History Characters / AceAttorneyWrightAnythingAgency

* RestrainingBolt: What his EyePatchOfPower actually is; he uses it to stop his bracelet from triggering his perception abilities every time Athena lies about what she was doing during Clay's murder. He uses it partially so he can function without his abilities from going off, but mostly because he doesn't want to believe Athena is actually guilty for killing his best friend.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: An ambiguous example, Trucy has a running gag of interrupting Apollo's narration.

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* IronicEcho:
** Minor one if the player thinks about it. At the beginning of the game, where Trucy is revealed to be Phoenix's "daughter", Apollo is somewhat shocked upon realizing that would mean Phoenix would've had a kid at just 18 or so. [[spoiler:As for Apollo... well... Apollo's mother is 40, Apollo himself is 22. Do the math.]].
** [[spoiler:While on the stand]] in "Turnabout for Tomorrow", Apollo becomes something of a shadow of his old mentor, Kristoph, mimicking some of his animations and lines. The following quote was even highlighted in-game, drawing further attention to its significance.

* WhiteSheep: [[spoiler:He does not know that he is a Gramarye, but he is the cleanest of all of the members of the Gramaryes. His mother is a perjurer. His maternal grandfather is a blackmailer and covered up the shooting of Apollo's mother. His stepfather withheld critical evidence in his trial for the murder of Apollo's maternal grandfather, which made Phoenix vulnerable to presenting forged evidence and getting disbarred, abandoned Apollo's half-sister, and then tried to destroy Phoenix's job as a professional poker player. His stepfather's partner tried to frame the stepfather for the murder of Apollo's maternal grandfather. His sister has committed no crimes yet, but her training of magician's assistants is unsafe.]]

* SpiritAdvisor: The other big part of the territory. Maya and Pearl channel her to help in cases sometimes. Other times, she seems to possess them without any indication that they were trying to reach her. Sometimes her spirit even manages to communicate brief snippets of garbled information to Phoenix directly when the girls aren't present.

* RecurringElement: Mirror's Maya's "perky female assistant" role.

* TeensAreShort: Even at the age of eighteen, she's shorter than nine-year old Ahlbi (by just an inch). [[spoiler:This becomes a plot point in the first ''Asinine Attorney'' DLC]]. Although in fairness, Ahlbi is pretty tall for his age.

* TeamDad: Towards his young assistants and staff. In the DLC case of ''Dual Destinies'' he even thinks of his staff as "good kids". There's a moment in ''Spirit of Justice'' when someone threatens to curse him and his descendants, and [[PapaBear he immediately thinks of Apollo and Athena]].

Mia's little sister, as well as a spirit medium-in-training of and heir to the Kurain Channeling Technique. She's the main assistant to Phoenix in the first three games, though she decides to accept her role as the Master of Kurain Village at the end of ''Trials and Tribulations'', resulting in her absence in ''Apollo Justice''. However, she appears in ''Dual Destinies'' through a flashback, and reappears alongside Phoenix in ''Spirit of Justice'', where Phoenix visiting her in Khura'in is the catalyst for the plot.

Mia and Maya's cousin, and a spirit medium prodigy. She believes that "Mr. Nick" is "Mystic Maya"'s "special someone", but this is a result of a sisterly devotion to Maya and growing up in a village with a high divorce rate, even for the US. She first becomes Phoenix's assistant when Maya is accused of murder in ''Justice for All'', and hangs around in succeeding cases. Post-timeskip, she resides in Kurain Village but willingly offers assistance to the Agency when they need it.

Phoenix's adopted daughter and magician extraordinaire (in training), and the heir to the Gramarye name. Her best tricks are "The Amazing Mr. Hat", a wooden puppet almost as big as her that she can [[{{Hammerspace}} somehow]] hide in her cloak, and "Magic Panties", where she pulls out all sorts of bizarre items from frozen turkeys to mops to noodle bowls... all from a large pair of panties. She manages the talent branch of "Wright Anything".

His power resides in an amulet Maya gave him called the Magatama. With it he is able to see if a person is keeping secrets from him in the form of big locks, known as Psyche-Locks, and then force the person in question to reveal these secrets by presenting evidence. In other words, he will always know if you are lying because the sudden appearance of these locks (your heart and soul) will give you away. This makes it virtually impossible for him to take cases of guilty people (no one can deceive the Magatama. There is one catch, however -- if Nick make them feel like they have anything to hide by asking the wrong questions, no locks will appear and ''he'' can be deceived).

