History Characters / Persona5ThePhantomThievesOfHearts

* ImmuneToMindControl: Zig-zagged across the games.

** Mostly {{Subverted|Trope}} in [[spoiler:Maruki's reality]]. All of the Phantom Thieves, with the exception of [[spoiler:Sumire, Akechi and Joker, fall for it hook, line and sinker when Maruki grants their subconscious desires. It takes Joker some convincing to snap them out of it.]]

** In ''VideoGame/Persona5Tactica", Marie brainwashes all of the Phantom Thieves into becoming her slaves, sans Joker and Morgana. They only escape by dodging the spell, implying they were just as susceptible.

** In ''VideoGame/Persona5Tactica, Marie brainwashes all of the Phantom Thieves into becoming her slaves, sans Joker and Morgana. They only escape by dodging the spell, implying they were just as susceptible.

* ImmuneToMindControl:

[[Characters/Persona5Confidants Confidants]] | [[Characters/Persona5Targets Targets]] - [[Characters/Persona5PalaceRulers Palace Rulers]] ([[Characters/Persona5SuguruKamoshida Asmodeus]]) / [[Characters/Persona5EndgameAntagonists Endgame Antagonists]] ([[Characters/Persona5MasayoshiShido Samael]] | [[Characters/Persona5TakutoMaruki The Dreamer]]) / [[Characters/Persona5MinorTargets Minor]] | [[Characters/Persona5OtherCharacters Other Characters]]]]-]]]

* AdvanceNoticeCrime: The Phantom Thieves of Hearts send their CallingCard to the Palace rulers in the real world before they complete their theft. Justified as sending the calling card allows the Treasure to manifest as a tangible object in the first place, which is how they [[HeelFaceBrainwashing change hearts]].

** Sophia —- Electric Red to match her hair and hearts. Her outfit is mostly white to match her Bless affinity.
** Zenkichi –– Gray representing his affinity for gray-and-white [[NonElemental Almighty]] skills.

** Zenkichi –– Always has a Black suit and tie with a White shirt.

** In ''Royal'', [[spoiler:the gang all go their separate ways after stopping Maruki, mainly out of a desire to actually achieve the dreams they wanted which Maruki automatically provided in his reality. Ryuji moves away to take up physical therapy so that he can restart his track career. Ann transfers schools as she will be studying abroad with her parents temporarily. Yusuke decides to continue his artwork with a renewed focus on his adventures with the Phantom Thieves. Makoto is moving onto college with a major in law enforcement. Haru leaves for university to study agriculture and business management, in addition to learning the basics of leading Okumura Foods. Kasumi[=/=]Sumire leaves for a few months to participate in competitions, though it's likely she'll move anyways. [[AmbiguousSituation While the situation is still as ambiguous as it was in the original]], the ending for ''Royal'' heavily implies that Akechi is still alive as someone with his uniform can be seen amongst a crowd. Futaba is heading back to school while Joker and Morgana move back home together.]]
** [[SubvertedTrope Thankfully]], they all reunite[[note]]with the exception of Akechi & Yoshizawa[[/note]] over the summer break for ''Strikers'' and are back in business with the new Change of Heart cases across Tokyo. Once all is said and done, they go their separate ways again, but promise to meet over their winter break.

* BalancePowerSkillGimmick: The first four Phantom Thieves form this setup in the Kamoshida Palace. Joker is Balance due to his Wild Card allowing him to switch personas, Ryuji is Power as a MightyGlacier, Morgana is Skill because he is a FragileSpeedster and the CombatMedic, and Ann is relegated to the Gimmick as a extremely SP dependent GlassCannon and the only one in the party that learns a status ability ([[ForcedSleep Dormina]]) in her very early game before level 10, though she does not keep the role later in the game as better Gimmick characters join the party.

* BatmanGrabsAGun: The Phantom Thieves are normally against killing their targets, but if their adversary is [[spoiler: a massively powerful god who plans to subjugate all of reality]], [[GodzillaThreshold they're pulling out all the stops.]] [[spoiler: They've had to do this twice against Yaldabaoth from the original game and EMMA from ''VideoGame/Persona5Strikers''.]]

