History SelfDemonstrating / PhoenixWright

** There was also [[VideoGame/ProjectXZone that other time]] that started off as a regular, run-off-the-mill court case with me being hired to defend a certain [[VideoGame/{{Yakuza}} Mr. Majima]], but it didn't take long for me and Maya to be dragged off into a crazy adventure involving multiverses and time travel, although this time we did get a power boost from a [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} certain succubus]] who was thankfully a lot friendlier (or maybe "less friendly" would be the accurate term?) than I've heard of her kind being, which allowed us to assist our friends in battle. At least this time I got to actually make some deductions and I was on the verge of getting to participate in a civil case regarding a stolen object in the fanciest and by far the most out-of-place courthouse I recall ever seeing, and even Edgeworth got to (or in his case, was forcibly drafted to) participate...only for the main culprit to bust through a wall and inadvertently admit their guilt and reveal their associates before me or Edgeworth even got to give our opening statements. On one hand, I could've used some sense of normalcy in the middle of this crazy adventure of ours, but seeing who the opposition was, I'm fully convinced that a fight would've broken out regardless of the end result of the case.

-->'''Judge:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnmEnjWy288&list=PL661F534D5EB64093&index=3 The court is now in session for 'Description of Phoenix Wright']]. The prosecution may call its first witness.
-->'''Edgeworth:''' The prosecution calls the defendant, Phoenix Wright, to the stand. We request that you describe yourself to the court.
-->'''Judge:''' Very well. Defendant, if you please.
-->'''Wright:''' Yes, Your Honor!

* NamesTheSame: So this superhero, ComicBook/JeanGrey? She also goes by the moniker "Phoenix". Well, yeah, technically she came first, but it wasn't like the name was copyrighted. And for some reason, she thinks I'm more of a monster than her because of my job! Hey lady, you don't see me going insane from a living cosmic force and eating stars!

* CourtroomAntic: You'd be surprised the number of things I've had to do to extend a trial or find the truth. There's a ''reason'' I spent a lot of years trying to revamp the court system, and even then...

* NiceHat: Wore a cap during my down time away from the courtroom. In hindsight, it kinda made me look like a hipster.

* ButtMonkey: Especially in my earlier days. Thankfully, after seven long years and clearing my name, several people now tend to view me as a legendary defense attorney who can turn any case around. (Though, that's not to say I still have my moments...)

* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: Some of my (apparently) crowning achivements include delivering Manfred von Karma his first loss in forty years. I managed to do the same with his daughter, Franziska, though her streak was a lot shorter. (Around five years, though somehow she started prosecuting at ''thirteen'' and was considered a child prodigy.)

* NamesTheSame: So this superhero, ComicBook/JeanGrey? She also goes by the moniker "Phoenix". Well, yeah, technically she game first but it wasn't like the name was copyrighted. And for some reason, she thinks I'm more of a monster than her because of my job! Hey lady, you don't see me going insane from a living cosmic force and eating stars!

* PowerCreepPowerSeep: [[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3 So this one time]], I was one of the enforces summoned to deal with a planet-eating entity called ComicBook/{{Galactus}}. You'd think that a simple attorney who's never been in any sort of fight would be ill-equipt to deal with something like that, but my wits and court knowledge were not only enough to keep me alive, I ended up being one of the strongest guys there! Huh.
** There was also [[VideoGame/ProjectXZone that other time]] that started off as a regular, run-off-the-mill court case with me being hired to defend a certain [[VideoGame/{{Yakuza}} Mr. Majima]], but it didn't take long for me and Maya to be dragged off into a crazy adventure involving multiverses and time travel, although this time we did get a power boost from a [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} certain succubus]] who was thankfully a lot friendlier (or maybe "less friendlier" would be the accurate term?) than I've heard of her kind being, which allowed us to assist our friends in battle. At least this time I got to actually make some deductions and I was on the verge of getting to participate in a civil case regarding a stolen object in the fanciest and by far the most out-of-place courthouse I recall ever seeing, and even Edgeworth got to (or in his case, was forcibly drafted into) participate...only for the main culprit to bust through a wall and inadvertedly admit their guilt and reveal their associates before me or Edgeworth even got to give our opening statements. On one hand, I could've used some sense of normalcy in the middle of this crazy adventure of ours, but seeing who the opposition was, I'm fully convinced that a fight would've broken out regardless of the end result of the case.