* {{Adorkable}}: All three lawyers act like this way, either in the past or present. The specifics are covered further down.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: For God's sake, two of them are named after ''gods'' and our main hero is named after a ''mythical creature that can burst into flames.''

* ButtMonkey: All three of them suffer the CourtroomAntics whenever they take the bench.

* CrusadingLawyer: All three attorneys believe in their clients' innocence and put their all into hunting down the truth of any case.
* DeadpanSnarker: They all love pointing out the ridiculousness that surrounds them, usually when facefaulting.

* HelloAttorney: Yep; all three are quite hot under those suits. One look at the Sengoku Basara costumes reveals both Apollo and Athena have toned abs and the Furio Tigre costume reveals Phoenix to have quite toned pecs.

* ThinkingTic: All three of them have their own thinking tics: Phoenix holds his chin in one hand, Apollo pushes his left index finger in the center of his forehead while resting his right arm in the crook of his left arm, Athena wraps her right arm around her waist, rests her left arm on her right arm, and tilts her head to the left while she occasionally plays his her right earring with her left index finger. Her eyes also tend to shift back and forth.

* HimeCut: Serves both to reflect her traditional upbringing and as a tip-off to her spiritualist job.

Nick's beautiful mentor. Although she was born the heiress to a once-powerful family of spirit mediums and supposedly inherited top-notch spiritual powers, she left the village behind to become a lawyer and find out the truth about her mother's disappearance. Although she dies in the second case (which is about [[FirstEpisodeSpoiler twenty minutes into the first game]]), she's often [[BackFromTheDead hauled back from the afterlife]] to give Phoenix advice.

* BackFromTheDead: Despite being killed off in the second case in the entire series, she doesn't go quietly, continuing to help Phoenix. It helps that she comes from a long line of spirit mediums.

* ButtMonkey: Any moment Phoenix isn't the butt of a joke, there's a fifty-to-fifty chance Maya's on the receiving end instead.

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: [[spoiler: Dhurke adopted him into the Khura'inese royal family, and he is a defense attorney.]]

* WarriorPrince: [[spoiler: Dhurke adopted him into the Khura'inese royal family, and he inherits the Defiant Dragons from Dhurke in one of the bad endings of ''Spirit of Justice'' and leads it.]]

** Sadly, all these incredible feats of resistance are finally catching up to poor Phoenix. At 35 years old, his back is so badly damaged it can render him unconscious for a whole day from the pain.

* BoobsOfSteel: She's not nearly as well-endowed as Mia Fey was, but she knows martial arts (Mia knew nothing of the sort) and still is far from flat.

* VaporWear: In 6-3, when channelling [[spoiler:Tahrust Inmee]], the male spirit removes the upper part of her outfit to reveal his chest. Not among the clothing removed is a bra. This does, however, make sense, as channelling involves changing the shape of the channeller's body, and [[ShapeshiftingExlcudesClothing so loose, unrestrictive clothing is probably for the best]].

* CrusadingLawyer: Mia was one of the best Defense Attorneys, alongside Gregory Edgeworth. She dedicated her career to taking down villains such as [[spoiler:Dahlia Hawthorne]] and [[spoiler:Redd White]], and she also came very close to ruining Edgeworth's winning streak before it even began, [[spoiler:only for Dahlia to thwart it by having manipulated Terry into committing suicide]].

* CoolBigSis: Pearl thinks the world of her. Justified, as Maya's the only close family Pearl has who's still around (and not in jail).

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: [[spoiler:Regardless if she and Apollo knew their relationship or not, she tends to wear him down by forcing him to do what she wants. Phoenix being the owner of the place makes it easier for her. For all Apollo grumbles about it, though, it's clear that he cares about Trucy and honestly wants to help her out.]]

Mia's little sister, as well as a spirit medium-in-training of and heir to the Kurain Channeling Technique. She's the main assistant to Phoenix in the first three games, though she decides to accept her role as the Master of Kurain Village at the end of ''Trials and Tribulations'', resulting in her absence in ''Apollo Justice''. However, she appears in ''Dual Destinies'' through a flashback, and reappears alongside Phoenix in ''Spirit of Justice''.

* TheDitz: Her assessments of things can be quite a bit silly at times. While she didn't appear in DualDestinies, she did write a letter to Phoenix in which she assumed he was having a trial in an exploding court room (as opposed to a court room in which there was an explosion).