-->'''Morgana:''' It's not like anyone will ever find out.
-->'''Ryuji:''' That's not the point! If we just go around secretly doin' whatever we want, we'd be no better than that 'effing Kamoshida!

** Ryuji has [[ThenLetMeBeEvil embraced the delinquent image that the school pinned on him]] after comments Kamoshida made about his [[DisappearedDad dysfunctional family]] specifically to provoke him led to him assaulting Kamoshida. This resulted in Kamoshida [[CareerEndingInjury breaking his leg]] [[BlatantLies in "self-defense"]] and shutting down Shujin's track team.

** Makoto's parents both died before the events of the game, her mother from causes that are never explained and her father being a cop who died in the line of duty. This leaves her to be raised by her older sister Sae, who pressures her to succeed in a society that doesn't value women as much as men. Furthermore, Shujin's principal twists her arm to investigate the Phantom Thieves, with the implication that it will affect her future, while ignoring what she wants. She has no real friends and little relations with the student body she is supposed to be representing, leaving her pretty isolated.

** Joker tries to keep his head down in public in an attempt to stay out of trouble and not make his situation any worse, but deep down he's an illusive rebel who loves the thrill of living a dangerous life, and his normal meek public persona gives way to a suave, confident attitude when he's Joker. ''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.

* BlackAndGrayMorality: They forcibly enact HeelFaceBrainwashing on genuinely cruel people who feel no remorse for their actions and abuse the legal system to make things go their way. The Thieves recognize the moral ambiguity of their actions, though, and while they feel uncomfortable with it, it's often their only option due to the scope of their targets' power over society. Justified, as it was later revealed that the [[spoiler:GreaterScopeVillain Yaldabaoth ''intentionally'' screws with the Change of Hearts to make sure that they can no longer commit evil by making them regress into ignorant masses under his thrall]], and [[spoiler:if Joker ever strikes a deal with him to ensure his well-being under the expense of the rest of humanity and his teammates, this plays to its most cynical conclusion, where he ends up becoming a ruthless TautologicalTemplar who brainwashes anyone he deems sinful enough, not to say the rest of the Thieves are abandoned by him.]]

** Futaba suffers from an extreme case of SurvivorsGuilt (given to her by others that wanted to shift the blame for her mother's death onto her) and anxiety [[{{Hikikomori}} to the point of becoming a complete shut-in and almost never leaving her room]]. She mentions that even before her mother's death, she had almost no friends at school.

* ThreeAmigos: The initial trio consisting of Joker, Ryuji, and Ann.

* TheCameo: Barring Kasumi[[note]]Who debuted in ''Royal'', several months after Joker's inclusion in ''Smash''[[/note]] and Zenkichi[[note]]Who debuted in ''Strikers'', a few years later[[/note]], all of the Phantom Thieves appear in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' with Joker's inclusion as a GuestFighter.
** Ryuji, Morgana, Ann and Yusuke make vocal cameos in Joker's reveal trailer.[[note]]It helps that for Yusuke, they already had his voice actor (both Japanese and English) playing [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening another blue-haired swordsman]] in the same game.[[/note]]
** In the game proper, Morgana appears as part of Joker's taunts, and shows up in his bus form alongside the other Phantom Thieves in the Mementos stage. There's even a hat based on him that can be worn by the Mii Fighters.
** Ryuji, Ann, Yusuke, Makoto and Haru all appear on the Mementos stage. While Futaba doesn't appear on the stage, she does have voice lines during Joker's All-Out Attacks.
** All Thieves (again, bar Kasumi and Zenkichi) appear as Spirits, both individually in their civilian attire and in a group Spirit with their Metaverse outfits. Akechi however is excluded from the group illustration, so, while he has representation in-game, nothing gives away his eventual involvement with the Thieves. Sophia was also given a Spirit after ''Strikers''' Western release.
** One of Joker's alternative outfits is his Metaverse outfit, but in Crow's colour scheme (light brown hair, red mask, white jacket with gold highlights).

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: All the thieves sans Joker lose their memories of fighting Caroline and Justine after the BonusBoss fight. This is one of the rules the two specifically imposed before facing him.

