| “ | What in the devil's are you goin' say now?! If, if you dare betray me, ye little maggot... ye'd better start watchin' yer back! | „ |
| ~ Magnus McGilded threatening Naruhodo. |
| “ | Magnus McGilded: Good grief! Ye've more to say to me, have ye? Barok Van Zieks: Just one thing... A warning. This is far from over. Magnus McGilded: Well, sometin' to be lookin' forward to then! Wah hah hah hah hah! |
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| ~ Magnus McGilded's last statement after receiving a "not guilty" verdict. |
Magnus McGilded is the main antagonist of The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures. More specifically, he serves as the main antagonist of the third case The Adventure of the Runaway Room, and the overarching posthumous antagonist of the fifth and final case The Adventure of the Unspeakable Story.
While McGilded seems to be a well-intentioned businessman and philanthropist, he's actually a cunning and ruthless loan shark who will do anything in his power to get what he wants, such as murdering the father of Ashley Graydon, Mason Milverton, and perjuring his way out of a guilty verdict.
Biography[]
Past[]
Working as a loan shark, Magnus McGilded was ruthless with his demands, blackmailing anyone who didn't pay up his loans. However, to masquerade his cruel methods, he would often pay for the preservation and restoration of many commercial areas, including a park and a public library to his name.
Transporting State Secrets[]
Seeking a new opportunity to make additional income, he struck a deal with Ashley Graydon, a telegraph operator, to steal government secrets and give them to him. Graydon would then encode the information unto two discs and a two sided music box built by his father, Mason Milverton, who had worked as a music box maker apprentice. McGilded could then use the music box to decode the message and sell the information.
Taking place on an omnibus, Graydon gave away the first disc to McGilded for ten guineas. However, Mason became suspicious of his son's actions and decided to be the one who transferred the second disc on a later date, which would then be transferred for a thousand guineas.
However, when Mason and McGilded met on the omnibus to make the second exchange, the two of them got into an argument that ended in McGilded stabbing Mason in the heart, causing his death. Moreover, when he was being stabbed, Mason screamed loud enough for Gina Lestrade, who was hiding underneath the seats, to hear, which caused her to move enough for McGilded to notice and pull her out of it next to Mason's corpse. The commotion was enough for the passengers above to notice the murder and call the police for it, while McGilded gave the coat that contained the disk to Beppo, the rider of the omnibus, paying him so that he deposited the second disk in Windibank's Pawnbrokery. After that, McGilded blackmailed Gina into assisting him on covering up the murder and threatening to make her orphanage disappear if she didn't comply. He also gave her the receipt of the coat, so that she would be able to retrieve it two months later if he wasn't able to get away with the murder.
The Adventures of the Runaway Room[]
Having been arrested and put on trial, Mael Stronghart put Ryunosuke Naruhodo, the Japanese exchange student that just arrived in London, in charge of his case. When McGilded met Ryunosuke, he offered him and his assistant Susato Mikotoba a thousand guineas for them to just "stand beside him." Since the Reaper of the Bailey, Barok van Zieks, was in charge of the prosecution, McGilded had no one else who could defend him on his case, which made Naruhodo accept the trade.
Over the course of the trial, Naruhodo realized that there could have been a third party on the omnibus - which could prove McGilded innocent. Immediately after, Gina launched a cloud of smoke on the court, causing a immediate recess to the case, which gave her enough time to alter the evidence with a few spurts of blood on the skylight and on the floor of the omnibus that was present in the court to make it look like the murder actually took place on the roof of the omnibus. After all the commotion calmed down, both Gina and McGilded testified that he didn't reveal that there was a third party because she wasn't involved with the murder.
Later on during the trial, van Zieks and Naruhodo agreed that the omnibus could've been tampered with, with van Zieks attesting that the police investigated the omnibus and confirmed that there weren't any stains of blood on the skylights or the floor before the trial. With everyone suspicious of him, McGilded got very angry with the both of them and managed to convince the court that there was no proof of the evidence being tampered. He also made it so that the court reprimanded van Zieks and his team on not being to be able to investigate the omnibus better. Having inconclusive evidence and a possible case of incompetence, the court decided that the case of Magnus McGilded was to be dismissed and Magnus McGilded be declared "Not Guilty," which made McGilded laugh with joy.
Demise[]
In the defendant's antechamber, McGilded joined Naruhodo in celebrating their victory, which made both Susato and Naruhodo uncomfortable and doubtful of their client. Despite their skepticism, McGilded prepared to give the one thousand guineas to Naruhodo and Susato, to which the both of them refused. Afterwards, a bailiff approached McGilded and told him that they were requesting his presence in the court to check the omnibus. However, the bailiff that talked to him was actually under the order of Ashley Graydon, who he was seeking revenge for the murder of his father by McGilded's hand. Guiding him to the inside of the omnibus, Ashley set the omnibus on fire, which resulted in McGilded burning to death. He was later discovered by the other bailiffs, the judge, and van Zieks - but it was already too late for McGilded to be saved.
The day after, Naruhodo and Susato were informed of McGilded's death by Lord Stronghart, which made them hesitant to defend Soseki Natsume and every other defendants after him. McGilded's crimes would get revealed in the fifth case, "The Adventure of the Unspeakable Story," when both Gina Lestrade and Ashley Graydon admitted to their associations with McGilded and revealed that he was indeed guilty for the crimes he was first accused of.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Magnus McGilded is rather similar to Matt Engarde, since both of them were actually guilty of the crime they were accused of. They also blackmailed many people and victimized the other parties involved in their cases (Gina Lestrade and Phoenix Wright, respectively).
- However, unlike Engarde, McGilded actually managed (albeit briefly) to be declared Not Guilty and he temporarily got away with his crime.
- Magnus McGilded is often compared to Redd White, since both of them are influential rich men with the power to blackmail anyone they want. Some of the differences are:
- McGilded was not only the defendant of the case he debuted in but the true culprit as well, while White was a witness and the culprit of the case he debuted in.
- McGilded murdered a man and gets murdered at the end of his trial, while White murdered a woman and was arrested and sent to prison at the culmination of his trial.
- Magnus McGilded is by far the most oldest defendant in the Ace Attorney universe, at 48 years old.
- In the Japanese version, McGilded is British. However, in the English version of the game, he's Irish instead. His dialect is adjusted to include Irish pronunciations of words, which makes him stand out amidst the other English characters.
External Links[]
- Magnus McGilded on the Ace Attorney Wiki
