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{{quote|'''The only thing I'm good at is BARKING! There really isn't much more in life!'''}}
* [[Talking Animal]]: Though other people can only understand him in spirit form.
* {{spoiler|[[Took a Level in Badass]]}}: {{spoiler|After his second death he gains ghost tricks that allow him the ability to swap items and a longer ghost-reach than Sissel. Oh, and he can catch bullets in midair.}}.
* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Okay, so he does die. He just doesn't let it stop him. He declares his intention to save Lynne and Kamila even beyond the grave. {{spoiler|Even doomed timelines aren't enough to stop him.}}.
* [[Unskilled but Strong]]: {{spoiler|Missile's ghost trick doesn't allow him to manipulate objects like Sissel can, but he has a much longer range when jumping between objects, and can move incredibly heavy things as long as he swaps them with something with the same shape.}}.
 
 
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=== Kamila ===
[[File:kamila 4717.jpg|frame]]
A young girl who lives with Lynne. {{spoiler|Also Jowd's daughter. She accidentally killed her mother with a Rube Goldburg birthday contraption that Yomiel manipulated to fire a gun.}}.
 
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Life was very harsh to her. {{spoiler|And it is your job to completely un-break this cutie!}}!
* [[Creepy Child]]: {{spoiler|Possessed Kamila.}}. Even though the sprites are so small, it's hard ''not'' to imagine her as a character right out of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]''.
* [[Hair Decorations]]: A bright yellow bow.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Kamila's Japanese name, Kanon, is another name for Guanyin, the bodhisattva associated with compassion.
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=== Inspector Cabanela ===
[[File:cabanela 5728.jpg|frame]]
A flamboyant detective who dances wherever he goes. He's an ambitious ladder-climber and wears a white coat to illustrate his spotless record. {{spoiler|Secretly working to find evidence of a 'manipulator' possessing other people, and to clear Detective Jowd's name.}}.
 
* [[The Ace]]: The swag! The stride! The moves! Watch out, crime.
* [[Agent Mulder]]: See "[[The Determinator]] below."
* [[Ambition Is Evil]]: Subverted. He initially appears to be a greasy pole climber, willing to sacrifice his friends for the sake of his reputation - at one point it even briefly looks as though he's actually turned evil - but this is all part of a plan to get access to the information required to {{spoiler|clear Jowd's name.}}.
* [[Badass Longcoat]]
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Even though Inspector Cabanela speaks strangely, picks favorites, and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tstZfrt_NN4 dances] constantly to the point where he tap dances through crime scenes, he's kept his job because he has a "natural genius for investigating." His colleagues are spotted practicing his Fred Astaire dance on a staircase, hoping to somehow absorb his power.
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* [[The Determinator]]: He is stated in-game to be this. He spends ''five years'' doing whatever it took to gain power as the head of the Special Investigation Unit, and therefore to be able to direct all aspects of investigations as he sees fit. His record means more to him than his own life, and he's worked ''hard'' to keep it absolutely spotless. He's hell-bent on keeping his position and his spotless reputation no matter what. Why? Because he ''absolutely refused'' to believe that {{spoiler|Jowd killed his own wife}}, even though it was proven that there was no possible way (so far as a realist would be concerned) that anyone else could have done it. Most people would probably have reluctantly resigned themselves to the belief that maybe they hadn't known their friend as well as they thought they had. Cabanela accepted it as fact that there was no possible way that anyone else could have done it by conventional means... so he started looking for {{spoiler|supernatural sources}} instead. Most people would think that was insane. Cabanela, on the other hand, hunted relentlessly until he found out about {{spoiler|The Manipulator and the meteor}}, had a [[Eureka Moment]], and kept on trucking.
{{quote|'''Sissel:''' What incredible determination...!
[''New dialogue option: "[Cabanela's determination"''] }}
* [[Fat and Skinny]]: Detective Jowd and himself.
* [[Friendly Enemy]]: To Detective Jowd.
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* [[Hammerspace]]: His appearance in the ending cutscene. Where did that bouquet ''come'' from?
* [[Lean and Mean]]: In his prosecutory zeal, he sometimes comes across at this.
* [[Made of Iron]]: {{spoiler|An explosion breaks enough bones to keep him from standing, leaving him in intense pain even before Yomiel forces his body to walk back up a flight of stairs and use the phone. And he still has enough presence of mind to pull his gun and expertly shoot Yomiel with the radio tracer bullet--even spinning the gun before firing it, for added flair.}}.
* [[Man in White]]: Except his red scarf.
* [[My Greatest Failure]]: Letting {{spoiler|Yomiel}} escape with his gun.
* [[Scarf of Asskicking]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: Some of his dances are based on [[Michael Jackson]]'s.
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=== Pigeon-Headed Man ===
 
The junkyard superintendent. Has a pigeon which sits constantly on his head. {{spoiler|He was the medical examiner who discovered that Yomiel's body remained suspended at the moment of his death. After Yomiel possessed his own body and walked off with it the coroner quit his job to discover the truth about the mysterious corpse.}}.
 
