Ace Attorney

Ace Attorney is a game franchise with spin-off manga, a live-action film, stage musicals, and more. The games are legal dramas with point-and-click adventure and visual novel elements, set apart by iconic courtroom sequences with well-developed mechanics for cross-examining witnesses and presenting evidence.

The games feature over-the-top dramatic situations and humor, but at the core is a lovable cast of characters and a huge amount of heart. It’d be hard to care about the stakes and jokes if you weren’t invested in the characters and their relationships, after all.

Waifu Tier

ⓘ

The best of the best. Only one character may be in this tier for a given work or medium. This character... is Mai Waifu.

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  Maya Fey

  from Ace Attorney

  Maya Fey is a spirit medium and Phoenix Wright’s partner and assistant in the first few Ace Attorney games. While she meets Phoenix under tragic circumstances - the death of her sister and Phoenix’s mentor, Mia Fey - going through it together results in a close friendship.

  Impulsive and enthusiastic, Maya’s sibling-like banter with Phoenix is a recurring source of comic relief, charm, and levity. In many ways, she’s the heart of Ace Attorney and easily my favorite recurring character.

Harem Tier

ⓘ

The characters who, while not quite waifu material, rise above the rest.

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  Athena Cykes

  from Ace Attorney

  Athena Cykes is a defense attorney who makes her debut in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies. Enthusiastic, driven, compassionate, and a fast learner, Athena became an attorney at a young age in order to save someone important to her.

  Athena’s sensitive hearing and psychological expertise allow her to clearly detect emotions in speech - like a vocal equivalent of reading microexpressions. By pinpointing conflicts in what someone is saying and how they feel about it, Athena can function as a living lie detector. This is quite useful in the courtroom and presents a fun change of pace to the standard cross-examination mechanics.