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A seeker character frequently used in Detective Drama. A professional detective not directly affiliated with a police department in any official sense (although many will have contacts in the department, and it's not uncommon for them to have previously worked in law-enforcement, as many of the skill sets overlap), a Private Detective takes on cases that private citizens bring to them - however, whilst they aren't supposed to investigate crimes (which are official matters for the police, who often look dimly upon private detectives sticking their noses in - both in fiction and in real life), they usually find themselves knee-deep in murders, robberies and kidnappings by the end of the story. They may be doing this because the Police Are Useless and/or unconcerned about solving the case, meaning our detective is the only person who is actually willing or capable of solving it. However, this is often justified (especially in classical Film Noir) by the detective starting off with a seemingly simple case, such as finding out if a woman's husband is committing adultery or investigating the disappearance of a man who vanished twelve years ago in order to resolve a debt he had with a wealthy businessman, only for things to spiral out of control to the point that the only way for the detective to get out is to solve the case. Although it's more common for a Private Detective these days to be treated as just one step away from the Amateur Sleuth (or often, particularly if seen from the point of view of the police, as rather sleazy bottom-feeders usually involved in some kind of criminal activity and frequently ex-cops kicked off the force for some kind of corruption), the classic Archetype of the Private Detective - and the one that has generally stuck in the mind of people when they think of the profession - is either the Great Detective or the Hardboiled Detective. In Real Life, the Private Detective is often viewed as a Punch-Clock Villain for his or her use of Sinister Surveillance. The fact that they are officially licensed to go on a Stalking Mission to track whoever they are hired to investigate (often for non-criminal activity like adultery) puts them firmly in the camp of Sociopathic Hero, or a Psycho for Hire with no respect for other individuals' privacy, depending on who you ask. In Real Life, some private investigators may also function as a Bounty Hunter, as the two professions are incredibly similar (although a Bounty Hunter will usually confront the individual they are tracking directly - a Private Investigator typically will not if they can help it). Private investigators are more likely to get hired for skip traces (tracking down bail jumpers, people evading service, people hiding from warrants, and similar parties so that the police and courts can do their thing), and that part of the job is typically nowhere near as exciting and involves lots of social media hunts and public record searches. The rest of their jobs are usually insurance investigations (usually for worker's comp cases, plus the occasional personal injury case when Insurance Fraud or misrepresentation is suspected), as well as the occasional divorce case (typically investigating suspected parental unfitness, adultery, or concealment of assets), or (for investigators who specialize in it) bankruptcy proceedings or due diligence for investors seeking risky investments. Like with skip traces, a lot of these typically involve social media and public records searches, and active tailing or in-person surveillance only occurs when necessary (someone is suspected of fabricating or exaggerating a work-related injury, someone in a divorce is suspected to have a new significant other that they haven't disclosed, a bankruptcy petitioner is suspected of concealing or surreptitiously selling off assets, etc.) While the comparison with the Amateur Sleuth is common, in many ways the stories work the opposite ways. The Amateur Sleuth, such as Miss Marple, tend to cozy locked room mysteries, where everything starts complicated and uncertain, but slowly works its way down as a logic puzzle, with a tidy solution where the killer is unmasked. The Private Investigator tends to start simple, but as the investigation will unravel an ever more complicated plot, and the ending is rarely tidy. Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot is a common thread. The killer may be unmasked, but larger problems tend to stay unsolved. The Hardboiled Detective is this guy made even tougher. Vampire Detective Series often feature one as a protagonist, though of the immortal variant; while the Occult Detective uses magic. |
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In Wonder Woman (1987) Diana befriends and teams up with the rather reckless PI Micah Rains in Boston on occasion. | |
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The protagonist of Magic for Liars takes pride in introducing herself as "Ivy Gamble, PI". Most of her cases are adulterers; this story about a murder investigation is her big break. | |
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Blue SWAT has Sho, Sig and Sara as the survivors of the Blue SWAT unit after a Space Mafia alien possess the BS unit leader and conducts sabotage attacks on their HQ. Prior to it being destroyed, the trio were able to lug anything that wasn't nailed down, including their vehicle. They open up a PI-based agency known as Blue Research in order to covertly investigate SM activities and at the same time, stay hidden as they are accused of being terrorists. | |
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Tex Murphy of the eponymous series of adventure games is a throwback (well, more of an Affectionate Parody) to Raymond Chandler's detective novels, although the events of the games take place in an After the End Crapsack World. The game justified the Always Night setting by the post-World War III US government reversing the day/night hours, so that people are active during the night (when there's less radiation due to the damage to the ozone layer) and asleep during the day. | |
