Persona 4/Characters: Difference between revisions

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* [[Red Baron]]: The trailers for ''[[Persona 4 Arena]]'' have the [[Lemony Narrator]] giving insulting nicknames to each of the Team's members in the trailers. [[Interactive Narrator|Naturally, they complain about this]].

* [[Specs of Awesome]]: Get these once they acquire their Personas.

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: They transform from a bunch of ordinary teenagers (some who are celebrities) with deep-seated issues to an [[Badass Crew|effective fighting team]] with supernatural powers, that not only solves a murder case, catches the killer, but also {{spoiler|take on a god-like being (and win)}}. Also, when their Personas evolve.

* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: They transform from a bunch of ordinary teenagers (some who are celebrities) with deep-seated issues to an [[Badass Crew|effective fighting team]] with supernatural powers, that not only solves a murder case, catches the killer, but also {{spoiler|take on a god-like being (and win)}}. Also, when their Personas evolve.

* [[True Companions]]

* [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World]]

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* [[Battle Aura]]: Deserves special mention; his [[Battle Aura]] is several times larger than those of the rest of the Investigation Team.

* [[Beneath Suspicion]]: Dojima's instincts catch onto you and the investigation team almost immediately, but he can't bring himself to suspect the person who watches over his daughter.

* [[Berserk Button]]: In the anime, the only times we have seen him get noticeably angry are: A.) When {{spoiler|Mitsuo}} threatened Nanako (Yu scared him away with a [[Death Glare]]) and B.) When {{spoiler|Shadow Mitsuo}} [[Hannibal Lecture|declared that his bonds with his friends and family were empty and meaningless.]]

** [[Tranquil Fury]]: How he expresses his anger. Particularly in episode 23 {{spoiler|when he [http://images.wikia.com/megamitensei/images/a/a4/Yu_was_about_to_throw_Namatame_into_the_Tv_world.jpg comes within a hair's breath from tossing Namatame into the TV world] (basically a death-sentence) in retaliation for Nanako's apparent death, and without any hint of emotion on his face}}. It's one of the most chilling scenes in the anime.

* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: Towards Nanako.

** [[Big Brother Mentor]]: The Protagonist adopts this role with several of his Social Link contacts, notably Kanji and Teddie, and to a lesser extent Shu Nakajima and Naoki Konishi.<ref>Special mention for Kanji who will even, albeit sarcastically, refer to the Protagonist as "Big Bro" during his Social Link.</ref>

** [[Knight Templar Big Brother]]: {{spoiler|You're given the option to throw Namatame in the television in retribution for Nanako's death. [[Downer Ending|Things will only get worse though.]]}}

*** {{spoiler|Yu nearly DID do this in the anime, but managed to stop himself.}}

* [[Big Eater]]: In the anime, Yu apparently likes to order the The Meat Lover's Combo.

* [[Bishonen]]

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* [[Catch Phrase]]: The anime turns some of the narration's comments from the game into phrases Narukami says, for instance "Let's leave him be" shows up a fair bit.

* [[Celibate Hero]]/[[Really Gets Around]]: The Protagonist can be either one or anything in between.

* [[Character Development]]: The personality stats return from [[Persona 3]], except there are now five attributes rather than three: Knowledge, Courage, Diligence, Understanding, and Expression. Maxing them out opens up new Social Links and gives you more dialogue choices.

** In the anime, Yu starts off as a quiet, reserved, stoic, somewhat shy and unmotivated individual. He gradually begins to open up, showing a kinder, friendlier, yet slighly perverted, but comedic side to his personality. In fact, he eases up on the [[The Stoic|poker face]], smiling more often and showing more reaction to events around him, and takes more initiative in understanding/dealing with the people around him.

* [[Chick Magnet]]: Recognized in the anime. He's called a gigolo by Margaret of all people. Nobody argue about this.

* [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]]: If you perform the Social Links, it is almost impossible to stop him from helping others.

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'''Narukami''': [[Confused Question Mark|Huh?]] }}

** Probably shown best when Yu and Yosuke get knocked into the river for making perverted comments to Yukiko and Chie. Yosuke is laughing and flailing about, while Yu is completely flat faced and falls like a rock.

* [[Cool Big Bro]]: Pretty much every social link with someone who's not older than you, and one you're not romantically interested in.

* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Get turned into an old man briefly in Naoto's dungeon in the anime. Rise leads the other girls in squeeing over him anyway.

* [[Cool Shades]]: He can make a simple glasses into one. Just look at the page cover.

