History YMMV / DetectiveConan

* {{Adorkable}}:
** In the beginning of the series the only clothes Conan is seen wearing are his miniature suit, complete with a bow tie. This combined with his cute ways of expressing his feelings and his ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' obsession create top quality Adorkable material. He can also be classified as an out-and-out mystery geek, not just a Holmes geek.
** [[LikeFatherLikeSon Conan's dad]], Yusaku Kudo is a mystery writer who gets a bit too excited about mysteries. Also, his glasses rock. And his wife/Conan's mom Yukiko mixes this with OneOfTheKids, {{Tsundere}}, and being ''really damn pretty''.
** Conan's teacher Sumiko Kobayashi is not only really pretty, but a very sweet NiceGirl who often goes {{adorkable}} when she fangirls over her beloved mystery authors and the Japanese Police (she wanted to be a police woman before choosing to become a teacher), or when she tries to become [[SnoopingLittleKid the Detective Kids's]] "manager". Appropriately, [[spoiler:when she and GentlemanInspector Shiratori [[ChildhoodFriendRomance get together]], [[MoeCouplet her adorkable levels]] start rubbing off on ''him''.]]
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
** Kogoro Mouri has been interpreted as having actually figured out Conan is actually solving the crimes ''for'' him and after awhile, just ''let'' him solve it for him while he receives the credit for it. Kogoro already isn't a bad detective; he's just got an extreme case of Tunnel Vision and wants things to be done as fast as possible, so he'll come to one conclusion a detective would, but then insist he's right until proven wrong. Whenever Ran or Conan are threatened, he actually becomes ''scarily'' competent (Kinda like ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' whenever he knows Penny & Brain are threatened). There have been several other times where he actually got it ''mostly'' right, and several times where he solved the case and only needed a couple hints from Conan, or in one occasion, not only solved it but got a couple details that ''Conan'' missed. (It also helps that he tends to be more street-smart while Conan is more book-smart - Kogoro has more insight into peoples' emotions) Chapters 853-55 reveal that Kogoro believes his "sleeping Kogoro deductions" to just be his ''true'', brilliant self coming to light, with the drowsiness and sleeping a consequence of all his brain cells working at full power. Yeah...
** Shinichi Kudo:
*** Genius or selfish, immature {{Jerkass}} who places himself above the others and doesn't really get the meaning of death and for whom each dead person is nothing but challenge?
*** Some put him somewhere between IntelligenceEqualsIsolation and InsufferableGenius.
*** You can make the case that he ''starts out'' as a selfish {{Jerkass}}, but as the series progresses and CharacterDevelopment sets in, becomes more attuned to the human nature of the cases, especially after the Moonlight Sonata case since in Episode 78 [[spoiler: when Miyuki Hyuuga tries to kill herself and Conan thwarts it, Heiji explicitly asks why he did that, and Conan says "a detective that allows a suspect to commit suicide ''is no better than a murderer''", Moonlight Sonata flashback included]]. An obvious character arc is apparent if one watches the Mountain Villa Bandage Man Murder Case, the Moonlight Sonata Murder Case, the Distinguished Family's Consecutive Accidental Death case, the Dissonance of the Stradivarius Murder Case, and the Detectives' Nocturne in chronological order. [[spoiler:Each deals, subtly or greatly, with culprits that either threaten to or are genuinely at risk of suicide, and each reflects a slow difference in how Shinichi deals with this kind of scenario over the course of the series]].
** Some readers interpret that Ran has known Conan is Shinichi all along and is just pretending to not knowing because she thinks that he has good reason for not telling her. Most of her behavior stems from the Kazuha Charm Case with the fingerprint evidence (AKA the most ironclad evidence that one can possibly had) seems to support it.
** Is Gin really loyal to the Boss? Or does he only kiss up to him with the hopes of moving up in the Black Organization? The latter is supported by his [[TheResenter envy of Vermouth being the Boss's favorite employee]] and that he'll gladly look for any excuse to terminate her.
* AmericansHateTingle: The show is not truly ''hated'' in the US, but it has a [[CultClassic cult following]] ''at best'' in the United States, compared to the [[CashCowFranchise absolute monster of a franchise]] that it is in its homeland.
** The most common explanation is that Americans like their gruesome murder mysteries well enough, but prefer them to have '''adult''' protagonists, and find the notion of an ordinary high-schooler, let alone one with the physical appearance of a six-year old, to be [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids completely baffling]] or [[AudienceAlienatingPremise too weird to get invested in]], especially for those who are unfamiliar with the Japanese tendency to have [[UsefulNotes/{{Kawaisa}} deliberately cute, young-looking, or childlike characters]] even in franchises that go into very dark or violent territory. While stories about crime-solving pre-adolescents or young kids are by no means rare in the States, the general assumption is they're aimed at audiences of similar ages, based on [[ValuesDissonance vastly different ideas of what level of violence and gore is appropriate for a children's cartoon]]. Essentially, fans in the United States like their grisly murders and they like their lighthearted KidDetective stories, but [[MoodDissonance not both of them together.]]
** Another factor was its run on Adult Swim seriously got it ScrewedByTheNetwork due to airing weeknights at 1 a.m., a timeslot that's detrimental for people who have work or school in the morning. Funimation losing the license means that many fans in the states who missed the initial broadcast simply [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes do not have access]]
** The third most prominent reason is the serious ArchivePanic it suffers from. The fact that it took so long for a [[NoExportForYou proper import]] means that the cohort of fans in the states who were able to watch the whole thing from the beginning is basically nonexistent - a problem because that's [[ContinuityLockout definitely the ideal way of enjoying it.]] Not to mention that the story moves at a [[ArcFatigue glacial pace]] even for those who are completely caught up on the plot already. While American audiences are no strangers to anime series that have run for [[LongRunners an extremely long time]], the ones that do best overseas usually follow mostly serialized stories with long-term plot development (like [[Manga/OnePiece The]] [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Big]] [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Three]]), whereas ''Conan'''s storytelling is mostly episodic and [[StatusQuoIsGod largely static.]] The story moved slightly faster in the beginning but with over 1000 chapters, delayed import, and significant pacing slowdowns, American audiences not willing to invest their time in searching for unofficial translations and detailed summaries of the arcs they didn't get to see got hit with the effects of ContinuityLockOut and ArcFatigue ''simultaneously.''
* AngstWhatAngst: Conan's friends seem to be completely unfazed by witnessing grisly murder scenes virtually every day of their life.
* ArcFatigue:
** The main story. Started in Chapter 1, it was intermittently advanced for the first couple of years per the story premise, but the updates keep getting farther and farther apart. Some breaks even span a little over two years such as the gap between the Red Shirts case and Mystery Train case. Many of the fans who were following the manga since the beginning already have their passion and obviously patience long replaced with the obligation to [[JustHereForGodzilla just know the identity of Rum and "Ano Kata",]] the NumberTwo and Boss of the Black Organisation respectively along with [[EndingFatigue the ending of manga]].
** The Kazuha/Heiji romance. Unlike the majority of the other couples (Shinichi being shrunk, Satou mourning her father and first love's death, Kogoro's numerous behavior problems), they have no real reasons to not moving their relationship beyond bickering. Hell, it took Kazuha ''600'' chapters to confess her feeling and ''100'' more chapters for Heiji to confess back (keep in mind that each of their appearance together are about 15-20 chapters apart).
** Not only have the Bourbon and Rum arcs taken up almost half of the series collectively, they're also very similar plot-wise, with increasingly repetitive one-off cases.
** The whole thing about Sera [[spoiler:knowing about Conan being Shinichi]]. The plot [[IdiotPlot could've been avoided]] if they had just confronted each other directly in a private and secure setting, especially since Conan realizes fairly quickly that [[spoiler:Sera isn't a Black Org member, she's actually Akai Shuichi's younger sister, and further, that she's here partially to investigate her brother's death and partially because her mother shrunk from APTX 4869 just like Shinichi himself did]]. Instead, Conan desperately dodges her attempts at conversation anytime she makes her ''very'' thinly veiled references to [[spoiler:having history with him as children and knowing his identity and current problem]]. So thinly, in fact, that she's basically created the reason Conan doesn't trust her, [[spoiler:as she keeps trying to force Conan to out himself as Shinichi in the worst times and in front of uninvolved or uninformed people and in insecure and unsafe places, often ''in front of Ran'', from whom Conan has been going to ''absurd'' lengths to [[LockedOutOfTheLoop keep out of the loop]], with Sera's lack of tact and poorly-timed invasions of privacy even escalating to her trying to out Haibara and obviously attempting to steal Conan's things, thus giving Conan every reason to feel his paranoia regarding Sera is justified because despite knowing about the Black Org and what it's done to her family, she seemingly still has no respect or understanding of exactly how dangerous the secrets she's trying to expose in unsafe spaces ''are'' and how much danger she's potentially putting the targets of her investigation ''in.'']] By the time Sera makes attempts at a more secure location to speak, Conan is justifiably wary of Sera due to her incredibly reckless behavior. It says a lot that Conan trusts his big secret to a clumsy and ordinary guy like Eisuke Hondou, but not to Sera, a fellow detective with whom he has solved multiple cases. Even more frustratingly, this IdiotPlot drama has put the plot on hold for dozens upon dozens of chapters and has so far largely kept it there.
