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* In "Hours of Anguish", Diabolik killed a ''giant [[EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods octopus]]'' with a knife. He was planning to poison it with cyanide, but had to hurry and act before Eva could bring him the poison...
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* In "Hours of Anguish", Diabolik killed a ''giant [[EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods ''[[GiantSquid giant octopus]]'' with a knife. He was planning to poison it with cyanide, but had to hurry and act before Eva could bring him the poison...
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*** Some cops say that Diabolik had been lucky with the secret passage. The officers from Ginko's hand-picked team, [[WhatAnIdiot disbanded by Evans]], know he would have found a way anyway, he did it this way because it was funnier and more humiliating to Evans.
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*** Some cops say that Diabolik had been lucky with the secret passage. The officers from Ginko's hand-picked team, [[WhatAnIdiot disbanded by Evans]], know he would have found a way anyway, he did it this way because it was funnier and more humiliating to Evans.Evans.
** A couple days later, Diabolik steals the blueprints of Clerville's newest cutting edge combat airplane directly from the designers' table. In a building with face checks and alarms to all windows (including the metal grills-the moment they start receiving a small damage, the alarm goes off) and doors, and jammers to prevent the use of remote-controlled devices. And then, as he doesn't need them, gave them back through a delivery boy... That of course was Diabolik himself in disguise.
*** How did he steal the designs? With a very intelligent ''trained circus monkey'': he stole the monkey, disguised himself as the trainer and trained it appropriatedly, and then, once Ginko was back at his job, gave it back to the trainer.
** Furious at the repeated humiliations, Evans deploys all available officers to guard all sensible objectives... [[AllAccordingToPlan Just as expected by Diabolik]]: his ''reall'' goal was a gold transport that now would be underguarded (and without the defenses Ginko would have considered basic-the escort had gas masks, but the cops on the transport had opened the windows due the heat of the day, and got sprayed with a paralyzing liquid]], and Diabolik got the date, the hours and the route by ''[[RefugeInAudacity entering the police station disguised as a cop and breaking in the safe while everyone was searching for the microphone in the archive]]''-[[RefugeInAudacity and guess who told the police there was a microphone broadcasting Evans' humiliation]]?
** One for Ginko, for realizing Diabolik's plan and barging on him with the few cops of his old team who weren't on the guard job, foiling the heist. The following day, Evans had resigned in disgrace, and the minister of justice recalls Ginko in service [[GenreSavvy just as he had been expecting he would do the whole time]].
** A couple days later, Diabolik steals the blueprints of Clerville's newest cutting edge combat airplane directly from the designers' table. In a building with face checks and alarms to all windows (including the metal grills-the moment they start receiving a small damage, the alarm goes off) and doors, and jammers to prevent the use of remote-controlled devices. And then, as he doesn't need them, gave them back through a delivery boy... That of course was Diabolik himself in disguise.
*** How did he steal the designs? With a very intelligent ''trained circus monkey'': he stole the monkey, disguised himself as the trainer and trained it appropriatedly, and then, once Ginko was back at his job, gave it back to the trainer.
** Furious at the repeated humiliations, Evans deploys all available officers to guard all sensible objectives... [[AllAccordingToPlan Just as expected by Diabolik]]: his ''reall'' goal was a gold transport that now would be underguarded (and without the defenses Ginko would have considered basic-the escort had gas masks, but the cops on the transport had opened the windows due the heat of the day, and got sprayed with a paralyzing liquid]], and Diabolik got the date, the hours and the route by ''[[RefugeInAudacity entering the police station disguised as a cop and breaking in the safe while everyone was searching for the microphone in the archive]]''-[[RefugeInAudacity and guess who told the police there was a microphone broadcasting Evans' humiliation]]?
** One for Ginko, for realizing Diabolik's plan and barging on him with the few cops of his old team who weren't on the guard job, foiling the heist. The following day, Evans had resigned in disgrace, and the minister of justice recalls Ginko in service [[GenreSavvy just as he had been expecting he would do the whole time]].
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* "The Ballad of the King" has a chessboard that can open the way to a treasure if certain statues are put on it in the right order, but the owner, countess Tatiana Milkow, cannot decipher the clue left in the title song. So she cashes a debt that Diabolik owes her... And he and Eva do it in ''minutes'' after actually getting their hands on the statues.
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* "The Ballad of the King" has a chessboard that can open the way to a treasure if certain statues are put on it in the right order, but the owner, countess Tatiana Milkow, cannot decipher the clue left in the title song. So she cashes a debt that Diabolik owes her... And he and Eva do it in ''minutes'' after actually getting their hands on the statues.statues.
* "Challenge to the Police" starts with Ginko reading that a whole congress of criminologists doesn't believe Diabolik is as good as it's said and gets away with his heists only because Ginko is too much of a coward to stop him. Ginko being Ginko, he writes his resignation letter, and as the minister decides if accepting it or not he's replaced by a Renato Evans guy. Diabolik being Diabolik, he decides to prove he's just as good as everyone in Clerville say:
** Evans implements face checks on everyone entering the central police station and announces it, also declaring that this way he wouldn't risk to give an important job to a disguised Diabolik. Three nights later, using his disguises to enter the ''truck repair shop near the police central'', Diabolik goes under the central, cuts a hole in the floor of the police' archive, and uses the powerful and silent compressor and a tube that he got in the truck he entered the repair shop with to ''steal the entire archive of the police'', before putting in a microphone connected to speakers in the roads and the square nearby. [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Even Altea and many cops found this funny]]... And that's before Diabolik mails back the whole archive. After all, he didn't need it.
** A week later, the foreign dignitary Kinger and his wife arrive in Clerville, and obviously Evans deploys as many officers as he can to foil Diabolik, even replacing with cops all the servants in the castle the government uses for important guests. Everything goes well... Then, right after the farewell party, the cops outside Kinger's room hear muffled noises, barge in-and discover Diabolik and Eva had replaced Kinger right before the party and spent the whole time having fun, even meeting and shaking hands with Evans himself. Turns out there was a secret passage in Kinger's room, as the foreign dignitary explains [[ActuallyPrettyFunny while trying not to laugh]].
*** Some cops say that Diabolik had been lucky with the secret passage. The officers from Ginko's hand-picked team, [[WhatAnIdiot disbanded by Evans]], know he would have found a way anyway, he did it this way because it was funnier and more humiliating to Evans.
* "Challenge to the Police" starts with Ginko reading that a whole congress of criminologists doesn't believe Diabolik is as good as it's said and gets away with his heists only because Ginko is too much of a coward to stop him. Ginko being Ginko, he writes his resignation letter, and as the minister decides if accepting it or not he's replaced by a Renato Evans guy. Diabolik being Diabolik, he decides to prove he's just as good as everyone in Clerville say:
** Evans implements face checks on everyone entering the central police station and announces it, also declaring that this way he wouldn't risk to give an important job to a disguised Diabolik. Three nights later, using his disguises to enter the ''truck repair shop near the police central'', Diabolik goes under the central, cuts a hole in the floor of the police' archive, and uses the powerful and silent compressor and a tube that he got in the truck he entered the repair shop with to ''steal the entire archive of the police'', before putting in a microphone connected to speakers in the roads and the square nearby. [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Even Altea and many cops found this funny]]... And that's before Diabolik mails back the whole archive. After all, he didn't need it.
** A week later, the foreign dignitary Kinger and his wife arrive in Clerville, and obviously Evans deploys as many officers as he can to foil Diabolik, even replacing with cops all the servants in the castle the government uses for important guests. Everything goes well... Then, right after the farewell party, the cops outside Kinger's room hear muffled noises, barge in-and discover Diabolik and Eva had replaced Kinger right before the party and spent the whole time having fun, even meeting and shaking hands with Evans himself. Turns out there was a secret passage in Kinger's room, as the foreign dignitary explains [[ActuallyPrettyFunny while trying not to laugh]].
