Every Ace Attorney victim tiered based on how much of an asshole they were. FULL SERIES SPOILERS ahead.
To be here, they have to be:
(a) Murdered (eg Cindy Stone, Jill Crane)
(b) An attempted-murder victim (eg Dane Gustavia, William Shamspeare)
(c) A fake murder victim (eg Kazuma Asogi, Kira)
(d) Killed or almost killed in a tragic backstory (eg Bat, Selena Sprocket)
(e) Assaulted as the designated victim of a case (eg Olive Green, Olivia Aldente)
or (f) Killed in a bad ending (Vera Misham, Orla Shipley, Simon Blackquill).
Basically, theft victims (eg Maya Fey in Stolen, Guy Eldoon) and characters who are mentioned to be dead but not as the result of a crime or accident (eg Manfred von Karma, Ami Fey) don't count.
This is a personal ranking, of course, but the categories are as follows:
INNOCENT - They did nothing wrong, ever.
FLAWED HUMAN BEING - They were a criminal but their death is still tragic, and they were not necessarily a bad person.
ASSHOLE - They are a dangerous, unlikeable and/or evil person, but their death doesn't necessarily do good.
SCORE ONE FOR THE GOOD GUYS! - Usually a worse person than their killer. Their death is actively a cause for rejoicing.
Notes:
* The real Di-Jun Huang would be "Innocent". He shares a portrait with the bastard who is his body double.
* Joe Darke, Turner Grey, Tobias Gregson and Klint van Zieks are serial killers, but they were badly framed or deceived in some way, and their deaths don't feel to me like a happy occasion, even in retrospect.
* Regina Berry is an "Asshole" because, no, being sixteen years old is not an excuse for mauling someone with a lion for fun and getting away with it.
* Dhurke Sahdmadhi is a criminal only in that he's a fugitive from custody. Simon Blackquill, only the fact that he obstructed the course of justice to incriminate himself.
* Bat being 21 when his girlfriend was 16 doesn't actually make him guilty of any sex offense. Get off Twitter.
* Bobby Fulbright here means the real Fulbright, not the "phantom".
* Finally, Mimi Miney's portrait here is used to represent Ini, since Ini's appearance is usually used to represent Mimi.
* I may have, as a reblog pointed out, treated Horace "lock your best friend in a freezing car, protect the president who keeps sending assassins at said friend, and murder your coworker to usurp his position" Knightley a bit too harshly. While I think he's a worse man than Keyes, whose crimes are only in the interest of overthrowing a corrupt cabal in revenge, Knightley isn't a worse man than Roland, and his death is seen by the game as an avoidable mistake, and he didn't even get a trial. In retrospect, I move him up to "Asshole".
2 notes
·
View notes