| “ | But I will not stand for that! Now you've tinted the court's eyes and colored me wrongly. Sure, I suppose calling me a university student would not be the absolute truth, but to give in and just settle would be as evil as death and I can't have that! Everything in my life is to be of the upmost, highest-, and top-grade quality, you understand. I am merely looking for that perfect, top notch, unbeatable university, don't you see...? I have a rigorous selection process and I was in serious thought during my "walk" as... | „ |
| ~ Richard Wellington before being cut off by Phoenix Wright |
Richard Wellington is a minor antagonist in Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Justice for All. He serves as the main culprit of the case The Lost Turnabout. He murdered Dustin Prince after an event where he lost his phone with incriminating evidence against his illegal acts and called him and his girlfriend Maggey Byrde to retrieve it. Upon realizing Prince was a police officer, he murdered him and attempted to frame Maggey Byrde for the murder and made subsequent moves to keep himself out of behind bars.
He was voiced in the anime by Daisuke Kishio in Japanese and Ricco Fajardo in English.
What Makes Him Pathetic?[]
- He's a con artist that takes advantage of others.
- He has a skewed materialistic view on life, even objectifying women.
- He's a pretentious narcissist. Constantly boasting about himself, feeling insulted when someone sees him as less than he thinks he is, and belittling others regardless of who it is, including the judge. An attitude that’s also undeserved as he achieved where he is in life through undercutting means.
- In spite of Maggey Byrde and Dustin Prince being kind enough to give the lost phone back to him without issue, Richard Wellington's cowardice gets the better of him when he sees Prince in his police outfit. When Maggey Byrde leaves, he immediately throws Prince off a cliff and tries to pin the crime on Maggey Byrde.
- He attacks Phoenix Wright with a fire extinguisher to get his phone back. An act that would also temporarily give Phoenix Wright amnesia rendering him less capable to defend his client temporarily.
- While he's known for his comedic moments such as mistaking baseball gloves for bananas, he's generally unlikeable due to his pretentious nature. Even Maya Fey is uncomfortable with his presence, calling him creepy which isn't played for laughs as her comments on witnesses are usually done.
What Makes Him a Pinhead?[]
- He loses his phone which contained the contacts of numerous con-artists, an act that’s extremely reckless and incompetent considering the incriminating evidence and risk the phone imposed on him.
- His plan to cover up Dustin Prince’s murder is extremely flawed. He attempted to frame Maggey by writing her name using his finger. However, he made a mistake of writing her name wrong. While understandable since he only knew how her name sounded, Wellington was too confident in thinking a plan where he wouldn't know 100% of the information would be hard to figure out.
- Furthermore, realistically in spite of the narrative following along his cover up plan, his cover up shouldn’t have even worked as Dustin Prince died instantly due to a broken neck making his alleged forged act clearly impossible.
- Despite spending 15 minutes trying to look for his glasses in the crime scene, he never stops to consider that it’s under Dustin Prince’s body.
- While bragging about himself, he slips up the fact that he thinks wearing glasses is cool. This is in spite of the fact that he's not currently wearing glasses, a fact that Phoenix notices immediately. As a result, despite not even reaching the cross-examination stage, Richard Wellington already slips up something incriminating about himself since the glasses were involved in the crime.
- He mistakes baseball gloves for bananas. In spite of his eyesight being poor, he could've at least feigned ignorance on what the object was instead of attempting to pinpoint what the object was. As a result of his mistake, Phoenix concluded he had poor eyesight, a fact that would eventually connect him to the broken glasses at the scene.
- When Phoenix Wright shows him, the glasses found at the scene, Richard Wellington unwittingly admits that they're his thus placing incriminating evidence on himself.
- While taking his phone back from Phoenix Wright was a smart plan as it allowed him to present it as evidence to counter Wright's claims and to prevent it from being examined, his execution of the plan was a complete failure. Richard Wellington accidentally grabbed Wright's phone instead of his, and while it's an understandable mistake since the phones looks identical, ultimately, he didn't double check to see the contacts on the phone to verify if it was his. As a result, the blunder was still a result of negligence of his own intelligence.
External Links[]
- Richard Wellington at the Villains wiki
- Richard Wellington at the Ace Attorney wiki