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* [[Nice Hat]]: Judge Dee's winged cap of office.
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: In ''The Chinese Gold Murders'', a drunken, [[Brilliant but Lazy]] poet is a lot more than he seems. By the middle of the story, Dee and his lieutenants think that he's a [[Diabolical Mastermind]] and their enemy {{spoiler|he's not}}.
* [[Off on a Technicality]]: Inverted in ''The Chinese Bell Murders''. Judge Dee executes a villain who had been getting off on technicalities for over twenty years by invoking the questionable logic that any attack on a state official interfering in their duties is a crime against the state, allowing him to try a simple case of assault vs. a sitting magistrate as High Treason and thus hold the trial under a completely different set of rules that allows the defendant no right to appeal. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] when the Imperial Censor reviewing the case refuses to endorse the verdict on the grounds that the entire case is based on a very questionable interpretation of statute, only for the President of the Metropolitan Court to point out 'We know, but given that this guy has previously skated on nine
* [[Old Retainer]]: Hoong Liang.
* [[Platonic Prostitution]]: The Judge never accepts anything but information - and perhaps a cup of tea - from a prostitute, and he usually repays them by buying them out of their 'unfortunate profession' or arranging for their regular lover to make honest women of them. Ma Joong, on the other hand, is more than happy to ignore the platonic side, and gets the information anyway.
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