Detective Conan Wiki - User contributions [en]

Wataru Takagi

2015-07-15T22:38:15Z

Bunchu Thong-In: /* In other languages */

:''This article is about the character'' Wataru Takagi. ''For the voice actor of the same name, see [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)]].''
{{InfoBox Char
| name = Wataru Takagi
| japanese-name = 高木渉 (Takagi Wataru)
| english-name = Harry Wilder
| image = Wataru Takagi Profile.jpg
| age = ~26<ref>[[Volume 36|Volume 36, File 10, Page 6: "Red Trap"]]; Takagi says that Miwako is 2 years older than him (彼女は二つ年上で先輩なんだから...) In Conan Drill page 29, Sato is assumed to be about 28.</ref>
| gender = Male
| date-of-birth =
| relatives =
| occupation = Police Detective
| nicknames = Takagi-kun ([[Miwako Sato|Sato]]) Takagi-niisan ([[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]])
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_18#Actor.27s_Apartment_Case|File 171]] Anime: [[On Location, TV Drama Murder Case|Episode 21]]
| appearances = {{:Wataru Takagi Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 20]]
| japanese-voice = [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)|Wataru Takagi]]
| english-voice = [[Doug Burks]]
| drama-actor = [[Yuichi Tsuchiya]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Wataru Takagi|高木渉|Takagi Wataru}}''' is a police sergeant and detective from the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police|Tokyo Metropolitan Police District]]'s Criminal Investigation First Division.

== Background ==
Wataru Takagi is a newcomer to the Tokyo Police Criminal Investigations Division 1, having transferred after the bomber case about three years ago but by the time [[Shinichi Kudo]] first established his reputation as a detective, about two years ago.<ref>Manga Chapters 204-207: Shinichi's First Case, and Chapters 366-368: Parade Bomber Case</ref> His mentor was a senior agent called Date, who died one year before the present timeline. He first met Shinichi's alter ego [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] during the investigation of the murder of actress Isami Nagakura, accompanying [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] and helping to expose the trick with the identical rooms.<ref>Manga Chapters 171-172: Actor's Appartment Case</ref>

Ever since his joining the force, Takagi (like so many of his other colleagues) has harbored romantic feelings for [[Miwako Sato]]. While Sato appeared to have taken a liking to him as well, Takagi was easily discouraged by the way she dealt with other male colleagues, including their superior Inspector Megure (though in that case it was more a daughterly affection to a father figure, since Sato's father had died when she was very young).<ref>Manga Chapter 233: Countdown</ref><ref>Manga Chapter 269: Time's Up</ref> In time, thanks to several severe incidents - and despite the interference of the other officers in the department, chiefly [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] -, their professional relationship grew more personal,<ref>Manga Chapters 267-269: Sato's Father Case</ref><ref>Manga Chapters 366-368: Parade Bomber Case</ref><ref>Manga Chapters 369-373: Serial Bomber Case</ref><ref>Manga Chapters 404-406: Missing Ring Case</ref> and finally Sato and Takagi shared their first kiss after he had been hospitalized in the course of a difficult case<ref>Episode 683: The Life-Threating Broadcast of Love (entering the scene)</ref> and kissed the second (and third!) time in Episode 683 when he almost died in a bomb accident.

== Personality ==
While he is initially self-conscious and bumbling, Takagi is a dedicated member of the Tokyo Police Force and shows promise as a good officer as the series progresses. He is one of the few officers who trusts [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s judgments the most, listening to him at case scenes to find important evidence and sometimes even letting Conan take the lead in their investigation (the case with [[Miwako Sato|Sato]] handcuffed to the wrong suspect in the bathroom being a good example).<ref>Manga Chapter 232: Finding Evidence</ref>

Takagi has a strong intuition and sense of justice, and is very honorable. He has a strong drive to protect others, partially based in his profession as an officer, and partially based on a self-sacrificing trait in his personality. He is always very polite, even when alarmed, and defers to the judgment of his partner Miwako Sato not only because she is his senior, but because he truly respects her.

His hobbies are playing the maracas<ref>Manga Chapter 620: The Vanished Blunt Weapon</ref> and following the international wrestling scene, being a fan of wrestlers such as [[wikipedia:Bruiser Brody|Bruiser Brody]] and [[wikipedia:Keiji Mutoh|Keiji Mutoh]], and recognizing a move that Ran does as the "Shining Wizard," a finishing move of Mutoh's.<ref>Manga Chapter 388: Wolf's Shadow</ref> In summary, his hobbies involve a lot of martial arts and sports.

== Plot overview ==
=== Prior to Manga Appearances ===

=== Actor's Apartment Case (Manga: [[Volume 17|170]]-[[Volume 18|172]]; Anime: [[The Historical Actor Murder Case|102-103]]) ===
Takagi makes his debut in the Manga series.

=== Treadmill Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 21|208-210]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story|146-147]]) ===

This is the first case to show detective Takagi’s romantic affection for a female police officer, [[Miwako Sato]].

Initially, Takagi is tasked with the mission of recording the [[Detective Boys]]' testimonies regarding the events at the [[The Old Blue Castle Investigation Case|Blue Castle]]. Just as they're about to begin, the children notice his untidy clothing and wonder if he doesn't have a girlfriend. [[Agasa]] offers to introduce to him his cousin's granddaughter, but Takagi awkwardly declines, stating that he has already had someone that he likes, right before detective [[Miwako Sato]] enters the room. Takagi keeps blushing, and his unnatural manner in front of Sato makes the Detective Boys think that she is really his girlfriend. However, both of them denies that this is true. Takagi wonders why Sato didn't go to assist [[Inspector Megure]] in the bank robbery case, and learns that the bank manager, together with his wife, will arrive at the Police Headquarter. Sato asks Takagi whether he has heard anything from her friend Yumi. He silently recalls Yumi's words, about what Sato told her when she was drunk, that the person she likes is someone from the first investigation division, who may very well be Takagi himself.

The bank manager, Keizo Masuo, comes by himself and decides to call his wife. During the phone call, Takagi and the others suddenly hear the wife's scream. He, Sato, [[Conan]] and Keizo rush to Keizo's house and find his wife's dead body. The person to be in charge of this murder case is Inspector [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]], a police officer who has just been promoted recently. When Sato sarcastically suggests that Shiratori may as well consider her "a possible wedding match", Takagi misunderstands and begins to suspect that the person whom Sato said she has feelings for is none other than Shiratori. He keeps thinking of unreal scenarios with Shiratori and Sato being together, and isn't able to fully concentrate on the case.

Later, with the help from Conan, the trick and the identity of the killer are uncovered, and the case goes to an end. After turning down the invitation of Shiratori, Sato invites Takagi to go out and have ramen for dinner, to which he accepts happily. Unexpectedly, a drunken Megure comes up and asks them to go for a drink with him at the bar, and Sato immediately approves of the idea despite the invitation to Takagi earlier. Because of this, Takagi suddenly suspects that Sato's love interest is in fact Inspector Megure, and declines the offer.

The case ends with a depressed Takagi lying on the table and being unable to do anything, even though he still hasn't taken the Detective Boys' testimonies yet.

=== Innocent Suspect Case (Manga: [[Volume 23|231]]-[[Volume 24|233]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2|156-157]]) ===

=== Sato's Father Case (Manga: [[Volume 27|267-269]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3|205-206]]) ===

=== Police Escort Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 30|296-298]]; Anime: [[The Shinkansen Transport Case|240-241]]) ===

=== Sato's Omiai Case (Manga: [[Volume 32|328]]-[[Volume 33|330]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4|253-254]]) ===

=== Parade Bomber Case (Manga: [[Volume 36|366-368]]; Anime: [[Parade of Malice and Saint|301-302]]) ===

=== Serial Bomber Case (Manga: [[Volume 36|369]]-[[Volume 37|373]]; Anime: [[The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages|304]]) ===

=== Missing Ring Case (Manga: [[Volume 40|404-406]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 5|358-359]]) ===

=== Takagi's Last Case (Manga: [[Volume 44|450-452]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 6|390-391]]) ===

=== Jewel Robber's Suicide Case (Manga: [[Volume 47|484-486]]; Anime: [[A Jewel Thief Caught Red-Handed|401-402]]) ===

=== Group Date Kidnapping Case (Manga: [[Volume 50|511-514]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 7|431-432]]) ===

=== Fake Wedding Case (Manga: [[Volume 52|535-537]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story - Fake Wedding|449]]) ===

=== Sato's Ring Case (Manga: [[Volume 56|576-578]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 8: The Left Hand's Ring Finger|487]]) ===

=== Hammer Man Case (Manga: [[Volume 60|625-627]]; Anime: [[The Truth Behind the Urban Legend|530-531]]) ===

=== Whistling Killer Case (Manga: [[Volume 64|670-673]]; Anime: [[The Scar that Evokes the Past|534-535]]) ===

=== The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love (Manga: [[Volume 76|804]]-[[Volume 77|808]]; Anime: [[The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love|681-683]]) ===
[[File:681-7.png|thumb]]

Takagi is kidnapped by a mystery man misunderstanding he is [[Wataru Date]] who makes his daughter suicide. Police officers including Superintendent [[Matsumoto]] and Inspector [[Megure]] find their way to save Takagi with [[Conan]]'s help. [[Sato]] saves Takagi on time before the bomb under him exploded.

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family & Friends ===
[[Image:Episode 535 - Sato and Takagi kiss.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Sato and Takagi]]
==== Miwako Sato ====
{{main|Wataru Takagi and Miwako Sato}}
His affection for [[Miwako Sato|Sato]] is a driving force of his character development. While his insecurity and comical outside interference regularly get in the way, he slowly manages to win her heart through his dedication, honesty and sincerity - traits Sato had also admired in her late colleague [[Jinpei Matsuda]]. Sato finally kisses Takagi after he has been severely wounded while protecting others.

==== Conan Edogawa ====
Takagi has come the closest of any of the Division One members to finding out [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s true identity. In the Tokyo Tower Bomber Case, while they waited for the elevator bomb's clock to run down to give the final clue to stop the greater crime, [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]], as Conan, told Takagi that he would answer Takagi's questions about his real identity "on the other side." Takagi has also come to acknowledge Conan's sharp mind and intellect, taking Conan's observations seriously and even allowing him to accompany him to question suspects, most notably during the New Scar and the Whistling Man Case where he has the rest of the Detective Boys remain in the car.

==== Detective Chiba ====
Takagi and [[Detective Chiba|Chiba]] always work together on murder cases. Chiba is also the only male officer in their department who has had no obsessive crush on Sato, and in fact supported Takagi in his romantic endeavors on several occasions.

==== Wataru Date ====
[[Wataru Date|Date]] was Takagi's mentor and close friend who passed away in a traffic accident. As the pronunciation of his name was the same as Wataru Takagi's, Takagi and Date were nicknamed "the Wataru brothers" (ワタル・ブラザーズ).

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Takagi placed 14th in the poll with 46 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 15th movie, [[Quarter of Silence]], the official Conan movie website held a popularity poll for the top 10 Detective Conan characters. Takagi placed 10th out of 10.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conan-movie.jp/camp_chara/camp15th_res.html|title=名探偵コナン「キャラクター人気投票」|date=2011|publisher=www.conan-movie.jp|accessdate=2011-08-12}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Takagi placed 10th overall with 226 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

== Name origin ==
Takagi is named after his voice actor: he was originally a nameless character. In [[Night Road Murder Case|Episode 66]], when Megure asks Takagi to check the bloodstains on the roof, his voice actor [[Chafurin]] adlibbed the name "Wataru Takagi" by accident during the recording session.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Takagi_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Takagi's "Before" Appearance (Episode 26)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Takagi_Second_Look.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Takagi's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 147)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Takagi_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Takagi's "After" Appearance (Episode 760)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|It doesn't matter whether it's a petty or a major crime, all crimes are unforgivable!{{citation needed}}}}
==In other languages==
{{BeginTable CharLang|notes=1}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|渉 Wataru|高木 Takagi| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Harry|Wilder| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Wataru|Takagi| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Wataru|Takagi| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Wataru|Takagi| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Wataru|Takagi|In the anime, Takagi is pronunced like "Takaji"}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Wataru|Takagi| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Takagi|Wataru| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|''Not given''| تاكاجي　Takaji| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|형선 Hyung Sun|신 Shin| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Wataru|Takagi| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|วาตารุ Wa-ta-ru|ทาคางิ Ta-ka-ngi| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Ватару|Такаги| }}
{{EndTable}}

== Trivia ==
*Despite debuting in [[On Location, TV Drama Murder Case]] it isn't until the [[Karaoke Box Murder Case]] that Takagi is credited and referred to by that name.
*Takagi's appearance seems to have changed. His old hairstyle included a spikier fringe compared to the current one as well as a darker skin tone.
*Takagi drives a [[Cars|Nissan Skyline]].
*The name of the voice actor of Takagi is Wataru Takagi also.

== See also ==
* [[Wataru Takagi Appearances]]
* [[Characters]]
* [[Wataru Takagi and Miwako Sato]]

== References ==
<references />
{{Characters}}
{{Police}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Takagi Wataru}}
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Police detectives]]
[[Category:Anime original characters]]
[[Category:Anime to manga characters]]
[[Category:Male characters]]
[[Category:Characters named after their voice actors]]
[[de:Wataru Takagi]]

Heiji Hattori

2015-07-15T22:34:24Z

Bunchu Thong-In: /* In other languages */

{{FeaturedArticle|August 11, 2011}}
{{InfoBox Char
| name = Heiji Hattori
| japanese-name = 服部平次 (Hattori Heiji)
| english-name = Harley Hartwell
| image = Heiji Hattori Profile.jpg
| age = 17<ref name=CD56>Conan drill page 56</ref>
| gender = Male
| height =
| weight =
| date-of-birth = Unknown date<ref name=CD56/> in July or August<ref>[http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdetektivconan-wiki.com%2Fwiki%2FInterview_mit_Gosho_Aoyama&act=url Interview with Gosho Aoyama at Comic Salon in Erlangen, July 22, 2006]</ref>
| occupation = High School Student Detective
| relatives = [[Heizo Hattori]] (father) [[Shizuka Hattori]] (mother)
| nicknames = Hei-chan ([[Goro Otaki|Otaki]]) "The Great Detective of the West" Detective Freak ([[Kazuha]]) Dark skinned man ([[Conan]]) Osaka boy ([[Kogoro]]) Detective boy
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_10#Great_Detective_of_the_West|File 92]] Anime: [[Diplomat Murder Case|Episode 48]]
| appearances = {{:Heiji Hattori Appearances}}
| cases-solved = 1000+ (Including the cases of lost cats when Heiji was a kid.)<ref>[[Three Days with Heiji Hattori|Episode 479: Three Days with Heiji Hattori]]; [[Volume 54|Volume 54, File 563, page 3: "The Detective Koshien"]]</ref>
| keyhole = [[Volume 10]]
| japanese-voice = [[Ryo Horikawa]]
| english-voice = [[Kevin M. Connolly]]
| drama-actor = [[Tori Matsuzaka]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Heiji Hattori|服部平次|Hattori Heiji}}''', also known as '''Harley Hartwell''' in the Funimation dub, is an Osakan high school detective in the manga and anime series ''[[Detective Conan]]''. He is a childhood friend and the romantic interest of [[Kazuha Toyama]]. Originally a rival to [[Shinichi Kudo]], Heiji has since [[List of characters who know Conan's identity|found out]] [[Conan]]'s true identity and the two often team up to work on cases. He was the first person to find out Conan's true identity himself.

== Background ==
[[File:Cuffed.png|thumb|left|Heiji and Kazuha cuffed together as children]]
Heiji is a high school detective, and the son of [[Heizo Hattori]], chief of the Osaka Police Department, and his wife [[Shizuka Hattori]]. Heiji wants to be a detective like his father, and he is also very skilled in kendo and has become a favored tournament contender for his school.

At one time during their childhood, Heiji had had the unfortunate idea of locking himself and his friend [[Kazuha Toyama|Kazuha]] together with a set of old handcuffs which had no key to unlock it; as a result they involuntarily had to spend time together even on some rather intimate occasions (i.e., bathroom visits) before the cuffs could be removed. As a reminder of this 'closeness' and for good luck, Kazuha fashioned two identical lucky charms, each incorporating a chain link from the cuffs, which she and Heiji have been wearing ever since.<ref name=StabbetWallet>Manga Volume 19: Files 185 (Stabbed Wallet Case)</ref>

In the news, Heiji has been publicly declared the "Great Detective of the West", while [[Shinichi Kudo]] is the "Great Detective of the East". As a result, Heiji showed up unannounced at the Mouri Detective Agency looking for Kudo, seeking to challenge his rival to a showdown of wits. (In fact, they had such a contest before, three years previously, during a skiing trip in the Yamagata prefecture, although they never learned about each other's identities at that time.<ref>Manga Chapters 518-522: Yuki-Onna Murder Case</ref>) Heiji was soundly defeated in the following case after [[Conan Edogawa]] temporarily turned back into Shinichi, but he gained a lot of respect for Shinichi in the process.<ref>Manga Chapters 092-096: The Great Detective Of The West</ref>.

During their second encounter, Conan knocked Heiji out to solve the on-going case, but during his final presentation of the facts, Heiji awoke prematurely and discovered Conan's secret, and in the end managed to blackmail Conan into revealing all. <ref>Manga Chapters 121: The Holmes Freak Case: The Revelation</ref> Ever since that revelation, Heiji has been helping Conan in hiding his secret identity, though he constantly slips up by calling him "Kudo" in front of [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and Kazuha.

Heiji and Conan most often congenially team up to solve assorted cases. Heiji has also helped Conan investigate the [[Black Organization]] on several occasions, such as when the two investigated [[Jodie Starling]] <ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Case Closed |volume=34 |publisher=Viz Media chapter=Files 2-7 |language=English }}</ref>, or when Heiji investigated [[Eisuke Hondou]] on his own and then told Conan his findings<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Meitantei Conan |volume=56 | chapter=Files 7 |language=Japanese}}</ref>. He's also helped cover for Conan during several of the brief instances where Conan regained his true adolescent age, and has even disguised himself as Shinichi on several occasions in order to protect his identity, even though he is not very good at it (mostly owing to his distinctive Kansai dialect). When not working on a case, he regularly attempts to invite Conan to take in the sights and culinary delights of Osaka, which he considers more wholesome than Tokyo's.
{{clearleft}}

== Personality ==
Even while solving a case, Heiji tends to be lighthearted and good-humored, preferring to work through it with a grin on his face. He is a big fan of baseball, and is most of the time shown wearing an Osaka cap, to support the local Osaka baseball team. He usually wears his cap with its visor pointed backward, but if he feels challenged, he turns the visor forward.

Heiji is known for his pride as an Osaka citizen and for his thick Osakan accent, which has been pointed out and sometimes made fun numerous times. However, Heiji holds his head high and is always one to brag about the greatness of Osaka, especially when Conan comes to visit.

Despite him knowing the value and necessity of remaining calm in the face of a crime, Heiji tends to be impulsive at times, which tends to cloud his judgment a little. This was discussed directly in the "Detective Koushien" case, when [[Saguru Hakuba]] accused Heiji of being a poor detective for disrupting a crime scene in his rush to see if the victim could still be saved. Heiji, however, solved the case in the end, and reminded Saguru that the detective's first job is to prevent death if he can. Heiji is also known to be extremely protective of those he values as close friends, and tries hard to keep them out of harm. There are several instances where Hattori tells Kazuha to wait for him or leaves her behind in order to keep her from being involved in cases, simply because he's afraid of her getting hurt.<ref>Manga Volume 59, File 6, pg 6: Armored Warrior</ref><ref>Manga Volume 59, File 7, pg 11: Art of War</ref><ref name=653p3>Manga Volume 63, File 1, page 3: My Deduction</ref>

Furthermore, he's pretty much always watching Shinichi's back, and does whatever he can to not only keep Shinichi safe, but to keep his identity under cover. However, on one occasion Heiji advised Conan to tell the truth, when Ran had convinced herself that Conan was Shinichi and thus willingly gave him blood after being shot.

Although he is very competitive when it comes to detective cases, when a case gets hot, he and Shinichi work effectively together. During Shinichi's first return to his high school during the play performance, Heiji let him take the lead role in the investigations, saying it was because they were in Tokyo, Shinichi's turf.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Case Closed |volume=26 |publisher=Viz Media chapter=Files 1-7 |language=English }}</ref>

Although he frequently mocks Kazuha for her superstitions and enthusiasm for good-luck charms, Heiji has several times revealed that he puts more trust in them than he would admit. He once dreamed of Shinichi being murdered, and out subsequently insisted that Conan wear his omamori, the good luck charm Kazuha gave him. The omamori ended up saving Shinichi's life by deflecting a knife blow, but Heiji, without his usual protection, was shot in the stomach.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Meitantei Conan |volume=19 | chapter=Files 5-8 |language=Japanese}}</ref> In another case, Ran hung a teruterubozu, a charm that's supposed to ensure good weather, in the window so that Conan would have good weather for his field trip the next day. Heiji, however, got up in the middle of the night to take down the teruterubozu so that Conan's field trip would be rained out and he could accompany Heiji on an investigation of the The Red Horse Among The Flames.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Meitantei Conan |volume=39 |language=Japanese}}</ref>

== Appellations ==

<tabs jsId="nicknames">
<tab title="Protagonists">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Heiji !! style="width:200px;"|What Heiji calls them
|-
| [[File:Shinichi Kudo 60px.jpg]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Hattori || Kudo
|-
| [[File:Conan Edogawa 60px.jpg]] || [[Conan Edogawa]] || Hattori ''(alone)'' Heiji-niichan Heiji-kun (joke) Dark skinned man ''(Once)'' || Kudo ''(alone/accidentally)'' Conan-kun Kid
|-
| [[File:Ran Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Ran Mouri]] || Hattori-kun Heiji-kun Heiji-niisan ''(Brother Heiji)'' || Neechan ''(Sister / Miss)'' Ran-san
|-
| [[File:Kogoro Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Kogoro Mouri]] || Osaka brat Detective boy || Occhan ''(Uncle, casual)''
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Detective Boys">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Heiji !! style="width:200px;"|What Heiji calls them
|-
| [[File:Ayumi Yoshida 60px.jpg]] || [[Ayumi Yoshida]] || Heiji-oniichan ||
|-
| [[File:Genta Kojima 60px.jpg]] || [[Genta Kojima]] || Heiji-san ||
|-
| [[File:Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya 60px.jpg]] || [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] || Heiji-san||
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Friends and relatives">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Heiji !! style="width:200px;"|What Heiji calls them
|-
| [[File:Kazuha Toyama 60px.jpg]] || [[Kazuha Toyama]] || Heiji Detective Freak || Kazuha Kazuha-chan ''(polite)''
|-
| [[File:Heizo Hattori 60px.jpg]] || [[Heizo Hattori]] || Heiji || Dad ''(Oyaji)''
|-
| [[File:Shizuka Hattori 60px.jpg]] || [[Shizuka Hattori]] || Heiji || Mom ''(Okan)'' Old lady ''(Oba-han)''
|-
| [[File:Ai Haibara 60px.jpg]] || [[Ai Haibara]] || Osaka friend || That little girl That big sister
|-
| [[File:Hiroshi Agasa 60px.jpg]] || [[Hiroshi Agasa]] || Heiji-kun || Professor
|-
| [[File:Sonoko Suzuki 60px.jpg]] || [[Sonoko Suzuki]] || Hattori-kun ||
|-
| [[File:Goro Otaki 60px.jpg]] || [[Goro Otaki]] || Hei-chan || Otaki-han
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Heiji !! style="width:200px;"|What Heiji calls them
|-
| [[File:Juzo Megure 60px.jpg]] || [[Juzo Megure]] || Heiji-kun || Inspector Megure
|-
| [[File:Wataru Takagi 60px.jpg]] || [[Wataru Takagi]] || Heiji-kun
|-
| [[File:Jodie Starling 60px.jpg]] || [[Jodie Starling]] || Cool kid's friend Hattori-kun || Ms.Jodie
|-
| [[File:Masumi_Sera_60px.jpg]] || [[Masumi Sera]] || Hattori-kun || Girl
</tabs>

== Appearance ==
[[File:vlcsnap-2013-09-20-15h27m58s194.png|thumb|right|Heiji talks about his skin color in Movie 7.]]
Heiji has dark brown, spiky hair and dark brown skin which he claims is inherited from his grandfather. His eyes are blue in the manga (like every character). Initially, his eyes appeared dark green, but are now blue<ref>[[Episode 710]]</ref>. He speaks with a strong Kansai Ben accent, which is typical of the Osaka region. Since Heiji is so strongly accustomed to this accent, his lingual habit can be a disadvantage at times, especially when he has to impersonate someone who uses standard Japanese.<ref>[[Volume 26# School Play Case|Manga Chapter 256: ''Concealed Truth'']]</ref><ref>OVA 06: ''[[Follow the Vanished Diamond! Conan & Heiji vs. Kid!]]''</ref>

He has a scar behind the left ear from being hit during an Oyodo competition.
{{clear}}

He has also been shown to be popular with girls due to his good looks, position as kendo captain at his high school, and his fame as a high school detective. For example, in episode 263 when several girls tried to flirt with him but he had switched his gear with another team member to make a last minute call to Conan to visit his match. This was shown in Magic File 4: The Osaka Okonomiyaki Killer where several girls came to ask for an autograph and in ova 9, he was referred to as a lady killer.

== Skills ==

=== Detective skills ===
Heiji's detective skills are same as [[Shinichi]]'s. Because of his skills, Heiji has acquired his nick name "The Great Detective Of The West". Like Shinichi, he has a keen eye for details, and can spot any unusual aspects in a case that most people tend to ignore or not take into account and has extraordinarily broad and deep knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases. He repeatedly demonstrates the ability to recall every detail of an investigation, and may have a photographic memory to manage such perfect recall so consistently. Heiji's fastidious attention to detail allows him to notice minor inconsistencies in crime scenes and suspect testimony. However, unlike Shinichi, Heiji seem to be more competitive and hot-blooded while solving a case, which sometimes leads him into making a wrong deduction [[Diplomat Murder Case| i.e. the case in his first appearance.]]

=== Eidetic memory ===
Like the other 'geniuses' of Detective Conan, Heiji has shown himself to have an eidetic memory, capable of remembering complex letter and number sequences at only a glance, such as when he was able to solve a code in his head during the "Heiji and Kazuha in Grave Danger" arc, and even reproduce another message using the same code to text to Conan.

=== Athletic Ability ===
As Shinichi is to soccer, so is Heiji to kendo. He's the fifth position, or taisho, and captain of his high school Kendo team. Heiji may disable criminals using an improvised bokken similar to how Shinichi uses his soccer skills.

Heiji is also very nimble. He can jump higher than a bookshelf, and balance perfectly on a katana. This is shown in episode 263 of the anime, when Kotegawa tries to kill him.

===Others===
Heiji is also a capable motorcycle rider. He also speaks fluent English. During Episode 291, Heiji has shown to have the ability to deduce a woman's swimsuit without actually looking at it.

== Plot overview ==

[[image:190_heiji_as_shinichi.JPG|thumb|right|180px| Heiji attempting to disguise himself as Shinichi to alleviate Ran's suspicions.]]

===Great Detective of the West (Manga: [[Volume_10#Great_Detective_of_the_West|92-96]], Anime: [[Diplomat Murder Case|48-49]])===

One day, Conan (using his [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|Voice-Changer Tie]] to imitate [[Shinichi Kudo|his old voice]]) calls [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] to tell her once again that he is all right and that he is still stuck with the 'special case' when Ran hangs up on him as someone has just entered the detective agency. Coming home, Conan finds to his surprise that the 'customer' is a youth who keeps demanding to see Shinichi Kudo. When Ran mentions that Shinichi has just called, without asking about Ran's state, the youth deduces that Shinichi must actually be nearby, watching Ran from afar. He then introduces himself as high school detective Heiji Hattori and presents a gift, a bottle of [[baijiu]], of which he gives Conan a swig. Just then, Kimie Tsujimura, the wife of a known diplomat, enters [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]]'s office to ask him to investigate the girlfriend of her son. In order to be inconspicuous, Kogoro takes Ran and Conan along, and Heiji, hoping to flush out Shinichi, tags along as well. What is originally meant to be a simple investigation job turns out to be a murder case, as they find Kimie's husband slain at his desk.

===Holmes Freak Case (Manga: [[Volume_12#Holmes_Freak_Case|117-121]], Anime: [[Holmes Freak Murder Case|57-58]])===

After this first case, it only takes one more run-in with Conan to get Heiji thinking about the similarities between Conan and Shinichi. It is on the "[[Holmes Freak Murder Case]]" that Heiji, despite professing a preference for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellery_Queen Ellery Queen], exercises the Holmesian axiom: "When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." In addition, after Conan had [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch|knocked him out]] to use him as his mouthpiece to present his evidence, Heiji receives a clout on the head from [[Kogoro Mouri]], which wakes him up again, and from the corner of his eye he spies Conan standing behind him and using his [[Voice-Changing Bowtie]] to mimick his voice; he thus discovers Conan's secret, which forces Conan to explain his situation.

===Bond of Fire Case (Manga: [[Volume_15#Bond_of_Fire_Case|150-153]], Anime: [[Distinguished Family's Consecutive Accidental Death Case|77-78]])===

On their third case together, Conan was initially irritated to see Heiji, but they quickly formed a strong team. Together they cornered the murderer and even took steps to preventing the suicide she had planned. When she realizes that she won't be able to kill herself she weeps piteously, causing Heiji to whisper to Conan, "perhaps we should have let her die." Conan replies that "a detective who corners a murderer with logic and then lets them commit suicide is no better than a murderer."

===Mystery Writer Case (Manga: [[Volume_19#Mystery_Writer_Case|183]], Anime: [[The Mystery Writer Disappearance Case|117]])===

===Stabbed Wallet Case (Manga: [[Volume_19#Stabbed_Wallet_Case|185-188]], Anime: [[The Naniwa Serial Murder Case|118]])===

Heiji invites Conan (and [[Kogoro Mouri]] and [[Ran Mouri]], because otherwise it'd look suspicious) to Osaka. It is revealed by [[Kazuha Toyama]] (in her first appearance) that Heiji has been talking about 'Kudo' so often that Kazuha thought 'Kudo' was his new Tokyo girlfriend. Heiji suggests that the reason he invited Conan to Osaka is because he has been worried about Conan's safety; he has had dreams of Conan being murdered. On a case together in Osaka, Heiji gives Conan his omamori, which ends up saving his life by deflecting a knife thrust. However, without it Heiji is injured while trying to prevent the murderer from committing suicide. In the ambulance, he reveals to Conan that he has taken to heart Conan's admonishment.

===Wedding Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_21#Wedding_Murder_Case|211-214]], Anime: [[The Night Before the Wedding Locked Room Case|141-142]])===

Heiji and Kazuha visit Tokyo accompanied by Kogoro, Ran, and Conan. They run into Heiji's father's friend and are invited to their mansion. There a murder occurs and his father's friend is found dead in a locked room. It seems he was dragged to another room after being stabbed in the heart. Continuing the investigation, Heiji proclaims the butler was the murderer and he is taken away, screaming his innocence. Late that night, an unknown man takes the murder weapon and tries to place it in a bag, but is caught by Heiji and Conan who reveal that they placed the blame on the butler to lure out the true culprit. The culprit is revealed to be Kikuhito Morizono. He reveals that he murdered the man because he tried to cancel the wedding and take his love away from him.

===Cruise Ship Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_23#Cruise_Ship_Murder_Case|225-230]], Anime: [[The Twenty Year Old Murderous Intent: The Symphony Serial Murder Case|174]])===

In this episode, Heiji meets up once again with Conan and the gang on an overnight cruise in Tokyo. Unfortunately, instead of being able to spend a relaxing day on board, a serial murder case is created, leaving Heiji and Conan to work together to solve it. After they gather much of the evidence of the murder cases, Heiji and Conan share their deductions with each other only to find that, once again, their deductions are different. Heiji tries to beat Conan to the truth and goes off on his own to investigate. When he happens to come across the final piece of evidence that disproves both his and Conan's deductions, he is attacked and thrown overboard into the ocean. Later, Conan realizes that he's missing and is extremely concerned.

===Spider Mansion Case (Manga: [[Volume_25#Spider_Mansion_Case|246-250]], Anime: [[Tottori Spider Mansion Demon|166-168]])===

Kogoro and Heiji are hired to solve a murder case in a mansion supposedly haunted by a spider demon. Heiji and Kazuha, on their way to the mansion, find one of the residents who is also lost: an American named Robert Taylor who is a photographer. The three are picked up by Kogoro and co. in a truck. Apparently, the spider god's victims are always found hanged. During their stay, they find a hanged man surrounded by web-like strings. The case continues, and Conan and Heiji investigate further in the case. Conan and Heiji cooperate to reveal the murderer's identity and his trick.

===The Desperate Revival (Manga: [[Volume_26|254-258]], Anime: [[The Desperate Revival|189-192]])===

Ran is cast in a school play. While discussing the play with her friends backstage, Conan shows up wearing a face mask due to a cold. During a romantic scene, a man in the audience falls dead, seemingly by potassium cyanide, as revealed by a young man in the audience who appears to be Shinichi Kudo. This is quickly debunked, as Kazuha recognizes Heiji in disguise, and the real Shinichi has shown up anyway. Heiji originally planned on disguising as Shinichi in order to clear Ran's suspicions that Conan and Shinichi were one and the same, and was unaware that Shinichi would take the antidote with Haibara present in disguise as Conan.

===Old Photograph Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_28#Old_Photograph_Murder_Case|278]], Anime: [[The Client Full of Lies|221]])===

A woman named Shizuka Ikenami asks Kogoro to help find a man named Shiro Shibata so she could retrieve an old photograph; Conan realizes that the Ikenami is lying to Kogoro when she introduces herself for unknown reasons. After Conan solved the case, Heiji and Kazuha arrive and reveal that Shizuka Ikenami is actually Heiji's mother. Shizuka confesses and tells Kogoro that she wanted to see what kind of person he was since Heiji was injured the last time he stayed over.

===Mermaid's Curse Case (Manga: [[Volume_28#Mermaid's_Curse_Case|279-283]], Anime: [[And Then There Were No Mermaids|222-224]])===

Heiji along with Conan, Ran, and Kogoro visit the Isle of Mermaids looking for Saori, who had sent a letter to Heiji and Kogoro asking them to save her from being killed by a mermaid, but when they try to look for her she has been reported missing. Conan and Heiji investigate the area and history of Mermaids Grave, a forest on the island. They learn that an elder who is over 130 years old is a holder of the arrow and the head of the festival. While investigating, three murders occur. Conan reveals to Heiji he knows who the murderer is and to meet him later, but later he and Kazuha fall off a cliff. Kazuha attempts to save Heiji by stabbing him with an arrow so that he would let go of her and save himself, but Heiji persists and ends up saving both Kazuha and himself in the end.

===K3 Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_29#K3_Murder_Case|293-295]], Anime: [[The 3 "K"s of Osaka Case|238-239]])===

At the Mouri Detective Agency, Conan is on the phone talking to Heiji about the restaurant's opening party. Heiji's parents got invited but they both got colds and were unable to attend. Heiji decides to invite Conan, Ran, and Kogoro to come to the party. Three famous athletes from America are going to be there also. Once Heiji told Conan who the three athletes are, Conan accepts the invitation. Suddenly, the news reporter named Ed McCay who was invited to the K3 Restaurant asks that isn't Japan the home of many scandals, and mentions that K stands for "kitanai" meaning filth. Heiji wonders who he is and Kogoro knows that Ed McCay's famous in America. He's a reporter that specializes in exposing famous athletes' scandals. He exposes the athletes taking illegal drugs, playing fixed games, and having affairs. Ed McCay later gets murdered, but Heiji and Conan solves the case.

===Police Escort Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_30#Police_Escort_Murder_Case|296]], Anime: [[The Shinkansen Transport Case|240]])===

===Naniwa Swordsman Case (Manga: [[Volume_31#Naniwa_Swordsman_Case|314-316]], Anime: [[The Osaka Double Mystery - The Naniwa Swordsman and Toyotomi's Castle|263]])===

Heiji invites Conan to his kendo tournament but a drunk man named Atsushi Tarumi is found dead in the storage room. Heiji comes to investigate only to find that the body had somehow been moved to the shower room without anyone noticing. While Heiji was investigating, Kazuha suddenly appears asking Heiji to come back and take part in tournament and told him that Shinichi (Actually Conan, with whom Heiji was talking using the name "Kudo") would solve this case before him, which made Heiji jealous and he told Kazuha to not to tell anything about this case to Kudo. After a thorough investigation, Heiji reveals the culprit before Shinichi. However, in the end Heiji's high school lost the tournament because of Heiji's absence, but he seemed to be happy because he won his duel against Kudo. After the culprit is arrested, Heiji and Conan explore the town.

===Tiger Scroll Case (Manga: [[Volume_31#Tiger_Scroll_Case|317-321]], Anime: [[The Osaka Double Mystery - The Naniwa Swordsman and Toyotomi's Castle|263]])===

===Flying Neighbor Case (Manga: [[Volume_34#Flying_Neighbor_Case|341-343]], Anime: [[English Teacher vs. Great Western Detective|277-278]])===

While at Agasa's house, Conan recalls his last meeting with the Black Organization. Conan deduces that another Black Organization member must have been at the hotel party. This is when he finally singles out Chris Vineyard as his suspect. Heiji came to Tokyo to help Conan out with the case. Heiji suspects Jodie-sensei of being a possible Black Organization member, and although Conan seems reluctant to support this idea, they pay Jodie-sensei a visit at her apartment. They find out here that her full name is "Jodie Saintemillion". After Jodie agrees to go out for a while with Heiji and Conan, the man living next door to Jodie falls dead outside from over 30 stories coincidentally as the three step outside. After the police arrive, it seems likely that the man committed suicide. However, Conan and Heiji have their doubts. Heiji immediately destroys the theory of suicide by showing that the man who fell from his apartment attempted to grab onto a curtain to save his life. Conan and Heiji reveal the truth by showing how the room was switched around so that when the man was drunken he would expect to be stepping out onto the balcony, but instead would wind up falling. After they solve the case, Heiji asks Jodie who she is. In reply, Jodie asks Heiji the same question. When Conan and Heiji leave, they concur that Jodie is suspicious but innocuous. The ending scene shows that she's already on to them in that Jodie's already knows Heiji's name and has pictures of Kudo during the time he regressed back to his former self in the Desperate Revival arc.

===Mysterious Words Case (Manga: [[Volume_35#Mysterious_Words_Case|361-365]], Anime: [[Solitary Island of the Princess and the Dragon King's Palace|291-293]])===

===Heiji Hattori's Desperate Situation (Manga: [[Volume_38#Heiji_Hattori's_Desperate_Situation|390-392]], Anime: [[Heiji Hattori's Desperate Situation!|323-324]])===

Heiji, Kazuha and a man named Kasukawa are held hostage in an attic of someone's home. Meanwhile, Conan, Ran, and Kogoro are tired of waiting for the two and begin searching for them based on clues from the last phone call. They investigate Detective Kasukawa's home and discover evidence that Heiji had been there. Conan finds a memo which discloses Kenbashi City, Ito Residence. They investigate those with the surname Ito but are unable to find information about Heiji. Meanwhile, it is revealed Heiji is held hostage by Misari Ito, an attorney who is the head of a tax evasion group. Ito demands Heiji to solve a code made by Kasukawa which contains a seven-digit-code to a safe box containing evidence of her scandal. While held at gunpoint, Heiji sends a modified version of the code to Kogoro and asks him to solve it. Conan manages to solve the code, realizing that K, Q, and J stand for King, Queen, and Jack and replaces them with numbers accordingly. When Heiji receives the code back from Kogoro, he tells Misari he will tell her the seven digits and they head to the bank. Conan realizes the last three digits are actually letters and realizes what Heiji is trying to tell him and replies a modified code. Heiji tells Misari Ito he will tell her the seven digits and they head to the bank. Heiji reveals that the numbers, if placed in a 3 by 3 diagram, will create a diagram of a dice with the 1's representing the dots on a dice. Heiji reveals that the code he sent Kogoro had the letters LIB meaning Libra which is referring to the scales Libra and the attorney badge Ito has; He explains that the code "Kogoro" replied with means to "Lure One of them Out". At Ito's home, Conan knocks out the two kidnappers and frees Kazuha. The police arrive later and apprehends the criminals.

===Red Horse Case (Manga: [[Volume_39#Red_Horse_Case|393-397]], Anime: [[The Red Horse within the Flames|325-327]])===

===Halloween Party Case (Manga: [[Volume_42#Halloween_Party_Case|429-434]], Anime: [[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night|345]])===

===Heiji vs. Kazuha (Manga: [[Volume_43#Heiji_vs._Kazuha|441-444]], Anime: [[Which One's Deduction Show|381-382]])===

===Koshien Bomber Case (Manga: [[Volume_43#Koshien_Bomber_Case|445-449]], Anime: [[Miracle at Koshien Ball Park! The Defiants Face the Dark Demon|383]])===

===Magician Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_47#Magician_Murder_Case|487-490]], Anime: [[Conan and Heiji's Deduction Magic|406-408]])===

===Yuki-Onna Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_50#Yuki-Onna_Murder_Case|518-522]], Anime: [[Heiji Hattori vs. Shinichi Kudo: Deduction Battle on the Ski Slope|490]])===

===Phantom Corpse Case (Manga: [[Volume_54#Phantom_Corpse_Case|559-561]], Anime: [[Three Days with Heiji Hattori|479]])===

===Detective Koshien Case (Manga: [[Volume_54#Phantom_Corpse_Case|562-566]], Anime: [[Three Days with Heiji Hattori|479]])===

===Missing Photo Case (Manga: [[Volume_56#Missing_Photo_Case|582]], Anime: [[Whereabouts of the Dark Photograph|484]])===

===Billing Fraud Case (Manga: [[Volume_56#Billing_Fraud_Case|585]], Anime: [[Clash of Red and Black|491]])===

===Furinkazan Case (Manga: [[Volume_59#Furinkazan_Case|613-618]], Anime: [[Furinkazan|516-517]])===

===Murderer Shinichi Kudo Case (Manga: [[Volume_62#Murderer_Shinichi_Kudo_Case|646-651]], Anime: [[Murderer, Shinichi Kudo|521-522]])===

===Highway Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_62#Highway_Murder_Case|652-654]], Anime: [[What She Truly Wants to Ask|523]])===

===Sushi Bar Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_63#Sushi_Bar_Murder_Case|655]], Anime: [[The Blue Spark of Hate|524]])===

===Haunted Warehouse Case (Manga: [[Volume_66#Haunted_Warehouse_Case|692]], Anime: [[Battle of the Haunted Warehouse's Treasure|572]])===

===Kazuha's Charm Case (Manga: [[Volume_66#Kazuha's_Charm_Case|693-695]], Anime: [[The Whereabouts of the Embarrassing Charm|573-574]])===

===Demon Dog Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_70#Demon_Dog_Murder_Case|734-740]], Anime: [[The Victim is Shinichi Kudo|610]][[Inubushi Castle, The Ablazed Demon Dog|-613]])===

===East vs. West (Manga: [[Volume_74#East_vs._West|778-780]], Anime: [[Conan vs. Heiji, Deduction Battle Between the Detectives of the East and West|651]])===

===Eye for an Eye (Manga: [[Volume_74#Eye_for_an_Eye|781-786]], Anime: [[The Design of Poison and Mirage|652-655]])===

===Unexpected Murder (Manga: [[Volume_79#Unexpected_Murder|831-833]], Anime: [[Everyone Saw|710-711]])===

===Vampire's Mansion (Manga: [[Volume_79#Vampire's_Mansion|834-840]], Anime: [[Heiji Hattori and the Vampire Mansion|712-715]])===

===Drug Trading Case (Manga: [[Volume_83#Drug_Trading_Case|879-881]], Anime: [[Conan and Heiji, Code of Love|763-764]])===

===Kamaitachi Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_86#Kamaitachi_Murder_Case|909-912]], Anime: TBA)===

===Kawanakajima Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_86#KKawanakajima_Murder_Case|913]], Anime: TBA)===

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family & Friends ===
==== Kazuha Toyama ====
{{main|Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama}}
Heiji's relationship with [[Kazuha Toyama|Kazuha]] is a very close one; they were childhood friends, and have stayed close through the years. Their relationship is identified as a romantic one by other characters and fans alike, even though they claim that they don't have that sort of relationship or feelings for each other. Heiji is clueless when it comes to love and has not yet realized he has actual feelings for Kazuha. However, it has been shown that he becomes visibly jealous when he sees Kazuha with other guys, becoming distracted throughout the whole case. At one point, after a certain case, while looking at Kazuha, his thoughts read: 'Fool. You're too naive. I promise you, as long as you're with me, I'll never let anyone hurt you.'. Kazuha knows she has feelings for Heiji, as she shows this by being protective and chasing off other women that might have a interest in him In on of the mangas Kazuha attempts to confess her feelings after finding out that Shinichi had done so with Ran, but is unlucky because by telling him, Heiji ran off to tease Conan(Shinichi) for it. She one time even attempted to sacrifice herself to save Heiji during a case in which accidentally both fell off a cliff. When the branch that Heiji was holding and both of them were hanging on to was breaking, she stabbed his hand with an arrow of love to prevent him from falling and force him to let her fall; however, he still held on despite the wound. Also, they have a similar situation to Ran and Shinichi, being childhood friends that have romantic feelings for each other and have similar backgrounds. Heiji is a teenage detective and she is a police detective's daughter, like Ran is a detective's daughter and Shinichi is a teenage detective. They are even called the 'Ran and Shinichi of Osaka' by fans of the series, since they're so similar. Although they are constantly fighting, they both are very close friends. It is also shown in the seventh movie, ''[[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]'', that Kazuha is Heiji's first love, though he didn't know it was her at the time. In the most recent case, Heiji 'confessed' to Kazuha when she was taken away by some suspicious men. However, when Kazuha questioned him about it, he claimed that she was wrong and there is no evidence that he actually confessed to her.

==== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ====
[[Image:Heiji teasing Conan.jpg|thumb|right|Heiji enjoys teasing Conan.]]
Heiji acts rather brotherly towards [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]], even going so far as to pretend to be him on various occasions so that no one figures out that Shinichi and Conan are the same person. Of course, this might also be to make up for all the times Heiji calls him Kudo, which has nearly given Shinichi away multiple times. Heiji is concerned for Shinichi when he gets into trouble and life-or-death situations. They are as close as real brothers, both being detectives who have romantic feelings for their childhood friends. When they're caught solving a case together, it's not unusual for their minds to move in sync; because of this and several other factors, they maintain a sort of friendly rivalry with each other. However, they are both all business when a case gets serious. Heiji has, on several occasions, declared himself to be Shinichi's best friend.
{{clear}}

==== Ran Mouri ====
Heiji and [[Ran]] are very good friends, bonding after Heiji's many trips to Tokyo because he "misses Conan". Ran respects Heiji as a very skilled detective who reminds her of Shinichi, but whenever Heiji and Kazuha run into an argument, Ran seems to take Kazuha's side.

Since Heiji knows that Ran is Shinichi's Girlfriend, he tends to tease Shinichi about her quite often and will give him advice on his romantic relationship with her. Since it's practically identical with his relationship with Kazuha (Even though they aren't on the same level as Shinichi & Ran's romantic relationship).

Heiji almost views Ran as a sister, as he will tease her from time to time and he'll help explain things to her during cases along with Kazuha.

==== Heizo Hattori ====
Heiji wants to become a detective, and his [[Heizo Hattori|father]] is very supportive of this, helping him solve tough cases. However, his father prefers a "tough love" approach, though mostly for the sole purpose of using Heiji to lure out a suspect.

==== Shizuka Hattori ====
[[Shizuka Hattori|Shizuka]] is Heiji's mother and he sometimes calls her an "old lady".

==== Kogoro Mouri ====
[[Kogoro]] respects him a little as a detective, but due to Heiji being the better detective, he seem to get annoyed whenever Heiji is with him while solving cases.

==== Goro Otaki ====
[[Goro Otaki|Otaki]] and Heiji are very good friends.

==== Juzo Megure ====
Usually Megure gets a little annoyed whenever Heiji runs into a case he is handling. He often tells Kogoro to not to lose to an outsider like Heiji. Despite this, Megure respects Heiji as a very skilled detective, and he has even declared Heiji as a better detective than Shinichi.

== Injuries ==
Heiji has been shown to receive the most amount of injuries out of the characters in the franchise, not including the numerous times Conan has been hit by [[Kogoro Mouri|Mouri]]. His so far are:

'''[[Volume 10|Volume 10, File 2-6]]''':
Heiji and Conan's head collide, raising bumps.

'''[[Volume 12|Volume 12, File 7-10]]''':
Heiji and Conan's head collide, raising bumps.

'''[[Volume 19|Volume 19, File 8]]''':
Shot in the belly by Detective Sakata.

'''[[Volume 23|Volume 23, File 4-9]]''':
Hit over the head and tossed overboard into the ocean.

'''[[Volume 25|Volume 25, File 4-8]]''':
Kazuha slaps Heiji after he bursts into her room demanding she take her clothes off, then attempts to assist her in doing so.

'''[[Volume 28|Volume 28, File 6-10]]''':
Right hand stabbed by Kazuha with an arrow while dangling off a cliff.

'''[[Volume 31|Volume 31, File 8]]''':
Kazuha nails him on the back of the head with something, raising a bump.

'''[[Volume 31|Volume 31, File 8]] (mentioned)''':
Scar behind the left ear from last year's Oyodo competition. Given to him by Okita when he was unable to stop Okita's 5-step attack. The match was stopped because his neck wouldn't stop bleeding until a doctor tended to it.

'''[[Volume 31|Volume 31, File 10]]''':
Shallow cut to left cheek with a katana by Takashi Kotegawa.

'''[[Volume 31|Volume 31, File 11]]/[[Volume 32|Volume 32, File 1]]''':
Heiji's father punches him in the face, sends him flying.

'''[[Volume 38|Volume 38, File 8-10]]''':
Handcuffed behind his back in an attic, beaten with fists and feet, face shoved into the floor, gun pointed at his head repeatedly.

'''[[Volume 83|Volume 83, File 9]]''':
Beaten up in a fist fight with narcotics agents.

'''[[Volume 86|Volume 86, File 5]]'''
Hand sliced by the Kamaitachi.

'''[[Movie 3]]''':
Heiji crashes his motorcycle, sprains something, most likely a leg.

'''[[Movie 7]]''':
Slice on his forehead and voluntarily took a cut to the left shoulder with a poisoned dagger.

'''[[Movie 10]]''':
Shot in the arm and leg.

'''[[Movie 17]]''':
Shot in the arm while saving Kazuha

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Heiji placed 6th in the poll with 261 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*Heiji placed 3rd in the results of a poll ranking the top 3 "ikemen" ("good-looking men") of the series aired during the promotional special for [[The Lost Ship in the Sky]].<ref>The Lost Ship in the Sky Special Edition Blu-ray</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 15th movie, [[Quarter of Silence]], the official Conan movie website held a popularity poll for the top 10 Detective Conan characters. Heiji placed 3rd out of 10 with 10.79% of the votes cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conan-movie.jp/camp_chara/camp15th_res.html|title=名探偵コナン「キャラクター人気投票」|date=2011|publisher=www.conan-movie.jp|accessdate=2011-08-12}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Heiji placed 5th overall with 956 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

== Name origin ==
Heiji's name comes from fictional Edo period police detective '''{{nihongo|[[wikipedia:Zenigata Heiji|Zenigata Heiji]]|銭形平次}}''' and famous samurai and ninja '''{{nihongo|[[wikipedia:Hattori Hanzō|Hattori Hanzou]]|服部半蔵}}'''. His surname also stems from Inspector Hattori, a police officer who often cooperates with Detective Shunsaku Kudo of the TV Drama [[wikipedia:ja:探偵物語|Tantei Monogatari (Detective Tales)]].

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Heiji_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Heiji's "Before" Appearance (Episode 48)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Heiji Middle.JPG|thumb|left|x200px|Heiji's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 479)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Heiji_After.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Heiji's "After" Appearance (Episode 763)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they wanna find a flaw.}}

{{cquote|Life is limited, that's why it's so precious. Since there's a limit, we try our best to live.}}

{{cquote|Not good... detective suits me better.|Heiji and Conan forced to chop up vegetables}}

{{cquote|Whatcha doin' to MY Kazuha!!?|Heiji's 'confession' to Kazuha upon strangling the suspect}}

== In other languages ==
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|平次　Heiji|服部 Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Harley|Hartwell}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|Spanish Latin America|Alfredo|Adame}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Heiji|Hattori / Hatsutori (in Volume 10)}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Heiji|Hattori (Anime) / Hatsutori (Manga)}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Sweden|Swedish|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic| هيجي Hijii |هاتوري Hatori }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|인성 In Sung|하 Ha}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|平次 Pingci|服部 Fubu }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เฮย์จิ Heiji|ฮัตโตริHattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Хейджи|Хаттори}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Hungary|Hungarian|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{EndTable}}

== Trivia ==
*Heiji has become somewhat infamous for the amount of injuries he has sustained throughout the series. A fan-compiled full list can be found [http://www.mischif.net/ahou/injuries.htm here]. As the link is now dead, a new list can be found on this page under "[[Heiji Hattori#Injuries|Injuries]]".
*Heiji, along with [[Shinichi Kudo]], [[Kaito Kuroba]], and [[Saguru Hakuba]], are sometimes referred to as 'The Four Geniuses' or 'The Gosho Boys' by fans.
*In OVA 9, Heiji and Kazuha are asked, "When are you two getting married?" However, this can be dismissed as it was all part of Conan's dream.
*Heiji's favorite author is Ellery Queen.

==Gallery==
<gallery widths=185px perrow=5>
File:Heiji10yrs.png|Heiji in 10 years of the future, as shown in OVA 9
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Hattori family]]
* [[Heiji Hattori Appearances]]
* [[Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama]]
* "[http://www.mischif.net/ahou/ Ahou Calling]", a fan-made Heiji Hattori reference site.

==References==
<references/>

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hattori Heiji}}
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Male characters]]
[[Category:Detectives]]
[[category:High school detectives]]
[[Category:High school students]]
[[Category:Martial artists]]
[[Category:Characters from Osaka]]
[[Category:Characters who know Conan's identity]]
[[Category:Characters who know Ai Haibara's identity]]
[[Category:Sleeping detectives]]

[[de:Heiji Hattori]]
{{Characters}}

James Black

2015-07-15T22:33:08Z

Bunchu Thong-In: /* In other languages */

{{InfoBox Char
| name = James Black
| japanese-name = ジェイムズ・ブラック (Jeimuzu Burakku)
| english-name = James Black
| image = James Black Profile.jpg
| age = ?
| gender = Male
| date-of-birth =
| relatives =
| occupation = FBI Agent
| nicknames =
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_32#Kidnapped_Tourist_Case|File 325]] Anime: [[The Man from Chicago|Episode 258]]
| appearances = {{:James Black Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 57]]
| japanese-voice = [[Iemasa Kayumi]]
| english-voice =
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|James Black|ジェイムズ・ブラック|Jeimuzu Burakku}}''' is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''. He is a high ranking agent in the FBI.

== Background ==
According to James Black's own account, he was born in London, England, in the Marylebone district of Westchester City (the same district where the original [[wikipedia:Baker Street|Baker Street]] is located), before he moved to Chicago, growing up as a naturalized American citizen.<ref>Manga Chapter 325: Something the Lion Dropped</ref>

Black first met [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]], the [[Detective Boys]], and [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] when he was visiting Japan to attend an animal show. They saved him from a crowd of reporters who mistook him for a famous American actor, the patron of the show. In fact, he was shortly afterwards kidnapped because of this, and it was thanks to Conan and the Tokyo police that Black was safely rescued from a dangerous hostage situation.<ref>Manga Chapters 325-327: Kidnapped Tourist Case</ref> At this time, Black developed a deep respect for Conan's intellect, calling him "Cool Guy".

Conan didn't meet up with Black again until he encountered [[Jodie Starling]] again while trying to save a popular politician from an assassination attempt by the [[Black Organization]]. It was at this time that Black's allegiance with the FBI was revealed; Black is in fact the head of operations on the hunt for the Organization in Japan, and ever since this revelation, he and his colleagues have worked closely with Conan whenever their common cause would bring them together.<ref>Manga Chapter 502: A New Objective</ref>

== Personality ==
Stoic and collected, James Black often lets his underlings - chiefly [[Jodie Starling|Jodie]] and [[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]] - take the initiative, knowing their capabilities, and for the same reason he listens to Conan's judgements as well. Black, like Starling, is deeply saddened when he learns of Akai's death, considering it a painful blow on not only the FBI, but on a personal level as well.

== Plot overview ==

===Kidnapped Tourist Case (Manga: [[Volume_32#Kidnapped_Tourist_Case|325-327]], Anime: [[The Man from Chicago|258-259]])===

===Valentine Chocolate Case (Manga: [[Volume_33#Valentine_Chocolate_Case|331]], Anime: [[The Truth Behind Valentine's|266]])===

===Murderer's Car Case (Manga: [[Volume_42#Murderer's_Car_Case|435]], [[Volume_43#Murderer's_Car_Case|437]], Anime: [[Find the Buttock's Mark|346-347]])===

===Black Organization vs. FBI (Manga: [[Volume_49#Black_Organization_vs._FBI|502-504]], Anime: [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|425]])===

===Giant Hammer Case (Manga: [[Volume_53#Giant_Hammer_Case|550]], Anime: [[The Shadow of the Black Organization|462]])===

===Mysterious Job Case (Manga: [[Volume_53#Mysterious_Job_Case|553-554]], Anime: [[The Shadow of the Black Organization|464]])===

===Fake Patient Case (Manga: [[Volume_57#Fake_Patient_Case|595-597]], Anime: [[Clash of Red and Black|495-496]])===

===Kir Transport Case (Manga: [[Volume_58#Kir_Transport_Case|599-604]], Anime: [[Clash of Red and Black|497-500]])===

===Foreign Suspect Case (Manga: [[Volume_58#Foreign_Suspect_Case|605-609]], Anime: [[Clash of Red and Black|501-504]])===

===Red, White, and Yellow Case (Manga: [[Volume_60#Red,_White,_and_Yellow_Case|622]], Anime: [[Red, White, Yellow, and the Detective Boys|509]])===

===Bank Heist Case (Manga: [[Volume_65#Bank_Heist_Case|677, 679]], Anime: [[Detective Boys vs. Robber Group|563-564]])===

===East vs. West (Manga: [[Volume_74#East_vs._West|779-780]], Anime: [[Conan vs. Heiji, Deduction Battle Between the Detectives of the East and West|651]])===

===Scarlet Showdown (Manga: [[Volume_85#Scarlet|898]], Anime: TBA)===

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Colleagues ===
==== Jodie Starling ====
[[Jodie Starling|Jodie]] and James hold a close subordinate relationship and James is shown to trust Jodie's judgement deeply and recognizes her strengths and weaknesses. He is close enough to Jodie to understand her thoughts, mainly as shown when he cautions Camel not to speak too much about Akai in front of her, understanding that Akai had been more than a mere FBI colleague to Jodie. The two have been acquainted prior to the series at least 20 years ago following the death of Jodie's father. Due to his respect for his deceased friend and concern for the girl's safety, James consistently tried persuading Jodie to join the Witness Protection Program, though the latter constantly refused over and over until a point at time in which she made a deal with James to join the Witness Protection Program under the promise that she be guaranteed a position in the FBI when she grew older. Despite often taking over the role of giving out orders, Jodie holds deep loyalty to James, whom she has shown to somewhat view as a father figure.

==== Shuichi Akai ====
While their relationship is not shown as much as Jodie's, it is shown that James holds high regard in [[Shuichi Akai|Akai]]'s abilities and respects and trusts him deeply and vice versa. James has also noted Akai's habit of performing missions on his own and planning things without informing him or Jodie, but does not appear to bear a grudge because of it. He also appears to be knowledgeable of Akai's loner personality coming from Akemi's death, showing that he understands Akai quite well despite not having interacted with him much. James had shown to have taken Akai's death hard (though not to the same extent as Jodie), but is still able to maintain his composure despite the obvious tragedy. Later on, it was revealed that Black was in on the ploy to fake Akai's death, which would explain his maintaining his composure. A major hint to this is provided in the movie ''[[Dimensional Sniper]]'', where [[Subaru Okiya]] (apparently Shuichi's undercover identity) is shown to be in secret contact with Black.

