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Witnesses and miscellaneous characters that appear in Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth. Here is the main character sheet.

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Note: Due to the sheer amount of marked spoilers, all spoilers for Miles Edgeworth: Ace Attorney Investigations have now been unmarked. Read cautiously!

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Turnabout Visitor (Gyakuten no Raihosha)

For Maggey Byrde see her respective page.

Jacques Portsman (Makoto Yuki)

Voiced by (Japanese): Yūki Furukawa (AAI)

"...Alright, I get the point. You're right, my mistake. I tend to get a little too hot-headed sometimes. You sure are one cool customer, though, Mr. Edgeworth."

A sports-loving prosecutor who appears in case one of Ace Attorney Investigations, taking over Payne's role as the tutorial prosecutor.

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• Amoral Attorney: He's working with the smuggling ring, he's suspected of forging evidence, he sometimes refuses to prosecute certain trials, and some of the ones he does prosecute involve him favoring "alleged" members of the same ring.
• Anime Hair: It almost seems like his headband is the only thing preventing his hair from spiking straight up!
• Coat Over the Shoulder: Rotates from this to actually wearing it, and it serves as a signal that he's gotten confident or thinks that he's got an effective accusation.
• Epic Fail: His final testimony seals his fate when he claims he was brought two pieces of evidence when the victim's note specified three pieces of evidence. Edgeworth even lampshades this trope by telling Portsman "I believe the proper phrase here is 'you fail'."
• Hate Sink: Unlike the first culprit of the second game, Horace Knightley, he doesn't even get the benefit of having some redeeming qualities; he's just an obnoxious prick who can't even put up a decent fight against Edgeworth.
• Jerk Jock: He loves sports almost as much as Matt Engarde and Juan Corrida, and (while definitely not as bad as those two), half of his screentime is Jacques doing what basically amounts to bullying pretty much anyone who opposes him, especially Maggey and Gumshoe.
• The Mole: He uses his position in the prosecutor's office to let members of the smuggling ring (that he is a member of) off the hook
• The Nicknamer: Gives nicknames to people, such as "Jim" to Buddy Faith.
• Not Me This Time: Turns out he wasn't the mystery gunman who threatened Edgeworth earlier. After confirming his alibi, Edgeworth realizes that the only way the case makes sense is if a mystery third-party was involved.
• Punny Name: Jock Sportsman. As an added bonus, he nicknames his partners "Jim" (As in "Gym") regardless of how it fits with their name. The Japanese version goes for complete irony; "Makoto Yuki" means "truth, courage". His first name also sounds like "j'accuse" which he does a lot of in the first case.
• Real Men Wear Pink: And proud of it, too.
• Returning to the Scene: Although he also is able to invoke authority over the scene in the hopes of manipulating the investigation and framing Gumshoe or Maggey.
• Smug Snake: He's quite patronizing and insulting of others, with little to back it up.
• Starter Villain: First villain that the player takes down as Edgeworth (though chronologically second-to-last), and just a small fry in the grand scheme of the smuggling ring.
• Ultimate Job Security: He doesn't seem all that competent at first, seeming to spend more time training for sports than studying law or working on cases, and it's revealed that there were many unsavory rumors going around about him, and he kept his job despite them.
• Villainous Breakdown: When pressed, he starts biting the medallion he's wearing nervously. When you expose him as the murderer, he eats it.
• Warm-Up Boss: The first major investigative rival Edgeworth faces as well as the first murderer.
• You Keep Using That Word: At one point, he claims that there is a "mountain of evidence" pointing away from him. If you press him on this point, however, it turns out his "mountain of evidence" isn't really evidence at all; simply a claim regarding his supposed lack of motive. If an attorney or Edgeworth tried to pull that kind of baloney in court, they would have gotten penalized. Especially bad because Portsman should know what the word means; he is a prosecutor, after all. Edgeworth calls him out on this:
  Edgeworth: ...Might I recommend that you review what the word "evidence" means.

Buddy Faith (Shinji Nakamado)

"T-That may be true, but why...? Why go this far?"

A detective working with Jacques Portsman. Died when coming upon a thief ransacking Edgeworth's office.

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• Couldn't Find a Pen: Subverted; it was the killer who wrote Gumshoe's name.
• Creator Cameo: He's modeled after AAI's director Takeshi Yamazaki.
• Death by Cameo: Mr. Yamazaki actually asked the designer to tweak Buddy's appearance a bit. Apparently, he didn't feel comfortable seeing himself as a body.
• He Knows Too Much: He walks in on Portsman attempting to steal the KG-8 case files from Edgeworth's office and dies for it.
• Punny Name:
  • His Japanese name comes from the phrase "nakama to shinjiteiru" meaning "I trust him as a friend" or "I believe he is a friend". The English name reflects this. It's also ironic since he was killed by someone who kept professing to be his friend.
  • His nickname "Jim" (gym) alludes to his prosecutor colleague's sportsman motif.

Turnabout Airlines (Gyakuten Airline)

Rhoda Teneiro (Ichiru Konomichi)

"That's an iFly Airlines sponsored movie. It's a suspense-hardboiled-action-romance-horror-comedy movie."

A chief flight attendant for iFly Airlines, and a witness and Edgeworth's temporary partner in case two of Ace Attorney Investigations.

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• Anime Hair: However you describe her hairstyle. Her bun is (somehow) a series of stacked cubes.
• Break the Cutie: Edgeworth gives her this after telling her her suitcase idea stinks and foiling her logic before that.
• Crush Blush: Around Edgeworth, though she vehemently denies it.
• Expy: Of Jane Grey from Death in the Clouds. Along with looking similar to Grey's actress, she is also the protagonist's assistant during the case, also a Sexy Stewardess, the murder happens mid-flight in the plane she works at, and she falls in love with someone involved with the case (Teneiro with the first suspect (Edgeworth), Grey with the murderer).
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Is a bit brash and distrustful, but she warms up to Edgeworth when she realises he's innocent.
• Postmodernism: Apparently why her suitcase starts to sell on the Internet.
• Punny Name: Both her English and Japanese names refer to roads. It also sounds like 'Rio de Janeiro' which is a popular flying destination.
• Sexy Stewardess: With the obligatory short dress, although she doesn't have the giant boobs that Cammy has.
• Stepford Smiler: Prides herself on her "service with a smile even if we're crashing into the ocean" mentality, but her attempts to stay cheerful don't hold up; said smile is full of eye- and corner of mouth-twitching, largely due to the stress of a murder taking place on her flight and being mandated to accompany Edgeworth (the first suspect). Which leads to a heartwarming moment when she gives Edgeworth a genuine smile when he gets her off the hook. Aww.
• Terrible Artist: Edgeworth considers her suitcase design hideous. Subverted when they're a hit online... and then brought back when she's been selected to design the new jumbo jets for her airline, and that she intends to make them have pink walls and yellow seats.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: After feeling dejected about the suitcase design she put her heart into not selling for the entire case, in the post-credits the suitcase becomes a hit once Rhoda begins to sell them on the internet. The success of the suitcase leads to her being put in charge of designing new jumbo jets for iFly.
• Tsundere: Called out by Cammy that she's this towards Edgeworth. Rhoda reacts appropriately.

