Line #35 Anime/LupinIIIVsDetectiveConanTheMovie


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3	The theatrical crossover between ''Franchise/LupinIII'' and ''Manga/CaseClosed'' following the ''Anime/LupinIIIVsDetectiveConan'' TV special of four years previous. Released December 2013 in Japanese theaters, this is the first ''Lupin III''-related theatrical anime film in 17 years, the first ''Lupin III'' theatrical movie that is a sequel to a [[Anime/LupinIIIVsDetectiveConan TV special]], and the first theatrical ''Detective Conan'' movie to be a crossover. And on top of all that, it was the highest-grossing movie in either franchise's history. Lupin still had its annual TV special for 2013.
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7	!!This movie features examples of:
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9	* AnimationBump: As befits TheMovie, the look is much slicker than the standard output of either franchise.
10	* BadassBiker: Ai's skills, shown during the climax when she carries Fujiko, are pretty impressive, especially since she has the body of an elementary school student.
11	* BathtubBonding: The FuroScene with Ai and Fujiko establishes that the two women knew each other prior to Ai's shrinking. They're still comfortable enough to bathe together, although Ai refuses to share her "eternal youth drug" that Fujiko wants.
12	* BigBadDuumvirate: The main antagonists of the film are [[spoiler:Emilio's musical promoter Luciano Carnevale (actually Italian Mafia dealer Salvatore Lucania), and an unnamed agent from the Republic of Gilanbar who goes by the pseudonym "Alan Smithee".]]
13	* BrickJoke: Lupin masquerades as ''Manga/MagicKaito'' in the initial heist... [[spoiler:and when he tries to swipe a rare gem so as not to leave Japan empty-handed, Kaito not only swipes it first but leads Zenigata right to him. The final shot of the movie is a teaser for ''Lupin III vs. Magic Kaito(2020)''. Conan pops up claiming it's a joke, but he's been wrong about ''both'' those nuts before..]].
14	* ButtMonkey: Takagi gets captured and stripped by Lupin, left in Zenigata's towed-away car, punished by his superiors, and used as a chauffeur by the Detective Boys & Agasa.
15	* TheCameo:
16	** For ''Conan'' characters: Kaito from ''Manga/MagicKaito'' appears for a few frames as himself to wonder who's impersonating him, and gets mentioned later--apparently the ''Lupin'' characters are able to tell Kid is still in high school, somehow. Probably similar to how Conan was able to peg him below 20 years old in their first meeting, though Lupin seems confident that his young appearance isn't just a mask. Hattori Heiji is shown to be in the group of people chasing Lupin and the Kid at the end.
17	** For ''Lupin'' characters: Kyosuke Mamo from ''Recap/LupinIIIPart1'', Julia Douglas from ''Anime/FarewellToNostradamus'', Rosetta from ''Anime/LegendOfTheGoldOfBabylon'', Chico and Bolonco (that was one-episode KidDetective) from ''Recap/LupinIIIPartII''.
18	* TheCaper: A nested example. Fujiko was kidnapped as a hostage so as to force Lupin to very publicly steal a valuable gem as a ''test'' for stealing the "Cherry Sapphire"... [[spoiler:which one of the villains thinks can be exchanged for some of Vespania's Unobtanium. Only the '''[[KansasCityShuffle whole thing]]''' is rigged by Lupin and his gang; Fujiko pulled her DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent schtick to get in with the buyers, Jigen played bodyguard to get in with the sellers, and Goemon pretended to be the eccentric owner of the "Cherry Sapphire" to get it -- actually ''another'' piece of the Unobtanium, which is capable of scrambling electronics -- into the meeting, upon which they took advantage of the chaos to reclaim all the stolen Unobtanium. The whole thing ends up sinking into the sea in the getaway, which is still a win as the goal was simply to prevent it from falling into warring hands]].
