Justice

**Justice** (ジャスティス, *Jasutisu*) is a major character in the *Guilty Gear* series, and is one of its main antagonists. Justice is a female Gear, the first "complete" Gear that was created by That Man. She was the instigator of the Crusades, a hundred year war against humans and Gears that is the foundation for the majority of the *Guilty Gear* storyline. Justice was eventually defeated and destroyed by Sol Badguy.

## Personality

Justice is shown to be quite confident in her power, almost to the point of arrogance. However, she is also shown to be quite shrewd and cunning. She seems to be able to accurately determine the nature of her opponent's magic and battle capabilities through simple observation. She also commanded her army of Gears to lay siege on the Japanese people as she felt that their mastery of Ki would pose a significant threat to her plans of genocide. Despite her open disdain towards humanity in general, she is capable of acknowledging their tenacity, strength and courage, as shown in her interactions with Kliff, whom she conveys her respect to and even offered him an opportunity to retreat during their last confrontation to avoid his inevitable death. When failing to comply, she then states that she would at least make his death painless.

She seems to exhibit a resigned and melancholic anger over her role, as she believes that she has no choice but to be a nemesis towards mankind and a weapon. She also feels enraged at humanity for labeling Gears as evil or a sin against nature, despite the fact that they did not have a choice in their creation or the fact that they were developed as biological weapons.

## Gameplay

In *Guilty Gear*, she is the game's final boss. In *Guilty Gear X* she is absent from the game, except in the Plus version, where she and Kliff are hidden characters unlocked via missions. In *Guilty Gear X2* however, she is a secret character only unlocked by beating her on Level 460 in Survival Mode, accumulating ninety-six hours of normal gameplay, beating all sixty Story Paths, or completing forty of the game's missions in Mission Mode. Despite her inclusion in these games, her well-above-average attack power, reach, speed, and defense make her illegal in most formal tournaments.

Before the recent *Accent Core Plus R*, Justice was the most overpowered character in the game, being able to deal an insane amount of damage as well as having the best mobility and defense of any character, boasting a fast running dash, a triple airdash, and a triple jump. Her normals are also fast, have ridiculous priority, and extremely long reach. In fact, Justice is the only character in the game that is so overpowered outside of Gold Mode that some of her combos are guaranteed to deal 100% damage. Justice can also zone very effectively using her **N.B. Blasts**, and she possesses an extremely powerful counter called **Valkyrie Arc** that counters all attacks, regardless of where the attack is intended to hit, or even if the attack is an Overdrive or Instant Kill. Her only weakness is that her Overdrives are extremely hard to pull off, forcing inexperienced players to use nothing but regular attacks and special moves.

The recently announced *Accent Core Plus R* is allowing Justice and Kliff, for the first time ever, to be playable and balanced for arcade play, meaning she is now officially tournament-legal. As such, Justice has been retooled considerably: she has lost practically all of her mobility, as her walk speed is extremely slowed down and she can no longer dash, triple jump, or airdash. **Valkyrie Arc** no longer works on low attacks, and her damage output is severely weakened. To make up for this, she has been given all new versions of her **N.B. Blasts** that travel in different arcs and directions. Her gameplan revolves around setting up bomb traps to gain meter, then making use of her Force Break, **Saperia Trance**, to travel across the screen while causing wallbounce to go into devastating combos.

As of the second location test, she has gained a brand new Overdrive called **Omega Shift**. The move acts similarly to Sol's Dragon Install, granting Justice all of her old mobility options back (triple jump, dash, triple airdash). This adds yet another option to her gameplan: to build meter so she can use this move to transition to an offensive playstyle.

## Powers & Abilities

Justice uses her innate powers as well as her armor's shapeshifting claws and appendages to deal out incredible damage. She is capable of manipulating heat, electricity, nuclear fission and even gamma radiation. Her armor, which is based on the Outrage, not only protects her from most magical weaponry and spells, it also allows her to draw Magic directly from the Backyard to substantially boost her immense power further. It is equipped with a pair of boosters, which allows her to accelerate her speed to astonishing levels. She also has the ability to teleport. She has access to a weaker variation of the Saint Oratorio spell, better known as her Overdrive Gamma Ray, which obliterated Japan in a single blast at its maximum output, leaving a permanent scar in the ocean. In her "Cradle" form in Guilty Gear Xrd, she was able to exterminate the city of Babylon instantaneously by "swapping" physical space with the Backyard. She is considered to be one of the series's most powerful characters, alongside Sol Badguy, Tyr, Slayer, Bedman, Dizzyand That Man. As a Command Type Gear, she manifested an ability known as the Gear Resonance Song which allows her to mentally influence and control all Gears, even reviving 'dead' Gears. This ability also extends towards Youkai, due to the structural similarities between Youkai and Gears.

## Musical Themes

* **Meet Again** - *Guilty Gear*
* **The Day Of Judgement** - *Guilty Gear XX #Reload Korean OST*

## References and Allusions

* Her name could also be a homage to Metallica album and song "...And Justice for All."
* Justice's (and Dizzy's) overdrive named Gamma Ray shares its name with a well-known German power-metal band.
* Justice shows keen plot and design similarities with the Evas in Neon Genesis Evangelion, specifically Unit-01.
* Justice possesses two moves, Michael Sword, and its Overdrive version Michael Blade. Both are possibly references to Saint Michael of the three Archangels.

## TMNT X Pokemon

Justice first appeared in Season 2 when she is helping Baxter Stockman. She's one of the mini bosses you will face throughout the game.

## Trivia

* Due to mistranslations in the first *Guilty Gear* game, and the blue ischium between the character sprite's legs, it was previously believed that Justice was male, though in the original Japanese script, she was never referred to with any gender specific pronoun. This theory is proven false in GGXX^Core.
* It is stated and confirmed in the Drama CD Side Black that she is Dizzy's biological mother.
* It was heavily hinted that Justice was originally a human woman named Aria, Fredrick's (now Sol Badguy) former lover and a fellow scientist involved with the Gear Project. It is later revealed in Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- that she is actually a copy of Aria, whom was used as her genetic template. She was initially human and was identical to Aria before she was converted into a Gear, which corroborates with information revealed in Guilty Gear Bible's Q and A section. Her memories were artificially implanted to make her believe that she was the original Aria, though she seems to eventually break free of their influence and forges her own identity as Justice after the obliteration of Japan.
* Justice is the only character that can air dash from one end of a stage to the other.
* Due to their status in the series' canon as "deceased", and being implemented as extra characters, Justice and Kliff's gameplay parameters never received character re-balances after the first game, unlike the normal roster. This issue made them overpowered, and as such, were banned from tournament play until the release of *Guilty Gear XX Λ Core Plus R*.
* In *Accent Core Plus*, Justice gains only one new move: a Force Break called **Saperia Trance**, which is a powerful dash; curiously, the sound effect for her dash seems to be removed. This move is also shared by the First Valentine, who uses it after transforming into her Justice-like form.
* Justice's hair color was orange until *Guilty Gear XX*, where it was change into a red color. Also the blue on her color scheme is a little more vivid.
* In the original *Guilty Gear*, Justice had no respect action; she simply froze momentarily.
* Justice's appearance and design are based on the anime *Tekkaman Blade*.
* In the Drama CD Side Black, Sol asks to an evil Dizzy why she has led a war against humanity since unlike her mother, her heart should be free. This implies that Justice's actions may not have entirely been of her own volition.