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* [[Curtains Match the Window]]

* {{spoiler|[[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]}}: {{spoiler|And he didn't even break an arm.}}

** {{spoiler|[[The Glasses Come Off]]}}: {{spoiler|This is HOW he punches out Cthulhu.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Earn Your Happy Ending]]}}: Well, {{spoiler|"Earn Your [[Bittersweet Ending]]" [[But Now I Must Go|is probably more accurate]].}}

* {{spoiler|[[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]]}}: Initiated by {{spoiler|[[The Power of Friendship]].}}

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* [[The Fool]]: His {{spoiler|(initial)}} Arcana.

* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Does this to Yosuke in the Manga when he meets his Shadow.

** This happens in the anime as well; made more awesome as he decks Yosuke in sync with Izanagi as it lands a good punch to Yosuke's Shadow. Then made [[Mood Whiplash|hilarious]] by Yu's response:

{{quote|'''Yu''': [http://images.wikia.com/megamitensei/images/b/b0/Yu_remark_that_was_an_accident..jpg (completely deadpan)] Oops, wrong guy.}}

** Also, {{spoiler|in the Normal/True Ending, he shouts down the entire team to calm down and make them reconsider avenging Nanako on Namatame, realizing something is off with the situation}}.

* [[Good People Have Good Sex]]: Like in [[Persona 3]], you are given the opportunity to sleep with almost any of the girls' whose Social Links you've completed. The scenes are not given explicit detail since this isn't an [[Eroge]], but it's heavily implied that both Yu's are very loving and gentle.

* [[Guile Hero]]: Saves almost everyone around him with words and simple emotional guidance.

** [[The Heart]]

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** [[Not So Stoic]]: After summoning Izanagi for the first time, he can be seen enjoying a taste of his new power.

* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: The other characters have easily concealed weapons, with exception to Kanji who could hide some of his weapons in shopping bags but not all of them (i.e. a desk). He doesn't ''and'' he carries all of the Shadow parts and useful things you find. The most common suggestion is that the Velvet Room has something to do with that.

* [[I Just Want to Have Friends]]: {{spoiler|In the anime. Yu's biggest fear is that after the investigation is over, the group will go their seperate ways and he'll be by himself again. Mitsuo's shadow exploits this fear and causes him to have a ''tremendous'' [[Heroic BSOD]]. It's possible that Yu has not had any lasting friendships before now, which would explain his [[Sugar and Ice Guy|Sugar and Ice personality]].}}

* [[In-Series Nickname]]: Yosuke calls him "Partner", Teddie calls him "Sensei", Nanako calls him "Big Bro", etc; in fact, most of the important characters have a different nickname for him, to avoid calling him by [[Hello, Insert Name Here|whatever name you gave him.]]

* [[Japanese Delinquents]]: At first it was just a [[Fan Nickname]], but is now officially canon, as in ''Arena'' he is described as a "steel siscon banchou!"

** Even his persona has a [[Badass Longcoat]] that gives off this vibe.

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* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]/[[Slasher Smile]]: The first time he summons Izanagi is a rare completely heroic example of both.

** Seen here [http://tonkuniverse.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/zero-raws_persona_4_-_01__mbs_1280x720_x264_aac_-mkv_001288412.jpg from episode 1 of the anime.]

* [[Sempai-Kohai|Sempai]]: In contrast to [[Persona 3]]'s protagonist, he's older than most other characters and gets called this.

* [[Second Year Protagonist]]

* [[Serious Business]]: For Yu, ''everything''. It does not matter if it is solving the case, making origami or eating the rainy day special, he treats them all with the same focus and determination.

* [[Silent Protagonist]]: Averted in his appearances in ''The Animation'' and ''The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena''.

* [[Stealth Pun]]/[[Shout-Out]]: This must be what the artists of the manga were thinking when they named the Protagonist after [[Rurouni Kenshin|Seta Soujiro]]. That or just coincidence.

* [[The Stoic]]: He never speaks outside battle and often has the option to tell others to calm down; there are only two points in the game where he has the option to become visibly angry. The eyes of his model are pretty cold too.

** The anime adaptation also depicts him this way. In contrast to the other cast members he (as Narukami) is rarely fazed by extraordinary events, and he almost always keeps a straight face (to the point that it's difficult to tell how serious is about some of the things he says - see [[Deadpan Snarker]]). Taken to absurd levels in the school trip episode, when he has the same serious expression plastered on his face [[Crowning Moment of Funny|as he's tossed over a cliff by Chie and Yukiko]]

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* [[Thousand Origami Cranes]]: He can volunteer to fold origami cranes for charity as a part time job.

** The anime promotes this trope into his (as Narukami) hobby when killing time. He's pretty good at it too. He made a crane out of a paper napkin, which is harder to fold than regular paper.

