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* AbsurdlySharpClaws: The murder weapon is a sharpened toy replica of a White Bear claw, the WeaponOfChoice of the in-universe superhero and {{ComicBook/Wolverine}} {{Expy}} White Bear.
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* {{Fangirl}}}: Olive is this for Miracle Girl, to the point her only concern regarding Marcus' death is how he'll never draw her adventures again.
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[[caption-width-right:350:That's one way to [[TorchTheFranchiseAndRun Torch Your Franchise and Run]].]]
While discussing about Gabriel's infiltration into The Higher Truth, Jones and the player are informed by Amir about a dead body being found in Church Street, a section of Old Town that got hit particularly hard by the earthquake and now lies in ruins. There, both officers collect the corpse of Marcus Butler, the famous comic book artist they previously met, with his torso sliced open.
!!Tropes:
*AbsurdlySharpClaws: The murder weapon is a sharpened toy replica of a White Bear claw, the WeaponOfChoice of the in-universe superhero and {{ComicBook/Wolverine}} {{Expy}} White Bear.
*AdoptionAngst: When he discovered he'd been adopted, Marcus started GeneHunting for his real parents, something that didn't sit well with William, his adopted father.
*AgonizingStomachWound: The victim was killed by being inflicted with one of these.
*AlcoholInducedIdiocy: During her first interrogation, Tamu tells you the worst Marcus ever did was breaking one of the bar's chairs after getting drunk.
*BabysitterFromHell: Of the dangerous variety. During the Additional Investigation, Gloria and Judge Powell agree to have Olive babysit Carter to make up for her misdeeds during the case, which ends up backfiring when Olive takes Carter to the dangerous Xerdan ruins then break into Marcus' studio to draw themselves as superheroes despite how immoral that is, prompting both Gloria and Powell to ground their children once they're found.
*TheBartender: Tamu Wanjiku, the bartender at [[LocalHangout The Kraken]], appears as a suspect.
*BigDamnHeroes: Miracle Girl pops up in the Xerdan ruins to aid Gloria and the player look for Carter and Olive during the Additional Investigation, giving you the information necessary to find them.
*BluffingTheMurderer: Jones does this during Haruki's arrest by asking him why didn't he dump Marcus' body and the murder weapon into the LavaPit present on Church Street, prompting Haruki to say he didn't think about it and unwillingly confess for the murder.
*BrainwashedAndCrazy: Haruki is revealed to be a member of The Higher Truth who got brainwashed by their ideals so thoroughly he decided to kill Marcus to steal his money and donate it to the cult, believing it was for the greater good.
*BrattyTeenageDaughter: Olive Powell, Judge Powell's daughter and a suspect in this case.
*CallBack: [[Recap/CriminalCaseTheConspiracyCase14ByteTheDust Carter Hayes]] makes another appearance.
*{{Cliffhanger}}: The case ends with Gabriel informing the team The Higher Truth has a "big event" planned soon and how he'll try get to the bottom of it, which worries the rest of the team.
*ContinuityNod:
**Tamu hails from [[Recap/CriminalCaseWorldEditionCase41GoingTheDistance Mazunda]].
**''Transmutators 9,'' the movie mentioned in [[Recap/CriminalCaseTheConspiracyCase09ShootingStar Case 9]], is mentioned.
**During Haruki's interrogations, he's seen hanging around the arcade seen in [[Recap/CriminalCaseTheConspiracyCase14ByteTheDust Case 14]].
*ConvectionSchmonvection: Marcus' body and the murder weapon are found just at the edge of a LavaPit with no signs of the heat burning either him or the toy replica. The same goes for Jones and the player, who seem unaffected.
*{{Curse}}: Tamu attempted to put a Mazundan curse on Marcus (which, per Ramirez's investigation, involves writing the victim's name on a catfish statue) after he groped her.
*{{Fangirl}}}: Olive is this for Miracle Girl, to the point her only concern regarding Marcus' death is how he'll never draw her adventures again.
*FullNameUltimatum: Judge Powell angrily calls Olive by her full name (Olive Wilhelmina Powell) after she discovers her daughter is a suspect in a murder investigation and has also been drinking while underage.
*{{Geek}}: Haruki Kato, the victim's friend, is a huge comic book geek who's always seen hanging around The Green's arcade. He even has GeekPhysiques, as he's quite pudgy.
*GeneHunting: Marcus had been doing this after he found out he was adopted, which didn't sit well with his adopted father William.
*GiftGivingGaffe: When you find a gift from the victim's father to him, Jones mentions how the most he ever gets from his dad is a six-pack of beers on his birthday.
*TheHeroDies: [[{{Fangirl}} Olive]] discovered Marcus had been planning on doing this with Miracle Girl, which made her so upset she sent him hateful text messages through an anonymous phone number.
