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A university student that's very picky with words and is a pompous jerk. He beans Phoenix over the head with a fire extinguisher and knocks him out. He's a member of a group of con artists {{spoiler|and the murderer of Dustin Prince}}.

 

* [[Insufferable Genius]]: He clearly thinks so, anyway. Probably actually [[Feigning Intelligence]].

* [[Meaningful Name]]: They're both just meant to sound pretentiously upper-crust, really.

** Also, "rich" and "well".

* [[Motor Mouth]]: When he's nervous, he starts talking things that have nothing to do with the case (even with highlighted text!). Can be even worse about it than that [[Rhymes on a Dime|old hag Oldbag]].

* [[Public Domain Soundtrack|Public Domain Ringtone]]: {{spoiler|[[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]]'s ''Toccatta & Fugue in D Minor'', which proves crucial for nailing the case since he stole Phoenix's cell phone thinking it to be his, which had evidence incriminating him}}.

* [[Smug Snake]]

 

An air-headed occult freak that told Dr. Grey about the Kurain Channeling technique. {{spoiler|In truth, Ini is dead. After Mimi, her older sister who worked as a nurse to Dr. Grey, accidentally killed fourteen people, the Miney sisters were in a car crash that Ini died in. Mimi, having caused the deaths of many people and lost her job, sister and face, decided to make Mimi disappear and took the guise of her sister in order to put her old life behind. But when Turner Grey began taking an interest in having "Mimi" channeled, Mimi, with Morgan Fey's help, killed him and framed Maya for it}}.

 

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: And ''how?!''

* [[Dead Person Impersonation]]: {{spoiler|Her sister}}.

* [[Nice Hat]]: Which gets utterly abused and wrecked over the course of the case.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]

* {{spoiler|[[Sympathetic Murderer]]}}:{{spoiler|While not as much as Acro. If what she said is true (heavily implied), then it was Grey who killed Ini}}.

** YYMV, since {{spoiler|Grey had a point in that he had no real motivation for doing so and was in fact trying to bring her ghost back to clear his name, which would probably be a bad idea if she'd just accuse him of her murder instead. Also, she seemed to kill him because he was about to reveal that she was still alive, not out of any apparent desire for revenge}}.

Actually, neither of those are his real names. "Dr. Hotti/Hickfield" is actually a patient of the Hotti/Hickfield clinics that sneaks out of his room, puts on a stethoscope and lab coat, and calls himself director to visitors.

 

* [[Fourth Wall Observer]]: He's somehow able to read Phoenix's inner monologue and comment on the static background of the Hotti Clinic.

* [[Lolicon]]: He apparently has a thing for Trucy.

A famous magician under the employ of the Berry Big Circus; his biggest trick is flying around. Cue the murder of the circus ringmaster whose assailant leaves no footprints in the snow. He's actually a country bumpkin.

 

* [[Camp Straight]]: Oh, so very much. He'd be the campiest of [[Camp Gay]]... except he's madly in love with Regina.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Fabulous!"

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Maximillion does have a decent side to him. For instance, he acts arrogant and conceited, but perhaps only to make his circus mates strive to become better.

** He reconciles with the circus eventually, and offers to keep working with them post-trial. Despite his views on the circus, he realizes that it likely won't draw a crowd without him, so instead of leaving them behind (which would probably be way more financially lucrative for him), he decides to stay with them.

* [[Nice Hat]]: It's a purple silk and has a peacock feather in it. Absolutely ''fabulous''.

* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: When the reality of his situation sets in at the beginning, he momentarily loses control of his smooth talk and starts talking in his native hillbilly accent.

* [[Pride]]

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: While he's in custody, he says that he'll be fine, since he's both famous and has a lot of money; he apparently believes that would place him above the law.

* [[Stage Names]]: His real name is very hick-ish: Billy Bob Johns in English, Kohei Yamada in Japanese.

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Milk. He needs it to calm his nerves before each performance.