==== Andre Camel ====
While their relationship is even less shown than Akai's, it is shown that James still trusted and respected [[Andre Camel|Camel]]. The two were shown spending time as friends along with Jodie at a liquor store at one point, where Camel's less-than-sensitive personality causes Jodie to storm out of the store, with James later cautioning Camel to not mention Akai's name in front of Jodie, knowing that she had taken his death particularly hard, having viewed him as more than a mere FBI colleague.

=== Others ===

==== Conan Edogawa ====
James is one of the few adults that views [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] as an equal and the even fewer few that seemingly knows his true identity due to being part of the FBI. As such, James holds high regard in Conan's abilities and trusts him deeply. He also has the habit of calling Conan, "Cool-guy".

== Name origin ==
Haibara notes that James Black's name is similar to [[Wikipedia:James Bond|James Bond]], and both are British as well. Conan points out that there is another British man with a similar name: "[[Wikipedia:Professor Moriarty|James Moriarty]]".

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:James_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|James' "Before" Appearance (Episode 258)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:James Middle.JPG|thumb|left|x200px|James' "Middle" Appearance (Episode 495)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:James_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|James' "After" Appearance (Episode 563)]]
|}

== Quotes ==

{{cquote|As expected of the child that you have your eyes on. It almost makes me want to scout him for the bureau.|[[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out!|Episode 425]]||talking to [[Jodie Starling|Jodie]] in the car with [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] in the backseat}}

== Trivia ==
* In his first appearance, he was blond.

==In other languages==
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|ジェイムズ Jeimuzu|ブラック Burakku}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|James|Black}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arabic|Arabic|جيمز James|بلاك Black}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เจมส์ James|แบล็ค Black}}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[FBI]]

== References ==
<references />
{{Characters}}
{{Template: Federal Bureau of Investigation}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Black, James}}
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Male characters]]
[[Category:FBI]]
[[de:James Black]]

Ayumi Yoshida

2015-07-15T22:32:21Z

Bunchu Thong-In: /* In other languages */

{{InfoBox Char
| name = Ayumi Yoshida
| japanese-name = 吉田歩美 (Yoshida Ayumi)
| english-name = Amy Yeager (FUNimation dub and manga by Viz)
| image = Ayumi Yoshida Profile.jpg
| age = 6-7<ref name=CD54>Conan Drill page 54</ref>
| gender = Female
| height = Unknown<ref name=CD54/>
| weight = 15kg<ref name=CD54/> (33 lbs)
| date-of-birth = Unknown<ref name=CD54/>
| relatives =
| occupation = Teitan Elementary School student Detective Boys member
| nicknames =
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_2#Scary_Building_Case|File 17]] Anime: [[Roller_Coaster_Murder_Case|Episode 1]]
| appearances = {{:Ayumi Yoshida Appearances}}
| cases-solved = 1 (Episode 259)
| keyhole = [[Volume 6]]
| japanese-voice = [[Yukiko Iwai]]
| english-voice = [[Monica Rial]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Ayumi Yoshida|吉田歩美|''Yoshida Ayumi''}}''', also known '''Amy Yeager''' in the English dub and manga, is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
[[File:Ayumi clear background.jpg|thumb|left|125px|Ayumi]]
Ayumi Yoshida is a student in [[Teitan Elementary]] when [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] joins her class as [[Conan Edogawa]]. Ayumi befriends Conan and convinces him to join her, [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], and [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] in investigating an apparently haunted mansion. As it turns out, the haunting is a cover-up for an old homicide case, and due to Conan, the mystery is solved and the culprits are arrested.

Soon after, the accidental acquisition of a treasure map leads Ayumi, Genta, Mistuhiko and Conan on a hunt for a cache of stolen Italian gold coins, during which Conan saves them from getting killed by the mafia members who are also after the gold. His actions earn Ayumi's gratitude, which quickly develops into a serious crush.<ref>Manga Chapter 39: Code Sheet Case: The Shining Fish's True Form</ref> Additionally, after the case is resolved, Ayumi joins Genta and Mitsuhiko in forming the nucleus of an amateur detective group, the [[Detective Boys]]. Ayumi is the sole female member of the Detective Boys until [[Ai Haibara]] joins their ranks.
{{clearleft}}

== Personality ==
Ayumi is a primarily naive and innocent little girl who enjoys adventure. She demonstrates courage as time goes on and acts as the group's cheerful spirit. She has an open crush on Conan, which makes him uncomfortable, though Ayumi thinks that he has feelings for Haibara because he tries to protect her and she often sees them talking amongst themselves in private. Ayumi later becomes better friends with Haibara, and in the Japanese version, Haibara allows Ayumi permission to use the more informal term Ai-''chan'' to address her.<ref>[[Volume 39]]</ref>

When on a case, Ayumi often makes simple observations that help lead to progress and resolution. For instance, she unlocked one of the codes from the Momotaro container the [[Detective Boys]] found in Kurashiki by deducing that it was most likely referring to one of the statues at the Oohara Art Museum: they had to walk 25 steps from the statue towards the direction it was facing.<ref name="ep377">[[Momotarou Mystery Solving Tour|Episode 377-378: Momotarou Mystery Solving Tour]]</ref>

== Plot overview ==
=== Ayumi-chan Kidnapping Case (Manga: [[Volume 9|81-83]]; Anime: [[Ayumi-chan Kidnapping Case|12]]) ===
Ayumi plays hide and seek with the Detective Boys. She hides in the trunk of a parked car, not knowing that the owners would drive off with her. While in the dark, she hears the driver and passenger saying criminal things and, feeling around in the dark, finds a bundles of cash and a severed head. Conan, Genta, and Mistuhiko chase after the car using Conan's skateboard. When they catch up and free Ayumi, they discover the "criminals" were really actors practicing their lines for a play and the "severed head" and "money" were only props made out of newspaper. To make up for the damage they caused, the reluctant Ayumi has to play the role of the dead girl in the play.

=== The Old Blue Castle Investigation Case (Manga: [[Volume 20|200]],[[Volume 21|201,203]]; Anime: [[The Old Blue Castle Investigation Case|136-137]]) ===
=== Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun (Manga: [[Volume 38|384-386]]; Anime: [[Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun|312-313]]) ===
=== Find the Buttock's Mark (Manga: [[Volume 42|435]],[[Volume 43|436,437]]; Anime: [[Find the Buttock's Mark|346-347]]) ===

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Detective Boys ===
[[Image:Conan_Ayumi_Kiss.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Ayumi gives Conan her first kiss.]]
==== Conan Edogawa ====
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ayumi Yoshida}}
Ayumi has strong romantic feelings for [[Conan]] and sees him as a role model as well as an extremely reliable person she can look up to and may always count on.<ref>Manga Chapter 039: The Shining Fish's True Form</ref> Conan in turn is a bit unnerved by Ayumi's feelings, though he does respect her as a good friend.<ref>Manga Chapter 081: A Dangerous Game of Hide-And-Seek</ref>

==== Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya and Genta Kojima ====
Ayumi gets along well with [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] and [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], but blissfully fails to realize that they both have a crush on her.<ref>Manga Chapter 081: A Dangerous Game of Hide-And-Seek</ref> As a result, her open flirting with Conan leaves them frequently jealous or disappointed.<ref>Manga Chapter 437: Ai Haibara's Resolution</ref><ref>Manga Chapter 386: Stairs in the Setting Sun</ref>

==== Ai Haibara ====
Ayumi is the first to approach and try to befriend their new classmate, [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]], by offering to walk her home and then inviting her along on a Detective Boys investigation. At first Haibara remains distant, but later recognizes the value of friendship and allows Ayumi (and only her) to call her "Ai-chan". In turn, Haibara considers Ayumi like a little sister and gets along with her much better than with her other teammates.

=== Family&Friends ===
==== Agasa Hiroshi ====

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Ayumi placed 11th in the poll with 55 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Ayumi placed 15th overall with 95 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

== Name origin ==
Ayumi's name comes from mystery writer '''{{nihongo|[[wikipedia:ja:北川歩実|Ayumi Kitagawa]]|北川歩実|Kitagawa Ayumi}}'''.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Ayumi_Before.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Ayumi's "Before" Appearance (Episode 1)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Ayumi Middle.JPG|thumb|left|x200px|Ayumi's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 460)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Ayumi_After.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Ayumi's "After" Appearance (Episode 631)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|But, I... don't want to run! If I keep running, I won't win! I definitely won't!|Ayumi on why she wants to get closer to the suspects so she can identify the criminal.<ref>[[Volume 32|Volume 32, File 2, Page 17]]</ref>}}

== Trivia ==
*"Ayumi" means beautiful step. "Yoshida" means joyful ricefield
*Ayumi appears to be an only child living with her father and mother.
*Ayumi has a pink cellphone and her background is of her playing with a sparkler.

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=185px perrow=5>
File:Detective boys parents.jpg|Ayumi is scolded by her father.
File:Ayumi10yrs.png|Ayumi in 10 years, along with Mitsuhiko and Conan/Shinichi in 10 years of the future, as shown in OVA 9
</gallery>

==In other languages==
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|歩美Ayumi|吉田Yoshida}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Amy|Yeager/Yoshida<ref>Used in the Manga Series</ref>}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Ayumi|Yoshida}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Ayumi|Yoshida}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Ayumi|Yoshida}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|Spanish Latin America|Jessica| - - - }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Ayumi|Yoshida}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Ayumi|Yoshida}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Ayumi|Yoshida}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Ayumi|Yoshida}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Ayumi|Yoshida}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic| إيومي Iyomi|''Yuushida يوشيدا'' }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|아름 Ah Reum|한 Han}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|步美 Bùmeǐ|吉田 Jítían}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|步美 Bùmeǐ|吉田 Jítían}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|อายูมิ Ayumi|โยชิดะ Yoshida}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Ayumi|Yoshida}}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Ayumi Yoshida Appearances]]
* [[Yoshida family]]
* [[Detective Boys]]

== References ==
<references/>

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yoshida Ayumi}}
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Female characters]]
[[Category:Elementary school students]]
[[Category:Detective Boys]]

[[de:Ayumi Yoshida]]
{{Characters}}
{{Detective Boys}}

Sumiko Kobayashi

2015-07-15T22:25:50Z

Bunchu Thong-In: /* In other languages */

{{InfoBox Char
| name = Sumiko Kobayashi
| japanese-name = 小林澄子 (Kobayashi Sumiko)
| english-name = Liz Faulkner
| image = Sumiko Kobayashi Profile.jpg
| age = 26
| birth in date =
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives =
| occupation = Teitan Elementary School teacher
| nicknames = Kobayashi-sensei (formerly) Oni-baba ("old demon hag") That Ranpo-maniac
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_16#School_Mystery_Case|File 154]] Anime: [[The Seven Mysteries of Teitan Elementary School Case|Episode 112]]
| appearances = {{:Sumiko Kobayashi Appearances}}
| keyhole = [[Volume 50]]
| cases-solved =
| japanese-voice = [[Yuko Kobayashi]] (Episode 112) [[Yuko Kato]]
| english-voice = [[Stephanie Young]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Sumiko Kobayashi|小林澄子|Kobayashi Sumiko}}''', also known as '''Liz Faulkner''' in the [[Funimation]] dub, is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''. She is the homeroom teacher of [[Conan Edogawa]] and the girlfriend of [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]]. She is also the self-appointed (and somewhat unwelcome) "manager" of the [[Detective Boys]].

== Background ==
Sumiko Kobayashi attended Teitan Elementary and was in the 18th graduating class, two classes above [[Detective Chiba]]. She became the new class teacher of [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] and the [[Detective Boys]] after their previous teacher had married and retired. Her harsh behavior towards her charges had earned her the nickname "oni-baba" (hag) amongst her students.

One night, the Detective Boys came into the school to investigate strange occurrences involving busts from art class and an anatomy model from the sick room, which had been mysteriously moved around, and the mysterious absence of the vice principal. The busts and the model had actually been used by Sumiko for a rehearsal for the next parent-teacher conference. Sumiko is in fact very fond of children, but her kindness had caused her to have very little control over her class at her previous school, resulting in a disastrous parent-teacher conference. To fix this, she had forced herself to be strict and harsh when she transferred to Teitan Elementary, but after the Detective Boys discovered her nicer side, she decided to be herself again and has become very popular with her students ever since.<ref>Manga Chapter 155: Is Someone There?</ref>

On one occasion, she accompanied Conan and the Detective Boys to an interview which became a murder investigation as they found the reporter slain. After witnessing Conan in action, she announced her desire to join the Detective Boys and become their manager - a decision which was immediately vetoed<ref>Manga Chapter 517: The Detective Boys</ref> and is commonly neglected in the field.<ref>Manga Chapter 691: Conan vs. The Detective Boys</ref>

As it turned out later, when Sumiko was still a small child, she had confronted two no-good juveniles attempting to steal mangas from a bookshop. When the culprits contemptuously shoved her aside, a young boy intervened on her behalf, cooly citing a paragraph from Japanese law concerning theft. As a sign of gratitude, Sumiko bought her rescuer a drink ornamented with a circle of sakura flowers made from the straw wrapper, as a symbol of goodness and justice (referring to the sakura shaped Japanese police badges). It would not be until many years later that she would encounter him again as a member of the police force, under the name of [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]].<ref>Manga Chapters 687-689: Sakura Girl Case</ref>

Shiratori recognized Sumiko on first sight, and it turned out he had held deep feelings for her all these years. However, he wanted to win properly Sumiko's affection first and then tell her about what he viewed as the hand of fate, so he kept silent about their first encounter and banned the Detective Kids from helping him in any way. This scheme backfired when she found out that she had a dead lookalike in the police department whom Shiratori had once pursued romantically (unbeknownst to her, that was because Shiratori mistook her for Sumiko)...

Thinking that Shiratori considered her a mere replacement for [[Miwako Sato|Sato]], Sumiko was understandably hurt and started distancing herself from him, even after Shiratori personally explained their common past to her - a move which came at a bad time, because she had become an unwitting (and the sole) witness to a murder and the murderer would therefore try everything to silence her. And for worse, Sumiko's own memories of their encounter were much more vague than Shiratori's own. so she thought Sato was his "girl of destiny".<ref>Manga Chapters 707: The Sakura Girl is...?</ref> When the culprit was apprehended and Shiratori subdued him with words, Sumiko did indeed remember Shiratori as her childhood savior/friend, and the relationship was reaffirmed.<ref>Manga Chapters 708: The Sakura in Full Bloom</ref>

== Personality ==
Sumiko is very kind and fond of children, considering them the most wonderful thing in the world. Sumiko is also quite timid and sensitive, not to mention that she suffers from serious stagefright. Even though she has appointed herself the manager of the Detective Boys, the kids often leave her out of case or ignore her warnings. She was also quite hurt when she believed [[Ninzaburo Shiratori|Inspector Shiratori]] was only interested in her because of her resemblance to [[Miwako Sato]] - a resemblance so striking it even fooled Sato's close associates [[Detective Chiba|Chiba]] and [[Yumi Miyamoto|Yumi]].<ref>Manga Chapter 706: Kobayashi-sensei's Misunderstanding</ref><ref>Manga Chapter 707: The Sakura Girl is...</ref>

In contrast of Sumiko's physical resemblance to Sato, however, the two women have almost entirely different personality traits: While Sato is reckless, outspoken, daring, and impulsive, Sumiko is more gentle, softspoken, cautious, and careful in any given situation.

Sumiko loves mystery novels, particularly the works of [[Edogawa Rampo]]. Because of this, [[Ai Haibara]] suggests that she and Shiratori would work well together because Sumiko would enjoy hearing about cases from him.<ref>Manga Chapter 690: The Haunted Warehouse</ref>

== Plot overview ==
=== A Harsh Teacher ===
In her first appearance, Sumiko was known by the students of Class 1-B, including, Conan and the Detective Boys, as a strict,mean teacher, who was always disciplining her class, never showing any kindness. Her initial personality, led to her students nicknaming her,"Old Demon Hag".Then, one night, the [[Detective Boys]], decided to figure out why many dolls were missing one after another. Conan deduces the one behind the "kidnappings", was Sumiko herself, which relieved the children. Sumiko finally revealed the reason behind her "dictator-like" teaching, was that, in the past, two of her students fought at a parent-teacher conference, because of her lack in disciple.She would come at Teitan Elementary at night to practice for the next parent-teacher conference, so there be no more fights.However, with some suggestions from the Detective Boys, she changed her teaching style, and became more well liked.

Later on, she would introduce Ai Haibara, as the new student of Class1-B, who would also become an official member of the Detective Boys.

=== A Manager is Born ===
Sumiko agrees to give the Detective Boys a ride to a writer's home, since he wanted to do a report on them for their involvement in complicated cases. However, the gang didn't expect a dead writer. When [[Inspector Megure]] and [[Wataru Takagi]] arrive at the scene, both believe that Sumiko is Sato because, without her glasses on, she bears a scary resemblance to the officer. Soon Conan tries to prove the Detective Boy's skills in catching the criminal, however, he also had to conceal his vast intelligence, so his secret wouldn't be questioned by Sumiko. Conan and his friends manage to drop hints on who the real culprit is which leads to his arrestment.

After the case, Sumiko dubbed herself the "manager" of the group, wanting to solve and capture "bad guys" along with them.

Sumiko has been with the group on many cases, despite their disapproval or has been the Detective Boys' reference to call her, if they're involved in a case. Once, she devised a riddle for the students to deduce without the aid of Conan, so some new students would feel more welcome. Sumiko, along with Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, Haibara, and Genta, listen to Conan's story of how Shinichi (himself) and Ran as children had their first "coded mystery". Her main reason for becoming the "manager" seems to stem from her intense interests in mystery novels and her respect for the police.

=== A Lost Love, Finally Rekindled ===

During another one of the kids' cases, Sumiko is called to pick up the children by Megure. However, Shiratori (who had learned about Sumiko's existence few minutes before and was wondering if she was "the girl" from his past, since the other non-Sato candidate turned out to be the culprit of the case) offered that she should take them home in his car, while holding her hand in a romantic style. Over the next few days, he has made constant visits to where she works, warning her of any and all danger in the vicinity, which sparks Sumiko developing a crush on him, unaware of their actual history.

Later, Shiratori again warns Sumiko of a vicious, serial purse thief, who might be a woman, who's still at large. During the conversation, the latter asks why Shiratori kept calling her, and he simply replied, "Because I worry about you". The Detective Boys soon arrive and ask her if they want to come to a festival with her and she agrees. Soon, she loses sight of the children and as she's trying to find her way around, she becomes a witness of a murder. She was able to see the culprit's silhouette and hear their voice.

The next day, Sumiko goes to the police station, with the kids to testify what she saw. She meets [[Yumi Miyamoto]] and [[Detective Chiba]], who confuse her with Sato until Shiratori clears up the misunderstanding and escorts Sumiko to a conference so they can discuss the case in more detail. While on her way back from the restroom, she sees Sato from afar and is initially ''very'' happy and giddy at the thought of a woman who looks like her... but then she learns of Shiratori's former interest in Sato. This leads her to suspect that Shiratori only liked her because of her physical traits to the female officer, and depresses her greatly.

From then on Sumiko begins to treat Shiratori harshly and, after seeing that the three main suspects weren't the criminal, she coldly tells Shiratori not to bother her anymore and leaves. The next day at school school, he tells her the real reason why he liked her, but she dismisses it, as she believes Sato was "the girl of destiny" and cannot remember their supposed "meeting". However, while working late at night, she was almost killed by the criminal in order to silence her, but is saved by Shiratori, the Detective Boys and Sato.

Sumiko then finally remembers Shiratori, after he calls out the culprit in almost exactly the way he called out the shoplifters to help her. Shiratori then confesses he was always in love with her and Sumiko blushes and replies, "Yes.". Later, she makes a special bento for Shiratori, signifying that the two are now a couple.

== Relationships analysis ==

=== Family & Friends ===
==== Ninzaburo Shiratori ====
{{main|Ninzaburo Shiratori and Sumiko Kobayashi}}
As a child, Sumiko instantly became Shiratori's true love, and was the very reason why he entered the police force. They had confronted a bunch of shoplifters together as children, and as thanks she gave him a wristband made of paper straws, shaped like the ''sakura'' blossoms that look like the symbol of the Japanese Police.

For quite a while Shiratori believed that Sato was the girl he had loved since childhood and changed his life forever, hence his interest in her. At the end of a case that revealed parts of Shiratori's past, he realized Sato wasn't his true love, and even if she was she had chosen Takagi over him. For worse, at the end of said case Shiratori was depressed and exhausted, since another woman who could have been his long-lost love was actually the culprit. However, Ayumi cheered him up by saying the exact same lines that the girl from his past said and by making the same wristband she gave him. Shiratori desperately asked who taught her that, and Ayumi told him it was her school teacher Sumiko. Then, at that exact moment, Sumiko came to pick up the Detective Boys upon Megure's request...

When Shiratori layed eyes on Sumiko, he recognized her as his true "woman of destiny", and their relationship began to spark. He would always warn her of any dangers nearby where she worked or lived, which caused Sumiko to develope romantic feelings. In fact, his concern over her, constant visits, and kindness towards her, often causes her to blush deeply.

When Sumiko became a star witness in a murder investigation, she learned of her resemblance to Detective Sato. And after hearing about his former crush on her from other policemen, she thought that the only reason he was so interested in her was because of her striking resemblance to [[Miwako Sato]] and was not only shocked, but hurt, thinking Shiratori didn't have feelings for her. This wasn't helped by Shiratori not having told her about their shared past, as he was waiting for the right moment to do so.

Not knowing the real reason why Shiratori liked her, Sumiko began to act coldly and harshly towards him. Even when he confessed his true feelings to her and told her about their meeting, she brushed it off, thinking Shiratori confused her with Detective Sato. However, it was all cleared up by the end of the case, when he not only saved her from the culprit, but also cooly recited a law the same way he did as a child, which finally reminded her of their first meeting. Shiratori romantically confessed to her, which made her blush. She replied with a fast "Yes.".

Afterwards, the two began dating and every morning Sumiko gives Shiratori bentos for his "energy demanding" work. On White Day, Shiratori was seen with many presents inside his car for her. Later on, she was shown with all the delicious sweets from Shiratori's car at her house or apartment, happily not knowing where to begin.

==== Detective Boys ====

== Name origin ==
Kobayashi-sensei is named after a friend of [[Gosho Aoyama]]'s and a junior detective character created by [[Edogawa Rampo]].
== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Sumiko_Before.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Sumiko's "Before" Appearance (Episode 112)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Sumiko Middle.JPG|thumb|left|x200px|Sumiko's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 472)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Sumiko_After.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Sumiko's "After" Appearance (Episode 624)]]
|}

== Quotes ==

{{cquote|Because the sakura is the symbol of police officers! Determined, kind, and dignified. It's a flower of justice!|Child Kobayashi tells a young Shiratori why she gave him a sakura petal straw wrapper after he helped her stand up to some shoplifters.}}

==In other languages==
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|澄子 Sumiko|小林 Kobayashi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Liz|Faulkner}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Sumiko|Kobayashi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Sumiko|Kobayashi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Sumiko|Kobayashi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Sumiko|Kobayashi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Sumiko|Kobayashi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Sumiko|Kobayashi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|''Not given''| كوبا Koba }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Sumiko|Kobayashi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|은주 Eun Joo|김 Kim}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ซึมิโกะ Sumiko|โคบายาชิ Kobayashi}}
{{EndTable}}

== Trivia ==
*In her first appearance, Sumiko was seen as a brunette, but now is seen with blueish black hair.

*Despite huge differences in personalities, Sumiko and [[Miwako Sato]], have some similarities:
#Their boyfriends are policemen.
#They have strikingly similar appearances and similar haircuts.
#Both are friends with the [[Detective Boys]].
#Both have become acquainted with [[Kogoro Mouri]] in a murder case.
#They were both love interests of Shiratori; however, Sumiko was his real love.
#Both have helped solve a case with hints.
#They have had difficult starts to their relationships. Sato had to overcome her trauma over Matsuda's death before properly accepting Takagi's affections, Sumiko doubted Shiratori's feelings after finding out about Sato and couldn't remember what made him fall for her in the first place.
#Both are fond of children.

*Her first name, Sumiko, means "lovely child", while her surname, Kobayashi, means "small grove ".

==Gallery==

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]]
* [[Detective Boys]]
* [[Ninzaburo Shiratori and Sumiko Kobayashi]]

== References ==
<references />

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kobayashi Sumiko}}
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Female characters]]
[[Category:School staff]]
{{Characters}}
{{Detective Boys}}
[[de:Sumiko Kobayashi]]

Hiroshi Agasa

2015-07-15T22:24:14Z

Bunchu Thong-In: /* In other languages */

{{FeaturedArticle|January 14, 2012}}

{{InfoBox Char
| name = Hiroshi Agasa
| japanese-name = 阿笠博士 (Agasa Hiroshi)
| english-name = Hershel Agasa
| image = Hiroshi Agasa Profile.jpg
| age = 52<ref>Conan Drill Page 52</ref> (53<ref>OVA 7: Agasa claims he is 53 when talking to some criminals</ref>)
| gender = Male
| date-of-birth = Unknown<ref>Conan Drill Page 52</ref>
| relatives = Kurisuke Agasa (great-uncle) Teiko Agasa (great-aunt) Unnamed cousin Unnamed cousin's granddaughter
| occupation = Engineer Inventor
| aliases = Professor Agasa Dr. Agasa
| nicknames = Professor ([[Ai Haibara]]) Professor Agasa ([[Conan Edogawa]], [[Detective Boys]])
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_1#Company_President.27s_Daughter_Case|File 2]] Anime: [[Roller_Coaster_Murder_Case|Episode 1]]
| appearances = {{:Hiroshi Agasa Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 5]]
| japanese-voice = [[Kenichi Ogata]] [[Kazunari Tanaka]] (young)
| english-voice = [[Bill Flynn]]
| drama-actor = [[Ryosei Tayama]]
| footnotes = Was voted most likely to be "[[Anokata|That Person]]" in a fan poll
}}
'''{{nihongo|Hiroshi Agasa|阿笠博士|Agasa Hiroshi}}''', most commonly referred to as '''{{nihongo|Professor Agasa|阿笠博士|Agasa-hakase}}''', and known in the [[Funimation]] dub as '''Hershel Agasa''', is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''. Agasa is [[Shinichi Kudo]]'s next door neighbor and family friend. The first person to [[List of characters who know Conan's identity|learn]] that [[Conan Edogawa]] is actually Shinichi, he invented all of Conan's special [[gadgets]] as well as the [[Detective Boys]]' badges and flashlight-watches.

== Background ==
[[Image:Agasa's_house.JPG‎|thumb|left|200px|Agasa's house]]
Hiroshi Agasa is an inventor and [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]]'s next-door neighbor. He makes his living with a wide number of patents and inventions, including video games (of which the [[Detective Boys]] are enthusiastic test players). While many of his inventions are useless or have even damaged his in-house research laboratory, Agasa has been successful enough to live in a large house and even rebuild it when necessary. He has been a friend of Shinichi and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] since their childhood years.

After Shinichi was shrunk by the [[APTX 4869]], the first person he met and entrusted himself to was Agasa. After having been convinced that the little boy was Shinichi, Agasa was also the first one to advise Shinichi to exercise caution in his pursuit of the [[Black Organization]]. He also helped Shinichi in establishing his new identity as [[Conan Edogawa]], including constructing several gadgets which help Shinichi in carrying on his detective work surreptitiously. In order to perfect Conan's cover, he also enrolled him in [[Teitan Elementary]] and thus came to know the children who would form the [[Detective Boys]]. When [[Ai Haibara|Shiho Miyano]] fled the clutches of the Black Organization, she fled to Shinichi's house but collapsed from exhaustion near Agasa's doorstep. Agasa subsequently took her in, learned about her true identity and helped her establish her new identity as Ai Haibara. He also entrusted Shinichi's parents with the secret about what has happened to their son.

Ever since these beginnings, Agasa has been an invaluable friend for Shinichi and the Detective Boys as a confidant, paternal friend, and someone to hang out with. He often takes the children on trips, most of which turn into criminal cases instead.

=== Childhood and relatives ===
Agasa went to Teitan Elementary<ref name=410p>Manga Volume 40, File 7, Agasa's First Love</ref> and then Okuho middle school.<ref>Manga chapter 572 page 10</ref> He met [[Fusae Campbell|Fusae Kinoshita]] during sixth grade, though she moved away during the fall term and his family moved from Tokyo to the countryside soon after the term ended.<ref> Manga chapter 410 pages 08-10</ref>

Agasa has a rich accountant uncle named Kurisuke Agasa who died 50 years before the present timeline at the age of 38.<ref>Manga chapter 111 page 06</ref> The uncle liked gadgets. Kurisuke's sister, Teiko, was alive until a year ago when she passed away at age 76.<ref>Manga chapter 111 page 07</ref> Agasa’s cousin’s granddaughter is of the right age to be introduced to Takagi.<ref>Manga chapter 208</ref>

== Personality ==
Hiroshi Agasa is a jovial, caring and outgoing person and has many friends in his community, a fact which helped him in his covering up of Conan's and Haibara's true origins (he simply claims that they are the children of his friends and acquaintances). Agasa is highly intelligent, having achieved at least one advanced degree and managing to invent a slew of useful gadgets. He is especially proud of his inventions, and their quality must have been recognized, since they have already been used during official events<ref>[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2|Episode 157: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2]] where his "Tropical Raimbow" explosive is used during a celebration to destroy the Haido City museum.</ref>. While a bachelor, he is very paternal and enjoys the company of the [[Detective Boys]]. Agasa has a special love for pasta and tomato juice.

== Appearance ==
Agasa is an average size man with slightly-overweight frame. Looking somewhat older than his actual age, he is bald on the top of his head with the rest of his hair silver. He sports thick eyebrows and a mustache and a somewhat bulbous nose. He wears round glasses and is regularly seen in his lab attire

== Appellations ==
<tabs jsId="nicknames">
<tab title="Protagonists">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Agasa !! style="width:200px;"|What Agasa calls them
|-
| [[File:Shinichi Kudo 60px.jpg]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || ''Hakase'' || Shinichi
|-
| [[File:Conan Edogawa 60px.jpg]] || [[Conan Edogawa]] || Professor<ref>Chapter 775 pg 13</ref> (''Hakase'') || Conan-kun Shinichi (in private)
|-
| [[File:Ran Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Ran Mouri]] || Professor ''(Hakase)'' Professor Agasa ''(Agasa-hakase)'' || Ran-kun
|-
| [[File:Kogoro Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Kogoro Mouri]] || || Mouri-kun
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Detective Boys">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Agasa !! style="width:200px;"|What Agasa calls them
|-
| [[File:Ai Haibara 60px.jpg]] || [[Ai Haibara]] || Professor ''(Hakase)'' || Ai-kun
|-
| [[File:Ayumi Yoshida 60px.jpg]] || [[Ayumi Yoshida]] || Professor ''(Hakase)'' || Ayumi-kun<ref>Chapter 775 pg 11</ref>
|-
| [[File:Genta Kojima 60px.jpg]] || [[Genta Kojima]] || Professor ''(Hakase)'' || Genta-kun
|-
| [[File:Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya 60px.jpg]] || [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] || Professor ''(Hakase)'' || Mitsuhiko-kun
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Friends and relatives">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Agasa !! style="width:200px;"|What Agasa calls them
|-
| [[File:Yukiko Kudo 60px.jpg]] || [[Yukiko Kudo]] || ||
|-
| [[File:Yusaku Kudo 60px.jpg]] || [[Yusaku Kudo]] || ||
|-
| [[File:Subaru Okiya 60px.jpg]] || [[Subaru Okiya]] || ||
|-
| [[File:Sonoko Suzuki 60px.jpg]] || [[Sonoko Suzuki]] || ||
|-
| [[File:Heiji Hattori 60px.jpg]] || [[Heiji Hattori]] || ||
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Police">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Agasa !! style="width:200px;"|What Agasa calls them
|-
| [[File:Juzo Megure 60px.jpg]] || [[Juzo Megure]] ||Agasa-san||
|-
| [[File:Wataru Takagi 60px.jpg]] || [[Wataru Takagi]] || ||
|-
| [[File:Miwako Sato 60px.jpg]] || [[Miwako Sato]] || ||
|-
| [[File:Ninzaburo Shiratori 60px.jpg]] || [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] || ||
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Other">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Agasa !! style="width:200px;"|What Agasa calls them
|-
| [[File:Jodie Starling 60px.jpg]] || [[Jodie Starling]] || ||
|-
| [[File:Masumi Sera 60px.jpg]] || [[Masumi Sera]] || Professor Agasa ||
|-
| [[File:Tooru Amuro 60px.jpg]] || [[Tooru Amuro]] || Professor Agasa (''Agasa-hakase'') ||
|-
| [[File:Atsushi Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Atsushi Miyano ]] || ||
|-
| [[File:Elena Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Elena Miyano]] || ||
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

== Plot overview ==

=== The Great Detective Turned Small (Manga: [[Volume 1|002-005]], Anime: [[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|002]])===
[[Shinichi Kudo]] confides in Agasa the secret that he has been shrunken. Shinichi takes the name [[Conan Edogawa]] and goes to live with [[Ran Mouri]].
=== The Bloody Pop Idol (Manga: [[Volume 1|006-009]], Anime: [[An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case|003]])===
Invents: [[Voice-Changing Bowtie]]
=== The Mysterious Shadowing Case (Manga: [[Volume 2|010-012]], Anime: [[Akaoni Village Fire Festival Murder Case|038]])===
Invents: [[Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes]]
=== 1 Billion Yen Robbery Case (Manga: [[Volume 2|013-016]], Anime: [[The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case|013]])===
Invents: [[Criminal Tracking Glasses]]
=== Hatamoto Family Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 3|020-025]], Anime: [[Luxury Liner Serial Murder Case|022-023]])===
Invents: [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch]]
=== Monthly Presents Case (Manga: [[Volume 3|026-029]], Anime: [[Once-A-Month Present Threat Case|007]])===
Agasa uses the [[Voice-Changing Bowtie]] in order to help Conan protect his secret identity from Ran.
=== Shinkansen Bomb Case (Manga: [[Volume 4|033-035]], Anime: [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|005]])===
Invents: [[Microphone]]
=== Conan Edogawa Kidnapping Case (Manga: [[Volume 5|049-050]] and [[Volume 6|051]], Anime: [[Conan Edogawa Kidnapping Case|043]])===
Agasa aids [[Yusaku Kudo]] and [[Yukiko Kudo]] in playing a prank on Conan to prove to him how dangerous of a situation he is in.
=== Mysterious Brothers Case (Manga: [[Volume 6|056-058]], Anime: [[Missing Corpse Murder Case|015]])===
Invents: [[Detective Boys Badge]]
=== Pro Soccer Player Case (Manga: [[Volume 7|068-070]] and [[Volume 8|071]], Anime: [[Pro Soccer Player Blackmail Case|010]])===
Invents: [[Portable Bentou Box Fax]]
=== Night Baron Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 8|072-077]], Anime: [[Night Baron Murder Case|068-070]])===
Agasa signed himself and a friend up for a mystery tour, but the friend's daughter becomes sick, so he sends Conan, Ran, and [[Kogoro Mouri]] in his place
=== Trapped Ayumi Case (Manga: [[Volume 9|081-083]], Anime: [[Ayumi-chan Kidnapping Case|012]])===
Invents: [[Turbo Engine Skateboard]]
=== Library Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 10|097-098]], Anime: [[Library Murder Case|050]])===
Conan, after realizing that Baigar, chinese alcohol, has some effect on his shrinking, gets Agasa to buy him more, but they learn he has built a tolerance.
=== Mist Tengu Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 11|108-110]], Anime: [[The Mist Goblin Legend Murder Case|052]])===
Invents: [[Button Speaker]]
=== Moon, Star, Sun Code Case (Manga: [[Volume 12|111-113]], Anime: [[The Secret of the Moon, the Star, and the Sun|163-164]])===
Invents: Voive-Changing pen, Anime version: [[Kamen Yaiba Voice Changer]] 
Agasa takes the [[Detective Boys]] to his uncles house to uncover a treasure he had hidden, however they discover a second code that leads to a hidden attic.
=== Gomera Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 13|128-130]], Anime: [[Big Monster Gomera Murder Case|063]])===
First time that Conan uses Agasa's voice to solve a murder case using the [[Voice-Changing Bowtie]].
=== Ski Lodge Case (Manga: [[Volume 14|139-143]], Anime: [[Ski Lodge Murder Case|084-085]])===
Invents: [[Earring Cellphone]]
=== Kaitou Kid and the Black Star (Manga: [[Volume 16|156-159]], Anime: [[Conan vs. Kaitou Kid|076]])===
At Conan's request, Agasa looks through Yusaku's files to find information about a phantom thief from 18 years ago. He discovers that a "young novelist" had played around with the thief's title "1412" and ended up naming the thief "Kid". Conan spends the rest of the case trying to stop Kid from stealing the [[Suzuki family]]'s Black Star gem.
=== University Professor Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 18|179-180]] and [[Volume 19|181]], Anime: [[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|129]])===
A mysterious new student, [[Ai Haibara]], at Conan's school reveals her self to be an agent of the [[Black Organization]], Sherry ([[Shiho Miyano]]). She also claims to have sent Dr. Agasa to the next world. Conan races to Agasa's house to find him alive and distracted. It is then revealed that Haibara escaped from the Organization in by taking the Shrinking drug [[APTX]] and ran to Shinichi's house for protection, where Agasa found her and took her in. From this point forward she lives at Agasa's house.
=== Old Blue Castle Case (Manga: [[Volume 20|200]] and [[Volume 21|201-203]], Anime: [[The Old Blue Castle Investigation Case|136-137]])===
Agasa forgets to pack the tents on [[Detective Boys]] camping trip. When turning around to go back home they come upon a castle in the woods and are invited by the master of the castle to stay after Agasa identifies himself as an Inventor.
=== Treadmill Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 21|208-210]], Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story|146-147]])===
Agasa and the Detective Boys are called into the Police department to discuss the events of the case of the Old Blue Castle.
=== Movie Theater Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 23|222-224]], Anime: [[The Final Screening Murder Case|138-139]])===
When the Detective Boys encounter a case at a closing movie theater, [[Inspector Megure]] calls Agasa to pick them up. However Conan then uses Agasa to help solve the case.
=== Innocent Suspect Case (Manga: [[Volume 23|231]] and [[Volume 24|232-233]], Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2|156-157]])===
While [[Miwako Sato]] is chasing a suspect she accidentally gets handcuffed to him and stuck in a bathroom. Its up to the Detective Boys and [[Wataru Takagi]] to prove the suspect's innocence before the grand reveal of Dr. Agasa's explosive new invention "Tropical Rainbow" which is set to tear down the building that Sato is trapped in.
=== Reunion with the Black Organization (Manga: [[Volume 24|238-242]], Anime: [[Reunion with the Black Organization|176-178]])===
Conan and Haibara encounter [[Gin]]'s car on the street and plan a tracker. Conan, Haibara and Agasa follow the signal. Conan and Haibara find themselves at a funeral party where a murder occurs. During the process of solving the case, Haibara is kidnapped by a member of the [[Black Organization]]!
=== The Desperate Revival: Dangerous Cave Case (Manga: [[Volume 25|251-253]] and [[Volume 26|254]], Anime: [[The Desperate Revival|188-190]])===
Agasa takes the Detective Boys on another camping trip. Conan, Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko wander off and end up exploring a cave where they witness some people disposing of a body. Conan ends up getting shot! Later, Agasa and Haibara end up realizing that the others are missing and contact the police.

== Relationships analysis ==

=== Family & Friends ===
==== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ====
[[Conan]] treats Agasa like an uncle. Due to the fact that they both share the secret behind Shinichi's transformation and knowledge about the Black Organization, Conan often comes to him when in trouble or seeking for help.

==== Ai Haibara ====
{{main|Agasa family}}
The relationship between [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] and Professor Agasa is rather unusual, if not humorous. Despite what their actual (and apparent) ages are, Haibara often times acts more like a mother to the professor, constantly reminding him to watch what he eats. On several occasions, she has removed fattening foods from his reach<ref name=Depths>[[Strategy Above the Depths|Movie 9: Strategy Above the Depths]]</ref>, and is attempting to help get him into better shape. There have also been instances where she'll instinctively step in front of Agasa to protect him from danger.<ref name=Eyes>[[Captured in Her Eyes|Movie 4: Captured in Her Eyes]]</ref> Out of all the people she's met, Haibara seems most comfortable about acting herself with Agasa; which might be attributed to the fact that he was the one who found her after she escaped the Black Organization, and took her in.

Though they only realized the fact some time later, Agasa knew her parents when they were still alive—especially her father, [[Atsushi Miyano]]—even though he didn't know at that time that they'd had children.<ref>Manga Chapter 398: The Torn Friendship, Part 1</ref><ref>Manga Chapter 423: A Mystery Left by a Visitor</ref>

==== Yusaku Kudo ====
Agasa and [[Yusaku Kudo|Yusaku]] are good friends.

[[Image:Child Agasa.jpg|thumb|right|Sixth Grade Agasa with Fusae Campbell]]
==== Fusae Campbell ====
[[Fusae Campbell]], today a successful fashion designer, was Agasa's first love in their childhood years. Because of her half-American heritage she has blonde hair, which made her the target of ridicule among her fellow students and thus very shy; she usually wore a large hat to conceal her hair. Three months after meeting Agasa, her family abruptly moved away, but she promised to return every ten years to a special place to meet him again. However, Agasa could not figure out what location she meant, until the [[Detective Boys]] and Conan find the original note she left behind and help him realize the answer to her clues. While they did not openly talk about their feelings during their brief reunion, there is a hint that their relationship is now beginning to grow.
{{clearright}}

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Agasa placed 19th in the poll with 36 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Agasa placed 37th overall.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

== Quizzes ==

{{main|Agasa's Quizzes}}

In the non-[[canon]] movies, Agasa usually gives a multiple-choice quiz to the [[Detective Boys]] as a reward or just to test their knowledge. These are mostly based on puns or rearranging the strokes in a character to get the answer.

== Name origin ==
Agasa's name comes from mystery writer [[wikipedia:Agatha Christie|'''Agatha''' Christie]]. His first name '''Hiroshi''' is a pun as it is written with the same kanji for {{nihongo|''hakase''|博士|professor}}. Agasa's English given name "Herschel" likely comes from the physician friend of [[Haibara Ai|V. I. Warshawski]], Dr. Charlotte “Lotty” ''Herschel''.

Additionally, his great uncle and aunt, '''{{nihongo|Kurisuke|栗介}}''' and '''{{nihongo|Teiko|定子}}''', get their names from the Japanese pronunciation of '''{{nihongo|Christie|クリスティ|Kurisuti}}''' (''Kurisuke'' obviously comes from ''Kurisu'' (クリス), but ''Teiko'' comes from ''Tei'' (テイ), and alternate writing for ''Ti'' (ティ)).

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Agasa_Before.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Agasa's "Before" Appearance (Episode 2)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Agasa Middle.JPG|thumb|left|x200px|Agasa's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 422)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Agasa_After.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Agasa's "After" Appearance (Episode 621)]]
|}

== Quotes ==

== Trivia ==
* Professor Agasa has a mole on his butt with a hair sticking out of it (which Conan revealed while trying to prove his real identity to Agasa).<ref>[[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2: Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case]]</ref>
* In a fan poll, Professor Agasa was voted as the character most likely to be [[Anokata|the boss of the Black Organization]]. In an interview, [[Gosho Aoyama]] stated that Agasa is not the boss.<ref>朝日新聞:「黒の組織ボス、もう登場」　コナン作者・青山さん (2014年1月6日16時53分) 
http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASG1534JCG15PUUB001.html
 もう登場してますよ。阿笠博士じゃありません。</ref>
* Professor Agasa has a built in television in his car.<ref>Manga: Volume 24, File 10, page 16</ref>
* Professor Agasa's car is a yellow [[Vehicles_in_Detective_Conan#Volkswagen_Beetle|Volkswagen Beetle]].

==In other languages==
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|博士 Hiroshi|阿笠 Agasa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Herschel (anime), Hershel/Herschel/Hiroshi (manga)|Agasa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Hiroshi|Agasa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|博士Buo Sh|阿笠A Li}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Hiroshi|Agasa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Hiroshi|Agasa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Hiroshi|Agasa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Hiroshi|Agasa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Hiroshi|Agasa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Hiroshi|Agasa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Hiroshi|Agasha (anime dub, 1-77), Hakase (anime dub, 78-199), Agasa (anime dub, 200+), Agase (manga)}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish Latin America|''Not given'' (anime dub, 1-123), Hiroshi (anime dub, 124+)|Cardillo (anime dub, 1-123), Agasa (anime dub, 124+)}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|''Not given''|أغاسا Agasa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|브라운 Brown|Unknown}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Hiroshi|Agasa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ฮิโรชิ Hiroshi|อากาสะ Agasa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Hungary|Hungarian|Hiroshi|Agasa}}
{{EndTable}}

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=185px perrow=5>
File:Hiroshi Agasa -10.PNG|Hiroshi Agasa 10 years ago
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Agasa family]]
* [[Minor gadgets#Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa's gadgets]]

== References ==
<references/>

{{DEFAULTSORT:Agasa Hiroshi}}
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Male characters]]
[[Category:Characters who know Conan's identity]]
[[Category:Characters who know Ai Haibara's identity]]
[[Category:Sleeping detectives]]

[[de:Hiroshi Agasa]]
{{Characters}}
{{Detective Boys}}

Sonoko Suzuki

2015-07-15T22:23:17Z

Bunchu Thong-In: /* In other languages */

{{InfoBox Char
| name = Sonoko Suzuki
| japanese-name = 鈴木園子 (Suzuki Sonoko)
| english-name = Serena Sebastian
| image = Sonoko Suzuki Profile.jpg
| age = 17
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| occupation = Teitan High School Student
| relatives = [[Shiro Suzuki]] (father) [[Tomoko Suzuki]] (mother) [[Ayako Suzuki]] (older sister) [[Jirokichi Suzuki]] (uncle)
| nicknames = Deduction Queen Sonoko Annoying Sonoko ([[Genta Kojima|Genta]])
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_5#Bandaged_Man_Case|File 40]] Anime: [[Valentine Murder Case|Episode 6]]
| appearances = {{: Sonoko Suzuki Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 8]]
| japanese-voice = [[Naoko Matsui]]
| english-voice = [[Laura Bailey]]
| drama-actor = [[Mayuko Iwasa]] (1st) [[Sayaka Akimoto]] (2nd)
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Sonoko Suzuki|鈴木園子|Suzuki Sonoko}}''', known in the Funimation English dub as '''Serena Sebastian''', is a character from the manga and anime ''[[Detective Conan]]''. Sonoko is [[Ran Mouri]]'s best friend and is the girlfriend of [[Makoto Kyogoku]], with whom she currently is in a long-distance relationship. [[Conan Edogawa]] sometimes has to knock her out with his stun gun watch to use her as his mouthpiece. Because of this, Sonoko has claimed to be a great high school detective in her own right, "Deduction Queen Sonoko".

== Background ==
Sonoko is the daughter of Tomoko and Shiro Suzuki, heads of the extremely wealthy family and large company. Sonoko has an older sister, [[Ayako Suzuki|Ayako]], and an uncle named [[Jirokichi Suzuki|Jirokichi]], who is often involved in trying to capture the [[Kaitou Kid]]. Sonoko and Ran have been close friends since before Junior High School.

== Personality ==
[[File:Vlcsnap-2013-11-04-20h34m41s202.png|right|225px|thumb|Sonoko is rather expressive.]]
At the series' start, Sonoko's primary interest was in boys and in trying to snag the "perfect boy". She often tried multiple avenues to attract a boyfriend, including dressing up specifically to attract a boy, making a boy chocolates,<ref name=e6>[[Valentine Murder Case|Episode 6: Valentine Murder Case]]</ref> trying to impress a boy while wearing a bikini,<ref name=e72>[[The Triplet's Country Home Murder Case|Episode 72: The Triplet's Country Home Murder Case]]</ref> or going to various events that young guys were going to attend.<ref name=e84-85>[[Ski Lodge Murder Case|Episode 84-85: Ski Lodge Murder Case]]</ref> Whenever Ran's company diverted the attention of Sonoko's target, Sonoko would feel jealous and disappointed.<ref name=e34-35>[[Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case|Episode 34-35: Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case]]</ref> However, this changed when Sonoko met and began dating [[Makoto Kyogoku|Makoto]]. Although Sonoko is still easily attracted to other men,<ref>[[Volume 61#Paper Airplane Case|Manga Chapter 638: Paper Airplane]]</ref> she is loyal to Makoto and tries to act the way she thinks a girlfriend should, including making him gifts<ref name=e228-229 /> and planning romantic rendezvous.<ref name=e457-458>[[Sonoko's Red Handkerchief|Episode 457-458: Sonoko's Red Handkerchief]]</ref>

Sonoko loves to go on big vacations, like expensive ski trips,<ref name=e84-85 /> and loves to buy fancy clothes and items.<ref name=e217-218 /> She also loves to go to festivals where sugary sweets are on display, often picking up gigantic plates filled with various cakes.<ref name=e368>[[The Candy House the Witch Lives In|Episode 368: The Candy House the Witch Lives In]]</ref> She has even used [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] for the sole purpose of having a children's discount on food.<ref name=e547-548>[[Two Days with the Culprit|Episode 547-548: Two Days with the Culprit]]</ref> She is also a big fan of the band LEX,<ref name=e42>[[Karaoke Box Murder Case|Episode 42: Karaoke Box Murder Case]]</ref> and various other people in pop music, including [[Two-Mix]].<ref name=e81-82>[[The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case|Episode 81-82: The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case]]</ref>

Conan has had to use Sonoko sometimes when he needs to do a deduction show. At first he struggled to mimic Sonoko's mannerisms and feminine speech patters, but now he is better at it.<ref name=e79>[[The Bank Heist Murder Case|Episode 79: The Bank Heist Murder Case]]</ref> However, because he has had to use Sonoko so often for a deduction, Sonoko, like [[Kogoro Mouri]], completely buys into her whole "sleeping" person, calling herself the best detective in [[Setting#Teitan High School|Teitan High School]], and a "Deduction Queen."<ref name=e79 /> This makes Conan sometimes regret using her to solve a case, though he does admire her courage in certain situations. Sonoko is sometimes able to solve little things on her own, and can figure things out when she is provided some assistance by Conan, such as when Conan was sick and had to communicate to Sonoko, Kogoro, and [[Misao Yamamura|Yamamura]] in charades and sign language.<ref name=e331-332>[[The Suspicious Spicy Curry|Episode 331-332: The Suspicious Spicy Curry]]</ref>

Like many other people, Sonoko is a big fan of the [[Kaitou Kid]], due to his style, charm and daring exploits. She keeps cheering him on in trying to steal something, even when that something is a rare treasure of the Suzuki family. She wishes to meet Kid up close (and have it develop into something more), and sometimes almost gets her wish, but is very disappointed when she doesn't.<ref name=e356>[[Kaito Kid's Miracle Midair Walk|Episode 356: Kaito Kid's Miracle Midair Walk]]</ref>

==Appellations==
<tabs jsId="nicknames">
<tab title="Protagonists">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Sonoko !! style="width:200px;"|What Sonoko calls them
|-
| [[File:Shinichi Kudo 60px.jpg]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Sonoko || Shinichi-kun Kudo-kun
|-
| [[File:Conan Edogawa 60px.jpg]] || [[Conan Edogawa]] || Sonoko-neechan || Conan-kun Brat in the glasses Chibi-chan (Lovely little boy) Little Nose Bleeder [Because Conan Saw Ran's Naked Body] (Once/At The Episode Tragedy of The Red Woman)
|-
| [[File:Ran Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Ran Mouri]] || Sonoko || Ran
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Friends and relatives">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Sonoko !! style="width:200px;"|What Sonoko calls them
|-
| [[File:Makoto Kyogoku 60px.jpg]] || [[Makoto Kyogoku]] || Sonoko-san || Makoto-san
|-
| [[File:Jirokichi Suzuki 60px.jpg]] || [[Jirokichi Suzuki]] || Sonoko || Uncle Jirokichi (Jirokichi-ojisama) Uncle (Ojisama)
|-
| [[File:Kazuha Toyama 60px.jpg]] || [[Kazuha Toyama]] || Sonoko-chan || Kazuha-chan
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Police">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Sonoko !! style="width:200px;"|What Sonoko calls them
|-
| [[File:Wataru Takagi 60px.jpg]] || [[Wataru Takagi]] || Sonoko-san || Detective Takagi (Takagi-keiji)
|-
| [[File:Yui Uehara 60px.jpg]] || [[Yui Uehara]] || Sonoko-chan ||
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

== Appearance ==
When not in the Teitan High School uniform, Sonoko often wears a bandanna holding back her fringe, a skirt, and a cute shirt. Her clothes often show more skin compared to Ran, mostly for the purpose of attracting guys. In [[Countdown to Heaven]], she temporarily changes her hairstyle to a perm.

== Plot overview ==
===Deduction Queen Sonoko (Manga: [[Volume 5#Bandaged Man Case|40-44]], Anime: [[Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case|34-35]])===
[[File: Sonoko35.png|thumb|left|Deduction Queen Sonoko appears!]]
Conan and Ran visit Sonoko's mountain villa to see the autumn leaves and meet up with some old friends. On the way to the front they see a strange bandaged man in a dark cloak crossing the bridge. When they see him he turns around, shocking them with his face and eye contact as he quickly makes a retreat around the side of the house. Everything seems fine as Ran tries to find her room, accidentally walking in on the men also staying the house. When everyone is asked about the bandaged man he is brushed off as possibly a crazy man with nothing better to do. However, he is taken far more seriously when Ran is attacked in the woods, to be scared off by Conan, and later one of the women is seen being carried off by him from the windows. Conan and the other men give chase and find her dismembered body in the woods.

Everyone decides that it's best to go to bed for the night, when he strikes again, this time trying to kill Ran in her sleep. Conan saves Ran by waking her up to defend herself, but when the bandaged man retreats Conan wonders why Ran is a target. Everyone decides to stay up for the night and keep together to throw off the murderous man in bandages. Conan suspects that Ran saw something that made her a target, and the culprit is one of the people staying there. When Conan solves the case. Kogoro isn't there to be put to sleep, so he decides to solve the case by Ran. When he shoots the anesthetic needle, however, Sonoko end up in the way and she falls asleep. Left with no choice, Conan reveals the killer via Sonoko. While Sonoko doesn't remember making the deductions, she is very proud of having "solved" the case.
{{clearleft}}

===An Important Date (Manga: [[Volume 11#Coffee Shop Case|105-107]], Anime: [[Coffee Shop Murder Case|32]])===
At the end of the case, Conan asks Ran if she was meeting Shiro Wakaoji, a young man who was in the coffee shop with plans to take advantage of a "naive" teenage girl he met while skiing, despite his already having a girlfriend. She says no, but Shiro tries to flirt with her just before Sonoko announces her presence—Sonoko was his intended date, but she overheard Conan revealing Shiro's intentions. She slaps Shiro and storms away.

===Makoto's Introduction (Manga: [[Volume 22#Sonoko's Camera Case|219-221]], Anime: [[Sonoko's Dangerous Summer Story|153-154]])===
Sonoko, Ran, and Conan go to Izu, where Sonoko's schemes to get a boyfriend. At the beach, Sonoko takes a picture of Ran fixing her bathing suit and threatens to send the picture to Shinichi, since she teases Ran and Shinichi frequently about being an "old married couple". Sonoko also laments about her lack of a love life, just before a college student, Michiwaki, asks her out to lunch. Ecstatic at the romantic attention, she agrees to lunch and then also to dinner as well. However, due to being nervous, she has Ran and Conan come along for lunch. During the meal, Michiwaki tells a story that young brunette girls have been found murdered in the woods not far from the restaurant, once a year ago and once much more recently, but he offers to keep Sonoko safe.

[[File: EP153-154b_Case.jpg|thumb|right|The serial killer tries to kill Sonoko...]]
Later, Sonoko is attacked when she interrupts a suspicious figure searching her belongings, and bites him before he escapes. The stoic and somewhat unfriendly [[Makoto Kyogoku|high school student]] that is working at the ''ryokan'' moves the group to another room. Ran thinks she has seen him somewhere before but cannot remember where. Michiwaki arrives muddy and wet and Conan suspects him of attacking Sonoko, but he does not have a bite mark on his arm. Makoto has a bandaged bicep and falls under suspicion but Sonoko says he wasn't the attacker because the attacker was hairy. Michiwaki, Sonoko, Ran, and Conan decide to have dinner at the ''ryokan'' because Michiwaki says his car broke down. Conan speculates that Sonoko's attacker was looking for the photographs she was taking during the trip, but cannot figure out why. Conan does not think there are any incriminating photos, but perhaps the murderer overheard Sonoko talking about the photographs and misunderstood.

The next day, Michiwaki, Ran and Conan go eat at a restaurant while Sonoko tries to doze in the car. Suddenly, the car starts rolling toward the nearby cliff edge, and Sonoko barely escapes with her life. However, there is not evidence pointing toward a culprit. Ran and Conan go to report the incident while Michiwaki keeps Sonoko company. When alone on a walk in the forest, Michiwaki reveals that he is the serial killer and Sonoko is his target. Before he can hurt her, Makoto appears and saves her with an impressive martial arts display. Ran realizes that Makoto is a champion she's seen in competitions before; Makoto confesses awkwardly that he loves Sonoko, to Sonoko's surprise and delight. Though Makoto is often traveling for tounaments, he and Sonoko maintain a long-distance relationship.

===Jodie's Introduction (Manga: [[Volume 27#Arcade Murder Case|271-273]], Anime: [[The Battle Game Trap|226-227]])===
[[File: Sonoko227.png|thumb|right|Sonoko thinks about Makoto]]
Sonoko, Ran, and Conan are at the arcade taking sticker photos, which Ran realizes Sonoko suggested because Sonoko wants to put a sticker with her face on a letter to Makoto. Sonoko blushes but doesn't deny it. Soon after, they encounter their High School English teacher, Jodie Saintemillion, who is an avid gamer. Jodie introduces Ran to a virtual reality fighting game which uses mechanics to simulate a real fight. Ran loses to a gamer named Kengo Bito who taunts her for losing before going on to fight against his rival, Takayasu Shimizu. The battle is projected on a large screen, showing Bito's avatar overwhelming Shimizu's until just before the final blow. At the strange behavior, spectators check on Bito and discover that he is dead.

The police investigate and after reviewing the security camera's footage, they limit the suspects down to four people. When Conan deduces the culprit, he uses Sonoko again as he mouthpiece to expose the murderer. On the way home, Jodie says that Sonoko was like Kate Martin, and Ran says Sonoko was just like Shinichi. Ran and Sonoko part with Jodie on good terms.

===Girl Clubbing Case (Manga: [[Volume 28#Girl Clubbing Case|284-286]], Anime: [[Megure's Sealed Secret|217-218]])===
Ran and Sonoko shop for a sweater that Sonoko wants to buy for Makoto; Ran scold Sonoko when she realizes Sonoko wants to pass the sweater off as hand-knitted by her. Ran sends Sonoko ahead to join Kogoro and Conan at a pasta shop, where they had coincidentally encountered the police investigating serial attacks on Japanese women following the "ganguro" fashion with darkly tanned skin, bleached hair, turtlenecks, miniskirts and high platform boots. Ran gets turned around and ends up in the parking lot, where she discovers a fourth victim, dead.

[[File: Sonoko218.png|thumb|right|Sonoko... saved!?]]
During the investigation, Sonoko and Ran point out that the victims are wearing a jacket that wasn't theirs, and Conan realizes the victims were attacked just after leaving somewhere warm—their cars. Sonoko leaves to put her shopping in the car and then use the toilet, attracting the attention of someone in the crowd. It turns out the culprit blames the victim wearing platform shoes while driving on the death of his son, and he is attacking any woman who drives with platform shoes. Sonoko is wearing platform shoes, and when she leaves the department store toilet the culprit is waiting to attack her. Sonoko screams and runs away, but manages to knock off the hat and scarf hiding his face, leaving him determined to kill her so she can't identify him. As Sonoko runs, her ankle twists under her and she falls. When the murderer attacks her, however, Inspector Megure arrives in the nick of time to protect her and confront the culprit. Megure was injured while protecting Sonoko, and at the hospital, Superintendent Matsumoto tells Ran and Sonoko the story of a girl Megure knew who impersonated a serial killer's victims and was gravely injured. Sonoko and Ran are moved to tears, thinking that the girl died, but it turns out that she survived and is now Megure's wife.

