Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney/Fridge

Take moments specific to the Phoenix arc or Investigations to those pages, please.


 * Two things, both to do with the first poker game between Zak Gramarye and Phoenix Wright. At first, I asked how Phoenix could beat such a seasoned player, who had previously only lost to someone who literally had a super-power that allowed him to pierce through others' lies... and then I remembered how Nick wings his way through every trial he's ever been involved in. He's a master of bluffing, and that's how he won. -User:Anomaly
 * Secondly, the question of why Zak tests people in such a way in the first place. Then it finally hit me, just a little before Apollo said it outright: it's not whether his opponent won or lost, but how they played the game. Their play style gave Zak a way to get their measure.
 * In Apollo Justice, I never had much respect for the last case. Mostly because of the second day of court and the lack of testimony. But I just realized, it's a difference in the gameplay/story ratio. We're not supposed to revel in attacking the witness' lies with our evidence. We're supposed to revel in the best Villainous Breakdown in the series. Yeah. Awesome.
 * I heard somewhere that the final case kind of had a case of Deus Ex Machina with you winning not because of your cross examination and evidence but because of the . But for me, this reflects the personalities of the hero and villain. Apollo doesn't mind the deus ex machina (though he should have remembered anyway) as he accepts change as a good thing while goes into a rage for being beaten by said deus ex machina; a change to the system he couldn't accept.
 * Looking back, I think there's even another bit of brilliance here. I think Phoenix had known that
 * The ending of the last case when may seem like a giant Ass Pull from a Western perspective. But that changes completely when put in the context of what was happening to the Japanese legal system at the time.
 * On the other hand, the strength of the jury comes from its weakness of relying on emotional anecdotes rather than proof. Phoenix picked the perfect case to take advantage of what could potentially have been a disadvantage for the defense in some types of cases.
 * On yet another hand, the jury not requiring as much proof as the Judge may seem like a disadvantage, but remember, that's to convict a witness. The Judge's standards of evidence to convict a defendant are much lower than, say, a sane normal person who can tell things don't make sense. Thus, until the police start arresting actual murderers, the Jury System will make the defense's job much much easier.
 * Phoenix's involvement with the Misham case goes much further than his disbarment. No wonder he spent seven years looking into it - the whole thing is personal in many levels.
 * Not long after the game's initial release, there was some complaining about how cocky and out of character Phoenix seemed to be during But the fact is, he had every right to be. Phoenix had just  To be fair, said complaining has essentially ceased, possibly because people came to a similar conclusion.
 * In addition, only a prosecutor who is really searching for the truth could ever defeat Phoenix Wright in court...
 * They probably brought back the "poisoned coffee" thing from Trials and Tribulations so that you'd be surprised when they put a new twist on it where
 * I just realised some major Fridge Horror with the third case,
 * Guy Eldoon's blond hair looks like noodles. The fact that his eyebrows are foreshadows the fact that.
 * During the first day of the last trial, Vera keeps staring at Klavier. Trucy thinks that it's because Klavier is handsome, but the real reason is that . This is actually similar to what happens when Apollo meets Klavier and Klavier thinks Apollo is checking him out.
 * Around that same time, Klavier starts sweating bullets when he hears that there was a  around the time the   was received and that Vera likes  . He asks to know what, exactly,  . This is because
 * Symbolic name that isn't immediately obvious: Misham contains the word "sham."
 * "My sham", no less.
 * The bloody card was  in case 1 while Phoenix was heading upstairs to call Kristoph. This means that the call was placed while  ! (Apparently  .) Suddenly, it makes a lot of sense that   made the fatal slip-up about the "flawless bone china pate" when he forgot what he was and wasn't supposed to know about the man  . Trying to   must have been hard.
 * I don't think this is what happened. The first time that Phoenix went up stair was to call the police after the victim . It was during this spam of time that . Then when Phoenix came back down from calling the police, and he found that the victim had been killed. It was then that he went up to call Kristoph AFTER Kristoph himself had . In other words, by when he was talking to Phoenix Kristoph was already away from the crime scene. Let's not forget that it's clearly stated in the case that cell phones don't get reception at the crime scene (this was why Phoenix had to go upstairs to call both the police and Kristoph) so it's impossible that Kristoph was at the scene when he was called by Phoenix. Your basic point still stands,.
 * Some fans tend to make fun of the name Apollo for the title character and even I had thought it a bit over the top until I read the Oresteia, an ancient Greek play wherein the character Orestes is defended in the first ever court presided over by the goddess Athena and defended by, you guessed it, the god Apollo who won the case and earned himself the title, god of justice among other things. For the ancient Athenians, this made the god Apollo the first ever defense attorney. And suddenly the name Apollo Justice becomes a brilliant, high-brow wink to the well-read gamer.
 * When you listen to it closely, the prologue song and the song for Drew Studio sound a lot like each other.  Listen to this first and then this and you will hear what this troper means.
 * Case three involves, and then case four comes along revolving around.
 * Apollo's japanese name, 'Odoroki Housuke' always bugged me, because it's by far one of the worst, most unnatural sounding puns in the japanese versions of the games... Until you realize something. Apollo is ... So Apollo Justice/Odoroki Housuke might not even be his real name. No wonder it sounds unnatural!