* [[Almighty Janitor]]: Formerly a {{spoiler|police coroner}} and now studies radiation from space rocks in his spare time. That's pretty smart.
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=== Jowd ===
 
A bearded prisoner at the Special Prison who paints faces to remember them. Despite his circumstances he's relatively jovial and accommodating. {{spoiler|Formerly a detective. He hunted down and nearly shot Yomiel after his escape. Five years ago he took the fall for his wife's murder to protect Kamila, though by now he almost believes he did it himself.}}.
 
* [[Acrofatic]]: Can navigate an air duct better than Harry Houdini.
* [[Badass Beard]],: doublingDoubling as a [[Beard of Sorrow]].
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: After regaining it.
* [[Big Fun]]
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* [[Institutional Apparel]]: Under a pink artist's smock.
* [[My Greatest Failure]]: Even though he never shot {{spoiler|Yomiel}}, he ''would have'' if {{spoiler|the meteorite hadn't hit}}, and he still blames himself for that death.
* [[My Significance Sense Is Tingling]]: His trusty "Detective sense.".
* [[Older Sidekick]]
* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]
* [[Taking the Heat]]: For the death of his wife, {{spoiler|which he originally believed to be accidentally caused by Kamila, later revealed to be the work of}} {{spoiler|Yomiel}}.
 
 
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* [[Opaque Lenses]]: Tengo.
* [[Red Baron]]
* [[Short-Range Shotgun]]: whichWhich suits Jeego's nearsightedness anyways.
* [[Sniper Rifle]]: Tengo uses one. [[Mundane Utility|He also uses its barrel to chuck a donut to his mouth.]]
* [[Starter Villain]]s
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* [[Bling of War]]
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Are you trying to give me a case of the vapors?"
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: {{spoiler|Makes a good attempt at being one. He acknowledges the "slight possibility" of a ghost taking advantage of Yomiel's properly dead state when he removes the Temsik Fragment, and works disposing the body and the ghost separately into his plan.}}.
* [[Evil Old Folks]]
* [[Grapes of Luxury]]: With a robot arm peeling them. How... practical?
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Sith's victory is undone, but he's never punished for his actions. On the other hand, it's not clear whether or not {{spoiler|Sith knew about the Temsik meteorite after the changes in the timeline}} in the Final Chapter.
** It's reasonable to infer that Sith still has at least two hitmen working for him in the ending. It appears that he is still trying to pull some kind of "deal."
* {{spoiler|[[Manipulative Bastard]]}}: {{spoiler|He can't kill a ghost, but he figures out the most thorough way to get rid of one.}}.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: It [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast/Names Ending In Th|ends in "th"]]!
** And he shares it with a certain evil faction from [[Star Wars|a certain science-fiction series!]]
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* [[Nebulous Evil Organisation]]: It's never really explained who (if anyone) Sith works for, beyond the ambiguous 'overseas foreign government'. But they're jerks.
* {{spoiler|[[Robotic Reveal]]}}: His manservant.
* [[Schizo-Tech]]: While everyone else is stuck in the pre-cell-phone era, he has giant robotic arms to feed him grapes. {{spoiler|And remote-controlled robots to run his machines.}}. [[Running Gag|His country's use of technology is just plain off.]]
* [[Sinister Schnoz]]
* [[Verbal Tic]]: "Hmm, yes..."
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=== {{spoiler|Yomiel}} AKA "The Manipulator" ===
 
The mysterious [[Big Bad]] of the game. {{spoiler|Became immortal after being struck by a shard of the Temsik meteorite. He was the one who took Lynne hostage in the park, and who orchestrated the events leading to Kamila's mother's death, Jowd's imprisonment, Lynne's murder accusation, and (accidentally) Sissel's death. Years of being separated from the rest of humanity, as well as his own undead status and his fiancee's suicide, drove him to seek revenge on the people who put him in that position. He has the power to control other living things, as well as manipulate inanimate objects like Sissel. At the end of the game Sissel turns back time to save him from the meteorite, and ghost!Yomiel controls the body of past!Yomiel to save Lynne from being crushed, redeeming himself just as he's given a second chance at life.}}.
 
