02-Miles Edgeworth

Although he generally doesn't like to admit it, Edgeworth is an avid Steel Samurai fan, even displaying a Steel Samurai figure in his office despite not being a fan of the sender, and seeming to know quite a bit about the show. Despite acknowledging that it is a show meant for children, he enjoys the series's plot and high production values. When Will Powers, the actor who played the Steel Samurai, was acquitted of murder, Edgeworth told Powers that he was a fan of his work, although Wright believed that he was lying. During one of his flights back home, he was secretly reading a Steel Samurai manga hidden between the pages of one of his law books.

Admirers Although Edgeworth has expressed disinterest in marriage, he nonetheless has a good number of romantic and semi-romantic admirers and is generally regarded as a "pretty-boy" (as Shi-Long Lang used to call him) with all that this entails. One admirer whom he encounters particularly often is Wendy Oldbag, who calls him "Edgey-poo" and other unwanted pet names. Bikini also found Edgeworth "handsome" and forgave him easily. Rhoda Teneiro and Lauren Paups were attracted to him, though Edgeworth was largely, if not entirely, unaware of this. Ema Skye has also expressed some amount of interest in him, such as daydreaming about him working upon visiting his office as a teenager. She generally views Edgeworth as the ideal prosecutor, or at least far superior to the "glimmerous fop", Klavier Gavin.

Edgeworth's oblivious pretty-boy nature has been the subject of teasing at times. Detective Gumshoe has commented on Edgeworth's apparent ignorance of his own appeal to women, prompting the latter to remark, "D-Do I really inspire this sort of frothing desire from the female masses?" Even Franziska has referred to him in such terms as "little brother" (despite her being much younger) and "cute little subordinate".

Home & office life Being a very successful prosecutor who was raised by another very successful prosecutor, Edgeworth is quite well off. He drives a red sports car to work (which appears to be an imported Alfa Romeo GTV) and it is insinuated that he lives in a mansion, and this shows in his high-class tendencies.

Edgeworth is fond of drinking tea and playing chess; he frequently has tea delivered to him from the Gatewater Hotel and has a chessboard set up in his office. Edgeworth even sometimes visualizes his interrogations as chess games. His chessboard is unusual in that, rather than the traditional black and white game pieces, Edgeworth's chess set is red and blue. While examining Edgeworth's office during the Bruce Goodman murder investigation, Phoenix Wright noticed that the red knights on the chessboard were all carrying swords with pointy "edges" while the blue pawns had "spiky hair" - a subtle reference to Wright and Edgeworth's courtroom rivalry, though Wright quickly dismissed the thought.[9] Edgeworth has mentioned to Kay Faraday that he is able to play both the piano and flute.

As the chase continued the next day, Edgeworth helped Wright stall the trial. Edgeworth eventually called de Killer as a witness by radio, but this backfired as the assassin claimed that Andrews had hired him. However, Franziska von Karma burst into the courtroom with evidence that allowed Wright to inform de Killer that Engarde had secretly recorded the assassination to later blackmail the assassin. After swearing a bloody vendetta against Engarde, who almost immediately confessed his crime to protect himself from the assassin, de Killer released Maya.

After Engarde's conviction, a confused Franziska left the country. Edgeworth met her at the airport and said that he would go on without her if she decided to quit her career. Edgeworth then left America himself to study international law. Ernest Amano, an old friend of Manfred von Karma, used his connections to finance Edgeworth's studies abroad.

In March 2018, Edgeworth returned to Los Angeles and met Wright and Franziska, although neither was particularly happy to see him again. Although he initially planned to help Wright, Franziska was non-fatally shot the next day and had to be hospitalized, and Edgeworth took her place in court. Other than reliving the horror of Wendy Oldbag on the witness stand, Edgeworth had the trial under his complete control, while Wright seemed particularly desperate to pin the murder on Adrian Andrews. Andrews tried to plead silence, prompting Edgeworth to reveal Andrews's dependency problems with other women to get her to testify. After court was adjourned, Edgeworth noticed a card Andrews had absent-mindedly removed from the crime scene and recognized it as a calling card from an assassin called Shelly de Killer.

adjourned, Edgeworth noticed a card Andrews had absent-mindedly removed from the crime scene and recognized it as a calling card from an assassin called Shelly de Killer.

The truth was now clear: the defendant, Matt Engarde, had hired de Killer to assassinate Juan Corrida. Wright also told Edgeworth that de Killer was holding Maya Fey for ransom. Edgeworth agreed to help Wright, promising to organise a rescue team to locate Maya, but in the meantime, it was now Wright's turn to figure out the true meaning of his career. De Killer was eventually discovered to have been staying at Engarde Mansion, but had already left with Maya by the time the police arrived.

