroes of ''Persona 5'', the Phantom Thieves of Hearts are high schoolers ([[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and a cat]]) in [[UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}} Shibuya]] out to [[InternalReformist rid the world of evil]] by "stealing the hearts" of corrupt members of society. Their Personas are styled after various {{picaresque}} heroes, both fictional and real.
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* AnimalMotifs: the Protagonist, Anne and Yusuke have bird, panther and fox Persona masks. Further, Anne, Yusuke and Akechi have the heist codenames Panther, Fox and Crow.
* AntiHeroTeam: A group of teenage criminals who use the collective unconscious to force HeelFaceBrainwashing on the corrupt by destroying the embodiments of their sinful hearts.
* TheAtoner: Part of the reason they become thieves is to atone for past mistakes.
* BadassCrew: Shadow-slaying, gun-slinging, heart-stealing thieves.
* BeneathTheMask: It's a series with Jungian psychology as the central theme - what else would you expect?
** The protagonist's public persona gives way to a suave, confident attitude when he's the Phantom. ''Both'' of these masks crack when he's [[EpiphanicPrison imprisoned in the Velvet Room]], as he freaks out and rattles the bars of his cell.
** Anne starts uninterested in her day-to-day life - it's only when she's performing her thieving antics she lets herself be energetic and free.
** Futuba's shut-in public personality hides a CuteAndPsycho private personality she shows online and eventually to her friends, starting with the protagonist.
* CodeNames: Each of the human party members seems to have an ascribed alias when moonlighting as the Phantom Thieves.
* ColorCodedCharacters: Each protagonist wears different-colored gloves in their thief alter-egos -- The Protagonist's gloves are red, Ryuji's are yellow, Anne's are pink, Yusuke's are blue, Makoto's are white, Futaba's are green, Haru's are purple, and Goro's are black.
* CombatStilettos:
** Carmen wears high heels, matching the rest of her fancy attire.
** Arsène has ''knives for stilts'', which reach way past the shoes' soles. They're not just for show: he uses them in his attack animations.
* CoolMask: The party's main Persona each become a mask the thieves wear, and most have masks of their own.
** Arsène becomes a bird mask, and his own "face" is a semi-transparent horned mask.
** Carmen becomes a red panther mask that she herself also wears.
** Captain Kidd becomes a skull mask, matching the skull that serves as his head.
** Zorro becomes the black bandana he wears on his own face.
** Goemon becomes a traditional Japanese fox mask, and wears an armored facemask of his own that leaves his mouth and hair exposed.
** Necronomicon becomes a pair of NightVisionGoggles that look like giant alien eyes.
** Johanna becomes a metal mask, and Johanna's own face is a feminine mask on the front of the bike that serves as her body.
** Milady becomes a black domino mask, and uses a ball gown mask for her "head".
* {{Delinquent}}: All of them beside [[NonHumanSidekick Morgana]] are high school students who moonlight as criminals. Ryuji and Anne also have the standard looks down when attending school.
* {{Escapism}}: It's implied that their cat burglar antics are their way of getting away from the stress and boredom of everyday life.
* {{Fanservice}}: During a trip to the beach, the all rather in shape thieves don swimsuits, allowing for a WalkingShirtlessScene / WalkingSwimsuitScene.
* FiringOneHanded: Anne and the protagonist both fire their guns with only a single hand.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Ryuji and Yusuke have real people as their Personas - William Kidd and Goemon, respectively. Note that Makoto, despite appearances, does ''not'' - Pope Joan is not a historical person, and the historical John VIII was nothing like the legend.
* InstantCostumeChange: It's shown in a trailer that awakening to Arsène changes the Protagonist's school uniform to his Phantom Thief outfit, and the same can be assumed for rest.
* InternalReformist: They wish to reform their world by stealing the hearts of "corrupt" people.
* {{Irony}}:
** Morgana's Persona is Zorro, a famous rogue who's well-known for his fox [[AnimalMotifs Animal Motif]]. Morgana is a ''cat''.
** Despite being a criminal who wishes to escape the chains of society, the protagonist actually finds wearing his high school's uniform to code rather stylish.
* {{Lovable Rogue}}s: They may be thieves, but that doesn't mean they're bad people. In fact, according to an interview, their goal is to go inside the other world in order to steal the hearts of "bad" people.
* MaskOfPower: They don {{Cool Mask}}s when going into dungeons, similar to the heroes of ''P4'' donning SpecsOfAwesome in the TV world.
* TheMole: While the truth has yet to be revealed, the trailers for the game and the beginning heavily imply that one of the members turns traitor. Who and why is up to speculation however.
* MorphicResonance: [[PlayingWithATrope While there's no transformation involved]], most of the party's other selves still mirror them in appearance in some way:
** Arsène shares the protagonist's penchant for classy attire and black and red color scheme. Tying into the mask motif, Arsène looks to have a mask for a face.
** Carmen has twintails like Anne, but makes them [[MegaTwintails much larger]]. She also wears a panther mask, copying Anne's [[AnimalMotifs cat motif]].
** The NoseArt on Captain Kidd's boat mirrors Ryuji's own [[ScaryTeeth razor sharp teeth]] in his All-Out Attack portrait, and Ryuji's skull mask obviously references Captain Kidd being a skeleton.
** Both Morgana and Zorro are comically [[TopHeavyGuy top heavy]]. In a more traditional shapeshifting example, Morgana, naturally, shares her fur color and patterns between her humanoid and house cat forms. Less noticeably, her house cat collar is the same yellow as the bandana she wears in her other form.
* TheMusketeer: All party members can switch between melee weapons and firearms, in a return to the combat system of ''Persona 1'' and its ''SMT'' ancestors.
* NiceHat:
** Arsène wears an extremely tall metallic top hat.
** Captain Kidd wears a standard pirate hat.
** Haru wears a fancy musketeer hat.
* {{Outlaw}}: they are all this but special mention to Phantom.
* PhantomThief: They're collectively known as "The Phantom Thieves of Hearts", and for good reason: their ability to travel into the collective unconscious makes them untraceable by conventional security measures and law-enforcement.
* PostMortemOneLiner: Depending on who's attack prompted an All-Out Attack, the character will pose in the aftermath.
