History VisualNovel / AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Quercus Alba and Calisto Yew]].

* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Calisto Yew who works for Quercus Alba's syndicate and is his accomplice in the final episode.]]

** SixthRangerTraitor -- [[spoiler:Manny Coachen]]

* ContrivedCoincidence: The whole first game, full stop. [[spoiler:One day Edgeworth finds himself on a plane when some turbulence causes him to black out and then is accused of killing a man found in an elevator on the plane. Then he returns to his office to find the body of a police officer lying next to his book case. The day after that, he's at an amusement park delivering a ransom to save the kidnapped son of a friend...when that turns into a murder too. While doing this, he stumbles across a girl he met years ago when first working as a prosecutor during a case that involved the murder of her father. ''All these incidents are related'', despite the fact Edgeworth's presence at all of them is no more than simple good luck.]] The final case pulls these events together but only explains that they are related, not that they have any meaningful relation to each other. The plot is driven purely by Edgeworth being in the right place at the right time.

* ContrivedCoincidence: The whole first game, full stop. [[spoiler:One day Edgeworth finds himself on a plane when some turbulence causes him to black out and then is accused of killing a man found in an elevator on the plane. Then he returns to his office to find the body of a police officer lying next to his book case. The day after that, he's at an amusement park delivering a ransom to save the kidnapped son of a friend...when that turns into a murder too. While doing this, he stumbles across a girl he met years ago when first working as a prosecutor during a case that involved the murder of her father. ''All these incidents are related'', despite the fact Edgeworth's presence at all of them is no more than simple good luck.]] The final case pulls these altogether but only explains how they're related and doesn't actually connect them in any meaningful way that makes Edgeworth's presence anything more than happy coincidence. The plot is driven purely by Edgeworth being in the right place at the right time.

* ContrivedCoincidence: The whole first game, full stop. [[spoiler:One day Edgworth finds himself on a plane when some turbulence causes him to black out and then is accused of killing a man found in an elevator on the plane. Then he returns to his office to find the body of a police officer lying next to his book case. The day after that, he's at an amusement park delivering a ransom to save the kidnapped son of a friend...when that turns into a murder too. While doing this, he stumbles across a girl he met years ago when first working as a prosecutor during a case that involved the murder of her father. ''All these incidents are related'', despite the fact Edgeworth's presence at all of them is no more than simple good luck.]] The final case pulls these altogether but only explains how they're related and doesn't actually connect them in any meaningful way that makes Edgeworth's presence anything more than happy coincidence. The plot is driven purely by Edgeworth being in the right place at the right time.

* ContrivedCoincidence: The whole first game, full stop. [[spoiler:One day Edgworth finds himself on a plane when some turbulence causes him to black out and then is accused of killing a man found in an elevator on the plane. Then he returns to his office to find the body of a police officer lying next to his book case. The day after that, he's at an amusement park delivering a ransom to save the kidnapped son of a friend...when that turns into a murder too. While doing this, he stumbles across a girl he met years ago when first working as a prosecutor during a case that involved the murder of her father. ''All these incidents are related'', despite the fact Edgeworth's presence at all of them is no more than simple good luck.]] The final case pulls these altogether but only explains how they're related and doesn't actually connect them in any meaningful way that gives Edgeworth's presence anything more than happy coincidence.

* OriginsIssue: [[spoiler:Remember the trial where Manfred von Karma got his first penalty? The IS-7 incident is what the trial was about.]]

* GagBoobs: [[spoiler:The Pink Princess]] in has impractically large thingies. {{Nightmare Fuel}} once you learn that's she's actually [[spoiler:Wendy Oldbag]].

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Deid Mann. [[CaptainObvious He's dead]].

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Edgeworth's leads using Logic is accompanied by the significant leads turning into light and swirling in the center of the screen to create a ball of energy, from which emerges a new, better lead.
** This is particularly WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome, given most of the logic strings end up working like [[http://nami-tsuki.deviantart.com/art/LOGIIIC-154849435 this]]...
*** Actually, the logic (no pun intended, really) behind this is based on the fact that most of the people you have to disprove will base their entire argument on things as small as semantics, so you basically have to walk them through the entire process as if they're babies, in order to get a bullet-proof deduction. Unfotunately more common than you'd think in [[TruthInTelevision real life]], thanks to the large amount of [[{{Jerkass}} jerkasses]] who actually employ this tactic.
** It's time for the LOGIC EXPLOSION!
*** Clearly, the logic just blew your mind.

* BigNo: [[spoiler:Cammy Meele]] in case 2 does one of these directly before her MotiveRant ''while'' [[spoiler:blowing a '''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome whole bubble factory of bubbles..]]]]'''[[spoiler: Which [[DeadlyFireworksDisplay then burst all over her as if she were exploding.]]]]

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

* SnotBubble: Cammy Meele. [[spoiler:She actually ''[[InvokedTrope invokes]]'' it with a BubblePipe!]]

A spinoff of ''AceAttorney'', ''Ace Attorney Investigations'' landed its American and European releases in February 2010. ''Investigations'' puts Edgeworth as the main character, along with sidekicks Dick Gumshoe and the newcomer [[HighlyVisibleNinja self-declared thief]] Kay Faraday. The game took on a more traditional point-and-click adventure game style, with walking sprites exploring areas rather than simply moving from scene to scene. Rather than engaging in courtroom battles, Edgeworth solves mysteries through Logic, and by countering arguments from witnesses, culprits and the cocky InterpolSpecialAgent Shi-Long Lang.

** Also, the Borginians, and [[spoiler:the smuggling ring being investigated by Interpol. [[ApolloJusticeAceAttorney Is smuggling a regular problem in Borginia]]?]]

** Subverted in [[spoiler:[=AAI2=] Case 3.]] The [[spoiler:present portion of the]] case seemingly has no victim, until a body is found. [[spoiler: Turns out, it's the same victim from 18 years ago, who's body was never found.]]

* BrickJoke: A minor one. In case 3, Lang's agents sound off from one to a hundred. Lang gets annoyed at this and tells them that in his books, everyone is number one. Later on in case 5, Lang's men sound off with a chorus of one's.

** Also, the Borginians, and [[spoiler:the smuggling ring being investigated by Interpol. Possibly related to the incidents in ApolloJusticeAceAttorney?]]