Pierce Nichody

"There are malignant tumors in this courtroom, lesions oozing with false charges! The tumors are one idiotic lawyer, and one useless prosecutor!"

- Pierce Nichody having transformed into his "manic surgeon" persona Pierce Nichody is a character from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice, where he appears as the Sprocket family butler during the Turnabout Time Traveller DLC episode. He is the true culprit that murdered Dumas Gloomsbury and attempted to pin his murder onto Ellen Wyatt. This was for revenge against Ellen's fiance, Sorin Sprocket, over events concerning the death of his fiancee, Selena Sprocket, back when he was a surgeon.

Personality
As the family butler, Pierce put up the identity of the typical stoic, work minded butler, who showed almost no concern for matters outside of the family business. In truth, however, Pierce was a vengeful and cold-minded individual, who felt a bitter, misguided, and personal belief that Selena's brother had stolen her happiness. This caused him to develop a personality built solely around wishing spite Sorin and rob him of his own happiness, to the point of destroying the life of the innocent woman who just happened to be Sorin's fiancee, in order to do this. When he is exposed in court, he shows his true persona, that of a maniac surgeon. He incorporates medical metaphors and terms into his speech, and attempts to both threaten and coerce the court. Due to the incident in which his fiancee died, Pierce developed a psychological complex over surgery, and appears to have fallen into a form of delusional insanity relating to having "allowed" Selena to die, causing him to treat everything relating to repair work as surgery. This causes him to behave like a doctor undergoing a struggle during life saving surgery when his shoulder mech breaks, and he attempts to desperately fix it, ultimately breaking down over what happened to Selena after he accidentally cuts a "vein" (a wire) and the "patient" begins to "flat line".