* PunnyName: I always seem to return from the brink of defeat, just like my namesake's ability to defy death (that's not pretentious is it?)

-->'''Edgeworth:''' '''''HOLD IT!''''' Your Honor, the trial is about giving Wright a description, and that is the purpose of this page there have been people have put in a lot of hard work into contributing to it.

* AlwaysMurder: It seems that no matter what case I take, it will always involve at least one dead body.

* PowerCreepPowerSeep: [[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3 So this one time]], I was one of the enforces summoned to deal with a planet-eating entity called ComicBook/{{Galactus}}. You'd think that a simply attorney who's never been in any sort of fight would be ill-equipt to deal with something like that, but my wits and court knowledge were not only enough to keep me alive, I ended up being one of the strongest guys there! Huh.

* PowerCreepPowerSeep: [[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3 So this one time]], I was one of the enforces summoned to deal with a planet-eating entity called ComicBook/Galactus. You'd think that a simply attorney who's never been in any sort of fight would be ill-equipt to deal with something like that, but my wits and court knowledge were not only enough to keep me alive, I ended up being one of the strongest guys there! Huh.

-->'''Me''': ''(I don't think that won me any points with the judge)''

-->'''Judge:''' The court is now in session for 'Description of Phoenix Wright'. The prosecution may call its first witness.

'''HOLD IT!''' One last warning before you start checking out my page. My adventures tend to involve many twists, turns and surprises, so if you're not familiar with my exploits you might want to hold off checking out this page until you are. In other words: '''there are unmarked spoilers on this page!'''

(Best read in the voice of Creator/SamRiegel or [=TheGoldCrow=])

Hello. I'm Phoenix Wright, [[TitleDrop Ace Attorney]], and the so called 'Comeback King'. I am the owner of the 'Wright Anything Agency', formerly known as 'Wright and Co. Law Offices'. A lot of people refer to me as a 'legendary defense attorney' who is able to turn any case around. Really though, I mainly just search for the truth and point out the contradictions in a witnesses testimony until I find out who the true guilty party is. It doesn't matter how much you try to hide or obscure the truth, in the end it will ''always'' make itself known regardless of what you do.

In my earlier days, I worked under another 'legendary defense attorney' by the name of Mia Fey. She was a great mentor and taught me mostly everything I know, though shortly after my first case she was... murdered. I made sure the person who did it didn't get away with what he did though, and in the process I met with Mia's younger sister, Maya Fey.
Maya went on to become my assistant, and in the process I learned about one of the defining traits of the Fey clan. The Feys are family of spirit mediums, and a few of them possess the 'Kurain Channeling Technique', a special power that allows them to channel spirits of the dead. Maya, being the heir to [[spoiler:and eventual master of]] Kurain Village, is one of the Fey's who has this ability, and has used it many times to contact Mia whenever I was stuck with something.

In the process of learning about the Feys, I also came into the possession of an amulet called the Magatama. It's a special stone that allows me to see if a person is lying by allowing me to see their mental barriers in the form of locks, known as 'Psyche-Locks'. This allows me to find ways of breaking through them by present evidence of what they did, and in essence makes it impossible for me to take cases of those who are truly guilty [[spoiler: so long as I remember to word my questions perfectly...]]

In my time as a defense attorney, I have only ever lost two cases. One where [[spoiler: my client really ''was'' guilty]], and one that resulted in my disbarment to practice law. I won't go into the details as I would rather not remember that time, but during my disbarment I took up the hobby of playing poker (not for money, mind you, as that is illegal here), and piano. In that time, I also spent most of it raising my [[spoiler: adopted]] daughter Trucy Wright. Of course, that wasn't ''all'' I was doing in that time.

