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A detective who investigates paranormal mysteries and a staple of Fantastic Noir. Like traditional fantasy genre, occult detective fiction also contains magic and supernaturality, albeit in a more contemporary time and setting, whether Urban Fantasy that's Like Reality, Unless Noted or a setting where a standard fantasy world evolved to become urbanized. The most common image of an occult detective is that of a member of the Trenchcoat Brigade, as long coats are the most popular and badass item in the occult detective's arsenal. May or may not be a Blue-Collar Warlock or a Muggle with a Degree in Magic. The protagonist of a Vampire Detective Series or a Paranormal Investigation show tends to be this. See also Hunter of Monsters, whose occupation is to hunt the paranormal (though the two may overlap). Compare Police Psychic, which is when a superpowered individual helps law enforcement solve mundane crimes. |
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Sapphire and Steel, if you stretch the definition to include nonhuman entities investigating other nonhuman entities. | |
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Nearly half of the Nancy Drew adventure games have her investigating spooky events, and one suspect in "Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon" is a TV ghost hunter himself. | |
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Played with in Sherlock Holmes (2009). Almost everybody believes Lord Blackwood actually has magical powers, and even Watson considers the possibility. Holmes himself doesn't completely rule this out, but he insists on exhausting all other more mundane possibilities first. He investigates several of Blackwood's labs and magical rituals, and in the end it's revealed that Blackwood doesn't have any such powers at all. | |
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Lord El-Melloi II Case Files features its titular character as one working on behalf of the various clients, students, and associates that come to his department of the the Magic Association. His method usually is to unravel the esoterica behind the magic rituals used in each case in order to figure out what happened and then let his assistant Gray clean up the mess when the culprit inevitably become aggressive. | |
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While the first two Mystery Case Files games lacked supernatural elements, the Master Detective's investigations since the third game, Ravenhearst, have pitted her against ghosts, curses, and dangerous mystical artifacts. | |
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In Munchkin Cthulhu, there is the investigator-class. Given the setting, they also investigate the Occult, more precisely the horrors of Lovecraft's works. | |
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Hunter: The Vigil has the Null Mysteriis, or: The Organization for Rational Assession of the Supernatural. The other organizations are more interested in hunting and destroying the supernaturals than uncovering facts about them. | |
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The Witch and the Beast is centred entirely around this as the two main characters come from the Order of Magical Resonance, which is essentially the magical FBI in charge of investigating supernatural and fantastical oddities. | |
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Usagi Yojimbo: Usagi occasionally acts in this capacity, like when he frees the town from a ghost of fallen general... by assisting him in finishing his Seppuku. Recurring character Sasuke the Demon-Queller, who's much more experienced at this. |
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Hellboy, more or less — he investigates occult occurrences, despite being one himself. | |
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Sally Rhodes, the heroine of Organ Donors and The Quorum. In one story it mentions she trained under D'amour. | |
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Nightwalker centers on a penitent vampire who operates a private investigator business specializing in crimes caused by monsters. | |
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Lord Darcy (although he exists in a world where magic is real and is fully understood). | |
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Angel. It's the entire premise of the show, although it occasionally riffs on Angel being better at battling evil than actual detective work. At one point he's reduced to hiring another private detective with a Friend on the Force, his own police insider having left the show. | |
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Grimm. Homicide Detective Nick Burkhardt of the Portland Police Bureau learns he is descended from a line of "guardians" known as "Grimms", charged with keeping the balance between humanity and the mythological creatures of the world, called Wesen. It's worth noting that Nick is actually fairly unique in this regard. It's all but stated that most Grimm tend to act as the occult hunters rather than detectives, who'd gladly kill any Wesen, regardless of whether they've done anything to warrant it, whereas Nick only goes after Wesen who commit crimes and leaving the peaceful ones like Monroe and Rosalee alone. Understandably, this throws a lot of Wesen for a loop when they meet him. |
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In The Vanishing of Ethan Carter the Player Character is occult detective Paul Prospero, tasked with exploring Red Creek Valley and using his unique psychic insight to solve the titular mystery. | |
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Harry D'Amour from Clive Barker's The Last Illusion, The Great and Secret Show, Everville, and the forthcoming The Scarlet Gospels, in which he gets to uhm, "detect" Pinhead from Hellraiser. Good luck with that, Harry. | |
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"Witch Hunters" in the fourth episode of Umineko: When They Cry. They're a community of crime enthusiasts obsessed with finding out the truth of the Rokkenjima Massacre, with theories ranging from the realistic (one or more of the people present killed the others) to the fantastical (demons and witchcraft were involved). The name of the group is a Shout-Out to the Fan Translation, Witch Hunt. | |