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In Dead Again, Mike Church is a private detective who specializes in tracking down missing people. Then he gets more than he bargained for when he's called on to help a woman who's lost her memory... | |
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The Creeps: David Raleigh is the private investigator that Anna hires to find the guy who stole the original Frankenstein manuscript with a false alias. His second job as a video store clerk slows down his investigation, though, and makes Anna doubt his abilities. | |
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From E-Man comes Michael Mauser. Just... don't call him Mickey. | |
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Yashimoto of Cybersix. How good was he? He was able to find our secretive title character and figure out her Secret Identity over the span of a few days. | |
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Judgment has Takayuki Yagami, a former defense attorney whose promising career was torpedoed when a client he got acquitted was arrested again and convicted of murder. With his reputation in shambles, he takes to private detective work to make ends meet. His background in law, combined with the freedom his new profession affords him, makes him very well suited for getting to the bottom of any mystery. | |
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Vertigo's protagonist, Scottie Ferguson, is a former police detective convinced by an old friend to do one last job for him. Scottie even suggests some other private eyes to help his friend out, but since the friend needs someone he can trust, Scottie is the one tailing people, researching leads, and interrogating people. | |
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang has fun with all the Film Noir tropes, this one included: Val Kilmer's character 'Gay' Perry Van Shrike is a hard-bitten, tough-talking, gun-slinging Private Detective who's also, well... gay. And considers his job very boring. And, at least until Harry and Harmony come into his life, isn't exactly dogged in his pursuit of justice. | |
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In Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective Shido Tatsuhiko is a vampire with a detective agency. Some Film Noir mixed in with the Interview with the Vampire. | |
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Angel started out as a private detective, before he made the transition from "supernatural crime" to "supernatural". The trope is subverted in that Angel and his True Companions are better at fighting demons, and sometimes have to hire a real PI when actual investigating is required. | |
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The player character and (in the third game) her partner are both this, separately and together, in the Enigmatis trilogy. | |
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The title of Psych refers to the name of the "private, psychic detective agency" main characters Shawn and Gus run. They often get hired as offical police consultants as well, however. | |
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The Crew (2000): Bobby hires a private detective to look for his long lost daughter. The man is unable to find much information, and tries to convince Bobby not to spend more of his money on an effort that is so unlikely to succeed. | |
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Problem Sleuth, Ace Dick, and Pickle Inspector, of Problem Sleuth. Then again, their style of investigation generally involves wearing trenchcoats and fedoras, being generally hard-boiled, and not doing any actual detection. And still, Pickle Inspector wears a bowler and doesn't put very much effort into being hard-boiled at all. | |
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C. Auguste Dupin and his player character friend are basically this in the Dark Tales series, overlapping with Gentleman Detective and Great Detective. | |
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Joe Monday in Rocket Squad | |
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The Big Lebowski has one show up to tail The Dude which doesn't help solve the massive clusterfuck of a situation The Dude has found himself in. He was hired by Bunny's parents to find her after she ran away from home. He has nothing to do with the kidnapping. | |
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Kate Shugak is the private detective heroine of an Alaskan mystery series by Dana Stabenow. | |
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Undercover Elephant was a segment of the 1977 cartoon CB Bears. A detective pachyderm who was usually hindered by his own fallibility or his rodent sidekick Loudmouse. | |
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Half Past Adventure has private detective Cash Daniels, a parody of noir detectives. She seems to mostly have her own adventures which occasionally intersect the main plot. | |
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In the Sam & Max universe, the main characters are rather atypical private detectives (though they prefer the term "freelance police"), while their neighbor Flint Paper is a more stereotypical, two-fisted, Dirty Harry type. | |
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Magnum, P.I. is about one of those: from his contacts in the police to the monologuing, it all fits. | |
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Motherless Brooklyn centers around a private detective agency consisting of an aging World War II veteran and his adopted sons, who range from sleazy, to the usual archetype, to normal people just doing work. | |
