History VisualNovel / AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth

** Several name puns are in non-English languages -- for example, Quercus Alba = the scientific name for the white oak, ''Colias palaeno''= the scientific name for the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colias_palaeno Moorland Clouded Yellow]] and Shi-Long Lang = Chinese for "soldier dragon wolf" -- the "soldier dragon" of the "wolf" family.

* RewatchBonus: When Shih-na [[spoiler:says "It was all I could do to hold my laughter in," towards the end of "The Kidnapped Turnabout"]] She really means that...

-->-- '''Miles Edgeworth'''

* ForegoneConclusion: The beginning of Turnabout Reminiscence, the flashback case. After Byrne Faraday is dismissed from the trial of Mack Rell, it is arranged for Edgeworth to fill in, and it's explicitly stated that this would make it Edgeworth's first case. However, it had already been established in ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations Trials and Tribulations]]'' that Edgeworth's first trial was that of Terry Fawles, so the audience knows something will happen that prevents Edgeworth from taking over. And sure enough, just as court is about to reconvene, it is announced that both Faraday and the defendant have been killed, making the trial moot and leading to Edgeworth investigating their deaths.

** In the finale, [[spoiler:having a wounded leg]] doesn't stop Lang from [[spoiler:heading offscreen to Allebahst, showing the imperial household the evidence of Alba's crimes so they fire him, and returning to the embassy with his agents to prevent Alba from retreating into his office]].

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Quercus Alba]]'s trial. We don't see it (because it would just be a rehash of everything that's gone before), but several supporting characters show up just to watch Edgeworth tear the defendant a new one, and he doesn't disappoint.

* HeinousnessRetcon: {{Downplayed}} with Manfred von Karma. A flashback to the case that led to the DL-6 Incident reveals that the forged evidence von Karma used in the trial was prepared by someone else and he wasn't aware of the forgery. At the same time, he's still very much the same AmoralAttorney he is in the present, and it's still implied he forged evidence in past cases, and the flashback case ''also'' reveals he had the defendant interrogated non-stop to the point where his hair turned white, which is what he actually received his one penalty for. It's also implied that, through the events of this game, Franziska finally comes to terms with how horrible her father was.

* AmoralAttorney: [[spoiler:Calisto Yew]] takes this to its logical conclusion, [[spoiler:murdering her own defendant and a witness]]. Then again, [[spoiler:she isn't a "real" attorney, she just poses as one]]. We also have prosecutor Jacques Portsman, who is the killer in the first case and [[spoiler:also happens to be a member of the BigBad's [[TheSyndicate crime syndicate]]]]. According to Gumshoe he's been suspected of tampering with evidence for some time.

* PassingTheTorch[=/=]TakeUpMySword: [[spoiler: Kay Faraday]] does this. [[spoiler: She finds her father's diary and believes him to be the Yatagarasu, taking on the title and mission of Stealing Truth for herself]]. She's...not quite as effective, though at the end of the game she's got new resolve to gather allies and do it like he did.

* SchizoTech: It is a bit odd to see a flat-screen television in the courthouse defendant lobbies hooked up to VCR players, though in fairness it is there for security ''tapes'' and many places still use old school tapes for security.

* ChekhovsBoomerang: [[spoiler:The Yatagarasu's Key from cases four AND five. It starts out as a key, then it becomes a weapon, then a key again, then the '''weapon part''' becomes a key. Finally, as a weapon, it becomes [[JustForPun the ultimate key]] to defeating the BigBad. Allebahst's Primidux Statue]] also gets more than its fair share of use in the last leg of of the fifth case.

* DarkReprise [[spoiler:Ambassador Alba]] gains a darker, menacing version of the majestic Cohdopian national anthem as his new {{Leitmotif}}, which was previously used as the two ambassadors' leitmotif. The change is so dramatic, you really have to listen really, '''''REALLY''''' closely in order to realize that it's the same piece, only played in a minor key and smoothed over heavily.

* UnnecessarilyLargeInterior: Edgeworth notes that the plane in case 3 is a special model. That's definitely true--it has the passenger level, a lounge below that reached by staircase (both very spacious), and an elevator down to a cargo hold which is ''two stories'' in height. [[spoiler:The staircase is high enough that a man can die if he's pushed from the railing.]] It's hard to imagine how such a gargantuan flying machine can even leave the ground, even before you start packing it with twenty-foot stone statues.

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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The whole first game takes place over about three days (contrasted with the nominal separation of months at a time in other ''Ace Attorney'' games), with Edgeworth solving four murders in a little over three days (case 2 happens on one day, 1 and 3 happen the next, 5 happens the night after that). The second game only kicks up about two weeks later and finishes up in about as much time. The fourth and fifth cases of the second game occur over the course of two days, allowing none of the characters to even get a wink of sleep in between.

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* AlwaysMurder: Of course. Edgeworth can't even take a simple plane trip without someone winding up dead in an elevator (and himself accused of the crime). The second game even has an assassination attempt [[spoiler:that takes place during a ''faked'' assassination attempt, which is then used by the case's culprit to obscure his actions in the very ''real'' murder that ends up taking place]]!

* AmbidextrousSprite: Pretty much everyone, but it's particularly noticeable with Franziska, who gets another mole on both sides of her face because of this trope, and the Pink Princess, on whose shoulder the kanji is reversed.

* EurekaMoment: Taken rather literally: "Eureka!" is Edgeworth's unique exclamation for making a connection with Logic. More traditionally, about once per case Edgeworth hits a brick wall in his deductions, only for someone to say or do something mostly unrelated that causes this. He immediately flashes back to a number of previous hints, and the player is given several new pieces of logic to sort through and reach a conclusion.

* AffectionateParody: The Judge at one point uses the famous "HOLD IT!", but then apologizes for being too loud and simply says "Hold it".

* AlwaysMurder: More obvious in case 3, where the crime is originally just a standard kidnapping.

[[caption-width-right:300:He has [[TheSmartGuy Logic]] and [[MundaneMadeAwesome he knows how to use it]].]]

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