*** ''Even worse,'' in October of 2018, chapter 1008 dropped one of the biggest plot bombshells of the series. [[spoiler: The Boss's identity? Karasuma Renya!]] But instead of immediately following that up by delving into an investigation into who this character is (like a more naturally-paced mystery series would have, or even like earlier ''Detective Conan'' arcs would have), Conan drops this line of investigation as quickly as it appeared and side characters [[spoiler: Akai and Yusaku]] go off to do the plot-relevant interesting investigation offscreen while Conan's time is taken up by repetitive filler cases mostly involving Sera showing ''even worse'' judgement regarding others' secrecy and security. This major bombshell thereafter goes dozens of chapters without being acknowledged, seemingly not treated like a big deal. That's right: the pointless Conan-Sera conflict was apparently considered more important than naturally building up the conflict between the protagonist and the [[spoiler:''BigBad.'']] The fact that exploring what is possibly the most awaited part of the story, something that the fanbase has been waiting over ''twenty years'' for, was seemingly postponed in favor of Sera and her personal family drama can make it very hard to continue liking or caring about her or her plotline. Not helping matters ''at all'' is that 2018 saw the series release schedule slow down massively due to Aoyama's health and the serialization of ''Zero Tea Time'', to the point that it only managed to get one volume out over the course of that year and, as of 2020, the topic of [[spoiler:Karasuma Renya the BigBad]] still hasn't been followed up on ''at all.'' Needless to say, fans are by now on the verge of losing their minds.
** The Chiba/Naeko romance. First thing first, it's kind of recycled plot of Shiratori/Kobayashi romance, due to them being childhood crush where one of them forgot about the other. If that wasn't bad enough, Chiba is pretty much one of the, if not ''the'' worst offender of ObliviousToLove trope in the series. To summarize, when he met Naeko-as-a-cop, he didn't recognize her despite they met in front of restaurant where their former schoolmates were having reunion party (whom they almost attend, but Chiba was stuck with a case and Naeko already left the party to return to her new duty as traffic cop). Later when they're involved in a case, he only barely pays attention to her presence and never even bothers to learn her name and keeps calling her with "you" or pronouns as if she's a nobody or something. The one time she almost told him her name, [[MomentKiller Conan unwittingly interrupted them]]. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Well done, boy]]. And then he never reminds himself to ask her her name anymore. When he heard Yumi mentioned Naeko's name, he thought he misheard it as "nekomike" ("calico cat" in Japanese) and then his inner thoughts reveal to us that he ''did'' recognize that that female cop whose name he never bothers to learn looks like his childhood crush, but he didn't think they're the same person. [[spoiler:Appropriately, when he ''finally'' recognizes her and realizes she's the same person with his childhood crush, she calls him idiot and slow.]]
* ArchivePanic: Starting in ''[[LongRunners 1994]]'' and still going strong to this day. [[ContinuityLockout Have fun.]]
* AssPull: The identity of the supposed "boss" of the Black Organization - [[spoiler:Renya Karasuma]] can come out of nowhere for some fans. The character in question was introduced [[spoiler:as a long dead billionaire]] in volume 30, 17 years IRL before his connection to the Organization was revealed. There's ''vague'' thread tying them together, [[spoiler:with "Karasu" meaning crow and crows being the Organization's semi-recurring [[AnimalMotifs Animal Motif]]]], but you'll find few fans willing to count that as substantial enough for genuine {{Foreshadowing}}.
* BadassDecay: Jodie was vital in the battle of wits against Vermouth during her arc. Later, when Akai becomes a series regular, poor Jodie is just another FBI agent who along with the rest of them get fooled by the Black Organization before Conan and Akai clean up their mess.
* BaseBreakingCharacter:
** Kogoro. Some like him for his occasional funny moments and arcs for when he shows competence, but others hate him for his SmallNameBigEgo, his stupidity often derailing cases, outright ignoring evidence if he finds the culprit attractive, and for his borderline abuse towards Conan. It doesn't help that anime filler episodes tend to Flanderize his worst traits.
** Ran and Ai, because of DieForOurShip.
** The Detective Boys, usually written off as annoying kids, mostly due to their frequent appearances in {{filler}} episodes. Not helping as they can often come across as TheLoad on more serious cases, often causing trouble for Conan right when he's in the middle of a deduction or confronting the killer. On the other hand, they have been consistently scoring high in popularity votes and their CharacterDevelopment as of late has won over some of their previous haters.
** Sera initially received almost unanimous positive reception by a fanbase that craved a female sleuth, and the mystery surrounding her doubled the interest. But she's wearing out her welcome among some fans due to her being the main conflict driver in one of the most frustrating subplots of the entire series: the conflict between her and Conan, with Sera apparently being willing to compromise Conan's dangerous secrets for her own convenience and benefit ''in public'' and Conan subsequently being unwilling to share the information she's trying to pressure out of him. Her subplot is made even more frustrating by the fact that focusing on her has noticeably slowed the main plot down ''[[ArcFatigue even further,]]'' and the apparent lack of common sense and self-centered, tactless entitlement towards others' secrets that Sera has displayed during this conflict has frustrated a good number of readers. Presently, depending on who you ask, she either continues to be a refreshing addition to the reoccurring cast or is a major (and majorly annoying) roadblock [[SpotlightStealingSquad actively diverting focus away from characters and plots that need more attention.]]
** KID is generally well-liked, although he does have his detractors who either do not see him in as positive and heroic a light as the narrative treats him with or who see his appearances as another annoying and repetitive type of filler diversion from the main plot. However, more recently the truly big break regarding his character has been his changing characterization in the franchise as time goes on, which has caused some FanonDiscontinuity regarding a variety of his appearances. While many fans are ecstatic at any and all new KID-related content, some fans complain that the films in particular frequently distort KID's characterization in a negative and more morally ambiguous way than his characterization in other related media would align with, and thus reject and even outright dislike his ''Detective Conan'' film incarnation. [[spoiler:KID's actions in the 23rd film, ''The Fist of Blue Sapphire,'' seem to have exasperated this divide]].
* BrokenBase:
** A number of fans consider "anime original" episodes (episodes written specifically for the TV series by its own writers, rather than adaptations of issues of the single-author manga) to be of generally inferior quality.
** Canon filler cases as of late. Many readers have noticed the repetitive nature of the cases Gosho's been writing. Particularly, the many three-act-structure cases[[note]](3 chapters that follow a copy-and-paste format where a case occurs that Conan and company witness. Then, Conan and company talk it out to figure out who the killer is amongst three suspects, and finally, Conan and company reveal who the killer is)[[/note]] that don't have anything to do with CharacterDevelopment, the [[MythArc Black Organization]], or even being a complex case, in any way. While there are those that like reading through these cases as they are deemed canon, and are 90+ percent of the time ''better'' than actual filler cases created by the anime adaptation, there are also those who are sick of these constant {{Padding}} cases as detractors claim that they add nothing to the overall world/story, and is just Gosho stretching out his manga.
** The Black Organization's [[spoiler:Bourbon]] turning out to be ''another'' spy that has infiltrated the organization to try to destroy it from within. While some are glad that [[spoiler:Bourbon]] turned out to be a more complex character with a good side apart from being just another evil henchman, others find it to be {{re|cycledScript}}petitive since this is now the ''third'' time Gosho has pulled this plot-line after the B.O. members, [[spoiler:Rye and Kir]], had already used the exact same stunt. Some are also disappointed that due to [[spoiler:Bourbon's]] characterization, [[BadassDecay it lowers the threat of the organization as a whole]]. Possibly Lampshaded by Vermouth when she mentions to said spy, offhand, that Gin considers the Organization to be "full of rats".
** The multi-part chapters that are always Conan VS Kaito Kid. Some find them entertaining and intense, trying to figure out Kid's tricks upon tricks to gain a treasure and whether Conan will be able to prevent the theft. Others find them boring since it's the same routine, with Kid dressing up as the most unlikely person, faces getting pinched and Sonoko's uncle being an attention seeker but always getting overshadowed by Conan.
** The Heiji [[ScoobyDooHoax monster cases]] as of recent. On one hand, they're some of the more complex cases that it's interesting to see how it all unfolds by the end of them. On the other hand, they always follow the same format revealing that the monster is a fake by the end of it that it gets incredibly annoying to see the characters act like a monster could end up being real when they come across another monster case. Particularly with Ran and Kazuka. No matter how many times a monster is revealed to be fake, the two girls will ALWAYS be scared.
** Which of the films are quality and which, if any, are bad. Some find the newer ones increasingly engaging and enjoy them branching off into other subjects or attempting to explore and further develop side characters; others find the circumstances and stakes to be increasingly ridiculous and destructive to the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief. Particularly often subject to mixed reactions are films 11, 16, 19, and 21, which all feature scenes fans have found either refreshingly unique for the series or utterly contrived. Some particularly well-known examples would be the near-airplane crash in 19 that Conan runs directly in front of for seemingly no reason and "the satellite scene" from 21 in which Conan escapes a burning building by spinning around the inside of a satellite dish on his skateboard.
* TheChrisCarterEffect: The franchise is still very lucrative and popular in its native country of Japan and in many parts of the world, but the years of ArcFatigue no matter what arc the story is actually on, and the lack of faith that Aoyama will significantly develop the overarching plot any time soon, has caused many, usually grown-up fans to lose interest.
* CompleteMonster:
