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Shinichi Kudo (Jimmy Kudo in the US) is one of the world's foremost detectives. And he's only in high school. His sharp analytical mind allows him to connect points faster than just about anyone else. The local law enforcement agencies frequently ask him for help.
One day, while with his childhood friend Ran Mouri (Rachel Moore in the US) he witnesses a crime committed by two men in black. They see him, knock him out, and give him a pill that is supposed to kill him and not show up in the autopsy. There's about a [[Million
Now, as six-year-old Conan Edogawa (a combination of the names Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Ranpo Edogawa, two famous mystery writers), he has to find and apprehend the men that shrunk him while keeping his friends in the dark, lest the men in black kill them all for knowing too much. The fact that he witnesses (and subsequently solves) about three murders a week in the process doesn't seem to slow him down.
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The North American dub is titled ''[[Case Closed]]''. Some believe Conan Properties International demanded this under the impression that the [[One Mario Limit|only Conan in existence]] is [[Conan the Barbarian]] ([[Conan O Brien]] ended up paying them to use his current show's title). Others think a distributor [http://theblogthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2010/08/another-conan-kerfuffle.html demanded a unique trademark].
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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The anime tends to build the cases' backgrounds and characters further than the manga (after all, [[Talking Is a Free Action]]). Therefore, cases like the murder of Mina by her sister Masayo over a misunderstanding or the asshole writer killed by his twin brother become [[Tear Jerker|much stronger]], since we see a smooth transition of the murderers, from keeping their cool to becoming completely deranged.
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: any and all adults, even if competent detectives or policemen otherwise, are not nearly match to Conan's lightning deduction (and sometimes the unique benefits of having a child's body).
** 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]] [[
** Shinichi's and Heizo's fathers are great detectives, even better than their sons, they just basically never show up. Yusaku is just ''not'' interested in being a full-time detective, being quite happy as a mystery author, and Heizo's father is probably busy with the administrative kind of police work. Ran's mother, Eri, is pretty effective at being a detective as well. Probably why she's such an effective lawyer. She's just so rarely involved that it doesn't matter.
* [[Adult Fear]]: Any danger that happens to Conan, who the majority of the characters believe is a six year old kid, or any other children in general. Conan has been alone with murderers before, held at gunpoint or knifepoint, taken hostage, willingly staying in an elevator with a bomb, being kidnapped and so forth. Another example that could applied is in the 15th movie {{spoiler|where Conan is buried under an avalanche and they only had minutes to save him.}}
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* [[Art Major Biology]]: The whole Apotoxin plot. The apoptosis thing is true, when explained. But one wonders where Haibara and Conan gained enough nutrients for their cells to multiply so quickly. And wouldn't their risk for cancer exponentially increase each time they take the antidote? Let alone that [[Improbable Antidote|Baigar Is The Antidote]]...
* [[Asshole Victim]]: They love this trope. Very often, the killer is in a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] due to the victim committing one or more acts of [[Kick the Dog]] or being a downright [[Complete Monster]]. You can often predict the victim in most of the episodes by seeing which of the newly-introduced characters acts like the biggest jerk.
** Tragically [[Subverted]] in "The Forgotten Bond": {{spoiler|Mindy/Masayo murdered her sister Maya/Miina because she believed that she had knowingly stolen her boyfriend Kenneth/Kenji (which also was the corollary of Miina having spent years imitating her, something that Masayo at first found cute but later thought of as creepy), but the truth was that Kenji fell for Miina all on his own. Miina didn't want Masayo's feelings to be hurt by the fact that Kenji had chosen her over Masayo so she pretended that she had seduced Kenji. A good sister until the end, when Masayo sent her to buy two bottles of cleaning solution (which she intended to mix together and create the poisonous gas that would kill Miina), Miina read the label at the counter, realized that the two chemicals could be dangerous if mixed together, and switched one of them out, not wanting to put her sister's life in danger.}} Once Conan reveals this, the killer has a [[My God, What Have I Done?]] moment and breaks down crying over her victim's body, [[Please Wake Up|begging her to wake up.]]
