What I find really funny is the progression of the prosecutors in the Ace Attorney/Apollo Justice trilogies. Because honestly they kinda shoot themselves in the foot by making you compete against The Best Prosecutor In The World Who Never Lost A Case in the very first game and then immediatly putting him in jail. So they had no choice in the following game than following up with another Genius Prosecutor Who Never Lost A Case, which does get old because she ends up losing every case. A conondrum solved by the absolutely brilliant idea of then giving you a Prosecutor who is simultanely a genius, a complete beginner, a legend despite noone knowing him, and 100x times cooler than you, and STILL making him loose every trial then putting him in jail. At which point, the developper were probably like: you know what? Let’s go to the end of this logic. Let’s just make the next one straight up a fucking criminal. No putting THIS ONE in jail, because he already FUCKING IS. He will have the swag of a hundred Godot, the edginess of a thousand emo boy. He killed someone with a katana. He walks in the court and immediatly humiliate the judge. His coat is BLACK like his SOUL. He’s a scoundrel. He wears fucking handcuffs in the courtroom and is still humiliating your ass. He has a ponytail-
What I m just saying is that Simon Blackquill is the funniest character of the franchise so far.
(I am of course not including in this reasoning Edgeworth and Klavier, because at this point they count more as love interests than rivals. Nor the Paynes, who are also incredibly funny but for wildly different reasons.)