Mike Meekins
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| Nickname/Aliases | None |
| Japanese name | 原灰 ススム Susumu Harabai |
| French name | Bill Ballaud |
| German name | Mike Meekins |
| Spanish name | [Please fill in!] |
| Italian name | Mike Meekins |
| Age during debut | 22 |
| Height* | 6'2"; 188 cm |
| Eye color | Black |
| Hair color | Black |
| Year of birth | 1994-1995 |
| Occupation | Police officer (General Affairs) Police recruitment (lapsed) Replacement evidence room guard (lapsed) Court baliff |
| Family | None mentioned |
| Friends | An unnamed ex-girlfriend |
| Affiliates | Damon Gant (Superior) Dick Gumshoe (Colleague and object of admiration) Jake Marshall (Colleague) |
| Debut episode | Rise from the Ashes |
| Character theme track | Age, Regret, Reward Eccentric 2007 |
Mike Meekins is a clumsy and excitable individual who was an initial suspect in a supposed murder of Bruce Goodman in the evidence room of the Los Angeles police department. At this time, he was a police officer, but he has since been demoted to baliff.
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[edit] The "Murder" of Bruce Goodman
- Main article: Rise from the Ashes
One day in 2017, Meekins was tasked to guard the police department's evidence room, despite his regular role in recruitment. This kind of re-assignment was common during evidence transferal. He entered the room once to store a dancing Blue Badger panel. Later, he noticed a suspicious individual entering the evidence room. He confronted the intruder and asked for an ID, but the intruder drew a knife instead. Meekins tried to tackle the intruder, but his hand was cut. Meekins was punched, and he blacked out. The next thing he knew, the intruder had been revealed to be detective Bruce Goodman, and he had been murdered. Goodman had been seen being killed in the prosecutor's office by Lana Skye; however, Meekins and the police were convinced that Meekins had killed Goodman in the evidence room, though the body had disappeared.
Meekins was tasked to send a report describing Goodman's "murder" in the evidence room to prosecutor Miles Edgeworth, but he irritably dismissed him before he could say what it was. Later, he was accused of this second murder. On the witness stand, he admitted to the murder and accepted whatever punishment was dealt to him. He testified about his "murder", but Phoenix Wright, who was representing Skye in court, found inconsistencies between what was known and the video recording of the scuffle. Wright demonstrated that since Goodman's ID had been found at the prosecutor's office and Goodman's card had been used to access the evidence room, someone else had stolen the card and posed as Goodman. Meekins did not realize this because he had never met Goodman before. The fake Goodman had attacked Meekins to avoid being found out with an inconsistent ID.
It was proven in court that the Goodman in the evidence room was, in fact, Jake Marshall.
[edit] Blue Badger Actor
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Two years after Goodman's murder, Meekins was spotted wearing a Blue Badger outfit at Bando-Land. He was the suspect in a murder.
[edit] Court Baliff
- Main article: Turnabout Succession
| Mike Meekins |
| Sir I... I wish I didn't have to tell you this... but last year, tragedy struck a rising star at the precinct! I lost my case files four times... in three days! They fired me! |
| —Turnabout Succession |
One year after Goodman's murder, Meekins lost his case files four times in three days. This resulted in his demotion to court bailiff.
One notable case in which Meekins played the role of baliff was Magnifi Gramarye's murder case. The trial abruptly ended when Phoenix Wright, the lawyer for defendant Zak Gramarye, was caught trying to present forged evidence. However, before the judge could render the verdict, Zak disappeared from the courtroom. Meekins chased who he thought was Zak into Defendant Lobby #2, but inside the Lobby, he instead only found Zak's daughter Trucy.
Wright returned to Defendant Lobby #2 and found Meekins there. Wright figured out that Trucy had used her giant "Mr. Hat" puppet to lure Meekins away from the real Zak.
[edit] Personality
Meekins is a clumsy, excitable and overzealous individual. He often salutes, calls everyone "sir" and uses his megaphone for dramatic effect even if the person he is talking to is right beside him. Two-thirds of the time, he gets his tie caught in his car door when he gets out. The remaining times it's his I.D. card. He hopes one day to be like Dick Gumshoe.
[edit] Name
- "Meekins" probably comes from the adjective "meek". "Mike" may have come from the word "microphone"; Meekins carries a megaphone around, which is like a microphone.
- "Susumu" is a fairly common male Japanese name meaning, "to press forward". His name was chosen at the same time as Goodman's because they fit together well.
- "Ballaud" is a pun for "balourd" meaning "clumsy". It may also come from the sentence "C'est ballot!" used when someone does something particularly foolish.
[edit] Development
- Character designer Kazuya Nuri created the image for Meekins having been told, "He's pretty annoying, but also lovable."
- Director Takumi describes Meekins as "existing in another world from ours"
- The Japanese version of Meekins has an unnecessarily polite speech pattern. It was a problem for coding because he took up so many characters on screen when speaking.
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