 

=== Regina Berry (''Rika Tachimi'', stage name ''Mirika'') ===

Russell Berry's daughter and animal tamer of the Berry Big Circus. Because of her sheltered life (in a circus, no less) and her father's protective upbringing, she has a very naïve outlook and doesn't really understand death (in the English version, she thinks that when people die, they become a star in the sky; in the Japanese version, she just thinks that they are in a deep sleep), even when her father doesn't hide the fact that he shot one of the lions with a rifle. Returns in ''Ace Attorney Investigations 2'''s second case as a witness due to being asked to put on an animal show at the prison at the time of the murder. Has apparently taken on more responsibility in the circus, but otherwise hasn't changed much.

 

* [[But Thou Must!]]: The current trope image.

* [[Circus Brat]]

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Due to her sheltered upbringing.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: "Regina" means "queen".

* [[Pepper Sneeze]]

 

=== Lawrence Curls a.k.a. Moe the Clown (''Matsuo Tomida'' a.k.a. ''Tommy'') ===

* [[Annoying Laugh]]: "Aha! Aha! Aha! Aha! Aha! Aha! Aha! Aha! Aha! Aha! Aha! Aha! Aha! Aha! Aha! Aha! Aha! Aha!"

* [[Expressive Mask|Expressive Hat]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]/[[Punny Name]]/[[Shout-Out]]: [[Three Stooges|Larry, Curly and Moe]]. Meanwhile, Tommy and Matsu are a popular Japanese comedy duo.

* [[Mouthful of Pi]]: *whip crack* "Do you like pi? I love pi! 3.141592... (continue for almost two lines of text)! Tasty!"

* [[No Indoor Voice]]: He makes Phoenix want some earplugs.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: He seems to be the sanest surviving circus member despite his goofiness. {{spoiler|Maybe this will make him more suited to the position of Ringmaster}}.

* [[Talkative Loon]]: English version only: in addition to the [[Mouthful of Pi]] mentioned above, he also recites the openings of ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air|The Fresh Clown of Bel Air]]'' and ''[[The A-Team|The C-Team]]''.

 

Ben is a ventriloquist of the Berry Big Circus, and Trilo is his puppet. Ben doesn't do a lot of talking, and does a lot of stuttering. Trilo, in contrast, is loud, offensive and an all-around [[Jerkass]], who also intends to propose to Regina.

 

* [[Meaningful Name]]/[[Punny Name]]: A puppeteer named Woodman? Also, the obvious "Ben & Trilo Quist".

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Ben = Ven.

* [[Split Personality]]: Since it's a ''ventriloquist act'', it's likely that Ben is using the puppet to express his other personality. You can see Ben's mouth moving sometimes when Trilo speaks, so it's not as if Trilo is talking on his own. Just like real life puppet shows, Trilo is a character Ben made up for his act, but it seems that he eventually took the act a little too far.

* [[Anti-Villain]]: {{spoiler|Probably one of the least of the murders in the series. However, this does not absolve him from trying to kill Regina due to her ignorance, unintentionally killing her father and then framing an innocent Maximillion Galactica for the crime}}.

* [[Beneath Suspicion]]: Justified.

* [[Deus Angst Machina]]: ''Boy goddamn howdy''.

* [[Disney Creatures of the Farce]]

* {{spoiler|[[Murder by Mistake]]}}: {{spoiler|Regina was his intended target, but he ended up killing her father instead... to add insult to injury, the man was like a father to him, and he was so upset upon discovering that he had killed him instead that he even contemplated suicide}}.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: He and his brother didn't run away to the circus, ''their parents'' ran away and they had nowhere else to go.

 

=== Matt Engarde (''Shingo Otoro'') ===

 

* {{spoiler|[[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: He screws himself over that way}}.

* {{spoiler|[[A Glass of Chianti]]: ...while in prison, no less}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Of the good ol' fashioned evil variety}}.

* [[Leitmotif]]: The second game's "Search - In the Midst", despite not given his name directly in widely, considered to be this for him. {{spoiler|[[It Got Worse|"Search - Core"]] is his theme after he reveals himself}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Madness Mantra]]: When he cracks: "Guiltyguiltyguiltyguiltyguiltyguilty..." (repeat ad infinitum)}}

* [[Meaningful Name]]/[[Punny Name]]: {{spoiler|He's always on guard. "Otoro" is a pun on "outlaw"}}.

