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Your first run in with the Baker Street Regular is likely while he is [[Snooping Little Kid|searching through the hero's home or office]] or [[Street Urchin|stealing something to eat because he cannot afford it]]. If he is not related to the hero in any way, expect him to have no family, except for maybe a sibling or two, but he is almost always the eldest, and almost always male. If he is an orphan, after scratching his back a couple times, expect him to be forever indebted to you and to get you out of a sticky situation in the nick of time, but don't expect him to just leave. You're stuck with him.

 

 

If he is an orphan, by the end of the story, more often than not, the detective and his love interest end up his surrogate parents, if not flat out adopting him (and any siblings or close friends he has). Other tropes that you are likely to find a [[Baker Street Regular]] on include [[Parental Abandonment]], [[Troubled but Cute]], [[Just a Kid]], and if they are particularly good, [[Kid Detective]].

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* In ''[[Detective Conan]]'', Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko, the Detective Boys. They're even referred to as Baker Street Regulars in an arc.

** They ''literally'' play this when they entered the [[Cyberspace]] [[Victorian England]] AU in the [[Non-Serial Movie]] ''Phantom of Baker Street''.

== [[Film]] ==

* Charlie Chaplin in ''[[Shanghai Knights]]''.

* The street urchin Toto in ''[[American Ninja|American Ninja 2]]'', who never forgets to demand money for service rendered.

* The kid Manco pays to keep tabs on Mortimer in ''[[For a Few Dollars More]]'' fits the bill.

* Akechi Kogoro had several as well, including Yoshio Kobayashi, [[Shotacon|who later became famous for something else entirely]].

* ''[[Solar Pons]]'' has the Praed Street Irregulars.

** Sometimes members of the Beggar's Guild, although largely adults and therefore on the very fringes of the trope, act as this for Lord Vetinari as one of many information-gathering channels (it's implied that someone who may in some small way be connected to him spreads rumors that he pays for information, so that they'll come volunteer it to him instead of him needing to send someone looking). It's implied Vimes occasionally gets information from them as well.

* Ostap Bender from Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov's ''[[The Twelve Chairs]]'' employed them to track one of the titular, possibly treasure-holding chairs.

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

* Dick Tracy, Jr, from ''[[Dick Tracy]]'' is one of the examples of a street urchin who gets adopted. Also appears in the film.

 

== [[Theatre]] ==

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

 

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