| “ | ……… Doctor Mikotoba, may I remind you that I have vastly more experience than you. | „ |
| ~ John H. Wilson, forcing Yujin Mikotobo to forge the autopsy results. |
Dr. John H. Wilson is a supporting antagonist in the Great Ace Attorney Chronicles serving as the victim of the first case, The Adventure of the Great Departure and an antagonist in the final chapter The Resolve of Ryunosuke Naruhodo. He was a member of the Reaper Conspiracy who conspired with Mael Stronghart and Tobias Gregson to frame Genshin Asogi as the Professor and worked to not tie another of the Reaper murders to Barok Van Zieks. He was eventually sent to Japan to work as a visiting professor and replaced in the conspiracy by his Protege Courtney Sithe and was killed in the assassin exchange by Jezaille Brett in order to cover-up the actions of the Reaper Conspiracy and the framing of Genshin Asogi so Mael Stronghart could become Attorney General.
Biography[]
Professor Killings[]
At the time of the Professor Killings, John Wilson was London's chief coroner and the highest authority in the Forensic Bureau. He was a conspirator in a forging scheme when aristocrat Klint Van Zieks, the older brother of Barok Van Zieks became a serial killer secretly being blackmailed by Mael Stronghart. He only truly killed one person of his own free will and only because he was a corrupt individual who the law couldn't touch. Nevertheless, when Genshin Asogi put a stop the killings by killing Klint Van Zieks in a duel to the death John H Wilson framed Genshin as the professor by pretending to find Genshin's ring in Klint's stomach and forcing his assistant Japanese visiting student Yujin Mikotoba to claim as such in the autopsy report by claiming that he had more experience then Yujin when he pointed out that Genshin's ring couldn't possible enter Klint's stomach without causing severe damage for which there was none. This forged autopsy ultimately convicted Genshin as the Professor.
Reaper Conspiracy[]
After successfully framing Genshin Asogi as being the Professor, Wilson participated in the Reaper of the Bailey conspiracy by placing a fake "curse" around Klint's younger brother, Barok Van Zieks that anyone even those acquitted with Barok Van Zieks as the prosecutor would be killed shortly after their verdicts if they were truly guilty. Wilson's job was the forge all autopsy reports of the Reaper victims. When he was invited by Yujin Mikotoba to be a Professor at Japan's Imperial Yumei University, his job in the Reaper Conspiracy was taken by Courtney Sithe.
Murder[]
John Wilson after arriving in Japan worked at the University's medical department and among his students there was Rei Membami. Unfortunately for Wilson, his former employer Mael Stronghart wanted to get him killed to erase witnesses of what he did and ensure his promotion to Attorney General. He sent the Reaper assassin Asa Shinn in an assassins exchange where both countries sent two assassins disguised as visiting students and if they got caught they would claim diplomatic immunity. Shinn would take the name of Jezaille Brett to study with him.
While having dinner with Shinn after having a tooth extracted preventing from eating solid food and forced to drink only water she poisoned him using curare which paralyzed his muscles preventing him from breathing or crying for help. While curare would normally be harmless if ingested, Wilson's surgical wounds made him susceptible to the poisoning. She then pinned the crime on Ryunosuke Naruhodo, who was in the restaurant and came to greet Wilson previously, by secretly firing a gun and tricking Naruhodo into picking Wilson's gun to make it look like he shot Wilson. In Naruhodo's trial she was exposed but because of the assassin exchange she was able to escape incarceration but was killed before being transfered to Shanghai by journalist Raiten Meinmemo. The motive of his murder and the truth about the Professor killings were revealed during the trial of Barok Van Zieks.
Trivia[]
- Iris Wilson believed John H. Wilson was her father and Herlock Sholmes' partner due to the handwriting of Klint Van Zieks' autopsy report coinciding with that of case reports found in Sholmes' trunk. Ryunosuke Naruhodo and Susato Mikotoba never told her about Wilson's death since she was just a child. However, during the trial of Barok Van Zieks it was revealed that Yujin Mikotoba was Sholmes' partner and Klint Van Zieks was Iris' father. While Van Zieks's autopsy report had Wilson's findings and signature, the document was directly written by Mikotoba.
- To further connect the previous trivia, his Japanese name was John H. Watson, the same name as Sherlock Holmes' famous partner. Like with Sholmes, his name was changed to the name in the Arséne Lupin books.
External Links[]
- John Wilson on the Ace Attorney Wiki