** Also subverted in the Karaoke Murder case. The murderer was {{spoiler|the manager of the band,}} who killed the lead singer for {{spoiler|insulting her constantly, despite the fact that they had been going out when they were younger, and she still loved him, to the point that she got plastic surgery, wanting to look nicer for him.}} Unfortunately, he {{spoiler|didn't like that she had done this, thinking she was prettier the way she was. Not knowing how to say this, he started being a [[Jerkass]] to her, eventually leading to her}} killing him. To add insult to injury <ref>(...so to speak...)</ref> {{spoiler|It was revealed he had written a new song for her, planning to tell her everything}}. Ouch.
* [[As You Wish]]: Used as a red herring. {{spoiler|Jodie is routinely seen using a catch phrase of Vermouth ("A secret makes a woman a woman"), the Black Organization's [[Master of Disguise]] (who bears some resemblance to Jodie). Turns out that Vermouth said the same phrase to Jodie after killing Jodie's parents.}}
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'''Conan:''' <[[Sweat Drop]]> At least, [[Obfuscating Stupidity|that's what they said in the detective drama]]... }}
** He then goes on to [[Genre Savvy|point out the difference between the smell of bitter and sweet almonds]], as mentioned on the trope page.
* [[Bland
* [[Blondes Are Evil]]: Vermouth, Shiho, and Jodie play this trope straight, subvert it, and avert it respectively. Sonoko has her moments too, if you ask Shinichi.
* [[Bodyguarding a Badass]]: An [[Badass Grandpa|old man]] protects his late friend's nephew from Brazil by pretending to be his late friend and having the nephew pose as the bodyguard. In reality, his goal was to be the decoy when one of the family members tries to kill the old man to get a larger inheritance.
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** Ran and Sonoko had a teacher they loved and admired... {{spoiler|and happened to be the [[Sympathetic Murderer]] of the episode, going as far as setting a [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]] by drugging Sonoko and then pretending somebody else attacked ''both'' of them.}} And before that, it was ''barely'' averted when Ran learned a karate champion she fangirled was the killer in a case... {{spoiler|but he was trying to ''deliberately'' look like the suspect, since the murderer was his [[Broken Bird]] girlfriend. In that particular case, he was arrested for [[Taking the Heat]] anyway.}}
* [[Black and Grey Morality]]: Yeah, sometimes they're murdering or revenge or the like...but that doesn't excuse ''murder''.
* [[
** In one episode, Megure even lampshades the lampshading, saying (after he wonders aloud why Kogoro is at the scene of a murder yet again), "I should just let it drop. It's becoming silly."
** Also lampshaded in an episode where the Detective Boys are watching movies in a theater and Ai tells Conan he should relax and enjoy a "child's vacation." When someone is killed at the back of the theater, Ai remarks, "It seems you never have time for a vacation."
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* [[Crossover]]: ''[[Lupin III]] vs Detective Conan''. [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|No, they don't really use the potential.]]
** The 11th [[Non Serial Movie]]'s opening gambit involves a [[Fake Crossover]] wherein it turns out that the robbers in a car chase are wearing Lupin and Fujiko ''masks'' and Satou is a fan of the manga ("How dare he wear the mask of my first love?").
** For that matter, the Lupin III crossover special probably also counts as "fake", from the point of view of overall series continuity. When Lupin is a manga in the movie and a person in the special, and the TV series tends to use [[Lawyer
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: It's easy to forget about Kogoro's black belt in Judo and marksmanship skills given the way he's portrayed most of the time. He's also got a pretty good head on his shoulders, he just doesn't take time to use it. However, when it's personal, children are at stake, old firends are involved, or the criminal threatened Ran or Conan, he breaks out of it. Takagi also has his moments.
* [[Cut and Paste Note]]: Often used in blackmail.
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** Officer Satou is another crazy-good driver whose unmarked patrol car is a high-speed sports car. She has the endearing habit of screaming at the top of her lungs because it helps her concentration when she drifts around curves.
* [[Dub Name Change]]: Played straight in English, where most characters got American names. Averted by Conan.
* [[Dude, She's Like, in A Coma]]: Subverted. Takagi looked like he was passed out during file 637, a bit before Satou kissed him. He was perfectly conscious afterward. The Shonen Tantei Dan had used the excuse that Takagi had just taken medication before, so Satou and Takagi actually got to kiss, instead of the usual issue where they almost kiss, but always fail.
