Chapter 192: Ace Attorney’s Other Influences
Of course, as incensed was the Anti-Creed Alliance towards the implicit taunt, they still had to stick to their united plan.
Although the Anti-Creed Alliance was going for a more un-publicized route, that didn't mean that they were already beaten and had already given up on their "Anti-Creed" designation.
Their lawsuits would still go on albeit in a quieter and on a much tighter knit of dissemination.
They did fail to arouse a Creed-hating mob through their lawsuit tactics and they might not be able to use that tactic for a long time... or at least until Alexander Creed's child identity would lose its untouchable taboo status!
Anyways, the battle is still on, however, it is on a much-extended duration and in a much less publicized way.
The Anti-Creed Alliance's sentiments and broader plans aside, the entire Creed attack incident did bring about a lot of other things.
Perhaps the most notable is the release of Ace Attorney. While it did bring some light to the precarious and undeniably scheming corporate battle that hovered over the comic book industry, it did have other influences that extended from that.
Most comic readers don't dive much into the complicated hidden parallels that are within some stories after all. They did sympathize with Creed Comics' plight but they were much more towards the purer content of the Ace Attorney title.
They just enjoyed it for the most part and had their own inspirations and emulations to take from it.
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Ace Attorney Influence 1: The Phoenix connection for Phoenix's sake.
Back at the Phoenix residence. River just got home from an acting gig and some bits of big bro Keanu and Johnny musical escapades.
To none of his surprise, he saw his siblings reading a comic book. River had no idea how it started but Rain, Leaf, Liberty,
Summer, and even himself have been caught up in Creed stories which have been the "hip" thing for many months now.
"What are you guys oogling about, Leaf?" River asked. "Has Shenron the Dragon finally been summoned by Goku's group?"
"It already has." Leaf answered. "But it's the new Creed title that we've been reading."
"A new Creed title? What's it about?" River realized that he's been too busy with other stuff that he had been behind on some Creed reading.
"Just read and you'll find out. The main character has the same name as us, so it's super interesting" Leaf simply handed their bought Ace Attorney copies to their always-busy brother. Of course, he didn't fail to re-read along for the heck of it.
The Phoenix brothers read on and inadvertently felt connected to Attorney Wright just because of a simple namesake.
Of course, unlike Leaf whose attention was on Phoenix Wright, River's thoughts mostly drifted on the Aleksei Kreid character and its Creed Comics connection.
It had to be said that Back to the Future was produced by a company called Creed Pictures and the screenplay was said to have been adapted from something written by a kid named Alexander Creed.
Putting two and two together, River Phoenix can't help but marvel and excitedly shiver as his absurd conjecture may just be spot on!
That Alexander Creed could truly well be "the" Alexander Creed!
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Ace Attorney Influence 2: Lawful Aspirations.
Somewhere in Italy. A group of beautiful models was waiting for their shoot. Standing out from the rest, a model named Monica Belluci was reading an Ace Attorney comic book as her friend had recommended it.
It was Creed comic book from untranslated America but she still took the time to read, given that its rare theme perfectly catered to her likes.
Inadvertently, Monica can't help but wonder at the colorful and intriguing story while also feeling conflicted about a lot of things.
There was her law degree which has compromised as her modeling career seems to have taken over her passions.
Reading about Phoenix Wright and what he is achieving seems to have kindled a spark within her.
Frankly, a career in law seems unappealing in many other areas but Phoenix Wright showcased how potentially glamourous it could be.
It was not only Monica Bellucci with lawful aspirations who was inspiredly impressed by what Ace Attorney could offer.
A young Scottish Butler and little girl Jones were also enamored by such a law-themed comic book story that they had stumbled upon in one way or another.
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Ace Attorney Influence 3: Inspiring New Avenues.
It was not only future "actors" and "actresses" that Ace Attorney has to influence as somewhere in New York's Manhattan, Judy Sheindlin had just presided over a family court case but still flipped on the Creed law story with interest.
Judy was caught up in the comic medium that her assistant had to intervene. "Erm... Judge Sheindlin... are you okay?"
"I'm fine but..." Judy was out of her stupor but had an amused smile etched on her face. "... have you read on about the Creed Comics case, Agatha?"
"I'm afraid not, Ma'am." Her assistant was confused. "Should I pull up some documentation about it?"
"No no. It's just that the company published an interesting comic book and I can't help but be inspired by a silly idea." Judy chuckled.
"Care to share, Ma'am." Assistant Agatha was curious as this known "tough" and "harsh" judge was rarely amused.
"A comic book is on its way to making attorneys, lawyers, and prosecutors interesting. Wouldn't it be amusing if there is a TV show or whatnot about judges like me?" Even Judy was amused by her line of thinking but she was also inspired. "Doesn't Judge Judy have a nice ring to it?"
Assistant Agatha chimed along but also inputted that it could potentially open new avenues for their field of justice.
Not far from Judge Judy Sheindlin's shared thought was a fellow surnamed Kardashian, however, he was more on the interesting attorney part of Phoenix Wright and nothing else.
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Ultimately it all boils down to Ace Attorney being quite more far-reaching in influence than it was originally set out to be.
Dragonball and TMNT are an influence with regards to the spiked attention that they brought towards martial arts and the like.
However, Ace Attorney is a force on its own and may have just elevated to a much greater height than its past-future Capcom game origin.
Alexander's plundering, early usage, and opportune protocol release seem to have leveled things up to a higher level.
Ace Attorney is now much more widespread, general, and critically relevant that everything related to the practice of law and justice seems to have been riled up.
The future lawyers and servants of justice are still younglings that are developing as they can be but an Ace Attorney was already existing and popular that they would inadvertently come across it.
Perhaps even strict lawyer families whose strict upbringings would essentially dictate their children's future with an iron fist may not need to worry much anymore.
Kids love to emulate heroes and popular figures... well, there is Phoenix Wright now for their future rebellious kids to aspire for.
One way or another, Ace Attorney might have grown into something that even Alexander himself hadn't expected.
Its influence would pervade and would linger on for many years. One could only look forward to how that effect would accumulate over time.
People would probably look back on it and feel amused that the influential law icon was born out of Alexander Creed's spite towards his legal attackers.
In any case, Ace Attorney's other influences seem much more amazing and interesting to unveil!