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A character type that's popular with children's mysteries and adventures that contain mystery elements. The Kid Detective is part Snooping Little Kid, part Amateur Sleuth. This kid lives to snoop, but also sometimes to ask questions of the suspicious adults or those who may have seen or heard something important, and try to piece together what happened. There are some notable differences between the Kid Detective and adult detectives, however, that make the Kid Detective a unique character. For example, while an adult can go straight to the authorities with evidence, a kid often has difficulty convincing adults of what they experienced. Hence, the kid often has to let the adults know what's going on in a roundabout way, or expose it somehow. Sometimes the kid is in fact trusted by detectives, and can go to them directly. Oftentimes the kid snoops and investigates without adults knowing. This presents many obstacles, such as finding out how to investigate not only without getting caught by the criminal, but also without getting in trouble with parents or authority figures. If the kid does get in trouble, additional restrictions are placed, meaning the kid now has to sneak outside to do any more investigating. The Kid Detective tends to be more adventure-oriented than the adult detective, meaning that there's often more emphasis on snooping and less emphasis on, say, interrogating or asking questions. Heck, kids can't interrogate suspects anyway, so asking questions to trick the suspect into revealing something is more likely. Also, due to the greater emphasis on snooping and sneaking, getting captured is a bigger threat, resulting in the kid getting Bound and Gagged and having to either break free, attract help, or be freed by a fellow Kid Detective. However, the kid detective is more often pitted against a Harmless Villain, thus avoiding the violence and genuine life or death situations that would surely be part of the adult detective's life. This trope was a mainstay in the heyday of the Saturday-Morning Cartoon like Scooby-Doo and its various imitations; it allowed for dramatic conflict, but focused on characters using their intelligence rather than force to solve problems. If the Kid Detective comes from a detecting family, odds are they are a Born Detective. One who regularly wears a fedora and trenchcoat is probably trying to be a Hardboiled Detective. Subtrope of Artistic License – Law Enforcement. Examples |
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Parodied with the Mystery Solving Teens from Hark! A Vagrant — unlike most teenage detectives, they act like typical teenagers, meaning they rarely do anything relevant to the case. | |
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Mira, Royal Detective follows a young girl who gets appointed as a detective. | |
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TKKG falls into this category, combining it with a Five-Man Band. Also the problem with the authorities is not that big since the father of one of the kids is with the police. And since in later books they also have a reputation for solving crime. | |
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Control Z: Sofia is basically a female, teen Sherlock Holmes. After a hacker discloses many people's secrets in her school, causing them great harm, she sets out to track them down. | |
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West Meadows Detectives is about two third-graders, an autistic boy and a hyperactive girl, solving mysteries at their school. | |
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Dwight of the Origami Yoda series carries around an origami finger puppet of Yoda and gives people advice with it. Occasionally, he tries to help people without Origami Yoda, and when doing so, goes into Kid Detective mode. He imitates Sherlock Holmes and speaks in a British accent. | |
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In Revolutionaries, Mike Power, the Atomic Man of the G.I. Joe Adventure Team, is revealed to have worked as kid detective Mighty Mikey Power with his dog Smarts. In fact, one of his cases was the inciting incident that led to the creation of his atomic limbs. | |
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The Hardy Boys, who, at 17 and 18, are two of the oldest examples of "kid" detectives out there, though they were originally 15 and 16. They solve a variety of crimes, from thefts to sabotage to missing persons and sometimes even murder, often with the assistance of their friends. They're also examples of Born Detectives, since their father, Fenton Hardy, is a pretty famous Great Detective; sometimes, he and his sons will turn out to be Working the Same Case. | |
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Noddy, Toyland Detective focuses around the child character Noddy solving mysteries in Toytown. | |
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Shuichi Saihara from Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony is also an Ultimate Detective, and in his case received it for solving a murder before the police department could. He is however far more insecure about his skills than her. And unlike Kyoko, who stays as a sidekick, he eventually becomes the protagonist in his own right. But the end of the game suggests that he might not have been a detective at all. | |
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CLAMP School Detectives tells the adventures of the Elementary School Student-board, solving cases and easing the life of all kinds of women. | |