===Murderous Pottery Class (Manga: [[Volume 30#Pottery Class Case|305-307]], Anime: [[The Murderous Pottery Class|228-229]])===
[[File: Sonoko228.png|thumb|left|Sonoko looking at Ran's vessel.]]
Sonoko shows off to Ran what she made in pottery class, a small cup for her with Makoto's name on it and a large cup for Makoto with her name on it. Her purpose is to have Makato think of her every time he drinks from it, so that he can't forget her and fall in love with another woman. She invites Ran to join the pottery class as well, and Ran thinks of Shinichi and accepts. As Ran works on her project, Sonoko tries to have Ran confess what she's written on the cup, but Ran refuses. Meanwhile, Conan sneaks in to spy on them, but gets caught. Sonoko keeps teasing Ran as they continue working, until a strange crash leads Ran to investigate—but not before warning off Sonoko from checking on Ran's project. A murder has occurred, and Conan investigates to discover the culprit. On finding the truth, he uses "Deduction Queen Sonoko" to reveal the killer.

A few days later, Sonoko shows Ran a picture that Makoto sent her—to Sonoko's embarrassment, Makoto mistook her cup for a vase, and sent her a picture showing off the flowers he'd put in it.
{{clearleft}}

===Bloody Valentine (Manga: [[Volume 33#Valentine Chocolate Case|331-334]], Anime: [[The Truth Behind Valentine's|266-268]])===

===Halloween Party (Manga: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|429-434]], Anime: [[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night|345]])===
[[File: Sonoko witch.png|thumb|right|175px|Sonoko as a witch]]
[[Kogoro Mouri]] receives an invitation to a Halloween cruise; the Halloween cruise is famous for hiring guests to star in a horror film. Sonoko lends her makeup skills tu turn Kogoro into a vampire. Because Ran hates horror-themed things, Sonoko ends up going to party as Kogoro's guest, dressed as a witch. During the cruise, the party members are divided into groups; team "Devil" consists of Kogoro, Sonoko, and people disguised as a werewolf, a mummy, a medusa and an invisible man. During the party, the host is murdered by a crossbow arrow with a card identifying team devil attached. Sonoko investigates with Kogoro and both suspect the mummy, who has no card, but later it is revealed to have been a trick. Sonoko is shocked when the invisible man turns out to be Shinichi, who solves the case, although he is later revealed to have actually been [[Heiji Hattori]] in disguise.

===Jodie's Truth (Manga: [[Volume 42#Murderer's Car Case|435]], Anime: [[Find the Buttocks' Mark!|346]])===
Sonoko joins Ran in visiting Jodie at the hospital. She tells Jodie she is very surprised that Jodie is a FBI agent. Later, Sonoko also talks with Ran about what Ran did during the Halloween cruise, and about Jodie's photos.

===Dark Photograph (Manga: [[Volume 56#Missing Photo Case|582]], Anime: [[Whereabouts of the Dark Photograph|484]])===
At the beginning of the case, Sonoko is walking with Ran and Conan to return home after school. She complains about the heat and says she should emulate Eisuke, who disappears after school.

===The Culprit is Sonoko (Anime: [[The Devil Hidden in the Tennis Court|602]])===
[[File: Sonoko602.png|thumb|left|Is Sonoko the culprit?]]
Sonoko and Ran play tennis while Conan watches. Sonoko likes Takao Goto, the tennis club vice-captain, but suddenly Goto dies. Inspector Yamamura investigates, and accuses Sonoko of being the culprit despite the other three suspects. Conan discovers the truth and uses Sonoko to solve the case, proving her innocence. After Sonoko wakes back up, Ran expresses her relief and Sonoko is upset with Yamamura for suspecting her.

===White Day of Betrayal (Manga: [[Volume 69|725-727]], Anime: [[Episode 608|608-609]]) ===
Makoto won the competition for Sonoko's white day present. Although she was happy at first, at the end of the episode, she was seen asking Makoto whether he was planning to give anything else.

===Twin Bets (Manga: [[Volume 81|862-864]])===
Sonoko made a bet with Kaitou Kid but asked him to promise her not to hurt Makoto as he has an upcoming tournament.
{{clear}}

== Relationships analysis ==

=== Family & Friends===
{{main|Suzuki family}}

==== Ran Mouri ====
[[File:Ran and Sonoko.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Sonoko hugging Ran]]
Sonoko and [[Ran]] have been best friends ever since they were little.<ref name=MF3>[[Magic File 3: Mahjong Pieces and the Memories from Tanabata|Magic File 3: Mahjong Pieces and the Memories from Tanabata]]</ref> Sonoko is often there to help Ran whenever she is bullied by other school children, more often there than even [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] was.<ref name=MF3 /> They were often shown hanging out with each others on the way home after school. Sonoko usually invites Ran to join her on trips, family events (such as [[Jirokichi Suzuki|Jirokichi's]] [[Kaitou Kid|Kid]] heists), other trips or activities<ref>The Bell Tree Express.</ref>, or simply just go shopping together. Sonoko once said to a murderer what she thought about friendship: "So what if friendship is unreliable and fragile! That way when you communicate with your heart, you can feel the warmth inside. If it were as hard as some chattering iron plate, you wouldn’t feel the warmth, y’know?"<ref name=e576>[[The Alibi of the Black Dress|Episode 576: "The Alibi of the Black Dress"]]</ref>

Meanwhile, even though Ran knows that Sonoko has a lot of money, she always makes sure that money never gets involved in their friendship. Ran once chose to not go on a ski vacation with Sonoko because she didn't have the money to pay for her own trip, when she knew that Sonoko would pay for her to go if asked.<ref name=e329-330>[[Friendship Can't Be Bought With Money|Episode 329-330: Friendship Can't Be Bought With Money]]</ref> This, along with other things, has helped strengthen the bond between both Ran and Sonoko.

Before meeting [[Makoto Kyogoku|the man of her own]], Sonoko was sometimes envious that Ran always got the attentions from boys.<ref>[[Volume_22#File_219_-_Go_On.2C_Sonoko.21|Volume 22, File 219, Page 4.]]</ref>. However, this didn't affect the deep friendship between them.

==== Conan Edogawa ====
Whenever [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] is near at Sonoko, she gets annoyed. She thinks of him as a brat who knows a lot of weird stuff. Conan finds her annoying in turn, especially when she teases Ran about her relationship with Shinichi.

==== Makoto Kyogoku ====
Sonoko originally met [[Makoto Kyogoku]] while on a vacation, when he worked at his father's hotel in his spare time.<ref name=e153-154>[[Sonoko's Dangerous Summer Story|Episode 153-154: Sonoko's Dangerous Summer Story]]</ref> At first, neither she, Conan, nor Ran recognized him, because he wore glasses to hide his features. He later saves her when he takes a knife in the arm for her, to protect her from getting killed by a crazed serial killer.<ref name=e153-154 /> This is when Ran finally realizes that he is the famous karate champion. After defeating the killer, he confesses his feelings for her, which leaves Sonoko dumbfounded and flustered.<ref name=e153-154 /> According to Makoto, he originally met Sonoko during one of Ran's tournaments, and loved how feisty and firey she was in trying to cheer her friend on.<ref name=e153-154 /> After this, Sonoko and Makoto begin a long distance relationship.<ref name=e153-154 />
[[Image:Sonoko Presents Her Chocolate to Makoto.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Sonoko presenting the chocolate she made to Makoto.]]

Makoto often saves Sonoko from dangerous peril, like in a snow lodge,<ref name=e266-268>[[The Truth Behind Valentine's|Episode 266-268: The Truth Behind Valentine's]]</ref> and in a forest.<ref name=e457-458 /> Sonoko loves to plot romantic rendezvous with Makoto,<ref name=e457-458 />; he tries to go along, though things don't always go the way Sonoko imagines they will.<ref name=e266-268 /><ref name=e457-458 /> He often warns her against dressing to revealingly, afraid she'll attract predatory men as a result.<ref name=e153-154 /><ref name=e266-268 />
[[Image:Sonoko Gives Makoto Her Chocolate.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Sonoko gives the chocolate she made to Makoto.]]

Sonoko often wants to show Makoto that her feelings for him are stronger than he thinks, planning simple ideas to make him feel special. However, these often go in awry, as she either cannot make what she had planned to make, like when she promised to make him a home-made sweater, but had to resort to buying one in a mall,<ref name=e217-218>[[Megure's Locked Away Secret|Episode 217-218: Megure's Locked Away Secret]]</ref> or Makoto has no idea what she gave him is, like when he believed that the pottery she sent him was supposed to be for flowers.<ref name=e228-229>[[The Murderous Pottery Class|Episode 228-229: The Murderous Pottery Class]]</ref> Sonoko keeps a photo of Makoto in her purse, and uses it as a good luck charm for when she takes exams.<ref name=e304>[[Trembling Metropolitan Police Headquarters 12 Million Hostages|Episode 304: Trembling Metropolitan Police Headquarters 12 Million Hostages]]</ref> She has also made him Valentine's chocolate, trying to make him feel jealous by not saying who it was for, thus forcing him to visit her in a snow lodge to ask her what was going on.<ref name=e266-268 /> When he finds out that indeed, she made him the chocolate, he gets very embarrassed himself.<ref name=e266-268 />

Although long distance relationships can be hard to be in, Sonoko has stayed faithful to Makoto, other than dreaming of meeting up with the Kaitou Kid, though this is mostly to see him up close more than anything else.

==== Heiji Hattori ====
While having a conversation with Ran and Kazuha, Sonoko once jokingly stated that she was interested in Heiji.<ref>[[Volume 26]], File 255, Page 7</ref>

==== Kazuha ====
Sonoko and Kazuha have met each other only a few times in the anime. Despite this, they have a friendly relationship. In movie 10, Sonoko seemed to be pleased after seeing Kazuha at the Wonder Land, she even offered her to come with her and Ran.

==== Masumi Sera ====
Sera appear and Ran, Sonoko, Sera sometimes goes home together. She always joke Sera about her chest

===Others===

====Kaito Kid====
[[File:701 4.png|thumb|Sonoko is really impressed with Kaitou Kid]]

Sonoko thinks that [[Kaitou Kid]] is a really cool guy because of his quick and versatile actions when he is doing his thievery. Her love for Kid and Makoto are the same level.

{{clearleft}}

== Character popularity ==
eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Sonoko placed 7th in the poll with 86 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

== Name origin ==
Sonoko Suzuki may have gotten her surname from Shinichi Suzuki, a famous violinist.{{citation needed}}

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Sonoko_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Sonoko's "Before" Appearance (Episode 6)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Sonoko Middle.JPG|thumb|left|x200px|Sonoko's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 362)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Sonoko_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Sonoko's "After" Appearance (Episode 627)]]
|}
{|
| [[File:sonoko magic kaito 1412 episode 11.png|thumb|x200px|Sonoko's Appearance in Magic Kaito 1412 (Episode 11)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Are you an idiot? So what if friendship is unreliable and fragile! That way when you communicate with your heart, you can feel the warmth inside. If it were as hard as some chattering iron plate, you wouldn’t feel the warmth, y’know?|Sonoko to Shodo.<ref name=e576 />}}

== Trivia ==
* Sonoko has been shown to be very aggressive. For example when Genta called her "Auntie Sonoko", she punched him extremely hard, and when she was interrupted by a soccer ball, she threw it back at the kicker, causing him to fall back.
* The first Latin American Spanish dub (until Episode 123) was very inconsistent regarding Sonoko's name. She was usually called Sarita, but she has also been called Susana, Anabela, Sonia and others. The new dub retains the original names, so the inconsistency is now gone.

==In other languages==
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|園子　Sonoko|鈴木 Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Serena|Sebastian}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic| سوكو 　Soko|''Suzuki سوزوكي''}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|보라 Bo Ra|정 Jung}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|โซโนโกะ Sonoko|ซึซึกิ Suzuki}}
{{EndTable}}

==Gallery==
<gallery widths=185px perrow=5>
File:Sonoko10yrs.png|Sonoko in 10 years of the future, as shown in OVA 9
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Suzuki family]]
* [[Sonoko Suzuki and Makoto Kyogoku]]

== References ==
<references />

{{DEFAULTSORT:Suzuki Sonoko}}
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Female characters]]
[[Category:High school students]]
[[Category:Sleeping detectives]]

[[de:Sonoko Suzuki]]
{{Characters}}

Shinichi Kudo

2015-07-15T22:22:06Z

Bunchu Thong-In: /* In other languages */

{{InfoBox Char
| japanese-name = 工藤新一 (Kudō Shin'ichi)
| english-name = Jimmy Kudo
| name = Shinichi Kudo
| image = Shinichi Kudo Profile.jpg
| age =16-17<ref name=CD41>Conan Drill Page 41</ref><ref name="f2">[[Volume 1#File 002 - The Great Detective Turned Small|Volume 1, File 2, page 59: "The Great Detective Turned Small"]] - Conan nearly gives his age as "16" before correcting himself and saying "6".</ref><ref name=141p8>Manga Volume 15, File 1, Page 8: "Gone!? ". The reporter gives Shinichi's age as 16.</ref><ref name="e3">[[An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case|Episode 003: An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case]] - Shinichi's opening prologue speech refers to him as 17</ref>, 6-7 as Conan<ref>Conan Drill Page 38</ref><ref name="f2" /><ref>[[The Significant Music Box|Episode 194: The Significant Music Box]] - Conan says he is "around 7" years old.</ref>
| gender = Male
| height = 174 cm<ref name=CD41 /> (5'8.5")
| weight = Unknown<ref name=CD41/>
| date-of-birth = May 4th<ref name=CD41/>
| relatives = [[Yusaku Kudo]] (father) [[Yukiko Kudo]] (mother)
| occupation = Teitan High School student Detective
| nicknames = Detective Geek Detective of the East The savior of the police force Cool Guy ([[Jodie Starling]]) Shin-chan ([[Yukiko Kudo|his mother]]) Silver Bullet ([[Vermouth]]) The Heisei Holmes Kudo ([[Heiji Hattori]])
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_1#File_001_-_The_Heisei_Holmes|File 1]] Anime: [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1]]
| appearances = {{:Shinichi Kudo Appearances}}
| cases-solved = 700+ (one case solved by Ran)
| keyhole = [[Volume 1]] [[Volume 62]] (Shiragami-sama)
| japanese-voice = [[Kappei Yamaguchi]] [[Minami Takayama]] (young)
| english-voice = [[Jerry Jewell]]
| drama-actor = [[Shun Oguri]] (1st) [[Junpei Mizobata]] (2nd)
| footnotes =
}}
{{nihongo|'''Shinichi Kudo'''|工藤新一|Kudō Shin'ichi}} is the high school detective protagonist of the manga and anime [[Detective Conan]]. While on a date with his childhood friend and romantic interest [[Ran Mouri]], Shinichi encounters [[Gin|two]] [[Vodka|men]] from a [[Black Organization|secret criminal organization]] who force feed him [[APTX 4869|a strange poison]] that causes his body to shrink back to first grade age. Shinichi takes up the alias '''[[Conan Edogawa]]''' and plans to use his immense skill as a detective to make Ran's [[Kogoro Mouri|bumbling private detective father]] famous in hopes that he will find a case involving the secret organization so he can expose its crimes and acquire an antidote that will turn him back into a teenager.

Viz romanized his original name as ''Shin'ichi Kudo'' while Shogakukan's website romanizes it as ''Shinichi Kudoh''.

== Background ==
At the beginning of the [[Detective Conan]] series, Shinichi is a 16-year old<ref name="f2" /><ref>[[Volume_15#File_141_-_Gone.21.3F|Volume 15, File 141, page 12: "Gone!?"]]</ref> (17, according to the anime)<ref name="e3" /> student at [[Setting#Teitan_High_School|Teitan High School]] who has become famous for helping the Tokyo police solve murder mysteries. Shinichi was born to [[Yusaku Kudo]], a mystery writer, and [[Yukiko Kudo]], a former movie star.<ref>[[Volume 5#File 049 - An Unfamiliar Visitor|Volume 5, File 49, page 163: "An Unfamiliar Visitor"]]</ref>

One day, Shinichi brings his childhood friend [[Ran Mouri]] to a local theme park called [[Tropical Land]], to celebrate her victory in the Metropolitan Karate Championships. He later ends up solving a murder case there.<ref name="e1">[[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1: Roller Coaster Murder Case]].</ref> As they are leaving, Shinichi heads off alone to follow a suspicious man in black, [[Vodka]], who was a suspect in the earlier murder. Shinichi witnesses a blackmail exchange between Vodka and a company president in a secluded area just outside the park, but is too engrossed to notice [[Gin]], Vodka's partner, sneak up from behind. Gin knocks him out and forces him to swallow a new experimental poison known as [[APTX 4869]], and they then leave him to die. However, instead of killing Shinichi, a rare side-effect occurs: his body shrinks into that of his six year-old self.<ref name="f2" /> After escaping from well-meaning but skeptical park security, with nowhere else to go Shinichi heads home. He there runs into his next door neighbor and close family friend, [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]], who warns him that he must keep his identity secret because the [[Black Organization]] will kill him and others associated with him should they discover the truth.<ref name="e2">[[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2: Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case]].</ref>
[[Image:Conan Edogawa Investigating.jpg|120px|thumb|left|Conan Edogawa, the "small" Shinichi]]

=== Conan Edogawa ===
{{main|Conan Edogawa}}
Shinichi comes up with the alias Conan Edogawa from [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Arthur '''''Conan''''' Doyle]] and [[Edogawa Rampo|'''''Edogawa''''' Rampo]] and pretends to be a distant relative of Agasa's, who places Conan in Ran's care.<ref name="e2" /> Ran's father [[Kogoro Mouri]] owns a Detective Agency, which may allow Conan to run into a case involving the Black Organization. In the meantime, to protect his identity he is forced to play the part of a first-grader, including enrolling as a student at [[Teitan Elementary]]. Three classmates, [[Ayumi]], [[Genta]], and [[Mitsuhiko]], befriend him and pull him into creating the ''[[Detective Boys]]'',<ref>[[The Coded Map of the City Case|Episode 4: The Coded Map of the City Case]]</ref> after which he tries to keep them out of trouble between using Kogoro as a mouthpiece to solve crimes and searching for how to get his big body back with the help of the creator of APTX 4869, [[Ai Haibara]].
{{clearleft}}

== Personality ==
At the beginning of the series, Shinichi is already well-known as a brilliant young detective, the "Savior of the police force", for solving many difficult cases the professionals could not.<ref name="e1" /> He is extremely intelligent, and even from a young age was very intuitive and observant. Due to the influence of his father and the general laissez-faire environment at home, he has long been an incessant and persistent reader, especially of mystery novels.<ref name="f569">[[Volume 55#File 569 - The Mischievous Boy|Volume 55, Files 569-572: "The Mischievous Boy"]]</ref> His father, Yusaku started taking Shinichi to crime scenes as a child, which inspired him to be a detective.<ref>[[Volume 21#File 205 - Midair Sealed Chamber|Volume 21, File 205, pages 74-78: "Midair Sealed Chamber"]]</ref> Due to his bluntness and matter-of-fact manner, Shinichi can come off as rude and arrogant. However, he cares deeply about human life, unable to understand how any reason could be sufficient motive for murder,<ref>[[Volume 26#File 258 - Momentary Rest|Volume 26, File 258, page 71: "Momentary Rest"]]</ref> and is convinced that driving a culprit to suicide is no better than murder itself. <ref>[[Volume 16#File 153 - Bonds of Flame|Volume 16, File 153: "Bonds of Flame"]]</ref> The few times he has been too late to save a life haunt him throughout the series.

Prior to his transformation, Shinichi enjoyed being in the spotlight and was rather arrogant, reveling in making local headlines and receiving fan-mail. Throughout the series, Shinichi's predicament causes him to gain a sense of humility. Shinichi still keeps his flair for the dramatic (like his mother) that can be seen every time he sets out a deduction in pieces building to a climax.

Despite his popularity with the masses and his schoolmates, Shinichi has very few close friends. He is close to Ran and Agasa, and after deaging, he befriended Heiji, Haibara, and to some extent the other Detective Boys. Another reason for his lack of close friends was because his arrogant personality was a negative turn-off to many of his classmates and even teachers, making it hard to befriend him. Even with his close friends (one being older than him), Shinichi doesn't hesitate to call them "idiot", instead of calmly explaining his reason for doing or not doing something, sometimes causing arguments between him and Ran.

Shinichi also had a tendency, since elementary school, to have an air of being the "distant, cool guy". While he is a truly good and heroic individual, he doesn't make it known to others that obviously, and will make some "deductive reasoning" for why he did such a thing. His sensitive nature is also horrible, which was shown most prominently during the Holmes' Revelation Arc, when Ran started crying because she believed that Shinichi not telling her he was in London meant that he was indifferent to her feelings for him. However, instead of trying to comfort her, Shinichi repeatedly asked her about the [[Yukiko Kudo|strange woman]] she met, and told her to pull herself together.

Despite his intelligence, Shinichi is rather dense when it comes to love or romantic subjects, though perhaps not to the same extent as [[Heiji Hattori]]. He struggled to confess his love for to Ran, even after he knew her feelings (as Conan), and temporarily returned to his original body in the Desperate Revival Arc, he was about to confess to her, but chickened out at the last minute. After several failures, finally succeeded in [[Holmes' Revelation|London]].

== Appearance ==
Shinichi is a 174 cm<ref name=CD41 /> (5'8.5") Japanese teenager with a thin, athletic build. He has pale skin and a dark brown/black hair with a cowlick in front and distinctive tuft in the back. Shinichi bears a striking resemblance to his father, [[Yusaku Kudo]] minus his father's mustache and round glasses. Shinichi has blue eyes in the manga (a trait shared by all the characters), and they are blue in the anime as well.

Shinichi is right handed and right footed, but he is good with both feet because of his soccer skills.

Shinichi often appears in his high school uniform, but he also wears a suit and tie or regular clothing depending on the occasion. When Conan turns back into Shinichi by using [[baijiu]] or a [[temporary antidote]], Shinichi will wear whatever appropriately sized clothing he can find at the time. He was also very popular with the girls as he was handsome not to mention a high school detective.

==Skills==
:''See also: [[Conan Edogawa#Skills|Conan's Skills]]''
=== Detective skills ===
Shinichi is very skilled as a detective, often earning him comparisons to [[Sherlock Holmes]]. Shinichi has acquired various nicknames because of his prowess, such as the "[[Wikipedia:Heisei|Heisei]] Holmes" and the "Detective of the East". He has a keen eye for details, and can spot any unusual aspects in a case that most people tend to ignore or not take into account. He repeatedly demonstrates the ability to recall every detail of an investigation or other topics he cares about, and may have a photographic memory to manage such perfect recall so consistently. Shinichi's fastidious attention to detail allows him to notice minor inconsistencies in crime scenes and suspect testimony, and using astute logic he uncovers the reasons behind those inconsistencies in order to link them to the crime. Shinichi has extraordinarily broad and deep knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases, something he likely acquired from incessant reading as a child. Only his father [[Yusaku Kudo]], and the current [[Kaitou Kid]], [[Kaito Kuroba]], regularly surpass him.

=== Athletic ability ===
Besides intelligence, Shinichi also has an amazing athletic ability, partially derived from playing soccer, his favorite sport. Shinichi is an extremely skilled soccer player, having been professionally scouted while only in middle school, but he chooses to stay at the amateur level. He initially played to hone his reflexes and often juggles a ball to clear his mind, but he is also an enthusiastic fan of the sport in its own right.<ref name="e1"/> In order to defend himself and others from criminals, Shinichi has perfected a signature, powerful precision kick to knock out criminals using soccer balls or whatever substitute is handy. Shinichi's kick is accurate over long distances and he is capable of mentally reckoning the angle of impact necessary to rebound a soccer ball off a wall and strike an attacker from behind. He is also good at skiing and snowboarding.

Aside from soccer, Shinichi exhibits a knack for handling firearms due to his father taking him to shooting ranges from time to time. During the Clocktower Heist, Shinichi is able to shoot and dislodge the support beam of a giant projection screen, which Kaitou Kid had placed in order to fool a crowd of onlookers, with a single shot from a moving helicopter. Additionally, in [[Movie 2]] Conan shot a gun at Ran and the criminal holding her hostage with impeccable accuracy; in doing so, he reminds her of Shinichi.

Shinichi is nimble as well as strong. In the manga, he is capable of considerable acrobatics, jumping great distances and swinging from tree to tree to escape onlookers.<ref>Shiragami case</ref> The anime and movies augment Shinichi's athletic abilities in addition to what is shown in the manga. He has been able to skillfully dodge a kicking assault from an angry Ran, something very few have ever managed.

=== Music ===
Shinichi cannot sing on key in the slightest so he is often accused of being [[Wikipedia:tone deaf|tone deaf]]. Despite being a hilariously awful singer, Shinichi has [[Wikipedia:perfect pitch|perfect pitch]] and can identify notes accurately even in difficult contexts like the sound of phone button presses forming a melody.<ref>[[Volume 15#File 144 - Their Voices Are Alike!?|Volume 15, File 144: "Their Voices Are Alike!?"]]</ref> Also, to be like his favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes, he plays the violin. This was confirmed in movie 12 ''[[Full Score of Fear]]'' when he played "Amazing Grace" for Ran. However, he is stumped on what Ran meant when she said, "He has a funny habit when he plays."

=== Language ===
Shinichi is well-educated in English, as he once conversed with and translated for an American diplomat, and later solved a case in London without evidence of any language barrier.<ref>[[Volume 21#File 205 - Midair Sealed Chamber|Volume 21, File 205: "Midair Sealed Chamber"]]</ref><ref name="f743">[[Volume 71#File 743 - Holmes' Apprentice|Volumes 71-72, Files 743-752: "Holmes' Apprentice"]]</ref> Shinichi also knows some German, at least how to count.<ref>[[Genta's Certain Kill Shot]]</ref> Shinichi is not familiar with Italian.<ref>[[The Coded Map of the City Case]]</ref>

==Appellations==
<tabs jsId="nicknames">
<tab title="Protagonists">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Shinichi !! style="width:200px;"|What Shinichi calls them
|-
| [[File:Conan Edogawa 60px.jpg]] || [[Conan Edogawa]] || Shinichi-niichan || Conan-kun Kid in the Glasses
|-
| [[File:Ran Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Ran Mouri]] || Shinichi Shinichi-kun (file 921) Deduction freak Kinichi-kun Mystery Geek Deduction Nut Prince of Fools Detective Maniac Kudo-kun (Movie 1) Shinichi-chan (once) || Ran Mouri (san) (twice during the original Kaitou Kid flashback)
|-
| [[File:Kogoro Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Kogoro Mouri]] || Detective Boy (Tantei-bouzu) || Kogoro-san Uncle (Oji-san or Occhan)</tab>
<tab title="Detective Boys">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Shinichi !! style="width:200px;"|What Shinichi calls them
|-
| [[File:Ayumi Yoshida 60px.jpg]] || [[Ayumi Yoshida]] || Shinichi-oniisan || Ayumi
|-
| [[File:Genta Kojima 60px.jpg]] || [[Genta Kojima]] || Shinichi-oniichan || Genta
|-
| [[File:Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya 60px.jpg]] || [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] || Shinichi-san|| Mitsuhiko
|-
| [[File:Ai Haibara 60px.jpg]] || [[Ai Haibara]] || Kudo-kun || Haibara
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Shinichi !! style="width:450px;"|What Shinichi calls them
|-
| [[File:Yukiko Kudo 60px.jpg]] || [[Yukiko Kudo]] || Shin-chan Shinichi || Mom (Kaa-san)
|-
| [[File:Hiroshi Agasa 60px.jpg]] || [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] || Shinichi-kun Shinichi || Professor Agasa (Agasa-hakase) Professor (Hakase)
|-
| [[File:Heiji Hattori 60px.jpg]] || [[Heiji Hattori]] || Kudo || Hattori
|-
| [[File:Kazuha Toyama 60px.jpg]] || [[Kazuha Toyama]] || Kudo-kun || Kazuha (also seen in Conan's thoughts)
|-
| [[File:Sonoko Suzuki 60px.jpg]] || [[Sonoko Suzuki]] || Shinichi-kun Kudo-kun (sometimes when talking directly to him as seen in the 8th movie) || Sonoko
|-
| [[File:Eri Kisaki 60px.jpg]] || [[Eri Kisaki]] || Shinichi-kun || Kisaki-san
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Black Organization">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Shinichi !! style="width:200px;"|What Shinichi calls them
|-
| [[File:Gin 60px.jpg]] || [[Gin]] || Detective<ref>[[Volume 1|'''File 001''': The Heisei Holmes]]</ref> That dead brat<ref>[[Volume 42|Volume 42, File 434, Page 2]]</ref> || Gin
|-
| [[File:Vodka 60px.jpg]] || [[Vodka]] || Brat<ref>[[Volume 42|Volume 42, File 434, Page 2]]</ref> || Vodka
|-
| [[File:Vermouth 60px.jpg]] || [[Vermouth]] || Silver bullet Cool Guy || Vermouth
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Shinichi !! style="width:200px;"|What Shinichi calls them
|-
| [[File:Juzo Megure 60px.jpg]] || [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] || Kudo-kun/Shinichi-kun (file 908) || Inspector Megure (Megure-keibu)
|-
| [[File:Masumi Sera 60px.jpg]] || [[Masumi Sera]] || Kudo-kun || ???
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

== Plot overview ==
Because the main plot revolves around the fact that Shinichi has become 'Conan' and is forced into hiding, Shinichi is rarely in the series as himself. However, Conan is frequently shown calling Ran using his voice-changing bow tie to sound like Shinichi and sending/receiving text messages from her with "Shinichi's" phone. In these instances, it can be said that the character of Shinichi, albeit in the body of Conan, is appearing, since these phone conversations and text messages allow Shinichi to be himself, however briefly. The below instances however, are actual appearances of Shinichi as well as flashbacks from before the series began.

=== Roller Coaster Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 1|001-002]], Anime: [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|001]])===
[[Image:Shinichi appears.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Shinichi appears to correct Hattori's deduction]] Shinichi starts as himself in the Roller coaster murder case, but by the end he has been transformed into Conan, thus beginning the series' plot. Since then, Conan has temporarily turned back to Shinichi several times.

=== Great Detective of the West (Manga: [[Volume 10|092-095]], Anime: [[Diplomat Murder Case|048-049]])===
Shinichi's next real appearance after shrinking is in [[Volume 10]], when a strange detective from Osaka named [[Heiji Hattori]] arrives at Mouri Detective Agency looking for Shinichi in order to determine which of them is the better detective. A strange combination of having a cold and drinking the [[baijiu]] that Heiji had brought along allows Conan to briefly grow into Shinichi once again.<ref>[[Volume 10#File 092 - The Great Detective Of The West|Volume 10, Files 92-96: "The Great Detective Of The West"]]</ref> However, he develops an immunity to the alcohol and cannot replicate the transformation.

=== Shinichi's first case (Manga: [[Volume 21|204-207]], Anime: [[The Locked Room in the Sky: Shinichi Kudo's First Case|162]])===
One year ago, Shinichi solved his first case by himself on a plane flying to New York City. The second half of this trip is retold in the next flashback.

=== The Desperate Revival (Manga: [[Volume 26|254-260]], Anime: [[The Desperate Revival|188-193]])===
In [[Volume 26]], Conan is able to become Shinichi using an [[Antidote (prototype)]] that [[Ai Haibara]] synthesized. As himself, he tries to surprise Ran by disguising himself as a character in her play, but is interrupted by a murder case and ends up revealing himself to his entire high school. [[Heiji Hattori]] covers for him and Shinichi is able to spend about 48 hours as himself, albeit with a brief collapse about halfway through. He turns back into Conan just as he seems to be about to confess his feelings to Ran.<ref>[[Volume 26#File 254 - An Infatuated Heart|Volume 26, Files 254-260: "An Infatuated Heart"]]</ref>

=== Golden Apple (Manga: [[Volume 34|350]] and [[Volume 35|351-354]], Anime: [[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case|286-288]])===
One year ago, Shinichi went to New York City with [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] to meet up with his mother and see a play called the Golden Apple in [[Volume 35]]. There, they met [[Vermouth]] and [[Shuichi Akai]] for the first time.

=== Heiji's Memories (Manga: [[Volume 50|518-521]], Anime: [[Heiji Hattori vs. Shinichi Kudo: Deduction Battle on the Ski Slope|490]])===
During a call to Conan, Heiji talks about a brilliant detective kid he met at a skiing trip during middle school who was actually Shinichi who he competed with to solve the mystery.

=== Challenge from the original Kaitou Kid (Manga: [[Volume 55|570-573]], Anime: [[Shinichi Kudo's Childhood Adventure|472-473]])===
In [[Volume 55#Shinichi's Childhood Adventure|Volume 55]], a flashback revealed that as first-graders, Shinichi and Ran had been given a riddle by the original [[Kaitou Kid]], [[Toichi Kuroba]].<ref>[[Volume 53#File 550 - The Only Witness|Volume 53, Files 550-553: "The Only Witness"]]</ref>

=== The Murderer is Shinichi Kudo (Manga: [[Volume 62|646-651]], Anime: [[Murderer, Shinichi Kudo|521-523]])===
Shinichi's next appearance is not until [[Volume 62]], when, while on a case with Heiji, Conan goes missing and 'Shinichi' seems to appear. The 'Shinichi' is actually someone who had gotten plastic surgery to look like Shinichi Kudo, and is actually trying to blame Shinichi for a murder. The real Shinichi hides in the forest until he can clear his name. Shinichi had been temporarily restored by another of Haibara's prototypes, but this time by accident; Agasa mistakenly gave them to Shinichi thinking they were cold medicine.<ref>[[Volume 62#File 646 - Village of Animosity|Volume 62, Files 646-651: "Village of Animosity"]]</ref> After the case is solved Shinichi transforms back to Conan, but luckily, Haibara secretly followed him there and gives him another antidote, saving him from revealing his identity to Kogoro, Ran and Kazuha. While driving home from the case, the group is stopped by another murder which Shinichi and Heiji investigate together, despite increasing pangs that warn of his imminent reversion to Conan. After the case is resolved, Ran tries to stop Shinichi from leaving, saying she has something to tell him. Shinichi stops her, saying "According to my deductions, what you have to say and what I have to say are the same thing." Ran seizes his hand while he is transforming back into Conan, and though Haibara knocks her out with Conan's wristwatch, she refuses to let go of his hand. Haibara and [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] have to cut and re-pin Conan's shirt onto him because Ran is still clutching his hand and he refuses to pull out of her grip.<ref>[[Volume 62#File 652 - The Thing She Really Wants to Ask|Volumes 62-63, Files 652-654: "The Thing She Really Wants to Ask"]]</ref>

=== Holmes' Revelation (Manga: [[Volume 71|743-751]], Anime: [[Holmes' Revelation|616-621]])===
In [[Volume 71]], Conan, Ran, and Kogoro are invited to England by a rich, elite British woman, Diana Kingstone, after Kogoro finds her cat under the table in Café Poirot. However, since 'Conan Edogawa' doesn't have the proper credentials to fly internationally, Ai gives him a prototype pill so that Shinichi and Agasa can fly low-profile to England on the same plane that Ran and Kogoro are flying. Ai provides a second prototype pill for the return journey, but Conan uses it while Ran was pursuing him in London. During that trip, Shinichi answers Ran's hurt feelings over his behavior with the fact that he cares for her and that he likes her; unfortunately, before she could respond or confess in kind, Shinichi has to vanish and becomes Conan again. Luckily for Conan, Shinichi's parents appear because Ai had expected him to use the second pill, and they provide him with an extra antidote to let Conan return to Japan. <ref name="f743" />

=== Memories of Light Blue (Manga: [[Volume 83|882]] and [[Volume 84|883-884]], Anime: [[Shinichi Kudo Aquarium Case|772-773]])===
During an aquarium visit with Conan and the Detective Boys, Ran remembers going to the aquarium with Shinichi almost a year ago. After solving a murder case there, it is revealed how Shinichi came to promise Ran [[Volume 1#Prologue - Roller Coaster Murder Case|their trip to Tropical Land]].

=== Ran GIRL/Shinichi BOY (Manga: [[Volume 87|921-924]], Anime: ??)===

== Non-Canonical Appearances ==
=== Movie 7 ===
In Movie 7, Heiji was injured and Kazuha kidnapped; her abductors threatened to kill her unless Heiji showed up for her. Believing Heiji to be unable to do so, Conan contacted Ai and asked if there was any way for him to briefly become Heiji. Ai gave him medicine to simulate the effects of a cold, then he drank some [[Baijiu]] which had changed him in his and Heiji's first manga appearance. Conan became Shinichi for approximately an hour, but according to Ai he was extremely weak and sick for the entire time.

=== OVA 9 ===
In OVA 9, Conan takes another prototype antidote. However, it proves less effective than the prototype he used during the Desperate Revival arc; Conan became Shinichi, but only for a few hours, and remained in a feverish state, unable to wake up until he had reverted back to Conan. During his time unconscious, he had a vivid hallucination that he had grown to age 17 again as Conan and that Ran, aged 27, was about to marry [[Tomoaki Araide]].

=== Live action special 2 ===

=== Live-action drama series ===
{{main|Challenge Letter to Shinichi Kudo}}

== Relationships analysis ==
Since Shinichi is not featured as prominently as Conan throughout the series, only a few of his relationships with other characters have been substantially explored.

=== Family & Friends ===
[[Image:Shinichi and Ran.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Shinichi and Ran]]
==== Ran Mouri ====
{{main|Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri}}
[[Ran Mouri]] is Shinichi's childhood friend and canonical love interest. They have been friends and playmates since kindergarten<ref name="f569"/><ref>[[Volume 11#File 107 - The Two Mysteries|Volume 11, File 107: "The Two Mysteries"]]</ref>, though Shinichi's tendency to drag Ran along into minor trouble caused some censure from [[Eri Kisaki|her mother]]. Shinichi has liked Ran since at least the first year of middle school, and turned down any other potential love interests as a result, but she has never realized this.<ref>[[Volume 18#File 175 - Unlock Your Heart!?|Volume 18, File 175, page 92: "Unlock Your Heart!?"]]</ref> Shinichi was similarly oblivious to Ran's regard until Ran confessed to Conan that despite his faults, which she is well aware of, she has liked Shinichi for some time.<ref>[[Volume 1#File 002 - The Great Detective Turned Small|Volume 1, File 2, page 64: "The Great Detective Turned Small"]]</ref> Shinichi has since confessed his feelings to Ran in the non-[[canon]] 4th movie 'Captured In Her Eyes' (which Ran mistook as his attempt to get her memories back), and made attempts to say something during temporary cures in the manga and anime, but cases always seem to interfere until the cure runs out. Shinichi since then has finally canonically confessed to Ran in the case in London.<ref>[[Volume 72#File 752 - A Troublesome and Difficult Case|Volume 72, File 752, page 14: "A Troublesome and Difficult Case"]]</ref> Ran has yet to verbally return his confession, but Shinichi is confident he now understands how she feels already.

[[File:Shinichi Confesses.jpg|thumb|250px|Shinichi Kudo somewhat and somehow confesses his feelings for [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] to her under the Big Ben in London, during the Holmes' Revelation Arc.]]
Shinichi's initial disappearance troubled Ran to the point of insomnia and nearly going to the police. Since then, Shinichi sometimes calls Ran over the telephone and imitates his normal voice with the [[voice-changing bowtie]] so that she doesn't worry about him. He convinces her that he is off solving a very difficult case and will return once the investigation concludes.<ref>[[Volume_1#File_009_-_An_Unfortunate_Misunderstanding|Volume 1, File 9, Page 15: "An Unfortunate Misunderstanding"]]</ref> In reality, he is the brain behind her father's rapid rise to fame as a detective.

Shinichi/Conan is not without sexual fantasies regarding Ran, the most obvious evidence being his nosebleeds or blushing when he sees her in a bathing suit<ref>[[Volume 83#File 873 - Red Devil|Volume 83, File 873, Page 4: "Red Devil"]]</ref>, or when Ran pulled him into an [[wikipedia: onsen|onsen]] with her.<ref>[[Volume_9#File_084_-_Kogoro.27s_Class_Reunion|Volume 9, File 4: "Kogoro's Class Reunion"]]</ref> For her part, Ran often blushes when thinking of Shinichi, especially when Sonoko teases her about their relationship. Her attitude towards Conan is one of more open, sisterly affection, such as giving him hugs or holding his hand. Shinichi has some concerns of bodily harm should Ran realize that not only has he been lying to her, but they've shared a bed and taken a bath together.<ref>[[Volume 14#File 134 - Question In Dead Leave|Volume 14, File 134, pages 60-67: "Question In Dead Leave"]]</ref>

Shinichi and Ran appear to share a close empathic link due to their strong feelings for each other, making each of them feel the other's worry and agitation in times of extreme danger.<ref>Manga Chapters 372-373: Serial Bomber Case</ref>

{{clearright}}

==== Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo ====
{{main|Kudo family}}
[[Yusaku Kudo|Yusaku]] and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]] Kudo are both aware that [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] is in fact Shinichi. His parents are even more famous than he is, with Yusaku being a famous mystery novelist and Yukiko being a retired actress who remains partially involved in the industry. They currently live in the United States and travel extensively, having left Shinichi in Japan on his own when he was fourteen. Though he sometimes finds his parents' carefree ways to be annoying, he loves them dearly. Yusaku is also a detective with the same keen eye for details, and similarly to Holmes' brother Mycroft, Yusaku always seems to solve a case one step ahead of his son.

==== Hiroshi Agasa ====
Although not related by blood, there is a strong family-like bond between Shinichi and [[Hiroshi Agasa]]. Agasa was the first to know about Shinichi's shrunk predicament and was the one to tell him to keep it a secret. Most of the gadgets that Shinichi has were made by Agasa to help Shinichi catch the criminals and solve the cases as Conan. He also knows about Shinichi's romantic relationship with Ran and sometimes teases him about it in front of her (when Shinichi can't do anything about it since he is Conan).

==== Heiji Hattori ====
When they first meet, Conan and [[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]] seem bound to become lifelong rivals, especially after Kudo bests Heiji in their first case. Even though Heiji discovers Shinichi's secret, he decides to keep quiet (though he often slips up and calls him Kudo in front of others). After Heiji realizes the truth, the two have become best friends, and consult one another on cases, developments concerning the Black Organization, and even their "girlfriends". They have solved many cases together, and Heiji is the person Shinichi turns to for advice or for confirmation regarding a deduction. Heiji has, on several occasions, declared himself to be Shinichi's best friend or brother.

Heiji still maintains some of his original feelings of rivalry, and gets annoyed if anyone claims Shinichi is better (or even equal), and will often go to great lengths to show that the "west" (Osaka) is better than the "east" (Tokyo). Shinichi usually starts off acting like he is disinterested in the frivolous competition, but may then become competitive himself if Heiji starts "winning" or someone bruises his ego. Others, like Ran and Kazuha, see them both as equally skilled detectives.

=== Detective Boys ===
So far, Shinichi did not canonically meet the detective boys before becoming Conan. In the non-canonical animated special, [[Magic File 2: The Case of the Mysterious Wall and the Black Lab|OVA Magic File 2]], four years prior to him becoming Conan, a thirteen-year-old Shinichi came across the Detective Boys, [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]], and [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]], while they were still three years old. He needed their help in confirming a client's alibi. Also, in the first live action drama and the first episode of the anime<ref>The anime was altered to introduce the Detective Boys early. In the manga they met after Shinichi became Conan.</ref>, the Detective Boys are seen sneaking into Tropical Land for treasure. Ran then says, pointing to the children, "It was like that last time, huh?" to Shinichi.

==== Ai Haibara ====
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ai Haibara}}

[[Ai Haibara]], a defector from the [[Black Organization]] who was shrunk with the same poison as Shinichi, is the third girl that seems to have somewhat romantic feelings for Conan/Shinichi, although she never truly admits it. Indeed, it is a mystery just exactly what she feels for him, whether friendship or otherwise. Some people, such as [[Yukiko Kudo|Conan's mother]], have stated that she has feelings for Conan. It could be said that, because of their almost equal level of intelligence as well as similarities in their pasts (i.e. they're both victims of the [[APTX 4869]]), she finds it easier to talk to him. She loves to tease him or otherwise insult him, pointing out his weakness.

=== Law enforcement ===
==== Juzo Megure ====
[[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] has worked together with Shinichi to solve many cases. During Shinichi's first case on the plane to New York, Megure seemed irritated that Shinichi was poking his nose into a murder case. Since then, because Shinichi has proven himself solving cases one after the other, Megure has grown to respect Shinichi and his deductive abilities, thanking him for his assistance.

=== Others ===
==== Kaitou Kid ====
Despite the fact [[Toichi Kuroba|Toichi]] and Shinichi only met once prior to Toichi's death, it's worth mentioning that Toichi referred to Shinichi as his "older brother" and himself as the "younger brother". This is because Yusaku created and thus was the '''father''' of the moniker [[Kaitou Kid|Kaitou '''Kid''']], Toichi's secret identity. Toichi's son and successor, [[Kaito Kuroba|Kaito]], has also only crossed paths with Shinichi as Shinichi once, during the [[The_Gathering_of_the_Detectives!_Kudo_Shinichi_vs._Kaitou_Kid|Clocktower heist]]. Kaito thought Shinichi made the heist harder (and thus less boring) in [[Saguru Hakuba]]'s absence, and Shinichi found Kid's intention of 'stealing' the Clocktower in order to save it from demolition to be fairly admirable.

In their next encounter, however, after Shinichi had become Conan, Kid disguised himself as Ran in order to steal the Suzuki Black Star pearl. When Conan cornered him on the Suzuki cruise ship, Kid suggested that he'd stolen all of Ran's clothes to impersonate her, and left her naked on the deck. While this ended up being a bluff, Conan was shocked and infuriated. In subsequent encounters between Kid and Conan, Conan displays a much more intense desire to capture Kid. In several instances he appears to be able to 'sense' Kid's presence; knowing Kid is close by often causes Conan to behave far more frenetically. However, in several instances, beginning with the "Big Adventure in the Eccentric Residence" case, when Kid does Conan/Shinichi a favor, such as saving Genta's life in the aforementioned case, Conan reciprocates by halting his investigation just shy of capturing Kid, thereby allowing him to escape unhindered.

== People who know Conan's real identity ==
{{main|List of characters who know Conan's identity}}
There are only a few characters in the series who know Conan's real identity and none have betrayed Conan's identity to date. The main characters to know the secret are [[Hiroshi Agasa]], Conan's parents, [[Heiji Hattori]] and [[Ai Haibara]]. [[Vermouth]] also knows, but she has kept it a secret from the rest of the Organization to protect Shinichi because he had [[Vermouth_timeline#Golden_Apple_Case_.28Manga:_350-354.2C_Anime:_286-288.29|saved her life in New York]]. [[Eisuke Hondou]], the younger brother of C.I.A. agent [[Hidemi Hondou]], also knows and keeps Conan's secret. [[Kaitou Kid]] also knows Conan's identity in the movies, though it is not clear whether he knows Conan's secret in the actual anime and manga. However, Kid seems to know there is something unusual about Conan, as whenever he tries to publicly steal he usually reveals that he only wants to compete with Conan as thief and detective. [[Ran]] gets suspicious on occasion, but so far Conan has managed to trick her into thinking Conan and Shinichi are two different people. Finally, [[Subaru Okiya]] has seen Conan use Shinichi's voice with his bowtie voice modifier. Since Subaru Okiya is actually [[Shuichi Akai]] in disguise, this means that Akai knows about it as well.

== Character popularity ==
*In a ''Newtype'' poll from 2001, Shinichi ranked fourth in the category "Top 10 Most Popular Male Anime Characters in Japan."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2001-08-12/newtype-top-10-anime|title=Newtype top 10 Anime|date=2001-08-12|publisher=Anime News Network|accessdate=2009-06-29}}</ref> In a ''Newtype Magazine'' poll from March 2010, Shinichi was voted as the ninth most popular male anime character from the 1990's.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Newtype, Issue 4|month=March|year=2010|publisher=Kadokawa Shoten|title=NT Research}}</ref>

*In the survey "Friendship" developed by rankingjapan.com in which people had to choose what anime character they would like to have as a friend, Shinichi ranked third.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-02-28/which-anime-character-do-you-wish-you-could-be-friends-with|title=Which Anime Character Do You Wish You Could Be Friends With?|date=2007-02-28|publisher=Anime News Network|accessdate=2009-06-29}}</ref>

*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Shinichi placed 2nd in the poll with 1,425 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*Shinichi placed 1st in the results of a poll ranking the top 3 "ikemen" ("good-looking men") of the series aired during the promotional special for [[The Lost Ship in the Sky]].<ref>The Lost Ship in the Sky Special Edition Blu-ray</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 15th movie, [[Quarter of Silence]], the official Conan movie website held a popularity poll for the top 10 Detective Conan characters. Shinichi/Conan placed 1st out of 10 with 30.46% of the votes cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conan-movie.jp/camp_chara/camp15th_res.html|title=名探偵コナン「キャラクター人気投票」|date=2011|publisher=www.conan-movie.jp|accessdate=2011-08-12}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Shinichi placed 4th overall with 1,443 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

== Name origin ==
Shinichi's given name is a pun on "one truth". The "ichi" (一) means "one" and "shin" can be read as truth (真), however the kanji actually used for "shin" (新) in Shinichi's name means "new".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C|title=WWWJDIC: Word Search|date=2011|publisher=Jim Breen|accessdate=2011-09-04}}</ref> Shinichi's family name "Kudo" comes from the fictional detective Shunsaku Kudo created by Nobumitsu Kodaka. <ref>{{cite book|last=Aoyama|first=Gosho|title=Detective Conan|volume=18|publisher=Shogakukan|date=1998-01-17 |isbn=4-09-125048-3|chapter=|page=Back cover flap|language=Japanese|location=Tokyo}}</ref> The ON-readings of the kanji for "Kudo" mean "craft" or "construction" (工) and "wisteria" (藤). <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1B|title=WWWJDIC: Kanji Selection|date=2011|publisher=Jim Breen|accessdate=2011-09-04}}</ref>
"Shinichi" may also have come from "Shinichi Suzuki", a famous violinist. (Shinichi Kudo plays violin){{citation needed}} His English name, Jimmy, rhymes with Shinichi.

== Character inspiration ==
Shinichi's design was based off of Conan's. Gosho said Shinichi's hairstyle was designed in about one minute. He smoothed [[Yaiba]]'s hair and added a tuft modeled after the apostrophe hairstyle of Kabu from [[Wikipedia:Sally_the_Witch|Sally the Witch]]. The tuft on hair on the top of Shinichi's head comes from the character Shichimi in [[Wikipedia:Niji Iro Tōgarashi|Niji Iro Tōgarashi]]. Shinichi's speech habits were meant to be slightly rough like Joe from [[Wikipedia:Ashita no Joe|Ashita no Joe]] and [[Wikipedia:Touch (manga)|Touch]].<ref>File 865 Shounen Sunday Special Booklet</ref>

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Shinichi_Before.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Shinichi's "Before" Appearance (Episode 1; Movies introduction: 1-7)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Shinichi_Middle.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Shinichi's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 192)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Shinichi_After.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Shinichi's "After" Appearance (Movie introduction: Movies 8-15)]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Shinichi Kudo MK1412.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Shinichi's Appearance in Magic Kaito 1412 (Episode 6)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
===General===
{{quote|When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.|Shinichi, quoting Sherlock Holmes from ''The Sign of the Four'', ch. 6}}

{{quote|There is no deduction that is superior or inferior... because there is only one truth.|[[Diplomat Murder Case|Episode 49]], talking to [[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]]}}

{{quote|One truth prevails!|One of Shinichi's catchphrases.}}

{{quote|The only ones who can miss a kick draw are those who have the courage to kick it.}}

{{quote|Zero is where everything starts! Nothing would ever be born if we didn't depart from there...|[[Holmes%27 Revelation|Episode 621]], confessing to [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] in front of Big Ben}}

{{quote|A trick is nothing but a puzzle mankind came up with. If you use your head, you can uncover the logical answer.|[[The Desperate Revival|Episode 191]], talking to [[Hattori Heiji|Heiji]]}}

{{quote|It's always the little things, that we overlook, that are the most important.}}

{{quote|The strong one doesn’t win. The one who wins is strong.}}

===Specific===
{{quote|You're a troublesome and tough case, you know! With all these distracting emotions... Even if I were Holmes it'd still be impossible to figure out! The heart of a woman whom one likes... How can anyone accurately deduce that?|Shinichi confessing to Ran in London.}}

{{quote|Serial killer: Why did you save me?

Shinichi: Is a reason necessary? I don't know why you would kill someone but as for saving someone... a logical mind isn't needed, right?|After rescuing the [[Vermouth|serial killer, NY Case]].}}

{{quote|Zero is where everything starts! Nothing would ever be born if we didn't depart from there...|Shinichi, confessing to Ran in Episode 621}}

{{quote|A detective who uses his deductive powers to corner a suspect and then does nothing to stop them from committing suicide, is no better than the murderer himself!|Telling Heiji why letting the criminal commit suicide is wrong.}}

{{quote|Because I love you. I love you. In this world, more than anyone else.|Conan/Shinichi to Ran in Movie 4, [[Captured in Her Eyes]], replying Ran on why he keeps protecting her.}}

=== Quotes about Shinichi ===
{{quote|You're gonna be a great detective.|Akimoto to Shinichi.}}

== Trivia ==
*Shinichi has been mentioned and parodied in many other anime series. See [[Detective Conan#Appearances in other media|this wiki page]] for more information.
*He was used as a character to promote people to follow the law in Japan, due to the popularity of the series.
*Shinichi seems to have plane narcolepsy, as mentioned in [[The Sealed Chamber in the Sky: Shinichi Kudo's First Case|Episode 162]] and [[Volume 21|Chapter 204]]. This shows up when he is Conan as well.
*Shinichi, along with [[Heiji Hattori]], [[Kaito Kuroba]] and [[Saguru Hakuba]], are sometimes referred to as 'The Four Geniuses' or 'The Gosho Boys' by fans.

==In other languages==
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|新一　Shin’ichi|工藤　Kudō}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Jimmy|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Shinichi|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Shinichi|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Shinichi|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish Latin America|Bobby (anime dub, 1-123), Shinichi (anime dub, 124+)|Jackson (anime dub, 1-123), Kudo (anime dub, 124+)}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Sweden|Swedish|Shinichi|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Shinichi|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Shinichi|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Shinichi|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Shinichi|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|سينشي Senshi | كودو Kodo }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|도일Doyle|남 Nam}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|新一 Xīnyī|工藤 Gōngténg}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|新一 Xīnyī|工藤 Gōngténg}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Shinichi|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ชินอิจิ Shiniji|คุโด้ Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Shinichi|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Shinichi|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Синьити|Кудо}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Mongolia|Mongolian|Шиничи|Күдо}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Denmark|Danish|Shinichi|Kudo}}
{{EndTable}}

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=185px perrow=5>
File:Pre-gradeschool Shinichi and Ran.PNG|Shinichi and Ran before grade school
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Conan Edogawa]]
* [[Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri]]
* [[Shinichi Kudo Appearances]]
* [[Kudo family]]

== References ==
<references/>

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kudo Shinichi}}
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Detectives]]
[[Category:High school detectives]]
[[Category:High school students]]
[[Category:Male characters]]
[[Category:Characters who know Ai Haibara's identity]]

[[de:Shinichi Kudo]]

{{Characters}}

Yoko Okino

2015-07-15T22:20:48Z

Bunchu Thong-In: /* In other languages */

{{InfoBox Char
| name = Yoko Okino
| japanese-name = 沖野ヨーコ (Okino Yōko)
| english-name = Yoko Okino
| image = Yoko Okino Profile.jpg
| age = 21-22
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives =
| occupation = Pop star idol
| nicknames =
| first-appearance = Manga: File 6 Anime: Episode 3
| appearances = {{:Yoko Okino Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 17]]
| japanese-voice = [[Yuri Amano]] (Episode 3~122) [[Miki Nagasawa]] (Episode 249~present)
| english-voice = [[Elise Baughman]]
| drama-actor = [[Becky]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Yoko Okino|沖野ヨーコ|Okino Yōko}}''', which is also the character's name in the Funimation dub, is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
=== Before becoming an idol ===
Yoko attended Konan High School and had a boyfriend named Akiyoshi Fujie. Yoko began pursuing a career as an idol leading Akiyoshi broke up with Yoko after being persuaded by Yoko's manager, Yamagishi, but it was later revealed that Akiyoshi never stopped loving her.<ref name="misunderstanding">Manga Chapter 009: An Unfortunate Misunderstanding</ref><ref name="lockedroom">[[An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case|Episode 003: An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case]]</ref>

=== Idol career ===
[[File:Yoko Okino 1 Profile.jpg|left]]
Yoko started her idol career as a member of the quartet "Earth Ladies", along with Kaoru Kusano, Yuki Takeno, and Terumi Hoshino. The team was quite successful, but after some time they disbanded to pursue their own careers. Yoko has remained successful and quite popular in the pop idol and acting business.<ref>Manga Chapter 322: A Long-Awaited Gathering</ref>

Yoko first met [[Conan Edogawa]], [[Kogoro Mouri]] and his daughter [[Ran Mouri]] when she asked for Kogoro's help in apprehending a stalker who had even penetrated her apartment (and of course, Kogoro would not hesitate to take the case). But in the apartment they found an unknown man impaled upon a knife, turning this case into a murder investigation. Soon, however, Conan figured out that the 'victim' had actually committed suicide: The man was Akiyoshi Fujie, Yoko's old boyfriend who still loved her. Due to a fatal misunderstanding, however, Akiyoshi fell into despair and plunged himself on to the knife, making it appear as if he had been murdered in order to take revenge on Yoko. Luckily, Conan found out the truth before damage could be inflicted on Yoko's career.<ref name="misunderstanding" /><ref name="lockedroom" />

Overcoming her grief, Yoko has carried on her career and has remained a friend and valuable contact to Kogoro and Conan in the TV and idol industry ever since.

{{clear}}

== Personality ==
Yoko is a modest and friendly person whose fame hasn't got into her head and is devoted to her friends and fans; perhaps one of the reasons she has remained popular to this day.

== Relationships analysis ==

=== Family & Friends ===

==== Kogoro Mouri ====
[[Kogoro Mouri]] is completely infatuated with the young popstar and has all of her appearances in movies and music on tape and DVD, and has even once appeared on her cooking show. Yoko considers Mouri, [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], and [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] to be good friends. She often suggests Kogoro for participation in her TV shows and commercials, and often invites him, Ran and Conan to parties and dinners. However, the latter often tend to evolve into murder cases.

==== Kaoru Kusano, Yuki Takeno, and Terumi Hoshino ====
She has remained close to her former band members throughout the years. In episode 249 she invited Kogoro, Ran, Conan and her former band members Yuki Takeno, and Terumi Hoshino to Kaoru's wedding party, although it was ruined when Kaoru was attacked and almost killed by getting her throat slit, however she survived.

== Name origin ==
The name comes from '''{{nihongo|[[wikipedia:ja:沖野ヨーコ (漫画家)|Yoko Okino]]|沖野ヨーコ|Okino Yōko}}''', Japanese cartoonist who is one of [[Gosho Aoyama]]'s senior.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Yoko_Before.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Yoko's "Before" Appearance (Episode 3)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Yoko_Middle.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Yoko's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 488)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Yoko_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Yoko's "After" Appearance (Episode 727)]]
|}

== Trivia ==
* In [[Clash of Red and Black|Episode 495]], Yoko is seen singing ''[[Yukidoke no ano kawa no nagare no you ni]]'' (the 29th closing song of the ''Detective Conan'' TV series) on TV.<ref>[[Clash of Red and Black|Episode 495: Clash of Red and Black]]</ref>
* In her introductory case, there are cigarette stubs in an ashtray in her apartment despite her claims to not smoke. Some fans speculate that this may have been a hint at her being the [[Anokata|boss]] of the Black Organization when the series was still planned to be short.