* [[Acquitted Too Late]]: {{spoiler|Yomiel in the original time-line.}}.
* {{spoiler|[[The Atoner]]}}: After his {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}.
* [[Best Served Cold]]
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Can possess objects just as easily as Sissel can, and even manipulate living people.... {{spoiler|but he can't rewind time, the only ability which matters.}}.
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]
* [[The Chessmaster]]: He's not called a 'manipulator' for nothing. {{spoiler|Gently manipulated a birthday contraption built by Kamilla to murder her mother, had Jowd take the fall to protect his daughter, let him spend five years in jail before controlling the justice minister to make him sign Jowd's execution order, and manipulated Lynne into appearing to murder Yomiel's shell, then made a deal with a foreign government just to make sure he had help for anything he'd missed.}}.
* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: He went off the deep end when {{spoiler|his fiancée died.}} {{spoiler|He named his cat, Sissel, after her, and the cat served as his only companion for years.}}.
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: To Sissel.
** {{spoiler|[[Evil Twin]]}}: Inverted. {{spoiler|As a ghost, Sissel took the form of his beloved master. Since he couldn't see his own corpse, he assumed he looked like Yomiel's shell.}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Face Death with Dignity]]}}: Even if, in the end, {{spoiler|[[Everybody Lives]]}}.
* [[Feel No Pain]]: Makes a point to Cabanela by slamming his fist on a sizzling hot stove.
* [[From Nobody to Nightmare]]: {{spoiler|A lowly programmer who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.}}.
* [[Go Mad From the Isolation]]: And ''how''!
* [[Hidden in Plain Sight]]: Appears in the very first chapter, under the guise of {{spoiler|a black cat}}.
* [[Hidden Villain]]
* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: Subverted -: {{spoiler|he survives it}}.
* [[Kindhearted Cat Lover]]: The man's not above {{spoiler|murder or kidnapping, but clearly loved his pet cat and only friend for ten years, Sissel}}.
* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: His ultimate fate: {{spoiler|serving out a ten-year stretch in Jowd's old jail cell. He's even wearing the same pink smock}}.
* [[Lean and Mean]]
* [[Love Makes You Evil]]
* [[Made of Iron]]: Even after {{spoiler|averting his immortality-inducing death, he survives having a giant concrete rock fall on his legs without losing them, or even consciousness.}}.
** {{spoiler|After being stabbed in the back with a large stone spike, no less.}}.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: {{spoiler|"Yomiel" comes from the Japanese word "yomigaeru", which means "to be revived."}}.
** It's also the name of a minor [[Fallen Angel]].
* [[Monster Sob Story]]
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: {{spoiler|Lynne}} is able to resist his control to a degree, and fires a wayward shot at {{spoiler|Sissel}}—setting the game's events in motion.
** Being killed in proximity {{spoiler|to the meteor fragment in Yomiel's body is what caused both Sissel and Missle (and in the first timeline, Ray/Missile-Prime) to gain ghost tricks.}}.
** Hitting the Superintendent's stove with his fist also counts. It scared the bejeezus out of Cabanela, true, but it also {{spoiler|knocked the kettle to the floor}}, allowing Sissel to blaze upward from the basement.
* [[People Puppets]]: His ability.
* [[Phlebotinum Battery]]: The {{spoiler|meteor fragment}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Pinocchio Syndrome]]}}: He doesn't just want revenge, he wants {{spoiler|to live a normal life and die a natural death... even if that life is artificial.}}.
* [[Slasher Smile]]
* [[Start of Darkness]]: Was driven to {{spoiler|escape custody and hold Lynne hostage following a harsh interrogation from Inspector Cabanela. While facing down Detective Jowd in Temsik Park, he was struck and killed by a meteor shard that put his body in a Schrodinger's life/death state}}. Upon finding that {{spoiler|his fiancee had committed suicide to join him in the afterlife shortly after getting his body back}}, with no way to rewind time and prevent it, he was left with a burning desire to make everyone involved suffer precisely as he did.
* [[Thanatos Gambit]]: Possessing {{spoiler|Lynne in the junkyard}} and making her {{spoiler|shoot him}} in plain view of cameras.
* [[The Villain Makes the Plot]]
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=== Beauty and Dandy ===
[[File:beautydandy 4629.jpg|frame]]
A black-hearted blue-skinned pair, most likely from the same county as Commander Sith and the assassins. Beauty is a standoffish [[Ice Queen]] {{spoiler|who can sense the presence of ghosts}}, while Dandy is a gentleman and only slightly kinder than his cohort. Dandy has a major crush on Beauty, despite her constant verbal abuse. {{spoiler|They kidnap Kamila, assuming she's Amelie, in order to force the justice minister to carry through with the execution order.}}.
 
