Angel Starr

Angel Starr

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Angel Starr V · T · F
Occupation	Los Angeles Police Detective (Homicide) ( - 2015) Boxed lunch vendor (2015 - )
Biological information
Reckoned birth year(s) (this is for age comparison purposes, and so may look odd; click on the question mark for details)?	1986
Documented age range (as recorded in court record profiles & case files)	31* (Rise from the Ashes)
Last known status	Alive (Mar. 12, 2019)
Eye color	Gray, with light gray-colored contact lens in right eye
Hair color	Dirty blonde
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)	5'4"; 165 cm
Associates
Family	None mentioned
Friends	At least three unnamed simultaneous "boyfriends" Jake Marshall (former colleague & another alleged boyfriend)
Affiliates	Dick Gumshoe (known since teenage years; unknown relationship) Damon Gant (former colleague) Lana Skye (former colleague) Bruce Goodman (former colleague; deceased) Neil Marshall (former colleague; deceased) Miles Edgeworth (former colleague) Ema Skye (Lana's younger sister)
Aliases/nicknames
Cough-Up Queen* (nickname) Madonna* (by Jake Marshall) Baby* (by Jake Marshall)
Names in other languages
Japanese (romanization written with the given name first)	市ノ谷 響華 (Kyōka Ichinotani)* (equivalent of Angel Starr) ゲロまみれのおキョウ (Gero-mamire-no-Okyō)* (nickname; equivalent of Cough-Up Queen)
French	Angélique Starr
German	Angel Starr
Spanish	Angel Starr
Italian	Angel Starr
Chinese (normally Chinese pronunciation of Japanese kanji)	市之谷 響華 (Shìzhīgǔ Xiǎnghuá)
Miscellaneous
Debut episode	Rise from the Ashes
Musical theme	"Initial Investigation 2001" "Simple Folk"

Angel Starr

The name is Angel Starr. Don't you go forgetting it. Or before you know it I'll have you whimpering at my heels.

— Rise from the Ashes

Angel Starr is a boxed lunch vendor who was previously a police detective known as the "Cough-Up Queen", in reference to her ability to get people to "cough-up" information. She was fired after the events of the SL-9 Incident. Two years later, she was called as a witness in the murder of a fellow detective who had been involved in the SL-9 Incident but had kept his job. Starr has a strong hostility towards prosecutors, especially Lana Skye and Miles Edgeworth.

Early life

Little is known of Starr's early life other than that she knew Dick Gumshoe when he was 16. According to him, she was already good at getting people to "cough-up" when she was in high school. He has mentioned vaguely to Phoenix Wright that only Starr could get him to talk about what had happened "that day", although he has never elaborated on what he meant by this.

Detective career & SL-9 Incident

Main article: SL-9 Incident

SL-9 Incident investigation team.

Eventually, Starr joined the police and rose to the rank of detective. She was very adept at getting criminals to confess, earning the nickname "Cough-Up Queen". Her career culminated in the investigation of the SL-9 Incident with fellow detectives Bruce Goodman, Jake Marshall, Lana Skye and Damon Gant, as well as prosecutor Miles Edgeworth.

After SL-9, all the detectives involved in the case were either fired or demoted to patrolmen, with the exception of Goodman. Starr was one of those who lost their jobs completely. Like others, she suspected that the prosecutor's office had tampered with the evidence, and began to develop a cynical hatred toward prosecutors. Over the next two years, Starr used her new job as a boxed lunch vendor to visit the Prosecutor's Building and hopefully gain some insight as to what had really happened in the SL-9 Incident. She would boast that her lunches were imported from "the freshest and the best from the Far East". She also began to have multiple "boyfriends" who would help with her investigation. Meanwhile, Gant and Skye were promoted to Chief of Police and Chief Prosecutor, respectively.

Witness

Main article: Rise from the Ashes

Apprehending Lana Skye.

Two years after the SL-9 Incident, Starr walked into the underground parking lot of the Prosecutor's Building, where she saw Lana Skye stab the body of Bruce Goodman in the trunk of Miles Edgeworth's car. She covertly took pictures of the deed that was unfolding using a camera disguised as a boxed lunch. She then approached Lana and apprehended her as she was calling her sister Ema Skye. Getting to Lana took about five minutes due to Starr's positioning in the parking lot. Lana was put on trial for the murder.