*** Episode 9 shows that Origami Cranes is [[Serious Business]] for Narukami.

* {{spoiler|[[Touched by Vorlons]]}}: Part of the reason {{spoiler|his [[Superpower Lottery]] payoff was so large is due to having his powers granted to him by Izanami.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Unwitting Pawn]]}}: {{spoiler|One of the three people to whom Izanami granted the power to enter the TV. He represents "Hope".}}

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During a trip to the Midnight Channel and after witnessing the Protagonist's Persona awakening, Yosuke was faced with the horrible truth: Saki has always hated him. When Yosuke refused to admit this, his Shadow emerges and taunts him that he's only being cheerful as a facade and sees everything, including Saki, as a tool to block out his extreme loneliness. Yosuke angrily retorted and it caused the Shadow to reveal its true form, but was eventually defeated by the Protagonist. Encouraged by the Protagonist and Teddie, Yosuke painfully accepts that he did feel that way, but he resolves to get better, which causes the Shadow to turn into his Persona. Yosuke later goes to co-found the Investigation team, along with the Protagonist and Chie.

Yosuke is the team's unspoken second-in-command. He helps coordinate the group alongside the protagonist, and will usually be the one to suggest new courses of action. He has good deductive reasoning (which serves well in the case), but is not the most perceptive of individuals and has a tendency to put his foot in his mouth.

His Shadow looks like him in a ridiculous ninja outfit, with a giant frog making up his lower body. It represents his resentment towards Inaba, his boredom and his wish for excitement. Aside from the reference to the original character Jiraiya, the frog theme is also a word play. In Japanese, "frog" is pronounced the same as "return" which plays in to Yosuke's desire to leave Inaba.

In his Social Link, Yosuke revealed that he initially hated Inaba, but has grown to love it and despite being hated by Saki, he did genuinely love her. He later reveals that he is jealous of the Protagonist and used the murder case to play hero and hide his insecurities. Yosuke later asks the him to punch him to get rid of his jealousy and they end up in a brawl; Yosuke realizes that he can form genuine, close relationships with people regardless of where he is, and resolves to live his life to the fullest. His Persona then evolves into Susano-O.

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* [[Badass]]

** [[Heartbroken Badass]]: Part of his motivation in being a Persona user is kicking the ass of the one who murdered Saki.

** [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Which doubles as [[Character Development]].

** [[Took a Level in Badass]]: Which doubles as [[Character Development]].

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: According to some fans he has some early on with Chie in the anime.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Disrespecting Saki or the Protagonist.

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* [[Flanderization]]: In the Anime. In the game, Yosuke acted as the unofficial mouth-piece for the [[Silent Protagonist|Protagonist]], so he was quite talented at deductive reasoning. This aspect of his character was given to Narukami in the anime, so Yosuke's [[Butt Monkey]] and [[Lovable Sex Maniac]] aspects have increased instead.

* [[Groin Attack]]: Tends to be given "Critical Hits to the Nads" by Chie.

* [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?]]

* [[Honor Before Reason]]

* [[Hormone-Addled Teenager]]

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* [[That Came Out Wrong]]: Has a knack for spouting out innuendo.

* [[The Glasses Come Off|The Headphones Go On]]: Only wears his headphones over his ears in combat.

* [[Seen It All]]: In the later parts of the story starts adopting this attitude towards weird stuff they encounter in the TV world.

{{quote|After {{spoiler|Teddie somehow grows himself a human body inside his suit.}}

'''Yosuke''': What kind of creature would do that?! I mean... What IS he? [...] *Sigh* Then again, this hardly the first bizarre thing we've seen... }}

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* [[Small Town Boredom]]: {{spoiler|Ultimately subverted, once he realizes how much he came to love Inaba.}}

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With Chie.

* [[Weapon Twirling]]: He does this while in battle and in the opening animation. It backfires when he nearly drops his dagger in both.

=== Chie Satonaka ===

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* [[Expy]]: Not in looks, but in attitude: Chie shares a ''lot'' of characteristics with Lisa Silverman, the most obvious of which being enamored with kung-fu movies and [[Bruce Lee]] in particular.

* [[Food as Bribe]]: Inverted in the anime. When Yu and Yosuke return from their second trip into the TV World in the second episode, she says the only way she'll forgive them is if they buy her [[Big Eater|10 orders of both beefsteak and nikudon]].

** Inverted and played straight in the game. Chie makes Yosuke buy her food as repayment for destroying her DVD and he bribes her and Yukiko with steak when he and the protagonist devour their noodles.

* [[Glass Cannon]]: Suffers from Physical Skills which [[Cast ~~From~~ Hit Points|consume HP]] and mediocre defense. However, she hits like a truck once God's Hand comes along and has a skill that can instantly kill enemies.