*ImprovisedWeapon: The killer used a toy replica of a superhero's WeaponOfChoice to kill Marcus.
*{{LARP}}: You meet Miracle Girl in this case, a woman pretending to be the victim's most famous character and who's been helping him promote her. The only time she breaks character is when she starts berating Marcus for badmouthing her to the press.
*LiveActionAdaptation: Marcus sold the rights of Miracle Girl to a Hollywood director for a movie, something that disappointed Haruki an prompted him to call Marcus a SellOut.
*LocalHangout: The Kraken, a bar the victim often hanged around and which serves as a crime scene,
*LovingBully: After Ramirez reads Olive's diary to find where she and Carter have run off to, he tells you to inform her that the boy that's been throwing paper planes at her doesn't hate her, but it's actually in love with the girl.
*NewspaperBackstory: This is how you discover Marcus had criticized Miracle Girl (the {{LARP}}er, not his character) to the press, saying she was desecrating the sanctity of his vision.
*NoNameGiven: We don't get to learn Miracle Girl's real name after the case is over.
*OutlivingOnesOffspring: {{Downplayed}} since he wasn't his biological father, but William outlived his son Marcus nonetheless.
*PostStressOvereating: When you inform him of Marcus' murder, Haruki reacts this way, although it could be part of his WoundedGazelleGambit since he's the killer.
-->'''Haruki:''' Oh, I'm just gonna have to eat away my sorrows. I'd better go buy some more strawberry candy.
*RankUp: Gabriel's report about The Higher Truth reveal the cult has "circles" that, the more devout ([[ScamReligion or rich]]) you are, the more you learn about their objectives and get closer to "The Enlightened One" aka Steven. Gabriel's next mission is ranking up to the innermost circle so he can learn what "big event" the cult is planning to do in a few days.
*SellOut: Haruki accused Marcus of being this after he sold Miracle Girl's rights to a Hollywood director, as he agreed the movie could change the story however the filmmakers wanted. Haruki even tried to get the movie boycotted as a result.
*ShoutOut:
** There are several shoutouts to [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]] and [[Creator/DCComics DC]]:
*** Miracle Girl is a reference to ComicBook/WonderWoman.
*** Tamu Wanjiku is a reference to [[ComicBook/BlackPanther Okoye]].
*** White Bear is a reference to ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}.
*** Incredible Bulk is a reference to ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk.
** Olive Powell wears a ''[[Music/{{Nirvana}} Nevermind]]'' shirt.
** In the Church Street scene, there is a clown mask resembling those worn by the Joker's goons in Film/TheDarkKnight.
** In the The Kraken scene, there is a stuffed monkey resembling [[Franchise/DonkeyKong Diddy Kong]], a sticker of a [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros red mushroom with white spots]], artwork of a [[VideoGame/PacMan familiar ghost]] and a [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} pixelated heart]].
** In the Pub Tables scene, there are some trading cards resembling Franchise/YuGiOh cards, and the characters on them resemble Franchise/{{Pokemon}}.
** [=GrimCon=] is a parody of Comic Con.
*SkewedPriorities: When you interrogate Olive for the murder, she's more concerned about the fact Miracle Girl will never continue her story than his death.
-->'''Olive:''' Marcus? Forget him! All I care about is Miracle Girl!\\
But now he's dead, who's gonna write more comics about the coolest superhero that ever lived? Oh, why does my life suck so bad?
*SmittenTeenageGirl: {{Subverted}}. Olive becomes a suspect when you find a fan letter she sent to Marcus, whose gushing words and pretty drawings make Jones assume Olive was in love with him. However, this turns out to not be the case.
*SpySpeak: Gabriel left a message for the department regarding his investigation on The Higher Truth that read "The jibbly squibbler cares not for the sleepy wolf," which Cathy manages to translate pretty nicely due to knowing about it too.
-->'''Cathy:''' For instance, "jibbly" means "event", "squibbler" is cult, and so on and so forth.\\
Anyway, according to Gabriel, the cult is actually a series of concentric circles. You start out in the outermost circle...\\
... and if you're very devout - or very rich - you move progressively closer to the innermost circle, where Steven Crowe awaits!\\
Gabriel's already managed to get to the third level, which means he is now privy to some interesting information, including mention of a "big event" that's about to go down in The Higher Truth!\\
But he says he needs more time to get to a level where he can find out more about what this event is actually about!
*UngratefulBastard: Miracle Girl accused Marcus of being this after he badmouthed her to the press by claiming she was desecrating his vision, despite the fact Miracle Girl had been helping her promote the character and supported him even when he wasn't famous.
*WithFriendsLikeThese: Marcus was killed by Haruki, his best friend, all because he refused to donate money to The Higher Truth.