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Rosario + Vampire features the Newspaper Club, who do on occasion investigate supernatural occurrences. Since all the students attend a Monster Academy (except for Tsukune, the normal highschooler pretending to be a disguised vampire or other creature) most of the culprits are fairly obvious and much of the real plot centers on harem-based romantic comedy. | |
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Fringe: Special Agent Olivia Dunham, along with Mad Scientist Walter Bishop and his son Peter, doesn't really investigate "occult" stuff, but rather incredibly strange and bizarre incidents. | |
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Dupin and the player character in Dark Tales may not consider themselves to be this; however, roughly half of the cases they solve in the course of the series have some sort of supernatural genesis. Usually this takes the form of a ghostly encounter of some kind, although The Fall of the House of Usher takes the weird factor to the next level. | |
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John Lilly was a medical doctor and psychoanalyst who patented many inventions including the sensory deprivation tank. He began to experiment with long periods in the tank, causing vivid hallucinations(?) of communication with extra-terrestrial entities. He began to experiment with Ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic and was firmly convinced he could talk with dolphins. The movie Altered States is based on his life and experiences, and Wonko the Sane from the Hitchhiker's Guide is an Affectionate Parody. His experiments into teaching dolphins to talk and belief that he contacted aliens through sensory deprevation inspired Ecco the Dolphin. | |
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The Chicago Police Department had an entire division devoted to supernatural investigations. It was designated Special Unit 2. | |
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David Young from D4 is a former BPD detective who, after the death of his wife and a bullet injury to the head, gained mysterious powers to use special items called "mementos", "diving" back to their past. Obviously, he uses this power to solve crimes in his search for "D". | |
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In Vampirocracy, Leon and Ling head a PI firm specialized in supernatural cases, and Leon puts his skill as a Vampire Hunter to work for the police investigating supernatural crimes. | |
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Like previous Lovecraftian related or inspired stories, The Hunter from Bloodborne is an occult detective, but in this case it's downplayed. The Hunter originally came to Yharnam with the intention of getting cured of an unknown disease, but after waking up on The Dream, they set out to kill monsters and discover the mysteries of the town. How successful they are, given that pretty nearly everything around them is incredibly aggressive, depends on the player. | |
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Blunder and Folly from Yo-kai Watch 3 are two detectives who focus on youkai. They're Shout Outs to The X-Files's Mulder and Scully. | |
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Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) more the Noughties remake than the original 1969-70 series; there the cases were more usually normal crimes... it's just that one of the detectives was a ghost. | |
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17 and Gone follows Lauren, who uses her dreams and visions to try and track down missing girls, Abby in particular. | |
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Theodore "Teddy" London, star of the Teddy London books by C. J. Henderson (though the original six were published under the name Robert Morgan), used to be a normal private investigator, until he discovered Fate had chosen him to be the latest to bear the mantle of "The Destroyer", the one man chosen to stop Q'talu, an extra-dimensional Eldritch Abomination that's trying to break into our world. Since then, he has confronted vampires, werewolves, ghosts and the devil himself... though none of them are exactly like the myths that inspired them. | |
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The most popular stories from Weird Tales were the Jules de Grandin tales. These were the stories of Dr. Jules de Grandin, a decorated French surgeon, police detective, soldier and occult investigator and his sidekick Dr. Trowbury. The two would tackle supernatural menaces that dare threaten New Jersey and neighboring counties. | |
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Constantine (2014), being a Live-Action Adaptation of Hellblazer, has the eponymous John Constantine as one of these. He's ostensibly up to saving the world, but it's mostly a case-by-case basis to get there. | |
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Forest Kingdom: The Hawk & Fisher spinoff series features the fantasy beat-cops Hawk and Fisher, who typically investigate cases involving magic and/or monsters. | |
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The Dresden Files: Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, provider of the current page image. With the added twist that not only does he know that all the occult stuff is completely real, but he also cheerfully uses it to blow stuff up. He provides the page image for a reason, and in recent books he's more of a magical cop, having joined the White Council's Wardens. He provides the current page image because, aside from maybe Abraham Van Helsing, he is possibly the best known, and has probably the most Iconic Outfit. He even manages to make the Badass Longcoat practical instead of just a fashion statement - it's enchanted to be magical Kevlar. First a detective, then a cop, now a supernatural Knight, Prison Warden for the most hardcore magical supermax in the universe and by all indications, Chosen One. Karrin Murphy is this for Special Investigations. So was her late father, back when they were called the "black cat" files. |
