History VisualNovel / AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth

** Case 5 has an [[UpToEleven even bigger one.]]

** [[spoiler:Quercus Alba]] blurts out the *[[Franchise/ScoobyDoo And I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling prosecutors!]]* line after being proven guilty

* DiplomaticImpunity: [[spoiler:Plays a part in the final case]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler: Edgeworth is given two pieces of evidence, a card and a video, proving that Manny Coachen was ordered by someone to kill Cece Yew. However, the card was evidence concealed durring a case years ago and the tape was evidence part of another investigation that stolen from the police, which makes both illegal in the court of law. Despite this however, they can still be used ''outside'' the courtroom. With no other options, Edgeworth decided to try and see if the evidence somehow proves that Amabasador Alba is leader of the smuggling ring. Upon further examination, the tape shows that Alba was potentially the one who ordered the hit on Cece, which allows Edgeworth and co. to press Alba. However, cornered by this, Alba smugly reveals that as a foreign ambasador, he has the right to be tried in his own home country, and implies that has the courts there wrapped arround his finger. However, Lang then shows the tape to his country's imperial household, which convinces them to revoke his ambasadorship, allowing him to be brought to justice once they seal his guilt in with legal evidence.]]

* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: Horace Knightley's objection soundclip. OBJection!

** The flashback cases are full of this from the player's point of view (and no doubt a FunnyAneurysmMoment from the point of view of the characters): for example, when von Karma tells Miles that he must become a famous prosecutor because "otherwise, it wouldn't be ''interesting''", Miles seems to take this as reassurance, whereas any player who's followed the AA series will realize that this is some rather ominous foreshadowing of Case 4 in the first ''Ace Attorney'' game. There's also one example that doubles as {{Foreshadowing}}: Edgeworth says that no man is above the law. Von Karma disagrees, saying there are people like that. To the player who knows [[spoiler: von Karma killed Edgeworth's father]], the implication is that the speaker is referring to himself. However, the very next case in Investigations deals with a criminal [[spoiler: who hides behind his [[DiplomaticImpunity diplomatic immunity]]]], making him "above the law".

* DemotedToExtra: Gumshoe in the second game, though it doesn't kick in until after the first case, when LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters start showing themselves. Raymond takes the role of Edgeworth's [[TheLancer Lancer]] while still providing comic relief, while Sebastian fills the clueless logic comedy Gumshoe used to provide, leaving him with less and less screentime as the game goes on. After Case 2, his only real role is to occasionally transfer evidence and make arrests. To drive it home, [=AAI 2=] is also the first game in the series where he never gets to testify.

* RapunzelHair: Cammy Meele's hair goes almost all the way down to her knees.

* AdultFear:
** [[spoiler: Lauren's father]] gets killed by her boyfriend. It's further implied that the boyfriend had figured out the father's identity, and was blackmailing him into helping with his staged kidnapping by threatening her safety.
** We have [[spoiler:[[AssInAmbassador Quercus]] [[DiplomaticImpunity Alba]]]], from Case 5. He's a reminder that [[spoiler:there are politicians in the real world who dabble in illegal and crude affairs behind the backs of those they represent and abuse their powers to get away with it]].
** Even Edgeworth has an OOCIsSeriousBusiness moment when he sees that Kay has run into a building which is on fire.

A SpinOff of ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', ''Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth'' (''逆転検事'', "''Gyakuten Kenji''" in Japan -- lit. "Turnabout Prosecutor") landed its American and European releases in February 2010. ''Investigations'' stars Miles Edgeworth, [[TheRival the main rival]] of VisualNovel/{{Phoenix Wright|AceAttorney}}, as he investigates crimes outside the courtroom. Assisting him on his search for the truth is Detective Dick Gumshoe and the franchise newcomer Kay Faraday, a teenage [[HighlyVisibleNinja self-declared thief]]. Compared to the main series installments, 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 rival investigators.

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* ButterflyKnife: The Yatagarasu's Key is this. This feature allows two different characters to bring a weapon into a secure area under the pretense that it is merely a key. Fittingly enough, it has a butterfly themed motif, due to its connection to Codohpia.

