Dumb Lawyer Quotes IRL But In Ace Attorney is a YouTube video series by Chessette.
Like the title implies, it involves hilariously stupid exchanges in real court cases being re-enacted by Ace Attorney characters.
The series has a total of eight installments.
The series contains examples of:
- Accidental Misnaming: One lawyer calls a witness named Powers, played by Furio Tigre, "Mr. Penis."
- Adaptational Heroism: April May in the original series is guilty of wiretapping and perjury. Here, she's just guilty of wanting a better lawyer after her original one (Layton) starts asking stupid questions.
- Adaptational Job Change: Gregory Edgeworth was canonically a defense attorney; here, he seems to be a mortician who gets asked stupid questions about his profession (such as trying to establish that the victim could have been alive when Gregory had the guy's brain in a jar on his desk).
- A Fool for a Client: The start of Part 4 involves the incident in which Denver Fenton Allen tried to fire his attorney for supposedly extorting sexual favors from him, then got in trouble with the judge almost immediately.
- Ambidextrous Sprite: In Part 5, one sprite of Phoenix in the prosecutor's side has his attorney's badge switch lapels. As for Edgeworth, the section uses his sprite from the first half of the final trial of Trials and Tribulations, in which he briefly takes up Phoenix's badge to defend Iris.
- Amoral Attorney: In Part 7, Phoenix lampshades this trope.Phoenix: The defendant said that prior to the occurrence of this offense, he hoped to attend medical school and become a physician. However, he believes with a felony conviction, he cannot achieve this goal. He is now considering becoming a lawyer.
- Artifact Title: In many of the early videos, the lawyers were the only ones saying stupid things, but as the series went on, the witnesses started giving stupid answers, too.
- Ask a Stupid Question...: Much of Part 2 consisted of lawyers asking their clients stupid questions, including ones that made it clear the lawyer already knew the answer. The following example is from Part 3, when Layton ends up asking the question.Layton: Do you wear corrective glasses?
(Zooms in on the young version of Klavier, who is wearing sunglasses)
Klavier: There are three of you? - Blunt "Yes": Near the end of Part 4, the Caretaker/Yanni Yogi does this when admitting that he didn't know that he'd go to prison for what he did.Judge: In other words, you would commit those crimes if it was a misdemeanor, but not if it's a felony?
Caretaker: ..... Yes. - Damned by Faint Praise: In Part 7, Phoenix lists his client's transgressions, then says, "On the positive side... he has a certificate for exemplary umpire duties in the softball league."
- Deadpan Snarker: Many of the witnesses have their moments, especially when asked stupid questions.Gregory: (on why he knows the autopsy patient is dead) Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Apollo: I see, but could the patient have been alive, nevertheless?
Gregory: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law. - Did You Die?: The very first shown exchange has Phoenix ask Larry if a man who threatened to kill him actually went through with it.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Two examples in Part 4, which was partly based on the Denver Fenton Allen case.
- At the start of Part 4, Edgeworth is determined to put Phoenix away for the rest of his life for saying stupid stuff in court.note
- After Phoenix caps off a string of expletives with a Your Mom comment, the Judge gives him 10 years in prison for contempt of court.
- Early-Installment Weirdness:
- The first installment had no Ace Attorney music or voice clips.
- The first two installments mainly focused on brief exchanges between lawyers and witnesses, often only a few lines long. In later installments, there would be longer exchanges, some lasting a few minutes.
- The first two installments don't show the specific cases the quotes came from. Later installments show the sources at the start of the sections or in the "chapter" titles.
- Enraged by Idiocy: Iris spends most of the second video frustrated about all the stupid questions the lawyers are asking her.
- Flat "What": Edgeworth gives this early in Part 4, after Phoenix claims that Apollo demanded oral sex from Phoenix.
- Insistent Terminology: In Part 6, Gina insists that professional prostitutes call their work "whoeing," as any normal woman is capable of "whoring" herself out, and those who are "whoeing" get paid for their work.
- Lame Comeback: After Edgeworth tells Apollo that he plans on putting Phoenix away, Apollo says, "Yeah whatever Edgeworth. It's not like you're the brightest lawyer anyway."
- Later-Installment Weirdness: Unlike the other videos, which use the Ace Attorney beeps and boops, the final installment is fully voiced.
- Mathematician's Answer: Witnesses give these from time to time.Armando: What was the condition of the body when the autopsy was performed?
Turner: He was dead. - Mood Whiplash: Part 6 has a lengthy discussion over how much Larry ate for dinner, then...Court Transcript: The house was then besieged by forty to fifty officers. Between 300 and 500 rounds of ammunition were expended. Eventually, twenty-six rounds of tear gas ammunition were also fired.
- "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: The first video begins with, "FYI: These were said in actual courts."
- Oddball in the Series: Part 4 tries to edit all the snippets of dumb lawyer quotes together into a single trial, whereas the others have them as separate skits.
- Only Sane Man: Iris (and the Judge to a lesser extent) in the second video.
- Running Gag: For whatever reason, lawyers asking if the victims were dead when the autopsy was performed seems to happen a lot. One witness responds with "If he wasn't, he was by the time I finished."
- Sarcastic Title: "Exciting Dialogue" has lawyers discuss various sections of some document.
- Soundtrack Dissonance:
- During the rather shocking "Court Transcript" excerpt mentioned above in Mood Whiplash, the cheerful "Turnabout Sisters" plays as the BGM.
- During "Exciting Dialogue", the exciting "Pursuit: Keep Pressing On" plays through the rather boring exchange.
- Stealth Insult: Klavier gives one to Phoenix in Part 2.Phoenix: Now doctor, I'm sure you are an intelligent and honest man.
Klavier: Thank you. If I weren't under oath, I'd return the compliment. - You Answered Your Own Question: In the first installment, Edgeworth accuses Lang of hiding the gender of the person he's discussing (who Lang has described starting with "he was" and had a beard), and asks, "What was his gender?"