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In the Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream episode "Happy Birthday! What Gift Should We Get!?", the Dream School students Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi are briefly transformed into detectives by the Yume Kira bags and use their detective skills to help Mametchi and his other friends repair a broken coffee machine. The detective girls find a lightbulb logo in the broken pieces of the machine and trace it to Righttchi's father, Paparighttchi. | |
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Fillmore! is a cop version of this trope; the title character is a hall monitor at his middle school. | |
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Partially deconstructed with Nickel of Nickel Plated. He's a Minor Living Alone who has a Dark and Troubled Past involving child pornography (and it's implied that he may have killed the people responsible). He catfishes pedophiles and sends their info to the FBI, and also grows and sells marijuana through a high-school middleman (who has never physically met him) for extra cash. The plot of the novel kicks off when a girl hires him to find her missing sister, and he uncovers a child trafficking ring. | |
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In The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family, twelve-year-old Lara Finkel decides to become a detective. Most of her mysteries involve problems in her family. | |
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Parodied with Young Jack Black in Viz, who is an extreme-right-wing Jerkass who often inflicts Disproportionate Retribution on people who, in some cases, weren't even doing anything legally or morally wrong. | |
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Punky Brewster: In the episode "Punky P.I.", Punky opens a detective office from her school locker as she and her friends try to solve an in-school mystery involving a classmate's sabotaged project. | |
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In Kingdom Hearts II, Sora takes on a detective role in Timeless River to figure out who has been attacking Disney Castle, using the windows as clues. It was obviously Pete, but there are two versions of him here. In the Japanese version, the cutscene where Pete reappears to steal the Cornerstone of Light is even called "Detective Sora". | |
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Max Finder Mystery: Max and Alison are seventh graders who solve mysteries. | |
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Great Teacher Onizuka: Azusa's younger sister Makoto is in her high school's detective club and manages to solve her sister's kidnapping with uncanny speed. | |
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Lost Judgment has Kyoko Amasawa, a teen girl and an aspiring detective who runs the Mystery Research Club at Seiryo High School. She and Yagami frequently work together to solve a series of mysteries revolving around the mysterious "Professor", and she even gets her chance to solve her own case in a side mission. | |
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Some of the Choose Your Own Adventure books feature kid detectives and their adventures, e.g., Mystery of Ura Senke features an American pre-teen who has solved cases in the past; they move to Japan with their family and is contacted by their best friend Kenichi, whose brother is a student in the Ura Senke tea ceremony school, to find the school's most valuable tea bowl, which has been stolen and is worth millions of yen. | |
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The Simpsons has done this numerous times with Bart and/or Lisa. The first such instance is when Krusty gets arrested for armed robbery in "Krusty Gets Busted", but some sleuthing discovers that it was actually Sideshow Bob trying to frame Krusty. | |
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In the late 50s and early 60s, Andy Blair and Willie Perkins appeared in several stories in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, later collected in the Weekly Reader Book Club volume Andy & Willie: Super Sleuths. Unlike some of their contemporaries, their hometown of Wakanda is located in a specific state — Indiana — and, also unlike most contemporaries, their stories work both as mysteries for kids and as sly humor for adults. | |
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Gotham casts a younger Bruce Wayne as this, investigating a possible conspiracy involving corruption in his parents' company following their death. | |
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The InBESTigators is an ABC Me series distributed by Netflix featuring four elementary school classmates who form a detective agency. | |
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Yo-kai Watch 3 introduces Hailey Anne, an elementary schooler who runs the Hapyon Detective Agency alongside her yokai friend Usapyon. | |
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The Puzzle Place: In the episode The Mystery of the Fabulous Hat, Leon emulates Sherlock Holmes to search for Jody's missing hat, with Ben as his Watson. At first this doesn't work out because Leon wants to solve the mystery all by himself and won't let Ben help him, but when they finally do work together, they find the hat thieves: Nuzzle and Sizzle. | |
