Not even the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' games have ''immunity'' from being made into AbridgedSeries.

Get it? "Attorney"? "Immunity"?

Okay, anyway. This franchise managed to get two separate abridged series, amusingly within weeks of each other. The first, by [[https://www.youtube.com/user/CardboardLawyer Cardboard Lawyer]], is a reasonably straightforward abridgement of the first three ''Ace Attorney'' instalments, managing to turn the games into a BlackComedy. The second, by [[https://www.youtube.com/user/Travolta3335 Volty]] and discussed further below, rarely tries to follow the plot of the games, preferring instead to place the characters in original stories.

Let's talk about ''Abridged Attorney'' first. Phoenix Wright is a fresh, wet-behind-the-ears defense attorney working for Mia Fey, who has no faith in him and continually beats him up. Things only get worse for him from there.

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!! This show provides examples of:
* BlackComedyRape: Subverted. You'd think with Phoenix screaming off screen, he's being violated, but he's just not taking it well that his ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' high score was beaten. Played straight with Gant, however.
* ComedicSociopath: Everyone has their moments, but Maya seems to be stuck on this.
* DontExplainTheJoke: "It's not as funny when I have to explain your own joke to you."
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Phoenix gets disbarred, Gumshoe gets fired, and Edgeworth gets killed by Aquaman of all people.]] All PlayedForLaughs, of course.
* IdiotHero: Phoenix himself.
* KangarooCourt: Even more crazy than the original games!
* LargeHam: This series has good amount of hammy moments. The most notable are Luke Atmey and Manfred Von Karma.
-->'''Atmey''': You shall face true fear in court! ''FEAR''! '''IN THE FORM OF MAN'''! ''EPIC'' '''BADASS'''! Sharp dresser, cool mask, and a really '''F*CKING COOL MASK'''!
-->'''Von Karma''': No, I don't have any evidence. All I have is... '''''SUPER''''' '''EVIDENCE'''!
* MouthyKid: Pearl.
* RunningGag: Gumshoe's pay continually being cut.
** The random television shows mentioned throughout the series, always in the form of "X vs Y", such as "Man vs. Tiger", "Hamster vs. Gun", "Puppy vs. Paper-Shredder", etc.
* ShoutOut: You can tell the guy's a ''Zelda'' fan, as the series finale uses numerous songs from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' and even references that "[Maya] has only three days to beat [a] dungeon [[ColonyDrop before the moon falls on us!]]"
** Several episodes use music cues from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' as well.
* SyntheticVoiceActor: The Judge, but with a Spanish program, even though everyone else speaks English. (except for Edgeworth's Dutch-speaking replacement Robo-Judge)
-->'''Franziska''': What in the hell kind of foolish language is it speaking?
-->'''Miles''': Dutch.
-->'''Franziska''': You bastard! Only you would make a Judge-Bot that speaks a dead language.
-->'''Miles''': I'm pretty sure Dutch isn't a dead language.
-->'''Franziska''': Of course it is, you fool.
-->'''Miles''': You may be more ignorant than Wright.
-->'''Franziska''': Hah! Fool! Don't even compare me with Wright. My ignorance knows ''no'' limits!
-->'''Miles''': This is going to be a long trial...
* ThematicThemeTune: "I Fought the Law" by Bobby Fuller for the first game's cases.
** Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "I'll Sue Ya" for the second game's cases.
** And for the third game's cases, a reworked version of the theme song for ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw''.
* {{Tsundere}}: Maya never misses an opportunity to beat up or have Phoenix beaten up by someone else.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Dahlia and Morgan

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'''PHOENIX WRIGHT: ACE IDIOT'''

Just a few weeks after ''Abridged Attorney'' began, [[https://www.youtube.com/user/Travolta3335 Travolta3335]] (now known as Volty), who was unfortunately the editor of ''WebVideo/ApolloJusticeAbridged'', put out his own parody of ''Ace Attorney''. This one mostly ignores the plot of the original games, instead coming up with original stories that manage to make even less sense. If ''Phoenix Wright: Abridged Attorney'' is the franchise's WebVideo/CodeGeassTheAbridgedSeries, then ''Ace Idiot'' is its WebVideo/CodeMENT.

!! This series provides examples of:
* ButtMonkey: Phoenix, even moreso than in the games.
* CatchPhrase: Several characters have one.
** Judge: "You lose the internet!"
** Ema: "I'm completely oblivious!"
** Payne: "[=WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE=]!"
** Mia: "...with a totem pole!"
* DirtyOldMan: The Judge. Frequently lampshaded.
--> Judge: "I'm old, Mr. Wright. Didn't you learn anything from anime? All old men are perverts!"
* EarlyBirdCameo: Godot, who refers to his actual debut, Season 3, as "Season Negative One."
* [[FateWorseThanDeath Fate Worse Than Penalization]]: Losing the internet is supposedly the worst thing that can ever occur to a character in the series, so much that Phoenix wishes for a ridiculous supply of them from Santa Claus to both make up for the ones he lost and the ones he inevitably will lose.
* GratuitousDiscoSequence: In a certain flashback, everyone had afros, and the Judge was referred to as "Your Grooviness" rather than "Your Honor".
* MeaningfulName: Subverted by Bellboy, who is actually [[spoiler:a NASCAR driver]].
* OldShame: Invoked in the descriptions for some of the early videos, which are heavy on the self-deprecation and snark. Volty dislikes the original 11 episodes of ''Ace Idiot'' because of what he considers their low quality and sluggish pacing (and the sixth episode in particular because it was literally made in a single day), justifying their existence by explaining that he was 15 and had no idea what he's doing when he made them. Years later, he remade the first episode, and has since divulged into an entire different series with the same name, ''WebVideo/PhoenixWrightAceIdiot''.
* RunningGag: Phoenix losing the Internet. ("Crap.")
** Larry Butz's first name being a stock voice clip (the same no matter who says it).
** The Judge telling explicit stories during Christmas cases.
** Payne and Larry constantly being convicted of murders, most of which never even happened.
* ScaryBlackMan: [[spoiler:Pearl (a.k.a Leroy).]]
* ShoutOut: The Judge shuts down a confrontation with Phoenix by shouting "[[Film/SuburbanCommando I was FROZEN today!]]"
** In an earlier episode, the Judge makes a direct reference to [=CardboardLawyer's=] ''Ace Attorney Abridged''.
** [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants The inner machinations of Edgeworth's mind are an enigma.]]
* TheInternetIsForPorn: The Judge embodies this.
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