YMMV / Turnabout Musical

aka: Phoenix Wright Musical Project

• Awesome Music: ALL, but The Samurai Always Wins, Justice For All (reprise) and August Day are the best examples.
• Broken Base: When the musical was still in development, a high note at the end of "Decree of the Prosecutor" added by an auditioner caused strife about whether to keep it, cut it, or leave it optional. They ended up cutting it, but reference it on occasion in bonus material.
• Complete Monster (2016 version):
  • Redd White is the same smarmy CEO of Bluecorp who uses his information company to blackmail hundreds. A smug, controlling businessman who has the entire country in the palm of his hand, White threatens politicians, policemen, and lawyers with exposing their secrets if they don't follow his orders. With his ego resulting in the suicides of hundreds whose lives he's ruined, to which he remains apathetic towards, White had many years ago launched a smear campaign against the police in order to get attorney Marvin Grossberg to serve him lest he reveal his involvement in the failed DL-6 case, which also ruined the lives of the entire Fey clan. With Mia Fey planning to reveal his corruption to the press, White personally kills her and attempts to frame Mia's sister Maya and Phoenix Wright himself for the murder.
  • Manfred von Karma is the same monster he is in the game, but manages to be even crueler. For years, von Karma has been working as a prosecutor, using underhanded tactics to maintain his perfect winning streak, not caring if the defendants are guilty or not. When defense attorney Gregory Edgeworth ruins his perfect record, Manfred murders him. Manfred then adopts Edgeworth's son Miles and raises him to be as ruthless a prosecutor as he is. Von Karma then manipulates a man whose life was ruined by Gregory's murder into committing murder and framing Edgeworth. Manfred later attacks Phoenix Wright and Maya Fey with a stun gun in order to steal evidence, gleefully shocking Phoenix several times after he's knocked out. When Edgeworth is found innocent, von Karma tries to get him executed for Gregory's murder, before attempting to kill him himself.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Act II Bailiff from the live performance in December 2016. Early in the act, the chat for the livestream renamed the character "Baeliff." It helped that he was played by the same actor as audience favorites Winston Payne and Redd White.
  • Early demos of "It's Gotta Be the Butz!" had TriforceBun's family involved, with his mother as Maya, his brother as Phoenix and his father as von Karma, wherein the "25 minute gap," "Get him out of here!" "It was TUESDAY!" and "colossal waste of time" memes became prominent.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • After the opening song finishes, Phoenix arrives at the courthouse and Mia chastises him for being late. While this doesn't happen in the original game, it DOES happen in the anime adaptation.
  • Similarly, in both this musical and the anime, the second case takes place sooner after the first than in the original game.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • This is a colossal waste of taime!
  • The "25 minute gap" line became one after TriforceBun's brother shouted the line in an early demo, trying to emulate the game's dramatic tendencies.
  • Von Karma's "Get him out of here!" line became one after TriforceBun's father added a roar to the end of it in a demo.
  • "It was TUESDAY!" became incredibly popular.
  • "Whut Lawn?" from "I'll Be There" was silly enough to get a video about it in the production package.
  • WIT-NESS! TES-TI-FY!
  • Larry the Lizard and Edgeworth the Alarm Clock were a lizard plush and stuffed alarm clock used to represent Larry and Edgeworth in the Colorado sessions, becoming inside jokes throughout the trip and getting cameos in the August Day video.
  • Belinda DuBois being the only original character led to jokes about using her in a marketing push, hence the "Belinda: The Musical" sign in the August Day video.
• Nightmare Fuel: In the live version, the Bluecorp statue comes to life and accosts Phoenix near the end of Redd White's song.

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