** "Old Blue Castle" case: Mutsumi Nishikawa was a maid working for the Mamiya family who [[{{Greed}} became obsessed with finding the treasure]] the family patriarch left in his castle. To this end, [[spoiler: Mutsumi set fire to one of the castle's towers to fake her death, killing over a dozen people, and then [[KillAndReplace killed and impersonated]] Masuyo Mamiya. When a man was hired to investigate the tower, Mutsumi starved him to death and dumped his body in the woods]]. When Professor Agasa and the Detective Boys arrive at the castle, Mutsumi stalks and [[WouldHurtAChild attacks them]], gloating about her plan to starve all of them to death so they wouldn't get between her and the treasure.
** "Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story III--The Case of Masayoshi Sato": The unnamed [[{{Pyromaniac}} arsonist]] is a [[AxCrazy gleefully sadistic]] man who desires to "light up" Tokyo with flames. Starting several fires across the city, the arsonist also stabbed an innocent man to death. When witnessed starting another fire by the Detective Boys, the arsonist [[WouldHurtAChild tried to kill them]] with a smile on his face. Ultimately, the arsonist intends to blow up a fuel warehouse and burn the entire city down in a "beautiful carnival" of flames.
** "With a Bang" case [[note]]originally "The Trembling Police Headquarters and 12 Million Hostages" in Japan[[/note]]: The [[MadBomber unnamed bomber]] is the BigBad of this story. Seven years ago, he and an accomplice used bomb threats in two apartment buildings to extort money from the police. Despite initially planning to not kill anyone, when his accomplice died from an accident caused by police miscommunication, the bomber, swearing vengeance against the police for their "dirty tricks", reactivated an undisarmed bomb, [[CopKiller killing the bomb technicians]] beside it. Four years later, he planted two sets of bombs, one at a Ferris wheel and another at an unknown hospital, using a tricky dilemma to force detective [[EnsembleDarkhorse Jinpei Matsuda]] into [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing himself]]]] at the Ferris wheel to find the location of the second set. In the present, he critically injured Inspector Shiratori by bombing his car, before sending another bomb threat about two new sets of bombs, one at the Tokyo Tower and another at an unknown high school, once again aiming to to humiliate the police with the same dilemma. Willing to detonate bombs [[WouldHurtAChild despite being aware of children's presence]], the bomber shows nothing but amusement from the police's troubles. When finally cornered, the bomber breaks down and reveals his true colors, a pathetic criminal looking to cause violence and see the police ruined, his original thoughts of vengeance long gone.
** [[NonSerialMovie Films]]:
*** ''The Time-Bombed Skyscraper'': [[spoiler:Teiji Moriya is an architect with a [[MadArtist violent obsession with symmetry]]. Unsatisfied with his past asymmetrical works, he plans to [[MadBomber destroy them in disproportionately violent ways]] while taking revenge on [[Characters/DetectiveConanShinichiKudo Shinichi Kudo]], who had unintentionally wronged him in the past. Starting by burning down four of his past works, he stole bomb-making materials and created plastic explosives to play a game of cat-and-mouse with Shinichi and the Tokyo police, bombing a park [[WouldHurtAChild with children in it]], a public square, and the Tokyo railway, causing further chaos by designing the bombs so that they explode if the trains slow down, forcing them to speed up. When finally revealed, [[TakingYouWithMe he attempts to blow up his own house and take the detectives with him]]. After being arrested, he reveals his greatest plan, destroying his "ultimate disgrace", a skyscraper and a major city center, starting by bombing the exits so that more people will die, all the while taunting Kogoro and Shinichi about Ran being trapped underneath the rubble, with the largest bomb, about to die]].
*** ''Quarter of Silence'': [[ItsAllAboutMe Keisuke Yamao]] is an unemployed villager of Kitanosawa who had been living with [[TheGamblingAddict a gambling addiction]]. To pay his debt, he had raided a jewelry store, killed the owner of the store, and stole the diamonds. While [[DrunkDriver driving drunk]] to his hideout, Yamao accidentally kills the younger sister of his friend Mizuki Toono, and while disposing of her body, the son of his other friend Fuyumi Tachihara witnesses the scene. When Yamao attempts to kidnap him, he accidentally causes Touma to fall from a cliff. After hiding the diamonds Yamao confesses his crime and is sent to jail. Eight years after, when Yamao discovered that the place where he had hidden his jewels are submerged in a dam, and that his past would be revealed, he tries to [[HeKnowsTooMuch kill those aware of his past]] and [[BigDamPlot bomb the dam]] to recover the diamonds, which would kill many innocents, all to Yamao's apathy, if not delight.
*** ''The Fist of the Blue Sapphire'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Leon Lowe]] is a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity respected businessman]], [[PsychoPsychologist criminal behavior psychologist]], and [[DirtyCop former police officer]] who is responsible for keeping the jewel that to be the prize of a karate tournament in Singapore. Leon is a {{greed}}y man who, to keep the jewel to himself, kills numerous people, and plans to destroy the parts of Singapore that the tournament is in--including an entire populated hotel--and to create a city on top of the debris.
* [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Music of Awesome]]: Apart from being an awesome song in its own right, whenever [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9ALMSbczfI "Kimi ga Ireba"]] (the vocal version of the movie opening theme) starts playing in one of the {{Non Serial Movie}}s, something awesome is usually about to happen--most often, some unsuspecting baddie is about to receive the butt-kicking of a lifetime. Sometimes they use [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C8ZQCPooGU "Boku ga Iru"]] instead just for variety.
* CultClassic:
** In the U.S. Since it aired at such a late time even for the Creator/AdultSwim schedule, the show never found that strong a following compared to its massive success in Japan. The manga, however, does have a decent enough fan-following and Viz has been translating the graphic novels for over a decade now (they're past Volume 60!)
** The anime seems to be this in Latin America, specially in Chile. As a proof, the anime stopped being dubbed in Los Angeles several years ago - but a second dub began to be made ''and'' broadcasted in Chile.
* DesignatedHero: Heizo Hattori during the ''Tiger Scroll Murder Case.'' To start, he punches Heiji (and not in the cartoony way Kogoro normally does with Conan) and gives him a ReasonYouSuckSpeech because he got careless during the investigation. By the end of the case, it's revealed that it was all a BatmanGambit to have enrage Heiji enough to act as bait for the culprit. So, not only did he physically abuse his son, he could have gotten him killed if something went wrong. You know something is wrong when the only person who [[WhatTheHellHero calls him out for how he acted]] was Kogoro, [[EveryoneHasStandards who isn't exactly a shining example of a good parent in this series himself]].
* DesignatedMonkey: Takagi. Though he does lose some of the uncertainty that makes him such a monkey as time goes on. For instance, in "The Man Who Called for an Ambulance" [[spoiler: he ends up delivering a lecture to a more senior detective about jumping to conclusions that Conan silently applauds]]. However, it looks like he will always be a monkey where his relationship with Satou is concerned. [[spoiler: Until she lets him know that her heart has been with him all the time]].
* DieForOurShip:
** Ran from the Conan/Haibara fans, as already mentioned. Surprisingly, the Shinichi/Heiji shippers are more respectful, or at least leave her out.
** Some particularly rabid Shinichi/Ran shippers seem to feel pretty threatened by [[BiFauxnen Masumi]] [[LesYay and]] Ran's close friendship, enough to accuse Sera of trying to steal Shinichi's girlfriend from him, and/or of being an [[ButchLesbian "offensive lesbian stereotype"]].
** Lately, the [[FaceOfAThug Akai]]/[[HotTeacher Jodie]] and Akai/[[BrokenBird Akemi]] fans have been seen ducking it out. The rabid Akai/Jodie fans tend to see Akemi as "stealing" Akai's heart from poor Jodie [[spoiler: even post mortem]] despite Jodie "deserving" his affection more in their view, while the rabid Akai/Akemi fans accuse all Akai/Jodie fans of being Akemi haters and insist that he only considered Akemi as his true love [[spoiler: and still does after her murder.]]
** The peaceful [[BelligerentSexualTension Heiji/Kazuha corner]] has been shaken up by the apparition of [[SelfProclaimedLoveInterest Momiji Ooka]], a potential AmateurSleuth who wants to marry Heiji. [[spoiler: (Plus, she's rumored to have a shared past with him)]]. Some think she's a potentially fun addition to their dynamics, others believe her to be a bitch out to steal Heiji from Kazuha, and others fear that she'll just be used as a plot device to bring Heiji and Kazuha closer. In fact, the Momiji bashing has been spotted '''on this very Wiki'''.
* EightDeadlyWords: Bordering on TooBleakStoppedCaring. While the overall cast is likable, a constant invocation of InvincibleVillain, StatusQuoIsGod and in-universe case suspects constantly jumping straight to AlwaysMurder with practically no signs of progress in the MythArc over the manga's runtime of over ''20'' years makes it very hard for readers to get or stay invested in the story.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: With ''Detective Conan's'' [[LongRunners long running stats]] and LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, a lucky few characters earned their own brigade of fans, with the first 4 promoted to "[[CharacterFocus Key Person]]" status on ''Conan's'' feature film of the year.
** Since being imported into Detective Conan, Kaitou Kid has consistently been ranked as the 2nd most popular character in the series behind only Conan himself. The only time he wasn't ranked second was when he was ranked ''first''.
*** The Kaitou Kid's rival, [[ClockKing Hakuba Saguru]], being something of an ensemble Dark Horse within Magic Kaito itself, still has a rather large fan following among Detective Conan fans, despite having only appeared in two DC story arcs and [[spoiler: sort-of]] one movie.
** Amuro Tooru is a very beloved figure among the female fanbase and even more so when his backstory and his [[spoiler:status as a double agent for the Black Organization]] was revealed. The 20th movie, with him as a major player in it, opened at #1 just a week after it premiered in theatres.
** Sonoko's {{Adorkable}} [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower super boyfriend]] [[KnightInShiningArmor Makoto]] [[BigDamnHeroes Kyogoku]] keeps bringing more and more [[EstrogenBrigade fangirls]] (and hype) with each of his appearance. Leading to [[Creator/NaokoMatsui Sonoko's actress]] resolving to notify the public one week prior to the episode containing Makoto's appearance. Makoto was also, in his highest place, placed 8th in popular ranking to boot. He is confirmed to be the major player rivaling Kaitou Kid in ''Conan's'' 23rd movie.
** Shuichi Akai holds a stable amount of fandom for being a FriendlySniper, and rivals Amuro in ''Conan'' merchandise due to Akai’s RelationshipVoiceActor ( [[spoiler: as well as his similar double agent characteristic]]) stats with Amuro Tooru. He is confirmed to be on the roster for year 2020's 24th movie.
** The trio detectives of Yamato, Uehara and "Koumei" Morofushi are pretty popular as well for being one of the more interesting characters introduced in the filler cases. The fandom generally agree that the filler cases are generally more bearable if these three appeared instead of [[TheScrappy Yamamura]]. The case that they introduced in is one of the more interesting and dramatic cases also doesn't hurt.
** For a one-shot character, Natsuki Koshimizu was surprisingly popular in the Detective Koshien case. It helps that she was a female AmateurSleuth with a tomboyish nature. There was even plans for a video game starring her. However Aoyama declined on the grounds [[spoiler: that she was the special's SympatheticMurderer, therefore a criminal.]] Although she was the inspiration and basis for future character Masumi Sera.
** Reiko Kujo, a prosecutor attorney anime original character, also became this for her interesting relationship with fan-favorite Eri and especially after her HiddenDepths is reviewed in her ADayInTheLimelight episode. She is to-date the only anime-exclusive character who continuously appeared more than one episode and played a major role.
** Matsuda Jinpei, Satou's ex-half-boyfriend, appeared only in flashbacks for about three episodes, having died years before the events of the manga began, yet he got his own keyhole appearance on the back cover and is sometimes considered one of the (admittedly numerous) main characters.
** The Criminal, the black silhouette character stand-in present in every investigation, became wildly popular with the fanbase. It's enough for the character itself to have its own spinoff manga.
** Vermouth has been consistently ranked high in popularity poll ever since her introduction, even if she has only sparing appearances compare to the other Black Organization members. This is because of her [[EvilIsSexy design]], [[EvilIsCool coolness]] and [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes complex relationship with Shinichi and Ran]].
* EpilepticTrees:
** A particular fan theory is that Eri's cat, Goro, is the Boss of the Black Organization. Or Yusaku. Or Dr. Agasa.
** See also [[WMG/DetectiveConan the Wild Mass Guessing page for this series]].
** As for Subaru, [[spoiler: There are two main theories in fandom about his identity: he either is the high-ranked Organization member Bourbon (always alluded to, and hinted to be ''very'' powerful and dangerous), or Shuichi Akai who is now FakingTheDead.]] [[spoiler: [[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Shuichi_Akai#Subaru_Okiya The last one turned out to be true]].]]
** As for Sera, [[spoiler: The fandom wonders if [[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Sera#Shuichi_Akai.27s_younger_sister she's related to Shuuichi Akai]].]] [[spoiler: Also confirmed in the manga: She's his younger sister.]]
** Now there's the recently introduced Tooru Amuro. [[spoiler:Perhaps ''he'' is Bourbon? ...[[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Bourbon He IS.]]]]
** More recently, a mysterious young girl has showed up. Theories about her identity have been running wild, some of them being: [[spoiler: "She is Ai's mother, Elena only shrunk"]], [[spoiler: "she is Sera's never-seen mother, only shrunk"]] and [[spoiler: "She is [[DudeLooksLikeALady "Sera's middle brother"]], [[RuleOfThree only shrunk"]].]] [[spoiler: [[http://yesyunniechan.tumblr.com/post/150400297156/detective-conan-chapter-972-japanese-to-english The second one]] is the closest to the truth.]]
** There's the deal of [[spoiler: Sera's "middle brother"]], where the most popular "option" is [[spoiler: Shukichi Haneda.]] [[spoiler: [[http://yesyunniechan.tumblr.com/post/150400297156/detective-conan-chapter-972-japanese-to-english 972]] also confirms it.]]
** The newest one features the identity of the supposed NumberTwo of the B.O., Rum. The biggest "suspects" of being this person are: [[spoiler: Hyoue Kuroda]], [[spoiler: Kansuke Yamato [[note]] ({{Jossed}} in [[https://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Super_Digest_Books#BLACK_PLUS_Super_Digest_Book an interview released in December 2018]])]][[/note]], [[spoiler: Rumi Wakasa]], and [[spoiler: Kanenori Wakita.]] [[spoiler: Chapter 1066 reveals it's the last one.]]
* EvilIsSexy: Vermouth. Also, Chianti.
* {{Fanon}}: Virtually ''any'' fanfic that examines the Black Organization's workings in-depth - and plenty that don't - will take it for granted that they have infiltrators at all levels of Japan's (and possibly other countries') police forces, usually to justify Shinichi's (highly selective) secret-keeping and paranoia. The first time canon even ''hinted'' at this idea was the Rum arc, and as detailed above, [[spoiler:Rum turned out to be someone totally unconnected with the police]]; most if not all other times, the Organization and the police are [[CastHerd kept to totally-segregated cases]] that barely even seem to exist in the same universe.
* FriendlyFandoms: From TheNewTens on, it's become extremely common for fans of this series to also be into the ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' franchise - especially since ''VideoGame/Persona5'' tends to be Westerners' ''other'' big introduction to Kogoro Akechi.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff:
** The series--especially the manga--is very popular in Indonesia. As of May 2016, the translation has been keeping up with the latter 88 volumes.
** Also the Germans in the case of the anime. They have one of the best fansubbing projects, and KeepCirculatingTheTapes of the German dubbed episodes scarily efficiently. These fans also cut together an ''uncut'' edition from the Japanese original and the German dubbed EditedForSyndication version[[labelnote:this means in practice:]]The video is the original except for the title card and occasionally opening song, but the audio is the dub except for DeletedScenes where it's back to Japanese[[/labelnote]].
** The anime is adored in Chile, too: even though the (SoBadItsGood) dub was discontinued since the Los Angeles-based studio was shut down ''and'' [[TroubledProduction the dub itself had a very difficult production]], a Chilean TV cable held several re-runs through the years, and as of November 2014 a new dub made in Chile started to be aired there...
** The anime is extremely famous in Spain, to the point where fans recently started begging on Twitter for the [[UnfinishedDub discontinued European Spanish dub]] to come back to TV -- and they've seen some sucess, since Alfa Pictures has now released dubs for the 22nd and 23rd movies featuring a large number of the original dub's cast.
*** Catalunya deserves special notice, as they boast the longest-running dub of the series ever -- that is to say, ''the only dub that has managed to run uninterrupted from its start in 2001 to the present day''. As of 2020 they have dubbed over 900 episodes and counting, plus every single movie to date.
** ''Detective Conan'' and ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' shared the status as ''THE'' most popular mangas in Vietnam by any metrics. The official manga regularly sold out at 100,000 paperbacks per volume [[note]]For comparison, One Piece and Naruto printed 20,000 paperbacks per volume[[/note]].
** Despite varying degrees of censorship on TV, the anime is popular in the Arab world, to the point where ''Detective Conan'' is the longest Arabic dub in terms of episode count.
* HarsherInHindsight:
** The very first full-length murder case involves a murder via decapitation in a closed segment of a roller coaster. While not murder, in RealLife in 2016, Verrückt, one of the largest water slides in the States (which had frequent safety issues and nonfatal but long term rider injuries) had to be closed after the son of a prominent politician had been decapitated after being thrown off.
** The NonSerialMovie released in April 2001 (Countdown to Heaven) happened to be about a pair of Twin Towers being bombed, with many being trapped on the upper floors of the burning skyscrapers as sections of the structure begin to collapse. Even worse, in the film the bombings were a planned controlled explosion by an undercover crime syndicate--which happens to include corrupt politicians within its membership--which pretty much gets away without having any suspicion pointed towards any of its members, which is exactly what many 9/11 conspiracy theorists believe.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** Sera keeps saying that, even though she is quite flat-chested right now, her mom has pretty boobs so there's nothing to worry about. Then, in volume 92, a flashback about Conan's first time meeting the Akai family 10 years before shows her mom, Mary, in a bikini, and the mom ''really'' has nice boobs.
** Kaitou Kid (as himself, at school) once told Aoko that her father won't even catch Kaitou Kid after [[Film/StarWarsTheRiseOfSkywalker Star Wars Episode IX]] is released.
* HoYay: Chapter 1020 will probably go down in history as "that chapter where Hattori tried to make out with Kaitou KID." Granted, KID was disguised as Kazuha at the time, but considering the reader has been following KID's internal perspective for the heist, we the reader base are fully aware of what's going on.
* HollywoodHomely: Sera, who is supposedly unattractive because she looks like a boy despite being drawn with quite feminine features. Just compare her when she standing next to [[CluelessDudeMagnet Ran]].
* IdiotPlot:
** A lot of crimes that go on in the series could have been either prevented or softened if every police officer that's not Sato, Takagi, or [[DependingOnTheWriter sometimes]], Megure [[NotNowKiddo would just listen to Conan or his friends]]. It's especially jarring since a police officer [[ArtisticLicenseLaw could lose their job or even get arrested for this sort of thing]], regardless of how ridiculous a child's claim is.
** The entirety of the Sera conflict [[spoiler:post reveal that she's Akai's sister and came to Japan seeking Shinichi's help. If Sera and her mother weren't needlessly aggressive and tactless in their attempts to get information and resources out of someone who otherwise probably wouldn't have a problem with helping them, or if Conan had just subtly hinted at the fact that he'd be more willing to talk in a more neutral and less compromised setting, it would have skipped '''dozens of chapters''' and we'd be that much further into the other plots in the series. Instead, Sera behaves in such a tactless and demanding manner that it puts everyone she wants help from on their guard, and her mother outright tells her to ''steal'' from the people whose help they desire, which is the exact opposite of productive when it comes to building the trust they need to end this pointless conflict.]]
* MagnificentBastard:
** "The Moonlight Sonata Murders": [[spoiler: [[DeadlyDoctor Seiji Asoh]] is the son of Keiji Asoh, the true identity of [[DisguisedInDrag Doctor Narumi Asai]] and the culprit behind the murders on Tsukikage Island. Seeking to avenge the deaths of the Asoh family, Seiji begins murdering those responsible, playing a recording of the "Moonlight Sonata" as a funeral piece for each of them. Seiji drowns Hideo Kawashima so the Japanese Police will have to examine the body on the mainland, leaving him as the only doctor on the island. Seiji then kills Tatsuji Kuroiwa, using the recording of the Sonata and his medical knowledge to create an alibi for himself. Seiji then murders Ken Nishimoto, [[NeverSuicide making his death look like a suicide]] and writing a note saying that he's the real murderer. When his crimes are discovered, Seiji calmly burns himself to death along with his father's beloved piano, [[FaceDeathWithDignity spending his last moments thanking Conan for his kindness]]]].
** "Murder at the Ski Lodge": [[spoiler: Akiko Yonehara is a cheerful former teacher of Ran and Sonoko who's out to deliver justice to two of her colleagues who murdered her student. Inviting all of her coworkers to a ski lodge, Akiko murders Sugiyama before everyone arrives, then [[WoundedGazelleGambit fakes an attack on herself and Sonoko]] in order to give herself an alibi. She then strengthens her alibi by rigging Sugiyama's body to be found at a set time where everyone is in the same place. Not knowing the identity of the other murderer, Akiko invites a reporter connected to the student's death to the lodge and leaves subtle clues to her true intentions in order to cause Sugiyama's cohort, Kohei Shimoda [[BatmanGambit to panic and reveal himself]]. Akiko then strangles Kohei with her wig to obfuscate his death and when exposed [[GracefulLoser admits fully to her crimes]] and expresses regret that she had to hurt Sonoko to get what she wanted]].