* [[Glass Cannon]]: Suffers from Physical Skills which [[Cast from Hit Points|consume HP]] and mediocre defense. However, she hits like a truck once God's Hand comes along and has a skill that can instantly kill enemies.

* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|He Is Not My Boyfriend]]: Happens several times with Yosuke.

* [[Hot Amazon]]: If chosen as the Love Interest.

* [[Hot-Blooded]]

* [[Jerkass]]: Chie has so many shades of this, mainly due to constantly yelling at Yosuke, as if she has a [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]. This is shown much more in the Anime of the Game.

* [[Kick Chick]]

* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: Decides to run off after Yukiko early in the game. This does not end well.

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{{quote|'''Voiced by:''' [[Ami Koshimizu]] (Japanese) and [[Amanda Winn-Lee]] (English)}}

Yukiko is the only daughter of the owner of the Amagi Inn, and thus the heir to the generations-old family business. Despite that, she is [[Lethal Chef|a terrible cook]]. She is a smart girl, but quite socially awkward, with only Chie as her true friend. She fights with a [[Paper Fan of Doom|fan]], but is most suited for [[Black Mage|heavy magic fighting]]. Her Persona is Konohana Sakuya of the Priestess Arcanum, and later evolves into Amaterasu. Yukiko [[Red Mage|fits the role of both]] the [[White Mage]] and the [[Black Mage]], leaning powerful healing spells (including one that fully restores the entire party's HP!) as well as destructive Agi (Fire) spells.

When Yukiko was kidnapped and thrown into the Midnight Channel, it created a dungeon in the form of an European castle, while her Shadow masqueraded as a princess continually searching for a "prince" to whisk her away. The castle and her Shadow were born of her repressed yearning to break free from her designation as heiress to the Inn, instead privately wishing for someone to alleviate her responsibilities. The Protagonist, Yosuke and Chie manage to defeat her Shadow, and she becomes a member of the investigation team.

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* [[Never Live It Down]]: [[In-Universe]]—Shadow Yukiko once said she wanted to "score with a hot stud". Teddie brings it up sporadically throughout the game.

* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: "Yuki" is a name more often associated with "snow". Although, she initially feels that it's a [[Meaningful Name]] because she's "worthless" like snow.

* [[The Ojou]]: Of a generations-old inn.

* [[Parasol of Prettiness]]: Only with the pink yukata.

* [[Paper Fan of Doom]]

* [[Playing with Fire]]: This leaves her vulnerable to ice, though it also makes her useful against ice enemies.

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Yukiko rarely swears, so if she tells you to ''shut the hell up'' {{spoiler|as she does to those reporters in her Social Link}}, you know she's angry. Shadow Yukiko's speech is practically a [[Cluster F-Bomb]] by her standards.

* [[Proper Tights with a Skirt]]: She's the poster girl.

* [[Red Baron]]: "[[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo|Unconquerable Snow Black]]" in trailers for ''[[Persona 4 Arena]]''.

* [[The Red Mage]] / [[White Magician Girl]]: In combat, she straddles the line with her powerful [[Playing with Fire|Agi]] skills but her personaily fits the White Magician Girl stock character type in addition to being one of the resident Medics.

* [[Ryokan Inn]]: The Amagi Inn of course. She's going to inherit it.

* [[Saying Too Much]]: {{spoiler|During the King's Game scene, in a moment of drunken silliness she accidentally spills the beans about the Shadow World and the Personas to Naoto. Then again, she didn't believe it.}}

* [[Shrinking Violet]]: [[Subverted Trope|She appears this way at first]], but as she gets more comfortable around the Protagonist and Yosuke, her true [[Ditzy Genius|personality]] [[The Hyena|traits]] emerge.

* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: {{spoiler|Calls out Adachi on his poorly contrived [[Freudian Excuse]] for his actions.}}

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** [[Momma's Boy]]: The cause of his infamous beatdown of a biker gang? They were making too much noise and bothering his mother.

* [[Everything Is Better With Penguins]]: The secret Animal Cracker!

* [[Face Palm of Doom]]: One of his Supers in the fighting game is this. Considering his [[Tomokazu Seki|Japanese voice actor]], can you say ''[[Mobile Fighter G Gundam|Shining Finger]]''?

* [[Gayngster]]: Subverted.

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Very good at arts and crafts.

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* [[Lovable Sex Maniac]]: Although whether or not he actually understands the concept of "scoring" is left open.

