Diabolik: Difference between revisions

Despite, or perhaps because of, his unconventional education, Diabolik seems to have a deep knowledge in many scientific fields, including chemistry, mechanics and computers. He creates all sorts of gadgets, especially disguised weapons and communication devices, has developed a range of truth-serums and mind-control drugs, and creates perfect life-like mask disguises.

 

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* [[Batman Gambit]]: Both Diabolik and Ginko pull these, but only Diabolik's work.

* [[Battle Couple]]: Diabolik and Eva.

* [[Bound and Gagged]]: Usually done to the people Diabolik and Eva impersonate. Happens in numerous episodes of the animated series as well.

* [[Break the Cutie]]: Elizabeth Gay, Diabolik's lover in the first stories (before he met Eva Kant). A sweet girl who didn't know that her fiancee was Diabolik and accidentally exposed him as the King of Terror, getting him arrested and sentenced to death. After escaping the guillottine, Diabolik waited she recovered from the near-madness the shock of his identity provoked and then drove her completely mad, even faking the murder of her doctor and new fiancee.

** In a story, three mooks at their first heist named Gastone, Elietta and Filippo, tried to steal a golden necklace during a party, with Gastone wearing a Diabolik-like suit to frame Diabolik. They failed, as not only the necklace was a fake (the real one still being in a bank vault) but Gastone walked in a trap intended for the actual Diabolik (who was stealing the necklace from the safe after bombing the party's site with fireworks to distract the police). It's probably the only time attempting to frame Diabolik ended well: Gastone didn't rat out his accomplices, who, due sheer luck, managed to follow Diabolik and steal money and jewels from the now open vault (the story title was ''Crumbs for Unknown Persons'', with the stolen goods being called 'Diabolik's crumbs' in-story) and divided the loot (with interest) with Gastone once he served his sentence. The only ones who could prove their crime are Diabolik and Eva... Who ended the story ''toasting'' at their success.

** In the story ''The Sweet Death'', Diabolik framed two people for an attempted murder they committed and the murder he committed while masked as them. The kicker is, the murder victim ''asked him to do this'': when the two framed people, his wife and his lover, tried to kill him with an 'accident', they left him so crippled he was in perpetual pain and unable to do anything more than blink, so, when he accidentally encountered Diabolik who was stealing some jewels from him, he [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|''blinked him in morse code to kill and avenge him'']], and Diabolik decided to help by killing him and 'confessing' the attempted murder on camera while wearing the lover's mask and with Eva present masked as the wife. The story ends with Altea finding evidence they couldn't have committed the murder and destroying it, as [[I Did What I Had to Do|she knew they had crippled the victim but couldn't prove it]].

* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: done twice by Altea. The first time, in ''The Sweet Death'', she [[Framing the Guilty Party|destroyed the only evidence that two criminals were innocent of the crime they had been convicted for because there was no evidence for their actual crimes]]. The second time, in ''A Killer for Ginko'', she tried to put an hit on the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] Ruggero Backmann who was paying killers to kill Ginko, and when she realized Diabolik had replaced her hitman to steal from Backmann she got him to swear he'd do the job, well knowing that Diabolik always keep his words and making sure he'd kill him (the day after Diabolik's heist, Backmann was found with a knife in the heart).

* [[Indy Ploy]]: Diabolik ''hates'' improvising, but once in a while he's not [[Crazy Prepared]] enough, and he'll have to improvise a distraction for the police, or even ''[[It Makes Sense in Context|blow up a building with a gas leak, a log and Eva's shirt]]''.