** "The Actor's Apartment and the Two Rooms": [[ADeadlyAffair Kozaburo Hijikata]] is a famous actor who schemes to murder his cheating wife and [[FrameUp frame Hajime Okita]]. Inviting Kogoro Mouri to his apartment under the pretense of teaching him how to act like a detective, Kozaburo rigs his wife's corpse to fall on an adjacent balcony so Ran and [[Characters/DetectiveConanShinichiKudo Conan]] will see it. In order to frame Hajime, Kozaburo makes his rooms on the fifth and sixth floors look identical so his guests think that they are on the fifth floor when [[CutAndPasteEnvironments they're really on the sixth]]. When everyone runs to get the police, Kozaburo lowers the body onto the balcony of Hajime's apartment a floor below so he will look like the killer. When accused by Conan and Kogoro, Kozaburo points out that the evidence used doesn't prove he's the killer, and Conan is only able to find the damning evidence by pure luck, with Kozaburo quietly [[GracefulLoser accepting his arrest while complimenting Kogoro]].
** "Murder on the North Star Express and the Unpublished Novel": [[KnightTemplar Toshinori Kaetsu]] is a former member of Yasuji Asama's gang who initially began working for Keitaro Izumo as part of a plan to rob his store. However after his girlfriend died from a drug overdose, Kaetsu began planning to kill Asama for getting her hooked on drugs, and Izumo for being a drug dealer. Lying to Asama by telling him that Izumo wanted his store robbed to get insurance, the robbery is botched when Izumo hits the alarm, causing people to believe that [[EngineeredHeroics he caused the robbery to look like a hero]]. Kaetsu then tricks the two into getting on the same train and beats Asama to death, then shoots Izumo while disguised as Asama and rigging his body to fall out of the train, making it seem as if Asama killed Izumo, then died accidentally while trying to escape. When Yukiko Kudo claims to have evidence that would expose Kaetsu he plans to kill her, being only seconds away from succeeding when he's finally caught.
* MemeticBadass: Ran's [[AnimeHair upswept pointy hair]], which is also used as a lethal weapon.
* MemeticMutation:
** Fishing line. Most lethal weapon ever!.
*** German fans comment that most of the crimes were done with fishing lines or similar cords.
*** Fishers need firearm licenses.
*** No fishing line, no crime.
** The criminal is ''that'' person!
** [[CatchPhrase OI, OI, OI!]]
** "I learned it in Hawaii!" It's gotten to the point where someone could easily mistake Hawaii for the code name of a CIA training camp. [[http://skyechan.deviantart.com/art/DC-The-Running-Joke-220183105 The overuse of this has not gone unnoticed by DC fans.]]
** "Cone", [[https://40.media.tumblr.com/f21168ecec5f4804b60679b9a990115c/tumblr_nnlfk1Gj1g1uurb01o1_r1_540.png "The Cone Life]]", "[[http://puzzling-turnabout.tumblr.com/post/117734035759/i-didnt-choose-the-cone-life-the-cone-life-chose I didn't choose the cone life, the cone life chose me]]" [[note]](Intentionally misspelling "Conan" as "Cone" [a la ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica "Meduka Meguca"]]'') became... oddly popular in some Tumblr spots.)[[/note]]
** Conan, the Death God.[[note]]The amount of people that have died whenever Conan is in the vicinity has led to a lot of jokes that he's somehow responsible.[[/note]] Something of an AscendedMeme, as the reoccuring police officers at one point started quipping about this in-story.
** ''Everyone'' is related to Akai Shuichi.[[note]]The Akai family, an expansion on the background of the EnsembleDarkHorse character Akai Shuichi, are relative latecomers to the series but continue to have twist reveals about relationships and thus frequently retroactively gain family members from the preestablished cast. There have so far been ''five'' characters in the last two arcs who have been revealed to secretly be related to Akai Shuichi, three of whom predate the concept of his family as an addition to the cast. Occasionally this meme takes the form of the ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' joke in which everybody is Squidward.[[/note]]
*** [[SixDegreesOfKevinBacon The Six Degrees of Kudo Shinichi.]][[note]] Aoyama loves OneDegreeOfSeparation--almost any new reoccuring character will (twist!) already have an important connection with at least one (but usually more) already-established character(s) somewhere along the line. And because [[UpToEleven Shinichi is the main protagonist...]] [[/note]]
* MisBlamed: No, sorry, it ''wasn't'' Funimation or Viz Media that changed it to "Case Closed". That change was actually requested by the Japanese editors to avoid copyright infringements/confusions with another Market-Based title: ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian''.
* {{Narm}}: [[Narm/DetectiveConan Now with its own page.]]
* NeverLiveItDown: It seems that Heizo Hattori's only memorable character trait is [[AbusiveParents punching Heiji]].
* OneSceneWonder: The character sheet has a special part for these. Jinpei Matsuda, though, is worth specific mention.
* PeripheryDemographic: Let's see. Attractive male characters? Many prominent competent and well-written female characters (majority of whom are ActionGirl)? Numerous romance subplots? No wonder the show has a large female demographic that typically doesn't follow a mystery shonen.
* PortmanteauCoupleName: LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, loads and loads of these, from Shinran (for Shinichi/Ran) to some of the very obscure pairings.
* RootingForTheEmpire: Arguably a downside of the frequent use of [[AssholeVictim Asshole Victims]]. Some of them are so despicable that it can be hard to wish for the SympatheticMurderer to be arrested.
* TheScrappy:
** Misao Yamamura. After many cases, you'd expected him to be more skilled, but it seems he hardly ever learned and can only heavily relies on Kogoro most of the time. He also doesn't really acknowledge Conan's skill and thinks he, as well as Heiji, is still learning from Kogoro. While other police inspectors like Megure and Yokomizou twins are growing better as the series progress, he is again an idiot. His tendency to suspect the heroes does not help at all and makes him even more annoying.
* ShipMates:
** If you support the same [[ChildhoodFriendRomance format]], then Shinichi/Ran, Heiji/Kazuha, and Kaito/Aoko is for you. To get [[PairTheSpares Haibara out of the way]], pair her up with [[PuppyLove Mitsuhiko]], who already has a crush on her. You might also include non-related ships like Eri/Kogoro and Satou/Takagi along with [[spoiler:Shiratori/Kobayashi (which ''is'' canon already)]] and Genta/Ayumi.
** Alternatively, for Conan/Ai shippers, they just [[DieForOurShip kill Ran off]] or [[LauncherOfAThousandShips pair her up with everyone else.]]
** Frequently Shinichi/Kaito fans get Ran out of the way by having her and Shinichi's relationship blow up and then pairing her off with [[PutOnABus Eisuke]], [[CrossoverShip Hakuba]], or [[LesYay Sera]].
* ShipToShipCombat:
** Not in the English fandom, but Chinese fansite forums have very specifically banned threads comparing Shinichi/Ran and Conan/Ai.
** One English-language forum keeps the Shinichi/Ran and Conan/Ai shippers to [[ThisIsMySide their own separate threads]]. Sometimes, you can't even discuss the Ran or Ai as stand-alone characters without the thread dissolving into a shipper war when either character's relationship with Shinichi is brought into the discussion.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Some have accused the franchise of relying on boosting the profile of its very popular and well-received [[EnsembleDarkhorse Ensemble Darkhorses]] in order to focus on them and extend the franchise's life without needing to significantly move the plot along.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic:
** The culprit of ''A June Bride Murder Case'', [[spoiler:Toshihiko Takasugi]]. While he does have a FreudianExcuse, his eventual redemption and the fact that he got [[spoiler:a very light sentence for his attempted murder]] can make some feel sour. First, there is the fact that he goes for a RevengeByProxy, instead of going after the man responsible for [[spoiler:the death of his mother]]. And even then, [[spoiler:Superintendent Kiyonaga Matsumoto wasn't fully responsible. He didn't see her when she was wounded during a car chase, because he was pursuing a criminal, and he [[MyGreatestFailure never forgave himself for that]].]] Admittedly, at the end of the episode, he feels remorse for what he did. [[SubvertedTrope However]], it's only because he realizes that his victim was [[spoiler:his childhood friend (and crush) all along]], '''not''' because she was an innocent victim of his RevengeByProxy.[[note]]Watch him gloat about how easy it was to trick Sayuri and then his reaction when he learns the truth about her.[[/note]] Moreover, he has the dubious honor to be one of the few culprits in ''Detective Conan'' who '''don't''' go after an AssholeVictim, yet he has one of the [[KarmaHoudini lightest punishments and gets a happy ending three years later.]] This is especially jarring considering so many [[SympatheticMurderer Sympathetic Murderers]] have had their lives ruined, ended or both.
** [[spoiler: Mary Sera]], so far. [[spoiler: Her sister, brother-in-law, and husband were all murdered by the same crime syndicate, and she was poisoned by said crime syndicate by a woman who introduced herself wearing her dead husband's face, leaving Mary the weak and sickly third known survivor of APTX 4869--her backstory ''seems'' to be set up for us to sympathize with her. However, her major defining behavior so far is her cold, rude, manipulative, disrespectful, abrasive, and even physically violent behavior towards others in general and her own children in particular. While she does smile at her son Shuukichi's shogi victory, implying some kind of genuine affection, she otherwise doesn't act very parental; she also once attacked her other son Akai for lying to her about his intentions to join the FBI, leading to a serious fight that left them both injured, and in the present, uses her daughter Sera Masumi as her agent to enact her strategies outside the safety of her hotel room without fully informing Masumi of relevant details despite the clear danger that puts her daughter and others in. Mary also instructs and encourages Masumi to behave in an entitled and aggressive manner towards others' life-threatening secrets, showing little to no concern for the potential peril she's putting Conan, Haibara, their acquaintances, or Masumi herself into solely for Mary's own benefit. Mary further plays a major role in maintaining the IdiotPlot conflict between Conan and Masumi, even instructing Masumi to ''steal'' from Conan. The more neutral description [[https://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Mary_Sera#Personality the fan wiki]] gives for her characterization is that she's not very socially adept, but given that she's a parent and an actual adult and all the people she exploits and mistreats are ''actual'' minors in serious danger and/or her own children, this generally hasn't been considered a good excuse. The result is that Mary has so far inspired much more frustration and dislike than sympathy, at least within English-speaking fan spaces, with many posts from Tumblr and reddit responding to her more tragic flashbacks with disdain and/or genuine wonder regarding whether readers are actually expected to like or feel sorry for her.]] However, as the character's story arc isn't finished, there is at least potential that this can change, unlike the above example.
* TheUntwist: Sera is a girl. [[SarcasmMode That was so difficult to figure out.]]
* ValuesDissonance:
