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  1. ##**Physicals**
  2.  
  3. **Real**
  4.  
  5. * [Tanks an uppercut punch from Apollo Justice](https://imgur.com/a/pKTyt9w)^AJ
  6. * [A car swerved and hit Phoenix as he was walking. According to him, he was thrown thirty feet through the air and his head hit a telephone pole, but the only injury he took on was a sprained ankle](https://imgur.com/a/ynrdZUN).^AJ
  7. * [Takes a left hook from Maya](https://imgur.com/a/ioBDAE7)^SJ
  8. * [Nahyuta Sahdmadhi throws his prayer bead necklace at Phoenix, restraining his pointing arm in a painful hold](https://imgur.com/a/0O7XZLZ)^SJ
  9. * [He’s repeatedly hit by Rayfa Padma Khura’in](https://imgur.com/a/mCoqhFy)^SJ
  10.  
  11. **Fake**
  12.  
  13. * [Gets splashed by a trained orca](https://imgur.com/a/tbrtv77)^DD
  14. * [His hair instantly resets to its natural look after Blackquill brutally slices off his spitcurl](https://imgur.com/a/aJpc5cT)^DD
  15. * [Unharmed after Sarge’s drone lights up the courtroom with missiles, although they didn’t seem to damage the room at all, either](https://imgur.com/a/UluG28U)^SJ
  16. * [Tanks a bouquet of flowers to the face](https://imgur.com/a/LPiDJ0f)^SJ
  17.  
  18. **Limits**
  19.  
  20. * [A few seconds after assuming a Khura’inian prayer pose, Phoenix passes out from intense back pain](https://redd.it/1lnghe6). He [remains unconscious and recovers after a whole day of rest](https://imgur.com/a/fMR7xiU).^SJ
  21. * [Gets his lights punched out by the former rebel fighter, Datz Are’bal](https://imgur.com/a/bVYrSKG)^SJ
  22.  
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  24.  
  25. ##**Magatama**
  26.  
  27. **General**
  28.  
  29. * [Phoenix can determine if someone’s telling the truth through the absence of Psyche-Locks](https://imgur.com/a/b6l1ozH)^DD
  30. * [The magatama runs off a finite supply of magic energy and it can run out at inopportune times](https://imgur.com/a/dmbfFsY). A medium [like Pearl can casually refuel the magatama with a quick gesture](https://imgur.com/a/EltPX2V).^DD
  31.  
  32. **Black Locks**
  33.  
  34. * [Kristoph Gavin’s Psyche-Locks are black](https://imgur.com/a/us2eYxj)^AJ
  35. * [When questioned about the murder of her mother, Athena’s Psyche-Locks are black](https://imgur.com/a/bnXk0nt)^DD
  36. * [Black locks represent secrets that the person is unconsciously hiding, like memories that were suppressed from trauma. If they are broken like conventional Psyche-Locks, severe damage to the person’s soul is risked](https://imgur.com/a/eIcO4Dd).^DD
  37. * [During the trial of Athena Cykes, Phoenix determines that there was a third person in the room during the murder. This causes Athena to recover a suppressed memory of a man in a mask, which safely breaks all five of her black Psyche-Locks at once](https://redd.it/1leutke).^DD
  38.  
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  40.  
  41. ##**Intelligence/Legal Prowess**
  42.  
  43. **Reputation**
  44.  
  45. * [He’s invited to give a lecture at Themis Academy, a prestigious law school, on his return to the law profession and the skills of lawyering](https://redd.it/1lc65q0)^DD
  46. * [He has a reputation for taking hopeless cases that other attorney’s won’t touch](https://imgur.com/a/kJOqU4c)^DD
  47. * [He achieved the first not guilty verdict in Khura’in in twenty three years](https://imgur.com/a/qL58hcE)^SJ
  48. * [Phoenix becomes a local celebrity in Khura’in following his first two successful trials, gaining the nickname “the Fighting Phoenix”](https://imgur.com/a/Tv99xhz)^SJ
  49. * [He’s known as “the Turnabout Terror” thanks to his ability to recover dramatically during a trial](https://imgur.com/a/MbfrWSS)^SJ
  50.  
  51. **Investigation (Evidence Gathering/Observation)**
  52.  
