Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney/YMMV

Take general series tropes to Ace Attorney, and take tropes specific to the Phoenix arc, or Investigations to those pages, please.


 * Accidental Aesop: Don't use your daughter as a pawn in a criminal scheme. In addition to the character who did this in Phoenix Wright's trilogy, there are about four characters who do it in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney.
 * Broken Base: Apollo Justice has divided fans into a Phoenix Wright camp and an Apollo Justice camp. Some think the promised fifth game should bring Phoenix back as a lawyer, others believe that Apollo is a good character who just needs another game or two to develop.
 * Complete Monster: . The game itself hints at the fact that he's much more than the series' average Smug Snake. Expect double portion of horror when in the last case,.
 * And don't forget the that Phoenix encounters. We never did find out what that was all about. Maybe in GS5...
 * The truth about his forging and murders was the secret. They were just black becuase it was supposed to signify how Kristoph is the most unshakable person in the series.
 * Draco in Leather Pants: Valant Gramarye: Ok, Zak was a jerk; almost definitely more of a jerk than Valant. But that doesn't excuse Valant for deciding to, especially when the main motives were jealousy and money. Try telling that to Valant fans though.
 * Evil Is Sexy:.
 * Fanon Discontinuity: Some people just can't accept where Apollo Justice took Phoenix's character.
 * Foe Yay: Phoenix and.
 * Hilarious in Hindsight: The whole incident about Phoenix Wright getting hit by a car and flung into a pole and only suffered a sprained ankle. With his inclusion in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, he had to contend with a variety of attacks, such as She-Hulk's Level 3 Hyper, which involves getting hit by a car (Sunday Driver, according to her), and her new attack in Ultimate swinging a pole. The best part is that the hit and run incident in the game took place on a Sunday.
 * Ho Yay: Has a page for it.
 * Idiot Plot: Many people think this about case 4-3, which has all the characters think it's perfectly feasible for a prepubescent boy to use an incredibly powerful revolver without injury, carry a 250lbs man across an arena, and even for the boy to be a  secret Interpol agent. Even Apollo doesn't dispute the feasibility of the accusations, just that Machi was the one who did it. Shu Takumi has since admitted to the flaws in the case's storyline, and revealed that he was working on the assumption that, but forgot to make this clear in the dialogue.
 * Even worse was the fact that everyone assumed Machi was an Interpol agent based on the bloody writing. Given how many times something's been written in blood and turned out to be a false lead, you'd think everyone would pick up on that (especially since Apollo claimed that he's read over some of Phoenix's old case files, and Ema .)
 * Memetic Sex God: Klavier Gavin was the former Page Image.
 * Nightmare Fuel:
 * It's standard for the guilty one to go completely batshit crazy in fury or amazement that their plan has been ruined. However, it gets even scarier with That. Is. Scary. And when you win the case,  snaps. With his hair still a complete mess, he puts a hand to his face, faces the sky, and just laughs. It's clear that he's gone completely insane when faced by the turn of events. He's lost everything by your victory; seven years of planning, gone. And you don't hear anything. You don't hear a sound byte of the laugh, there's no box saying "ha ha ha". No, what there is is a text-based "voice-over" describing the aftermath of the case, and how the killer... laughed, all while you watch his final breakdown in utter silence.
 * Actually, 's hair goes back to normal for his laughing sprite, bizarrely enough. The fact that he apparently fixed his hair just for that may or may not make it creepier.
 * Do NOT perceive Spark Brushel while he's smiling widely.
 * Player Punch: Mixes with But Thou Must in the . Phoenix is blissfully unaware that he's about to . Both the circumstances and the context of the rest of the game already make the player aware this will not end well but they are dragged kicking and screaming into to move the plot forward. Really makes the player feel like they're responsible for Phoenix's.
 * Replacement Scrappy: Apollo, to some.
 * Squick: Shut up about your panties! ("Panties!")
 * Viewers Are Goldfish: This is true of all the Ace Attorney games, but Apollo Justice was especially Egregious about it.
 * The Woobie: Apollo is either this or a Chew Toy, depending on how funny you think his suffering is.
 * Vera. Dear god, Vera.
 * Possibly Trucy as well, if you take some lines from Phoenix at the end of the game into consideration.
 * Wocky is a Jerkass Woobie, undoubtedly the worst client Apollo gets. In fact he's worse than almost all of Phoenix's defendants because he doesn't come around by the end. But still, ...