Juan Corrida

Juan Corrida was a young action star who starred as the titular character in the Worldwide Studios show The Jammin' Ninja. He had a fierce rivalry with actor Matt Engarde, star of the Global Studios show The Nickel Samurai, which culminated in his death.

Corrida and Inpax
Two years before his death, Corrida met Celeste Inpax and took her as his manager. The two quickly fell in love and became engaged. However, Engarde came told Corrida that Inpax was his former lover. Outraged by this revelation, Corrida called off his wedding with Inpax, resulting in her suicide.

When Corrida found the dead Inpax, he forged a suicide note and kept it in his person, preparing for an opportunity to ruin Engarde with the note.

Corrida began to concoct a plan for revenge against Engarde with Adrian Andrews, who was Engarde's manager and Inpax's protege. Tabloid papers witnessing them together reported that Corrida and Andrews were in a scandalous relationship.

Jammin' Ninja
At some point in Corrida's acting career, he starred as the titular protagonist in Jammin' Ninja. One year after Inpax's death, he participated in the second annual Hero of Heroes Grand Prix and lost the grand prize to the Pink Princess.

Death

 * Main article: Farewell, My Turnabout

Two years after Inpax's death, the Jammin' Ninja participated in the third annual Grand Prix, and Corrida's plan to ruin Engarde was set into motion. Corrida had arranged with Andrews to get a Nickel Samurai costume and to call a press conference with the Nickel Samurai, in which Corrida would appear, dressed as the Nickel Samurai and pretending to be Engarde, and "confess" to Engarde's manipulation of Inpax.

However, Engarde had a plan of his own to get Inpax's will back from Corrida. He hired an assassin, Shelly de Killer, to kill Corrida in his room; the assassin then kidnapped Maya Fey and blackmailed Phoenix Wright into representing Engarde in court when Engarde was accused of the murder.

Wright's investigation of the case and questioning of Adrian Andrews brought the incidents involving Inpax into light, and Wright eventually realized that while Engarde had not killed Corrida himself, he had hired de Killer, Fey's kidnapper, to kill Corrida. Achieving what Corrida could not, he told de Killer about Engarde's manipulative personality - Engarde had recorded the assassination for blackmailing and insurance purposes - which angered de Killer deeply, as de Killer hated traitors. De Killer broke his contract with Engarde, freed Fey, and announced that Engarde would be his next target. With nowhere to run now, Engarde accepted the guilty verdict.

Personality
Corrida was evidently just as competitive and hateful of Matt Engarde as the latter was of him, even to the point of breaking up his engagement when he found out that Inpax had previously been with his rival. Since Engarde has always been slightly better than him, Corrida had an intense jealousy of the man and wanted to ruin him in any way he possibly could. Corrida often received bear toys and plushies from his fans, because he allegedly fought a bear in his training for the show. However, he didn't actually like bears; some bear toys were found in the trash can in his room at the Gatewater Imperial Hotel.

Name

 * "Corrida" comes from a Spanish term for bullfighting. "Corrida" also fits with "Engarde", since they are both foreign words relating to fighting ("corrida" with bullfighting and "engarde" with fencing).


 * His Japanese family name literally means "the invincible". This is likely meant to be taken ironically.


 * In the Spanish version of the game, his name is changed to "Juan Rivera", probably due to the strong sexual reference the word "corrida" implies (meaning "orgasm" or "cumshot" in Spanish slang). The last name "Rivera" was chosen instead, because it references a very famous Spanish torero: Francisco Rivera Ordoñez.


 * The name Juan Corrida might be a reference to the fact that there is only one shown hallway, or "corridor," in the Gatewater Imperial Hotel. It may also be a reference to how his life only had one path, like a narrow corridor, in his fatal competition with Engarde.