** Also, [[It's All About Me|notice his initials]].

** Combined with Juan Corrida, in which corrida is bull fighting.

* {{spoiler|[[Nice Character, Mean Actor]]}}: {{spoiler|Although he has a reputation as a nice guy}}.

* {{spoiler|[[The Reveal]]: "Hold on a sec. I'm gonna consult myself, okay?"}}

* [[Running Gag]]: He repeatedly calls up certain people to consult about various matters. {{spoiler|It stops being funny when he ''consults himself'' and reveals his true colors}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Smug Snake]]}}

* [[Surfer Dude]]: He's got the [[Verbal Tic]], but it is unknown if he likes surfing. He certainly loves motorbikes though.

* {{spoiler|[[Surveillance as the Plot Demands]]: He hid a camera in a giant stuffed bear's eye to spy on Juan. And at the same time attempt to blackmail de Killer}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Villainous Breakdown]]: Suffers this when de Killer turns on him}}.

 

* [[Alliterative Name]]: Both names.

* [[Broken Bird]]

* [[Failure Knight]]

* [[Framing the Guilty Party]]: {{spoiler|It backfires so hard that she finds herself to be accused of the crime she NEVER committed}}.

** Seven to be exact.

* [[Living Emotional Crutch]]: {{spoiler|Both Celeste Inpax and Franzika von Karma are this to her}}. Lampshaded in the Case Files, in which Phoenix suggests that if she's relying on {{spoiler|Franziska's}} advice, she's still co-dependent.

* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]: Tries to be [[The Stoic]], but ends up being this. Oh, so much.

 

=== Shelly de Killer (''Sazaemon Koroshiya'') ===

 

* [[Affably Evil]]: Unlike most villains in the series, he doesn't come across as arrogant; instead, he's a polite man who's only doing his job (which happens to be [[Bread Milk Eggs Squick|killing people]]).

* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: {{spoiler|Matt Engarde decides it's a good idea to attempt to blackmail this guy}}.

* [[The Butler Did It]]: Well, he poses as a butler, at least.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: {{spoiler|This is how Phoenix finally beats Matt Engarde, by proving to de Killer that he was planning to blackmail him with a video of the murder. This immediately has de Killer release Maya and basically say in court that if Matt Engarde wasn't found guilty, ''he would kill him''}}. He also, unlike some of the other assassins {{spoiler|Engarde}} describes, doesn't blackmail his client, but tries to get him off when things don't go as planned, and his client gets charged.

* [[Expressive Shirt]]: De Killer himself always wears a completely stoic expression, but his radio, which resembles his face, shows a lot of emotion, including hopping in anger, sweating oil and exploding. His ''Ace Attorney Investigations 2'' appearance mirrors this effect using an ice cream cone he carries.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|He doesn't get caught whatsoever. One of the few villains in the series who manages to get away (alive). It's arguable that this is because Engarde could be considered the true villain of the second game's final case, whom DOES get convicted}}.

** {{spoiler|He's still at large as of the end of ''Ace Attorney Investigations 2'', where he escaped justice once again}}.

* [[Mexican Standoff]]: Against {{spoiler|Ryōken Hōinbō}}.

* [[Mr. Smith]]: He goes by the alias of John Doe, or Tarou Tanaka in Japanese. Both are exceedingly plain names that are commonly used as pseudonyms.

* [[Noble Demon]]: De Killer follows a strict honor code, as a professional killer. The level of trust between him and his client is paramount, and he will honor every deal as long as the client fulfills their end of the bargain. {{spoiler|Of course, in this case, his client Engarde does not honor the deal, and once Phoenix proves that Engarde was planning to betray de Killer, he responds by terminating the contract and threatening to assassinate Engarde himself out of revenge for attempting to double-cross him}}.

* [[Not So Different]]: To Phoenix Wright, and to that extent, the player. De Killer wants to make sure his client is declared Not Guilty. Just like a defense attorney would. {{spoiler|Of course, the subversion in this particular case is that your client IS guilty of the crime, which is a rarity in this series}}.

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: {{spoiler|He sports a pink kimono while posing as an ice cream vendor on Gourd Lake during ''Ace Attorney Investigations 2''}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Red Herring]]}}: {{spoiler|Despite, you know, ''being a proffesional assassin'', he's the only character who isn't guilty of anything in "Turnabout Target" (apart from the victim, of course)}}.

