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Not to be confused with the religious conspiracy anime ''[[Noir (anime)|Noir]]'', nor with a certain [[Homestuck|carapacian Archagent]].
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* [[Anti-Hero]]
* [[Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop]]
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* [[The Snark Knight]]
'''Other Tropes'''
* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]
* [[Dutch Angle]]
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* [[Weather Report Narration]]
A common form of [[Something Completely Different]] is the [[Noir Episode]] -- a work spends a single episode [[Homage|homaging]] or [[Parody|parodying]] [[Film Noir]] style ([[Shallow Parody|or just has everyone wearing trilbies and talking about the rain, in black and white]]). See also our [[So You Want To/Write a Film Noir|So You Want To Write a Film Noir]] guide.
{{examples|Examples (the first three subcategories contain Film, Literature and [[Western Animation]]) :}}▼
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== Proto-Noir ==▼
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▲=== Proto-Noir ===
* The Hardboiled genre of crime and detective fiction, by authors like [[Dashiell Hammett]], James M. Cain, and [[Raymond Chandler]].
* A [[German Expressionism|German Expressionistic]] movie called ''[[M]]'', starring Peter Lorre as a peculiarly sympathetic Serial Killer. Not quite noir, but getting there
=== Frequently Referenced "Classic" Noirs ===▼
▲== Frequently Referenced "Classic" Noirs ==
* ''Stranger On The Third Floor'' (1940)
* ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]'' (1941)
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* ''[[Touch of Evil]]'' (1958)
=== Post-Classic & Neo-Noir ===▼
▲== Post-Classic & Neo-Noir ==
* ''[[Breathless]]'' (1960)
* ''[[Shoot The Piano Player]]'' (1960)
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* ''[[Winter's Bone]]'' (2010) is an example of Neo-Realist Noir, setting a missing persons case in the isolated and meth-ravaged communities of the Ozarks.
* ''[[Drive]]'' (2011)
== Anime and Manga ==
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* ''[[Speed Grapher]]'' is set in a Tokyo which is a [[City Noir]] teaming with corruption and has its hero in [[Intrepid Reporter]] Saiga who is a good example of a [[Knight in Sour Armor]].
* ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'' has some elements of this trope.
== Comic Books ==
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* Brian Michael Bendis's ''[[Alias (Comic Book)|Alias]]'' by Ed Brubaker.
* ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'' contains significant noir elements.
== Fan Fiction ==
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* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7206038/1/bDial_b_bM_b_For_bMutant_b Dial M For Mutant] puts the characters of X-Men: First Class into the noir setting, complete with copious use of 30's/40's slang.
* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes: The Series|Calvin and Hobbes The Series]]'' sometimes uses this, resulting in an [[Out-of-Genre Experience]].
== Literature ==
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* And [[The Automatic Detective]] is Noir [[X Meets Y|meets]] [[Raygun Gothic]].
* ''[[Felidae]]'' is a [[Film Noir]] [[Recycled in Space|WITH CATS]].
== Spoofs and Parodies ==
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* ''[[Rock Slyde]]'' (2009) is a modern film-noir parody starring [[Patrick Warburton]] as "Rock Slyde", private-eye and former [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|homosexual-pirate musical-pornstar]].
* One of the scenarios in the Artificial Reality machine in [[Red Dwarf]] is a film noir setting, complete with monochrome, a [[Femme Fatale]], [[Al Capone]]-style outfits and a car from the 30s.
== Live Action TV ==
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* Season 5, episode 10 of ''[[Monk]]'', "Mr. Monk and the Leper," was filmed as a noir, and there are both color and black and white versions, which were shown back-to-back when the episode premiered (the B&W version aired first).
* ''[[Angel]]'' was heavily influenced by [[Film Noir]], mostly up to about half way through the third season, but it retained certain [[Film Noir]] traits until the very end, such as the moral abiguity. {{spoiler|The final scene of the show is in the classic [[Film Noir]] setting of rainy alleyway}}.
== Video Games ==
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* ''[[Video Game/Blade Runner|Blade Runner]]'' (1997) follows the movie with its distinctive noir feeling mixed with s-f settings.
* ''Carte Blanche: For a Fistful of Teeth''. Bonus points for [[Deliberately Monochrome|black-and-white graphics]].
== Webcomics ==
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* [[Two Rooks]] combines crime noir with a dystopian setting.
* [http://www.sintitulocomic.com/2007/06/17/page-01/ Sin Titulo] definitely has noir undertones (and it uses color very sparingly).
== Web Original ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tRfL2EUhDo The Deadliest Tag] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFyxJd6uOQg Deadliest Tag Chapter Two] on [[Vlog Tag]].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' had chiaroscuro lighting, snap-brim hats, a gun moll for [[The Joker]], and a number of other ''noir'' traits.
== Other ==
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