Ace Attorney/Characters/Witnesses and Other Characters: Difference between revisions

** Also, on the day of the murder, he struck a colleague on the head with a glass bottle (no wonder he's a suspect of the murder later on the same day, since that death was caused by blunt force trauma); even if he didn't commit the murder, he's definitely no saint.

** Despite all this, his colleagues do have a soft spot for him, despite how he treated them. During the trial, Maximillion receives a package from the circus, containing milk, his favorite drink.

** He reconciles with the circus eventually, and offers to keep working with them post-trial. Despite his views on the circus, he realizes that it likely won't draw a crowd without him, so instead of leaving them behind (which would probably be way more financially lucrative for him), he decides to stay with them.

* [[Pride]]

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: While he's in custody, he says that he'll be fine, since he's both famous and has a lot of money; he apparently believes that would place him above the law.

* [[Split Personality]]: Since it's a ''ventriloquist act'', it's likely that Ben is using the puppet to express his other personality. You can see Ben's mouth moving sometimes when Trilo speaks, so it's not as if Trilo is talking on his own. Just like real life puppet shows, Trilo is a character Ben made up for his act, but it seems that he eventually took the act a little too far.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: Matt Engarde is not how he appears, to say the least. There's a very good reason why this character entry is filled with spoiler marks.

* [[Affably Evil]]: Unlike most villains in the series, he doesn't come across as arrogant, instead he's a polite man who's only doing his job (which happens to be [[Bread Milk Eggs Squick|killing people]]).

* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: He's a professional assassin, so he's simply doing his job.

* [[Meaningful Name]]/[[Punny Name]]/[[Shout-Out]]: A reference to the Black Dahlia, and she's certainly got thorns. Possibly a [[Shout-Out]] to Nathaniel Hawthorne, specifically the story "Rappaccini's Daughter"—the title character is a [[Walking Wasteland]] with poison permeating her blood and body, and her very touch is lethal. {{spoiler|Dahlia frequently makes use of poison as a murder tool, and she is indeed a person who's lethal if you get close to her, considering the multitude of people she's murdered out of self-interest after getting close to them.}}

* [[Devil in Plain Sight]]: How was ''no one'' ingame able to tell that he was impersonating Phoenix Wright?

* [[Dub Induced Plot Hole]]: Eldoon says that Phoenix and his partners went to his father's noodle stand during Nick's attorney days. Problem is, the localization team of the first three games [[Woolseyism|changed references to noodles into burgers]]. Fortunately, this is pretty easy to overlook (heck, with Maya's voracious appetite, one could easily imagine her stopping off at Eldoon Sr.'s noodle cart on the way home from the local burger bar) and the worst of it in the game.

* {{spoiler|[[Wake Up Call Boss]]}}: His testimony is considerably harder to crack than anything beforehand. {{spoiler|And even then, he still has the Statute of Limitations on his side...}}

* [[Martial Arts Headband]]: One that says "Hot Blooded"

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