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A Calling Card is a piece of evidence or item deliberately left at the scene of a crime to serve as perpetrator's "signature". Sometimes it's a literal playing card or gamepiece left near the scene of the crime, or perhaps the victims are arranged in strange poses.
The term comes from a largely Forgotten Trope from a time before the invention and proliferation of the home telephone. Back then, if you wanted to talk to your friends in real-time, you had to actually talk to them face-to-face. Women had a system where they would stop at each other's homes unannounced, to meet with (usually, though not always) the lady of the house just to chat. Needless to say, there was no guarantee of actually getting to do so at that moment, because she might not have been home. If Alice wanted to visit with ("call on") Betty, but Betty wasn't home (or was "not at home", a euphemism meaning that she was there but was either too busy to talk or didn't want to talk with Alice for some reason), then Alice would leave a "calling card" with her name on it. (Kind of like a modern-day business card, except for personal use.) Like the trope, it was unique to her, and she may have left several of them throughout the neighborhood or town, depending on just how many of her friends she unsuccessfully attempted to call on. She would either leave it in a dish left for this purpose, or if Betty was wealthy enough to have one, leave it with the maid or the butler, and it was expected that Betty would "call on" Alice when she got the chance. When the telephone was invented and came to more and more homes, it simply wasn't necessary to go running around to others' homes just to chat, and thus both "calling" and literal "calling cards" died out.
Actual calling cards are rare in Real Life, because it would make it very easy for the cops to track you down; but in fiction, it seems like every villain has to have one for stamping their achievements with.
Phantom thieves and particularly cocky crooks may even send their calling card before committing the crime, warning their target about what's going to happen. This may be for practical reasons, such as turning the increased security against the target or distracting them by focusing the police's attention elsewhere, or simply as a Badass Boast: if the criminal can pull off their crime even when the target is on highest alert, surely they must be incredibly skilled.
Occasionally, a smart character may even use another villain's calling card to frame them. If the villain is well known, and their calling card shows up before they're introduced in the current continuity, (or if said Villain has been missing or dead for some time), then it's a nice Sequel Hook, or simply a hint of what's to come.
Sometimes, the calling card may be a result of the villain's M.O. (not necessarily a Card-Carrying Villain) or distinctive weapon of choice. One obvious example: vampires always leave their characteristic two-holed neck bite. For people who literally use this trope as a weapon, see Death Dealer.
See also Criminal Mind Games, Idiosyncrazy, Poetic Serial Killer. See Hacked by a Pirate for the computer hacking version.
This has become a Dead Horse Trope in Comic Books, where it was once a staple. A hero may also have a calling card, especially one who typically disappears after stopping the criminals rather than hanging around to discuss things with the police.
For actual calling cards (which a criminal may also leave, although it's a bit obvious), see My Card.
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In Watchmen, Rorschach's calling card is a piece of paper with a mirrored lowercase letter R written on it.
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Weirdly used in Thud!, in which the Summoning Dark is its own calling card: wherever the Dark-inhabited Vimes goes, objects tend to fall in such a way as to form the eye-with-a-tail symbol.
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Sly Cooper always leaves a raccoon-head-shaped card in place of the valuables he steals.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit loves this trope.
One episode featured the Victim of the Week being tied up in a particular way, and there was also the Blonde, Brunette, Redhead pattern.
Another featured a serial killer who considered his killings True Art, "critiquing" the work of a copycat, who turned out to be his Psycho Ex-Girlfriend.
Another episode featured literal cards—prayer cards, to be specific, left with dead prostitutes.
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The Black Arrow: The darts of The Black Arrow gang's members have their owner's name carved in the shaft.
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Golden Swallow: The expert swordsman and killing machine, Silver Roc, will leave behind swallow-shaped golden darts on the corpses of bandits he killed.
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Mr. A has a business card that's half-black and half-white, representing his worldview, that he usually displays before beating up some criminals.
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King Leonardo and His Short Subjects: The Hunter. "Have Nose, Will Hunt."
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Hunter: The Vigil allows the characters to modify their Karma Meters to allow different breaking points in pursuit of the Vigil; to make up for it, though, they need to take certain "Triggers" that risk being activated in times of stress. One of them is "Calling Card"; you have to leave a sign at the scene of a kill. Needless to say, this Trigger carries over well if the hunter becomes a Slasher.
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Hellboy: Lobster Johnson would burn his symbol, a stylised lobster claw, into his victims' foreheads using the palm of his hand. He also had actual calling cards that he would leave for the police.
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100 Tears: The Teardrop Killer gets his nickname because he paints teardrops in blood on the walls of every crime scene.
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In Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking, the Serial Killer leaves one silk stocking knotted about the necks of his victims, and another stuffed down their throats.
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Uncle Eddie of the eponymous murders in Anamorph leaves the word "DEAD" on each of his victims. The fact that this doesn't appear in the later murders suggests that it's a copycat killer at work.
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In Apocalypse Now, Colonel Kilgore throws "Death cards" with the emblem of his Air Cavalry Regiment around corpses to let the Vietcong know who killed them. As he complains to his XO, none of the kills are even notable enough to earn a jack.
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Paladin's calling card has a title drop for the show he's on: Have Gun – Will Travel.
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In Batman: Arkham Knight, Professor Pyg suspends the corpses of his victims from chains, then leaves behind a loudspeaker blaring opera music. He also paints a word dismissing them as flawed (such as "FAILURE" or "DEFORMITY") on the spot.
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CSI: NY:
The Compass Killer from Season 4 leaves compasses at his scenes, each with the needle glued in a different position.
Serial killer Shane Casey uses hand-printed t-shirts on victims at staged scenes to leave secret messages.
In "Crushed," a burglar leaves small, typed notes at his scenes. It comes back to bite him when someone is killed at a house he'd robbed and he becomes a murder suspect.
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The Shadow:
The Red Blot has his men smear red blots of ink or blood at the scenes of their crimes.
The Black Falcon likes to send a black falcon feather with taunting messages to his enemies.
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The Worst Witch: In A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch, Ethel is enraged by Mildred "terrorising her little sister" by telling her a story about being turned into a frog by a teacher, and "insulting her family" by calling her a weed. As revenge, Ethel turns Mildred into a frog while she sleeps, and deposits a clump of weeds on Mildred's pillow.
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The Spider marks his victims with a spider brand on the forehead; not all of them are dead first.
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One of the early killers Dexter goes after makes the victim's bodies themselves his signature—a frozen, chopped-up, bloodless body. The killer also left increasingly personalized clues for Dexter himself.