Akbey Hicks

An Interpol agent assigned to pair with Franziska on the investigation of the smuggling ring, but died before making contact.

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• Dead Man's Chest: His body was placed in the most garish one imaginable - one of Rhoda's portable luggages.
• Interpol Special Agent: Assigned to investigate smuggled goods on iFly Airlines en route to and from Zheng Fa.
• Punny Name: "Ackbey" sounds like akubi, which means "yawn" in Japanese. Ironic, considering who murdered him.
• Railing Kill: His cause of death.

Zinc Lablanc II (Zinc White II)

"Hmph! Don't number the birds before they are born!"

A Borginian art dealer with a short temper.

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• Blunt Metaphors Trauma: Doesn't quite have a grasp on the English language, as the quote above will show.
• Butt-Monkey: He finds out that his treasured piece of art is a worthless fake, not before falling on it from a dangerous height without anyone caring — the only person who shows him any concern after his fall is Gumshoe (a fellow Butt Monkey, no less), and even then not until after Edgeworth indirectly points out that the fall may have been fatal. He also gets tricked into buying the fake Primidux Statue in the ending.
• Eloquent in My Native Tongue: Obviously, he speaks very well in Borginian.
• Fat Bastard: Although he isn't the killer, just an asshole.
• Finger Gun: Sometimes he puts both his hands together and juts his arms forward.
• Foreign-Language Tirade: His first line, when he's still offscreen, is a long string of angry Borginian. It's only once he's actually visible that he reveals he speaks English.
• Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: He points at people so much that he might as well pass for a lawyer in this universe.
• Gonk: Compared to the cast, his face is incredibly pudgy. He also sports a long, pointy nose and multiple chins.
• Hate Sink: A rare witness example. While he's not the killer, he's so obnoxious, pompous, and bigoted that his main purpose serves to be a red herring who gets his just desserts after Edgeworth and co get tired of his antics.
• He-Man Woman Hater: Played painfully straight, in which he has no respect for either of the female flight attendants, claiming that they have no right to talk back to him and he rather wouldn't see them at all.
• Humiliation Conga: He's constantly shut down by Edgeworth, he falls quite a long ways in the cargo hold, he finds out the artifact he bought was a fake, and in the epilogue he gets screwed over again.
• Intrepid Merchant: He's an international art dealer that's transporting his latest acquisition by the plane Edgeworth is riding on, and a very successful one going by how he's wealthy enough to ride in first class... but he's had some bad luck on this one, as he's unwittingly bought a counterfeit of the unique statue he thought he had purchased. For good measure, he does it again in the ending.
• Jerkass: When Edgeworth is still pinned as the killer, Lablanc insists that it should stay that way and they shouldn't bother letting Edgeworth prove his innocence, purely so his flight can continue quiet and uninterrupted without Edgeworth making further disturbances.
• Leitmotif: "Time is Money".
• Narcissist: Strongly implied as he's a huge Jerkass to people that aren't him but gives himself pretty things. He also sees his time as a lot more valuable than others' time; he's short-tempered with anyone who speaks too long for his liking, but he's perfectly fine with talking over others.
• No Indoor Voice: The number of times he's not shouting at Edgeworth (or anyone else, for that matter) can be counted on one hand.
• Punny Name: Zinc(II) oxide is white, and blanc is the French word for white.
• Rich Bitch: He's rich enough to fly first-class, and has an ego so inflated that he bullies pretty much everyone around him.
• Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: A wealthy international art dealer from Borginia who can't seem to resist buying counterfeit artifacts. Somewhat justified, as in both cases he thinks they're the original.
• Time Zones Do Not Exist: Very starkly averted, as the time zone ends up playing a huge part in breaking down LaBlanc's testimony. LaBlanc's testimony hinges on him seeing the victim enter the crime scene by himself less than 15 minutes before their death, something which is used to incriminate Miles since he was the only person they knew of who was in the same area, and there was no indication that there was anyone else prior to the first investigation. It turns out however, that Mr. LaBlanc had in fact screwed up because he had set his watch to the wrong time zone in anticipation of a banned movie that he can only see on international flights. As such, it turns out the time gap between Hicks' last moments alive and his actual time of death are much bigger than LaBlanc realized.

Cammy Meele (Wakana Shiraoto)

"*yawn* I'm awake, I'm awake........................zzz."

Rhoda's assistant flight attendant, an airheaded, sleepy young woman fluent in Borginian. Is actually part of the smuggling ring. Her job was to oversee the transportation of the smuggled goods in between countries. She murdered Akbey Hicks by throwing him over a rail in a panic upon seeing him inspecting the cargo hold when he was hot on the ring's trail.

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• Accidental Murder: While she was a smuggler, Hicks confronting her caused her to attack him out of surprise, which inadvertedly killed him. Meele clearly mentions that this was done out of fear and impulse rather than malice or intentionally trying to kill him.
• Anti-Villain: While she is undoubtedly evil, she is also someone who didn't intentionally try to kill someone and is remorseful over her actions.
• Beauty Breeds Laziness: She gets away with her laziness by Sleeping with the Boss. Though it is partially subverted, as she puts a lot of effort into her real job.
• Big "NO!": After being exposed as Akbey Hicks' murderer.
• Brainless Beauty: She's attractive and tries to play dumb at the beginning of the case, but swiftly drops the act once her story starts to fall apart.
• Chekhov's Gunman: She is first seen standing behind Leblanc, half asleep, right next to the emergency escape hatch in the first class area of the plane she's working on.
• Cunning Linguist: The only member of the crew who knows Borginian. This helps to prove she's the murderer.
• The Ditz: Comes from being only half-awake. As with that, it's an act. In fact, she's actually quite focused and intelligent, as her use of the Indy Ploy shows.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: She has these as a result of constantly falling asleep and waking up again. They become normal when she drops the 'sleepy' act.
• Femme Fatale: The killer of Turnabout Airlines.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Carries around a teddy bear of the airline mascot.
• Indy Ploy: Murdered her victim in the heat of the moment, and is able to think of a complex framing scheme in time to actually create a case out of whole cloth.
• Interface Spoiler: When Edgeworth investigates the gift shop and Cammy acts as his supervisor, she can't be talked to via the Partner Button, which isn't even present, suggesting that there's more to her than she seems...
• Lazy Bum: While her sleepiness turns out to apparently be a facade, the messiness of her bed in the attendant's room and the lack of actual work she seems to do on the plane suggests that some of her laziness is genuine.
• Leitmotif: "Good Night~".
• Monumental Theft: She helped steal the Alif Red statue and have it swapped with a fake to fool Zinc Lablanc II.
• Navel-Deep Neckline: From the front flap of her uniform being removed and her wearing nothing underneath.
• Not a Morning Person: She's always falling asleep, yawning, and rubbing her eyes awake. She's faking it, though.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Once suspicion is raised on her, she drops the Sleepyhead persona and gets serious, suddenly putting up way more of a fight against Edgeworth's questioning.
• Punny Name: "Cammy Meele" is likely derived from "chamomile"; chamomile tea is very effective in helping one fall asleep. "Shiraoto" means "white noise", another thing that is commonly used to help one fall asleep.
• Revealing Skill: While her fluency in Borginian is a known skill of hers around her co-workers, her sole knowledge of it nails her as the murderer due to a sheet of Borginian cloth being used to clean up a patch of the victim's blood, which no one unfamiliar with the language would specifically do since the cloth was in a crate marked in Borginian, otherwise they would've gone straight for the box marked "Bedsheets" in English.
• Sexy Stewardess: It's mostly due to her open shirt showing off a great amount of cleavage.
• The Slacker: Seems to be this, as she describes Rhoda as being in charge of most areas, but it's noted that she does handle passengers who can't speak English, along with the attending paperwork of those passengers. She's basically in charge of the less physically-strenuous work on the plane.
• Smoking Is Not Cool: Appears to have been a heavy smoker not long before the game begins as her hair is damaged, and she possesses a bubble pipe which she starts blowing bubbles aggressively with when nervous (blowing bubbles is done by some smokers to get over their smoking habit). It also doesn't help that most airlines don't allow smoking on flights.
• Snot Bubble: When she's asleep. Invoked by way of bubble pipe.
• Turns Red: After she "wakes up", she suddenly becomes a lot more professional and less lax in her speech. She also correctly points out that everything Edgeworth has brought against her are just circumstancial evidence, until it's proven that only a Borginian speaker could've committed the crime.
• Vapor Wear: She's very obviously not wearing a shirt or a bra during the flight under her open uniform, not that anyone actually calls attention to it.
• Villainous Breakdown: She screams a Big No while blowing on her bubble pipe, which causes millions of bubbles to repeatedly slap her in the face while she's screaming.
  • Motive Rant: "He was Interpol... I couldn't stop it... I brought him here... He started taking pictures... I... I couldn't be found out... I was scared... I was in trouble... I... I.... I I I I I I I I I I I I I..."

