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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
->''This place, Paradigm City, is a town of forgetfulness. One day forty years ago every person here lost all memory of what had happened before that day. But humans are adaptable creatures, they make do and go on with life. If they are smart enough to figure out how to operate machinery and electricity, they can have something of civilization. People can survive without knowing what did or didn't happen in the past. And each day they try their hardest to do just that. The only people who regret the loss of these memories are the city's elderly. But memories, like nightmares, can come when you least expect them.''
-->-- '''Roger Smith''' ([[LighterAndSofter not as grim as most examples]]), ''Anime/TheBigO'', "Welcome to Paradigm City"

->''I hate this season. The weather sucks up all the slime and filth in the streets and pours it back down on ya. But then, that's what this city's all about. Name's Gai Kurasawa, private eye. I've spent my life in this concrete merry-go-round watching the same crimes play out year after year, like a jukebox with only one, sad song. It's a city with no one to trust, and no one to love, where cigarette butts are the only ass you get.''
-->--'''Gai Kurasawa''', ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'', "The Gardenia Gives Off Fragrance in the Early Summer Rain... (Part 1)"
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
->''Sometimes the wain comes down so hawrd you forwget you've ever been dwy. I twy to see it, out there in the past or in the future, wainbows waiting. Going into Powrky's that day, I twy my best to wemember. I weawy do. Things wewen't awways this way. They won't awways be this way. I twy my best, and the water seeps in, mowlding my coat onto my shotgun, and I stop twying, and I head inside.\\
My name is Elmer Fudd. I'm hunting wabbits. Shhhhhhhh...''
-->-- '''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Elmer Fudd]]''', ''[[ComicBook/BatmanTomKing Batman/Elmer Fudd Special]]''

->''My name is Detective Jimjam [=McLanternjaw=]. Was on route to a sunburn when she showed up. Kinda dame leads to a funeral… Some good bad trouble. Tells me a dingo ate her baby. This daddy-o ain't in the dingo baby-eatin' business. But, I am in the sexy-lady-touching-my-body business. Whenever a sexy lady wants to make that the business I am in. The right chump takes the wrong job. Few leads went south, dropped me down that rabbit hole. Rabbit had teeth. Biting teeth. Thumping legs. Lazy eye fry cook at the ho-jos was lying. Swore he didn't know -– but that eye was too lazy to be tellin' the truth. So lazy. Elbow grease, and an elbow to lazy eye, the mook gave up the plot. "Head to the moon and you'll find the cheese,"''
-->--'''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}''', ''[[ComicBook/XForce Uncanny X-Force #3]]''
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
->"Anta Baka." A smooth voice interrupts Kaji.\\
"Gyah!?" Kaji swivels around to see a black and white Minisuka bedecked in a trench coat and fedora sitting on the bar, a thimble full of seltzer water in her hand. "When did you get there?"\\
"Baka." Noir intones as if narrating the scene like an old-time detective show. "Anta Baka."
-->-- ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheMinisukas''
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[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
->''"Bradbury was right... there's bad and there's bad. But what I walked into when I left that night made all the magic and witchcraft I'd seen up 'til then look like a sideshow. My name's Lovecraft... and I'm the guy who knows. Just about the only guy who knows it all... who's still breathing. It started that night and it started with a woman. It always starts with a woman."''
-->--'''Phil Lovecraft''', ''Film/CastADeadlySpell''

->''"Last January, I finally singed Martin Whistler out on one of the rim planets. Since then, I've been hunting down the last of his murdering cult. We call them "Trancers:" slaves to Whistler's psychic power. Not really alive, not dead enough. It's July now, and I'm tired. Real tired."''
-->--'''Jack Death''', ''Film/{{Trancers}}''
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[[folder:Literature]]
->''[[FemmeFatale She slinked]] through my door wearing a dress that [[FormFittingWardrobe looked like it had been painted on]] … [[TalksLikeASimile not with good paint, like Behr or Sherwin-Williams,]] [[{{Metaphorgotten}} but with that watered-down stuff that bubbles up right away if you don't prime the surface before you slap it on,]] and – just like that cheap paint – the dress needed two more [[{{Pun}} coats]] to cover her.''
-->--'''Sue Fondrie''', as a {{parody}}, in the Literature/BulwerLyttonFictionContest 2012: Crime: Winner
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[[folder:Radio]]
->'''Arthur:''' Two guys, sitting in a bar, couple of drinks, box of those black paper napkins that always look really cool; like we’re in a film. I feel like I should have a hat.\\
'''Douglas:''' God knows, Arthur, [[TheHilarityOfHats you ]]''[[TheHilarityOfHats have ]]''[[TheHilarityOfHats a hat...]]\\
'''Arthur:''' No, but I mean one of those ones with the dent they used to wear in [[MonochromePast black-and-white times]]. Gerry, could you, er, [[ObsessiveCompulsiveBarkeeping could you polish a glass?]]\\
'''Gerry:''' Oh, have I given you a dirty one?\\
'''Arthur:''' No, no. I just think it would look good. And then, Douglas, we should be saying things like, you know, “Hey, you guy. The dames, eh?” “Yeah, the dames. Stupid dames. You had any luck with the horses?” “No, the horses are all... idiots. You know, between the dames and the horses, sometimes I don’t even know why I put my hat on.” That’s how they talk in bars, isn’t it?\\
'''Douglas:''' ...No, Arthur. That’s not how ''anyone'' talks, ''anywhere.''
-->--''Radio/CabinPressure'', "Uskerty"
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[[folder:Video Games]]
->'''Ellie Phillips:''' Chase, I've uploaded a new function to your communicator.\\
'''Chase Mccain:''' Oooh! Is it a microphone so I can record cool private eye monologues?\\
'''Ellie:''' Noooo...it's a camera.\\
'''Chase:''' I was disappointed, but I decided to hear the lady out.
-->-- ''VideoGame/LegoCityUndercover''

->'''Yuri Watanabe:''' "Would you look at that? Half the crime towers back up already."\\
'''Peter Parker/Spider-Man:''' "'When Spider-Cop's on the job, come hell or high water, the job gets--'"\\
'''Yuri:''' "[[RapidFireNo Nope, nope, nope. NOPE.]]" ''[[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere hangs up]]]''\\
'''Spidey:''' "'She'd never admit it, but the chief was warming up to Spider-Cop. His casual disregard for by-the-book thinking was a breath of fresh air. She'd come around. Someday.'"
-->--''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4''
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
->''Hit started out like effery harvest festival- loud, crowded, und schtoopid. Dot's vy hy vos in mine office. Dun' know how much longer hy vould be dere... clients vos sumting hy'd heard about vunce. Maybe hit vos a sign ov de times: a new Heterodyne... a new empire... a new vorld. Maybe vun dot need my type ov monster no more. Dark thoughts. Und den, de door opened, and de light valked in.''
-->-- '''Ivo Sharktooth''', [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170814 "Private Jager"]], from ''Webcomic/GirlGenius''
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[[folder:Web Video]]
->'''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}:''' I'm the best there is at what I do, including inner monologues.\\
'''[[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Rorschach]]:''' Challenge accepted. Rorschach's journal, March 6, 1985. Found myself in room with cheap white background, a clean white mask for the greed of [[Creator/DCComics two giant]] [[Creator/MarvelComics corporations.]]\\
'''Wolverine:''' This is what I'm up against? A reject from "I Love The Eighties"?
-->-- ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n3VSw1XBOo "Wolverine and Watchmen"]]
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
->According to my analysis, 100 percent of successful detectives wear trench coats and hats while narrating their thoughts.
-->--'''Zane''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}''
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