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Most detectives in fiction barely get recognition. Gil Grissom, Jack Malone and Sam Spade could happily walk into a bookshop in their respective cities, seduce the owner and leave without being recognized. Not so for Smiths of the Yard. They are very well-known. The newspapers follow their activities. When there is a major crime and they are involved, the papers will say, "Smith of the Yard is on the case". If they're not and the crimes are particularly diabolical, the papers will call for their involvement. And needless to say, he (Almost) Always Gets His Man. In Real Life, the Yard is Scotland Yard, headquarters for the Metropolitan Police of Greater London. The Yard has become synonymous with police to the extent that any police version of the "Nations of the World" Montage will feature a shot of the New Scotland Yard sign. Truth in Television in the United Kingdom in the 1920s and 1930s, but not today. The trope has largely died (outside period pieces) with it. Subtrope of Famed in Story. |
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A notable subversion in the film starring Robert Downey Jr. Holmes is universally known by many of the important people in the city, but is less known in the down low of things. While he is known for his eccentricities, he does not let his picture get taken and thus he is hard to describe in detail. This makes it easy for him to adopt a disguise whenever he needs one, and he is VERY good at it. | |
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Bones: Brennan is this for the Jeffersonian, in part because she's brilliant, but mostly because she's the author of an exceedingly successful series of books. | |
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CSI: NY: Mac Taylor, decorated Marine turned NYPD Detective. Sometimes people seek him out personally because they've seen newspaper articles about him: "Blacklist (featuring Grave Digger)." A perp calling himself Grave Digger contacts Mac after killing his first victim because he read a feature piece in which Mac mentioned that his father had died of cancer. The perp is dying from the disease and expects Mac to sympathize with him because of it. By-the-Book Cop Mac isn't having any of it. "The Untouchable." A homeless schizophrenic young woman who witnessed the cover up of a murder seeks out Mac to tell her story to because she saw an article entitled "Hero Cop" from the time when an Irish gang stormed the Lab to reclaim their seized drug horde, and knew she could trust him to believe her and go after the bad guys. |
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Detective Kate Beckett receives a little bit of this in Castle after the eponymous mystery novelist begins basing his novels around a character based on her. | |
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Hustle plays this one relatively straight in the 3rd season finale, with a detective famous for making big busts as the villain. He's not a nice man... | |
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Poirot gives this to Chief Inspector Japp when he talks in his sleep: | |
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Pie in the Sky: The retired policeman Striker in "Doggett's Coat and Badge" was famous in the 1950s after catching a serial killer, and was known as Striker of the Yard. | |
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In the Discworld books, everyone in Ankh-Morpork knows Captain Carrot. If you ask Vimes about his second-in-command's acquaintances, you'll conclude that everyone in the world knows Carrot. Once Ankh-Morpork gets a newspaper, Vimes himself is a regular feature in it as well. | |
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It sometimes seems like everyone in New York City knows the name of Nero Wolfe, the eccentric obese detective who never leaves his house. To a lesser extent, this also applies to his assistant Archie Goodwin, though this mainly appears to be due to his connection with Wolfe rather than him being a name in his own right. It's heavily implied that this is entirely deliberate; in addition to Wolfe, like many a Great Detective, having an enormous ego, he only ever works high-profile cases for huge fees, and the easiest way of ensuring these kind of cases come along is for people to know your name. | |
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Played with in The X-Files, where Special Agent Fox Mulder has developed a certain amount of fame and repute for his investigations, but it's primarily limited to underground Conspiracy Theorist circles populated largely by kooks, eccentrics and paranoiacs. | |
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Benoit Blanc of Knives Out serves as an example of this applying to a private detective. In the first film several characters immediately recognize him from an article in the New Yorker or a famous case involving a tennis pro. Likewise in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery nobody thinks it strange that Miles Bron might hire him specifically to make an appearance at an elaborate murder mystery-themed party, several recognize him from a high-profile case involving a ballerina. Even Helen, who actually hired Blanc did so because he was the most famous detective she could think of. | |
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Colonel March of Scotland Yard even has it inherent in the title. When he is introduced, people often remark that they have read or heard of him. | |