* [[Dying Clue]]: Multiple examples listed on that page.
** One really has to marvel at the amazingly intricate code messages most normal people in this series can conjure from out of nowhere ''while bleeding to death''.
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* [[Fake Ultimate Hero]]: any episode where Conan's deductions are credited to Kogoro (most of them), boosting Kogoro's reputation as a detective. Kogoro is typically unconcious, but takes credit when he wakes up regardless.
** Sonoko will do the same thing whenever Conan has to use her instead.
* [[Family
* [[Finger Licking Poison]]
* [[Fingertip Drug Analysis]]: At least once when Conan identified heroin, in the Moonlight Sonata case.
* [[First
* [[Five
** [[The Hero]]: Conan
** [[The Lancer]]: Ai
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** Note that this example is taken from the English version; the original Japanese version does the equivalent with kanji characters {{spoiler|that are changed by adding strokes}} (but this was obviously [[Lost in Translation]]).
** Also subverted on at least one occasion where the killer tried to plant evidence to suggest she was framed. It didn't work because Conan found much more conclusive evidence pointing to her.
* [[Free
** Deconstructed in a backstory arc when Eri and Kogoro, before separation, found Yukiko and Yusaku's laissez-faire parenting gotten a bit annoying.
* [[From the Mouths of Babes]]: Referenced by Kogoro when talking about Conan during an investigation.
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** A shining example of Grey and Grey Morality comes in the June Bride case. The culprit in this case is the {{spoiler|groom, trying to get revenge on the bride's father. 20 years prior, the bride's father (a police officer) was chasing a culprit, and a woman was struck by a car. The woman's son (the murderer) tried to get the police officer to help, but the officer didn't see the woman and though he was just a kid in the crossfire. The mother died, and the boy was adopted. He then meets the bride, and hatches a revenge plot. The sad part was, the bride and groom were actually knew each other in childhood before it happened, and were each other's first loves. Even Conan, who often condemns murderers using Kogoro or Sonoko who justify their acts, could only think he was a sad man.}}
* [[Great Detective]]: It's in the title, after all.
* [[Green
** The Detective Boys are a veritable love parallelogram in the making: Mitsuhiko and Genta have crushes on Ayumi, and Ayumi has a crush on Conan.
*** Mitsuhiko also has a crush on Haibara and Haibara is believed to have a crush on Conan.
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* [[Hero Stole My Bike]]: In the first [[Non Serial Movie]], Conan stole a bike from a boy to dispose of a time bomb he found.
** Somewhat subverted since it's implied that Conan would have returned it if he could, and actually asked Kogoro to replace it.
* [[He's Dead, Jim]]: Practically every episode with a corpse. Sometimes a pulse is checked on those without obvious injuries, but usually they are immediately proclaimed dead. Dead people are usually depicted open-eyed, with the pupils the size of pin pricks and the mouth agape.
** Subverted once, as it was used as one of the clues to the killer in one case.
* [[Hey
** You can also hear several familiar voices in the dub.
* [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]]: Usually played for laughs, Kogoro would yell at, throw, and even punch Conan for simply opening his mouth. Though, it seems punching is a valid form of punishment in this show.
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* [[Hot Amazon]]: Ran. One scene has her grabbed in the [[Standard Female Grab Area]], only for her to beat the crap out of her abductor. She's also a quite attractive young girl who once was handpicked by a designer, and might have become a good [[Idol Singer]] if not for the murder that happened at the office.
* [[Hot Springs Episode]]: There are a number of episodes set at ''onsens'' over the course of the series (given that Kogoro/Richard is a big fan of hot springs).