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The title character of So Help Me Todd lost his P.I. license thanks to his former partner's criminal activities, and until he can get his license back he works for his mother's law firm using his skills to help with their cases. | |
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The French Nestor Burma (Guy Marchand), famous for his Inner Monologue Conversations, his womanizing and playing Jazz instruments. | |
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Jennifer Mays from The Maze Agency | |
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Lewton, in Discworld Noir, both embodies and parodies this trope, due to the Disc's Theory of Narrative Causality; he doesn't know why being a private investigator means he has to wear a trenchcoat and fedora, but he's quite sure it does. | |
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Batman: Black and White: In "Fortunes", Batman teams up with a private detective named Ashraf Batna. Batna dresses like a stereotypical private eye, but is an immigrant from Algeria who brought his family to America looking for a better life. He tells Batman that Gotham City is only slightly less dangerous than their old home in Algeria, but he sticks with it because there's not much call for a private detective in safer places. | |
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Joe Lassiter, the protaganist of The Genesis Code, is a private investigator who runs a company that does investigation work for the wealthy and powerful elite. | |
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The eponymous protagonist and narrator of The Adventures of Harry Nile. | |
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While Morgan Harding in ATL Stories From The Retrofuture is decidedly an Amateur Sleuth, Morgan's older sister Marge Eisenhower is a tried and true private detective. She's even got the suit and tie, trenchoat and fedora style going on. Even when she's not investigating anything... | |
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This is how Harry Dresden makes his living, though he's really an Occult Detective. In Turn Coat he finds himself shadowed by one of his "mundane" colleagues and eventually ends up hiring the man for an important side job himself. By Changes, Harry's occult dealings take so much of his time that he subcontracts out most of the mundane tasks to the aforementioned colleague. He hasn't had much screentime, but Nick Christian, the PI who mentored Harry while Harry was getting his license has appeared in the series. it is also mentioned later in the series that the occult side of Harry's business takes so much time that he outsources most of the mundane PI work to Vince Graver, the PI who was tracking him in Turn Coat, and who impressed Harry with his integrity. |
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Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar follows the adventures of the eponymous insurance investigator. | |
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In one episode of Married... with Children Al Bundy dreams that he is a noir-style private eye. | |
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During Avengers of the Ring, Bruce Banner spends some time with Merry and Pippin in Fangorn Forest, and compliments their ability to pick up various minor details about a situation, suggesting that they could make a living as private detectives. By the time the Avengers return to Middle-Earth in Return of the Avengers, Merry and Pippin have become Middle-Earth's first official private detectives, demonstrating their experience when they expose an attempt by the enemy's forces to take control of a new mithril mine in the Shire. | |
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Daffy Duck played this role on several occasions. To wit: Duck Twacy in The Great Piggy Bank Robbery Duck Drake in The Super Snooper Joe Monday in Rocket Squad The title character in Boston Quackie Doorlock Homes in "Deduce You Say." |
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Kyle Hyde from Hotel Dusk: Room 215 and Last Window. | |
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Rin Asougi of Mnemosyne is an immortal private detective who chucks knives at people, knows Waif-Fu, and has a tendency to get mutilated/killed... a lot. | |
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Nero Wolfe was a somewhat sedentary stay-at-home version of this; narrator Archie Goodwin did most of the legwork, and if they needed more legs they'd hire three other private investigators. | |
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The Private Eye has, of course, the titular P.I. As a near future comic that's also a throwback to the classic tropes it plays with a lot of the classic Private Detective and Noir tropes, set in a future near enough that there are people alive who know what a Zune is but far enough that most people think an ipod is an "old timey" phone. | |
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Private Detective / int_53418043 | |
Private Detective / int_56723196 | type |
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Private Detective / int_56723196 | comment |
Technically, Moon Cops on the Moon has this with its leads. Neal and Lucy are the employees of Cyberlife, which is a private detective agency but has a position above the regular police similar to the FBI. It has the authority of being actual police but they're contracted detectives to Atlas Security. Barksley makes a backhanded comparison to the Pinkertons when they were working for the US government, which Neal does not take kindly. | |
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Private Detective / int_57500126 | type |
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In BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea, an alternate version of Booker DeWitt is, supposedly, working as a private detective in Rapture. By the time the storyline begins, he seems to be spending more time drinking and gambling than actually investigating crimes. | |
