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* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Cordeila and the Brians are dead, Sabure is severely disrupted by war, but Kujo and Victorique are finally reunited and are assumed to be married and live happily after.}}

* [[Blue Eyes]]: Avril

* [[Breather Episode]]: Episode 12.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Several of the various legends and fairy-tales Kazuya and Victorique have to deal with are introduced several episodes before they become relevant, such as the Grey Wolves and Leviathan the Alchemist.

* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: Whilst the series as a whole doesn't qualify, the background struggle between the [[Magic Versus Science|Ministry of the Occult and Science Academy]] definitely does.

* [[Eye Scream]]: Roxanne the [[Fortune Teller]] gets killed off this way.

* [[Fake Ultimate Hero|Fake Ultimate Detective]]: Grevil, thanks to taking all the credit for Victorique's deductions.

* [[Faking the Dead]]

* [[Girl in A Box]]: Kazuya finds one in episode 9.

* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]

** It may be a bubble pipe in the anime; no smoke and no tobacco are visible. Possibly a case of [[No Smoking]], as it's illegal to show underage people smoking or drinking alcohol on Japanese public television.

* [[Gorgeous Period Dress]]: Even though the series is set in [[The Roaring Twenties]], Victorique wears old-fashioned [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] style dresses. Possibly explained in that Victorique is said to sound and act like an old woman, and tends to be given old hand-me-downs by her family rather than anything more modern due to her ''interesting'' parental issues.

** Victorique usually wears a frilly bonnet. In episode 6 they briefly wore a jewelled turban, though it looked silly on her.

** In episode 21 Victorique tries on a crown (it's prop, not a real one). It's much too big and actually covers her entire face when she's not holding it up. Her whole purpose in trying it on was to make certain that it could contain an entire human head of specific size.

* [[No Social Skills]]: Victorique never really had a chance to develop them, resulting in her characteristic bluntness and making such things as [[Dull Surprise|her attempts at]] [[Noblewoman's Laugh|polite laughter]] a... memorable experience for all present.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Pulled off by ''{{spoiler|[[Upperclass Twit|Grevil]]}}'', of all people, in Episode 10. If Episode 11 is any indication, {{spoiler|Grevil}} has always been fairly bright... just not as bright as Victorique. He's still quite dumb with various weird conclusions he makes. He's smart in very narrow fields, and {{spoiler|police work}} is not one of them, despite his good eye for detail -- when he bothers looking in the first place.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: {{spoiler|Victorique's mother was forcefully separated from her after birth. Her father, meanwhile, took this to the point of actual abuse until Grevil stepped in.}}

* [[Phantom Thief]]: {{spoiler|The Second Kuiaran.}}

* [[Police Are Useless]]: Not helped by having an [[Upperclass Twit]] as their acclaimed chief investigator. Averted in the Jeantan case.

* [[Prophet Eyes]]: Used, naturally, whenever someone's making a prophecy, though it's really more of a case of their eyes rolling up in their heads.

* [[Say My Name]]: Kujo has the tendency to shout Victorique's name about ten times an episode.

* {{spoiler|[[Scary Black Man]]: Leviathan the Alchemist is shown to be this, although it had nothing to do with his being African, but with the fear people had of the mystery of his mask and his alchemy, which was revealed by Victorique to be false. The clothes he donned and the ruse he perpetrated to try to discourage further exploitation of his home country by Saubre's royalty.}}

* [[Screaming Birth]]: {{spoiler|Victorique's. Highly justified, given that the birth in question was [[Kick the Dog|an obstetrician's nightmare]].}}

* [[Secret War]]: Between [[Magic Versus Science|the Ministry of the Occult and the Science Academy]], two powerful political factions battling over control of the government.

** Looks like Avril now has a thing for Kazuya according to Episode 13

* [[Shorter Means Smarter]]: Victorique and Luigi.

** A girl with long golden hair trapped at the top of a tower by the person who raised her until a boy stumbles upon her. [[Rapunzel (Literature)|Remind you of anything?]]

** Victorique uses a pipe when she's thinking in a way similar to the popular conception of [[Sherlock Holmes]], although in the anime she just holds it in her mouth instead of actually ''smoking'' anything.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: A common fate for criminals outed by Kazuya and Victorique. {{spoiler|Harminia}} is particularly notable for starting her breakdown ''before'' this - clearly, {{spoiler|plotting to destroy the village that's been your home for most of your life}} is [[Captain Obvious|somewhat detrimental to one's mental wellbeing]].

* [[The Watson]]: Kazuya

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: {{spoiler|Victorique as of the final episode.}}

* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Kujo, so far, demonstrates an admirable degree of restraint even in the face of likely death. When the lives or freedom of innocents hang on subduing a female villain, on the other hand...