Distressed and confused by all that had happened to him, Edgeworth wrote a note reading, "Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth chooses death." A bellboy discovered this note as Edgeworth left America to find out what being a prosecutor truly meant. When news of this reached Wright, he decided that the Edgeworth he had known as a child had died and been replaced by a coward. Meanwhile, Franziska von Karma, having heard of the defeats of Edgeworth and her father at Wright's hands, returned to America, hoping to prove herself superior to Edgeworth by beating Wright in court.

In reality, Edgeworth had left America in an attempt to make sense of everything that had happened to him, and to figure out what being a prosecutor truly meant. He secretly helped with Gumshoe's investigation into the death of the Berry Big Circus ringmaster Russell Berry by phone, advising the detective to order a surprise search of Acro's room. Franziska, who was the prosecutor for the trial, conducted the actual search, but was furious when she found out that the search had inadvertently caused her to lose, although both Wright and Franziska were unaware of Edgeworth's involvement. After the trial, Edgeworth told Gumshoe not to be too harsh with Acro.

The next day, it was revealed that the other "murder" was not a murder at all, and the other "Goodman" was actually another detective from the SL-9 Incident, Jake Marshall, who was desperate to re-investigate the SL-9 case. Jake made Lana admit that evidence from the SL-9 case was forged, much to Edgeworth's horror, and he subsequently came under fire once again from the police department. Even though he never knew about the forgeries, he felt that as the prosecutor in charge it was his responsibility to have ensured the authenticity of the evidence he presented. He wrote a letter of resignation, unable to forgive himself for the career he had led, but he decided against it in the end and returned for the final trial day

At this point, both Edgeworth and Wright suspected that Gant was the real killer, so Edgeworth offered to cooperate with Wright. Lana tried to get herself declared guilty, but Edgeworth ignored her confession and called Ema to the stand to ask her about the SL-9 Incident, as she had witnessed the murder. It turned out that Edgeworth had only gotten half of the evidence list, and Wright had found the other half in Gant's office. An argumentative struggle followed between Wright, Edgeworth, and Gant, and although Gant tried to implicate Ema as the killer in the SL-9 Incident, Wright came up with a clever trap to expose him as the real killer of both Goodman and Neil Marshall. Gant told Edgeworth that he was no different from himself, and that one day Edgeworth would understand why Gant had done what he had done. Nevertheless, he commented to the judge that "you can't go wrong" with Edgeworth and Wright around. This troubled Edgeworth; he still blamed himself for the results of the SL-9 case, and he feared he would become a lone vigilante like Gant.

Months later, during the annual award ceremony for the prosecutor's office, Edgeworth received the King of Prosecutors trophy for that year. However, he scoffed at the commendation as a waste of a productive day, and saw the award as a trinket that would waste space on his shelf. Police chief Damon Gant later requested that Edgeworth transfer a piece of evidence. Edgeworth thought little of it at first, however his car soon became a crime scene. Detective Bruce Goodman was murdered, apparently using the knife stored in Edgeworth's car, and Lana Skye was accused of the crime. Edgeworth was assigned to prosecute the case, but there were rumors that he only took the case to get himself promoted to Chief Prosecutor.

Edgeworth once again found himself facing Wright. Unlike previous trials, he concerned himself only with the truth, picking out some contradictions in his own witness's testimony before Wright could and even conceding that Wright had successfully picked apart his sole witness when it appeared as though the trial was ending. Things became more complicated when Damon Gant appeared and informed the court that Bruce Goodman had been apparently murdered by Mike Meekins in the police department evidence room at the same time that the murder being discussed had occurred. Gant also insinuated that Edgeworth's neglect had led to his ignorance about the case, humiliating the prosecutor in front of the entire courtroom. The trial was adjourned to sort out this matter. Wright, accompanied by Lana's sister Ema, came to visit Edgeworth, who gave the younger Skye sister a fingerprinting set.

