Athena had to resort to forcibly dragging Justice out of the courtroom in order to save him. Just before the bomb went off, Juniper Woods, who had been observing the trial from the gallery, fell and tripped.
Justice shielded her from the falling rubble and was injured, while Athena and Blackquill safely left the courtroom. Woods was soon arrested as the prime suspect in the bombing. Justice decided to take Woods' case after the bombing. However, before the trial, he fainted due to his injuries, so Athena took over for him against prosecutor Gaspen Payne. Payne's taunting eventually got to Athena, and she suffered from another flashback to her mother's murder that caused her to almost mentally shutdown in distress.
Just as things looked their bleakest for Athena and Woods, Phoenix Wright arrived to take over the case, causing Athena to snap out of her traumatised state. She assisted Wright in going through Woods' testimony, and managed to undermine the prosecution's case. Court was soon adjourned for the day, so Wright, Athena, and Woods decided to check up on Justice, who was looking for more evidence in the ruins of the bombed Courtroom No. However, upon entering the destroyed courtroom, they found him lying on the ground, unconscious, next to a blood-stained piece of rubble.
The following day, Payne attempted to pin Justice's assault on Woods, but Wright and Athena managed to prove that Tonate was the true culprit. Following on from that, they showed that the deceased detective found in the bombed courtroom had been killed by Tonate, due to her finding out that he had been planning to sell the HH bomb being used as evidence for the trial on the black market.
After the trial was resolved and Woods found innocent, the residents of the Wright Anything Agency were shocked when Justice declared that he would be taking a leave of absence, and walked out. A confused Athena was left wondering why he was shutting them out. Starbuck's trial was later continued in a new courtroom, with Wright proving him innocent when a piece of crucial evidence was found not to have Starbuck's fingerprints on it.
However, the victory was short-lived when Detective Fulbright revealed that the fingerprints belonged to Athena. Starbuck was soon acquitted, with Athena being arrested in his place.
Due to the crucial evidence incriminating her and the security camera footage that caught her leaving the Space Center, Athena was indicted for Terran's murder. At the detention center, she admitted to her presence at the Space Center to Wright, prompting him to continue his investigations there.
However, his investigation was interrupted when the Center's robots staged a rebellion and took staff and visitors hostage, including his daughter Trucy. Aura demanded that the police hand over the "little princess" Athena, but Phoenix gave a counter-proposal: a retrial of Metis's murder case, also known as the UR-1 Incident. Aura enlisted Chief Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth to take the prosecutor's bench. Since all the other courtrooms were in use, Phoenix chose Courtroom No.
Aura then designated Athena rather than Simon as the defendant, and this left Athena in a traumatic state as she wondered if she killed her own mother. This manifested itself as five black Psyche-Locks to Phoenix with his magatama. As the defendant, Athena could initially only watch as Phoenix undermined Aura's theory on how Simon had covered for Athena, then cross-examined Ponco. Simon then took the stand and continued to confess to the murder as he had done for seven years, but with the help of Athena's Mood Matrix, Phoenix was able to uncover the truth of what Simon had seen.
Athena again went into shock, unable to comprehend the apparent revelation that she had killed her own mother. As memories returned, she confessed, remembering the blood running down her hands.
Phoenix, however, used this information to show that Athena was innocent, since Metis's katana had no blood on the handle. After going over the facts of the case, Phoenix realized that Athena must have stabbed the real killer with a different weapon. This revelation finally caused Athena's black Psyche-Locks to break and allowed her to fully remember what had happened.
As the judge was about to declare Athena innocent, Apollo Justice took to the stand, accusing her of Clay Terran's murder. He admitted that he wanted to believe in Athena's innocence, but his bracelet had reacted when she had lied about not having seen the utility knife that had taken Terran's life. Phoenix pointed out that Athena had stabbed her mother's killer with an identical knife, but Justice went on to present his logic as to why only she could have killed Terran.
Phoenix was able to present an alternate theory as to how someone could have committed the crime and safely escaped, and shocked both himself and the rest of the courtroom with his realization that the only other possible culprit was Detective Bobby Fulbright. The Wright Anything Agency was whole once again and took to the defense's bench to bring down Fulbright, whom Phoenix argued was actually an international spy known only as "the phantom ", the one responsible for the courtroom bombing and the deaths of Metis and Terran.
The attorneys first remembered that Fulbright had been the one who presented the evidence with Athena's fingerprints on it that had led to her arrest, and a proper analysis revealed the prints were actually Terran's. Athena used her Mood Matrix to prove that Fulbright's lack of emotion while talking bore many similarities with a psychological profile that had been made up for the phantom by her mother. Eventually, "Fulbright" was revealed to be an impostor, with the motive behind some of his crimes being to destroy the moon rock that had been stained with his blood.
To prove that the impostor was the phantom, Phoenix finally cornered him with Athena's earring, which was made of a moon rock sample from seven years ago and a geological match to the blood-stained moon rock.