* ShutUpHannibal: During the first phase of ''Royal'''s final boss, [[spoiler:Maruki will try to persuade all of the thieves sans Joker one at a time into accepting and following his reality. Everyone of them tells him that it's not gonna happen and that they are confident in themselves to push through their reality despite the hardships.]]

* InvisibleParents: The only parents that are seen on-screen are Haru's father, Sojiro (aka Futaba's adopted father), [[spoiler:Shido (aka Akechi's father)]], and Kasumi's father. {{Justified}} in the case for a lot of them as Joker is away from his parents, Ann's parents are overseas and she was raised by hired help, Ryuji's father abandoned him, [[spoiler:Akechi's birth itself was a mistake and his mother committed suicide]], and Yusuke and Makoto are orphans. However, Ryuji's mother never actually shows up in the story, and it's never outright stated whether Haru's mother passed away or she and Kunikazu are just divorced, only that he "raised his daughter alone." In addition, while Futaba's birth mother died before the events of the story took place, nobody really knows anything about her birth father as according to Sojiro, Wakaba would not say a word about him.

** Joker tried to stop a man from raping a woman; when he accidentally injured the man by knocking him to the ground, Joker was [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished unfairly slapped]] with a [[MiscarriageOfJustice false assault conviction]] that led to him being transferred to Tokyo under probation. To add insult to injury, Kamoshida leaked his criminal record all over Shujin, so almost [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer everyone there shuns him and treats him like a delinquent]] because of it.

** Loki becomes a deep red mask with horns that resembles a crow's skull.

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: In terms of motifs and themes, they're quite different from the [[VideoGame/Persona4 Investigation Team]]: ** While ''Persona 4''[='=]s party are detectives on a quest to bring one person to justice, ''Persona 5''[='=]s party are thieves who go after multiple people and bring them to justice.
** A similarity between both is that the party members join up after gaining their Persona during an emotional conversation with them, but the contrast is that, whereas ''Persona 4''[='=]s Personas were their Shadows and must be reasoned with by [[BeneathTheMask accepting who they are inside]], ''Persona 5''[='=]s Personas are the ones who are reasoning with the party and even offer them a contract.
** Save for Teddy (Who isn't human) most members of the Investigation Team have completely normal lives, most likely have healthy families, and their only mental hang-ups are those reflected in their Shadows (bar Yu Narukami if the anime is anything to by), while the Phantom Thieves, with one notable exception, had suffered from psychological trauma or ordeals related to their family members or friends in one way or another.

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: In terms of motifs and themes, they're quite different from the [[VideoGame/Persona4 Investigation Team]]. While ''Persona 4''[='=]s party are detectives on a quest to bring one person to justice, ''Persona 5''[='=]s party are thieves who go after multiple people and bring them to justice. The similarity is that the party members join up after gaining their Persona during an emotional conversation with them, but the contrast is that, whereas ''Persona 4''[='=]s Personas were their Shadows and must be reasoned with by [[BeneathTheMask accepting who they are inside]], ''Persona 5''[='=]s Personas are the ones who are reasoning with the party and even offer them a contract. Although this pales in comparison with the fact that all members of the Investigation Team have completely normal lives, most likely have healthy families, and the only mental hang-ups are those reflected in their Shadows (bar Yu Narukami if the anime is anything to by), while the Phantom Thieves, with one notable exception, had suffered from psychological trauma or ordeals related to their family members or friends in one way or another. The two teams also have different methods; the Investigation Team mostly just meander through various slice-of-life antics while they [[VillainsActHeroesReact wait for the killer to strike again]] in the hopes of gathering more information, while the Phantom Thieves are much more active and frequently go out of their way to [[HeroesActVillainsHinder seek out targets to change the heart of]].

* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: In terms of motifs and themes, they're quite different from [[VideoGame/Persona4 the folks at Inaba]]. While Persona 4's party are detectives on a quest to bring one person to justice, Persona 5's party are thieves who go after multiple people and bring them to justice. The similarity is that the party members join up after gaining their Persona during an emotional conversation with them, but the contrast is that, whereas Persona 4's Personas were their Shadows and must be reasoned with by [[BeneathTheMask accepting who they are inside]], Persona 5's Personas are the ones who are reasoning with the party and even offer them a contract. Although this pales in comparison with the fact that all members of the Investigation Team have completely normal lives, most likely have healthy families, and the only mental hangups are those reflected in their Shadows (bar Yu Narukami if the anime is anything to by), while the Phantom Thieves, with one notable exception, had suffered from psychological trauma or ordeals related to their family members or friends in one way or another.

