History Characters / Persona3Antagonists

* ItsAllAboutMe: Takaya seemingly doesn't care about anyone or anything else beyond taking everyone down with him to sate his insecurities and depression and the need to leave a mark on the world before he dies, [[spoiler:but given he does cheer for Nyx's arrival and wishes for Jin to be alive and see the annihilation with him, he likely doesn't actually care about himself, either]]. In ''Reload'', when confronted by Aigis if he has a fear of death, he says that he doesn't and that he's lived long enough already.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Unlike his comrades, he doesn't use an evoker because he thinks of it as a crutch that hinders his potential. [[spoiler:During his second boss fight in ''Reload'', once he loses more than half of his health, he discards his "trivial pride" and use the Evoker he took from the rampaging shadow in August to use his own [[LimitBreak theurgy]].]]

* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:In his final moments, Takaya wishes Jin is still with him so they can witness the Fall together.]]

* ShadowArchetype: To the protagonist. This is even more pronounced in the movie adaptations which gave Makoto a defined personality: Takaya is basically what Makoto could have been had he let apathy and nihilism take over his heart. Instead of trying to protect and bond with people to make the most of his limited time, Takaya chose to embrace his misery and spread it as far as he could. ''Reload'' also ups the ante by giving the two more scenes together where their ideologies come to blows.

** His critique of Ken's plan on October 4th was basically correct. [[spoiler:Shinjiro was going to die soon anyway and Ken was planning to kill himself afterwards, so if Takaya kills them both the outcome would be the same. This point cut so deep Ken undergoes a HeroicBSOD and outright goads Takaya into shooting him until Shinjiro snaps him out of it during his HeroicSacrifice.]]

** In ''Reload'' [[spoiler:he takes an interest in the protagonist and makes multiple attempts to sway him to his way of thinking. While this obviously doesn't come to pass, you can actually agree with some of his points depending on the dialogue options]].

* WalkingShirtlessScene: It would be a waste of his "gifts" to get Takaya into a shirt. In ''Reload'' the player will have the option of [[LampshadeHanging questioning why he's not wearing a shirt]] at one point, and he'll sarcastically claim it's invisible to fools.

* ArtificialBrilliance: In his second fight, he will scan the player's party for elemental weaknesses and will deliberately target them (and if you've covered them up, he either throws a fit or Almighty-element flash bang grenades to get around that in ''Reload'').

* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:It is unknown whether or not Chidori's revival in the UpdatedRerelease ''FES'' and ''Portable'' is considered canon. Even the manga and movie adaptations have contrasting interpretations as well, with the latter having her dying like in the original game while the former has her survive. In ''VideoGame/Persona4ArenaUltimax'', Junpei daydreams of proposing to her and he says he promised Chidori he wouldn't make her worry about him. Not to mentio the cross necklace Junpei wears in ''Ultimax'' is confirmed by Word of God to have been a gift from her, opening the possibility that she's still around. When her storyline is revisited in ''Reload'', it's once again possible to save her, with lower requirements to boot, but it's unclear how this will carry forward in future releases.]]

* SacrificialRevivalSpell: [[spoiler:After Junpei is shot by Takaya, Chidori resurrects him by using her power, which ends up costing her own life to do so. If the player manages to convince Junpei to bring her flowers, her power of imbuing her own energy into living beings ends up saving her life, as the flowers she imbued her power with return to her body and transmogrify her into a normal person.]]

** Thanks to their unique skill, ''Paradigm Shift'', which allows them to change their elemental weaknesses and strengths. Initially, the Empress is weak to physical attacks while the Emperor is weak to magic. Having them use the move exactly once in the rematch is required to obtain Last Judge as a reward.

** In ''Reload'', he loses many of his {{Status Infliction Attack}}s, its ability to Repel Elec skills, and can't target Yukari's weakness, making him a far more straightforward battle. Instead, it's ''Reload''[='s=] iteration of the Lovers shadow that becomes the true WakeUpCallBoss.

* WakeUpCallBoss: In the original releases, The Hierophant is often considered the first challenging Full Moon Shadow. He has a larger skillset than the Emperor and Empress, including having the Fear debuff and some stat manipulation capabilities. Also because [[RequiredPartyMember Yukari is forced into the party]] he will hit her with Zio spells for more turns which can sometimes snowball into a GameOver.

The ninth shadow, appearing on September 5th inside Club Escapade at Paulownia mall. The Hermit is a quadrapedal cyborg creature with a large mane, a skull-like head, six giant vacuum tubes on its back, and wires connecting its limbs to the mall's power supply.

* ContinuityNod: During the class trip to Tatsumi Port Island in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', Rise mentions she was supposed to hold a secret concert at Club Escapade, but had to cancel because of a power outage. The power outage was caused by the Hermit Arcana Shadow, but none of the people outside S.E.E.S. knew about why.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Its moveset is only consisted of Zio spells and physical attacks, so bring any Persona that isn't affected by Zio-type spells, and the worst it can do is use physical attacks, unless said Persona ignores those too. Its Vision Quest counterpart does use Mamudoon for coverage, however.

* TurnsRed: In ''Reload'', after its HP is reduced to a certain amount, it start using Accelerated Charging to unleash Tera Spark, a faster version of the strategy when it uses Giga Spark, taking one turn instead of three to charge, its body glowing a whitish blue when telegraphing this move.