** PlayerCharacter/Joker: '''THE SHOW'S OVER'''
** Ryuji Sakamoto: '''FREAKIN' BORING'''
** Anne Takamaki: ''OMG!! We are SO awesome!''
** Morgana: '''MISSION ACCOMPLISHED'''
** Yusuke Kitagawa: '''IT WAS FUN WHILE IT LASTED, GOODBYE'''
** Makoto Niijima: '''JUSTICE HAS PREVAILED.'''
** Haru Okumura: ''Adieu''
* PublicDomainCharacter: The protagonist, Anne, Morgana, Makoto, Haru and Futuba all have classical characters as their Personas - Arsène Lupin, Carmen, Zorro, Johanna/Pope Joan[[note]]who doesn't have a confirmed creator - it's arguably between Jean de Mailly and Martin of Opava, but even de Mailly may have culled it from elsewhere[[/note]], Milady de Winter and Creator/HPLovecraft's Necronomicon respectively.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The thieves are a bunch of high school students (and a cat), that include a boy on probation for assault, a self-styled {{Japanese Delinquent|s}}, a girl who's spent most of her life abroad, a painter's apprentice, a recovering {{Hikikomori}}, the StudentCouncilPresident, an [[{{Ojou}} eccentric rich girl]], a teenage GreatDetective, and, again, a cat. Not the best material for becoming famous [[PhantomThief Phantom Thieves]] or fighting a well-funded criminal conspiracy.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Downplayed. The Shujin School uniform is black and red, and all of the party's thieving outfits and Personas have red and/or black on them.
* SecondYearProtagonist: The Phantom, Ryuji and Anne are second years at Shujin High, as is Yusuke at Kousei Public High. Futaba is a first year while Makoto and Haru are Third Years.
* SecretIdentity: High school students by day, picaresque heroes by night.
* ShownTheirWork:
** Yusuke's Persona, Goemon, has "Ixicava" written on his clothes, a nod to the inaccurate transcribing of "Ixicava Goyemon" his name was given after his execution.
** Anne's Persona Carmen is constantly smoking a cigar. In the original novella and play, Carmen worked in a tobacco factory and is often depicted as smoking.
* SlasherSmile: They all indulge in this from time to time, especially during all-out attacks.
** [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/megamitensei/images/1/19/S05_chara.png/revision/latest?cb=20150426202735 The protagonist]] has a [[PsychoticSmirk confidant and taunting smirk]] befitting a criminal mastermind.
** [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/megamitensei/images/3/37/P5_key_art_of_Ryuji_Sakamoto.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150918164133 Ryuji]] sports big, toothy shark-grin.
** [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/megamitensei/images/5/51/P5_key_art_of_An_Takamaki.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150918164835 Anne]] goes for the mishchivous and coy look.
** [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/megamitensei/images/b/bc/P5_key_art_of_Morgana.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150918164912 Morgana]] combines her default CatSmile with a DreamworksFace.
** Yusuke doesn't smile much (and his mask also covers his mouth), but when he does it's best described as reserved, but self-assured.
** Makoto doesn't really smile so much as [[KubrickStare stare her opponents down]] with her [[TechnicallyASmile teeth bared]].
** [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/megamitensei/images/6/6c/P5_Sakura_in_combat.png/revision/latest?cb=20160505212801 Futaba's]] smile is cute, cheeky, and more than a bit [[CuteAndPsycho psychotic]].
** [[http://www.siliconera.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/b5366c71_thumb.jpg Haru's]] is refined, classy, and undeniably dangerous.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Their eyes each turn bright gold, like Shadows, when they first awaken to their Personas. Sans Arsène, all of their Personas have golden eyes.
* ThreeAmigos: The initial trio consisting of the hero, Ryuji, and Anne.
* {{Ubermensch}}: They follow their own sense of justice, regardless of society's rules.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Something they all have in common is that they've all lost a place to live before, which might be the reason they became a team in the story.
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: With the exception of Morgana, everyone in the party is a high school student
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Phantom]]
!The Protagonist / The Phantom / Joker
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[[caption-width-right:350: ''The Leader of the Phantom Thieves'']]
->''The show's over.''
-->'''Arcana:''' 0. Le Mat (The Fool)\\
'''Persona:''' [[Literature/ArseneLupin Arsène]]\\
'''Weapons:''' [[KnifeNut Knives]] and {{Handguns}}\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JunFukuyama (JP)
The game's main character, a second-year high school student who is transferred to Shujin High School in Tokyo after being put on probation for assaulting a molester. While he seems meek and passive, this behavior hides the heart of a trickster that eventually leads to him becoming "The Phantom," a notorious GentlemanThief.
His Persona is Arsène, the hero of Maurice Leblanc's ''Literature/ArseneLupin'' novels. One of fiction's most famous thieves, Lupin is the [[TropeCodifier archetypal]] PhantomThief, a [[GentlemanThief gentleman]] who steals [[AntiHero from criminals worse than himself]], both for profit and for the fun of it. As a Persona, Arsène looks like an almost demonic version of the original hero, combining his standard [[SharpDressedMan classy attire]] with massive black wings, long-fingered hands, and a constant CheshireCatGrin, all topped off with red and black attire.
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* AllYourPowersCombined: Like previous protagonists following ''VideoGame/Persona3'', the Phantom has access to the "Wild Card" ability, which allows him to control hundreds of different Personas and increase their power through the bonds he forms with his friends and accomplices.
* BadassInANiceSuit:
** As the Phantom, the Protagonist wears a fancy dress suit.
** His Persona, Arsène, wears a [[ClassyCravat white cravat]], waistcoat, and an oversized top hat.
* BadassLongcoat: As the Phantom, he sports a fancy black longcoat over his [[BadassInANiceSuit nice suit]].
* {{Bishonen}}: The Phantom may be the prettiest ''Persona'' protagonist yet.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: In February 2015, Atlus put out a CutAndPasteNote newspaper ad where the Phantom declared he would crash an upcoming ''Persona'' concert. Sure enough, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxLpadvQOPE near the end of the event,]] the lights were "shot out", and he proceeded to [[StealthPun steal the show]] with ''P5''[='=]s first gameplay trailer.
