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The Exotic Detective
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The Exotic Detective is a detective who has some unusual quality that is important to their personality. While being a private detective is an unusual profession to most people, an Exotic Detective is one that has some very exotic trait that almost defines them. This will often take the form of a major character flaw of some kind. This falls into two broad subtypes: The detective has an odd trait (such as a strange sickness or an unusual profession or background) that is "exotic" both to readers and to other characters. (For example, TV's Monk, who has OCPD and multiple phobias.) Sometimes their background will be used to justify their crimefighting skills (as with G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown who noted that priests had a lot of experience with sin from hearing confessions all day). The detective is seen as ordinary by other characters; their "exotic" trait is that they exist in a setting that is unfamiliar to readers or regarded as an unusual setting for a detective story. (For example, Brother Cadfael, a medieval monk who solves crimes, or Yashim in Jason Goodwin's The Janissary Tree, who is a Court Eunuch in the last days of the Ottoman Empire.) |
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Hillerman himself was influenced by the Bony series, about an Australian half-Aboriginal detective. | |
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Amos Burke on Burke's Law is an LAPD captain who also happens to be a millionaire. He wears tailored suits, lives in a Big Fancy House, has tony hobbies like horseback riding, and rides from crime scene to crime scene in a chauffeured Rolls Royce. | |
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu: A Pikachu with detective training. The Reveal of the third act, which is that the Pikachu has detective training because he has the (amnesiac) mind of the protagonist's Disappeared Dad in him, courtesy of Mewtwo also fits. | |
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The Great Mouse Detective. Example of type two: a mouse who is Sherlock Holmes' counterpart (even living in the same house) solves cases in the Mouse World of Victorian London. | |
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Charles Xavier is the psychic detective (as in one who investigates mysterious psychic attacks, not as in investigating arbitrary mysteries using psychic powers). | |
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The Dragon Doctors has the eponymous doctors solve a few mysterious magical crimes with the help of "Inspector Blue", a detective made out of blue crystals. The investigative work is pretty sound, but it's the setting that's bizarre. | |
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Spider-Man Noir is a private eye who also happens to be an Alternate Universe Peter Parker, moonlighting as Spider-Man. | |
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The Funky Phantom: the detectives have two ghost helpers. | |
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Lord Darcy, a Sherlock Holmes pastiche in a world of magic. | |
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Angel acted like this every once in a while for the first 2 seasons of his show, as he had to play private eye to figure out who he was supposed to beat up with his vampire powers/how to best beat them up. | |
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House: Gregory House, arguably a "medical detective". An expy of Sherlock Holmes with all of the intelligence, even more asshole-ery, and a knack for weird cases. | |
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Erast Fandorin: Erast, especially after his first three books, fulfills both types of this trope. From the point of view of a modern reader he's in an alien setting (nineteenth-century Russia), and from the point of view of his contemporaries he's unusual because of the time he spent in Japan and the way it influenced him. | |
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The protagonists of The Name of the Rose: detectives in a medieval monastary. | |
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The Yashim Series by Jason Goodwin about a eunuch in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire in the 1830s-40s. | |
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The Leaphorn & Chee series by Tony Hillerman would have originally come across as this. It's about detectives on the Navajo Tribal Police force who investigate crimes on the reservation. Thanks to Hillerman's influence, however, the Native American detective novel is today a popular subgenre. | |
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The protagonist of Subsurface Circular is a robot detective whose work consists mainly of talking to other robots and figuring out the picture from there. All without actually leaving the subway car that it's restricted to. | |
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Connor of Detroit: Become Human is a prototype RK-800 Android, built to assist the DCPD with cases involving Deviants- Androids rebelling against their programming and becoming more human. | |
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Pie in the Sky is about a policeman who is trying to retire and spends as much time running the restaurant he is retiring to run as he does fighting crime. | |
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The Dresden Files: Harry Dresden, wizard PI and crazy-awesome badass. | |
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Judge Dee: A judge in 7th century China, based on the historical Chinese novels (and other cases found in historical Chinese legal texts) that were themselves based on the historical character. | |
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Walter Sherman and his compulsion to find in The Finder. | |
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Nero Wolfe is slightly less of a shut-in, but extremely reluctant to leave his home. Which is also home to a collection of rare orchids. | |
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The Persian in The Phantom of the Opera is so defined by his nationality that he has no other name given. | |
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Eddie Valiant in Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a type two example. He's portrayed like a standard noir protagonist, but the exoticism comes from his residence in a world populated by Toons— comedy cartoon characters who live as an ethnic minority among flesh-and-blood humans. Many comedic tropes from The Golden Age of Animation serve as both major and minor plot points, contrasting Valiant's otherwise straightforward portrayal. | |
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Columbo used this in-show as a major plot point, the rich bad guys not taking this sloppy, unkept, lower-class Police Lieutenant seriously... at first. | |
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D.O.A.: The fella has to solve his own murder! While he's still alive! | |
