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** To wit: {{spoiler|This happens in the final part of Case 2 of the [[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney|first game]], where the defendant's role is switched from Maya to Phoenix, due to a false accusation. He knows it is a bad idea, but moves forward anyway and wins the trial.}}

*** In this case he doesn't have a choice. {{spoiler|Redd White}} used his connections to make sure no defense lawyer in town would want to help him, even going so far to suggest that the only state-appointed lawyer Phoenix would get would be so incompetent that Phoenix would look good by comparison.

** It also happens in ''[[Ace Attorney Investigations Miles Edgeworth|Ace Attorney Investigations]]'', though there's no trial here: Edgeworth has to clear his own name in Case 2, where he faces the stewardess Rhoda Teneiro in order to convince her to release him and allow him to examine the rest of the airplane to find the true culprit.

** It also happens in ''[[Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth|Ace Attorney Investigations]]'', though there's no trial here: Edgeworth has to clear his own name in Case 2, where he faces the stewardess Rhoda Teneiro in order to convince her to release him and allow him to examine the rest of the airplane to find the true culprit.

* This occurs in Chapter 4 of ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]]'', and features the question of whether the defendant is aware of the maxim, the "I am that fool!" response, the "You're out of order!" exchange, ''and'' the [[Talking to Himself]] bit. The whole thing ends with a fistfight between the pro se lawyer and his own client.

** This is the solution to one of the "puzzles" (more a scripted event than a puzzle, really), namely how to break out of jail. The "lawyer" calls for the guard to let him out because "his client" is assaulting him, and the guard does so.