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In Supernatural, brothers Sam and Dean Winchester, and other hunters, are dedicated to hunting down supernatural menaces. | |
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Dylan Dog, a penniless nightmare investigator ("L'indagatore dell'incubo") who defies the whole preceding horror tradition with a vein of surrealism and an anti-bourgeois rhetoric. | |
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Repairman Jack, although not technically a detective, keeps running into spooky stuff he must protect his vigilante-for-hire clients from. Fortunately he's getting pretty good at it, and packs more heat than most of the above examples. | |
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Demonbane: Protagonist Kurou Daijuuji makes his living as such a detective, due to possessing a cursory education in magic he knows the basics of things. He's frequently seen using dowsing to search for things on his investigations. The story begins when he's hired to obtain the Necronomicon, and shortly thereafter he partners with her and gets involved in a war with sorcerors and Great Old Ones. | |
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There are whole agencies of them in Lockwood & Co. to deal with the Problem—a sudden influx and infestation of ghosts and ghostly activity. | |
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Faye Diamond aka Nightmist in Sentinels of the Multiverse started out as a regular private detective before running afoul of a magic curse while investigating a Coven. After that she dealt almost exclusively in the occult and became the go to gal when other superheroes had magic related problems. Eventually, following a trip through the Void, she transitioned from a detective into more of a Sorcerer Supreme-type character. | |
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The protagonists of both Knights of the Old Republic and Jade Empire end up very frequently investigating and/or fighting ghosts, Force ghosts, demons and the like. | |
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Dr. Abraham van Helsing of Dracula is the Trope Codifier. Although he doesn't start this way, he quickly becomes one. Yet while most adaptations portray Helsing as an adventuresome monster hunter, in the book he is just a doctor with very eclectic experience, who approaches vampirism as he would any other disease, albeit one that has symptoms including supernatural belligerence and fantastic powers and weaknesses. | |
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The Pardoner's Tale features Nick Pardoner who is a part-time detective and a part-time exorcist and a werewolf. So he's an occult Occult Detective. | |
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The main character of The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump isn't a detective, working for his world's equivalent of the EPA, but he investigates crimes and uncovers a conspiracy in a world where magic is and always has been normalized. | |
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Occult Academy involves a time traveler and the head of the titular Occult Academy finding the source that would cause the end of the world. When they're not busy working on the apocalypse case, they will spend some time solving supernatural cases around the city. | |
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Caballistics, Inc., a strip appearing in 2000 AD. The main characters. Cabbalistics, Inc. was formed when Department Q, a Ministry of Defense department originally created in the 1940s to combat Nazi occult warfare, is privatized by the British government. Absalom is a more literal example, as he's an actual police detective attached to the department in charge of maintaining the peace deal between the British crown and the forces of hell. |
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The protagonist of Murdered: Soul Suspect is a detective who dies within the first minutes of the game. He spends the rest as a ghost investigating his own murder, which, being set in Salem, Massachusetts, of course involves witchcraft and the supernatural. | |
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One of the pre-gen characters in the Iron Kingdoms quick-start adventure is Eilish Garrity; Arcanist/Investigator, knowledgeable in matters arcane, mundane and forensic while still able to blast someone's face off at twenty-paces. He's also a subversion of Armor and Magic Don't Mix thanks to his suit of tailored plate mail. | |
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Acatl, main character of Obsidian & Blood, is a High Priest of the Dead in pre-Colombian Tenochitlan (modern day Mexico City). He uses Blood Magic to solve supernatural crimes, ones which often turn out to have the machinations of gods behind them. | |
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When crime takes a turn for the weird, the Manila police call Alexandra Trese. | |
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Edward Carnby from every version of Alone in the Dark is a detective who, for whatever reason, ends up stumbling across seemingly mundane mysteries that end up inveigling him in the occult and battling against monsters. | |
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Mallory Hope, titular character from Hope, another strip appearing in 2000 AD also set in the 1940s, this time a private investigator delving into the occult side of Hollywood. | |
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Ambrose Bierce from the Stanley and His Monster mini-series in The DCU, who was himself created as a Captain Ersatz version of Constantine, along with others such as Rasputin and Willoughby Kipling; It's since been established that the four of them (Constantine included) pretty much do the exact same sort of work as one another, and Kipling has met and compared notes with Constantine. | |