** Western people without insight on Japanese culture tend to view Kogoro and Heizo as simple and shallow child abusers due to their harsh treatment of Conan and Heiji. However, [[SocietyMarchesOn at the time]], a smack to the head would not get the same reaction in Japanese culture as it would in American — and partially PlayedForLaughs with the {{cranial eruption}}s, especially in early stories and the anime originals, compared to the later manga and manga adaptations. Additionally, Heizo's one punch of Heiji is used to [[CorporalPunishment discourage Heiji from going after a dangerous mob boss]], and then uses the fact that Heiji's primary reaction is to get mad for the ''dismissal of his detective skills'' and continue investigating [[spoiler: as a distraction to get the police force in place to catch the whole gang.]]
** There's also the subject of Kogoro's alcoholism which is almost always played for laughs. It should be noted that the drinking culture in Japan is VERY different.
* ValuesResonance:
** Many female characters (like Ran, Kazuha and Satou) are portrayed as popular and [[CluelessDudeMagnet attractive]] ever since their introduction because they are {{Nice Girl}}s even though they have [[ActionGirl personality]] [[PluckyGirl traits]] that Japanese find unappealing in women. The manga even made explicit that their loved ones love them ''because'' of those traits.
** Chiba and Megure's main characterization aren't revolved around their weight and their fitness doesn't hinder them from being a competent police detective. Chiba's love interest is only concern about his health and still loves him deeply for his personality.
* ViewerGenderConfusion: Eisuke. Hell, Satou looks more like a guy than him... Lampshaded when Ran mentions "a student who looks a LOT like Mizunashi Rena" and Kogoro expects to meet a girl. [[UnsettlingGenderReveal Of course, he's soon disabused of said belief.]]
* WhatAnIdiot:
** In the 15th NonSerialMovie, ''Quarter of Silence'', the culprit develops an elaborate scheme [[spoiler:involving blowing up a train in Tokyo as a diversion, then blowing up a dam in order to drain the lake behind it and get at stolen treasure that was buried there before the dam went up]]. He could have kept things much quieter and simpler, and completely avoided getting Conan and company involved, if he'd just [[spoiler:used scuba gear]] instead. What an idiot.
** There are times where Ran figures out that Conan is Shinichi. Since he's not telling her about it, she should have just keep this to herself until the right moment he tells her, but no; instead she keeps on admitting it to his face and tries to get a confession out of him, leading to the times where [[LockedOutOfTheLoop she'll forget about it]].
** Anytime Conan confronts the murderer on his own, seemingly forgetting he has the body of a young child. This almost got him killed once.
** Many of culprits would commit their crimes knowing full well that Kogoro Mouri, a world famous detective (thanks to Conan), is on the scene. They never consider changing their plans and waiting for him to leave to do it.
** One particular culprit used buying snacks in a blizzard as an alibi. One of the things that makes Shinichi think she's lying? She comes back with everyone's snacks, but doesn't have ice cream saying "They were sold out". This looks very suspicious... except she could have come up with another plausible excuse for not having ice cream. That since it's a blizzard, and she would have to use the car heater, it wouldn't be a good idea since the ice cream would melt.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Despite being published in a Shonen Magazine meant for preteens and teenagers and shown in evenings slot for the duration of its run, the series holds no boundaries with its violent content, with subject matter like murder, suicide, bombings, etc; all of which would make it impossible to air on children's programming in the West.
* WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHimBack: In one case, [[spoiler: a man tries to kill his bride at a wedding. She notices his intentions, but three years later, she marries him anyway..]]
* {{Woolseyism}}: In general, a ''lot'' of cases rely on Japanese wordplay that doesn't translate well into English outside the manga. The localizers try to explain it in a way that makes sense to the viewers, and change names when they couldn't.
** A good example of how difficult these cases can be to translate and the attempts to have it make sense in English can be seen in one episode in which a victim is stabbed and writes the name of his killer in his blood, and a ''big'' part of the solution is wordplay. The victim was discovered by someone else, who saw the murderer's name and then attempted to change it to something else. It was seen ''again'', and then changed ''again'' to another word that included the characters. In English, they change this to the first message being "shrine God", then it's revealed to be "Ringo" - which works because the letters to spell the name are in the words "Shrine God" in that order. However, the true killer was romanised as "Tina" - which is much harder to link to "Ringo" without assuming that it was smudged and the first person smeared it to look more difficult to read as "Tina".
** In ''Billionaire Birthday Blues'', when the first victim is found leaning over the fountain he was drowned in, Kogoro says "Hey, this is no place to be sleeping". In the English Dub, Richard wonders if he's feeling sick, which (To westerners at least; unless Japanese people are able to fall asleep with their heads hanging over something like that in the rain) looks more like he's vomiting into the fountain at a glance.
** This is also something that would have been LostInTranslation otherwise, but there's a part in which a fashion designer is surprised when she finds out that Ran's father is Kogoro Mouri. You'd think that before asking her presence and planning to help use her as an alibi, [[FridgeLogic she'd make sure that she's not related to a local celebrity with the same surname, right?]] The dub makes this a little more recognizable to English speakers because they wouldn't know that "Mouri" isn't exactly an uncommon surname in Japan, but they would know that "Moore" is a ''really'' common name so someone with the same last name as someone famous could be unrelated period. Then again though, this could be simple assumption...Would ''you'' assume Ran to be related to some famous person with the same surname by ''looking'' at her and then looking at Kogoro?
** One of the cases had the hint that the victims were connected by playing Mahjong often be revealed by sentences that they told their families when they interrupted them during a game. Either this was a ''very'' difficult example to translate, but the hints make no sense to anyone who doesn't know Mahjong or the original Japanese text. The members of the game say things like "I'm going to the doctor" which wouldn't cause anyone to think Mahjong.
** In the ''June Bride'' case; the bride is chastised for drinking lemon tea in the sub because "it was for kids" and it was localized as "Lemon Punch" in the dub. This actually makes a ''lot'' more sense in the dub; where she is instead chastised for drinking punch, also being told that it will rot her teeth. In the western world, tea is usually marketed towards teens and adults, whereas punch is usually marketed towards kids. Not to mention, punch is always very sugary, and "it'll rot your teeth" is something a lot of adults (and dentists) say to get kids off of drinking sugary drinks.
** The English dub also changed a line the TV station murder. When Kogoro is showing how a call on an analog phone can be tapped into, he gives the example call of a husband having an affair. He changes the line of him and his wife being separate to the ''much'' more provocative "The wife is out with the kids", which would ''further'' incriminate the theoretical adulterer. Additionally, this line is a BrickJoke - Kogoro says it on live TV, and in the next episode, where Ran meets her mother at a diner, the line is played back taken out of context as they walk past a TV station. It still remains just as humorous and awkward in English.
** In Viz's translation, they ignored the English that Aoyama used and just translated the Japanese translation. Vermouth's catchphrase goes from the always awkward sounding, "A secret makes a woman woman" to "It's that touch of mystery that gives a woman her allure".
** Some dubs, including English, German and Korean, have Conan thinking in Shinichi's voice.
** In the third and definitive LA-Spanish dub, Agasa's "Ai-kun" is sometimes rendered as the AffectionateNickname "Ai-rin". It follows very closely the English pronunciation of the female name "Irene"... as in, "Irene Adler" from the Holmes stories.
** Speaking of Ai - Funimation's movie dubs call her ''Vi Graythorn''. That may not be as accurate as Viz's (''Anita Hailey'') in initials, but it both ''sounds'' closer to the Japanese original ''and'' references the two female detectives (Cordelia Gray and V.I. Warshawski) that Aoyama built her original name from.
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** [[spoiler: Mary Sera]], so far. [[spoiler: Her sister, brother-in-law, and husband were all murdered by the same crime syndicate, and she was poisoned by said crime syndicate by a woman who introduced herself wearing her dead husband's face, leaving Mary the weak and sickly third known survivor of APTX 4869--her backstory ''seems'' to be set up for us to sympathize with her. However, her major defining behavior so far is her cold, rude, manipulative, disrespectful, abrasive, and even physically violent behavior towàrds others in general and her own children in particular. While she does smile at her son Shuukichi's shogi victory, implying some kind of genuine affection, she otherwise doesn't act very parental; she also once attacked her other son Akai for lying to her about his intentions to join the FBI, leading to a serious fight that left them both injured, and in the present, uses her daughter Sera Masumi as her agent to enact her strategies outside the safety of her hotel room without fully informing Masumi of relevant details despite the clear danger that puts her daughter and others in. Mary also instructs and encourages Masumi to behave in an entitled and aggressive manner towards others' life-threatening secrets, showing little to no concern for the potential peril she's putting Conan, Haibara, their acquaintances, or Masumi herself into solely for Mary's own benefit. Mary further plays a major role in maintaining the IdiotPlot conflict between Conan and Masumi, even instructing Masumi to ''steal'' from Conan. The more neutral description [[https://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Mary_Sera#Personality the fan wiki]] gives for her characterization is that she's not very socially adept, but given that she's a parent and an actual adult and all the people she exploits and mistreats are ''actual'' minors in serious danger and/or her own children, this generally hasn't been considered a good excuse. The result is that Mary has so far inspired much more frustration and dislike than sympathy, at least within English-speaking fan spaces, with many posts from Tumblr and reddit responding to her more tragic flashbacks with disdain and/or genuine wonder regarding whether readers are actually expected to like or feel sorry for her.]] However, as the character's story arc isn't finished, there is at least potential that this can change, unlike the above example.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Despite being published in a Shonen Magazine meant for preteens and teenagers and shown in evenings slot for the duration of its run, the series holds no boundaries with it's violent content, with subject matter like murder, suicide, bombings, etc; all of which would make it impossible to air on children's programming in the West.