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In Madeline, the title character plays this role now and then, usually with Pepito as her helper: for example, in Madeline and the Forty Thieves, Madeline and the Lost Crown, and Madeline on the Orient Express. In Madeline's Detective School, she teaches child Expies of Hercule Poirot, Sam Spade and Miss Marple how to solve mysteries too | |
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In the earlier Harry Potter books, Harry, Ron, and Hermione fit this pretty well, and this element runs through all the books. A big part of the books' structure (and their appeal) is that most of the plots are mysteries that they can solve ("What's hidden beneath the school?", "who is Slytherin's heir?", "who put Harry's name in the Goblet of Fire?", etc.), which is the main reason why three underage wizards can have any impact on the story at all. | |
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The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan: The youngest four fit the role perfectly, especially Flip, who jumps at the mystery call fastest among them. The others are teens though. | |
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Yandere Simulator: Sonoko Sakanoue, the final rival of 1980s Mode, is a former student of Akademi who made a name for herself solving a murder mystery that had stumped police, and left Akademi early to pursue a career as a detective. She returns to Akademi in the final week of 1980s mode, ostensibly to finish her schooling and graduate, but really as the Journalist's eyes and ears to find clues that prove that Ryoba Aishi murdered Sumire Saitozaki. The "canon" means of eliminating her as a rival is to gain her trust by burning compromising photos of her a pervert took, which convinces her that Ryoba couldn't have killed Sumire. This, of course, was Ryoba's plan all along to get away with murder. If School Atmosphere gets low enough, the Photography Club will start investigating the strange circumstances on their own to try to find a murderer. This makes them a difficult obstacle for the Yanderes, as if one of them catches her committing murder, they'll snap a picture for proof, forcing her to kill them before they can show someone. |
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The Detective Team KZ in Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note is a group of seventh-grade Amateur Sleuths. | |
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Sonoko Sakanoue, the final rival of 1980s Mode, is a former student of Akademi who made a name for herself solving a murder mystery that had stumped police, and left Akademi early to pursue a career as a detective. She returns to Akademi in the final week of 1980s mode, ostensibly to finish her schooling and graduate, but really as the Journalist's eyes and ears to find clues that prove that Ryoba Aishi murdered Sumire Saitozaki. The "canon" means of eliminating her as a rival is to gain her trust by burning compromising photos of her a pervert took, which convinces her that Ryoba couldn't have killed Sumire. This, of course, was Ryoba's plan all along to get away with murder. | |
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Whateley Universe: A number of students at Whateley Academy are either aspiring detectives (most notably Reach and Spade in Gen 1, and Osmic Ace, Deduce, and Trace of the "Card Sharps Detective Agency" training team in Gen 2) or spend their time snooping into unusual events for their own reasons (such as the Lit Chix). A number of students also end up in situations which call for them to do some investigating, either with or without adult assistance. Indeed, it seems that would-be detectives — and other students such as Hardsell who simply want to join the police force after they graduate — are common enough that the school has multiple classes in criminology, though students looking to be superheroes — or supervillains — make good use of them as well. | |
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Just like the example in Anime & Manga, both Hajime and Miyuki are this in The Kindaichi Case Files, even more so in the 1995 version where the characters are both 15, instead of 17 like they are in the manga. Kindaichi's sibling show, The Files of Silver Wolf, has Kousuke Fuwa, his stepsister Kaeko, and their entire friend group as amateur sleuths for their high school's newspaper club. Which is interesting, because the manga it was based on was an adventure manga with no crimes and mysteries in sight. |
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Oh Yeah! Cartoons features a short about a child detective entitled "Peter Patrick, P.I.: What About Lunch?" | |
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Robin: Tim Drake was a detective at an early age, sneaking around Gotham with a camera and using subtle clues to put together big secrets like Batman's identity. His training for becoming Robin leads to him becoming an even more effective one. | |
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Mitchell from Ready Jet Go! might as well be one of the prime examples of the trope. He not only looks a typical detective, but he also idolizes Sherlock Holmes and has his own noir-esque Leitmotif. Mitchell is always trying to be a detective and find proof that the Propulsions are aliens, but to no avail. | |