* CanonName: While he has no [[HelloInsertNameHere static given name]], he does have an official ''nom de guerre'' in "The Phantom". In fact, as with most Atlus games, in promotional material the creators enter his name as "Protagonist".
* CastingAShadow: Arsène naturally has darkness element abilities.
* ClarkKenting: Wears [[PurelyAestheticGlasses glasses]] outside of his "Phantom" identity.
* ClassyCravat: His Persona wears a cravat around its neck, to go with its classy top hat.
* CheshireCatGrin: Arsène is constantly sporting a demonic grin.
* ChickMagnet: The Phantom has the option to date multiple female party members and accomplices. %%confirmed
* CodeName: The Protagonist goes by "Joker" during his criminal activities.
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter:
** The ''P3'' protagonist works for the express purpose of saving the world from Shadows, while the ''P5'' protagonist and his crew are imparting justice on those they believe deserve it.
** The ''P4'' protagonist, Yu Narukami, is a model student who works in secret to help the police solve a series of crimes. He wears his uniform in a casual style, but in contrast, his hair is neatly styled. Meanwhile, the ''P5'' protagonist is a delinquent who ''commits'' crimes. He wears his uniform quite professionally, but his hair is unkempt.
** Previous protagonists generally tend to lean towards swordsmanship. The Phantom is a [[TheGunslinger Gunslinging]] KnifeNut.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Protagonist and his Persona wear black clothing, and Arséne naturally uses darkness spells, but are anti-heroes fighting [[TheHeartless Shadows]] and far worse criminals, rather than outright villains.
* DominoMask: His bird-styled mask covers only his eyes.
* EtTuBrute: After his capture in the prologue, he keeps struggling even when pinned to the ground...but when he's told that he's been sold out (presumably by one of his friends), he gives up.
* {{Expy}}: Game director Katsura Hashino stated the Phantom was based on elements from [[GentlemanThief picaresque]] heroes that include Literature/ArseneLupin, [[Film/K20LegendOfTheMask The Fiend With Twenty Faces]], and UsefulNotes/IshikawaGoemon.
* FlashStep: The Protagonist can jump from place to place at super speed as "The Phantom".
* GeekPhysique: Seems easily winded after a few pull ups among other things.
* GentlemanThief: His "Phantom" identity certainly seems to evoke this, judging by his [[BadassInANiceSuit Nice Suit]], DominoMask, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxLpadvQOPE dramatic performance]] at the ''Night of the Phantom'' event.
* GoodWingsEvilWings: His Persona Arsène sports black angel wings, to match his AntiHero personality.
* {{Handguns}}: His firearm of choice.
* HelloInsertNameHere: Like previous games, the protagonist has no given name other than using "Protagonist" or "Yourself" in previews. His title "The Phantom", however, is static, as is his heist codename "Joker".
* HeroicMime: Downplayed. He's a man of few words, but he does speak every now and then in cutscenes.
--> '''Phantom:''' See ya!
* HornedHumanoid: Arsène has the appearance of a man with two black and red horns coming out of its forehead.
* KnifeNut: Wields knives as a melee weapons, in contrast to most ''Persona'' protagonists, who [[HeroesPreferSwords prefer swords]].
* LargeHam: Dramatically introduced himself at the first ''Persona 5'' gameplay trailer unveiling.
-->'''Phantom:''' [[GratuitousEnglish Welcome to the Night of the Phantom!]]
* MessyHair: He has unkempt, curly black hair.
* NewTransferStudent: Becoming a trend for ''Persona'' protagonists. In this guy's case, he arrives in Tokyo from a small town at the beginning of the game.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: He got arrested in the past for assaulting a molester. And based on a flashback, he didn't so much assault him as much as he was simply trying to pull him away from a woman he was attempting to molest, inadvertently causing the molester to fall over.
* OpaqueLenses: Tying into his meek public personality, the lenses on his glasses sometimes seem to block out his eyes entirely.
* PhantomThief: As the leader of the supernaturally untraceable Phantom Thieves, he gets the title "The Phantom."
* PlayingCardMotifs: His Persona has multiple hearts on its shoulders, and his heist code name is JOKER.
* PsychoticSmirk: He [[http://www.siliconera.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/p5_150623.jpg strikes]] [[http://www.siliconera.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/p5_1506231.jpg these]] [[http://www.siliconera.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/p5_1506233.jpg a lot.]]
* PurelyAestheticGlasses: The protagonist doesn't appear to need the glasses he wears at school, performing heists and firing guns with pinpoint accuracy even when he takes them off as the Phantom.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His eyes are dark gray, but in the stylized red and black scenes they're depicted as bright red. Considering his anti-heroic nature, it's fitting. Arsène actually does have red eyes.
* ShirtlessScene: Doesn't wear a shirt in the training dummy minigame.
* SuperWindowJump: He can be seen jumping straight out of a stained glass window in one scene, perfectly landing on the street stories below.
* TheSlacker: Doesn't seem too invested in class.
* TricksterArchetype: His quiet and docile mask hides a GentlemanThief who is a trickster at heart.
* WaistcoatOfStyle: Arsène, a Persona reflecting the protagonist's stylish GentlemanThief tendencies, wears a black waistcoat.
* WifeBasherBasher: At the start of the story, the protagonist ends up on probation after getting arrested for picking a fight with a man harassing a woman.
* WingedHumanoid: His Persona, Arsène, is a masked man with giant bird wings.
* WolverineClaws: Arsène has metal claws on the ends of each of its fingers.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ryuji Sakamoto]]
!Ryuji Sakamoto / Skull
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Captain Kidd]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_791.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:The First Attacker of the Phantom Thieves]]
->''Freakin' boring!''
-->'''Arcana:''' VII. Le Chariot (The Chariot)\\
'''Persona:''' [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy Captain Kidd]]\\
'''Weapons:''' [[CarryABigStick Bludgeons]] and [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter Shotguns]]\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MamoruMiyano (JP)
A boy from the protagonist's school whose combination of attitude and appearance gives off the air of a delinquent. He's considered a "problem child" at school due to his rude and gruff-mannered speech and behavior, although [[UsedToBeASweetKid it's said he wasn't always this way]]. In fact, he used to be a rather prolific member of his school's Track Club before leaving.
