YMMV / A Burned Man Walks Down The Desolate Corridor

• Fridge Horror: Even if it was an alternative universe, several canon characters showed up, even if they worked in a different occupation than their canon counterpart, such as Phoenix. Now, as far as people were concerned, Amelia Wonderley was dead. But the body that was found wasn't hers, though. It had to look similar so that people could believe it was her, so she killed a woman to get a corpse to pass as the "fake" Amelia. Normally, finding out who she killed would be pointless, but the fact that she uses Trucy's appearance is very suspicious. According to her brother, she didn't use surgery or anything advanced, so if she were to pass as someone else, it'd need to be someone who looked similar to her - just like the corpse. Wig, dress and accent. If it's effective enough, no one will look further. Now, who would believe a magician girl to be the woman who supposedly passed away a few days ago? Is it possible that the woman Amelia murdered was in fact Trucy Wright/Enigmar? If so, that would raise the number of kill-and-replace incidents to three in one trial, which is a lot.
• Magnificent Bastard:
  • Shelly de Killer is the same honorable assassin as in canon. Seeking revenge for being framed for the LY-17 incident, de Killer sets out to reclaim the honor of his family name by killing the true culprits. de Killer starts off his revenge by killing Detective Wright and impersonating him with no one the wiser. Upon recieving a request to kill Amelia Wonderley, he informs her that she is about to be killed and helps fake her death by using his position as a detective to take over the investigation of her death and replace the blood of the fake Amelia with that of the real one. Later murdering Detective Sternwood, de Killer leaves his calling card at the scene and takes over that investigation as well, manipulating events so that he can get his final target, Klavier Gavin in the police station to easily kill him.
  • Amelia Wonderley is the sister of Shelly de Killer and is just as crafty as her brother. Learning from her brother that her roommate Helen Nell intends to kill her, she proceeds to fake her death by replacing all her sleeping pills with candy and killing a woman that looks similar to her so that she can take her place after Nell "kills" her. Having been dating Kristoph Gavin to watch over Apollo Justice, Amelia later sends a note to Apollo tipping him off about the location of de Killer's hideout so that he can bust Nell and Kristoph for their crimes, later giving him a gun so that he's not defenseless against her brother. She then rearranges Detective Sternwood's files to place LY-17 at the front to get Apollo to remember the promise that they made to eachother fifteen years prior.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The three de Killer endings - "Nightmare", "A Visitor" and "The Body Bag" are incredibly chilling. The first one is a "The Reason You Suck" Speech from the assassin himself while the other two make you wonder if he was there all along, watching from the darkness. And technically, he was.
  • de Killer's hideout is completely empty when you reach it, hinting that the elusive assassin isn't there... For now. As you make your way further, you find a closed body bag with a corpse in it. Apollo opens it, only to find the dead body of Phoenix Wright. The implication depends on the ending: either Apollo thinks that Phoenix entered the hideout on his own and was killed by the master assassin, or figured out that he's been dead for far longer than that, meaning that the person he's been talking to was...
  • The very idea that Phoenix Wright has been Dead All Along, and that the man you've been speaking to the entire game is Professional Killer Shelly de Killer.