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Flavia de Luce is a great example. Every novel is about her investigating a new case that's usually tangled up with a long, obscure past of the people involved. She's eleven, later twelve, years old in the novels. She also has some Mad Scientist tendencies that lead to her being an eleven-year-old expert on poisons. | |
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Naoto Shirogane of Persona 4, who's known all across Japan as the "Detective Prince". Dissected, as well: The police force hates having to call Naoto in on the serial murder case, and she's passed herself off as a boy for years because of how male-dominated the police are. Her Shadow taunts her over how mature she tries to act to get past the "young detective" bit — it's worth noting that her Shadow flip-flops between overly mature dialog and crying like a baby. It's also debated how intentional it is that Naoto's detective skills come off as an Informed Ability - Naoto never uncovers any information that the party doesn't already know (aside from Mitsuo not being the real killer), and if the player can't solve the mystery themselves, the game comes to a premature end even with Naoto on the team. | |
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Goro Akechi from Persona 5 appears to be a Naoto-like Kid Detective, to the point where he's known as "The Second Coming of the Detective Prince", but since the heroes are on the other side of the law, he has a more antagonistic relationship to them at first. It turns out that he's a fraud who's the true culprit behind all of the cases he "solved". | |
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A Certain Scientific Railgun is a variation in which three out of the Four-Girl Ensemble detectives have super-powers. Toyed with in that two of the girls are actually official law enforcement personnel. | |
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Angie's First Case: Angie Zane is a twelve-year-old Floridan who (aided by her friend Jess) is looking around town for clues about a local group of burglars so that her police officer sister Kit can be the one to arrest them. In the process, she learns that there is more than one mystery in her hometown, though, and that some of them involve some very clever and/or menacing people. | |
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The Young Sherlock Holmes books feature a teenaged Holmes who is still developing his deductive genius while getting involved in adventures that are a lot more action-oriented than his later ones will be. | |
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Turnabout Storm: Apple Bloom tags along Twilight in her investigation at one point. She doesn't do much proper investigation, but she does make Twilight stumble upon several pieces of evidence, and has a moment of useful Genre Savvyness. Scootaloo tries to do this, but she just picks up some random junk as her "evidence", and doesn't show up until after the Judge has handed down his final verdict anyway. |
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Kid Sherlock: The titular child detective is Sherlock Holmes, who investigates strange goings-on at Baker Elementary School. | |
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Natalia in the Grey Griffins series carries a notebook to write down clues and figure things out. She sometimes snoops around on her own and tries to discover things, separate from her group of friends. Through most of the story, she is more of an adventurer than a snoop, though she still is often the one to piece together clues. | |
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Penny, the niece of Inspector Gadget, is well-known for her snooping, her being captured, and her ability to stop the bad guys singlehandedly every single episode. | |
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Narutaki from Steam Detectives, son of Steam City's greatest detective and a child genius. | |
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Slacker: Felicia Hochuli once engaged in a Hero of Another Story rule-bending antics to prove that Jordan was innocent of writing graffiti on the bulletin board. | |
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The protagonist and Ayumi Tachibana in Famicom Detective Club are both 15-17 years old and are out investigating murder cases outside of school. More than a few people are a bit bewildered at how young the characters are, but nonetheless let it slide. | |
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Flavia Gemini of The Roman Mysteries is a Kid Detective who solves mysteries and has adventures in The Roman Empire, referring to herself as a detective, or detectrix in the Latin. She is assisted by three friends and various adults. | |
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The Blyton Hills Summer Detective Club, from Meddling Kids (2017). They're a vaguely familiar group: One's the "good ol' boy" leader, one's the scared nerd, one's the brains of the outfit, one's the tomboy action girl, and one's their dog sidekick. Their last case was unmasking a crook dressed as a giant salamander menacing a lakeside mansion; however, the novel revolves them coming back years later and uncovering the very real supernatural monsters behind it. And though things are played a lot more realistically than your typical example... they actually do a pretty good job. | |
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The Sarah Jane Adventures has an investigative journalist and three teens investigate and fight aliens. | |
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The ten-year-old members of The McGurk Organization, led by the clever if perhaps overly-impetuous Jack P. McGurk. | |