Season 3's B-plot serial killer had a rather disturbing calling card: partially skinning his victims; one victim died from the skinning.
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Episode 2.01 of White Collar featured a bank robber who left actual calling cards at his crime scenes.
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The Simpsons
Parodied in "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase", during the Chief Wiggum sketch. After Ralph is kidnapped they find a skull lying on his bed:
In "Homer the Vigilante" the mystery thief leaves a card behind at each crime scene: "You have just been robbed by the Springfield Cat Burglar."
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From Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Fatman's calling card is placing cologne on his C4 explosives, which his mentor/rival Peter Stillman is able to take advantage of to create a sensor that can detect the bombs. He soon catches on to this and tricks Stillman with bombs that don't have that trace of cologne on them.
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In Some Guy Who Kills People, the killer leaves cryptic clues on the bodies of the victims, and initially the sheriff cannot work out what they mean. However, once he discovers the connections between the victims, he realizes the clues relate to their numbers on the high school basketball team (an ace and king playing cards for no. 21, a V carved into his chest for no. 5, etc.).
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In Nate and Hayes the film's villain has framed the latter half of the duo for years by leaving Hayes' sign on the scenes of his crimes.
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In Queen of Swords, the Queen sometimes leaves behind a Queen of Swords tarot card to taunt the authorities.
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Lotus Blossom in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles always leaves a lotus flower whatever crime she strikes.
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The MAX version of the Foolkiller elaborately stages the bodies of those he kills and leaves a "Fool" tarot card at the scene, often with a message.
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Killer Bean Forever: After Killer Bean's first gunfight, the police investigate the crime scene and find his bullet casings are all enshrined with the words "This bullet casing is the property of Killer Bean". Turn over, the casings read, "This Bullet Is Meant For Someone Else".
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The Phantom: The main character has two calling cards, both in the form of rings. He wears a ring with a skull emblem on his right hand, which leaves a permanent skull-imprint on the faces of his enemies when he punches them hard enough, forever branding them as the Phantom's enemies. On his left hand, he wears a ring with a symbol of four 'P's in a circle. By pressing the dye-emitting ring into the hand of an ally, he leaves the four-P emblem as a permanent mark on their skin, a sign to the world that they are protected by the Phantom.
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In Beverly Hills Cop II, the so-called Alphabet Bandit leaves behind cryptic clues that leave the cops scrambling to decode them. In fact, the code was there to confuse the cops while the culprits were busy doing something else.
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Modesty Blaise: In "The Grim Joker", the murderous trio leave the words "Ho Ho Ho" on all of their victims.
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RWBY: In Volumes 2-3, Cinder uploads a virus to the CCT and Beacon computers. The hacker programme has a calling card of a curly "W" and blanks the screen to display a black queen chess piece logo. However, who these two calling cards belong to is revealed later. Cinder herself is associated with black glass, something that Ruby latches onto in Volume 2 as an identifying trait of her's that is not a Semblance. In Volume 7, Ironwood relives the helplessness he felt in Volume 3 when confronted by the black queen logo. The "black queen" is the Big Bad, Salem; in Volume 7, Ironwood admits that he feels powerless when confronted by that symbol as he interprets it as Salem's way of showing she's there and in control. The curly "W" is confirmed in Volume 5 to be Watts' symbol, an expert scientist, programmer and hacker who works with Salem. In Volume 7, Watts and Tyrian are in charge of a Paranoia Gambit to drive Ironwood over the edge. Just as Ironwood thinks he has them and the situation under control, he finds a chess piece in his office made from black glass. Because the chess piece is Salem's calling card and the black glass is Cinder's, Ruby realises that Cinder is in town. Unfortunately, the chess piece is the final straw for Ironwood's sanity, and he begins a downward spiral into villainy.
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Zorro and his carved 'Z'.
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In Silent Night (2012), the killer Santa leaves a red and white gift box containing a piece of coal with his victims.
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Angels & Demons: Invoked by The Hassassin who engages in theme killing. He also brands each of his victims with the name of the element he killed them with. He does the killings this way frame an Ancient Conspiracy, that is already extinct.
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Harry Potter:
Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters would leave a Dark Mark whenever someone had been killed.
Notorious wizard-Hitler Gellert Grindelwald repurposed the Deathly Hallows symbol as his own personal insignia, much like how the Nazis repurposed the swastika as their own. It's mentioned that after he was expelled from Durmstrang, Grindelwald permanently marked the sign on the school's wall to show that he studied there. To people who lost family members to him, like Viktor Krum, it's a major Berserk Button.
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The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh had the Pack Rats, who steal things and leave behind walnuts in their place.
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 The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
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In Sherlock: Case of Evil, Professor Moriarty likes to sign his crime with an 'M' concealed during the commission or at the scene, but so subtle that only a genius like Sherlock Holmes will spot it.
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In Calvin and Hobbes, when Susie gets smacked in the head with a snowball, she immediately goes to Calvin. She deduces that it was his snowball given the bits of bark, mud, gravel and ice in his mittens.
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For the serial killer in Ripper (2014), it's all about wolves. The widow of one of the victims receives a copy of Hermann Hesse's novel Steppenwolf. Another victim, who collected glass figurines, receives one after her death that is at first mistaken for a dog but it's really a wolf.
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The killer in The Prowler leaves roses behind on his victims.
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Mr. Valentine in Guilty Party always leaves rhyming Valentine's cards for his victims.
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In Supernatural demons will often leave behind sulfur and angels will burn out the eyes of their victims.
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In Another Note, Beyond Birthday leaves behind a number of wara ningyo dolls nailed into the wall. They function as a countdown of how many victims are left.
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In "Ayla and the Grinch" of the Whateley Universe, a serial killer is loose in Los Angeles, leaving the heads of the victims behind as an identifier. Heads that are apparently burned off the still-living bodies.
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Discworld
Weirdly used in Thud!, in which the Summoning Dark is its own calling card: wherever the Dark-inhabited Vimes goes, objects tend to fall in such a way as to form the eye-with-a-tail symbol.
Technically, the fact Thieves and Assassins always leave a receipt could be considered a calling card. This is how you know you were visited by a licenced professional, and not a common criminal.
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James Bond
In Never Send Flowers, a rare hybrid rose is delivered to the funerals of the high-profile assassinations, accompanied with the written message "This is the way it must end. Goodbye."
The Number Killer in The Facts of Death always leaves numbers (which are counting to ten) and a statue of a Greek god to the scenes of the crime.
The Union from Raymond Benson's Bond novels has its killers leave their victims with deeply cut throats as their signature, even when they killed them through other means.