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Spirit Hunter: NG: Ban and Rosé, the second set of companion characters, are part of a supernatural investigation group who were hired by Yashiki, the protagonist of the previous game Spirit Hunter: Death Mark, to investigate the spirit that puts them in the path of NG's protagonist. After his son was killed by a spirit, Ban was motivated to hunt them down and expose the truth behind their existence. Rosé's motives, meanwhile, are a mystery. Ooe is a police officer who hounds Akira not because she's interested in him, but because she's interested in the occult cases that he has ties to. Akira convinces her to help him by agreeing to tell her all he knows about the supernatural. At the end of the game, she tries to get a department opened up in the precinct that's devoted to supernatural investigation. |
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Pathfinder has two classes that can function as this: The Investigatornote Think "Fantasy Sherlock Holmes" and you're on the right track (especially the Psychic Detective archetype), which uses their intuition to solve mysteries and fight monsters, and the Occultist, a psychic mage who uses items to channel his power. The latter is a much more clear-cut example, as the description of the class even mentions using their powers to research things. | |
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Agents Mulder and Scully of The X-Files. The show largely consists of their special FBI unit (that is, just the two of them) investigating bizarre, inexplicable things. Very frequently what they run into does involve the supernatural, or mutants, or aliens, or especially the government conspiracies. | |
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Rosangela Blackwell hunts for ghosts in The Blackwell Series. | |
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In Robyn Hood, Robyn and Marian found Nottingham Investigations; a P.I. firm that specializes in investigating supernatural cases. | |
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Sheriff Bigby Wolf from The Wolf Among Us fits the description. The reformed big bad wolf, it's his job to protect "Fables" (Fairy tale creatures whom fled to our world) from each other. The events of the game have him trying to find the murderer of a local hooker and uncovering a sinister conspiracy in the process. | |
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In the Spare Keys for Strange Doors universe, these are called "specialists". | |
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The titular character of Skulduggery Pleasant. He's a living skeleton with magic who basically works as as P.I. for magicians. When he's not busy saving the world. | |
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The Strange Calls is a humorous and fairly mundane example. The series focuses on a night-shift police officer in a small town. Though he has no special powers, every case involves some kind of supernatural element, from a ghost vandal to fried chicken that turns people into chickens. | |
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In Cultist Simulator, these are the Hero Antagonists to your own Villain Protagonist. As the player attempts to attain immortality, usually through illegal and immoral means, Hunters from the Suppression Bureau will be sent to track them and turn their Notereity into evidence that can be used to imprison them. | |
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In The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow an unseen viewpoint character who is the recipient of a photo from Mister Hollow, during an active investigation of paganism in Ontario. | |
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David from Haunted (1988) investigates ghosts though he doesn't believe in their existence. | |
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Felix Castor: An exorcist rather than a detective by trade, but he usually ends up having to solve some mystery or another. | |
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Delta Green offers an entire organization of them. | |
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Dirk Gently is a subversion, as he doesn't believe in the occult or paranormal; to him, it's just an elaborate con. He is repeatedly frustrated to find his cons coming true, however. | |
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Twin Peaks has Dale Cooper investigating the unusual death of Laura Palmer. Said death involved an evil entity that can possess certain living people, an alternate universe that looks like a art-deco hotel lobby, and a one-armed man whose arm is now a dwarf. | |
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Beginning in 1952, Ed and Lorraine Warren claimed to have investigated over 10,000 hauntings across America, writing several books about them in the process. Said cases inspired such well-known media franchises as Amityville and The Conjuring Universe. There is skepticism however about this. | |
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Harper Blaine from Kat Richardson's Greywalker series, who actually was a qualified P.I. even before she began having supernatural experiences. | |
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The agents of the Diogenes Club, including the psychic Richard Jeperson, his also psychic assistant Vanessa, and the non-psychic but handy-to-have-around Fred Regent; in an earlier period of the Club's 'history', the detective role is taken by Edwin Winthrop and his assistant is Catriona Kaye. | |
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In the Simon Ark short stories by Edward D. Hoch, Simon looks to be an ordinary man in his sixties but claims he is actually over 2000 years old, a Coptic priest who travels the world looking for evil—specifically Satan. It is said that he is cursed by God, that when Jesus carrying the cross wanted to rest, Ark refused him and in turn has never known rest himself, doomed to wander the globe forever. However the immortality element is not played up in any way and is just incidental. The Simon Ark stories have supernatural themes, although the crimes in them are always found to have been committed by mundane means. | |
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The protagonists of The Longing of Shiina Ryo may become this, depending on their sensei's mood. | |
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In The Cartoon Man, Roy and Karen work at an agency that investigates unusual phenomena. The Oswald Sherzikien case is their first encounter with real magic. | |
