Apollo Justice


 * You may be looking for the game Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney.

"Phoenix Wright"

- You know what changed her mind? Hearing your defense in there today. She could feel your gaze, unwavering, always looking straight at the truth.

Apollo Justice is a defense attorney working for the Wright Anything Agency. He is notable for his involvement in a test trial for the Jurist System, an effort to re-integrate the jury into court proceedings, along with co-council Trucy Wright and Prosecutor Klavier Gavin.

Early life
Justice was born to Thalassa Gramarye and a stage performer. His father died a year after he was born. Gramarye left Justice with one of her bracelets and later was remarried and had Trucy Wright.

Law career

 * Main article: Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney

Justice passed the bar with badge number 29003, and he came to work for Kristoph Gavin's law firm, Gavin Law Offices. Gavin aided him during his first case, in which the defendant was disgraced former lawyer Phoenix Wright. The trial was a very standard one, not unlike Wright's first case, until Wright began to hint that Gavin was the real killer. Wright guided Justice to figuring out the truth about the case, and Gavin was arrested as the real killer. Gavin Law Offices was consequently dissolved.

Wright invited Justice to work for the Wright & Co. Law Offices; after two months, with nowhere else to turn for a job, Justice reluctantly visited the old firm. He found that it was now a talent agency run by Wright's adoptive daughter, Trucy Wright. After the confusion was settled, Trucy hired Justice as the agency's lawyer; as Justice had no entertaining talent to speak of, Trucy renamed the agency the Wright Anything Agency to account for Justice's involvement in it.

At first, Phoenix assigned Justice to three minor, seemingly pointless cases, but he found that all three cases were tied to a murder that had occurred in People Park. Desperate for real work, he offered to defend the prime suspect of the murder. With the help of Trucy and Detective Ema Skye, Justice gathered evidence and then faced off against Kristoph Gavin's brother, Prosecutor Klavier Gavin, in court. Justice implicated the defendant's fiancee as the real killer; as Klavier began to figure out that Justice was right, he helped Justice with the process of proving his claims. Justice wondered whether he had really earned his victory.

Klavier also had his own band; he invited Justice and Trucy to one of his concerts at a discounted price. However, during the concert, someone was shot, and Justice defended the prime suspect in court against Klavier. A blind witness implicated one of Klavier's band members, Daryan Crescend, as the real killer, and while he had set up an alibi for himself, Justice was able to show that Crescend had set up the crime to throw off the time of the shooting, and that he had been smuggling a Borginian cocoon, which had led to the confrontation that had killed the victim. Lacking decisive evidence, Justice convinced his defendant to testify to his involvement in the smuggling, proving Crescend's motive.

Three months later, Justice participated in a test trial for the Jurist System, defending Vera Misham against the charge against her with the murder of her father Drew Misham, with Klavier as the prosecutor. Although Phoenix had promised Justice a "simple" case, the case quickly ballooned into a monstrosity as the murder weapon, a Troupe Gramarye commemorative stamp laced with atroquinine, was tied to Vera's secret life as a forger, as well as the case that had cost Phoenix his attorney's badge. It was revealed that Phoenix had continued his investigation into his last case for the past seven years. Eventually, Kristoph Gavin was summoned from his prison in Solitary Cell 13, accused by Justice of setting up the murder seven years ago. As Justice and Klavier closed in on the truth, they found that they had no decisive evidence to prove that Kristoph had committed the deed. However, they had no need for this under the new Jurist System. As Kristoph utterly broke down upon finding out that the common people would decide the outcome of the case, Klavier and the judge gave their justifications for the new system, though Justice was rendered speechless. Justice vowed that he would learn what law was for himself, and fight to change it if he had to.

Personality
Like his mentor Phoenix Wright, Apollo Justice has a sarcastic side that he keeps to himself, although it is not as strong. He also has a vain side; he frequently makes puns out of his own name, and he practices his shouting for hours at night, calling it his "Chords of Steel", which sometimes makes his voice raspy. He occasionally even shows some disdain for some of his clients. He frequently worries about and feels sorry for Trucy, and is confused by Phoenix and Trucy's odd relationship.

Klavier Gavin often calls Justice "Herr Forehead", a reference to an objection made by Apollo about where a murder victim had been shot, as well as a reference to his rather high and exposed forehead.

Justice claims to be good with astrology, and he's fairly skilled with hula hoops. Like Phoenix Wright, Justice is not a fan of heights.

Usually during trials, most of the defendants or witnesses are quite frightened by his unusual hair. Phoenix Wright also had this problem during his time as a lawyer, though not as strong. Unlike Phoenix, who claims his hair is "natural," Justice uses hair gel.

"Perceive" ability


The bracelet Justice has helps him to focus on the nervous habits of other people. When Justice feels his bracelet getting tighter during a cross-examination, he knows to focus on the witness. Justice inherited the bracelet from his mother.

Name

 * Apollo is named after the god of light and truth in Greek and Roman mythology. His last name is a reference to his job; he likes to make puns with his last name.


 * "Odoroki" (王泥喜) literally means "a surprise". The kanji "hou" (法) means "law", and "suke" (介) is a common ending for male names, the resulting meaning of his first name being "boy of law".


 * In both Spanish and Italian, Justice's nickname "Pollo" means "chicken".

Other media



 * In episode 19 of the anime Lucky Star, Hiyori produces two drawings to show Yutaka and Minami. These are of chibi versions of Klavier Gavin and Apollo Justice, complete with "Objection!" written beside the picture of Justice. The episode premiered in Japan on August 12, 2007, four months after the release of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney in Japan. The scene can be viewed here.


 * Apollo Justice has a cameo in the Capcom game We Love Golf on the Wii, along with Pearl Fey.