History Characters / TurnaboutJackpot

* CheatersNeverProsper: He set up a device to count the number of rockets fired during the fireworks show in order to cheat at a contest, but his estimate came out to one too many. [[spoiler:Subverted, as his device was working perfectly, but because of how it was designed, the count was thrown off by the sound of a gunshot, which is used to prove that the tournament room door was open when the shot was fired and that only one gunshot had been fired that night.]]

*** Even earlier when Jack Porter faints from watching the gory reboot of Pinkie Rabbit, he's the first one to actually check if he's okay; as opposed to Apollo and Felicia (who panicked), Rex House (who was apathetic [[spoiler: and even tried to exploit it]]) and Rockwell who thought he was dead.

* TookALevelInKindness: After Apollo and Trucy listen to his story and promise to set things right, Hector Nash, while maintaining his rough edges and snark, becomes significantly more helpful. He gives Apollo a heartfelt thanks and even [[spoiler: helps him take down [[BigBad Richard]] [[AmoralAttorney Gunner]] in the final trial session]].

[[folder: Felicia "Lucky" Garnet/ [[spoiler:Angela Argine]]]]
A hotshot young member of the Deck. Later turns out to be [[spoiler: Angela Argine, granddaughter of former Royal Flush Casino owner Charles Argine]].

** She also finds common ground with Apollo and Trucy [[spoiler: over their history of being raised without their birth parents, whether in foster care or with a ParentalSubstitute.]]

* BenevolentBoss: Implied by [[spoiler: Hector Nash]], who says he was brilliant to work with, strengthen by the fact that [[spoiler: he bared no hostility or ill-will towards Hector for unintentionally letting a bug in the Poker Table's code that started the AC-3 Case]]
* CoolOldGuy: Where do we even start with him, aside from his [[NiceGuy general friendliness toward other patrons]]? [[spoiler: He, aided by Hector Nash, set out to manufacture a line of tamper-proof poker tables to combat the money laundering and fraud often present in gambling; that and the fact he cared deeply for his granddaughter and raised her after her parents died both speak volumes about his character]], and let's not forget that he's [[spoiler: the true identity of the Poker Legend known only as the Masked Stranger, which consisted of a voice-modulated mask of his creation, as well as making mini EMP devices and signal jammers, all of which he used to sneak into the tournament room to find proof that Rex House was not only a fraud who rigged tournaments in his own favor, but was also the true culprit of the AC-3 case]]. The icing on the cake comes [[spoiler: on the final day of the trial when he reveals the note sent by his attorney and the real murderer, Richard Gunner, which instructed him to burn the note upon meeting with him; Charles, wise to Gunner's [[{{Slimeball}} slimy]] [[SmugSnake personality]], trumped him with a simple bluff, [[ProperlyParanoid burning a copy of the note and keeping the original one safe all these years]], which ultimately renders Gunner's legally dead status null and void]].
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler: "Charles" means "free man" in Proto-Germanic, referencing his innocence in the AC-3 case being proven on the final trial day. His surname is also an anagram of "Regina", which is Latin for "queen"; it is also the Italian word for "riverbank"]].

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "The Masked Stranger" is known as such because they never gave their name, leading to the public coming up with that moniker. [[spoiler: Jack Porter realized right away that the person who slipped him a note supposedly signed by the Masked Stranger couldn't be the real deal because the real Stranger doesn't actually refer to themself as "the Masked Stranger."]]

[[folder: Felicia "Lucky" Garnet/ [[spoiler: Angela Argine]]]]

Later [[spoiler: turns out to be Charles Argine, former owner of the Royal Flush Casino, CEO of Argine Systems, and leader of the Deck]].

[[folder: The Masked Stranger /[[spoiler: Charles Argine]]]]

* CollectiveIdentity: [[spoiler: Multiple people took on their identity. Even not counting Rex House, who wore a counterfeit version of his outfit, there are three people who wear the genuine mask]].
** [[spoiler: Their ''true'' identity is Charles Argine, who created the persona to play poker.]]
** When we first meet them in the hotel lobby, they were played by [[spoiler: Felicia aka Angela to give her grandfather an alibi]].
** The one present at the crime scene and [[spoiler: the one who takes the stand]] turns out to be [[spoiler: [[HiddenVillain Richard Gunner]]]].
* CoolMask: Wears one of these to hide their identity. It even comes with a voice filter that makes them sound like a robot. [[spoiler: The voiceprint of said filter is actually the Masked Stranger's "secret signature" that can be used to tell the real deal apart from impostors.]]
* EvilSoundsDeep: [[spoiler: Their [[CreepyMonotone low, computerized voice proves quite sinister]] when [[CollectiveIdentity the one in the courtroom]] starts to be revealed as the true murderer.]]

** When Apollo tries to prove that Gunner's murder of House wasn't to save Jack nor in self-defense, but premeditated, he claims that the threatening letter House got wasn't from Tender Lender but from Gunner, citing that [[FreudianSlip he's the only one who calls House by his real name of "Noah" like in the letter]]. Gunner claims that a fingerprint analysis won't be able to prove that, to which Apollo calls his bluff and does it anyway, finding that there are no actual fingerprints. However, this ends up proving it since Gunner earlier admitted to having melted off his fingerprints with acid when he went into hiding, meaning that out of the people who could have sent the letter, he's the only one whose "prints" match. Gunner even has a minor VillainousBreakdown over the fact that he [[AllForNothing burned his prints off for nothing]].

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** The second to last and arguably most bizarre move is taking advantage of his numerous counts of perjury to claim that ''he's not Richard Gunner'', but a stand-in hired by the real one, since nothing, not even his initial claims of being Gunner, can be trusted at this point. This gets undone thanks to [[TheDogBitesBack Hector Nash]], whom Gunner had mockingly given a cigarette he was going to smoke before Hector angrily knocked it out of his mouth for his betrayal. Said cigarette, having his DNA on it via his saliva, is used to prove his identity, in addition to his old fingerprints that can be matched with those on a letter he wrote in the AC-3 case file.

* VillainousBreakdown: Gets closer and closer to losing his cool as Apollo tears apart his BlatantLies and various attempts to escape justice, from pinning the blame on others to [[LoopholeAbuse claiming he's legally dead and can't be convicted]] to trying to cut a deal with the FBI, until he's finally cornered; his eyes go white and he starts screaming about being a dead man walking (due to having boasted of his involvement with the Cadaverini crime family on a livestream) and pounding the witness stand until he finally makes a finger gun and "shoots" himself, complete with a flash of his silhouette, then collapses in a faint.