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Foucault's Pendulum is a darkly satirical Deconstruction of this trope. | |
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Invincible: Damien Darkblood is a demon detective who worked for the Global Defense Agency. | |
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October Daye is, roughly speaking, Harry Dresden's female Fae counterpart, down to the PI's license and the Volkswagen Beetle. She also serves as a Knight for the local Fae Duke, having earned the position through investigative prowess. | |
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Indiana Jones is an adventurer rather than an official detective, but he uses his skills as a historian and archaeologist to find MacGuffins that are almost always occult in power: The Holy Grail, the Sankara stones, the Ark of the Covenant, the Crystal Skull, etc. The Temple of Doom resembles an occult detective story the most, with the theft of the holy Sankara stones, the perpetrators being an evil cult who brainwash people by forcing them to drink a liquid, one of them harming Indy by harming a doll of him, etc. |
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In the Shadow Police novels, DI James Quill's team were ordinary police until they all got cursed with True Sight. Now they're Occult Detectives, though most of their fellow police don't know that. | |
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Despite the subtitle of 'Phantom Detective', Sissel of Ghost Trick originally subverts this. It's only in pursuit of his own identity and murderer that he solves the multitude of mysteries around him. And all of them turn out to be related to his identity anyway. | |
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Kate Kane deals with this as Batwoman fairly often, enough that it's one of her operative niches. | |
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The Section 13 Case Files has an entire secret division of NYPD officers to investigate the supernatural. Some members of their ranks aren't even human. | |
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Gabriel Knight, the titular character in the Gabriel Knight series of adventure games, who investigates murders related to things such as Voodoo, Werewolves, and Vampires. Interestingly, in the first game, he's just a occult author, looking into crimes to get ideas for his books. He only becomes an actual Occult Detective (and Hunter of Monsters) through the events of the story, and seems reluctant to actually fulfill that role in the second game (though he's all over it in the third). | |
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Austin Jones, the protagonist of Antlers, Colorado ends up helping the police of the titular small town with a series of supernatural crimes. His family also runs a secret government organization known as the Department of Paranormal Research, which is pretty much Exactly What It Says on the Tin. | |
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Andrew Doran: A lot of Andrew's activities when he's not doing archaeology or outright war with the monsters is this sort of thing, including investigating murders as well as other Cthulhu Mythos activity. | |
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Ban and Rosé, the second set of companion characters, are part of a supernatural investigation group who were hired by Yashiki, the protagonist of the previous game Spirit Hunter: Death Mark, to investigate the spirit that puts them in the path of NG's protagonist. After his son was killed by a spirit, Ban was motivated to hunt them down and expose the truth behind their existence. Rosé's motives, meanwhile, are a mystery. | |
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The Talamasca from The Vampire Chronicles is a secret organization dedicated to the investigation and documentation of the supernatural. They gather documents and artifacts, work to hide evidence of paranormal activities from the public and often help people troubled by such phenomenon. Many members of the organization possess supernatural abilities like telepathy. Among Talamasca's many interests are, of course, also the vampires. Unfortunately for them, agents who have a brush with vampirism tend to end up turned and leave the order. | |
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Secret Histories: Eddie Drood is part of whole family of paranormal investigators and eliminators. | |
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Alexandra Trese. The police call on her to solve supernatural crimes such as an aswang massacre on a train, and she's also seen making circles for exorcising. | |
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Martin Mystery: Martin and his stepsister Diana work for the covert organization "The Center", which secretly protects the people of Earth from extraterrestrial and supernatural threats. | |
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Muhyo & Roji, the main characters of Muhyo & Roji: Bureau of Special Investigators. Neighbors are skeptical at first, but initially come to rely on them, particularly Nana the reporter and early client. Nearly all rival characters or villains are also occult detectives, eldritch abominations, or some combination of the two. | |
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Elizabeth from the Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mysteries, though it's downplayed after the second book. | |
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2001's Vidocq, which the previous example might be a Whole-Plot Reference to, has the title character investigating some paranormal murders, and it's implied he has some occult knowledge himself. | |
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The Goon, although he's more of a thug whose "detective work" usually amounts to "beating information out of zombies and redneck werewolves." | |
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Nightside: John Taylor is a private investigator in the Nightside, where he investigates all manner of supernatural cases. | |