The Kidnapped Turnabout (Sarawareru Gyakuten)

For Mike Meekins and Wendy Oldbag see respective pages.

Ernest Amano (Joichiro Amanogawa)

Owner of a company called the Amano Group. Edgeworth is indebted to him because Amano funded his studies abroad. Member of the smuggling ring, and used his company to help it. He isn't the murderer though. Nice try.

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• Affably Evil: Even after he reveals his true colors, he's relatively polite. He only displays a subtle smugness when he thinks he's gotten his way.
• Bald of Evil: He has a big, shiny head while he's also head of a smuggling ring.
• Broken Pedestal: Edgeworth had a great deal of respect for him and agreed to carry in the ransom money to the theme park as a personal favor to Amano. After everything is settled, Edgeworth says that he still "owe(s) Mr. Amano a debt of gratitude. But he must pay his debt to society."
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: It didn't seem like it at first, but backstories introduced later shows that his company has connections with the smuggling ring and assisted in their works and cover-up.
• Dirty Coward:
  • Amano tries desperately to get off the hook when his heavyhanded attempts to cover for his son cause him to be implicated as well, even to the point of saying his son is the only one that needs to be arrested. Unfortunately for him, Lang has enough evidence already by that point.
  • Years ago, he set up Colin Devorae to appear as the ringleader of the smuggling in his company and take the fall.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He may be a terrible person, but his love for Lance was genuine, even if he was willing to betray him to save his own skin.
• Evil, Inc.: His company, the Amano Group, was a front for an international smuggling ring.
• Eyes Always Shut: He beats Mr. Kitaki in this instance since they never open.
• Fat Bastard: He's overweight and a corrupt smuggler.
• First-Name Basis: Refers to Edgeworth, Von Karma and Portsman by their first names, as a sign of his closeness with them and similar social status.
• Greater-Scope Villain: While he is not the killer in any case, his constant interference with the investigation of the murder committed by his son in the third case, coupled with his high position within the smuggling ring, makes Ernest one of the most influential villains within the first Investigations game.
• Innocently Insensitive: When Edgeworth thanks him for arranging the sabbatical abroad, Amano replies that he'd do anything for the protégé of Manfred von Karma. If you present the prosecutor's badge, Amano again waxes poetic about what a great prosecutor von Karma was. Both times, Edgeworth responds with Visible Silence and an uncomfortable expression, both reactions caused by the events that involved Von Karma in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.
• Punny Name: Either "earnest man" or "honest man". It's also an Ironic Name considering his true nature.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: He literally buys the entire crime scene and the building it's in from the theme park's owners using the ransom money, just so that he can legitimately say it's now his private property and Edgeworth cannot investigate it without a warrant. Unfortunately for Ernest, Edgeworth Takes a Third Option, uses Kay's Little Thief to investigate the haunted house without being there, gets Lance arrested, and Ernest is later arrested as well.
• The Starscream: Badd reveals during Turnabout Ablaze that Amano intended to betray Alba at some point, and held onto the videotape that he stole during the KG-8 incident as insurance, since it could reveal Alba was the head of the smuggling ring. This is part of why Portsman was instructed by Alba to break into Edgeworth's office.
• The Unfought: The player does not get the chance to deal with him. Edgeworth does so off-screen.
• Verbal Tic: "Now, now..."
• Yakuza: Implied as the yakuza is often linked to smuggling.
• Wise Old Folk Façade: He's generous with his wealth and influence (and it does seem genuine until Miles crosses him), calls Miles "my boy", and tries to keep everyone calm with his "now, now, now" gesture. That gesture takes on a darker tone, however, when Miles accuses Lance of the murder—and Amano uses his influence with the police to interfere with the investigation; when that doesn't work, he then buys the crime scene to keep the investigators out of it.

Lance Amano (Hikaru Amanogawa)

Ernest's only son, and victim of kidnapping. He orchestrated his own kidnapping with his girlfriend Lauren and the Amano butler Oliver Deacon in order to extort money from his father to pay back a large debt he owes. During the kidnapping he accidentally killed Deacon during a scuffle where Oliver became uncooperative (or so he claims) then set about creating a framing scheme where he tried to convince Lauren she was the responsible party.