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Private Detective / int_57500126 | |
Private Detective / int_59140854 | type |
Private Detective | |
Private Detective / int_59140854 | comment |
Jessica Jones in the Netflix series named after her, is a superheroine turned this. | |
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Private Detective / int_59140854 | |
Private Detective / int_5c783167 | type |
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Private Detective / int_5c783167 | comment |
In an Affectionate Parody, "Vikki Marlowe, Hard Boiled Dyke-Tective". A Meaningful Name; there are at least two authors and one character (the above-mentioned Philip) in detective fiction named "Marlowe". | |
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Private Detective / int_5c783167 | |
Private Detective / int_5ec299b4 | type |
Private Detective | |
Private Detective / int_5ec299b4 | comment |
Jessica Jones in Alias, and the Netflix series based on it. | |
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Private Detective / int_5ec299b4 | |
Private Detective / int_5eff4a2f | type |
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In Chinatown private detective J.J. "Jake" Gittes (Jack Nicholson) admits that "matrimonial work" is his "metier", but gets drawn into a labyrinth of danger where nothing is what it seems. This is a common problem for this character type. | |
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Chinatown | hasFeature |
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Private Detective | |
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In the Eddie LaCrosse series, the protagonist is a private detective in a Fantasy setting. In the past, he was a straight-up mercenary, but moved away from that work. | |
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Private Detective / int_61cb77ae | |
Private Detective / int_61f67cd | type |
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In A Case for Two, protagonist Josef Matula (Claus Theo Gärtner) is a former cop who ventured into the private investigation business. | |
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Private Detective / int_634e8749 | comment |
Raidou Kuzonoha from Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzonoha Vs King Abaddon is sort of a cross between this and a Ghost Buster. | |
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Private Detective / int_634e8749 | |
Private Detective / int_64494e71 | type |
Private Detective | |
Private Detective / int_64494e71 | comment |
Trent Malloy of Walker, Texas Ranger is this, wanting a profession that involved helping people after his honorable discharge from the army to mourn the recent death of his father, Thunder Malloy. Along with opening a karate school named after his father, Trent opted for this profession instead of becoming the new pastor of the church his father started and joining a law enforcement agency after an incident with a gun as a child, since in most law enforcement agencies, learning how to handle firearms is mandated. | |
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Walker, Texas Ranger | hasFeature |
Private Detective / int_64494e71 | |
Private Detective / int_66ac7b33 | type |
Private Detective | |
Private Detective / int_66ac7b33 | comment |
Moonlight (2007)'s Mick St. John started out as a private detective, before he made the transition from "supernatural crime" to "supernatural". | |
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Private Detective / int_66ac7b33 | |
Private Detective / int_66f5da3b | type |
Private Detective | |
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Raw Toonage parodied it with "Cro-Magnum PI", a Caveman Detective. | |
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Animated Anthology | hasFeature |
Private Detective / int_66f5da3b | |
Private Detective / int_6787808f | type |
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Private Detective / int_6787808f | comment |
Humorously parodied in the Canadian TV series Butch Patterson: Private Dick. Butch is given to internal monologues, wears a fedora everywhere he goes, refers to himself as a "Dick", and drinks very heavily...so heavily, in fact, that he's known to continually wet his pants and prematurely ejaculate. To make matters worse, he's also got a thing for prostitutes, a tendency to wake up in strange places after passing out drunk, and it's unlikely he'll ever live down that incident at the petting zoo. In spite of this, he's actually a very competent detective, and generally manages to solve the case, although he quickly blows whatever money he makes on pornography and whores. | |
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Private Detective / int_6b8c8939 | type |
Private Detective | |
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Intolerable Cruelty: Gus Petch, the world's least subtle infidelity investigator. | |
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Private Detective / int_6b8c8939 | |
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Dwight from Sin City. His career comes to an end once he's wanted for murder, however. | |
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Sin City (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Private Detective / int_6bcd58c7 | |
Private Detective / int_6c1d09b4 | type |
Private Detective | |
Private Detective / int_6c1d09b4 | comment |
Fallout 4 has Nick Valentine, a synth who runs Valentine Detective Agency and specialises in finding missing people. He wears the traditional trench coat and fedora combo, smokes like a chimney and speaks like the protagonist of a black and white noir film. This is justified as his personality and memories are copied from the original human Nick, who himself was a Pre-War cop. | |
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Private Detective / int_6c1d09b4 | |
