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| “ | It's Showtime! | „ |
| ~ One of Ren Amamiya's catchphrases |
| “ | You are held captive. A prisoner of fate to a future that has been sealed in advance. This is truly an unjust game... Your chances of winning are almost none. But if my voice is reaching you, there may yet be a possibility open to you... ...I beg you. Please overcome this game... and save the world... The key to victory lies within the memories of your bonds—the truth that you and your friends grasped. It all began that day... when the game was started half a year ago... For the sake of your world's future... as well as your own... you must remember... | „ |
| ~ Lavenza to Ren. |
Ren Amamiya, codnamed Joker, is the main protagonist of the Persona 5 sub-series within the Persona series.
He is a second year transfer student at Shujin High who moved to Tokyo after being falsely arrested by Masayoshi Shido. He is the leader of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, which he forms with Ryuji Sakamoto, Morgana and Ann Takamaki.
He is voiced by Jun Fukuyama in Japanese, and by Xander Mobus in English.
His Good Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Good?[]
- Protected a woman from being raped by Masayoshi Shido, a corrupt and evil politician.
- He is a Persona user, as such it implies that he has a deep understanding of their desires, making them less susceptible to corruption.
- Change the hearts of many disgusting criminals, such as Suguru Kamoshida, a PE teacher who sexually assaulted female students and abused male students, Ichiryusai Madarame, an abusive art teacher who plagiarized his students' work to the point one of them committed suicide, Junya Kaneshiro, a Yakuza oyabun who attempted to turn Makoto Niijima into a sex slave, Kunikazu Okumura, a corrupt CEO of a large company who wanted to force his own daughter into marrying a creep, and Masayoshi Shido, the same man who got Joker arrested and manipulated his own son into being a mass murderer.
- Saved Morgana from being locked up in a cell in Kamoshida's Palace.
- Helped Ryuji escape Kamoshida's palace.
- Followed Ann after she was on the phone to Suguru Kamoshida because he wanted to keep her safe.
- Helps Futaba Sakura get over her social anxiety.
- Saved Haru Okumura from having to marry her perverted and arrogant fiancé, Sugimura.
- Helped Sae Niijima and Goro Akechi redeem themselves.
- Despite Akechi betraying the Phantom Thieves, Ren felt sorry for him and subconsciously wished for him to be alive.
- Defeated Yaldabaoth, a false god who wanted to trap humanity in a completely totalitarian state.
- In the Confidant events, he helps many people get over struggles that they are facing.
- In Persona 5 Royal, he takes down Takuto Maruki, who trapped society in an "ideal" world where he was pulling the strings and saved him when he almost fell to his death.
- In Persona 5 Strikers he helped stopped more criminals, most notably Akira Konoe, a CEO of a multi-billion dollar IT company who acted as a Knight Templar all the while he ruined many peoples' live and tried to enslave everyone using EMMA, Kuon Ichinose, the creator of EMMA, and even EMMA itself, who used countless people for its own gain in attempt to enslave the world.
- In Persona 5 Tactica, he helped Erina & the Rebel Corps defeat each of the adults who opressed Toshiro (Marie, his fiancee, Yoshiki, his father, & Nakabachi, the vice-principal of his high school) in the past, Toshiro's Shadow (which led to Toshiro awakening Erina as Ernesto & actively fighting alongside the Phantom Thieves), & Salmael, who was trying to break Toshiro to deter humanity's desire for change. Furthermore, in the Repaint Your Heart DLC, he helped Luca redeem Guernica/Tao, & helped defeat Salmael's (possible) underling, Jerri, who was the one manipulating Tao to break her out of petty disgust for humanity & art.
What Prevents Him From Being Pure Good?[]
- There are many times when he can be cocky, arrogant, overconfident and rather smug, such as taunting his enemies with bad timing on his end.
- He has dialogue options where he can act like a jerk to his friends, such as in Confidant events, so he has minor events of dependence on the player’s choices. Other examples include:
- He can even engage in animal cruelty, for example when he is given the option to "button mash" Morgana's head. While it is played off as a joke, it is still cruel behavior.
- In Strikers, he has a mischievous and playful side when he pulls a prank on Zenkichi with his friends.
- Like Makoto Yuki and Yu Narukami, he can optionally choose to cheat on his potential love interests leading him to get beaten up, which is too corrupting for Pure Good, even if this is player dependent.
- In the anime version, this isn't too preventing, as the reason he manages to do so there is because he is so socially inept, he is just hanging out with his potential love interests, who interpret it as dating.
- He can be somewhat perverted with certain scenes and dialogue options, like staring at Ann's cleavage in Futaba's Palace. However, this is played for comedy and not as an act of harassment, thus making it a minor prevention.
Trivia[]
- Ren Amamiya, Pac-Man, Sonic the Hedgehog and Cloud Strife are the only third-party fighters in the Super Smash Bros. series to be considered Near Pure Good.
External Links[]
- Ren Amamiya on the Heroes Wiki
- Ren Amamiya on the Megami Tensei Wiki
- Ren Amamiya on the Love Exalted Wiki
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