  53. * [He receives an orb from a former rebel who tells Phoenix that it’s a key to one of their hideouts](https://imgur.com/a/Z3S0OnK). Later on, [Phoenix notices a statue of a bird with a missing eye, and by placing the orb in the statue’s socket, he reveals a hidden wall mechanism into the hideout](https://imgur.com/a/bYcLknq).^SJ
  54. * [Cracks a safe by trying the owner’s daughters date of birth as the four digit combination](https://imgur.com/a/wAsELOZ)^SJ
  55. * [Notices a bloodstain on the side of a lift](https://imgur.com/a/WIYZW7i) and [has Ema Skye compare it to a bloodstained candelabra, which proves that someone was stabbed by the murder victim in that spot](https://redd.it/1lt6ti5)^SJ
  56. * [He uses fingerprint powder on a notebook to determine what was written on a the torn-out page above it](https://redd.it/1ltaldr)^SJ
  57.  
  58. **Cross Examination (Detecting Lies/Contradictions)**
  59.  
  60. * [Finds the contradictions in Yuri Cosmos’s testimony and identifies him as the mystery third person in the room during Clay Terran’s murder](https://redd.it/1lca87l)^DD
  61. * [He cross-examines a robot named Ponco with extraordinary observation and memory capabilities](https://imgur.com/a/J3uE4Bq). He [finds a contradiction between the robot’s memory of the event and a piece of photographic evidence, asserting that the murder victim’s time of death differs from the accepted information](https://imgur.com/a/3Z8MzsM).^DD
  62. * [Disproves Simon Blackquill’s testimony by pointing out that the victim’s blood was on the murder weapon before Blackquill used it to slice a robot](https://redd.it/1leu7w0)^DD
  63. * [By pointing out that music was still being played at the time of the victim’s death despite a blackout affecting the building’s speakers, Phoenix proves that the scene of the murder was different than what was stated by the prosecution](https://redd.it/1llynsk)^SJ
  64. * [Examines an ornate box, reported to be the murder weapon, in court and finds a handprint silhouetted in blood. By comparing it to the victim’s bloodied hand, Phoenix proves that the victim was holding it during the murder and it could not be the murder weapon after all](https://redd.it/1llz74e).^SJ
  65. * [Proves that Puhray Zeh'lot was killed in a different location and time than what was determined by investigators](https://redd.it/1log84g)^SJ
  66. * [Asserts that Puhray Zeh'lot wasn’t actually stabbed by a person but that he fell over onto a statue with sharp, dagger-like feathers](https://redd.it/1logmag)^SJ
  67. * [Deduces that Tahrust Inmee’s death was a suicide rather than a murder, committed in an attempt to cover up Puhray Zeh'lot’s murder and maintain the secrecy of the hidden rebel hideout owned by Tahrust and his wife, Beh’leeb](https://redd.it/1loh6se), which is [later proven to be true by Tah’rust’s confession](https://redd.it/1lohd0q)^SJ
  68. * [When a suspect decides to remain silent on the stand during a cross-examination, Phoenix presses him by asking questions and catches a contradiction on the man’s sole statement](https://redd.it/1ltax9v)^SJ
  69.  
  70. **Intuition/Deduction/Logic**
  71.  
  72. * [Identifies Olga Orly’s body language tell](https://imgur.com/a/vGzgSNK) that [Kristoph Gavin was unable to detect](https://imgur.com/a/XUv0uG4)^AJ
  73. * [Catches a verbal slip-up from Kristoph Gavin and uses it later in the trial to prove that he was in the room the night of the Borscht Bowl murder](https://imgur.com/a/DxbNLrl)^AJ
  74. * [Identifies that the handles on the tools in a toolbox have the GYAXA logo on them, meaning the toolbox found at a crime scene was rearranged](https://redd.it/1leubrv)^DD
  75. * [Identifies that the word “WOODS” written in blood was actually intended to be the code “L10015R”, the identification code for the police officer who bombed a courtroom days earlier](https://redd.it/1larhus)^DD
  76. * [Asserts that a third person was in the room during the murder of Metis Cykes and that they disguised themselves as the victim to bypass the robots’ identification systems. This helps Athena recover a suppressed memory of a man in a mask who was present the day of the murder](https://redd.it/1leukku).^DD
  77. * [Alleges that Clay Terran’s killer escaped the Space Center by leaping from a moving platform onto an emergency ladder](https://redd.it/1lhqjgu). When [Edgeworth claims that fear would prevent someone from attempting this death-defying maneuver, Phoenix concludes that it must’ve been the Phantom, Metis Cykes’ killer, who has an abnormal emotional state and a deadened sense of fear](https://redd.it/1lhro3x).^DD