19	* CatchPhrase: Jigen carries a list of slightly [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] Conan quotes, [[LampshadeHanging lampshading their use]] (especially in less canon installments) and to get Shinichi to abandon his interest in their business by showing him how much research the Lupin gang has been able to do on him. (It doesn't work.)
20	* ChekhovsBoomerang: The Vespanian ore Lupin stole in the TV special [[spoiler:is the target of the caper, and a second piece is used to crash the hijacked plane and keep Lupin and Conan from getting blown away by air-to-air missiles]].
21	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Lupin runs all over Tokyo because Fujiko is being held captive, except she's actually working with the guy allegedly holding her captive, except she was planning to turn on ''him'', too, except he betrayed her first. You know, her usual gimmick. [[spoiler:Especially since she infiltrated the captor to help the gang with the ''real'' caper]].
22	* ContinuityNod:
23	** The ''Anime/LupinIIIVsDetectiveConan'' crossover TV special is actually heavily referenced and plot-integral. There are nods major enough to be [[ChekhovsBoomerang Chekhov's Boomerangs]], but also small ones, like Shinichi screwing with Jigen by calling him "Poppa", and his active terror of Fujiko after... whatever happened at the end of the TV special.
24	** Sato saying Lupin was her "first love" in the ''Conan'' movie ''Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure'' to explain why she [[ThisIsUnforgivable takes it personally]] that two crooks she and Takagi take down are wearing Lupin and Fujiko masks is mentioned again and expanded into a minor plot point with ShipTease.
25	** Sato's phone wallpaper is a photo taken in the ''Conan'' episode "Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story - Fake Wedding".
26	* {{Crossover}}: Between ''Lupin III'' and ''Detective Conan'' (again).
27	* CrossoverShip: In-universe when Lupin flirts copiously with Sato.
28	* DeathBySecretIdentity: Conan is asked who he is, [[PhraseCatcher as often happens]], and answers with his real name, because the person who asked is dying. Again.
29	* EnemyMine: At the end of the midpoint Conan's drawn Lupin into a trap and the two of them are reveling in their confrontation, but they both drop it completely the second the real villain shows up.
30	* FakeOutFadeOut: "Ends" several times.
31	* FriendlyEnemy: Detective Conan and Thief Lupin (Conan and Lupin's partner Jigen may also count).
32	* FuroScene: Fujiko and Ai have a long conversation while taking a bath.
33	* GreaterScopeParagon: [[spoiler:Queen Mira Julietta Vespaland and Count Keith Dan Stinger of the Kingdom of Vespania turn out to be the ones who commissioned Lupin to reclaim the stolen Vespanian ore.]]
34	* {{Homage}}: Lupin and his gang's introductions in the opening are nearly shot-for-shot redos of their introductions from the original ''Lupin III'' [[Anime/LupinIIIPilotFilm pilot film]].
35	* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Goemon, who slices Conan's skateboard in half at the start (remember that Conan's skateboarding prowess is always exaggerated in the movies), and continues on to do things like cutting a police car to pieces ''around the police officers driving it'', an application of ToonPhysics which is kind of startling if one's coming over from ''Manga/CaseClosed''. Agasa even gets a scene lampshading the former.
36	* InevitableMutualBetrayal: It's a given that as soon as the heat dies down Lupin and Conan are on opposite sides of the law and will go back to acting like it, though they both talk a bigger game than their actions actually support.
37	* IronicEcho: The line "Betrayal is a woman's accessory" is a MythologyGag to the first ''Anime/LupinIIIPart1'' episode. Fujiko tells Ai the line while they're [[FuroScene in the bathtub]] together, and Ai repeats it back to Fujiko, [[spoiler: to break her promise to tell Fujiko the secret of the APTX drug.]]
38	* LatexPerfection: At ''Lupin'' levels (so, slightly more ridiculous than already impossible ''Conan'' levels). Not only does Lupin impersonate Takagi with the only flaw being his personality, he also puts perfect masks of his own face on everything in a considerable area during one escape scene, including a dog.