Ryuji's Persona is Captain Kidd - as in William Kidd, a real life Scottish sailor who lived in the 17th and early 18th centuries. After years of sailing, Kidd was arrested in Boston and executed by the British Parliament for five counts of piracy and one act of murder - despite no evidence that Kidd ever did anything illegal, and instead was simply a privateer. Captain Kidd appears as a [[GhostPirate skeletal pirate]], complete with hat, eyepatch, and a miniature boat he triumphantly rides in on.
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* ArmCannon: His Persona Captain Kidd's right arm is a more literal example than most - it appears as an ''actual'' cannon, complete with cannonballs.
* TheBigGuy: His choice of weapons and brutish behavior give off this impression. In trailers, he's seen having the most health in the party.
* ButtMonkey: Seems to be taking on the role of comic relief like Junpei and Yosuke before him. For instance, his unique All-Out Attack finisher has him land face first in a PoseOfSupplication like Yosuke's defeat pose in the ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' duology.
* DelinquentHair: Going by his eyebrows, he's bleached his hair, and his natural hair color is a dark brown.
* DemBones: Besides Ryuji's skull mask, Captain Kidd is a skeleton pirate.
* EyepatchOfPower: Not only does Captain Kidd sport one, the skull on his hat ''also'' has one.
* FunTShirt: Wears one under his blazer, labelled '''''ZOMG!'''''
* GhostPirate: His Persona Captain Kidd is a skeleton pirate.
* HellBentForLeather: His thieving attire is "high-end" biker leathers.
* HiddenDepths: He used to be the ace of the Track and Field club before he changed.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: One of his goals in forming the Phantom Thieves of Hearts is to make their names infamous around the world.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Much like previous [[TheBigGuy Big Guy]] Kanji from ''Persona 4''. Ryuji uses blunt instruments in combat, like pipes.
* JapaneseDelinquents: He fits the mold appearance-wise, with his brightly-dyed hair, punkish attire, and preference for blunt weapons.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite his persistent and rude personality, his heart is in the right place.
* JumpedAtTheCall: It's his idea to start the thief group. Out of the party, he's the one most excited in changing the world.
* NonUniformUniform: Ryuji wears his jacket open and trades off the school turtleneck for a FunTShirt reading "ZOMG!". He also rolls up the cuffs of his uniform pants, has a visible white belt, wears canvas sneaks instead of dress shoes, and discards the suspenders of his uniform, making them hang from his waist.
* NoseArt: Kidd's boat sports a SlasherSmile and angry eyes.
* PipePain: One of the bludgeon weapons he can use appears to be an oversized pipe segment.
* PoisonousFriend: He's described as being a bad influence on the protagonist.
* AProtagonistIsRyu: Interestingly enough, he has a "Ryu" to his name, reinforcing the animal motif but referencing a dragon.
* RecurringElement: Seems to be the latest "best friend" party member, carrying on from [[VideoGame/{{Persona 2}} Eikichi]], [[VideoGame/{{Persona 3}} Junpei]] and [[VideoGame/{{Persona 4}} Yosuke]]. However, his Arcana is Chariot and not Magician, just like [[VideoGame/{{Persona}} Masao]].
* ScaryTeeth: He makes a grin with pointy-looking shark teeth during an All-Out attack.
* ShockAndAwe: Captain Kidd's primary element is lightning.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Ryuji's weapon of choice when ranged weapons are needed in a fight.
* SkullForAHead: His mask makes the upper portion of his head resemble a jawless skull, completing his WholeCostumeReference to Hell Biker.
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: When checking out Anne in a bikini, Ryuji bites down on his Popsicle stick causing it to [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/d2bc6a7558586ca1f7bf5f6bfc10de2b/tumblr_o6pnv1PZCr1uz2482o2_400.gif suddenly rise up]].
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Ryuji's relationship to the Protagonist is that of a "bad influence."
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Supposedly, he wasn't so bad when he was younger.
* WholeCostumeReference: His skull-faced biker outfit borrows heavily from Hell Biker, a RecurringCharacter in the ''[=MegaTen=]'' franchise (who himself is a ShoutOut to ''ComicBook/GhostRider'').
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Anne Takamaki]]
!Anne Takamaki / Panther
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Carmen]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/s06_chara69jsyf.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:The Actress of the Phantom Thieves]]
->''OMG!! We are SO awesome!''
-->'''Arcana:''' VI. L'Amoureux (The Lovers)\\
'''Persona:''' {{Theatre/Carmen}}\\
'''Weapons:''' [[WhipItGood Whips]] and [[MoreDakka Submachine guns]]\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NanaMizuki (JP)
A [[ButNotTooForeign quarter-white]] girl who has lived abroad for much of her life. Due to her "exotic features", strange rumors about her have been circulating. Withdrawn in her daily life, Anne is much livelier and expressive in her thief persona.
Anne's Persona is Carmen, the protagonist of French writer Prosper Mérimée's 19th century novella of the same name, and Georges Bizet's more well known [[Theatre/{{Carmen}} opera adaptation]]. Carmen was a fiery gypsy woman and smuggler who used her exotic features to seduce men for fun and profit, before inevitably becoming bored and dumping them - which eventually leads to one of her jilted lovers, a mentally unstable man, killing her. As a Persona, Carmen wears a PimpedOutDress with fancy rose designs, her face hidden by a panther mask and a cigar always in mouth. Most noticeably, she drags along two lovesick butlers with a vine leash.
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Anne's Persona, Carmen, has red skin.
* ButNotTooForeign: One of her grandparents was American, but she's otherwise entirely Japanese.
* ClassyCatBurglar: Dresses as a rather literal one in her thieving clothes.
* CleavageWindow: Her catsuit has one.
* CigarChomper: Carmen is always seen with a cigar in her mouth.
* FourLeafClover: Has a four-leaf clover on the back of her hoodie, making her stand apart from the rest of the class.
* GirlishPigtails: She wears her hair in twintails, which Carmen mirrors.
* GrewASpine: She is described as restrained in daily life, but lively and energetic in her life as a thief.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: Not a ninja per sé, but wearing a candy apple red catsuit with neon pink gloves (in contrast to her teammates, who wear mostly black) might not be the best choice for someone who calls themselves a thief.
* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: Anne's Persona, Carmen, has one low enough it looks like it should surely expose her breasts.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Carmen's regal, intricately-designed ballgown doesn't impede her from kicking butt.
* LustObject: Is the unfortunate victim of this from the School's Gym Teacher, Kamoshida.
* MegaTwintails: Carmen mirrors Anne's twintails but exaggerates their size.
* MoreDakka: Her firearm of choice is a submachine gun.
* {{Mukokuseki}}: Actually part of her character: she has blonde hair and blue eyes, despite being born in Japan to Japanese parents, due to one of her grandparents being an American. Her foreign features makes her the subject of numerous rumors at the school.
* NonUniformUniform: Anne wears her blazer open. Rather than a regular shirt, she wears a long white hoodie underneath it, with red leggings and brown boots.
* OjouRinglets: Carmen has these, a notable contrast to Anne's own straight hair.
* PimpedOutDress: Carmen rocks an incredibly fancy red and black dress.
* PlayingWithFire: Her Persona can create fireballs in her hands.
* RegalRinglets: Her Persona is quite regal, and sports some [[MegaTwintails massive]] curls.
* SmokingIsCool: Carmen always has a cigar in her mouth. [[ShownTheirWork The original character worked in a tobacco factory, and is often depicted smoking in some capacity]].
* SomethingAboutARose: Carmen's waist is covered in roses like a belt, and she uses the vines from them to drag along two butlers.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The kanji for her first name (杏) can be read as "Anzu", "An", "Ann", "Anne", "Azumi", "Anri", "Kyouji", "Kou", or even "Momo", which led to quite a bit of confusion before the official reading was confirmed to be Ann... until shortly after PV#4 was released, when it was quietly changed to [[http://persona5.jp/character/anne.html Anne]].
* SpyCatsuit: Wears a red leather jumpsuit, complete with a tail even.
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: Implied by her character bio, with her living abroad and returning home only to become the subject of certain distasteful rumors. It's currently unclear how long she's been back in Japan.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Of [[{{VideoGame/Persona2}} Lisa Silverman]], who expresses distaste in her own game about being considered "exotic" because of her ethnicity.
* TheVamp: Somewhat similar to the opera, Carmen's design gives this impression. Besides the story of her origin, she uses vine leashes to carry along two lovestruck male butlers and is constantly smoking on a cigar.
* WhipItGood: Her primary melee weapons are whips.
* {{Zipperiffic}}: Her catsuit has four zippers.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Morgana]]
!Morgana / Mona
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Zorro]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zorro.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:The Pilot of the Phantom Thieves]]
->''Mission Accomplished''
-->'''Arcana:''' I. Le Bateleur (The Magician)\\
'''Persona:''' Franchise/{{Zorro}}\\
'''Weapons:''' [[LethalJokeWeapon Toy Swords]] and [[BratsWithSlingshots Slingshots]]\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/IkueOtani (JP), Creator/CassandraLee (EN)
A mysterious shapeshifting creature with Persona abilities. Morgana has the form and the habits of a cat, but claims not to truly be one. Morgana takes interest in the protagonist after seeing his power and begins to masquerade as his pet house cat, living with and accompanying him everywhere.
Morgana's Persona is Zorro, a [[PulpMagazine pulp]] hero created in the early 20th century by American Johnston [=McCulley=] for his stories [[Franchise/{{Zorro}} of the same name]]. A LovableRogue at heart, Zorro is a swashbuckling defender of the weak who fights against an oppressive regime in Spanish California. As a Persona, Zorro is a top-heavy man with a rapier, cape, and spurs, notably lacking any sort of fox motif the classic hero is well-known for.
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* AmbiguousGender: Morgana has a feminine voice and name, but a masculine Persona. In Japan, she also uses masculine first-person pronouns. The director refers to her with [[http://i.imgur.com/1gZpEwU.jpg male pronouns.]]
* {{Animorphism}}: She can seemingly transform between a normal cat and a [[SuperDeformed cartoonish, humanoid form]].
* BadassAdorable: She's a big-headed, incredibly cute cat who fights alongside the rest of the party.
* BadassArmFold: Makes an attempt at this in her All-Out Attack cut-in portrait and in her artwork above. Somewhat undermined by her adorable little paws.
* BadassesWearBandanas: She wears a yellow bandana around her neck.
* BlowYouAway: Zorro's primary element is Wind.
* ButtMonkey: In the DancingTheme intro, Ryuji picks her up by the scruff of her neck and flings her towards the game's logo. She gets thrown [[RunningGag again]] in the beginning of the third trailer, this time by Anne.
* CallingCard: She suggests leaving one when committing heists.
-->'''Morgana:''' We need a calling card that says, "We will come and take your heart!"
* CatSmile: But of course!
* EarlyBirdCameo: A variation. During September 2015, Morgana briefly hijacked the official in-character ''Persona'' Twitter from [[VideoGame/{{Persona 4}} Teddie]]. She officially became the account host the following May.
* FunnyAnimal: In her humanoid form, she puts on clothes like a bandana and a utility belt, stands on two feet, and exhibits other non-animal behaviors.
* JapanesePronouns: Uses "''wagahai''," an archaic form of 'I', with all the pretentiousness of something like "ore-sama". Likely a reference to the Japanese novel ''Literature/IAmACat'' (in Japanese: ''Wagahai wa Neko de Aru'').
* LoyalAnimalCompanion: She's the protagonist's constant feline companion, stowing away in his bag and accompanying him everywhere, from school to gym to late night video game binges.
* {{Mascot}}: For the game as a whole, similar to Teddie, even getting to succeed him as host of the series official twitter account.
* MentorMascot: Morgana gives info on Persona lore and the Palace to the rest of the group, and gives pointers to the protagonist when he's training / working / studying / etc.
* MascotWithAttitude: In contrast to previous ''Persona'' mascots Morgana has a [[DeadpanSnarker smart mouth]] and enjoys belittling the rest of the team, Ryuji in particular ([[ButtMonkey no surprise there)]].
* MissExposition: She provides most of the information to the party members about Shadows and Personas.