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In "Child Predator" of Elementary, the Balloon Man would leave behind balloons saying things such as "thank you" and "congratulations" after abducting a child.
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The Thief of Many Faces, the antagonist of the Hildibrand sidequests in Final Fantasy XIV, sends the titular inspector a red and black playing card with the details of his next heist every chapter. The card's usually tossed into someone's head for good measure (and slapstick).
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The serial killer from The Long Halloween would kill on a holiday and leave behind some knickknack related to the date—the press dubs them The Holiday Killer. And in the sequel Dark Victory, the next serial killer leaves behind incomplete Hangman games.
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Phantom Thief Fox in the A New World, A New Way series (specifically A New World, A New Stage), leaves a calling card with one side depicting a black Zoroark head symbol, while the other side is blank and used to write her notices.
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This is done by Kaitou KID in Magic Kaito and Case Closed to announce where, when and what he is going to steal, sometimes in riddle form. That also allows him to know when someone is trying to frame or impersonate him and take steps to stop them.
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CHERUB Series agent Bruce Norris once joked that he wanted to make business cards to leave in the mouths of the people he knocked out.
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Eroica in From Eroica with Love leaves a card with the series title on it.
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In Rimfire, the killer leaves a playing card on the body of each of the bodies: starting with the deuce of spades and working upwards through the suit.
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Moon (1985): A psychically glimpsed Serial Killer, known only as Heckatty, leaves, in victims' corpses, a moonstone.
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Less of a 'I was here' card and more of a 'I'm about to be here' sign, the ninjas in Ninja Assassin leave an envelope filled with black sand for their victims to find, right before they, literally, come from the shadows and kill them.
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In A Study in Scarlet, the killer leaves a scrap of paper on each of his victims containing a verse from "Ten Little Black Boys".
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In Night School (1981), the killer always leaves the severed head of their victim submerged in water.
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 Night School (1981)
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"Kissin" Kate Barlow from Holes was famous for giving her victims The Kiss of Death, leaving a lipstick mark. It started when the sheriff of her town tried to extort a kiss from her in exchange for not killing her black boyfriend. After the boyfriend was lynched, Kate gave him the kiss he'd requested... after she murdered him in retribution.
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In Persona 5, the Phantom Thieves of Hearts send a calling card to their target prior to the grand heist (as a nod to Lupin III). The specific purpose of the calling card is to render their target psychologically vulnerable for a brief period of time, allowing the Phantom Thieves to steal the Treasure (which is unformed and intangible until the target is made aware that it exists and is a target for theft, causing them to think of it as an object that can be stolen), a manifestation of the target's twisted desire and ego, from the target's Palace. In gameplay, sending a calling card triggers a Point of No Return that initiates a boss fight on the following day; clearing this boss fight progresses the story once the in-game deadline is reached.
In Persona 5 Strikers, the process is similar, but Desires are manifested rather than Treasures, which allows the Shadow Self to be reasoned with after being defeated.
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James Bond:
In The Man with the Golden Gun, Professional Killer Francisco Scaramanga sends Bond a golden bullet with "007" marked on it, signifying him he's his next target. Turns out Scaramanga's mistress sent it, hoping Bond would kill him and free her.
In For Your Eyes Only, Italian agent Luigi Ferrara is murdered by the men of the Big Bad, Ari Kristatos, though Bond doesn't know it yet, and they leave a dove-shaped brooch pin on his body to frame smuggler Milos Columbo ("Columbo" sounds like the Spanish and Italian for "dove"), who then kidnaps Bond and explains him everything. Later, Bond drops the brooch in Locque's car in memory of Ferrara before making the car tumble down a cliff, killing Locque.
In The Living Daylights, the words Smiert Spionom (Russian for "Death to spies") is left on the bodies of various assassinated British agents, in an attempt to provoke MI6 into assassinating the head of the KGB whom they're told is behind the killings.
In No Time to Die, Madeleine Swann brings Bond to Matera specifically because Vesper Lynd is buried there, so he can forgive her and turn the page on her death once and for all. That's the moment Spectre chooses to ambush him, by first setting up a bomb in Vesper's grave, which explodes when Bond finds a Spectre calling card among the grave's flowers.
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The Joker is also famous for leaving victims with a hideous grin on their faces due to Joker Venom (or in one case, carved Glasgow smiles).
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 The Dark Knight
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In The Pink Panther (1963), "The Phantom" would leave behind a monogrammed glove at every robbery.
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Infernal Exalted don't have to leave these at the scene of whatever horrible mess they just made, exactly, but if they do, it lets them reduce the Yozis' disapproval of them because that's just kind of how Szoreny rolls.
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Title villain of The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle carves the letter "M" on his victims' foreheads.
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In The Last Days of FOXHOUND, Fatman runs off immediately after getting rescued from an enemy base.
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X (Dark Horse Comics) would send his targets a photo of themselves with a single diagonal red slash across their face as a warning to mend their ways. If they ignored the warning, they received a second diagonal slash, meaning death.
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In Lupin III: Island of Assassins, Tarantula forges one of Lupin's to get him involved in their plans.
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In The Dark Knight Trilogy, The Joker would sometimes leave playing cards (Jokers). In Batman Begins, this was used as a Sequel Hooknote  In an evidence bag indicating that it was found by Officer J. Kerr, implying that he not only left the card, but impersonated an officer to collect it and make sure it got into evidence. In The Dark Knight, he also made a habit of marking his victims with a Glasgow Smile. Charming fellow.
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Vengeful Beauty: The titular Beauty, an assassin, is called the "Bloody Hibiscus" because of the numerous white, blood-stained hibiscuses she leaves on the corpses of her victims.
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In The Man with the Golden Gun, Professional Killer Francisco Scaramanga sends Bond a golden bullet with "007" marked on it, signifying him he's his next target. Turns out Scaramanga's mistress sent it, hoping Bond would kill him and free her.
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The X-Files:
When a still-burning Morley cigarette is left on the ground or in an office ashtray, that's a sign that the Cigarette-Smoking Man has been there recently. Since he's The Chessmaster who's anything but careless, it's very likely these are left deliberately.
In the episode "The End", a guard in the prison where the Conspiracy's failed hired assassin is held (pending questioning) hands the prisoner a threatening note ("You're a dead man") written on the cut-out side of a Morley cigarette carton—indicating that it was a message from the Cigarette-Smoking Man. A second time, the prisoner receives another cut-out carton side, which has nothing written on it, right before the guard shoots him.
