Father Brown: Difference between revisions

* [[Belief Makes You Stupid]]: Subverted with extreme prejudice.

** The aversion of this trope is lampshaded in Father Brown's very first story, "The Blue Cross"

"You attacked reason," said Father Brown. "It's bad theology." }}

** From the same story: "Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hear men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil?"

* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Discussed [[In-Universe]] in "The Sign of the Broken Sword". Being a greedy and corrupted traitor? Not okay. Killing the one who found out about that? Real bad. ''Killing everyone else so that no one would ever find his corpse?'' There we go.

* [[Needle in a Stack of Needles]]: "The Sign of the Broken Sword":

* [[Nice to the Waiter]]: "The Actor and the Alibi"

* [[Never Suicide]]: Subverted in "The Three Tools of Death" when {{spoiler|Sir Aaron Armstrong commits suicide and everyone thinks it's murder.}}

* [[Police Are Useless]]: A police detective complains about this trope in one story. He points out that while the police may not be as intuitively brilliant as the average fictional detective, they are not even shown as having the virtues they do have such as storing and sharing information.

* [[Preemptive Declaration]]: Used by Father Brown, of all people, in "The Blue Cross."

* [[Pull a Rabbit Out of My Hat]]: In "The Absence of Mr. Glass."

* [[Revealing Coverup]]