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The Facing the Future Series features Mike Harris, a boy at Elm Street Middle School who likes to snoop on things and may be on the road to learning Danielle's secret. | |
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Kyoko Kirigiri of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc may be the most extreme application of this trope: as the Ultimate Detective, she's essentially the best in the world for her age-group, and as a requirement of that title, is a professional in her daily life (which can be seen in her prequel novels where she's taking on cases while still in junior high). She also comes from an entire family of lifelong detectives, with her father being the black sheep of the family simply for leaving the business to be Headmaster of Hope's Peak, the school at the center of the franchise. How competent he was at his job is... debatable. With the world outside the academy gone to hell with so few people left alive, she may actually be the best in general by default, although that depends on if her grandfather was killed in Towa City, which is never resolved. | |
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At least one episode of Doraemon has Nobita becoming Sherlock Nobita and using the Sherlock Holmes Kit to solve a mystery. | |
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From the creators of Scooby-Doo below, Fangface is about a gang of teenagers who solve mysteries. The big twist here is that one of them is a werewolf. | |
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PK Pinkerton in the The Western Mysteries is a twelve-year-old who aspires to become a detective. At the end of the first book, he sets up his own private detective business. | |
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Samosa, the boy hero of Simple Samosa, briefly takes on the job of a detective in the episode "Tutti Frutti" to search for Tutti Frutti. He even wears a detective hat and carries a magnifying glass at first. | |
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Sugar Creek Gang: These evangelical Christian-themed books feature kid detectives solving mysteries and having wilderness adventures. And a lot of preaching. | |
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Moon Base Alpha: Dashiell Gibson is the tween son of two scientists assigned to the eponymous moon base, which is about the size of a soccer field. Despite the Small, Secluded World nature of their home, the base hosts a murder, a disappearance, and an attempted murder, all of which Dash and his friend, newcomer Kira, must solve. | |
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Love & Pies: When Kate loses her toy, she becomes a detective like her mother, Amelia, and investigates where it is. She also makes Amelia's dog her sidekick. | |
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Darby from My Friends Tigger & Pooh. The series is all about six-year-old Darby leading the Super Sleuths on their sleuthing adventures. They don't investigate any actual crimes, though, focusing more on everyday "mysteries" a child might realistically encounter. | |
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Kid Detective (2020) is, as the title suggests, about a kid detective who grew into an adult Private Detective. Abe is a close approximation of Encyclopedia Brown, who gained fame for minor crimes but was unable to do anything significant as an adult. | |
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Pip Whipple of Max Gentlemen Sexy Business! was one in her youth, though in her twenties she still shows great enthusiasm and excitement at the prospect of solving another "whodunnit". It should be noted that she's more an Affectionate Parody, showing just how stressful and dangerous this job can be. | |
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Death Note: The kids from Wammy's House seem to have shades of this, being a group of orphan geniuses raised to find the kid that will one day become L's successor. Near, especially, seems to fit early on, with his childish appearance and love of toys. He is, however, taken perfectly seriously by the authorities, if considered a tad unorthodox. | |
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Persona: Naoto Shirogane of Persona 4, who's known all across Japan as the "Detective Prince". Dissected, as well: The police force hates having to call Naoto in on the serial murder case, and she's passed herself off as a boy for years because of how male-dominated the police are. Her Shadow taunts her over how mature she tries to act to get past the "young detective" bit — it's worth noting that her Shadow flip-flops between overly mature dialog and crying like a baby. It's also debated how intentional it is that Naoto's detective skills come off as an Informed Ability - Naoto never uncovers any information that the party doesn't already know (aside from Mitsuo not being the real killer), and if the player can't solve the mystery themselves, the game comes to a premature end even with Naoto on the team. Goro Akechi from Persona 5 appears to be a Naoto-like Kid Detective, to the point where he's known as "The Second Coming of the Detective Prince", but since the heroes are on the other side of the law, he has a more antagonistic relationship to them at first. It turns out that he's a fraud who's the true culprit behind all of the cases he "solved". |