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The eponymous Black Butterfly, a Robin Hood-esque master thief, who steals from wealthy, corrupt officials, will leave behind hairpins shaped like black butterflies at the site of each theft. Hence how she gets her nickname.
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In Fallout 4's "The Silver Shroud" questline, you get to dress up like the titular vigilante hero from pre-War radio dramas and gun down some of the worst lowlifes in post-apocalyptic Boston, then leave patented Silver Shroud calling cards on their corpses.
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Psychometrer Eiji: The serial killer in the first case puts the clothes of his victims inside out and leaves a piece of paper in the shape of a mobius next to them.
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In Cultist Simulator, Rose, one of your Edge-aspect followers (read: assassins), always sends her future victims a yellow rose as a gift before she murders them.
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The eponymous Cruz Diablo marks his victims with a cross on their forehead, hence the name.
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In Cherry Falls, the killer carves the word "virgin" into the victims.
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In The Rawhide Terror, the killer leaves behind a strip of rawhide on his victims. On it is written "Remember ten years ago", followed by a countdown of how many he has left to kill.
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The Crimson Shadow: The cloak of invisibility Luthien finds has the idiosyncracy that if he stays in one position for too long he leaves behind an indelible crimson silhouette. He's not aware of this at first, and inadvertently leaves a silhouette in the house of one his enemies. They believe he left it deliberately to taunt them, and after seeing their reaction he starts deploying it deliberately for that effect.
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Parodied in That Mitchell and Webb Look with the "Identity Killer", whose calling card is that he leaves documents pertaining to his identity — such as an actual calling card, his driver's license, his passport and, on one occasion, himself — at the scene of the crime. The police still are baffled as to who he could be.
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In Mass Effect 2, the Classy Cat-Burglar, Kasumi Goto, tells Shepard that she left a rose in place of what she stole earlier in her career, but her partner made her realize that continuing to do so wasn't a very smart thing to do.
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The Supergirl-Batgirl Plot: When Robin and the Batplane disappear, Batman finds a Bat-compact lying on the ground. He quickly deduces it was intentionally left by Batgirl -in reality, Batmite impersonating Barbara- to taunt him.
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Pinky and the Brain: Brain tries to Take Over the World by becoming a superhero, modeling himself after Batman parody The Caped Opossum, and calling himself the Cranial Crusader. When Brain leaves his calling card at the scene of the crime, an explosion causes ink to hit the card, making police think Caped Opossum did it.
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Batman:
From The Golden Age of Comic Books through The Bronze Age of Comic Books, most of Batman's Rogues Gallery left calling cards, either explicitly (The Joker's playing cards and the Riddler's conundrums), or in the form of Signature Crimes: Two-Face's crime sprees always revolved around the number two, for instance. This was often Lampshaded; even in The Golden Age of Comic Books, the Riddler's compulsion was flat-out stated to be his downfall. Several stories have shown that the Riddler is psychologically incapable of committing a crime without the riddles, no matter how hard he tries. In the current comics, however, it's a Dead Horse Trope.
The serial killer from The Long Halloween would kill on a holiday and leave behind some knickknack related to the date—the press dubs them The Holiday Killer. And in the sequel Dark Victory, the next serial killer leaves behind incomplete Hangman games.
The Joker is also famous for leaving victims with a hideous grin on their faces due to Joker Venom (or in one case, carved Glasgow smiles).
Hero example: Batman himself sometimes leaves a card with a bat-symbol next to unconscious thugs.
In the famous "Joker's Millions" story (Which was adapted into an episode of the animated series), Joker, after finding out that most of his "inheritance" is fraudulent, needs to drum up some cash NOW. Of course, he's supposed to have gone straight at this point, so he's forced to perform a mundane burglary, without one of his trademarks. Coincidentally, there's a theater across the street that was playing Pagliacci (Y'know, the one about the sad clown?), and a sharp wind blows a poster onto the site of Joker's crime!
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In Persona 5 Strikers, the process is similar, but Desires are manifested rather than Treasures, which allows the Shadow Self to be reasoned with after being defeated.
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The Mighty Boosh does it with Old Gregg - a sea monster who kidnaps Howard and leaves a card saying "I'm Old Gregg".
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One of the many categories of collectibles in Far Cry 4 are the "Masks of Yalung", demonic masks left by a Serial Killer calling himself "The Goat" at the scenes of their grisly murders, which the player is tasked to destroy or otherwise remove. Radio DJ Rabi-Ray-Rana wonders on-air what his Calling Card would be if he were a serial killer: Playing cards are too overdone, masks are taken... so maybe he would just take a shit on his victims.
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On Imposters, Ezra is rocked to find his accounts have been emptied out and his credit cards are no good. Coming home, he finds a video from his love Ava, who reveals she's actually Maddie, a con artist who just took him for everything. She's a bit apologetic for it but also issues a warning: If Ezra goes to the cops or tries to find her, she will reveal a dark secret he has that will not only ruin him but his entire family.
Ezra soon meets Richard and Jules (a woman) who also married Maddie and found the exact same video waiting for them with the indication they're only three of many Maddie has done this to.
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The serial killer in L.A. Noire usually strips his victim, stamps on her chest, writes a message in lipstick, and forcibly removes her ring.
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In Moonlight Becomes You Maggie realizes that bells have been left on the graves of several women who died at Latham Manor and on Nuala's grave (even though she was murdered at home). It's revealed the killer left the bells there as a private twisted 'joke'.
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In Love & Pies, The Purple Fox always leaves a purple fox figurine after they rob a place. This makes them a suspect of the café arson, but since their motive is to steal and then return the stolen goods afterwards, Eve rules them out. However, after she leaves, Amelia discovers a box of Purple Fox figurines while cleaning the kitchen, which was left behind by her mother.
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Fourth Edition Dark Champions had this as a disadvantage as well. It's not specifically noted in 5th edition, but several NPCs have one anyway.
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In Julia X, The Brand Killer brands a letter on to each of his victims.
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The Death Note allows its user to not only kill remotely but also control victims' behavior shortly before they die. Light Yagami uses this ability to send a taunting message to L.
He also uses the "default method" of killing with a spontaneous heart attack as a sort of calling card. So that people would know someone was responsible for all the dead criminals. (At one point his game plan was to phase this out, noting that after using this trope to gain the public's attention, he's best served by changing their perception to attribute every death to His divine will, but either he or the narration gets distracted and loses track.)
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Disney Mouse and Duck Comics:
The Phantom Blot's calling card is an ink blot. He'll usually leave a message with it, but sometimes not — one time Mickey finds himself framed by the Blot, and then notices there is an actual ink blot on his jacket.