Manfred's relentless tactics allowed him to take complete control of the trial, until Wright's co-counsel Maya Fey, whom Edgeworth had prosecuted months before, persistently pressed a witness, causing her to be arrested in contempt of court. This action allowed Wright to turn the case around to adjourn the trial, and Edgeworth paid Maya's bail in return. The next day, Larry Butz put another wrench into Manfred's plans by suddenly bursting in to testify. This allowed Wright to pinpoint the real location and time of the murder, accusing the old boat shop owner of killing Hammond in his boat shop and then posing as the defense attorney in the boat. The next day, Wright accused the man of being Yanni Yogi, out for revenge, and Yogi eventually confessed to his true identity and the murder. The judge declared Edgeworth not guilty.However, Edgeworth raised an objection, not to the verdict itself but to the murder of his father, whom he thought he had killed during DL-6. Wright knew something wasn't right, and defended him in the subsequent trial, which was set up immediately due to the statute of limitations placing the deadline for solving the DL-6 case on that day. Wright pointed to Manfred as the real killer; Miles Edgeworth had actually shot the prosecutor's shoulder by accident through the elevator window, and then Manfred had killed the unconscious Gregory Edgeworth in his rage. Miles Edgeworth was declared not guilty for his father's murder, and Manfred von Karma was arrested. Wright, Edgeworth, and everyone else who had helped him, celebrated the victory - albeit rather awkwardly in Edgeworth's case - with Larry Butz finally admitting to have stolen Edgeworth's lunch money 15 years ago.

On Christmas Eve, Edgeworth received a letter from Robert Hammond to meet with him at Gourd Lake. The two men took a boat ride to the middle of the lake, until suddenly "Hammond" swore revenge on Edgeworth for ruining his life, and shot twice into the water. He then fell into the lake and swam away, leaving Edgeworth bewildered at what had just transpired, thinking the man had just committed suicide. In a daze, Edgeworth picked up the gun the man had left behind. When he went back to shore, he was arrested on suspicion of Hammond's murder, with the fingerprints he had just placed on the gun as evidence.

Wright found out about the arrest and offered to represent Edgeworth in court, but he refused. Wright investigated the crime anyway, along with a worried Detective Gumshoe. Wright saw that the case had a connection with the DL-6 Incident and Misty Fey, and he returned to Edgeworth. Impressed by his ability to gather information, Edgeworth admitted that he just did not want to get Wright involved in the case, but now that he was anyway, Edgeworth finally agreed to have Wright defend him. Edgeworth knew that Manfred, the prosecutor for the case, would not relent for his sake, as he would do anything for a guilty verdict.

Edgeworth and Wright faced off again in the trial of Will Powers for the murder of Jack Hammer. The trial introduced the elderly witness Wendy Oldbag, who instantly became smitten with Edgeworth, much to the latter's dismay. Edgeworth's dislike of the woman was such that he did not protest Wright's suggestion that Oldbag was the killer. On the second day of the trial, Powers's innocence became more certain with Wright exposing more contradictions in the witness testimonies; the judge subsequently asked Edgeworth to reconsider his position. By the third day of the trial, Edgeworth was having a crisis of conscience. He forced the final witness, Dee Vasquez, to testify about what she had done after finding the body. This allowed Wright to expose a final contradiction that implicated Vasquez as the real killer. After the trial, Edgeworth approached Wright, who thanked him for helping him. Edgeworth retorted that Wright had caused him to experience "unnecessary feelings" of "unease" and "uncertainty", and warned him never to show his face in front of him again.

Edgeworth maintained a perfect win record until he met Wright in court in 2016, with Maya Fey as the defendant accused of killing her older sister Mia. Later, a witness, Redd White, pinned the murder on Wright instead, and Wright defended himself in court against Edgeworth. Unlike most of Edgeworth's previous opponents, who would buckle under his intimidating tactics, Wright persevered and kept fighting. Still, Edgeworth did not relent, wanting to preserve his perfect win record. However, White eventually confessed to the murder, and Edgeworth was devastated as his perfect win record had been broken.

Over the next few years, rumors surrounding Edgeworth began to circulate, concerning under-the-table deals, fabricated evidence, and illegal investigations. Edgeworth came to be known as a "Demon Attorney" in local newspapers. His old friend Phoenix Wright caught wind of this and attempted to contact him, but he ignored Wright's attempts. Edgeworth built up a perfect win record, and convicted some high-profile cases, such as the assassin Bodhidharma Kanis.[6]

In 2015, Edgeworth prosecuted against Joe Darke for the SL-9 Incident. Darke was accused of murdering Neil Marshall, who was to be the prosecutor against Darke for a series of other murders. Due to incriminating evidence, Darke was convicted, but rumors abounded of shady dealings concerning the evidence. With all but one of the detectives from the incident being fired or demoted, Edgeworth came under even more scrutiny from the public. As a result of the incident, Edgeworth came to know one of the detectives, Lana Skye, along with her younger sister Ema. After the incident, Lana became Chief Prosecutor. Edgeworth believed that Lana was looking out for him for the next two years.