* [[Mascot]]

* {{spoiler|[[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]: He's a Shadow who wants to befriend, rather than kill people.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Naked on Arrival]]: Played with, he arrives in the real world in his [[Mascot]] form; when he complains of being too hot, he removes his head, revealing that he's grown a (naked) human body inside his mascot costume, just so he can score with the girls.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: Shadow Teddie. To further drive the point home, Shadow Teddie's Ultimate Move is appropriately named [[Shout-Out|"Nihil]] [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Hand]]".}}

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* [[Sadistic Choice]]: His moveset actually inflicts one on the player. He learns moves that allow him to be the team healer, the ice mage, and the support specialist. An uncommon, but not too unheard of complaint is that he's got too many good moves to choose from.

* [[Screw Destiny]]: See [[Heroic Resolve]].

* [[Team Pet]]: As much as there's one.

* [[The Nose Knows]]: He can use his nose to track victims of the Midnight Channel long before the fog sets in Inaba.

* {{spoiler|[[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]: In human form, especially when [[Attractive Bent Gender|crossdressing]]...}}

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{{quote|'''Voiced by:''' [[Romi Park]] (Japanese) and Susan Dalian (English)}}

A [[Bokukko|tomboyish girl]] who is a famous high-school detective, given the glorious title of "[[Born Detective|Detective Prince]]" by the media. Naoto is adept with [[The Gunslinger|revolvers]], and her Persona is summoned by shooting the card. Naoto's initial Persona is Sukuna Hikona of the [Wheel of] Fortune Arcanum, which later becomes Yamato Takeru. They are well-rounded with [[Light the Way|Light]], [[Casting a Shadow|Dark]], [[Non-Elemental|Almighty]] and [[Cast ~~From~~ Hit Points|physical skills]] at her disposal.

A [[Bokukko|tomboyish girl]] who is a famous high-school detective, given the glorious title of "[[Born Detective|Detective Prince]]" by the media. Naoto is adept with [[The Gunslinger|revolvers]], and her Persona is summoned by shooting the card. Naoto's initial Persona is Sukuna Hikona of the [Wheel of] Fortune Arcanum, which later becomes Yamato Takeru. They are well-rounded with [[Light the Way|Light]], [[Casting a Shadow|Dark]], [[Non-Elemental|Almighty]] and [[Cast from Hit Points|physical skills]] at her disposal.

[[Parental Abandonment|Orphaned at a young age]] [[Raised by Grandparents|and raised by her detective grandfather]], she yearns to emulate the cool male sleuths she read in novels, accepting the family tradition and aiding her grandfather in his own cases, eventually creating a favorable reputation for herself. She was sent to Inaba by the prefecture police, to gain insight for the murders happening there.

Naoto is yet another survivor of the Midnight Channel, bound by [[I Just Want to Be Special|her resentment at being talked down to and treated like a child by the police]], as well as her views on the police force being dominated by men. This manifests in a volatile Shadow that also creates a high-tech facility reminiscent to that of futuristic military bases from science fiction. Her Shadow wears a dress shirt and tie, while wearing an oversized white lab coat, and can act like a serious scientist one minute and like a child the next, further referencing her true feelings. Her Shadow claims she will perform [[Gender Bender|"body modification" to turn Naoto into an adult male so that she can be respected by her fellow cops]]. However, unlike other victims, she [[Batman Gambit|willingly put herself at risk by volunteering for a TV interview, hoping she can become a bait]]; she was convinced the Investigation Team had not caught the real killer. The Team promptly tears into her for being so stupid, then welcome her as the last addition to their team.

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* [[Casting a Shadow]]/[[Light'Em Up]]: Has access to both Mudo and Hama spells.

* [[Chaste Hero]]/[[Celibate Hero]]: Completely oblivious to Kanji's crush, but otherwise writes off advances from other classmates {{spoiler|and Teddie}}.

* [[Closet Key]]: Subverted for Kanji.

* [[The Comically Serious]]

* [[Criminal Mind Games]]: Has them played on her by the "Phantom Thief", but this trope gets subverted when it turns out {{spoiler|that there was no criminal. Her grandfather gave her stolen items to Yakushiji, the family secretary and created the riddles to challenge Naoto. His hope was that solving the riddles would convince Naoto to stop solving cases for the sake of her family name and do it because she loved it, the way she used to.}}

* [[Crutch Character]]: An odd example. Naoto's unique skill set lets her tear through lots of common enemies like a buzzsaw, including many only she and the Protagonist can effectively fight at all. The catch: most of those same abilities are either severely inefficient or outright useless against bosses.