** In an early episode we have one of the more memorable scenes where Ran and a rather shaken Conan return from the springs after they bathe together. Kogoro notices that Conan is unusually quiet and, when Ran tells him what they've been doing, he wonders out loud if he's dumsbtruck after seeing Ran naked, and Conan has an epic [[Nosebleed]] at the suggestion. Later the episode, we have Kogoro's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: {{spoiler|This time, both the victim ''and'' the murderer were dear friends of Kogoro, so he goes into a full Its [[
* [[Hyper Awareness]]: Unavoidable since we have [[Great Detective|Great Detectives]] here. One example:
** At one case, Shinichi sees a girl reaching for her murdered boyfriend's bag on a cabin overhead luggage compartment, remembers something, tells her story and then pulls the bag off the compartment. What we notice is the story she told us, what Shinichi notices is that she used her right hand before she told her story, and then she switched to her left hand afterwards. It was important because {{spoiler|the murder weapon is a sharp object; the bra worn by the girl is underwired, one piece of which is sharpened. She wears the bra during the scene (since she can't throw it away) and the sharp edge grazed her skin when she raised her hand and hence, she switched to her left hand.}}
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** The Kansai dialect is sometimes used as a source of humor. In the "Holmes Freak Murder Case," when Conan imitates Heiji's voice to solve the murder, he notably has trouble speaking in the unfamiliar dialect (and Heiji, who wakes up partway through, ribs him about it later on). But in one of the OAVs, which involves a speaker of the Tokyo dialect whose voice is otherwise identical to Heiji's, Heiji is shown to be unable to speak a simple phrase in Tokyo-ben.
** Kansai-Ben is also used to smoke out a murderer. In the Ama-chan case, after Conan outs the culprit, he starts talking in an exaggerated Kansai accent so the murderer will blow his top and admit he's from Osaka.
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: Shinichi Kudo. Not a case of [[That Man Is Dead]]. {{spoiler|Not [[The Hero Dies]] either. It's a case of [[
* [[Kissing Cousins]]: In one of the earlier cases, the killer's motive for killing his grandfather, was that he had been in love since childhood with his cousin {{spoiler|and the heiress of the family fortune, as she was the old man's favorite grandkid}}, and the older man ''brutally'' forbid them to marry and mocked him. The killer's parents were also cousins, and the patriarch only ''very'' reluctantly agreed their marriage. Note that Japanese culture consider cousin marriages as more or less acceptable.
* [[Lampshade Wearing]]: Kogoro is a heavy and frequent drinker, and possibly borderline alcoholic (at one point, his doctor advises him to cut back, and he actually obeys this for a few episodes until [[Snap Back|the audience forgets]]). He is often depicted as drinking, sometimes to the point of tying his necktie around his forehead. (Though he sobers up quickly if he is in this state when a murder happens nearby.)
* [[Laser
* [[Latex Perfection]]: KID seems to have brought this down where he can fool Shinichi {{spoiler|that he is Ran, or vice versa. This is scary ([[Crowning Moment of Funny|and at the same time, hilarious]], seeing as Shinichi has known Ran for years.}} Yukiko (a prize-winning actress) and Vermouth also manage to do this. Enough that throughout the series the only way [[Muggle|muggles]] can make sure someone was not impersonated is by literally pinching their faces.
** Subverted in the 8th [[Non Serial Movie]], ''Magician of the Silver Sky'', and the 14th, ''Lost Ship in the Sky'', as well as the OAV "Kid in Trap Island". A number of times, Kaitou takes advantage of his close physical resemblance to Shinichi to disguise himself ''without'' a mask, so he passes the pinch test.
* [[Lawyer
** The ''Urban Hunter'' appearance is especially worthy of note since the [[Actor Allusion|voice actor for Kogoro at the time was also the voice actor for]] ''[[City Hunter]]'' Ryo Saeba.
** As well as the popular kids' action show ''[[Kamen Rider|Kamen]] <s>Rider</s> [[Kamen Rider|Yaiba]]'' (which is also a namedrop of an otherwise-unrelated manga called ''[[Yaiba]]'' from the same mangaka as Conan). This one has been lampshaded in the ''Conan vs. Kaitou Kid vs. Yaiba'' OAV in which the Detective Boys meet Yaiba {{spoiler|in an episode-long dream sequence}} and accuse him of lying about his name because he is obviously not ''Kamen'' Yaiba.
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** And Shinichi has taken considerable effort to make Ran ''think'' that they're in one, despite the fact that they actually live in the same apartment.