  78. * [Identifies the man known as Detective Bobby Fulbright as the Phantom, a killer with an abnormal emotional state that prevents him from experiencing fear](https://redd.it/1lhpeo4)^DD
  79. * [The imposter’s identity is revealed later in the trial, vindicating Phoenix](https://redd.it/1lhprvz)^DD
  80. * [Asserts that the Phantom got rid of a blood-spattered piece of evidence by hiding it on a rocket and seeing that it’s launched into outer space](https://redd.it/1lhpkk7). However, the astronauts onboard brought the rock back to Earth in one piece, so the Phantom had it blown up in a courtroom bombing.^DD
  81. * [By having a fragment of the rock and an earring made of the same rock analyzed](https://redd.it/1lhs4ci), Wright [proves his assertion and identifies the Phantom as the killer of Metis Cykes and Clay Terran](https://redd.it/1lhs93e).^DD
  82. * [With video evidence, Phoenix shows that a victim reportedly killed by an orca was not in the pool by his time of death. He asserts that the victim was killed beforehand and was dumped in the pool to make the animal look responsible for the death](https://redd.it/1lhyv84)^DD
  83. * [Phoenix proposes that Jack Shipley, believed to have been killed by an orca, actually fell into the empty orca pool and died from the fall. He continues by explaining that the pool was then filled with water and Orla the orca brought the body out onto the floor outside of the pool, attempting to save Jack’s life. The complete autopsy report supports Phoenix’s theory and Ora is found Not Guilty](https://redd.it/1li0orx).^DD
  84. * [Proves that an orca couldn’t have flung a man using the room and pool’s dimensions](https://imgur.com/a/94xnkx5)^DD
  85. * [Asserts that Shipley’s death could’ve taken place in a different pool and that his body was moved with a hoist into the orca’s pool. He continues by explaining the body could’ve been hidden in a hollow prop rock and his client moved it without realizing what was inside](https://redd.it/1ljc8a8).^DD
  86. * [Identifies that Marlon Rimes wanted revenge on Orla the orca for an orca attack one year prior, where the victim was Marlon’s girlfriend](https://redd.it/1ljcdlo). Phoenix asserts [that Marlon murdered Jack Shipley and framed Orla the orca in an effort to get the animal put down](https://imgur.com/a/gnGGpDq).^DD
  87. * [Cross-examines Orla the orca via a real-time camera feed of the mammal’s pool. Through this cross-examination and Pearl’s assistance, he proves that anyone could manipulate Orla to perform tricks with the correct sounds on a cell phone](https://redd.it/1ljcidf).^DD
  88. * [Examines two walkie-talkies with orca-tooth bite marks on them, leading him to believe that they came from two different orcas. He presents video evidence and pauses on frames where the animals’ mouths are open, proving that one orca has a broken tooth and that the killer stole the captain’s specifically-bitten walkie-talkie after killing him](https://redd.it/1ljcm82).^DD
  89. * [Sasha Buckler backs this up moments later](https://redd.it/1ljcndz)^DD
  90. * [Identifies the proper way of opening an antique box with a special key, which involves flipping it upside-down and pressing it into the back of the box, away from the obvious lock. There was only one other person who knew this trick beforehand, so by pointing out the opened box at the crime scene, Phoenix pins Paht Rohl’s murder on Pees'lubn Andistan'dhin](https://redd.it/1llyyzx).^SJ
  91. * [He asserts that there were three people at the scene during the murder of Tahrust Inmee](https://redd.it/1lnmm2q)^SJ
  92. * [Asserts that the deceased Puhray Zeh'lot was dressing in ceremonial robes and fighting rebels under the guise of Lady Kee’ra, a figure from ancient Khura’inian history](https://redd.it/1loh41w). This [is later proven to be true by Beh’leeb Inmee, a rebel and Zeh’lot’s killer](https://redd.it/1lohd0q).^SJ
  93. * [He asserts that the murder victim had prosopagnosia, a condition that impairs the ability to recognize faces, and backs it up with a page from the man’s journal](https://redd.it/1lsogwc)^SJ
  94. * [Asserts that Dumas Gloomsbury’s body was moved following his murder by pointing out the broken lantern pieces and flower petals resting on top of his body. By recalling that the flowers were kept in the airship’s hold, he identifies the true location of the murder](https://redd.it/1lt6m5x).^SJ
  95. * [Susses out the false time travel scheme perpetrated by Pierce Nichody and the other guests at the Wyatt-Sprocket wedding](https://redd.it/1lt6p9a)^SJ
  96. * [Proves that Pierce Nichody bludgeoned Dumas Gloomsbury with a decorative blimp container by opening the box and finding a bloodstain within, covered up after the murder took place](https://redd.it/1lt9lt9)^SJ
  97.  