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]

* [[Determinator]] - [[Plucky Girl]]

* [[Deuteragonist]]: Was already solving the murder case quite well without the police or The Investigation Team, to the point were she was able to come to certain conclusions like {{spoiler|Morooka's murderer being a copycat by noting that, unlike the previous victims who had unknown causes of death, his was due to blunt-force trauma}}, before anyone else. Once she joins the party, she's pretty much necessary to solving the case in full.

* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: To the point where Naoto {{spoiler|won the beauty pageant because of the female vote}} and Chie, Yukiko, and Rise [[Skinship Grope|compliment]] her smooth skin.

* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]: Her TV World dungeon.

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* [[The Smart Girl]]: Once she joins the Investigation, it actually begins to make some progress on discovering who the culprit is and other unanswered questions.

** [[Shorter Means Smarter]]: She's the smallest playable character and is the brains of the team.

* [[Sixth Ranger]]: Of sorts. She's the final character to join, and before she did she had something of a rivalry with the Investigation Team.

* [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]: Many women in the game itself agree that she's one ''hot'' babe.

* [[Sugar and Ice Girl]]

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The Hierophant Social Link and the Protagonist's uncle, whom he welcomes into his household while his parents are away. He is the detective assigned to investigate the murders. He is able to make some progress on the case, but without understanding the supernatural element to the case his progress is limited. He initially suspects the Protagonist as one, but cannot bring himself to arrest his nephew. The long hours he spends at his job frequently keep him from taking care of his daughter Nanako. He is the direct superior to Tohru Adachi.

In his Social Link, Dojima gets a lead on the hit-and-run case that killed his wife, making him stay out even later, to Nanako's distress. Eventually he admits that he has been avoiding his daughter because she reminds him of his late wife, but vows to get over it and spend more time with her daughter. When the lead does not pan out, he decides to let it go.

* [[Adult Fear]]: Near the end of the game, Nanako is kidnapped by someone he [[Living with the Villain|didn't even consider suspecting]]. That's a nightmare for any parent, especially a widowed workaholic, but [[It Got Worse|it gets even worse]]. {{spoiler|Nanako dies ''anyway'', with Ryotaro bursting in literally seconds after she flat-lines, calling for him with her last breath}}.

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* [[Guide Dang It]]: {{spoiler|Her Social Link can no longer be advanced after she's kidnapped, so max it while you have the chance.}}

* [[Kid Detective]]: Becomes one as she imitates her favorite anime character and tries to finds out about Yu's movement in the Anime.

** Which happens to be "Magical Witch Detective" of all things.

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]: In the ending in which the team throws Namatame into the television, Nanako stays dead.}}

* [[Precocious Crush]]: She develops one for [[Kissing Cousins|the Protagonist]] over the course of the game.

** {{spoiler|[[Childhood Marriage Promise]]}}: If her Social Link is maxed out, {{spoiler|[[Father, I Want to Marry My Brother|she decides that she wants to marry]] [[Kissing Cousins|the Main Character]] when she grows up. Depending on whether or not her father's Social Link is also maxed, he'll either support or be opposed to the idea}}.

* [[Stepford Smiler]]

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The Empress Social Link, Igor's new assistant and older sister of [[Persona 3|Elizabeth and Theodore]]. She takes over her younger siblings' role of tasking the Protagonist to create certain Persona through fusion. {{spoiler|Upon completion of her S.Link you can challenge her to a fight, but only if you're on your second playthrough.}}

* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: Gets much more spotlight in the anime due to Igor's role being diminished for reasons already explained.

* {{spoiler|[[Bonus Boss]]}}

* [[Power Floats]]: {{spoiler|She does this during the [[Bonus Boss]] fight.}}

* [[Ship Tease]]: {{spoiler|Margaret will kiss the Protagonist at the end of the game if her Social Link is completed.}}

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* [[Easy Amnesia]]: Harshly subverted in her backstory, where her aging husband contracts dementia and forgets he ever loved her.

* [[The Disease That Shall Not Be Named]]: Oh ''come on'' Atlus—it's pretty obvious her husband was dying of ''Alzheimer's'', not some "disease" (although it's possible Hisano simply didn't know what it was called).

* [[It's All Junk]]: When the Protagonist recovers the letters she wrote to her husband, Hisano attempts to burn them. In the anime, it's a flower-pattern hairclip that she tosses into the river that's later stuck into the fins of the Guardian, but Yu, after many misadventures, gets the hairclip back. She actually keeps it.

* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]: A brief flashback in the anime shows her to be this.

* [[I Wished You Were Dead]]: When her husband became ill and began forgetting who he was, Hisano wished he would die so neither of them would have to suffer anymore. She considered his death a [[Mercy Kill]] since the husband she'd known was already 'dead'.