== In other languages ==
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|ヨーコ Yōko|沖野 Okino}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Yoko|Okino}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Yoko|Okino}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Yoko|Okino}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Yoko|Okino}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Yoko|Okino}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Yoko|Okino}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|يوكو Yoko <ref>This is the same as [[Sango Yokomizo |Yokomizo]]'s Arabic name</ref>|Okino اوكينو}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|소라 So Ra|오 Oh}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|โยโกะ Yoko|โอกิโนะ Okino}}
{{EndTable}}

==Gallery==
<gallery heights=200px perrow=5>
File:Yoko_older.png|Yoko Okino 10 years in the future (OVA 9)
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]

== References ==
<references />

{{Characters}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Okino Yoko}}
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Female characters]]
[[Category:Entertainment]]
[[de:Yoko Okino]]

Ai Haibara

2015-07-15T22:19:10Z

Bunchu Thong-In: /* Sherry */

{{InfoBox Char
| name = Ai Haibara
| japanese-name = 灰原哀 (Haibara Ai)
| english-name = Vi Graythorn (movies) Anita Hailey (mangas and game)
| image = Ai Haibara Profile.jpg
| age = Estimated to be 18 <ref name=CD51>Conan Drill Page 51</ref> 6 or 7 (as Ai Haibara)<ref name=CD49>Conan Drill Page 49</ref><ref>Stated to be 7 in OVA 11</ref>
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth = Unknown<ref name=CD49/>
| occupation = Teitan Elementary School student Detective Boys member
| relatives = [[Akemi Miyano]] (older sister, deceased) [[Elena Miyano]] (mother, deceased) [[Atsushi Miyano]] (father, deceased)
| nicknames = Haibara (by [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]) Ai-chan (by [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]]) (by [[Ran Mouri|Ran]]) Ai-kun (by [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]) The evil-eyed yawny girl (once by [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]) Princess (by Subaru Okiya)
| aliases = [[Shiho Miyano]] (real name) Sherry
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_2#File_016_-_A_Devil-like_Woman|File 16]] (In a silhouette) / [[Volume_18#File_176_-_The_New_Student...|File 176]] (1st full appearance) Anime: [[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|Episode 129]]
| appearances = {{:Ai Haibara Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 18]]
| japanese-voice = [[Megumi Hayashibara]]
| english-voice = [[Brina Palencia]]
| drama-actor = [[Kyoka Shibata]] (Ai Haibara) [[Yu Kashii]] (Shiho Miyano)
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Ai Haibara|灰原哀|Haibara Ai}}''', real name '''{{nihongo|[[Shiho Miyano]]|宮野志保|Miyano Shiho}}''', is the inventor of the [[APTX 4869]] poison that shrunk [[Shinichi Kudo]] into [[Conan Edogawa]], and a victim of the poison herself. Formerly '''{{nihongo|Sherry|シェリー}}''' of the [[Black Organization]], she is on the run from them and lives with [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]. [[List of characters who know Conan's identity|She is also one of few characters who knows Shinichi is Conan]].

== Background ==
=== Shiho Miyano ===
{{main|Shiho Miyano}}
[[Image:Investigation_Kudo's_house.jpg‎|thumb|right|170px|Search team were sent to Kudo's house to investigate.]] Shiho Miyano and her older sister, [[Akemi Miyano]], were born into the secret crime syndicate "The [[Black Organization]]". Her English mother, [[Elena Miyano]], and her Japanese father, [[Atsushi Miyano]], were both scientists working for the Black Organization on an important secret project. While Haibara was young, both her parents died in what was claimed to be an accident. While Akemi lived a normal life, the highly intelligent Haibara was groomed to take over her parents' research. A child prodigy, she was sent to the United States for education at a very young age, and then later came back to Japan to finish her parents' secret project, "Silver Bullet".<ref>Manga [[Volume 38]], Files 2-4 (384-386)</ref>. By the age of thirteen she was working as a scientist for the Black Organization.<ref>Akai started infiltrating the Black Organization five years ago. He did so by becoming Akemi’s girlfriend in order to get close to Shiho and use her influence to get in. (Manga Volume 58, File 2, pg 9: "Akai's Past") According to the FBI’s description, Shiho was “a scientist for them” at the time. Furthermore this took place in Japan since everyone was speaking Japanese, Akemi lived in Japan, and the FBI bust two years prior to the current timeline was in Japan (607 pg 8). If Shiho is 18 now, she would be 13 at the time Akai started infiltrating the Black Organization and she was already a scientist for them at this point and high ranked.</ref> She was given the codename "Sherry", after the alcoholic drink.

Shiho was about 18 years old when she developed the experimental test compound [[APTX 4869]]. She discovered that it could be used as a poison to kill without leaving any traces of itself in a body. While researching its effects, Shiho noticed that one of her lab mice had become younger after being given the drug instead of dying, though she did not report that effect. Meanwhile, the Black Organization started human trials, using APTX 4869 to commit untraceable murders. Unaware of the drug's rare side effect when they used it on [[Shinichi Kudo]], the Black Organization ordered a search for him because his body had not been found to confirm his death. Shiho and her team searched Shinichi's house twice after he had been shrunk to confirm his death for the Black Organization. She began to suspect Shinichi's transformation after the second search, when she found that his clothes from primary school had gone missing. Shiho then confirmed him as deceased so the organization would not look into the matter further and kill him after all.

[[Image:Shiho_taking_APTX4869.jpg|thumb|left|220px|Shiho swallowed the [[APTX 4869]]]]
Shiho was unhappy that the Black Organization's was using the incomplete APTX 4869 for murder, as that was not the drug's intended purpose. When Shiho received word that her sister Akemi had been killed, but was given no explanation why, she decided to boycott her research until the Black Organization gave her an adequate explanation. Instead, the Organization confined her in a small room to await her execution. With no other way out, she took a pill of APTX 4869 to commit suicide, but instead shrank into a six or seven year old girl. In her new, smaller body, she escaped from the Black Organization and attempted to reach Shinichi's house, hoping he might be able to help her. Exhausted, she collapsed in front of Shinichi's house, where she was found by [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]], who eventually adopted her.<ref>Manga Chapter 179: The Girl Made Of Lies</ref> In fact, as it turned out later, Agasa was acquaintances with her parents—especially her father—even though he didn't know at that time that they had children or were part of the Black Organization.<ref>Manga Chapter 398: The Torn Friendship, Part 1</ref><ref>Manga Chapter 423: A Mystery Left by a Visitor</ref>
{{clear}}

=== Ai Haibara ===
[[Image:Haibara_founded_infront_of_Kudo's_house.JPG|thumb|right|245px|Haibara collapsed in front of Kudo's house.]]
To prevent the knowledge of her transfiguration from being discovered, Shiho and Professor Agasa create her alias ''Ai Haibara'' (known as Anita Hailey—recently Vi Graythorn—in the English dub). As Ai Haibara, she attends [[Teitan Elementary School]] with [[Shinichi Kudo]]'s shrunken form, [[Conan Edogawa]]. Following her first adventure with the [[Detective Boys]] in which they investigate the disappearance of a schoolmate's brother, she reveals her true identity to Conan and the fact that she had developed the [[APTX 4869]].<ref>Manga Chapter 178: Code Name Sherry</ref> At first stunned, then outraged, Conan protests her presence,<ref>Manga Chapter 179: The Girl Made Of Lies</ref> but as time passes, he accepts Haibara as a friend and fellow victim, though her cynicism and secretive air still rail him at times. Haibara also joins the ranks of the [[Detective Boys]], and although she does not think too highly of her teammates' immature antics, she has come to value them all as close friends.

Haibara has begun working on [[Prototype Antidote|an antidote]] for the APTX 4869, but since most of the important data had been stored on computer files, which are now mostly destroyed, the work progresses slowly. Conan also eventually succeeds in persuading [[Vermouth]], who was attempting to track down Shiho and had found out about her new identity, to leave Haibara in peace, easing the air of menace which had loomed over Haibara until that time.<ref>Manga Chapter 434: Rotten Apple</ref>

Vermouth breaks her promise when the Black Organization member [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]], who had been assigned to look for Sherry, discovers a video of Shiho taken while Haibara was using a [[temporary antidote]] to rescue the detective boys. When the Black Organization attempts to kill or capture her aboard a train, a counterplan devised by Conan, [[Subaru Okiya]], [[Yukiko Kudo]], and [[Kaitou Kid]] results in an explosion that preserves Shiho's secret identity and makes all the Black Organization members besides Vermouth believe she is dead.

== Personality ==
[[File:Ai - Sai Brand's Wallet.jpg|thumb|Haibara asking for a ''Sai Brand'''s wallet for her cooperation]]

Haibara has a calm and cool personality, sarcastic wit, and high intelligence. When freshly escaped from the Black Organization, she was cynical and pushed others away. Haibara has since defrosted by embracing her new child life and has established strong relationships with Conan, the Detective Boys, Agasa, and Ran.

As Ai Haibara, she speaks and acts older than she is supposed to be, which results in the Detective Boys referring to her as "cool" or "mature". This is emphasized by her impressing general knowledge, even in areas without relation with sciences (such as theology or history<ref>[[Mushrooms, Bears, and the Detective Boys|Episode 212: Mushrooms, Bears, and the Detective Boys]] where she explains the religious myth of the Fall</ref><ref>[[The Evidence That Didn't Disappear|Episode 232: The Evidence That Didn't Disappear]] where she explains the death of Marie-Antoinette</ref>). Despite her jaded demeanor, she can be kind and caring, though usually more to animals than people. Haibara tends to be quiet, though this may be due to her caution to keep herself hidden from the Black Organization. She considers Conan and the Detective Boys the first real friends she has ever had, and is even willing to sacrifice herself just to ensure their safety.<ref>Manga Chapters 289: Bus Hijacking Case</ref><ref>Manga Chapters 434: Rotten Apple Case</ref>. Indeed, she considers herself as a threat for them, since the Black Organization will most likely eliminate all of them once she is found. That is why she describes herself as "dangerous and not like the others"<ref>[[The Evidence That Didn't Disappear|Episode 233: The Evidence That Didn't Disappear]]</ref>

[[File:Episode213.JPG|thumb|left|Mitsuhiko assisting Haibara after bandaging her sprained foot.]]

Haibara is generally a loner and misses her older sister, Akemi, greatly (in the film ''[[Countdown to Heaven]]'', she would call her sister's old apartment just to hear her voice on the voicemail). Her greatest fear is being caught by the [[Black Organization]], and she is especially terrified of [[Gin]] and [[Vermouth]]. She tries to keep Conan from doing reckless things that may give away their identity, though often she is surprised by his actions which usually result in gaining the information he needs while also keeping their identities secret. However, whenever Conan is reckless in regards to keeping his identity from Ran, Haibara is the one who plans ahead in order to keep him from being revealed.

While she generally accompanies her fellow Detective Boys to soccer matches played by the Tokyo Spirits, Haibara herself is a fan of [[Culture#Soccer|Big Osaka]] in general and of the player [[List of minor recurring manga characters#Celebrities|Ryusuke Higo]] in particular, especially since the latter has likewise abandoned a "black organization" (Noir Tokyo) after the team had betrayed him and had remained an outcast in public opinion for a time.<ref>Manga Chapters 344-346: Soccer Supporter Case</ref> Because she occasionally works overnight on the antidote for the APTX 4869, she tends to be tired quite frequently, causing Conan to call her an "evil-eyed yawny girl" on one occasion.<ref>Manga Chapter 680: A Dangerous Couple</ref>

In the OVA ''[[A Secret Order From London]]'', Haibara reveals to [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] that she likes sandwiches with a mixture of peanut butter and blueberry jam, from her schooldays in America. However, since [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] caught her eating one of these sandwiches—especially since Haibara was on her part constantly pestering him into eating low-calorie foods only—she had to abandon that habit for a while.<ref>OVA 11: ''A Secret Order From London''</ref>

=== Taste for fashion ===
[[File:Haibara and fashion.png|thumb|Haibara reading fashion magazine 'Com Com']]

Haibara seems to have some interest in fashion, as she has made repeated requests for a certain type of purse when asked to do something. For instance, when [[Miwako Sato]] declares she would do anything for the one who will solve her father's mystery, she asks for Prada's newest handbag model<ref>[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3|Episode 205: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3]]</ref>. What's more, in one of the cases, in order to expose the identity of the person who hid the phone cables to cut off communications with the outside world, she was asked by Conan to fake an unbearable appendix pain, which she agreed to after jokingly requesting for a Fusae Brand's wallet for her cooperation. She then started rolling on the floor and screaming for help. The culprit felt like he had no choice but to reveal the cable from his pockets and reconnect the phone to ask for an ambulance. <ref>[[A Code of Stars and Tobacco|Episode 374-375: A Code of Stars and Tobacco]]</ref> She is also seen with a Prada cell phone case in the Mystery Train case. Haibara reads 'ComCom' magazine (a name similar to Japan's 'CanCam' fashion magazine) during a soccer game in the Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case. <ref>[[The Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case|Episode 130: The Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case]]</ref> In OVA 11, the Detective Boys wrongly began to suspect Haibara was a child model from America, due to her looks and knowledge of fashion and makeup.

===Ryusuke Higo fan===
[[File:766-1.png|thumb|left|Haibara's listening to "Dandy Lion"]]

Haibara becomes a big fan of [[List of minor recurring manga characters#Celebrities|Ryusuke Higo]] after knowing Higo was originally a member of the Noir Tokyo team with his half-brother Rikuo Endo, he transferred once it was revealed that Noir had just exploited him. For this reason, he has become an empathic role model for Ai Haibara, as seen in [[Hooligan's Labyrinth]] case. Haibara also like to hear [[Yoko]]'s songs due to the fact that Higo also like the songs.<ref>[[Teimuzu River Kite Flying Case|Episode 765-766: Teimuzu River Kite Flying Case]]</ref>
{{clear}}

== Appellations ==
Although most people will call Haibara by her name suffixed with ''-san'' (due to her personality), and some with ''-chan'' (due to her agreement), a lot of the characters have different ways of calling her due to their different relationships. The following is a list of the different appellations for Haibara (and the ones Haibara gives in return) encountered in the series.

<tabs jsId="nicknames">
<tab title="Protagonists">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Haibara !! style="width:450px;"|What Haibara calls them
|-
| [[File:Shinichi Kudo 60px.jpg]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Haibara || Kudo-kun
|-
| [[File:Conan Edogawa 60px.jpg]] || [[Conan Edogawa]] || Haibara Haibara-san (once) The evil-eyed yawny girl (once)<ref>[[A Dangerous Party of Two|Episode 557: A Dangerous Party of Two]]</ref> || Edogawa-kun (around others) Kudo-kun (in private) Great Detective-san (Meitantei-san) (once)<ref>[[The Private Eyes' Requiem|Movie 10:The Private Eyes' Requiem]]</ref> Conan (once)<ref>[[Movie 6]]</ref> Sherlock Holmes of the modern world<ref>[[The Shinto Shrine Torii's Surprising Code|Episode 411: The Shinto Shrine Torii's Surprising Code (Part I)]]</ref> A pervert little brat<ref>[[Movie 16]]</ref> Death magnet Corpse magnet
|-
| [[File:Ran Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Ran Mouri]] || Ai-chan || Mouri-san The girl at the Detective Agency Ran-san<ref>[[Movie 11]]</ref>
|-
| [[File:Kogoro Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Kogoro Mouri]] || || Kogoro-san
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Detective Boys">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Haibara !! style="width:200px;"|What Haibara calls them
|-
| [[File:Ayumi Yoshida 60px.jpg]] || [[Ayumi Yoshida]] || Haibara-san (formerly) Ai-chan || Yoshida-san (usually) Ayumi-chan (twice)<ref>''Detective Conan'' [[SOS! Messages from Ayumi|episode 140]]</ref><ref>''Detective Conan'' [[A Secret Order From London|OVA 11]]</ref>
|-
| [[File:Genta Kojima 60px.jpg]] || [[Genta Kojima]] || Haibara || Kojima-kun
|-
| [[File:Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya 60px.jpg]] || [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] || Haibara-san || Tsuburaya-kun
|-
| [[File:Ai Haibara 60px.jpg]] || Herself || Haibara The girl of the Black Organisation (to Conan)
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Haibara !! style="width:200px;"|What Haibara calls them
|-
| [[File:Akemi Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Akemi Miyano]] || Shiho || Onee-san
|-
| [[File:Elena Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Elena Miyano]] || Shiho || Okaa-san (Mother)
|-
| [[File:Atsushi Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Atsushi Miyano]] || ??? || Otou-san (Father)
|-
| [[File:Yukiko Kudo 60px.jpg]] || [[Yukiko Kudo]] || Haibara-san Ai-chan<ref>Chapter 824</ref> || ???
|-
| [[File:Hiroshi Agasa 60px.jpg]] || [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] || Ai-kun || Professor (Hakase)
|-
| [[File:Heiji Hattori 60px.jpg]] || [[Heiji Hattori]] || That little girl (in Japanese "nee-chan" = "older sister") || Osaka friend
|-
| [[File:Kazuha Toyama 60px.jpg]] || [[Kazuha Toyama]] || Ai-chan || ???
|-
| [[File:Subaru Okiya 60px.jpg]] || [[Subaru Okiya]] || Princess<ref>[[Episode 684]]</ref> || Subaru-san<ref>Chapter 801</ref>
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Black Organization">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Haibara !! style="width:200px;"|What Haibara calls them
|-
| [[File:Gin 60px.jpg]] || [[Gin]] || Sherry || Gin
|-
| [[File:Vodka 60px.jpg]] || [[Vodka]] || ??? || Vodka
|-
| [[File:Vermouth 60px.jpg]] || [[Vermouth]] || Sherry That girl Special Lady<ref>Chapter 823</ref> || Vermouth
|-
| [[File:Pisco 60px.jpg]] || [[Pisco]] || Shiho-chan || Pisco
|-
| [[File:Tooru Amuro 60px.jpg]] || [[Tooru Amuro]] || Hell's Angel's daughter || ???
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Haibara !! style="width:200px;"|What Haibara calls them
|-
| [[File:Juzo Megure 60px.jpg]] || [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] || ??? || Inspector Megure (Megure-keibu)
|-
| [[File:Wataru Takagi 60px.jpg]] || [[Wataru Takagi]] || Ai-chan || Takagi-keiji
|-
| [[File:Jodie Starling 60px.jpg]] || [[Jodie Starling]] || "Little red hiding hood" Brown haired girl Sherry || Jodie-sensei
|-
| [[File:Shuichi Akai 60px.jpg]] || [[Shuichi Akai]] || That brown haired girl || Moroboshi Dai That Akai person<ref>''Detective Conan'' [[Clash of Red and Black|episode 501]]</ref>
|-
| [[File:Kaitou Kid 60px.jpg]] || [[Kaitou Kid]] || Young lady || Kid (in her thoughts) Mr. Magician in the Moonlight (once)
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

== Plot overview ==
=== [[Episode 129|Introduction of Ai Haibara]] ===
[[File:129-1.png|thumb|left|First Haibara's "evil" appearance]]

Conan's class receives a new student named Ai Haibara. She acts rather cold and reserved when the Detective Boys try to befriend her, and Genta notices she's looking at Conan suspiciously. She tells them where she lives but Conan fails to realize it's at Agasa's home (Tokyo blocks are not numbered in sequential order and Conan has never had reason to learn Agasa's mailing address due to their being neighbors).

After school, a boy named Toshiya asks the Detective Boys to find his missing brother. The Detective Boys along with Haibara investigate Toshiya's house and finds a painting of [[Wikipedia:Natsume Sōseki|Natsume Sōseki]]. Toshiya reveals that before his brother disappeared, a woman, who had an interest in that portrait, approached Toshiya's brother. The Detective Boys search around town to ask whether anyone has seen the woman or Toshiya's brother. Conan notices that a man was using a counterfeit ¥1000 and realizes Toshiya's brother was actually kidnapped and forced to help create counterfeit bills. After following the man along with the clues Toshiya's brother left behind, they are able to apprehend the organized crime group and save Toshiya's brother.

[[image:Ai cries.png|thumb|Haibara cries on Conan after asking him why hadn't he helped her sister.]]
On the way home, Haibara reveals to Conan that she is a former member of the Black Organization, with the code name "Sherry". She actually betrayed the group and escaped with the use of the APTX 4869, which caused her to become a child. She reveals that she once accidentally sent a floppy disk containing data on the Black Organization to her older sister, and the disc is now in the possession of her sister's professor, Masami Hirota.

Agasa takes Conan and Haibara there to retrieve the disk, only to discover that Hirota has been murdered. The suspects are Hirota's three students who visited that day. Conan reveals the culprit to be a man named Akira Shirakura; Shirakura after bludgeoning Hirota to death and tied the answering machine cassette tape around the key to the room which rewound when a call was made, subsequently dragging the key into the room. As evidence, Conan reveals that Shirakura's fingerprints should be found on the tape. After seeing Conan's amazing display of logic after she had given up on the case herself, Haibara breaks down and asks Conan why he could not save her sister, Akemi, from the Black Organization. Conan finally makes the connection that the "Masami Hirota" who Gin killed was actually Shiho's sister, and sympathy for Haibara's attitude stirs in him. The disc is taken into police custody, but once it is released to them Haibara attempts to read the files off the disk—only to have [[Night Baron|a virus]] delete all the data.

=== [[Reunion with the Black Organization]] ===
[[image:Sherry-getting-shot.png|thumb|left|150px|Shiho shot by Gin.]]
In Episode 176-178, Conan encounters Gin and Vodka again. Haibara is kidnapped and confined to a wine cellar by the Black Organization member [[Pisco]], but she escapes before Gin and Vodka arrive by drinking [[baijiu]] to turn back into an adult. Gin anticipates her actions and intercepts her on the roof. Gin shoots her repeatedly, hoping he can force her to explain how she escaped from the Organization. Conan prevents Gin from killing her by shooting the man with his [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch|tranquilizer wristwatch]]. Conan tells Haibara to jump into the chimmey, and Vodka shoots at him, but Conan gets away. Gin purposely shoots himself in the arm to stay awake. Inside, Pisco almost kills Haibara, but Conan rescues her after tricking Pisco into accidentally causing a fire. Gin kills Pisco for failure before Pisco's able to tell him the truth that Shiho Miyano has deaged into a young girl. Worried that the Organization is after her, Haibara decides to leave the city. Conan anticipates that Gin will predict her next move as leaving Tokyo, so it will be better if she does the unexpected and remains in Beika. Unknown to Conan or Haibara, [[Vermouth]] saw Haibara at the party and uses her expert disguise skills to get closer to Haibara and Conan in order to confirm Haibara's identity as Sherry and then kill her.

=== [[The Desperate Revival]] ===
[[File:Flower gun.png|thumb|Haibara's about to shoot Conan.]]

Conan finds out that Ran suspects him of being Shinichi, because Ran said she knew Conan's blood type for a blood transfusion. While Conan is in the hospital contemplating admitting his identity to her, Haibara enters and points a gun at his head, saying that the Black Organization has found out about her due to an unknown agent being present at the Pisco incident. Because of this, Professor Agasa is held hostage and, in exchange for his life and a chance to return to the Black Organization, Haibara is required to terminate all the links she had in her child identity. However, when she pulls the trigger a bunch of flowers come out, showing that the story was just an act. Still, she uses this story as her point: both Haibara and Conan cannot reveal their identities no matter the situation, in order to prevent such a tragedy from occurring.

During that night, Haibara explains her plan to disassociate Conan from Shinichi in Ran's eyes. She has Conan take a [[prototype antidote]] for APTX 4869 and then disguises herself as Conan. For the rest of the arc, Conan returns as Shinichi while Haibara is present as Conan, thus creating the illusion of Shinichi and Conan existing at the same time, disproving that the two are the same person.

At the end of the Desperate Revival arc, the antidote begins to run out and Shinichi runs into the bathroom, where Haibara is still disguised as Conan already waiting for him. She predicted that Shinichi would run into the men´s bathroom after the symptoms of the back transformation would start to appear. She then switches Shinichi into Conan's clothes after the antidote runs out.

===[[The Mysterious Passenger]]===
[[File:Vermouth episode 230.png|thumb|left|Haibara in pinch]]

Vermouth, disguised as [[Tomoaki Araide]], boards a bus that Haibara, Agasa, and the Detective Boys are riding to a ski resort. Whatever plan Vermouth might have had is completely interrupted by the bus being hijacked by random criminals and the presence of two FBI agents that have been tracking her: [[Jodie Starling]] and [[Shuichi Akai]]. Haibara detects Vermouth's presence on the bus. She becomes so afraid that the Detective Boys, Conan, and Agasa will be killed because of her that she decides to commit suicide, staying deliberately in the bus whose explosion was imminent. Only Conan's quick thinking saves her, and he asks her to not run away from life. However, those events make her remain anxious for several days.

Due to almost similar appearance between Jodie and Vermouth in this case, most viewers tend to make conclusion that Jodie and Vermouth are the same person. This is because when Vermouth dialog is played, it shows Jodie after that.

{{clear}}
=== [[Episode 345|Showdown with Vermouth]] ===
[[File:345-1.png|thumb|right|Ran covering Haibara from getting shot]]

Vermouth finally launches her plan to kill Shiho. She prepares a distraction to lure Conan away so that Haibara is alone at Agasa's. Taking advantage of the fact that Haibara has practically become ill from fear, she calls as Dr. Araide to tell Haibara she is taking her to the hospital because she has been unwell for so long. The eavesdropping FBI agent [[Jodie Starling]] arrives first to protect Haibara and starts driving her towards the shipping yard where the FBI have laid a trap for Vermouth.

In a complicated turn of events, Vermouth reveals she already thwarted Jodie's trap, and then shoots her. Haibara then reveals herself to be Conan; Yukiko had helped with his disguise while Conan sent [[Heiji Hattori]] to participate in Vermouth's distraction. The real Haibara then shows up which distracts Conan long enough for Vermouth to dart him with his own stun-gun watch. Just as Haibara is about to be killed, Ran, who had suspected Jodie of being untrustworthy and decided to spy on her, jumps from Jodie's car trunk and protects Haibara. Vermouth is unwilling to kill either Conan or Ran because they had saved her life in the past. Part of the reason why she originally did not tell the rest of the Black Organization about Haibara's true identity is likely because they would find out about Conan too and then silence him and everyone around him as well.

Before Vermouth can come up with another plan, the other FBI agent, [[Shuichi Akai]] arrives and forces Vermouth to flee with Conan as a hostage. Vermouth dials [[anokata|the boss]] of the Black Organization to lie to him about why she was injured. Conan overhears the number and threatens to give it to the police for analysis unless Vermouth promises that she will give up on trying to kill Haibara. Vermouth consents and escapes.

=== [[Episode 394|Pandora's box]] ===
In Episode 394, Conan figures out the boss's full number, but Haibara warns him not to call it because it is "[[Wikipedia:Pandora's Box|Pandora's Box]]". Conan then thinks he can get Detective Takagi to figure out who the number belongs to, but then Haibara warns that if he does, Detective Takagi will be killed. This scene is the first time Haibara openly reveals to Conan that she has been hiding important secrets about the Black Organization from him; earlier she [[Black_Organization#APTX_4869_and_Biochemistry|had lied to him]]. The exchange suggests that Haibara is withholding information because she fears Conan will make a rash move.

===[[Episode 509|Subaru Okiya]]===
[[File:Haibara doesn't like Okiya.PNG|thumb|left|Haibara does not like Subaru]]

Not long after Akai's death, Conan hears fresh intel from the [[FBI]] that a new [[Black Organization]] agent called [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] is looking for Shiho, which Conan keeps secret from Haibara. As Conan and Haibara investigate a normal case, Haibara feels that an organization member is around. The organization member which she felt is implied to be one of the innocent suspects, [[Subaru Okiya]]. Conan invites Okiya to live in Kudo's house since Okiya's apartment was burnt to the ground. Okiya appears in other cases later on, including at the Haido mall where the rest of the Black Organization gathered to chase a rumored sighting of a [[Scar Akai|scarred Shuichi Akai]]. Although Okiya is trusted by Conan and Agasa and kind to Haibara, she remains frightened of him. Later, some of his actions lead her to believe he might be someone she knows and she comes to trust him more, even attempting to uncover his identity when she thought he was asleep.

{{clear}}
===[[Episode 699|Shadow Approaching Haibara's Secret]]===
[[File:Shiho_700.png|thumb|Haibara turns into Shiho via the [[Prototype antidote|prototype antidote]] for the first time]]

Later, when Haibara is forced to revert to Shiho using a [[temporary antidote]], a video of her as an adult is sent to the Mouri Detective Agency by Mitsuhiko which Sera, Okiya, and Amuro find out about. Because of this, Haibara is later targeted by a plot concocted by Vermouth and Bourbon aboard the Bell Tree Express Train. Bourbon is revealed to be Amuro and Haibara learns that he knew her parents. Bourbon was hoping to capture Shiho alive, but Vermouth's modifications to his plan which were designed to kill her led to Shiho supposedly being blown up on the train. The Shiho Vermouth and Bourbon thought was killed was really [[Kaitou Kid]] in disguise, Conan having forced him into the plan. Because of this, all of the Black Organization besides Vermouth think Shiho is now dead, and Vermouth is unable to reveal the truth to the rest of them without also compromising Conan, Haibara and their deaged condition against her wishes.
{{clear}}

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family & Friends ===
====Conan Edogawa====
[[File:Shiranpuri derp.png|thumb|left|Haibara's reaction after hearing Conan's ''[[Clash_of_Red_and_Black#Ready_to_Die_.28Manga:_605-608.2C_Anime:_503.29|Shiranpuri]]'' plan]]
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ai Haibara}}

Both are de-aged by APTX and have almost equal levels of intelligence, which makes Haibara and [[Conan]] close confidants and more sympathetic to one other than most other characters. Conan is one of the few people in front of whom she has shown any signs of weakness, such as breaking down over her sister's death. Ai Haibara has romantic feelings for [[Conan]]/[[Shinichi]], although she never truly admits to it (due to her assumption of Conan loving Ran). Haibara expresses a lot of interest in Conan's personality, intelligence, and sense of justice. If Conan is in danger she is willing to throw away her life to save him, overriding fears and concerns for her own safety that would ordinarily paralyze her. Similarly, Conan has saved Haibara's life more than once when she would have sacrificed herself for his and the [[Detective Boys]]' safety. Haibara also often enjoys teasing Conan which Conan takes in good stride. Conan is oblivious of Haibara's feelings and sometimes finds it difficult to deal with her sarcasm and impudent, cold nature. Although close on many matters, they still don't fully trust one another with information about the Black Organization out of concern for the safety and feelings of the other.

==== Hiroshi Agasa ====
[[File:772-1.png|thumb|Haibara is typing a mail to Professor Agasa angrily for cheating his diet]]
{{main|Agasa family}}

The relationship between Haibara and [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] is rather unusual, if not humorous. Despite their actual ages, Haibara often acts more like a mother to the professor, constantly reminding him to watch what he eats. On several occassions, she has removed fattening foods from his reach<ref name=Depths>[[Strategy Above the Depths|Movie 9: Strategy Above the Depths]]</ref>, and is attempting to help get him into better shape. There have also been instances where she'll automatically step in front of Agasa in cases of danger.<ref name=Eyes>[[Captured in Her Eyes|Movie 4: Captured in Her Eyes]]</ref> Out of all the people she's met, Haibara seems most comfortable about acting herself with Professor Agasa; which might be attributed to the fact that he was the one who found her after she escaped the Black Organization, and took her in.
{{clear}}

==== Ran Mouri ====
[[File:247-1.png|thumb|left|Haibara's first greeting with Ran]]

There are instances where Haibara will caution Conan from actions that involve [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], though it's assumed this is due merely to the fact that she wants to keep her identity hidden. Early on, she is cold and distant towards Ran, even more so than she is to most other people. Ran believes that it is because Haibara hated her,<ref name=Net>[[The Mystery in the Net|Episode 246-247: The Mystery in the Net]]</ref> though in truth it is because Ran reminds Haibara strongly of her dead sister.

After Ran notices Haibara is not feeling well and carries her to safety during a case, Haibara finally properly introduces herself to Ran, and they slowly became friends. Because Haibara finds that Ran resembles her older sister, Akemi Miyano, she takes special interest in protecting her. These feelings increase after Ran jumps through a slew of bullets from [[Calvados|a Black Organization sniper]] to save Haibara.<ref name=Vermouth>[[Head-to-Head Match With the Black Organization; Two Mysteries of the Night of the Full Moon|Episode 345: Head-to-Head Match With the Black Organization; Two Mysteries of the Night of the Full Moon]]</ref> Haibara immediately thinks of her own sister, and begins acting to try to protect Ran from the organization, such as when Haibara begs for Ran to stay at Agasa's house when she knows that [[Korn]], [[Chianti]], and the rest of the Black Organization are lurking about, immediately thinking of her own sister's death, and wanting to keep Ran safe.<ref name=KornChianti>[[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out!|Episode 425: Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out!]]</ref>

Assuming that Conan has romantic feelings for Ran, Haibara feels jealous of her and suffer from considering herself as less attractive than Ran. She even implies that Ran would be similar to a dolphin, when she would only be a shark coming from the cold depths of the sea, indicating that she cannot compete against her<ref>[[The Mystery in the Net|Episode 246-247: The Mystery in the Net]]</ref>.

====Subaru Okiya====
[[File:685-2.png|thumb|Haibara uncovering Subaru's scrarf]]

The first time [[Subaru]] appears, Haibara felt a strange feeling toward him and thought he is a member of the Black Organization. However, the feeling kept coming and going. In later episodes, Haibara doesn't seem to hate him so much anymore. She even tries to uncover Subaru's scarf to check something behind his neck, probably noticing some small machines made by Professor Agasa.

====Dai Moroboshi====
[[File:701_8.png|thumb|left|Dai Moroboshi in Haibara's thought]]

Haibara knows [[Dai Moroboshi]] as her sister's boyfriend. She deduces that Dai approaches her sister just to collect information about the Black Organization. Later on, she meets a [[Scar Akai|guy]] similar to him in [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train]] and wonders how he got the scar on his face.
{{clear}}

=== Detective Boys ===
Haibara has tried to keep an emotional distance away from the rest of the Detective Boys at the beginning. However, over time, she can't resist their friendliness anymore and gradually warms up to them.

==== Ayumi Yoshida ====
[[File:330-1.png|thumb|left|Ayumi is happy for being allowed to call Haibara by her name (Ai)]]
{{Main|Ayumi Yoshida}}

Out of the Detective Boys, Haibara is the closest with [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]]. At one time, Ayumi noticed that she called everyone by their first names except for Haibara and decided to try and call her "Ai-chan", but without success. At the end of a case which involved a shattered friendship, Haibara told Ayumi that it was okay for her to call her "Ai-chan". When Mitsuhiko and Genta tried to call her that, however, she told them that only Ayumi was allowed to call her by her first name.<ref name=Ai-chan>[[A Friendship That Can't Be Bought|Episode 329-330: A Friendship That Can't Be Bought]]</ref> On the whole, Haibara seems to see Ayumi as a little sister, even going so far as to physically shield her from danger.<ref name=starsandtobacco>[[A Code of Stars and Tobacco|Episode 375: A Code of Stars and Tobacco (Part 2)]]</ref> Besides, Ayumi is one of the people who teach her that she cannot win by always running away, and that she has to face her enemies<ref>[[Episode 347|Episode 347: Find the Buttock's Mark]]</ref>.
However, Haibara and Ayumi may almost be love rivals, since both seem to develop romantic feelings for Conan: Ayumi even asks her if she is in love with him, and is really frightened when she is answered positively (she eventually cheers up when Haibara says she is not).<ref>[[The Old Blue Castle Investigation Case|Episode 205: The Old Blue Castle Investigation Case]]</ref>
{{clear}}

==== Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya ====
[[Image:279haibaramitsuhiko.png|thumb|right|220|Haibara listening in on Mitsuhiko's radio.]]
{{main|Ai Haibara and Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
Haibara's classmate and fellow detective [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] develops romantic feelings for her, and Haibara is fully aware of this. Haibara uses Mitsuhiko's feelings to her advantage when she needs him to do something, but she also does admire his intelligence and courage during missions the Detective Boys must perform and respects his feelings. In some episodes she even shows more confidence in Mitsuhiko than in Ayumi or Genta when the going gets tough.

=== Black Organization ===
==== Gin ====
{{main|Gin and Sherry}}
[[Gin]] has an abnormal attachment for Shiho and seems to enjoy hunting her, while she hates and fears him. They had some sort of relationship in the past,<ref>[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/page__st__60__p__287218#entry287218 青山剛昌先生と話そうDAY (Let's talk with Aoyama Gosho-sensei day), held January 3, 2013]</ref> possibly romantic.<ref name=CD239>Conan drill page 239</ref>

==== Vodka ====
Shiho and [[Vodka]] have met and are acquaintances.<ref name=CD239/>

==== Vermouth ====
[[Vermouth]] and Shiho have some connection, although it has not been elaborated on. Shiho fears Vermouth more than other Black Organization members except perhaps Gin: in the first times, the feeling of her presence can even entirely paralyse her<ref>[[The Mysterious Passenger|Episode 231: The Mysterious Passenger]]</ref>. Shiho was initially Vermouth's target, but Vermouth promised to give up on her after Conan's intervention.<ref name=CD239/> She broke this promise later when Bourbon discovered a video of Sherry, still clinging to her personal conviction that Shiho is the one person who can't be allowed to exist in the world.<ref>Manga File 818</ref>

==== Tooru Amuro ====
[[Tooru Amuro|Amuro]] knew Haibara's parents and sister, but they didn't know each other.

== People who know Haibara's real identity ==
{{main|List of characters who know Ai Haibara's identity}}
These people know Haibara's true identity: Professor Agasa, Conan, Vermouth, Pisco, Heiji Hattori, Yukiko Kudo, Yusaku Kudo, and Shuichi Akai. It is also possible that James Black and Jodie Starling of the FBI know Haibara's true identity since they call Haibara by her codename "Sherry", although they may not know yet her true name.

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Haibara placed 4th in the poll with 686 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 15th movie, ''[[Quarter of Silence]]'', the official Conan movie website held a popularity poll for the top 10 Detective Conan characters. Haibara placed 4th out of 10. (First place of all female characters)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conan-movie.jp/camp_chara/camp15th_res.html|title=名探偵コナン「キャラクター人気投票」|date=2011|publisher=www.conan-movie.jp|accessdate=2011-08-12}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Haibara placed 3rd overall with 1,592 votes. (First place of all female characters)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

== Name origin ==
According to Agasa, Ai Haibara's name comes from [[wikipedia:Cordelia Gray|Cordelia '''Gray''']] (the character 灰 in her name means "ash") and [[wikipedia:V.I. Warshawski|V.'''I'''. Warshawski]] ("Ai" comes from the letter "I"). Although Agasa suggested she use the kanji 愛 (love) for "Ai", she preferred to use the kanji 哀 (sorrow).<ref>[[Volume 18#File 179 - The Girl Made of Lies|Volume 18, File 179: "The Girl Made of Lies"]]</ref> Her US FUNimation name, "Vi Graythorn", has similar roots. However, Gosho Aoyama in an interview posted in the May 2014 issue of Da Vinci magazine stated that the "Ai" in Ai Haibara comes from '''I'''rene Adler, a character from the Sherlock Holmes story "A Scandal in Bohemia".<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Da Vinci|month=May|year=2014|publisher=Kadokawa Shoten}}</ref>

Her US Viz name, Anita Hailey, comes from:
* Anita: Anne Katherine Green (the first American Mystery Writer)
* Hailey: Hero (though Anita didn't care much for the choice)<ref>Case Closed Volume 18: File 179 - The False Girl</ref>

Her codename '''Sherry''' is Detective Shunsaku Kudo's (from [[wikipedia:ja:探偵物語|Tantei Monogatari (Detective Tales)]]) favorite liquor.

== Different looks ==

<gallery>
File:Ai_Before.jpg|Haibara's "1999" Appearance (Episode 129)
File:Ai Middle.JPG|Haibara's "2007" Appearance (Episode 477)
File:Ai_After.jpg|Haibara's "2011" Appearance (Episode 631)
File:haibara 2015.png|Haibara's "2015" Appearance (Episode 779)
File:haibara ai magic kaito 1412.png|Haibara's Appearance in Magic Kaito 1412 (Episode 21)
</gallery>

== Quotes ==

=== General ===
{{cquote|You can't complain about time going by... If anyone tries to change it... Life will punish them.|[[Volume 20|File 191, Page 11: "The Eyes From Far Away"]]}}
{{cquote|Creation reflects the inner state of the creator.|[[Volume 33|File 335: "Memento of a Wife"]]}}
{{cquote|Don't judge people from the outside. Like any rose has thorns, the more person appears nice on the outside, the more you should doubt the inside.|[[Volume 45|File 461: "Poison on the Bait!?"]]}}

=== Specific ===
{{cquote|Using too much of your brain can make you bald like Professor Agasa! |[[Volume 23|File 222, Page 7: "The Last Movie"]]}}
{{cquote|Even this loyal mirror won't reflect your true form.|Talking to Conan|[[Volume 23|File 223, Page 14: "The True in the Mirror"]]}}
{{cquote|You'll protect me, right?|Talking to Conan|[[Volume 34|File 346: "The Fake Supporter"]]}}
{{cquote|I will pass!|When the Detective Boys want to play detectives or treasure hunters}}
{{cquote|If I... If I... I wish I could lose my memory if possible. I wouldn't remember my sister's death, or being forced to make poison for the Organization. If I could forget everything and just become a regular elementary school student Haibara Ai, I wonder how good it'll be... And, I could be with you forever, forever just like this...|[[Movie 4|Movie 4: "Captured in Her Eyes"]]|Said to Conan in response to Ran losing her memory, she then played it off as a joke}}

===Quotes about Ai===
{{cquote|She's not as tough as she looks.|Conan talking to Agasa|[[Volume 34|File 341: "The Hint That Was Against"]]}}

== Trivia ==
*Sherry is a fortified wine from white grapes that are grown near the town of Jerez, Spain. Most sherries are initially dry, with sweetness added later. This could be a play on her personality that the Black Organization recognized. To further confirm the pun, in the Spanish dub of the anime, her codename in the organization is "Jerez" rather than "Sherry" (in Spanish language, both the town and the wine share the name), although she was renamed later to "Sherry" again.
* Haibara is an animal lover.
* Haibara strongly dislikes getting shocked by static electricity. She used to have some accessories to dissipate the charge, but she seems to have given up on them after Conan taught her a good strategy to avoid being shocked.<ref>Manga [[Volume 61]], Files 5-7 (635-637), Anime [[Episode 525]]</ref>
* Haibara reveals to [[Fujiko Mine]] that she used to ride a Harley before she shrank.<ref>[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref>
* The first appearance of Haibara has her hair colored as brown but later on changed to reddish brown. However, it's changed to brown again.

==In other languages==
===Ai Haibara===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|哀Ai|灰原Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Anita/Vi|Hailey/Graythorn}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic| اي Ai |هيبارا Hibara }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|장미 Jang Mee|홍 Hong}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|哀 Aī|灰原 Huīyuán}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|哀 Aī|灰原 Huīyuán}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ไอ Ai|ไฮบาระ Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Ай|Хайбара}}
{{EndTable}}

===Shiho Miyano===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|志保Shiho |宮野Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|شيهو|ميانو}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|시호 Shi Ho|안 Ahn}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|志保 Zhìbǎo|宫野 Gōngyě}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|志保 Zhìbǎo|宮野 Gōngyě}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ชิโฮ Shiho|มิยาโนะ Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Сихо|Мияно}}
{{EndTable}}

===Sherry===
{{BeginTable OtherLang|notes=1}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|シェリー Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=US|English|Sherry|Once called Shelly, due to translating errors}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Sherry| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Sherry|Once "Jerez".<ref> Note: "Jerez" means "Sherry".</ref>}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Sherry| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Sherry| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|雪莉 Xuě lì| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|雪莉 Xuě lì| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|Sherry|شيري}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เชอรี่ Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Sherry| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Шерри| }}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Miyano family]]
* [[Agasa family]]
* [[APTX4869]]
* [[Antidote (Prototype)]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Sherry's soliloquy]]

== References ==
<references />
{{Characters}}
{{Detective Boys}}
{{Black Organization}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Haibara Ai}}
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Female characters]]
[[Category:Black Organization]]
[[Category:Elementary school students]]
[[Category:Detective Boys]]
[[Category:Characters who know Conan's identity]]

[[de:Ai Haibara]]

Ai Haibara

2015-07-15T22:18:35Z

Bunchu Thong-In: /* Shiho Miyano */

{{InfoBox Char
| name = Ai Haibara
| japanese-name = 灰原哀 (Haibara Ai)
| english-name = Vi Graythorn (movies) Anita Hailey (mangas and game)
| image = Ai Haibara Profile.jpg
| age = Estimated to be 18 <ref name=CD51>Conan Drill Page 51</ref> 6 or 7 (as Ai Haibara)<ref name=CD49>Conan Drill Page 49</ref><ref>Stated to be 7 in OVA 11</ref>
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth = Unknown<ref name=CD49/>
| occupation = Teitan Elementary School student Detective Boys member
| relatives = [[Akemi Miyano]] (older sister, deceased) [[Elena Miyano]] (mother, deceased) [[Atsushi Miyano]] (father, deceased)
| nicknames = Haibara (by [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]) Ai-chan (by [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]]) (by [[Ran Mouri|Ran]]) Ai-kun (by [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]) The evil-eyed yawny girl (once by [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]) Princess (by Subaru Okiya)
| aliases = [[Shiho Miyano]] (real name) Sherry
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_2#File_016_-_A_Devil-like_Woman|File 16]] (In a silhouette) / [[Volume_18#File_176_-_The_New_Student...|File 176]] (1st full appearance) Anime: [[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|Episode 129]]
| appearances = {{:Ai Haibara Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 18]]
| japanese-voice = [[Megumi Hayashibara]]
| english-voice = [[Brina Palencia]]
| drama-actor = [[Kyoka Shibata]] (Ai Haibara) [[Yu Kashii]] (Shiho Miyano)
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Ai Haibara|灰原哀|Haibara Ai}}''', real name '''{{nihongo|[[Shiho Miyano]]|宮野志保|Miyano Shiho}}''', is the inventor of the [[APTX 4869]] poison that shrunk [[Shinichi Kudo]] into [[Conan Edogawa]], and a victim of the poison herself. Formerly '''{{nihongo|Sherry|シェリー}}''' of the [[Black Organization]], she is on the run from them and lives with [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]. [[List of characters who know Conan's identity|She is also one of few characters who knows Shinichi is Conan]].

== Background ==
=== Shiho Miyano ===
{{main|Shiho Miyano}}
[[Image:Investigation_Kudo's_house.jpg‎|thumb|right|170px|Search team were sent to Kudo's house to investigate.]] Shiho Miyano and her older sister, [[Akemi Miyano]], were born into the secret crime syndicate "The [[Black Organization]]". Her English mother, [[Elena Miyano]], and her Japanese father, [[Atsushi Miyano]], were both scientists working for the Black Organization on an important secret project. While Haibara was young, both her parents died in what was claimed to be an accident. While Akemi lived a normal life, the highly intelligent Haibara was groomed to take over her parents' research. A child prodigy, she was sent to the United States for education at a very young age, and then later came back to Japan to finish her parents' secret project, "Silver Bullet".<ref>Manga [[Volume 38]], Files 2-4 (384-386)</ref>. By the age of thirteen she was working as a scientist for the Black Organization.<ref>Akai started infiltrating the Black Organization five years ago. He did so by becoming Akemi’s girlfriend in order to get close to Shiho and use her influence to get in. (Manga Volume 58, File 2, pg 9: "Akai's Past") According to the FBI’s description, Shiho was “a scientist for them” at the time. Furthermore this took place in Japan since everyone was speaking Japanese, Akemi lived in Japan, and the FBI bust two years prior to the current timeline was in Japan (607 pg 8). If Shiho is 18 now, she would be 13 at the time Akai started infiltrating the Black Organization and she was already a scientist for them at this point and high ranked.</ref> She was given the codename "Sherry", after the alcoholic drink.

Shiho was about 18 years old when she developed the experimental test compound [[APTX 4869]]. She discovered that it could be used as a poison to kill without leaving any traces of itself in a body. While researching its effects, Shiho noticed that one of her lab mice had become younger after being given the drug instead of dying, though she did not report that effect. Meanwhile, the Black Organization started human trials, using APTX 4869 to commit untraceable murders. Unaware of the drug's rare side effect when they used it on [[Shinichi Kudo]], the Black Organization ordered a search for him because his body had not been found to confirm his death. Shiho and her team searched Shinichi's house twice after he had been shrunk to confirm his death for the Black Organization. She began to suspect Shinichi's transformation after the second search, when she found that his clothes from primary school had gone missing. Shiho then confirmed him as deceased so the organization would not look into the matter further and kill him after all.

[[Image:Shiho_taking_APTX4869.jpg|thumb|left|220px|Shiho swallowed the [[APTX 4869]]]]
Shiho was unhappy that the Black Organization's was using the incomplete APTX 4869 for murder, as that was not the drug's intended purpose. When Shiho received word that her sister Akemi had been killed, but was given no explanation why, she decided to boycott her research until the Black Organization gave her an adequate explanation. Instead, the Organization confined her in a small room to await her execution. With no other way out, she took a pill of APTX 4869 to commit suicide, but instead shrank into a six or seven year old girl. In her new, smaller body, she escaped from the Black Organization and attempted to reach Shinichi's house, hoping he might be able to help her. Exhausted, she collapsed in front of Shinichi's house, where she was found by [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]], who eventually adopted her.<ref>Manga Chapter 179: The Girl Made Of Lies</ref> In fact, as it turned out later, Agasa was acquaintances with her parents—especially her father—even though he didn't know at that time that they had children or were part of the Black Organization.<ref>Manga Chapter 398: The Torn Friendship, Part 1</ref><ref>Manga Chapter 423: A Mystery Left by a Visitor</ref>
{{clear}}

=== Ai Haibara ===
[[Image:Haibara_founded_infront_of_Kudo's_house.JPG|thumb|right|245px|Haibara collapsed in front of Kudo's house.]]
To prevent the knowledge of her transfiguration from being discovered, Shiho and Professor Agasa create her alias ''Ai Haibara'' (known as Anita Hailey—recently Vi Graythorn—in the English dub). As Ai Haibara, she attends [[Teitan Elementary School]] with [[Shinichi Kudo]]'s shrunken form, [[Conan Edogawa]]. Following her first adventure with the [[Detective Boys]] in which they investigate the disappearance of a schoolmate's brother, she reveals her true identity to Conan and the fact that she had developed the [[APTX 4869]].<ref>Manga Chapter 178: Code Name Sherry</ref> At first stunned, then outraged, Conan protests her presence,<ref>Manga Chapter 179: The Girl Made Of Lies</ref> but as time passes, he accepts Haibara as a friend and fellow victim, though her cynicism and secretive air still rail him at times. Haibara also joins the ranks of the [[Detective Boys]], and although she does not think too highly of her teammates' immature antics, she has come to value them all as close friends.

Haibara has begun working on [[Prototype Antidote|an antidote]] for the APTX 4869, but since most of the important data had been stored on computer files, which are now mostly destroyed, the work progresses slowly. Conan also eventually succeeds in persuading [[Vermouth]], who was attempting to track down Shiho and had found out about her new identity, to leave Haibara in peace, easing the air of menace which had loomed over Haibara until that time.<ref>Manga Chapter 434: Rotten Apple</ref>

Vermouth breaks her promise when the Black Organization member [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]], who had been assigned to look for Sherry, discovers a video of Shiho taken while Haibara was using a [[temporary antidote]] to rescue the detective boys. When the Black Organization attempts to kill or capture her aboard a train, a counterplan devised by Conan, [[Subaru Okiya]], [[Yukiko Kudo]], and [[Kaitou Kid]] results in an explosion that preserves Shiho's secret identity and makes all the Black Organization members besides Vermouth believe she is dead.

== Personality ==
[[File:Ai - Sai Brand's Wallet.jpg|thumb|Haibara asking for a ''Sai Brand'''s wallet for her cooperation]]

Haibara has a calm and cool personality, sarcastic wit, and high intelligence. When freshly escaped from the Black Organization, she was cynical and pushed others away. Haibara has since defrosted by embracing her new child life and has established strong relationships with Conan, the Detective Boys, Agasa, and Ran.

As Ai Haibara, she speaks and acts older than she is supposed to be, which results in the Detective Boys referring to her as "cool" or "mature". This is emphasized by her impressing general knowledge, even in areas without relation with sciences (such as theology or history<ref>[[Mushrooms, Bears, and the Detective Boys|Episode 212: Mushrooms, Bears, and the Detective Boys]] where she explains the religious myth of the Fall</ref><ref>[[The Evidence That Didn't Disappear|Episode 232: The Evidence That Didn't Disappear]] where she explains the death of Marie-Antoinette</ref>). Despite her jaded demeanor, she can be kind and caring, though usually more to animals than people. Haibara tends to be quiet, though this may be due to her caution to keep herself hidden from the Black Organization. She considers Conan and the Detective Boys the first real friends she has ever had, and is even willing to sacrifice herself just to ensure their safety.<ref>Manga Chapters 289: Bus Hijacking Case</ref><ref>Manga Chapters 434: Rotten Apple Case</ref>. Indeed, she considers herself as a threat for them, since the Black Organization will most likely eliminate all of them once she is found. That is why she describes herself as "dangerous and not like the others"<ref>[[The Evidence That Didn't Disappear|Episode 233: The Evidence That Didn't Disappear]]</ref>

[[File:Episode213.JPG|thumb|left|Mitsuhiko assisting Haibara after bandaging her sprained foot.]]

Haibara is generally a loner and misses her older sister, Akemi, greatly (in the film ''[[Countdown to Heaven]]'', she would call her sister's old apartment just to hear her voice on the voicemail). Her greatest fear is being caught by the [[Black Organization]], and she is especially terrified of [[Gin]] and [[Vermouth]]. She tries to keep Conan from doing reckless things that may give away their identity, though often she is surprised by his actions which usually result in gaining the information he needs while also keeping their identities secret. However, whenever Conan is reckless in regards to keeping his identity from Ran, Haibara is the one who plans ahead in order to keep him from being revealed.

While she generally accompanies her fellow Detective Boys to soccer matches played by the Tokyo Spirits, Haibara herself is a fan of [[Culture#Soccer|Big Osaka]] in general and of the player [[List of minor recurring manga characters#Celebrities|Ryusuke Higo]] in particular, especially since the latter has likewise abandoned a "black organization" (Noir Tokyo) after the team had betrayed him and had remained an outcast in public opinion for a time.<ref>Manga Chapters 344-346: Soccer Supporter Case</ref> Because she occasionally works overnight on the antidote for the APTX 4869, she tends to be tired quite frequently, causing Conan to call her an "evil-eyed yawny girl" on one occasion.<ref>Manga Chapter 680: A Dangerous Couple</ref>

In the OVA ''[[A Secret Order From London]]'', Haibara reveals to [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] that she likes sandwiches with a mixture of peanut butter and blueberry jam, from her schooldays in America. However, since [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] caught her eating one of these sandwiches—especially since Haibara was on her part constantly pestering him into eating low-calorie foods only—she had to abandon that habit for a while.<ref>OVA 11: ''A Secret Order From London''</ref>

=== Taste for fashion ===
[[File:Haibara and fashion.png|thumb|Haibara reading fashion magazine 'Com Com']]

Haibara seems to have some interest in fashion, as she has made repeated requests for a certain type of purse when asked to do something. For instance, when [[Miwako Sato]] declares she would do anything for the one who will solve her father's mystery, she asks for Prada's newest handbag model<ref>[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3|Episode 205: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3]]</ref>. What's more, in one of the cases, in order to expose the identity of the person who hid the phone cables to cut off communications with the outside world, she was asked by Conan to fake an unbearable appendix pain, which she agreed to after jokingly requesting for a Fusae Brand's wallet for her cooperation. She then started rolling on the floor and screaming for help. The culprit felt like he had no choice but to reveal the cable from his pockets and reconnect the phone to ask for an ambulance. <ref>[[A Code of Stars and Tobacco|Episode 374-375: A Code of Stars and Tobacco]]</ref> She is also seen with a Prada cell phone case in the Mystery Train case. Haibara reads 'ComCom' magazine (a name similar to Japan's 'CanCam' fashion magazine) during a soccer game in the Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case. <ref>[[The Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case|Episode 130: The Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case]]</ref> In OVA 11, the Detective Boys wrongly began to suspect Haibara was a child model from America, due to her looks and knowledge of fashion and makeup.

===Ryusuke Higo fan===
[[File:766-1.png|thumb|left|Haibara's listening to "Dandy Lion"]]

Haibara becomes a big fan of [[List of minor recurring manga characters#Celebrities|Ryusuke Higo]] after knowing Higo was originally a member of the Noir Tokyo team with his half-brother Rikuo Endo, he transferred once it was revealed that Noir had just exploited him. For this reason, he has become an empathic role model for Ai Haibara, as seen in [[Hooligan's Labyrinth]] case. Haibara also like to hear [[Yoko]]'s songs due to the fact that Higo also like the songs.<ref>[[Teimuzu River Kite Flying Case|Episode 765-766: Teimuzu River Kite Flying Case]]</ref>
{{clear}}

== Appellations ==
Although most people will call Haibara by her name suffixed with ''-san'' (due to her personality), and some with ''-chan'' (due to her agreement), a lot of the characters have different ways of calling her due to their different relationships. The following is a list of the different appellations for Haibara (and the ones Haibara gives in return) encountered in the series.

<tabs jsId="nicknames">
<tab title="Protagonists">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Haibara !! style="width:450px;"|What Haibara calls them
|-
| [[File:Shinichi Kudo 60px.jpg]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Haibara || Kudo-kun
|-
| [[File:Conan Edogawa 60px.jpg]] || [[Conan Edogawa]] || Haibara Haibara-san (once) The evil-eyed yawny girl (once)<ref>[[A Dangerous Party of Two|Episode 557: A Dangerous Party of Two]]</ref> || Edogawa-kun (around others) Kudo-kun (in private) Great Detective-san (Meitantei-san) (once)<ref>[[The Private Eyes' Requiem|Movie 10:The Private Eyes' Requiem]]</ref> Conan (once)<ref>[[Movie 6]]</ref> Sherlock Holmes of the modern world<ref>[[The Shinto Shrine Torii's Surprising Code|Episode 411: The Shinto Shrine Torii's Surprising Code (Part I)]]</ref> A pervert little brat<ref>[[Movie 16]]</ref> Death magnet Corpse magnet
|-
| [[File:Ran Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Ran Mouri]] || Ai-chan || Mouri-san The girl at the Detective Agency Ran-san<ref>[[Movie 11]]</ref>
|-
| [[File:Kogoro Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Kogoro Mouri]] || || Kogoro-san
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Detective Boys">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Haibara !! style="width:200px;"|What Haibara calls them
|-
| [[File:Ayumi Yoshida 60px.jpg]] || [[Ayumi Yoshida]] || Haibara-san (formerly) Ai-chan || Yoshida-san (usually) Ayumi-chan (twice)<ref>''Detective Conan'' [[SOS! Messages from Ayumi|episode 140]]</ref><ref>''Detective Conan'' [[A Secret Order From London|OVA 11]]</ref>
|-
| [[File:Genta Kojima 60px.jpg]] || [[Genta Kojima]] || Haibara || Kojima-kun
|-
| [[File:Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya 60px.jpg]] || [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] || Haibara-san || Tsuburaya-kun
|-
| [[File:Ai Haibara 60px.jpg]] || Herself || Haibara The girl of the Black Organisation (to Conan)
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Haibara !! style="width:200px;"|What Haibara calls them
|-
| [[File:Akemi Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Akemi Miyano]] || Shiho || Onee-san
|-
| [[File:Elena Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Elena Miyano]] || Shiho || Okaa-san (Mother)
|-
| [[File:Atsushi Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Atsushi Miyano]] || ??? || Otou-san (Father)
|-
| [[File:Yukiko Kudo 60px.jpg]] || [[Yukiko Kudo]] || Haibara-san Ai-chan<ref>Chapter 824</ref> || ???
|-
| [[File:Hiroshi Agasa 60px.jpg]] || [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] || Ai-kun || Professor (Hakase)
|-
| [[File:Heiji Hattori 60px.jpg]] || [[Heiji Hattori]] || That little girl (in Japanese "nee-chan" = "older sister") || Osaka friend
|-
| [[File:Kazuha Toyama 60px.jpg]] || [[Kazuha Toyama]] || Ai-chan || ???
|-
| [[File:Subaru Okiya 60px.jpg]] || [[Subaru Okiya]] || Princess<ref>[[Episode 684]]</ref> || Subaru-san<ref>Chapter 801</ref>
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Black Organization">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Haibara !! style="width:200px;"|What Haibara calls them
|-
| [[File:Gin 60px.jpg]] || [[Gin]] || Sherry || Gin
|-
| [[File:Vodka 60px.jpg]] || [[Vodka]] || ??? || Vodka
|-
| [[File:Vermouth 60px.jpg]] || [[Vermouth]] || Sherry That girl Special Lady<ref>Chapter 823</ref> || Vermouth
|-
| [[File:Pisco 60px.jpg]] || [[Pisco]] || Shiho-chan || Pisco
|-
| [[File:Tooru Amuro 60px.jpg]] || [[Tooru Amuro]] || Hell's Angel's daughter || ???
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Haibara !! style="width:200px;"|What Haibara calls them
|-
| [[File:Juzo Megure 60px.jpg]] || [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] || ??? || Inspector Megure (Megure-keibu)
|-
| [[File:Wataru Takagi 60px.jpg]] || [[Wataru Takagi]] || Ai-chan || Takagi-keiji
|-
| [[File:Jodie Starling 60px.jpg]] || [[Jodie Starling]] || "Little red hiding hood" Brown haired girl Sherry || Jodie-sensei
|-
| [[File:Shuichi Akai 60px.jpg]] || [[Shuichi Akai]] || That brown haired girl || Moroboshi Dai That Akai person<ref>''Detective Conan'' [[Clash of Red and Black|episode 501]]</ref>
|-
| [[File:Kaitou Kid 60px.jpg]] || [[Kaitou Kid]] || Young lady || Kid (in her thoughts) Mr. Magician in the Moonlight (once)
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

== Plot overview ==
=== [[Episode 129|Introduction of Ai Haibara]] ===
[[File:129-1.png|thumb|left|First Haibara's "evil" appearance]]

Conan's class receives a new student named Ai Haibara. She acts rather cold and reserved when the Detective Boys try to befriend her, and Genta notices she's looking at Conan suspiciously. She tells them where she lives but Conan fails to realize it's at Agasa's home (Tokyo blocks are not numbered in sequential order and Conan has never had reason to learn Agasa's mailing address due to their being neighbors).