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In an American example, Detective Cole Phelps of L.A. Noire begins to enjoy this as the game progresses, and it's particularly noticeable when people on the street recognize him as "that cop from the papers". It comes back to bite him when he's accused of adultery. | |
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Although his real identity is unknown to the vast majority of people, L in Death Note is considered the world's best detective and his tackling of the Kira case is covered world-wide. In fact, L uses his status as a Smith of the Yard to narrow his search for Kira by broadcasting his news conference exclusively in Japan. Kira, expecting news about L to be world-wide, responds immediately and falls for the trap. | |
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Adrian Monk zig-zags with the trope, as his name does appear in the papers, but there are points in episodes where it is clear people are unaware of who he is. For example, in "Mr. Monk and the Paperboy", Monk proves that a businessman who committed a hit-and-run is innocent of killing a paperboy because he didn't react to the mention of Monk's name despite Monk putting an emphasized "the" on before his first name. Also, in "Mr. Monk Buys a House", when "Honest" Jake Phillips goes to kill his girlfriend Cassie Drake, this dialogue: |
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Case Closed: Not only are celebrity detectives a thing, but many of them, including the protagonist, are teenagers. Indeed, the very first chapter of the manga begins with Shinichi making the papers and the TV news, the latter outright calling him the police department's savior. Later on, Kogoro Mouri begins attaining the same reputation; everywhere he goes random civilians recognize himnote The one exception being the Moonlight Sonata murder, which is used to demonstrate what an out-of-the-way island the murder is taking place on., and he's been impersonated at least twice. Brutally Deconstructed in the Detective Koshien case, which assembles four teenage detectives from the four ends of Japan to compete. Turns out one of them wasn't as good as he claimed and pinned a murder on an innocent, who killed herself; not only did he not care, he actually went back and tampered with the crime-scene so it'd fit his theory better. Said innocent's friend arranged the whole tournament to smoke him out, and return the favor. |
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Private Eye refers to the police as "Knacker of the Yard" or "Inspector Knacker", a pun on this and Knacker's Yard. | |
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Nick Carter from Adele Hasn't Had Her Dinner Yet has "America's Greatest Detective" written on his office door, the newspapers report about his cases and even his arrival in Prague makes the headlines. | |
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Also in the patische, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Holmes is in Germany for detoxification with Sigmund Freud, but finds a mystery to investigate to really get his spirits up. When the local police prefect learns that Holmes is on the case, he immediately sends a platoon of constables for the detective to use as he sees fit, apparently on the simple assumption that if Holmes is on the case, then it must be important. | |
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Judge Dredd is the epitome of the Judge system (he is the law after all). His reputation precedes him around the world. He actually talked Sino city judges out of interfering in a regime change he was leading by telling them that they know him and his reputation. Then again, if you personally nuked the city that invaded yours, everybody would know you too. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus made a Running Gag out of these characters, as can be seen in the page quote. This eventually led to the "Flying Fox of the Yard" sketch (which closed off the famous "Argument Clinic" sketch), where a policeman called Inspector Thompson's Gazelle of the Yard arrests the entire show on, amongst others, the charge of "always saying it's 'so-and-so of the yard' whenever the fuzz arrives". | |
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Sherlock Holmes Lampshaded in one story, as Holmes's need for disguises was explained to be a result of criminals recognizing him from all the coverage he was getting... including that from his good friend, Dr. Watson. It really doesn't help that Holmes has very striking features and is described as being very tall. Also in the patische, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Holmes is in Germany for detoxification with Sigmund Freud, but finds a mystery to investigate to really get his spirits up. When the local police prefect learns that Holmes is on the case, he immediately sends a platoon of constables for the detective to use as he sees fit, apparently on the simple assumption that if Holmes is on the case, then it must be important. A notable subversion in the film starring Robert Downey Jr. Holmes is universally known by many of the important people in the city, but is less known in the down low of things. While he is known for his eccentricities, he does not let his picture get taken and thus he is hard to describe in detail. This makes it easy for him to adopt a disguise whenever he needs one, and he is VERY good at it. In the first two novellas, it's the bumbling police detectives who serve as Smith of the Yard, as far as the papers are concerned. |
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