** Also in the third case, there is a Stage with the Gavinners band logo on it, a little sign (that can only be seen during scrolling sequences) saying " <- Troupe Gramarye" and the 'Love Letter' from Viola of Tender Lender.

A SpinOff of ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', ''Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth'' (''逆転検事'' / "''Gyakuten Kenji''" in Japan, lit. "Turnabout Prosecutor") landed its American and European releases in February 2010. ''Investigations'' stars Miles Edgeworth, [[TheRival the main rival]] of VisualNovel/{{Phoenix Wright|AceAttorney}}, as he investigates crimes outside the courtroom. Assisting him on his search for the truth is Detective Dick Gumshoe and the franchise newcomer Kay Faraday, a teenage [[HighlyVisibleNinja self-declared thief]]. Compared to the main series installments, 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 rival investigators.

A SpinOff of ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', ''Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth'' (''逆転検事''/"''Gyakuten Kenji''" in Japan, lit. "Turnabout Prosecutor") landed its American and European releases in February 2010. ''Investigations'' stars Miles Edgeworth, [[TheRival the main rival]] of VisualNovel/{{Phoenix Wright|AceAttorney}}, as he investigates crimes outside the courtroom. Assisting him on his search for the truth is Detective Dick Gumshoe and the franchise newcomer Kay Faraday, a teenage [[HighlyVisibleNinja self-declared thief]]. Compared to the main series installments, 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 rival investigators.

A SpinOff of ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', ''Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth'' (''Gyakuten Kenji'' in Japan, lit. "Turnabout Prosecutor") landed its American and European releases in February 2010. ''Investigations'' stars Miles Edgeworth, [[TheRival the main rival]] of VisualNovel/{{Phoenix Wright|AceAttorney}}, as he investigates crimes outside the courtroom. Assisting him on his search for the truth is Detective Dick Gumshoe and the franchise newcomer Kay Faraday, a teenage [[HighlyVisibleNinja self-declared thief]]. Compared to the main series installments, 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 rival investigators.

* ButThouMust: A more comedic example. When we first meet Raymond, he gives Edgey a pop-quiz: What is the name of the room Knightley was murdered in? The three choices are "Lecture Room", "Morgue", and "Entertainment Room". The correct answer is "Workroom".

* Catch22Dilemma: [[spoiler:Dane Gustavia's conviction of IS-7 requires the false conviction dealt to Jeff Masters, but because of the expired StatuteOfLimitations that took Gustavia leaving the country for 3 years and Masters' trial being dragged for a year to extend the Statute, if Jeff really is declared Not Guilty, the false conviction will be overturned. However, the Statute of Limitations has expired again by a few months meaning that Gustavia [[KarmaHoudini will likely get off scot-free]].]]

* InterfaceSpoiler: In Case 1, you can talk to your partner, Kay. She'll [[spoiler:reveal Nicole fired a laser pointer at the President's head]] before you find it out yourself.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Ray says that Katherine Hall wouldn't have needed to [[spoiler:buy back Jeff Master's mansion and set a poison gas trap for Isaac Dover's real killer]] if she'd just trusted him and [[spoiler:come clean about stealing the statues containing Dover's body from the crime scene.]] Katherine, however, replies that [[spoiler:this is her way of atoning for her crime, and that since the police had hid the fact that they hadn't found the body, she couldn't trust him.]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:Sirhan Dogen may be very proficient with wood carving despite his blindness, but writing fully-coherent sentences not in Braille is practically impossible for him, let alone use or even access a word processor with very little reason to despite his connections.]]

* AccidentalHero: [[spoiler:While bringing an unconscious Kay to the Grand Tower rooftop for his plans, Simon Keyes stumbled upon a secret meeting between the fake Di-Jun Huang and Justine Courtney. Hearing the balloon Simon was riding in, Huang ushered Courtney away and tried to shoot down Simon with a gun he was likely going to kill Courtney with [[HeKnowsTooMuch if she realized he was a fake]], only to get squashed by the hot-air balloon. Had Simon not discovered the meeting, the victim of Case 5 would've been Justine Courtney instead.]]