*** Some cops say that Diabolik had been lucky with the secret passage. The officers from Ginko's hand-picked team, [[WhatAnIdiot disbanded by Evans]], know he would have found a way anyway, he did it this way because it was funnier and more humiliating to Evans.
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-->1)knowing that Porter had to replace one of his teeth with a fake one, Diabolik replaced the one for him with one with a cyanide capsule in it;
-->2)after that Diabolik waited for the day Miller would read an anti-Ginko speech before thousands of people ([[GenreSavvy including Ginko and his men, who were expecting Diabolik to try and murder him]]), captured Porter as he was about to go and deliver the script of said speech, told him exactly how he was about to murder Miller and announced Porter would die in five days;
-->3)after that Diabolik, knowing that Miller had the habit of licking his finger before turning a page, ''[[FingerLickingPoison soaked the script with cyanide]]'', resulting in the journalist [[KilledMidSentence dropping dead half-way during a sentence]] before thousands of witnesses
-->4)after being freed by Ginko, Porter hired the best bodyguards of Clerville and a doctor experienced in poisons and had them start enough controls and check to stop even Diabolik, only for him to suddenly drop dead during the lunch when continuous chewing broke the cyanide capsule.
-->For obvious reasons, nobody dared to call Ginko an inept or Diabolik a mediocre criminal after this: [[TheDreaded they were too scared of Diabolik murdering them in another impossible way to even think about it]].
-->2)after that Diabolik waited for the day Miller would read an anti-Ginko speech before thousands of people ([[GenreSavvy including Ginko and his men, who were expecting Diabolik to try and murder him]]), captured Porter as he was about to go and deliver the script of said speech, told him exactly how he was about to murder Miller and announced Porter would die in five days;
-->3)after that Diabolik, knowing that Miller had the habit of licking his finger before turning a page, ''[[FingerLickingPoison soaked the script with cyanide]]'', resulting in the journalist [[KilledMidSentence dropping dead half-way during a sentence]] before thousands of witnesses
-->4)after being freed by Ginko, Porter hired the best bodyguards of Clerville and a doctor experienced in poisons and had them start enough controls and check to stop even Diabolik, only for him to suddenly drop dead during the lunch when continuous chewing broke the cyanide capsule.
-->For obvious reasons, nobody dared to call Ginko an inept or Diabolik a mediocre criminal after this: [[TheDreaded they were too scared of Diabolik murdering them in another impossible way to even think about it]].
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2)after that Diabolik waited for the day Miller would read an anti-Ginko speech before thousands of people ([[GenreSavvy including Ginko and his men, who were expecting Diabolik to try and murder him]]), captured Porter as he was about to go and deliver the script of said speech, told him exactly how he was about to murder Miller and announced Porter would die in five
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3)after that Diabolik, knowing that Miller had the habit of licking his finger before turning a page, ''[[FingerLickingPoison soaked the script with cyanide]]'', resulting in the journalist [[KilledMidSentence dropping dead half-way during a sentence]] before thousands of
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4)after being freed by Ginko, Porter hired the best bodyguards of Clerville and a doctor experienced in poisons and had them start enough controls and check to stop even Diabolik, only for him to suddenly drop dead during the lunch when continuous chewing broke the cyanide
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For obvious reasons, nobody dared to call Ginko an inept or Diabolik a mediocre criminal after this: [[TheDreaded they were too scared of Diabolik murdering them in another impossible way to even think about it]].
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* Every time [[BadassBystander a normal citizen knowingly goes after Diabolik in a way that could actually work]]:
** "On the Morgue's Table" has an insomniac citizen see two fakes, call the police, and, when he sees they're getting away, ''grab his hunting rifle and gun them down''. Sure, it was two fakes, but it was very convincing fakes... And this unnamed man had the balls to go after them.
** "The Ballad of the King" has two truckers who see a car identified as being driven by Diabolik going on a road that has a mountain on a side and a small cliff on the other, so they jump in their trucks and try to run him over while occupying the whole road. And when Diabolik jumps in the cliff [[GenreSavvy they come down to check the body]]... And finish him off with a wrench if he's still alive. Ended with them knocked out, as Diabolik got out of the crash unharmed, but props for trying.
** "On the Morgue's Table" has an insomniac citizen see two fakes, call the police, and, when he sees they're getting away, ''grab his hunting rifle and gun them down''. Sure, it was two fakes, but it was very convincing fakes... And this unnamed man had the balls to go after them.
** "The Ballad of the King" has two truckers who see a car identified as being driven by Diabolik going on a road that has a mountain on a side and a small cliff on the other, so they jump in their trucks and try to run him over while occupying the whole road. And when Diabolik jumps in the cliff [[GenreSavvy they come down to check the body]]... And finish him off with a wrench if he's still alive. Ended with them knocked out, as Diabolik got out of the crash unharmed, but props for trying.
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* Every time [[BadassBystander a normal citizen knowingly goes after Diabolik in a way that could actually work]]:
** "On the Morgue's Table" has an insomniac citizen see two fakes, call the police, and, when he sees they're getting away, ''grab his hunting rifle and gun them down''. Sure, it was two fakes, but it was very convincing fakes... And this unnamed man had the balls to go after them.
** "The Ballad of the King" has two truckers who see a car identified as being driven by Diabolik going on a road that has a mountain on a side and a small cliff on the other, so they jump in their trucks and try to run him over while occupying the whole road. And when Diabolik jumps in the cliff [[GenreSavvy they come down to check the body]]... And finish him off with a wrench if he's still alive. Ended with them knocked out, as Diabolik got out of the crash unharmed, but props for trying.
** "On the Morgue's Table" has an insomniac citizen see two fakes, call the police, and, when he sees they're getting away, ''grab his hunting rifle and gun them down''. Sure, it was two fakes, but it was very convincing fakes... And this unnamed man had the balls to go after them.
** "The Ballad of the King" has two truckers who see a car identified as being driven by Diabolik going on a road that has a mountain on a side and a small cliff on the other, so they jump in their trucks and try to run him over while occupying the whole road. And when Diabolik jumps in the cliff [[GenreSavvy they come down to check the body]]... And finish him off with a wrench if he's still alive. Ended with them knocked out, as Diabolik got out of the crash unharmed, but props for trying.
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* Every time [[BadassBystander a normal citizen knowingly goes after Diabolik in a way that could actually work]]:
** "On the Morgue's Table" has an insomniac citizen see two fakes, call the police, and, when he sees they're getting away, ''grab his hunting rifle and gun them down''. Sure, it was two fakes, but it was very convincing fakes... And this unnamed man had the balls to go after them.
**"The Ballad of the King" has two truckers who see a car identified as being driven by chessboard that can open the way to a treasure if certain statues are put on it in the right order, but the owner, countess Tatiana Milkow, cannot decipher the clue left in the title song. So she cashes a debt that Diabolik going on a road that has a mountain on a side owes her... And he and a small cliff Eva do it in ''minutes'' after actually getting their hands on the other, so they jump in their trucks and try to run him over while occupying the whole road. And when Diabolik jumps in the cliff [[GenreSavvy they come down to check the body]]... And finish him off with a wrench if he's still alive. Ended with them knocked out, as Diabolik got out of the crash unharmed, but props for trying.statues.
** "On the Morgue's Table" has an insomniac citizen see two fakes, call the police, and, when he sees they're getting away, ''grab his hunting rifle and gun them down''. Sure, it was two fakes, but it was very convincing fakes... And this unnamed man had the balls to go after them.
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* Diabolik had one in "Obscure Revenge". He's sitting on a chair filled with explosive, the daughter of [[ButForMeItWasTuesday a private cop he killed but he can't remember]] has the finger on the detonator and if she moves the chair will explode and kill him, he listens her rant at how he made her into a hardened criminal by generating her wish for revenge and how it was right that she killed Eva to make him suffer... And then he calmly stands up, explains that the poor woman ''can't move'' due the paralizing contact poison that coated a number of objects he tricked her into touching (cue her [[OhCrap realizing she's screwed]] even before he explains why she can't move), deliver a formidable BreakingSpeech centered on [[NotSoDifferent they're both murderers who killed innocents who never did anything to each other]] but at least he realizes that he himself is responsible for his own acts but she can't admit she's the only one to blame for her own, and then leave after telling her the poison will wear out in minutes causing her to have a little spasm in the process, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard thus detonating the explosive that, without Diabolik on the chair, will kill her]].