  98. **Mental Fortitude**
  99.  
  100. * [When a mad bomber sets a time bomb to five minutes on the witness stand, Phoenix calls his bluff and asserts that it’s a disarming training model. Phoenix proves this assertion with evidence before the timer reaches zero](https://redd.it/1larjri).^DD
  101. * [Objects just before his client gets a Not Guilty verdict because he feels that the whole truth isn’t being disclosed. He goes on to prove that the “murderer” was actually attempting to save the victim’s life just before his death, preventing his wrongful Guilty verdict, too](https://redd.it/1ljcqcs).^DD
  102. * [When an orca is accused of killing its trainer and show partner, Phoenix takes on the case and chooses to defend the animal in a court of law](https://imgur.com/a/2vBEj6R)^DD
  103. * [After arriving in the Kingdom of Khura’in, a country with an archaic legal system where trials are decided solely through a medium’s divinations, Phoenix takes the case of his tour guide and defends him in court](https://redd.it/1llyayq)^SJ
  104. * [Defense attorneys are looked upon with great disdain in Khura’in](https://imgur.com/a/WFp0RmE), with even [Phoenix’s client Ahlbi initially expressing hatred towards his lawyer on the witness stand](https://imgur.com/a/Z2bdAd3)^SJ
  105. * [In Khura’in, a law called the Defense Culpability Act states that a lawyer defending a suspect that’s found guilty is punished the same way as the criminal. Through this law, many defense attorneys have been imprisoned or executed for defending a suspect who is found guilty](https://redd.it/1llyju2). Still, [Phoenix takes on several seemingly impossible cases during his time in the country](https://redd.it/1llym3k).^SJ
  106. * [When Phoenix finds that his client, Paul Atishon, is a murderer partway through a civil case, he resigns as Atishon’s lawyer. Phoenix then helps Apollo Justice, the opposing counsel in the case, to find the truth and expose Atishon as the killer](https://redd.it/1lrhtbx).^SJ
  107. * [When armed guards burst into the courtroom and hold rifles to Apollo, Phoenix and Nahyuta](https://imgur.com/a/kOITR8z), the lawyers [refuse to give into intimidation and continue trying their case against the lawmaker, Ga'ran Sigatar Khura'in](https://imgur.com/a/cedAANI)^SJ
  108. * [Just before his client gets a not guilty verdict, Phoenix interjects and continues the trial because he believes there’s still more to the story](https://redd.it/1ltapov)^SJ
  109.  
  110. **Other**
  111.  
  112. * [While he was disbarred, he forged a piece of evidence, a playing card stained with blood, and had Trucy bring it to Apollo during a trial](https://redd.it/1l8t339). An identical card was [removed from the scene of the crime by the killer, Kristoph Gavin, and by having Apollo present the card while Gavin was on the stand, the killer revealed himself trying to prove that the card was a fraud](https://redd.it/1l8t30a).^AJ
  113. * [He’s spent some time in Europe studying the foreign legal systems while helping Miles Edgeworth](https://imgur.com/a/yL1Lk1t)^DD
  114. * [When Apollo expresses skepticism over the testimony of an 85-year-old man, Phoenix spins his comment in order to make the judge feel insulted and less favorable towards Apollo](https://imgur.com/a/0AL3lNz)^SJ
  115. * [Calls a very reclusive witness to testify on the condition that they can speak through a remote control drone](https://redd.it/1lrjbe8)^SJ
  116.  
  117. **Limits**
  118.  
