Franchise as a whole
Mainline entries:
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney | Justice for All | Trials and Tribulations | Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney | Dual Destinies | Spirit of Justice
Spin-offs:
Ace Attorney Investigations | The Great Ace Attorney
Other media:
The 2012 film | The anime
Trivia for the first game.
- Bonus Episode: "Rise from the Ashes" was made as an extra chapter for the DS version of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney to show off some of the system's features. Although other ports that include this episode have some of those features changed to fit the platform.
- Recycled Script: Case 5 is essentially an extended retelling of Case 4, with so many deliberate parallels that the characters frequently lampshade how familiar it all feels.
- Both cases start with a star prosecutor (Edgeworth in Case 4, Lana Skye in Case 5) being arrested for a murder that seemingly nobody else could have committed, and reluctantly taking on Phoenix as their attorney despite telling him their case is hopeless. Case 5 also brings back the plot point of Edgeworth's reputation taking a hit because of the case, because Lana was seen stuffing the victim into the trunk of Edgeworth's car.
- Both cases turn out to have suspicious similarities and connections to controversial prior cases that were believed to be solved years prior (The DL-6 incident in Case 4, the SL-9 incident in case 5). Both of these "closed" cases see the original verdict being called into question after the possibility is put forth that a child at the scene of the crime (Edgeworth for DL-6, Ema Skye for SL-9) killed someone by accident during a power outage while trying to save them from an assailant.
- The real perpetrator in each of the "closed" cases turns out to be a third person not previously known to have been at the scene (Von Karma for DL-6, Gant for SL-9) who is manipulating evidence to blackmail the person who was present at the scene as a child. Not only that, both men are responsible at least in part for the current case being tried, and both are respected authority figures whom nobody ever would have suspected of committing murder in the first place, and a mentor of the current case's defendant!
- Remade for the Export: The original game's localized release is not a 1:1 port of the Game Boy Advance version of Gyakuten Saiban due to the addition of "Rise From the Ashes", hence why it was released in Japan as "Gyakuten Saiban: Yomingaeru Gyakuten" (the subtitle being used as the Japanese title of the fifth episode). The second and third games were straight ports.
- Technology Marches On: Phoenix points out at the end of 1-1 that Cindy really did care for Larry because she took the Thinker clock he made with her to Paris, which would be a fairly cumbersome move if she just needed a clock. This was already a sound point when the games were released in the early 2000s, but it hits home even more in the age of near-ubiquitous smartphones and the clocks that come with them.