In those seven long years, I had a lot of time to think. Mostly about how the legal system worked and the one who caused me to be disbarred from law. In that time, I spent a good portion of it trying to revamp the court system so it wasn't as biased against the defendants and protecting those who were truly guilty. Though it was a long and hard process, I eventually managed to reinstate the jurist system, and in the process managed to restore my reputation with the help of a rather new defense attorney at the time [[spoiler: by catching the one who caused me to unwittingly use forged evidence in court.]]

As said above, I am now the current owner of the 'Wright Anything Agency'. I have two protégés who work here: Apollo Justice (who has the ability to 'Perceive' a person's nervous ticks, making it impossible to hide things from him) and Athena Cykes (who, thanks to her special sense of hearing, can use a special computer known as the 'mood matrix' that allows her to see a person's true feelings and makes it incredibly hard to slip lies past her). Though I mostly leave cases to them these days, if something comes up that makes them unable to defend or if they're having too much trouble, I'm more than willing to step back in to the ring.

Feel free to stop by our work space if you have a case that needs defending. It doesn't matter how bleak it may seem, so long as the who needs defending is truly innocent, we promise that we will find the truth!

* AmateurSleuth: Despite being a defense attorney, I usually end up having to find a lot of a case's evidence myself. And end up finding the actual murder more often than not.
* AlwaysMurder: It seems that no matter what case I take, it will always involve at least one dead body.
* AmoralAttorney: HOLD IT! That was only during the time I had Matt Engarde as a client, and that was only because that monster had Maya kidnapped to make sure I get him declared innocent by any means. What's worse is he used and abused the honor of his hired assassin by spying on him.
* AnimeHair: Come on, it's not ''that'' spikey... is it...?
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Comes with being a defense attorney. I often have to wrangle out the truth by using obscure evidence to point out the contradiction in a witnesses testimony. Many times the situations turn from bleak to near impossible.

* CatchPhrase: '''''OBJECTION!!''''' Many defense attorneys and prosecutors use that word due to their jobs! ... Though, that still didn't stop people from mainly associating it with myself.
* TheChessmaster: '''''HOLD IT!!''''' Though I like to think I'm rather smart, in my defense, I had seven long years to prepare for what I had planned when I met Apollo.
* {{Courtroom Antic}}s: You'd be surprised the number of things I've had to do to extend a trial or find the truth. There's a ''reason'' I spent a lot of years trying to revamp the court system, and even ''then''...
* CrusadingLawyer: I believe that as a lawyer, it is my duty to pursue the truth, and make sure no innocents get convicted.
* DeadpanSnarker: [[FirstPersonSmartass Though, I mostly try to keep it to myself.]]
* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: Some of my (apparently) crowning achivements include delivering Manfred von Karma his first lost in forty years. I managed to do the same with his daughter, Franziska, though her streak was a lot less. (Around five years, though somehow she started prosecuting at ''thirteen'' and was considered a child prodigy.)

* LivingLieDetector: As said above, the Magatama allows me to see peoples mental locks whenever they're trying to hide something. So long as I word my questions properly it's almost impossible to lie to me.
* LoveMartyr: In my college days, I fell head over heels in love with a girl named Dahlia Hawthorne. There was a time when I would have done everything for her, and she knew it. Actually the person I fell in love with was her twin Iris, while Dahlia herself was a monster plain and simple.

* TheMentor: I'm currently this to Apollo and Athena, giving them advice and taking over their cases when they need it... [[spoiler: Though nine times out of ten I'm as clueless as they are when it comes to several things in the case, though don't go telling them that...]]
* NiceGuy: I always believe in my clients no matter how much the odds are stacked against them, especially if no one else is willing to defend them. Let's just say I know what it feels like when no one else is willing to believe you...
* NiceHat: Wore a cap during my down time away from the courtroom. In hindsight it kinda did make me look like a hipster. Ehehe.
* NoIndoorVoice: '''''[[IResembleThatRemark OBJE-]]''''' ''err''... Objection. I only tend to yell in court because it helps get the point I'm trying to make across, and in my defense, several other attorneys do this too.
* OlderAndWiser: I try to put up this image for Apollo and Athena. Though, mostly I'm just bluffing and spotting contradictions as I normally do...