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* Diabolik had one in "Obscure Revenge". He's sitting on a chair filled with explosive, the daughter of [[ButForMeItWasTuesday a private cop he killed but he can't remember]] has the finger on the detonator and if she moves the chair will explode and kill him, he listens her rant at how he made her into a hardened criminal by generating her wish for revenge and how it was right that she killed Eva to make him suffer... And then he calmly stands up, explains that the poor woman ''can't move'' due the paralizing contact poison that coated a number of objects he tricked her into touching (cue her [[OhCrap realizing she's screwed]] even before he explains why she can't move), deliver a formidable BreakingSpeech centered on [[NotSoDifferent they're both murderers who killed innocents who never did anything to each other]] but at least he realizes that he himself is responsible for his own acts but she can't admit she's the only one to blame for her own, and then leave after telling her the poison will wear out in minutes causing her to have a little spasm in the process, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard thus detonating the explosive that, without Diabolik on the chair, will kill her]].her]].
* Every time [[BadassBystander a normal citizen knowingly goes after Diabolik in a way that could actually work]]:
** "On the Morgue's Table" has an insomniac citizen see two fakes, call the police, and, when he sees they're getting away, ''grab his hunting rifle and gun them down''. Sure, it was two fakes, but it was very convincing fakes... And this unnamed man had the balls to go after them.
** "The Ballad of the King" has two truckers who see a car identified as being driven by Diabolik going on a road that has a mountain on a side and a small cliff on the other, so they jump in their trucks and try to run him over while occupying the whole road. And when Diabolik jumps in the cliff [[GenreSavvy they come down to check the body]]... And finish him off with a wrench if he's still alive. Ended with them knocked out, as Diabolik got out of the crash unharmed, but props for trying.
* Every time [[BadassBystander a normal citizen knowingly goes after Diabolik in a way that could actually work]]:
** "On the Morgue's Table" has an insomniac citizen see two fakes, call the police, and, when he sees they're getting away, ''grab his hunting rifle and gun them down''. Sure, it was two fakes, but it was very convincing fakes... And this unnamed man had the balls to go after them.
** "The Ballad of the King" has two truckers who see a car identified as being driven by Diabolik going on a road that has a mountain on a side and a small cliff on the other, so they jump in their trucks and try to run him over while occupying the whole road. And when Diabolik jumps in the cliff [[GenreSavvy they come down to check the body]]... And finish him off with a wrench if he's still alive. Ended with them knocked out, as Diabolik got out of the crash unharmed, but props for trying.
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* The fact Diabolik is still being published: Diabolik and the whole ''fumetto nero'' genre (literally "black comic", the Italian comic books of the noir genre) were heavily attacked by the MoralGuardians and even had to face ''criminal prosecution'', and where Kriminal, Satanik and many others were ultimately forced out of publication Diabolik is ''still'' being published after ''[[LongRunner fifty-two years]]'' [[LongRunner and counting at the moment this entry was written]], with the only other survivors being the parodistic ''ComicBook/{{Cattivik}}'' and the Disney-made ''Paperinik the Devilish Avenger''.
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* The fact Diabolik is still being published: Diabolik and the whole ''fumetto nero'' genre (literally "black comic", the Italian comic books of the noir genre) were heavily attacked by the MoralGuardians and even had to face ''criminal prosecution'', and where Kriminal, Satanik and many others were ultimately forced out of publication Diabolik is ''still'' being published after ''[[LongRunner fifty-two years]]'' [[LongRunner and counting at the moment this entry was written]], more than fifty years, with the only other survivors being the parodistic ''ComicBook/{{Cattivik}}'' and the Disney-made ''Paperinik the Devilish Avenger''.
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-->3)after that Diabolik, knowing that Miller had the habit of licking his finger before turning a page, ''soaked the script with cyanide'', resulting in the journalist [[KilledMidSentence dropping dead half-way during a sentence]] before thousands of witnesses
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-->3)after that Diabolik, knowing that Miller had the habit of licking his finger before turning a page, ''soaked ''[[FingerLickingPoison soaked the script with cyanide'', cyanide]]'', resulting in the journalist [[KilledMidSentence dropping dead half-way during a sentence]] before thousands of witnesses
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* Diabolik had one in "Obscure Revenge". He's sitting on a chair filled with explosive, the daughter of [[ButForMeItWasTuesday a private cop he killed but he can't remember]] has the finger on the detonator and if she moves the chair will explode and kill him, he listens her rant at how he made her into a hardened criminal by generating her wish for revenge and how it was right that she killed Eva to make him suffer... And then he calmly stands up, explains that the poor woman ''can't move'' due the paralizing contact poison that coated a number of objects he tricked her into touching (cue her [[OhCrap realizing she's screwed]] even before he explains why she can't move), deliver a formidable HannibalLecture centered on [[NotSoDifferent they're both murderers who killed innocents who never did anything to each other]] but at least he realizes that he himself is responsible for his own acts but she can't admit she's the only one to blame for her own, and then leave after telling her the poison will wear out in minutes causing her to have a little spasm in the process, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard thus detonating the explosive that, without Diabolik on the chair, will kill her]].
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* Diabolik had one in "Obscure Revenge". He's sitting on a chair filled with explosive, the daughter of [[ButForMeItWasTuesday a private cop he killed but he can't remember]] has the finger on the detonator and if she moves the chair will explode and kill him, he listens her rant at how he made her into a hardened criminal by generating her wish for revenge and how it was right that she killed Eva to make him suffer... And then he calmly stands up, explains that the poor woman ''can't move'' due the paralizing contact poison that coated a number of objects he tricked her into touching (cue her [[OhCrap realizing she's screwed]] even before he explains why she can't move), deliver a formidable HannibalLecture BreakingSpeech centered on [[NotSoDifferent they're both murderers who killed innocents who never did anything to each other]] but at least he realizes that he himself is responsible for his own acts but she can't admit she's the only one to blame for her own, and then leave after telling her the poison will wear out in minutes causing her to have a little spasm in the process, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard thus detonating the explosive that, without Diabolik on the chair, will kill her]].
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** As for Ginko... While he was being tortured, he managed to ''punch his torturer hard enough to draw blood''. There's a reason Diabolik considers him a WorthyOpponent...
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** As for Ginko... While he was being tortured, he managed to ''punch his torturer hard enough to draw blood''. There's a reason Diabolik considers him a WorthyOpponent...WorthyOpponent...
* Diabolik had one in "Obscure Revenge". He's sitting on a chair filled with explosive, the daughter of [[ButForMeItWasTuesday a private cop he killed but he can't remember]] has the finger on the detonator and if she moves the chair will explode and kill him, he listens her rant at how he made her into a hardened criminal by generating her wish for revenge and how it was right that she killed Eva to make him suffer... And then he calmly stands up, explains that the poor woman ''can't move'' due the paralizing contact poison that coated a number of objects he tricked her into touching (cue her [[OhCrap realizing she's screwed]] even before he explains why she can't move), deliver a formidable HannibalLecture centered on [[NotSoDifferent they're both murderers who killed innocents who never did anything to each other]] but at least he realizes that he himself is responsible for his own acts but she can't admit she's the only one to blame for her own, and then leave after telling her the poison will wear out in minutes causing her to have a little spasm in the process, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard thus detonating the explosive that, without Diabolik on the chair, will kill her]].
