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* ''VideoGame/CriminalCasePacificBay'' has Case 34, "Murdertown", where the player investigates the murder of an actress who was killed in a crime movie set. Throughout the case, Frank has many {{Imagine Spot}}s narrated by him and shot entirely [[DeliberateMonochrome in black and white]], as well as wearing a trench coat to imitate a detective movie he saw last night.

* The beginning of ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxTheDevilsPlayhouse'''s third episode, where Sam doesn't take kindly to Max's brain being stolen. This part of the game is entirely about Sam, hard-eyed and heartbroken, drifting around town and interrogating suspects with a variety different methods. One of these methods is 'Noir', which lets loose several overly-dramatic parodies of noir monologues.

** Another, far less impressive attempt at Noir by ''Star Trek'' is ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'''s "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS1E7ExPostFacto Ex Post Facto]]", in which an arrested Tom Paris makes a recording of the events that led up to his incarceration, a la a toned-down ''Film/DoubleIndemnity''. The recording is a (faked, as it turns out) memory of the murder he's forced to relive in his mind every day for the rest of his life as punishment.

* ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo'' has the ''Under A Killer Balloon'' StoryArc. (Labeled ''Episode 1'', which may hint that this will become a recurring bit in the future.)
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' presents : [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170809 Ivo Sharktooth, Private Jäger.]]
* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has the Detective Block "storyline" in EGS:NP, where the detective is an unintelligible writer's block.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Fillbert}}'''s "Dial F for Furrbert" arc, Fillbert becomes a [[PrivateEyeMonologue monologuing]] detective, while several characters get an outfit change and become partially or fully greyscale.

* ''Mobile Police Anime/{{Patlabor}}'' had an episode that was half this and half ''Film/BladeRunner'' parody.

* ''ComicBook/SgtRock: Between Hell and a Hard Place'' is a murder mystery at its core, concerning the execution of three SS officers taken prisoner by Easy Company during the final push to Berlin. Sgt. Rock has to find both the sole survivor and the killer, knowing, ''hoping'', that they may be one and the same. During the climactic confrontation with the murderer, Rock is even treated to a MotiveRant. As you can expect from Creator/BrianAzzarello (and the genre in general), the dialogue is very layered and snappy.

* The ''Series/{{Castle}}'' episode "The Blue Butterfly", jumps back and forth between regular Castle, and Castle reading a diary of a 1940s-era P.I., done in noir style.

* ''ComicBook/SgtRock: Between Hell and a Hard Place'' is a murder mystery at its core, concerning the execution of three SS officers taken prisoner by Easy Company during the final push to Berlin. During the climactic confrontation with the murderer, Rock is even treated to a MotiveRant. As you can expect from Creator/BrianAzzarello, the dialogue is very layered and snappy.

* ''ComicBook/SgtRock: Between Hell and a Hard Place'' is a murder mystery at its core, concerning the execution of three SS officers taken prisoner by Easy Company during the final push to Berlin. As you can expect from Creator/BrianAzzarello, the dialogue is very layered and snappy.

* The Midnight Crew Intermission in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''. This being ''[[WidgetSeries Homestuck]]'', [[TimeTravel things get weird...]]

* Pretty much all the missions that have to do with [[KnightInSourArmor Garrus]] in the Franchise/MassEffect series tend to be heavily inspired by Noir.

In 1999, the AFI named Humphrey Bogart the greatest male movie star of all time. One guess what film genre he was the poster child for.

* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin would occasionally imagine himself as a [[PrivateEyeMonologue monologuing]] PrivateDetective named Tracer Bullet. These stories were relatively rare compared to Calvin's other two imaginary alter egos, [[SpaceOpera Spaceman Spiff]] and [[SuperHero Stupendous Man]], largely because the emphasis on moody shadows (as you can see in the article image) made them extremely time-consuming to draw.

* The Ned Stark sections in ''Literature/AGameOfThrones'' has been described as similar to a Noir story, where Ned's investigations into a political murder reveal a web of deceit, betrayal, a plan to murder his friend the king, and that's just talking about the FemmeFatale. He also comes into contact with three ''additional'' conspiracies (Varys, Littlefinger, and Renly), and his merciful heart leads to his own demise at the hands of one of the people he was trying to save. Forget it, Ned, it's Kings Landingtown.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/GarfieldSpecials Garfield's Babes and Bullets]]'', much like its source material (a prose story in ''ComicBook/GarfieldHis9Lives''), concerns an homage to film noir where Garfield is a detective investigating a murder.

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3143 SCP-3143]] is an anomaly that rewrites documents involving him into a Film Noir screenplay. His first sighting was in overriding and neutralizing [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3043 SCP-3043]].

** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Necessary Evil" had Constable Odo using the PrivateEyeMonologue to parody the CaptainsLog, and flashbacks to a murder he investigated while working for the Cardassian occupiers. Bonus points for dark shadows enveloping everything (even in the "present", as it takes place during the station's night shift), thunderstorms in the first scene (on Bajor), a wealthy and shifty widow who's a bit of TheVamp, and Quark being surprisingly hard-boiled himself (which amusingly fits with Armin Shimmerman's Bogart-like voice). Interestingly, [[spoiler: it isn't the widow but series regular Major Kira who]] turns out to be the FemmeFatale murderer--leading to a ''quite'' noir-ish BlackAndGreyMorality ending.
** Another, far less impressive attempt at Noir by ''Star Trek'' is ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'''s "Ex Post Facto", where an arrested Tom Paris makes a recording of the events that led up to his incarceration, a la a toned-down ''Film/DoubleIndemnity''. The recording is a (faked, as it turns out) memory of the murder he's forced to relive in his mind every day for the rest of his life as punishment.
** Any episode of ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Next Generation]]'' in which Picard plays 1940s P.I. Dixon Hill on the holodeck, starting with [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E11TheBigGoodbye "The Big Goodbye"]].