Godot

CantFaketheFunk
5. Diego Armando / Godot

May get some heat for having him here at 5, but whatever.

So. Diego. When you "first" see him in 3-4? He's sort of a jerk. It's pretty obvious that he's there at Mia's trial pretty much solely trolling for ass, and his actions during the trial kind of reflect it--he's all "let's go get some coffee, eh kitten?" when it looks like the game is up. He's helping Mia out, yes, but not in the best way, really. And then, slowly, Mia's desperate belief in her client's innocence wins him over, and by the catastrophic end of the trial he's as emotionally invested as she is (as we see by crushing the mug)... and comes to see her as an equal.

Then the two start dating. Then, trying to finish what Mia started in the Fawles case, he meets with Dahlia... and, for all intents and purposes, is killed. He wakes up from his coma years later to find that the woman he loved is dead at the hands of Redd White... and blames Phoenix Wright for not being able to protect her. So, he decides to get his revenge in one of the only ways he knows how--in court.

Godot's a tragic character, but we'll get to that later. He's written pretty damn well, and has some of the best lines in the series (though it might be a teensy bit overdone). He's constantly mocking Phoenix, and easily the most cool and collected lawyer we see in the series--perhaps even beyond von Karma. Nothing rattles him, and Godot really does get points solely for how "cool" he is at pretty much all times.

The downside to this--and one of the reasons he isn't higher--is that... honestly, it's sort of boring to go against him in court. He's got some great lines, but there's really not a sense of urgency like there was against Edgeworth or the Von Karmas (incidentally, this is one of the problems with Kyouya/Klavier in AA4 as well). A lot of times, it seems like he'll just sit there and take it as you deconstruct his argument, where Franziska, Manfred, or Edgeworth wouldn't.

Also, I forget who originally said this... but he really is written pretty much solely for 3-5. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing because 3-5 is mindblowingly awesome, but it felt like 1-2/1-3 and 2-2/2-3 were a bit more involved with Edgeworth/Franziska, respectively.

Despite all of this, Godot manages to be one of the single most awesome characters in the series. He really is one of the more tragically flawed characters, too--he's obsessed with both getting his revenge on Phoenix and trying to redeem his "failure" to protect Mia that he loses sight of reality, and I think it's interesting that he actually succumbs to his flaws in the end instead of rising above them. Notably, his plan for 3-5 was sort of... well, incredibly flawed, and he could have easily averted the entire thing had he brought Phoenix Wright into it. But that's a character flaw more than bad writing.

He is really, really cool though. And you can't help but feel bad for the guy at the end.

DNEA
48. Diego Armando/Godot

I can see the confused looks on the faces of everyone that reads through this topic (yes, all 2.36 of you). 'How can The Mother****ing Godot be so low?' I hear you madly stutter. 'I mean, he has no lesbian hype surrounding him, right? ... right? He... he's just too cool! I mean, he has his badass headgear, a badass theme, and he's a total badass in court being nearly unfazed by anything! He has coffee, coffee metaphors, coffee sitcoms, coffee spinoffs, coffee chestnuts roasting over an open fire, and even a coffee kitchen sink! Godot... he's just so dee-' Let me stop you RIGHT there.

Godot, Diego, Toasterface - whatever you want to call him - is not deep. No no. He may be shrouded with ZOMG MYSTERY when we first meet him, but he's by no means deep. He can spout all the useless coffee metaphors all he wants, but he's still not deep. No, the Poptarts' best friend follows a pretty predictable pattern: slurp coffee, segway into a coffee metaphor while theme plays, slurp coffee, wait for fanboys to finish climaxing, call Phoenix "Trite" for the sixteen-thousandth time, wait for fanboys to stop climaxing again.

And of course, we have our backstory for the brave little toaster. GASP! HE KNEW IA GOOD LORD GAWD IS HE DEE- no, still not deep. Still slurping on coffee everyone's favourite overrated prosecutor is now in the role of aiding Mia through her first case and aside from being very obvious about wanting to bone her dull ass and throwing a "helpful" comment here and there, I still see nothing deep.

But clearly Case 5 shows how dee- no. Aside from festering rage against Dahlia for "killing" him and being the "Hey, he must be that guy that Dahlia killed that wasn't British" dude, the lovechild between Geordie and the three-breasted skank from Total Recall does nothing different, the same awful prosecuting. He almost makes Payne look like a competent prosecutor.

Oh, and he also loves to do his version of Sahwit's Toupee Throw (TM). It's cute for the first time, but like anything involving Franziska, it gets old fast.