Fantomius, being a Gentleman Thief, leaves a literal calling card on the site of his heists. He had been planning to leave them since before he became a thief, as when he crossed the line and committed his first heist on the same day he already had a calling card ready.
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In The Snowman (2017), the killer leaves behind a snowman at the scenes of his crimes.
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Inverted in the Monk episode "Mr. Monk's 100th Case." The serial killer has photographs of various models that he takes, and then adds lipstick to each of those killed, but he keeps them at the studio as a checklist, not leaving them at the crime scene.
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The flagship series Law & Order played this straight in some episodes, and subverted it in others.
A straight example is "Trophy", in which the police discover that the wrong man was put away for a series of murders when new bodies start appearing with the same killer's signature: a scrawled note clutched in one hand that says "They must be destroyed".
In "Profile", racist killer Arthur Tunney asks each of his victims the same question before shooting them: "How do you like the neighborhood?"
One example of a subversion is "Blood is Thicker...": the police find a dead woman killed in the signature style of a known (but not yet caught) serial killer. However, it turns out that it was her husband, copying the serial killer's style to make it look like another of his kills.
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed: the Black Cat gang (specialty: burglary with a side dish of murder) leave a cat drawing or an actual cat at the scene of the crime.
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Fantômas sometimes left behind his cards (at least in the French movie adaptations).
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In the second case of Dual Destinies, Phineas Filch's grandfather left statues of himself in the place of the things he stole.
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The Penny Murderer, the main villain of Brody's Ghost, leaves, of course, a penny on his victims' foreheads. Brody questions why a murderer would leave such a silly calling card, although it's later revealed to have symbolic importance.
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The Number Killer in The Facts of Death always leaves numbers (which are counting to ten) and a statue of a Greek god to the scenes of the crime.
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Phantom Thief X from Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro, who leaves a "red box" at the crime scenes (actually a clear glass box filled with the liquefied remains of his victims).
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The Two Ronnies: The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town leaves a calling card featuring a raspberry. There is no name, because "modesty forbids", and no address, because he is "never at home".
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In the Rango fanfic Old West, there exists a desert iguana thief named Reth, who's called "the Carpenter". He's known for his habit of leaving a little wooden figure for every thing he steals. Rattlesnake Jake regards him stupid for that.
A bobcat outlaw named Delilah Rangler, more commonly known as "the Scarlet Kiss", leaves a bright red lipstick-kiss on the cheeks of her every murder victim.
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One Piece: After the Bellamy Pirates rob the Saruyama Alliance, they paint their Jolly Roger on a nearby tree. This proves to be an incredible bad decision; Luffy would quickly track down Bellamy and hammer his head into the street for attacking his friends.
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Cat's Eye has two different calling cards. The titular girls leave a business card with a stylized cat and the words "Cat's Eye" on it, while the thief Masato Kamiya (nicknamed "The Rat" by the police) leaves a coin mounted on a pendant. Like many Gentleman Thief characters, the girls sometimes send calling cards before the heists: the police squad assigned to capture them has two members with the bad habit of confiding to them their strategies to capture Cat's Eye (and, in one memorable occasion, discussed the strategy in their coffee house), and live near their police station enough to use binoculars and lip-read the rare plans the officers won't discuss with the girls.
While Kamiya does it for fun, the girls have a good reason for it: their assumed name as Cat's Eye and them stealing only Michael Heintz's paintings are part of a complicated and desperate attempt to contact their father, Heintz himself, or at least find out if he's still alive, without tipping off the men who tried to kill him and stole his paintings in the first place.
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Mr. Brooks leaves a thumbprint from each of his victims, marked with their own blood, on an object near their body after murdering them. He's come to be known as the "Thumbprint Killer".
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Joe Pickett: In Blood Trail, the killer leaves a red poker chip on the body of each of their victims.
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Lucifer (2016): The Whisper Killer, an Arc Villain from the first half of season five, always leaves a bunch of lilies with the victims. The man the police initially capture turns out to be a copycat using the real Whisper Killer's technique and leaving the same flowers. Ella Lopez eventually finds the real Whisper Killer when she discovers her new boyfriend has a hidden room in his apartment where he grows the lilies.
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Leslie Charteris's The Saint stories. Simon Templar used a hand-drawn picture of a stick-figure with a halo◊ as his signature/Calling Card.
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In For Your Eyes Only, Italian agent Luigi Ferrara is murdered by the men of the Big Bad, Ari Kristatos, though Bond doesn't know it yet, and they leave a dove-shaped brooch pin on his body to frame smuggler Milos Columbo ("Columbo" sounds like the Spanish and Italian for "dove"), who then kidnaps Bond and explains him everything. Later, Bond drops the brooch in Locque's car in memory of Ferrara before making the car tumble down a cliff, killing Locque.
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The Executioner. Elite sniper turned Vigilante Man Mack Bolan leaves a miltary marksman's medal at the scene of his killings. Sometimes he has one delivered to a future target as psychological warfare. His enemies have been known to leave such medals at murder scenes, either to frame Bolan or cover up for their own internal disputes (one Mafia capo who cut the throat of a rival might have gotten away with it, if Bolan hadn't chosen that moment to attack in a completely different area). The latter tactic was used so often that one underling reporting a Bolan hit got beaten up "for pulling that stunt", until Bolan (who'd let him live so he could follow the man to his superiors) walked through the door and started shooting.
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The serial killer in the first episode of Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa always leaves behind a scrap of paper in his victim's mouths. Written on the paper is the opening title to the video game Night Prowler. This is how the detectives are able to tell that the 4th victim isn't a copycat crime, despite otherwise breaking from the Night Prowler's usual routine.
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Heavy Rain: The Origami Killer, so called because s/he leaves an origami figure next to their victims.
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Deconstructed in From The Deep Of The Dark. Although the Middlesteel press assume she's playing this trope purely for theatrics, the spies who hire the Sable Caracal to steal a royal artifact confront her with the real reason she leaves a calling card behind at the scene of each art theft: it's a clue to potential black-market art buyers, hinting which crime lord they should contact to purchase what was stolen.
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The Sherlock Holmes Stories of Edward D. Hoch: In "The Manor House Case", the killer plants a playing card on his victims in a case of Serial Killings, Specific Target designed to cover up a Dying Clue left by their first victim.
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The last part of Gods and Warriors reveals that something called "the shadow thief" harasses the Crows by slashing their waterskins and spoiling their meat and leaves behind a little clay frog as a sign. It's actually Hylas' lost little sister Issi doing her undercover warfare against the Crows. Hearing about the shadow thief's clay frogs, Issi's favorite animal, clues Hylas in to her true identity.