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Sano Ichiro: Sano Ichiro himself, who's the personal Samurai Detective for the shogun in the Edo period of Japan. | |
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Sid from the Family Skeleton Mysteries series. He's the titular skeleton, with no memory of his pre-death life, but he and best friend Georgia, a live English professor, make a very good detective team. | |
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Acatl, the main character of Obsidian & Blood, is the second type: the High Priest of the Dead in the Aztec Empire, whose job it is to solve murders and other mysterious crimes. | |
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American Dad! parodies this trope with Steve often pretending to be a detective duo called "Wheels and the Leg Man" with Steve as "Wheels"(because he's in a wheelchair) and Roger as the "Leg Man"(because he can walk). | |
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Marvel Universe Exotic Detectives appear to be grouped by area of expertise (i.e. powers.) Doctor Strange is the mystic/magic detective. Tony Stark and Reed Richards take care of any "hard" science mysteries on the west and east coasts, respectively. Alien races tend to take care of medical mysteries through advanced science. Charles Xavier is the psychic detective (as in one who investigates mysterious psychic attacks, not as in investigating arbitrary mysteries using psychic powers). Nearly every time traveler is involved in a mystery about why their past is different from the current past. (e.g. the time traveling detective.) Spider-Man Noir is a private eye who also happens to be an Alternate Universe Peter Parker, moonlighting as Spider-Man. |
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent: There is definitely something different about Detective Goren. That something being, probably, either a mental problem that should be treated, or being somewhere on the autism spectrum. It is partially an act. When asking questions he uses his size to control the space in the room and seem as intimidating as possible without seeming overtly hostile. Outside of interrogations he's a bit off but not quite crazy. | |
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Ultra Fast Pony turns into a cop show parody for "Stay Tuned". Pinkie Pie gets partnered with Gummy, a psychic detective. | |
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Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels: the detective is a caveman. | |
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Tony Stark and Reed Richards take care of any "hard" science mysteries on the west and east coasts, respectively. | |
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Fallout 4 has Nick Valentine, the private detective of Diamond City, who is noticeably an older model Synth in a society where Synths are feared; it's a testament to how good he is that most of the residents of the town actually think well of him. He also has the memories of a real pre-war detective named Nick Valentine, which later leads to a personal quest for him finding out what happened to one of the original Valentine's old rivals. | |
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Skulduggery Pleasant, he's a walking skeleton who's hundreds of years old and has Elemental Powers. | |
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Life (2007): The main character, Charlie Crews, went to jail for murder, but was recently acquitted. He's also a millionaire from the wrongful imprisonment settlement. And he's developed a very Zen (or at least Zen-ish) mindset during his time in prison. | |
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Lord Peter Wimsey, who is an English aristocrat who detects for a hobby. | |
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Odo from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is the only Shapeshifter in the quadrant, making his job quite a bit easier. | |
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Dirk Gently doesn't so much "solve" cases as bumble around until they solve themselves. It's also implied that he's psychic somehow. | |
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21 Jump Street has a squad of baby-faced detectives who go undercover as teenagers in high schools and colleges. | |
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As well as parodies of these shows, like Mike Tyson Mysteries. | |
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Sly Cooper has Carmelita Fox, a (supposedly) Hispanic fox with some definite chemistry with the titular thief himself. | |
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Batman: The DC Verse has a lot of these, e.g. The Question, John Constantine More in line with the general idea of the trope, back when mystery comics enjoyed some modest popularity, DC published stories featuring Detective Chimp, scientific investigator Darwin Jones, Roy Raymond: TV Detective, nautical detective Captain Compass, and occult debunker Dr. Thirteen. |
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Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army has a teenage detective with the ability to see and control demons and use them to influence moods and read minds. | |
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L from Death Note. Pretty much everything about him, from the way his face looks, to the way he sits, to the way he picks things up, is just a little bit off. | |
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Monk: A private detective with OCD (as in, on the few occasions that he tries to seek treatment for it, he completely loses his detecting mojo... and it's a Running Gag he drives everybody nuts with his nitpicking). | |
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Spoofed on Boy Meets World when Eric notices the popularity of this type of character and pitches a detective show called "Good Looking Guy" to his father, complete with a theme song. | |
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Clue Club: the detectives have two intelligent dogs. | |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies gives us detective Bobby Fulbright, a hilariously hot-blooded detective with a burning passion for all that is just. Oh, and he's also been dead for a year and been replaced by an emotionally stunted super spy. | |
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Hercule Poirot, an extremely eccentric Funny Foreigner. Also within the books, Ariadne Oliver's Finnish detective. She then loudly complains to Hercule that she wishes she had never invented him, because she knows nothing about Finland and people are constantly writing to her to tell her that Finns don't do that. | |
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Neuro from Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro is a demon detective. His only motivation for finding and solving mysteries is so he can then "consume" them to feed his "hunger". | |
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Case Closed: Conan is a a Teen Genius-turned-pre-Teen Genius. | |
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Ironside (1967): A detective in a wheelchair. | |