* Diabolik had one in "Obscure Revenge". He's sitting on a chair filled with explosive, the daughter of [[ButForMeItWasTuesday a private cop he killed but he can't remember]] has the finger on the detonator and if she moves the chair will explode and kill him, he listens her rant at how he made her into a hardened criminal by generating her wish for revenge and how it was right that she killed Eva to make him suffer... And then he calmly stands up, explains that the poor woman ''can't move'' due the paralizing contact poison that coated a number of objects he tricked her into touching (cue her [[OhCrap realizing she's screwed]] even before he explains why she can't move), deliver a formidable HannibalLecture centered on [[NotSoDifferent they're both murderers who killed innocents who never did anything to each other]] but at least he realizes that he himself is responsible for his own acts but she can't admit she's the only one to blame for her own, and then leave after telling her the poison will wear out in minutes causing her to have a little spasm in the process, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard thus detonating the explosive that, without Diabolik on the chair, will kill her]].
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** The one who topped them all: Giorgio Corbett, the man who, after analyzing one of Diabolik's masks, ''invented a device that detected them''. Of course, Diabolik killed him at the end of his first and only appearance, but he and his associate Max Foster ''still'' managed to capture Diabolik and leave him to the police, and they would have caught Eva too [[IdiotBall had Corbett not decided to blackmail her]].
*** Particularly awesome is ''how'' they caught him: they waited for three months before a jewel museum, and when Diabolik walked in with a mask to prepare a caper Corbett quickly identified him, and Foster snuck up on him and [[OneHitKO knocked him out with a chop on the neck]] strong enough Diabolik woke up in jail.
*** Particularly awesome is ''how'' they caught him: they waited for three months before a jewel museum, and when Diabolik walked in with a mask to prepare a caper Corbett quickly identified him, and Foster snuck up on him and [[OneHitKO knocked him out with a chop on the neck]] strong enough Diabolik woke up in jail.
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** The one who topped them all: Giorgio Corbett, the man who, after analyzing one of Diabolik's masks, ''invented a device that detected them''. Of course, Diabolik killed him at the end of "A Device to Hell", his first and only appearance, but he and his associate Max Foster ''still'' managed to capture Diabolik and leave him to the police, police (they waited for him before a likely target for ''three months'' until he showed up, and when he did Foster snuck up on him and [[OneHitKO knocked him out with a chop on the neck]]. When he took off his mask, the witnesses immediately called the police), and they would have caught Eva too [[IdiotBall had Corbett not decided to blackmail her]].
***Particularly awesome is ''how'' they caught him: they waited for three months before a jewel museum, and The Device to Hell showed up again in "Off with the Mask!", when Corbett's nephew Giacomo, after [[UnwittingPawn being fooled by Diabolik walked in into helping him for a heist with a mask to prepare a caper Corbett quickly identified him, and Foster snuck up on him and [[OneHitKO knocked him an identical machine that detected not the mask's ingredients but another chemical element]], invented ''a better one'': the original only signaled the masks, the new version indicated the position. [[spoiler:Except it was Ginko's trap: upon finding out with a chop on of the neck]] strong enough alleged machine, Diabolik woke up in jail.moved to destroy it and the blueprints and kill Giacomo, but found the police. Had Giacomo not grabbed the IdiotBall too, Diabolik would have been captured and executed]].
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** Also, the man who created a machine that could ''detect Diabolik's masks''. Sadly, he didn't survive his first story...
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** Also, The one who topped them all: Giorgio Corbett, the man who created a machine that could ''detect who, after analyzing one of Diabolik's masks''. Sadly, he didn't survive masks, ''invented a device that detected them''. Of course, Diabolik killed him at the end of his first story...and only appearance, but he and his associate Max Foster ''still'' managed to capture Diabolik and leave him to the police, and they would have caught Eva too [[IdiotBall had Corbett not decided to blackmail her]].
*** Particularly awesome is ''how'' they caught him: they waited for three months before a jewel museum, and when Diabolik walked in with a mask to prepare a caper Corbett quickly identified him, and Foster snuck up on him and [[OneHitKO knocked him out with a chop on the neck]] strong enough Diabolik woke up in jail.
*** Particularly awesome is ''how'' they caught him: they waited for three months before a jewel museum, and when Diabolik walked in with a mask to prepare a caper Corbett quickly identified him, and Foster snuck up on him and [[OneHitKO knocked him out with a chop on the neck]] strong enough Diabolik woke up in jail.
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** Almost forgot... Those enemies weren't random crooks, they were ''Lopez, Cen-Fu and Dempur, chosen as members of King's elite because they were some of the greatest and most dangerous criminals in the world, and [[EvilMentor Diabolik's teachers back on King's Island]]''. And she still manipukated and killed them all...
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** Almost forgot... Those enemies weren't random crooks, they were ''Lopez, Cen-Fu and Dempur, chosen as members of King's elite because they were some of the greatest and most dangerous criminals in the world, and [[EvilMentor Diabolik's teachers back on King's Island]]''. And she still manipukated manipulated and killed them all...
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* In an early stort we meet [[WorstNewsJudgementEver Miller the journalist and his boss Porter, who felt Ginko was an inept using a mediocre criminal like Diabolik to hide his incompetence]] [[TooDumbToLive and wrote it on their journal]]. Diabolik being unable to let them go after such a threat to his status as [[TheDreaded the King of Terror]], he murdered them in two awesome ways: [[ItMakesSenseInContext Miller dropped dead in public because Diabolik let him lick his own finger, and Porter died four days later because Diabolik had told him he'd die in five days or less. Now, let's provide the context]]:
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* In an early stort we meet [[WorstNewsJudgementEver Miller the journalist and his boss Porter, who felt Ginko was an inept using a mediocre criminal like Diabolik to hide his incompetence]] [[TooDumbToLive and wrote it on their journal]].newspaper]]. Diabolik being unable to let them go after such a threat to his status as [[TheDreaded the King of Terror]], he murdered them in two awesome ways: [[ItMakesSenseInContext Miller dropped dead in public because Diabolik let him lick his own finger, and Porter died four days later because Diabolik had told him he'd die in five days or less. Now, let's provide the context]]:
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* In "The Fatal Mask", a one-shot character needs to free his girlfriend, who was accused of attempted murder and couldn't prove it was self-defence. What did he do? He got in touch with Ginko and exchanged her for ''Diabolik''. Apparently even Diabolik himself considered it awesome, as he didn't take his revenge on him...
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* In "The Fatal Mask", a one-shot character needs to free his girlfriend, who was accused of attempted murder and couldn't prove it was self-defence. What did he do? He got in touch with Ginko and exchanged her for ''Diabolik''. Apparently even Diabolik himself considered it awesome, as he didn't take his revenge on him...him...
* "The Sin of Gustavo Garian" is a WholeEpisodeFlashback that shows us something Gustavo pulled in his early days as a reporter: ''playing Diabolik like a fiddle and '''getting away with it''''':
** It starts when he's investigating on the powerful and well-connected crime boss Marcello Fontaine, and realizes that his secretary has been replaced by Eva Kant (the secretary was left-handed, but Eva did not keep up the change when out of office). In his wish for revenge on Diabolik, he doesn't warn Ginko but organizes a trap for Eva: after finding out where she's hiding, he puts a plushie cat on her road to the 'job' to induce her to go on some caltrops, stopping her car, and then, with the help of a loudspeaker connected to a wireless microphone (a rarity, in the time the story is set), ''gets the drop on her with a blanket soaked in chloroform''. Eva Kant captured;
** With Eva captured, and making sure she wouldn't recognize him or the place she's imprisoned into, Gustavo calls Diabolik and, masking his voice, demands a huge ransom to lure him in a place where he has placed a bomb;
** In the meantime, however, Ginko fails to call Gustavo to tell him about the development of his own investigation on Fontaine. Gustavo guesses that something's getting wrong, thus he gets Eva to call Fontaine while impersonating the secretary, and finds out what happened: Fontaine has killed a police mole and captured Ginko and is having him tortured in the attempt to make him reveal where he has hidden his dossier on Fontaine. Dossier that is in Gustavo's hands;
** [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Realizing that, had he not kidnapped Eva, Diabolik would have replaced the mole and not gotten Ginko in Fontaine's hands]], Gustavo changes his plan: when he calls Diabolik it's not to get him in the mined area, but to change the ransom into saving Ginko, with the addendum Diabolik will promise he won't try and find out who he is or try and get his revenge. For Eva, Diabolik accepts;
** Diabolik's time for awesomeness. Fontaine's base is called the Fortress, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin and actually is one]]. Diabolik waltzes in, kills Fontaine's men, frees Ginko and leaves Fontaine to die a slow and painful death. Then, after Ginko was in the hospital and Eva free, he accepts her suggestion, returns there, robs Fontaine, and burns everything to wipe any trace of his passage.
