Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective/WMG

Eveyone who had their fate averted in the main timeline of the game have repressed memories.

 * We know that Missile, Jowd, Yomiel and Sissel keep their memories of the events of Ghost Trick. It seems that no one else has memories of the game, but when Kamila introduces Sissel to Lynne in the new timeline Lynne says Sissel's name sounds oddly familiar. She wouldn't know about Yomiel's fiancée as she avoided anything to do with the park due to the trauma of it, meaning she must have deep buried memories of the original timeline.

This game is the Ace Attorney universes version of Reaper's game; as opposed to the trials in those games themselves.

 * Sissel was killed and his memories were his entrance fee. The "figure it out before dawn" thing is the time limit and he'll be erased if he fails. Partner's are living people rather than other Players. His time manipulation thing is a basic psych akin to the Scanning Psych and he's using a variation of psychokinesis to manipulate the Real Ground.
 * And the fact that he gets a single night is analogous to the Realground's needlessly quick three-day trial limit.
 * Or Dahlia Hawthorne is the Composer.
 * And the presence of a partner, i.e. the Lamp...
 * SOOPAH OBJECTION!, so there goes the "figure it out before dawn" thing. There is absolutely no real goal because Sissel wants to figure out who he was. Lynne is the key to figuring it out and Ray is a Justified Tutorial, so the "partner" thing is just... what. Also, besides , how do you ? And the entry fee? Just a coincidence because dead people lose their memories and some of them *coughsisselcough* don't get 'em back. I know this is WMG, but please just play the game before thinking of theories to put here.

It actually is possible to prevent your own death

 * Okay, one of the first things Sissel tries to do upon waking up dead is reach out to his corpse to go back in time and prevent his own death. He's unable to do so, and Ray tells him the dead can't time-travel back to prevent their own deaths.
 * Actually,

When all's said and done, Sissel can still talk to everyone in their heads. This is a bit weird.
Does everybody still have orange cores from being saved from death, or would red-guy be the only one (his death being the last one to be reverted)? Sissel can still use Ghost World skills (apparently) at the end and at the very least the Crack Team who went back to 10 years ago will all remember the fragment incident, so he should still be able to talk to them.
 * Maybe this'll set up a new sequel?
 * When you look closely in the ending when Lynne's holding up Sissel, I'm pretty sure Lynne doesn't have a core anymore.
 * Then again, nothing except Sissel has a core in that scene.
 * Yomiel and Jowd may still remember the incident, since they traveled 10 years back in time. Jowd gave the kitten his name and Yomiel gave his thanks to him, after drawing a picture of Sissel. Maybe missile has still the memories of their adventure?
 * I'm pretty confident it said explicitly that everyone who was present in the Ghost World when they were undoing would remember what happened. When you factor in Jowd it gets sort of weird and confusing. Yomiel's and Sissel's life would be completely different, and Missile wouldn't even be born for another 8 years or so, but Jowd would live the next decade remembering every step of the way up until the point where  which has certainly gotta be odd for the guy. But, I'm pretty sure Yomiel, Sissel, Missile and Jowd are all aware of everything that occurred across the three main timelines the game touches upon.

Sissel can still talk to Kamila, Jowd, etc.
The sequel will have them helping him avert fates as various partners. Missile will somehow be re-Temsikified, Kamila can help set up machines, Jowd, Cabanela and Lynne take him with them to work, and returns with programming skills and hacking, barring another Temsik.

The main villain of Ghost Trick 2 will be a bird.
Specifically, Sissel will hunt and kill a bird. As a result, the bird will become Temsikified and go on a murderous rampage.
 * More sensibly, a person could die next to Sissel too.

The Pigeon is also a Temsik Immortal.
The meteor broke into many pieces, after all. That day in the park, it got hit too. For some reason, it's able to block ghosts from seeing the radiation.
 * Proof: During the bomb, it's pointed out that  stood right in the open and didn't even get knocked back. Detective Cabanela gets knocked back and breaks a lot of bones. The Pigeon was right on top of the target's head; sure it flew up, but it was still closer than the other two. And in the bad future after the explosion kills its target, the pigeon is fine.

