History Visualnovel / PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies

* InformedFlaw: The Dark Age of the Law is mostly presented as AsYouKnow information. The prosecutors you go up against neither actively or knowingly give false charges to people and no defense attorney is seen presenting fabricated evidence to win their trials.

* AdvertisedExtra: Klavier appears on several pieces of promotional artwork but his only role is a fairly minor appearance in the third case. He offers a few helpful moments but is generally inconsequential. Trucy and Pearl, who also appear in promotional images, are borderline examples (both of them play larger, more frequent roles than Klavier but compared to their previous uses in the series they are both much less prominent than before).

* BrokenAesop: "Turnabout Academy" makes a great deal of how wrong it is to think that [[TheUnfettered the end justifies the means]]. You get to ''prove'' in court that it's better to only use legitimate means to reach the truth instead of breaking the law to get your way. And then, in "Turnabout for Tomorrow", two lives are saved by kidnapping several people and threatening to kill one of the hostages, proving that sometimes, drastic and horrible things must be done to right wrongs (though, the kidnapper did not get off scot-free and was still shown to be in jail nearly a year later after the end of the last case).
** In a series-wide example, nearly every game has moments that ''favour'' the "Ends Justify the Means" mentality. Phoenix can come off as a bit hypocritical for condemning it when you remember he only cleared his name in [[VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney the last game]] by forging evidence in one trial and rigging the jury in another, and the Investigations games also had a pretty heavy theme about the law not always being sufficient, and needing to go above or around it to find the truth; the "ends" are different, but the basic philosophy is always the same.

''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies'' (''Gyakuten Saiban 5'' in Japan, lit. "Turnabout Trial 5") is the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS installment of the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series of {{Visual Novel}}s from Creator/{{Capcom}}. The game was released in Japan on July 24th, 2013, and was followed by releases in North America and Europe on October 24, 2013. An [=iOS=] version of the game was released in Japan on August 7, 2014, and in North America and Europe on August 14, 2014. An Android version came out on May 24, 2017. An HD version of the game is set to be included alongside similarly-[[UpdatedRerelease updated versions]] of ''Apollo Justice'' and ''Spirit of Justice'' in the CompilationRerelease ''Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy'' sometime in early 2024.

''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies'' (''Gyakuten Saiban 5'' in Japan, lit. "Turnabout Trial 5") is the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS installment of the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series of {{Visual Novel}}s from Creator/{{Capcom}}. The game was released in Japan on July 24th, 2013, and was followed by releases in North America and Europe on October 24, 2013. An [=iOS=] version of the game was released in Japan on August 7, 2014, and in North America and Europe on August 14, 2014. An Android version came out on May 24, 2017.

** In case 3, Athena is the protagonist and Apollo plays the role of the sidekick. Of note, this is only the third time a male has played the sidekick role in the primary game series, after Marvin Grossberg in 3-1, "Turnabout Memories", and Diego Armando in 3-4, "Turnabout Beginnings". Both of those cases, though, were flashbacks to Mia Fey as a lawyer with trials but no investigation.

* TakeThat: In case 2, Phineas Filch's alibi was that he was watching a wrestling match on TV between wrestlers called Howlin' Wolf and Pretty Boy Vampire, with commentary by Timothy Literature/{{Twilight}}. The match was described as awful due to the wrestlers being {{jobber}}s.

* BareYourMidriff:
** Athena's SailorFuku outfit.
** Athena again, in Norma [=DePlume=]'s recollection of the Swashbuckler Spectacular song. Both Sasha and [[PostHumousCharacter Azura]] from the DLC as well.

** It turns out that when you expose prosecutors as corrupt; put away the chief of police for murder, forging evidence, and blackmail; and continually point out that the legal system is broken as hell...people stop trusting in the legal system, and the lawyers and prosecutors take that as ''carte blanche'' to do whatever they want, as long as they win. Whoops.

** Apollo has two in Case 5 referencing ''Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney'' when he [[spoiler:appears to mirror his old mentor, Kristoph, with the phrase "evidence is everything" and a confident, smirking sprite similar to the one Kristoph had.]]

* MythologyGag: Apollo has two of them referencing back to his own game. [[spoiler: In case 5 where Apollo testifies against Athena, he has a smirk pose that is eerily similar to how Kristoph Gavin smirked when he was being cross examined and felt confident in his testimony. Apollo also says "Evidence is everything", which is also a similar statement that Kristoph made.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It turns out that when you expose prosecutors as corrupt; put away the chief of police for murder, forging evidence, and blackmail; and continually point out that the legal system is broken as hell...people stop trusting in the legal system, and the lawyers and prosecutors take that as ''carte blanche'' to do whatever they want, as long as they win. Whoops.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Three counts. First, after Phoenix and other defense attorneys spend ''years'' exposing prosecutors for playing dirty in court and for being outright criminals in several instances, the public finally learns the truth and the prosecutor's office is largely discredited. Second, ''someone'' has to pick up the pieces and both reform ''and'' rebuild the reputation of the prosecutors' office (which would be Chief Prosecutor Edgeworth's task) because they are a necessary part of the legal system, but they cannot be so if no one trusts them. Finally, both prosecutors and defense attorneys start taking an attitude of "do whatever it takes to win," since if the public doesn't trust them anyway, who cares what they think?\\\
This is TruthInTelevision, and a major part of the game that was RippedFromTheHeadlines. A few years prior to the game's release, the very extent of how dirty the Japanese courts were was exposed in a number of major cases. The most famous of these cases involved a suspect's innocence finally being proven after ''decades'' when it was revealed that the prosecutors had hidden crucial evidence, and forced a confession from him through methods that could be seen as ColdBloodedTorture. And MOST suspects were treated this way. Which is why only a few years ago, things started to be changed within the Japanese legal world.

** Case 5 explains why a convict is allowed to be a prosecutor, and it's due to this trope.