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James Savage from El Paso, Elsewhere is this combined with the typical Film Noir Hardboiled Detective. He is an Experienced Protagonist who hunts the occult and supernatural, with several points where he gives Private Eye Monologues | |
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The DCU: Dr. Terrence Thirteen, a.k.a. the Ghost-Breaker investigates and debunks seemingly-occult events. He has been appearing in DC Comics on and off since the 1950s, originating before DC formally combined all its titles, and the fact that he is now pursuing his debunking career in a world that contains genuine superpowers and supernatural beings is frequently lampshaded. Dr. Occult. He debuted in New Fun Comics #6 in 1935. He was a supernatural detective, whose detecting style was very much in the style of Sam Spade, only with supernatural abilities. He was assisted by his butler Jenkins in one adventure. His girlfriend/partner called Rose Psychic appeared in his first adventure and then returned again later in the series. |
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Scooby-Doo: The Mystery Gang. Well, sort of. They try investigating, but they mostly just run around. Only Velma really searches for any clues. | |
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Bellingham Terror: June Harper, the co-star, quickly shakes off her disbelief to become an occult detective. | |
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Touhou Project has The Sealing Club duo: Marybery Hearn (student of Relative Psychology), and Renko Usami (student of Super-unifying Physics). They mainly give a glimpse of how dangerous and terrifying Gensokyo is from the view of a muggle. | |
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"Who you gonna call?" Ghostbusters! Sorry, make that "Professional Paranormal Investigation and Elimination!" | |
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Kolchak: The Night Stalker (and the later remake) featured Carl Kolchak, who kept stumbling over supernatural doings. In the original series, he usually ended up working alone, and there were never any witnesses when he finally defeated the Monster of the Week. | |
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Inverted in the Garrett, P.I. novels, as Garrett is a Badass Normal from a world where the fantastic isn't hidden at all, and he frequently discovers that a crime had been committed for completely mundane reasons, even if its methods of commission were magical. | |
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Ravenloft: Rudolph van Richten, an Expy of Van Helsing. | |
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Lord of Illusions: Harry D'Amour is a noirish private detective in the present day who has investigated several paranormal cases, including an exorcism that he recently performed. Mostly by accident he is then introduced into the world of magicians and wizards. | |
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Miles Pennoyer would describe himself as a "psychic doctor" and claim that his line of work focuses on administering to the maladies of the soul. That being said, the majority of his work in that field involves sussing out just what sort of paranormal factors are causing those maladies and occasionally doing battle with them to aid his patients. His powers include the ability of sense paranormal forces, to broadcast waves of suggestive force to weak-willed individuals, and to manipulate the psychic energy of a space to protect himself and others from the influence of the supernatural. Additional training in quasi-magical disciplines allows him to perform rituals to identify and control some otherworldly entities. | |
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Princess: The Hopeful: This is one of the common hats for the Seeker Calling. They are the Princesses specifically called to seek out and share the truth, and they have affinity for the Learn and Govern charm trees (which have to do with seeking out knowledge and interacting with other supernatural forces, respectively). | |
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In The Secret World, players get to do this in Investigation Missions which are a special kind of quest that features no combat, only clue finding and puzzle solving. The game's setting, where everything is true, provides the occult part. | |
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Chronicles of Darkness: Hunter: The Vigil has the Null Mysteriis, or: The Organization for Rational Assession of the Supernatural. The other organizations are more interested in hunting and destroying the supernaturals than uncovering facts about them. Mage: The Awakening is explicitly inspired by Hellblazer and The Dresden Files, and a big part of Mages' shtick is "shoving their noses into Mysteries where they really, really don't belong". |
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Invader Zim: Dib considers himself a paranormal investigator. Several other paranormal investigators appear throughout the series with varying degrees of sanity. | |
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The Thomas Carnacki stories by William Hope Hodgson. Some of Carnacki's cases are not occult at all; it is Carnacki's trick that he is open to both possibilities. | |
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In Shadowrun 4th and 5th editions, one of the "archetypes" (example characters) is the Occult Investigator. | |
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Agents Wolf and Cranium of El Goonish Shive are this, each being a Captain Ersatz of Agent Mulder and Agent Scully, respectively. Ellen, Nanase, Charlotte and Diane also dabble in this. | |
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In the Warlock Holmes series of Sherlock Holmes pastiches by G.S. Denning, Holmes is the occultist, Watson is the detective. Neither can function as an occult detective alone, because Watson doesn't understand the world of magic, and Holmes doesn't understand even the most basic concepts of logic and rational thought. | |
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CthulhuTech has the Arcane Investigator profession, from the "Vade Mecum" sourcebook. | |
