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Phoenix's 'lovable' loser classmate. A very over-the-top, downright idiot playboy-wannabe, who always try to get a girlfriend and fails to keep one, either they dumped him or they get killed (the very first case of the series has his girlfriend murdered). He seems to attract trouble wherever he goes, thus earning him the saying, "When something smells, it's usually the Butz".

* [[Meaningful Name]]/[[Punny Name]]: "Frank saw it".

** Phoenix even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this.

* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: Practically the master of this in [[AAI 2]]. The whole Logic Chess battle against him pretty much consists of waiting for him to make one and catching him out on it.

* [[Warmup Boss]]

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The head bellboy of the Gatewater hotel. While never given a name, he is nevertheless an important witness in the second case of the first game.

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Redd White's secretary.

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A wealthy "businessman" who built his powerful company through blackmailing lawyers, judges, politicians, police, and all sorts of other people. Thanks to him, word of the police using a spirit medium for DL-6 got leaked to the press. So if not for him, Mia wouldn't have (specifically) become a lawyer herself. Then again, he's the one who kills her.

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TV star and the first client Maya assisted Phoenix defending. Most well-known for his role as the [[Show Within a Show|Steel Samurai]].

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A hard-ass old woman who for some reason is a security guard. Goes on long-winded rants at a moment's notice, and has a thing for soon-to-be dead actors and Edgeworth, the latter of whom (un)affectionately dubs her the "wicked witch of the witness stand".

 

* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: To Miles "Edgey-Poo~" Edgeworth. No seriously, meeting her, in his own words, makes his day go from “not my day” into “waking nightmare” territory. {{spoiler|On the day in question, he had already ''been kidnapped, had his jurisdiction usurped, and discovered a murder victim''.}}

* [[Berserk Button]]: Inverted. She usually calms down when Edgeworth shows up.

* [[Blush Sticker]]: Pops up at the thought of her latest celebrity obsession. Best not thought about at any length.

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An assistant for Global Studios who was present the day of Hammer's murder. Despite this, she doesn't play much of a role, to the point that developers of the series consider knowing her name a sign of expertise (since her name is even less frequently seen in the Japanese version than the English).

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A seven-year-old Steel Samurai-obsessed fanboy. He's been to every live performance of it and decides that just once he'd like to see an actual filming of the show. The end result is he saw Jack Hammer {{spoiler|who was wearing Powers' Steel Samurai costume at the time}} get murdered.

* [[Innocent Inaccurate]]: When he testifies, it's plain that he doesn't realize what he witnessed was a murder. {{spoiler|Well, a killing, at any rate}}.

* [[Insufferable Genius]]: When Phoenix tries to buy him back with his own Steel Samurai card.

* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Despite the fact that the Steel Samurai mainly uses a spear, he carries around a katana on his back. He can't get it out of the sheath, though.

* [[Meaningful Name]]/[[Punny Name]]: Code-hacker. As for his Japanese name, the first three kanji characters (in Eastern name order) form "''[[Otaku]]''".

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Director of the Steel Samurai. He embodies the typical image of an obsessive teenage (despite being 32) geeky fanboy, in both appearance, personality, and mannerisms.

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Global Studios (and Steel Samurai) producer that built the studio back up from the brink of ruin (i.e., {{spoiler|when Hammer in his prime accidentally killed another actor}}), and apparently is some sort of business genius. She's also got ties to the mob. {{spoiler|She's also the one who murders Jack Hammer, though out of self defense.}}

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Freelance photographer with a southern accent and a lotta hair. She occasionally appears as a witness when trying to capture some paranormal event or other hot gossip.

* [[Paparazzi]]: After Case 2-2, Lotta decided to pursuit a career with "more glamour and less gore". Obviously, this was the next logical step.

* [[Sassy Black Woman|Sassy Country Gal]]: She won't stand for any lip and is more than happy to give some back even to someone as scary as Manfred Von Karma.

* [[Shutter Bug]]: Lotta always has her camera on hand and you can tell she's nearby either by her mouth or by her snapping photos. Except in case four of Justice For All when it was stolen by Wendy Oldbag.

* [[Talks Like a Simile]]: Related to her [[Deep South]] stereotype.

