History WMG / LANoire

** The idea was to have 5 cases for each desk. Traffic ended up with three, Homicide had five, Vice had three, and Arson had 4 (plus the final case, which wasn't really a case). The DLC brings each desk to five: The Consul's Car ([=PS3=] exclusive) and A Slip of the Tongue for Traffic, Reefer Madness and The Naked City for Vice and Nicholson Electroplating for Arson. According to Website/TheOtherWiki, some of the DLC cases were cut from the original game to make it fit on three UsefulNotes/XBox360 discs.

** He only sold Phelps out because he was having an affair with someone who was A: A woman and B: Not him. So, he decided that if [[Yandere he couldn't have him, no one could]]...
** The fact that he was doing the eulogy for Cole implies it. Even if he's faking the praise, you just don't get to do someone's eulogy by random chance, especially not when others available candidates are people like Bekowsky, Rusty or Kelso.

Detective Rose and the names of several other LAPD patrolmen and detectives all appeared in Errol Schroeder's Ledger. Meaning they were either taking bribes or owed him or his outfit money. So to cover his own ass Rose stole Schroeder’s gun used it to kill Peyton and then threw up the roof. He wanted the Patrolmen to find the gun so that he could then identify the gun. At which point he would kill Schroeder for “resisting arrest.”

** The idea was to have 5 cases for each desk. Traffic ended up with three, Homicide had five, Vice had three, and Arson had 4 (plus the final case, which wasn't really a case). The DLC brings each desk to five: The Consul's Car ([=PS3=] exclusive) and A Slip of the Tongue for Traffic, Reefer Madness and The Naked City for Vice and Nicholson Electroplating for Arson. According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, some of the DLC cases were cut from the original game to make it fit on three UsefulNotes/XBox360 discs.

* [[spoiler: Wouldn't of Cole learned how to swim? It seems like basic police training and Marine training.]]

* Or, you know, [[TVTropeswillEnhanceYourLife Tropers are really genre savvy?]]

!! JonHamm will show up in one of the DLC cases

!! This game might be difficult for people with AspergersSyndrome to play.

And this is probably true. Look a the structure of ''L.A. Noire'': you're playing the ''backstory''. If this were a film noir movie, how does it begin? With the FemmeFatale walking into the PI or investigator's office and setting the events in motion. This is ''exactly'' what happens with Kelso. He's an insurance investigator. A sexy dame walks into his office with a strange request (turn down a hefty insurance policy). He falls for the dame, but it turns out she's the sweetheart of his old army commander who is a publicly shamed police detective, and one that there's some serious animosity towards. The last 1/5th of the game plays out in the classic Film Noir - the broken police detective atones for his mistakes by getting killed, and the PI is forced to watch some of the perpetrators get away. This is ''driven'' home by the fact that it's KELSO who delivers the last speech in the post-credits cutscene saying he'll never compromise his value system. Oh, and by the way, if there's an LA Noire 2, guess who will ''have'' to be the protagonist, who just ''happens'' to be a PI - hint: it ain't Herschel Biggs. However, the way the ending is set up, Biggs would probably be either his friend on the force or his assistant. Funny how things work out, huh?
* Building upon this, the game effectively becomes a deconstruction of tropes such as TheCape and WideEyedIdealist, represented in the game by Cole. Cole is honest, upright and strictly adheres to law and procedure. These are portrayed as admirable, but unpragmatic traits. This is particularly noticeable in the [=WW2=] flashbacks where Cole is shown to be a rigid, inflexible and overall poor commanding officer. In the game itself, Cole's idealism leaves him ill-equipped to combat the institutional corruption of the LAPD and of LA in general. It is only by turning to the less rigid Kelso (as noted above, a far more typical protagonist for a noir story, being an AntiHero) that he is able to achieve anything. Kelso is the hero of the game, because he's the sort of hero that is needed in a noir style plot- more of a Sam Spade, less of a Dudley Do Right like Cole. And yes, I'm aware how close this is coming to ripping off Gordon's speech at the end of Film/TheDarkKnight.

* Building upon this, the game effectively becomes a deconstruction of tropes such as TheCape and WideEyedIdealist, represented in the game by Cole. Cole is honest, upright and strictly adheres to law and procedure. These are portrayed as admirable, but unpragmatic traits. This is particularly noticeable in the WW2 flashbacks where Cole is shown to be a rigid, inflexible and overall poor commanding officer. In the game itself, Cole's idealism leaves him ill-equipped to combat the institutional corruption of the LAPD and of LA in general. It is only by turning to the less rigid Kelso (as noted above, a far more typical protagonist for a noir story, being an AntiHero) that he is able to achieve anything. Kelso is the hero of the game, because he's the sort of hero that is needed in a noir style plot- more of a Sam Spade, less of a Dudley Do Right like Cole. And yes, I'm aware how close this is coming to ripping off Gordon's speech at the end of Film/TheDarkKnight.

** The idea was to have 5 cases for each desk. Traffic ended up with three, Homicide had five, Vice had three, and Arson had 4 (plus the final case, which wasn't really a case). The DLC brings each desk to five: The Consul's Car ([=PS3=] exclusive) and A Slip of the Tongue for Traffic, Reefer Madness and The Naked City for Vice and Nicholson Electroplating for Arson. According to TheOtherWiki, some of the DLC cases were cut from the original game to make it fit on three UsefulNotes/XBox360 discs.

** [[spoiler: I don't think Cole's swimming ability would have made any difference - notice how incredibly ''powerful'' that stream is as it shoots up through the grates. I actually winced when I first watched it, figuring Cole was probably crushed the moment he hit an obstacle down there... ]]

** The idea was to have 5 cases for each desk. Traffic ended up with three, Homicide had five, Vice had three, and Arson had 4 (plus the final case, which wasn't really a case). The DLC brings each desk to five: The Consul's Car (PS3 exclusive) and A Slip of the Tongue for Traffic, Reefer Madness and The Naked City for Vice and Nicholson Electroplating for Arson. According to TheOtherWiki, some of the DLC cases were cut from the original game to make it fit on three XBox360 discs.

!!There will be craploads of shout-outs to the original radio show ''Radio/{{Dragnet}}'' and possibly MadMen