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• Chained by Fashion: Not by his own choice; Lance spends all the case handcuffed. His hurt/take damage animation shows said handcuffs are a bit too big for him, though, and in his breakdown, they snap apart.
• Chick Magnet: His father thinks so, but while he does have a cute girlfriend (whom he doesn't hesitate to betray), the only other girl supposedly interested in him is Viola Cadaverini, a very dangerous young lady with the backing of the infamous Cadaverini crime family who's implied to be chasing debts he's racked up, which is his motive for the kidnapping scheme.
• Distressed Dude: Subverted. He initially appears to have been kidnapped from his home and held captive somewhere near the theme park, but he orchestrated his own kidnapping to pay off a debt.
• Domestic Abuse: Lance is heavily implied to be abusive to Lauren, due to her bandages, timid behaviour around him, and his indifference towards her. Her shocked sprite looks like she is anticipating being slapped by him.
• Dramatic Wind: He somehow has the ability to summon one when he makes a point.
• Fat Bastard: Overweight yet anorexic when it comes to morals.
• Gonk: His large ears, hideous outfit, and unrefined facial features make him look rather ugly especially when compared to the other conventionally attractive characters in the cast.
• Hate Sink: Unlike other examples, his crimes aren't even that bad, but Lance is such a snivelling, cowardly piece of garbage that it's hard not to cheer when he's arrested for murder.
• Indy Ploy: Lance wound up with a body after the kidnapping at the haunted house went sour. Out of thin air, he crafted an elaborate plan to pin the blame of the murder on his girlfriend Lauren, starting by convincing her the victim was still alive.
• Inelegant Blubbering: Bursts into utterly undignified tears during his Villainous Breakdown.
• Jerkass: He orchestrated his own kidnapping to get money from his worried father, threatened to harm his own girlfriend to get help from her own father, and tried to get her sentenced for the death of said father... which he, of course, caused himself (accidentally, or so he claims).
• The Killer Was Left-Handed: A Subverted Trope. His handedness is actually something he uses to draw suspicion off him, as he wields the prop sword he used to knock out Edgeworth in his non-dominant right hand. It doesn't manage to fool Edgeworth, though, as he explains the sword is very easy to swing in either hand.
• Killing in Self-Defense: When caught, he claims that his killing of Oliver was this, saying that Oliver attacked him and would've killed him had Lance not shot him. Whether this claim is true or false is never revealed.
• Lone Wolf Boss: The only killer in the game to not be working for the smuggling ring (though his father is), and the murder he committed is entirely unrelated to it.
• Meaningful Name: "Amanogawa" is the Japanese name for the Milky Way. See Lauren's section below for relevance.
• Noodle Incident: We never really learn exactly how he ended up with a debt to Viola that necessitated a staged kidnapping.
• Overlord Jr.: Implied, along with his father being implied to be a Yakuza boss. His father goes to great lengths to get him out of trouble, and seems to genuinely care for his son... up to a point, anyway.
• Pretty Boy: A parody. He fits all of the criteria of a bishonen, along with the visual shorthands for one like Dramatic Wind, but is nonetheless unattractive.
• Smug Snake: He really doesn't care about his girlfriend at all and tries to pin the killing on her. It's also suggested that he roped Oliver into the whole affair by threatening to harm Lauren if he didn't play along.
• Talks Like a Simile: He even berates Edgeworth for not understanding what he meant by saying he was "left behind like an unwanted mutt".
• Tears of Remorse: As part of his Villainous Breakdown. Though this could be due to getting caught.
• Too Dumb to Live: He tried to blackmail a man who he thought was a dangerous criminal by threatening to hurt his daughter if he didn't comply. This almost got him killed.
• Villainous Breakdown: Manages to break his handcuffs, and then sniffles and then starts sobbing.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Part of his on-the-fly plan is to fake a kidnapping using himself.

Lauren Paups (Himeko Orito)

Lance's girlfriend. Seems prone to falling in love with Bishōnen. Involved in the kidnapping plan. Is Oliver Deacon/Colin Devorae's daughter.

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• Attack Backfire: Borderline. Edgeworth's trademark Death Glare does worry her... because she finds it so attractive that she has to loudly tell herself that she's in love with Lance.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She seems sweet and demure, and is implied to be an abuse victim at the hands of Lance. Still, she didn’t think twice about shooting at someone in self-defense when she saw them pointing a gun at her. Unbeknownst her, the gun she used could only fire blanks, and the entire thing was a setup.
• Blush Sticker: When she gets all lovey-dovey, she sports these.
• Important Haircut: To the point of exaggeration; she takes a pair of scissors to her hair whenever she feels deeply ashamed or distressed. Although she never actually cuts any of it in-game, when you consider how much shorter and more uneven most of her hair is compared to the two locks she has in front, you can probably figure out for yourself just how often this sort of thing comes up.
• Karma Houdini: Narrowly averted. She confessed to extortion, but at the end of the case she appears to just walk away. Then again, she lost something bigger than a few years of freedom... The end sequence shows that she got in trouble with the law after all, as she refers to spending some time in the detention center.
• Love Martyr: She goes along with the kidnapping scheme entirely for Lance's sake. He repays her devotion by leading her to believe she killed their accomplice and, unbeknownst to her, her father, and setting her up to take the fall for it.
• Meaningful Name: Her Japanese name, along with Lance's, is a reference to the East Asian folktale "The Princess and the Cowherd", wherein the princess, Orihime (Lauren's name being Himeko Orito) is separated from her lover, the cowherd, by the Milky Way (Amanogawa).
• Meido: In appearance only, it seems.
• Punny Name: Lance's nickname for her is Lollie, making it Lollipops.
• Self-Made Orphan: Was led to believe that she was this.
• Shrinking Violet: She's a shy lady that follows Lance wherever she goes. Edgeworth spooks (and even enamors) her very easily.
• Thinking Out Loud: Doesn't understand the concept of inner monologue. This is lampshaded by Kay.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Ring pops, to the point where she takes a lick or two every so often.

Oliver Deacon (Masumi Ogura)

Oliver Deacon/Colin Devorae (Masumi Ogura/Sumio Kurama)

Butler to Amano family and Lance's tutor. Died from a gunshot wound in his abdomen.

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• Asshole Victim: Subverted. We think he was killed because he didn't want to share the money, but it turns out that he was forced to take the heat for Ernest Amano, and was implied to have been blackmailed by his son into cooperating on the fake kidnapping.
• Disappeared Dad: To Lauren Paups.
• Papa Wolf: It's suggested that Lance was threatening to harm Lauren if Colin didn't help with the fake kidnapping, which is why he suddenly attacked him in the fun house.
• Significant Anagram: His real name and alias.
• Taking the Heat: Forced to take responsibility for the Amano Group's ties to the smuggling ring.

Turnabout Reminiscence (Sugisarishi Gyakuten)

For Manfred von Karma and the Judge see their respective pages.

Byrne Faraday (Kuro Ichijo)

"Are you saying... that I'm the Yatagarasu?"

Kay's father. A prosecutor who works with Tyrell Badd in catching the Yatagarasu, as well as bringing down the mysterious smuggling ring.

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• Amoral Attorney: Subverted. Though he breaks the law as a Yatagarasu member, he is nonetheless a good person and one of the few prosecutors who never was bad.
• Beware the Nice Ones: It's stated that he rarely loses his temper, but he gives Gumshoe an earful when he reports to his old post by mistake after becoming a Detective.
• Death by Origin Story: His murder is the catalyst for the friendship between Edgeworth and Kay, as well as the first time Edgeworth crosses paths with Quercus Alba's smuggling ring.
• Disappeared Dad: To Kay, after being murdered by Calisto Yew.
• Gadgeteer Genius: The man invented Little Thief by himself, rather impressive for the current day and age.
• The Killer Was Left-Handed: Both inverted and played straight at the same time. The inversion comes from the fact he's the victim of the case and the killer made the mistake of assuming he was right-handed, when he was actually a lefty. However, it's also played straight as the initial theory is that he and the other victim killed each other, but the fact that he's holding the murder weapon in the wrong hand helps Edgeworth deduce that he's been framed by a third party.
• Meaningful Name: Byrne is Gaelic for raven. "Kuro" means "black" and doubles as a pun on "crow".
• Personal Effects Reveal: He cares quite a bit for his daughter, as you can see from her "Promise Notebook," and Kay finds out that he was the Yatagarasu by reading his diary.
• Phantom Thief: As part of the Yatagarasu, he investigated the target organizations' security systems.
• Walking Spoiler: It's hard to talk about him without revealing that he's part of the Yatagarasu.