The phantom broke down on the stand as he was forced to confront his fear of having his identity revealed, and a hidden sniper non-fatally shot him. Athena returned to the defendant's stand and received her "Not Guilty" verdict.
Athena would later join Phoenix and Justice in watching Starbuck's ascent into space on the HAT-3 rocket, all the while giving the astronaut encouragement. The following year, Trucy Wright was accused of murder when fellow performer Manov Mistree died during a rehearsal of one of her magic shows at the Penrose Theater.
Athena assisted Justice once again to prove her innocence. During their investigation, they met with Ema Skye , a forensic scientist and acquaintance of Justice and Trucy, and learned that an international prosecutor from the Kingdom of Khura'in , Nahyuta Sahdmadhi , would be prosecuting the case.
In the process of their investigation, it became apparent that the producer for Trucy's show, Roger Retinz , held some sort of grudge against the young magician. They also discovered that he had tricked Trucy into signing a contract that, if the magic show were to be canceled in the event that she were found guilty, would result in the Wright Anything Agency being repossessed. However, Justice and Athena were eventually able to prove that Retinz was the true culprit behind Mistree's murder, thereby clearing Trucy's name and saving the Agency.
A few weeks later, Athena took on a last-minute case involving a murder that had occurred at Kurukuru Tei at Simon Blackquill's request, with Sahdmadhi once again prosecuting.
However, this time Athena was alone, as Justice and Trucy were rehearsing magic tricks at the time and Phoenix was abroad in Khura'in, much to Blackquill's chagrin. The defendant was Bucky Whet , head soba chef at the Whet Soba which Blackquill used to frequent prior to his arrest , who was accused of murdering rakugo master Taifu Toneido.
As the trial began, Athena was wracked with nervousness, as she had never handled a case entirely alone before. Prosecutor's Sahdmadhi's first witness was Blackquill himself, who had discovered the body along with Taifu's two students: Geiru Toneido and Uendo Toneido.
After the testimonies of Blackquill and Geiru to the stand, Blackquill joined Athena at the defense's bench as her co-counsel, claiming that he was bored just watching the trial. During Uendo's subsequent testimony, Athena figured out that the karuta cards discovered at the crime scene that seemingly implicated Whet by spelling out "WHET NO 4" had actually been rearranged, which she accused Uendo of doing.
Eventually, she and Blackquill learned that Uendo had dissociative identity disorder, with the cards being rearranged from "OWEN 4TH" to throw off suspicion from his fourth personality.
Now unconscious, his fourth personality, a young child called Owen, came out. During his subsequent testimony, Athena learned that Owen had been at the crime scene during the murder, where he witnessed that the victim had fought back and cut his attacker. However, Prosecutor Sahdmadhi took the opportunity to remind the court that Whet had a bandaged wound above his eye.
Athena was stunned and unsure how to proceed, but Blackquill pulled her aside to tell her that she had to go on, even if the odds were stacked against her. Filled with newfound vigour and confidence, she continued her Mood Matrix therapy of Owen, which soon revealed that he had smelt his favourite perfume before passing out.
With this new information, she accused Geiru of the murder. After being brought back to the stand to hear the accusation, Blackquill used his iaijutsu finger strike to pop a balloon she was holding, which revealed a forehead wound under her bangs.
Athena went on to prove that the murder weapon was not soba dough, as initially thought, but rather, udon dough, thereby completely bypassing Geiru's soba allergy. Geiru soon broke down and confessed to the crime. Three days after Whet's trial, Athena went to the airport to meet Phoenix, who was returning from his trip to the Kingdom of Khura'in.
Unfortunately for Phoenix, however, Athena ended up going to the wrong airport and fell asleep. By the time she returned, Justice was about to face off against Phoenix in a civil trial over an artifact called the Founder's Orb , much to her surprise.
It eventually transpired that Phoenix was being blackmailed into taking the case, with his client, Paul Atishon , holding Phoenix's old friend Maya Fey hostage. Nonetheless, Justice managed to prove Atishon guilty of murder and won the trial, although Maya was still missing in Khura'in.
Although she assisted Justice in his investigation, she was told before Dhurke Sahdmadhi 's trial to stay behind for her safety. I like her design. Hours Left Member.
Oct 26, 14, I like her well enough. Eeek Member. Nov 3, I quite like her, but yeah I think there's only been like 2 cases where she's the lead? And both cases were really short? Verelios Member. Oct 26, 12, I think she was a good addition to the agency, her personality is great and her character motivations are better than 'I didn't steal that money in elementary school' and 'I got the wrong one' but there's just so much wasted potential in her.
I dislike the mood matrix, her chemistry with Blackquill is iffy and her working with Apollo is a much better set up with him being the patsy and there just aren't enough flashes of genius seen that make it credible that anyone couldn't get a law license at 17 these days. The last one has been a problem since 4 though so it's not entirely an Athena problem, but she hasn't had enough playtime for it not to be a glaring problem.