After the previous false start, Edgeworth finally got his courtroom debut. His opponent was defense attorney Mia Fey, who was also new to the courtroom. His case was against Terry Fawles, who was accused of murdering Sergeant Valerie Hawthorne, a policewoman who had testified against Fawles five years prior to the case. Edgeworth's arrogance was especially evident in this trial, as he would repeatedly refer to Fey's youth and inexperience, despite being inexperienced himself and even younger than her. At one point, he called her a "novice bimbo" merely because she had gotten the upper hand; while Edgeworth has been known to use ad hominem attacks, he has never been nearly as derogatory toward a woman before or since.

Edgeworth used other questionable tactics in the trial, including intentionally withholding information that would prove valuable to the defense, such as the true identity of the witness called "Melissa Foster", who was really Dahlia Hawthorne. The trial abruptly ended in disaster when Fawles committed suicide on the stand by ingesting poison. Edgeworth would later refer to it as his worst nightmare in court. Meanwhile, the witness and true culprit left the court with a devious smile on her face

After passing the bar exam, Miles Edgeworth joined the District Prosecutor's Office at the incredibly young age of 20. Ordinarily he would not stand in court at such an early stage in his career. However, he got his chance when, during the trial of Mack Rell, the defendant accused the prosecutor, Byrne Faraday, of being the Great Thief Yatagarasu and ordering him to murder Deid Mann, the victim in the case. Edgeworth was scheduled to replace Faraday due to conflict of interest on Faraday's part, but before Edgeworth could begin his trial, both Faraday and Rell were killed during the recess. It was during the investigation of their murders that Edgeworth first met Byrne's daughter Kay Faraday, veteran detective Tyrell Badd, and rookie detective Dick Gumshoe, with the latter being a prime suspect for the murders. Badd dismissed Edgeworth at first, but the young prosecutor's logical prowess earned him Badd's respect in the end. Edgeworth eventually found that Calisto Yew, the defense attorney for the case, was the Yatagarasu and the true killer, but it turned out that she was also an agent of the smuggling ring that had ordered Mann's death. She escaped by shooting at Edgeworth, who avoided being killed only by Kay's timely intervention. Gumshoe was so impressed by Edgeworth that he swore to stick by the young prosecutor's side from that day forth, much to the latter's annoyance.

The police called upon a spirit medium, Misty Fey, to find the killer. She channeled Gregory, who accused Yogi of the murder. Yogi was subsequently put on trial, with Robert Hammond defending him. However, Yogi feigned temporary insanity and got a not guilty verdict. However, this ruined his reputation, with his fiancee committing suicide shortly after the incident. Meanwhile, media outlets found out about Misty Fey, and the resulting scandal ruined the reputation of her family. Miles subsequently developed a hatred for defense attorneys and spirit mediums, calling Misty Fey a "fraud".

Miles was then taken under the wing of Manfred von Karma, who trained him to become a ruthless prosecutor like himself. Through this, Miles met Manfred's young daughter Franziska, with whom he would develop a strong and shared sibling-like bond

Between December 2000 and December 2001, Edgeworth would go to the District Court to see one of his father's trials. Gregory was arguing a case against the undefeated prosecutor Manfred von Karma. During the course of the trial, Gregory accused von Karma of forging evidence, and on December 28, 2001, finally managed to prove that the prosecutor had coerced a confession from his client. Because of this, von Karma received his first and only penalty. However, von Karma still won and Gregory's client, Samson Tangaroa, was declared guilty.

After court was adjourned, the Edgeworths went to exit the courthouse through an elevator, accompanied by bailiff Yanni Yogi. At approximately 2:00 p.m., an earthquake struck the courthouse and shut off the power, leaving Yogi and the Edgeworths trapped in the elevator with little oxygen. During the five-hour blackout, Yogi started to panic and attacked Gregory. Miles felt a pistol beneath his feet and threw it at the bailiff, hoping to stop him from possibly killing his father. A single gunshot rang out, and the young boy fell unconscious. The last thing he heard was a demonic scream that would haunt him for the next 15 years. He woke up inside a hospital; by that time, Gregory Edgeworth was dead, fatally shot in the heart by Yogi's pistol. Miles developed a deathly fear of earthquakes and elevators from the incident.

Miles Edgeworth is a Chief Prosecutor of the prosecutor's office. During his first four years as a prosecutor, he had a perfect win record in trials and was willing to do just about anything to get a guilty verdict for the defendant. His defeat in court at the hand of his childhood friend Phoenix Wright was the beginning of a series of seismic shifts in his attitude concerning his profession. He even quit twice, only to return each time with a fresh outlook on how he conducted his life.

By the time of the Mask☆DeMasque trials, he had become an international prosecutor who had prosecuted in five other countries, as well as being known as the top prosecutor in his homeland. His goal as a prosecutor is to seek the truth above all else, and to use the power of the law to save people.