39	* TheMovie: This film was made on a much bigger budget than the previous crossover television special. The stakes are also raised, dealing with international criminals instead of a family assassination.
40	* MuggingTheMonster: Lupin takes it so for granted that Conan will put the badass in BadassInDistress when he's taken hostage that he specifically orchestrates an opening for him to take out his captor, and then is ''shocked'' when he doesn't do so.
41	* MythologyGag: The footage of the Lupin gang that plays as Conan introduces them to the audience is almost shot-for-shot recreations of scenes from the ''Anime/LupinIIIPilotFilm''.
42	** Eishin Wakagomo, the owner of the Cherry Sapphire, looks identical to Momochi, Goemon's master from [[Anime/LupinIIIPart1 the first Lupin TV series]]. [[spoiler:Fitting, since Wakagomo is actually Goemon in disguise.]]
43	* NoHonorAmongThieves: Fujiko's attempted betrayal is cut short by her getting betrayed first.
44	* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: Technically, [[spoiler:Lupin fails to retrieve Vespania's Unobtanium, but that's okay: the Queen of Vespania just wanted to make sure it wouldn't be sold to a warlike nation and made into a weapon, so dumping it in the ocean is as good a way as any to prevent that]].
45	* NonSerialMovie: Neither the ''Lupin III'' or ''Detective Conan'' series treat the crossover as part of their respective franchises.
46	* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Of the {{Crossover}}-induced variety. The main characters actually look pretty nice next to each other thanks to AnimationBump, but the minor characters designed in the style of each franchise are easily distinguishable from each other, mostly because of eye and head shape.
47	* ObfuscatingStupidity: Conan puts it on ''hard'' with Jigen...but, given Lupin's crew knows Conan is really Shinichi Kudo, it's not the most effective manipulation tactic. He's doing it almost entirely to troll him.
48	* OutOfCharacterAlert: Inspector Nakamori has a minor but actual breakdown when "Kid" (actually Lupin in disguise) pulls and shoots a real gun, which Kid ''[[DoesntLikeGuns does not do.]]''
49	* PhantomThief: Of course. Notably, Lupin impersonate's ''Manga/CaseClosed'''s resident phantom thief, the Kaitou Kid, at the beginning (his secret identity is in the audience), and [[spoiler:he shows up to [[BrickJoke get his own back]] at the very end]].
50	* RecurringRiff: The most recognizable ''Lupin'' and ''Conan'' background tunes.
51	* RivalsTeamUp: Lupin and Conan hijack a plane, and it's as awesome as it should be.
52	* SharedUniverse: After the barest attempts at CanonWelding in the last crossover, it actually works like this this time. And it even makes sense because, well, [[SupermanStaysOutOfGotham Lupin is an international thief]]. And will probably avoid the fictional province of Beika unless he's forced there ''again''.
53	* SnoopingLittleKid: The actually-kids Detective Boys...[[OneOfTheKids and Agasa]]. Determined to investigate the rash of phantom thievery, they actually figure out where Lupin and his allies are hiding! ...Of course, TheMeddlingKidsAreUseless trumps ThoseMeddlingKids when Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko just get captured.
54	* StealthSequel: While there are a great number of continuity nods to the TV special that preceded it throughout the first half of the movie, it's not until the climax of the film, where the reasons behind the caper are revealed, that [[spoiler:the film is shown to be an outright proper sequel to the TV special, dealing with the consequences of the Vespanian ore.]]
55	* TalkingWithSigns: Jigen pulls out a hand-held sign during the narration introducing him, as well as a scene when Conan is talking on the phone.
56	* WorthyOpponent: Shinichi takes it pretty personally when someone impersonates Kaitou Kid, his WorthyOpponent. Realising that it's Lupin and his gang... doesn't really make him any less offended, to be honest.
57	->''"You disguised as KID! How can I sit still?!"''

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