Flame Lord Member. Oct 26, 1, I like her design, she'd probably be better if she got more spotlight. Lemony Member. Jul 7, 3, Kalor Resettlement Advisor Member.
Oct 25, 12, Athena is good and she should get her own game, but I don't imagine AA7 will be that. She felt wasted in 6 even though her case with Blackquill was pretty great. Her Objection theme is good as well. Deleted member Banned. Oct 25, 4, Chopchop Member. Oct 25, 13, She's okay. I loved her "are you fucking kidding me" expression, but her gimmick never really did much for me.
I remember her as a perfectly serviceable protagonist who didn't really swing my opinion in either direction. Last edited: Mar 6, I like her, but her dual destinies storyline does not land, so I voted meh. TheClownAmongUs Member. Oct 25, 9, I like her and she felt pretty core to the narrative of Dual Destinies with her relationship with Blackquil AbsoluteZ3R0 Member. Feb 5, She was really meh at dual destinies but really liked her relationship with Simon.
Her solo case on Spirit of Justice was really good. Enduin Member. Oct 25, 8, New York. Tolerated her for the most part, but think she was a major mistake overall. Her specific design and relative personality and interactions with the other characters were fine, but nothing great. I did enjoy quite a lot though. Her specific gimmick of emotions I found particularly silly and weak in terms of gameplay and execution. Easily one of the worst Attorney abilities in the series. Having a female character with wildly shifting emotions is also ehhhh.
Her entire backstory and resolution in felt farcical even for AA. It just felt super over the top in trying to create some shocking and emotional twist, but it just felt absurd to the extreme. Overall she felt like a major distraction that undermined the overall flow of the games as we now were splitting our attention between three attorneys instead of one.
This meant all three characters suffered in terms of development and focus within the story, but also in terms of gameplay as all three of their abilities saw only marginal use and never reached any real point of challenge or meaningful complexity.
She was functionally pointless in SoJ and her case there was quite weak even if the banter and relationship with Blackquill was somewhat decent. I have little desire to see her be used in the future, even solo.
They shot their wad with her character wise in I want fresh blood with as little connection to PW and co as possible at this point, but definitely want a female attorney as the lead. Starseeker Banned. Dec 30, One one hand, I like her. But on the other hand, she's one main character too many. Symphony Member. Oct 27, 3, She's a cool character and the mood matrix is a fun mechanic, but AA5 didn't do a lot to endear her to people before that final case and then she was sidelined in Spirit of Justice.
Realistically she would be a much better lead than Apollo the jobber given the chance, but I don't see that she'll get that - if the franchise continues it'll be riding the Phoenix train all the way to the bank with some more awful adventures in Khura'in on the side. She's great, but the series hasn't done much with her.
I'd love a game that focuses more on her, I can see a lot of potential in her gameplay mechanic as well. That isn't the question that should be asked. Why she's the least popular of the three is because she's the one with the least development and screentime. As to why, that is something I, too, wish to know. Ahhh, useless, it's all useless -Battler Ushiromiya. TaylorHyuuga posted Ah, I see I really am curious as to why she so hated in the series.
User Info: Wishaal. I didn't hate Athena at first. At first I was just annoyed with her because of the timing she was introduced into the series. But after that those Athena fanboys made me hate Athena. Btw, I'm not a native English speaker, so please forgive my spelling and grammar mistakes. User Info: sincity Okay, I have a bone to pick with Athena, she's my least favorite in the Wright Anyting Agency Trio, She's Not an awful character by any stretch or means, she really comes across to me as annoying and irritating to me, very childish for a Lawyer, in Dual Destinies she comes out of nowhere, everyone in the game comes across and praise her antics like she's the most talanted thing ever, the best thing since slice bread and she has a revolutionary weapon that can help us to achieve justice and all of that, but the way she carries herself says otherwise, she's the least interesting out of the trio,her character is one dimensional, I can't believe her when she's angry because she goes over the top and makes it not believable, she didn't grab my attention the way Phoenix did in his first game or in AA4 or Apollo did.
Turnabout Academy to me was my least favorite turnabout next to the Monstrous Turnabout and Turnabout for Tomorrow, because it forces you to play as her and you get to defend a bunch of bland characters, and the Culprit in this turnabout was really weak in my opinion, and I wanted it to end really quick, everytime they focus on other characters like Apollo they always come back to her, her tragic backstory about fixing her mother, well it was at least tragic, but it didn't grab me like what they did with the Fey Clan, or Edgeworth or Apollo, or the SL-9 incident.
Despite my gripes abut Athena, she have a great chemistry with Apollo, they work on each other, I liked them working together, especially int SOJ with their additional dialog. I liked her at first. I soured towards her because she has the most annoying, delusional fanbase in the entire franchise.
If you disagree, then sorry I'm not sorry. User Info: Exkalipoor. Her two introduction scenes just screamed anime too me. Not that I find Apollo better.
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