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In Turn Coat he finds himself shadowed by one of his "mundane" colleagues and eventually ends up hiring the man for an important side job himself. By Changes, Harry's occult dealings take so much of his time that he subcontracts out most of the mundane tasks to the aforementioned colleague. |
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Private Detective / int_6fe83875 | type |
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Shall We Dance (2004): Devine and Scott are a pair of Nice Guy Bunny-Ears Lawyer investigators who shadow John when his wife worries that he's having an affair. | |
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Shall We Dance (2004) | hasFeature |
Private Detective / int_6fe83875 | |
Private Detective / int_74c659e6 | type |
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In Rocket Age the Wolfgang & Long Detective Agency supplies PIs to the entire solar system. Their detectives can either be assigned cases by the agency or take up their own. However, they only go for major cases. | |
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Rocket Age (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Private Detective / int_74c659e6 | |
Private Detective / int_75556385 | type |
Private Detective | |
Private Detective / int_75556385 | comment |
Shadows of Doubt places the player in the role of one, who can perform odd jobs for people or companies, or take on the case of the current Serial Killer. | |
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Private Detective / int_75556385 | |
Private Detective / int_766babbf | type |
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In keeping with its inspiration from classical noir, Angel Heart centres around a classical private detective, though he doesn't wear the suit and fedora as much as some of the others on this list. Unfortunately, the things he ends up dealing with are probably a heck of a lot more horrific than the other people on this list. | |
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Private Detective | |
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In There's Something About Mary Matt Dillon plays Pat Healy, a modern day private detective who is hired to stalk on the title character for a ex-lover in high school. Pat averts the honorable portion of the trope by going after Mary for himself. | |
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Sam Morgan, the protagonist of Faceless, is a private investigator hired by Barbara's father to go to Paris and find her after she disappears. | |
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Faceless | hasFeature |
Private Detective / int_7ba0c2f0 | |
Private Detective / int_7ff3216c | type |
Private Detective | |
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Garfield and Friends did a parody character named Sam Spayed. | |
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Garfield and Friends | hasFeature |
Private Detective / int_7ff3216c | |
Private Detective / int_80a922a6 | type |
Private Detective | |
Private Detective / int_80a922a6 | comment |
In Lethal Weapon 4, Leo Getz becomes a licensed PI. This garners much comedy for Riggs and Murtaugh. | |
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Private Detective / int_80a922a6 | |
Private Detective / int_8125b468 | type |
Private Detective | |
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Batman, World's Greatest Detective, combines this trope with The Cowl, often presenting Batman as a Badass Normal fighting crime in a world of superpowered heros and villains. His Awesomeness by Analysis is a great part of what makes him part of DC's "Holy Trinity" alongside Superman and Wonder Woman. | |
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Private Detective / int_86c3beca | type |
Private Detective | |
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Ivo Sharktooth, Private Jager, of Girl Genius is initially presented as though he was a proper private detective straight out of Film Noir. However, he quickly demonstrates that, while a private detective investigates, a "Private Jager" just runs around causing trouble until the culprits reveal themselves. | |
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Private Detective / int_86dffbc1 | type |
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Arthur Lester from Malevolent, at least until he opened a mysterious tome and ended up possessed by a strange entity that now controls his eyes. | |
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Private Detective / int_86dffbc1 | |
Private Detective / int_8ba4613a | type |
Private Detective | |
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Death Note: L makes his living this way, though he's such a good sleuth that the world's police forces often officially hire him to help on particularly tough cases. | |
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Private Detective / int_8ba4613a | |
Private Detective / int_8d81bb26 | type |
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An episode of NCIS has the team working with a private investigator. Gibbs expresses his contempt for the fellow by repeatedly referring to him as a "private dick," emphasis on the second word. Given that he turned out to be the killer, it may also have been Gibbs' famous gut instinct telling him something. | |
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Ms. Tree: She and her husband owned a private detection firm; she's carried on since his death. | |
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Darker than Black has Gai Kurasawa, a Private Eye who gets tangentially involved in a few of Hei's cases, but remains mostly clueless about what is really going on. | |