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Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name centers on the cases of the eponymous Hanna, paranormal investigator, and his new, somewhat decomposed, partner. These cases do not always turn out well. | |
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Psi Judges from Judge Dredd are usually responsible for investigating and combatting the more supernatural threats to Mega-City 1. | |
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Lost Girl has succubus Bo reluctantly becoming an Occult Detective, who specializes in cases involving the fae. | |
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Simon Dark: Tom Kirk is a GCPD detective with a bit of arcane knowledge who keeps an eye out for magical and otherworldly threats to his corner of Gotham. He also confers outside of the police force when he does come across such things, and is hiding the fact that he was murdered on the job years ago before being stitched back together and brought back with his aging stopped and regenerative powers. | |
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An awful lot of Nancy Drew's and The Hardy Boys' investigations appear to be supernatural at first, although they generally wind up busting smugglers or industrial spies or whatever. | |
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Ghost Talker's Daydream: Misaki Saiki is a freelance medium, who occasionally works with Kadotake Souichiro, a liaison officer from the Livelihood Preservation Group.note A government agency that investigates paranormal activity and performs exorcisms, in the interest of public safety. Their assignments involve investigating murders and suicides in order to allow the victims' restless spirits to move on. | |
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Ghost Finders: Features a trio of haunting-investigators. | |
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One skit on Monty Python's Flying Circus has the police taking up magic to fight crime. They use magic wands to turn crooks into toads, vanish illegally parked cars, and teleport old ladies across the street, as well as attempting to use a (rather rude) Ouija Board to investigate crimes. Things go wrong when the press spots them sacrificing a criminal though. | |
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Twilight Syndrome is about a group of high school girls investigating various rumors of supernatural phenomena around their city, and often needing to resolve whatever's causing them so that they don't remain a danger to others. Of the group, Chisato has the most practical knowledge of the supernatural by a considerable margin, but it often takes the three of them working together to resolve whatever they find themselves thrown into. | |
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Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. was originally a human investigator who specialized in working cases in the Unnatural Quarter. Then he got shot in the head, rose from the grave, and is now just as much an "unnatural" as his clients. | |
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Zatanna: The Zatara family can be this on occasion, either investigating odd events involving magical creatures or being asked in by cops who know when things go out of their realm and into theirs. | |
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The protagonist of The Sinking City is a somewhat unhinged private investigator who gained sanity-breaking Postcognition abilities after a brush with an aquatic Great Old One. The plot of the game revolves around him coming to investigate a city that has been cursed with perpetual rains, violent oceanic activity, and an infestation of monsters by the doing of a Lovecraftian cult dedicated to that same Great Old One. | |
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Hellblazer: John Constantine, Trope Codifier for the most common occult detective accessory, the trenchcoat — though in the DCU alone, fellow Trenchcoat Brigadiers Dr. Occult, the Phantom Stranger, and Mister E all rocked the look decades earlier. | |
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Rivers of London features the magical investigation arm of the Met. Both of them. | |
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In The Weave, Ruby and Howard are sent to investigate a murder, which seems rather mundane... until it turns out the victim was a fairy queen and the two of them use magical means to find a lead. | |
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The Titus Crow series of books by Brian Lumley, in which the protagonist enters the world of H.P.Lovecraft and kicks ass. | |
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Anita Blake: In addition to raising the dead, she's a Federal Marshal, and consults with the local police force's preternatural task force. | |
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In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, after Agent Ben and Agent Jerry had investigated a number of bizarre phenomena for the FBI, they were promoted to the status of a "paranormal taskforce". Jerry despises the situation and pines for the days when he was a "real cop", and not stuck investigating Fish People reports in Innsmouth and similar such nonsense. | |
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Hawke from Dragon Age II, due to Kirkwall being a hotspot for demonic possession, blood magic and all manner of the arcane. In Varric's companion quest in Act 3, Varric calls on Hawke to help him investigate a haunting at Bartrand's mansion, because having grown up in a household full of magic users (and potentially being a mage him/herself), s/he has a lot of experience with all kinds of "weird shit." Emeric, an ageing Templar and one of the few in Kirkwall still concerned about actually protecting people. Hawke meets him while he's investigating a spate of 'disappearances' he believes are linked. He's right. |
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Downplayed in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel Revenant. Art Sledge is a normal Hard Boiled Detective who mainly works in divorce cases, but working in "work{ing] out of the shadows in this town" causes him to know about the supernatural forces of Sunnydale and be prepared to deal with them. | |