** Many female characters (like Ran, Kazuha and Satou) are portrayed as popular and [[CluelessDudeMagnet attractive]] ever since their introduction because they are NiceGirl even though they have [[ActionGirl personality]] [[PluckyGirl traits]] that Japanese find unappealing in women. The manga even made explicit that their loved ones love them ''because'' of those traits.

** Kaitou Kid (as himself, at school), once told Aoko that her father won't even catch Kaitou Kid after [[Film/StarWarsTheRiseOfSkywalker Star Wars Episode IX]] is released.

** The very first full-length murder case involves a murder via decapitation in a closed segment of a roller coaster. While not murder, in RealLife in 2016, Verrückt, one of the largest water parks (which had frequent safety issues and nonfatal but long term rider injuries) in the States had to be closed after the son of a prominent politician had been decapitated after being thrown off.

** The very first full-length murder case involves a murder via decapitation in a closed segment of a roller coaster. While not murder, in RealLife in 2016, Verruckt one of the largest water park (which had frequent safety issues and nonfatal but long term rider injuries) in the States had to be closed after the son of a prominent politician had been decapitated after being thrown off.

** Some particularly rabid Shinichi/Ran shippers seem to feel pretty threatened by [[BiFauxnen Masumi]] [[LesYay and]] Ran's close friendship, enough to accuse Sera of trying to steal Shinichi's girlfriend from him, and/or of being a [[ButchLesbian "offensive lesbian stereotype"]].

** [[spoiler: Mary Sera]], so far. [[spoiler: Her sister, brother-in-law, and husband were all murdered by the same crime syndicate, and she was poisoned by said crime syndicate by a woman who introduced herself wearing her dead husband's face, leaving Mary the weak and sickly third known survivor of APTX 4869--her backstory ''seems'' to be set up for us to sympathize with her. However, her major defining behavior so far is her cold, rude, manipulative, disrespectful, abrasive, and even physically violent behavior towàrds others in general and her own children in particular. While she does smile at her son Shuukichi's shogi victory, implying some kind of genuine affection, she otherwise doesn't act very parental; she also once attacked her other son Akai for lying to her about his intentions to join the FBI, leading to a serious fight that left them both injured, and in the present, uses her daughter Sera Masumi as her agent to enact her strategies outside the safety of her hotel room without fully informing Masumi of relevant details despite the clear danger that puts her daughter and others in. Mary also instructs and encourages Masumi to behave in an entitled and aggressive manner towards others' life-threatening secrets, showing little to no concern for the potential peril she's putting Conan, Haibara, their acquaintances, or Masumi herself into solely for Mary's own benefit. Mary further plays a major role in maintaining the IdiotPlot conflict between Conan and Masumi, even instructing Masumi to ''steal'' from Conan. The more neutral description [[https://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Mary_Sera#Personality the fan wiki]] gives for her characterization is that she's not very socially adept, but given that she's a parent and an actual adult and all the people she exploits and mistreats are ''actual'' minors in serious danger and/or her own children, this generally hasn't been considered a good excuse. The result is that Mary has so far inspired much more frustration and dislike than sympathy, at least within English-speaking fan spaces, with many posts from Tumblr and reddit responding to her more tragic flashbacks with disdain and/or genuine wonder regarding whether readers are actually expected to like or feel sorry for her.]] However, as the character's story arc isn't finished, there is at least potential that this can change.

** [[spoiler: Mary Sera]], so far. [[spoiler: Her sister, brother-in-law, and husband were all murdered by the same crime syndicate, and she was poisoned by said crime syndicate by a woman who introduced herself wearing her dead husband's face, leaving Mary the weak and sickly third known survivor of APTX 4869--her backstory ''seems'' to be set up for us to sympathize with her. However, her major defining behavior so far is her cold, rude, manipulative, disrespectful, abrasive, and even physically violent behavior towàrds others in general and her own children in particular. While she does smile at her son Shuukichi's shogi victory, implying some kind of genuine affection, she otherwise doesn't act very parental; she also once attacked her other son Akai for lying to her about his intentions to join the FBI, leading to a serious fight that left them both injured, and in the present, uses her daughter Sera Masumi as her agent to enact her strategies outside the safety of her hotel room without fully informing Masumi of relevant details despite the clear danger that puts her daughter and others in. Mary also instructs and encourages Masumi to behave in an entitled and aggressive manner towards others' life-threatening secrets, showing little to no concern for the potential peril she's putting Conan, Haibara, their acquaintances, or Masumi herself into solely for Mary's own benefit. Mary further plays a major role in maintaining the IdiotPlot conflict between Conan and Masumi, even instructing Masumi to ''steal'' from Conan. The more neutral description [[https://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Mary_Sera#Personality the fan wiki]] gives for her characterization is that she's not very socially adept, but given that she's a parent and an actual adult and all the people she exploits and mistreats are ''actual'' minors in serious danger and/or her own children, this generally hasn't been considered a good excuse. The result is that Mary has so far inspired much more frustration and dislike than sympathy, at least within English-speaking fan spaces, with many posts from Tumblr and reddit responding to her more tragic flashbacks with disdain and/or genuine wonder regarding whether readers are actually expected to like or feel sorry for her.]]