*YouAreGrounded: Gloria and Judge Powell ground their children after they run off to the Xerdan ruins and break into Marcus' studio, the former on-screen and the latter off-screen.
[[caption-width-right:350:That's one way to [[TorchTheFranchiseAndRun Torch Your Franchise and Run]].]]
While discussing about Gabriel's infiltration into The Higher Truth, Jones and the player are informed by Amir about a dead body being found in Church Street, a section of Old Town that got hit particularly hard by the earthquake and now lies in ruins. There, both officers collect the corpse of Marcus Butler, the famous comic book artist they previously met, with his torso sliced open.
!!Tropes:
*AbsurdlySharpClaws: The murder weapon is a sharpened toy replica of a White Bear claw, the WeaponOfChoice of the in-universe superhero and {{ComicBook/Wolverine}} {{Expy}} White Bear.
*AdoptionAngst: When he discovered he'd been adopted, Marcus started GeneHunting for his real parents, something that didn't sit well with William, his adopted father.
*AgonizingStomachWound: The victim was killed by being inflicted with one of these.
*AlcoholInducedIdiocy: During her first interrogation, Tamu tells you the worst Marcus ever did was breaking one of the bar's chairs after getting drunk.
*BabysitterFromHell: Of the dangerous variety. During the Additional Investigation, Gloria and Judge Powell agree to have Olive babysit Carter to make up for her misdeeds during the case, which ends up backfiring when Olive takes Carter to the dangerous Xerdan ruins then break into Marcus' studio to draw themselves as superheroes despite how immoral that is, prompting both Gloria and Powell to ground their children once they're found.
*TheBartender: Tamu Wanjiku, the bartender at [[LocalHangout The Kraken]], appears as a suspect.
*BigDamnHeroes: Miracle Girl pops up in the Xerdan ruins to aid Gloria and the player look for Carter and Olive during the Additional Investigation, giving you the information necessary to find them.
*BluffingTheMurderer: Jones does this during Haruki's arrest by asking him why didn't he dump Marcus' body and the murder weapon into the LavaPit present on Church Street, prompting Haruki to say he didn't think about it and unwillingly confess for the murder.
*BrainwashedAndCrazy: Haruki is revealed to be a member of The Higher Truth who got brainwashed by their ideals so thoroughly he decided to kill Marcus to steal his money and donate it to the cult, believing it was for the greater good.
*BrattyTeenageDaughter: Olive Powell, Judge Powell's daughter and a suspect in this case.
*CallBack: [[Recap/CriminalCaseTheConspiracyCase14ByteTheDust Carter Hayes]] makes another appearance.
*{{Cliffhanger}}: The case ends with Gabriel informing the team The Higher Truth has a "big event" planned soon and how he'll try get to the bottom of it, which worries the rest of the team.
*ContinuityNod:
**Tamu hails from [[Recap/CriminalCaseWorldEditionCase41GoingTheDistance Mazunda]].
**''Transmutators 9,'' the movie mentioned in [[Recap/CriminalCaseTheConspiracyCase09ShootingStar Case 9]], is mentioned.
**During Haruki's interrogations, he's seen hanging around the arcade seen in [[Recap/CriminalCaseTheConspiracyCase14ByteTheDust Case 14]].
*ConvectionSchmonvection: Marcus' body and the murder weapon are found just at the edge of a LavaPit with no signs of the heat burning either him or the toy replica. The same goes for Jones and the player, who seem unaffected.
*{{Curse}}: Tamu attempted to put a Mazundan curse on Marcus (which, per Ramirez's investigation, involves writing the victim's name on a catfish statue) after he groped her.
*{{Fangirl}}}: Olive is this for Miracle Girl, to the point her only concern regarding Marcus' death is how he'll never draw her adventures again.
*FullNameUltimatum: Judge Powell angrily calls Olive by her full name (Olive Wilhelmina Powell) after she discovers her daughter is a suspect in a murder investigation and has also been drinking while underage.
*{{Geek}}: Haruki Kato, the victim's friend, is a huge comic book geek who's always seen hanging around The Green's arcade. He even has GeekPhysiques, as he's quite pudgy.
*GeneHunting: Marcus had been doing this after he found out he was adopted, which didn't sit well with his adopted father William.
*GiftGivingGaffe: When you find a gift from the victim's father to him, Jones mentions how the most he ever gets from his dad is a six-pack of beers on his birthday.
*TheHeroDies: [[{{Fangirl}} Olive]] discovered Marcus had been planning on doing this with Miracle Girl, which made her so upset she sent him hateful text messages through an anonymous phone number.
*ImprovisedWeapon: The killer used a toy replica of a superhero's WeaponOfChoice to kill Marcus.
