Wendy Oldbag

"Miles Edgeworth"

- I saw the report with her testimony, but who knew that under that helmet... it was the wicked witch of the witness stand!?

Wendy Oldbag is a talkative old woman who has worked as a security guard for various organizations such as Global Studios and KB Security. She was a witness to the murders of actors Jack Hammer and Juan Corrida.

Global Studios
Oldbag had worked at Global Studios for a long time in some capacity, referring to herself as a "twinkle between the stars" long ago. One day, she got her hands on a photo of an accident that had resulted in the death of an actor. This incident would cause Jack Hammer, who was a popular actor at the time, fall from grace. However, she remained a large fan of Hammer and would always watch his rehearsals and action runthroughs.

Murder at Global Studios

 * Main article:Turnabout Samurai

Five years later, during an action run-through of The Steel Samurai: Warrior of Neo Olde Tokyo that Oldbag was watching, star actor Will Powers messed up a move and fell, breaking the "Samurai Spear" and spraining his ankle. After the run-through ended, Hammer, Powers, and the others sat down for lunch, while Oldbag returned to her post at the security booth at the main gate.

At about 2:00 p.m., she chased off a young kid, Cody Hackins, who had tried to sneak into the studio. Half an hour later, she saw someone in the Steel Samurai costume walking towards the studios, dragging his ankle. Oldbag assumed it was Powers because she had seen his injury earlier.

At about 5:00 p.m., a rehearsal was scheduled to occur at Studio 1, but it was canceled because Hammer was found dead in his Evil Magistrate costume, apparently having been stabbed through the chest by the Samurai Spear. Powers, who was taking a nap at the time, arrived late, and was accused by Oldbag of having committed the murder.

Witness
Lawyer Phoenix Wright took on Powers's case. He and Oldbag quickly met, and she asserted her belief that Powers was guilty. She was called as a witness and immediately became smitten with prosecutor Miles Edgeworth, much to the latter's chagrin. Wright tried to buy more time by accusing Oldbag of the murder, which Edgeworth did not make a serious attempt to refute. Later, Wright got Oldbag to tell him the entire story of the murder five years prior to Hammer's murder, which eventually lead him to clinch a not guilty verdict for Powers.

Aftermath
After the trial, Global Studios eventually cut its security staff, and Oldbag was fired. She offered to become Edgeworth's bodyguard, but he turned her down.

Murder at Gatewater Hotel

 * Main article:Farewell, My Turnabout

One year later, Oldbag became the security guard in charge at the Hero of Heroes Grand Prix. By that time, she had obtained a space suit costume and would be seen wearing it during the convention. At one point during the event, she stole a reporter's camera and learned about a scandalous story involving actor Juan Corrida, who was participating in the Grand Prix. She snooped around Corrida's room to investigate, and she saw someone in a Nickel Samurai costume entering the room. Corrida was killed soon after, and the actor who played the Nickel Samurai, Matt Engarde, was accused.

Phoenix Wright was on the defense's case again. Oldbag refused to cooperate in his investigation at first, but she melted and spilled most of her information on the case when Wright gave her a note autographed by Corrida addressed to "Wendy" (though it was most likely not addressed to Oldbag). She was called as a witness during Engarde's trial, and Wright noticed that the Nickel Samurai was too short based on a promotional poster; the person who had left Corrida's room was actuall Engarde's manager, and Corrida had already been killed by then. Engarde was eventually found to be guilty of hiring an assassin to commit the crime.

At KB Security

 * Main article: The Stolen Turnabout

After the Corrida murder case, Oldbag was hired as a security guard at KB Security with Larry Butz accompanying her. Wright visited the KB Security offices, but he never saw her. Oldbag was later seen complaining that she had not appeared at all in the documentation of Wright's latest investigations.

At Gatewater Land

 * Main article: The Kidnapped Turnabout

Oldbag was next seen working as a Pink Badger entertainer at Gatewater Land. She claimed to have witnessed the murder of Oliver Deacon, but the murder that she had seen turned out to have been a set-up.

At the Cordopian embassy

 * Main article: The Burning Turnabout

Personality
Oldbag is mostly a stereotypical cranky old lady. She is prone to ramble on and on when given the opportunity. She is also very stubborn, especially with "young whippersnappers", and reacts badly to anyone bad-mouthing her crushes.

Crushes
Oldbag has had crushes on Miles Edgeworth, Jack Hammer and Juan Corrida. She has stalked all three of these individuals and is still stalking Edgeworth.

Appearance in the Gyakuten Saiban 4 Trailer
In the Gyakuten Saiban 4 trailer, Oldbag was a "witness" to the crime. She began to be a security guard at Capcom, and stole the confidential files for Gyakuten Saiban 4, blaming the crime on Mask☆DeMasque IV, who was aimlessly wandering around in the company storage. In her testimony, she became so excited she confessed to stealing the files. When the Judge asked her why, she responded that it was for love and showed them the page describing the main character. From the descriptions, she thought it was Edgeworth who was the main character. This was disproved by Wright, who noted how the protagonist for the new game was 22, but Edgeworth was older. It was then discovered that the identity of Mask☆DeMasque IV was Apollo Justice.

Name

 * Her name is a pun off on "windy old bag" or "old windbag", which is very suitable, seeing as she has the tendency to go on and on about her youth and other unrelated topics.


 * Her French name, "Flavie Eïchouette" comes from "vieille chouette", a pejorative expression that means "old owl". Another possibility would be "La vie est chouette", which would mean "Life is cool".


 * "Ooba" comes from "obaa-san" which means "grandma" in Japanese. On the other hand, it may come from "oobaka", which means "a big idiot".