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The vigilante protagonists of The Boondock Saints left pennies on the eyes of their victims, as well as executing their chosen targets, the ones they save for last, with simultaneous gunshots to the back of the head while reciting the family prayer.
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Love Nikki - Dress Up Queen has Sapphires the Phantom Thief from the Pigeon Kingdom, whose outfit can be purchased with Association Coins. He is described as an "elegant and handsome" Sharp-Dressed Man who "is in fact, a thief!" The outfit comes complete with his Warning Letter.
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In Tomahawk, Lord Shilling's trademark (and hence his code name) was leaving a single shilling with a hole in the middle after a successful mission.
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In Cure, each victim is has a huge "X" carved into them, slicing them open from throat to chest and cutting their carotid arteries.
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Babylon 5:
The assassin hired to kill G'Kar in the episode "Parliament of Dreams" leaves on G'Kar's pillow a black flower, known as a "death blossom", which is the elite Thenta Makur assasins' guild's calling card which they leave as a warning before they strike.
The "death blossom" is less a calling card and more a warning to get one's affairs in order. Which is, as far as hired killers go, remarkably considerate.
In "Passing Through Gethsemane", it is revealed that a monk in Brother Theo's order, Brother Edward, was once a serial killer before being sentenced to mindwipe. He was known as "the Black Rose Killer" because he left a black rose at the scenes of his murders.
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Spider-Man:
Early in Carnage's killing sprees he would write "Carnage Rules!" in his victim's blood near the body.
Spider-Man himself would occasionally leave a note to the police tacked onto a felon he had left webbed and hanging from a streetlamp, signed, "Courtesy of your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man".
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In The Incredible Hulk, Leslie Anne Shappe became a serial killer with the code name "Infinity", and would carve the infinity symbol on her victims. However, an ignorant cop mistook it for "some kind of crazy eight". From then on, she became known to the press as "Crazy Eight".
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The IT Crowd: Discussed when Moss and Roy are talking about serial killers. Moss says that if he was one he'd want to be known as "The Gardener" for leaving roses at the scene of his crimes.
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In R.O.T.O.R., the Killer Robot's Asshole Victim somehow manages to grab its nametag off the robot after being shot in the head, making the investigators' job much easier.
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The titular character in The Crow leaves a crow symbol by the bodies of his victims, usually in blood, but on one occasion in fire.
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In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Batman has a habit of leaving a batarang at places he's been, such as the hideout of a human trafficker.
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Team Fortress 2 has several item sets, such as the Tank Buster and Gas Jockey's Gear, which leave a gravestone on the site where the victim was killed.
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In one early episode of Sonic X, Rouge the Bat steals a very large diamond... and replaces it with a card with a stylized picture of her on it, along with the words "thank you".
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Frank Castle in The Punisher (1989) kills some criminals with knives with skulls on them to let others know that he's responsible.
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The Domino Lady leaves behind a literal one: a black card with white writing reading "Compliments of the Domino Lady".
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On Jimmy Two-Shoes, the mysterious Hooded Chicken is said to leave a feather on its victims door before it strikes.
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Nancy Drew: The pirates in story would pierce the right earlobes of all the men on any ship they stole.
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In the Hercule Poirot novel The ABC Murders, the killer always leaves an "ABC Alphabetical Railway Guide" near the victim, as he's framing some other guy as a serial killer.
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CSI loves this.
Paul Millander leaves his victims in bathtubs in staged suicides.
The Miniature Killer leaves detailed miniature replicas of the scene at each scene.
Another killer leaves his victims frozen in various poses, even standing up.
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Kaitou Saint Tail examples:
The title character has the habit of sending them to Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist Asuka Jr. before her heists in rather crazy and even spectacular ways, including writing her message on Asuka Jr.'s face while he sleeps or on his towel while he showers, on balloons, and even on an advertisement blimp. They hold each other on Worthy Opponent status to the point they actually make The Promise over it, and it eventually becomes the key to their romantic resolution in the final episode/chapter when an Insult Backfire gets Asuka Jr. to realize that they also doubled as love letters, since the fact she kept up with their promise so diligently indicated that she never truly gave up on wanting him to have his goal. Seira's comment in the epilogue about their upcoming marriage being an "eternal" version of their promise indicates that the cards were effectively an allegory for their ability to communicate and take care of each other.
Before falling in love and retiring, Saint Tail's mother was a Phantom Thief, and would sometimes send calling cards just as spectacular as her daughter's (who actually got the idea of the blimp from a news article showing her mother doing the same). Differently from her, she did it only for love of the challenge... and to show up and piss off her rival Rosemary.
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In The Stainless Steel Rat series, there's The Bishop, who leaves behind drawings of the chess piece in question. The titular character robs a bank, and leaves The Bishop's Calling Card in order to meet him.
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Baker Street: In "Honour Among Punks", the killer targeting members of the Gothics gang always cuts off a chunk of their hair as an insult.
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In Dragon Ball, when Tambourine is sent by his father Demon King Piccolo to murder martial artists to prevent them from sealing him away, at the site of each murder he would leave a piece of paper with the Japanese symbol for demon near the body.
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Funky Squad: In "Diamonds are a Cat's Best Friend", Gentleman Thief the Cat leaves a literal paw print calling card at the scenes of his crimes.
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The Looney Tunes Show: When Lola starts acting like a jewel thief in "The Black Widow", she leaves a calling card with a black widow on it (borrowed from her favourite movie).
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The Joker's Calling Card was parodied on Ed, Edd n Eddy, with "The Prankmaster", whose calling card was a Joker with the word "PRANK-MASTER" written over it.
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In Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, The Laughing Man had a smiley-face surrounded with a quote from The Catcher in the Rye. As it turns out, all the crimes that were marked just by the smiley-face were performed by copycats, but following the J.D. Salinger quote eventually led Section 9 to the real Laughing Man.
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Condemned: Criminal Origins more or less makes a game out of this. As the protagonist is an FBI investigator looking for serial killers, these come up quite often - a prominent one from the tutorial is the "Match Maker", who kills women and then sets their corpses up in scenes with male department-store mannequins who have been given a unique marking on their cheek. Once the protagonist starts finding victims who don't match their respective killer's usual targets (to go from the above example, a male victim with a scar like the above marking matched with a female mannequin), it becomes apparent that the Big Bad who framed him at the start of the game is a Serial-Killer Killer who employs his victims' own methods against them. Other such victims of his include "The Torturer", who drives his victims to off themselves, and an unseen "Bone Cutter", who would dissect his victims, remove their internal organs and individually label them for the police investigating the murder.