** Conan, the Death God.[[note]]The amount of people that have died whenever Conan is in the vicinity has led to a lot of jokes that he's somehow responsible.[[/note]] Something of an AscendedMeme, as the reoccuring police officers eventually started quipping about this in-story.

** Conan, the Death God.[[note]]The amount of people that have died whenever Conan is in the vicinity has led to a lot of jokes that he's somehow responsible.[[/note]]

** ''"Everyone'' is related to Akai Shuichi."[[note]]The Akai family, an expansion on the background of the EnsembleDarkHorse character Akai Shuichi, are relative latecomers to the series but continue to have twist reveals about relationships and thus frequently retroactively gain family members from the preestablished cast. There have so far been ''five'' characters in the last two arcs who have been revealed to secretly be related to Akai Shuichi, three of whom predate the concept of his family as an addition to the cast. Occasionally this meme takes the form of the ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' joke in which everybody is Squidward.[[/note]]
*** Its likely variation/possible predecessor: The [[SixDegreesOfKevinBacon Six Degrees of Kudo Shinichi.]][[note]] Aoyama loves OneDegreeOfSeparation--almost any major reoccuring character will be connected with a pre-established character somewhere along the line, and because [[UpToEleven Shinichi is the main protagonist...]] [[/note]]

** "[X] is related to Akai Shuichi."[[note]]The Akai family, an expansion on the background of the EnsembleDarkHorse character Akai Shuichi, are relative latecomers to the series but continue to have twist reveals about relationships and thus frequently retroactively gain family members from the preestablished cast. There have so far been ''five'' characters in the last two arcs who have been revealed to secretly be related to Akai Shuichi, three of whom predate the concept of his family as an addition to the cast. Occasionally this meme takes the form of the ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' joke in which everybody is Squidward.[[/note]]

** [[spoiler: Mary Sera]], so far. [[spoiler: Her sister, brother-in-law, and husband were all murdered by the same crime syndicate, and she was poisoned by said crime syndicate by a woman who introduced herself wearing her dead husband's face, leaving Mary the weak and sickly third known survivor of APTX 4869--her backstory ''seems'' to be set up for us to sympathize with her. However, her major defining behavior so far is her cold, rude, manipulative, disrespectful, abrasive, and even physically violent behavior towàrds others in general and her own children in particular. While she does smile at her son Shuukichi's shogi victory, implying some kind of genuine affection, she doesn't appear to prioritize parenting her children and expected her older kids to step in and raise her younger; she also once attacked her other son Akai for lying to her about his intentions to join the FBI, leading to a serious fight that left them both injured, and in the present, uses her daughter Sera Masumi as her agent to enact her strategies outside of the safety of her hotel room without fully informing her of relevant details despite the clear danger that puts her daughter and others in. Mary also instructs and encourages Masumi to behave in an entitled and aggressive manner towards others' life-threatening secrets, showing little to no concern for the potential peril she's putting Conan, Haibara, their acquaintances, or Masumi herself into solely for her own benefit. She further plays a major role in maintaining the IdiotPlot conflict between Conan and Masumi, even instructing Masumi to ''steal'' from Conan. The more neutral description [[https://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Mary_Sera#Personality the fan wiki]] gives for her characterization is that she's not very socially adept, but given that she's a parent and an actual adult and all the people she exploits and mistreats are ''actual'' minors in serious danger and/or her own children, this hasn't been widely accepted as an excuse. The result is that she so far has inspired much more frustration and dislike than sympathy, at least within English-speaking fan spaces, with many posts from Tumblr and reddit responding to her more tragic flashbacks with disdain and/or wonder regarding whether they're actually expected to like or feel sorry for her.]] While it might be too soon to call as her plot is ongoing, the character appears headed towards TheScrappy territory.

** [[spoiler: Mary Sera]], so far. [[spoiler: Her sister, brother-in-law, and husband were all murdered by the same crime syndicate, and she was poisoned by said crime syndicate by a woman who introduced herself wearing her dead husband's face, leaving Mary the weak and sickly third known survivor of APTX 4869--her backstory ''seems'' to be set up for us to sympathize with her. However, her major defining behavior so far is her cold, rude, manipulative, disrespectful, abrasive, and even physically violent behavior towàrds others in general and her own children in particular. While she does smile at her son Shuukichi's shogi victory, implying some kind of genuine affection, she doesn't appear to prioritize parenting her children and expected her older kids to step in and raise her younger; she also once attacked her other son Akai for lying to her about his intentions to join the FBI, leading to a serious fight that left them both injured, and in the present, uses her daughter Sera Masumi as her agent to enact her strategies outside of the safety of her hotel room without fully informing her of relevant details despite the clear danger that puts her daughter and others in. Mary also instructs and encourages Masumi to behave in an entitled and aggressive manner towards others' life-threatening secrets, showing little to no concern for the potential peril she's putting Conan, Haibara, their acquaintances, or Masumi herself into solely for her own benefit. She further plays a major role in maintaining the IdiotPlot conflict between Conan and Masumi, even instructing Masumi to ''steal'' from Conan. The more neutral description [[https://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Mary_Sera#Personality the fan wiki]] gives for her characterization is that she's not very socially adept, but given that she's a parent and an actual adult and all the people she exploits and mistreats are ''actual'' minors in serious danger and/or her own children, this hasn't been widely accepted as an excuse. The result is that she so far has inspired much more frustration and dislike than sympathy, at least within English-speaking fan spaces, with many posts from Tumblr and reddit responding to her more tragic flashbacks with vocalized wonder regarding whether they're actually expected to like and/or feel sorry for her.]] While it might be too soon to call as her plot is ongoing, the character appears headed towards TheScrappy territory.

** [[spoiler: Mary Sera]], so far. [[spoiler: Her sister, brother-in-law, and husband were all murdered by the same crime syndicate, and she was poisoned by said crime syndicate by a woman who introduced herself wearing her dead husband's face, leaving Mary the weak and sickly third known survivor of APTX 4869--her backstory ''seems'' to be set up for us to sympathize with her. However, her major defining behavior so far is her cold, rude, manipulative, disrespectful, abrasive, and even physically violent behavior towàrds others in general and her own children in particular. While she does smile at her son Shuukichi's shogi victory, implying some kind of genuine affection, she doesn't appear to prioritize parenting her children and expected her older kids to step in and raise her younger; she also once attacked her other son Akai for lying to her about his intentions to join the FBI, leading to a serious fight that left them both injured, and in the present, uses her daughter Sera Masumi as her agent to enact her strategies outside of the safety of her hotel room without fully informing her of relevant details despite the clear danger that puts her daughter and others in. Mary also instructs and encourages Masumi to behave in an entitled and aggressive manner towards others' life-threatening secrets, showing little to no concern for the potential peril she's putting Conan, Haibara, their acquaintances, or Masumi herself into solely for her own benefit. She further plays a major role in maintaining the IdiotPlot conflict between Conan and Masumi, even instructing Masumi to ''steal'' from Conan. The more neutral interpretation TheOtherWiki gives for her characterization is that she's not very socially adept, but given that she's a parent and an actual adult and all the people she exploits and mistreats are ''actual'' minors in serious danger and/or her own children, this hasn't been widely accepted as an excuse. The result is that she so far has inspired much more frustration and dislike than sympathy, at least within English-speaking fan spaces, with many posts from Tumblr and reddit responding to her more tragic flashbacks with vocalized wonder regarding whether they're actually expected to like and/or feel sorry for her.]] While it might be too soon to call as her plot is ongoing, the character appears headed towards TheScrappy territory.

* TheScrappy: Misao Yamamura. After many cases, you'd expected him to be more skilled, but it seems he hardly ever learned and can only heavily relies on Kogoro most of the time. He also doesn't really acknowledge Conan's skill and thinks he, as well as Heiji, is still learning from Kogoro. While other police inspectors like Megure and Yokomizou twins are growing better as the series progress, he is again an idiot. His tendency to suspect the heroes does not help at all and makes him even more annoying.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The culprit of ''A June Bride Murder Case'', [[spoiler:Toshihiko Takasugi]]. While he does have a FreudianExcuse, his eventual redemption and the fact that he got [[spoiler:a very light sentence for his attempted murder]] can make some feel sour. First, there is the fact that he goes for a RevengeByProxy, instead of going after the man responsible for [[spoiler:the death of his mother]]. And even then, [[spoiler:Superintendent Kiyonaga Matsumoto wasn't fully responsible. He didn't see her when she was wounded during a car chase, because he was pursuing a criminal, and he [[MyGreatestFailure never forgave himself for that]].]] Admittedly, at the end of the episode, he feels remorse for what he did. [[SubvertedTrope However]], it's only because he realizes that his victim was [[spoiler:his childhood friend (and crush) all along]], '''not''' because she was an innocent victim of his RevengeByProxy.[[note]]Watch him gloat about how easy it was to trick Sayuri and then his reaction when he learns the truth about her.[[/note]] Moreover, he has the dubious honor to be one of the few culprits in ''Detective Conan'' who '''don't''' go after an AssholeVictim, yet he has one of the [[KarmaHoudini lightest punishments and gets a happy ending three years later.]] This is especially jarring considering so many [[SympatheticMurderer Sympathetic Murderers]] have had their lives ruined, ended or both.

* NeverLiveItDown: It seem Heizo Hattori's only memorable character trait is [[AbusiveParents punching Heiji]].