Damon Gant

**Damon Gant** is the main antagonist of the fifth case of *Phoenix Wright:Ace Attorney*, Rise from the ashes. He's the Chief of the Police and the real culprit of Bruce Goodman's murder, a detective who was re-investigating the SL-9 case, the murder of Neil Marshall, a detective who was seemingly killed by Joe Darke, a serial killer. It was later revealed that the murderer was actually Gant, who used said murder to frame Darke, and to secure the position of Police Chief

## What Makes Him Magnificent?

* When he saw the unconscious bodies of Ema Skye, Joe Darke and Neil Marshall, who engaged in a fight some moments before, he decided to frame Darke by cutting a bloodless piece of Neil Marshall's vest with Ema's hand print on it, killing Marshall by impaling him on a sword from a suit of armor, and writing Ema's name with Neil's blood on a jar, tricking Lana Skye into believe that he was accidentally killed by Ema.
	+ To remark how intelligent he is, it should be noted that he came up with the idea and completed his plan in just a few minutes, keeping the piece of cloth and a piece of the broken jar in a safe as insurance.
* He tricked Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth into giving Darke a guilty verdict with false evidence.
* He put Lana Skye as Chief Prosecutor to keep all prosecutors in control.
* After having killed Bruce Goodman, he put his corpse in the trunk of Edgeworth's car, and then tricking him into move the body from the crime scene, ordering him to move a piece of evidence from a past case.
* He blackmailed Lana Skye into taking the fall for Goodman's murder, obstructing Wright and Edgeworth's investigations, having her stab Goodman's corpse.
* He almost tricked Wright into submit the piece of cloth with Ema's fingerprints as evidence. If Wright had submitted the evidence before Gant indirectly admitted he concealed said evidence, Ema Skye would be linked to the murder and declared guilty.
* When he was about to be arrested, he almost got away with his crimes by bringing up the fact that illegal evidence cannot be used to convict a suspect. If Wright hadn't gotten the evidence law book from Gumshoe, Gant would have tricked everyone into thinking the cloth was illegal evidence, and gotten away with his crimes.
* He faced his defeat with dignity, recovering from his minor breakdown, admitting that now, justice is safe in Wright and Edgeworth's hands.
* Unlike other masterminds in Ace Attorney, Gant has no petty motive for his crimes, instead being motivated by a genuine desire to capture criminals.
	+ He's also one of the few villains who show sincere respect for Wright and Edgeworth.

## What Makes him a Baddie?

* He killed an investigative partner named Neil Marshall, framing it on a 14-year-old named Ema Skye in order to blackmail her sister Lana into falsifying evidence to get Joe Darke executed for his crimes.
* He fired Angel Starr and demoted Jake Marshall in the aftermath of the SL-9 trial to make sure the investigation team went silent. While Bruce Goodman remained at his original position, it was almost certainly to avoid suspicion on Gant's part.
* He blackmailed Lana Skye for two years into keeping control of law enforcement in the city, threatening to tell everyone that Ema killed Neil if she didn't help him.
* He killed Detective Goodman for trying to re-open SL-9, making Lana help him in the crime before framing the murder on her.

## External Links

* Damon Gant at the Villains wiki
* Damon Gant at the *Ace Attorney* wiki

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