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* DevelopmentGag: Edgeworth reconnects with Penny Nichols, a minor witness from the first ''Ace Attorney'' game, in "The Grand Turnabout". Edgeworth notes internally that while he spoke with her numerous times, he had completely forgotten who she was until she introduced herself again. This is a reference to the fact that even the ''development team'' found Penny so utterly forgettable that simply remembering her name was considered a mark of accomplishment.
* MilestoneCelebration: The main reason Frank Sahwit was added to the second game was because of the series's tenth anniversary.
* NoExportForYou: [[https://kotaku.com/why-ace-attorney-investigations-2-never-made-it-to-amer-512745313 Scheduling reasons prevented the 2nd game from being localized.]] Immediately after ''Investigations 2'' was released in Japan, the team of developers were disbanded and moved towards different departments to work on new games (in fact, several members of the game's writing team left Capcom altogether to join Creator/KeijiInafune at Comcept), so they were never given a chance to localize it. That doesn't mean that it'll be impossible to ever see it localized, but they can't make any promises.
* RecycledScript: The first part of "The Grand Turnabout", ''Investigations 2'''s final case is extremely similar in many ways to "Farewell, my Turnabout!", the final case of ''Justice for All''. Specifically, [[spoiler:someone (Maya Fey/John Marsh) is kidnapped, someone (Phoenix Wright/Justine Courtney) is forced to give an obvious criminal (Matt Engarde/Patricia Roland) a not guilty verdict in exchange for the victim's release, and the location the victim is being held at is discovered thanks to a call from the kidnapper coincidentally capturing a sound (a cat meowing/a firework) just before hanging up, although here, this leads to the successful rescue of the kidnapping victim, while Maya was taken elsewhere before the police could find her]].

** Before it was a detective simulator, other genres were also considered, such as a dating sim and a fighting game.
** A murder case involving a teleportation trick was considered for the second game, but was scrapped. This scrapped case was used as the basis for the third ''Ace Attorney'' stage play, Turnabout Teleportation.

* RecycledScript: The first part of ''Investigations 2'''s final case is extremely similar in many ways to "Farewell, my Turnabout!", the final case of ''Justice for All''. Specifically, [[spoiler:there's a kidnapping, someone is forced to give an obvious criminal a not guilty verdict in exchange for the victim's release, and the victim is saved thanks to a call from the kidnapper coincidentally capturing a sound just before hanging up, which is used to deduce where the victim is being held]].

* RecycledScript: One plot point of ''Investigations 2'''s final case is lifted almost directly from "Farewell, my Turnabout!", the final case of ''Justice for All''. Specifically, [[spoiler:a kidnapping victim is saved because a call from the kidnapper coincidentally captured a sound (a firework here, a cat meowing in ''JFA'') just before hanging up, which is used to deduce where the victim is being held]].

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* NamesTheSame: Jacques Portsman's Japanese name, Makoto Yuki, is very, very close to the name of ''VideoGame/Persona3''[='=]s protagonist, Makoto Yu[[SpellMyNameWithAnS u]]ki (to be specific, the name used in the film continuity), as well as the ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'' character that shares his name.

** A murder case involving a teleportation trick was considered for the second game, but was scrapped. This scrapped case was used as the basis for the third Ace Attorney stage play, Turnabout Teleportation.

* NoExportForYou: [[http://kotaku.com/why-ace-attorney-investigations-2-never-made-it-to-amer-512745313 Scheduling reasons prevented the 2nd game from being localized.]] Immediately after Investigations 2 was released in Japan, the team of developers were disbanded and moved towards different departments to work on new games (in fact, several members of the game's writing team left Capcom altogether to join Creator/KeijiInafune at Comcept), so they were never given a chance to localize it. That doesn't mean that it'll be impossible to ever see it localized, but they can't make any promises.
* SerendipityWritesThePlot: Edgeworth's flashback to the DL-6 incident in the 4th case is masked heavily and bordered by a "cloudy" filter (in addition to the series standard of merely putting flashbacks in black and white) to hide the fact that it is reused from the original GBA game (and thus has a 240 × 160 resolution with a 15 bit color depth on a 256 × 192 screen with 18 bit color depth) while Investigations is otherwise free of such sprite reuse (contrast ''VisualNovel/{{Apollo Justice|Ace Attorney}}'', where such reuse is very blatant when it occurs).
** This also explains why Gumshoe looks exactly the same except for his tan coat. Gumshoe was dressed that way in ''Trials & Tribulations'' during case 4, which takes place in the same relative era. Back then it was due to the inability to fit an entirely new sprite in the game for a character who already exists, so they just did it via PaletteSwap. The DS has considerably more storage space for sprites, but Gumshoe still retains the same physical appearance because that's what he looked like as told by the third game.

