an orange waitress uniform briefly in the third game. Reception Mia was received well by critics, especially for her strong-willed characterization throughout the series. Jay Castello at Eurogamer considered Mia "the biggest influence [for] how much [one] wanted to be a lawyer. In this, it wasn't Phoenix but his mentor Mia Fey that drove me. Compassionate, dedicated, and hyper-competent to the point of getting her own murderer to confess in court (it's a long story), she was everything that I wanted to be", with The Outer Haven praising their "passion" and status as "arguably one of the most important characters in the Ace Attorney series." Netzpiiloten Magazin described Mia as "one thing above all else: bizarre". Kate Gray of Nintendo Life commented that "Mia's sudden and unexpected death is the very beginning of the series-long lesson that Ace Attorney is trying to teach its players: never take anything for granted", comparatively comparing their death and its impact to that of Sean Bean's Ned Stark at the conclusion of the first season of Game of Thrones. While criticizing Mia's death as falling into the trope of "fridging", Gray noted "return as Ghost Advisor [as] making her a little different", characterized as "an absolute boss" over the course of the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy. References Ace Attorney characters Animated human characters Capcom protagonists Female characters in animation Female characters in anime and manga Female characters in video games Fictional American people in video games Fictional characters from Los Angeles Fictional defense attorneys Fictional Japanese American people Fictional private investigators Fictional spiritual mediums Video game characters introduced in 2001 Fictional female lawyers