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{{quote|''"Aaah! It's that confused detective!"''|''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney|Maya Fey]]''}}
A character who is long on observational acuity and a bit short on connecting the dots. Named after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character '''Inspector Lestrade''', who would always attempt to solve the case before [[Sherlock Holmes]] could, and always failed miserably. Where an [[Amateur Sleuth]] is involved, this character is nearly always a police officer, because the [[Police Are Useless]].
[[Tropes Are Not Bad|A good Lestrade]], especially a self-aware one, can still be a valuable resource to their great detective, doing much of the legwork and research, as well as being [[Friend on the Force|a companion who has the legal authority to make arrests]]. [[Trope Namer|Lestrade]] himself often acted like this in the later Holmes stories. A Lestrade might also be capable of dealing with most standard crimes, and only calls in the protagonist when he's confronted with something especially unusual that would be a better use of the protagonist's talents. An unhelpful one may become an [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]], and one with a chip on his shoulder about the Sleuth being better able to do his job than he is. Particularly in earlier Holmes stories, Lestrade himself also had a bit of this in his character, though he got better with time: compare his portrayals in ''A Study in Scarlet'' and ''Hound Of The Baskervilles''.
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