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Danganronpa features two, both holders of the title “Ultimate Detective�, Kyoko Kirigiri and Shuichi Saihara. As they’re locked in killing games with 14 or 15 other people each and have to solve the murders done by their fellow captives in hopes of escaping so they don’t all die for that one person to escape, they tend to be extremely helpful. | |
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Private Detective | |
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SheZow has moments where, aside from delivering justice from evildoers faster than the police, SheZow can get some "She-tective work" done. | |
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Private Detective | |
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In Andhadhun, Akash calls Manohar's wife pretending to be a private detective hired by Mr. Sinha and reveals to her that Manohar and Simi are having an affair. | |
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Private Detective | |
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The titular Master Detectives in Master Detective Archives: Rain Code are all private investigators, who are not very good at investigating. | |
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Master Detective Archives: Rain Code (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Decoder Ring Theatre's Black Jack Justice is played straight, although there are two detectives, one male (Jack Justice) and one female (Trixie Dixon, Girl Detective), who take turns providing monologue. | |
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Decoder Ring Theatre (Podcast) | hasFeature |
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Private Detective / int_945d0932 | type |
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Ann Flores and Ayane Misuno, the protagonist and deutagonist of ANNO: Mutationem, are both private investigators. They work under their boss, Raymond's, agency, which specializes in investigating and solving supernatural problems. Ann is an Action Girl who does most of the investigating locations, interrogating suspects, and fighting trouble, while Ayane is a Playful Hacker who acts as her support and tech specialist. | |
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Psycho. Marion Crane's employer hires one to track her down after she steals from a client. He ends up meeting her fate. | |
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Psycho | hasFeature |
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Private Detective / int_989dd461 | type |
Private Detective | |
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A 1975 film, The Black Bird, is a comedy sequel to The Maltese Falcon with George Segal playing Sam Spade, Jr. | |
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Private Detective | |
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Goofy as Johnny Eyeball in the Disney short, "How to Be a Detective". | |
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Holmes in Watson and Holmes, like his inspiration, is a private investigator in Harlem, New York. | |
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Private Detective | |
Private Detective / int_99fbdbbe | comment |
The Long Goodbye (adapted from the novel by Raymond Chandler), is typical of Robert Altman's work in that it serves as a Deconstruction of this genre. | |
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Private Detective | |
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Case Closed Kogoro Mouri, Heiji, and main character Conan Edogawa/Shinichi Kudo. In fact, Kogoro has often been shown to do stuff that people usually hire private detectives for - tracking people suspected of adultery, trying to track down someone who is lost (but not officially considered a missing person, like deadbeat dads or former friends). | |
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Private Detective | |
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Scarlett Undercover: Scarlett solves crimes in the town of Las Almas. She's also a teenager, meaning she isn't always taken seriously by adults. | |
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Private Detective | |
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Holly Gibney, a recurring character in the works of Stephen King. | |
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The title character in Boston Quackie | |
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Private Detective | |
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Rock Slyde is a Film Noir detective parody; from having a decanter of mouthwash on his desk, to using online auction feedback to boost his self-esteem. He still narrates in a serious tone of voice. | |
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Private Detective | |
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Arthur Penn's Night Moves also serves as a Deconstruction of this genre. | |
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Nohar Rajasthan from S. Andrew Swann's Moreau Series of books is a down-on-his-luck PI... who just happens to be an 8'-tall humanoid tiger Super-Soldier. | |
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The title character of the Garrett, P.I. series is one, but prefers the term "confidential agent" since he often takes jobs not related to investigations such as private negotiations and consultations on the handling of kidnappings. Since he lives in a fantasy world there are technically no such things as detectives and the closest thing are the Watch's secret police. | |
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The titular character of the Joe Copp series, written by Don Pendleton (also the author of The Executioner series), is a private detective who used to be a cop. | |
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Johnny Garland is one in Shadow Hearts: From The New World. Surprisingly; he implies that a lot of the cases are simply helping someone track down missing pets, and takes a case offered by Gilbert simply because he wants more excitement in his life. | |