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A crazy old man that owns the boat rental shack on Gourd Lake, though he's convinced it's a pasta joint called the "Wet Noodle". He owns a pet parrot named Polly. {{spoiler|In actuality, he's Yanni Yogi, a former bailiff that was the suspect of the DL-6 incident. Thanks to Hammond, he was proven not guilty, but his life was ruined as a result. With Manfred von Karma's help, he murders his former defense attorney and puts the blame on Edgeworth.}}

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A former detective whose ability to wring information out of suspects earned her the nickname the "[[Badass Nickname|Cough-Up Queen]]". Like Marshall, Starr worked on the SL-9 case, but in her case was fired instead of demoted (hence why she's not in the law enforcers section). With her connections (boyfriends) in the police department, she joined Marshall's attempts to continue investigation of SL-9. Since the case ended she developed a hatred for prosecutors, and is the primary witness of Goodman's murder.

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Policewoman-turned-waitress-turned-security guard-turned-unemployed with horrifyingly bad luck. Maggey is the defendant for ''three'' trials (the second one was a mistrial, though). Her luck does seem to be looking up, when she helped close a case. Gumshoe has an obvious crush on her.

* [[Ocular Gushers]]

* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]: First was a police woman, then a waitress, and in ''Ace Attorney Investigations'' as a security watcher. Explained in that she keeps getting fired, usually as a side effect of the murder case she's involved in.

 

=== '''Richard Wellington''' (''Takamasa Moroheiya'') ===

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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}}.

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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.}}

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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.

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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.

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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 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.

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A stoogey clown working at the Berry Big Circus and old friend of the ringmaster. He's the witness of Russell's murder. Despite his wisecracking antics, he's actually one of the most level-headed members of the circus.

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His real name is Ken Dingling (''Daisuke Kinoshita''), and he's the elder of the two acrobat brothers of the Berry Big Circus. Acro's legs were damaged beyond repair in an accident and can no longer stand. {{spoiler|In fact, it was right after Bat's accident; Bat was attempting the "put your head in the lion's mouth" trick with Leon, Regina's lion, but was wearing a pepper-covered scarf at the time, and so the [[Pepper Sneeze|unfortunate inevitable]] occurred while Bat's head was still in Leon's mouth. Acro flipped out and attempted to get Leon away from Bat, but Leon crushed his legs. As Moe put it, they were cut down at the same time.}}

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Actor of the Nickel Samurai, and the fierce rival of Juan Corrida. He's slow-witted, and relies on his manager/producer/et al. for advice via the cell phone he wears like a wristwatch. Naturally, {{spoiler|that's all a facade. He's actually a complete sociopath that trusts no one and uses people to their advantage. When he found out that Juan Corrida was going to ruin his "beautiful public image", he hired deKiller to assassinate him.}}

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Adrian first shows up as the [[The Stoic|stoic]] manager of Matt Engarde in the last case of the second game. She takes her turn as a suspect in the inevitable murder, and quite nearly gets convicted before mitigating circumstances get her off the hook. She is revealed in the process to be a lot more complex and troubled than her icy persona makes her out to be. Turned out to be popular enough to return in part three, this time with a much sunnier and [[Cute Clumsy Girl|clumsier]] personality.

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A gentleman assassin from the second game. Highly values honesty and trust that he takes great measures to ensure that their clients are not found guilty of murder (gee, [[Not So Different|that sounds kinda familiar...]]). His alias is John Doe (''Tarou Tanaka''). He was hired by {{spoiler|Engarde to assassinate Corrida. [[Karma Houdini|He also got off scott-free for it.]]}} {{spoiler|He appears in ''Ace Attorney Investigations 2'' as a recurring character.}}

* [[Overly Long Name]]: "Sazaemon Koroshiya" is nine characters long (???? ?????).

* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: His distinctive face means that his different attire does little to disguise him - but he makes sure few people know what he looks like, so it works anyways (except for the players). Lampshaded by one of the Ace Attorney Investigations 2 producers while discussing "John Doe" at a panel:

** It's commented on in ''Investigations 2''. Edgeworth never actually met him face-to-face in "Farewell My Turnabout", so it makes sense he falls for it. He still ends up mentally scolding himself once he finds out though, reminding himself he should have at least seen his picture come up in case files.

* [[Professional Killer]]: Of the assassin variety.

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Hoo boy, where to start. Well, first of all, she's evil. [[Complete Monster|Really]], [[Femme Fatale|really]], evil.

