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| “ | Ho hoh. My dear Miss Fey... I am so very sorry. But I am afraid I must ask you for one more thing. Your eternal silence... Farewell, Miss Fey. | „ |
| ~ Redd White to Mia Fey before killing her. |
| “ | WHATCHUR NAAAAAAME?! | „ |
| ~ Redd White's "Engrish", and his most famous quote. |
Redd White (Japanese: Masaru Konaka) is one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Morgan Fey) in the Phoenix Wright Trilogy of the Ace Attorney franchise.
He is the secondary antagonist of the 2001 visual novel Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (being the main antagonist of Turnabout Sisters), and one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside Morgan Fey) of its 2004 sequel Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations.
He was the owner of Bluecorp, a company that specialized in gathering illicit information about media celebrities, politicians, law enforcement professionals, and other powerful individuals in order to blackmail them to do his bidding. Many of his victims were driven to suicide in order to escape his control. He personally carried out the murder of Mia Fey, the mentor of Phoenix Wright, when she came close to exposing his crimes to the public.
He was voiced by Hiromichi Tezuka in Japanese and Larry Brantley in English.
Biography[]
DL-6 Incident[]
In 2001, White bribed attorney Marvin Grossberg for information that a spirit medium from Kurain Village was hired to assist in the police investigation of the murder of Gregory Edgeworth. After learning about it, he leaked this information to the press, accusing the police and medium Misty Fey of fraud, forcing her to leave the village in shame. With the police now scrambling to learn the source of the leak, White once again called Grossberg and began to blackmail him.
Mia Fey's murder and arrest[]
Fifteen years later, White and his secretary April May began to keep track of Misty's daughter, Mia Fey, who spent half of her life gathering evidence against White. In the night of September 5, Mia called her sister Maya to tell her to hold onto some evidence she would need, stored in a "Thinker"-shaped clock. A little before 9:00 PM, White entered the office to destroy the evidence, but Fey caught him in the act, forcing White to grab The Thinker and hit her on the head, killing her. Furthermore, he wrote Mia's sister's name, "Maya", with blood to accuse her. He then had April call the police to claim that she saw Maya kill her sister. After some investigation, Wright finally reached Bluecorp and talked to White, but he called the public prosecutor's office to incriminate Wright himself. However, this attempt failed, and even though Miles Edgeworth tried his hardest to prove his claim, Wright, with the help of Maya and the late Mia (channeled through Maya), forced White to reveal his crimes by reading a list of people he blackmailed before. He immediately broke down and confessed.
Breakdown[]
White lifts his head and screams in despair, then slams it on the witness stand with full force. He occasionally shivers violently while remaining in this pose, as if he were sobbing.
Personality[]
As his attire might suggest, Redd White is flamboyant, pompous, rude and arrogant, considering himself to be superior to everyone else. His ego is so notoriously large that even much of the décor in his office at Bluecorp was made in his own image. His speech is distinguished by his "giantesque vocabulary," which actually consists of either misused words or ones White had made up. He tried to pass himself off as a jolly and quirky, if egotistical, businessman, initially acting cordial with Phoenix, but once pressed far enough, he showed his true colors. He was also quite petty, as he forced judges to give him their trophies and forced Grossberg to give him his painting just because he can.
However, his most defining personality trait is his complete and utter ruthlessness: He had blackmail on practically everyone: Lawyers, politicians, even the judge - all were under his thumb, and he could thus manipulate them to do whatever he wanted. He demonstrated this when Phoenix Wright confronted him by punching the fledgling lawyer in the face; were Wright to sue White for the assault, the latter would get off scot-free, while the former would be found guilty. He was perfectly willing to destroy lives to better himself, driving hundreds of people to suicide with his blackmail and murdering Mia before framing her own sister Maya for the killing and later Phoenix too once he had found out that White had killed Mia. He also did not hesitate to try and turn April May into a scapegoat for the wiretapping.
Ultimately, White's arrogance, poor lying. and the fact that he was nowhere near as intelligent as he believed himself to be proved to be his downfall. When testifying against Phoenix in court, he seemed to be under the impression that he merely had to say something that incriminated Wright to ensure a guilty verdict, causing him to give incredibly transparent lies that blatantly contradicted already established facts about the case (for example, he claimed to have witnessed Phoenix strike Mia twice, when the autopsy report had already established that the victim had died from a single blow); he didn't even bother to make sure his testimony correlated with April May's, and made the mistake of saying that he saw Mia run to the left, when he could only have seen her run in that direction from the killer's point of view (had he seen the murder from May's hotel window as he claimed, he would have seen Mia running to his right). White ultimately had to rely on Edgeworth providing him with an aliby when Wright was able to implicate him as the killer, and after Mia threatened to reveal the names of the people he had blackmailed to the press, he ultimately panicked, broke down and confessed to her murder.
Trivia[]
- His name along with Bluecorp's are a reference to the American flag. Red and White also make pink, the color motif of both him and April May.
- The kanjis on his Japanese name mean "small" (小), "medium" (中) and "large" (大).
- When said correctly ("niño" instead of "nino"), his nickname means "white boy" in Spanish.
- In the live action film, where he was a pawn of Manfred von Karma, Redd White dresses and behaves in a different way and dies in prison in the end.
- In the Ace Attorney anime, Redd White comes from America and has a hard time with "Engrish" leading to occasional gems such as "Whatchurname?!" (What's your name?!), "Whatsamattah?" (What's the matter?), "Yes we can!", and "Goo-Bai forevah!" (Goodbye forever!)
- Turnabout Sisters was originally going to be the first case in the game and was intended to be the introductory case. However due to being too long for said introductory case, Shu Takumi created a prologue case, allowing for Mia to interact with Wright more as his mentor before her death, that case became known as The First Turnabout.
- Redd White's name becomes much more meaningful after the third game. Godot, the final killer, is driven by revenge against Mia Fey's killer, wrongfully blaming Phoenix for not protecting her despite circumstances beyond his control. Godot is color-blind following Dahlia Hawthorne's attempt on his life, being unable able to see red on a white background, meaning that he couldn't see Redd White, Mia Fey's true killer.
- He is the first villain in the series to kill a main character.
- Despite being one of the first villains in the series, he is one of the most important, with him killing Mia Fey and ruining Misty Fey's life, leading to Mia becoming a lawyer and Phoenix deciding to become a lawyer after she defends him in Turnabout Memories. Mia's death would also eventually cause Godot to seek unjustified revenge against Phoenix.
External Links[]
- Redd White on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Redd White on the Ace Attorney Wiki
