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Oh like a detective story never followed a lead into a strip club cry me a river

Name one besides the aptly named Sin City

Sin City part 2

Sin City

Blade runner and i think ghost in the shell. Samurai jack went to a strip club once

>blade runner
>detective story
Wow this meme needs to die

It's an alien traditional garb. It was a part of her rite of passage.

It's generally more often prostitutes or "women of easy virtue."

This is a trope among detective noir stories because, unlike the European tradition of detective stories, the detective is not usually a highly educated person, nor even a member of the upper class. In the American tradition of the detective story, especially the noir, the detective is a character who traverses all social levels, diving in and out among the elites and the untouchables of all classes, positions, and social circles while chasing the thread of a mystery. Often the most easy way to show this is by having the character chase a thread from a place of exclusivity and privilege to a place where bare necessity dictates a more lax adherence to social morals; such as prostitution to pay the rent, so our detective protagonist may often find himself in a brothel, strip club, or the room of a specific and selective prostitute.

Also to note: the detectives signature trenchcoat and fedora aren't a component of a uniform, but were at the time simply what everyone was wearing. You wore a hat because you could afford it and it was in fashion. You wore a trenchcoat to keep the water off what you were wearing underneath, and it's often raining and dismal in these stories. It's not a signifier, but a mask of ubiquity, something people of all social and economic classes wore and as such the detective blended into his environment everywhere he went, from high to low.

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Don't dis the cropped jacket, user

This was a way more educated comment than I've come to expect here. Like Classic-Veeky Forums tier quality. Good stuff.

Is... that the elf guard that gets raped in Akumi?

oh shit, that name sounds so familiar. is that an anime?

Thank you. Please post often in the future. You give me hope for this forsaken hellscape.

A long time ago a guy on the internet had the noble vision to create an animated series on the internet that contained heavy adult themes, including explicit on-screen sex, without being generic mindless porn. The show would have action and lots of violence, a plot, even worldbuilding! Only a couple short episodes were released (maybe just one episode? I forget.) and the only memorable bit was the villain, a guy named Lester the Molester, breaking into a place and raping a small female elf security guard.

You may recognize this guy's art style. He was the art director (or at least made a lot of art) for a game that used to have banner ads all over the internet.

yep. thats what i remember. man i need to watch it again. is his stuff still online?

just fucking google it man

yeah i found it on youtube, but naturally it will be the censored version

Well, if you want more.... The contrast between European and American detective stories is pretty stark and simple.

European detectives are usually upper class individuals, and generally very well educated or at least exceptionally smart among their peers. Still, this does not mean that their stories don't also point out the inherent character flaws of those around them, or even the inherent flaws of the society in which they live. Anyway, there's generally a murder or other unusual crime committed and we discover the clues, interview the suspects, and connect the dots which leads us to our final "reveal" scene in which the detective pieces together the clues the villain is apprehended, either willingly turning himself in, or after a desperate, futile scuffle to escape in which he's either apprehended or killed at the end. It's the rare story that ends in a different matter, and that's what makes Irene Adler a signature character for Sherlock Holmes.

Now, American detective stories follow this same pattern, too, but with one significant difference: there's not always a "reveal" scene at the end where things are neatly tied up. Often the detective can be a broken (physically and/or mentally) man by the end, or perhaps those he's been after are just too powerful to bring to justice. Ultimately, our detective may have solved the mystery, but may never be able to achieve justice, recognition, or absolution for it. Maybe he does, maybe he never solves it, maybe he dies to bring this mystery to light to face justice, or maybe he takes it down himself. The Detective noir character is a dark character, and often a tragic one, because these stories are often dark and tragic.

To make a good detective noir in the American vein, the element of solving the mystery must be up in the air, a conclusion not forgone, and there's got to be a significant element of risk in trying to solve it, or significant sacrifice.

Actually I just posted those praises hoping to get more sexy aliens...

Holly shit! Dude this is hilarious. Having something that's as shitty and childish as Adventure quest be associated with something as dark as this shit... its... its just great man.

I like this. It makes complete sense.

Some of us are still around, but the flood of normies trying to drown out our culture with their shrieks make it difficult to separate signal from noise.
Thanks for sharing. Love it.

Nice. What can you tell about other signature themes in European detectives? I don't know them really well, for expect Agatha Christie.
As far as I know, European detective stories are less dark and more "detailed" about detective and investigation itself, not its environment, am I right?

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