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*** I agree about the last part, but {{spoiler|how was it not her fault? Acro and Bat would not have been injured if she hadn't played a stupid prank at the worst possible time, and the fact that she doesn't acknowledge her responsibility for this until it's too late does not help.}}
** I cried the first time I thought about the victim, Russel Berry. His wife died, he was a single father to Regina, adopted {{spoiler|Acro and Bat}}, treated the whole circus like his family, and was an all-around good man. Then he died {{spoiler|accidentally, and he wasn't even the intended victim}}. There's currently a lump in my throat just from typing that.
* Although it's not as heartwrenching as some of the other moments described here, [[Accusing the Witness]] takes a decidedly [[Dude, Not Funny|non-comedic turn]] in the fourth case of the second game, where you are [[But Thou Must|forced]] to accuse {{spoiler|Adrian Andrews}}, who by this point is [[The Woobie|woobie-tastic]], just to buy time. If that's not bad enough, {{spoiler|you know full well that you're buying time to ''defend'' a [[Magnificent Bastard|bastard so magnificent]] that he produced a glass of cognac from [[Hammerspace]] just to swirl it in your face as he taunts you - and when I say "you," I mean it sounds like he's taunting the ''[[No Fourth Wall|player]]'' for being unable to do anything to thwart his plan.}} If ''that's'' not bad enough, the game also forces you to press the button yourself, a la the end of ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 3'', to increase your complicity that much more. I never thought I would agonize so hard about a "choice" in a strictly linear game without multiple endings.
** Worse yet, {{spoiler|the gallery ''boos at you'' for daring to defend someone who is by now obviously guilty. You're already in deep shit, and the crowd ganging up on you just makes it worse.}}
*** Think indicting {{spoiler|Adrian Andrews}} is tear-jerkingly terrible enough? Play through it a second time, when you ''know'' how everything goes down and have to go through it all ''anyway.''
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** The [[Bad Ending]] is just heartbreaking if you ignore the [[Narm|typo]].
*** Or have a version which had corrected it.
*** To summarize the [[Bad Ending]]: {{spoiler|If Phoenix Wright failed to pick the one evidence (the videotape) and witness (Shelly de Killer) to convince Matt Enguarde a Guilty verdict, the judge would find [[Complete Monster|Matt Enguarde]] Not Guilty. Although Maya Fey is no longer a hostage, Phoenix Wright never sees her again, Adrian Andrews later gets tried and found Guilty, and this failure is eating Phoenix so much that he quits being a lawyer. [[
** Case 4 is not only full of tears, but SO MUCH nerves. Just playing through the first trial, knowing you {{spoiler|have to finish it in a day,}} and then {{spoiler|failing to do so}}, we get to see Wright's head-in-hands sprite for the first time, and it's just soul-crushing, because you know {{spoiler|just how freaked out and worried he is for Maya... and the first time he gets called by De Killer and finds out she's kidnapped, he TOTALLY freaks out, almost passes out, is willing to pay anything...}} I can just imagine him screaming at the phone every time he gets a call. [[The Woobie|Poor Phoenix.]]
* In ''Justice For All'', it is pretty hard to feel sorry for {{spoiler|Mimi Miney}} as most of her story can quickly be considered [[Narm]] However, This troper thought about it, and realized in a second playing that {{spoiler|there isn't really anything that tells you that Mimi actually wanted to do all that. She fell asleep while driving because of being exploited by Dr. Grey?? True, it was an accident. She said she took her purse and got of the car as fast as she could?? True, though with the panic she could as well had taken Ini's. Dr. Hotti said that they used her car licence photo to reconstruct her face?? True, but he also said that the car license was burnt with the rest of the car. The doctors could perfectly have made a terrible mistake. And finally, did she took the place of her sister?? Yes she did. But she had no other choice. And it's not like she liked, either. She breaks up in tears when saying how much she hates her life, how much she hates the occult and how sorry she is for everything. And being a whole year doing something you hate, without being able to complain because you're meant to love it?? No wonder she promised revenge against Grey. And actually didn't break her promise.}}
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