After school, a boy named Toshiya asks the Detective Boys to find his missing brother. The Detective Boys along with Haibara investigate Toshiya's house and finds a painting of [[Wikipedia:Natsume Sōseki|Natsume Sōseki]]. Toshiya reveals that before his brother disappeared, a woman, who had an interest in that portrait, approached Toshiya's brother. The Detective Boys search around town to ask whether anyone has seen the woman or Toshiya's brother. Conan notices that a man was using a counterfeit ¥1000 and realizes Toshiya's brother was actually kidnapped and forced to help create counterfeit bills. After following the man along with the clues Toshiya's brother left behind, they are able to apprehend the organized crime group and save Toshiya's brother.

[[image:Ai cries.png|thumb|Haibara cries on Conan after asking him why hadn't he helped her sister.]]
On the way home, Haibara reveals to Conan that she is a former member of the Black Organization, with the code name "Sherry". She actually betrayed the group and escaped with the use of the APTX 4869, which caused her to become a child. She reveals that she once accidentally sent a floppy disk containing data on the Black Organization to her older sister, and the disc is now in the possession of her sister's professor, Masami Hirota.

Agasa takes Conan and Haibara there to retrieve the disk, only to discover that Hirota has been murdered. The suspects are Hirota's three students who visited that day. Conan reveals the culprit to be a man named Akira Shirakura; Shirakura after bludgeoning Hirota to death and tied the answering machine cassette tape around the key to the room which rewound when a call was made, subsequently dragging the key into the room. As evidence, Conan reveals that Shirakura's fingerprints should be found on the tape. After seeing Conan's amazing display of logic after she had given up on the case herself, Haibara breaks down and asks Conan why he could not save her sister, Akemi, from the Black Organization. Conan finally makes the connection that the "Masami Hirota" who Gin killed was actually Shiho's sister, and sympathy for Haibara's attitude stirs in him. The disc is taken into police custody, but once it is released to them Haibara attempts to read the files off the disk—only to have [[Night Baron|a virus]] delete all the data.

=== [[Reunion with the Black Organization]] ===
[[image:Sherry-getting-shot.png|thumb|left|150px|Shiho shot by Gin.]]
In Episode 176-178, Conan encounters Gin and Vodka again. Haibara is kidnapped and confined to a wine cellar by the Black Organization member [[Pisco]], but she escapes before Gin and Vodka arrive by drinking [[baijiu]] to turn back into an adult. Gin anticipates her actions and intercepts her on the roof. Gin shoots her repeatedly, hoping he can force her to explain how she escaped from the Organization. Conan prevents Gin from killing her by shooting the man with his [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch|tranquilizer wristwatch]]. Conan tells Haibara to jump into the chimmey, and Vodka shoots at him, but Conan gets away. Gin purposely shoots himself in the arm to stay awake. Inside, Pisco almost kills Haibara, but Conan rescues her after tricking Pisco into accidentally causing a fire. Gin kills Pisco for failure before Pisco's able to tell him the truth that Shiho Miyano has deaged into a young girl. Worried that the Organization is after her, Haibara decides to leave the city. Conan anticipates that Gin will predict her next move as leaving Tokyo, so it will be better if she does the unexpected and remains in Beika. Unknown to Conan or Haibara, [[Vermouth]] saw Haibara at the party and uses her expert disguise skills to get closer to Haibara and Conan in order to confirm Haibara's identity as Sherry and then kill her.

=== [[The Desperate Revival]] ===
[[File:Flower gun.png|thumb|Haibara's about to shoot Conan.]]

Conan finds out that Ran suspects him of being Shinichi, because Ran said she knew Conan's blood type for a blood transfusion. While Conan is in the hospital contemplating admitting his identity to her, Haibara enters and points a gun at his head, saying that the Black Organization has found out about her due to an unknown agent being present at the Pisco incident. Because of this, Professor Agasa is held hostage and, in exchange for his life and a chance to return to the Black Organization, Haibara is required to terminate all the links she had in her child identity. However, when she pulls the trigger a bunch of flowers come out, showing that the story was just an act. Still, she uses this story as her point: both Haibara and Conan cannot reveal their identities no matter the situation, in order to prevent such a tragedy from occurring.

During that night, Haibara explains her plan to disassociate Conan from Shinichi in Ran's eyes. She has Conan take a [[prototype antidote]] for APTX 4869 and then disguises herself as Conan. For the rest of the arc, Conan returns as Shinichi while Haibara is present as Conan, thus creating the illusion of Shinichi and Conan existing at the same time, disproving that the two are the same person.

At the end of the Desperate Revival arc, the antidote begins to run out and Shinichi runs into the bathroom, where Haibara is still disguised as Conan already waiting for him. She predicted that Shinichi would run into the men´s bathroom after the symptoms of the back transformation would start to appear. She then switches Shinichi into Conan's clothes after the antidote runs out.

===[[The Mysterious Passenger]]===
[[File:Vermouth episode 230.png|thumb|left|Haibara in pinch]]

Vermouth, disguised as [[Tomoaki Araide]], boards a bus that Haibara, Agasa, and the Detective Boys are riding to a ski resort. Whatever plan Vermouth might have had is completely interrupted by the bus being hijacked by random criminals and the presence of two FBI agents that have been tracking her: [[Jodie Starling]] and [[Shuichi Akai]]. Haibara detects Vermouth's presence on the bus. She becomes so afraid that the Detective Boys, Conan, and Agasa will be killed because of her that she decides to commit suicide, staying deliberately in the bus whose explosion was imminent. Only Conan's quick thinking saves her, and he asks her to not run away from life. However, those events make her remain anxious for several days.

Due to almost similar appearance between Jodie and Vermouth in this case, most viewers tend to make conclusion that Jodie and Vermouth are the same person. This is because when Vermouth dialog is played, it shows Jodie after that.

{{clear}}
=== [[Episode 345|Showdown with Vermouth]] ===
[[File:345-1.png|thumb|right|Ran covering Haibara from getting shot]]

Vermouth finally launches her plan to kill Shiho. She prepares a distraction to lure Conan away so that Haibara is alone at Agasa's. Taking advantage of the fact that Haibara has practically become ill from fear, she calls as Dr. Araide to tell Haibara she is taking her to the hospital because she has been unwell for so long. The eavesdropping FBI agent [[Jodie Starling]] arrives first to protect Haibara and starts driving her towards the shipping yard where the FBI have laid a trap for Vermouth.

In a complicated turn of events, Vermouth reveals she already thwarted Jodie's trap, and then shoots her. Haibara then reveals herself to be Conan; Yukiko had helped with his disguise while Conan sent [[Heiji Hattori]] to participate in Vermouth's distraction. The real Haibara then shows up which distracts Conan long enough for Vermouth to dart him with his own stun-gun watch. Just as Haibara is about to be killed, Ran, who had suspected Jodie of being untrustworthy and decided to spy on her, jumps from Jodie's car trunk and protects Haibara. Vermouth is unwilling to kill either Conan or Ran because they had saved her life in the past. Part of the reason why she originally did not tell the rest of the Black Organization about Haibara's true identity is likely because they would find out about Conan too and then silence him and everyone around him as well.

Before Vermouth can come up with another plan, the other FBI agent, [[Shuichi Akai]] arrives and forces Vermouth to flee with Conan as a hostage. Vermouth dials [[anokata|the boss]] of the Black Organization to lie to him about why she was injured. Conan overhears the number and threatens to give it to the police for analysis unless Vermouth promises that she will give up on trying to kill Haibara. Vermouth consents and escapes.

=== [[Episode 394|Pandora's box]] ===
In Episode 394, Conan figures out the boss's full number, but Haibara warns him not to call it because it is "[[Wikipedia:Pandora's Box|Pandora's Box]]". Conan then thinks he can get Detective Takagi to figure out who the number belongs to, but then Haibara warns that if he does, Detective Takagi will be killed. This scene is the first time Haibara openly reveals to Conan that she has been hiding important secrets about the Black Organization from him; earlier she [[Black_Organization#APTX_4869_and_Biochemistry|had lied to him]]. The exchange suggests that Haibara is withholding information because she fears Conan will make a rash move.

===[[Episode 509|Subaru Okiya]]===
[[File:Haibara doesn't like Okiya.PNG|thumb|left|Haibara does not like Subaru]]

Not long after Akai's death, Conan hears fresh intel from the [[FBI]] that a new [[Black Organization]] agent called [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] is looking for Shiho, which Conan keeps secret from Haibara. As Conan and Haibara investigate a normal case, Haibara feels that an organization member is around. The organization member which she felt is implied to be one of the innocent suspects, [[Subaru Okiya]]. Conan invites Okiya to live in Kudo's house since Okiya's apartment was burnt to the ground. Okiya appears in other cases later on, including at the Haido mall where the rest of the Black Organization gathered to chase a rumored sighting of a [[Scar Akai|scarred Shuichi Akai]]. Although Okiya is trusted by Conan and Agasa and kind to Haibara, she remains frightened of him. Later, some of his actions lead her to believe he might be someone she knows and she comes to trust him more, even attempting to uncover his identity when she thought he was asleep.

{{clear}}
===[[Episode 699|Shadow Approaching Haibara's Secret]]===
[[File:Shiho_700.png|thumb|Haibara turns into Shiho via the [[Prototype antidote|prototype antidote]] for the first time]]

Later, when Haibara is forced to revert to Shiho using a [[temporary antidote]], a video of her as an adult is sent to the Mouri Detective Agency by Mitsuhiko which Sera, Okiya, and Amuro find out about. Because of this, Haibara is later targeted by a plot concocted by Vermouth and Bourbon aboard the Bell Tree Express Train. Bourbon is revealed to be Amuro and Haibara learns that he knew her parents. Bourbon was hoping to capture Shiho alive, but Vermouth's modifications to his plan which were designed to kill her led to Shiho supposedly being blown up on the train. The Shiho Vermouth and Bourbon thought was killed was really [[Kaitou Kid]] in disguise, Conan having forced him into the plan. Because of this, all of the Black Organization besides Vermouth think Shiho is now dead, and Vermouth is unable to reveal the truth to the rest of them without also compromising Conan, Haibara and their deaged condition against her wishes.
{{clear}}

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family & Friends ===
====Conan Edogawa====
[[File:Shiranpuri derp.png|thumb|left|Haibara's reaction after hearing Conan's ''[[Clash_of_Red_and_Black#Ready_to_Die_.28Manga:_605-608.2C_Anime:_503.29|Shiranpuri]]'' plan]]
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ai Haibara}}

Both are de-aged by APTX and have almost equal levels of intelligence, which makes Haibara and [[Conan]] close confidants and more sympathetic to one other than most other characters. Conan is one of the few people in front of whom she has shown any signs of weakness, such as breaking down over her sister's death. Ai Haibara has romantic feelings for [[Conan]]/[[Shinichi]], although she never truly admits to it (due to her assumption of Conan loving Ran). Haibara expresses a lot of interest in Conan's personality, intelligence, and sense of justice. If Conan is in danger she is willing to throw away her life to save him, overriding fears and concerns for her own safety that would ordinarily paralyze her. Similarly, Conan has saved Haibara's life more than once when she would have sacrificed herself for his and the [[Detective Boys]]' safety. Haibara also often enjoys teasing Conan which Conan takes in good stride. Conan is oblivious of Haibara's feelings and sometimes finds it difficult to deal with her sarcasm and impudent, cold nature. Although close on many matters, they still don't fully trust one another with information about the Black Organization out of concern for the safety and feelings of the other.

==== Hiroshi Agasa ====
[[File:772-1.png|thumb|Haibara is typing a mail to Professor Agasa angrily for cheating his diet]]
{{main|Agasa family}}

The relationship between Haibara and [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] is rather unusual, if not humorous. Despite their actual ages, Haibara often acts more like a mother to the professor, constantly reminding him to watch what he eats. On several occassions, she has removed fattening foods from his reach<ref name=Depths>[[Strategy Above the Depths|Movie 9: Strategy Above the Depths]]</ref>, and is attempting to help get him into better shape. There have also been instances where she'll automatically step in front of Agasa in cases of danger.<ref name=Eyes>[[Captured in Her Eyes|Movie 4: Captured in Her Eyes]]</ref> Out of all the people she's met, Haibara seems most comfortable about acting herself with Professor Agasa; which might be attributed to the fact that he was the one who found her after she escaped the Black Organization, and took her in.
{{clear}}

==== Ran Mouri ====
[[File:247-1.png|thumb|left|Haibara's first greeting with Ran]]

There are instances where Haibara will caution Conan from actions that involve [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], though it's assumed this is due merely to the fact that she wants to keep her identity hidden. Early on, she is cold and distant towards Ran, even more so than she is to most other people. Ran believes that it is because Haibara hated her,<ref name=Net>[[The Mystery in the Net|Episode 246-247: The Mystery in the Net]]</ref> though in truth it is because Ran reminds Haibara strongly of her dead sister.

After Ran notices Haibara is not feeling well and carries her to safety during a case, Haibara finally properly introduces herself to Ran, and they slowly became friends. Because Haibara finds that Ran resembles her older sister, Akemi Miyano, she takes special interest in protecting her. These feelings increase after Ran jumps through a slew of bullets from [[Calvados|a Black Organization sniper]] to save Haibara.<ref name=Vermouth>[[Head-to-Head Match With the Black Organization; Two Mysteries of the Night of the Full Moon|Episode 345: Head-to-Head Match With the Black Organization; Two Mysteries of the Night of the Full Moon]]</ref> Haibara immediately thinks of her own sister, and begins acting to try to protect Ran from the organization, such as when Haibara begs for Ran to stay at Agasa's house when she knows that [[Korn]], [[Chianti]], and the rest of the Black Organization are lurking about, immediately thinking of her own sister's death, and wanting to keep Ran safe.<ref name=KornChianti>[[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out!|Episode 425: Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out!]]</ref>

Assuming that Conan has romantic feelings for Ran, Haibara feels jealous of her and suffer from considering herself as less attractive than Ran. She even implies that Ran would be similar to a dolphin, when she would only be a shark coming from the cold depths of the sea, indicating that she cannot compete against her<ref>[[The Mystery in the Net|Episode 246-247: The Mystery in the Net]]</ref>.

====Subaru Okiya====
[[File:685-2.png|thumb|Haibara uncovering Subaru's scrarf]]

The first time [[Subaru]] appears, Haibara felt a strange feeling toward him and thought he is a member of the Black Organization. However, the feeling kept coming and going. In later episodes, Haibara doesn't seem to hate him so much anymore. She even tries to uncover Subaru's scarf to check something behind his neck, probably noticing some small machines made by Professor Agasa.

====Dai Moroboshi====
[[File:701_8.png|thumb|left|Dai Moroboshi in Haibara's thought]]

Haibara knows [[Dai Moroboshi]] as her sister's boyfriend. She deduces that Dai approaches her sister just to collect information about the Black Organization. Later on, she meets a [[Scar Akai|guy]] similar to him in [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train]] and wonders how he got the scar on his face.
{{clear}}

=== Detective Boys ===
Haibara has tried to keep an emotional distance away from the rest of the Detective Boys at the beginning. However, over time, she can't resist their friendliness anymore and gradually warms up to them.

==== Ayumi Yoshida ====
[[File:330-1.png|thumb|left|Ayumi is happy for being allowed to call Haibara by her name (Ai)]]
{{Main|Ayumi Yoshida}}

Out of the Detective Boys, Haibara is the closest with [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]]. At one time, Ayumi noticed that she called everyone by their first names except for Haibara and decided to try and call her "Ai-chan", but without success. At the end of a case which involved a shattered friendship, Haibara told Ayumi that it was okay for her to call her "Ai-chan". When Mitsuhiko and Genta tried to call her that, however, she told them that only Ayumi was allowed to call her by her first name.<ref name=Ai-chan>[[A Friendship That Can't Be Bought|Episode 329-330: A Friendship That Can't Be Bought]]</ref> On the whole, Haibara seems to see Ayumi as a little sister, even going so far as to physically shield her from danger.<ref name=starsandtobacco>[[A Code of Stars and Tobacco|Episode 375: A Code of Stars and Tobacco (Part 2)]]</ref> Besides, Ayumi is one of the people who teach her that she cannot win by always running away, and that she has to face her enemies<ref>[[Episode 347|Episode 347: Find the Buttock's Mark]]</ref>.
However, Haibara and Ayumi may almost be love rivals, since both seem to develop romantic feelings for Conan: Ayumi even asks her if she is in love with him, and is really frightened when she is answered positively (she eventually cheers up when Haibara says she is not).<ref>[[The Old Blue Castle Investigation Case|Episode 205: The Old Blue Castle Investigation Case]]</ref>
{{clear}}

==== Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya ====
[[Image:279haibaramitsuhiko.png|thumb|right|220|Haibara listening in on Mitsuhiko's radio.]]
{{main|Ai Haibara and Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
Haibara's classmate and fellow detective [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] develops romantic feelings for her, and Haibara is fully aware of this. Haibara uses Mitsuhiko's feelings to her advantage when she needs him to do something, but she also does admire his intelligence and courage during missions the Detective Boys must perform and respects his feelings. In some episodes she even shows more confidence in Mitsuhiko than in Ayumi or Genta when the going gets tough.

=== Black Organization ===
==== Gin ====
{{main|Gin and Sherry}}
[[Gin]] has an abnormal attachment for Shiho and seems to enjoy hunting her, while she hates and fears him. They had some sort of relationship in the past,<ref>[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/page__st__60__p__287218#entry287218 青山剛昌先生と話そうDAY (Let's talk with Aoyama Gosho-sensei day), held January 3, 2013]</ref> possibly romantic.<ref name=CD239>Conan drill page 239</ref>

==== Vodka ====
Shiho and [[Vodka]] have met and are acquaintances.<ref name=CD239/>

==== Vermouth ====
[[Vermouth]] and Shiho have some connection, although it has not been elaborated on. Shiho fears Vermouth more than other Black Organization members except perhaps Gin: in the first times, the feeling of her presence can even entirely paralyse her<ref>[[The Mysterious Passenger|Episode 231: The Mysterious Passenger]]</ref>. Shiho was initially Vermouth's target, but Vermouth promised to give up on her after Conan's intervention.<ref name=CD239/> She broke this promise later when Bourbon discovered a video of Sherry, still clinging to her personal conviction that Shiho is the one person who can't be allowed to exist in the world.<ref>Manga File 818</ref>

==== Tooru Amuro ====
[[Tooru Amuro|Amuro]] knew Haibara's parents and sister, but they didn't know each other.

== People who know Haibara's real identity ==
{{main|List of characters who know Ai Haibara's identity}}
These people know Haibara's true identity: Professor Agasa, Conan, Vermouth, Pisco, Heiji Hattori, Yukiko Kudo, Yusaku Kudo, and Shuichi Akai. It is also possible that James Black and Jodie Starling of the FBI know Haibara's true identity since they call Haibara by her codename "Sherry", although they may not know yet her true name.

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Haibara placed 4th in the poll with 686 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 15th movie, ''[[Quarter of Silence]]'', the official Conan movie website held a popularity poll for the top 10 Detective Conan characters. Haibara placed 4th out of 10. (First place of all female characters)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conan-movie.jp/camp_chara/camp15th_res.html|title=名探偵コナン「キャラクター人気投票」|date=2011|publisher=www.conan-movie.jp|accessdate=2011-08-12}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Haibara placed 3rd overall with 1,592 votes. (First place of all female characters)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

== Name origin ==
According to Agasa, Ai Haibara's name comes from [[wikipedia:Cordelia Gray|Cordelia '''Gray''']] (the character 灰 in her name means "ash") and [[wikipedia:V.I. Warshawski|V.'''I'''. Warshawski]] ("Ai" comes from the letter "I"). Although Agasa suggested she use the kanji 愛 (love) for "Ai", she preferred to use the kanji 哀 (sorrow).<ref>[[Volume 18#File 179 - The Girl Made of Lies|Volume 18, File 179: "The Girl Made of Lies"]]</ref> Her US FUNimation name, "Vi Graythorn", has similar roots. However, Gosho Aoyama in an interview posted in the May 2014 issue of Da Vinci magazine stated that the "Ai" in Ai Haibara comes from '''I'''rene Adler, a character from the Sherlock Holmes story "A Scandal in Bohemia".<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Da Vinci|month=May|year=2014|publisher=Kadokawa Shoten}}</ref>

Her US Viz name, Anita Hailey, comes from:
* Anita: Anne Katherine Green (the first American Mystery Writer)
* Hailey: Hero (though Anita didn't care much for the choice)<ref>Case Closed Volume 18: File 179 - The False Girl</ref>

Her codename '''Sherry''' is Detective Shunsaku Kudo's (from [[wikipedia:ja:探偵物語|Tantei Monogatari (Detective Tales)]]) favorite liquor.

== Different looks ==

<gallery>
File:Ai_Before.jpg|Haibara's "1999" Appearance (Episode 129)
File:Ai Middle.JPG|Haibara's "2007" Appearance (Episode 477)
File:Ai_After.jpg|Haibara's "2011" Appearance (Episode 631)
File:haibara 2015.png|Haibara's "2015" Appearance (Episode 779)
File:haibara ai magic kaito 1412.png|Haibara's Appearance in Magic Kaito 1412 (Episode 21)
</gallery>

== Quotes ==

=== General ===
{{cquote|You can't complain about time going by... If anyone tries to change it... Life will punish them.|[[Volume 20|File 191, Page 11: "The Eyes From Far Away"]]}}
{{cquote|Creation reflects the inner state of the creator.|[[Volume 33|File 335: "Memento of a Wife"]]}}
{{cquote|Don't judge people from the outside. Like any rose has thorns, the more person appears nice on the outside, the more you should doubt the inside.|[[Volume 45|File 461: "Poison on the Bait!?"]]}}

=== Specific ===
{{cquote|Using too much of your brain can make you bald like Professor Agasa! |[[Volume 23|File 222, Page 7: "The Last Movie"]]}}
{{cquote|Even this loyal mirror won't reflect your true form.|Talking to Conan|[[Volume 23|File 223, Page 14: "The True in the Mirror"]]}}
{{cquote|You'll protect me, right?|Talking to Conan|[[Volume 34|File 346: "The Fake Supporter"]]}}
{{cquote|I will pass!|When the Detective Boys want to play detectives or treasure hunters}}
{{cquote|If I... If I... I wish I could lose my memory if possible. I wouldn't remember my sister's death, or being forced to make poison for the Organization. If I could forget everything and just become a regular elementary school student Haibara Ai, I wonder how good it'll be... And, I could be with you forever, forever just like this...|[[Movie 4|Movie 4: "Captured in Her Eyes"]]|Said to Conan in response to Ran losing her memory, she then played it off as a joke}}

===Quotes about Ai===
{{cquote|She's not as tough as she looks.|Conan talking to Agasa|[[Volume 34|File 341: "The Hint That Was Against"]]}}

== Trivia ==
*Sherry is a fortified wine from white grapes that are grown near the town of Jerez, Spain. Most sherries are initially dry, with sweetness added later. This could be a play on her personality that the Black Organization recognized. To further confirm the pun, in the Spanish dub of the anime, her codename in the organization is "Jerez" rather than "Sherry" (in Spanish language, both the town and the wine share the name), although she was renamed later to "Sherry" again.
* Haibara is an animal lover.
* Haibara strongly dislikes getting shocked by static electricity. She used to have some accessories to dissipate the charge, but she seems to have given up on them after Conan taught her a good strategy to avoid being shocked.<ref>Manga [[Volume 61]], Files 5-7 (635-637), Anime [[Episode 525]]</ref>
* Haibara reveals to [[Fujiko Mine]] that she used to ride a Harley before she shrank.<ref>[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref>
* The first appearance of Haibara has her hair colored as brown but later on changed to reddish brown. However, it's changed to brown again.

==In other languages==
===Ai Haibara===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|哀Ai|灰原Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Anita/Vi|Hailey/Graythorn}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic| اي Ai |هيبارا Hibara }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|장미 Jang Mee|홍 Hong}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|哀 Aī|灰原 Huīyuán}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|哀 Aī|灰原 Huīyuán}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ไอ Ai|ไฮบาระ Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Ай|Хайбара}}
{{EndTable}}

===Shiho Miyano===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|志保Shiho |宮野Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|شيهو|ميانو}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|시호 Shi Ho|안 Ahn}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|志保 Zhìbǎo|宫野 Gōngyě}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|志保 Zhìbǎo|宮野 Gōngyě}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ชิโฮ Shiho|มิยาโนะ Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Сихо|Мияно}}
{{EndTable}}

===Sherry===
{{BeginTable OtherLang|notes=1}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|シェリー Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=US|English|Sherry|Once called Shelly, due to translating errors}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Sherry| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Sherry|Once "Jerez".<ref> Note: "Jerez" means "Sherry".</ref>}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Sherry| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Sherry| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|雪莉 Xuě lì| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|雪莉 Xuě lì| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|Sherry|شيري}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เชอรี่| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Sherry| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Шерри| }}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Miyano family]]
* [[Agasa family]]
* [[APTX4869]]
* [[Antidote (Prototype)]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Sherry's soliloquy]]

== References ==
<references />
{{Characters}}
{{Detective Boys}}
{{Black Organization}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Haibara Ai}}
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Female characters]]
[[Category:Black Organization]]
[[Category:Elementary school students]]
[[Category:Detective Boys]]
[[Category:Characters who know Conan's identity]]

[[de:Ai Haibara]]

Ai Haibara

2015-07-15T22:17:07Z

Bunchu Thong-In: /* Ai Haibara */

{{InfoBox Char
| name = Ai Haibara
| japanese-name = 灰原哀 (Haibara Ai)
| english-name = Vi Graythorn (movies) Anita Hailey (mangas and game)
| image = Ai Haibara Profile.jpg
| age = Estimated to be 18 <ref name=CD51>Conan Drill Page 51</ref> 6 or 7 (as Ai Haibara)<ref name=CD49>Conan Drill Page 49</ref><ref>Stated to be 7 in OVA 11</ref>
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth = Unknown<ref name=CD49/>
| occupation = Teitan Elementary School student Detective Boys member
| relatives = [[Akemi Miyano]] (older sister, deceased) [[Elena Miyano]] (mother, deceased) [[Atsushi Miyano]] (father, deceased)
| nicknames = Haibara (by [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]) Ai-chan (by [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]]) (by [[Ran Mouri|Ran]]) Ai-kun (by [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]) The evil-eyed yawny girl (once by [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]) Princess (by Subaru Okiya)
| aliases = [[Shiho Miyano]] (real name) Sherry
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_2#File_016_-_A_Devil-like_Woman|File 16]] (In a silhouette) / [[Volume_18#File_176_-_The_New_Student...|File 176]] (1st full appearance) Anime: [[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|Episode 129]]
| appearances = {{:Ai Haibara Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 18]]
| japanese-voice = [[Megumi Hayashibara]]
| english-voice = [[Brina Palencia]]
| drama-actor = [[Kyoka Shibata]] (Ai Haibara) [[Yu Kashii]] (Shiho Miyano)
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Ai Haibara|灰原哀|Haibara Ai}}''', real name '''{{nihongo|[[Shiho Miyano]]|宮野志保|Miyano Shiho}}''', is the inventor of the [[APTX 4869]] poison that shrunk [[Shinichi Kudo]] into [[Conan Edogawa]], and a victim of the poison herself. Formerly '''{{nihongo|Sherry|シェリー}}''' of the [[Black Organization]], she is on the run from them and lives with [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]. [[List of characters who know Conan's identity|She is also one of few characters who knows Shinichi is Conan]].

== Background ==
=== Shiho Miyano ===
{{main|Shiho Miyano}}
[[Image:Investigation_Kudo's_house.jpg‎|thumb|right|170px|Search team were sent to Kudo's house to investigate.]] Shiho Miyano and her older sister, [[Akemi Miyano]], were born into the secret crime syndicate "The [[Black Organization]]". Her English mother, [[Elena Miyano]], and her Japanese father, [[Atsushi Miyano]], were both scientists working for the Black Organization on an important secret project. While Haibara was young, both her parents died in what was claimed to be an accident. While Akemi lived a normal life, the highly intelligent Haibara was groomed to take over her parents' research. A child prodigy, she was sent to the United States for education at a very young age, and then later came back to Japan to finish her parents' secret project, "Silver Bullet".<ref>Manga [[Volume 38]], Files 2-4 (384-386)</ref>. By the age of thirteen she was working as a scientist for the Black Organization.<ref>Akai started infiltrating the Black Organization five years ago. He did so by becoming Akemi’s girlfriend in order to get close to Shiho and use her influence to get in. (Manga Volume 58, File 2, pg 9: "Akai's Past") According to the FBI’s description, Shiho was “a scientist for them” at the time. Furthermore this took place in Japan since everyone was speaking Japanese, Akemi lived in Japan, and the FBI bust two years prior to the current timeline was in Japan (607 pg 8). If Shiho is 18 now, she would be 13 at the time Akai started infiltrating the Black Organization and she was already a scientist for them at this point and high ranked.</ref> She was given the codename "Sherry", after the alcoholic drink.

Shiho was about 18 years old when she developed the experimental test compound [[APTX 4869]]. She discovered that it could be used as a poison to kill without leaving any traces of itself in a body. While researching its effects, Shiho noticed that one of her lab mice had become younger after being given the drug instead of dying, though she did not report that effect. Meanwhile, the Black Organization started human trials, using APTX 4869 to commit untraceable murders. Unaware of the drug's rare side effect when they used it on [[Shinichi Kudo]], the Black Organization ordered a search for him because his body had not been found to confirm his death. Shiho and her team searched Shinichi's house twice after he had been shrunk to confirm his death for the Black Organization. She began to suspect Shinichi's transformation after the second search, when she found that his clothes from primary school had gone missing. Shiho then confirmed him as deceased so the organization would not look into the matter further and kill him after all.

[[Image:Shiho_taking_APTX4869.jpg|thumb|left|220px|Shiho swallowed the [[APTX 4869]]]]
Shiho was unhappy that the Black Organization's was using the incomplete APTX 4869 for murder, as that was not the drug's intended purpose. When Shiho received word that her sister Akemi had been killed, but was given no explanation why, she decided to boycott her research until the Black Organization gave her an adequate explanation. Instead, the Organization confined her in a small room to await her execution. With no other way out, she took a pill of APTX 4869 to commit suicide, but instead shrank into a six or seven year old girl. In her new, smaller body, she escaped from the Black Organization and attempted to reach Shinichi's house, hoping he might be able to help her. Exhausted, she collapsed in front of Shinichi's house, where she was found by [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]], who eventually adopted her.<ref>Manga Chapter 179: The Girl Made Of Lies</ref> In fact, as it turned out later, Agasa was acquaintances with her parents—especially her father—even though he didn't know at that time that they had children or were part of the Black Organization.<ref>Manga Chapter 398: The Torn Friendship, Part 1</ref><ref>Manga Chapter 423: A Mystery Left by a Visitor</ref>
{{clear}}

=== Ai Haibara ===
[[Image:Haibara_founded_infront_of_Kudo's_house.JPG|thumb|right|245px|Haibara collapsed in front of Kudo's house.]]
To prevent the knowledge of her transfiguration from being discovered, Shiho and Professor Agasa create her alias ''Ai Haibara'' (known as Anita Hailey—recently Vi Graythorn—in the English dub). As Ai Haibara, she attends [[Teitan Elementary School]] with [[Shinichi Kudo]]'s shrunken form, [[Conan Edogawa]]. Following her first adventure with the [[Detective Boys]] in which they investigate the disappearance of a schoolmate's brother, she reveals her true identity to Conan and the fact that she had developed the [[APTX 4869]].<ref>Manga Chapter 178: Code Name Sherry</ref> At first stunned, then outraged, Conan protests her presence,<ref>Manga Chapter 179: The Girl Made Of Lies</ref> but as time passes, he accepts Haibara as a friend and fellow victim, though her cynicism and secretive air still rail him at times. Haibara also joins the ranks of the [[Detective Boys]], and although she does not think too highly of her teammates' immature antics, she has come to value them all as close friends.

Haibara has begun working on [[Prototype Antidote|an antidote]] for the APTX 4869, but since most of the important data had been stored on computer files, which are now mostly destroyed, the work progresses slowly. Conan also eventually succeeds in persuading [[Vermouth]], who was attempting to track down Shiho and had found out about her new identity, to leave Haibara in peace, easing the air of menace which had loomed over Haibara until that time.<ref>Manga Chapter 434: Rotten Apple</ref>

Vermouth breaks her promise when the Black Organization member [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]], who had been assigned to look for Sherry, discovers a video of Shiho taken while Haibara was using a [[temporary antidote]] to rescue the detective boys. When the Black Organization attempts to kill or capture her aboard a train, a counterplan devised by Conan, [[Subaru Okiya]], [[Yukiko Kudo]], and [[Kaitou Kid]] results in an explosion that preserves Shiho's secret identity and makes all the Black Organization members besides Vermouth believe she is dead.

== Personality ==
[[File:Ai - Sai Brand's Wallet.jpg|thumb|Haibara asking for a ''Sai Brand'''s wallet for her cooperation]]

Haibara has a calm and cool personality, sarcastic wit, and high intelligence. When freshly escaped from the Black Organization, she was cynical and pushed others away. Haibara has since defrosted by embracing her new child life and has established strong relationships with Conan, the Detective Boys, Agasa, and Ran.

As Ai Haibara, she speaks and acts older than she is supposed to be, which results in the Detective Boys referring to her as "cool" or "mature". This is emphasized by her impressing general knowledge, even in areas without relation with sciences (such as theology or history<ref>[[Mushrooms, Bears, and the Detective Boys|Episode 212: Mushrooms, Bears, and the Detective Boys]] where she explains the religious myth of the Fall</ref><ref>[[The Evidence That Didn't Disappear|Episode 232: The Evidence That Didn't Disappear]] where she explains the death of Marie-Antoinette</ref>). Despite her jaded demeanor, she can be kind and caring, though usually more to animals than people. Haibara tends to be quiet, though this may be due to her caution to keep herself hidden from the Black Organization. She considers Conan and the Detective Boys the first real friends she has ever had, and is even willing to sacrifice herself just to ensure their safety.<ref>Manga Chapters 289: Bus Hijacking Case</ref><ref>Manga Chapters 434: Rotten Apple Case</ref>. Indeed, she considers herself as a threat for them, since the Black Organization will most likely eliminate all of them once she is found. That is why she describes herself as "dangerous and not like the others"<ref>[[The Evidence That Didn't Disappear|Episode 233: The Evidence That Didn't Disappear]]</ref>

[[File:Episode213.JPG|thumb|left|Mitsuhiko assisting Haibara after bandaging her sprained foot.]]

Haibara is generally a loner and misses her older sister, Akemi, greatly (in the film ''[[Countdown to Heaven]]'', she would call her sister's old apartment just to hear her voice on the voicemail). Her greatest fear is being caught by the [[Black Organization]], and she is especially terrified of [[Gin]] and [[Vermouth]]. She tries to keep Conan from doing reckless things that may give away their identity, though often she is surprised by his actions which usually result in gaining the information he needs while also keeping their identities secret. However, whenever Conan is reckless in regards to keeping his identity from Ran, Haibara is the one who plans ahead in order to keep him from being revealed.

While she generally accompanies her fellow Detective Boys to soccer matches played by the Tokyo Spirits, Haibara herself is a fan of [[Culture#Soccer|Big Osaka]] in general and of the player [[List of minor recurring manga characters#Celebrities|Ryusuke Higo]] in particular, especially since the latter has likewise abandoned a "black organization" (Noir Tokyo) after the team had betrayed him and had remained an outcast in public opinion for a time.<ref>Manga Chapters 344-346: Soccer Supporter Case</ref> Because she occasionally works overnight on the antidote for the APTX 4869, she tends to be tired quite frequently, causing Conan to call her an "evil-eyed yawny girl" on one occasion.<ref>Manga Chapter 680: A Dangerous Couple</ref>

In the OVA ''[[A Secret Order From London]]'', Haibara reveals to [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] that she likes sandwiches with a mixture of peanut butter and blueberry jam, from her schooldays in America. However, since [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] caught her eating one of these sandwiches—especially since Haibara was on her part constantly pestering him into eating low-calorie foods only—she had to abandon that habit for a while.<ref>OVA 11: ''A Secret Order From London''</ref>

=== Taste for fashion ===
[[File:Haibara and fashion.png|thumb|Haibara reading fashion magazine 'Com Com']]

Haibara seems to have some interest in fashion, as she has made repeated requests for a certain type of purse when asked to do something. For instance, when [[Miwako Sato]] declares she would do anything for the one who will solve her father's mystery, she asks for Prada's newest handbag model<ref>[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3|Episode 205: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3]]</ref>. What's more, in one of the cases, in order to expose the identity of the person who hid the phone cables to cut off communications with the outside world, she was asked by Conan to fake an unbearable appendix pain, which she agreed to after jokingly requesting for a Fusae Brand's wallet for her cooperation. She then started rolling on the floor and screaming for help. The culprit felt like he had no choice but to reveal the cable from his pockets and reconnect the phone to ask for an ambulance. <ref>[[A Code of Stars and Tobacco|Episode 374-375: A Code of Stars and Tobacco]]</ref> She is also seen with a Prada cell phone case in the Mystery Train case. Haibara reads 'ComCom' magazine (a name similar to Japan's 'CanCam' fashion magazine) during a soccer game in the Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case. <ref>[[The Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case|Episode 130: The Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case]]</ref> In OVA 11, the Detective Boys wrongly began to suspect Haibara was a child model from America, due to her looks and knowledge of fashion and makeup.

===Ryusuke Higo fan===
[[File:766-1.png|thumb|left|Haibara's listening to "Dandy Lion"]]

Haibara becomes a big fan of [[List of minor recurring manga characters#Celebrities|Ryusuke Higo]] after knowing Higo was originally a member of the Noir Tokyo team with his half-brother Rikuo Endo, he transferred once it was revealed that Noir had just exploited him. For this reason, he has become an empathic role model for Ai Haibara, as seen in [[Hooligan's Labyrinth]] case. Haibara also like to hear [[Yoko]]'s songs due to the fact that Higo also like the songs.<ref>[[Teimuzu River Kite Flying Case|Episode 765-766: Teimuzu River Kite Flying Case]]</ref>
{{clear}}

== Appellations ==
Although most people will call Haibara by her name suffixed with ''-san'' (due to her personality), and some with ''-chan'' (due to her agreement), a lot of the characters have different ways of calling her due to their different relationships. The following is a list of the different appellations for Haibara (and the ones Haibara gives in return) encountered in the series.

<tabs jsId="nicknames">
<tab title="Protagonists">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Haibara !! style="width:450px;"|What Haibara calls them
|-
| [[File:Shinichi Kudo 60px.jpg]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Haibara || Kudo-kun
|-
| [[File:Conan Edogawa 60px.jpg]] || [[Conan Edogawa]] || Haibara Haibara-san (once) The evil-eyed yawny girl (once)<ref>[[A Dangerous Party of Two|Episode 557: A Dangerous Party of Two]]</ref> || Edogawa-kun (around others) Kudo-kun (in private) Great Detective-san (Meitantei-san) (once)<ref>[[The Private Eyes' Requiem|Movie 10:The Private Eyes' Requiem]]</ref> Conan (once)<ref>[[Movie 6]]</ref> Sherlock Holmes of the modern world<ref>[[The Shinto Shrine Torii's Surprising Code|Episode 411: The Shinto Shrine Torii's Surprising Code (Part I)]]</ref> A pervert little brat<ref>[[Movie 16]]</ref> Death magnet Corpse magnet
|-
| [[File:Ran Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Ran Mouri]] || Ai-chan || Mouri-san The girl at the Detective Agency Ran-san<ref>[[Movie 11]]</ref>
|-
| [[File:Kogoro Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Kogoro Mouri]] || || Kogoro-san
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Detective Boys">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Haibara !! style="width:200px;"|What Haibara calls them
|-
| [[File:Ayumi Yoshida 60px.jpg]] || [[Ayumi Yoshida]] || Haibara-san (formerly) Ai-chan || Yoshida-san (usually) Ayumi-chan (twice)<ref>''Detective Conan'' [[SOS! Messages from Ayumi|episode 140]]</ref><ref>''Detective Conan'' [[A Secret Order From London|OVA 11]]</ref>
|-
| [[File:Genta Kojima 60px.jpg]] || [[Genta Kojima]] || Haibara || Kojima-kun
|-
| [[File:Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya 60px.jpg]] || [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] || Haibara-san || Tsuburaya-kun
|-
| [[File:Ai Haibara 60px.jpg]] || Herself || Haibara The girl of the Black Organisation (to Conan)
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Haibara !! style="width:200px;"|What Haibara calls them
|-
| [[File:Akemi Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Akemi Miyano]] || Shiho || Onee-san
|-
| [[File:Elena Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Elena Miyano]] || Shiho || Okaa-san (Mother)
|-
| [[File:Atsushi Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Atsushi Miyano]] || ??? || Otou-san (Father)
|-
| [[File:Yukiko Kudo 60px.jpg]] || [[Yukiko Kudo]] || Haibara-san Ai-chan<ref>Chapter 824</ref> || ???
|-
| [[File:Hiroshi Agasa 60px.jpg]] || [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] || Ai-kun || Professor (Hakase)
|-
| [[File:Heiji Hattori 60px.jpg]] || [[Heiji Hattori]] || That little girl (in Japanese "nee-chan" = "older sister") || Osaka friend
|-
| [[File:Kazuha Toyama 60px.jpg]] || [[Kazuha Toyama]] || Ai-chan || ???
|-
| [[File:Subaru Okiya 60px.jpg]] || [[Subaru Okiya]] || Princess<ref>[[Episode 684]]</ref> || Subaru-san<ref>Chapter 801</ref>
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Black Organization">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Haibara !! style="width:200px;"|What Haibara calls them
|-
| [[File:Gin 60px.jpg]] || [[Gin]] || Sherry || Gin
|-
| [[File:Vodka 60px.jpg]] || [[Vodka]] || ??? || Vodka
|-
| [[File:Vermouth 60px.jpg]] || [[Vermouth]] || Sherry That girl Special Lady<ref>Chapter 823</ref> || Vermouth
|-
| [[File:Pisco 60px.jpg]] || [[Pisco]] || Shiho-chan || Pisco
|-
| [[File:Tooru Amuro 60px.jpg]] || [[Tooru Amuro]] || Hell's Angel's daughter || ???
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Haibara !! style="width:200px;"|What Haibara calls them
|-
| [[File:Juzo Megure 60px.jpg]] || [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] || ??? || Inspector Megure (Megure-keibu)
|-
| [[File:Wataru Takagi 60px.jpg]] || [[Wataru Takagi]] || Ai-chan || Takagi-keiji
|-
| [[File:Jodie Starling 60px.jpg]] || [[Jodie Starling]] || "Little red hiding hood" Brown haired girl Sherry || Jodie-sensei
|-
| [[File:Shuichi Akai 60px.jpg]] || [[Shuichi Akai]] || That brown haired girl || Moroboshi Dai That Akai person<ref>''Detective Conan'' [[Clash of Red and Black|episode 501]]</ref>
|-
| [[File:Kaitou Kid 60px.jpg]] || [[Kaitou Kid]] || Young lady || Kid (in her thoughts) Mr. Magician in the Moonlight (once)
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

== Plot overview ==
=== [[Episode 129|Introduction of Ai Haibara]] ===
[[File:129-1.png|thumb|left|First Haibara's "evil" appearance]]

Conan's class receives a new student named Ai Haibara. She acts rather cold and reserved when the Detective Boys try to befriend her, and Genta notices she's looking at Conan suspiciously. She tells them where she lives but Conan fails to realize it's at Agasa's home (Tokyo blocks are not numbered in sequential order and Conan has never had reason to learn Agasa's mailing address due to their being neighbors).

After school, a boy named Toshiya asks the Detective Boys to find his missing brother. The Detective Boys along with Haibara investigate Toshiya's house and finds a painting of [[Wikipedia:Natsume Sōseki|Natsume Sōseki]]. Toshiya reveals that before his brother disappeared, a woman, who had an interest in that portrait, approached Toshiya's brother. The Detective Boys search around town to ask whether anyone has seen the woman or Toshiya's brother. Conan notices that a man was using a counterfeit ¥1000 and realizes Toshiya's brother was actually kidnapped and forced to help create counterfeit bills. After following the man along with the clues Toshiya's brother left behind, they are able to apprehend the organized crime group and save Toshiya's brother.

[[image:Ai cries.png|thumb|Haibara cries on Conan after asking him why hadn't he helped her sister.]]
On the way home, Haibara reveals to Conan that she is a former member of the Black Organization, with the code name "Sherry". She actually betrayed the group and escaped with the use of the APTX 4869, which caused her to become a child. She reveals that she once accidentally sent a floppy disk containing data on the Black Organization to her older sister, and the disc is now in the possession of her sister's professor, Masami Hirota.

Agasa takes Conan and Haibara there to retrieve the disk, only to discover that Hirota has been murdered. The suspects are Hirota's three students who visited that day. Conan reveals the culprit to be a man named Akira Shirakura; Shirakura after bludgeoning Hirota to death and tied the answering machine cassette tape around the key to the room which rewound when a call was made, subsequently dragging the key into the room. As evidence, Conan reveals that Shirakura's fingerprints should be found on the tape. After seeing Conan's amazing display of logic after she had given up on the case herself, Haibara breaks down and asks Conan why he could not save her sister, Akemi, from the Black Organization. Conan finally makes the connection that the "Masami Hirota" who Gin killed was actually Shiho's sister, and sympathy for Haibara's attitude stirs in him. The disc is taken into police custody, but once it is released to them Haibara attempts to read the files off the disk—only to have [[Night Baron|a virus]] delete all the data.

=== [[Reunion with the Black Organization]] ===
[[image:Sherry-getting-shot.png|thumb|left|150px|Shiho shot by Gin.]]
In Episode 176-178, Conan encounters Gin and Vodka again. Haibara is kidnapped and confined to a wine cellar by the Black Organization member [[Pisco]], but she escapes before Gin and Vodka arrive by drinking [[baijiu]] to turn back into an adult. Gin anticipates her actions and intercepts her on the roof. Gin shoots her repeatedly, hoping he can force her to explain how she escaped from the Organization. Conan prevents Gin from killing her by shooting the man with his [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch|tranquilizer wristwatch]]. Conan tells Haibara to jump into the chimmey, and Vodka shoots at him, but Conan gets away. Gin purposely shoots himself in the arm to stay awake. Inside, Pisco almost kills Haibara, but Conan rescues her after tricking Pisco into accidentally causing a fire. Gin kills Pisco for failure before Pisco's able to tell him the truth that Shiho Miyano has deaged into a young girl. Worried that the Organization is after her, Haibara decides to leave the city. Conan anticipates that Gin will predict her next move as leaving Tokyo, so it will be better if she does the unexpected and remains in Beika. Unknown to Conan or Haibara, [[Vermouth]] saw Haibara at the party and uses her expert disguise skills to get closer to Haibara and Conan in order to confirm Haibara's identity as Sherry and then kill her.

=== [[The Desperate Revival]] ===
[[File:Flower gun.png|thumb|Haibara's about to shoot Conan.]]

Conan finds out that Ran suspects him of being Shinichi, because Ran said she knew Conan's blood type for a blood transfusion. While Conan is in the hospital contemplating admitting his identity to her, Haibara enters and points a gun at his head, saying that the Black Organization has found out about her due to an unknown agent being present at the Pisco incident. Because of this, Professor Agasa is held hostage and, in exchange for his life and a chance to return to the Black Organization, Haibara is required to terminate all the links she had in her child identity. However, when she pulls the trigger a bunch of flowers come out, showing that the story was just an act. Still, she uses this story as her point: both Haibara and Conan cannot reveal their identities no matter the situation, in order to prevent such a tragedy from occurring.

During that night, Haibara explains her plan to disassociate Conan from Shinichi in Ran's eyes. She has Conan take a [[prototype antidote]] for APTX 4869 and then disguises herself as Conan. For the rest of the arc, Conan returns as Shinichi while Haibara is present as Conan, thus creating the illusion of Shinichi and Conan existing at the same time, disproving that the two are the same person.

At the end of the Desperate Revival arc, the antidote begins to run out and Shinichi runs into the bathroom, where Haibara is still disguised as Conan already waiting for him. She predicted that Shinichi would run into the men´s bathroom after the symptoms of the back transformation would start to appear. She then switches Shinichi into Conan's clothes after the antidote runs out.

===[[The Mysterious Passenger]]===
[[File:Vermouth episode 230.png|thumb|left|Haibara in pinch]]

Vermouth, disguised as [[Tomoaki Araide]], boards a bus that Haibara, Agasa, and the Detective Boys are riding to a ski resort. Whatever plan Vermouth might have had is completely interrupted by the bus being hijacked by random criminals and the presence of two FBI agents that have been tracking her: [[Jodie Starling]] and [[Shuichi Akai]]. Haibara detects Vermouth's presence on the bus. She becomes so afraid that the Detective Boys, Conan, and Agasa will be killed because of her that she decides to commit suicide, staying deliberately in the bus whose explosion was imminent. Only Conan's quick thinking saves her, and he asks her to not run away from life. However, those events make her remain anxious for several days.

Due to almost similar appearance between Jodie and Vermouth in this case, most viewers tend to make conclusion that Jodie and Vermouth are the same person. This is because when Vermouth dialog is played, it shows Jodie after that.

{{clear}}
=== [[Episode 345|Showdown with Vermouth]] ===
[[File:345-1.png|thumb|right|Ran covering Haibara from getting shot]]

Vermouth finally launches her plan to kill Shiho. She prepares a distraction to lure Conan away so that Haibara is alone at Agasa's. Taking advantage of the fact that Haibara has practically become ill from fear, she calls as Dr. Araide to tell Haibara she is taking her to the hospital because she has been unwell for so long. The eavesdropping FBI agent [[Jodie Starling]] arrives first to protect Haibara and starts driving her towards the shipping yard where the FBI have laid a trap for Vermouth.

In a complicated turn of events, Vermouth reveals she already thwarted Jodie's trap, and then shoots her. Haibara then reveals herself to be Conan; Yukiko had helped with his disguise while Conan sent [[Heiji Hattori]] to participate in Vermouth's distraction. The real Haibara then shows up which distracts Conan long enough for Vermouth to dart him with his own stun-gun watch. Just as Haibara is about to be killed, Ran, who had suspected Jodie of being untrustworthy and decided to spy on her, jumps from Jodie's car trunk and protects Haibara. Vermouth is unwilling to kill either Conan or Ran because they had saved her life in the past. Part of the reason why she originally did not tell the rest of the Black Organization about Haibara's true identity is likely because they would find out about Conan too and then silence him and everyone around him as well.

Before Vermouth can come up with another plan, the other FBI agent, [[Shuichi Akai]] arrives and forces Vermouth to flee with Conan as a hostage. Vermouth dials [[anokata|the boss]] of the Black Organization to lie to him about why she was injured. Conan overhears the number and threatens to give it to the police for analysis unless Vermouth promises that she will give up on trying to kill Haibara. Vermouth consents and escapes.

=== [[Episode 394|Pandora's box]] ===
In Episode 394, Conan figures out the boss's full number, but Haibara warns him not to call it because it is "[[Wikipedia:Pandora's Box|Pandora's Box]]". Conan then thinks he can get Detective Takagi to figure out who the number belongs to, but then Haibara warns that if he does, Detective Takagi will be killed. This scene is the first time Haibara openly reveals to Conan that she has been hiding important secrets about the Black Organization from him; earlier she [[Black_Organization#APTX_4869_and_Biochemistry|had lied to him]]. The exchange suggests that Haibara is withholding information because she fears Conan will make a rash move.

===[[Episode 509|Subaru Okiya]]===
[[File:Haibara doesn't like Okiya.PNG|thumb|left|Haibara does not like Subaru]]

Not long after Akai's death, Conan hears fresh intel from the [[FBI]] that a new [[Black Organization]] agent called [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] is looking for Shiho, which Conan keeps secret from Haibara. As Conan and Haibara investigate a normal case, Haibara feels that an organization member is around. The organization member which she felt is implied to be one of the innocent suspects, [[Subaru Okiya]]. Conan invites Okiya to live in Kudo's house since Okiya's apartment was burnt to the ground. Okiya appears in other cases later on, including at the Haido mall where the rest of the Black Organization gathered to chase a rumored sighting of a [[Scar Akai|scarred Shuichi Akai]]. Although Okiya is trusted by Conan and Agasa and kind to Haibara, she remains frightened of him. Later, some of his actions lead her to believe he might be someone she knows and she comes to trust him more, even attempting to uncover his identity when she thought he was asleep.

{{clear}}
===[[Episode 699|Shadow Approaching Haibara's Secret]]===
[[File:Shiho_700.png|thumb|Haibara turns into Shiho via the [[Prototype antidote|prototype antidote]] for the first time]]

Later, when Haibara is forced to revert to Shiho using a [[temporary antidote]], a video of her as an adult is sent to the Mouri Detective Agency by Mitsuhiko which Sera, Okiya, and Amuro find out about. Because of this, Haibara is later targeted by a plot concocted by Vermouth and Bourbon aboard the Bell Tree Express Train. Bourbon is revealed to be Amuro and Haibara learns that he knew her parents. Bourbon was hoping to capture Shiho alive, but Vermouth's modifications to his plan which were designed to kill her led to Shiho supposedly being blown up on the train. The Shiho Vermouth and Bourbon thought was killed was really [[Kaitou Kid]] in disguise, Conan having forced him into the plan. Because of this, all of the Black Organization besides Vermouth think Shiho is now dead, and Vermouth is unable to reveal the truth to the rest of them without also compromising Conan, Haibara and their deaged condition against her wishes.
{{clear}}

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family & Friends ===
====Conan Edogawa====
[[File:Shiranpuri derp.png|thumb|left|Haibara's reaction after hearing Conan's ''[[Clash_of_Red_and_Black#Ready_to_Die_.28Manga:_605-608.2C_Anime:_503.29|Shiranpuri]]'' plan]]
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ai Haibara}}

Both are de-aged by APTX and have almost equal levels of intelligence, which makes Haibara and [[Conan]] close confidants and more sympathetic to one other than most other characters. Conan is one of the few people in front of whom she has shown any signs of weakness, such as breaking down over her sister's death. Ai Haibara has romantic feelings for [[Conan]]/[[Shinichi]], although she never truly admits to it (due to her assumption of Conan loving Ran). Haibara expresses a lot of interest in Conan's personality, intelligence, and sense of justice. If Conan is in danger she is willing to throw away her life to save him, overriding fears and concerns for her own safety that would ordinarily paralyze her. Similarly, Conan has saved Haibara's life more than once when she would have sacrificed herself for his and the [[Detective Boys]]' safety. Haibara also often enjoys teasing Conan which Conan takes in good stride. Conan is oblivious of Haibara's feelings and sometimes finds it difficult to deal with her sarcasm and impudent, cold nature. Although close on many matters, they still don't fully trust one another with information about the Black Organization out of concern for the safety and feelings of the other.

==== Hiroshi Agasa ====
[[File:772-1.png|thumb|Haibara is typing a mail to Professor Agasa angrily for cheating his diet]]
{{main|Agasa family}}

The relationship between Haibara and [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] is rather unusual, if not humorous. Despite their actual ages, Haibara often acts more like a mother to the professor, constantly reminding him to watch what he eats. On several occassions, she has removed fattening foods from his reach<ref name=Depths>[[Strategy Above the Depths|Movie 9: Strategy Above the Depths]]</ref>, and is attempting to help get him into better shape. There have also been instances where she'll automatically step in front of Agasa in cases of danger.<ref name=Eyes>[[Captured in Her Eyes|Movie 4: Captured in Her Eyes]]</ref> Out of all the people she's met, Haibara seems most comfortable about acting herself with Professor Agasa; which might be attributed to the fact that he was the one who found her after she escaped the Black Organization, and took her in.
{{clear}}

==== Ran Mouri ====
[[File:247-1.png|thumb|left|Haibara's first greeting with Ran]]

There are instances where Haibara will caution Conan from actions that involve [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], though it's assumed this is due merely to the fact that she wants to keep her identity hidden. Early on, she is cold and distant towards Ran, even more so than she is to most other people. Ran believes that it is because Haibara hated her,<ref name=Net>[[The Mystery in the Net|Episode 246-247: The Mystery in the Net]]</ref> though in truth it is because Ran reminds Haibara strongly of her dead sister.

After Ran notices Haibara is not feeling well and carries her to safety during a case, Haibara finally properly introduces herself to Ran, and they slowly became friends. Because Haibara finds that Ran resembles her older sister, Akemi Miyano, she takes special interest in protecting her. These feelings increase after Ran jumps through a slew of bullets from [[Calvados|a Black Organization sniper]] to save Haibara.<ref name=Vermouth>[[Head-to-Head Match With the Black Organization; Two Mysteries of the Night of the Full Moon|Episode 345: Head-to-Head Match With the Black Organization; Two Mysteries of the Night of the Full Moon]]</ref> Haibara immediately thinks of her own sister, and begins acting to try to protect Ran from the organization, such as when Haibara begs for Ran to stay at Agasa's house when she knows that [[Korn]], [[Chianti]], and the rest of the Black Organization are lurking about, immediately thinking of her own sister's death, and wanting to keep Ran safe.<ref name=KornChianti>[[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out!|Episode 425: Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out!]]</ref>

Assuming that Conan has romantic feelings for Ran, Haibara feels jealous of her and suffer from considering herself as less attractive than Ran. She even implies that Ran would be similar to a dolphin, when she would only be a shark coming from the cold depths of the sea, indicating that she cannot compete against her<ref>[[The Mystery in the Net|Episode 246-247: The Mystery in the Net]]</ref>.

====Subaru Okiya====
[[File:685-2.png|thumb|Haibara uncovering Subaru's scrarf]]

The first time [[Subaru]] appears, Haibara felt a strange feeling toward him and thought he is a member of the Black Organization. However, the feeling kept coming and going. In later episodes, Haibara doesn't seem to hate him so much anymore. She even tries to uncover Subaru's scarf to check something behind his neck, probably noticing some small machines made by Professor Agasa.