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Upon joining a sports club, the Protagonist meets Ai. Once the Social Link starts, Ai takes him out to become friends. Once she tasks him with asking Kou or Daisuke what kind of girl he likes, she ends up being devastated upon eavesdropping on them (Kou likes Chie Satonaka, and Daisuke likes a nice girl) and almost is [[Spurned Into Suicide|driven to commit suicide]]. Thanks to the Protagonist, she slowly opens up to him and becomes a bit enamored with him. At the end of her Social Link, Ai learns that being just beautiful isn't all there is to her and so gives the player the compact she used to compare herself to what she was before, understanding that people were better "mirrors" to show her true self.

* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: She falls in love with either Daisuke or Kou, but then she finds out that they like "nice girls" and Chie, respectively.

** In the anime, she retains her crush on Kou even after learning that he was interested in Chie.

* [[Alpha Bitch]]: pre-[[Character Development]].

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* [[Spurned Into Suicide]]: After overhearing that Kou/Daisuke doesn't care for her, she runs to the school rooftop and prepares to jump over the edge. Luckily, the Protagonist gives chase and manage to talk her out of it.

** [[Suicide as Comedy]]: The deal is [[Played for Laughs]]... [[Subverted Trope|Until she reveals her backstory.]]

* [[Tsundere]]: Type A

=== Yumi Ozawa ===

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* [[Blush Sticker]]: Yep. She earns her nickname "apple" for when she actually blushes.

* [[Expy]]: Of pre-time-skip [[Naruto|Hinata]]

* [[Foil]]: To Yumi.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: NPCs frequently mistake her for a middle-schooler.

* [[Plucky Girl]]: Eventually becomes this.

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* [[Comfort Food]]: In episode 22 Aika offers Yu the infamous beef bowl to cheer him up {{spoiler|after Nanako's "death"}}. Yu ''eats it whole''.

* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: The Investigation Team might be running from an enraged Kanji, but she remains oddly calm whilst driving a scooter and delivering food.

* [[Stealth Mentor]]: In episode 11 the team meet up in the restaurant she works in when they think they are back at square one {{spoiler|because Morooka turned up dead even though he wasn't on the Midnight Channel}}, she suddenly gives them an enormous beef bowl each for free that they eat for 40 minutes without getting to the rice. They're about to give up when they realize they can get to the bottom of it if they persevere.

* [[The Stoic]]: Even moreso than Yu.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]

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* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: He's got to have some combat experience to take on Kanji (a biker-gang crusher) and Naoto (a petite [[Gun Slinger]]).

* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: His initial coping mechanism to the leaking of his affair with Mayumi.

* [[Forced to Watch]]: Sorta. In the anime he witnessed {{spoiler|Mayumi's death in the Midnight Channel}} and tried to save her {{spoiler|via attempting to take her hand through the TV right before it happened}}, but he failed to {{spoiler|bring her back}}.

* [[The Messiah]]: Subverted. Although he was granted the power to enter the Midnight Channel and genuinely cares about people, his actions did more harm than good, and he never develops the Persona powers that his counterparts—the Protagonist and Adachi—do. Izanami implies this is because he fails to grasp the truth behind the Channel on his own.

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: After he realizes that his actions could have potentially killed more people.

* [[Obliviously Evil]]: Subverted oh so very hard.

* [[Red Herring]]

* [[Tragic Hero]]: You can't help but feel sorry for the guy.

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* [[Never My Fault]]

* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: Delves into a rant about the pointlessness of life and how much easier it would be if everyone were to become Shadows. Needless to say, [[Shut UP, Hannibal|the protagonists don't buy it]].

* [[Noodle Incident]]: What got him transferred to Inaba. While he claims it was a small slip-up that got blown out of proportion, his crimes in this game imply it was ''much'' more serious.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: He is not as dumb as he first appears to be.

* [[Obviously Evil]]: Averted, Tohru Adachi is actually a realistic example of a serial killer. This is why the party has to go to so much effort to find out who the killer is. If he was, they would find him pretty quickly.

* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: Outright called immature by Naoto and Yukiko. Despite his claims to the contrary, it's quite clear that he's basically throwing a massive temper tantrum.

* [[Saying Too Much]]: "Namatame was the one who '''threw them in'''!"

* [[Shadow Archetype]]: Persona-wise, to the Protagonist (his being the [[Evil Twin]] of Izanagi); motive-wise, to Yosuke (both share the same [[Small Town Boredom]]); but most of all, to the whole Investigation Team—whereas its members [[Be Yourself|learn to accept themselves and each other for who they are and take responsibility their actions]], Adachi [[Never My Fault|ignores his own faults, blames others for his problems, and keeps running away from the truth]].