* NamesTheSame: Jacques Portsman's Japanese name, Makoto Yuki, is very, very close to the name of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}''[='=]s protagonist, Makoto Yu[[SpellMynameWithAnS u]]ki (to be specific, the name used in the film continuity), as well as the ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'' character that shares his name.

* {{Expy}}: In ''[=GK1=]'', we have a crime syndicate that does practically every evil activity in the book being investigated by Interpol. Sounds a lot like [[Franchise/StreetFighter Shadaloo]].
** The president in ''[=GK2=]'''s first case resembles [[PublicDomainCharacter Sun Wukong, the Monkey King]].
* FanNickname:
** The FanTranslation of ''Gyakuten Kenji 2'' localizes the characters' names as follows:
*** Teikun Ou = Di-Jun Huang
*** Gai Tojiro = Ethan Rooke
*** Manosuke Naitou = Horace Knightley
*** Mikiko Hayami = Nicole Swift
*** Hakari Mikagami = Justine Courtney
*** Yumihiko Ichiyanagi = Sebastian Debeste
*** Tateyuki Shigaraki = Raymond "Ray" Shields
*** Souta Sarushiro = Simon Keyes
*** Shuuji Orinaka = Jay Elbird
*** Marie Miwa = Patricia Roland
*** Ryouken Houinbo = Sirhan Dogen
*** Issei Tenkai = Jeff Master
*** Tsukasa Oyashiki = Katherine Hall
*** Isaku Hyoudou = Isaac Dover
*** Paul Holic = Pierre Hoquet
*** Delicy Scone = Delicia Scones
*** Yutaka Kazami = Dane Gustavia
*** Wataru Shirase = Rip Lacer
*** Touko Mutou = Karin Jenson
*** Otome Itami = Bonnie Young
*** Tsubasa Kagome = Jill Crane
*** Bansai Ichiyanagi = Blaise Debeste
*** Borumosu = Moozilla
*** Shimon Aizawa = John Marsh
*** Ryuji Kamei = Jack Cameron
*** Ami Aizawa = Amy Marsh
** For the game itself: ''Ace Attorney Investigations'', before that title was bestowed, was called ''[[AlliterativeTitle Perfect Prosecutor]]'' by the fandom (though early announcements in Nintendo Power magazine also used that name).
** Gumshoe had been 'Gummy' to the fandom for years beforehand, [[AscendedFanon but Kay makes the nickname canon]].
** Detective Badd is usually referred to as "Detective Baddass", simply because of how much of a Badass he is.

** Before it was a detective simulator, it apparently was going to be a dating sim.

* NamesTheSame: Jacques Portsman's Japanese name, Makoto Yuki, is very, very close to the name of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}''[='=]s protagonist, Makoto Yu[[SpellMynameWithAnS u]]ki(to be specific, the name used in the film continuity), as well as the ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'' character that shares his name.

** The president in ''[=GK2=]'''s first case resembles [[PublicDomainCharacter Sun Won Kong, the Monkey King]].

* NamesTheSame: Jacques Portsman's Japanese name, Makoto Yuki, is very, very close to the name of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}''[='=]s protagonist, Makoto Yu[[SpellMynameWithAnS u]]ki (as well as the ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'' character that shares his name).

* NoExportForYou: [[http://kotaku.com/why-ace-attorney-investigations-2-never-made-it-to-amer-512745313 Scheduling reasons prevented the 2nd game from being localized.]] Immediately after Investigations 2 was released in Japan, the team of developers were disbanded and moved towards different departments to work on new games (in fact, several members of the game's writing team left Capcom altogether to join Keiji Inafune at Creator/{{Comcept}}), so they were never given a chance to localize it. That doesn't mean that it'll be impossible to ever see it localized, but they can't make any promises.

* NoExportForYou: [[http://kotaku.com/why-ace-attorney-investigations-2-never-made-it-to-amer-512745313 Scheduling reasons prevented the 2nd game from being localized.]] Immediately after Investigations 2 was released in Japan, the team of developers were disbanded and moved towards different departments to work on new games, so they were never given a chance to localize it. That doesn't mean that it'll be impossible to ever see it localized, but they can't make any promises.