* ThePerryMasonMethod: Sometimes, the best way to get your point across in court is to have the guilty admit it themselves. (Now… if only if my own clients stopped trying to admit to things they didn't do…)
* PunnyName: I always seem to return from the brink of defeat like my namesake's ability to defy death (...that's not pretentious is it?)

* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Do ''not'' tell Pearls this, but Maya and I are only friends... Seriously! Stop giving me that face!
* TeamDad: I tend to be viewed this way to my assistants and staff.

* TookALevelInJerkass: The experiences of my disbarment caused this in me unfortunately. Thankfully the restoration of my reputation (thanks to help from Apollo, of course) helped me get over this.
* UnluckilyLucky: From the way my cases hit rock bottom before I turn it around, to all the life-threatening situations I seem to get into yet survive, my relationship with Lady Luck is...complicated.

(Best read in the voice of Creator/SamRiegel or TheGoldCrow)

(Best read in Creator/SamRiegel's voice)

-->'''Judge''': The court is now in session for 'Description of Phoenix Wright'. The prosecution may call its first witness.
-->'''Edgeworth''': The prosecution calls the defendant, Phoenix Wright, to the stand. We request that you describe yourself to the court.
-->'''Judge''': Very well. Defendant, if you please.
-->'''Wright''': Yes, your honor!

* AmoralAttorney: HOLD IT! That was only during the time I [[spoiler:had Matt Engarde as a client]], and that was only because [[spoiler:that monster had Maya kidnapped to make sure I get him declared innocent by any means]]. What's worse is he [[spoiler:used and abused the honor of his hired assassin by spying on him]].

* NoIndoorVoice: '''''OBJE-''''' ''err''... Objection. I only tend to yell in court because it helps get the point I'm trying to make across, and in my defense, several other attorneys do this too.

In the process of learning about the Feys, I also came into the possession of an amulet called the Magatama. It's a special stone that allows me to see if a person is lying by allowing me to see their mental barriers in the form of locks, know as 'Psyche-Locks'. This allows me to find ways of breaking through them by present evidence of what they did, and in essence makes it impossible for me to take cases of those who are truly guilty [[spoiler: so long as I remember to word my questions perfectly...]]

-->'''Judge''': The Court for 'Description of Phoenix Wright' is now in session. Defendant, if you'll please?

* TookALevelInJerkass: The experiences of my disbarment caused this in me unfortunately. Thankfully the restoration of my reputation (thanks to help from Apollo of course) helped me get over this.

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Maya went on to become my assistant, and in the process I learned about one of the defining traits of the Fey clan. The Feys are family of spirit mediums, and a few of them possess the 'Kurain Channeling Technique', a special power that allows them to channel spirits of the dead. Maya, being the heir to [[spoiler: and eventual master]] of Kurain Village, is one of the Fey's who has this ability, and has used it many times to contact Mia whenever I was stuck with something.

* AmoralAttorney: HOLD IT! That was only during the time I had Matt Engarde as a client, and that was only because that monster had Maya kidnapped to make sure I get him declared innocent by any means. What's worse is he used and abused the honor of his hired assassin by spying on him.

In my time as a defense attorney, I have only ever lost two cases. One where [[spoiler: my client really ''was'' guilty]], and one the resulted in my disbarment to practice law. I won't go into the details as I would rather not remember that time, but during my disbarment I took up the hobby of playing poker (not for money, mind you, as that is illegal here), and piano. In that time, I also spent most of it raising my [[spoiler: adopted]] daughter Trucy Wright. Of course, that wasn't ''all'' I was doing in that time.

Hello. I'm Phoenix Wright, [[TitleDrop Ace Attorney]], and the so called 'Comeback King'. I am the owner of the 'Wright Anything Agency', formerly known as 'Wright and Co. Law Offices'. A lot of people refer to me as a 'legendary defense attorney' who is able to turn any case around. Really though, I mainly just search for the truth and point out the contradictions in a witnesses testimony until I find out who the true guilty party is. It doesn't matter how much you try to hide or obscure the truth, in the end it will ''always'' make itself know regardless of what you do.