Mack Rell (Tohru Makari)

"Yeah, that's right. I did it. I killed the guy. But it was the Great Thief Yatagarasu that told me to do it!"

Hitman and suspect of killing of Deid Mann. Originally claimed to be Yatagarasu, but then accused Byrne Faraday of being one instead. Later found under Faraday's body with a gunshot wound and a knife in his hand, suggesting he stabbed Faraday at the last second before expiring.

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• Asshole Victim: Killed Deid Mann to silence him, much as Manny Coachen had killed Cece Yew to silence her, giving rise to the case being called the "Second KG-8 Incident".
• Creator Cameo: He's modeled after AAI's producer Motohide Eshiro.
• The Killer Becomes the Killed: Murdered while on trial for committing homicide by his own defense attorney in order to create a convenient cover story.
• Leave No Witnesses: Faraday is the one Calisto Yew had any actual motive to murder. On the other hand, Rell is killed in order to leave no witnesses.
• Punny Name:
  • Mackerel, as in the fish.
  • His Japanese name is an inversion of the phrase makari tooru means "to get away with" or "to let slide".
• Stealth Pun: Given the above about his name, this makes him a fishy individual.
• Villain Has a Point: When he accuses Byrne Faraday of being the Yatagarasu. He's one-third correct — and Byrne being the member who actively stole the critical evidence for this particular trial sure doesn't hurt, either.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: On Calisto Yew's orders, he kills Deid Mann, accuses Byrne Faraday of being the Yatagarasu, and, after Byrne Faraday is dead, helps arrange the crime scene. Then he is killed as well so that the murder will look like a fatal struggle between the two men.

Calisto Yew (Himiko Kazura)

Voiced by (Japanese): Yuki Nakamura (AAI)

"…Phwwh! Ahahahahahaha! Why so serious!? I think someone needs to loosen up!"

A skilled defense attorney who appears in case four of Ace Attorney Investigations. While she is usually very composed, she breaks into fits of hysterical laughter at someone's character tics, such as Edgeworth's constant seriousness and fancy way of talking.

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• Amoral Attorney: She takes on clients she knows are guilty to try and get closer to the smuggling ring that killed her sister. It’s later revealed she breached confidentiality and used the information she gathered as part of the Yatagarasu, enabling the theft of evidence of her own clients’ shady dealings.
• Blunt "Yes": When Franziska asks if Yew willingly chose to defend a person she knew was guilty of murder, Yew says yes.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: "I was destined to betray everyone from the very beginning." This one sentence perfectly describes her role as when being taken away to be arrested as Shih-na, she drops a valuable clue to betray her BOSS.
• Dark Action Girl: Pulls a gun and manages to escape the courtroom in Case 4 of Investigations.
• The Dragon: To Quercus Alba.
• Even Evil Has Standards: It’s hinted she had her reservations about killing Byrne Faraday on account of how long they had worked together as the Yatagarasu. She did try to simply get him arrested first, and when that failed she admits she opted for a quick, painless death so that he wouldn’t have seen it coming.
• Foil: Edgeworth is a serious prosecutor who wants to find the truth. Calisto is a dishonest defense attorney who is known for laughing.
• Gallows Humor: Laughs whenever she can, even at a crime scene.
• Giggling Villain: She falls into a laughing fit every time Edgeworth talks. Apparently, his Comically Serious demeanor sets her off.
• Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: She does this at the end of one of Edgeworth's rebuttals. ..while holding a gun.
• The Hyena: Pretty much takes any opportunity to belittle people by laughing at them.
• Jerkass: She has a habit of making fun of Edgeworth, viewing him and Franziska as children, and mocking Badd for his failure to save Cece Yew. Edgeworth even wonders to himself whether she’s able to verbalize anything but insults.
• Jerkass Has a Point: She tactlessly tries to have Kay removed from the courthouse during case 4. When Edgeworth objects, Yew points out that Kay could cause trouble for herself and the people investigating by sticking around, and that being the victim’s daughter doesn’t give her any special license to be there. Edgeworth concedes that she’s got a point.
• Laughing Mad: Once you finally break through her Emotionless Girl facade as Shih-na.
• Leitmotif: "Let Me Laugh at Cool", a jazzy song meant to sound silly and laid-back to represent how little Yew takes things seriously. It also plays after her Shih-na disguise falls.
• Lipstick-and-Load Montage: Calisto's sprite animations shows her applying makeup quite often. When bested by Edgeworth, she accidentally smears lipstick on her cheek, leaving a straight line.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Calisto is also a species of butterfly while Yew is a species of tree, hinting at her Cohdopian roots. Also, yew leaves are extremely poisonous. As a whole, her name sounds a bit like "callous to you", referencing her demeanor.
  • Himiko was a somewhat mythical queen of ancient Japan.
• The Mole: She pretended to be Cece Yew's sister in order to infiltrate the Yatagarasu. Then she posed as an Interpol agent to keep tabs on Shi-Long Lang.
• Mood-Swinger: Alternates between "stoic" and "uncontrollable laughter". There is no middle ground.
• No Name Given: "Calisto Yew" is not actually her name, and her real name is never provided.
• Not Me This Time: In Turnabout Ablaze, after her cover as Shin-na has been blown Edgeworth is quick to accuse her of murdering Manny Coachen; but before she's taken away she insists that she hasn't committed any murders this time. The kicker? She's telling the truth for once.
• Red Herring: When you first hear her Leitmotif, you're led to believe she is calm and quiet...then the silly jazzy tune starts playing at the same time she starts laughing like a hyena for the first time.
• Something Only They Would Say: When Shih-na bursts into laughing in Turnabout Ablaze exactly like Calisto does, it immediately tips off everyone that they are the same person.
• Sarcastic Confession: She says she and Cece Yew are not related with a straight face, then breaks down laughing, claiming she was kidding. She wasn't.
• Scales of Justice: She's an attorney and she wears a pair of scales as earrings.
• Shout-Out: Present the knife to her in Case 4, and after a fit of laughter, she'll ask Edgeworth, "Why so serious?"
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Done, interestingly enough, not only to Edgeworth and Franziska, but also to the players, when it's revealed the victim of the KG-8 case was her sister. You wouldn't think she and the culprit of that case, Manny Coachen, are in cahoots. But they are. And Cece isn't her sister.

Deid Mann

Cohdopia Embassy staff member who was murdered by Mack Rell to prevent him from testifying about the smuggling ring.

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• The Generic Guy: He's about as nondescript as a murder victim can get. Even his Punny Name is just a reference to the fact that he's a murder victim.
• Punny Name: Dead man.

