Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth/Fridge: Difference between revisions

* This Troper just got hit by understanding a pun stretching back to the first Phoenix Wright title while he was playing Ace Attorney Investigations. In the first game, there was a creature introduced as the "mascot of the police force", the Blue Badger, a creature that looks almost but not entirely unlike a badger. It struck him as weird, but then it was Phoenix Wright, so he didn't care. Cue Case 3 of AAI, where a character observes that the word "Badge" is right in the Blue Badger's name. And then the weird shape of the Blue Badger's head suddenly made sense... and a grimace that can only be caused by being hit with a pun that has been waiting to strike for three years crossed his face. YMMV, but it hurt here.

* I'd heard people talking about how the last villian of Investigations was unimpressive and lacking backstory (or that their backstory didn't clearly lead to the person they had become). Then when I played through it myself, I saw this line:

Villain: That doesn't even warrant an answer. }}

** The logic here is {{spoiler|Alba is a ''war hero''. Of ''course'' a soldier would have been conditioned to not value the lives of others. Suddenly, his lack of empathy and willingness to eliminate his underlings made perfect sense.}}

* When Kay tells Edgeworth that she's the Yatagarasu, he's incredibly skeptical at first. This might be because {{spoiler|he was under the impression that Calisto Yew was the Yatagarasu because of what happened seven years before.}} He also hadn't twigged that {{spoiler|the Yatagarasu was more than one person}}, so, since Kay {{spoiler|clearly isn't Calisto Yew}} then he has no real reason to believe her until she whips out Little Thief.

* In ''Turnabout Airlines'', there is a point where Franziska von Karma accuses Edgeworth of murder, which, given their sibling-like relationship, appears to be overly harsh and cold, even for [[Defrosting Ice Queen|her standards.]] It only makes sense once you remember what exactly [[Complete Monster|her oh-so-perfect-and-honorable father turned out to be like.]] Franziska isn't ignoring the fact that Edgeworth's her adoptive brother and friend. She thinks that he might have ended up walking down the same horrible road as her father after all.

Edgeworth: "...Franziska..." }}

** Related to that scene, Franziska accuses him of tainting the von Karma name by committing murder. {{spoiler|But von Karma did the same thing years ago.}} Is she actively repressing or does she believe that {{spoiler|her own father is no longer a proper von Karma?}}