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:And when it comes to apprehending correctly-identified criminals or defending innocents, he becomes ''scarily competent''. Especially if [[Tranquil Fury|said criminals have pissed him off]] [[It's Personal|personally]] or [[Papa Wolf|threatened Conan and Ran]], or if children are at stake. His black belt in judo isn't just for decoration, and it is revealed in the second non-serial movie ''The Fourteenth Target'' that he is an excellent pistol marksman as well. *** In fact in one of [[The Movie|The Movies]]s, Kogoro not only figured out who the real murderer was before Shinichi, he got it ''right'', when Shinichi accused someone, being wrong. Sort of. It's hard to explain, it being a [[Gambit Pileup]].

** At one point Kogoro is told by the doctor to stop drinking so much--andmuch—and for a few episodes he actually does. But not long afterward, he is back to boozing as heavily as usual.

* [[Always Murder]]: Proportionally less than [[The Kindaichi Case Files]], but with enough magnitude to be [[Lampshade|lampshadedlampshade]]d in ''[[Lucky Star]]''.

* [[Alternate Character Reading]]: ''Very'' commonly used, especially in [[Dying Clue|Dying Clues]]s.

** Dr. Agasa also cautions against telling Ran, but for the far more practical reason that she--andshe—and everybody Shinichi/Conan knows--mightknows—might become a target of the organization.

* [[Busman's Holiday]]: No matter where he goes, people die. [[Lampshade|Lampshaded]]d after a while by whichever of the police officers happens to be on duty in that area. Megure in particular begins to wonder if Kogoro isn't really the Angel of Death, later on more accurately shifting his joking suspicions towards Conan himself.

* [[Canon Welding]]: ''[[Detective Conan]]'' has the tendency to merge with the universe shared by his previous works, especially ''[[Magic Kaito]]'' and, to a lesser extent, a [[Dragon Ball]] clone called ''[[Yaiba]]!''.

:''[[Magic Kaito]]'' is Aoyama’s published at random series characters occur so frequently in ''[[Detective Conan]]'' as to be considered the latter's recurring characters. Although, Aoyama also drew the line: ''[[Detective Conan]]'' does not deal with the daily life of the ''[[Magic Kaito]]'' characters. Though it can be noted that the first Kid Toichi Kuroba has found his way into some significant back story involving the Kudos and Vermouth

:On the other hand, ''[[Magic Kaito]]'' (at least the manga version) is definitively ''in'' the same universe of ''[[Yaiba]]!''; the characters went to the same school called Ekoda, and the ''[[Detective Conan]]'' OVA Conan vs Kaitou Kid vs Yaiba was originally a ''[[Magic Kaito]]'' story arc that followed the same basic plot outline but without Conan's involvement (and without being [[All Just a Dream]], either): Kaito attempts to steal a magic sword, just before he found out what he was meant to be going after. Not to say, Aoko's gossip mill friend Keiko's "very reliable source" is Sayako, the main girl in ''[[Yaiba]]!''.

* [[Cell Phone]]: Because ''Conan'''s first few years of airing span the ramp-up of Japanese adoption of the cellphone (''keitai''), it is interesting to watch the evolution of its use in the series. (All the more so since the series is "supposed" to take place over the course of a few months thanks to [[Comic Book Time]]. At one point nine or ten years into the series's run, Kogoro reflected on how payphones had all but disappeared over the past five years in favor of cell phones--evenphones—even though they were all over the place in early episodes!)

** Chapter 709 confirms that the series currently takes place in 1999 (with October 10th10 explicitly mentioned to be a Saturday).

** The anime universe still progressed by ''five'' years-- inyears—in the early [[Filler]] that is discussed in [[All That Glitters]] in detail, it was 1978 "16 years ago"-- or—or, it was 1994 when the episode happened.

** Even more so, there's a backstory to the myth of the Goddess, and it also brings up the trope. According to it, a [[Naive Everygirl]] named Koharu received a trunk of beautiful kimonos as thanks from a daimyo whose life she saved. The jealous daughters of the village leader accused her of theft to get them, and poor Koharu was executed. That same night, the two girls were found dead -- alsodead—also in carefully-arranged scenes involving these kimonos, which were supposedly caused by Koharu's soul which had become a vengeful spirit. To appease her, she was from then on referred to as the Kimono Goddess.

* [[Criminal Mind Games]]: A number of episodes (especially the longer TV specials) involve some criminal leaving a trail of clues--eitherclues—either because they secretly want to be caught and stopped, or because they're just [[Ax Crazy]]. For whatever reason, many of these seem to involve bombs.