* [[Long Runners]]: The manga started 1994; anime started 1996.
* [[Loose Canon]]: ''[[Detective Conan]]'' has an ongoing [[Spin
* [[Lost in Translation]]: Any case where the victim left a message or Japanese wordplay is a vital clue is utterly unreadable and unsolvable in any other language. (When the mangaka heard that his series was being translated, he wished the translators the best of luck.)
* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: Many, ''many'' murderers have this as their motives, since their [[Asshole Victim|Asshole Victims]] are generally people who crapped out ''big'' time on the killers's girlfriends, boyfriends, parents, siblings, children, etc.
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** Also, Ran has gone into [[Mama Bear]] mode more than once to protect Conan.
** Once, Conan and his friends were almost killed by a ''literal'' [[Monster Is a Mommy|Mama Bear]] {{spoiler|who had ''horribly'' lost her cub to a [[Complete Monster|very cruel hunter]].}}
* [[Market
* [[Marshmallow Hell]]: Conan is subjected to this in ''Magic File 4'' by a couple of high school fangirls. Keep in mind that Conan is actually a high schooler himself.
* [[Master of Delusion]]: Ran almost figured it out in the first volume, with many other close calls. Hundreds of chapters later and she's still clueless. Though, to be fair, ''every time'' Ran has figured out that Conan is Shinichi, Conan has had help from others in on the secret (as well as the otherwise-realistic universe's natural [[Weirdness Censor]]--who would believe that a high-schooler could de-age ten years given any even ''vaguely'' plausible alternative?) to convince her she was imagining things. Ran nearly got it right the first time, though...
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* [[Meitantei]]
* [[The Mind Is a Plaything of The Body]]: Brutally averted. Conan and Haibara both keep their mental states in their childish bodies. Played with when {{spoiler|Conan takes an experimental antidote. He has become used to being treated as a child by others and thus slips up twice because of it.}}
* [[Million
* [[Mistaken for Murderer]]: In one episode, Ayumi hides in the trunk of a car {{spoiler|that seems to be carrying a murder weapon and stolen money. Based on overheard conversation through the badge, Conan and the other Detective Boys assume the car's occupants are criminals and they might harm Ayumi if they discover her, and race to the rescue. It turns out that they're actors for a community theater and the money and weapon are props for a play}}.
* [[Mistaken Nationality]]: Inverted from the usual case; in the episode introducing James Black, kidnappers mistake Black for the wealthy American owner of a trained dolphin show. Conan explains to the Detective Boys that, just as [[All Asians Are Alike]] to many Westerners, all Caucasians look alike to many Asians. At the same time, this is subverted when Conan is able to differentiate Black from the show-owner because he speaks English with a British rather than Texan accent (at least for the show's purposes. However, he ''actually'' speaks it with a "Japanese actor reading phonetically" accent).
* [[The Mole]]{{spoiler|s(?): Vermouth is seen talking on the phone to someone about "gaining trust, per our agreement" with Conan & Co. at the same time mysterious transfer student/teen detective Sera, mysterious houseguest/Sherlock Holmes fanboy Subaru, and mysterious private eye/Kogura fanboy Tooru answer their phones. And it seems that Tooru knows Sera...}}
* [[
* [[Moment Killer]]: Before Takagi and Sato got their first kiss, every time they tried to gets ruined.
* [[Motive Rant]]: Almost every single murderer/con artist/blackmailer goes into this.
* [[Musical Trigger]]: Movie 12 ''Full Score of Fear.''
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Happens to a few of the murderers when Conan reveals that their motives for murder were completely unjustified.
* [[My Significance Sense Is Tingling]]: Although the show is set in a "realistic" universe, and young Shinichi pooh-poohs the idea of clairvoyance in one of the prequel OAVs, certain characters nonetheless exhibit something along those lines. Sherry/Haibara Ai is able to sense when members of the Black Organization are near, and Conan is sometimes able to sense when Ran is in danger. (In the ''Strategy Above the Depths'' [[Non Serial Movie]], {{spoiler|Conan was drawn back to the sinking cruise ship when Ran was trapped inside, though he did not at first know why}}.)