* [[Affably Evil]]: Dandy sure is a chivalrous guy, even when kidnapping someone.
{{quote|'''Beauty''': What's with the fun book and juice?
'''Dandy''': Like I said, "Always keep a smile on a lady's face." }}
* [[All There in the Manual]]: Dandy's name is never actually said in-game.
* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]
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* [[Minion Shipping]]
* [[Nominal Importance]]: The blond blue man is named only in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-Ctp6teiQE soundtrack].
* {{spoiler|[[Psychic Powers]]:}} : {{spoiler|Beauty can apparently sense Sissel's presence. This is never explained in canon.}}.
* [[Sissy Villain]]: Dandy.
* [[Something About a Rose]]: Dandy's pocket flower.
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=== Justice Minister ===
 
An old, neurotic wreck of a man. {{spoiler|His wife took his daughter Amelie, and left him after he signed an order to execute Detective Jowd. He only signed it due to Yomiel's manipulation, but is too scared to tell anyone about it. }}.
 
* [[British Royal Guards]]: Has these as his assistants and secretaries, further muddling exactly what country this is all occurring in.
* [[Evil Hand]]: Has this experience when The Manipulator forces him to {{spoiler|sign Jowd's death order}}.
* [[Hanging Judge]]: {{spoiler|Averted. The death penalty hasn't been carried out in decades, and he's crushed by the guilt of having signed the death order for Jowd under Yomiel's control.}}.
* [[Henpecked Husband]]
* {{spoiler|[[Hollywood Heart Attack]]}}
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=== Emma ===
 
A large, passionate woman who lives next door to Lynne and Kamila. She writes torrid romance novels. {{spoiler|The separated wife of the justice minister, who left him after he issued Jowd's death order.}}.
 
* [[Acrofatic]]: Even with a glass in hand, she can dodge [[Falling Chandelier of Doom|chandeliers]] like Jet Li.
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=== Rockin' Jailbird ===
 
A rock star inmate at the special prison, who sung national secrets during a worldwide broadcast. {{spoiler|Yomiel controlled him into doing so, to show off his powers to the foreign government.}}.
 
* [[Dreadful Musician]]
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=== Sausage Head ===
 
An oval-headed inmate at the special prison who took the police commissioner hostage, with his only request being for curry. {{spoiler|Yomiel again.}}. Does not seem very bright.
 
* [[Big Eater]]
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=== Guardian of the Park ===
 
A round-haired man who has made it his mission to defend Temsik Park and the 'rock of the gods' ( {{spoiler|the Temsik meteorite}}) from housing developers. This involves mostly dancing around barefoot and distributing leaflets. {{spoiler|Not an undercover agent.}}.
 
* [[Anime Hair]]: It's larger than his head.
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=== Alma ===
 
Jowd's wife and {{spoiler|Kamila's mother. Yomiel murdered her using Kamila's birthday contraption. The removal of Yomiel's death from the timeline also removes her death, and she is seen at the end of the game serving dinner to her friends and family.}}.
 
* [[Hot Mom]]
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=== Memry ===
 
An [[Phrase Catcher|"odd girl"]] who works at the Chicken Kitchen. She's not very attentive to her job. {{spoiler|Probably because she's an undercover cop.}}.
 
* [[Fan Service with a Smile]]
* [[Nice Hat]]: It's a roast chicken.
* [[Retirony]]: It's her last day as a waitress and she's nearly killed by a van.
** She would have been killed by the van, if you hadn't saved Lynne earlier (since Lynne pushed her out of the way). {{spoiler|Made worse by the fact that she plants the bug that causes the whole event. So she was almost responsible for her own death.}}.
** But wasn't the van moving only because Lynne was spotted in the restaurant?
* [[Rollerblade Good]]
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=== {{spoiler|Yomiel's Fiancee}} ===
 
{{spoiler|Sissel's namesake. Yomiel gave him the name after finding that she'd committed suicide, assuming him to be dead. This was part of what drove him first to despair and then to revenge. She's the only character in the game who we never directly see, but she apparently waited ten years in the new timeline for Yomiel to get out of jail.}}.
 
* {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]}}: {{spoiler|Unfortunately, Yomiel was still around.}}.
* [[The Ghost]]: The trope, not an actual ghost.
* {{spoiler|[[I Will Wait for You]]}}: Ten years of {{spoiler|her fiance in jail for taking a child hostage}}, and she's still there when he gets out. {{spoiler|Not surprising, given that last time around she committed suicide just to be with him.}}.
* [[The Lost Lenore]]
 
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