  119. * [Immediately before a trial, he’s handed a scrap of paper by an eight year old](https://imgur.com/a/j4tWBmP). When he [presents this page as evidence](https://imgur.com/a/gs5guKh), Klavier Gavin [reveals that it’s a forgery](https://imgur.com/a/TlsXSdy) and [Phoenix is disbarred from practicing law](https://imgur.com/a/N0phej7).^AJ
  120. * [Seven years later, another case exonerates Phoenix by revealing the forged evidence was planted by Kristoph Gavin](https://imgur.com/a/rdeZZVB)^AJ
  121. * [Miles Edgeworth used his pull as Chief Prosecutor to get Phoenix his attorney’s badge back after his scandal](https://imgur.com/a/rHi1bW0)^DD
  122. * [Attempting to defend Maya Fey for a murder charge, Phoenix draws a blank during the trial and she’s declared guilty. Due to Khura’in’s Defense Culpability Act, Phoenix is sentenced as well](https://redd.it/1lnmon2).^SJ
  123. * [The trial is only overturned because a second, related murder is discovered immediately following the trial and Phoenix is able to solve both slayings the next day in court, overturning the first trial’s result and exonerating Maya](https://imgur.com/a/ONLrQfm)^SJ
  124.  
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  126.  
  127. ##**Equipment**
  128.  
  129. * [The pin on his hat](https://imgur.com/a/1exGEuk) contains [a small, hidden video camera built into it](https://imgur.com/a/TYvnOTB)^AJ
  130. * [He carries a camera to photograph crime scenes to use as evidence later on](https://imgur.com/a/9038z9m)^SJ
  131. * [A spray used to detect the poison, atroquinine, which caused the poison to glow blue](https://imgur.com/a/9NqwF3T)^AJ
  132. * [Powder and a duster used to reveal fingerprints](https://imgur.com/a/HgrcDw1)^DD
  133. * [With luminol fluid and special red-tinted glasses, Phoenix can reveal bloodstains even after they’ve been cleaned up. Surfaces where blood was spattered previously glow blue when sprayed by the fluid and observed with the glasses](https://redd.it/1lnmq32).^SJ
  134.  
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  136.  
  137. ##**Miscellaneous**
  138.  
  139. * [He’s played poker at the Borscht Bowl nightclub for seven years and hasn’t lost a single time](https://imgur.com/a/LkZosoA), probably [due to his ability to read opponents](https://imgur.com/a/gF5NPQv)^AJ
  140. * [During at least some of those poker games, he had help from Trucy Wright and her people-reading skills](https://imgur.com/a/52ng91D)^AJ
  141. * [Despite being employed as a pianist for seven years, he cannot play a single song on the piano](https://imgur.com/a/O6BafxI)^DD
  142. * [His spiky haircut shows up on an x-ray](https://imgur.com/a/DWjQluE)^SJ
  143.  
  144. ---
  145.  
  146. ##**Maya Fey**
  147.  
  148. **Spirit Channeling**
  149.  
  150. * [Before her special training in Khura’in, Maya had a thirty percent success rate in channeling spirits, according to her own best guess. After her training, she should have a one hundred percent success rate and full control over the spirits that she channels](https://imgur.com/a/nVdLAb7).^SJ
  151. * [Spirit mediums can conjure the spirits of people who lived in the ancient past. Although their memory cuts off immediately after they die, they can recall any of their memories with perfect clarity](https://imgur.com/a/a5Pl5Ws).^SJ
  152. * [An artifact called a Magatama of Parting can halt the flow of spiritual energy and instantly send channeled spirits back to the afterlife](https://imgur.com/a/yr780bm). Here’s [the Magatama of Parting in use](https://redd.it/1loh999).^SJ
  153. * [Magatamas of Parting are spent of spiritual energy after a single use](https://imgur.com/a/LeoUL0x)^SJ
  154. * [Channels the spirit of the recently deceased High Priest Tahrust Inmee, which completely changes the shape of her face and body into that of Inmee](https://redd.it/1loh0k0). She [remains in this state throughout the entire trial until a Magatama of Parting is used, which sends Inmee back to the Twilight Realm and reverts Maya to normal](https://redd.it/1loh999).^SJ
  155. * [She channeled Dhurke, Apollo’s adopted father, completely fooling Apollo into believing Dhurke was still alive](https://redd.it/1lt0bu0)^SJ
  156.  
  157. **Other**
  158.  
  159. * [She was held hostage in a tomb for six days](https://imgur.com/a/rYTLEPt). She [required a day of rest following this ordeal](https://imgur.com/a/pHEp2Ch).^SJ
  160. * [She becomes head of the Fey clan of spiritual channelers](https://imgur.com/a/kkJwsdh)^SJ
  161. * [Maya, Athena and Ema radiant dark energy when they’re really mad](https://imgur.com/a/MSxJODi)^SJ
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