* GenericCuteness: When asking Nick how she looks dressing up as a waitress in "Recipe for a Turnabout", he replies that maybe she should quit being a spirit medium.

* TheNotLoveInterest: For Phoenix, assuming you don't ship them like [[ShipperOnDeck Pearl]] does. They're always together, obviously care deeply about one another, and messing with Maya is a really good way to ruin Nick's day (and perhaps get him to ruin yours next time you're in court). Even after seven years, they're not officially a couple but still keep in contact and are apparently close despite Maya's intensive training.

* ShesAllGrownUp: Having spent most of her screen time as a teenager she's now in her late twenties though she hasn't lost her perky quirks. Lampshaded by Larry in ''Turnabout Time Traveler''.

The agency started out as the Fey & Co. Law Offices when Mia Fey left Marvin Grossberg's firm to start her own. She defended Phoenix Wright when he was accused of murder in college, and later took him on as an apprentice. Phoenix inherited the firm after her death, turning it into the Wright & Co. Law Offices. Upon his disbarment and adoption of Trucy, it was renamed the Wright Talent Agency. The firm was finally renamed the '''Wright Anything Agency''' upon hiring Apollo Justice as a rookie lawyer. Athena Cykes joined the firm in the interim between ''Apollo Justice'' and ''Dual Destinies''.

** According to WordOfGod, her name is actually a reference to Literature/TheScarletLetter, in which the book's protagonist is forced to raise a daughter from a love affair.

** Having grown up in a village where marriages culminate in either emotional distance between husband and wife at best, and divorce at worst, Pearl is a big believer in the "happy ever after".

** She's a huge sucker for romance plots in general. It isn't Maya who sucks her into the Steel Samurai franchise -- it's Will Powers describing the tropperiffic romantic subplots of the shows in case 2-4. She gets really intense about whether or not the female love interests fall in love and tries to drill Powers for more info.

It's utterly remarkable how arrogant and obnoxious his opponents can be towards him, especially since, [[spoiler:with the exceptions of Edgeworth who has one outright victory and one partial victory, and Nahyuta Sahdmadhi who had one victory that was later overturned. Edgeworth's partial victory is from when he got a guilty verdict against Lana Skye for forging evidence, but Phoenix won a not guilty verdict for Lana Skye on the charge of murder in the same trial. Edgeworth won an outright victory against Phoenix Wright only because Matt Engarde was really guilty and Phoenix was working with Edgeworth to bring him down while stalling until they could free Maya from being held hostage]], ''none of them have ever beaten him once''.\\\

* WellDoneDadGuy: [[spoiler:When Dhurke first visits Apollo after leaving him in America over a decade before, Apollo was decidedly not impressed and is extremely cold towards him. However, over the course of the case Apollo warms up to Dhurke and he does come to greatly appreciate him, as well as recall his fond childhood memories with him.]]

The agency started out as the '''Fey & Co. Law Offices''', when Mia Fey left Marvin Grossberg's firm to start her own, and took on Phoenix Wright as an apprentice. Phoenix inherited the firm after her death, turning it into the '''Wright & Co. Law Offices'''. Upon his disbarment and adoption of Trucy, it was renamed the '''Wright Talent Agency'''. The firm was finally renamed the '''Wright Anything Agency''' upon hiring Apollo Justice as a rookie lawyer.

Mia's little sister, as well as a spirit medium-in-training of and heir to the discipline she uses (Kurain Channeling Technique). She's the main assistant to Phoenix in the first three games, though she decides to accept her role as the Master of Kurain Village at the end of ''Trials and Tribulations'', resulting in her absence in ''Apollo Justice''. However, she appears in ''Dual Destinies'' through a flashback, and reappears alongside Phoenix in ''Spirit of Justice''.

Mia and Maya's cousin, and a spirit medium prodigy. She believes that "Mr. Nick" is "Mystic Maya"'s "special someone", but this is a result of a sisterly devotion to Maya and growing up in a village with a high divorce rate, even for the US.
A teenager post-timeskip, she resides in Kurain Village but willingly offers assistance to the Agency when they need it.

* CoolBigSis: To Pearl, being the only close family she has who's still around (and not in jail).

She returns in ''Dual Destinies'' as a teenager, and appears in Case 5 and the DLC case.

And finally, each member of the Wright Anything Agency has been an assistant to another at some point. So you can look each one of them below. There you go all assistants listed for that sweet HundredPercentCompletion.