'Man, DNEA, you seem to dislike Godot quite a bit.' No ****. '... Yeah, so um, why is he this high then and not stinking it up down with Kane Bullard?' Glad you asked that question. One reason, really.

His "OBJECTION!"

'what'

You heard (read?) me right. His objection. What's so great about it? Everything. ... Okay, I lied. It's just one thing: The fact that it sounds like a pissed off somewhat overweight black man is shouting it. When I first heard it, I had to turn off my DS and re-experience it. Surely I heard wrong, Wright? 'Ha ha, DNEA... you suck.' Shut up faceless reader. Anyway, I heard right and I could just envision what ol' Godot would say next: "Yeah, you heard me right. I objec' to yo' candy ass and if you dun' like that I can bust a cap up yo' cracka ass. Blamblam. You hear me right ****a? I could be ridin' some white ***** ass right now, but noooooo~ Trite. You got to be all up in my crib! I could've been Happy Negro, but you just had to... blah blah... I ain't da Wrong Location ******, I'm the I'm-gonna-do-a-driveby-on-yo'-cracka-ass ****a!"

Godot. He had the choice between being an awesome character and drinking coffee. Guess what he chose.

Naye745
5. Godot/Diego Armando

There is really only one word needed to describe Godot: cool. From his coffee analogies to his smooth dialogue as Diego in 3-4, everything that Godot says is just cool. And when he finally confesses to everything at the end of 3-5, he still manages to come out looking like a hero. What brings Godot down to fifth are two things: -He's not a thrilling prosecutor to fight. Both Von Karmas, as I have mentioned, are intense to battle in the courtroom, and Edgeworth did a damn good job in all of his cases as a prosecutor. Godot certainly never gets rattled, but he doesn't have the killer instinct of the others. -He only appears in one game. All of my top 4 are in all three games. I know this is a silly thing, but when the whole mythology of the games has been built up without him, and he's sort of added in later, it's hard to feel as attached to him as you do with the others. Pretty much every criticism transy has said of Godot applies with me, except I just like the guy a lot regardless, so I have him this high. (I think he might have Godot in the Top 10 as well.)

SSBM_Guy
6. Godot

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Case(s): 3-2, 3-3, 3-4, 3-5

Ah, Godot. Godot is a pretty awesome prosecutor. Overrated? ...A little. But yeah. Godot is just a complete badass and is awesome. ...However, in court...not so awesome. In any case...let's continue on. The first mention of Godot is actually in Case 3-1...but under his real name. He was shown as "Diego Armando" and was killed by Dahlia. He was also mentioned as Mia's boyfriend. However...the first time you actually meet him is in Case 3-2. Atmey goes on talking about how great Godot is, probably just to scare Phoenix and Maya. Godot...isn't that great in court. In fact, he may even be worse than ROOKIE KILLER Payne. Sure, he does some great stuff in court, such as completely owning Phoenix at the end of Trial 1. Basically, he says "Yeah, you proved that Ron didn't steal the Urn by saying he was at KB Secuirty...yeah, that just happened to be the scene of a murder. Nice job, Trite. *coffee drink*". <_< He also manages to save Atmey twice in court. One of the saves was destroyed by Desirée and the other was destroyed by Dues Ex Machina Mia.

So...what makes Godot so bad in court? Simple. He doesn't raise any OBJECTIONs at all...much less does he talk during cross-examination. Hell, in the first cross-examination of Case 3-2, he doesn't say a single thing. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. However...there's two more things to this. The first is that he's an honest prosecutor. He doesn't use any tricks or traps that Edgeworth, Franziska, or von Karma uses...which is probably why they're so much better in court. Godot doesn't use any of that, which is why he isn't nearly as difficult. Another thing is that he's always cool and collected. He always has a good understanding of how the case goes out and he almost never breaks. Kind of like von Karma. Except von Karma just completely breaks in Trial 3 of Case 1-4. But yeah. Godot just sits back, drinks coffee, and watches the show. Oh, and he says a few "cool" sayings from time to time. As well as throw coffee cups at Phoenix.

