History VisualNovel / PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations

* TheDon: Bruto Cadaverini never appears personally, but he's often referenced as a terrifying mob boss who scares even the ''police'', and nobody in the underworld dares cross him. [[spoiler: So when he forces Furio to pay his granddaughter Viola's hefty medical bills (Which Furio was responsible for, as he caused the accident that injured her), Furio is left scrambling for the money and eventually resorts to murder.]]
* DoomedByCanon: "Turnabout Beginnings" has Mia going up against Miles Edgeworth on his first case as prosecutor, and it's been established previously that Edgeworth had a perfect record before the events of the first game. This doesn't leave much room for defendant Terry Fawles to get out scot free. [[spoiler:Terry ends up committing suicide via poison while on the witness stand, leaving the case with no conclusion and thus not affecting Edgeworth's record.]]
* DownerEnding: [[FlashBack Case 4]]: [[spoiler:Mia Fey was [[AcquittedTooLate THAT]] close to proving Terry Fawles' innocence for both the current murder and the events five years earlier but instead of continuing his testimony he [[DrivenToSuicide commits]] [[SuicidePact suicide]] in front of the entire courtroom, traumatizing both Mia and Edgeworth.]]

* DubInducedPlotHole: In Case 2, when Godot first comes up, Atmey states that Edgeworth personally named him the best prosecutor in the country, yet, in Case 5, not only have the two not met, but Edgeworth states he's never even heard of him. This is the result of a translation error - the Japanese line is supposed to be a metaphorical remark stating Godot was now the "strongest" prosecutor with Edgeworth having left the country. However, this could still be interpreted as Atmey trying to intimidate Phoenix.

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Morgan and Dahlia]] serve as the BigBad of this game and arguably of the original Phoenix arc.

* MassiveMultiplayerScam: The fourth case is about how a cop's sister is kidnapped by her boyfriend, asking for a ransom of an expensive diamond of their father's at a mountain river. It was all staged in order to sell the diamond and split the millions of dollars amongst themselves. However, all of THAT was a scam; the sister planned this all along and jumped into a river with the diamond, keeping it for herself. (Until it was lost in the river, leaving her with nothing but a criminal background and a lot of karma to hit her over the head later.)

* ReclusiveArtist: Elise Deauxnim is said to be a popular children's book author, but is so reclusive and mysterious that even the police have a hard time finding out any info on her. [[spoiler: Turns out she's [[DisappearedMom Misty Fey.]]

* OneWayVisor: Godot's mask. [[spoiler: The fact that it glows and can't see red on white both become important plot-points.

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* LyingByOmission: In Godot's introduction, he claims to have never lost a case, making him appear legendary until he reveals he hasn't ''won'' any case either: It's his first time acting as a prosecutor.

''Trials and Tribulations'' was adapted as the second season of the franchise's [[Anime/AceAttorney anime adaptation]] in 2018.

%%* OneWayVisor: Godot's mask.

* RedHerring: At the start of [[spoiler:3-5]], Gumshoe speculates that [[spoiler:Godot is MIA because he heard that Phoenix won't be the defense attorney and thus lost interest]]. While this is completely reasonable based on what the player knows of the situation, it's really a smokescreen [[spoiler:to prevent the player from suspecting Godot too early]].
* ReverseWhodunnit: The first game in the series where the first case is ''not'' this, presumably because they didn't really need to assure players that the protagonist was innocent ([[ForegoneConclusion and in a flashback no less]]). The third case mostly plays it straight, though, making it very obvious early on that the fake Phoenix imposter is also the murder.

** During the first half of the second trial day, Pheonix comes to a realization when cross-examining Iris.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: At the beginning of case 3-2, Phoenix easily gets Ron [=DeLite=] off a larceny charge by proving he was somewhere else... only for Godot to come up to him afterward, say there was a murder committed there, and haul Ron off into custody ''again''. What, you thought it ''wouldn't'' be AlwaysMurder? [[spoiler:He was the thief in general, but not in that particular instance. He turned himself in to ensure he could have an alibi for the aforementioned murder. Phoenix was defending him because his wife told Nick he was a delusional {{fanboy}}.]]

** During the first half of the second trial day:
--> '''Phoenix''': In fact, it'd be impossible for you to be clueless about this whole thing...[[spoiler: unless you're not really Iris to begin with.]]
** At the end of the game, Iris says that [[spoiler:the girl Phoenix used to date in college wasn't Dahlia, but Iris herself]].

* RedHerring: At the start of [[spoiler:3-5]], Gumshoe speculates that [[spoiler:Godot is MIA because he heard that Phoenix won't be the defense attorney and thus lost interest]]. While this is completely reasonable based on what the player knows of the situation, it's really a smokescreen [[spoiler:to prevent the player from suspecting Godot too early]].

* KansaiRegionalAccent: Furio Tigre in the Japanese version ([[AccentAdaptation hence his]] [[BrooklynRage Brooklyn accent]] [[AccentAdaptation in the English version]]).

Like its two predecessors, the game follows Phoenix Wright, a kind and intelligent yet hapless defense attorney who works to save innocent clients from guilty verdicts. By his side are his loyal assistant, Maya Fey, her older sister Mia, and her cousin Pearl. On the opposite side of the courtroom this time is the mysterious coffee-guzzling prosecutor Godot, who bears a grudge against Phoenix for unknown reasons. Meanwhile, the enigmatic beauty Dahlia Hawthorne seems to recur in the pasts of Phoenix, Edgeworth, and the Feys. The fate of the Fey family hangs in the balance as the last aftershocks of the DL-6 case finally play out.

Initially the GrandFinale of Phoenix's arc, the game was chronologically followed by ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'', which stars a new cast but with Phoenix in a [[SameCharacterButDifferent surprising]] mentor role.