* MysteriousPast: One of the mysteries in ''P5'' is what exactly she is, how and why she has a Persona, and what is her relation with the dungeons.
* MysteriousWaif: She doesn't really look like one, but she fulfills the role of a walking plot device that pretty much kickstarts the plot.
* NonHumanSidekick: Like Teddie and Koromaru before, she's the sole nonhuman member of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts.
* OccultBlueEyes: When appearing as a house cat, her eyes glow a vivid blue, tying into her mysterious, shapeshifting nature. They don't seem to glow at all in her humanoid form.
* RightHandCat: Inverted. She accompanies the Phantom everywhere and is always on hand, but they're the heroes.
* RuleOfFunny: Presumably the only reason her weapons - toy swords and slingshots - aren't grossly ineffective.
* RunningGag: Party members grabbing and throwing her absurdly far distances.
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Has been the greatest source of slapstick humor so far throughout the trailers, though the fact she's ([[AmbiguousGender supposedly]]) a girl is [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] slightly by her being a cartoon-y cat person.
* SeriesMascot: In May 5 2016, she replaced [[VideoGame/{{Persona 4}} Teddie]] as the host of the official ''Persona'' twitter.
* SmokingIsCool: One of the official artworks shows her smoking a cigar.
** She also smokes a cigar in the aftermath of an All-Out Attack
* SuperDeformed: In her humanoid form, she has a giant head that's nearly the size of the rest of her body.
* TokenNonHuman: Like Aigis and Koromaru in ''P3'', or Teddie in ''P4'', she fills the "not-quite-human" position in your crew.
* TopHeavyGuy: In her humanoid form, she has a massive head and a tiny torso. Mirrored with Zorro, who has a muscular upper half and skinny, long legs.
* TwinkleInTheEye: She gets a star-shaped gleam in her eyes when preparing for an All-Out Attack.
* VisualPun: She is a cat that's part of a group of thieves. She's a literal cat burglar.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Not only can she transform into a regular or anthromorphic cat, she can also turn into a car dubbed the Morganamobile!
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Yusuke Kitagawa]]
!Yusuke Kitagawa / Fox
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Goemon]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goemon.png[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:The Artist of the Phantom Thieves]]
-> ''It was fun while it lasted. Goodbye.''
-->'''Arcana:''' IV. L'Empereur (The Emperor)\\
'''Persona:''' [[UsefulNotes/IshikawaGoemon Goemon]]\\
'''Weapons:''' [[KatanasAreJustBetter Katanas]] and Rifles\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomokazuSugita (JP)
A student attending Kousei Public High School as part of the school's art course and currently live-in disciple to a local painter named Madarame. Eccentric and seemingly obsessed with the Thieves, he can be seen painting cryptic graffiti about them in the intro cinematic. At some point, he gains a Persona and joins the crew as a party member.
His Persona is Goemon - UsefulNotes/IshikawaGoemon, a real world {{ninja}} who would [[JustLikeRobinHood steal from the rich to give to the poor]] in 16th century Japan. After a failed assassination on a civil war-era warlord, Goemon and his son were executed. Persona Goemon is dressed in exaggerated classical Japanese attire, complete with massive sandals and garish robes.
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* AnimalMotifs: Foxes. More precisely, his outfit seems modelled on Inari, the Japanese God of Fertility often associated with the animal.
* AscendedFanboy: He seems to be obsessed with these "thieves that steals hearts", as he does graffiti about them. The third ''PV'' trailer implies he follows the news about them through the story, and he gets to join them after awakening his Persona.
* BadassBaritone: Appearances aside, Yusuke in the JP version speaks with a very deep baritone.
* {{Bishonen}}: Yusuke has a graceful demeanor, a well proportioned face, a thin but muscular build, and long hair.
* CulturedBadass: Just as willing to scrap as the other Thieves, and also happens to be an artist in training.
* EarlyBirdCameo: He can be seen in the first trailer for around ''two seconds'' before being properly introduced in the second trailer. The third trailer reveals he's also a Persona user and a party member.
* GrayEyes: He's the only ally with gray eyes, alongside the protagonist.
* IaijutsuPractitioner: Unlike many previous sword-wielders in the series, Yusuke keeps his sword sheathed when not attacking with it.
* AnIcePerson: His Persona, Goemon, can be seen using a single ice attack to take out multiple Shadows in one scene.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Battle footage shows him wielding a hiltless katana as his melee weapon.
* ManInWhite: His school uniform is almost entirely white, in contrast to the Thieves' black blazers. His thief outfit, however, has a white collar but is otherwise all black.
%%* NoCelebretiesWereHarmed: A Japanese artist Utamaro Kitagawa, sharing his surname (with his first name being a pseudonym Utamaro used), profession and background as the live-in pupil to another artist.
* NotSoStoic: He's normally a calm CulturedBadass...until you see his cut-in.
* ParentalAbandonment: Both of his parents are deceased, with him being taken in by the artist Madarame Ooka.
* PeekABangs: Seen from the right angle, his bangs cover his left eye.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Bears more than a passing resemblance to Jun from ''Persona 2''. In [[https://40.media.tumblr.com/2a9cd9ed3ba725843053cceb50ca78a2/tumblr_nuuac7ZhGd1u3ubaso1_1280.jpg another shot from the third trailer]], he even looks like Tatsuya. And of course, in certain shots like the example picture, he's not dissimilar to the ''Persona 3'' protagonist.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: His hair is a deep blue.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Makoto Niijima]]
!Makoto Nijima / Queen
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Chief Operator of the Phantom Thieves]]
->''Justice has prevailed!''
-->'''Arcana:''' II. La Papesse (The Priestess)\\
'''Persona:''' Johanna\\
'''Weapons:''' [[BareFistedMonk Knuckledusters]] and [[RevolversAreJustBetter Revolvers]]\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RinaSato (JP)
The President of Syujin High's student council, a third year high school student known for her rigid morals and sense of responsibility. She's a straight-laced Honors student who can't be compromised with... though once she awakens to her Persona, she seems to have quite a ''bit'' more anger in her about things than she initially lets on. In combat, she utilizes knuckledusters and high-power revolvers, and her Persona doubles as an ethereal motorcycle.