* [[Mystery Writer Detective]]: The protagonist's father is a mystery writer who occasionally steps in to solve mysteries when his son is stumped.
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* [[Now That's Using Your Teeth]]: in one case, it looks like an old man had committed suicide in his room; then Conan deduces that {{spoiler|the victim had his hands bound behind his back, and then the rope that was looped around his neck was also threaded through his teeth so that if he called for help or his jaw gave out he would hang himself.}}
* [[Obfuscating Disability]]
* [[Off With His Head]]: The first case. Particularly gruesome when you add the [[High
** In the Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case, the victim {{spoiler|Chikako is killed by having her head chopped off '''with an axe''' and have her other remains distributed.}}
* [[Oh Crap]]: the look on Conan's face when he realizes that the murderer he was confronting alone in the forest at night brought fifty armed men along with him to help dispose of the evidence. {{spoiler|Que [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment when Ran and then Makoto shows up and beats the crap out of all of them.}}
** The look on Conan's face in the thirteenth movie when {{spoiler|after being caught by surprise by the sudden appearance of a helicopter loses his sudden advantage over Irish when Irish takes back his gun and holds it firmly on Conan's forehead.}} Yikes.
* [[One
* [[Only Six Faces]]: Look at Shinichi and Kaito. Or Ran and Aoko.
** In fact, it's even a plot point in several cases, particularly one of the latest, where Ms Kobayashi gets mistaken for Satou several times in the police station {{spoiler|and worries Shiratori is only dating her for the semblance between the two}}.
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== PQRS ==
* [[Paper
* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: The Detective Boys run into TWO-MIX (and thus [[Minami Takayama]], Conan's voice actress), who get kidnapped because they inadvertently heard a murder; in another case, a party being held by some famous celebrities have several of the seiyuus in attendance.
* [[Patricide]]: In the ''The Shaking Restaurant Case'' {{spoiler|Saki Yoshizawa killed Hanaoka who is very implied to be her father because he had abandoned her mother and not even sent her any news which made her pass away while still waiting for him for twenty years.}}
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** In another episode, {{spoiler|Conan's anesthetic needle hits Ran in the butt after she steps between him and Kogoro--but it was stopped by the hotel baggage claim tags in her back pocket.}}
* [[Police Are Useless]]: Almost none of the police inspectors seem able to solve murders by themselves. In most cases, this is because the focus of the series is on Conan--hence the only cases we see them working on are the intricate ones Conan has to solve for them. It can be assumed that they are more able when it comes to routine crimes.
** Subverted in the second case of the Osaka Double Mystery when Hattori Heiji's father rips into him over not stopping a second murder despite the police making the same failure, only for it to turn out that {{spoiler|[[What the Hell, Hero?|he already knew who the murderer was]] and was using Heiji as bait in a [[Batman Gambit]] to catch the perp of a far earlier crime.}}
** The exception that proves the rule is Inspector Yamamura, who is the poster boy for police incompetence—and who, to Conan's chagrin, was elevated to the rank of Inspector solely on the basis of having closed some cases Conan actually solved behind the scenes.
** Many of the Police seemed to merely be taking over the crime scene.
* [[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!]].
** In another episode, a woman named Masayo kills her younger sister Mina for stealing her boyfriend {{spoiler|when in fact Mina had actually asked the boyfriend not to reveal that ''he'' had confessed to ''her'' because she didn't want to hurt Masayo's feelings}}. It certainly didn't help that there was a sort-of sisterly rivalry history before, since Mina kept imitating Masayo by copying her tastes to a degree that creeped the heck outta Masayo, but still...
** In "The Kappa Conundrum", eleven years after the death of a 10-year-old boy in a flooded river, {{spoiler|the boy's former teacher kills the boy's father out of the belief he caused the boy's death by making him dress up as a kappa (Japanese water spirit) to lure tourists to his inn--but it turns out that dressing up had been the boy's own decision and the father simply covered it up out of respect for his memory}}.
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* [[Put Down Your Gun and Step Away]]: The climax in the second [[Non Serial Movie]].