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Scott Shelby in Heavy Rain. Subverted when it turns out he's just posing as one in order to eliminate all the evidence because he is the Origami Killer. | |
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The Cormoran Strike Novels are about the adventures of a hard-boiled private detective named Cormoran Strike and his Hypercompetent Sidekick assistant, Robin. | |
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A realistic version crops up in The Secret World in the form of Jake Hama, AKA The Love Hotel Detective. True, Hama likes to seem the part, what with the hard-boiled airs he often puts on, but in reality he's just a drunken sleazeball; his most common line of work involves running surveillance on cheating spouses and blackmailing his targets just to earn extra. By the time you meet him, he's gotten a much more typical request to find Masao Tanaka's daughter, but given that Hama was blackmailing the client, this is almost certainly a Uriah Gambit on Tanaka's part. | |
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In Monsieur Charlatan, Isidore Charlatan was once one of these, if he isn't now - and a Great Detective to boot. | |
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The Black Cat was this from the 90s to the early 2000s. | |
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Snoopy becomes a detective in the Peanuts special "It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown". He's on the case of who stole Woodstock's nest. After falsely accusing Lucy and forced into play-acting with Peppermint Patty, Snoopy, and Woodstock find the nest at school where Charlie Brown's sister Sally appropriated it for a science project. | |
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After Infinite Crisis, there was a period in the comics where The Riddler became one after a Tap on the Head. He was quite successful and enjoyed still being able to match wits with Batman while the latter could't beat him up anymore, but he eventually fell back into his criminal ways. | |
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Detective Grimoire is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. | |
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In Clegg, protagonist Harry Clegg is an ex-policeman turned Private Detective. | |
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Shaft: Who's the black private dick, that's a sex machine to all the chicks? | |
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Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man | |
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The early Shadowrun novel 2XS has a noir-ish private eye story in Shadowrun's infamous Cyberpunk plus magic world. | |
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F. I. G. "Fig" Newton in Rumpole of the Bailey. A relatively realistic example: Rumpole (and, it seems, other criminal-defence barristers) employ Fig to find out details of a case that might be relevant to a client's defence in court, especially if Rumpole suspects that his client is the victim of mistaken identity, sloppy policework, or a frame-up. Also realistically, Fig also takes other clients, usually of the "is-my-spouse-cheating-on-me" variety. | |
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El Goonish Shive parodies this with the Detective Block "storyline" in EGS:NP, where the detective is an unintelligible writer's block. | |
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Judge Dredd spinoff The Simping Detective features Jack Point, a judge working undercover as a private detective. In clown gear. Simping is a fashion trend/sub-culture in Mega City One. The point of the trend is to look as stupid as possible so that people will bother to notice that you exist. | |
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Mma Precious Ramotswe (in the The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith) subverts almost all of this trope, being a kind and overweight Botswanan lady who solves everyday problems, like absconding husbands, by a sharp psychological perception, persistence and being able to win the confidence of others. | |
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With Nick Charles as the more light-hearted version (although not as much as in the movies). | |
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Ace Harding in Déjà Vu, although the games involve getting yourself out of trouble, and not solving any cases for profit. | |
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Duck Twacy in The Great Piggy Bank Robbery | |
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Emerson Cod from Pushing Daisies. He would like nothing better than to be able to just have Ned get the pertinent facts from a corpse, and then collect the rewards in short-order, with as little effort for him as possible. He also primarily deals in cases where the death has been written off as an accident or the police themselves offer a reward for any valuable information related to a case. | |
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In the AU Holly Potter and the Witching World, a Younger and Hipper Albus Dumbledore (in this Alternate Universe an outcast in magical society) works as a private investigator, with Hagrid as his assistant, helping out both Muggles and magicals. Not purely an Occult Detective, since he takes plenty of mundane jobs as well, but he's still a very powerful wizard and is often called in to solve magical crimes and cases. | |
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Nick Slaughter in Tropical Heat is one. | |
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The 2011 This American Life episode "The Incredible Case of the P.I. Moms" is about a private-detective agency in Contra Costa County, California (in the Bay Area) whose whole M.O. is that the detectives are all suburban soccer moms. Then the plot thickens... | |