* [[Steven Ulysses Perhero]]: He's an assassin named de Killer.

* [[Wicked Cultured]]

* [[Anti-Gravity Clothing]]: Her stole floats, [[Foreshadowing]] her true nature.

* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]]}}: Of the third game. Although {{spoiler|Morgan Fey}} is equally guilty in a lot of ways, as the two end up plotting together. So perhaps this is a case of {{spoiler|[[Big Bad Duumvirate]]}}.

* [[Cute and Psycho]]

* [[Enfante Terrible]]: Planned out such a villainous plot since 14 years old. Poor Terry. She even plotted to get her relative disinherited when she was probably about 8.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Despite her undoubtedly being a [[Complete Monster]], Dahlia didn't really click with the whole "have Pearl become the new master" plan of Morgan, claiming that she forced all of her broken dreams and hopes on Pearl, whether she likes it or not. She also hates Morgan, as well. {{spoiler|She agrees that Maya Fey must die, but to her, it is revenge against the already deceased Mia Fey}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Evil Twin]]: In a literal sense}}.

* [[Fille Fatale]]: Just to emphasize the above: started seducing people and ruining lives at age ''fourteen''.

* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]

* [[Hello, Nurse!]]: For the Judges and Payne, to Mia's chagrin.

* [[Meaningful Name]]/[[Punny Name]]/[[Shout-Out]]: A reference to the Black Dahlia, and she's certainly got thorns. Possibly a [[Shout-Out]] to Nathaniel Hawthorne, specifically the story "Rappaccini's Daughter": the title character is a [[Walking Wasteland]] with poison permeating her blood and body, and her very touch is lethal. {{spoiler|Dahlia frequently makes use of poison as a murder tool, and she is indeed a person who's lethal if you get close to her, considering the multitude of people she's murdered out of self-interest after getting close to them}}.

** In the Japanese version: "Chinami" refers to the saying "''chi mo namida mo nai''" ("without blood or tears"—basically callous to the extreme).

* [[Pink Means Feminine]]: Wears an all pink outfit. It's just part of her cover image.

* [[Smug Snake]]

* [[Spoiled Brat]]: Her father is a rich businessman whom spoils his little girl. She also certainly is a brat, [[Understatement|to say the least]].

** {{spoiler|She goes into a [[Villainous Breakdown|bratty tantrum]] after Phoenix and Mia pointed out and rubbed in her face that her entire petty revenge scheme had failed big time before being forcefully ejected from Maya's body}}. Goes to show that in the end, Dahlia is nothing more than a petty spoiled brat.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: First when Mia exposes her as the [[Complete Monster]] she really is, and the second {{spoiler|when Mia lectures her to the underworld}}.

* [[Wicked Cultured]]: How many soulless murderers are literature students?

* [[Bishonen]]: If it weren't for the lower-pitched beep-de-beeps reserved for males when they talk, his gender might have been more of a mystery at first...

* [[Calling Card]]

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Not only is he {{spoiler|1=really the [[Phantom Thief]] Mask☆DeMasque}}, he also {{spoiler|saved Desirée from a band of robbers. He apparently did it in a rather hysterical way, but he still did}}.

* [[Gentleman Thief]]

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|1=If you examine the chief of police in the next case, you'll hear that Mask☆DeMasque tries to stop a bank robbery}}. Admittedly, he wasn't much of a bad guy to begin with.

* [[Lucky Charms Title]]

* [[Phantom Thief]]

* [[Rescue Romance]]: To Desiree.

* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: More obvious in the English version, but still present in Mask☆DeMasque's Japanese name, Kamen Mask: ''Kamen'' is Japanese for "mask".

* [[Unconfessed Unemployment]]

* [[Verbal Tic]]: ...well, no, that's not exactly true. It's just a tendency for his explanations to trail {{color|gray|off into no}}{{color|silver|thing}}.