Cece Yew (Yuko Kazura)

The victim of the KG-8 case. Calisto's supposed sister, and a former Amano group member. Was killed in her apartment (on Det. Badd's watch) before being able to testify in court about the smuggling ring.

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• Defector from Decadence: She decided to betray the Amano group after finding out about the existence of the smuggling ring.
• Punny Name: "Cease, You!", "cc: you" or maybe even "she sees you."
• She Knows Too Much: Held critical evidence against the smuggling ring gleaned from her employment at the Amano Group.
• Theme Naming:
  • A yew is a type of tree (incidentally, it's sometimes found in graveyards), following the tree theme for several of the characters involved in KG-8.
  • In Japanese, the theme is various plants. Her surname, "Kazura", is the Japanese word for climbing or creeping plants (e.g. ivy, vines).

Turnabout Ablaze (Moeagaru Gyakuten)

For Wendy Oldbag and Larry Butz see respective pages.

Manny Coachen

"It's nice to see you again... Ms. Yew."

A suspect in the KG-8 case after killing Cece Yew, but let go due to lack of evidence. Worked as secretary to Colias Palaeno while secretly still working for the smuggling ring. Later found dead in the ashes of a fire within the Babhalese embassy, although his actual death was caused by a stab wound.

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• Asshole Victim: Probably one of the worst in the series, since he was a murderer and a member of the smuggling ring. He's also noted by quite a few characters as sharing the same ruthless and selfish ambitions as the man who killed him.
• The Dragon: To the smuggling ring leader, later to become The Starscream.
• Hate Sink: While not as bad as Alba, he was willing to ruin countless lives to make a profit. He would kill innocents if there was an advantage in it for him, and was willing to corrupt and betray his closest allies if he felt that he could gain power from doing so.
• Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Seen as one by Palaeno.
• The Killer Becomes the Killed: Murdered by the same man who ordered him to commit the murder of a key witness against him years before.
• Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight: He probably bought Alba's "frail, hunched, tree-like old man" act and thought of him as an easy target. A mistake that proved to be lethal.
• Not Me This Time: Edgeworth at one point suspects him of killing Byrne Faraday, his motive being that he had prosecuted him, but Badd says while Coachen was at the trial, he was being watched by the police the entire time, and couldn't have done it.
• Not Proven: He was never convicted of Cece's murder because the smuggling ring stole the evidence. By the time Badd stole it back, it was too late to be used in court.
• Reformed Criminal: The reason Palaeno hired him as a secretary despite knowing he did kill Cece Yew. What Palaeno didn't know, however, was that Coachen was never reformed to begin with.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: The reason he got off the hook for murder. This is what kickstarted the Yatagarasu.
• Small Role, Big Impact: While Coachen is given a bit more depth than other victims and is even given a sprite, he doesn’t make it long in Turnabout Ablaze before being killed. Regardless, his actions led to the creation of the Yatagarasu and his death kickstarts Turnabout Ablaze and the start of Quercus Alba’s demise.
• The Starscream: Tries to ensure that Alba would not become Cohdopia's ambassador when it reunited by stealing the Primidux Statue and trying to kill Alba, but ends up dead instead.

Colias Palaeno (Damian Hinge)

"All I wish for is the normalization of relationships between our two countries."

Ambassador of Babahl. Outwardly a bit of The Slacker, but tries really hard to promote tourism to his country.

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• Animal Motifs: He and his country of Babahl use butterfly symbology. Though players might be suspicious of this due to Dahlia Hawthorne's butterfly motif, Colias is a positive example.
• "Ass" in Ambassador: Of the too-eager variety. Not as bad as most examples, though, due to him being genuinely devoted to his job of healing the rift between the two countries and wanting to improve his own country's reputation. By the end of the game, the worst he does was to sell Zinc Lablanc III the fake Primidux statue, which isn't that bad since the latter is a massive jerkass.
• Be as Unhelpful as Possible: Arguably the only character in the entire series to completely avert this. He is always polite, answers all your questions honestly and helps in any way he can. In a clever subversion of player expectations, he is also completely innocent. His specific kind of helpfulness and honesty, in fact, is an early clue that he is exactly the kind of person he seems to be. When Edgeworth discusses the statue switch with Palaeno, Palaeno replies that they've confirmed they have the other country's statue. He knows because Babahl's own statue is the replica, and the one sitting in Coachen's office now is the real deal. That he knew this beforehand and freely admits it now, where most people would feign ignorance in the same situation (especially since it's against the interests of Babahl to admit such a thing), speaks well to his character.
• Beware the Silly Ones: A heroic version. While he's too eager to please and a bit strange, he is one of the main reasons Alba got arrested, due to Palaeno having the guts to back Alba into a corner.
• Big Damn Heroes: When it looks like Alba will get away with his crimes, Palaeno storms in with his soldiers and forces Alba to continue his testimony, blocking off his final chance of escaping and helping Edgeworth take him down once and for all.
• Competition Coupon Madness: Kind of. He freely hands out coupons, but these coupons are only useful in Babahl. But you have to wonder where he gets all those coupons from?! Even his guards give away coupons! His country must really be kind to tourists. One suspects his secretary, Manny Coachen, came up with the coupons as a legitimate reason for their embassy to have its own printing press...
• Color-Coded Eyes: They are really bright, and probably a reference to how whitcrystal oil burns green.
• Crazy-Prepared: Subverted. There was going to be a test to see which country's Primidux statue is the real deal. The Primidux statue of Babahl is fake, so he planned to negotiate with Alba to say the test results were inconclusive. However, by that time Coachen had already planned to steal the real statue for Babahl — and Alba and Shih-na had already arranged to swap the statues anyway — so it was pointless twice over.
• Department of Redundancy Department:
  Palaeno: [Babahlese ink is] made from whitcrystal oil, which is mined from our mineral mines.
• Determinator: He is determined to find Coachen's killer. He goes as far as forcing Alba to testify about his alibi since it would look bad for him if he refused.
• Diplomatic Impunity: Highly downplayed. Colias has diplomatic immunity as the Ambassador of Babahl, but never uses it in a negative way as the trope implies. Instead, he uses his position to get around other people trying to stonewall investigators with extraterritorial rights.
• Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: He very politely asks you not to touch the Primidux Statue since it's a national treasure. And since the statues were switched, you'll become pretty suspicious. But when it is discovered the statue currently in Allebahst has a plate made for counterfeiting, someone else is being suspected.
• Everybody Knew Already: He knew that Coachen is the killer of KG-8, which isn't that surprising to the player but to Edgeworth it is.
• Eyes Always Shut: Due to his incessant smiling. He only ever opens his eyes when he gets serious. Several players reported being disturbed upon seeing it. Others reported swooning.
• A Father to His Men: He really does have Babahl's best interest in mind, and on a personal level he feels obligated to help solve Coachen's murder because Coachen was his subordinate, even though he knows full well at this point that the man was a crook. This gives him something in common with (of all people) Agent Lang.
• Good Counterpart: To Alba. They're ambassadors of neighboring countries, but while Alba is a crime lord who uses his position for the Diplomatic Impunity it grants, Palaeno is a Nice Guy genuinely dedicated to his country and his job.
• Hand Rubbing: If you look carefully, his hands resemble a butterfly.
• Horrible Judge of Character: He's shocked to find out that Coachen not only had not reformed like he had thought, but that he was being used by Manny so that he would become the leader of the smuggling ring.
• It's All My Fault: When he realized the Babahlese statue was the fake, Coachen reassured him that Palaeno would still be the Codohpian ambassador. Then Coachen ordered a heist of the real Primidux statue. Palaeno blames himself for this, but by the time we have the full story, it's obvious Coachen did it all for himself.
• Leitmotif: "Two Embassies ~ The Lands of the Butterfly and the Flower"
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Keeps Alba and co. from leaving with a squad of his own.
• Meaningful Name: Colias palaeno is a bright green-yellow butterfly. The green and yellow match his own colors, and the butterfly is the Bahbahlese national symbol. His second Japanese name is 'Hinge' or 'Hinji'; referring to the butterfly hinge.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Only his Japanese name though. You will think he's the killer because his first name is Damian in the Japanese version.
• Nice Guy: This can easily fool anyone into thinking he's the murderer.
• Offer Void in Nebraska: All of his coupons are only usable in Babahl, the embassy doesn't count either. It's his way of promoting tourism.
• The Pollyanna: His country is not doing well, his embassy is even worse off and got set on fire, and the one person he'd come to depend on to fix everything is both murdered and revealed a crook. Yet Palaeno is, for the most part, genuinely cheerful and optimistic.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: A high-ranking Babahlese official and genuine Nice Guy who goes out of his way to help Edgeworth resolve any problems that come from investigating an embassy.
• Red Herring: His eyes, Hand Rubbing gestures, way too wide smile, and ingratiating personality (and in Japanese, his given name) serve to make him look sleazy and suspicious early on, especially when he reveals a more serious set of sprites, but he proves to be genuinely amiable as the case wears on.
• Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: He's so eager to cooperate that he must have ulterior motives, right? Nope. He really is just a helpful guy.
• Stepford Smiler: He keeps up his smile, even while talking about how his embassy is ruined. Edgeworth even notes it in his thoughts. Though presumably this is just because as a diplomat, he has to be polite and welcoming in any situation, so he's just keeping up the habit.