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The titular character from Mouse leaves his card, before the theft like several other Phantom Thieves.
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In South Park one episode dealt with a serial killer named Michael Deats who would remove the left hand of his victim after he killed them and he would also visit the sites in a blood soaked raincoat. With nothing but a yellow bikini underneath! At a certain point, the police almost arrest him, but realize that, since the hands have been flipped over, they're all right hands, so he's not the killer.
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In The Living Daylights, the words Smiert Spionom (Russian for "Death to spies") is left on the bodies of various assassinated British agents, in an attempt to provoke MI6 into assassinating the head of the KGB whom they're told is behind the killings.
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In Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, the Black Arachnid gets his alias from leaving a card with a black spider mark along with the evidence used to incriminate his targets and reveal their secrets.
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In No Time to Die, Madeleine Swann brings Bond to Matera specifically because Vesper Lynd is buried there, so he can forgive her and turn the page on her death once and for all. That's the moment Spectre chooses to ambush him, by first setting up a bomb in Vesper's grave, which explodes when Bond finds a Spectre calling card among the grave's flowers.
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In Home Alone, the "Wet Bandits" (well, actually just Marv) would leave the water running (after clogging the sink) in the homes they robbed. Harry thinks it's stupid and berates him for it. The trope is deconstructed near the end of the movie when they both get caught. The arresting officer mentions that they know which houses were the ones they robbed due to the running sinks.
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Dragon Age II: Quentin, the serial killer who kills Hawke's mom always sends white lilies to his victims before he strikes.
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The Lone Ranger had his silver bullets. He would often leave one with those his rescued as a reminder.
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GURPS calls this disadvantage "Trademark,". The more they increase the character's risk of getting caught (by narrowing the list of suspects or requiring the character to spend extra time at the crime scene), the more points they're worth.
Examples of the most elaborate Trademarks include dousing captured thugs in a certain colonge, painting an entire crime scene pink, and writing a long poem to the police.
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Midsomer Murders: In "Bad Tidings", the killer leaves something on the body of all of their victims: planting a rose in the teeth of Fiona Thompson, an apple in the mouth of Charles Rust, and a doll is placed next to Jacob Stokes and burnt. During their Motive Rant the killer explains that this was was their idea of a joke and they thought it was funny.
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In Never Send Flowers, a rare hybrid rose is delivered to the funerals of the high-profile assassinations, accompanied with the written message "This is the way it must end. Goodbye."
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Played with in The Exorcist III: the police, when reporting the crimes of a Serial Killer, made up a calling card in order to weed out people making false confessions - if they said they carved a mark into the victim, they could be dismissed. (The killer's actual calling card wasn't revealed to the media for the same reason.) This is an actual method the police use to weed out attention-seekers in high-profile cases.
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In Colombiana, Catalya leaves a Catalya flower on her victims. Her uncle thought it was stupid and berated her for it.
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The Mentalist has the serial killer "Red John", who always leaves a smiley face drawn in the victim's own blood.
In a later episode, a child was abducted (a child belonging to a woman that Patrick Jane previously scammed as a fake psychic), with a balloon animal left behind, which was the mark of a serial child abductor/killer known as the "balloon killer" who had previously abducted and killed two boys, and within eight hours murdered them. However, upon raiding the balloon killer's house and shooting him in a fierce firefight, the balloon killer implies that he was not responsible for the boy's disappearance this time around, which was shortly thereafter confirmed by Patrick Jane via both a phone call and a note in one of his partner's pocket that he somehow planted in there.
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In the famous "Joker's Millions" story (Which was adapted into an episode of the animated series), Joker, after finding out that most of his "inheritance" is fraudulent, needs to drum up some cash NOW. Of course, he's supposed to have gone straight at this point, so he's forced to perform a mundane burglary, without one of his trademarks. Coincidentally, there's a theater across the street that was playing Pagliacci (Y'know, the one about the sad clown?), and a sharp wind blows a poster onto the site of Joker's crime!
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Spoofed when Kinnikuman goes Charlie Brown from Outta Town to disrupt the World Superman Council; part of his disguise is a pair of sunglasses, which he drops after roughing up each of the WSC's district champions. This wasn't drama, however- Kin was just clumsy fleeing the scene. Eventually, he runs out of normal shades and is reduced to using novelty glasses.
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In The Loved Ones, Lola marks all her 'dates' by carving a love heart into their bare chests, using the tines of a fork. It enables Brent to realize that his car crash was caused by one of Lola's previous victims.
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The Chestnut Man: The killer leaves little chestnut figurines in the scenes of their crimes.
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The titular thief of Lupin III often sends calling cards before he pulls off his heists. It seems rather foolish, but often his targets' attempts to increase or alter their security end up playing right into one of his Batman Gambits and allow him to accomplish the theft. Also a reference to Arsène Lupin, his grandfather.
Lupin uses two calling cards in Lupin III: Dead or Alive. One is in the form of a video where he uses a Parody Name of 20th Century Fox, announcing that he would steal the treasure of Drifting Island. In the other, he uses an advertising balloon to announce his theft of Headhunter's Daughter.
In Lupin III: Island of Assassins, Tarantula forges one of Lupin's to get him involved in their plans.
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In the Midnight Caller episode "Protection", a hitman leaves little stick figures, apparently made out of white wire, at every crime scene.
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Mandrake the Magician: The Clay Camel would always leave a small clay camel figurine at the scene of a crime, and whenever he escaped capture. His daughter, The Brass Monkey, did a similar thing.
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In Death Machines, three of the eponymous assassins' targets find red Buddha figurines shortly before the Death Machines kill them.
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Sister Boniface Mysteries: The Serial Killer in "Love and Other Puzzles" leaves his victims with their faces slathered in cold cream in front of a completed jigsaw with one piece missing.
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An episode of The Sentinel has Jim tangle with a Russian sniper named Yuri who always leaves behind some Russian coins as his calling card. Yuri uses technology to achieve the same levels of awareness as Jim's natural hypersenses, and the climax involves a cat-and-mouse game between the two.
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The Jigsaw Killer from Saw cut Jigsaw pieces out of his victims' flesh.
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Lupin uses two calling cards in Lupin III: Dead or Alive. One is in the form of a video where he uses a Parody Name of 20th Century Fox, announcing that he would steal the treasure of Drifting Island. In the other, he uses an advertising balloon to announce his theft of Headhunter's Daughter.