* The FanTranslation of ''Gyakuten Kenji 2'' localizes the characters' names as follows:

* FanNickname: The FanTranslation of ''Gyakuten Kenji 2'' localizes the characters' names as follows:
** Teikun Ou = Di-Jun Huang
** Gai Tojiro = Ethan Rooke
** Manosuke Naitou = Horace Knightley
** Mikiko Hayami = Nicole Swift
** Hakari Mikagami = Justine Courtney
** Yumihiko Ichiyanagi = Sebastian Debeste
** Tateyuki Shigaraki = Raymond "Ray" Shields
** Souta Sarushiro = Simon Keyes
** Shuuji Orinaka = Jay Elbird
** Marie Miwa = Patricia Roland
** Ryouken Houinbo = Sirhan Dogen
** Issei Tenkai = Jeff Master
** Tsukasa Oyashiki = Katherine Hall
** Isaku Hyoudou = Isaac Dover
** Paul Holic = Pierre Hoquet
** Delicy Scone = Delicia Scones
** Yutaka Kazami = Dane Gustavia
** Wataru Shirase = Rip Lacer
** Touko Mutou = Karin Jenson
** Otome Itami = Bonnie Young
** Tsubasa Kagome = Jill Crane
** Bansai Ichiyanagi = Blaise Debeste
** Borumosu = Moozilla
** Shimon Aizawa = John Marsh
** Ryuji Kamei = Jack Cameron
** Ami Aizawa = Amy Marsh

* NamesTheSame: Jacques Portsman's Japanese name, Makoto Yuki, is very, very close to the name of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}''[='=]s protagonist, Makoto Yu[[SpellMynameWithAnS u]]ki.

* SerendipityWritesThePlot: Edgeworth's flashback to the DL-6 incident in the 4th case is masked heavily and bordered by a "cloudy" filter (in addition to the series standard of merely putting flashbacks in black and white) to hide the fact that it is reused from the original GBA game (and thus has a 240 × 160 resolution with a 15 bit color depth on a 256 × 192 screen with 18 bit color depth) while Investigations is otherwise free of such sprite reuse (contrast ''VisualNovel/{{Apollo Justice|Ace Attorney}}, where such reuse is very blatant when it occurs).

* ExecutiveMeddling: The reason ''Gyakuten Kenji 2'' has remained Japan-only; see NoExportForYou below.

* SerendipityWritesThePlot: Edgeworth's flashback to the DL-6 incident in the 4th case is masked heavily and bordered by a "cloudy" filter (in addition to the series standard of merely putting flashbacks in black and white) to hide the fact that it is reused from the original GBA game (and thus has a 240 × 160 resolution with a 15 bit color depth on a 256 x 192 screen with 18 bit color depth) while Investigations is otherwise free of such sprite reuse (contrast [[VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney Apollo Justice]], where such reuse is very blatant when it occurs).
** This also explains why Gumshoe looks exactly the same except for his tan coat. Gumshoe was dressed that way in ''Trials & Tribulations'' during case 4, which takes place in the same relative era. Back then it was due to the inability to fit an entirely new sprite in the game for a character who already exists so they just did it via PaletteSwap. The DS has considerably more storage space for sprites but Gumshoe still retains the same physical appearance because that's what he looked like as told by the third game.

** A trailer shows Kay appearing in Turnabout Airline. Whether this means Kay would have first appeared earlier, or that Turnabout Airlines was originally a later case, is anybody's guess.
** Originally the concept of the game involved Ema Skye as the protagonist and the game would focus on forensics tactics. It would have actually had her doing investigations alongside Edgeworth during [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney the original trilogy]] and alongside Klavier during ''VisualNovel/{{Apollo Justice|AceAttorney}}''.

** Before it was a Detective simulator, it apparently was going to be a dating sim

** For the game itself: ''Ace Attorney Investigations'', before that title was bestowed, was called ''[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Perfect Prosecutor]]'' by the fandom (though early announcements in Nintendo Power magazine also used that name).

** Originally the concept of the game involved Ema Skye as the protagonist and the game would focus on forensics tactics.

** Before it was a Detective simulator, it apparently was going to be a dating sim.
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* SerendipityWritesThePlot: Edgeworth's flashback to the DL-6 incident in the 4th case is masked heavily and bordered by a "cloudy" filter (in addition to the series standard of merely putting flashbacks in black and white) to hide the fact that it is reused from the original GBA game (and thus has a 240 × 160 resolution with a 15 bit color depth on a 256 x 192 screen with 18 bit color depth) while Investigations is otherwise free of such sprite reuse (contrast Apollo Justice, where such reuse is very blatant when it occurs).