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** Though Kogoro/Richard gets played like this most of the time as a [[Defective Detective]], he keeps up with the other adult characters and sometimes surpasses them. With some help, he's shown to be ''very'' good. What keeps his talents from flowering are his laziness and impatience, especially his tendency to stick with the very first theory he comes up with. In some cases he has the edge over Conan, as being older, he has some insight into people's emotions better than Conan/Shinichi (for instance, he can point out the difference between jealousy of a lover or a father). In a number of episodes, Kogoro ''almost'' manages to solve the case by himself (with just a little prompting by Conan), but can't quite make the last connection. Plenty of times, Kogoro is missing the last connections because Conan finds more evidence.<br /><br />And when it comes to apprehending correctly-identified criminals or defending innocents, he becomes ''scarily competent''. Especially if [[Tranquil Fury|said criminals have pissed him off]] [[It's Personal|personally]] or [[Papa Wolf|threatened Conan and Ran]], or if children are at stake. His black belt in judo isn't just for decoration, and it is revealed in the second non-serial movie ''The Fourteenth Target'' that he is an excellent pistol marksman as well.<br />*** In fact in one of [[The Movie|The Movies]], Kogoro not only figured out who the real murderer was before Shinichi, he got it ''right'', when Shinichi accused someone, being wrong. Sort of. It's hard to explain, it being a [[Gambit Pileup]].

* [[Canon Welding]]: ''[[Detective Conan]]'' has the tendency to merge with the universe shared by his previous works, especially ''[[Magic Kaito]]'' and, to a lesser extent, a [[Dragon Ball]] clone called ''[[Yaiba]]!''.<br /><br />''[[Magic Kaito]]'' is Aoyama’s published at random series characters occur so frequently in ''[[Detective Conan]]'' as to be considered the latter's recurring characters. Although, Aoyama also drew the line: ''[[Detective Conan]]'' does not deal with the daily life of the ''[[Magic Kaito]]'' characters. Though it can be noted that the first Kid Toichi Kuroba has found his way into some significant back story involving the Kudos and Vermouth <br /><br />On the other hand, ''[[Magic Kaito]]'' (at least the manga version) is definitively ''in'' the same universe of ''[[Yaiba]]!''; the characters went to the same school called Ekoda, and the ''[[Detective Conan]]'' OVA Conan vs Kaitou Kid vs Yaiba was originally a ''[[Magic Kaito]]'' story arc that followed the same basic plot outline but without Conan's involvement (and without being [[All Just a Dream]], either): Kaito attempts to steal a magic sword, just before he found out what he was meant to be going after. Not to say, Aoko's gossip mill friend Keiko's "very reliable source" is Sayako, the main girl in ''[[Yaiba]]!''.

* [[Little Old Lady Investigates]]: The series has one story where Kogoro is invited to a gathering of other famous detectives in the adult category as opposed to Shinichi's teen detective peers. Numbered among them is a little old lady detective who seems to have worked frequently with the two-fisted man of action private detective perhaps because their opposite strengths combine effectively. {{spoiler|Turns out that this "Little old lady" WAS the killer}}<br /><br />For extra information, Heiji was invited, but couldn't make it, as was Hakuba, who we actually got to see with a gun. [[Nightmare Fuel|Which was both awesome and freaky]], given {{spoiler|he pretends to threaten a female detective while being as chivalrous as possible--and then was seemingly shot himself}}.

* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Some specially tragic cases in the TV series and manga alike. Often, this could be seen as a form of [[Call It Karma]], or possibly even ''true'' [[Karma]], as the killer is invariably stricken with horror and grief upon learning that he killed an innocent person because of a misunderstanding.<br /><br />For example, we have had an injured American tourist recuperating in a Japanese household and falling in love with a young woman. Because of a mouth injury, at first he could only communicate by writing out Japanese phrases phonetically. As he was leaving, the young woman asked if he loved her, and he wrote down the word {{spoiler|"shine", referring to his earlier words that he wanted a "shining bride", but which she quite naturally interpreted as "shi-ne," which happens to be Japanese for "go die", since the note was handed to her by her sisters who thought Robert was being mean. The woman committed suicide after he left, and when he came back he ended up murdering part of her family in revenge.}} [[What an Idiot!]].