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== Anime And Manga ==
* Gai Kurasawa, a minor character in ''[[Darker
== Comedy ==
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== Comic Books ==
* Hannibal King from [[Marvel Comics]] is a [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampiric]] hardboiled detective.
* Rorschach from ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'' has some elements that seem like a shout-out to the trope, including the trenchcoat and fedora and the [[Private Eye Monologue]] (which is actually excerpts from his journal).
* Dr. Occult from [[The DCU]] is a hardboiled [[Occult Detective]].
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* ''[[The Big Sleep (film)|The Big Sleep]]'' features Bogart again as detective Philip Marlowe, probably the second best known example.
* Another [[Humphrey Bogart]] example is ''[[Dirty Harry|The Enforcer]]'', where Bogie plays a hardboiled district attorney chasing gangsters. As a lawyer, he's more the [[Amateur Sleuth]] version in this one.
* A lesser known example would be the Bogart film ''[[Dead Reckoning]]''. He's actually an army man, so it's again more of an [[Amateur Sleuth]] type, but Bogart had a cool [[Private Eye Monologue]], which he didn't have in the more iconic Bogart films.
* ''Out of the Past'' is a classic [[Film Noir]] starring Robert Mitchum as a hardboiled detective trying to escape his past (no spoiler to say [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|he's unsuccessful]]).
* Jake Gittes in [[Roman Polanski]]'s ''[[Chinatown]]'' is an homage to the archetype.
* Parodied with hapless detective Rigby Reardon in the [[Steve Martin]] film, ''[[Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid]]'', which features lots of actual footage from classic [[Film Noir]] to add to the atmosphere.
* ''[[The Animatrix]]'': "The Detective's Story" stars a hardboiled detective.
* Eddie Valiant, the protagonist of ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', which used appropriately parodic [[Film Noir]] atmospheric touches.
* [[H.P. Lovecraft]] in ''[[Cast a Deadly Spell]]'' is an [[Occult Detective]] who is also a perfect example of a Chandlerian detective.
* Hoyle from the surreal and cerebral Noir/SF crossover ''[[Yesterday Was a Lie]]'' is a distaff version, with fedora, trenchcoat and all, trying to find a missing scientist.
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* The 1980s TV adaption of ''[[Mike Hammer]]'' is either a straight example or a parody, depending on who you ask.
* ''[[Spenser For Hire]]'' was a rarity; a [[Hardboiled Detective]] with an even harder-boiled partner.
* Michael Garibaldi of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' has flashes of this from time to time. Picked up, bizarrely enough, by G'Kar of all people.
* In ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'', Dixon Hill is a hardboiled detective holodeck character that Captain Picard is fond of playing.
* Parodied in the [[PBS Kids]]' show, ''[[Between the Lions]]'', which had a recurring skit featuring "Sam Spud, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|parboiled potato]] detective".
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== Webcomics ==
* In addition to the [[Neil Gaiman]] example above, [[Lawrence Talbot]] also headined a short-lived webcomic in this vein, complete with trenchcoat, fedora, and [[Private Eye Monologue]].
* Parodied in ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'', where the main characters think they are this, and occasionally do things like practice their hardboiled monologues or are drawn in [[Chiaroscuro]]. From the reader's perspective, they act more like unspeakably, unspeakably silly [[Eastern RPG]] characters.
* ''[[Muktuk Wolfsbreath, Hard-Boiled Shaman]]'' is based on "the realization that shamans were kind of like detectives".
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