Her Persona is Johanna, a Latin variation of the given name of the apocryphal religious figure, Pope Joan. According to legend, Joan was a talented and learned [[SweetPollyOliver woman who disguised herself as a man to hold a position]] in the [[UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} Catholic Church]] in the UsefulNotes/MiddleAges. Due to her abilities, she rose through the ranks and was even elected [[UsefulNotes/ThePope Pope]], only to be branded a criminal when her true sex was discovered. In Protestant cultures Pope Joan was considered to be the person the ''La Papesse'' tarot card depicted. Interestingly, Makoto's Persona is the only one ''not'' associated with thievery in the traditional sense (beyond "[[MetaphoricallyTrue stealing]]" a role meant for a man), matching her own straight-laced personality. As a Persona, Johanna manifests as a large motorcycle with her face inside a dome on the front of the bike.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The President of the Syujin High school council also happens to be pretty badass.
* BadassBiker: Her Persona, Johanna, doubles as a motorcycle, and she's a skilled fighter.
* BareFistedMonk: Utilizes various kinds of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cestus caesti]] and other fist implements as melee weapons and happens to be the most physical of the thieves in combat.
* BloodKnight: The previews have given the distinct impression that, once she awakens to her Persona, her "real face" as a thief involves acting like this due to her apparent anger at the things wrong with the world. Her combat style is by ''far'' the most distinctly brutal of all the thieves, she is ''very'' eager to fight in her appearances in the 4th trailer, and [[http://i.imgur.com/OOTlPQU.png her spell/critical cut-in]] has the finest DeathGlare the franchise has ever seen.
* CoolBike: Her persona Johanna is a sleek, ethereal motorcycle with a face on the front that she rides in battle.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Dives like she fights: with ''extreme'' aggression ([[http://cdn3.dualshockers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Persona5-10.jpg much to the distress of the rest of the team]]).
%%* GlassCannon: From what we've seen of her (heist) personality and gameplay, she seems to be a heavy offense character. Which is somewhat unusual since the Priestess Arcana is commonly associated with healing and support attributes.
* IronLady: President of Syujin High's student council and a rigid, no-nonsense type of gal. Reflected in her thief costume, decorated with various metal implements.
* ILoveNuclearPower: Uses Frei, which is Nuclear-element, an element not seen since ''Persona 2''.
* MeaningfulName: Her codename is Queen, and she holds the top position in the student council.
* NonUniformUniform: She wears a black WaistcoatOfStyle instead of a blazer.
* ProperTightsWithASkirt: Wears long black leggings with her skirt, and she's a upstanding person.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Has ''bright'' brown eyes that look distinctly red in certain lighting conditions, and her fighting style involves savagely beating the snot out of her opponents. Take extra warning when she lands a critical; those red eyes become [[DeathGlare terrifying]].
* RevolversAreJustBetter: Her firearm specialty is revolvers.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: Wears a long black scarf while in her thief outfit.
* StudentCouncilPresident: She's the head of the student government at Syujin High.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Being a student council president with strong morals and is a biker? Many were reminded of [[{{Persona 3}} Mitsuru Kirijo]].
* WaistcoatOfStyle: She wears a black one as part of her NonUniformUniform.
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[[folder:Futaba Sakura]]
!Futaba Sakura / Navi
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Genius Hacker of the Phantom Thieves]]
->"''Super move! Ultraaaa Charge!''"
-->'''Arcana:''' IX. L'Hermite (The Hermit)\\
'''Persona:''' [[Creator/HPLovecraft Necronomicon]]\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AoiYuuki (JP)
A 15 year old programming prodigy with inhuman coding skills who lives with the Protagonist. Though technically a first year high school student, due to an incident in her recent past she has become an anti-social [[{{Hikkikomori}} shut-in]] and hasn't attended classes since her middle school graduation. Per WordOfGod, she has an critical role in the story.
Her Persona is ''Necronomicon'', the TomeOfEldritchLore from Creator/HPLovecraft's Franchise/CthulhuMythos. Despite its name, Necronomicon takes the appearance of a [[FlyingSaucer UFO]], the {{urban legends}} infamous in rumor and fiction for abducting [[AlienAbduction people]] and [[AliensStealCattle livestock]].
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* CuteAndPsycho: She may look cute like the rest of the squad, but in the 4th trailer, the look on her face when she's summoning her Persona is ''terrifying''.
* FlyingSaucer: Her Persona, Necronomicon, takes the shape of giant circular spacecraft with a gargoyle on top.
* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: Futaba is almost always seen wearing headphones, and she's a known shut-in.
* {{Hikkikomori}}:
** Her storyline centers on her withdrawing from interaction with others after a traumatic incident a year earlier. She spends most of the game learning to overcome her agoraphobia and desire for isolation with the help of the rest of the team.
** Her Persona also reflects her isolationist tendencies, as it's basically a mobile "computer cave" on the inside, and lets her accompany the team while still maintaining distance from the action.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Futaba is a quite a bit shorter than the Phantom and the two of them [[RomanceSidequest can be romantically involved]].
* InnocentCohabitation: Futuba and the Phantom live in the same house after he moves to Tokyo, and you can choose to keep their relationship entirely platonic...[[SubvertedTrope or not]].
* LiteralMetaphor: In its first mention in ''[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos The Hound]]'', the Necronomicon was only described as "something so strange and out-of-place, you knew what it was and what it stood for". Not unlike an Unidentified Flying Object covered in runes.
-->'''Lovecraft:''' Alien it indeed was to all art and literature which sane and balanced readers know, but we recognized it as the thing hinted of in the forbidden Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred; the ghastly soul-symbol of the corpse-eating cult of inaccessible Leng, in Central Asia.
* MeaningfulName: She shares a name with [[ImageBoards Futaba Channel / 2chan]].
* NerdGlasses: She has large, circular glasses that go up to her forehead.
* RedheadsAreUncool: She's a nerdy shut-in with red hair.
* SheCleansUpNicely: The rest of the team is rather impressed how she looks in a swimsuit... after she removes the towel wrapped around her entire face.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Serves as the Navigator once she's recruited, and '''wow''', she is small, especially standing next to the Phantom.