** The climactic confrontation with Vermouth is also one of these: Vermouth, posing as Dr. Araide, attempted to kidnap Ai--butAi—but Ai was under the protection of Jodie, who was trying to lead Vermouth in a trap set by an FBI agent. Except Vermouth figured this out and dismissed the agents while disguised as Jodie and set off her ''own'' trap--andtrap—and this is when Conan dramatically reveals that he's been disguising himself as Ai (while Heiji, elsewhere, pretended to show up as Shinichi). {{spoiler|Then ''Ai herself'' shows up, intending to turn herself in to the organization, which causes Vermouth to knock Conan out with his own needle. Just as Vermouth is about to shoot Jodie, Ran, who was hiding in the trunk of the car because she saw Jodie's pictures of her friends in the bathroom and assumed that Jodie was spying on the school, jumps out to protect Ai from both Vermouth and the sniper. When Shuichi Akai shows up to take out the sniper and disables Vermouth, Vermouth manages to get away by taking Conan hostage and [[Every Car Is a Pinto|blowing up the other car]]. Except Conan had anticipated Vermouth's get away (or at least was [[Crazy Prepared]]) and hooked himself up to a wire to capture the cell phone number Vermouth called. But Vermouth got the last laugh, as she knocked them both out with sleeping gas, then forced herself awake and slipped into the night, but not before destroying Conan's equipment.}} Phew.

** In one episode, Conan is able to tell the difference between a British accent and a Texan accent in spoken English--whichEnglish—which is really quite impressive when you consider that the words were actually spoken with a "read phonetically by a Japanese actor" accent.

* [[Hyper Awareness]]: Unavoidable since we have [[Great Detective|Great Detectives]]s here. One example:

* [[Ill Girl]]: In general, [[Ill Girl|Ill Girls]]s are used as a motive and [[Ill Boy|Ill Boys]]s are character attributes in this series.

* [[Impairment Shot]] (Volume 9, Ran was nearly drowned after being drugged. She assumed that her savior was Shinichi {(It was him, as Conan, before the whole [[Improbable Antidote]] incident.) This also occurs whenever anyone in the anime goes back and forth when they were being shrunk by Apotoxin or going back with [[Improbable Antidote|Baiganr.]] with funky colors and blurred outlines. The manga has a negative version of the outlines and is either black or white, besides when Shinichi first became Conan and Aoyama decided to show his eyes wide and his entire form literally ''steaming'' as his insides 'melted', leaving you to wonder exactly how that feels.)

*** The case of the latter two are [[Lampshade|lampshadedlampshade]]d by their [[Theme Naming]]; for example Morofushi's name refers to... [[Romance of the Three Kingdoms|Zhuge Liang]]. (Specifically, the characters of Zhuge Liang's courtesy name, Kongming, is read in Japanese as "Koumei"... which also happens to be an alternate reading of the characters in Morofushi's name.)

** Averted by Gin who stays conscious long enough to shoot himself in the arm to keep awake -- andawake—and then climb down a chimney into a burning room to murder a fellow agent whose cover was blown and then climb back up said chimney using said shot arm.

* [[Latex Perfection]]: KID seems to have brought this down where he can fool Shinichi {{spoiler|that he is Ran, or vice versa. This is scary ([[Crowning Moment of Funny|and at the same time, hilarious]], seeing as Shinichi has known Ran for years.}} Yukiko (a prize-winning actress) and Vermouth also manage to do this. Enough that throughout the series the only way [[Muggle|mugglesmuggle]]s can make sure someone was not impersonated is by literally pinching their faces.

* [[Loose Canon]]: ''[[Detective Conan]]'' has an ongoing [[Spin-Off]] manga series called ''[[Detective Conan]] Special Edition'' that is going on on a children's manga magazine. While it agrees with most canon elements of the main series, it's not drawn by the original mangaka (and hence has some [[Off-Model]] issues) and [[The Syndicate]] never appeared outside of the [[First Episode Spoiler]]. It's lack of firm link with the canon can be demonstrated by... despite being a [[Long Runner]] itself (>30 volumes), ''its story are very rarely adapted into [[Anime]].

* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: Many, ''many'' murderers have this as their motives, since their [[Asshole Victim|Asshole Victims]]s are generally people who crapped out ''big'' time on the killers's girlfriends, boyfriends, parents, siblings, children, etc.