Phoenix didn't try to find the truth and reclaim his badge because Sissel was making it hard to find work anyway.
Obviously. I mean, how many people did Sissel un-kill in one night? If we assumed Ace Attorney and Ghost Trick took place near each other and the only major crimes that seem to take place there are murder and costumed burglary, what's a defense attorney to do when people suddenly stop dying in such numbers?
 * Take up civic cases?
 * Hey, there's kidnapping as of Ace Attorney Investigations. Blackmail, too.

Think about it. As far as it can be determined, was the only person he had in his life. There are no mentions of any other friends or family,  It is logical to assume, therefore, that he didn't have them. So Temsik may not have created a problem so much as worsened an already existing one.

Kenny's repeated deaths are/were the result of him being stalked by a Temsik-influenced spirit.
IT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!

The foreigners are from Borginia
The blue skin is simply stylistic exaggeration.

Lynne either will kept her memory or will eventually realize what awesome powers .
She will take  to every single of her homicide-related jobs from then on and the town's rate of sucessful murder attempts will shrink by at least 80% for mysterious reasons.

Sissel is a girl in Japan.
Think of the plottwist in the end. We know that "Sissel" is a feminine name, even in this universe. We also know how damn hard it is to. Also,. Add the finishing touch that in the japanese version,  never refers to Sissel with any gender specific pronoun or the like and that Sissel uses "Watashi" for "I", which is absolutely gender neutral and that   We might have a female protagonist on hands here after all, people.
 * Jossed by the discussion page.
 * Yeah, Kamila calls Sissel "he" in the new present ten years on, so he's definitely a tomcat.

Detective Jowd was the defendant in Gregory Edgeworth's final case
Ghost Trick is confirmed to take place in the Ace Attorney universe. However the time period is not given, which creates the possibility that Jowd could have been defended by Edgeworth Snr. Given the sparse amount of evidence, this could have lead the prosecutor  to create false evidence   despite this due to Detective Jowd's confession he was found guilty.
 * Wouldn't that mean that DL-6 (and with it, most of Ace Attorney 's plot) was erased in the end of Ghost Trick?
 * Baring in spite of a nail triggering a case similar to the original DL-6 then yes the plot of Ace Attorney would be quite extensively altered.
 * Wasn't there a fanfic about this one?
 * Jossed by Edgeworth's new game.

Ghost Trick and 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors co-exist in the same universe
This is almost begging for a crossover considering how Layton and Phoenix Wright got it together.

The cause of all of this was that
Okay, he was a  That sounds like something that could become Sufficiently Advanced. So this started getting data in and out of time and space and other dimensions; messing with cause and effect, and creating this big chunk of fate that just materialized and landed on him.
 * Sounds like a Homestuck tie-in.

Sissel kills
He remembers them, and when they take a job robbing a place tied with his family; he changes the "grams" on the safe-cracker recipe with "kilograms". He's not adverse to killing, after all.
 * It requires him to be able to read though, unless he had help.

If there is a sequel, that poor little blue rat will turn into an empowered ghost.
After all, we already know from Missile that animals can manage it. And with how often that little dude recurred throughout the game, he deserves an expanded role.
 * plus, Sissel now has so  it could receive powers.

Right after the final scene,
They clearly remember each other, and it would be the Crowning Moment of Heartwarming to end all Crowning Moments of Heartwarming.

The Assassins are robots.
Who self-destruct when they die, hence nobody ever finding their bodies. Yes, these robots are near sighted and afraid of light. They're created by the same people who made a giant robot who types things onto a console and then hits the console to make it work.

Regina Berry is Emma's "Darling Angel" from an averted timeline
After  she ran away from home and Russel Berry took her in, like. She was the first one he adopted, (and the only one he legally took in) so she's the only one with his family name. The similarities are eerie, really: the hairstyle, Spoiled Sweet disposition, they're both rather sheltered and a bit ditzy.


 * But, if you mean "averted timeline", wouldn't be alive? Or do you mean the original timeline, where Sissel doesn't save anyone? Then again, if you think about it, if Sissel didn't save anyone,  would still be alive.
 * Sorry, I wasn't very clear; by "averted timeline" I meant the fate that was averted; in other words,  and, after discovering that, she ran off. I'm working under the assumption that every aversion creates a new branch/timeline, though. ...I just confused myself.

