Kristoph Gavin

### Goals

Ruin Phoenix Wright's career (succeeded for seven years, but ultimately failed when Phoenix got his attorney's badge back after eight).Get revenge on Zak Gramarye.
Poison and kill Drew Misham (both succeeded).

### Moral Event Horizon

Giving Phoenix forged evidence to ruin his career and life purely out of spite.
Attempting to kill Vera who was just a 12 year old child at the time.
Causing The Dark Age of Law, leading to wrongful acquittals and verdicts for 8 years before it ended.

### Kill Count

2 (confirmed)
3 (determinant)

### Crimes

Terrorism
Forgery
Perjury
Stalking
Blackmail
Libel
Assault
Defamation
Incrimination
Corruption
Hate crimes
Betrayal
Murder
Child abuse
Vandalism
Conspiracy
Kidnapping

### Type of Villain

Egotistical Official

**Kristoph Gavin**, known as **Kirihito Garyu** in the original Japanese version, is the main antagonist of the video game *Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney* and the (unseen) overarching antagonist of *Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies.* More specifically, he serves as the main antagonist of *Turnabout Trump* and *Turnabout Succession*.

## 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. However, Zak rejected Kristoph for being unable to beat him in a game of poker, so 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 also 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 8 years old, with Phoenix having to take her in as she had no relatives to stay with.
* He befriended Phoenix 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 later.
* During Phoenix's trial for Zak's murder, he attempted to turn Apollo 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 showed absolutely no remorse for his actions, believing himself to be justified in doing what he did because of his egocentric logic.
* He knowingly helped cause The Dark Age of Law by sabotaging the legal system so severely that many people were either wrongfully acquitted or imprisoned. He frequently abused 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 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. This was so he could keep his unearned luxury suite that he had inside prison.
* His moments of "kindness" were either performative or self-serving. He befriended Phoenix in an attempt to learn his weaknesses and mentored Apollo knowing that Apollo was easily shaped by others. He defended his clients because he craved being in a position of power (and may have even freed guilty clients at that). Even his care for his pet dog is implied to be an example of a person or creature he has complete control over (as unlike Matt Engarde, he never is explicitly shown to love the dog.)
* *Ace Attorney*'s heinous standard is high. However, Kristoph is one of the villains that meets the standards with him corrupting the legal system for 8 years, being one of the two confirmed villains who were willing to kill children, and ruining Phoenix's life for 7 years just out of immense spite for him and Zak, which are all very unique crimes for the series. He also has lower resources then most of the villains in the series, especially Manfred Von Karma, Dahlia Hawthorne and Matt Engarde.