I’m imagining Courage the Cowardly Dog babbling and morphing into Ryuk and a notebook to try and explain the situation to a clueless Muriel.
New question mark: Gillian Seed and Metal Gear Mark II?
While I obviously enjoy seeing Francis York Morgan on there, I’m seriously impressed that the maker of the image also included the lesser known Swery detective protagonist, David Young from D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die (RIP)
I also kept searching for David Suchet’s Poirot
where is Jess Fletcher??
I feel like Edgeworth would immediately be able to catch on to the ‘the killer is active during a Japanifornia school student’s schedule’ => ‘the killer suddenly switched up their behavior so they have access to the police force somehow’ tells but he would need help from Phoenix and Maya in order to catch Kira before he gets got because he would be distracted looking for a rational and non-magical cause of death from there.
So yeah I agree with his positioning in the chart.
Edgeworth is properly placed, but I would argue Phoenix should be in the top left corner.
He has regular encounters with the supernatural, and his specialty is bullshitting his way to what must be true regardless of how outlandish it sounds.
Though, I guess it depends on what qualifies as “intuiting the mechanics of the death note.” Phoenix will definitely stumble his way into something close to the truth even if by accident, but whether he actually believes what he’s saying is true because he arrived at the conclusion logically or if he believes it’s true because he believes so deeply in the innocence of his client that the supernatural explanation must be true is up in the air.
If “using the wrong equation to get the right answer” doesn’t count as intuiting the mechanics of the death note, then I could see the argument for putting Phoenix in the bottom left. But he would absolutely stumble into accidentally describing how the Death Note works, and confidently use it in his defense because you can’t prove that it’s not true, even if he doesn’t fully understand why what he’s saying is true.
“Hi Light-san! It’s a pleasure to meet you! Do you mind introducing us to your friend standing behind you? I love his gothic getup!”
Columbo like “Death notes? My wife loves those things. Always talking about those boys down in the underworld. Anyway, let me get out of your hair Light-san. Oh, one more thing-”
phoenix would absolutely be able to figure out the mechanics of the death note
deckard from blade runner wouldn’t figure anything out imo
the major would be able to hunt light down and kill him without ever thinking about the mechanics and would probably be immune to the death note. well placed
kim gets nowhere in the case, but harry only solves it with kims help. idk how to show that so i think their current placements work
diamond is unbreakable cast see kira on the news, figure out how his “stand” works and take him down in only 1 episode
dale cooper has a dream where he figures out the shinigami involvement but never suspects light until its too late
battler has never been more perfectly placed. he’d manage to blue truth the mechanics but would never actually pinpoint anyone, he’s to scared to accept the truth of a person doing the serial killingI was imagining Light trying every name possible for the Major and failing because her true name turns out to be a string of serial numbers or something
her name is probably motoko kusanagi, but i don’t think she’d have a face the death note would recognize. though it depends on the version
Where’s Comrade Detective? He would just kill everyone wearing jeans and bag Light that way
L only caught Kira by doing wild amounts of crimes he had to reason to suspect would work.
Anyone here could catch Kira because his liberalism levels are so off the charts it’d be obvious through Twitter likes. We are so internet poisoned our brains would be able to put it all together. Just we’d notice one of the mods of r/neoliberal went quiet before they started or something
Benoit Blanc lower left. He’d know it was Kira. He wouldn’t know HOW and it would drive him crazy
top left columbo is peak
Nardwuar right next to him, too
oh shit, i couldn’t tell that was nardwuar up there, that’s so accurate. “how’d you know that?”
Nardwuar would pull out his own death note and write one letter of light’s name for every question he dodges because of course he knows light’s name
you’re light yagami, we have to know!!
if folks like Columbo, definitely should check out Poker Face - it’s basically a spiritual successor
Charlie from Always Sunny unfortunately could never catch Light, while his idiot savant nature and general good luck would cause him to stumble into the perfect solution, the rest of the gang would completely fuck it up for him either accidentally or out of spite and he would fumble the climactic parlor scene.
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or he’d get the death note, but couldn’t read any of the rules and just end up more confused
Unless I’m blind, I’m disappointed in Detective Cuno’s exclusion.
Cuno doesn’t fucking care
I disagree with so many of these
You cant just say that and not infodump
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Detective Pikachu has the experience with the supernatural to determine the nature of the Death Note and while channeling the detective expertise of Harry Goodman would eventually root out the identity of Kira.
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The Scooby Gang would never figure out how the Death Note works because they always end up concluding the monster is just a guy in a mask.
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Benoit Blanc trivially dismantled the Rub-Goldberg-esque machinations of Miles Bron’s Glass Onion, but was unable to save several people from dying (or nearly dying) before the climax of each movie. Also, he’s way too trusting of the police. So he wouldn’t deduce the identity of Kira.
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Sam & Max typically bungle their way through a case by way of hijinx, without ever solving anything, and just sort of land on a conclusion by accident, only to resolve the causal sequence in retrospect. They would not solve the case, although they would annoy the piss out of Kira and probably cause him to fumble the Death Note in a way that ended with him killing himself in the process.
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Dexter would definitely figure out who Kira is, but wouldn’t bother fucking around with how the Death Note works, because he only likes killing people his way.
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L is nowhere in the top right panel
I assume L is exempt because we already know the results.
I feel what you described about Sam and Max is close enough to being able to solve the case but they probably couldnt intuit the mechanics of the Death Note.
Max would probably eat the notebook and they’d call it case closed.
I would argue Blanc isn’t so much a case of “can’t Intuit the death note” and more a case of “thinks it’s so goddamn silly, so he refuses on principle” sort of like what you saw in Glass Onion
l is in the top right. it’s just the live action netflix version
Oh damn, sure enough.
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lol now I wish I knew death note so I could put the sacred and terrible air detectives on this chart.
Bottom left, I guess. They’d solve the case long after everyone involved was dead but never really understand what happened or why
LMAO and then Tereesz gets kneecapped by internal affairs