** As for Ginko... While he was being tortured, he managed to ''punch his torturer hard enough to draw blood''. There's a reason Diabolik considers him a WorthyOpponent...
* "The Sin of Gustavo Garian" is a WholeEpisodeFlashback that shows us something Gustavo pulled in his early days as a reporter: ''playing Diabolik like a fiddle and '''getting away with it''''':
** It starts when he's investigating on the powerful and well-connected crime boss Marcello Fontaine, and realizes that his secretary has been replaced by Eva Kant (the secretary was left-handed, but Eva did not keep up the change when out of office). In his wish for revenge on Diabolik, he doesn't warn Ginko but organizes a trap for Eva: after finding out where she's hiding, he puts a plushie cat on her road to the 'job' to induce her to go on some caltrops, stopping her car, and then, with the help of a loudspeaker connected to a wireless microphone (a rarity, in the time the story is set), ''gets the drop on her with a blanket soaked in chloroform''. Eva Kant captured;
** With Eva captured, and making sure she wouldn't recognize him or the place she's imprisoned into, Gustavo calls Diabolik and, masking his voice, demands a huge ransom to lure him in a place where he has placed a bomb;
** In the meantime, however, Ginko fails to call Gustavo to tell him about the development of his own investigation on Fontaine. Gustavo guesses that something's getting wrong, thus he gets Eva to call Fontaine while impersonating the secretary, and finds out what happened: Fontaine has killed a police mole and captured Ginko and is having him tortured in the attempt to make him reveal where he has hidden his dossier on Fontaine. Dossier that is in Gustavo's hands;
** [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Realizing that, had he not kidnapped Eva, Diabolik would have replaced the mole and not gotten Ginko in Fontaine's hands]], Gustavo changes his plan: when he calls Diabolik it's not to get him in the mined area, but to change the ransom into saving Ginko, with the addendum Diabolik will promise he won't try and find out who he is or try and get his revenge. For Eva, Diabolik accepts;
** Diabolik's time for awesomeness. Fontaine's base is called the Fortress, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin and actually is one]]. Diabolik waltzes in, kills Fontaine's men, frees Ginko and leaves Fontaine to die a slow and painful death. Then, after Ginko was in the hospital and Eva free, he accepts her suggestion, returns there, robs Fontaine, and burns everything to wipe any trace of his passage.
** As for Ginko... While he was being tortured, he managed to ''punch his torturer hard enough to draw blood''. There's a reason Diabolik considers him a WorthyOpponent...
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* In "Ferocious Revenge", Ginko found that Diabolik's refuge of the week was protected by a ''minefield''. His counter? ''Grabbing a submachinegun and shooting a passage in the minefield''.
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* In "Ferocious Revenge", Ginko found that Diabolik's refuge of the week was protected by a ''minefield''. His counter? ''Grabbing a submachinegun and shooting a passage in the minefield''.minefield''.
* In "The Fatal Mask", a one-shot character needs to free his girlfriend, who was accused of attempted murder and couldn't prove it was self-defence. What did he do? He got in touch with Ginko and exchanged her for ''Diabolik''. Apparently even Diabolik himself considered it awesome, as he didn't take his revenge on him...
* In "The Fatal Mask", a one-shot character needs to free his girlfriend, who was accused of attempted murder and couldn't prove it was self-defence. What did he do? He got in touch with Ginko and exchanged her for ''Diabolik''. Apparently even Diabolik himself considered it awesome, as he didn't take his revenge on him...
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** He's always been like that. In his first appearance he managed to, in the order: browbeat Ginko into submission; ''put together a plan that led to Diabolik's arrest'' (and had he been in command, Diabolik would have died due an 'accidental' shot from an officer's gun); and, after Eva managed to break Diabolik's out with a plan that involved hiding masks into ''Ginko's clothes'', he ''[[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan verbally kicked Ginko's out of his depression]]''.
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** He's always been like that. In his first appearance he managed to, in the order: browbeat Ginko into submission; ''put together a plan that led to Diabolik's arrest'' (and had he been in command, Diabolik would have died due an 'accidental' shot from an officer's gun); and, after Eva managed to break Diabolik's out with a plan that involved hiding masks into ''Ginko's clothes'', he ''[[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan verbally kicked Ginko's out of his depression]]''.
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** During the escape, Diabolik kills a cop and imitates him on the radio before stealing his bike. The guy at the radio, the brother of the dead cop, ''realizes the switch'' and sicks Ginko on him. That time Diabolik got ''this'' close to getting caught...
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** During the escape, Diabolik kills a cop and imitates him on the radio before stealing his bike. The guy at the radio, the brother of the dead cop, ''realizes the switch'' and sicks Ginko on him. That time Diabolik got ''this'' close to getting caught...caught...
* In "Ferocious Revenge", Ginko found that Diabolik's refuge of the week was protected by a ''minefield''. His counter? ''Grabbing a submachinegun and shooting a passage in the minefield''.
* In "Ferocious Revenge", Ginko found that Diabolik's refuge of the week was protected by a ''minefield''. His counter? ''Grabbing a submachinegun and shooting a passage in the minefield''.
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** During the escape, Diabolik kills a cop and imitates him on the radio before stealing his bike. The guy at the radio, the brother of the dead cop, ''realizes the switch'' and sicks Ginko on him.
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** During the escape, Diabolik kills a cop and imitates him on the radio before stealing his bike. The guy at the radio, the brother of the dead cop, ''realizes the switch'' and sicks Ginko on him. That time Diabolik got ''this'' close to getting caught...
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* One-shot character the count Peter Derasè created alarms and other security devices so pervasive and complex they stopped Diabolik ''twice''. And cutting the power wouldn't work, [[GenreSavvy as there was an autonomous generator just in case]]. Diabolik ''still'' stole the crown the count had in his home, but it took him to cause a scare in town (as after the second attempt Ginko had settled there for the third attempt, and he needed him out), flood the basement (to short out the reserve generator) and infiltrate Eva inside (to neutralize the home's occupants and cut the power), and even then he was nearly caught by the final device that, [[ProperlyParanoid just in case]], ''was completely mechanical and thus didn't need electricity to work''.
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* One-shot character the count Peter Derasè created alarms and other security devices so pervasive and complex they stopped Diabolik ''twice''. And cutting the power wouldn't work, [[GenreSavvy as there was an autonomous generator just in case]]. Diabolik ''still'' stole the crown the count had in his home, but it took him to cause a scare in town (as after the second attempt Ginko had settled there for the third attempt, and he needed him out), flood the basement (to short out the reserve generator) and infiltrate Eva inside (to neutralize the home's occupants and cut the power), and even then he was nearly caught by the final device that, [[ProperlyParanoid just in case]], ''was completely mechanical and thus didn't need electricity to work''.work''.
* In "The Long Night", Diabolik kidnapped a nobleman and his newlywed wife, and locks them in one of his hideouts while he and Eva take their place to steal two crowns. Perfect plan? Nope: [[DefiantCaptive The nobleman is too proud to accept this and passes his mindset on his wife]], and [[DamselOutOfDistress they proceed to break out of their room and the hideout]], ''steal a bike from Diabolik's garage'' and go to the police to warn Ginko of the switch.
