| “ | I killed a man named "Smith" with a bottle because I am an evil human being... Isn't that enough? | „ |
| ~ Kristoph, admitting to murdering "Shadi Smith" |
| “ | Is this your idea of revenge, Phoenix Wright? | „ |
| ~ Kristoph, foreshadowing the events of Turnabout Succession. |
Kristoph Gavin is the main antagonist in the Apollo Justice Trilogy of the Ace Attorney franchise. He is the main antagonist of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney and the overarching antagonist of its sequel Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies.
He was a corrupt attorney who hated Phoenix Wright due to believing that Wright had no talent and solely relied on cheap tactics like bluffing to win his cases. When he was bested by him in poker, Kristoph developed a sheer hatred for the man and attempted to ruin his life even further after getting him fired from his job, but after he was defeated by Wright two more times, he went completely insane and never recovered, being unable to cope with the fact that the man he despised and considered lower then him was better than him all along.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He hired a forger to forge a fake diary page so that he could use it to win Zak Gramarye's trial, and when Zak rejected Kristoph due to deeming him untrustworthy as a lawyer, Kristoph came up with the idea to ruin Phoenix Wright's career out of spite for Gramarye deciding to choose Phoenix instead of him.
- He manipulated Zak Gramarye's daughter, Trucy Enigmar, to help him frame Phoenix, asking her to give the page to him before the trial began, where Phoenix would eventually present it and lose his badge in the process, with Trucy also being left behind by Zak at only eight years old, with Phoenix having to take her in as she had no relatives to stay with.
- This act also left the legal system in serious jeopardy as Wright was the sole pillar against corruption that defense attorneys had at the time of his disbarment, so with him gone, several defendants had no one left to defend them, which would lead to Simon Blackquill being falsely convicted in the UR-1 incident a year after Wright's disbarment.
- He befriended Wright and gained the trust of Vera Misham with the intent of ruining their lives or killing them when they were no longer useful to him.
- He gave deadly poison, in the form of nail polish and a stamp, to Vera Misham, who was only twelve at the time, in an attempt to kill her to hide the fact she forged evidence for him.
- He killed Gramarye in revenge for not hiring him seven years earlier, then framed Olga Orly for the murder.
- During Phoenix's trial for Zak's murder, he attempted to turn Apollo Justice against Phoenix once he caught onto the fact that Phoenix suspected him as the killer.
- He used the fact that Drew Misham, Vera's father, was his unintended victim as an opportunity to try and trick Vera into unintentionally killing herself by using the nail polish.
- He also attempted to torment Apollo by trying to gaslight him into believing he was the one that poisoned Vera due to his line of questioning causing her to nervously bite her nails.
- He knowingly helped cause The Dark Age of the Law by sabotaging the legal system so severely that many people were either wrongfully acquitted or imprisoned, frequently abusing this system to win cases and play the hero to stroke his ego, with this corrupting the legal system for 8 years before it was ended in 2027.
- When The Dark Age of the Law started to fall apart, he attempted to continue it by trying to override the jurist system, using his disdain for the common person as an excuse to throw out their input, in order to keep his unearned luxury suite that he had inside prison.
- His moments of "kindness" were either performative or self-serving, as he befriended Phoenix in an attempt to learn his weaknesses, mentored Apollo knowing that Apollo was easily shaped by others, and defended his clients because he craved being in a position of power.
- Even his care for his pet dog is implied to be an example of a person or creature he has complete control over. He also has no love for his brother Klavier, seeing him only as a tool for his goals.
- He meets the heinous standard with him corrupting the legal system for eight years, being one of four confirmed villains being willing to kill children, and ruining Phoenix's life for seven years just out of immense spite for him and Zak, which are all very unique crimes for the series while having lower resources then most of the villains in the series.
External Links[]
- Kristoph Gavin on the Villains Wiki
- Kristoph Gavin on the Ace Attorney Wiki
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