====Dai Moroboshi====
[[File:701_8.png|thumb|left|Dai Moroboshi in Haibara's thought]]

Haibara knows [[Dai Moroboshi]] as her sister's boyfriend. She deduces that Dai approaches her sister just to collect information about the Black Organization. Later on, she meets a [[Scar Akai|guy]] similar to him in [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train]] and wonders how he got the scar on his face.
{{clear}}

=== Detective Boys ===
Haibara has tried to keep an emotional distance away from the rest of the Detective Boys at the beginning. However, over time, she can't resist their friendliness anymore and gradually warms up to them.

==== Ayumi Yoshida ====
[[File:330-1.png|thumb|left|Ayumi is happy for being allowed to call Haibara by her name (Ai)]]
{{Main|Ayumi Yoshida}}

Out of the Detective Boys, Haibara is the closest with [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]]. At one time, Ayumi noticed that she called everyone by their first names except for Haibara and decided to try and call her "Ai-chan", but without success. At the end of a case which involved a shattered friendship, Haibara told Ayumi that it was okay for her to call her "Ai-chan". When Mitsuhiko and Genta tried to call her that, however, she told them that only Ayumi was allowed to call her by her first name.<ref name=Ai-chan>[[A Friendship That Can't Be Bought|Episode 329-330: A Friendship That Can't Be Bought]]</ref> On the whole, Haibara seems to see Ayumi as a little sister, even going so far as to physically shield her from danger.<ref name=starsandtobacco>[[A Code of Stars and Tobacco|Episode 375: A Code of Stars and Tobacco (Part 2)]]</ref> Besides, Ayumi is one of the people who teach her that she cannot win by always running away, and that she has to face her enemies<ref>[[Episode 347|Episode 347: Find the Buttock's Mark]]</ref>.
However, Haibara and Ayumi may almost be love rivals, since both seem to develop romantic feelings for Conan: Ayumi even asks her if she is in love with him, and is really frightened when she is answered positively (she eventually cheers up when Haibara says she is not).<ref>[[The Old Blue Castle Investigation Case|Episode 205: The Old Blue Castle Investigation Case]]</ref>
{{clear}}

==== Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya ====
[[Image:279haibaramitsuhiko.png|thumb|right|220|Haibara listening in on Mitsuhiko's radio.]]
{{main|Ai Haibara and Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
Haibara's classmate and fellow detective [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] develops romantic feelings for her, and Haibara is fully aware of this. Haibara uses Mitsuhiko's feelings to her advantage when she needs him to do something, but she also does admire his intelligence and courage during missions the Detective Boys must perform and respects his feelings. In some episodes she even shows more confidence in Mitsuhiko than in Ayumi or Genta when the going gets tough.

=== Black Organization ===
==== Gin ====
{{main|Gin and Sherry}}
[[Gin]] has an abnormal attachment for Shiho and seems to enjoy hunting her, while she hates and fears him. They had some sort of relationship in the past,<ref>[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/page__st__60__p__287218#entry287218 青山剛昌先生と話そうDAY (Let's talk with Aoyama Gosho-sensei day), held January 3, 2013]</ref> possibly romantic.<ref name=CD239>Conan drill page 239</ref>

==== Vodka ====
Shiho and [[Vodka]] have met and are acquaintances.<ref name=CD239/>

==== Vermouth ====
[[Vermouth]] and Shiho have some connection, although it has not been elaborated on. Shiho fears Vermouth more than other Black Organization members except perhaps Gin: in the first times, the feeling of her presence can even entirely paralyse her<ref>[[The Mysterious Passenger|Episode 231: The Mysterious Passenger]]</ref>. Shiho was initially Vermouth's target, but Vermouth promised to give up on her after Conan's intervention.<ref name=CD239/> She broke this promise later when Bourbon discovered a video of Sherry, still clinging to her personal conviction that Shiho is the one person who can't be allowed to exist in the world.<ref>Manga File 818</ref>

==== Tooru Amuro ====
[[Tooru Amuro|Amuro]] knew Haibara's parents and sister, but they didn't know each other.

== People who know Haibara's real identity ==
{{main|List of characters who know Ai Haibara's identity}}
These people know Haibara's true identity: Professor Agasa, Conan, Vermouth, Pisco, Heiji Hattori, Yukiko Kudo, Yusaku Kudo, and Shuichi Akai. It is also possible that James Black and Jodie Starling of the FBI know Haibara's true identity since they call Haibara by her codename "Sherry", although they may not know yet her true name.

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Haibara placed 4th in the poll with 686 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 15th movie, ''[[Quarter of Silence]]'', the official Conan movie website held a popularity poll for the top 10 Detective Conan characters. Haibara placed 4th out of 10. (First place of all female characters)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conan-movie.jp/camp_chara/camp15th_res.html|title=名探偵コナン「キャラクター人気投票」|date=2011|publisher=www.conan-movie.jp|accessdate=2011-08-12}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Haibara placed 3rd overall with 1,592 votes. (First place of all female characters)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

== Name origin ==
According to Agasa, Ai Haibara's name comes from [[wikipedia:Cordelia Gray|Cordelia '''Gray''']] (the character 灰 in her name means "ash") and [[wikipedia:V.I. Warshawski|V.'''I'''. Warshawski]] ("Ai" comes from the letter "I"). Although Agasa suggested she use the kanji 愛 (love) for "Ai", she preferred to use the kanji 哀 (sorrow).<ref>[[Volume 18#File 179 - The Girl Made of Lies|Volume 18, File 179: "The Girl Made of Lies"]]</ref> Her US FUNimation name, "Vi Graythorn", has similar roots. However, Gosho Aoyama in an interview posted in the May 2014 issue of Da Vinci magazine stated that the "Ai" in Ai Haibara comes from '''I'''rene Adler, a character from the Sherlock Holmes story "A Scandal in Bohemia".<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Da Vinci|month=May|year=2014|publisher=Kadokawa Shoten}}</ref>

Her US Viz name, Anita Hailey, comes from:
* Anita: Anne Katherine Green (the first American Mystery Writer)
* Hailey: Hero (though Anita didn't care much for the choice)<ref>Case Closed Volume 18: File 179 - The False Girl</ref>

Her codename '''Sherry''' is Detective Shunsaku Kudo's (from [[wikipedia:ja:探偵物語|Tantei Monogatari (Detective Tales)]]) favorite liquor.

== Different looks ==

<gallery>
File:Ai_Before.jpg|Haibara's "1999" Appearance (Episode 129)
File:Ai Middle.JPG|Haibara's "2007" Appearance (Episode 477)
File:Ai_After.jpg|Haibara's "2011" Appearance (Episode 631)
File:haibara 2015.png|Haibara's "2015" Appearance (Episode 779)
File:haibara ai magic kaito 1412.png|Haibara's Appearance in Magic Kaito 1412 (Episode 21)
</gallery>

== Quotes ==

=== General ===
{{cquote|You can't complain about time going by... If anyone tries to change it... Life will punish them.|[[Volume 20|File 191, Page 11: "The Eyes From Far Away"]]}}
{{cquote|Creation reflects the inner state of the creator.|[[Volume 33|File 335: "Memento of a Wife"]]}}
{{cquote|Don't judge people from the outside. Like any rose has thorns, the more person appears nice on the outside, the more you should doubt the inside.|[[Volume 45|File 461: "Poison on the Bait!?"]]}}

=== Specific ===
{{cquote|Using too much of your brain can make you bald like Professor Agasa! |[[Volume 23|File 222, Page 7: "The Last Movie"]]}}
{{cquote|Even this loyal mirror won't reflect your true form.|Talking to Conan|[[Volume 23|File 223, Page 14: "The True in the Mirror"]]}}
{{cquote|You'll protect me, right?|Talking to Conan|[[Volume 34|File 346: "The Fake Supporter"]]}}
{{cquote|I will pass!|When the Detective Boys want to play detectives or treasure hunters}}
{{cquote|If I... If I... I wish I could lose my memory if possible. I wouldn't remember my sister's death, or being forced to make poison for the Organization. If I could forget everything and just become a regular elementary school student Haibara Ai, I wonder how good it'll be... And, I could be with you forever, forever just like this...|[[Movie 4|Movie 4: "Captured in Her Eyes"]]|Said to Conan in response to Ran losing her memory, she then played it off as a joke}}

===Quotes about Ai===
{{cquote|She's not as tough as she looks.|Conan talking to Agasa|[[Volume 34|File 341: "The Hint That Was Against"]]}}

== Trivia ==
*Sherry is a fortified wine from white grapes that are grown near the town of Jerez, Spain. Most sherries are initially dry, with sweetness added later. This could be a play on her personality that the Black Organization recognized. To further confirm the pun, in the Spanish dub of the anime, her codename in the organization is "Jerez" rather than "Sherry" (in Spanish language, both the town and the wine share the name), although she was renamed later to "Sherry" again.
* Haibara is an animal lover.
* Haibara strongly dislikes getting shocked by static electricity. She used to have some accessories to dissipate the charge, but she seems to have given up on them after Conan taught her a good strategy to avoid being shocked.<ref>Manga [[Volume 61]], Files 5-7 (635-637), Anime [[Episode 525]]</ref>
* Haibara reveals to [[Fujiko Mine]] that she used to ride a Harley before she shrank.<ref>[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref>
* The first appearance of Haibara has her hair colored as brown but later on changed to reddish brown. However, it's changed to brown again.

==In other languages==
===Ai Haibara===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|哀Ai|灰原Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Anita/Vi|Hailey/Graythorn}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic| اي Ai |هيبارا Hibara }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|장미 Jang Mee|홍 Hong}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|哀 Aī|灰原 Huīyuán}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|哀 Aī|灰原 Huīyuán}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ไอ Ai|ไฮบาระ Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Ай|Хайбара}}
{{EndTable}}

===Shiho Miyano===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|志保Shiho |宮野Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|شيهو|ميانو}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|시호 Shi Ho|안 Ahn}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|志保 Zhìbǎo|宫野 Gōngyě}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|志保 Zhìbǎo|宮野 Gōngyě}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ชิโฮ|มิยาโนะ}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Сихо|Мияно}}
{{EndTable}}

===Sherry===
{{BeginTable OtherLang|notes=1}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|シェリー Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=US|English|Sherry|Once called Shelly, due to translating errors}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Sherry| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Sherry|Once "Jerez".<ref> Note: "Jerez" means "Sherry".</ref>}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Sherry| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Sherry| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|雪莉 Xuě lì| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|雪莉 Xuě lì| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|Sherry|شيري}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เชอรี่| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Sherry| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Шерри| }}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Miyano family]]
* [[Agasa family]]
* [[APTX4869]]
* [[Antidote (Prototype)]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Sherry's soliloquy]]

== References ==
<references />
{{Characters}}
{{Detective Boys}}
{{Black Organization}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Haibara Ai}}
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Female characters]]
[[Category:Black Organization]]
[[Category:Elementary school students]]
[[Category:Detective Boys]]
[[Category:Characters who know Conan's identity]]

[[de:Ai Haibara]]

Vermouth

2015-07-15T22:15:39Z

Bunchu Thong-In: /* Chris Vineyard */

{{SpoilerWarningArticle|This article contains significant '''[[Glossary#Spoiler|spoilers]]''' about major events concerning this person. It is likely you will be spoiled if you have not read all the manga released to date. To find out what pages will be safe for you to read, please consult our [[Glossary#Spoiler|wiki spoiler policy]].}}

{{InfoBox Char
| name = Vermouth
| japanese-name = ベルモット (Berumotto)
| english-name = Vermouth
| image = Vermouth Profile.jpg
| age = Her true age is unknown (29) Chris Vineyard<ref>[[Volume 24#File 239 - The Black Burial Ranks|Volume 24, File 239: "The Black Burial Ranks"]]</ref> (?) Sharon Vineyard
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives =
| occupation = Black Organization member
| nicknames = Rotten Apple ([[FBI]])
| aliases = Chris Vineyard Sharon Vineyard
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_24#Hotel_Party_Murder_Case|File 239]] Anime: [[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 176]]
| appearances = {{:Vermouth Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 26]] (Chris Vineyard) [[Volume 35]] (Sharon Vineyard)
| japanese-voice = [[Mami Koyama]]
| english-voice =
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Vermouth|ベルモット|Berumotto}}''', also known as '''{{nihongo|Sharon Vineyard|シャロン・ヴィンヤード|Sharon Vinyādo}}''' and '''{{nihongo|Chris Vineyard|クリス・ヴィンヤード|Kurisu Vinyādo}}''', is an actress and member of the [[Black Organization]] in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
Vermouth's background is very mysterious because she has been secretly living at least two lives through the art of disguise: that of actress Sharon Vineyard (now "deceased") and her supposed daughter, Chris Vineyard.

As the actress Sharon Vineyard, Vermouth gained much fame on Broadway and in movies, even winning an Oscar. Even then, she was a member of the Black Organization. Twenty years ago, she murdered [[Jodie Starling]]'s [[FBI]] father who had collected information on her. Jodie Starling would eventually grow up to be an FBI agent and one of Vermouth's most bitter enemies. As Sharon, Vermouth became close friends with [[Yukiko Kudo]] back when they were studying disguise under [[Toichi Kuroba]].

At some point Sharon began to pretend to have a daughter named Chris. While Sharon was still alive, Chris kept out of the public eye except for acting in movies and giving interviews. Less than one year ago, Vermouth staged Sharon Vineyard's death, which allowed Chris to come out publicly. Currently, Vermouth serves the Black Organization with the public name Chris Vineyard.

Vermouth is [[The Boss of the Black Organization|the boss]]’s favorite which grants her some independence. Vermouth also has some particular connection to the boss that she does not want known by the greater organization, which [[Bourbon]] is blackmailing her with.<ref>Manga Volume 85, File 898: "Scarlet Epilogue"</ref> She also appears not to age or have de-aged over a period of twenty years between when she killed Jodie's parents and her current appearance. She doesn’t seem to like [[APTX 4869|the research]] that [[Shiho Miyano]] and [[Atsushi Miyano|her]] [[Elena Miyano|parents]] engaged in, calling it “foolish". <ref>[[Volume 42#File 434 - Rotten Apple|Volume 42, File 434: "Rotten Apple"]]</ref>

Vermouth entered the storyline some time after [[Ai Haibara|Shiho Miyano/Sherry/Ai Haibara]]'s mysterious flight from the Organization. Her main objective was to track down and eliminate the 'traitor', and for that purpose she assumed the identity of doctor [[Tomoaki Araide]]. But although she managed to discover Shiho's reversion into a child, she did not succeed in killing her, as she met [[Conan Edogawa]], who was able to discover and thwart her plans. She also encountered the FBI during this process.

Vermouth has great personal interest in Conan, constantly calling him "[[Silver Bullet]]". Since it has been revealed that she knows about Ai and Kudo's reversion to their child forms, she seems to know the shrinking effect the drug can have, but for reasons yet unrevealed she keeps this knowledge secret from the rest of the Organization.

== Personality ==
Although she follows orders from [[Anokata|the boss]] and [[Gin]] when he is charge of missions, Vermouth often acts according to her own agenda and whims, even when it runs contrary to the [[Black Organization]]'s best interests. She is secretive and manipulative, even towards other Organization members. Vermouth is confident in her abilities, is very bold, and an expert at manipulating situations to her advantage: traits which allow her to single-handedly weave complex plots and take the upper hand even while she is being monitored by enemies. She is intelligent and insightful, correctly suspecting the allegiance of Kir, but she was successfully outwitted by [[Conan]] and forced by [[Shuichi Akai]] to retreat.

[[File:Vermouth provoking Gin.png|thumb|left|Vermouth teases Gin and Vodka by disguising as a waiter.]]
Vermouth's personality is contradictory at times. On one hand, she is a cruel and ruthless agent who will blackmail an unwilling man to commit murder by threatening him and his family just to provide a distraction and happily tell [[Jodie Starling|an FBI agent]] she should smile because she will see her dead father again in heaven. On the other hand, she risks her life several times to protect Conan, [[Ran]], and [[Kogoro]], and her friendly behavior while in disguise as Tomoaki Araide left the real Araide wondering if Vermouth is really a bad person. This inconsistency may reflect an underlying conflict of conscience after [[Shinichi]] and Ran saved her life during the events of the [[Vermouth_timeline#Golden_Apple_Case_.28Manga:_350-354_Anime:_286-288.29|Golden Apple case]]. Vermouth also appears to be an atheist at first as she claims to not believe in god nor angels until Ran unknowingly rescued her which seems to have given her back some faith.

At this point, Vermouth's motives are very mysterious. She knows about Conan being Shinichi, as well as that Haibara is Sherry, yet she has kept this information a secret from the rest of the Organization. She dislikes the Miyano family's research. She also retains personal feelings for persons who have earned a special place in her heart, such as Shinichi/Conan (as the son of [[Yukiko Kudo|her best friend]]) and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]].<ref name="e288">[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case|Episode 288: Shinichi Kudo's New York Case, Part 3]].</ref> As a result, she is highly unwilling to do them any harm even when she is ordered to do so.

She enjoys teasing others, seen when she disguised as a male waiter and served Gin and Vodka martinis and taunted Chianti by wishing her good luck and blowing her a kiss.<ref>[[Volume 49#File 501 - Follow the Target!|Volume 49, File 501, page 7: "Follow the Target!"]]</ref>
{{clearleft}}

==Abilities==
===Disguise===
[[File:Vermouth_taking_off_Araide's_mask.png|thumb|right|Vermouth removes a latex mask.]]
Vermouth is able to mimic anyone's appearance and voice exactly with her disguise and acting skills even after observing them for only a short period of time. Vermouth frequently utilizes latex masks. Her disguising ability has been noted by Conan to be on par with the current Kaito Kid (Kaito Kuroba).<ref>[[Volume 44|Volume 44, File 457, Page 7]]</ref> Although she may have known how to disguise prior to meeting [[Toichi Kuroba]], she studied disguise under him. Her disguise ability was first shown in [[The Mysterious Passenger]]<ref>[[Volume 29#File 287 - The Unseen Horror|Volume 29, File 287: "The Unseen Horror"]], [[The Mysterious Passenger|Episode 230: The Mysterious Passenger]]</ref> where she dressed as a male waiter to tease [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]]. [[Jodie Starling]] once referred to Vermouth's disguise abilities as a frightening type of perfection.<ref>[[Episode 362]]</ref>

===Reconnaissance===
Vermouth specializes in reconnaissance and infiltration, and has been shown to work very swiftly yet cautiously to rapidly acquire information. Her confidence and skill in disguise and imitation means she can execute bold plans that put her in very close contact with her targets and she can advance her plot even when they are suspicious of her. Without the aid of the other organization members, Vermouth successfully snuck into the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police|Tokyo Metropolitan Police headquarters]] in order to steal the records of [[Kogoro Mouri]]'s cases. She later returned them when presumably the surveillance would be even higher after the police noticed the files were missing. She then single-handedly staked out the [[FBI]] who were lured out into watching Kogoro Mouri and uncovered their numbers, addresses, and ways to contact them.

===Stamina===
Vermouth is quite strong and has developed a high pain tolerance. While she was disguised as a serial killer in New York City, Vermouth athletically vaults up from a dead hanging positioning over the railing of the stairwell to higher ground despite being shot in the side. She also shoots herself in the leg in order to avoid the effects of sleeping gas, and was able to limp to a phone booth on that shot leg, with several broken ribs caused by Akai, and with a deep scratch on her right shoulder when Jodie shot at her.

===Shooting===
As Vermouth pulled away in Jodie's car with broken ribs after her flak jacket absorbed a close range shotgun blast, she managed to aim a handgun backwards with her left hand using the side mirror while driving a car she wasn't used to and shoot Araide's car's gas tank standing 100 yards away, causing it to explode. Akai is impressed she managed that difficult shot with her battered body. Earlier however, she failed to draw fast enough to shoot Jodie or Akai; in the first case, the gun was shot out of her hand, in the second, Akai fired first.

==Non-aging==
[[File:Vermouth 20 years ago.png|thumb|right|Vermouth's appearance 20 years before the current timeline.]]
For some reason, Vermouth does not appear to age. Her apparent age hasn’t changed since she murdered Jodie’s parents twenty years ago.<ref name="f433">[[Volume 42#File 433 - The Truth Behind the Mask|Volume 42, File 433: "The Truth Behind the Mask"]]</ref> [[Shuichi Akai]] proved that Vermouth was not wearing a mask when his shotgun fire grazed her face. Specifically, it hasn't been clarified if Vermouth hasn't aged over time or if she became younger all at once. It is also important to note that Vermouth's talent for disguise makes it difficult to figure out when Vermouth stopped aging or deaged.

==Appellations==
<tabs jsId="nicknames">
<tab title="Protagonists">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Vermouth !! style="width:200px;"|What Vermouth calls them
|-
| [[File:Conan Edogawa 60px.jpg]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Vermouth || Cool Guy [[Silver Bullet]]
|-
| [[File:Ran Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Ran Mouri]] || Sharon<ref>[[Volume 35|Volume 35, File 353, Page 6]]</ref> || Angel
|-
| [[File:Ai Haibara 60px.jpg]] || [[Ai Haibara]] || Vermouth || Sherry That girl Special Lady<ref name=823p15>823 pg 15</ref>
|-
| [[File:Kogoro Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Kogoro Mouri]] || - || That detective<ref name=827p16>827 pg 16</ref>
|-
| [[File:Ayumi Yoshida 60px.jpg]] || [[Ayumi Yoshida]] || - || The kids (collective)<ref name=824p3>824 pg 3</ref>
|-
| [[File:Genta Kojima 60px.jpg]] || [[Genta Kojima]] || - || The kids (collective)<ref name=824p3/>
|-
| [[File:Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya 60px.jpg]] || [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] || - || The kids (collective)<ref name=824p3/>
|-
</tab>
<tab title="FBI">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Vermouth !! style="width:200px;"|What Vermouth calls them
|-
| [[File:Jodie Starling 60px.jpg]] || [[Jodie Starling]] || Vermouth || This woman Jodie
|-
| [[File:Shuichi Akai 60px.jpg]] || [[Shuichi Akai]] ||Vermouth Rotten Apple || Shuichi Akai [[Silver Bullet]]
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Black Organization">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Vermouth !! style="width:200px;"|What Vermouth calls them
|-
| [[File:Anokata 60px.jpg]] || [[Anokata]] || Vermouth || Boss
|-
| [[File:Gin 60px.jpg]] || [[Gin]] || Vermouth That woman || Gin
|-
| [[File:Shiho Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Shiho Miyano]] || Vermouth || Sherry That girl Special Lady<ref name=823p15>823 pg 15</ref>
|-
| [[File:Tooru Amuro 60px.jpg]] || [[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]] || Vermouth || Bourbon
|-
| [[File:Vodka 60px.jpg]] || [[Vodka]] || Vermouth || Vodka
|-
| [[File:Calvados 60px.jpg]] || [[Calvados]] || ??? || Calvados
|-
| [[File:Chianti 60px.jpg]] || [[Chianti]] || That woman || Chianti
|-
| [[File:Korn 60px.jpg]] || [[Korn]] || Vermouth || ???
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Vermouth !! style="width:200px;"|What Vermouth calls them
|-
| [[File:Yukiko Kudo 60px.jpg]] || [[Yukiko Kudo]] || Sharon || Yukiko
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

==Plot overview==
===Manga and Anime Timeline===
{{main|Vermouth timeline}}

===Raven Chaser===
In Movie 13: [[The Raven Chaser]], Vermouth disguises as a brown haired policeman in a dark suit with glasses to check on Irish's progress and the integrity of his disguise during the conference. After texting the boss outside the bathroom, she exits the building and leaves in Gin's Porsche 356A.

She is seen again disguising as a young brown-haired woman when trying to come closer to the believed serial killer but leaves as soon as she realizes he is not. [[Conan]] tracks her down in the underground parking lot and makes her reveal herself. She gives Conan essential information about an organization member named [[Irish]] and wishes him good luck when leaving.
It is later revealed that she was the one who supervised the captured [[Matsumoto]] and provided him with comestibles. When the police finds out about Matsumoto's remains, she informs [[Gin]] about it and leaves.
Finally, she is briefly seen driving along the Highway when Gin's helicopter crashes, complimenting Conan's accomplishments and calling him again a "silver bullet".
{{clear}}
==Plot Exposition==
===Family History===
[[File:Chris_and_Sharon.png|thumb|right|Chris and Sharon Vineyard]]
In order to camouflage the fact that Sharon Vineyard and Chris Vineyard are the same person, Vermouth concocted personal histories for her real life cover roles in order to make them seem like different people. When Sharon and Chris Vineyard were revealed to be one and the same, at least part of the stated Vineyard family history was revealed to be a lie. It is unknown how much of the remainder is truthful, based on the truth, or outright fabrication because the primary source of the information is Vermouth herself who may have more to hide.

Little is known of Sharon Vineyard's mother and father. Sharon's parents were not actors, at least not well known ones, because Agasa called Chris Vineyard a second generation actress.<ref name="f341p8">[[Volume 34#File 341 - The Hint That Was Against|Volume 34, File 341, page 8: "The Hint That Was Against"]]</ref> According to Sharon's story, both her mother and father died in a fire on the day Sharon debuted on screen.<ref name="f351p2">[[Volume 35#File 351 - Golden Apple 2|Volume 35, File 351, page 2: "Golden Apple 2"]]</ref>

So far, Sharon Vineyard's age has not been given and nothing is known about her personal history before she became an actress. Even her fans knew little about her private life even after she became famous.<ref name="f344p9">[[Volume 34#File 344 - The Storm of Booing|Volume 34, File 344, page 9: "The Storm of Booing"]]</ref> Sharon said her road to stardom was very difficult and full of misfortune, prompting her to doubt the existence of God: "No angel has smiled upon me, not even once."<ref name="f350p18">[[Volume 34#File 350 - Golden Apple 1|Volume 34, File 350, page 18: "Golden Apple 1"]]</ref> Sharon became a star actress<ref name="f350p16">[[Volume 34#File 350 - Golden Apple 1|Volume 34, File 350, page 16: "Golden Apple 1"]]</ref> and, according to [[Shuichi Akai]], is best known for her work in the Golden Apple broadway play. [[File:Chris with Veil.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Chris Vineyard coming out into public for the first time - at the funeral of her mother Sharon Vineyard]] At some point, she married and gave birth to her daughter Chris Vineyard. Her husband later died of an unspecified illness the day after Sharon won an Oscar. While studying for an acting role approximately 20 years ago, Sharon learned disguise techniques from [[Toichi Kuroba]] alongside the aspiring young Japanese actress [[Yukiko Kudo]].<ref name="f350p17">[[Volume 34#File 350 - Golden Apple 1|Volume 34, File 350, page 17: "Golden Apple 1"]]</ref><ref>Yukiko started her career while in high-school. Yukiko is 37 currently so the time frame while Yukiko was studying as a beginning actress is approximately 20 years ago when Yukiko was 17 or 18.</ref> During their time together, Yukiko became Sharon's friend, and they have maintained contact with one another. Sharon later sent Yukiko three tickets to Golden Apple broadway production the year before she died. The cause of Sharon's death has not been revealed.

Chris Vineyard meanwhile became a successful actress quickly by riding the coattails of her mother's fame.<ref name="f351p2" /> She began to make movies and give interviews to reporters only, but otherwise she never appeared publicly.<ref name="f344p9" /> The first day she came out into public was the day of her mother's funeral some time less than one year ago.<ref name="f344p9" /> A reporter who tried to question Chris asked where she went to school, whether she got along with her mother, who her father is, and if the rumored lover she has will appear at Sharon's funeral.<ref name="f344p10">[[Volume 34#File 344 - The Storm of Booing|Volume 34, File 344, page 10: "The Storm of Booing"]]</ref> Chris answered none of these, but the types of questions which were asked demonstrate the secrecy surrounding the Vineyard family history.

Sharon Vineyard and Chris apparently didn't get along; Sharon doesn't consider Chris to be her daughter.<ref name="f351p2" /> Sharon explained this by relaying a tale to Yukiko about Chris who disguised as Sharon's husband and then met with Sharon when she visited her husband's grave to lay flowers.<ref name="f351p3">[[Volume 35#File 351 - Golden Apple 2|Volume 35, File 351, page 3: "Golden Apple 2"]]</ref> Sharon did teach Chris the disguise techniques she learned from Toichi after Chris begged for them.<ref name="f351p3" /> One year prior to the current timeline, Sharon says she hasn't seen Chris in ten years and that she is currently hanging out with a "bad crowd" of people.<ref name="f351p3" />{{clear}}

===Hints that Vermouth was Dr. Araide and not Jodie===
[[File:Jodie mirror pictures.PNG|thumb|right|Jodie's copies have uneven borders, highlighted in red, from imperfect camera alignment while photographing Vermouth's images.]]
There were several hints that Vermouth was Dr. Araide and not [[Jodie Saintemillion]] who was also a candidate for being Vermouth before her true identity was revealed.
*The records of [[Kogoro Mouri]]'s cases that Vermouth stole did not contain any cases involving [[Jodie Saintemillion]], but did contain the murder case [[Tomoaki Araide]] was involved in. This was the clue that allowed Conan to deduce Araide was Vermouth.
*Jodie's copies of [[Media:Vermouth dartboard.PNG|the pictures of Ran and Conan on Vermouth's dartboard]] have irregular borders indicating they were photographs of Vermouth's pictures.<ref name="f343p18">[[Volume 34#File 343 - Who Are You?|Volume 34, File 343, page 18: "Who Are You?"]]</ref> This detail was overlooked in the anime. Also, Jodie has a picture of Dr. Araide.
*Araide switches from the basketball to the drama club.<ref name="f270p3">[[Volume 27#File 270 - Game Start|Volume 27, File 270, page 3: "Game Start"]]</ref>
*Haibara skipped school on the day of the yearly health checkups that Dr. Araide gives the elementary school students. Conan wonders if Haibara thinks there is something wrong with Araide.<ref name="f287p3">[[Volume 29#File 287 - The Unseen Horror|Volume 29, File 287, page 9: "The Unseen Horror"]]</ref>
*Vermouth falls out of character. One of her patients says Dr. Araide has been acting like a stranger.<ref name=355p6>Manga [[Volume 35]], File 5 (355), pg 6: "The Haunted House's Mystery 1"</ref> Also, "Dr. Araide" claims to have sent his grandmother and housekeeper Hikaru ahead to Aomori,<ref name=355p5>Manga [[Volume 35]], File 5 (355), pg 5: "The Haunted House's Mystery 1"</ref> which is strange because it was established in the Araide family murder case<ref>[[Volume 24#File 235 - In the Darkness...|Volume 24, Files 235-236: "In the Darkness..."]]</ref> that Araide didn't trust them (especially Hikaru) to take care of themselves.<ref>[[Volume 35#File 355 - Mystery of the Haunted House 1|Volume 35, File 355: "Mystery of the Haunted House 1"]], [[The Truth of the Haunted House|Episode 274: The Truth of the Haunted House]]</ref>

===Jodie's discovery Chris Vineyard, Sharon Vineyard and Vermouth are the same person ===
[[File:Vermouth with little Jodie.png|thumb|right|Seven year old Jodie encounters Vermouth twenty years ago]]
Jodie's father in the FBI was secretly investigating Vermouth twenty years before the current storyline.<ref name="f433" /> That is too young for Chris Vineyard to be in disguise as she is only 29 currently and would be 9 at the time. After Vermouth killed Jodie's father she inadvertently handled Jodie’s father’s glasses barehanded which had fallen off of him and got her fingerprints on them. Unexpectedly, little Jodie came in and saw Vermouth holding the glasses. When Vermouth left after setting the house on fire, she didn't anticipate that Jodie left to get juice, taking her father’s glasses with her and thus preserving her fingerprint. After she discovered Jodie's corpse was not found in the house, Vermouth looked for the girl desperately in order to rectify her mistake, but Jodie had since been put into witness protection.

Jodie suspected Chris Vineyard of being Vermouth when she saw her at Sharon’s funeral. She somehow determined Chris Vineyard’s prints matched those of the glasses. Chris would have been too young to commit a crime 20 years ago, so later Jodie obtained Sharon’s fingerprints and matched those as well. All three matched, proving to Jodie that the three people were one and the same.

===Conan's investigation===
====Conan's discovery Vermouth disguised as Dr. Araide====
[[Conan]] suspects [[Pisco]] had help from another [[Black Organization]] member. He looks into [[Chris Vineyard]] and realizes that she is able to disguise herself and may be pretending to be someone close to him. [[Kogoro Mouri]]’s case records were stolen from the police department. Conan realizes [[Tomoaki Araide]] is Vermouth because Vermouth needed the files to testify at the trial properly while in disguise.

[[File:Vermouth_and_Dr._Araide.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Vermouth as Dr. Araide]]
Conan first suspects there is another Black Organization member who was present at the mourning party after considering how Pisco obtained another purple handkerchief which enabled him to leave the investigation. Conan didn't realize that this Black Organization member might be after him or Haibara until after the bus jack case when [[Haibara]] tells Conan there was definitely someone from the Organization on the bus. Conan's first suspect is [[Shuichi Akai]] whose behavior seemed suspicious.<ref name="f291p11">[[Volume 29#File 291 - A Tiny Trace|Volume 29, File 291, page 11: "A Tiny Trace"]]</ref> After he recognizes Akai in the P & A case<ref name="f326">[[Volume 32#File 326 - P & A|Volume 32, File 326-328: "P & A"]]</ref>, Conan shows sensitivity to the prospect of someone investigating them.<ref name="f332">[[Volume 33#File 332 - Bloody Valentine 2|Volume 33, File 332: "Bloody Valentine 2"]]</ref> Conan doesn't seem to suspect the person Vermouth has replaced, [[Tomoaki Araide|Dr. Araide]], yet because he was willing to use his voice changer in front of him.<ref name="f330">[[Volume 33#File 330 - Sato's Feelings|Volume 33, File 2: "Satou's feelings"]]</ref>

Conan gets his first tangible proof someone is investigating around him when [[Takagi]] informs Conan all the records of [[Kogoro]]'s cases were stolen from the police station on the day of the bus hijack incident and later returned.<ref name="f336p9">[[Volume 33#File 336 - Clean Scent|Volume 33, File 336, pages 9-10: "Clean Scent"]]</ref> He begins to wonder who the target is and suspects Akai may be behind the incident because of the timing. Conan also begins to suspect the English teacher [[Jodie Starling|Jodie Saintemillion]] and Dr. Araide as well because they were also on the bus.<ref name="f343p17">[[Volume 34#File 343 - Who Are You?|Volume 34, File 343, page 17: "Who Are You?"]]</ref> He isn't sure of the motive for taking the records although Conan wonders if someone is trying to lure him out or if the person returned the files because they already knew what Conan would do.<ref name="f336p9">[[Volume 34#File 341 - The Hint That Was Against|Volume 34, File 341: "The Hint That Was Against"]]</ref>

Conan's idea that Pisco had an accomplice among the other suspects has fully solidified. He has noticed one of the suspects who had a purple handkerchief, [[Chris Vineyard]], hasn't appeared in public since that case, thus Conan believes Chris is the Black Organization accomplice. He asks [[Agasa]] to go onto Chris's fansite and gather information on her past, interests, and habits<ref name="f341p3">[[Volume 34#File 341 - The Hint That Was Against|Volume 34, File 341, page 3: "The Hint That Was Against"]]</ref> and Agasa's investigation corroborates with Conan's deduction.<ref name="f344p9" /> Conan is already aware that Chris Vineyard has disguise abilities and may be in disguise as someone around him.<ref name="f343p17" />

At this point, Conan is still uncertain of Araide, Jodie, and Akai's allegiances. He learns from [[Ran]] that Shuichi Akai was seen with a man in an [[FBI]] jacket during the New York case, causing Conan to wonder if the FBI is in Japan for some reason or the Black Organization infiltrated the American law enforcement.<ref name="f380p5">[[Volume 37#File 380 - White Snow... Black Shadow...|Volume 37, File 380, pages 5-6: "White Snow... Black Shadow..."]]</ref> Conan begins to take precautions around Dr. Araide and Jodie by lying to them in order to minimize contact and information they have about Haibara.<ref name="f420">[[Volume 41#File 420 - The Enclosing Surrounding Net|Volume 41, File 420: "The Enclosing Surrounding Net"]]</ref><ref name="f422">[[Volume 41#File 422 - Inescapable Target|Volume 41, File 422: "Inescapable Target"]]</ref> However, Jodie and Dr. Araide both go over to Agasa's house and plant listening devices because Conan failed to communicate his suspicion and plans to Agasa.<ref name="f422" />

By the time Conan gets the letter from Vermouth inviting him the off-season Halloween mystery party, he has realized that Vermouth is most likely Dr. Araide because Jodie wasn't in Mouri's case files when they were stolen, while Araide was. Vermouth needed the files to give proper testimony at the trial and to act correctly as Araide. Vermouth puts her plan to capture Haibara into action by calling Agasa's house as Dr. Araide saying he wants to take Haibara to a hospital because her cough hasn't gotten better.<ref name="f430p9">[[Volume 42#File 430 - The Haunted Ship Painted with Blood|Volume 42, File 430, page 9: "The Haunted Ship Painted with Blood"]]</ref> Conan is still unsure of Jodie's allegiance until she answers the door before Dr. Araide arrives. Jodie lies to "Haibara" (who is really Conan in disguise) saying that Dr. Araide's car has broken down and she has come in his place.<ref name="f431p3">[[Volume 42#File 431 - The Invisible Man Enters!|Volume 42, File 431, page 3: "The Invisible Man Enters!"]]</ref> Conan catches the lie and realizes that Jodie has been listening to the bugs as well and is acting to protect Haibara, meaning she is against Vermouth. Armed with this info, he asks Jodie to force the truth from Vermouth, and in return he will trust her.<ref name="f432p4">[[Volume 42#File 432 - Shinichi Kudo Appears!?|Volume 42, File 432, page 4: "Shinichi Kudo Appears!?"]]</ref>

Conan tells Jodie the true scenario of Dr. Araide's family murder case.<ref name="f433p11">[[Volume 42#File 433 - The Truth Behind the Mask|Volume 42, File 433, page 11: "The Truth Behind the Mask"]]</ref> Tomoaki Araide’s father, Yoshiteru Araide, was killed in his bathtub via electrocution. The murder was masterminded by Yoshiteru Araide's second wife, Yoko Araide. She caused a blackout to occur while she was supposedly on the phone, and during the ensuing darkness, snuck to the bathroom and put an electric shaver in the bathtub. She then crept back and asked the housemaid [[Hikaru Yasumoto]] to flip the circuit breaker, causing Yoshiteru Araide to be electrocuted. "Sleeping Kogoro", the police, and the criminal decided to create a false investigation record to protect the conscience of the maid Hikaru. Jodie used this to her advantage and forced Vermouth to reveal that she didn't know the true sequence of events.<ref name="f432p11">[[Volume 42#File 432 - Shinichi Kudo Appears!?|Volume 42, File 432, page 11: "Shinichi Kudo Appears!?"]]</ref>

====Conan's discovery Chris Vineyard, Sharon Vineyard and Vermouth are the same person====
[[File:Vermouth protecting Conan.png|thumb|right|Vermouth disguised as Dr. Araide protects Conan on the hijacked bus. This action puzzled Conan until he realized he had unknowingly saved Vermouth in New York city one year before.]]
At the same time Shinichi and Ran were in New York City, Vermouth disguised as a silver-haired serial killer in order to lure out [[Shuichi Akai]]. Later, Conan suspected the serial killer may have been someone in disguise when he heard that the serial killer’s blood and fingerprints on the stair rails were cleaned up, an action uncharacteristic for someone intending to commit suicide.<ref name=354p3>Manga [[Volume 35]], File 5 (354), pg 3: "Golden Apple 5". Note that Conan had not figured out everything completely at this point.</ref><ref>Manga [[Volume 37]], File 8 (380), pg 6: "White Snow... Black Shadow...". Conan is now convinced that the serial killer was killed. He had begun suspecting Shuichi Akai previously, and he still does at this point after Ran informs him Akai is an FBI agent, because Akai could be a spy in the FBI from the Black Organization.</ref> Sharon was the only person Conan knew about in the local area with high disguise abilities, so suspicion naturally fell onto her.

After Vermouth disguised as Araide, Conan deduced from the way Vermouth was behaving that she was trying to avoid involving Conan in her plan and was only targeting Haibara. Vermouth as Dr. Araide risked her life to protect Conan in the bus jack case and helped him out in Sato's matchup case. When Conan gets the letter from Vermouth inviting him the off-season Halloween mystery party, he realizes that Vermouth's intentions are to only trap Haibara and that Vermouth is trying to lure Conan to the party to avoid catching him up in her plan.

Conan who didn't exist a year ago has no reason to be “protected” by Vermouth. Conan deduces Vermouth must know his identity as Shinichi and the reason for her “protection” must have to do with something he did as Shinichi. However, Sharon was the only one Shinichi had a connection with, and she is apparently dead. Sharon’s daughter Chris has never met Shinichi and is estranged from Sharon Vineyard so she alone doesn't have an adequate motive to protect Shinichi. Also, it wouldn’t make sense for Chris Vineyard, who isn’t a family friend like Sharon, to be able to recognize Shinichi as Conan; presumably Vermouth saw young Shinichi with Yukiko when she was Sharon.<ref>Manga [[Volume 42]], File 10, pg 5</ref>

All these clues come together when Conan makes the assumption that Sharon Vineyard is Chris Vineyard who disguised as the silver haired serial killer in New York and that she is grateful for being rescued by [[Shinichi]] and [[Ran]].<ref name="f429p9">[[Volume 42#File 429 - The Full Moon and the Trap at the Banquet|Volume 42, File 429, page 9: "The Full Moon and the Trap at the Banquet"]]. After Conan tells Agasa that Vermouth probably knows who they are, Agasa asks "If they know that much, why haven't they come here to kill you?". Conan's response is, "I don't know the reason, but... but I think I at least know one of the causes."</ref>

===List of disguises used===
{{main|Disguise}}
Vermouth has used many disguises over the course of the series. These are the known ones used so far.
<gallery perrow="6">
File:Sharon Vineyard 308.png|Sharon Vineyard
File:Chris_Vineyard_first_appearence.png|Chris Vineyard
File:Radish_Redwood.jpg|New York City police officer [[Radish Redwood]].<ref name="NYcase">[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case]]</ref>
File:EP288 Slasher.jpg|Serial killer in New York City to lure out and kill [[Shuichi Akai]].<ref name="NYcase"/>
File:Not Tomoaki Araide.png|[[Tomoaki Araide]] as part of a plan to capture [[Ai Haibara]]
File:Vermouth's_disguise_as_a_waiter.png|Waiter at a jazz bar to tease [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]]<ref>Volume 29: Files 3~5. Episode 230-231. "[[The Mysterious Passenger]]"</ref>
File:Jodie_Starling_Profile.jpg|[[Jodie Starling]] to trick the FBI into leaving the shipping yards.<ref>Volume 42: Files 5~10. Episode 345. "[[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night]]"</ref>
File:Fake Bleeding Kiriko Busujima.png|Kiriko Busujima in order to lure assassination target Domon Yasudera out.<ref>Volume 48: File 9~Volume 49: File 4. Episode 425. "[[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out]]"</ref>
File:Foreign_Lady.jpg|Simple disguise used when meeting with the witness Touji Funemoto to investigate about [[Kir]]'s whereabouts.<ref>[[The Shadow of the Black Organization|Episode 464 - 465]]</ref>
File:Vermouth Scar Akai Train case.jpg|Vermouth disguised as Scar Akai on the Bell Tree Express and had put the same disguise on [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] several times earlier.<ref>[[Volume_78#Mystery_Train|Mystery Train]]</ref>
File:VermouthDisguised.jpg‎|Simple disguise with hat, sunglasses and tied hair.<ref>[[Volume 78|Volume 78, File 824]]</ref>
File:V81-F851 Woman.jpg|Vermouth as "Motoe Benzaki", Touhei Benzaki's fictitious wife<ref>It is revealed in [[Volume 81|File 855]] that Touhei is single, which means that "Motoe" never existed and was only a random alias come up by Vermouth, basing on the appearance of the real woman who taped Jodie.</ref>, who claims to be the woman who taped Jodie back in the bank robbery.
File:vermouth as jodie.png|Vermouth disguises as Jodie a second time to trap Camel into revealing critical details about [[Rikumichi Kusuda]]'s death.<ref>Manga [[Volume 84]], File 10 (893): "The Scarlet Prologue"</ref>

File:Vermouth First Disguise.jpg|Policeman in [[The Raven Chaser]]<ref>There were two police officers with glasses in the meeting room, this one was sitting in the last row and went out first. He walked in the same direction as Yamamura to the toilet, who later heard Vermouth dial "[[Nanatsu no Ko]]" near the bathroom. This spiky-haired officer was also shown entering Gin's car and not the other one.</ref>
File:Vermouth Second Disguise.jpg|Mall shopper in [[The Raven Chaser]]
</gallery>

== Speculation ==
=== Vermouth's true age ===
Vermouth's age is unknown because her history is largely unclear. We know she has lived as Chris who is 29, and as Sharon whose age is unknown. Her face when she killed Jodie's father 20 years was youthful, suggesting she is currently at least 40 years old as long as no deaging has occurred.

===Vermouth did not use [[APTX 4869]]===
A popular theory on Vermouth's non-aging is that she used [[APTX 4869]] to achieve her youthfulness since this is the only known substance capable of producing such an effect ([[Silver Bullet]]'s effects are unknown at this point). However, at present there are things that contradict such a notion. Vermouth would have faced near certain death if she had used APTX 4869.<ref name=V2/> Before Vermouth discovered Haibara and Conan, the known members of the Black Organization (besides Sherry) only knew about APTX 4869's lethal effects,<ref>Sherry did not report the results that several of her mice shrank to the greater organization because they have not been able to figure out how Shiho managed to escape the locked room. If Shiho had reported her data, the Organization would have known that shrinking was a possible side effect of APTX 4869 and would have figured out how she escaped and begun looking for a child. Furthermore, if Shiho had reported to the Organization that APTX 4869 had the possibility of leaving the victim alive, the Boss and/or Shiho's superiors would not have permitted the drug in situations where the victim, if surviving, could escape as in Shinichi's case.</ref> and it was considered deadly enough that Sherry's superiors employed it as an untraceable murder weapon.<ref name=V2>Gin described APTX 4869 as a poison before using it on Shinichi, "We'll use this, the new poison the Organization developed. You can't find any signs of poison on the body with this stuff..." (V1-1 pg 37) Haibara also mentions that it was used on a number of other people, "Of all the people who took the drug, only your death hadn't been confirmed yet." (V18-9 pg 6 The Org took great pains to ensure the people APTX4869 was used on were dead, evidenced when they sent Shiho out to investigate Shinichi's case twice to confirm his death. (V18-9 pg 6) Additionally, Gin gave the OK for it to be employed in a time sensitive assassination where failure would be unacceptable: "Anyway, our superior has ordered us to kill him before he rats us out. Don't screw up, Pisco! If there is any complication, you can use the 'experimental drug' [APTX 4869]" (V24-7 pg 17) If the boss, who has been stated to be cautious to a fault, knew about the risk that someone might survive APTX 4869, he would not let his subordinates use the drug without letting them know there was a chance it would leave people alive because, if someone escaped, they could talk to the police or someone else and leak the secret of the Black Organization's existence. If Gin knew it failed to work some of the time, he would have never left Shinichi alone while it acted, and would have also gone looking for him after his body disappeared if that was the case. Even Shiho Miyano who was aware APTX 4869 could rarely cause de-aging expected it to kill her. "I thought that since I was going to get killed anyways, I would take the APTX 4869 which I secretly held. To my luck, the drug that I took thinking it would kill me shrunk by body..." (V18-9 pg 8) Finally, Shiho makes it clear the Organization is not simply trying APTX 4869 out on victims, they are actively using it to kill. "If I reported your condition to the Organization, it's very likely you would have been terminated before I could do something useful." (V18-9 pg 7) Even though Shinichi was an "interesting specimen" (V18-9 pg 7), if the Org was field testing, they would try to capture Shinichi alive for study. Shiho was still project manager when use on humans began and when Shinichi was poisoned, so she would know the Organization's protocol should someone fail to die.</ref> However, given that Vermouth has said depressing things over the course of the series,<ref>"No angel has smiled upon me", "My life represents a series of misfortunes" (V35-1 pg 2)</ref> it is possible Vermouth took APTX 4869 hoping to commit suicide, but she de-aged instead, similar to Haibara's situation<ref>"I thought that since I was going to get killed anyways, I would take the APTX 4869 which I secretly held. To my luck, the drug that I took thinking it would kill me shrunk by body..." (V18-9 pg 8)</ref>. Vermouth could have also gambled on taking APTX 4869 after she recognized the deaged Shiho and Shinichi and then discovered that APTX 4869 was the common connection between them and likely cause of their conditions. However, both the suicide scenario (if it occurred while Shiho was working on the drug) and the gambling scenario fail to explain why no one in the Black Organization has questioned why Vermouth has become younger, especially after Gin saw her true face following the Haunted Ship case<ref>Akai's shotgun fire struck Vermouth's face and wounded it which made it apparent she wasn't wearing a mask and thus that was her true face. Vermouth was picked up by Gin in a telephone booth and he would have noticed her facial injury as well.</ref>, and then connected that with APTX 4869 use and Sherry's mysterious escape from the handcuffs and locked room. 
It is possible that Atsushi and Elena Miyano had something to do with Vermouth's de-aging/non-aging (e.g. Vermouth was their guinea pig). This might explain the personal animosity Vermouth feels towards the Miyanos and why she calls their APTX experiment foolish.

Vermouth's de-aging/non-aging may be a result of a project older than Shiho's APTX 4869, like her parents' [[Silver Bullet]], or something else even older than that. This would explain why none of the other members of the Black Organization suspect that APTX 4869 can also cause this effect and thus are unaware of the possibility Shiho de-aged to escape.

==Relationships analysis==
=== Family & Friends ===
[[File:Sharon and Yukiko young.jpg|thumb|right|125px|Vermouth with Yukiko approximately 20 years ago.]]
==== Yukiko Kudo ====
Vermouth, as her alias Sharon Vineyard and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]] had a friendly relationship between the time they met under Toichi Kuroba's tutelage until the time Sharon "died". Yukiko had no idea Sharon was leading a double life as an operative in the Black Organization. Yukiko and Sharon seemed to have kept in contact with one another because Yukiko and Sharon both know about events in each others' lives that occurred after Toichi's lessons. Sharon was the one who got tickets for Yukiko, Shinichi, and Ran to the Golden Apple play on Broadway in New York City one year prior to the current time line. Yukiko attended Sharon's funeral. Later, Yukiko sadly accepts Conan's deduction that Sharon and Chris are the same person and a member of the Black Organization.

=== Black Organization ===
[[File:Vermouth_provoking_Gin.png|thumb|right|125px|Vermouth teases Gin with a disguise.]]
==== Gin ====
Vermouth and [[Gin]] are or were in a sexual relationship with one another.<ref name="CD239a">Conan Drill page 239, "肉体関係" (sexual relations)</ref> They get along well enough on missions, but Gin does not like Vermouth's habit of keeping secrets or her teasing. Before the events of the showdown on the ghost ship, Vermouth and Gin trusted one another, but some of Gin's trust may have disappeared as Vermouth failed to inform even the boss of her intentions.<ref name="CD239b">Conan Drill page 239, "同僚・信頼" (Colleagues Trusted)</ref> Gin doesn't mind threatening her with bodily harm, he nearly stabbed her through the head with an icepick on one occasion when she teased him disguised as a waiter, and he later pointed his gun at her when asking how she was connected with Kogoro. She doesn't seem especially bothered by any of these threats however. Because Vermouth is a high ranking member and the boss's favorite, she isn't scared of provoking the other agents, not even Gin who is extremely dangerous and sensitive. She smiled after moving her head to avoid Gin's deadly sweep with an icepick telling him that "She was just joking" which shows that she enjoys teasing him.

[[File:Vermouth_episode_230.png|thumb|125px|right|Vermouth terrifies Haibara.]]

==== Sherry ====
Vermouth and [[Ai Haibara|Sherry]] have some connection, although it has not been elaborated on. Vermouth appears to dislike the research the Miyanos engaged in, calling it foolish. Shiho fears Vermouth more than most other members except perhaps Gin. Shiho was Vermouth's target, but Vermouth gave up on her after Conan's intervention. If Shiho was in a romantic relationship with Gin, then Vermouth and Shiho were love rivals as Vermouth was in a sexual relationship with Gin.<ref name="CD239c">Conan Drill page 239, "恋のライバル…?" (Love rivals?)</ref> During the Bell Tree Express arc, Vermouth tries to use C4 explosives to kill Sherry without telling anyone about the plan, while Bourbon wanted to take her back alive hinting at an abnormal hatred towards her.

==== Boss ====
In file 898, Bourbon reveals that there is some sort of connection between Vermouth and the [[Boss of the Black Organization]], implying that her relationship with the boss goes further than merely being his/her favorite member. Bourbon also notes that he has arranged for her secret to be revealed to the whole Black Organization in case something happens to him, and points out that the other members would be quite surprised if they knew the nature of the relationship.

==== Calvados ====
[[Calvados]] was in love with Vermouth, and Vermouth took advantage of his feelings and used him. Vermouth called on Calvados to aid her in disposing with Jodie and capturing Haibara at the shipping yards. After Akai got the best of Calvados and Vermouth, she chose to run away, leaving him at the mercy of the FBI. Calvados chose to commit suicide rather than be caught.

==== Chianti and Korn ====
[[Chianti]] and [[Korn]] both hate Vermouth because they believe that Vermouth took advantage of Calvados' feelings for her and used him, leading him to his death. Chianti has been more vocal with her hatred than Korn.

==== Pisco ====
Although Vermouth and [[Pisco]] are executive members, Vermouth dislikes and looks down on Pisco despite cooperating with him.<ref name="CD239d">Conan Drill page 239, 見下す (despise look down on}</ref>

==== Tooru Amuro ====
[[Tooru Amuro|Amuro]] worked with Vermouth on a plan to determine if [[Shuichi Akai]] was really dead. She made [[Scar Akai|masks that looked like Akai's face with a scar]] for him so he could approach Akai's friends and colleagues to see their reactions to him. She also interfered with his plans to capture Sherry alive by rigging the location Amuro intended to trap Sherry in with explosives to kill her.

=== Law enforcement ===
==== Jodie Starling ====
[[Jodie Starling]] has a bitter hatred for Vermouth because Vermouth murdered her father, but Vermouth doesn't have any particular animosity for Jodie beyond her being a skilled FBI adversary whom she would like to kill. Jodie thinks Vermouth is an entirely evil person. Vermouth was extremely well liked and kind to students and patients while disguised as [[Tomoaki Araide]], so when the real Araide wonders if Vermouth is really a bad person, Jodie takes offense and angrily yells at him, "How can someone be a good person if she kills people with a smile!?"<ref>Manga Volume 45, File 2, pg 18: "The truth behind the remaining desk"</ref>

20 years before the current timeline, Vermouth goes to the house of Jodie's father, an FBI agent, and kills him. An eight to nine year old [[Jodie Starling]] walks in while Vermouth was trying to put his glasses back on his body and thinks her father is asleep. Vermouth tells her that she should wait for her father to wake up. When the girl asks her who is she, Vermouth replies "A secret makes a woman, woman". Vermouth burns the house down, thinking Jodie stayed behind and was killed as well. However, the girl goes out of the house to buy orange juice for her father, narrowly escaping death. She also takes her father's glasses with her, preserving the fingerprints Vermouth left on them. When Vermouth finds out Jodie's body was not in the house, she looks for her to kill her, but the FBI enrolled her in witness protection. Jodie later becomes an FBI agent in order to find her father's killer.

==== Shuichi Akai ====
Vermouth and [[Shuichi Akai|Akai]] don't have much personal animosity for each other in particular despite the fact that they have been hunting one another for some time. Vermouth regards Akai as a "silver bullet": someone with the potential to destroy the Black Organization. In accordance with this assessment, she attacks him immediately and preferentially in the confrontation with her at the docks. Akai seems to hit a nerve when he called her a rotten apple, wilted on the inside.

==== Kir ====
She suspected [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] is a member of the CIA though she didn't tell anyone about it.

=== Others ===
[[File:Vermouth_dartboard.PNG|thumb|150px|right|Vermouth's dartboard. Conan's picture has "Cool guy" written on it while Ran's says "Angel."]]
==== Shinichi Kudo ====
After [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] helped Ran save Vermouth's life in New York while she was disguised as a serial killer, she nicknames him "Cool guy". Later in the series, after [[Conan]] successfully interfered with Vermouth's plan of killing [[Haibara]], then almost forced her to surrender and take him to find [[The Boss of the Black Organization|the boss]], she gives him another nickname - "Silver bullet" - as she believes that he has the potential to destroy the Black Organization, because he could touch her heart. Generally, Vermouth tries to protect Shinichi when she is able to, even if it means risking her own life. Although Shinichi found out later that he unknowingly rescued Vermouth in New York City and that Vermouth was a friend of Yukiko's, Shinichi doesn't understand why Vermouth would make the promise to give up on hunting Sherry and not inform the Black Organization about Haibara and himself.

==== Ran Mouri ====
After Ran saved Vermouth's life in New York City, Vermouth nicknames [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] "Angel". Earlier, Vermouth, as her Sharon Vineyard role, complained that her life was a series of misfortunes and, "No angel has smiled upon me, not even once."<ref name="f350p18" /> Even though Vermouth in disguise prepared to kill Ran later, Ran stopped Vermouth from taking a fatal fall. Vermouth was touched by this act of kindness. Much later in the story when Ran shielded Haibara from gunfire with her body, Vermouth refused to shoot Ran or allow her to be shot, instead firing around her in an attempt to frighten Ran into releasing Haibara. Although Ran does not know who Vermouth really is, she values the handkerchief that Sharon Vineyard gave her back in New York.

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Vermouth placed 9th in the poll with 75 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 15th movie, [[Quarter of Silence]], the official Conan movie website held a popularity poll for the top 10 Detective Conan characters. Vermouth placed 6th out of 10.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conan-movie.jp/camp_chara/camp15th_res.html|title=名探偵コナン「キャラクター人気投票」|date=2011|publisher=www.conan-movie.jp|accessdate=2011-08-12}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Vermouth/Sharon Vineyard placed 8th overall with 372 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

== Name origin ==
Vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines. [[Wikipedia:Vermouth|Vermouth]] is a type of flavored fortified wine, which follows the pattern of wine based codenames for women in the Black Organization.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Vermouth Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Vermouth's "Before" Appearance (Episode 230)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Vermouth After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Vermouth's "Middle" Appearance (Movie 13)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:704_05.png|thumb|left|x200px|Vermouth's "After" Appearance (Episode 701)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
=== General ===
{{cquote|A secret makes a woman, woman.|Vermouth's motto}}
{{cquote|Two silver bullets aren't needed. Only one is enough.|Thinking about Conan after hearing the news of Akai's death.}}

=== Specific ===

{{cquote|We can be both of God and the Devil. Since we're trying to raise the dead against the stream of time.|[[Volume_37#File_380_-_White_Snow..._Black_Shadow...|V37-8 pg11]]|Speaking to [[Suguru Itakura]] over the phone when he demanded to know who Vermouth thought she was.}}
{{cquote|If he could reach my heart, maybe he could be our long awaited [[silver bullet]]...|[[Volume 42]], File 10, pg 18. Vermouth believes Conan is the person capable of ending the Organization she was waiting for.}}
{{cquote|No angel has ever smiled upon me. Not even once.|[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case|Episode 286]]|Speaking to Yukiko and Ran about how Sharon's life has been unfortunate.}}
{{cquote|I wonder if there is really god. If he truly existed, wouldn't all hard working, honest people be happy?|[[Episode 286]]|Vermouth expresses her disbelief in god to Ran.}}
{{cquote|Well if you must blame someone, blame a God that set this up for you.|[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case|Episode 288]]|Vermouth in disguise as the serial killer speaking to Ran in preparation to kill her in New York City}}

==In other languages==
===Vermouth===
{{BeginTable OtherLang}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|ベルモット Berumotto}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Vermouth/Wermut}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Vermouth/Belmouth (anime)}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|Bilmot بلموت}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Paramount (manga)}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|苦艾酒 Kǔ'àijiǔ 贝尔摩得 Bèi'ěrmódé}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เบลม็อท Belmot}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Вермут}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Sweden|Swedish|Vermouth/Vermut}}
{{EndTable}}

===Sharon Vineyard===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|シャロン Sharon|ヴィンヤード Binyaado}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Sharon|Vinyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic| نينا\شيرون Nina\Sharon<ref>|Nina was only used during Shinichi Kudo in New York episodes.</ref>| Vineyard ڤنيارد}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Sharon|Vinyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|莎朗 Shālǎng|温亚德 Wēnyàdé<ref>This name was used when Sharon was first mentioned in the [[Chinese Manga (Changchun)|Chinese Volume 34]]. Since the translation was based on the English pronunciation of the name, there may be other variants in later cases.</ref>}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ชารอน Sharon|วินยาร์ด Vinyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Шарон|Винеярд}}
{{EndTable}}

===Chris Vineyard===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|クリス Kurisu|ヴィンヤード Binyaado}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Chris|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Chris|Vinyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Chris|Vinyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Chris|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic| كرِس Chris|Vineyard ڤنيارد}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Chris|Vinyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|克莉丝 Kèlìsī|温亚德 Wēnyàdé<ref>This name appears on Vermouth's name card when she first appeared in the [[Chinese Manga (Changchun)|Chinese Volume 24]]. Since the translation was based on the English pronunciation of the name, there may be other variants in later cases.</ref>}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|คริส Chris|วินยาร์ด Vinyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Chris|Vineyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Крис|Винеярд}}
{{EndTable}}

== Trivia ==
*The FBI's nickname for Vermouth, Rotten Apple, could also refer to "fermenting apples", which are known to produce alcohol.
*Half of Vermouth's disguises contain glasses, seen in her role of [[Sharon Vineyard]], [[Tomoaki Araide]], [[Jodie Starling]], a policeman, an unknown woman and a simple disguise.
* The people who spoke well of Vermouth while she was Araide are [[Ran]]'s karate mentor [[Kazumi Tsukamoto]] ("You still have that look of an Angel, Dr. Araide"), Kazumi's friend Kunishige Seto ("Before our catious Dr. Araide takes me to the hospital"), the school's principal ("Thanks to the exercise you taught me, my waist feel much better!"), and Ran herself ("Dr. Araide is a truly nice person, right?").
*In episode 674 of the anime, Vermouth's phone appears to be modeled after the iPhone.