Quercus Alba (Carnage Onred)

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"The arm of the law is powerless before me!"

Ambassador of Allebahst. Appears to be a good old man who occasionally blames himself for mistakes. He is the leader of the smuggling ring, thus the Big Bad. Killed Manny Coachen during a fight where Coachen attempted to attack him then orchestrated a complex alibi to make it seem as though Coachen had died in a different part of the Allhebast/Babahl embassy. He's also a very, very stubborn man.

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• Ambadassador: Of the evil kind. Alba firmly fits into this trope as a war veteran that, despite his advanced age and his bad back, was able to best and kill both a thief and a much younger man that intended to murder him in the same night.
• "Ass" in Ambassador: Especially after The Reveal, but even before that there are some subtle hints that he's not a nice guy.
• Bad Boss: He doesn’t care how many subordinates he has to throw under the bus to ensure that he isn’t punished for his crimes. It’s no surprise that Manny Coachen, Ernest Amano, and Calisto Yew were all willing to turn on him at one point or another.
• Beard of Evil: Especially once his "true self" is revealed.
• Beard of Sorrow: Goes with how he blames himself for all the problems. Of course, that's just to go along with his "frail old man" act.
• Becoming the Mask: At one point, he gripes that spending all his time hunched over as part of his "frail old man" act has given him an actual bad back, making him an unusual physical variant of this trope.
• Big Bad: He's ultimately responsible for everything that happened in this game.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He appears to be a weak, kindly old man, but in reality he's in complete control of just about everything and is absolutely ruthless.
• The Chessmaster: The man behind everything in this game.
• Chest of Medals: His chest is covered in medals and he likes to show off how much they sparkle and shine while smirking evilly directly into the camera as if to taunt the player rather than Edgeworth.
• Climax Boss: It takes two whole gameplay segments just to take this guy down.
• Consummate Liar: Alba is a fantastic liar, being able to create a near perfect alibi for himself while deflecting the blame onto his subordinates. Even when his diplomatic status is revoked, Alba is still able to weave a convincing story, only getting caught because Edgeworth was able to catch him out on a contradiction about some Steel samurai merchandise.
• Cool Old Guy: Subverted. He’s very cooperative and kind, if a bit deprecating at times... until his true colors were revealed.
• Determinator: Alba makes it clear that he won’t go down without a fight. He's probably caused more than a few players to scream "JUST GIVE UP ALREADY!", purely due to how Alba remains calm throughout all of Edgeworth's interrogation and cross examinations. Even after getting his ambassadorship suddenly removed, he constantly manages to find dozens of ways to invalidate evidence or Edgeworth's deductions, quickly bouncing back from being cornered. Few other suspects in the Ace Attorney franchise match Alba's sheer resilience while under interrogation. However, Edgeworth is just as determined to take him down as Alba is determined to get away with it.
• Diplomatic Impunity: Being an ambassador, he has this, and invokes it to trying to get out of the country after Edgeworth learns of his role as the smuggling ring's leader, though Lang gets it revoked by showing his country what he's been doing. That said, he puts up one hell of a fight even after he loses it, fitting for the game's Final Boss.
• Dirty Coward: Tries to pin the blame on his second in command, his minions and even his own murder victim to avoid suspicion. When he is finally cornered, he tries to use his military to flee the scene, only being stopped by Palaeno and his troops.
• Evil Old Folks: The old leader of the smuggling ring with a giant rap sheet of crimes. He's not even remotely sorry for any of it, feeling as if he's above it all. At 72, he's both the oldest culprit in the series and the oldest known character to appear in-person.
• Evil Sounds Deep: His "OBJECTION!" soundbyte is very similar to Manfred von Karma's.
• Evil Versus Evil: He and his victim are equally as self-centered and corrupt. It all came down to who got to who first, really.
• Evil Virtues: Alba might be an awful person, but let's give the devil his due: he was once a brave soldier and general who saved his country, and over the course of the final case, we see that he's lost none of his courage or composure under fire in the years since. Even the murder showcases it; Manny was half his age, had the element of surprise and a longer weapon, and Alba still dispatched him with a knick on the shoulder.
• Eyes Always Shut: They open when he "transforms".
• Fallen Hero: Implied to be the case. Alba was once a soldier who helped serve his country and participated in a war that granted Cohdopia a victory. It's clear that any humanity or morality has disappeared by the time he is confronted by Edgeworth.
• Fan Boy: Of the Steel Samurai. Or rather, he pretended to be one to secure an alibi; soon as it stops benefiting him, he immediately starts to insult the Steel Samurai actor he had previously praised and dismissing the Steel Samurai as children's show nonsense.
• Final Boss: Of the game he appears in, and an annoyingly persistent one at that.
• Flower Motif: Besides the obvious flower motif associated with Allebahst in general, he's associated heavily with trees, befitting both his age and toughness. Alba's hair resembles a tree's canopy, his face is weathered like old bark, and his beard is similar to a tree's roots. Kay calls him "dead on the inside, just like a hollow tree"; his hair blows back like a tree in heavy winds while parts of his face get chipped away in his damage animation (revealing nothing underneath), as if he were an old wooden doll or a hollow tree. And his Villainous Breakdown results in him reeling back, falling forward to his default "old man" posture with the noise of a falling tree, finishing with his eyes being covered with shadow and visibly withering up like an old dead tree.
• Four-Star Badass: Manny had a longer knife, the element of surprise, and was half Alba's age. He barely nicked Alba's shoulder. Also, if Alba has to make that transition out of his weak-old-man facade to stand up-right every time, he was able to defend himself from an ambush while hunched over by using a statue, of all things, as a bludgeon.
• From Camouflage to Criminal: He goes from a general who saved his country to a leader of a smuggling ring.
• General Ripper: While we never hear much about Alba's former military career, if this exchange (and his overall ruthlessness) is anything to go by...
  Edgeworth: Is not every life precious?
  Alba: That doesn't even warrant an answer.