* SecretlySelfish: While they all genuinely want to fight evil and help the helpless, each Phantom Thief aside from Joker has selfish motivations that prompt them to awaken their Personas and join the Phantom Thieves. This not portrayed as a bad thing however and it's stated that having more selfish motivations is perfectly fine and natural as long as they don't cross a line.

** Futaba [[spoiler:accepts her shadow and gains her persona upon realizing that her mother didn't kill herself due to her but was actually murdered and had the blame passed on to her. It even happens as she vows {{Revenge}} on her mom's killers.]]
** Haru's persona doesn’t fully awaken until she realizes that her father was fully aware of how horrible her fiancé and admits that she doesn't wish to be married off to him.

* SecretlySelfish: While they all genuinely want to fight evil and help the helpless, each Phantom Thief aside from Joker has selfish motivations that prompt them to awaken their Personas and join the Phantom Thieves. This not portrayed as a bad thing however and it’s stated that having more selfish motivations is perfectly fine and natural as long as they don’t cross a line.
** Ryuji awakens his Persona in order to save Joker and Morgana but also wishes to get {{Revenge}} on Kamoshida for ruining his life.

** Futaba [[spoiler: accepts her shadow and gains her persona upon realizing that her mother didn’t kill herself due to her but was actually murdered and had the blame passed on to her. It even happens as she vows {{Revenge}} on her mom’s killers]]
** Haru’s persona doesn’t fully awaken until she realizes that her father was fully aware of how horrible her fiancé and admits that she doesn’t wish to be married off to him.
** Akechi reveals that he awoke his Persona offscreen after being attacked by Black Mask and simply not wanting to die. [[spoiler: This was a lie and it’s revealed that he was Black Mask all along. While we don’t learn the circumstances of him awakening his Persona, they were almost certainly not selfless.]]

** Makoto wants to save not only the students of Shujin from Kaneshiro’s {{Blackmail}} but also herself and her sister from becoming [[SexSlaves sex slaves]] to Kaneshiro and to prove she isn’t useless.

* FirstNameBasis: Like the [[VideoGame/Persona4 Investigation Team]] before them, all the members are on a first-name basis with one another. The two third-years in the group, Makoto and Haru, also immediately dismiss the [[SenpaiKohai seniority hierarchy]] and do not want to be referred to as senpai. [[GuestStarPartyMember Akechi is the one exception]]; while he refers to everyone by their first names, the rest of the team and even the game's own interface only stick to calling him by his surname. This is also unusually applied to Zenkichi as well; the "unusual" part being that he's the only adult in the group and doing so in Japanese society would be considered incredibly rude, but he embraces it due to wanting to be on equal footing with the rest of the Thieves.

* SenpaiKohai: Makoto and Haru are among the eldest of the Thieves, but unlike previous upperclassmen ''Persona'' party members, they prefer being on a FirstNameBasis with their comrades as a show of equality and solidarity. Averted with Akechi, who despite being the same age as both of them is only referred to by his last name by the other Thieves. In ''Royal'', Kasumi refers to everyone as her senpai, including Futaba, who for all intents and purposes would've been in the same year as her if she did attend school.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Ryuji and Yusuke have real people as their Personas - Captain 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.

* PublicDomainCharacter: Joker, Ann, Morgana, Makoto, Haru, Futaba, Akechi, Kasumi and Zenkichi have classical literary 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, Creator/HPLovecraft's Necronomicon, Myth/RobinHood, [[{{Literature/Cinderella}} Cendrillon]], and [[Literature/LesMiserables Jean Valjean]] respectively.

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* ColorCodedCharacters: Each Phantom Thief wears different-colored gloves in their costumed alter-egos (except for Mona who does not wear any) that usually correspond to their icon backgrounds in the texting app, battle wipes, Thieves Den portraits and dynamic [=PS4=] themes. They often overlap with the elemental affinity and Featherman Suits as well.