Each time Sissel goes back in time, he is actually going to an alternate universe; not the past.
When going back in time, wouldn't the events that Sissel caused to occur before happen again? This also explains why some times Sissel can go back in time to a certain time when he has changed a fate. Thinking logically, what Sissel changes should have always been changed even before he went back to change it. It's like in Ocarina of Time when that guy teaches you that song. You then go back in time and teach the song to the man so that he can, in the future teach it to you so that you can teach it to him ect. Basically despite the fact that you hadn't done it yet you had technically still gone back and done it in the past meaning that it happened. This is the same thing in Ghost Trick. Surely the fate changes should have always existed in the concept if time. The alternate universe theory makes sense of this.
 * Except, after the Justice Minister and the Guardian of the Park are saved, Lynne is able to remember his death in the new timeline even though she did not travel with Sissel to revive them. Were this an alternate universe, Lynne would have no way of knowing that they'd ever died. This suggests that time does in fact change and that there are no alternate universes involved.

"Nearsighted" Jeego and "One Step Ahead" Tengo are the same person.
They're extremely similar in appearance and manner, the only differences being their guns and the fact that Tengo wears glasses. Jeego had no answer when Lynne asked why he doesn't wear glasses, so it could be that he doesn't actually have a reason to not increase his accuracy at longer distances outside of his "Nearsighted" persona. When an infiltration or sniper mission was required, he could become the more covert-sounding "One Step Ahead", and all he would have to do was don his spectacles and equip a more appropriate weapon.
 * Further, Jeego's highly cartoonish death compared to every other death in the game implies that it was staged. It's possible that Tengo allowed his "Nearsighted" persona to be "killed off" because of his obsession with moving up in the ranks. Sith suggested augmenting Tengo's salary with the late Jeego's, so Tengo had nothing to lose by culling his second identity. Jeego seemed to be expecting his "death" with his comments about the wrecking ball, almost like he was inviting Sissel to crush him.

Ghost Trick takes place some time before Ace Attorney.
Cell phones are fairly common in Ace Attorney, but nobody seems to own one in Ghost Trick. Sure, you can chalk this up to just being for the convenience of gameplay, but it'd make sense that everybody was using rotary-style landline phones. This could lead to some nice connections between the two series.
 * Missile could actually be Missile. They have the same name, they're the same breed, they're both related to the police department. He grows up, becomes a sniffer dog and Gumshoe is his favourite handler.
 * Incorrect. Gumshoe's Missile is an Akita.
 * could be Glen Elg's mentor. They'd both prodigious programmers.
 * Jowd, Cabanella & Lynne could all be detectives at Gumshoe's precinct, or another in the same city. They could even appear in a future AA game. Perhaps Gant somehow wronged them and they have to solve another case they never could because of him. That would be AWESOME.

Detective Jowd now has the same kind of body that
In the final timeline, he and We later get a throwaway line about how 10 years have passed and yet the latter is still a kitten. Assuming that he didn't die, that means that what happened to body can happen without death. If he never had the fragments removed (as is common with uninfected projectiles that would cause more damage by removing), then it is quite possible that Jowd is now the detective of the force!
 * Actually, I'm pretty sure.
 * I was under the impression that

Memry died at the diner in the Alpha Timeline

 * Remember, the only reason why the van crashed  in the first place was because the detective driving it got knocked unconscious by the bug Memry planted after the detective spotted Lynne at the diner. If you hadn't stopped Lynne , she'd never have shown up, and the accident never would have happened... except the reason why she went there is because she found the note Yomiel was carrying. If she hadn't shown up, Yomiel would have, and remember that Yomiel was the whole reason why Memry and the detective were stationed. While the game never says it outright, or even implies it, it's reasonable to assume the scene would have played out much the same as it did before, only without Lynne around to save Memry from the initial crash

Cabanela doesn't walk down the stairs...
He "dancingly descends" down them. I don't really have any evidence or conjecture (baseless or otherwise) to back this theory. It's just too good an opportunity to pass up.

But he'll be going by the code name, the avoid spoiling the first game... at least until the last few chapters, where the events of the first game suddenly become relevant, and you'll have to team up with to save the day.

Beauty's Sixth Sense means she's been saved
After Sissel saves from, he explains that he can now sense his presence within a room,  If Beauty has been saved, she may be able to sense a ghost's presence as well. But Beauty doesn't have a core, which means that if she was saved, whe was unconscious. The obvious question is, "Who could have saved her?" can't, and it couldn't have been Sissel But There are other possibilities, especially when one considers that 's origin is unknown, so it could have caused the "powers of the dead" to arise elsewhere.