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Despite, or perhaps because of, his unconventional education, Diabolik seems to have a deep knowledge in many scientific fields, including chemistry, mechanics and computers. He creates all sorts of gadgets, especially disguised weapons and communication devices, has developed a range of truth-serums and mind-control drugs, and creates perfect life-like mask disguises.
The ''Diabolik'' comic was adapted as the campy film ''[[Danger: Diabolik]]'', and also an animated television series. The film has its own entry, but the comic and animated series provide examples of a number of tropes:
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** In a story, three mooks at their first heist named Gastone, Elietta and Filippo, tried to steal a golden necklace during a party, with Gastone wearing a Diabolik-like suit to frame Diabolik. They failed, as not only the necklace was a fake (the real one still being in a bank vault) but Gastone walked in a trap intended for the actual Diabolik (who was stealing the necklace from the safe after bombing the party's site with fireworks to distract the police). It's probably the only time attempting to frame Diabolik ended well: Gastone didn't rat out his accomplices, who, due sheer luck, managed to follow Diabolik and steal money and jewels from the now open vault (the story title was ''Crumbs for Unknown Persons'', with the stolen goods being called 'Diabolik's crumbs' in-story) and divided the loot (with interest) with Gastone once he served his sentence. The only ones who could prove their crime are Diabolik and Eva... Who ended the story ''toasting'' at their success.
** In the story ''The Sweet Death'', Diabolik framed two people for an attempted murder they committed and the murder he committed while masked as them. The kicker is, the murder victim ''asked him to do this'': when the two framed people, his wife and his lover, tried to kill him with an 'accident', they left him so crippled he was in perpetual pain and unable to do anything more than blink, so, when he accidentally encountered Diabolik who was stealing some jewels from him, he [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|''blinked him in morse code to kill and avenge him'']], and Diabolik decided to help by killing him and 'confessing' the attempted murder on camera while wearing the lover's mask and with Eva present masked as the wife. The story ends with Altea finding evidence they couldn't have committed the murder and destroying it, as [[I Did What I Had to Do|she knew they had crippled the victim but couldn't prove it]].
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: Once in a while, Eva and Diabolik have a fight that results in Diabolik trying a heist alone and Eva trying the same heist to one-up him. Then we're treated to such things as Eva and Diabolik deciding the person that the other was impersonating had to die, Ginko interferences in a heist against a mafia boss forcing Diabolik to frame someone else in order to not be discovered only to find out Eva framed ''him'' by pure chance, and all the rest.
* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: done twice by Altea. The first time, in ''The Sweet Death'', she [[Framing the Guilty Party|destroyed the only evidence that two criminals were innocent of the crime they had been convicted for because there was no evidence for their actual crimes]]. The second time, in ''A Killer for Ginko'', she tried to put an hit on the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] Ruggero Backmann who was paying killers to kill Ginko, and when she realized Diabolik had replaced her hitman to steal from Backmann she got him to swear he'd do the job, well knowing that Diabolik always keep his words and making sure he'd kill him (the day after Diabolik's heist, Backmann was found with a knife in the heart).
* [[Indy Ploy]]: Diabolik ''hates'' improvising, but once in a while he's not [[Crazy Prepared]] enough, and he'll have to improvise a distraction for the police, or even ''[[It Makes Sense in Context|blow up a building with a gas leak, a log and Eva's shirt]]''.
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