Phoenix Wright took Lana's case. Starr met Wright twice during his investigation in the parking lot, and she divulged some details about what she had witnessed. Starr then met Wright again as Prosecutor Edgeworth's first witness. Wright found some holes in Starr's testimony, and he drew attention to the time that Starr had taken to get to Lana. However, Starr presented one of Goodman's shoes to the court, which she had taken from the crime scene since she didn't trust the prosecutor's office and suspected they may try to cover the crime up. Starr claimed that Lana had kicked over a drum full of water to wash away the blood that had been at the scene. Nonetheless, the trial was postponed when Damon Gant appeared to deliver the news that another "Bruce Goodman" had been killed in the police department. Starr then met Wright again at the parking lot and told him about the SL-9 Incident. Wright later found that Goodman had already been dead when Lana was stabbing him, and that Goodman's real killer was Damon Gant, closing the SL-9 case for good.

Lunchbox vendor career

Little is known about Starr's life after 2017, but evidence from two years later suggests that she's doing rather well and her small business has grown a lot. Returning home after some time spent abroad, Miles Edgeworth comes across at least two customers of "Lunchland" and a vendor that is supposedly not Starr herself (suggesting she can hire employees), and remarks that the business might be aiming to go international.

Personality

Pleasant.

Aggressive.

Before the SL-9 Incident, Starr looked up to and admired Lana Skye. However, when the aftermath left her without a job, she quickly developed a resentment towards Lana, believing her to have betrayed her colleagues. She also developed a passionate hatred towards prosecutors, who she believed to be corrupt.

Starr is an aggressive and apparently polyamorous woman who has little trust in other people and uses her attractive appearance to manipulate men, whom she calls her "boyfriends", into doing what she wants. She also has the habit of using her various boxed lunches to emphasize a point, to bribe someone or to indicate her true feelings towards someone. She always speaks with her bangs covering one eye. One of her personality quirks is that her more aggressive side causes her to flip her bangs to cover her left eye. Her left eye is blue and appears serene and sweet, while her right eye is grey and looks far more menacing. She seems perfectly aware of these two drastically different parts of her personality, saying that she is sometimes a demon but she could be an angel too.

Name

• Japanese - Kyōka Ichinotani (市ノ谷 響華):
  • "Kyōka" (響華) means "an offering of flowers before a grave" or "mirror flower".
  • "Ichinotani" (市ノ谷) is a play on Ichi-no-Tani, the site of a famous battle during the Genpei War in Japan. This may be in reference to her aggressive personality.
    • In Japanese, her nickname (the Japanese version's equivalent of "Cough-Up Queen") is "Gero-mamire-no-Okyō" (ゲロまみれのおキョウ), with "ゲロまみれ" meaning "covering in spew". "Gero" can mean both "spew" and "confession", likely meant as an indication towards her talent while she was a detective for extricating confessions from suspects.
• English - Angel Starr:
  • Both "Angel" and "Starr" may be meant to convey a sense of goodness and purity exhibited at least by her "angelic" side.
    • Her name may also have taken inspiration from Belle Starr, an American outlaw who lived in the Wild West that was known as the Bandit Queen, similarly to Jake Marshall's design being cowboy-themed.
• French - Angélique Starr:
  • Her full name means "angelic star".

Unofficial

• Brazilian Portuguese - Ângela Estrella:
  • Simple adaptation of the western version.
  • "Ângela" is a female variant of the Greek Άγγελος [Ángelos] and means "angel".
  • "Estrella" is a common surname that refers to the very word "estrela" ("star"); Complementing the irony pattern.
    • Her nickname (the Brazilian version's equivalent of "Cough-Up Queen") is Rainha do Desembucha.

Development

• Starr wears a black dress, a choker with a sausage octopus pendant, small hoop earrings, a white fur coat with a light green trim, a fuzzy magenta hat, and black heels. Her hair has a bang covering her eyes depending on her mood: right when aggressive, left when "angelic". Starr is usually shown carrying boxed lunches in her basket.
  • Her multiple boyfriends are seemingly presented as part of her fiery and aggressive side to contrast with her "angelic" persona, though not necessarily in a negative light.
• Starr has what appears to be onigiri attached to the side of her hat and a necklace similar in shape to the "octodogs" (sausage cut to resemble an octopus) seen in Japanese-style bento lunches. A sandwich instead of an onigiri was considered, due to Rise from the Ashes being released abroad.

Starr's lunches.

• Her lunches tend to incorporate gimmicks or follow a theme. The lunches mentioned in-game in chronological order (although some rely on presenting certain evidence or making a mistake in court) are: Half n' Half, Crunchy Goodness, General Tso's Trilobite lunch set, Lunchland's Pickle Supreme lunchbox, Caviar Lunch, Fiesta Bowl, "The Fingerprint" lunchbox, "Salmon Swirl" lunch, "Lover's Lunchbox", Moss Surprise, Crime Scene Set, P'tooey on rice, Orange-peel Lunchbox, Squid Wheels, peppered fish guts, PB&J lunch with fresh boysenberry jam, jumbo lunchbox (triple-decker), Deli Box, Salisbury Steak Lunch, and The Wright Way Lunch.