History Trivia / AceAttorney

* FlipFlopOfGod: The gender of Franziska's older sibling who is known to exist via von Karma mentioning having a grandchild in the first game. [[https://forums.court-records.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=32093 As explained here]], a manual for ''Justice for All'' says Franziska has an older sister, but in an interview with Tatsuro Iwamoto, one of the game designers, he mentions drawing sketches of Franziska's older ''brother'' for fun (apparently one of them was a rejected sketch for Godot). In both instances the sibling is said to be the parent of von Karma's grandchild so they are not referring to different characters.

* FlipFlopOfGod: The gender of Franziska's older sibling who is known to exist via von Karma mentioning having a grandchild in the first game. [[https://forums.court-records.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=32093 As explained here]], a manual for ''Justice for All'' says Franziska has an older sister, but in an interview with Tatsuro Iwamoto, one of the game designers, he mentions drawing sketches of Franziska's older ''brother'' for fun (apparently one of them was a rejected sketch for Godot).

** The games' speech bubbles, such as ''Objection!'', are often quoted in all caps, despite the fact that in the games themselves, they're always formatted with standard capitalization. Even TVTropes isn't above this, as can be seen in the Franchise page. It's usually done to emphasize that the characters are shouting these lines at the top of their lungs when other means of emphasis such as bold or italics are either unavailable or impractical.

** The speech bubbles such as ''Objection!'' are often quoted in all caps, despite the fact that in the games themselves, they're always formatted with standard capitalization. Even TVTropes isn't above this, as can be seen in the Franchise page. It's usually done to emphasize that the characters are shouting these lines at the top of their lungs when other means of emphasis such as bold or italics are either unavailable or impractical.

* BeamMeUpScotty: Despite being a popular meme, Edgeworth never actually says "You are not a clown. You are the entire circus." [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-are-not-a-clown-you-are-the-entire-circus/photos It originated]] as a convincing edit in response to a tweet, as the maker thought that would be something Edgeworth would actually say.

* IKnewIt:
** The fandom were correct in assuming that [[spoiler:Ema's button was a spycamera]] and that [[spoiler:Edgeworth is secretly a big fan of the Steel Samurai]].
** [[spoiler:When the flashback case featuring Gregory Edgeworth was announced to involve Manfred von Karma, people began [[{{Pun}} suspecting]] that this was the case that led to von Karma's penalty, and by extension the DL-6 incident that basically sparked all the events of the series.]]
** When the first details of ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies Dual Destinies]]'' at TGS, some people guessed that [[spoiler:Apollo was related somehow to the courtroom bombing that was the focus of the game's first case. Fast forward to March 2013, when the first images of injured Apollo showed up. Fully confirmed a month later, when a playthrough of the updated demo outright stated that Apollo was protecting someone from the debris produced by the explosion.]]
** Someone on this very site's WMG page managed to predict that [[spoiler:Bobby Fulbright]] in ''Dual Destinies'' was [[spoiler:the real killer in the case in which Blackquill was convicted of murder. It's a little more complicated than that, though.]]
** Janet Hsu, a member of Capcom's localization department, [[http://www.capcom-unity.com/zeroobjections/blog/2014/10/31/ace-attorney-trilogy---surprising-tidbits-you-never-knew confirmed on her blog]] the widespread theory that Klavier Gavin isn't actually German, though she says he did study in Germany for a while.
** When the first details of the [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice 6th game]] came out, people were saying Maya Fey has to be in this one, given the heavy emphasis on spirit mediums since ''Trials and Tribulations''. Lo and behold, the March 2016 update reveals that she's a major character, and will again assist Phoenix at the defense bench.

*** Apollo Justice is voiced by Koutarou Ogiwara in his own game and by Creator/KENN starting from ''Dual Destinies''.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://aceattorney.wikia.com/wiki/Ace_Attorney_Wiki Right here.]]

* TechnologyMarchesOn: It's pretty frequent to see late 90/early 2000s technology in the original trilogy, such as VHS tapes, black-and-white photos, and Nokia 3000-style cellphones, which matches up with the timeframe they were made in. The trilogy canonically takes place 2016-2019, though most of these items had disappeared by 2010. As a result, the games are TwoDecadesBehind. Afterwards, technology started to slowly evolve in-universe. For example, the Investigations games and Apollo Justice have most pictures in full color as well as flipphones and Blackberry-style phones. VHS tapes seem to have been phased out by the mid-2020s, as any video evidence in Dual Destinies and beyond is presented on a DVD (only old video such as the one for UR-1 Incident is still on tape). By Spirit of Justice, smartphones and social media clearly exist.

* TheOtherDarrin: In the GBA and DS games, the few voiced lines the characters had were given by members of the production and localization teams (e.g. Phoenix's Japanese voice was series creator Shu Takumi, and Franziska's English voice was Janet Hsu, head of the localization team). With the 3DS games adding fully-voiced cutscenes, actual voice actors were required, meaning any returning characters (i.e. Phoenix, Apollo, Klavier, Edgeworth) had their voices replaced.
** Both the Japanese and English casts were replaced for the anime.

* ActingForTwo: In ''Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney'', Kristoph Gavin and Klavier Gavin are both voiced by Ryouji Yamamoto in the Japanese version, and Andrew Alfonso in the English and French version.

[[Trivia/AceAttorney2012 The 2012 film]] | [[Trivia/AceAttorneyAnime The anime]]]]-]]]

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