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Danganronpa: Kyoko Kirigiri of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc may be the most extreme application of this trope: as the Ultimate Detective, she's essentially the best in the world for her age-group, and as a requirement of that title, is a professional in her daily life (which can be seen in her prequel novels where she's taking on cases while still in junior high). She also comes from an entire family of lifelong detectives, with her father being the black sheep of the family simply for leaving the business to be Headmaster of Hope's Peak, the school at the center of the franchise. How competent he was at his job is... debatable. With the world outside the academy gone to hell with so few people left alive, she may actually be the best in general by default, although that depends on if her grandfather was killed in Towa City, which is never resolved. Shuichi Saihara from Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony is also an Ultimate Detective, and in his case received it for solving a murder before the police department could. He is however far more insecure about his skills than her. And unlike Kyoko, who stays as a sidekick, he eventually becomes the protagonist in his own right. But the end of the game suggests that he might not have been a detective at all. |
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Young Sherlock Holmes speculates on what might have happened if Holmes and Watson had first encountered each other as schoolboys; namely, that they solve a mystery together at their boarding school. | |
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Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro is a subversion. Although Yako is supposed to be the leader of the detective agency (and she is billed as such), Neuro is the one doing all the detective work and is using her as a front. Later on, it is hinted that Yako is actually a semi-competent detective on her own, though. | |
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Lupin III: Part II has Baranco, a one-episode character who's the son of the famous Columbo. The entire police force is willing to follow his plans. | |
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Case Closed: Conan Edogawa is a 17-year-old de-aged down to seven. Since everyone thinks he's seven, he has to find ways of cluing adults in disguised as being a nosy seven-year-old. There's also Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko, the "Detective Boys" ("Shounen Tantei Dan"). As they're actual kids themselves, they aren't quite up to snuff as true Kid Detectives yet. They do try, though. |
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The Great Brain series by J.D. Fitzgerald: The Great Brain Himself, when there's a serious crime to solve. However, when there isn't, the Great Brain is more likely to be swindling other kids out of their pocket change. | |
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Scarlett Undercover: Scarlett is a fifteen-year-old Private Detective who solves crimes in her hometown. | |
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Cam Jansen is an elementary schooler who uses her Photographic Memory to remember exact details and use them to solve crimes. | |
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A darker, deconstructed version appears in "Clubland Heroes" with Richard "Clever Dick" Cleaver; he's an off-the-scale detective genius who, unlike the more pleasant and engaging Richard Riddle (whom, ironically, his parents named him after), is also a snide, stuck-up, and humourless little snot. And then when he appears in "Cold Snap" following the ignominious end of his child-detecting career, he's let bitterness warp him into a genocidal maniac. | |
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Mackenzie from Touch Detective is a Born Detective in the Kid Detective phase of her life. She becomes officially accepted into the Great Detective Society by the first game. | |
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Subverted in The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, in which the Boys are allowed to grow up in the final season and become professional detectives for the US Department of Justice. | |
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Walnut Cookie from Cookie Run. She is shown to be worthy enough to solve mysteries and crimes. Even her skill has portraits where you have to select who's guilty based on the evidence you collected earlier. | |
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Scooby-Doo is on the older end of this trope, since the members of Mystery Incorporated are supposed to be in their teens, but they're constantly called "meddling kids" and variants thereof by the various villains of the week. A Pup Named Scooby-Doo leans into this trope with child versions of the characters. | |
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The Simpsons: Team L.A.S.H.: Simon Skinner-Chalmers. He wants to be a detective when he grows up, and seems to have a natural affinity for solving mysteries, as seen in "The Heiress Diaries". | |
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Ten-year-old Angus Mcdonald of The Adventure Zone is this to a tee. In Angus's introduction, Merle cites this trope almost by name. | |
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Timmy Turner from The Fairly OddParents! ventures into this trope in the episode "Where's Wanda" when he wishes to become a full, typical private investigator, trench coat and all. | |