The tenth and eleventh shadows, and the final pair. The appear on October 4th at the plaza of Iwatodai Station. Fortune is a golden mechanical lifeform, while Strength is a woman surrounded by flowers.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: In ''Reload'', Fortune will cast one last Wheel of Fortune roulette spin, with a small section with a Reaper on it, making Fuuka nervous. When it lands on the segment, Fuuka is nervous, but is then surprised when there's no effect; S.E.E.S. defeat it without further any issues. The result was foretelling [[spoiler:Shinjiro Aragaki's death]], who dies the same night after the Fortune and Strength Full Moon Shadow operation is completed.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Fortune's only attack for most of the fight is summoning a roulette wheel, which inflicts stat changes, status effects, or damage on either S.E.E.S. or Strength and itself. Timing it correctly, with the right personas, can make them surprisingly easy to beat.

** Fortune: Wheel of Fortune, which is a randomized roulette that either damages, heals, buffs or debuffs all on-screen targets. In the original games, the results can be rigged by the player depending on a variety of factors, but ''Reload'' makes it more random and takes the player input out of the equation.

* TakingYouWithMe: In ''Reload'', as Fortune reaches its last sliver of health, it casts one last Wheel of Fortune with a small section with a Reaper on it. The arrow lands on the Reaper but apparently misfires when nothing happens, and it dies shortly after. [[spoiler:As Fuuka states earlier, Wheel of Fortune doesn't discriminate between the caster and its enemies, meaning that one of S.E.E.S. will join it in death -- Shinjiro.]]

* DiscOneFinalBoss: Appears to be the FinalBoss at first, until you [[WhamEpisode discover that the Dark Hour still exists the next night]].

** In the final movie, [[AllYourPowersCombined they can utilize Full Moon Shadow's powers]] and even give Makoto a tough time until the latter has Thanatos beat them up to a bloody pulp.
** Their ''Reload'' counterpart is now at Level 81, their Strength, Magic, and Endurance increases from 50 to around 80s or 90s whenever they switch Arcanas, their attacks (both physical and magical) hit like a truck thanks to having Boost, Amp, and Driver passives at their disposal, gains a HPTo1 skill, can cast Night Queen even if their Death phase's health isn't low yet, and even took a page from their movie counterpart's book by using beefed up versions of the Full Moon Shadows' {{Signature Move}}s. At the same time, their Death Phase no longer halves the damage dealt to them, making their health much easier to whittle down.

* AffablyEvil: Neither Death nor Nyx has malice against humans -- in fact, Nyx is described as a "maternal" entity. Both are just following their nature as the GrimReaper, and as shown when they fight you as Nyx Avatar, Death laments having to fight you due to his experiences as Ryoji and their Arcana-themed BossBanter signifies a deep understanding of human life.

* {{BFS}}: Similar to Thanatos, Ryoji as Nyx Avatar wields a sword about as long as he is tall, which is quite a bit taller than a freight train.
* BigBad: Of the late game portion of ''Persona 3''. However, she's not inherently malicious, as The Answer epilogue reveals Erebus [[GreaterScopeVillain is the real problem.]]

** The ''Persona 3 Club Book'' expands on this. Nyx, or rather Star Eater ''predates'' complex Earth life; a celestial entity who came from space. It collided with Earth when life first formed, after which it separated into a psyche or spirit who went dormant on Earth and a physical body which formed the Moon (whose broken debris became Plumes of Dusk). The psyche's "waves of death" led to a period of evolution; Earth life formed the Collective Unconscious to contain these deadly energies (which became Shadows), kept from reality by the will to live and fear of death. However, the spread of human desire for death (revealed as Erebus in ''FES'') gradually allows gigantic Shadows akin to Arcana Shadows to emerge. If these fuse into Death, it will raise Tartarus to let more Shadows roam the world and serve as an antenna for the Moon to descend; in the meantime Death draws in the dormant psyche to awaken it [[note]]Death's existence is required to wake the psyche and it is meant as a vessel -- hence why its fracture into thirteen fragments halted the Fall -- but once it is properly born and the maternal entity senses its presence, Death is no longer necessary for Nyx to finish awakening and the vessel is not needed to begin the Fall, as shown in the game's BadEnd[[/note]]. Thus the Fall is a rebirth; Nyx's psyche inhabits the Moon so it "exists" once more. But its presence will rip out Shadows within all life (which results in Apathy Syndrome), and since it would happen to ''all life''...

* ReadingsAreOffTheScale: In the ScriptedBattle within the Moon, Nyx can only do one attack: ''Death'', which does ''9999'' damage -- the highest damage number possible in the game. The protagonist still manages to [[HeroicWillpower shrug it off multiple times]].

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: In ''Reload'', Fortune will cast one last Wheel of Fortune roulette spin, with a small section with a Reaper on it, making Fuuka nervous. When it lands on the segment, Fuuka is nervous, but is then surprised when there's no effect, S.E.E.S. defeat it without further any issues. The result was foretelling [[spoiler:Shinjiro Aragaki's death]], who dies the same night after the Fortune and Strength Full Moon Shadow operation is completed.

* SomethingAboutARose: Strength sits atop a mass of multicolored roses and carries one its hand.

* AdaptationalWimp: As overwhelmingly powerful as Nyx Avatar is in ''Reload'', they only have one turn instead of two and lack [[AttackReflector Moonless Gown]], though they have Grim Transcendence and [[HPTo1 Apocalypse]] to make up for it.