** During the escape, Diabolik kills a cop and imitates him on the radio before stealing his bike. The guy at the radio, the brother of the dead cop, ''realizes the switch'' and sicks Ginko on him.
* In "The Long Night", Diabolik kidnapped a nobleman and his newlywed wife, and locks them in one of his hideouts while he and Eva take their place to steal two crowns. Perfect plan? Nope: [[DefiantCaptive The nobleman is too proud to accept this and passes his mindset on his wife]], and [[DamselOutOfDistress they proceed to break out of their room and the hideout]], ''steal a bike from Diabolik's garage'' and go to the police to warn Ginko of the switch.
** During the escape, Diabolik kills a cop and imitates him on the radio before stealing his bike. The guy at the radio, the brother of the dead cop, ''realizes the switch'' and sicks Ginko on him.
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** In "Inside Diabolik's Hideout", Diabolik had to do it ''again''. It wasn't a trap, Diabolik was swimming underwater and got ambushed by a wild octopus... And, [[KnifeNut Diabolik being Diabolik]], he quickly cut the tentacle holding his left arm and stabbed the beast in the head.
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** He's always been like that. In his first appearance he managed to, in the order: browbeat Ginko into submission; ''put together a plan that led to Diabolik's arrest'' (and had he been in command, Diabolik would have died due an 'accidental' shot from an officer's gun); and, after Eva managed to break Diabolik's out with a plan that involved hiding masks into ''Ginko's clothes'', he ''[[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan verbally kicked Ginko's out of his depression]]''.
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* Another for Altea, from "Heroin for Ginko". After a CorruptCop from his squad was arrested by him and murdered in jail and he got hospitalized in a scuffle with Diabolik, Ginko was seriously depressed and considering quitting the police. So, what did Altea do to get him out of the depression? She ''captured Diabolik and Eva''. With a ''TrapDoor'', of all things. And then the friend who helped her called Ginko and served him the two criminals on a silver platter. Had the woman of the CorruptCop not attacked the convoy Ginko was using to move Diabolik and Ginko to jail, the King of Terror would have been executed then and there...
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* Another for Altea, from "Heroin for Ginko". After a CorruptCop from his squad was arrested by him and murdered in jail and he got hospitalized in a scuffle with Diabolik, Ginko was seriously depressed and considering quitting the police. So, what did Altea do to get him out of the depression? She ''captured Diabolik and Eva''. With a ''TrapDoor'', of all things. And then the friend who helped her called Ginko and served him the two criminals on a silver platter. Had the woman of the CorruptCop not attacked the convoy Ginko was using to move Diabolik and Ginko to jail, the King of Terror would have been executed then and there...there...
* One-shot character the count Peter Derasè created alarms and other security devices so pervasive and complex they stopped Diabolik ''twice''. And cutting the power wouldn't work, [[GenreSavvy as there was an autonomous generator just in case]]. Diabolik ''still'' stole the crown the count had in his home, but it took him to cause a scare in town (as after the second attempt Ginko had settled there for the third attempt, and he needed him out), flood the basement (to short out the reserve generator) and infiltrate Eva inside (to neutralize the home's occupants and cut the power), and even then he was nearly caught by the final device that, [[ProperlyParanoid just in case]], ''was completely mechanical and thus didn't need electricity to work''.
* One-shot character the count Peter Derasè created alarms and other security devices so pervasive and complex they stopped Diabolik ''twice''. And cutting the power wouldn't work, [[GenreSavvy as there was an autonomous generator just in case]]. Diabolik ''still'' stole the crown the count had in his home, but it took him to cause a scare in town (as after the second attempt Ginko had settled there for the third attempt, and he needed him out), flood the basement (to short out the reserve generator) and infiltrate Eva inside (to neutralize the home's occupants and cut the power), and even then he was nearly caught by the final device that, [[ProperlyParanoid just in case]], ''was completely mechanical and thus didn't need electricity to work''.
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* "Altea's Courage" has one for general Von Waller, [[InSeriesNickname Altea's Fox Uncle]]. Benglait's latest trouble was that the Grey Ravens had (barely) survived their encounter with Diabolik in "Vallenberg's Mysteries" and had rebuilt, and in spite of the recent death of the new leader and the arrest of one of his lieutenants they had no idea on how to stop the other three lieutenants (that the arrested one couldn't have betrayed even if he had wanted to, as he didn't know their identities) from using the organization's treasure (that the arrested one didn't know where it was, as the letter with the location had been sent after his arrest) to start a new terrorist campaign. So, what did the Fox do? Easy: ''[[RefugeInAudacity manipulate Diabolik into doing the dirty work for him while he literally enjoyed the show]]''. And it wasn't even that difficult: all he had to do was to plant the rumour of the Grey Raven's treasure, and [[ItsPersonal Diabolik's hate for the organization did the rest in sicking the King of Terror on the terrorists]]. End result: Diabolik, using what little information the arrested lieutenant could give him after being kidnapped and dosed with TruthSerum, deduced the location of the treasure, stole it and filled the chest with DeadlyGas, just in time for the three surviving lieutenants ([[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness as the kidnapped one had been killed as soon as he wasn't useful anymore]]) to meet each other, gloat on how they would overthrow the government and die as soon as they tried to get the treasure. And the Fox was keeping Diabolik under surveillance, so he ''literally'' enjoyed the show.
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* "Altea's Courage" has one for general Von Waller, [[InSeriesNickname Altea's Fox Uncle]]. Benglait's latest trouble was that the Grey Ravens had (barely) survived their encounter with Diabolik in "Vallenberg's Mysteries" and had rebuilt, and in spite of the recent death of the new leader and the arrest of one of his lieutenants they had no idea on how to stop the other three lieutenants (that the arrested one couldn't have betrayed even if he had wanted to, as he didn't know their identities) from using the organization's treasure (that the arrested one didn't know where it was, as the letter with the location had been sent after his arrest) to start a new terrorist campaign. So, what did the Fox do? Easy: ''[[RefugeInAudacity manipulate Diabolik into doing the dirty work for him while he literally enjoyed the show]]''. And it wasn't even that difficult: all he had to do was to plant the rumour of the Grey Raven's treasure, and [[ItsPersonal Diabolik's hate for the organization did the rest in sicking the King of Terror on the terrorists]]. End result: Diabolik, using what little information the arrested lieutenant could give him after being kidnapped and dosed with TruthSerum, deduced the location of the treasure, stole it and filled the chest with DeadlyGas, just in time for the three surviving lieutenants ([[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness as the kidnapped one had been killed as soon as he wasn't useful anymore]]) to meet each other, gloat on how they would overthrow the government and die as soon as they tried to get the treasure. And the Fox was keeping Diabolik under surveillance, so he ''literally'' enjoyed the show.show.
* Another for Altea, from "Heroin for Ginko". After a CorruptCop from his squad was arrested by him and murdered in jail and he got hospitalized in a scuffle with Diabolik, Ginko was seriously depressed and considering quitting the police. So, what did Altea do to get him out of the depression? She ''captured Diabolik and Eva''. With a ''TrapDoor'', of all things. And then the friend who helped her called Ginko and served him the two criminals on a silver platter. Had the woman of the CorruptCop not attacked the convoy Ginko was using to move Diabolik and Ginko to jail, the King of Terror would have been executed then and there...
* Another for Altea, from "Heroin for Ginko". After a CorruptCop from his squad was arrested by him and murdered in jail and he got hospitalized in a scuffle with Diabolik, Ginko was seriously depressed and considering quitting the police. So, what did Altea do to get him out of the depression? She ''captured Diabolik and Eva''. With a ''TrapDoor'', of all things. And then the friend who helped her called Ginko and served him the two criminals on a silver platter. Had the woman of the CorruptCop not attacked the convoy Ginko was using to move Diabolik and Ginko to jail, the King of Terror would have been executed then and there...