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Doctor Strange. He has a number of artifacts which make this much easier, particularly the Eye of Agamotto. | |
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In his 2014 series, Moon Knight delves into this, especially in his role as "Mister Knight". He's not an official detective in the idea that he knows the law well, but helps the New York police through his knowledge of murder. | |
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GURPS Mysteries has a chapter on "Paranormal Mysteries" including vignettes featuring Lady McKelvery, a police detective mage in a Generic Fantasy City, and a sidebar mentioning GURPS Technomancer (which has Special Weapons and Talismans teams). | |
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Phoenix Wright of Ace Attorney isn't occult himself (nor, technically, a detective), but his assistant Maya is a spirit medium who channels her sister Mia. In the second and third games he also carries a Magatama, a device that lets him see the 'locks' around people's hearts when they keep secrets. Despite being a defense counsel, he frequently goes to crime scenes and investigates on his own to bolster his case, since the actual detectives are on the prosecution's payroll and usually not helpful. | |
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Sara Pezzini from Witchblade. While she gets to fight against countless demons, monsters and supernatural creatures lurking inside New York, everybody at the NYPD thinks she just happens to be a detective who gets too many weird cases. | |
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L from Death Note. Although the supernatural isn't his specialty in the story, he still nonetheless fights supernatural foes. He succeeds in the film version. | |
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The title character of the Mediochre Q Seth Series, among other jobs, hunts down and catches illegal monster-slayers for a living. | |
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The Hollows: Morgan, Tamwood, and Jenks though Rachel tends to do more fighting than investigating. | |
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Mage: The Awakening is explicitly inspired by Hellblazer and The Dresden Files, and a big part of Mages' shtick is "shoving their noses into Mysteries where they really, really don't belong". | |
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A variant is part of the setup for The Dead Files. Co-host Steve Di Schavi is a retired detective who conducts a real-world investigation of the circumstances behind a haunting, while psychic medium Amy Allen does a reading of the haunted location. The two then combine their work before the client(s), with Steve's research often giving grounding to Amy's impressions. | |
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The detective in Mystery Trackers by Elephant Games works for an agency that specializes in this sort of case. | |
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Phantom Quest Corp.: Detective Karino, of U Division, is a paranormal investigator who has a working-class relationship with Ayaka Kisaragi, the president of Phantom Quest Corp. As such, he often commissions his extra assignments to her as a personal favor, which lightens his workload. Of course, that's not the only reason he does it. | |
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The three detectives who make up the Detectives United are each this in their own origin series. Anna Gray is a psychic investigator who solves the Grim Tales mysteries; James Blackthorne is a ritual magic expert and paranormal researcher who features in Haunted Hotel; and Agent Brown is an invisible investigator with the Mystery Trackers. The three join forces when the occult mystery in question is too much for one of them to handle alone. | |
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The Spirit Detective, Yusuke Urameshi from YuYu Hakusho. Although he is less of a detective than one would expect. All he does is beating the crap out of the main threat to end all the bad stuff that is happening. | |
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Daniel Faust insists he's "vengeance for hire", being a former mob hitman, but he's not as dissimilar from Harry Dresden as he would have you believe. Lampshaded in "The White Gold Score": | |
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Constantine (2005): John Constantine is definitely an occult detective and an exorcist to boot, a demon hunter... | |
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The player character of the Dark Parables is a variant of the trope. She works for a detective agency that specifically solves mysteries connected to fairy tales, and thus naturally she encounters a plethora of magical items, characters, and disasters. | |
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Dipper and Mabel from Gravity Falls. After finding a mysterious journal, they start noticing unusual happenings around their summer home, involving cryptids, mythical creatures, and a two-dimensional demon. | |
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The characters of Kamen Rider Double investigate strange happenings as caused by Dopants, humans-turned-monsters by use of Gaia Memories, giant USB sticks from the center of the Earth. The show is technically science fiction, but it's soft enough to be considered Urban Fantasy, particularly considering how much Shoutaro is concerned with being hardboiled. | |
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Sunshine has the Special Other Forces (SOF), which deals with all paranormal threats and crimes. Fully-funded, non-secret government agency as the book's setting is The Unmasqued World. | |
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The Temple of Doom resembles an occult detective story the most, with the theft of the holy Sankara stones, the perpetrators being an evil cult who brainwash people by forcing them to drink a liquid, one of them harming Indy by harming a doll of him, etc. | |
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