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Captain America: The Red Skull used to have two calling cards: his Dust of Death, a poison that made the victim's face turn red and skull-like, and a leitmotif of Chopin's "Death March" which he would arrange to have played when he struck, sometimes in very clever ways. He hasn't used either of these in years, having gone to more subtle evil schemes.
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The second Alex Rider novel opens with someone being killed by "The Gentleman," who lives up to his moniker by anonymously sending a dozen black roses to the houses of the families of his victims after he's completed a job.
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 Lupin III: Island of Assassins / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Lupin III: The Italian Adventure / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Lupin III: The Last Job / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Persona 5: The Animation / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Castle of Cagliostro / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Ace Powers (Comic Book) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Mr. A (Comic Book) / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Red Skull (Comic Book) / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Sandman Mystery Theatre (Comic Book) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 The Authority (Comic Book) / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Long Halloween (Comic Book) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 The Maze Agency (Comic Book) / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Tomahawk (Comic Book) / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 X (Dark Horse Comics) (Comic Book) / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 X-Men: Blue (Comic Book) / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Mandrake the Magician (Comic Strip) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Modesty Blaise (Comic Strip) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Foolkiller / Comicbook / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Tomahawk
seeAlso
Calling Card
 Count Your Missing Sheep (Fanfic) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Old West (Fanfic) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Steal Your Way In (Fanfic) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 The Dark Angel / Fan Fic / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 A Study in Scarlet / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Apocalypse Now / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Batman Begins / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Beverly Hills Cop II / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Black Butler / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Black Butterfly / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Blood Cult / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Blood Slaughter Massacre / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Blow Out / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Cherry Falls / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 City in Panic / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Colombiana / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Cruz Diablo / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Cure / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Curse of the Zodiac / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Daredevil / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Daredevil (2003) / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Don't Lose Your Head / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Double Trouble / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Fantômas / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Frenzy (1972) / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Golden Swallow / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Home Alone / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Kung Fu Jungle / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Max Keeble's Big Move / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Midnight Run / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Mr. Brooks / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 My Bloody Valentine / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 My Bloody Valentine 3D / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Mysterious Doctor Satan / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Navajo Joe / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Neighbors (2014) / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Night School (1981) / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 No Time to Die / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Now You See Me / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 100 Tears / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 One Missed Call / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 R.O.T.O.R. / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Righteous Kill / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Silent Night (2012) / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Some Guy Who Kills People / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Striking Distance / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Teen-Age Strangler / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Asphalt Jungle / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Batman (2022) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 The Bells of Death / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Black Phone / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Crow / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Crow (1994) / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Gift (2015) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 The Invisible Man (2020) / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Leech Woman / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Living Daylights / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Lodger / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Loved Ones / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Mark of Zorro / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Mark of Zorro (1920) / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Mysterious Mr. M / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Pink Panther (1963) / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Punisher (1989) / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Rawhide Terror / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Saint (2017) / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Snowman (2017) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 TheStranglerOfBlackmoorCastle
seeAlso
Calling Card
 The Sword Stained With Royal Blood / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Toxic Avenger / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 The Usual Suspects / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The White Ribbon / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Whole Nine Yards / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Traces of Red / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Valentine / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Vengeful Beauty / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Wild Wild West / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Lone Ranger (Franchise) / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Another Note / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Dirty Pair / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Another Note / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Arsène Lupin / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Blackstar
seeAlso
Calling Card
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Calling Card
 Dirty Pair / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Domino Lady / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Galaxy of Fear / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Gods and Warriors / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Grandmaster of Theft / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Hannibal Rising / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Jackelian Series / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Moonlight Becomes You / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Never Send Flowers / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Paraiso Street / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Tales of the Black Raven / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The ABC Murders / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Black Arrow / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Crimson Shadow / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 The Elder Scrolls In-Universe Books / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 The Executioner / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Ghost (2010) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 The Kane Chronicles / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 The Nightmare Room / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Saint / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Worst Witch / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Thud! / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Vendetta! (1886) / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Wild Tales 1967 / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 DonaldTrump
seeAlso
Calling Card
 Foolkiller
seeAlso
Calling Card
 TheLongHalloween
seeAlso
Calling Card
 Cat's Eye (Manga) / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Kaitou Saint Tail (Manga) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 King of Bandit Jing (Manga) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Magic Kaito (Manga) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Pluto (Manga) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Psychometrer Eiji (Manga) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Astrid / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Cape Town / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Day Break (2006) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Elementary / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Endeavour / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Family Matters / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Funky Squad / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Imposters / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Impractical Jokers / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Kaiketsu Zubat / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Longmire / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Midnight Caller / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 MonkTropesA-E
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Calling Card
 Queen of Swords / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Recht Op Recht / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Sister Boniface Mysteries / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Starsky & Hutch / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Chestnut Man / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 The Mentalist / int_1cd602ef
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Calling Card
 Trace / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 True Detective / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 White Collar / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 The Bat (Theatre) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 AI: The Somnium Files (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Adventure Escape (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Chained Echoes (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Condemned: Criminal Origins (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Fallen London (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Far Cry 4 (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Guilty Party (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Hitman: Codename 47 (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 I Am Bread (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Illusion of Gaia (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Lamplight City (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Love & Pies (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Murdered: Soul Suspect (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Ninjala (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 No One Lives Forever (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Paper Mario: Color Splash (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Persona 2 (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Persona 5 Strikers (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Conflict of Interest (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Shadows of Doubt (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Strike Commander (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 The Bleachers (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 The Con (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 The Jackbox Party Pack (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Touhou LostWord (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Trails Series (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Urbano - Legends' Debut (Video Game) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Choice of Games / Videogame / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Collar × Malice (Visual Novel) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Queen of Thieves (Visual Novel) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 The Zodiac Trial (Visual Novel) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 WILL: A Wonderful World (Visual Novel) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 DR. BEES (Web Animation) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Moon Raven (Web Animation) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Scammer Revolts (Web Video) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Team Avolition (Web Video) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Blood & Smoke (Paul Mitzkowski) (Webcomic) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Blood & Smoke (Webcomic) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Jupiter-Men (Webcomic) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Purple Hyacinth (Webcomic) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Sire (Webcomic) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 The Last Days of FOXHOUND (Webcomic) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Dragon Cave (Website) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Batman: The Long Halloween / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Bolt / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Jimmy Two-Shoes / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Night Hood / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Spider-Man (1967) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 The Looney Tunes Show / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 The New Adventures of Zorro (1981) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Volk Han (Wrestling) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Anamorph / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 The Scarlet Pimpernel / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card
 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies (Visual Novel) / int_1cd602ef
type
Calling Card