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Spirit of '77: Players can create a character using this as a role. The type is meant to evoke ones common to 1970s TV series and exploitation films, such as Shaft or The Rockford Files. | |
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X-Factor (2006): The whole premise is Multiple Man trying to set himself and a few friends up as private detectives, with the complication that Madrox is in entirely the wrong genre to get away with it. And he never learns. | |
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Pain & Gain: Ed Du Bois, who got out of retirement, because he liked doing that far more than fishing and golf. | |
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Numbuh 2 of Codename: Kids Next Door has this as his side-job in full-on, trenchcoat-clad Film Noir mode. | |
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In the children's mystery series, Trixie Belden, the title character and her bestfriend, Honey, plan on opening the Belden-Wheeler Detective Agency when they're older. | |
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The titular characters of Snooper and Blabber, a segment on Quick Draw McGraw. | |
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The Debbie and Carrie Show features a private detective agency called the Queer Avengers, which specialize in hate crimes which have LGBT victims. Its two members are Carrie Sims, a white bisexual woman, and Charles Mc Kinsey, a black gay man. | |
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Keith Mars (former cop) and Vinnie Van Lowe (stereotypical sleazeball) of Veronica Mars. | |
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The title character of Detective Pikachu is basically a Pikachu from Pokémon who speaks human language with a gruff, deep voice and wears a detective cap. | |
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Oscar Lightbulb from Argai: The Prophecy. | |
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Jim Rockford of The Rockford Files is a straight example. He's an ex-con (albeit innocent of the charges and officially pardoned). He also edges the Affectionate Parody line. | |
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Inch High, Private Eye - right there in the title, one of several 1970s Hanna Barbera mystery solving cartoons. | |
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Gossip Girl's Chuck Bass has one on speed dial. And that's not his only private investigator. His father also had a couple. | |
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In a homage to classical noir, Dino Attack RPG brought in a Private Detective actually named Bogart when it became clear that an unknown figure was conducting a series of murders. | |
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In L. Jagi Lamplighter's Prospero's Daughter trilogy, Mab's body was modeled after Bogart, and he acts as the company detective. | |
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Carl Faubert in Kona is a private investigator who's been called to Northern Canada by industrialist William Hamilton. | |
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Attention-seeking "Ace Detective" Luke Atmey in Ace Attorney, who is always just a step behind Phantom Thief Mask*DeMasque. Step ahead, actually. He's the one planning the heists and sending the thief the plans anonymously, so he both gets the items and makes himself look good. Despite being a defense attorney, Gregory Edgeworth is dressed like a stereotypical private detective in Ace Attorney Investigations 2. |
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In The Animatrix segment Detective Story, Ash is hired to track down a computer hacker by the name of Trinity. A mash of Film Noir and Alice in Wonderland Shout Outs ensues. | |
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One can argue that Geralt becomes this in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt when he gets hired by the Emperor of Nilfgaard to find his daughter Ciri, leading Geralt to investigating and finding clues about her current whereabout all over the continent. | |
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Simon & Simon: Rick and AJ Simon, brother PIs. | |
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Heironymous "Hip" Flask is a private eye and anthropomorphic hippo in the Elephantmen comics. | |
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This is a decent description of Michael Westen from Burn Notice when he's working for his Client of the Week. He's even used private eye as a cover ID at least once, though on another occasion he notes that a PI license has privacy concerns (anything they uncover could end up in court). | |
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Professor Layton: Professor Hershel Layton is not this, but he's constantly mistaken for one. His daughter Catriel 'Lady' Layton, however, is this. | |
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In the Zachary Nixon Johnson series, the title character is the last private detective on Earth, all the others having been bought out by megacorporations. | |
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One of them in Japan, Inc. finds out that a big union boss is a customer in an S&M club. | |
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Shotaro Hidari of Kamen Rider Double is a Private Detective. However he isn't as hardboiled as he likes to think he is, leading to his fellows referring to him as "half-boiled". Both major characters refer to themselves as "two detectives in one": Shotaro does the field investigations while his partner Philip (named after Philip Marlow) does the research back home. Prior to the two meeting Shotaro worked for another, much more hard-boiled detective whose death helps to kick off the events of the series. | |
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