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** The British cryptologist in "Codename - Cerberus" admits he can never leave a crossword puzzle alone. [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/11151478/Could-you-have-been-a-codebreaker-at-Bletchley-Park.html Bletchley Park recruited codebreakers with crossword puzzles]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.

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** The British cryptologist in "Codename - Cerberus" admits he can never leave a crossword puzzle CrosswordPuzzle alone. [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/11151478/Could-you-have-been-a-codebreaker-at-Bletchley-Park.html Bletchley Park recruited codebreakers with crossword puzzles]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
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* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Western characters and some of the D Agency boys speak pretty good English when the situation calls for it.
** A piece of paper with some text is used in "Codename: Cerberus" as an example of a document encoded with an Enigma machine. The text is the final stanza of Lord Byron's ''Epitaph to a Dog'', which fits in with the dog theme of the episode and foreshadows a key plot point later on.
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* MagicPokerEquation: Sakuma's first social interaction with D-Agency is a game of poker. In the first hand, he gets a full house, and is beaten by a four of a kind. Justified in that his opponents are actually playing the titular Joker Game, and are helping each other cheat.
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* ThouShaltNotKill: One of D Agency's key tenets, along with not getting killed and not getting caught. This is meant to distinguish them from the Imperial Japanese Army and is one of the many little things about D Agency that irritate the Army.

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* ThouShaltNotKill: One of D Agency's key tenets, along with not getting killed and not getting caught. This is meant to distinguish them from the Imperial Japanese Army and is one of the many little things about D Agency that irritate the Army. Note that this is not about morality, but because of pragmatism: dead bodies can bring about investigations, which could complicate or compromise the actual mission the spies are trying to accomplish.
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* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: It's very obvious that the portraits were Emperor Hirohito. But his face wasn't shown because [[UnacceptableTargets it's taboo to have him and his family portrayed in Japanese media]] unless it's for historical, educational, or informative purposes.

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* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: It's very obvious that the portraits were Emperor Hirohito. But his face wasn't shown because [[UnacceptableTargets it's taboo to have him and his family portrayed in Japanese media]] media unless it's for historical, educational, or informative purposes.
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* {{Calvinball}}: The titular card game, at least from the point of view of Sakuma(and the audience). The whole point of the game of being a cheating bastard by any means necessary is something that involves a collection of mysterious looks and signals among the players that he doesn't understands and the fact that it may all just be misinformation makes it even ''less'' understandable, at least for Sakuma (who doesn't knows any of the codes, doesn't [[HonorBeforeReason wants to play dirty]], and obviously is the odd man out and the most probable to be singled out to be punked in any allliances).

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* {{Calvinball}}: The titular card game, at least from the point of view of Sakuma(and Sakuma (and the audience). The whole point of the game of being a cheating bastard by any means necessary is something that involves a collection of mysterious looks and signals among the players that he doesn't understands and the fact that it may all just be misinformation makes it even ''less'' understandable, at least for Sakuma (who doesn't knows any of the codes, doesn't [[HonorBeforeReason wants to play dirty]], and obviously is the odd man out and the most probable to be singled out to be punked in any allliances).

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