* [[Red Herring]]: Conan can see past most attempts at framing innocent suspects, but he's gone down the wrong track a few times; most importantly, the readers were being set up to expect that {{spoiler|Jodie was Vermouth}}, but this turns out to be completely wrong.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Invoked several times over in this series, with romantic, friendship, and enemy connotations. Ran and Shinichi/Conan are red and blue respectively. Kazuha and Heiji are orange or red and green, KID is dressed in white and Hakuba all in black. The Black Org. is red and black and Conan is blue. Ran and Sonoko are red and blue.
* [[Red String of Fate]]: ''The Time-Bombed Skyscraper'' - confronted with a [[Wire Dilemma]], Ran can't bring herself to cut the red one because of the association with the String of Fate (which is a good thing, because earlier the bomber had overheard her talking about how red was her favorite color and rigged it to go off on the red wire).
* [[Retirony]]: A high diver in "The Last Dive" / "Sports Club Murder Case".
* [[Revenge By Proxy]]: In the ''June Bride'' case, a suspect poisons his new bride to get revenge on her policeman father, who'd neglected to notice that the perp he'd been chasing had run over the suspect's mother (and she then bleeds to death later). Subverted in that {{spoiler|the bride found out that the suspect was the Childhood Friend she had a crush on, guessed that he'd attempt something like this, ''and'' willingly drank the poison to show that she had suffered a lot after their separation. And apparently, once he was released from jail, he got her forgiveness and properly got married.}}
** Another in the London case, in which [[Mad Bomber|Hades]] {{spoiler|goes on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] against champion tennis player Minerva Glass for losing a match on which he bet all the money need to pay for his mother's life-saving operation. All the money was lost and [[
*** The London case isn't exactly [[Revenge By Proxy]] since {{spoiler|it's revealed that the reason Minerva lost the match was because her mother wasn't at the match and therefore the mother is to blame.}}
* [[Reverse Psychology]]: KID challenges Jirokichi not to rely on children to protect his [[MacGuffin]]. Jirokichi, thinking it's because KID cannot disguise as somebody several heads smaller than himself, promptly asks the Detective Boys for help. [[Batman Gambit|Just as KID planned...]]
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* [[Say My Name]]: I can't even count. Latest instance was {{spoiler|Ayumi calling conan after he passed out in "Vermilion Bird"}}.
* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: Everyone who has them, including Conan.
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** The [[Chekhov's Gun]] from episode 12--''[[The Syndicate]]'' killing their [[Mook]]--was removed in the anime, by changing it to generic-evil-guy-seriously-hurting-but-not-killing-a [[Mook]]. However, Aoyama fired the gun by making the murder victim a [[Red Herring Shirt]] and the [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Older Sister]] of a new character. Result? [[Continuity Porn]] was applied by killing her ''again'', this time by [[The Syndicate]], in a [[Filler]] 116 episodes later. [[Lampshade Hanging|A lampshade was hung]] by Ran asking Conan if they had seen that character any time before. {{spoiler|This arc is the Billion Yen Heist. It was pertinent because Akemi Miyano had to die under the organization's hands to bring her little sister Shiho aka Ai in, because she is Ai's [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Elder Sister]].}} This also resulted in the series running in a very [[Restricted Expanded Plot]] so as to prevent [[Continuity Snarl]] by preventing any of the writer's [[Chekhov's Gun|Chekhov's Guns]] to be removed.
** If that wasn't gratuitous enough, see this: in episode 4 (involving the bomb on the train), the villains were supposed to be [[Those Two Bad Guys]], and in the manga Conan overheard their name as Gin and Vodka. Again, in the anime they were changed to some other [[Long Coat Badass|Long Coat Badasses]]. The anime writers didn't even try to [[Hand Wave]] that; Gin and Vodka's names were ''inserted'' into Conan's memory in the second season!
* [[Scooby Doo Hoax]]: A number of episodes feature this sort of thing--since the series is set in a strictly rational world (with just one or two notable exceptions), ''any'' invocation of the supernatural can be assumed to be a Scooby Doo Hoax. (That doesn't stop normally-stalwart [[Action Girl]] Ran from cowering whenever [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|she suspects she may be up against ghosts]], however.)
