History Awesome / TheGreatAceAttorney

** Afterwards, Iris Wilson (despite not being identified as such at the time) shows up, revealing she'd actually invented the smoke grenade launcher Gina was using, and gets her to return the thing and say sorry by leveling a ''larger'' smoke grenade launcher at her!

** Stronghart himself deserves a mention. Numerous times in the trial he seems to be losing, but he always found a way to get back on top, from confessing to what seems to be the whole truth (while omitting details that would implicate him), to the fact that ''he had never truly dirtied his hands'', and even getting the gallery to support him '''after it's been proven that he's the Reaper of the Bailey''' by saying that it's all done to keep the law and order in London functional. He's a MagnificentBastard all the way through, so manipulative and charismatic that it took ''the Queen herself'' to finally bring him down.

This page covers ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'' spinoff duology. Take moments specific to the [[Awesome/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney first three games]], ''[[Awesome/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney Apollo Justice]]'', the ''[[Awesome/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Investigations]]'' series, ''[[Awesome/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies Dual Destinies]]'', ''[[Awesome/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice Spirit of Justice]]'', or [[Awesome/AceAttorneyAnime the 2016 anime]] to those pages, please. This page contains '''UNMARKED SPOILERS!!!''' Read at your own risk!

* Barok Van Zieks proves how seriously he takes his job by having the crime scene (a carriage) ''brought into the courtroom as evidence.'' In general, van Zieks proves that even with the Reaper legend that makes him intimidating gone, he's a true juggernaut in court: his observation skills are sharp, his logic solid, and unlike Ryuunosuke at first, he has a way with words and a presence in court that makes himvery convincing.

* Ryunosuke Naruhodo's first "Objection!". During the entire trial, Ryunosuke, who has zero knowledge of law practises, is forced to take up his own defense, putting him in a very unfamiliar environment. But eventually he deduces the solution to a particular contradiction, and he begins to transform into a true attorney.

* Ryunosuke deducing the true murder method from an information he just gained from Susato, an information that is very not known in Japan in fact, demonstrates how good his instinct at perceiving and connecting the truth from sparse information is, and it's just the first of many in the following cases.

--> '''Ryunosuke''': [[BadassBoast I don't care who you are or what your status outside of the courtroom might be, you will NOT withhold information! Nothing is more important than the truth!]]

** Really, everything Olive did to [[OutGambitted out-gambit]] the true culprit. After finding out that Shamspeare killed her fiancé and that he was about to inflict the same fate on Soseki, she stops at nothing to ruin him. First, she bought strychnine from the black market, then lured him out of his home, breaking and entering it to set her poisonous trap and discovers Selden's key (although she didn't know about its significance), and during the trial when she finally learns about Selden's stolen treasure she gives the key to Sholmes to put the final nail in Shamspeare's coffin. She ends up in prison for attempted murder but is able to utterly stop Shamspeare and knows for sure he's much worse off. (Arrested for multiple accounts of gas theft, one account of actual murder on Duncan Ross, and multiple accounts of attempted murder on Soseki, and not getting access to the treasure he so desperately wanted).

** Really, everything Olive did to [[OutGambitted out-gambit]] the true culprit. After finding out that Shamspeare killed her fiancé and that he was about to inflict the same fate on Soseki, she stops at nothing to ruin him. First, she bought strychnine from the black market, then lured him out of his home, breaking and entering it to set her poisonous trap and discovers Selden's key (although she didn't know about its significance), and during the trial when she finally learns about Selden's stolen treasure she gives the key to Sholmes to put the final nail in Shamspeare's coffin. She ends up in prison for attempted murder but is able to utterly stop Shamspeare and knows for sure he's much worse off. (Arrested for multiple accounts of gas theft, one account of actual murder on Duncan Ross,
and multiple accounts of attempted murder on Soseki, and not getting access to the treasure he so desperately wanted).

** Really, everything Olive did to [[OutGambitted out-gambit]] the true culprit. After finding out that Shamspeare killed her fiancé and that he was about to inflict the same fate on Soseki, she stops at nothing to ruin him. First, she bought strychnine from the black market, then lured him out of his home, breaking and entering it to set her poisonous trap and discovers Selden's key (although she didn't know about its significance), and during the trial when she finally learns about Selden's stolen treasure she gives the key to Sholmes to put the final nail in Shamspeare's coffin. She ends up in prison for attempted murder but is able to utterly stop Shamspeare and knows for sure he has far worse punishments (multiple accounts of gas theft, one account of actual murder on Duncan Ross, multiple accounts of attempted murder on Soseki, and being denied of Selden's stolen treasure).

* Barok Van Zieks proves how seriously he takes his job by having the crime scene (a carriage) ''brought into the courtroom as evidence.'' In general, van Zieks proves that even with the Reaper legend that gives him a menacing removed, he's a true juggernaut in court: his observation skills are sharp, his logic solid, and unlike Ryuunosuke at first, he has a way with words and a presence in court that makes himvery convincing.

** On that note, van Zieks siding with Ryu and shutting down Gregson's pleas to stop him:
-->'''van Zieks''': *leg slam* Inspector, you should know my methods by now. I'm a prosecutor. ...I'm no Scotland Yard puppet. In this courtroom, my duty is to the law. So let me propose a toast. To uncovering the truth... by fair means or foul.

** While getting an Acquittal was Magnus McGilded’s goal, him causing Ryunosuke Naruhodo being able to stay in London and as a lawyer and derailing Stronghart’s plan to get another assassin to kill Greyson for almost an entire year was not, nor was it something that he would ever forsee happening. But it did, and when Gregon is killed almost a year later, it linked back to Jigoku and Stronghart, thus ending the Reaper Conspiracy. So in a way Magnus McGilded manipulating the verdict in his favor marked the beginning of the end for Stronghart.

** To top it off, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxVjR0Lqisk the true Objection theme]] plays for the first time at this moment.
** In a meta level, this is the first time a character gets so much CharacterDevelopment ''in the ''first case alone''.

* Barok Van Zieks proves how seriously he takes his job by having the crime scene (a carriage) ''brought into the courtroom as evidence.''

** Really, everything Olive did to [[Out-Gambitted out-gambit]] the true culprit. After finding out that Shamspeare killed her fiancé and that he was about to inflict the same fate on Soseki, she stops at nothing to ruin him. First, she bought strychnine from the black market, then lured him out of his home, breaking and entering it to set her poisonous trap and discovers Selden's key (although she didn't know about its significance), and during the trial when she finally learns about Selden's stolen treasure she gives the key to Sholmes to put the final nail in Shamspeare's coffin. She ends up in prison for attempted murder but is able to utterly stop Shamspeare and knows for sure he has far worse punishments (multiple accounts of gas theft, one account of actual murder on Duncan Ross, multiple accounts of attempted murder on Soseki, and being denied of Selden's stolen treasure).