History Main / BornDetective

* On ''CrossingJordan'', Jordan Cavanaugh was a crime-solving medical examiner whose father, Max, was a retired cop.
* Both Deb and {{Dexter}} are cops, as was their father, Harry. Played with, in that Dexter is actually Harry's adopted son (and a [[VillainProtagonist serial killer]]).

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'':Although not a detective himself, Shinichi Kudo's father is a mystery writer, thus giving Shinichi his detective streak and easy access to the books of Conan Doyle. The fact that he and Shinichi's mother are able to put on a performance that baffles even Shinichi early on, they both clearly have the background to qualify Conan for this trope.

* Although not a detective himself, [[DetectiveConan Shinichi Kudo's]] father is a mystery writer, thus giving Shinichi his detective streak and easy access to the books of Conan Doyle. The fact that he and Shinichi's mother are able to put on a performance that baffles even Shinichi early on, they both clearly have the background to qualify Conan for this trope.

* [[Manga/DeathNote Light Yagami's]] father is a police inspector and it's mentioned that Light has used his vast intellect to help solve crimes in the past. For this reason, he ends up helping the Kira investigation. Too bad he ''is'' Kira...

* SherlockHolmes, in the single story where he talks about his family ("The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter"), acknowledges that his observational skills are a family trait, and that his elder brother Mycroft has an even greater share of them than he himself.
** In the pastiche series, ''EnolaHolmes'', the title character, who is the far younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft, runs away and finds that she is no less talented as a detective as her brothers.

*** There's a new series called The Sherlock Files which feature the great-great-great grandchildren

* DickTracy's adopted son Junior accompanies Dick on cases during his childhood and grows up to be, er, a police photographer.

* [[DeathNote Light Yagami's]] father is a police inspector and it's mentioned that Light has used his vast intellect to help solve crimes in the past. For this reason, he ends up helping the Kira investigation. Too bad he ''is'' Kira...

* EncyclopediaBrown's father was a police detective and amazingly enough all the cases that stumped his entire police force were always solved by his son over dinner.

*** There's a new series called The Sherlock Files which feature the great-great-great grandchildren

*** There's a new series that feature great-great-great? grandson and a grand daughter and they have solved 2 cases. I can't remember either title at the moment.

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* ''{{Persona 4}}''´s Naoto Shirogane, who is the fifth generation in a family of professional detectives.

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* Walter "Ramses" Emerson is the son of AmeliaPeabody and Radcliffe Emerson, both archeologists and both AmateurSleuths. He has been detecting with them since he was six or so. Whether they want him to or not. And they don't.

* Walter "Ramses" Emerson is the son of AmeliaPeabody and Radcliffe Emerson, both archeologists and both [AmateurSleuth]s. He has been detecting with them since he was six or so. Whether they want him to or not. And they don't.

* Walter "Ramses" Emerson is the son of AmeliaPeabody and Radcliffe Emerson, both archeologists and both AmateurDetectives. He has been detecting with them since he was six or so. Whether they want him to or not. And they don't.

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* ''{{Veronica Mars}}'', raised by her sheriff-turned-PI dad, was already running her own PI business in HighSchool (it was well-known that the girls loos doubled as 'her office' during school hours). A lawyer-friend of the family would leave cases open on the desk she had at her father's office while he was with clients in case she decided to 'take a look'.

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* Although not a detective himself, [[DetectiveConan Shinichi Kudo's]] father is a mystery writer, thus giving Shinichi his detective streak and easy access to the books of Conan Doyle. The fact that he and Shinichi's mother are able to put on a performance that baffles even Shinichi early on, they both clearly have the background to qualify Conan for this trope.
** To help further the cause, Yusaku Kudo is BrilliantButLazy. Megure and Kogoro have both tried on several occasion in his {{Backstory}} to recruit him to being a police detective...just for Yusaku to catch on and prove smarter.
* [[DeathNote Light Yagami's]] father is a police inspector and it's mentioned that Light has used his vast intellect to help solve crimes in the past. For this reason, he ends up helping the Kira investigation. Too bad he ''is'' Kira...

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** And the tradition continued into at least the late 20th Century with [[TheAdventuresOfShirleyHolmes Shirley]], Mycroft's Canadian-born great-granddaughter (Or it might have been one of Holmes' other brothers. Sources vary.).

* Lampshaded on ''TheWire'', where Detective [=McNulty=] catches flack during a custody dispute for having used his preteen sons trail a known criminal through the supermarket.

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** And the tradition continued into at least the late 20th Century with [[TheAdventuresOfShirleyHolmes Shirley]], Mycroft's Canadian-born great-granddaughter.

** And the tradition continued into at least the late 20th Century with [[TheAdventuresOfShirleyHolmes Shirley]], Mycroft's Canadian-born great-granddaughter.