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[wikipedia:Vermouth|Vermouth]] (Alcohol)

== References ==
<references/>
{{Black Organization}}
{{Characters}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vineyard, Sharon}}
[[Category:Black Organization]] [[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Female characters]]
[[Category:Characters who know Conan's identity]]
[[Category:Characters who know Ai Haibara's identity]]
[[Category:Entertainment]]
[[de:Vermouth]]

Vermouth

2015-07-15T22:15:05Z

Bunchu Thong-In: /* Sharon Vineyard */

{{SpoilerWarningArticle|This article contains significant '''[[Glossary#Spoiler|spoilers]]''' about major events concerning this person. It is likely you will be spoiled if you have not read all the manga released to date. To find out what pages will be safe for you to read, please consult our [[Glossary#Spoiler|wiki spoiler policy]].}}

{{InfoBox Char
| name = Vermouth
| japanese-name = ベルモット (Berumotto)
| english-name = Vermouth
| image = Vermouth Profile.jpg
| age = Her true age is unknown (29) Chris Vineyard<ref>[[Volume 24#File 239 - The Black Burial Ranks|Volume 24, File 239: "The Black Burial Ranks"]]</ref> (?) Sharon Vineyard
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives =
| occupation = Black Organization member
| nicknames = Rotten Apple ([[FBI]])
| aliases = Chris Vineyard Sharon Vineyard
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_24#Hotel_Party_Murder_Case|File 239]] Anime: [[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 176]]
| appearances = {{:Vermouth Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 26]] (Chris Vineyard) [[Volume 35]] (Sharon Vineyard)
| japanese-voice = [[Mami Koyama]]
| english-voice =
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Vermouth|ベルモット|Berumotto}}''', also known as '''{{nihongo|Sharon Vineyard|シャロン・ヴィンヤード|Sharon Vinyādo}}''' and '''{{nihongo|Chris Vineyard|クリス・ヴィンヤード|Kurisu Vinyādo}}''', is an actress and member of the [[Black Organization]] in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
Vermouth's background is very mysterious because she has been secretly living at least two lives through the art of disguise: that of actress Sharon Vineyard (now "deceased") and her supposed daughter, Chris Vineyard.

As the actress Sharon Vineyard, Vermouth gained much fame on Broadway and in movies, even winning an Oscar. Even then, she was a member of the Black Organization. Twenty years ago, she murdered [[Jodie Starling]]'s [[FBI]] father who had collected information on her. Jodie Starling would eventually grow up to be an FBI agent and one of Vermouth's most bitter enemies. As Sharon, Vermouth became close friends with [[Yukiko Kudo]] back when they were studying disguise under [[Toichi Kuroba]].

At some point Sharon began to pretend to have a daughter named Chris. While Sharon was still alive, Chris kept out of the public eye except for acting in movies and giving interviews. Less than one year ago, Vermouth staged Sharon Vineyard's death, which allowed Chris to come out publicly. Currently, Vermouth serves the Black Organization with the public name Chris Vineyard.

Vermouth is [[The Boss of the Black Organization|the boss]]’s favorite which grants her some independence. Vermouth also has some particular connection to the boss that she does not want known by the greater organization, which [[Bourbon]] is blackmailing her with.<ref>Manga Volume 85, File 898: "Scarlet Epilogue"</ref> She also appears not to age or have de-aged over a period of twenty years between when she killed Jodie's parents and her current appearance. She doesn’t seem to like [[APTX 4869|the research]] that [[Shiho Miyano]] and [[Atsushi Miyano|her]] [[Elena Miyano|parents]] engaged in, calling it “foolish". <ref>[[Volume 42#File 434 - Rotten Apple|Volume 42, File 434: "Rotten Apple"]]</ref>

Vermouth entered the storyline some time after [[Ai Haibara|Shiho Miyano/Sherry/Ai Haibara]]'s mysterious flight from the Organization. Her main objective was to track down and eliminate the 'traitor', and for that purpose she assumed the identity of doctor [[Tomoaki Araide]]. But although she managed to discover Shiho's reversion into a child, she did not succeed in killing her, as she met [[Conan Edogawa]], who was able to discover and thwart her plans. She also encountered the FBI during this process.

Vermouth has great personal interest in Conan, constantly calling him "[[Silver Bullet]]". Since it has been revealed that she knows about Ai and Kudo's reversion to their child forms, she seems to know the shrinking effect the drug can have, but for reasons yet unrevealed she keeps this knowledge secret from the rest of the Organization.

== Personality ==
Although she follows orders from [[Anokata|the boss]] and [[Gin]] when he is charge of missions, Vermouth often acts according to her own agenda and whims, even when it runs contrary to the [[Black Organization]]'s best interests. She is secretive and manipulative, even towards other Organization members. Vermouth is confident in her abilities, is very bold, and an expert at manipulating situations to her advantage: traits which allow her to single-handedly weave complex plots and take the upper hand even while she is being monitored by enemies. She is intelligent and insightful, correctly suspecting the allegiance of Kir, but she was successfully outwitted by [[Conan]] and forced by [[Shuichi Akai]] to retreat.

[[File:Vermouth provoking Gin.png|thumb|left|Vermouth teases Gin and Vodka by disguising as a waiter.]]
Vermouth's personality is contradictory at times. On one hand, she is a cruel and ruthless agent who will blackmail an unwilling man to commit murder by threatening him and his family just to provide a distraction and happily tell [[Jodie Starling|an FBI agent]] she should smile because she will see her dead father again in heaven. On the other hand, she risks her life several times to protect Conan, [[Ran]], and [[Kogoro]], and her friendly behavior while in disguise as Tomoaki Araide left the real Araide wondering if Vermouth is really a bad person. This inconsistency may reflect an underlying conflict of conscience after [[Shinichi]] and Ran saved her life during the events of the [[Vermouth_timeline#Golden_Apple_Case_.28Manga:_350-354_Anime:_286-288.29|Golden Apple case]]. Vermouth also appears to be an atheist at first as she claims to not believe in god nor angels until Ran unknowingly rescued her which seems to have given her back some faith.

At this point, Vermouth's motives are very mysterious. She knows about Conan being Shinichi, as well as that Haibara is Sherry, yet she has kept this information a secret from the rest of the Organization. She dislikes the Miyano family's research. She also retains personal feelings for persons who have earned a special place in her heart, such as Shinichi/Conan (as the son of [[Yukiko Kudo|her best friend]]) and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]].<ref name="e288">[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case|Episode 288: Shinichi Kudo's New York Case, Part 3]].</ref> As a result, she is highly unwilling to do them any harm even when she is ordered to do so.

She enjoys teasing others, seen when she disguised as a male waiter and served Gin and Vodka martinis and taunted Chianti by wishing her good luck and blowing her a kiss.<ref>[[Volume 49#File 501 - Follow the Target!|Volume 49, File 501, page 7: "Follow the Target!"]]</ref>
{{clearleft}}

==Abilities==
===Disguise===
[[File:Vermouth_taking_off_Araide's_mask.png|thumb|right|Vermouth removes a latex mask.]]
Vermouth is able to mimic anyone's appearance and voice exactly with her disguise and acting skills even after observing them for only a short period of time. Vermouth frequently utilizes latex masks. Her disguising ability has been noted by Conan to be on par with the current Kaito Kid (Kaito Kuroba).<ref>[[Volume 44|Volume 44, File 457, Page 7]]</ref> Although she may have known how to disguise prior to meeting [[Toichi Kuroba]], she studied disguise under him. Her disguise ability was first shown in [[The Mysterious Passenger]]<ref>[[Volume 29#File 287 - The Unseen Horror|Volume 29, File 287: "The Unseen Horror"]], [[The Mysterious Passenger|Episode 230: The Mysterious Passenger]]</ref> where she dressed as a male waiter to tease [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]]. [[Jodie Starling]] once referred to Vermouth's disguise abilities as a frightening type of perfection.<ref>[[Episode 362]]</ref>

===Reconnaissance===
Vermouth specializes in reconnaissance and infiltration, and has been shown to work very swiftly yet cautiously to rapidly acquire information. Her confidence and skill in disguise and imitation means she can execute bold plans that put her in very close contact with her targets and she can advance her plot even when they are suspicious of her. Without the aid of the other organization members, Vermouth successfully snuck into the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police|Tokyo Metropolitan Police headquarters]] in order to steal the records of [[Kogoro Mouri]]'s cases. She later returned them when presumably the surveillance would be even higher after the police noticed the files were missing. She then single-handedly staked out the [[FBI]] who were lured out into watching Kogoro Mouri and uncovered their numbers, addresses, and ways to contact them.

===Stamina===
Vermouth is quite strong and has developed a high pain tolerance. While she was disguised as a serial killer in New York City, Vermouth athletically vaults up from a dead hanging positioning over the railing of the stairwell to higher ground despite being shot in the side. She also shoots herself in the leg in order to avoid the effects of sleeping gas, and was able to limp to a phone booth on that shot leg, with several broken ribs caused by Akai, and with a deep scratch on her right shoulder when Jodie shot at her.

===Shooting===
As Vermouth pulled away in Jodie's car with broken ribs after her flak jacket absorbed a close range shotgun blast, she managed to aim a handgun backwards with her left hand using the side mirror while driving a car she wasn't used to and shoot Araide's car's gas tank standing 100 yards away, causing it to explode. Akai is impressed she managed that difficult shot with her battered body. Earlier however, she failed to draw fast enough to shoot Jodie or Akai; in the first case, the gun was shot out of her hand, in the second, Akai fired first.

==Non-aging==
[[File:Vermouth 20 years ago.png|thumb|right|Vermouth's appearance 20 years before the current timeline.]]
For some reason, Vermouth does not appear to age. Her apparent age hasn’t changed since she murdered Jodie’s parents twenty years ago.<ref name="f433">[[Volume 42#File 433 - The Truth Behind the Mask|Volume 42, File 433: "The Truth Behind the Mask"]]</ref> [[Shuichi Akai]] proved that Vermouth was not wearing a mask when his shotgun fire grazed her face. Specifically, it hasn't been clarified if Vermouth hasn't aged over time or if she became younger all at once. It is also important to note that Vermouth's talent for disguise makes it difficult to figure out when Vermouth stopped aging or deaged.

==Appellations==
<tabs jsId="nicknames">
<tab title="Protagonists">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Vermouth !! style="width:200px;"|What Vermouth calls them
|-
| [[File:Conan Edogawa 60px.jpg]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Vermouth || Cool Guy [[Silver Bullet]]
|-
| [[File:Ran Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Ran Mouri]] || Sharon<ref>[[Volume 35|Volume 35, File 353, Page 6]]</ref> || Angel
|-
| [[File:Ai Haibara 60px.jpg]] || [[Ai Haibara]] || Vermouth || Sherry That girl Special Lady<ref name=823p15>823 pg 15</ref>
|-
| [[File:Kogoro Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Kogoro Mouri]] || - || That detective<ref name=827p16>827 pg 16</ref>
|-
| [[File:Ayumi Yoshida 60px.jpg]] || [[Ayumi Yoshida]] || - || The kids (collective)<ref name=824p3>824 pg 3</ref>
|-
| [[File:Genta Kojima 60px.jpg]] || [[Genta Kojima]] || - || The kids (collective)<ref name=824p3/>
|-
| [[File:Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya 60px.jpg]] || [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] || - || The kids (collective)<ref name=824p3/>
|-
</tab>
<tab title="FBI">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Vermouth !! style="width:200px;"|What Vermouth calls them
|-
| [[File:Jodie Starling 60px.jpg]] || [[Jodie Starling]] || Vermouth || This woman Jodie
|-
| [[File:Shuichi Akai 60px.jpg]] || [[Shuichi Akai]] ||Vermouth Rotten Apple || Shuichi Akai [[Silver Bullet]]
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Black Organization">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Vermouth !! style="width:200px;"|What Vermouth calls them
|-
| [[File:Anokata 60px.jpg]] || [[Anokata]] || Vermouth || Boss
|-
| [[File:Gin 60px.jpg]] || [[Gin]] || Vermouth That woman || Gin
|-
| [[File:Shiho Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Shiho Miyano]] || Vermouth || Sherry That girl Special Lady<ref name=823p15>823 pg 15</ref>
|-
| [[File:Tooru Amuro 60px.jpg]] || [[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]] || Vermouth || Bourbon
|-
| [[File:Vodka 60px.jpg]] || [[Vodka]] || Vermouth || Vodka
|-
| [[File:Calvados 60px.jpg]] || [[Calvados]] || ??? || Calvados
|-
| [[File:Chianti 60px.jpg]] || [[Chianti]] || That woman || Chianti
|-
| [[File:Korn 60px.jpg]] || [[Korn]] || Vermouth || ???
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Vermouth !! style="width:200px;"|What Vermouth calls them
|-
| [[File:Yukiko Kudo 60px.jpg]] || [[Yukiko Kudo]] || Sharon || Yukiko
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

==Plot overview==
===Manga and Anime Timeline===
{{main|Vermouth timeline}}

===Raven Chaser===
In Movie 13: [[The Raven Chaser]], Vermouth disguises as a brown haired policeman in a dark suit with glasses to check on Irish's progress and the integrity of his disguise during the conference. After texting the boss outside the bathroom, she exits the building and leaves in Gin's Porsche 356A.

She is seen again disguising as a young brown-haired woman when trying to come closer to the believed serial killer but leaves as soon as she realizes he is not. [[Conan]] tracks her down in the underground parking lot and makes her reveal herself. She gives Conan essential information about an organization member named [[Irish]] and wishes him good luck when leaving.
It is later revealed that she was the one who supervised the captured [[Matsumoto]] and provided him with comestibles. When the police finds out about Matsumoto's remains, she informs [[Gin]] about it and leaves.
Finally, she is briefly seen driving along the Highway when Gin's helicopter crashes, complimenting Conan's accomplishments and calling him again a "silver bullet".
{{clear}}
==Plot Exposition==
===Family History===
[[File:Chris_and_Sharon.png|thumb|right|Chris and Sharon Vineyard]]
In order to camouflage the fact that Sharon Vineyard and Chris Vineyard are the same person, Vermouth concocted personal histories for her real life cover roles in order to make them seem like different people. When Sharon and Chris Vineyard were revealed to be one and the same, at least part of the stated Vineyard family history was revealed to be a lie. It is unknown how much of the remainder is truthful, based on the truth, or outright fabrication because the primary source of the information is Vermouth herself who may have more to hide.

Little is known of Sharon Vineyard's mother and father. Sharon's parents were not actors, at least not well known ones, because Agasa called Chris Vineyard a second generation actress.<ref name="f341p8">[[Volume 34#File 341 - The Hint That Was Against|Volume 34, File 341, page 8: "The Hint That Was Against"]]</ref> According to Sharon's story, both her mother and father died in a fire on the day Sharon debuted on screen.<ref name="f351p2">[[Volume 35#File 351 - Golden Apple 2|Volume 35, File 351, page 2: "Golden Apple 2"]]</ref>

So far, Sharon Vineyard's age has not been given and nothing is known about her personal history before she became an actress. Even her fans knew little about her private life even after she became famous.<ref name="f344p9">[[Volume 34#File 344 - The Storm of Booing|Volume 34, File 344, page 9: "The Storm of Booing"]]</ref> Sharon said her road to stardom was very difficult and full of misfortune, prompting her to doubt the existence of God: "No angel has smiled upon me, not even once."<ref name="f350p18">[[Volume 34#File 350 - Golden Apple 1|Volume 34, File 350, page 18: "Golden Apple 1"]]</ref> Sharon became a star actress<ref name="f350p16">[[Volume 34#File 350 - Golden Apple 1|Volume 34, File 350, page 16: "Golden Apple 1"]]</ref> and, according to [[Shuichi Akai]], is best known for her work in the Golden Apple broadway play. [[File:Chris with Veil.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Chris Vineyard coming out into public for the first time - at the funeral of her mother Sharon Vineyard]] At some point, she married and gave birth to her daughter Chris Vineyard. Her husband later died of an unspecified illness the day after Sharon won an Oscar. While studying for an acting role approximately 20 years ago, Sharon learned disguise techniques from [[Toichi Kuroba]] alongside the aspiring young Japanese actress [[Yukiko Kudo]].<ref name="f350p17">[[Volume 34#File 350 - Golden Apple 1|Volume 34, File 350, page 17: "Golden Apple 1"]]</ref><ref>Yukiko started her career while in high-school. Yukiko is 37 currently so the time frame while Yukiko was studying as a beginning actress is approximately 20 years ago when Yukiko was 17 or 18.</ref> During their time together, Yukiko became Sharon's friend, and they have maintained contact with one another. Sharon later sent Yukiko three tickets to Golden Apple broadway production the year before she died. The cause of Sharon's death has not been revealed.

Chris Vineyard meanwhile became a successful actress quickly by riding the coattails of her mother's fame.<ref name="f351p2" /> She began to make movies and give interviews to reporters only, but otherwise she never appeared publicly.<ref name="f344p9" /> The first day she came out into public was the day of her mother's funeral some time less than one year ago.<ref name="f344p9" /> A reporter who tried to question Chris asked where she went to school, whether she got along with her mother, who her father is, and if the rumored lover she has will appear at Sharon's funeral.<ref name="f344p10">[[Volume 34#File 344 - The Storm of Booing|Volume 34, File 344, page 10: "The Storm of Booing"]]</ref> Chris answered none of these, but the types of questions which were asked demonstrate the secrecy surrounding the Vineyard family history.

Sharon Vineyard and Chris apparently didn't get along; Sharon doesn't consider Chris to be her daughter.<ref name="f351p2" /> Sharon explained this by relaying a tale to Yukiko about Chris who disguised as Sharon's husband and then met with Sharon when she visited her husband's grave to lay flowers.<ref name="f351p3">[[Volume 35#File 351 - Golden Apple 2|Volume 35, File 351, page 3: "Golden Apple 2"]]</ref> Sharon did teach Chris the disguise techniques she learned from Toichi after Chris begged for them.<ref name="f351p3" /> One year prior to the current timeline, Sharon says she hasn't seen Chris in ten years and that she is currently hanging out with a "bad crowd" of people.<ref name="f351p3" />{{clear}}

===Hints that Vermouth was Dr. Araide and not Jodie===
[[File:Jodie mirror pictures.PNG|thumb|right|Jodie's copies have uneven borders, highlighted in red, from imperfect camera alignment while photographing Vermouth's images.]]
There were several hints that Vermouth was Dr. Araide and not [[Jodie Saintemillion]] who was also a candidate for being Vermouth before her true identity was revealed.
*The records of [[Kogoro Mouri]]'s cases that Vermouth stole did not contain any cases involving [[Jodie Saintemillion]], but did contain the murder case [[Tomoaki Araide]] was involved in. This was the clue that allowed Conan to deduce Araide was Vermouth.
*Jodie's copies of [[Media:Vermouth dartboard.PNG|the pictures of Ran and Conan on Vermouth's dartboard]] have irregular borders indicating they were photographs of Vermouth's pictures.<ref name="f343p18">[[Volume 34#File 343 - Who Are You?|Volume 34, File 343, page 18: "Who Are You?"]]</ref> This detail was overlooked in the anime. Also, Jodie has a picture of Dr. Araide.
*Araide switches from the basketball to the drama club.<ref name="f270p3">[[Volume 27#File 270 - Game Start|Volume 27, File 270, page 3: "Game Start"]]</ref>
*Haibara skipped school on the day of the yearly health checkups that Dr. Araide gives the elementary school students. Conan wonders if Haibara thinks there is something wrong with Araide.<ref name="f287p3">[[Volume 29#File 287 - The Unseen Horror|Volume 29, File 287, page 9: "The Unseen Horror"]]</ref>
*Vermouth falls out of character. One of her patients says Dr. Araide has been acting like a stranger.<ref name=355p6>Manga [[Volume 35]], File 5 (355), pg 6: "The Haunted House's Mystery 1"</ref> Also, "Dr. Araide" claims to have sent his grandmother and housekeeper Hikaru ahead to Aomori,<ref name=355p5>Manga [[Volume 35]], File 5 (355), pg 5: "The Haunted House's Mystery 1"</ref> which is strange because it was established in the Araide family murder case<ref>[[Volume 24#File 235 - In the Darkness...|Volume 24, Files 235-236: "In the Darkness..."]]</ref> that Araide didn't trust them (especially Hikaru) to take care of themselves.<ref>[[Volume 35#File 355 - Mystery of the Haunted House 1|Volume 35, File 355: "Mystery of the Haunted House 1"]], [[The Truth of the Haunted House|Episode 274: The Truth of the Haunted House]]</ref>

===Jodie's discovery Chris Vineyard, Sharon Vineyard and Vermouth are the same person ===
[[File:Vermouth with little Jodie.png|thumb|right|Seven year old Jodie encounters Vermouth twenty years ago]]
Jodie's father in the FBI was secretly investigating Vermouth twenty years before the current storyline.<ref name="f433" /> That is too young for Chris Vineyard to be in disguise as she is only 29 currently and would be 9 at the time. After Vermouth killed Jodie's father she inadvertently handled Jodie’s father’s glasses barehanded which had fallen off of him and got her fingerprints on them. Unexpectedly, little Jodie came in and saw Vermouth holding the glasses. When Vermouth left after setting the house on fire, she didn't anticipate that Jodie left to get juice, taking her father’s glasses with her and thus preserving her fingerprint. After she discovered Jodie's corpse was not found in the house, Vermouth looked for the girl desperately in order to rectify her mistake, but Jodie had since been put into witness protection.

Jodie suspected Chris Vineyard of being Vermouth when she saw her at Sharon’s funeral. She somehow determined Chris Vineyard’s prints matched those of the glasses. Chris would have been too young to commit a crime 20 years ago, so later Jodie obtained Sharon’s fingerprints and matched those as well. All three matched, proving to Jodie that the three people were one and the same.

===Conan's investigation===
====Conan's discovery Vermouth disguised as Dr. Araide====
[[Conan]] suspects [[Pisco]] had help from another [[Black Organization]] member. He looks into [[Chris Vineyard]] and realizes that she is able to disguise herself and may be pretending to be someone close to him. [[Kogoro Mouri]]’s case records were stolen from the police department. Conan realizes [[Tomoaki Araide]] is Vermouth because Vermouth needed the files to testify at the trial properly while in disguise.

[[File:Vermouth_and_Dr._Araide.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Vermouth as Dr. Araide]]
Conan first suspects there is another Black Organization member who was present at the mourning party after considering how Pisco obtained another purple handkerchief which enabled him to leave the investigation. Conan didn't realize that this Black Organization member might be after him or Haibara until after the bus jack case when [[Haibara]] tells Conan there was definitely someone from the Organization on the bus. Conan's first suspect is [[Shuichi Akai]] whose behavior seemed suspicious.<ref name="f291p11">[[Volume 29#File 291 - A Tiny Trace|Volume 29, File 291, page 11: "A Tiny Trace"]]</ref> After he recognizes Akai in the P & A case<ref name="f326">[[Volume 32#File 326 - P & A|Volume 32, File 326-328: "P & A"]]</ref>, Conan shows sensitivity to the prospect of someone investigating them.<ref name="f332">[[Volume 33#File 332 - Bloody Valentine 2|Volume 33, File 332: "Bloody Valentine 2"]]</ref> Conan doesn't seem to suspect the person Vermouth has replaced, [[Tomoaki Araide|Dr. Araide]], yet because he was willing to use his voice changer in front of him.<ref name="f330">[[Volume 33#File 330 - Sato's Feelings|Volume 33, File 2: "Satou's feelings"]]</ref>

Conan gets his first tangible proof someone is investigating around him when [[Takagi]] informs Conan all the records of [[Kogoro]]'s cases were stolen from the police station on the day of the bus hijack incident and later returned.<ref name="f336p9">[[Volume 33#File 336 - Clean Scent|Volume 33, File 336, pages 9-10: "Clean Scent"]]</ref> He begins to wonder who the target is and suspects Akai may be behind the incident because of the timing. Conan also begins to suspect the English teacher [[Jodie Starling|Jodie Saintemillion]] and Dr. Araide as well because they were also on the bus.<ref name="f343p17">[[Volume 34#File 343 - Who Are You?|Volume 34, File 343, page 17: "Who Are You?"]]</ref> He isn't sure of the motive for taking the records although Conan wonders if someone is trying to lure him out or if the person returned the files because they already knew what Conan would do.<ref name="f336p9">[[Volume 34#File 341 - The Hint That Was Against|Volume 34, File 341: "The Hint That Was Against"]]</ref>

Conan's idea that Pisco had an accomplice among the other suspects has fully solidified. He has noticed one of the suspects who had a purple handkerchief, [[Chris Vineyard]], hasn't appeared in public since that case, thus Conan believes Chris is the Black Organization accomplice. He asks [[Agasa]] to go onto Chris's fansite and gather information on her past, interests, and habits<ref name="f341p3">[[Volume 34#File 341 - The Hint That Was Against|Volume 34, File 341, page 3: "The Hint That Was Against"]]</ref> and Agasa's investigation corroborates with Conan's deduction.<ref name="f344p9" /> Conan is already aware that Chris Vineyard has disguise abilities and may be in disguise as someone around him.<ref name="f343p17" />

At this point, Conan is still uncertain of Araide, Jodie, and Akai's allegiances. He learns from [[Ran]] that Shuichi Akai was seen with a man in an [[FBI]] jacket during the New York case, causing Conan to wonder if the FBI is in Japan for some reason or the Black Organization infiltrated the American law enforcement.<ref name="f380p5">[[Volume 37#File 380 - White Snow... Black Shadow...|Volume 37, File 380, pages 5-6: "White Snow... Black Shadow..."]]</ref> Conan begins to take precautions around Dr. Araide and Jodie by lying to them in order to minimize contact and information they have about Haibara.<ref name="f420">[[Volume 41#File 420 - The Enclosing Surrounding Net|Volume 41, File 420: "The Enclosing Surrounding Net"]]</ref><ref name="f422">[[Volume 41#File 422 - Inescapable Target|Volume 41, File 422: "Inescapable Target"]]</ref> However, Jodie and Dr. Araide both go over to Agasa's house and plant listening devices because Conan failed to communicate his suspicion and plans to Agasa.<ref name="f422" />

By the time Conan gets the letter from Vermouth inviting him the off-season Halloween mystery party, he has realized that Vermouth is most likely Dr. Araide because Jodie wasn't in Mouri's case files when they were stolen, while Araide was. Vermouth needed the files to give proper testimony at the trial and to act correctly as Araide. Vermouth puts her plan to capture Haibara into action by calling Agasa's house as Dr. Araide saying he wants to take Haibara to a hospital because her cough hasn't gotten better.<ref name="f430p9">[[Volume 42#File 430 - The Haunted Ship Painted with Blood|Volume 42, File 430, page 9: "The Haunted Ship Painted with Blood"]]</ref> Conan is still unsure of Jodie's allegiance until she answers the door before Dr. Araide arrives. Jodie lies to "Haibara" (who is really Conan in disguise) saying that Dr. Araide's car has broken down and she has come in his place.<ref name="f431p3">[[Volume 42#File 431 - The Invisible Man Enters!|Volume 42, File 431, page 3: "The Invisible Man Enters!"]]</ref> Conan catches the lie and realizes that Jodie has been listening to the bugs as well and is acting to protect Haibara, meaning she is against Vermouth. Armed with this info, he asks Jodie to force the truth from Vermouth, and in return he will trust her.<ref name="f432p4">[[Volume 42#File 432 - Shinichi Kudo Appears!?|Volume 42, File 432, page 4: "Shinichi Kudo Appears!?"]]</ref>

Conan tells Jodie the true scenario of Dr. Araide's family murder case.<ref name="f433p11">[[Volume 42#File 433 - The Truth Behind the Mask|Volume 42, File 433, page 11: "The Truth Behind the Mask"]]</ref> Tomoaki Araide’s father, Yoshiteru Araide, was killed in his bathtub via electrocution. The murder was masterminded by Yoshiteru Araide's second wife, Yoko Araide. She caused a blackout to occur while she was supposedly on the phone, and during the ensuing darkness, snuck to the bathroom and put an electric shaver in the bathtub. She then crept back and asked the housemaid [[Hikaru Yasumoto]] to flip the circuit breaker, causing Yoshiteru Araide to be electrocuted. "Sleeping Kogoro", the police, and the criminal decided to create a false investigation record to protect the conscience of the maid Hikaru. Jodie used this to her advantage and forced Vermouth to reveal that she didn't know the true sequence of events.<ref name="f432p11">[[Volume 42#File 432 - Shinichi Kudo Appears!?|Volume 42, File 432, page 11: "Shinichi Kudo Appears!?"]]</ref>

====Conan's discovery Chris Vineyard, Sharon Vineyard and Vermouth are the same person====
[[File:Vermouth protecting Conan.png|thumb|right|Vermouth disguised as Dr. Araide protects Conan on the hijacked bus. This action puzzled Conan until he realized he had unknowingly saved Vermouth in New York city one year before.]]
At the same time Shinichi and Ran were in New York City, Vermouth disguised as a silver-haired serial killer in order to lure out [[Shuichi Akai]]. Later, Conan suspected the serial killer may have been someone in disguise when he heard that the serial killer’s blood and fingerprints on the stair rails were cleaned up, an action uncharacteristic for someone intending to commit suicide.<ref name=354p3>Manga [[Volume 35]], File 5 (354), pg 3: "Golden Apple 5". Note that Conan had not figured out everything completely at this point.</ref><ref>Manga [[Volume 37]], File 8 (380), pg 6: "White Snow... Black Shadow...". Conan is now convinced that the serial killer was killed. He had begun suspecting Shuichi Akai previously, and he still does at this point after Ran informs him Akai is an FBI agent, because Akai could be a spy in the FBI from the Black Organization.</ref> Sharon was the only person Conan knew about in the local area with high disguise abilities, so suspicion naturally fell onto her.

After Vermouth disguised as Araide, Conan deduced from the way Vermouth was behaving that she was trying to avoid involving Conan in her plan and was only targeting Haibara. Vermouth as Dr. Araide risked her life to protect Conan in the bus jack case and helped him out in Sato's matchup case. When Conan gets the letter from Vermouth inviting him the off-season Halloween mystery party, he realizes that Vermouth's intentions are to only trap Haibara and that Vermouth is trying to lure Conan to the party to avoid catching him up in her plan.

Conan who didn't exist a year ago has no reason to be “protected” by Vermouth. Conan deduces Vermouth must know his identity as Shinichi and the reason for her “protection” must have to do with something he did as Shinichi. However, Sharon was the only one Shinichi had a connection with, and she is apparently dead. Sharon’s daughter Chris has never met Shinichi and is estranged from Sharon Vineyard so she alone doesn't have an adequate motive to protect Shinichi. Also, it wouldn’t make sense for Chris Vineyard, who isn’t a family friend like Sharon, to be able to recognize Shinichi as Conan; presumably Vermouth saw young Shinichi with Yukiko when she was Sharon.<ref>Manga [[Volume 42]], File 10, pg 5</ref>

All these clues come together when Conan makes the assumption that Sharon Vineyard is Chris Vineyard who disguised as the silver haired serial killer in New York and that she is grateful for being rescued by [[Shinichi]] and [[Ran]].<ref name="f429p9">[[Volume 42#File 429 - The Full Moon and the Trap at the Banquet|Volume 42, File 429, page 9: "The Full Moon and the Trap at the Banquet"]]. After Conan tells Agasa that Vermouth probably knows who they are, Agasa asks "If they know that much, why haven't they come here to kill you?". Conan's response is, "I don't know the reason, but... but I think I at least know one of the causes."</ref>

===List of disguises used===
{{main|Disguise}}
Vermouth has used many disguises over the course of the series. These are the known ones used so far.
<gallery perrow="6">
File:Sharon Vineyard 308.png|Sharon Vineyard
File:Chris_Vineyard_first_appearence.png|Chris Vineyard
File:Radish_Redwood.jpg|New York City police officer [[Radish Redwood]].<ref name="NYcase">[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case]]</ref>
File:EP288 Slasher.jpg|Serial killer in New York City to lure out and kill [[Shuichi Akai]].<ref name="NYcase"/>
File:Not Tomoaki Araide.png|[[Tomoaki Araide]] as part of a plan to capture [[Ai Haibara]]
File:Vermouth's_disguise_as_a_waiter.png|Waiter at a jazz bar to tease [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]]<ref>Volume 29: Files 3~5. Episode 230-231. "[[The Mysterious Passenger]]"</ref>
File:Jodie_Starling_Profile.jpg|[[Jodie Starling]] to trick the FBI into leaving the shipping yards.<ref>Volume 42: Files 5~10. Episode 345. "[[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night]]"</ref>
File:Fake Bleeding Kiriko Busujima.png|Kiriko Busujima in order to lure assassination target Domon Yasudera out.<ref>Volume 48: File 9~Volume 49: File 4. Episode 425. "[[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out]]"</ref>
File:Foreign_Lady.jpg|Simple disguise used when meeting with the witness Touji Funemoto to investigate about [[Kir]]'s whereabouts.<ref>[[The Shadow of the Black Organization|Episode 464 - 465]]</ref>
File:Vermouth Scar Akai Train case.jpg|Vermouth disguised as Scar Akai on the Bell Tree Express and had put the same disguise on [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] several times earlier.<ref>[[Volume_78#Mystery_Train|Mystery Train]]</ref>
File:VermouthDisguised.jpg‎|Simple disguise with hat, sunglasses and tied hair.<ref>[[Volume 78|Volume 78, File 824]]</ref>
File:V81-F851 Woman.jpg|Vermouth as "Motoe Benzaki", Touhei Benzaki's fictitious wife<ref>It is revealed in [[Volume 81|File 855]] that Touhei is single, which means that "Motoe" never existed and was only a random alias come up by Vermouth, basing on the appearance of the real woman who taped Jodie.</ref>, who claims to be the woman who taped Jodie back in the bank robbery.
File:vermouth as jodie.png|Vermouth disguises as Jodie a second time to trap Camel into revealing critical details about [[Rikumichi Kusuda]]'s death.<ref>Manga [[Volume 84]], File 10 (893): "The Scarlet Prologue"</ref>

File:Vermouth First Disguise.jpg|Policeman in [[The Raven Chaser]]<ref>There were two police officers with glasses in the meeting room, this one was sitting in the last row and went out first. He walked in the same direction as Yamamura to the toilet, who later heard Vermouth dial "[[Nanatsu no Ko]]" near the bathroom. This spiky-haired officer was also shown entering Gin's car and not the other one.</ref>
File:Vermouth Second Disguise.jpg|Mall shopper in [[The Raven Chaser]]
</gallery>

== Speculation ==
=== Vermouth's true age ===
Vermouth's age is unknown because her history is largely unclear. We know she has lived as Chris who is 29, and as Sharon whose age is unknown. Her face when she killed Jodie's father 20 years was youthful, suggesting she is currently at least 40 years old as long as no deaging has occurred.

===Vermouth did not use [[APTX 4869]]===
A popular theory on Vermouth's non-aging is that she used [[APTX 4869]] to achieve her youthfulness since this is the only known substance capable of producing such an effect ([[Silver Bullet]]'s effects are unknown at this point). However, at present there are things that contradict such a notion. Vermouth would have faced near certain death if she had used APTX 4869.<ref name=V2/> Before Vermouth discovered Haibara and Conan, the known members of the Black Organization (besides Sherry) only knew about APTX 4869's lethal effects,<ref>Sherry did not report the results that several of her mice shrank to the greater organization because they have not been able to figure out how Shiho managed to escape the locked room. If Shiho had reported her data, the Organization would have known that shrinking was a possible side effect of APTX 4869 and would have figured out how she escaped and begun looking for a child. Furthermore, if Shiho had reported to the Organization that APTX 4869 had the possibility of leaving the victim alive, the Boss and/or Shiho's superiors would not have permitted the drug in situations where the victim, if surviving, could escape as in Shinichi's case.</ref> and it was considered deadly enough that Sherry's superiors employed it as an untraceable murder weapon.<ref name=V2>Gin described APTX 4869 as a poison before using it on Shinichi, "We'll use this, the new poison the Organization developed. You can't find any signs of poison on the body with this stuff..." (V1-1 pg 37) Haibara also mentions that it was used on a number of other people, "Of all the people who took the drug, only your death hadn't been confirmed yet." (V18-9 pg 6 The Org took great pains to ensure the people APTX4869 was used on were dead, evidenced when they sent Shiho out to investigate Shinichi's case twice to confirm his death. (V18-9 pg 6) Additionally, Gin gave the OK for it to be employed in a time sensitive assassination where failure would be unacceptable: "Anyway, our superior has ordered us to kill him before he rats us out. Don't screw up, Pisco! If there is any complication, you can use the 'experimental drug' [APTX 4869]" (V24-7 pg 17) If the boss, who has been stated to be cautious to a fault, knew about the risk that someone might survive APTX 4869, he would not let his subordinates use the drug without letting them know there was a chance it would leave people alive because, if someone escaped, they could talk to the police or someone else and leak the secret of the Black Organization's existence. If Gin knew it failed to work some of the time, he would have never left Shinichi alone while it acted, and would have also gone looking for him after his body disappeared if that was the case. Even Shiho Miyano who was aware APTX 4869 could rarely cause de-aging expected it to kill her. "I thought that since I was going to get killed anyways, I would take the APTX 4869 which I secretly held. To my luck, the drug that I took thinking it would kill me shrunk by body..." (V18-9 pg 8) Finally, Shiho makes it clear the Organization is not simply trying APTX 4869 out on victims, they are actively using it to kill. "If I reported your condition to the Organization, it's very likely you would have been terminated before I could do something useful." (V18-9 pg 7) Even though Shinichi was an "interesting specimen" (V18-9 pg 7), if the Org was field testing, they would try to capture Shinichi alive for study. Shiho was still project manager when use on humans began and when Shinichi was poisoned, so she would know the Organization's protocol should someone fail to die.</ref> However, given that Vermouth has said depressing things over the course of the series,<ref>"No angel has smiled upon me", "My life represents a series of misfortunes" (V35-1 pg 2)</ref> it is possible Vermouth took APTX 4869 hoping to commit suicide, but she de-aged instead, similar to Haibara's situation<ref>"I thought that since I was going to get killed anyways, I would take the APTX 4869 which I secretly held. To my luck, the drug that I took thinking it would kill me shrunk by body..." (V18-9 pg 8)</ref>. Vermouth could have also gambled on taking APTX 4869 after she recognized the deaged Shiho and Shinichi and then discovered that APTX 4869 was the common connection between them and likely cause of their conditions. However, both the suicide scenario (if it occurred while Shiho was working on the drug) and the gambling scenario fail to explain why no one in the Black Organization has questioned why Vermouth has become younger, especially after Gin saw her true face following the Haunted Ship case<ref>Akai's shotgun fire struck Vermouth's face and wounded it which made it apparent she wasn't wearing a mask and thus that was her true face. Vermouth was picked up by Gin in a telephone booth and he would have noticed her facial injury as well.</ref>, and then connected that with APTX 4869 use and Sherry's mysterious escape from the handcuffs and locked room. 
It is possible that Atsushi and Elena Miyano had something to do with Vermouth's de-aging/non-aging (e.g. Vermouth was their guinea pig). This might explain the personal animosity Vermouth feels towards the Miyanos and why she calls their APTX experiment foolish.

Vermouth's de-aging/non-aging may be a result of a project older than Shiho's APTX 4869, like her parents' [[Silver Bullet]], or something else even older than that. This would explain why none of the other members of the Black Organization suspect that APTX 4869 can also cause this effect and thus are unaware of the possibility Shiho de-aged to escape.

==Relationships analysis==
=== Family & Friends ===
[[File:Sharon and Yukiko young.jpg|thumb|right|125px|Vermouth with Yukiko approximately 20 years ago.]]
==== Yukiko Kudo ====
Vermouth, as her alias Sharon Vineyard and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]] had a friendly relationship between the time they met under Toichi Kuroba's tutelage until the time Sharon "died". Yukiko had no idea Sharon was leading a double life as an operative in the Black Organization. Yukiko and Sharon seemed to have kept in contact with one another because Yukiko and Sharon both know about events in each others' lives that occurred after Toichi's lessons. Sharon was the one who got tickets for Yukiko, Shinichi, and Ran to the Golden Apple play on Broadway in New York City one year prior to the current time line. Yukiko attended Sharon's funeral. Later, Yukiko sadly accepts Conan's deduction that Sharon and Chris are the same person and a member of the Black Organization.

=== Black Organization ===
[[File:Vermouth_provoking_Gin.png|thumb|right|125px|Vermouth teases Gin with a disguise.]]
==== Gin ====
Vermouth and [[Gin]] are or were in a sexual relationship with one another.<ref name="CD239a">Conan Drill page 239, "肉体関係" (sexual relations)</ref> They get along well enough on missions, but Gin does not like Vermouth's habit of keeping secrets or her teasing. Before the events of the showdown on the ghost ship, Vermouth and Gin trusted one another, but some of Gin's trust may have disappeared as Vermouth failed to inform even the boss of her intentions.<ref name="CD239b">Conan Drill page 239, "同僚・信頼" (Colleagues Trusted)</ref> Gin doesn't mind threatening her with bodily harm, he nearly stabbed her through the head with an icepick on one occasion when she teased him disguised as a waiter, and he later pointed his gun at her when asking how she was connected with Kogoro. She doesn't seem especially bothered by any of these threats however. Because Vermouth is a high ranking member and the boss's favorite, she isn't scared of provoking the other agents, not even Gin who is extremely dangerous and sensitive. She smiled after moving her head to avoid Gin's deadly sweep with an icepick telling him that "She was just joking" which shows that she enjoys teasing him.

[[File:Vermouth_episode_230.png|thumb|125px|right|Vermouth terrifies Haibara.]]

==== Sherry ====
Vermouth and [[Ai Haibara|Sherry]] have some connection, although it has not been elaborated on. Vermouth appears to dislike the research the Miyanos engaged in, calling it foolish. Shiho fears Vermouth more than most other members except perhaps Gin. Shiho was Vermouth's target, but Vermouth gave up on her after Conan's intervention. If Shiho was in a romantic relationship with Gin, then Vermouth and Shiho were love rivals as Vermouth was in a sexual relationship with Gin.<ref name="CD239c">Conan Drill page 239, "恋のライバル…?" (Love rivals?)</ref> During the Bell Tree Express arc, Vermouth tries to use C4 explosives to kill Sherry without telling anyone about the plan, while Bourbon wanted to take her back alive hinting at an abnormal hatred towards her.

==== Boss ====
In file 898, Bourbon reveals that there is some sort of connection between Vermouth and the [[Boss of the Black Organization]], implying that her relationship with the boss goes further than merely being his/her favorite member. Bourbon also notes that he has arranged for her secret to be revealed to the whole Black Organization in case something happens to him, and points out that the other members would be quite surprised if they knew the nature of the relationship.

==== Calvados ====
[[Calvados]] was in love with Vermouth, and Vermouth took advantage of his feelings and used him. Vermouth called on Calvados to aid her in disposing with Jodie and capturing Haibara at the shipping yards. After Akai got the best of Calvados and Vermouth, she chose to run away, leaving him at the mercy of the FBI. Calvados chose to commit suicide rather than be caught.

==== Chianti and Korn ====
[[Chianti]] and [[Korn]] both hate Vermouth because they believe that Vermouth took advantage of Calvados' feelings for her and used him, leading him to his death. Chianti has been more vocal with her hatred than Korn.

==== Pisco ====
Although Vermouth and [[Pisco]] are executive members, Vermouth dislikes and looks down on Pisco despite cooperating with him.<ref name="CD239d">Conan Drill page 239, 見下す (despise look down on}</ref>

==== Tooru Amuro ====
[[Tooru Amuro|Amuro]] worked with Vermouth on a plan to determine if [[Shuichi Akai]] was really dead. She made [[Scar Akai|masks that looked like Akai's face with a scar]] for him so he could approach Akai's friends and colleagues to see their reactions to him. She also interfered with his plans to capture Sherry alive by rigging the location Amuro intended to trap Sherry in with explosives to kill her.

=== Law enforcement ===
==== Jodie Starling ====
[[Jodie Starling]] has a bitter hatred for Vermouth because Vermouth murdered her father, but Vermouth doesn't have any particular animosity for Jodie beyond her being a skilled FBI adversary whom she would like to kill. Jodie thinks Vermouth is an entirely evil person. Vermouth was extremely well liked and kind to students and patients while disguised as [[Tomoaki Araide]], so when the real Araide wonders if Vermouth is really a bad person, Jodie takes offense and angrily yells at him, "How can someone be a good person if she kills people with a smile!?"<ref>Manga Volume 45, File 2, pg 18: "The truth behind the remaining desk"</ref>

20 years before the current timeline, Vermouth goes to the house of Jodie's father, an FBI agent, and kills him. An eight to nine year old [[Jodie Starling]] walks in while Vermouth was trying to put his glasses back on his body and thinks her father is asleep. Vermouth tells her that she should wait for her father to wake up. When the girl asks her who is she, Vermouth replies "A secret makes a woman, woman". Vermouth burns the house down, thinking Jodie stayed behind and was killed as well. However, the girl goes out of the house to buy orange juice for her father, narrowly escaping death. She also takes her father's glasses with her, preserving the fingerprints Vermouth left on them. When Vermouth finds out Jodie's body was not in the house, she looks for her to kill her, but the FBI enrolled her in witness protection. Jodie later becomes an FBI agent in order to find her father's killer.

==== Shuichi Akai ====
Vermouth and [[Shuichi Akai|Akai]] don't have much personal animosity for each other in particular despite the fact that they have been hunting one another for some time. Vermouth regards Akai as a "silver bullet": someone with the potential to destroy the Black Organization. In accordance with this assessment, she attacks him immediately and preferentially in the confrontation with her at the docks. Akai seems to hit a nerve when he called her a rotten apple, wilted on the inside.

==== Kir ====
She suspected [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] is a member of the CIA though she didn't tell anyone about it.

=== Others ===
[[File:Vermouth_dartboard.PNG|thumb|150px|right|Vermouth's dartboard. Conan's picture has "Cool guy" written on it while Ran's says "Angel."]]
==== Shinichi Kudo ====
After [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] helped Ran save Vermouth's life in New York while she was disguised as a serial killer, she nicknames him "Cool guy". Later in the series, after [[Conan]] successfully interfered with Vermouth's plan of killing [[Haibara]], then almost forced her to surrender and take him to find [[The Boss of the Black Organization|the boss]], she gives him another nickname - "Silver bullet" - as she believes that he has the potential to destroy the Black Organization, because he could touch her heart. Generally, Vermouth tries to protect Shinichi when she is able to, even if it means risking her own life. Although Shinichi found out later that he unknowingly rescued Vermouth in New York City and that Vermouth was a friend of Yukiko's, Shinichi doesn't understand why Vermouth would make the promise to give up on hunting Sherry and not inform the Black Organization about Haibara and himself.

==== Ran Mouri ====
After Ran saved Vermouth's life in New York City, Vermouth nicknames [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] "Angel". Earlier, Vermouth, as her Sharon Vineyard role, complained that her life was a series of misfortunes and, "No angel has smiled upon me, not even once."<ref name="f350p18" /> Even though Vermouth in disguise prepared to kill Ran later, Ran stopped Vermouth from taking a fatal fall. Vermouth was touched by this act of kindness. Much later in the story when Ran shielded Haibara from gunfire with her body, Vermouth refused to shoot Ran or allow her to be shot, instead firing around her in an attempt to frighten Ran into releasing Haibara. Although Ran does not know who Vermouth really is, she values the handkerchief that Sharon Vineyard gave her back in New York.

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Vermouth placed 9th in the poll with 75 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 15th movie, [[Quarter of Silence]], the official Conan movie website held a popularity poll for the top 10 Detective Conan characters. Vermouth placed 6th out of 10.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conan-movie.jp/camp_chara/camp15th_res.html|title=名探偵コナン「キャラクター人気投票」|date=2011|publisher=www.conan-movie.jp|accessdate=2011-08-12}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Vermouth/Sharon Vineyard placed 8th overall with 372 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

== Name origin ==
Vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines. [[Wikipedia:Vermouth|Vermouth]] is a type of flavored fortified wine, which follows the pattern of wine based codenames for women in the Black Organization.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Vermouth Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Vermouth's "Before" Appearance (Episode 230)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Vermouth After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Vermouth's "Middle" Appearance (Movie 13)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:704_05.png|thumb|left|x200px|Vermouth's "After" Appearance (Episode 701)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
=== General ===
{{cquote|A secret makes a woman, woman.|Vermouth's motto}}
{{cquote|Two silver bullets aren't needed. Only one is enough.|Thinking about Conan after hearing the news of Akai's death.}}

=== Specific ===

{{cquote|We can be both of God and the Devil. Since we're trying to raise the dead against the stream of time.|[[Volume_37#File_380_-_White_Snow..._Black_Shadow...|V37-8 pg11]]|Speaking to [[Suguru Itakura]] over the phone when he demanded to know who Vermouth thought she was.}}
{{cquote|If he could reach my heart, maybe he could be our long awaited [[silver bullet]]...|[[Volume 42]], File 10, pg 18. Vermouth believes Conan is the person capable of ending the Organization she was waiting for.}}
{{cquote|No angel has ever smiled upon me. Not even once.|[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case|Episode 286]]|Speaking to Yukiko and Ran about how Sharon's life has been unfortunate.}}
{{cquote|I wonder if there is really god. If he truly existed, wouldn't all hard working, honest people be happy?|[[Episode 286]]|Vermouth expresses her disbelief in god to Ran.}}
{{cquote|Well if you must blame someone, blame a God that set this up for you.|[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case|Episode 288]]|Vermouth in disguise as the serial killer speaking to Ran in preparation to kill her in New York City}}

==In other languages==
===Vermouth===
{{BeginTable OtherLang}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|ベルモット Berumotto}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Vermouth/Wermut}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Vermouth/Belmouth (anime)}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|Bilmot بلموت}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Paramount (manga)}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|苦艾酒 Kǔ'àijiǔ 贝尔摩得 Bèi'ěrmódé}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เบลม็อท Belmot}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Вермут}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Sweden|Swedish|Vermouth/Vermut}}
{{EndTable}}

===Sharon Vineyard===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|シャロン Sharon|ヴィンヤード Binyaado}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Sharon|Vinyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic| نينا\شيرون Nina\Sharon<ref>|Nina was only used during Shinichi Kudo in New York episodes.</ref>| Vineyard ڤنيارد}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Sharon|Vinyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|莎朗 Shālǎng|温亚德 Wēnyàdé<ref>This name was used when Sharon was first mentioned in the [[Chinese Manga (Changchun)|Chinese Volume 34]]. Since the translation was based on the English pronunciation of the name, there may be other variants in later cases.</ref>}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ชารอน Sharon|วินยาร์ด Vinyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Шарон|Винеярд}}
{{EndTable}}

===Chris Vineyard===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|クリス Kurisu|ヴィンヤード Binyaado}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Chris|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Chris|Vinyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Chris|Vinyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Chris|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic| كرِس Chris|Vineyard ڤنيارد}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Chris|Vinyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|克莉丝 Kèlìsī|温亚德 Wēnyàdé<ref>This name appears on Vermouth's name card when she first appeared in the [[Chinese Manga (Changchun)|Chinese Volume 24]]. Since the translation was based on the English pronunciation of the name, there may be other variants in later cases.</ref>}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|คริส|วินยาร์ด}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Chris|Vineyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Крис|Винеярд}}
{{EndTable}}

== Trivia ==
*The FBI's nickname for Vermouth, Rotten Apple, could also refer to "fermenting apples", which are known to produce alcohol.
*Half of Vermouth's disguises contain glasses, seen in her role of [[Sharon Vineyard]], [[Tomoaki Araide]], [[Jodie Starling]], a policeman, an unknown woman and a simple disguise.
* The people who spoke well of Vermouth while she was Araide are [[Ran]]'s karate mentor [[Kazumi Tsukamoto]] ("You still have that look of an Angel, Dr. Araide"), Kazumi's friend Kunishige Seto ("Before our catious Dr. Araide takes me to the hospital"), the school's principal ("Thanks to the exercise you taught me, my waist feel much better!"), and Ran herself ("Dr. Araide is a truly nice person, right?").
*In episode 674 of the anime, Vermouth's phone appears to be modeled after the iPhone.

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[wikipedia:Vermouth|Vermouth]] (Alcohol)

== References ==
<references/>
{{Black Organization}}
{{Characters}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vineyard, Sharon}}
[[Category:Black Organization]] [[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Female characters]]
[[Category:Characters who know Conan's identity]]
[[Category:Characters who know Ai Haibara's identity]]
[[Category:Entertainment]]
[[de:Vermouth]]

Vermouth

2015-07-15T22:14:12Z

Bunchu Thong-In: /* Vermouth */

{{SpoilerWarningArticle|This article contains significant '''[[Glossary#Spoiler|spoilers]]''' about major events concerning this person. It is likely you will be spoiled if you have not read all the manga released to date. To find out what pages will be safe for you to read, please consult our [[Glossary#Spoiler|wiki spoiler policy]].}}

{{InfoBox Char
| name = Vermouth
| japanese-name = ベルモット (Berumotto)
| english-name = Vermouth
| image = Vermouth Profile.jpg
| age = Her true age is unknown (29) Chris Vineyard<ref>[[Volume 24#File 239 - The Black Burial Ranks|Volume 24, File 239: "The Black Burial Ranks"]]</ref> (?) Sharon Vineyard
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives =
| occupation = Black Organization member
| nicknames = Rotten Apple ([[FBI]])
| aliases = Chris Vineyard Sharon Vineyard
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_24#Hotel_Party_Murder_Case|File 239]] Anime: [[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 176]]
| appearances = {{:Vermouth Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 26]] (Chris Vineyard) [[Volume 35]] (Sharon Vineyard)
| japanese-voice = [[Mami Koyama]]
| english-voice =
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Vermouth|ベルモット|Berumotto}}''', also known as '''{{nihongo|Sharon Vineyard|シャロン・ヴィンヤード|Sharon Vinyādo}}''' and '''{{nihongo|Chris Vineyard|クリス・ヴィンヤード|Kurisu Vinyādo}}''', is an actress and member of the [[Black Organization]] in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
Vermouth's background is very mysterious because she has been secretly living at least two lives through the art of disguise: that of actress Sharon Vineyard (now "deceased") and her supposed daughter, Chris Vineyard.

As the actress Sharon Vineyard, Vermouth gained much fame on Broadway and in movies, even winning an Oscar. Even then, she was a member of the Black Organization. Twenty years ago, she murdered [[Jodie Starling]]'s [[FBI]] father who had collected information on her. Jodie Starling would eventually grow up to be an FBI agent and one of Vermouth's most bitter enemies. As Sharon, Vermouth became close friends with [[Yukiko Kudo]] back when they were studying disguise under [[Toichi Kuroba]].

At some point Sharon began to pretend to have a daughter named Chris. While Sharon was still alive, Chris kept out of the public eye except for acting in movies and giving interviews. Less than one year ago, Vermouth staged Sharon Vineyard's death, which allowed Chris to come out publicly. Currently, Vermouth serves the Black Organization with the public name Chris Vineyard.

Vermouth is [[The Boss of the Black Organization|the boss]]’s favorite which grants her some independence. Vermouth also has some particular connection to the boss that she does not want known by the greater organization, which [[Bourbon]] is blackmailing her with.<ref>Manga Volume 85, File 898: "Scarlet Epilogue"</ref> She also appears not to age or have de-aged over a period of twenty years between when she killed Jodie's parents and her current appearance. She doesn’t seem to like [[APTX 4869|the research]] that [[Shiho Miyano]] and [[Atsushi Miyano|her]] [[Elena Miyano|parents]] engaged in, calling it “foolish". <ref>[[Volume 42#File 434 - Rotten Apple|Volume 42, File 434: "Rotten Apple"]]</ref>

Vermouth entered the storyline some time after [[Ai Haibara|Shiho Miyano/Sherry/Ai Haibara]]'s mysterious flight from the Organization. Her main objective was to track down and eliminate the 'traitor', and for that purpose she assumed the identity of doctor [[Tomoaki Araide]]. But although she managed to discover Shiho's reversion into a child, she did not succeed in killing her, as she met [[Conan Edogawa]], who was able to discover and thwart her plans. She also encountered the FBI during this process.

Vermouth has great personal interest in Conan, constantly calling him "[[Silver Bullet]]". Since it has been revealed that she knows about Ai and Kudo's reversion to their child forms, she seems to know the shrinking effect the drug can have, but for reasons yet unrevealed she keeps this knowledge secret from the rest of the Organization.

== Personality ==
Although she follows orders from [[Anokata|the boss]] and [[Gin]] when he is charge of missions, Vermouth often acts according to her own agenda and whims, even when it runs contrary to the [[Black Organization]]'s best interests. She is secretive and manipulative, even towards other Organization members. Vermouth is confident in her abilities, is very bold, and an expert at manipulating situations to her advantage: traits which allow her to single-handedly weave complex plots and take the upper hand even while she is being monitored by enemies. She is intelligent and insightful, correctly suspecting the allegiance of Kir, but she was successfully outwitted by [[Conan]] and forced by [[Shuichi Akai]] to retreat.

[[File:Vermouth provoking Gin.png|thumb|left|Vermouth teases Gin and Vodka by disguising as a waiter.]]
Vermouth's personality is contradictory at times. On one hand, she is a cruel and ruthless agent who will blackmail an unwilling man to commit murder by threatening him and his family just to provide a distraction and happily tell [[Jodie Starling|an FBI agent]] she should smile because she will see her dead father again in heaven. On the other hand, she risks her life several times to protect Conan, [[Ran]], and [[Kogoro]], and her friendly behavior while in disguise as Tomoaki Araide left the real Araide wondering if Vermouth is really a bad person. This inconsistency may reflect an underlying conflict of conscience after [[Shinichi]] and Ran saved her life during the events of the [[Vermouth_timeline#Golden_Apple_Case_.28Manga:_350-354_Anime:_286-288.29|Golden Apple case]]. Vermouth also appears to be an atheist at first as she claims to not believe in god nor angels until Ran unknowingly rescued her which seems to have given her back some faith.

At this point, Vermouth's motives are very mysterious. She knows about Conan being Shinichi, as well as that Haibara is Sherry, yet she has kept this information a secret from the rest of the Organization. She dislikes the Miyano family's research. She also retains personal feelings for persons who have earned a special place in her heart, such as Shinichi/Conan (as the son of [[Yukiko Kudo|her best friend]]) and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]].<ref name="e288">[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case|Episode 288: Shinichi Kudo's New York Case, Part 3]].</ref> As a result, she is highly unwilling to do them any harm even when she is ordered to do so.

