Most Cruel Ace Attorney Villains

And I thought of Redd White to be a complete scoundrel (which he actually is).
Matt Engarde makes him look like a harmless kid in comparison!

My favorite villain this is why he's so cruel:
hired de killer and told him to keep maya hostage and blackmailed him also cause celeste inpax to kill herself

This guy and Matt Engarde were perhaps the closest anyone got to finishing Wright and Edgeworth's careers. No other villain has got this close!
Von Karma might've been an intimidating opponent, but he left the most vital piece of evidence behind, thanks to which he could finally be defeated.

He impaled his victim on the sword! What more needs to be said?

Imagine killing someone and adopting his son to become just like you

he killed mortar just to steal a disc leaked multiple government secrets, threatened a young girl to commit perjury and used a bunch of people for money he also corrupted his entire trial for a not guilty verdict from hiring someone to forge evidence inside the crime scene which was presented as evidence

Russell Berry might not be a main villain, but I didn't really care about his death, since he was no better than Acro at all.
Russell Berry took a circus lion and shot it! That was a heinous, evil crime!
If that isn't cruel, then what is?
His family and co-workers may have liked him because they were close to him, but killing an animal just because it doesn't understand is a crime that shouldn't remain unpunished.
However, since he was the murder victim in Turnabout Big Top, he will never be tried for his crime, either.

Disbarring your lawyer, leaving your daughter with him now that he's unemployed, helped your mentor hide his daughter's death, ran out of a courtroom, and more