I don't think this is cross dressing. I think that's supposed to be Alice, the persona of the Death arcana. Though I have no clue what's going on.

Agreed and changed. When Teddie/Kuma is dressed as Alice, he wears a white apron and looks different in a few other ways too - not least the expression.

Alice might also be saying something which contains the word "Sagi" and that means "swindler or fraud". Considering that she's one of the best Death Arcana Persona in the game, and that Teddie is shitting himself in this image, it seems she thinks he's trying to rip her off.

One thing I don't get is that she also says "gefu", as does the hero, and the only meaning I know for that is as the SFX for "burp".

gefu = barf.
megidora = attack spell.

Did the guy see that Alice is a man in a previous panel?

Granola changed alice_(persona_4) to alice_(persona) but is Alice actually in any other Persona games? The way they referred to her in an interview for Persona 4, it sounded like she was new to P4.

Oh, and yes, I saw "me" as "sa" - the way of writing "sa" without the line at the bottom. The way that doesn't exist. Though it's "Megidola" not "Megidora". Incidentally, Megido is a real place and is linked to Armageddon. The more you know!

Alice, as far as I know, is a mainstay in the Persona series.

And yes, Meggido, Israel is supposed to be the place where Christ will return to Earth in the Second Coming with the Rapture and all that jazz if you believe it. My guess is that the other spells in the game, Agi, Bufu, Garu, Zio, Hama, and Mudo are also based on mythological creatures/events/places, though I'm not sure which.

I've heard "agi" or "ag" linked to fire before. Mudo could technically mean "the way of the void" or "the way of nothingness" in Japanese.

Of course, that lends itself to the question of where did that word in Japanese come from? Is there a tale associated with it?

Ah, pointlessly delving into the origins of phrases and words when no one asked is one of the finer aspects of nerddom.

Teclo said:
Granola changed alice_(persona_4) to alice_(persona) but is Alice actually in any other Persona games? The way they referred to her in an interview for Persona 4, it sounded like she was new to P4.

There are more SMT games than the Persona series. Alice goes as far back as the first SMT on the SNES. Tags fixed.

DJ_Free said:
There are more SMT games than the Persona series. Alice goes as far back as the first SMT on the SNES. Tags fixed.

Well I just checked and she's in quite a lot of them. The SMT games I've played most thoroughly are SMT3, DDS1&2 and Persona 4. She was only in P4. I've played a lot of the other games, including SMT1&2 but didn't get that far before moving on to something else. I also played P3 for a long time but didn't complete it so must have missed her in that. As I said, there's an interview where it's implied that she's new to P4 and combined with the fact that it was also the first time I'd known her to be in an SMT game, it made sense to me.

No, she was definitely in Persona 3 FES, at least. Creating her requires a Cross Fusion (Lilim+Pixie+Nata Taishi+Narcissus), and creating Alice with Megido in her repertoire is one of Elizabeth's requests. Second-highest Persona in the Death arcanum.

As for the origins of the element/attack names, the SMT series is known for drawing from a very wide array of myths and legends. "Agi" is likely connected to "agni", the Sanskrit word for fire, and subsequently the name of the Hindu/Vedic deity of fire. I suspect the other elements have similar mythological connections. "Hama" is likely referential to "harau" (to sweep away; commonly used for priestly purifications) and, as you mentioned, "Mudo" is likely referential to "mu" (void); both of them (possibly all the elements) have nonsense syllables tacked on, however.