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Power Rankings, cont.

24- Body Double (aka President of Zheng Fa "Di-Jung Huang")
For such an important character, we don't really get to know or see the Body Double in action. In E2-1 he's played as a joke. We know he's supposedly an isolationist/strong military/ dictator type. We then later learn he's the head of this big conspiracy to overthrow the government of Zheng Fa. On its own this is kind of interesting, but I wanted more. I never really got a sense of his motivation beyond wanting to get out of the real President's shadow. I think we needed a little more explanation about how and why the power trio got together. His character design doesn't do him any favors.

23 - Sirhan Dogen
Dogen is such a whiff / missed opportunity, and that's why he's below other characters on this list. There's so much to like about him: one of Edgeworth's earliest convictions, an assassin to play foil to De Killer, lots of gimmicks to play with (dogs, chess, his vision). However, he never really comes into his own as a character, and this is because the game largely just treats him as a red herring. He's somewhat mishandled in E2-2, where we are told that Edgeworth finds him suspicious and that Roland is afraid of him, but we aren't shown anything to warrant this. In 2-4, De Killer radiated an aura of cunning malice: that just isn't here with Dogen. A strange mix of trying too hard and not trying hard enough.

22 - Patricia Roland
There's stuff I like about Roland. Out of the three conspirators, I feel like she is also a victim. Like Blaise and the Body Double had this plan, and they wanted to use the orphanage. In my head canon she reluctantly goes along because they were going to pay her/provide for her kids/family. That's the only way she really makes sense to me. I appreciate how her obsession with running the prison like a "family" is connected to her past in running an orphanage. She's such an obvious culprit in E2-2 though that she kind of ruins the case; that's not really her fault so much as the writers/character designers though.

21 - Lotta Harte
Good ol' Lotta. You can always count on her to be fun; for a few minutes, and then she runs out her welcome. Lotta is fine in E2-4, although I don't quite buy her transition from paranormal photographer to investigative reporter. She's less good in E2-5, where she exists to bring Nicole back in to the narrative and to make some dubious claims about Moozilla.

20 - Dane Gustavia
Bad dad. Really bad dad. This baker from hell is an interesting character, but to be fair he was in a coma for most of the only case he was in (E2-3), so we don't get much time with him. In the short time we have, we get a sense of how self-centered he is. I like how he's also a killer who, for the most part, gets away with it (barring some statute of limitations technicalities).

I don't really like how hackneyed "can't taste disease" is, but this is the kind of ridiculous nonsense that I expect from AA and DR. If ridiculous nonsense is handled well, like it is in 2-3, it's fine. I don't really know what else to say except he's a bad dad. Given the events of the entire game, he might be worse than Zak, but I don't know.

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