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Johnny in Shadow Hearts: From The New World runs a detective agency despite looking like he might be at most 14-16 years old. He's actually much older than he looks. | |
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Encyclopedia Brown. Notable here is the fact that his father is a police officer who knows of his son's activities, and is somewhat embarrassed that the smartest detective in town is a fifth-grader. | |
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Tubby from Little Lulu occasionally acts as one, whenever Lulu needs his help with a problem at her house. | |
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Mystery Team is a Parody of this character type. The main characters solved minor mysteries around the neighborhood as kids, and even became locally famous after solving a few real mysteries. Now 18-year-olds on the verge of graduating high school, they're immature Man Children still stuck in their past as kid detectives. In order to prove that they can be real detectives they take on a little girl's case to solve the double homicide of her parents. | |
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In This Modern World, the Recurring Character "Conservative Jones, Internet Detective" is an Encyclopedia Brown parody who constantly takes right-wing memes and claims at face value, no matter how false or absurd they are. His Beleaguered Assistant Moonbat tries to talk some sense into his boss, who dismisses him with contemptuous condescension. | |
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FoxTrot: In one arc, Jason and Marcus become kid detectives, using the name "Encyclopedias Brown and White". As with most of their schemes, this one goes off the rails. | |
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Enola Holmes: Enola is the much younger sister of Sherlock Holmes. At only 14, she is able to live independently, establish a successful detective business through a lot of misdirection, and elude her brothers' best efforts to capture her until they wise up about her. | |
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Granblue Fantasy has Sarya, a young female apprentice of Barawa. But when it comes to some Detective Drama events, she can prove that she's a better one then her employer, as she focuses on clues and facts, while Barawa relies on his physical strength and determination to chase the culprit for most of the time. | |
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Apple Bloom tags along Twilight in her investigation at one point. She doesn't do much proper investigation, but she does make Twilight stumble upon several pieces of evidence, and has a moment of useful Genre Savvyness. | |
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A Study in Charlotte: When he was little, Jamie Watson fantasized about solving mysteries with Charlotte Holmes and outwitting all the adults together, but his dream didn't come true until he was legally an adult. Charlotte deconstructs this trope. She was trained from birth in the arts of deduction and solved mysteries when she was as young as 12, but she missed out on all the typical kid things, like candy, and friends, and learning what to do when someone's bullying you. Since she was homeschooled by her parents, college was her first time at regular school. She not only didn't really know how to interact with people or make friends, she also had no idea what to do when a boy started sexually harassing her and making violent threats. Jamie points out that her childhood sounds awesome, but was actually pretty lonely. |
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Nancy Drew: Nancy is a young but brilliant teenage girl who solves mysteries with the help of her two best friends and her understanding father. | |
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Cat Curio in Hack/Slash is a deconstruction when she's first introduced, showing what it would really be like for a preteen to stick her nose in murder cases. She's extremely observant and ingenuous, but the police find her anything but helpful, she seems to have no concept of danger, and her snooping almost gets her killed. Instead of dying, she gets put in a coma for 13 years. When she awakes, she returns to her work as a detective and starts her own agency, but obviously she still has the mind of a 12-year-old autistic girl. | |
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In the Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf season The Little Detective, goat kid Weslie becomes a detective and solves mysteries. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg's neighbor Pervis Gentry solves neighborhood crimes (most of which are committed by the same delinquent) from his treehouse. | |
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Doraemon: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museumhave Doraemon's prized collar bell being stolen by a master thief named Kaito DX, so Nobita decides to play detective with Doraemon's Sherlock Kit to huntdown the elusive thief who's going to strike at a futuristic museum next. Most of the movie revolves around Sherlock Nobita's attempts to uncover Kaito DX's true identity and backstory. | |
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Nina Tanleven: Nine and Chris, who are eleven years old. However, they only get involved in cases that also include ghosts. | |