Case 3-3? Hmm...Godot is still horrible in court. In fact, he's much worse. I mean...the whole part with Phoenix bluffing that the ear medicine bottle was the poison. If Edgeworth was there, he would rip Phoenix apart. Franziska would whip Phoenix, like, 10 times. von Karma would do the same thing Edgeworth would do, just 10x harder. Payne would be like "lol wut". ROOKIE KILLER Payne would probably laugh at Phoenix and be playing with his awesome hair. But Godot? Godot is just sorta sitting there and let Tigre speak. Of course, Tigre completely slips up and that's what got him Guilty. However...Godot also does some pretty cool things in Case 3-3. For instance, when everyone is completely scared of Tigre and hiding from him, Godot just slams his coffee cup on the desk and says "Hey, you. Shut up.". Yeah, he is manly enough to take on Tigre. That alone makes him more manly than Phoenix, Maya, the Judge, and Jean...though...that's not saying much. But it was still pretty cool.

Now...Case 3-4. Godot isn't in Case 3-4...but Diego Armando was. And oh man, Diego is awesome. Completely arrogant and awesome. Plus, he's totally a womanizer, calling all the females "kittens". Not to mention he ended up being Mia's boyfriend. Totally some epic womanizing there. Just like Godot, Diego does absolutely nothing in court. Hell, he even tells Mia "Hey, that guy did it and he's pretty much guilty. Now, let's drink some coffee together, kitten.". Yeah. He basically tells Mia that this case is over and she's wasting her time. Of course, he shouldn't even bother with Mia, since she has dues ex machina hax. Well...Younger Mia doesn't...but that's aside from the point. Eventually, at the end of the case, once Terry suicdes, Diego just completely changes. He actually encourages Mia. He also decides to help her out take down Dahlia...which eventually leads to his "death". And the main thing...he breaks his coffee cup. With his bare hands. Yeah. Totally badass.

And finally...we got Case 3-5. This basically shows all of Godot's backstory. The first day is nothing. It's just to keep Godot away and fanservice. Yeah, awesome fanservice, but still fanservice. But then...we get onto the main thing. Godot reveals that he's actually Diego Armando...as well as admitting to killing Elise. His reasoning? He went sorta crazy when he saw his chance to kill "Dahlia Hawthorne", the person who "killed" him. Of course, it was actually Elise channeling Dahlia, but he didn't realize that. Also, his reasoning for protecting Maya was to repay Mia for not being able to protect her from REDD WHITE OF BLUECORP. As for Phoenix? He was just simply mad at him for not being able to do anything to save Mia. Hell, his entire speech at the end of Case 3-5 was awesome. And the VISOR EXPLOSION and the "blood tears" scene...great stuff. Very nice ending to Godot. Oh, and Phoenix drinking coffee with Godot. That was pretty epic, too. So...what exactly happened to Godot after Case 3-5? Well...it's assumed that he dies. Why? Because he shows up on the upper side of this sketch.

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Well...all the alive characters are on the bottom. While Godot is on the top side, with Mia and Elise...both of who are dead. So yeah...Godot is assumed to be dead, but I'm not too sure.

So...what's so great about Godot? Everything. Sure, he isn't a great prosecutor. Sure, he's a bit overrated. But damn. He's just badass, says some pretty good quotes, and just an overall cool guy. Plus, his theme song rules. However...it's just not enough t make it into the Top 5. Ha...!

transience
8. Godot

- this guy just leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth - LOL INSERT COFFEE METAPHOR XDXD THIS GUY IS DEEP COFEEE BLACK AS YOUR SOUL - I pretty much described Godot there - he says a bunch of pseudo-intelligent crap, occasionally points out a contradiction and then goes back to sipping his coffee. - he's definitely the worst prosecutor. present that bottle at the end of 3-3 against Franziska and she'd whip you before you even got the word "objection" out of your mouth. Edgeworth would belittle you with style. Godot's like "well, whatever. I don't care. let's see what happens." I've heard some people describe him as a guy that cares more about getting a proper verdict than running a good case, but that's just BS. - my other problem with him is that he's basically one big plot twist. his entire existence is nothing more than a set-up for 3-5. Edgeworth feels like the cases are written around him -- Godot is basically written for 3-5. I mean, the entire game revolves around poisoning because they have to get more LOL COFFEE crap in. - but I can't help it -- like Acro, Godot is "cool", and he's got some stellar parts. he's fun to read, he's got a pretty cool theme song, his ending is fairly fantastic as long as you don't think too hard about his motives. - best moment: 3-3, Tigre. everyone else cowers in fear, Godot stands there and doesn't even blink. Godot's not very "badass" like people want to portray him, but damn, that part impressed me. - even as a crappy prosecutor that's a walking plot twist, he's still awesome enough to be in the top 10. that's how "cool" Godot is.