* [[Mad Bomber]]: Subverted in [[Non-Serial Movie]] ''The Time-Bombed Skyscraper''. {{spoiler|The bomber is the architect who built all of the buildings he either blew up or nearly blew up. He did it because he was an ''extreme'' [[Neat Freak]] who considered all of them [[Old Shame|Old Shames]]s.}}

* [[Master of Delusion]]: Ran almost figured it out in the first volume, with many other close calls. Hundreds of chapters later and she's still clueless. Though, to be fair, ''every time'' Ran has figured out that Conan is Shinichi, Conan has had help from others in on the secret (as well as the otherwise-realistic universe's natural [[Weirdness Censor]]--who—who would believe that a high-schooler could de-age ten years given any even ''vaguely'' plausible alternative?) to convince her she was imagining things. Ran nearly got it right the first time, though...

* [[Master of Disguise]]: Five: Shinichi's [[Hot Mom]] Yukiko, former prize-winning actress and Black Organization member Vermouth who actually trained with Yukiko; the Kaitou Kids who [[Canon Welding|also starred in]] ''[[Magic Kaito]]'' -- [[Like Father, Like Son|Kuroba Kaito currently]] and Kuroba Toichi formerly (who trained Vermouth and Yukiko), and Phantom Lady who trained Kuroba Toichi -- andToichi—and may have married him.

* [[One-Scene Wonder]] --The—The character sheet has a special part for these. Jinpei Matsuda, though, worths specific mention.

* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: The only thing that keeps Conan from being recognized as age-regressed Shinchi are his Clark Kent glasses and other characters' [[Selective Obliviousness]]. He is otherwise not much good at [[Clark Kenting]]--he—he does not make much effort to hide his other Shinichi-like mannerisms (even Ran remarks on how much like Shinchi he is when he kicks a soccer ball around while thinking), and sometimes when his glasses have come off Ran has noticed how suspiciously similar to Young Shinichi he looks.

* [[The Perfect Crime]]: A number of murderers intentionally arrange to have "[[Meitantei]]" Mouri Kogoro witness their crime, so confident are they that they can have the "Great Detective" himself provide them with a foolproof alibi. (And often they would be right, even with Conan on the job--savejob—save for some completely coincidental bit of bad luck that provides the crucial evidence necessary to link them to it.)

* [[Police Are Useless]]: Almost none of the police inspectors seem able to solve murders by themselves. In most cases, this is because the focus of the series is on Conan--henceConan—hence the only cases we see them working on are the intricate ones Conan has to solve for them. It can be assumed that they are more able when it comes to routine crimes.

** The [[Chekhov's Gun]] from episode 12--''[[The Syndicate]]'' killing their [[Mook]]--was—was removed in the anime, by changing it to generic-evil-guy-seriously-hurting-but-not-killing-a [[Mook]]. However, Aoyama fired the gun by making the murder victim a [[Red Herring Shirt]] and the [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Older Sister]] of a new character. Result? [[Continuity Porn]] was applied by killing her ''again'', this time by [[The Syndicate]], in a [[Filler]] 116 episodes later. [[Lampshade Hanging|A lampshade was hung]] by Ran asking Conan if they had seen that character any time before. {{spoiler|This arc is the Billion Yen Heist. It was pertinent because Akemi Miyano had to die under the organization's hands to bring her little sister Shiho aka Ai in, because she is Ai's [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Elder Sister]].}} This also resulted in the series running in a very [[Restricted Expanded Plot]] so as to prevent [[Continuity Snarl]] by preventing any of the writer's [[Chekhov's Gun|Chekhov's Guns]]s to be removed.

** If that wasn't gratuitous enough, see this: in episode 4 (involving the bomb on the train), the villains were supposed to be [[Those Two Bad Guys]], and in the manga Conan overheard their name as Gin and Vodka. Again, in the anime they were changed to some other [[Long Coat Badass|Long Coat Badasses]]es. The anime writers didn't even try to [[Hand Wave]] that; Gin and Vodka's names were ''inserted'' into Conan's memory in the second season!

* [[Scooby-Doo Hoax]]: A number of episodes feature this sort of thing--sincething—since the series is set in a strictly rational world (with just one or two notable exceptions), ''any'' invocation of the supernatural can be assumed to be a Scooby Doo Hoax. (That doesn't stop normally-stalwart [[Action Girl]] Ran from cowering whenever [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|she suspects she may be up against ghosts]], however.)

* [[Sherlock Scan]]: Played straight in the first episode by Shinichi just for amusement and in the second episode to convince Agasa Conan is really Shinichi, though later on he keeps it to himself as Conan. Used sparingly when he needs and can afford to make a suspect uncomfortable. (Often, Conan will take "shortcuts" in his deductions though — spin them out longer just to impress the one he's scanning, ''e.g.'', spinning out a series of deductions to explain why someone is a tennis fan when he actually noticed a tennis brochure sticking out of his pocket. Ironically, or perhaps intentionally, this sort of ''inductive'' reasoning--workingreasoning—working backward from a conclusion to get facts rather than work forward from facts to get a conclusion--isconclusion—is what Conan Doyle actually used to invent Holmes's original ''deductive'' Sherlock scans.)