* ShrinkingViolet: As a recovering [[{{Hikkikomori}} shut-in]], she suffers anxiety around others and prefers to wear headphones in public. The protagonist is initially the only person she's comfortable being around, as he already lives with her.
* StatusBuff: Like Rise's Persona in ''VideoGame/Persona4Golden'', Necronomicon seems to grant some buffing to the active party members during battles.
* TronLines: Her thief outfit is sci-fi themed to emphasize that her Persona is based in part on stories featuring aliens.
* WhoWearsShortShorts: Futaba dons a black pair in her casual outfit.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Grade B in her street clothes as seen [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/megamitensei/images/9/95/P5_Futaba_Sakura.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/180?cb=20160511195141 here]].
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[[folder:Haru Okumura]]
!Haru Okumura / Noir
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Fair Lady of the Phantom Thieves]]
->''Adieu.''
-->'''Arcana:''' III. L'Imperatrice (The Empress)\\
'''Persona:''' [[Literature/TheThreeMusketeers Milady]]\\
'''Weapons:''' [[AnAxeToGrind Axes]] and [[ThrowDownTheBomblet Grenade Launchers]]\\
'''Voiced by:''' HarukaTomatsu (JP)
A third year high school student and daughter of the president of a large food manufacturer. She is refined and good at communicating with others, but naive to the ways of the world.
Her Persona is ''Milady'', as in Milady de Winter, a spy and thief in Creator/AlexandreDumas' famous 1844 novel ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers''. As a Persona, Milady takes an appearance of a living ball gown with a fan and a domino mask serving as a face, which she holds with her hand. Her dress also hides myriad of firearms beneath it.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Her primary weapon.
* ArchnemesisDad: According to a ''Dengeki UsefulNotes/PlayStation'' article, her father is one of the Phantom Thieves' targets. Given that she's a member of said Phantom Thieves, one assumes this trope is in play.
* BladeOnAStick: Uses halberds as her melee weapons.
* ClassyCravat: Her costume comes with a fancy cravat.
* DelayedCausality: She's able to perform this after using an All-Out Attack, using the pause to set up a MidBattleTeaBreak and taking a sip of the tea just in time for the enemies to start spurting HighPressureBlood.
* TheFace: Befitting her status as the {{Ojou}} she has good communication skills.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: She wears a violet hat and gloves in her thief costume, and is an elegant and refined girl from a wealthy family.
* GratuitousFrench: Seems to favor using French words, with her Heist ID being "Noir" and saying "Adieu" in her All-Out Attack.
* HiddenBuxom: Her cardigan appears to hide a great deal of her bosom, which becomes obvious when she's in her Noir outfit because of its puffier nature.
* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: Her Persona Milady is a living Victorian-style ball gown which hides many firearms inside that it uses to attack. Haru herself doesn't exactly skimp on the clothing budget for her thief outfit, either.
* MoreDakka: Milady hides an absurd amount of firepower underneath that gown.
* NiceHat: Wears a spiffy-looking hat with a large feather in it as part of her thief costume.
* NonIdleRich: She's a rich {{Ojou}} who moonlights as a classy thief, fighting with supernatural powers in order to change her corrupted city.
* NonUniformUniform: She wears a pink sweater in place of the blazer.
* {{Ojou}}: The daughter of a food manufacturing company's president who lives a sophisticated life.
* PinkMeansFeminine: She dons a pink cardigan in her regular outfit, and is a graceful young lady.
* ProperTightsWithASkirt: She wears white, star-patterned tights with her uniform, is the daughter of a bigwig, and has a prim personality.
* PsychicPowers: Milady can be seen using Mapsydyne, a psychic skill.
* PostMortemOneLiner: "Adieu."
* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: Downplayed. Haru is naive about how the world normally works so she's seen as eccentric by others.
* SmallGirlBigGun: This dainty little lady wields the largest, and ''loudest'', weapons out of the entire crew.
* TheSouthpaw: So far, in concept art and battle gameplay, she's been shown to hold her melee weapon in her left hand. Milady also holds her fan with the left hand.
* SpoiledSweet: Despite her naivety, she has a good heart and a strong moral compass, to the point of awakening her Persona in order to stop her own father.
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Uses grenade launchers in combat.
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[[folder:Goro Akechi]]
!Goro Akechi / Crow
-->'''Arcana:''' ???\\
'''Persona:''' ???\\
'''Weapons:''' ???\\
'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SoichiroHoshi (JP)
The 9th and apparently final member of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts. Goro is a teenage detective who initially tracks the Phantom Theives, before joining the group to bring the criminals the thieves have been in conflict with to justice.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Tends to be obsessed with the Phantom Thieves to a fanboy-ish degree. He also has a tendency to ramble, before apologizing and getting back on topic.
* {{Bishonen}}: Goro has slender features and shoulder length hair, giving him an attractive, slightly androgynous appearance.
* ChickMagnet: He apparently has quite the fanbase in law enforcement, particularly among the younger female members.
* {{Foil}}: Seems to be billed as this to the Protagonist.
** Also to [[VideoGame/Persona4 Naoto Shirogane]] from the previous game. Both are well-known [[GreatDetective Great Detectives]], but Naoto is noticeably more introverted and focused. Goro, on the other hand, seems to be a bit of a celebrity, appearing in several talk shows and has his own in-universe fangirls.
* GreatDetective: He's a teenage detective who's initially after infamous Tokyo thieves and later the criminal conspiracy the thieves have been targeting.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Calls himself an "insignificant high-school student" on public TV.
* MeaningfulName: He's named after Kogoro Akechi, a famous Japanese {{Expy}} of Franchise/SherlockHolmes created by novelist Edogawa Ranpo in 1925.
* SharpDressedMan: He looks to be a very well dressed young man.
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Played with. While he's on the games cover and has appeared in streams and promotion, Goro has been noticeably absent from much of the direct publicity material (most obviously the trailers) and doesn't seem to be in the OP. Considering his role, this is likely to avoid potential plot developments being spoiled before release.
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: He starts as a detective trying to capture the Phantom Thieves, before joining them to fight TheConspiracy they stumbled upon.
* SixthRanger: Is the last character to join the team.
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