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Numbuh 2 of Codename: Kids Next Door occasionally acts as one, complete with noir film-esque narration. | |
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Trixie Belden (and the rest of the Bobwhites) are teen detectives in the Hudson Valley. Thanks to Trixie's rich best friend Honey Wheeler, they frequently go on trips and conveniently solve mysteries wherever they go. | |
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Towards the end of Disgusting McGrossface, the boy holds up a magnifying glass and declares that he's going to look for clues. Subverted, in that he was just lying. | |
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The Bloodhound Gang on 3-2-1 Contact are a whole detective agency of kids. | |
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"Mizz Marble" in Whizzer and Chips is a young girl who believes herself to be a brilliant detective and sometimes turns out to be right. Her competency level is extremely Depending on the Writer, but in general, if there is a mystery she'll solve it; her Clueless Detective traits mostly come out when her determination to solve mysteries means she invents ones that aren't there. | |
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2666: Lalo Cura spends so much time studying old procedural handbooks that he points out flaws in the officers' investigation of a crime scene. | |
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Enola Holmes and its sequel adapt the eponymous books and follow Sherlock Holmes' 16 year old sister Enola as she investigates the disappearance of their mother Eudoria and a political conspiracy. | |
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Richard Riddle, Boy Detective, who features in "The Gypsies in the Wood" and "The Case of the French Spy", is along the Enid Blyton model, starting out by solving mysteries for the neighbours and then levelling up to foiling kidnappers and murderers with his chums on their summer holidays. A surprisingly non-deconstructed example by Newman's standards, apart from the inevitable discovery that he's in a Cosmic Horror Story, and his sudden realisation that he's not sure what smugglers are actually smuggling. | |
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The kids from Bad Machinery regularly deal with crimes and mysteries, mostly with a supernatural spin. This trope is somewhat subverted in "The Case Of The Forked Road", where after the kids consider all sorts of devious ways to fool railway men into pulling the levers to switch a train to a different track to prevent a crash, or to get the men out of the way so they can pull the levers themselves, Shauna finally takes the direct, straightforward approach as an adult investigator might, and tells the men that the track has been sabotaged and they need to flip the switch; they believe her and take immediate action. | |
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Homestar Runner: Spoofed in the Strong Bad Email "highschool", where Strong Bad claims that he, Marzipan, Homestar, and Strong Mad were "a team of super sleuths" in high school, and that they spent their time either "debating the existence of mysterious", playing in a band, or trying to get Homestar out of these "ridiculous stripéd pants" he used to wear. | |
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Walter "Ramses" Emerson from the Amelia Peabody series, the son of Egyptologists and incidental detectives Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe Emerson, is an example (a master of disguise among other things) until, over the course of the series, he grows up. He eventually gets married and produces his own frighteningly precocious children. His mother feels it serves him right. Note that in the following passage, rescuing his parents, Ramses is about eight or nine: | |
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The aptly named "Sleuth Brigade" from The Voynich Hotel try to be this, but fail frequently, as they are constantly bogged down by their own issues and the usual weirdness doesn't make any attempt to conceal itself. | |
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The entire premise of Sally Bollywood, whose title character is also a Born Detective. | |
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The Adventures of Shirley Holmes, starring Sherlock's teenaged great grand-niece, who solves crimes in the fictional town of Redington. | |
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Ted Mosby of How I Met Your Mother claims to have been one in his youth, teaming with his sister as "The Mosby Boys". His friends don't think much of his detective skills, but they are portrayed inconsistently throughout the series and there are cases where he's quite insightful in putting clues together, such as in "Blitzgiving". | |
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Adventures on Trains has Hal, whose powers of observation and drawing skills cause his friend Mason to dub him "Sherlock Da Vinci", much to his embarrassment. He's eleven in the first book. | |
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Dipper and Mabel become this in the Gravity Falls episode "Headhunters", when they set out to solve the mystery of who beheaded a wax sculpture of their Grunkle Stan. Over the broader Myth Arc of the series, Dipper's efforts to crack the secret of the Journal and the weirdness of the town itself also count. | |
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