** An entire story in the 63rd tankoubon is a shout-out to [[Initial D]]. Why so? First, the case happened in Gunma in a place named Mt. ''Fuyu''na.<ref>Takumi's home course is named Mt. ''Aki''na; that place is based on a real-world place named Mt. ''Haru''na.</ref>. Second, the 'legend' is named Fuyuna's Silver Ghost.<ref>Bunta/Takumi in the AE86 is known as Akina's White Ghost</ref>.

*** In one two-hour episode where Ran suspects Conan is Shinichi, she observes that he is always "coming up with things" and makes a point of interceding with Kogoro to give him free reign to make his deductions--evendeductions—even lending him a pen to make notes. However, in subsequent episodes (the rest of the series thus far) she is back to scolding Conan for wandering around and "interfering with Kogoro's investigations", and picking him up and hustling him away whenever a police officer complains about a little kid at the crime scene.

*** In another episode where she suspects Conan of being Shinichi because his cellphone beeped when she sent Shinichi an email, she notices how Conan is stage-managing the investigation through hint-dropping--butdropping—but again seems to forget all about it after she is convinced she was mistaken.

*** It is very much an either-or proposition: outside of the episodes where she suspects Conan is Shinichi, Ran by and large fails to take notice of his unusual intelligence--orintelligence—or if she does, it is trumped by his young age.

* [[Snooping Little Kid]]: The Detective Boys, with the exception of Conan and Haibara, best fit this category--theycategory—they are not actually smart enough to be true [[Kid Detective|Kid Detectives]]s. But they sure do snoop around and get themselves into trouble a lot.

* [[Something Only They Would Say]]: Subverted and then played straight in episode 2: Conan reveals he knows about the mole on Agasa's butt to try to convince Agasa he's really Shinichi in a kid's body--butbody—but Agasa just assumes Shinichi's been blabbing. Then Conan uses a [[Sherlock Scan]] to demonstrate that he really ''is'' Shinichi.

** Also, the {{spoiler|Kimono Goddess}} case starts with the suicide of {{spoiler|[[Broken Bird|Sakurako]] [[The Ophelia|Suzuka]]. Her sister Eri is actually the [[Sympathetic Murderer]], and the cruel [[Alpha Bitch|Alpha Bitches]]es who drove Sakurako to kill herself become the [[Asshole Victim|Asshole Victims]]s.}}

* [[The Stinger]]: A feature of the anime and the [[Non-Serial Movie|Non Serial Movies]]. The TV episodes, OAVs, and movies all have one last scene--sometimesscene—sometimes several minutes long--afterlong—after the end titles roll. The only exception comes in non-concluding parts of multiple-part episodes, which just show the trailer. (Though in the first couple of seasons, even these had content, though it was often just the first scene of the next episode.)

** Subverted in "The Culprit is Genta's Dad": {{spoiler|The Kojima adult who looks most like Genta turns out to be the culprit but ''not'' Genta's father.}} Genta turns out to look nothing at all like his father--hefather—he takes after his mother.

** Although not an example of the comedic use of the trope, ''lots'' of people break out in cold sweats during the episodes--usuallyepisodes—usually the murderer, or those who are considered suspects. Sometimes the murderer can be picked out by being the only one out of all the suspects who is sweating, but this is often a [[Red Herring]].

** Subverted with Megure's That One Case, where a serial hit-and-run driver critically injured both himself and the girl who offered herself up as bait--turnsbait—turns out that was how he met his wife and he's embarrassed to tell the tale.

** One such [[Theme Naming]] is even [[Lampshade|Lampshaded]]d by the FBI: Rena Mizunashi, {{spoiler|Kir's}} cover name, could be an allusion to [[James Bond|007]].<ref>First, arrange in Japanese order of Mizunashi Rena. Then the explanation: "nashi" means "nil," referring to zero. "Ren" is a reading of the kanji for "zero." As for "na," see [[Seven Is Nana]].</ref>.

** Averted with Kogoro Mori, a heavy drinker who professes to enjoy fine wine but is completely unskilled in the handling and drinking of it--andit—and (as is revealed when Ran switches bottles on him) is incapable of distinguishing fine wine from cheap wine. He frequently gets drunk on wine, sake, or beer, and ends up [[Lampshade-Wearing|with his necktie around his head]].

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