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Ron is first introduced as the girly-looking, self-proclaimed [[Phantom Thief]], Mask☆DeMasque. Naturally, with his appearance, high-strung actions, and the fact that his (incredibly hot) wife says he's delusional, Phoenix has his doubts. {{spoiler|Well, if you've read all the spoiler tags up to this point, you already know that he's the real deal.}}

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A very...*ahem* ''flamboyant'' French chef and owner of the restaurant Trés Bien. Thing is, the food there is anything ''but''. He's armpit-deep in debt in just trying to keep the restaurant afloat. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|And he's a kleptomaniac.]]

* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Despite everything he says and does...he's never explicitly ''called'' gay.

* [[Brain Bleach]]: He invokes this in Phoenix when he sees Armstrong rub aromatherapy oil on himself.

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

* [[Fan Nickname]]: "The Gay Chef".

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An unemployed grouchy old man that has a thing for the Trés Bien waitress uniforms and always has a box of birdseed with him (most likely for the purpose of having a weapon within arms length). He comes from a family of kimono embroiderers.

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Thanks to his similarly-spiky haircut, he looks a lot like Phoenix and even uses that to imitate him, prompting the nickname "Xin Eohp" (pronounced "zin eeope") from Maya. He's the loan shark in charge of Tender Lender, and lent money to Jean Armstrong and Glen Elg. His nickname pretty much sums up his personality. {{spoiler|Four months before the case (September of the previous year), he got into an accident with Viola, and the latter nearly died. Her operation was a nominal fee of one million dollars. Viola's grandfather, Bruto, [[An Offer You Can't Refuse|demanded that The Tiger pay up by the end of the year]]. Tigre planned to get the money through Glen Elg, one of his clients. Elg was addicted to gambling, but also a genius programmer, and so he made a powerful virus (which could be sold on the black market for several million dollars) as a collateral to pay for his debt. However, literally minutes before he gives the disk to Tigre, Elg won $500,000 in the lottery, more than enough to pay off his debt (a mere $100,000), and therefore no longer needed to give Tigre the deadly program. Tigre less than a month before his time was up, and he panicked and put potassium cyanide in Elg's coffee, killing him and leaving the virus for himself. Then, with Armstrong (whose arm was twisted since he owed money) and Viola's help, he played an act for Kudo to witness that incriminated the Trés Bien waitress, Maggey Byrde. Tigre then disguised himself as Phoenix and posed as Maggey's defense and deliberately lost to Winston Payne of all people.}}

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Mia's first-ever client, an escaped death-row convict. Has a poor grasp of grammar and acts mostly like a scared little kid.

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Don't worry, her name gets ''plenty'' of lampshading. Anyway, she's a waitress of Borscht Bowl Club that was the dealer for Phoenix and Smith's poker game and ergo a witness to the murder.{{spoiler|Actually, she didn't witness anything. "Quick Fingers" Orly is a professional gambler and trick dealer, in cahoots with Smith. But by [[Born Lucky|sheer luck]], Phoenix found out about their plot to "catch" him "cheating" during the game; as a result, Smith flipped and knocked her out cold.}}

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A noodle stand owner that's a bit bitter towards Meraktis{{spoiler|, but he didn't kill him. Nice try, sucker}}. He comes to Apollo to ask him to find his missing noodle stand. He also used to be a surgeon.

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A student of the same college Phoenix went to. He tries to portray himself as keenly intelligent and to have friends, but those seem to be his own delusions. He witnessed the murder of Pal Meraktis. {{spoiler|He didn't kill him, but on the same night he did steal both Trucy and Plum's panties.}}

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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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A Borginian art dealer with a short temper.

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Rhoda's assistant flight attendant, an airheaded, sleepy young woman fluent in Borginian. {{spoiler|Is actually part of the smuggling ring. Her job was to oversee the transportation of the smuggled goods in between countries.}}

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

* [[Dark-Skinned Blond]]

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]:

* [[Determinator]]: He is determined to find Coachen's killer. He goes as far as {{spoiler|forcing Alba to testify about his alibi since it would look bad for him if he refused.}}

* [[Diplomatic Impunity]]: He never even bothers to use his immunity though. And the only time this is in effect in Babahl was around the beginning of the case, causing von Karma to turn to Palaeno.

* [[Jump Scare]]: He hides under the witness stand during his testimony.

* [[Kubrick Stare]]: This is what he said while he stares like that:

* [[My Card]]

* [[Neat Freak]]: Well, he does have serious germaphobia.