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The DC Verse has a lot of these, e.g. The Question, John Constantine | |
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A fair number of superheroes also like to have detectives as their alter ego, e.g. Martian Manhunter, The Spectre, etc. | |
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As the page quote showcases, parodied in a quick gag on Futurama: "exotic" detectives are so many on 31st-Century television that a detective that has absolutely nothing to help him on his snooping is pretty much considered one. He still would fit the "exotic because he works in an unusual environment for the audience" definition of the trope, even if the series' central gag is that the year 3000 is not that different from the year 2000. | |
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Charlie Chan, in the novels of Earl Derr Biggers and later in a long-running film series, was set apart by his Chinese origin and — in the movies — his brood of meddlesome comic-relief offspring. The 1930s saw at least two other superficially similar Asian detective characters, John P. Marquand's Mr. Moto and Hugh Wiley's Mr. Wong. Both of them had film adaptations as well. | |
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The Scooby Gang of Scooby-Doo: the detectives have a talking dog. | |
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The Green Lantern Corps is the police for the universe, and they're all green. | |
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Goober and the Ghost Chasers: the detectives have a different talking dog. | |
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Thomas Carnacki of Carnacki the Ghost-Finder. | |
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Many '70s detective shows had this, including Barnaby Jones (he's old!), Cannon (he's fat!), and McCloud (he's a cowboy!). Others were marked as "exotic" by their ethnicity, including Columbo (Italian), Kojak (Greek), and Banacek (Polish). | |
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The main character of Pushing Daisies is an Amateur Sleuth who can raise the dead. | |
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Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Still sentient zombie, one of his first post-life cases was solving his own murder. | |
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The short-lived Blind Justice featured a detective who was blind, as did the '70s series Longstreet. | |
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The eponymous protagonist of Detective Pikachu is a Pikachu who is capable of communicating with his human partner, Tim Goodman, as though he can speak like a human. Since Tim is the only one who can understand Pikachu, the two team up to solve mysteries, with Tim talking with humans and Pikachu with other Pokémon. | |
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Inch High, Private Eye: the detective is tiny. | |
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The eponymous Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective is an eccentric guy who approaches his cases by "conversing" with murder victims to determine how they were killed, and he is able to almost immediately solve the mystery afterwards. When not working on cases, he lazes around in his furniture-free flat that is completely cut off from the outside world (all the window blinds are shut, and the room has no TV nor internet connection). | |
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Carrie Wells of Unforgettable has hyperthymesia, which allows her to perfectly remember everything she experiences. | |
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Doctor Strange is the mystic/magic detective. | |
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Sister Fidelma: Sister Fidelma in the books by Peter Tremayne is a 7th century Celtic Church nun, who is also a lawyer of the Irish courts. Oh, and she's a member of the Munster royal family, and married (the Celtic Church allowed this) to her Watson, a Saxon. | |
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Ace Attorney: Everyone in the series has some odd quirk and the detectives are no exception. Gumshoe's probably the most normal of the bunch. Miles Edgeworth, the titular investigator in Ace Attorney Investigations. He's a prosecutor, not a detective, but somehow he winds up solving all the mysteries by himself anyway. Interpol Agent Shi-Long Lang, from the ambigiously Asian country of Zheng Fa, has a slight fixation with wolf metaphors and themes. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies gives us detective Bobby Fulbright, a hilariously hot-blooded detective with a burning passion for all that is just. Oh, and he's also been dead for a year and been replaced by an emotionally stunted super spy. |
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The titular character of the Mediochre Q Seth Series is a professional catcher of illegal monster-slayers who can calculate exact probabilities on the fly, and is also stuck with a Healing Factor that won't let him age past fifteen. | |
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Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe Emerson, Egyptologists who detect because their path is littered with the bodies of murdered tomb robbers, spies, etc. | |
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Boris Akunin's Sister Pelagia one-ups all your clerical detectives by being a late 19th century Russian Orthodox nun (and a church school teacher to boot). Did we mention that she is assisted and supervised by a bishop? | |
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Lampshaded in John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, wherein a TV studio runs out of exotic detectives to make shows about and settles on a store detective, trying to stop shoplifters in a grocery. | |
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Sherlock Holmes, especially if you consider what he's like when he isn't a detective. | |
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The Mentalist's Patrick Jane, while technically merely a "consultant", probably qualifies as a "consulting detective" in real terms. And is more than a slight bit odd. At least when you consider he's a little bit sociopathic and has apparently decided that being nice to other people unnecessarily (by his standards) is a waste of his time. | |
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Marcus Didius Falco, a Hardboiled Detective in Ancient Rome. | |
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In The Space Bar, you play a detective that can read people's memories as an interrogation method, with large chunks of the game involving playing through said memories. | |
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Philip of Kamen Rider Double has the semimagical ability to access all of the world's information. A rather useful skill for detective work. His partner Shotaro might apply as well, considering that the two of them can become a Kamen Rider. | |
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