Associates Family Gregory Edgeworth (father; deceased) An unnamed aunt (DS localization only)[1] Friends Phoenix Wright (childhood friend & rival defense attorney) Larry Butz (childhood friend) Dick Gumshoe (colleague & investigative partner) Franziska von Karma (former senior pupil & temporary rival prosecutor) Kay Faraday (investigative partner) Maya Fey (Phoenix Wright's assistant) Ema Skye (fan & partnered forensics investigator) Pearl Fey (Maya's cousin & Phoenix Wright's friend) Trucy Wright (Phoenix Wright's adoptive daughter) Eddie Fender (family friend & former employee of father) Affiliates Manfred von Karma (former mentor & father's killer; deceased) Ernest Amano (old friend of Manfred von Karma; arrested) Calisto Yew (rival defense attorney & attempted murderer; arrested) Tyrell Badd (former detective) Mia Fey (rival defense attorney; deceased) Lana Skye (former superior; arrested) Damon Gant (former superior; arrested) Wendy Oldbag (admirer/stalker & witness) Lotta Hart (freelance photojournalist) Iris (former client; arrested) Shi-Long Lang (rival Interpol agent) Rhoda Teneiro (admirer) Lauren Paups (admirer) Maggey Byrde (fan) Colias Palaeno (Cohdopian ambassador) Winston Payne (colleague) Bodhidharma Kanis (criminal convicted by Edgeworth) Verity Gavèlle (rival judge) Eustace Winner (colleague & "rival" prosecutor) Excelsius Winner (former superior of Manfred von Karma; arrested) Simon Blackquill (subordinate) Klavier Gavin (subordinate) Gaspen Payne (former subordinate) Nahyuta Sahdmadhi (subordinate & visiting Khura'inese prosecutor) Apollo Justice (Phoenix Wright's former apprentice) Athena Cykes (Phoenix Wright's apprentice & prosecutor for Athena's trial)

Occupation Prosecutor (2012 - Apr. 5, 2019, Apr. 8, 2019 - c. Dec. 2026) Acting defense attorney (Feb. 9, 2019) Interim associate at Edgeworth and Co. Law Offices (Mar. 28-29, 2019) Chief Prosecutor (c. Dec. 2026 - present) Biological information Reckoned birth year(s) (this is for age comparison purposes, and so may look odd; click on the question mark for details)? 1992-1993 Documented age range (as recorded in court record profiles & case files) 9- 35 Last known status Alive (Sep. 2028) Eye color Gray Hair color Dark gray Height (the metric (cm) values are sourced from official guidebooks and may not reflect the relative sizes of characters as depicted in-game or in other official media) 5'10"; 178 cm

Miles Edgeworth is a young and handsome man with gray hair and two streaks on the sides of his face. His eyes are also gray and he usually wears a reddish purple suit over a white shirt and his handkerchief on his neck.

His skin is white, his build is medium.

Edgeworth is often seen as a "snob" due to his skeptical, ruthless nature, and overall very different attitude between everyday life and the courtroom.

However, he has a strong sense of right and wrong, and acts only in ways that he believes to be fair and equitable. He also shows that he cares deeply for those he considers his friends, even helping them a lot when he thinks they need it.

Generally, Edgeworth is calm and level-headed when talking to people, although he is a bit cold at first, and sometimes quite condescending. Edgeworth is also very insecure in general and hates showing his weaknesses. He may have a pollen allergy.

In court, Edgeworth usually has the trial planned precisely, usually ensuring his victory. Because of this, he tends to easily adapt anything that doesn't fit his plan.

Also, he's really intelligent. and outside of court, he can be quite shy or difficult to open up to others, making him quite socially awkward.

In early 2001, when Edgeworth was nine years old, someone stole his lunch money.. The suspect at the time was a classmate of Phoenix Wright, who had missed the day due to a terrible cold. The next day, a class trial was held with Wright as the suspect. Everyone was shouting that Wright was the culprit, but both Edgeworth and Larry Butz, another classmate, stood up to defend Phoenix, saying that no one had any proof that he was responsible. The trial ended the class and the three boys became almost inseparable friends. Edgeworth deduced that Butz was the thief, but admired the way the boy had stood up to help Wright, so he let the matter stand. Edgeworth often talked to his friends about his father, the famous criminal defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth, whom he idolized.

Miles was always winning prizes at school for various activities such as golf competitions, essay writing, and playing the flute. Even then, he hated fame and rejected all the honors and awards he received. However, he was not good at making origami cranes, which caused him much distress.