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* "Altea's Courage" has one for general Von Waller, [[InSeriesNickname Altea's Fox Uncle]]. Benglait's latest trouble was that the Grey Ravens had (barely) survived their encounter with Diabolik in "Vallenberg's Mysteries" and had rebuilt, and in spite of the recent death of the new leader and the arrest of one of his lieutenants they had no idea on how to stop the other three lieutenants (that the arrested one couldn't have betrayed even if he had wanted to, as he didn't know their identities) from using the organization's treasure (that the arrested one didn't know where it was, as the letter with the location had been sent after his arrest) to start a new terrorist campaign. So, what did the Fox do? Easy: ''[[RefugeInAudacity manipulate Diabolik into doing the dirty work for him while he literally enjoyed the show]]''. And it wasn't even that difficult: all he had to do was to plant the rumour of the Grey Raven's treasure, and [[ItsPersonal Diabolik's hate for the organization did the rest in sicking the King of Terror on the terrorists]]. End result: Diabolik, using what little information the arrested lieutenants could give him after being kidnapped and dosed with TruthSerum, deduced the location of the treasure, stole it and filled the chest with DeadlyGas, just in time for the three surviving lieutenants ([[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness as the kidnapped one had been killed as soon as he wasn't useful anymore]]) to meet each other, gloat on how they would overthrow the government and die as soon as they tried to get the treasure. And the Fox was keeping Diabolik under surveillance, so he ''literally'' enjoyed the show.
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* "Altea's Courage" has one for general Von Waller, [[InSeriesNickname Altea's Fox Uncle]]. Benglait's latest trouble was that the Grey Ravens had (barely) survived their encounter with Diabolik in "Vallenberg's Mysteries" and had rebuilt, and in spite of the recent death of the new leader and the arrest of one of his lieutenants they had no idea on how to stop the other three lieutenants (that the arrested one couldn't have betrayed even if he had wanted to, as he didn't know their identities) from using the organization's treasure (that the arrested one didn't know where it was, as the letter with the location had been sent after his arrest) to start a new terrorist campaign. So, what did the Fox do? Easy: ''[[RefugeInAudacity manipulate Diabolik into doing the dirty work for him while he literally enjoyed the show]]''. And it wasn't even that difficult: all he had to do was to plant the rumour of the Grey Raven's treasure, and [[ItsPersonal Diabolik's hate for the organization did the rest in sicking the King of Terror on the terrorists]]. End result: Diabolik, using what little information the arrested lieutenants lieutenant could give him after being kidnapped and dosed with TruthSerum, deduced the location of the treasure, stole it and filled the chest with DeadlyGas, just in time for the three surviving lieutenants ([[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness as the kidnapped one had been killed as soon as he wasn't useful anymore]]) to meet each other, gloat on how they would overthrow the government and die as soon as they tried to get the treasure. And the Fox was keeping Diabolik under surveillance, so he ''literally'' enjoyed the show.
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* Ginko has one in "Diabolik Is Innocent". The count Beltran had been framed for his wife's murder (actually a suicide), and his lawyer (actually Eva in disguise, as Diabolik had been arrested while impersonating the count) convinced him to at least inspect the room where the body was found. Ginko solved the case in ''one minute'' (plus a couple hours spent waiting for the police's frogmen to find the evidence he had deduced had fallen in the nearby river). And it was a good trick too.
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* Ginko has one in "Diabolik Is Innocent". The count Beltran had been framed for his wife's murder (actually a suicide), and his lawyer (actually Eva in disguise, as Diabolik had been arrested while impersonating the count) convinced him to at least inspect the room where the body was found. Ginko solved the case in ''one minute'' (plus a couple hours spent waiting for the police's frogmen to find the evidence he had deduced had fallen in the nearby river). And it was a good trick too.too.
* "Altea's Courage" has one for general Von Waller, [[InSeriesNickname Altea's Fox Uncle]]. Benglait's latest trouble was that the Grey Ravens had (barely) survived their encounter with Diabolik in "Vallenberg's Mysteries" and had rebuilt, and in spite of the recent death of the new leader and the arrest of one of his lieutenants they had no idea on how to stop the other three lieutenants (that the arrested one couldn't have betrayed even if he had wanted to, as he didn't know their identities) from using the organization's treasure (that the arrested one didn't know where it was, as the letter with the location had been sent after his arrest) to start a new terrorist campaign. So, what did the Fox do? Easy: ''[[RefugeInAudacity manipulate Diabolik into doing the dirty work for him while he literally enjoyed the show]]''. And it wasn't even that difficult: all he had to do was to plant the rumour of the Grey Raven's treasure, and [[ItsPersonal Diabolik's hate for the organization did the rest in sicking the King of Terror on the terrorists]]. End result: Diabolik, using what little information the arrested lieutenants could give him after being kidnapped and dosed with TruthSerum, deduced the location of the treasure, stole it and filled the chest with DeadlyGas, just in time for the three surviving lieutenants ([[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness as the kidnapped one had been killed as soon as he wasn't useful anymore]]) to meet each other, gloat on how they would overthrow the government and die as soon as they tried to get the treasure. And the Fox was keeping Diabolik under surveillance, so he ''literally'' enjoyed the show.
* "Altea's Courage" has one for general Von Waller, [[InSeriesNickname Altea's Fox Uncle]]. Benglait's latest trouble was that the Grey Ravens had (barely) survived their encounter with Diabolik in "Vallenberg's Mysteries" and had rebuilt, and in spite of the recent death of the new leader and the arrest of one of his lieutenants they had no idea on how to stop the other three lieutenants (that the arrested one couldn't have betrayed even if he had wanted to, as he didn't know their identities) from using the organization's treasure (that the arrested one didn't know where it was, as the letter with the location had been sent after his arrest) to start a new terrorist campaign. So, what did the Fox do? Easy: ''[[RefugeInAudacity manipulate Diabolik into doing the dirty work for him while he literally enjoyed the show]]''. And it wasn't even that difficult: all he had to do was to plant the rumour of the Grey Raven's treasure, and [[ItsPersonal Diabolik's hate for the organization did the rest in sicking the King of Terror on the terrorists]]. End result: Diabolik, using what little information the arrested lieutenants could give him after being kidnapped and dosed with TruthSerum, deduced the location of the treasure, stole it and filled the chest with DeadlyGas, just in time for the three surviving lieutenants ([[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness as the kidnapped one had been killed as soon as he wasn't useful anymore]]) to meet each other, gloat on how they would overthrow the government and die as soon as they tried to get the treasure. And the Fox was keeping Diabolik under surveillance, so he ''literally'' enjoyed the show.
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** With all the above, no wonder Diabolik declared that stealing something from there was impossible... And this makes even more awesome the fact that [[spoiler: Gilda, Richter's daughter,]] ''successfully stole a diamond from the vault with nobody being the wiser'' [[spoiler: she had done it because she felt abandoned when her father appeared to care more for the diamond than for her]]. How the hell did [[spoiler: she]] do it?! Easy: [[spoiler: being a child, she could enter from the air-vent]], and once in she ''sit on the safe to not trigger the weight sensors'' and tried multiple combinations, three per hour, concentrating on words that she believed [[spoiler: her father]] would use. And used gloves to avoid leaving fingerprints, leading a baffled Ginko to wonder how the hell Diabolik did it and an even more baffled Diabolik wondering how the hell the mysterious thief did do it, only for the King of Terror to metaforically kick himself in the butt when he found out the identity of the thief.
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** With all the above, no wonder Diabolik declared that stealing something from there was impossible... And this makes even more awesome the fact that [[spoiler: Gilda, Richter's daughter,]] ''successfully stole a diamond from the vault with nobody being the wiser'' [[spoiler: she had done it because she felt abandoned when her father appeared to care more for the diamond than for her]]. How the hell did [[spoiler: she]] do it?! Easy: [[spoiler: being a child, she could enter from the air-vent]], and once in she ''sit on the safe to not trigger the weight sensors'' and tried multiple combinations, three per hour, concentrating on words that she believed [[spoiler: her father]] would use. And used gloves to avoid leaving fingerprints, leading a baffled Ginko to wonder how the hell Diabolik did it and an even more baffled Diabolik wondering how the hell the mysterious thief did do it, only for the King of Terror to metaforically kick himself in the butt when he found out the identity of the thief.thief.
