History VisualNovel / ApolloJusticeAceAttorney

* LivingLieDetector: Apollo [[spoiler:and the rest of the Gramarye family]], as well as anyone holding the Fey Magatama.

* LivingLieDetector: Apollo [[spoiler:and the rest of the Gramarye family]].

* TheMafia / {{Yakuza}}: The Kitaki family, and their rivals, [[MeaninfgulName the Rivales family]]. Although Winfred, the Kitaki patriarch, is trying to go legit.

** [[spoiler: Then again, he gets hit by a SPEEDING CAR in 2-2, flies '''THIRTY FEET''', crashed into a lamppost, and walked away with nothing more than a '''''[[MadeOfIron sprained ankle.]]]]'''''

* TookALevelInJerkass: Ema Skye, who went from being Maya 2.0 in case 1-5 to now randomly throwing Snackoos at your face. Failing an exam after years of study for can make someone a tad bitter. WordOfGOd states it's because they needed another Gumshoe, and Maya 3.0 is already filled in by Trucy.

* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:During the final case, it is revealed that Phoenix has been working on the same case for the last seven years, manipulating Apollo into using forged evidence as well as getting Kristoph arrested, and then setting up the entire Jurist System in order to make sure Kristoph finally gets implicated for the forgeries and the murder of Drew Misham. [[YourMileageMayVary It could be argued]] that this resulted in an inverted case of HijackedByGanon from Phoenix]].

* [=~Chekhov's Boomerang~=]: The object that [[spoiler:proved a man guilty of theft a thirdway through and]] finally proved who the real murderer was at the end of the second case was [[spoiler:a pair of panties. [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Your 15-year old sidekick's panties]], no less. To avoid the squick we shall note she does not wear them as they are far too large for her and are used as a prop in her magic acts where she produces items like a frozen turkey or a broom from them]]. This is suitably lampshaded: [[spoiler: "Panties! Again?!"]]

* AnimeHair: Daryan has a 'do that's oddly suggestive (FanNickname: Dickhead), Drew Misham's looks like half of its hair was frozen at an angle from its head, and the Gavin brothers' hair forms a G at the side while the lower part forms a drill. This trope also gets subverted in the case of Apollo's hairstyle: Apollo himself actually said that he used hair gel when Olga refused to testify due to being scared by his 'demonic horns'.

** [[spoiler: Then again, he gets hit by a SPEEDING CAR in 2-2, flies '''THIRTY FEET''', bashes into a lamppost, and walked away with nothing more than a '''''[[MadeOfIron sprained ankle.]]]]'''''

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The Guitar's Serenade has Klavier desperately trying to put out his guitar and seems to throw up his hands in despair before fading out.

* OutGambitted: [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]] gets out-gambitted by [[spoiler:Phoenix]]. [[spoiler:Kristoph sets up a huge gambit to poison two people and not get caught. But Phoenix manages to overhaul the entire legal system just to ensure Kristoph gets convicted.]]

* TookALevelInJerkass: Ema Skye, who went from being Maya 2.0 in case 1-5 to now randomly throwing Snackoos at your face. Failing an exam after years of study for can make someone a tad bitter.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Arguably, Phoenix Wright himself. [[spoiler:Sure, he gets a serial killer convicted, and overhauls the entire legal system so it protects criminals far less than the old one did. But to do that, he had to manipulate a whole lot of people, including Apollo, and submit forged evidence to the court. Even in a universe where the CourtroomAntic is commonplace, perjury is still illegal.]]

The fourth game of the ''AceAttorney'' series, ''Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney'' shifts the focus from Phoenix Wright to Apollo Justice, a lawyer with his own quirks and an obsession with following in Phoenix's footsteps. The setting also moved ahead roughly seven years, dumping the previous cast members and introducing new ones such as Trucy Wright, Phoenix's adopted daughter and Apollo's assistant. It proved to be as critically and commercially successful as the earlier games, which are now unofficially dubbed the [[FanNickname "Phoenix Arc"]] by series' fans.

