Generation Loss

Generation Loss

apollo’s reactions to robin newman are so funny to me in turnabout academy like this is literally just trans on trans crime

I’ll probably do this digitally later but right now I don’t have the energy to

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Exactly this.

The way they characterised Jean Armstrong made me feel uncomfortable as they were very obviously making it over the top and making him the butt of jokes in that episode.

Another character that I would mention is Robin Newman. They could’ve handled her character a lot better, instead of just having her been born female and forced to live as a male etc until that case. Additionally Apollo, Blackquill and the judge’s reactions in court once this was revealed did not sit well with me or my brother as it came of as being transphobia, especially as most of Robin’s character revolves around her gender. (I know that they were in shock, but still.)

Hopefully in any future games it won’t be like this, considering most of these games were from early 2000’s - and I know that doesn’t excuse those jokes, but I think you get what I mean.

Despite a ton of queer subtext, the actual canonical text of Ace Attorney is deeply homophobic and heteronormative.

Homosexuality and queerness are never directly referenced or mentioned at all in the series. There is never a moment in the series where it is directly discussed that non-straight is a thing you can be.

However, there are a few characters who are implied to be non-straight and these cases are handled in the same way every time.

Male homosexual stereotypes: men who wear cosmetics, are flashy and limp wristed. These queer stereotype men are treated with derision by the characters and the text. At one point Phoenix Wright directly calls another man (Redd White) a "fruitcake" which is a slur against homosexual men.

Implied lesbians: Specifically Lana Skye and Aura Blackquill. In both cases these characters are hinted to have romantic feelings for another woman. In both these cases, the characters around them do not reference this directly and instead act embarrassed on the woman's behalf. Ema hurries to explain that Lana's attraction to Mia is "an intellectual attraction", and in court, everyone is nervous to explain to the judge that Aura was in romantic love with Metis and it's never said directly, only hinted around with embarrassment.

In both cases, male and female, the characters of Ace Attorney act in a way that suggests that homosexuality in the Ace Attorney universe is something embarrassing and shameful.

At no point in the series is there ever a moment where homosexual behavior and presentation isn't treated as something embarrassing and shameful.