** Case 4 has an ID card list like in "Rise From the Ashes", with the victim's ID card being used last and a potential suspect being the one preceeding them earlier. Subverted when it turns out the only other person was [[spoiler:Justine Courtney]], who was only there to gather documents and wasn't the murderer.

* FakeAssassination: The first episode opens with an attempted assassination on the visiting President of a foreign country. However, the President engineered it himself as a PR stunt to boost his popularity. However, there were a few complications which arose: First of all, [[spoiler:somebody hired [[ProfessionalKiller Shelley de Killer]] to ''actually'' assassinate the President, but de Killer took offense when he learned that the "President" is actually an impostor who pulled a KillAndReplace on the real President a decade ago (a fact the player doesn't learn until the final episode of the game) and therefore [[BerserkButton his client was lying to him]], so he abandoned the job]]. Second of all, one of the President's bodyguards was killed, which wasn't part of the plan. [[spoiler:The other bodyguard killed him [[KlingonPromotion hoping he would be promoted to head bodyguard in his place]], and tried to frame de Killer for it, who naturally got pissed off by this and forcefully conscripted Edgeworth into solving the case (ironically by holding the real killer hostage)]].

* SoLastSeason: Extraterritorial rights are a major plot point in the first game; to the point where [[spoiler:the final boss repeatedly invokes them in order to evade arrest. For ''several'' chapters.]] In the very first case of the second game, the President of Zheng Fa attempts to do the same...but Edgeworth quickly finds a way to nullify them, and they aren't mentioned ever again aside from a throwaway line in Case 2 that because Edgeworth proved that the true murder took place inside the plane in order to exonerate the innocent suspect, it fell into Zheng Fa territory once again, meaning that he did end up violating the Extraterritorial Rights. It also pops up again later as an nonexistant inconvenience, where Shi-Long Lang acknowledges [[spoiler:the murder of Di-Jun Huang very clearly took place on Japanifornia grounds, meaning that Extraterritorial Rights wouldn't apply and there would be unrestricted investigation.]]

* MundaneMadeAwesome: Logic in the first game and Logic Chess in the sequel are spectacular visualizations for... stringing thoughts together or picking information out of an uncooperative witness.

* ConvictionByCounterfactualClue: A very minor example. During one crime scene recreation in case 3, Edgeworth deduces that the culprit must be right handed based on [[spoiler: the location of the wound and blood from where he was struck]]. However, it's entirely possible that a left-handed person could have [[spoiler: hit him back-handedly or just stood to the right of Edgeworth]]. While not case-breaking or definitive by itself, it does steer suspicious toward the real guilty party.
* ContrivedCoincidence: The whole 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. 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. Then he returns to his office to find the body of a police officer lying next to his book case. ''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.

-->'''Lang:''' Human beings can't fly, you know.
-->'''Edgeworth''' (taken aback) Of course not! That's bloody common sense!
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Never mind the "hideous" design of the luggage that was being sold by iFly airlines, but selling them ''on the plane''? That's the last place any reasonable person would buy luggage. [[spoiler:Eventually, either the company or Rhoda wisened up on this and started selling them online instead, where they became a huge hit.]]

* ItemGet: Kay suggests that when capturing one of the badger family on camera, Edgeworth shouts "Badger GET!" every time, or it doesn't count. She does this herself, eventually.

** In Case 5, [[spoiler:Larry]] rises out of the fountain at one point suddenly.

** Lang gets an awesomely fitting one near the end: "Your [[spoiler: diplomatic immunity]] *dramatic point* has [[Film/LethalWeapon2 just been revoked]]!"

* YouShouldntKnowThisAlready: If you try to present the horse pendent to Lauren in Case 3, Edgeworth and Kay will quickly decide not to because she would go into one of her flights of fancy. [[spoiler:And also because she would recognize it as a match for her own wing pendant, and the game needs that to stay hidden until the reveal in the next segments.]]

->''"My name is Miles Edgeworth. And I work as a prosecutor in my local district. Little did I know that upon my return home after a month abroad... ...I would be thrust into a multitude of cases, and some very frantic and busy days."''
-->-- '''Miles Edgeworth''' During turnabout vistor