Ron's incredibly hot wife (did I mention that already?). She spends money like it's going out of style {{spoiler|(hence why Ron got into thievery in the first place)}} and drives her motorcycle fast enough to call it "flying". She despises cowardly criminals above all else. {{spoiler|Apparently, Ron doesn't count because he [[Calling Card|announces his thefts]]. Man, did he make a good catch}}...

 

* [[What Does She See in Him?]]: The general response. It's heavily implied that he appeals to her maternal instincts... that and {{spoiler|she's under the impression he's loaded; he went into crime to [[Unconfessed Unemployment|not tell her that he was fired]]}}. There's also the fact that {{spoiler|1=while Luke Atmey hid and covered up his crime, Ron kept truthfully screaming at anyone who would listen that he was Mask☆DeMasque. So Ron is a criminal, but not the "cowardly" kind Desiree despises}}.

 

{{quote|'''Phoenix:''' "MY EYES!"}}

* [[Camp Gay]]: His appearance ''alone'' renders Phoenix and Maya speechless.

* [[Gratuitous Spanish]]: Apparently for laughs, because it just plain ''comes out of nowhere''.

* [[Manly Gay]]: Physically, though he certainly doesn't ''act'' like it.

* [[Lethal Chef]]: He can't even get ''coffee'' right.

* [[Meaningful Name]]/[[Punny Name]]: He's got strong arms, just look at him! "Hondobo" is a pun on "''fond de veau''" (French for "rich veal").

 

=== Victor Kudo (''Shohei Igarashi'') ===

 

* [[Bottomless Magazines]] and [[Infinite Supplies]]: His birdseed, lampshaded.

* [[Grumpy Old Man]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]/[[Punny Name]]: "Victor" comes from "victory", and "Shohei" means "soldier".

* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: "I don't have a strap fetish!"

The head of Blue Screens Inc., and Glen's old boss. Incredibly precise and may very well actually be a robot.

 

* [[Making a Spectacle of Yourself]]: She doesn't even NEED to wear an HMD, but does anyway.

* [[Medium Awareness]]: Whenever you mention someone or something with a picture, it pops up on the screen; she's the only character in the series who ''moves slightly out of the way'' to make room for it.

* [[Jerkass]]

* [[Leitmotif]]: "Warehouse Tiger".

* [[Meaningful Name]]/[[Punny Name]]: He's a furious tiger. "Toranosuke" means "tiger boy", and "Shibakuzo" means, more or less, "I'm gonna kick your ass!". "Zenitora" is roughly "Cash Tiger". Also, tigers are, according to legend, enemies with dragons (i.e. Pheonix, or ''Ryu''ichi).

* [[Most Definitely Not a Villain]]: See [[Paper-Thin Disguise]] below. {{spoiler|No, really. The badge was made of cardboard}}.

* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: His disguise consisted solely on a blue suit, his spikey hair and a cardboard cut-out badge. And everyone fell for it, except Godot, so he didn't take the case the first time.

* [[Real Men Wear Pink|Real Men Drive Pink Scooters]]

* [[Red Right Hand]]: Just ''look'' at the guy!

* [[Scrolling Text]]: Most of his roars cannot be contained by just one textbox.

* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: Maya nicknames him "Xin Eohp".

 

=== Bruto Cadaverini (''Gonta Shikabane'') ===

 

* [[An Offer You Can't Refuse]]

* [[Papa Wolf|Grandpapa Wolf]]: Viola is his little girl, thus hell falls on whoever hurts her in any way.

* [[Meaningful Name]]/[[Punny Name]]: He sure seems like a brute. "Cadaverini" and "Shikabane" both mean "corpse". "Gonta" roughly means "big authority".

 

* [[Acquitted Too Late]]: For ''several'' crimes he's suspected of.

* [[Blood From the Mouth]]: After he {{spoiler|poisons himself}}.

* [[Ephebophile]]: Sure does seem like the odd man out on this list, but he dated 14-year-old Dahlia Hawthorne when he was 20 and refers to her as his 'teen angel'.

* [[Love Martyr]]: In f---ing spades.

* [[Meaningful Name]]/[[Punny Name]]: Both his English and Japanese names refer to falling tears.

* {{spoiler|[[Suicide Pact]]}}: Damn you, Dahlia. Damn. You.

* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: But you can't help but feel bad for him.