History YMMV / ApolloJusticeAceAttorney

* Complete Monster: [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]] is introduced as a supposedly helpful mentor. He is also the first man responsible for ushering in “The Dark Age Of The Law” by getting Phoenix Wright disbarred. [[spoiler:Kristoph]] ended up taking a massive blow to his ego when a magician and prospective client, Zak, rejected [[spoiler:Kristoph]] as his lawyer. When Zak hired Phoenix instead of him due to a poker game, a furious [[spoiler:Kristoph]] decided to get revenge. He had gotten a shy artist named Vera to unknowingly create fake evidence for the trial, but after Phoenix was hired, [[spoiler:Kristoph]] used the evidence to get him disbarred. [[spoiler:Kristoph]] also manipulated his own brother, [[spoiler: prosecutor Klavier]], by using him to disbar Phoenix and cheating the honorable [[spoiler:Klavier]] out of a fair trial, which haunted [[spoiler:Klavier]], who knew something wasn't right. for years. When Zak resurfaced under a new identity years later, [[spoiler:Kristoph]] took the chance to murder him and frame Phoenix. After this, it was revealed [[spoiler:Kristoph]] had poisoned Vera and her father Drew, intending both to die. Vera survived, barely. To pour salt on the wound, [[spoiler:Kristoph]] gloated how Apollo and Phoenix had triggered his plan-their questioning caused Vera to bite her nails- when he had planted the poison as nail polish, knowing her nervous habit. He had even started poisoning her when she was only twelve. After her survival, [[spoiler:Kristoph]] simply enjoyed seeing Vera face conviction for her own father's murder. In the end, he was little but a cruel, petty, selfish man obsessed with glory and destroying those who stood in his way.

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]]. The game itself hints at the fact that he's much more than the series' average SmugSnake. Expect double portion of horror when in the last case, [[spoiler:you use Apollo's ability to see the reactions of Kristoph's body to his own lies. Pay attention to what lies beyond his glasses, and then scroll down to the back of his hand. * Shudder* ]].

* DesignatedVillain: The only reason you go up against Klavier is because he's the prosecutor.

Take general series tropes to YMMV/AceAttorney, and take tropes specific to [[YMMV/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney the Phoenix arc]], or ''[[YMMV/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Investigations]]'' to those pages, please.

* ViewersAreGoldfish: This is true of all the ''Ace Attorney'' games, but ''Apollo Justice'' was especially {{Egregious}} about it.
** You can't exit case 2-3 without knowing all the lyrics to the song. If you found it NarmCharm the first time, wait until the eighth iteration.

* MemeticSexGod: Klavier Gavin was the former Page Image.

* ReplacementScrappy: Apollo, to some.

** And don't forget the [[spoiler:black Psyche-Locks]] that Phoenix encounters. We never find out what they mean, although they likely conceal the truth about his forging and murders, and signify how unshakable a character he is.

** And don't forget the [[spoiler:black Psyche-Locks]] that Phoenix encounters. We never did find out what that was all about. Maybe in [=GS5=]...
*** The truth about his forging and murders was the secret. They were just black becuase it was supposed to signify how Kristoph is the most unshakable person in the series.

* {{Squick}}: Shut up about your panties! ("Panties!")

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]]. The game itself hints at the fact that he's much more than the series' average SmugSnake. Expect double portion of NightmareFuel when in the last case, [[spoiler:you use Apollo's ability to see the reactions of Kristoph's body to his own lies. Pay attention to what lies beyond his glasses, and then scroll down to the back of his hand. * Shudder* ]].

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel:
** It's standard for the guilty one to go completely batshit crazy in fury or amazement that their plan has been ruined. However, it gets even scarier with [[spoiler:Kristoph, who slams his hand into the desk, his hair flies up as if he's going Super Saiyan, and after that's done, his hair is in a complete mess, his face looks just plain demented, and I'm pretty sure that his psycho-stare is scarier then even Damon Gant's!]] That. Is. Scary. And when you ''win'' the case, [[spoiler:Kristoph]] ''snaps''. With his hair still a complete mess, he puts a hand to his face, faces the sky, and just ''laughs''. It's clear that he's gone completely insane when faced by the turn of events. He's lost everything by your victory; seven years of planning, gone. And you don't hear ''anything''. You don't hear a sound byte of the laugh, there's no box saying "ha ha ha". No, what there is is a text-based "voice-over" describing the aftermath of the case, and how the killer... laughed, all while you watch his final breakdown in utter silence.
*** Actually, [[spoiler:Kristoph]]'s hair goes back to normal for his laughing sprite, bizarrely enough. The fact that he apparently fixed his hair just for that may or may not make it creepier.
** Do NOT perceive Spark Brushel while he's smiling widely.

* HilariousInHindsight: the whole incident about Phoenix Wright getting hit by a car and flung into a pole and only suffered a sprained ankle. With his inclusion in ''Ultimate VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'', he had to contend with a variety of attacks, such as {{She-Hulk}}'s Level 3 Hyper, which involves getting hit by a car (Sunday Driver, according to her), and her new attack in Ultimate swinging a pole. The best part is that the hit and run incident in the game took place on a Sunday.

* BaseBreaker: ''The entire game''.

* CharacterDerailment: Ema. Although intentional (the developers felt they had to recharacterize Ema so she wouldn't occupy the same personality niche as Trucy), Ema [[TookALevelInJerkass Taking a Level In Jerkass]] did not go over well with all audiences. There are those who believe her jaded and somewhat grumpy demeanor is too far a cry from her bright and enthusiastic youth, even if she's not happy with how her life turned out.

** Even worse was the fact that everyone assumed Machi was an Interpol agent based on the bloody writing. Given how many times something's been written in blood and turned out to be a false lead, you'd think everyone would pick up on that (especially since Apollo claimed he read over some of Phoenix's old case files, and Ema [[spoiler:had the same kind of thing happen to her in 1-5]].)

* CharacterDerailment: Ema. Although intentional (the developers felt they had to recharacterize Ema so she wouldn't occupy the same personality niche as Trucy), Ema [[TookALevelInJerkass Taking a Level In Jerkass]] did not go over well with all audiences. There are those who believe her jaded and somewhat grumpy demeanor is too far a cry from her bright and enthusiastic youth.

* IdiotPlot: Many people think this about case 4-3.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Phoenix Wright, to the point where some fans refer to this game as Phoenix Wright: The After Years

Take general series tropes to YMMV/AceAttorney, and take tropes specific to [[YMMV/{{ptitlesv1ek77e}} the Phoenix arc]], or ''[[YMMV/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth Investigations]]'' to those pages, please.