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{{quote|'''Voiced by:''' [[Daisuke Namikawa]] and [[Romi Park]] (Japanese), [[Ryusei Nakao]] (Japanese, as Ameno-Sagiri, [[Persona 4: The Animation]]), [[Karen Strassman]] (English)}}

An extremely ancient and powerful [[Anthropomorphic Personification|manifestation]] of the [[Carl Jung|collective unconscious]] styled after a goddess from [[Japanese Mythology|traditional Japanese folklore]], [[~~Schrodinger~~'s Butterfly|or perhaps its basis]]. You initially hear her name during a class lecture midway through the game. The wife of the god Izanagi, she died in childbirth. Saddened by her death, Izanagi visted the underworld, Yomotsu Hirasaka, and persuaded her to return to the living with him. But as they began to leave the darkness of the underworld, Izanagi saw that Izanami's body had become a rotting corpse, and terrified ran from her. Enraged, Izanami sent various creatures that chased after Izanagi as he fled the underworld. However they were unable to catch him, and once he reached the surface again Izanagi sealed the entrance with a boulder. Now even angrier, Izanami threatened she would curse 1,000 people to die every day unless she was freed, but Izanagi responded that in that case each day he would give life to 1,500 new ones.

An extremely ancient and powerful [[Anthropomorphic Personification|manifestation]] of the [[Carl Jung|collective unconscious]] styled after a goddess from [[Japanese Mythology|traditional Japanese folklore]], [[Schrödinger's Butterfly|or perhaps its basis]]. You initially hear her name during a class lecture midway through the game. The wife of the god Izanagi, she died in childbirth. Saddened by her death, Izanagi visted the underworld, Yomotsu Hirasaka, and persuaded her to return to the living with him. But as they began to leave the darkness of the underworld, Izanagi saw that Izanami's body had become a rotting corpse, and terrified ran from her. Enraged, Izanami sent various creatures that chased after Izanagi as he fled the underworld. However they were unable to catch him, and once he reached the surface again Izanagi sealed the entrance with a boulder. Now even angrier, Izanami threatened she would curse 1,000 people to die every day unless she was freed, but Izanagi responded that in that case each day he would give life to 1,500 new ones.

While Izanami herself doesn't specify how much of the legend is true, she is the mastermind behind all the events in Inaba. In an attempt to fulfill the desires of humanity, she creates the world inside the TV and grants three [[Unwitting Pawn]]s, the Protagonist, Namatame, and Adachi, the power to enter. Her plan is to then create a new world for humanity that matches the quality of the pawn whose actions are the most prolific. Because Adachi, who represents Emptiness, has the greatest effect, Izanami deems that humanity wants to live in self-deception and [[Assimilation Plot|plans to slowly turn all of humanity into Shadows]].

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* [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]]: Like all [[Our Gods Are Greater|deities]] in the [[The Verse|Persona universe]], [[Anthropomorphic Personification|she comes from and sees herself as an agent of humanity's desires]]. As such, [[Invoked Trope|gives this as the reason you'll never be able to beat her]].

* [[Creepy Gas Station Attendant]]: Double subverted, as the gas station itself is well off and in a town and that she's pretty friendly. Later ...

* [[Damage Sponge Boss]]

* [[Dark Reprise]]: her second theme ''The Genesis'' incorporates an extremely creepy, dirge-like version of the investigation team's main theme ''I'll Face Myself''.

* [[Doppelganger]]: As seen from her [[Character Portrait]], her goddess form looks disturbingly like the Protagonist, [[A Form You Are Comfortable With|at least from his]] [[Appearance Is in the Eye of the Beholder|point of view]]. This also serves a bit of a [[Call Back]] to [[Persona 2|Persona 2: Innocent Sin]], {{spoiler|where [[Eldritch Abomination|Philemon's]] own [[Unwitting Pawn]] Tatsuya [[Calling the Old Man Out|punches him]] [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|in the face]], only to find that behind Philemon's mask... [[Appearance Is in the Eye of the Beholder|is Tatsuya's own face]].}}

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* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Her degraded appearance was so legendarily hideous this is the best description for it.

* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: She's incapable of understanding why the Investigation Team resists her plan. Subverted, however, in that she isn't technically "evil".

* [[Fallen Hero]]: [[~~Schrodinger~~'s Butterfly|At least in her myth.]]

* [[Fallen Hero]]: [[Schrödinger's Butterfly|At least in her myth.]]

* [[Fighting a Shadow]]: Her first boss form is this, forcing you to use the "Orb of Sight" to reveal her true self.

* [[Full-Body Disguise]]: Twice; not only is her gas station attendant form fake, but so is the goddess form she initially presents to the Protagonist.

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