Fifi Laguarde

Near Pure Evil

Full Name

Mari Miwa (美和マリー)

Fifi Laguarde (official translation)
Patricia Roland (fan translation)

Alias

None

Origin

Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Prosecutor's Gambit

Allies

Excelsius Winner

Di Jun-Wang's body double
Frank Sahwit (accomplice)

Powers / Skills

Ability to hide evidence

Powerful connections
Cunning
High intelligence

Goals

Make Fake Di-Jun Wang president via killing the real president with the help of Excelsius Winner (succeeded).

Frame, blackmail and kill Bodhidharma Kanis (failed).

Moral Event Horizon

Participating in the assassination of the president of Zheng Fa and causing the country to fall into decay.

Ruthlessly torturing Simeon Saint back when he was an orphan in her care.

Kill Count

3

1 (attempted)

Crimes

Murder
Unlawful imprisonment
Child abuse
Torture
Conspiracy
Corruption
Accessory to murder
Smuggling
Abuse of power
Perjury
Animal abuse
Destruction of evidence
Tampering with a crime scene
Assisting in a presidential assassination

Type of Villain

Extravagant Gaoler

“	But you know how it is! A little hug and smooch is entirely de rigueur!	„
	~ Fifi Laguarde.

“	Kanis was the evil one! I didn't do anything wrong!	„
	~ Fifi Laguarde when confronted with her actions.

Fifi Laguarde is a major antagonist in the game Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Prosecutor's Gambit and is also the main antagonist of the second case "The Captive Turnabout".

Her Evil Ranking[]

What Makes Her Close to Being Pure Evil?[]

She hired Bodhidharma Kanis to murder President Di-Jun Wang so she could place a decoy, using her own orphanage as the grave for the president.
In killing the president and setting up a proxy, she had a hand in destabilizing an entire country, causing suffering to countless people. Even if she didn't seek to do it, she obviously shows no remorse for her actions.
When a reporter witnessed the crime, she had the body double murder him to cover her own tracks.
When seeing a young Simeon Saint witnessing the crime, she captured him and ruthlessly interrogated him for days, only stopping when the assassin rescued the boy. This makes her one of the few villains in the series to be a child abuser.
She attempted to have the assassin she hired, and the boy killed due to them being witnesses to her actions.
She used her position as a warden to enable Excelsius Winner to murder or ruin the lives of his enemies, obstructing justice at every turn.
She helped Bodhidharma Kanis set up a smuggling ring to save her own skin, too cowardly to allow him to testify against her actions. This allowed Kanis to be a force to be reckoned with and expanded his criminal network. Despite her unwillingness to help him, she still ended up doing so out of cowardly self-preservation.
She enforced a hierarchy among the prisoners, giving those that did her bidding special treatment. This created rampant corruption and stopped any chance of rehabilitation for the prisoners under her control.
She murdered Bronco Knight under the impression he was working for Kanis. This was when he was defenseless and when she had every tool at her disposal to put him in solitary or choose any other method to get rid of him without killing him.
Her claim that her family was being threatened is untrustworthy, as she's the one making it, which could easily be a ploy to garner sympathy.
She proved to care about herself more than her animals, feeding a murder weapon to an alligator, who ends up going sick shortly afterwards, being spared of a likely death due to the fact that the weapon was discovered in the alligator's stomach before it could be digested.
She conspired with Excelsius Winner after the two of them were arrested for separate crimes, despite being aware that Winner was a danger to society.
She attempted to have the son of the judge kidnapped to cause her to hand down a not guilty verdict just so she could save her own skin. This only failed because the wrong child was kidnapped.
In her final moments in the game, she showed no remorse, blaming other people for her actions and gloating about her accomplishments, proving that underneath her carefully constructed facade, she was a cruel and tyrannical woman who would ruin countless lives to save her own skin.