has been revolutionary for the JRPG world. The Persona games introduce us to the real ♍world, providing a of the games, and a fantasy realm with turn-based combat called the Metaverse. The clashing elements provide a ton of different gameplay styles all in the same game which mean that there's something for everything — and the protagonist is interesting too.
Although you can choose his name, he generally has to be referred to as Joker since that's his alias in the Metaverse and th🍒e only constant name we have. Sure, he's intriguing, but there are a lot of things about this transfer student that simply don't make any sense and have us scratching our heads years after the game's release.
10 🌳 ♑ Where Are His Parents This Whole Time?
Joker starts off the game by being transferred to Shujin Academy, falsely accused of assault for intervening on an attack by a corrupt and powerful man. It's briefly mentioned that his parents agreed to the transfer to , but they'rꦅe never mentioned against throughout the game. Don't they want to check on their son, see howও he's doing? Even if they're strict parents who are disappointed in him, a text once in a while to check on his grades might be worth shooting off.
9 🔯 Whꦉy Did Sojiro Take Him In?
It's mentioned that Sojiro knows his parents, vaguely, but they don't seem to be close — and yet, he was willing to take in this ܫdelinquent. The game makes some excuses for this, such as Sojiro relating to him, but he still seems an odd person to reach out to and ask if he can take in a criminal highschool student.
Especially as 🐻Sojiro doesn't kn🌞ow that Joker is actually inncoent.
8 🤪 He Can't Break Up With Gir🐎ls
Persona 5 has a ton of romance options, each of them with different personalities and advantages — and some with questionable morality. But if you decide to romance soಌmeone early in the game and then change your mind, you can't break up with them. Instead, Joker will be forced to stick with them or date someone else on the side. Or multiple other people. Essentially, he can cheat, but♉ he can't do the honourable thing and dump someone.
7 He Has A Cat Sleeping I❀n H🍷is Desk
The guy who sits behind Joker as he builds bombs in class and checks his ph💜one every lesson really does him a solid by not telling the teacher — but perhaps the most curious 𒆙thing is that he never brings up the cat snoozing very obviously in Joker's desk.
Of course, we as the player know this cat is Morgana,🅰 a creature from the Metaverse convinced they were once human. But the guy behind has n🥂o idea, and doesn't seem to think there's anything fishy at all.
6 He Never Speaks ཧ
Persona is famouඣs for its silent protagonists. You pick the dialogue whenever they speak (except for the occasional battle cry𝔉 in combat), but otherwise, they are completely silent. Joker communicates mostly through gestures and comes across as extremely quiet.
Although this is a quirk of the game series, it can often be distracting and🍌 make us less endeared to the main character. After all, other games who offer dialogue options still manage to give the main character a voice in cutscenes and such.
5 He Barely🌊 Replies In The Group Chat
Speaking of silent — the fact you have to pick the dialogue options means that he barely replies to the Phantom Thieves group chat. Or any texts, for tඣhat matter, making him a pretty bad friend.
No one ever calls him out ✨on this, though. Apparently ꦡit's just a quirk of Joker's to never actually bother answering his friends unless he's specifically going to go hang out with them. They never seem deterred by it, at least — the invites just keep coming.
4 ♋ Why Does Morgana ⛎Have Such Faith In Him?
Morgana meets him in the Me✤taverse when he's with Ryuji (otherwise known as Skull) and while they instantly take a dislike to his friend, it seems that Morgana actually loves Joker. They offer words of encouragement throughout the game and seem to almost fawn over him whenever he does something impressive in battle. Since Morgana's crush seems to be on Ann, it's not attraction that gives them such faith — so what is it? Just a hunch?
3 ꦗ He Really Does Not Seem To Question The Metaverse
Every character is a little shocked upon being told there is a parallel uni🙈verse in which awful people havಞe their own palaces.
Everyone except Joker.
Joker doesn't seem to have an issue with finding a strange app on his phone that telꦫeports him to an unknown world. In fact, he settles into the idea quite quickly, as if he's always lived this life. A little more disbelief might have been realistic.
2 𒆙 Why Is His Alias Joker? 🔯
Some argue that the alias comes from the early Persona games as a bit of an Easter Egg, and some argue it's to do with the fool. B📖ut Joker just doesn't seem to suit such a serious guy, even ꧂if he is known as the Trickster in the Velvet Room. Sure, he has a bit of an audacious smirk whenever he does something rebellious, but otherwise he's actually pretty quiet and intense.
1 ꧒ ♉ Why Are People Drawn To Him?
Although the students of Shujin Academy start out wary of him due to him being on probation and being a problematic transfer, anyone who speaks to Joker seems to love him in the real world. His teacher comes around to him, the investiꦚgator starts to believe him, a journalist takes a liking to him, all of the Phantom Thieves respect him as leader — the list goes on and on.
How is someone who never speaks and never answers any text messagඣes giving off such a magnetic vibe? Impressive, Joker.