• Hate Sink: Lang said it best, the man's a complete and total bastard. When Alba is revealed to be the head of the smuggling ring, he reveals himself to be a smug, preening bastard who only cares about himself. Most of his testimony consists of him gloating about his connections and power, talking down to Edgeworth, and making things as difficult for everyone around him as possible. And thanks to the amount of time needed to take him down, that of course means he'll have plenty of time to flaunt all those lovely and endearing character traits that will make you ponder how nice it would be to punch him in the face.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Twice. One occasion has him attempting to secure an alibi by claiming to have been watching a Steel Samurai stage show and citing the Samurai's debuting special move as proof that he was there. Problem is, not only was a different move used due to unforeseen circumstances, but the only way Alba could have known of the move he named was if he had been backstage during the time of the murder. Later, you present him with a bloodstained hot dog box, assuming that the blood belongs to the victim. Alba correctly points out that such evidence would do nothing to place him at the crime scene personally, and the blood turns out not to be the victim's anyway. Rather, it is the blood of Alba himself, who tells you earlier in the case that he had been stabbed in order to create a justified self-defense plea for a separate murder.
• It's All My Fault: Part of his front as a compassionate old ambassador is loudly berating himself for the events that occurred at the dual embassies.
• Large and in Charge: At full height, he's taller than everyone in the game.
• Large Ham: He's such a ham after he discards his "frail old man" facade that he gets his own Objection clip.
• Leitmotif: "The Enemy Who Surpasses The Law," which is only heard once you get him to ditch his 'frail old man' facade.
• Marathon Boss: A rare example of one in a Visual Novel. His entire interrogation sequence will likely take the player around an hour and a half to complete it all. It's so long that the game gives you a checkpoint in the middle of it.
• The Man Behind the Man: He is this to all the murderers in AAI; they're all connected to him or the smuggling ring somehow. Portsman? Amoral Attorney whose job was to make trials end in the ring's favor. Cammy Meele? Undercover agent tasked with overseeing the transportation of smuggled goods in between countries. Lance Amano? Well, he's not a member of the smuggling ring, but his dad certainly was. Calisto Yew? The Dragon.
• Meaningful Name: Quercus alba is the scientific name for the white oak. The national symbol of Allebahst is the flower, and by extension plants. Fans have suggested that "Carnage Onred" is a pun on "red carnation". Or it might be meaningful because he is a killer.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: His Japanese name is Carnage Onred. It's probably a play on "carnation red", but damn if "Carnage on Red" isn't appropriately evocative of a former general.
• Obfuscating Disability: The weak frail old man look is just an act, though he later admits he knows the pain of having a bad hip because of it.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: He pretends to be a good, if feeble, old man, but is actually a Manipulative Bastard.
• Obviously Evil: As soon as he drops his old man facade, he looks absolutely terrifying. His evil smirking at the player doesn't help. Nor does his Japanese name.
• Pet the Dog: He calls a doctor to call for Wendy Oldbag when her hip acts up, claiming that the main characters don't know the pain a bad hip can cause. He even seems empathetic about it after he's discarded his pretenses, although this may just because he is thinking about the pain he feels, rather than Oldbag's.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: It's heavily implied that the Allebahstian court system is in his back pocket, thus protecting him from prosecution if he killed anyone within the confines of his embassy. Once it's revealed that Shi-Long Lang has had Alba's Diplomatic Impunity revoked, his future plans seem to rely solely on his underworld connections, as Lang had shown the incriminating evidence to the royal family... meaning Alba could no longer count on the courts being in his favor, but he's still confident that no consequences will reach him if he leaves the country.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: It isn’t made clear exactly whether his confidence that he can get away with anything in Allebahst is because of his influence and/or corrupt connections or if it’s because he’s paying off people to work the system for him. Regardless, his smuggling empire more than makes enough dirty money to bankroll his injustice.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: If he retreats back to his homeland, he'll have full diplomatic immunity in Allebahst since he has enough clout to twist the rules there.
• Smug Snake: Even after all his subordinates are either dead or imprisoned, he is still confident that his extraterritorial rights will keep him safe. That is, until Lang has them revoked. And even then, he still claims that they've got nothing on him until Edgeworth can finally secure some evidence to prove that he killed Manny Coachen outside of Allebahst.
• Spikes of Villainy: His hair and beard have more than a few downward spikes. His epaulets, revealed once he quits slouching, have some traditional "evil general" spikes on them as well.
• Stroke the Beard: He has a habit of this, though the manner changes between his "stances". When posing as a frail old man, he just rubs one bit of his beard between two fingers. When he's standing up-right, he tends to grab the whole beard and run it through his fingers.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Tries really hard to get out of the embassy so he can dodge the ever-tightening noose around his neck, but is cut off at every turn by someone blocking his way.
• Villainous Breakdown: He's knocked backwards by military explosions on his chest, and then slumps forward into his "hunched old man" persona but looking much more decrepit and missing a few teeth.
• Walking Spoiler: His real purpose spoils the entire plotline of AAI.
• You Meddling Kids: His last line before said Breakdown.

Ka-Shi Nou (Aoi Akaishi)

Mask☆DeMasque II in name only. Killed via blunt force during an attempt to rob the Allebahstian embassy.

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• Acrofatic: Is noticeably fatter than Ron DeLite, yet he was seemingly a pretty good Phantom Thief, since he was actually hired to steal something.
• Asshole Victim: The only things known about him are his obsession with Mask☆DeMasque and his willingness to steal things for Manny Coachen.
• Gonk: Is noticeably very fat when his face portrait is seen. It's not as noticeable when in his costume.
• Jack the Ripoff: Calls himself "Mask☆DeMasque II" and styles himself after the original, but is no way connected to him.
• Neet: Is out of work and wanted for larceny.
• Punny Name:
  • "Cash In Now". Alternately, "Casino".
  • His Japanese first name, Aoi, is written with the kanji for "mallow" (following the plant Theme Naming in this case). It's also a homophone for the word for "blue", which can also be used to describe someone who is inexperienced (figuratively "green").

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