** [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]]'s hairdo does quite a spectacular number (specifically, [[MemeticMutation OVER NINE THOOOOUUUUUUSAAAAAAAND!]] when [[spoiler:he finally goes down for the count in the last chapter]]).
** Daryan Crescend wears his hair in a long, torpedo-like ([[FreudWasRight described in other ways]] [[MemeticMutation among more dirty-minded fans]]) pompadour that bounces when he laughs, droops when he's nervous, [[spoiler:flails madly like a ricocheting bullet when he snaps]], and [[spoiler:takes on the appearance of a wet skunk when his brain is finally broken upon being exposed as a killer by Apollo]].

* HoYay: [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HoYay/AceAttorney Has a page for it.]]

* AffectionateParody: ''Apollo Justice'' often pokes fun at the very series it belongs to, most noticeably when Apollo spends the start of his first trial gearing himself up to bellow the series CatchPhrase ("[[color:red:Objection!]]") and then gets reprimanded when he finally does so for yelling in court.

* {{Expy}}: Klavier is basically [[DevilMayCry Dante]] if he took up law and rock music instead of demon hunting and was German. He even admits to the party getting crazy at one point.

** Though the victim ''was'' a bit of a recluse, and [[spoiler:he was almost out of stamps, implying that it's been a while since he got any, and he probably buys a few years' worth at once to avoid going out as much as possible. Plus, the stamp is a fairly old one given how it has Thalassa on it, so it may have been made early enough that it's lickable.]]

* {{Expy}}: Klavier is basically [[DevilMayCry Dante]] if he took up law instead of demon hunting. He even admits to the party getting crazy at one point.

* XanatosRoulette: Subverted: [[spoiler:The final case initially appears to rely on Kristoph being able to predict the exact time that someone would lick a poisoned postage stamp seven years in advance. Kristoph actually uses the ridiculous nature of events as a defence, stating that ''no-one'' would have that much insight. He's right... but Klavier raises the counter-point that even though it was impossible for Kristoph to ''predict'' the chain of events, there was no reason why they ''couldn't'' have occurred through pure chance]].

** [[spoiler: Then again, he gets hit by a SPEEDING CAR in 2-2, bashes into a lamppost, and walked away with nothing more than a [[MadeOfIron sprained ankle.]]]]

* PaintingTheFourthWall: Happens in Case 3 when an item is added to the inventory. Trucy notices the message being told to the player.
--> [[color:blue:[=*Headset attached to Trucy.*=]]]
-->'''Trucy''': "Attached?" I'm not some kind of robot, Apollo!

* JerkAss: [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Zak Gramarye]] [[http://forums.court-records.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=7846&start=600 Is A Jerk]].

* JerkAss: [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Zak Gramarye]] [[http://forums.court-records.net/the-hydeout-gs4/zak-gramarye-jerk-spoilers-lol-t7846.html Is A Jerk]].

** However, it is somewhat odd that Zak states this fact as though he'd needed an attorney multiple times beforehand...

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: During the second case, when Apollo can examine the DVD's stacked around Phoenix's hospital bed.

* BrickJoke: In the first case, any time you expose a contradiction in Olga Orly's testimony, the bowl she holds flies up in the air and she moves to catch each individual piece, including the lobster it contains. The last time you do this [[spoiler:after she reveals her TrueColors]], they all fall to the ground. Later that case, you finally corner [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]] inescapably, and his freakout animation is so powerful it summons the bowl and lobster back upwards momentarily.

* AnimeHair: Daryan has a 'do that's oddly suggestive (FanNickname: Dickhead), Drew Misham's looks like half of its hair was frozen at an angle from its head, and your mentor's hair and his brother's form a G at the side while the lower parts forms a drill. This trope also gets subverted in the case of Apollo's hairstyle: Apollo himself actually said that he used hair gel when Olga refused to testify due to being scared by his 'demonic horns'.