* Ginko has one in "Diabolik Is Innocent". The count Beltran had been framed for his wife's murder (actually a suicide), and his lawyer (actually Eva in disguise, as Diabolik had been arrested while impersonating the count) convinced him to at least inspect the room where the body was found. Ginko solved the case in ''one minute'' (plus a couple hours spent waiting for the police's frogmen to find the evidence he had deduced had fallen in the nearby river). And it was a good trick too.
* Ginko has one in "Diabolik Is Innocent". The count Beltran had been framed for his wife's murder (actually a suicide), and his lawyer (actually Eva in disguise, as Diabolik had been arrested while impersonating the count) convinced him to at least inspect the room where the body was found. Ginko solved the case in ''one minute'' (plus a couple hours spent waiting for the police's frogmen to find the evidence he had deduced had fallen in the nearby river). And it was a good trick too.
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** Almost forgot... Those enemies weren't random crooks, they were ''Lopez, Cen-Fu and Dempur, chosen as members of King's elite because they were some of the greatest and most dangerous criminals in the world, and [[EvilMentor Diabolik's teachers back on King's Island]]''. And she still manipukated and killed them all...
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* The fact Diabolik is still being published: Diabolik and the whole ''fumetto nero'' genre (literally "black comic", the Italian comic books of the noir genre) were heavily attacked by the MoralGuardians and even had to face ''criminal prosecution'', and where Kriminal, Satanik and many others were ultimately forced out of publication Diabolik is ''still'' being published after ''[[LongRunner fifty-two years]]'' [[LongRunner and counting at the moment this entry was written]], with the only other survivors being the parodistic ''{{Cattivik}}'' and the Disney-made ''Paperinik the Devilish Avenger''.
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* The fact Diabolik is still being published: Diabolik and the whole ''fumetto nero'' genre (literally "black comic", the Italian comic books of the noir genre) were heavily attacked by the MoralGuardians and even had to face ''criminal prosecution'', and where Kriminal, Satanik and many others were ultimately forced out of publication Diabolik is ''still'' being published after ''[[LongRunner fifty-two years]]'' [[LongRunner and counting at the moment this entry was written]], with the only other survivors being the parodistic ''{{Cattivik}}'' ''ComicBook/{{Cattivik}}'' and the Disney-made ''Paperinik the Devilish Avenger''.
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* In the two-parter "A Cursed Island"-"Escape from the Island", Diabolik and Eva fought a MegaCorp that was building a launch base on the island of Bo-Tang against the will of the natives (Eva's intentions were pure. Diabolik, on the other hand, got the secret ingredient of his masks from them, and it had been the lack of the annual package to alert him something was wrong and convinced him to have a 'vacation' in a nearby island). Diabolik, Eva Kant and a small native tribe with little knowledge of modern technology against a large multinational corporation... And, an hell of a ScoobyDooHoax and the [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident 'accidental' death of the CEO]] later, the new CEO (who had an agreement with Diabolik, and kept his part) annulled the project and freed the island.
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* In the two-parter "A Cursed Island"-"Escape from the Island", Diabolik and Eva fought a MegaCorp that was building a launch base on the island of Bo-Tang against the will of the natives (Eva's intentions were pure. Diabolik, on the other hand, got the secret ingredient of his masks from them, and it had been the lack of the annual package to alert him something was wrong and convinced him to have a 'vacation' in a nearby island). Diabolik, Eva Kant and a small native tribe with little knowledge of modern technology against a large multinational corporation... And, an hell of a ScoobyDooHoax and the [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident 'accidental' death of the CEO]] later, the new CEO (who had an agreement with Diabolik, and kept his part) annulled the project and freed the island.island.
* One-shot character Giorgio Richter or whoever designed his security system gets one for ''putting together a vault that Diabolik cannot penetrate''. How? Well, here's the characteristics:
** the vault's door and walls are armoured in such a way that Diabolik would take ''days'' to penetrate with acids or lasers. Also, being in a house, Diabolik cannot bluff his way into having Richter believe it has already been defeated and abandon it as he did with a similar vault in "The Chain of Ice";
** the vault's door can be opened only by a password that only Richter knows and needs to be pronounced by his voice. Not a problem for Diabolik, you think... Except that Richter is allergic to truth serums and would die before revealing the password;
** the vault's one apparent weakness appear to be the [[Main/AirVentPassageway air-vent]]. [[SubvertedTrope Except that it's too small for a grown person]]. Also, Diabolik cannot use it to send in a remote-controlled robot because there's a jammer inside the vault, one that is constantly activated;
** assuming Diabolik somehow entered, there are weight sensors that would immediately raise the alarm;
** and assuming that Diabolik somehow entered ''and'' deactivated the sensors, there's another safe inside. One too heavy to carry out, whose combination is an unknown four-letters word, number or combination of both, and that goes on full lock-out for one hour at the third wrong combination.
** With all the above, no wonder Diabolik declared that stealing something from there was impossible... And this makes even more awesome the fact that [[spoiler: Gilda, Richter's daughter,]] ''successfully stole a diamond from the vault with nobody being the wiser'' [[spoiler: she had done it because she felt abandoned when her father appeared to care more for the diamond than for her]]. How the hell did [[spoiler: she]] do it?! Easy: [[spoiler: being a child, she could enter from the air-vent]], and once in she ''sit on the safe to not trigger the weight sensors'' and tried multiple combinations, three per hour, concentrating on words that she believed [[spoiler: her father]] would use. And used gloves to avoid leaving fingerprints, leading a baffled Ginko to wonder how the hell Diabolik did it and an even more baffled Diabolik wondering how the hell the mysterious thief did do it, only for the King of Terror to metaforically kick himself in the butt when he found out the identity of the thief.
* One-shot character Giorgio Richter or whoever designed his security system gets one for ''putting together a vault that Diabolik cannot penetrate''. How? Well, here's the characteristics:
** the vault's door and walls are armoured in such a way that Diabolik would take ''days'' to penetrate with acids or lasers. Also, being in a house, Diabolik cannot bluff his way into having Richter believe it has already been defeated and abandon it as he did with a similar vault in "The Chain of Ice";
** the vault's door can be opened only by a password that only Richter knows and needs to be pronounced by his voice. Not a problem for Diabolik, you think... Except that Richter is allergic to truth serums and would die before revealing the password;
** the vault's one apparent weakness appear to be the [[Main/AirVentPassageway air-vent]]. [[SubvertedTrope Except that it's too small for a grown person]]. Also, Diabolik cannot use it to send in a remote-controlled robot because there's a jammer inside the vault, one that is constantly activated;
** assuming Diabolik somehow entered, there are weight sensors that would immediately raise the alarm;
** and assuming that Diabolik somehow entered ''and'' deactivated the sensors, there's another safe inside. One too heavy to carry out, whose combination is an unknown four-letters word, number or combination of both, and that goes on full lock-out for one hour at the third wrong combination.
** With all the above, no wonder Diabolik declared that stealing something from there was impossible... And this makes even more awesome the fact that [[spoiler: Gilda, Richter's daughter,]] ''successfully stole a diamond from the vault with nobody being the wiser'' [[spoiler: she had done it because she felt abandoned when her father appeared to care more for the diamond than for her]]. How the hell did [[spoiler: she]] do it?! Easy: [[spoiler: being a child, she could enter from the air-vent]], and once in she ''sit on the safe to not trigger the weight sensors'' and tried multiple combinations, three per hour, concentrating on words that she believed [[spoiler: her father]] would use. And used gloves to avoid leaving fingerprints, leading a baffled Ginko to wonder how the hell Diabolik did it and an even more baffled Diabolik wondering how the hell the mysterious thief did do it, only for the King of Terror to metaforically kick himself in the butt when he found out the identity of the thief.
