History Narm / DetectiveConan

* The "Moonlight Sonata" case is a brutal mix of horror and TearJerker. But the ''ridiculous'' face that [[spoiler: the first "victim"]] makes in the flashback when [[spoiler: he learns that the soon-to-be SympatheticMurderer is the child of the pianist he and others killed]] and then [[spoiler: dies of a heart-attack]] is... ''distracting''. If the viewer's in a somewhat more cynical mood, '''poof'' goes the drama.

* A few of the Opening themes try ''very'' hard to make ''Conan'' look like an action packed series. The fact that the series generally '''isn't''' makes them look ridiculous. One of them has Conan hang-gliding...
** Though in the NonSerialMovie ''Magician of the Silver Sky'', Conan chases Kaito Kid's glider with a parasail. (Undoubtedly he [[DeusExMachina learned how to parasail in Hawaii…]])
* Let's not forget that whenever there's a crime with more than one suspect, they try ''way'' too hard to make the other suspects seem suspicious in the dramatic thought scenes in Shinichi/Conan's head. Even if they have done nothing even remotely sinister or implicative besides be in the episode, it will still show an image of all the suspects angrily or smugly scowling while looking over the corner of their eyes. Even funnier if the suspect actually has a ''SlasherSmile''.
* Some of the terrified expressions plastered on the murder victims's faces are so exaggerated that they're too hilarious to take seriously.

* In the case of the [[TroubledProduction the first Latin-American Spanish dub]], the {{Dub Name Change}}s were taken UpToEleven and reached this trope. Not only some regulars in the cast got their name changes in almost every apparition, but sometimes the dubbers chose either antiquated or downright ''ridiculous'' UnfortunateNames to slap on either them or one-episode charas. The results went from just average, to stupid, to hilarious, to straight-up ''what the HELL'' levels. Thanfully the other two dubs decided to just keep the Japanese original ones.

* The anime's censorship in regards to corpses. Now that the eyes of every corpse are closed, it heavily loses the impact of their death. While this is intended to make it look less brutal, it is still distracting in the long run and takes too much away from the drama.
* The series kind of abuse StaticStunGun trope that make some badass characters into helpless. Jodie was knocked out with stun gun by bank robbers and almost killed by their bomb when she's unconscious if not for Detective Boys and [[spoiler:Scar Akai]], of all people. The most notorious case is during the Policewomen Murder Case where the culprit effortlessly [[CopKiller killed]] ''[[CopKiller two]]'' [[WouldHitAGirl policewomen]] (one of them being a judoka ActionGirl, no less) when they're unconscious after he knocked them out with stun gun.

* The series kind of abuse StaticStunGun trope that make some badass characters into helpless. Jodie was knocked out with stun gun by bank robbers and almost killed by their bomb when she's unconscious if not for Detective Boys and [[spoiler:Scar Akai]], of all people. The most notorious case is during the Policewomen Murder Case where the culprit effortlessly killed ''two'' policewomen (one of them being a judoka ActionGirl, no less) when they're unconscious after he knocked them out with stun gun.

* The anime's censorship in regards to corpses. Now that the eyes of every corpse are closed, it heavily loses the impact of their death. While this is intended to make it look less brutal, it is still distracting in the long run and takes too much away from the drama.

This series has been running for pretty much two decades. It's bound to have many, MANY moments that are more hilarious than scary

* In the "Séance Locked Murders Mystery" three-parter, the reveal about one of the victims and her actual ties with the SympatheticMurderer is [[TearJerker made of tears]]. Bad thing, the SympatheticMurderer's reaction to the revelation is so ridiculously exaggerated that it sends a genuinely sad scene into this trope.

* The "Moonlight Sonata" case is a brutal mix of horror and TearJerker. But the ''ridiculous'' face that [[spoiler: the first "victim"]] makes in the flashback when [[spoiler: he learns that the soon-to-be SympatheticMurderer is the child of the pianist he and others killed]] and then [[spoiler: dies of a heart-attack]] is... ''distracting''. If you're in a somewhat more cynical mood, '''poof'' goes the drama .
* A few of the Opening themes try ''very'' hard to make ''Conan'' look like an action packed series. The fact that the series generally isn't makes them look ridiculous. One of them has Conan hang-gliding...

* In the anime only case "A Cursed Mask Coldly Laughs" there's the scene where Conan figures out how the culprit committed the murder. It involves a focus on scattering pearls, followed by Conan apparently ''getting knocked backwards and crying out due to his own realization''. Technically, he wasn't actually knocked backwards, but the visual is still narmy as heck.

* In the case of the [[TroubledProduction the first Latin-American Spanish dub]], the {{Dub Name Change}}s were taken UpToEleven and reached this trope. Not only some regulars in the cast got their name changes in almost every apparition, but sometimes the dubbers chose either antiquated or downright ''ridiculous'' UnfortunateNames to slap on either them or one-episode charas. The results went from just average, to stupid, to hilarious, to straight-up ''what the HELL'' levels. Thanfully the other two dubs decided to just keep the Japanese original ones.

* In the case of the [[TroubledProduction the first Latin-american Spanish dub]], the {{Dub Name Change}}s were taken UpToEleven and reached this trope. Not only some regulars in the cast got their name changes in almost every apparition, but sometimes the dubbers chose either antiquated or downright ''ridiculous'' names to slap on either them or one-episode charas. The results went from just average, to stupid, to hilarious to downright ''what the HELL'' levels.

* The superhuman force of Conan kicking his soccer ball has more or less become a staple trope of the series, but there are times when even that gets carried a tad too far. Such as in the 17th movie, where Conan kicks a ball at a criminal jumping down from the top of a ship while he's on the front deck and the force of the ball is so strong that when it hits said criminal, ''it sends him rocketing right back upwards several meters to where he jumped down from''.

* Some of the faces plastered in the murder victim's faces are so exaggerated that they're too hiularious to take seriously.

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