*{{LARP}}: You meet Miracle Girl in this case, a woman pretending to be the victim's most famous character and who's been helping him promote her. The only time she breaks character is when she starts berating Marcus for badmouthing her to the press.
*LiveActionAdaptation: Marcus sold the rights of Miracle Girl to a Hollywood director for a movie, something that disappointed Haruki an prompted him to call Marcus a SellOut.
*LocalHangout: The Kraken, a bar the victim often hanged around and which serves as a crime scene,
*LovingBully: After Ramirez reads Olive's diary to find where she and Carter have run off to, he tells you to inform her that the boy that's been throwing paper planes at her doesn't hate her, but it's actually in love with the girl.
*NewspaperBackstory: This is how you discover Marcus had criticized Miracle Girl (the {{LARP}}er, not his character) to the press, saying she was desecrating the sanctity of his vision.
*NoNameGiven: We don't get to learn Miracle Girl's real name after the case is over.
*OutlivingOnesOffspring: {{Downplayed}} since he wasn't his biological father, but William outlived his son Marcus nonetheless.
*PostStressOvereating: When you inform him of Marcus' murder, Haruki reacts this way, although it could be part of his WoundedGazelleGambit since he's the killer.
-->'''Haruki:''' Oh, I'm just gonna have to eat away my sorrows. I'd better go buy some more strawberry candy.
*RankUp: Gabriel's report about The Higher Truth reveal the cult has "circles" that, the more devout ([[ScamReligion or rich]]) you are, the more you learn about their objectives and get closer to "The Enlightened One" aka Steven. Gabriel's next mission is ranking up to the innermost circle so he can learn what "big event" the cult is planning to do in a few days.
*SellOut: Haruki accused Marcus of being this after he sold Miracle Girl's rights to a Hollywood director, as he agreed the movie could change the story however the filmmakers wanted. Haruki even tried to get the movie boycotted as a result.
*ShoutOut:
** There are several shoutouts to [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]] and [[Creator/DCComics DC]]:
*** Miracle Girl is a reference to ComicBook/WonderWoman.
*** Tamu Wanjiku is a reference to [[ComicBook/BlackPanther Okoye]].
*** White Bear is a reference to ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}.
*** Incredible Bulk is a reference to ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk.
** Olive Powell wears a ''[[Music/{{Nirvana}} Nevermind]]'' shirt.
** In the Church Street scene, there is a clown mask resembling those worn by the Joker's goons in Film/TheDarkKnight.
** In the The Kraken scene, there is a stuffed monkey resembling [[Franchise/DonkeyKong Diddy Kong]], a sticker of a [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros red mushroom with white spots]], artwork of a [[VideoGame/PacMan familiar ghost]] and a [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} pixelated heart]].
** In the Pub Tables scene, there are some trading cards resembling Franchise/YuGiOh cards, and the characters on them resemble Franchise/{{Pokemon}}.
** [=GrimCon=] is a parody of Comic Con.
*SkewedPriorities: When you interrogate Olive for the murder, she's more concerned about the fact Miracle Girl will never continue her story than his death.
-->'''Olive:''' Marcus? Forget him! All I care about is Miracle Girl!\\
But now he's dead, who's gonna write more comics about the coolest superhero that ever lived? Oh, why does my life suck so bad?
*SmittenTeenageGirl: {{Subverted}}. Olive becomes a suspect when you find a fan letter she sent to Marcus, whose gushing words and pretty drawings make Jones assume Olive was in love with him. However, this turns out to not be the case.
*SpySpeak: Gabriel left a message for the department regarding his investigation on The Higher Truth that read "The jibbly squibbler cares not for the sleepy wolf," which Cathy manages to translate pretty nicely due to knowing about it too.
-->'''Cathy:''' For instance, "jibbly" means "event", "squibbler" is cult, and so on and so forth.\\
Anyway, according to Gabriel, the cult is actually a series of concentric circles. You start out in the outermost circle...\\
... and if you're very devout - or very rich - you move progressively closer to the innermost circle, where Steven Crowe awaits!\\
Gabriel's already managed to get to the third level, which means he is now privy to some interesting information, including mention of a "big event" that's about to go down in The Higher Truth!\\
But he says he needs more time to get to a level where he can find out more about what this event is actually about!
*UngratefulBastard: Miracle Girl accused Marcus of being this after he badmouthed her to the press by claiming she was desecrating his vision, despite the fact Miracle Girl had been helping her promote the character and supported him even when he wasn't famous.
*WithFriendsLikeThese: Marcus was killed by Haruki, his best friend, all because he refused to donate money to The Higher Truth.
*YouAreGrounded: Gloria and Judge Powell ground their children after they run off to the Xerdan ruins and break into Marcus' studio, the former on-screen and the latter off-screen.