* [[Screwed By the Network]]: US, arguably
* [[Secret Identity]]:
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* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: No, really! We're [[Just Friends]]- in fact, we're [[Like Brother and Sister]]. Heiji and Kazuha could say it a hundred times, but it's not going to change anyone's opinion because [[Everyone Can See It]]. {{spoiler|A random stranger has TOLD Kazuha to ask Heiji out.}} Trope can also be applied to Ran and Shinichi.
** Subverted as the series progresses {{spoiler|for Shinichi and Ran. Shinichi is quite acutely aware of his feelings for her (having in fact liked her before she liked him, a rare case for Shonen Manga) while living with Ran removed any possible lingering doubt he might have had on reciprocation}}. As time passes in-universe and {{spoiler|Shinichi continues to remain missing, Ran drops almost all pretenses of 'just friends' behaviour and denial whenever he is mentioned or he calls}}. The subversion culminates in later chapters/episodes where {{spoiler|Shinichi has finally confessed his feelings to Ran. She has, however, yet to reciprocate directly}}.
* [[Ship Tease]]: Conan and {{spoiler|Haibara Ai}}. She even confessed and then threw it off with a "[["Just Joking" Justification|just kidding!]] ^_^" (though at other times she ''has'' expressed veiled jealousy of his feelings for Ran). This caused quite a lot of [[Ship to Ship Combat]] (see the entry on the YMMV page).
* [[Shrine to The Fallen]]: In one mystery on Case Closed, Conan deduces that the name placard of such a shrine is the hiding place of a valuable stamp.
** In another, Heiji and Kazuha almost fall to their deaths investigating a memorial rock that has incense placed on it.
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** An entire story in the 63rd tankoubon is a shout-out to [[Initial D]]. Why so? First, the case happened in Gunma in a place named Mt. ''Fuyu''na<ref>Takumi's home course is named Mt. ''Aki''na; that place is based on a real-world place named Mt. ''Haru''na.</ref>. Second, the 'legend' is named Fuyuna's Silver Ghost<ref>Bunta/Takumi in the AE86 is known as Akina's White Ghost</ref>.
** In episode two, the dub changes the kidnapped girl's name from Akiko Tani to [[Full House|Michelle Tanner.]]
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Shinichi's sense of justice is such that he has very little tolerance for even the most sympathetic [[Motive Rant]]; he even shut up one suspect by [[Hannibal Lecture|Hannibal Lecturing]] at ''him''.
* [[Single Target Sexuality]]: Shinichi and Ran. Particularly Shinichi, and definitely supported by the Asami arc. There's also Shiratori towards Satou. {{spoiler|Or so he thinks. Satou's actually a false positive of sorts. His decades-old feelings are actually for Kobayashi-sensei. However, because [[Identical Stranger|Satou and Kobayashi have such similar features]], and because Kobayashi idolized police, Shiratori thought fate was bringing him together with his old love when he ran into Detective Satou. Sorry, but no, Shiratori...}}
* [[Snap Back]]:
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** Following the previous point, Kogoro and Sonoko never had much of an issue taking credit for deductions they have no recollection of. Both cases are somewhat [[Handwaved]] as ego-stroking and, in Kogoro's case, a simple [[Sure Let's Go With That|"Meh, whatever"]] attitude where he doesn't care so long as the job is done. He eventually becomes vaguely aware of his unexplained bouts of somnolence, but doesn't really pay it much attention.
** Conan's involvement in the investigations, particularly him wandering around the crime scenes finding or noticing things, was for a long time treated as simply annoying behaviour from a nosy kid. Unlike the previous two points, this became an actually recognized point when several characters became aware that the stuff he comes up with tends to be important and ends up leading everyone else with the investigations. Satou was the first adult to consider him useful, and eventually Ran, Megure, Takagi and others accepted it as well. Nevertheless, Heiji is still the only one who actually drew the right conclusion from it instead of simply treating it as quirky.
* [[What Does She See in Him?]]: This is pretty much how Sonoko sees Ran's relationship with Shinichi; for Sonoko Shinichi is just a mystery [[Otaku]].
* [[Whole Episode Flashback]]: Multiple
* [[Wine Is Classy]]: A number of episodes, movies, and OAVs have significant plot points concerning the tasting of fine wines.
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