History YMMV / TurnaboutStorm

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Some felt this way about Trixie. She acts incredibly smug, arrogant, and condescending throughout the entire series, and has no qualms about trying to get Rainbow Dash wrongly prosecuted simply for revenge on Twilight, and she repeatedly prioritizes revenge over the truth. She gets a CryForTheDevil in the form of [[spoiler:black Psyche-locks]], but these are never significantly explained or elaborated on. Phoenix at times says that she's doing certain things for noble purposes, but virtually every one of these instances is actually explainable by Trixie just serving her own selfish ends. She never even apologizes or shows remorse for what she did afterwards, not even when Phoenix [[spoiler:generously helps her out and saves her career]]. The only really noble thing she ever does, [[spoiler:write a secret, reluctant thank-you note to Phoenix]], came at no cost to herself whatsoever, and as far as she knew, would not be discovered by anypony.

** In ''Part 3 - Phoenix'', Rainbow temporarily adopts Fluttershy's manestyle while mocking her. [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E8TheLostTreasureOfGriffonstone Come Season 5, and we get another instance where Rainbow Dash uses another character's manestyle while mocking them.]] Then Season 6 came and [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E7NewbieDash had her copy all five - yes, including Fluttershy.]]

** In ''Part 3 - Phoenix'', Rainbow temporarily adopts Fluttershy's manestyle while mocking her. [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E8TheLostTreasureOfGriffonstone Come Season 5, and we get another instance where Rainbow Dash uses another character's manestyle while mocking them.]]

*** And while we're on the subject of said crossover, Twilight's book of "How to Become a Lawyer in 24 hours" is full of fantastic FloweryElizabethanEnglish, easily on par with that of Inquisitor Zacharias Barnham.
--> '''Twilight: Consult with thy accused in melancholy, lifting wisdom from thy plea of innocence.'''

* {{ArcWelding}}: [[spoiler: When Phoenix gives the large sack of reward money to Trixie, that might cause an unintentional one come the episode Magic Duel where she buys the Alicorn Amulet.]]
* {{Anvilicious}}: In the scenes between the credits of the final episode, Big Mac soapboxes about how it's fine to take pride in something you like, but shoving it down other peoples' throats is overbearing and problematic. In the context of the episode, he's referring to the Judge's behaviour outside the courtroom, but it's also a shot at the more overzealous members of the brony community.

** How else do you explain so many comments inmediately going [[{{Rule34}} through the kinky route]] as soon as embarassing pictures of Rainbow Dash are pointed out? Something not helped by lines such as ''"I didn't knew you were into that kind of stuff, Rainbow Dash!"'' and by Maya and Edgeworth's comments after Phoenix goes back home.
--->'''Maya:''' Nick... Do you want to talk about this? It's alright, eveyone has skeletons in their closet.\\

** The motive behind Pinkie telling Phoenix to not mention Ms. Mailmare's name in ''Part 3 - Phoenix'' was because of [[IHaveManyNames the little conflict that would arise]], which was shown in ''Part 3 - Twilight''. Unfortunately, without the latter's context, it was seen as an allusion to the unfortunate "Derpygate" conflict, where the issue of her name and original voice being removed from later broadcasts of the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E14TheLastRoundup only episode she spoke in]] caused great conflict within the fandom. In reality, the gag was written and recorded before the conflict arised.

** The entire series is basically this with the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E16RarityInvestigates Rarity Investigates]]", where Rainbow Dash has been accused of a crime she did not commit. The culprit is even pretty similar.

** The entire series is basically this with the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E16RarityInvestigates Rarity Investigates]]", where Rainbow Dash has been accused of a crime she did not commit.

** They considered the human justice system to be the pinnacle of justice in the universe. That's either hilarious or terrifying, depending on the context. Then ''[[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW The Good, The Bad, and the Ponies]]'' comes out. The ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' justice system really ''is'' a step up.

** They considered the human justice system to be the pinnacle of justice in the universe. That's either hilarious or terrifying, depending on the context. Then ''[[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW The Good, The Bad and the Ponies]]'' comes out. The ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' justice system really ''is'' a step up.

** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E12GamesPoniesPlay Games Ponies Play]]", Rarity messes up Cadence's hairstyle, and tells Twilight with horror "Imagine her hair looking like a porcupine!" Jury's still out though on her opinion of it on males, much less male humans, though.

* CluelessAesop: Multiple times in the story characters praise the justice system in use and consider the judge to be fair when a huge moral of the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series is that the justice system in use is horrifyingly screwed up and ludicrously biased against whoever the police fingers. It was in fact largely conceived as a commentary on the highly problematic condition of the justice system in japan.

* TookALevelInDumbass: Fluttershy. She thinking Phoenix is an actual kind of phoenix is capable of denying WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief. Fluttershy's characterization in general could seem like Flanderization without the knowledge that the whole series was written before her character development in "Hurricane Fluttershy" and "Putting Your Hoof Down".
** Applejack gets this, too, to a degree, where she's portrayed as a bit dimmer than she actually is (she's in line with her maths dumb self), though it's not as obvious as it is with Fluttershy.

** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E12GamesPoniesPlay Games Ponies Play]]", Rarity messes up Cadence's hairstyle, and tells Twilight with horror "Imagine her hair looking like a porcupine!" And yet here she's the one pony who ''doesn't'' make fun of Phoenix's famous porcupine-hair.

** The punishment for murder in this series, "Banishment to the moon (or the sun)", ''actually comes up'' in ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyDualDestinies'', when defendant of case four (an astronaut) glumly tells the judge to banish him to the moon.

** Season 3 has had [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E5MagicDuel several]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E11KeepCalmAndFlutterOn episodes]], focused on redeeming past antagonists. [[spoiler: This series does a similar thing with Gilda]].

*** Porcupine hair would not look good on a Princess who is supposed to look regal. However, on a male pony the porcupine look might look good, especially if it's to draw attention. Viewing it like this lessens the aneurysm a bit.

* CluelessAesop: Multiple times in the story characters praise the justice system in use and consider the judge to be fair when a huge moral of the AceAttorney series is that the justice system in use is horrifyingly screwed up and ludicrously biased against whoever the police fingers. It was in fact largely conceived as a commentary on the highly problematic condition of the justice system in japan.

*** Porcupine hair would not look good on a Princess who is supposed to look
regal. However, on a male pony the porcupine look might look good, especially if it's to draw attention. Viewing it like this lessens the aneurysm a bit.