She enjoys teasing others, seen when she disguised as a male waiter and served Gin and Vodka martinis and taunted Chianti by wishing her good luck and blowing her a kiss.<ref>[[Volume 49#File 501 - Follow the Target!|Volume 49, File 501, page 7: "Follow the Target!"]]</ref>
{{clearleft}}

==Abilities==
===Disguise===
[[File:Vermouth_taking_off_Araide's_mask.png|thumb|right|Vermouth removes a latex mask.]]
Vermouth is able to mimic anyone's appearance and voice exactly with her disguise and acting skills even after observing them for only a short period of time. Vermouth frequently utilizes latex masks. Her disguising ability has been noted by Conan to be on par with the current Kaito Kid (Kaito Kuroba).<ref>[[Volume 44|Volume 44, File 457, Page 7]]</ref> Although she may have known how to disguise prior to meeting [[Toichi Kuroba]], she studied disguise under him. Her disguise ability was first shown in [[The Mysterious Passenger]]<ref>[[Volume 29#File 287 - The Unseen Horror|Volume 29, File 287: "The Unseen Horror"]], [[The Mysterious Passenger|Episode 230: The Mysterious Passenger]]</ref> where she dressed as a male waiter to tease [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]]. [[Jodie Starling]] once referred to Vermouth's disguise abilities as a frightening type of perfection.<ref>[[Episode 362]]</ref>

===Reconnaissance===
Vermouth specializes in reconnaissance and infiltration, and has been shown to work very swiftly yet cautiously to rapidly acquire information. Her confidence and skill in disguise and imitation means she can execute bold plans that put her in very close contact with her targets and she can advance her plot even when they are suspicious of her. Without the aid of the other organization members, Vermouth successfully snuck into the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police|Tokyo Metropolitan Police headquarters]] in order to steal the records of [[Kogoro Mouri]]'s cases. She later returned them when presumably the surveillance would be even higher after the police noticed the files were missing. She then single-handedly staked out the [[FBI]] who were lured out into watching Kogoro Mouri and uncovered their numbers, addresses, and ways to contact them.

===Stamina===
Vermouth is quite strong and has developed a high pain tolerance. While she was disguised as a serial killer in New York City, Vermouth athletically vaults up from a dead hanging positioning over the railing of the stairwell to higher ground despite being shot in the side. She also shoots herself in the leg in order to avoid the effects of sleeping gas, and was able to limp to a phone booth on that shot leg, with several broken ribs caused by Akai, and with a deep scratch on her right shoulder when Jodie shot at her.

===Shooting===
As Vermouth pulled away in Jodie's car with broken ribs after her flak jacket absorbed a close range shotgun blast, she managed to aim a handgun backwards with her left hand using the side mirror while driving a car she wasn't used to and shoot Araide's car's gas tank standing 100 yards away, causing it to explode. Akai is impressed she managed that difficult shot with her battered body. Earlier however, she failed to draw fast enough to shoot Jodie or Akai; in the first case, the gun was shot out of her hand, in the second, Akai fired first.

==Non-aging==
[[File:Vermouth 20 years ago.png|thumb|right|Vermouth's appearance 20 years before the current timeline.]]
For some reason, Vermouth does not appear to age. Her apparent age hasn’t changed since she murdered Jodie’s parents twenty years ago.<ref name="f433">[[Volume 42#File 433 - The Truth Behind the Mask|Volume 42, File 433: "The Truth Behind the Mask"]]</ref> [[Shuichi Akai]] proved that Vermouth was not wearing a mask when his shotgun fire grazed her face. Specifically, it hasn't been clarified if Vermouth hasn't aged over time or if she became younger all at once. It is also important to note that Vermouth's talent for disguise makes it difficult to figure out when Vermouth stopped aging or deaged.

==Appellations==
<tabs jsId="nicknames">
<tab title="Protagonists">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Vermouth !! style="width:200px;"|What Vermouth calls them
|-
| [[File:Conan Edogawa 60px.jpg]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Vermouth || Cool Guy [[Silver Bullet]]
|-
| [[File:Ran Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Ran Mouri]] || Sharon<ref>[[Volume 35|Volume 35, File 353, Page 6]]</ref> || Angel
|-
| [[File:Ai Haibara 60px.jpg]] || [[Ai Haibara]] || Vermouth || Sherry That girl Special Lady<ref name=823p15>823 pg 15</ref>
|-
| [[File:Kogoro Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Kogoro Mouri]] || - || That detective<ref name=827p16>827 pg 16</ref>
|-
| [[File:Ayumi Yoshida 60px.jpg]] || [[Ayumi Yoshida]] || - || The kids (collective)<ref name=824p3>824 pg 3</ref>
|-
| [[File:Genta Kojima 60px.jpg]] || [[Genta Kojima]] || - || The kids (collective)<ref name=824p3/>
|-
| [[File:Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya 60px.jpg]] || [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] || - || The kids (collective)<ref name=824p3/>
|-
</tab>
<tab title="FBI">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Vermouth !! style="width:200px;"|What Vermouth calls them
|-
| [[File:Jodie Starling 60px.jpg]] || [[Jodie Starling]] || Vermouth || This woman Jodie
|-
| [[File:Shuichi Akai 60px.jpg]] || [[Shuichi Akai]] ||Vermouth Rotten Apple || Shuichi Akai [[Silver Bullet]]
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Black Organization">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Vermouth !! style="width:200px;"|What Vermouth calls them
|-
| [[File:Anokata 60px.jpg]] || [[Anokata]] || Vermouth || Boss
|-
| [[File:Gin 60px.jpg]] || [[Gin]] || Vermouth That woman || Gin
|-
| [[File:Shiho Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Shiho Miyano]] || Vermouth || Sherry That girl Special Lady<ref name=823p15>823 pg 15</ref>
|-
| [[File:Tooru Amuro 60px.jpg]] || [[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]] || Vermouth || Bourbon
|-
| [[File:Vodka 60px.jpg]] || [[Vodka]] || Vermouth || Vodka
|-
| [[File:Calvados 60px.jpg]] || [[Calvados]] || ??? || Calvados
|-
| [[File:Chianti 60px.jpg]] || [[Chianti]] || That woman || Chianti
|-
| [[File:Korn 60px.jpg]] || [[Korn]] || Vermouth || ???
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Vermouth !! style="width:200px;"|What Vermouth calls them
|-
| [[File:Yukiko Kudo 60px.jpg]] || [[Yukiko Kudo]] || Sharon || Yukiko
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

==Plot overview==
===Manga and Anime Timeline===
{{main|Vermouth timeline}}

===Raven Chaser===
In Movie 13: [[The Raven Chaser]], Vermouth disguises as a brown haired policeman in a dark suit with glasses to check on Irish's progress and the integrity of his disguise during the conference. After texting the boss outside the bathroom, she exits the building and leaves in Gin's Porsche 356A.

She is seen again disguising as a young brown-haired woman when trying to come closer to the believed serial killer but leaves as soon as she realizes he is not. [[Conan]] tracks her down in the underground parking lot and makes her reveal herself. She gives Conan essential information about an organization member named [[Irish]] and wishes him good luck when leaving.
It is later revealed that she was the one who supervised the captured [[Matsumoto]] and provided him with comestibles. When the police finds out about Matsumoto's remains, she informs [[Gin]] about it and leaves.
Finally, she is briefly seen driving along the Highway when Gin's helicopter crashes, complimenting Conan's accomplishments and calling him again a "silver bullet".
{{clear}}
==Plot Exposition==
===Family History===
[[File:Chris_and_Sharon.png|thumb|right|Chris and Sharon Vineyard]]
In order to camouflage the fact that Sharon Vineyard and Chris Vineyard are the same person, Vermouth concocted personal histories for her real life cover roles in order to make them seem like different people. When Sharon and Chris Vineyard were revealed to be one and the same, at least part of the stated Vineyard family history was revealed to be a lie. It is unknown how much of the remainder is truthful, based on the truth, or outright fabrication because the primary source of the information is Vermouth herself who may have more to hide.

Little is known of Sharon Vineyard's mother and father. Sharon's parents were not actors, at least not well known ones, because Agasa called Chris Vineyard a second generation actress.<ref name="f341p8">[[Volume 34#File 341 - The Hint That Was Against|Volume 34, File 341, page 8: "The Hint That Was Against"]]</ref> According to Sharon's story, both her mother and father died in a fire on the day Sharon debuted on screen.<ref name="f351p2">[[Volume 35#File 351 - Golden Apple 2|Volume 35, File 351, page 2: "Golden Apple 2"]]</ref>

So far, Sharon Vineyard's age has not been given and nothing is known about her personal history before she became an actress. Even her fans knew little about her private life even after she became famous.<ref name="f344p9">[[Volume 34#File 344 - The Storm of Booing|Volume 34, File 344, page 9: "The Storm of Booing"]]</ref> Sharon said her road to stardom was very difficult and full of misfortune, prompting her to doubt the existence of God: "No angel has smiled upon me, not even once."<ref name="f350p18">[[Volume 34#File 350 - Golden Apple 1|Volume 34, File 350, page 18: "Golden Apple 1"]]</ref> Sharon became a star actress<ref name="f350p16">[[Volume 34#File 350 - Golden Apple 1|Volume 34, File 350, page 16: "Golden Apple 1"]]</ref> and, according to [[Shuichi Akai]], is best known for her work in the Golden Apple broadway play. [[File:Chris with Veil.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Chris Vineyard coming out into public for the first time - at the funeral of her mother Sharon Vineyard]] At some point, she married and gave birth to her daughter Chris Vineyard. Her husband later died of an unspecified illness the day after Sharon won an Oscar. While studying for an acting role approximately 20 years ago, Sharon learned disguise techniques from [[Toichi Kuroba]] alongside the aspiring young Japanese actress [[Yukiko Kudo]].<ref name="f350p17">[[Volume 34#File 350 - Golden Apple 1|Volume 34, File 350, page 17: "Golden Apple 1"]]</ref><ref>Yukiko started her career while in high-school. Yukiko is 37 currently so the time frame while Yukiko was studying as a beginning actress is approximately 20 years ago when Yukiko was 17 or 18.</ref> During their time together, Yukiko became Sharon's friend, and they have maintained contact with one another. Sharon later sent Yukiko three tickets to Golden Apple broadway production the year before she died. The cause of Sharon's death has not been revealed.

Chris Vineyard meanwhile became a successful actress quickly by riding the coattails of her mother's fame.<ref name="f351p2" /> She began to make movies and give interviews to reporters only, but otherwise she never appeared publicly.<ref name="f344p9" /> The first day she came out into public was the day of her mother's funeral some time less than one year ago.<ref name="f344p9" /> A reporter who tried to question Chris asked where she went to school, whether she got along with her mother, who her father is, and if the rumored lover she has will appear at Sharon's funeral.<ref name="f344p10">[[Volume 34#File 344 - The Storm of Booing|Volume 34, File 344, page 10: "The Storm of Booing"]]</ref> Chris answered none of these, but the types of questions which were asked demonstrate the secrecy surrounding the Vineyard family history.

Sharon Vineyard and Chris apparently didn't get along; Sharon doesn't consider Chris to be her daughter.<ref name="f351p2" /> Sharon explained this by relaying a tale to Yukiko about Chris who disguised as Sharon's husband and then met with Sharon when she visited her husband's grave to lay flowers.<ref name="f351p3">[[Volume 35#File 351 - Golden Apple 2|Volume 35, File 351, page 3: "Golden Apple 2"]]</ref> Sharon did teach Chris the disguise techniques she learned from Toichi after Chris begged for them.<ref name="f351p3" /> One year prior to the current timeline, Sharon says she hasn't seen Chris in ten years and that she is currently hanging out with a "bad crowd" of people.<ref name="f351p3" />{{clear}}

===Hints that Vermouth was Dr. Araide and not Jodie===
[[File:Jodie mirror pictures.PNG|thumb|right|Jodie's copies have uneven borders, highlighted in red, from imperfect camera alignment while photographing Vermouth's images.]]
There were several hints that Vermouth was Dr. Araide and not [[Jodie Saintemillion]] who was also a candidate for being Vermouth before her true identity was revealed.
*The records of [[Kogoro Mouri]]'s cases that Vermouth stole did not contain any cases involving [[Jodie Saintemillion]], but did contain the murder case [[Tomoaki Araide]] was involved in. This was the clue that allowed Conan to deduce Araide was Vermouth.
*Jodie's copies of [[Media:Vermouth dartboard.PNG|the pictures of Ran and Conan on Vermouth's dartboard]] have irregular borders indicating they were photographs of Vermouth's pictures.<ref name="f343p18">[[Volume 34#File 343 - Who Are You?|Volume 34, File 343, page 18: "Who Are You?"]]</ref> This detail was overlooked in the anime. Also, Jodie has a picture of Dr. Araide.
*Araide switches from the basketball to the drama club.<ref name="f270p3">[[Volume 27#File 270 - Game Start|Volume 27, File 270, page 3: "Game Start"]]</ref>
*Haibara skipped school on the day of the yearly health checkups that Dr. Araide gives the elementary school students. Conan wonders if Haibara thinks there is something wrong with Araide.<ref name="f287p3">[[Volume 29#File 287 - The Unseen Horror|Volume 29, File 287, page 9: "The Unseen Horror"]]</ref>
*Vermouth falls out of character. One of her patients says Dr. Araide has been acting like a stranger.<ref name=355p6>Manga [[Volume 35]], File 5 (355), pg 6: "The Haunted House's Mystery 1"</ref> Also, "Dr. Araide" claims to have sent his grandmother and housekeeper Hikaru ahead to Aomori,<ref name=355p5>Manga [[Volume 35]], File 5 (355), pg 5: "The Haunted House's Mystery 1"</ref> which is strange because it was established in the Araide family murder case<ref>[[Volume 24#File 235 - In the Darkness...|Volume 24, Files 235-236: "In the Darkness..."]]</ref> that Araide didn't trust them (especially Hikaru) to take care of themselves.<ref>[[Volume 35#File 355 - Mystery of the Haunted House 1|Volume 35, File 355: "Mystery of the Haunted House 1"]], [[The Truth of the Haunted House|Episode 274: The Truth of the Haunted House]]</ref>

===Jodie's discovery Chris Vineyard, Sharon Vineyard and Vermouth are the same person ===
[[File:Vermouth with little Jodie.png|thumb|right|Seven year old Jodie encounters Vermouth twenty years ago]]
Jodie's father in the FBI was secretly investigating Vermouth twenty years before the current storyline.<ref name="f433" /> That is too young for Chris Vineyard to be in disguise as she is only 29 currently and would be 9 at the time. After Vermouth killed Jodie's father she inadvertently handled Jodie’s father’s glasses barehanded which had fallen off of him and got her fingerprints on them. Unexpectedly, little Jodie came in and saw Vermouth holding the glasses. When Vermouth left after setting the house on fire, she didn't anticipate that Jodie left to get juice, taking her father’s glasses with her and thus preserving her fingerprint. After she discovered Jodie's corpse was not found in the house, Vermouth looked for the girl desperately in order to rectify her mistake, but Jodie had since been put into witness protection.

Jodie suspected Chris Vineyard of being Vermouth when she saw her at Sharon’s funeral. She somehow determined Chris Vineyard’s prints matched those of the glasses. Chris would have been too young to commit a crime 20 years ago, so later Jodie obtained Sharon’s fingerprints and matched those as well. All three matched, proving to Jodie that the three people were one and the same.

===Conan's investigation===
====Conan's discovery Vermouth disguised as Dr. Araide====
[[Conan]] suspects [[Pisco]] had help from another [[Black Organization]] member. He looks into [[Chris Vineyard]] and realizes that she is able to disguise herself and may be pretending to be someone close to him. [[Kogoro Mouri]]’s case records were stolen from the police department. Conan realizes [[Tomoaki Araide]] is Vermouth because Vermouth needed the files to testify at the trial properly while in disguise.

[[File:Vermouth_and_Dr._Araide.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Vermouth as Dr. Araide]]
Conan first suspects there is another Black Organization member who was present at the mourning party after considering how Pisco obtained another purple handkerchief which enabled him to leave the investigation. Conan didn't realize that this Black Organization member might be after him or Haibara until after the bus jack case when [[Haibara]] tells Conan there was definitely someone from the Organization on the bus. Conan's first suspect is [[Shuichi Akai]] whose behavior seemed suspicious.<ref name="f291p11">[[Volume 29#File 291 - A Tiny Trace|Volume 29, File 291, page 11: "A Tiny Trace"]]</ref> After he recognizes Akai in the P & A case<ref name="f326">[[Volume 32#File 326 - P & A|Volume 32, File 326-328: "P & A"]]</ref>, Conan shows sensitivity to the prospect of someone investigating them.<ref name="f332">[[Volume 33#File 332 - Bloody Valentine 2|Volume 33, File 332: "Bloody Valentine 2"]]</ref> Conan doesn't seem to suspect the person Vermouth has replaced, [[Tomoaki Araide|Dr. Araide]], yet because he was willing to use his voice changer in front of him.<ref name="f330">[[Volume 33#File 330 - Sato's Feelings|Volume 33, File 2: "Satou's feelings"]]</ref>

Conan gets his first tangible proof someone is investigating around him when [[Takagi]] informs Conan all the records of [[Kogoro]]'s cases were stolen from the police station on the day of the bus hijack incident and later returned.<ref name="f336p9">[[Volume 33#File 336 - Clean Scent|Volume 33, File 336, pages 9-10: "Clean Scent"]]</ref> He begins to wonder who the target is and suspects Akai may be behind the incident because of the timing. Conan also begins to suspect the English teacher [[Jodie Starling|Jodie Saintemillion]] and Dr. Araide as well because they were also on the bus.<ref name="f343p17">[[Volume 34#File 343 - Who Are You?|Volume 34, File 343, page 17: "Who Are You?"]]</ref> He isn't sure of the motive for taking the records although Conan wonders if someone is trying to lure him out or if the person returned the files because they already knew what Conan would do.<ref name="f336p9">[[Volume 34#File 341 - The Hint That Was Against|Volume 34, File 341: "The Hint That Was Against"]]</ref>

Conan's idea that Pisco had an accomplice among the other suspects has fully solidified. He has noticed one of the suspects who had a purple handkerchief, [[Chris Vineyard]], hasn't appeared in public since that case, thus Conan believes Chris is the Black Organization accomplice. He asks [[Agasa]] to go onto Chris's fansite and gather information on her past, interests, and habits<ref name="f341p3">[[Volume 34#File 341 - The Hint That Was Against|Volume 34, File 341, page 3: "The Hint That Was Against"]]</ref> and Agasa's investigation corroborates with Conan's deduction.<ref name="f344p9" /> Conan is already aware that Chris Vineyard has disguise abilities and may be in disguise as someone around him.<ref name="f343p17" />

At this point, Conan is still uncertain of Araide, Jodie, and Akai's allegiances. He learns from [[Ran]] that Shuichi Akai was seen with a man in an [[FBI]] jacket during the New York case, causing Conan to wonder if the FBI is in Japan for some reason or the Black Organization infiltrated the American law enforcement.<ref name="f380p5">[[Volume 37#File 380 - White Snow... Black Shadow...|Volume 37, File 380, pages 5-6: "White Snow... Black Shadow..."]]</ref> Conan begins to take precautions around Dr. Araide and Jodie by lying to them in order to minimize contact and information they have about Haibara.<ref name="f420">[[Volume 41#File 420 - The Enclosing Surrounding Net|Volume 41, File 420: "The Enclosing Surrounding Net"]]</ref><ref name="f422">[[Volume 41#File 422 - Inescapable Target|Volume 41, File 422: "Inescapable Target"]]</ref> However, Jodie and Dr. Araide both go over to Agasa's house and plant listening devices because Conan failed to communicate his suspicion and plans to Agasa.<ref name="f422" />

By the time Conan gets the letter from Vermouth inviting him the off-season Halloween mystery party, he has realized that Vermouth is most likely Dr. Araide because Jodie wasn't in Mouri's case files when they were stolen, while Araide was. Vermouth needed the files to give proper testimony at the trial and to act correctly as Araide. Vermouth puts her plan to capture Haibara into action by calling Agasa's house as Dr. Araide saying he wants to take Haibara to a hospital because her cough hasn't gotten better.<ref name="f430p9">[[Volume 42#File 430 - The Haunted Ship Painted with Blood|Volume 42, File 430, page 9: "The Haunted Ship Painted with Blood"]]</ref> Conan is still unsure of Jodie's allegiance until she answers the door before Dr. Araide arrives. Jodie lies to "Haibara" (who is really Conan in disguise) saying that Dr. Araide's car has broken down and she has come in his place.<ref name="f431p3">[[Volume 42#File 431 - The Invisible Man Enters!|Volume 42, File 431, page 3: "The Invisible Man Enters!"]]</ref> Conan catches the lie and realizes that Jodie has been listening to the bugs as well and is acting to protect Haibara, meaning she is against Vermouth. Armed with this info, he asks Jodie to force the truth from Vermouth, and in return he will trust her.<ref name="f432p4">[[Volume 42#File 432 - Shinichi Kudo Appears!?|Volume 42, File 432, page 4: "Shinichi Kudo Appears!?"]]</ref>

Conan tells Jodie the true scenario of Dr. Araide's family murder case.<ref name="f433p11">[[Volume 42#File 433 - The Truth Behind the Mask|Volume 42, File 433, page 11: "The Truth Behind the Mask"]]</ref> Tomoaki Araide’s father, Yoshiteru Araide, was killed in his bathtub via electrocution. The murder was masterminded by Yoshiteru Araide's second wife, Yoko Araide. She caused a blackout to occur while she was supposedly on the phone, and during the ensuing darkness, snuck to the bathroom and put an electric shaver in the bathtub. She then crept back and asked the housemaid [[Hikaru Yasumoto]] to flip the circuit breaker, causing Yoshiteru Araide to be electrocuted. "Sleeping Kogoro", the police, and the criminal decided to create a false investigation record to protect the conscience of the maid Hikaru. Jodie used this to her advantage and forced Vermouth to reveal that she didn't know the true sequence of events.<ref name="f432p11">[[Volume 42#File 432 - Shinichi Kudo Appears!?|Volume 42, File 432, page 11: "Shinichi Kudo Appears!?"]]</ref>

====Conan's discovery Chris Vineyard, Sharon Vineyard and Vermouth are the same person====
[[File:Vermouth protecting Conan.png|thumb|right|Vermouth disguised as Dr. Araide protects Conan on the hijacked bus. This action puzzled Conan until he realized he had unknowingly saved Vermouth in New York city one year before.]]
At the same time Shinichi and Ran were in New York City, Vermouth disguised as a silver-haired serial killer in order to lure out [[Shuichi Akai]]. Later, Conan suspected the serial killer may have been someone in disguise when he heard that the serial killer’s blood and fingerprints on the stair rails were cleaned up, an action uncharacteristic for someone intending to commit suicide.<ref name=354p3>Manga [[Volume 35]], File 5 (354), pg 3: "Golden Apple 5". Note that Conan had not figured out everything completely at this point.</ref><ref>Manga [[Volume 37]], File 8 (380), pg 6: "White Snow... Black Shadow...". Conan is now convinced that the serial killer was killed. He had begun suspecting Shuichi Akai previously, and he still does at this point after Ran informs him Akai is an FBI agent, because Akai could be a spy in the FBI from the Black Organization.</ref> Sharon was the only person Conan knew about in the local area with high disguise abilities, so suspicion naturally fell onto her.

After Vermouth disguised as Araide, Conan deduced from the way Vermouth was behaving that she was trying to avoid involving Conan in her plan and was only targeting Haibara. Vermouth as Dr. Araide risked her life to protect Conan in the bus jack case and helped him out in Sato's matchup case. When Conan gets the letter from Vermouth inviting him the off-season Halloween mystery party, he realizes that Vermouth's intentions are to only trap Haibara and that Vermouth is trying to lure Conan to the party to avoid catching him up in her plan.

Conan who didn't exist a year ago has no reason to be “protected” by Vermouth. Conan deduces Vermouth must know his identity as Shinichi and the reason for her “protection” must have to do with something he did as Shinichi. However, Sharon was the only one Shinichi had a connection with, and she is apparently dead. Sharon’s daughter Chris has never met Shinichi and is estranged from Sharon Vineyard so she alone doesn't have an adequate motive to protect Shinichi. Also, it wouldn’t make sense for Chris Vineyard, who isn’t a family friend like Sharon, to be able to recognize Shinichi as Conan; presumably Vermouth saw young Shinichi with Yukiko when she was Sharon.<ref>Manga [[Volume 42]], File 10, pg 5</ref>

All these clues come together when Conan makes the assumption that Sharon Vineyard is Chris Vineyard who disguised as the silver haired serial killer in New York and that she is grateful for being rescued by [[Shinichi]] and [[Ran]].<ref name="f429p9">[[Volume 42#File 429 - The Full Moon and the Trap at the Banquet|Volume 42, File 429, page 9: "The Full Moon and the Trap at the Banquet"]]. After Conan tells Agasa that Vermouth probably knows who they are, Agasa asks "If they know that much, why haven't they come here to kill you?". Conan's response is, "I don't know the reason, but... but I think I at least know one of the causes."</ref>

===List of disguises used===
{{main|Disguise}}
Vermouth has used many disguises over the course of the series. These are the known ones used so far.
<gallery perrow="6">
File:Sharon Vineyard 308.png|Sharon Vineyard
File:Chris_Vineyard_first_appearence.png|Chris Vineyard
File:Radish_Redwood.jpg|New York City police officer [[Radish Redwood]].<ref name="NYcase">[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case]]</ref>
File:EP288 Slasher.jpg|Serial killer in New York City to lure out and kill [[Shuichi Akai]].<ref name="NYcase"/>
File:Not Tomoaki Araide.png|[[Tomoaki Araide]] as part of a plan to capture [[Ai Haibara]]
File:Vermouth's_disguise_as_a_waiter.png|Waiter at a jazz bar to tease [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]]<ref>Volume 29: Files 3~5. Episode 230-231. "[[The Mysterious Passenger]]"</ref>
File:Jodie_Starling_Profile.jpg|[[Jodie Starling]] to trick the FBI into leaving the shipping yards.<ref>Volume 42: Files 5~10. Episode 345. "[[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night]]"</ref>
File:Fake Bleeding Kiriko Busujima.png|Kiriko Busujima in order to lure assassination target Domon Yasudera out.<ref>Volume 48: File 9~Volume 49: File 4. Episode 425. "[[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out]]"</ref>
File:Foreign_Lady.jpg|Simple disguise used when meeting with the witness Touji Funemoto to investigate about [[Kir]]'s whereabouts.<ref>[[The Shadow of the Black Organization|Episode 464 - 465]]</ref>
File:Vermouth Scar Akai Train case.jpg|Vermouth disguised as Scar Akai on the Bell Tree Express and had put the same disguise on [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] several times earlier.<ref>[[Volume_78#Mystery_Train|Mystery Train]]</ref>
File:VermouthDisguised.jpg‎|Simple disguise with hat, sunglasses and tied hair.<ref>[[Volume 78|Volume 78, File 824]]</ref>
File:V81-F851 Woman.jpg|Vermouth as "Motoe Benzaki", Touhei Benzaki's fictitious wife<ref>It is revealed in [[Volume 81|File 855]] that Touhei is single, which means that "Motoe" never existed and was only a random alias come up by Vermouth, basing on the appearance of the real woman who taped Jodie.</ref>, who claims to be the woman who taped Jodie back in the bank robbery.
File:vermouth as jodie.png|Vermouth disguises as Jodie a second time to trap Camel into revealing critical details about [[Rikumichi Kusuda]]'s death.<ref>Manga [[Volume 84]], File 10 (893): "The Scarlet Prologue"</ref>

File:Vermouth First Disguise.jpg|Policeman in [[The Raven Chaser]]<ref>There were two police officers with glasses in the meeting room, this one was sitting in the last row and went out first. He walked in the same direction as Yamamura to the toilet, who later heard Vermouth dial "[[Nanatsu no Ko]]" near the bathroom. This spiky-haired officer was also shown entering Gin's car and not the other one.</ref>
File:Vermouth Second Disguise.jpg|Mall shopper in [[The Raven Chaser]]
</gallery>

== Speculation ==
=== Vermouth's true age ===
Vermouth's age is unknown because her history is largely unclear. We know she has lived as Chris who is 29, and as Sharon whose age is unknown. Her face when she killed Jodie's father 20 years was youthful, suggesting she is currently at least 40 years old as long as no deaging has occurred.

===Vermouth did not use [[APTX 4869]]===
A popular theory on Vermouth's non-aging is that she used [[APTX 4869]] to achieve her youthfulness since this is the only known substance capable of producing such an effect ([[Silver Bullet]]'s effects are unknown at this point). However, at present there are things that contradict such a notion. Vermouth would have faced near certain death if she had used APTX 4869.<ref name=V2/> Before Vermouth discovered Haibara and Conan, the known members of the Black Organization (besides Sherry) only knew about APTX 4869's lethal effects,<ref>Sherry did not report the results that several of her mice shrank to the greater organization because they have not been able to figure out how Shiho managed to escape the locked room. If Shiho had reported her data, the Organization would have known that shrinking was a possible side effect of APTX 4869 and would have figured out how she escaped and begun looking for a child. Furthermore, if Shiho had reported to the Organization that APTX 4869 had the possibility of leaving the victim alive, the Boss and/or Shiho's superiors would not have permitted the drug in situations where the victim, if surviving, could escape as in Shinichi's case.</ref> and it was considered deadly enough that Sherry's superiors employed it as an untraceable murder weapon.<ref name=V2>Gin described APTX 4869 as a poison before using it on Shinichi, "We'll use this, the new poison the Organization developed. You can't find any signs of poison on the body with this stuff..." (V1-1 pg 37) Haibara also mentions that it was used on a number of other people, "Of all the people who took the drug, only your death hadn't been confirmed yet." (V18-9 pg 6 The Org took great pains to ensure the people APTX4869 was used on were dead, evidenced when they sent Shiho out to investigate Shinichi's case twice to confirm his death. (V18-9 pg 6) Additionally, Gin gave the OK for it to be employed in a time sensitive assassination where failure would be unacceptable: "Anyway, our superior has ordered us to kill him before he rats us out. Don't screw up, Pisco! If there is any complication, you can use the 'experimental drug' [APTX 4869]" (V24-7 pg 17) If the boss, who has been stated to be cautious to a fault, knew about the risk that someone might survive APTX 4869, he would not let his subordinates use the drug without letting them know there was a chance it would leave people alive because, if someone escaped, they could talk to the police or someone else and leak the secret of the Black Organization's existence. If Gin knew it failed to work some of the time, he would have never left Shinichi alone while it acted, and would have also gone looking for him after his body disappeared if that was the case. Even Shiho Miyano who was aware APTX 4869 could rarely cause de-aging expected it to kill her. "I thought that since I was going to get killed anyways, I would take the APTX 4869 which I secretly held. To my luck, the drug that I took thinking it would kill me shrunk by body..." (V18-9 pg 8) Finally, Shiho makes it clear the Organization is not simply trying APTX 4869 out on victims, they are actively using it to kill. "If I reported your condition to the Organization, it's very likely you would have been terminated before I could do something useful." (V18-9 pg 7) Even though Shinichi was an "interesting specimen" (V18-9 pg 7), if the Org was field testing, they would try to capture Shinichi alive for study. Shiho was still project manager when use on humans began and when Shinichi was poisoned, so she would know the Organization's protocol should someone fail to die.</ref> However, given that Vermouth has said depressing things over the course of the series,<ref>"No angel has smiled upon me", "My life represents a series of misfortunes" (V35-1 pg 2)</ref> it is possible Vermouth took APTX 4869 hoping to commit suicide, but she de-aged instead, similar to Haibara's situation<ref>"I thought that since I was going to get killed anyways, I would take the APTX 4869 which I secretly held. To my luck, the drug that I took thinking it would kill me shrunk by body..." (V18-9 pg 8)</ref>. Vermouth could have also gambled on taking APTX 4869 after she recognized the deaged Shiho and Shinichi and then discovered that APTX 4869 was the common connection between them and likely cause of their conditions. However, both the suicide scenario (if it occurred while Shiho was working on the drug) and the gambling scenario fail to explain why no one in the Black Organization has questioned why Vermouth has become younger, especially after Gin saw her true face following the Haunted Ship case<ref>Akai's shotgun fire struck Vermouth's face and wounded it which made it apparent she wasn't wearing a mask and thus that was her true face. Vermouth was picked up by Gin in a telephone booth and he would have noticed her facial injury as well.</ref>, and then connected that with APTX 4869 use and Sherry's mysterious escape from the handcuffs and locked room. 
It is possible that Atsushi and Elena Miyano had something to do with Vermouth's de-aging/non-aging (e.g. Vermouth was their guinea pig). This might explain the personal animosity Vermouth feels towards the Miyanos and why she calls their APTX experiment foolish.

Vermouth's de-aging/non-aging may be a result of a project older than Shiho's APTX 4869, like her parents' [[Silver Bullet]], or something else even older than that. This would explain why none of the other members of the Black Organization suspect that APTX 4869 can also cause this effect and thus are unaware of the possibility Shiho de-aged to escape.

==Relationships analysis==
=== Family & Friends ===
[[File:Sharon and Yukiko young.jpg|thumb|right|125px|Vermouth with Yukiko approximately 20 years ago.]]
==== Yukiko Kudo ====
Vermouth, as her alias Sharon Vineyard and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]] had a friendly relationship between the time they met under Toichi Kuroba's tutelage until the time Sharon "died". Yukiko had no idea Sharon was leading a double life as an operative in the Black Organization. Yukiko and Sharon seemed to have kept in contact with one another because Yukiko and Sharon both know about events in each others' lives that occurred after Toichi's lessons. Sharon was the one who got tickets for Yukiko, Shinichi, and Ran to the Golden Apple play on Broadway in New York City one year prior to the current time line. Yukiko attended Sharon's funeral. Later, Yukiko sadly accepts Conan's deduction that Sharon and Chris are the same person and a member of the Black Organization.

=== Black Organization ===
[[File:Vermouth_provoking_Gin.png|thumb|right|125px|Vermouth teases Gin with a disguise.]]
==== Gin ====
Vermouth and [[Gin]] are or were in a sexual relationship with one another.<ref name="CD239a">Conan Drill page 239, "肉体関係" (sexual relations)</ref> They get along well enough on missions, but Gin does not like Vermouth's habit of keeping secrets or her teasing. Before the events of the showdown on the ghost ship, Vermouth and Gin trusted one another, but some of Gin's trust may have disappeared as Vermouth failed to inform even the boss of her intentions.<ref name="CD239b">Conan Drill page 239, "同僚・信頼" (Colleagues Trusted)</ref> Gin doesn't mind threatening her with bodily harm, he nearly stabbed her through the head with an icepick on one occasion when she teased him disguised as a waiter, and he later pointed his gun at her when asking how she was connected with Kogoro. She doesn't seem especially bothered by any of these threats however. Because Vermouth is a high ranking member and the boss's favorite, she isn't scared of provoking the other agents, not even Gin who is extremely dangerous and sensitive. She smiled after moving her head to avoid Gin's deadly sweep with an icepick telling him that "She was just joking" which shows that she enjoys teasing him.

[[File:Vermouth_episode_230.png|thumb|125px|right|Vermouth terrifies Haibara.]]

==== Sherry ====
Vermouth and [[Ai Haibara|Sherry]] have some connection, although it has not been elaborated on. Vermouth appears to dislike the research the Miyanos engaged in, calling it foolish. Shiho fears Vermouth more than most other members except perhaps Gin. Shiho was Vermouth's target, but Vermouth gave up on her after Conan's intervention. If Shiho was in a romantic relationship with Gin, then Vermouth and Shiho were love rivals as Vermouth was in a sexual relationship with Gin.<ref name="CD239c">Conan Drill page 239, "恋のライバル…?" (Love rivals?)</ref> During the Bell Tree Express arc, Vermouth tries to use C4 explosives to kill Sherry without telling anyone about the plan, while Bourbon wanted to take her back alive hinting at an abnormal hatred towards her.

==== Boss ====
In file 898, Bourbon reveals that there is some sort of connection between Vermouth and the [[Boss of the Black Organization]], implying that her relationship with the boss goes further than merely being his/her favorite member. Bourbon also notes that he has arranged for her secret to be revealed to the whole Black Organization in case something happens to him, and points out that the other members would be quite surprised if they knew the nature of the relationship.

==== Calvados ====
[[Calvados]] was in love with Vermouth, and Vermouth took advantage of his feelings and used him. Vermouth called on Calvados to aid her in disposing with Jodie and capturing Haibara at the shipping yards. After Akai got the best of Calvados and Vermouth, she chose to run away, leaving him at the mercy of the FBI. Calvados chose to commit suicide rather than be caught.

==== Chianti and Korn ====
[[Chianti]] and [[Korn]] both hate Vermouth because they believe that Vermouth took advantage of Calvados' feelings for her and used him, leading him to his death. Chianti has been more vocal with her hatred than Korn.

==== Pisco ====
Although Vermouth and [[Pisco]] are executive members, Vermouth dislikes and looks down on Pisco despite cooperating with him.<ref name="CD239d">Conan Drill page 239, 見下す (despise look down on}</ref>

==== Tooru Amuro ====
[[Tooru Amuro|Amuro]] worked with Vermouth on a plan to determine if [[Shuichi Akai]] was really dead. She made [[Scar Akai|masks that looked like Akai's face with a scar]] for him so he could approach Akai's friends and colleagues to see their reactions to him. She also interfered with his plans to capture Sherry alive by rigging the location Amuro intended to trap Sherry in with explosives to kill her.

=== Law enforcement ===
==== Jodie Starling ====
[[Jodie Starling]] has a bitter hatred for Vermouth because Vermouth murdered her father, but Vermouth doesn't have any particular animosity for Jodie beyond her being a skilled FBI adversary whom she would like to kill. Jodie thinks Vermouth is an entirely evil person. Vermouth was extremely well liked and kind to students and patients while disguised as [[Tomoaki Araide]], so when the real Araide wonders if Vermouth is really a bad person, Jodie takes offense and angrily yells at him, "How can someone be a good person if she kills people with a smile!?"<ref>Manga Volume 45, File 2, pg 18: "The truth behind the remaining desk"</ref>

20 years before the current timeline, Vermouth goes to the house of Jodie's father, an FBI agent, and kills him. An eight to nine year old [[Jodie Starling]] walks in while Vermouth was trying to put his glasses back on his body and thinks her father is asleep. Vermouth tells her that she should wait for her father to wake up. When the girl asks her who is she, Vermouth replies "A secret makes a woman, woman". Vermouth burns the house down, thinking Jodie stayed behind and was killed as well. However, the girl goes out of the house to buy orange juice for her father, narrowly escaping death. She also takes her father's glasses with her, preserving the fingerprints Vermouth left on them. When Vermouth finds out Jodie's body was not in the house, she looks for her to kill her, but the FBI enrolled her in witness protection. Jodie later becomes an FBI agent in order to find her father's killer.

==== Shuichi Akai ====
Vermouth and [[Shuichi Akai|Akai]] don't have much personal animosity for each other in particular despite the fact that they have been hunting one another for some time. Vermouth regards Akai as a "silver bullet": someone with the potential to destroy the Black Organization. In accordance with this assessment, she attacks him immediately and preferentially in the confrontation with her at the docks. Akai seems to hit a nerve when he called her a rotten apple, wilted on the inside.

==== Kir ====
She suspected [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] is a member of the CIA though she didn't tell anyone about it.

=== Others ===
[[File:Vermouth_dartboard.PNG|thumb|150px|right|Vermouth's dartboard. Conan's picture has "Cool guy" written on it while Ran's says "Angel."]]
==== Shinichi Kudo ====
After [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] helped Ran save Vermouth's life in New York while she was disguised as a serial killer, she nicknames him "Cool guy". Later in the series, after [[Conan]] successfully interfered with Vermouth's plan of killing [[Haibara]], then almost forced her to surrender and take him to find [[The Boss of the Black Organization|the boss]], she gives him another nickname - "Silver bullet" - as she believes that he has the potential to destroy the Black Organization, because he could touch her heart. Generally, Vermouth tries to protect Shinichi when she is able to, even if it means risking her own life. Although Shinichi found out later that he unknowingly rescued Vermouth in New York City and that Vermouth was a friend of Yukiko's, Shinichi doesn't understand why Vermouth would make the promise to give up on hunting Sherry and not inform the Black Organization about Haibara and himself.

==== Ran Mouri ====
After Ran saved Vermouth's life in New York City, Vermouth nicknames [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] "Angel". Earlier, Vermouth, as her Sharon Vineyard role, complained that her life was a series of misfortunes and, "No angel has smiled upon me, not even once."<ref name="f350p18" /> Even though Vermouth in disguise prepared to kill Ran later, Ran stopped Vermouth from taking a fatal fall. Vermouth was touched by this act of kindness. Much later in the story when Ran shielded Haibara from gunfire with her body, Vermouth refused to shoot Ran or allow her to be shot, instead firing around her in an attempt to frighten Ran into releasing Haibara. Although Ran does not know who Vermouth really is, she values the handkerchief that Sharon Vineyard gave her back in New York.

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Vermouth placed 9th in the poll with 75 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 15th movie, [[Quarter of Silence]], the official Conan movie website held a popularity poll for the top 10 Detective Conan characters. Vermouth placed 6th out of 10.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conan-movie.jp/camp_chara/camp15th_res.html|title=名探偵コナン「キャラクター人気投票」|date=2011|publisher=www.conan-movie.jp|accessdate=2011-08-12}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Vermouth/Sharon Vineyard placed 8th overall with 372 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

== Name origin ==
Vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines. [[Wikipedia:Vermouth|Vermouth]] is a type of flavored fortified wine, which follows the pattern of wine based codenames for women in the Black Organization.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Vermouth Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Vermouth's "Before" Appearance (Episode 230)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Vermouth After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Vermouth's "Middle" Appearance (Movie 13)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:704_05.png|thumb|left|x200px|Vermouth's "After" Appearance (Episode 701)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
=== General ===
{{cquote|A secret makes a woman, woman.|Vermouth's motto}}
{{cquote|Two silver bullets aren't needed. Only one is enough.|Thinking about Conan after hearing the news of Akai's death.}}

=== Specific ===

{{cquote|We can be both of God and the Devil. Since we're trying to raise the dead against the stream of time.|[[Volume_37#File_380_-_White_Snow..._Black_Shadow...|V37-8 pg11]]|Speaking to [[Suguru Itakura]] over the phone when he demanded to know who Vermouth thought she was.}}
{{cquote|If he could reach my heart, maybe he could be our long awaited [[silver bullet]]...|[[Volume 42]], File 10, pg 18. Vermouth believes Conan is the person capable of ending the Organization she was waiting for.}}
{{cquote|No angel has ever smiled upon me. Not even once.|[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case|Episode 286]]|Speaking to Yukiko and Ran about how Sharon's life has been unfortunate.}}
{{cquote|I wonder if there is really god. If he truly existed, wouldn't all hard working, honest people be happy?|[[Episode 286]]|Vermouth expresses her disbelief in god to Ran.}}
{{cquote|Well if you must blame someone, blame a God that set this up for you.|[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case|Episode 288]]|Vermouth in disguise as the serial killer speaking to Ran in preparation to kill her in New York City}}

==In other languages==
===Vermouth===
{{BeginTable OtherLang}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|ベルモット Berumotto}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Vermouth/Wermut}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Vermouth/Belmouth (anime)}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|Bilmot بلموت}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Paramount (manga)}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|苦艾酒 Kǔ'àijiǔ 贝尔摩得 Bèi'ěrmódé}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เบลม็อท Belmot}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Вермут}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Sweden|Swedish|Vermouth/Vermut}}
{{EndTable}}

===Sharon Vineyard===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|シャロン Sharon|ヴィンヤード Binyaado}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Sharon|Vinyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic| نينا\شيرون Nina\Sharon<ref>|Nina was only used during Shinichi Kudo in New York episodes.</ref>| Vineyard ڤنيارد}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Sharon|Vinyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|莎朗 Shālǎng|温亚德 Wēnyàdé<ref>This name was used when Sharon was first mentioned in the [[Chinese Manga (Changchun)|Chinese Volume 34]]. Since the translation was based on the English pronunciation of the name, there may be other variants in later cases.</ref>}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ชารอน|วินยาร์ด}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Шарон|Винеярд}}
{{EndTable}}

===Chris Vineyard===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|クリス Kurisu|ヴィンヤード Binyaado}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Chris|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Chris|Vinyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Chris|Vinyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Chris|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic| كرِس Chris|Vineyard ڤنيارد}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Chris|Vinyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|克莉丝 Kèlìsī|温亚德 Wēnyàdé<ref>This name appears on Vermouth's name card when she first appeared in the [[Chinese Manga (Changchun)|Chinese Volume 24]]. Since the translation was based on the English pronunciation of the name, there may be other variants in later cases.</ref>}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|คริส|วินยาร์ด}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Chris|Vineyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Крис|Винеярд}}
{{EndTable}}

== Trivia ==
*The FBI's nickname for Vermouth, Rotten Apple, could also refer to "fermenting apples", which are known to produce alcohol.
*Half of Vermouth's disguises contain glasses, seen in her role of [[Sharon Vineyard]], [[Tomoaki Araide]], [[Jodie Starling]], a policeman, an unknown woman and a simple disguise.
* The people who spoke well of Vermouth while she was Araide are [[Ran]]'s karate mentor [[Kazumi Tsukamoto]] ("You still have that look of an Angel, Dr. Araide"), Kazumi's friend Kunishige Seto ("Before our catious Dr. Araide takes me to the hospital"), the school's principal ("Thanks to the exercise you taught me, my waist feel much better!"), and Ran herself ("Dr. Araide is a truly nice person, right?").
*In episode 674 of the anime, Vermouth's phone appears to be modeled after the iPhone.

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[wikipedia:Vermouth|Vermouth]] (Alcohol)

== References ==
<references/>
{{Black Organization}}
{{Characters}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vineyard, Sharon}}
[[Category:Black Organization]] [[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Female characters]]
[[Category:Characters who know Conan's identity]]
[[Category:Characters who know Ai Haibara's identity]]
[[Category:Entertainment]]
[[de:Vermouth]]

Gin

2015-07-15T22:13:18Z

Bunchu Thong-In: /* In other languages */

{{InfoBox Char
| name = Gin
| japanese-name = ジン (Jin)
| english-name = Melkior
| image = Gin Profile.jpg
| age = Unknown 
| gender = Male
| date-of-birth =
| relatives =
| occupation = Black Organization member
| nicknames = Aniki ([[Vodka]]) Koibito-san ([[Shuichi Akai]])
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_1#File_001_-_The_Heisei_Holmes|File 1]] Anime: [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1]]
| appearances = {{:Gin Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| japanese-voice = [[Yukitoshi Hori]]
| english-voice = [[Troy Baker]]
| drama-actor = [[Kuranosuke Sasaki]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Gin|ジン|Jin}}''' is a high-ranking official in the [[Black Organization]] and a main antagonist of the series. He is the organization member who gave [[Shinichi Kudo]] the experimental poison [[APTX 4869]] which turned him into [[Conan Edogawa]].<ref name=Eyes>Manga Chapter 1: The Heisei Holmes</ref> He is frequently paired on missions with [[Vodka]]. In the English manga, he was first introduced as Melkior, but later was reverted to Gin. This is likely due to the fact that Conan is often reminded of the Black Organization by references to alcohol.

== Background ==
Gin is a high-ranking "executive agent", often giving the other members their orders and supervising group missions. He works in the "[[Black_Organization#Organization_structure_and_divisions|general oversight division]]" along with [[Vodka]] who is his secretary. Despite his high ranking leadership position, he often takes to the field to participate in missions, complete business transactions, and assassinate people. When on missions, he is typically the one giving orders, even to agents who are equally ranked, like Vermouth. Gin seems to be able to communicate freely with [[Anokata]].

Virtually nothing of Gin's history before the present timeline is known. From the FBI's discussion, he was in a high ranking position, perhaps the same one, two years ago, and his appearance has not changed between then and the current timeline.

Two years ago, FBI agent [[Shuichi Akai]], who was on a infiltration mission, was promoted to the codename Rye. He was called to work under Gin and a meeting for them was set in a warehouse. The FBI staked out the warehouse hoping to capture Gin as it was believed he could lead them to the boss,<ref name=599p9>Manga Volume 58, File 2, pg 9: "Akai's Past"</ref> but the Black Organization discovered Akai's true allegiance and Gin never appeared.<ref name=599p10>Manga Volume 58, File 2, pg 10: "Akai's Past"</ref>

When the tracker placed on the new agent [[Hidemi Hondou|Rena Mizunashi]] indicated she was in a warehouse where she shouldn't be, Gin and Vodka went to investigate. At the time she was meeting with her father and fellow CIA agent, [[Ethan Hondou]]. Recognizing that if Gin discovered the situation he would know they were spies, Ethan committed suicide to protect Hidemi by making it look like she had confronted him for being a spy and had killed him. Gin believed the ploy.

== Personality ==
Of the high ranking members of the Black Organization shown, Gin among the most loyal: he follows the [[Anokata|boss]] of the Black Organization's orders most closely and virtually never acts against the Organization's greater interests. He is also one of the Black Organization's most dangerous operatives; Conan miscalculating his intelligence, abilities, and speed of response have resulted in several very close calls and awry plans.<ref>Volume 24, Files 7-11, Chapters 238-242</ref><ref name=383p>Volume 38, File 1, Chapter 383: "The New Weapon Gadget"</ref><ref>Volumes 48, Files 9-10, Volume 49, Files 1-4, Chapters 599-504</ref>

[[Image:Gin's murderous eyes.png‎|thumb|left|150px|Gin's murderous eyes.]]Gin is a merciless and efficient assassin. He has no compunctions about killing or threatening fellow teammates. Fitting his icy personality, Gin's displayed range of emotions so far is relatively limited. Wearing a threatening smirk, he enjoys hunting traitors, watching the plans he has concocted succeed, and cornering his targets. Although he seems to take satisfaction with taking out someone personally, Gin is also satisfied with orchestrating a target's death even if he does not pull the trigger himself.<ref>In the Red Shirt's case while Gin was staking out the Beika department store waiting for Scar Akai to appear, he replies to Kir's remark that "Why don't you [Gin]... just enjoy the fact your nemesis is gone?" with "Yeah, I'm so happy... If he is still alive, I get to kill him again." This shows that Gin considers Akai's death as "his kill" even though it was Kir who pulled the trigger at Raiha pass, and if scar Akai is killed, it will be Chianti or Korn who finishes the job. He is apparently satisfied with the orchestrator role and doesn't feel the need to personally kill Akai himself.</ref> He is not easily frustrated and takes setbacks in good stride, shown when he coolly orders a retreat when Shuichi Akai ambushed the Black Organization and when Bourbon tricks him and wastes his time by disguising as scar Akai. He is patient and cautious, preferring to wait until success is most likely.<ref>He orders Chianti and Korn on several occasions to wait before shooting for better opportunities.</ref> He does not like potential loose ends, preferring to get rid of anything doubtful.<ref>In Volume 49, File 4, Chapter 504, Gin orders for Conan to be shot because he acted suspiciously, even though he was a child.</ref> Gin does not trust anyone and does not fully believe anything he doesn't witness himself.<ref>Manga Chapter 702: The Bomber's Aim</ref>
 Certain individuals elicit more of a response than others from Gin. Gin doesn't seem to enjoy [[Vermouth]]'s antics; he tried to put an icepick through her head after she disguised as a waiter to tease him. Gin finds [[Tooru Amuro|Bourbon]]<ref name=703p3>Manga Volume 67, File 7, page 3: "The Truth Amidst the Snowstorm"</ref>, who has several shared characteristics with Vermouth<ref name=703p3/>, annoying as well. He has a personal rivalry with [[Shuichi Akai]], and takes interest when the FBI agent gets involved. [[Gin#Sherry|For uncertain reasons]], Gin has an abnormal attachment<ref>[[Conan Drill]] page 239, Gin's feelings towards Shiho on a relationship diagram were listed as "異常な執着": "abnormal attachment"</ref> to Shiho Miyano, so he broke from his normal efficiency-oriented hunting strategy in favor of a more dramatic confrontation with her for his personal enjoyment.

Gin is very skilled in his managerial role; he keeps the boss informed on current happenings, yet is also a decisive and quick acting leader in his own regard. Gin often consults the boss about actions that may have potentially serious ramifications, like getting permission to kill Kogoro, who is popular and closely connected to the police, after Gin found a [[Microphone|listening device]] and [[Criminal Tracking Glasses|tracking device]] on [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]]'s shoe that he believes were planted by the detective. Although Gin follows all orders from the boss, he acts on his own initiative on more than one occasion. One such action was deciding to poison [[Shinichi Kudo]] with the recently approved [[APTX 4869]] at [[Tropical Land]] after Gin caught him spying. Gin is more than willing to take matters into his own hands when he feels another member has endangered the Organization.<ref name=Smart>Manga Chapter 383: The New Weapon</ref> He even once pulled a gun on his own partner, [[Vodka]], when he went against orders and rescheduled a meeting with one of their contacts outside of the organization to an earlier time.<ref name=Smart/>
[[File:Maybe he really did know Conan was in there....PNG|186px|thumb|right|Gin opens the locker Conan is hiding in]]
Gin's effective leadership is shown in how he manages the diverse personalities of his team on missions. If Gin feels any frustration or scorn regarding the behavior or abilities of any of his teammates, he does not show it unless it is actively interfering with his plans or threatening the Organization. However, that doesn't stop him from being contemptuous about others behind their backs.<ref>Disliked Pisco, but did not show it while detailing him his mission. Gin only complains about Bourbon, Vermouth, and Pisco when they are not around (Bourbon, Vermouth) or their opinion does not matter. (Pisco)</ref> The other members' respect for Gin keeps them in line and obeying orders. Only Vermouth has actively objected to Gin's plans on a mission. He also respects the desires of his teammates to a certain degree, even though he may distrust them. Despite his personal suspicions, he let [[Vermouth]] persuade him to leave Conan and Kogoro alone, and he decided not to kill anyone at the hospital after [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] requested it even though he was unsure of her loyalty.

Gin has several weaknesses. He has difficulty remembering the faces and names of those he has killed. Vodka's memory makes up for this somewhat, but Gin notices connections later as a result. As soon as Gin becomes suspicious of someone he gets to work looking into them,<ref>Manga Chapter 700: Dangerous Area</ref> but if his suspicions are proven wrong he tends to lose interest completely.<ref>Vodka's report about "Shinichi" appearing on the Ghost Ship.</ref><ref name=Scar/><ref>Movie 13: [[The Raven Chaser]]</ref> His more conventional logic has also meant he has missed important deductions. This was most notable when Gin decided to stop searching lockers because no adult could fit in them, apparently overlooking that one of the lookouts had mentioned a kid entering the station earlier.
{{clear}}

== Appearance ==
[[File:Gin2_color_page_V24-7_closeup.PNG|thumb|right|150px|Gin's manga appearance in color.]]
Gin is a tall, thin man of uncertain age. His most noticeable feature is his long silver hair that goes down to his hips. (In the anime, Gin's hair was light-brown at first, then blond, then finally changed to match the manga as can be seen in the 13th movie: [[The Raven Chaser]].) It is cut at the front into bangs which often obscure his eyes, which are blue (like all the other characters) in the manga, and green in the anime. He has, as Shinichi put it, the eyes of someone who has easily killed many people without a care.<ref name=Eyes/> In the manga, his face is somewhat gaunt, with visible cheekbones and a triangular dark patch below each eye. Later in the series he receives a scar on his left cheek after a bullet from [[Shuichi Akai]]'s rifle grazes him.<ref name=Scar>Manga Chapter 504: Black Organization vs. FBI 2</ref>

Gin's appearance has never changed in all of his appearances. He wears a black fedora with a grey or white hatband. His only shown outfit is a knee length, notched lapel, black trenchcoat with the collar upturned to obscure part of his face and a loose white turtleneck underneath. He likely also wears a ballistic vest beneath these. He wears black trousers and black dress shoes. When trying to avoid leaving fingerprints, he dons a pair of white gloves (black in the anime).

Gin is a heavy smoker. He is also left handed.
{{clear}}

==Abilities==
===Intelligence and instinct===
Gin is quite perceptive and intelligent<ref name=Smart/>; he can smell out traps his partner Vodka easily falls for. Gin is also good at deduction. He correctly infers the FBI plan to move the captured Organization member Kir, and also explains to Vodka the biological principles behind why an old man with severe heart conditions wouldn't go to a cold cabin in the dead of winter. Unlike most intelligent characters in the series, Gin also relies on his good instinct. A few times so far, he correctly suspects there is more to a situation than the evidence alone indicates. He correctly suspects that Kogoro (really Conan) was not completely innocent<ref>Volumes 48, Files 9-10, Volume 49, Files 1-4, Chapters 599-504</ref> and that getting Kir back from the FBI was too easy. At one point while searching for the "clever fox" who set them up, Gin begins opening child size lockers on a whim. He just stops at the one Conan was hiding in and chides himself for doing so because there was no way an adult could hide in those lockers.<ref>Volume 38, File 1, Chapter 383</ref>

===Stamina===
Gin seems to have undergone serious physical training, giving him incredible stamina and a high pain tolerance, as shown when he remained conscious after being hit by Conan's [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch|stun-gun wristwatch]] and then shot himself in the arm to regain full consciousness. He then climbed down and back up a chimney despite the shot in the arm.<ref>Manga Chapter 242: A White World</ref> In Episode 425, he was able to flee with internal injuries bad enough to cause him to bleed from the mouth when Akai put two rifle rounds in his ballistic vest.

=== Firearms ===
==== Handguns ====
Gin is skilled with handguns. He prefers a Beretta 92.

=== Sniping ===
Although Gin has not fired a sniper rifle canonically, Gin probably has sniping skills based on the way he handled Korn's rifle to locate [[Shuichi Akai]] who is 700 yards away, center him in the scope, and steadily aim at him while standing up.<ref>Anime Episode 425: Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out</ref> In [[Countdown to Heaven]], Gin is an excellent sniper, as shown when he attempts to snipe [[Sonoko]], mistaking her for [[Sherry]].<ref>Movie 5: Countdown to Heaven</ref>

==Appellations==
<tabs jsId="nicknames">
<tab title="Black Organization">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Gin !! style="width:200px;"|What Gin calls them
|-
| [[File:Anokata 60px.jpg]] || [[Anokata]] || ??? || {{nihongo|Ano Kata|あの方|That Person}}
|-
| [[File:Vodka 60px.jpg]] || [[Vodka]] || {{nihongo|Bro|兄貴|Aniki}} || Vodka
|-
| [[File:Vermouth 60px.jpg]] || [[Vermouth]] || Gin || Vermouth That woman
|-
| [[File:Hidemi Hondou 60px.jpg]] || [[Hidemi Hondou]] || Gin || Kir
|-
| [[File:Chianti 60px.jpg]] || [[Chianti]] || Gin || Chianti
|-
| [[File:Korn 60px.jpg]] || [[Korn]] || Gin || Korn
|-
| [[File:Pisco 60px.jpg]] || [[Pisco]] || Gin || Pisco
</tab>
<tab title="Protagonists">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Gin !! style="width:200px;"|What Gin calls them
|-
| [[File:Conan Edogawa 60px.jpg]] || [[Conan Edogawa]] || Man in Black (formerly)<ref>He referred to Gin & Vodka as "Men in Black" before learning their codenames. E.g. in [[Volume 2|Volume 2, File 16, Page 17]].</ref> Gin || {{nihongo|Brat|ガキ|Gaki}}<ref>Manga File 504, pg 11</ref>
|-
| [[File:Shinichi Kudo 60px.jpg]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Gin || Detective<ref>[[Volume 1|'''File 001''': The Heisei Holmes]]</ref> That dead brat<ref>[[Volume 42|Volume 42, File 434, Page 2]]</ref>
|-
| [[File:Ai Haibara 60px.jpg]] || [[Ai Haibara]] || Gin || Sherry
|-
| [[File:Shuichi Akai 60px.jpg]] || [[Shuichi Akai]] || Koibito (literally "lover", but the intended meaning is "old enemy") || Shuichi Akai
|-
| [[File:Kogoro Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Kogoro Mouri]] || ??? || Kogoro Mouri
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Gin !! style="width:200px;"|What Gin calls them
|-
| [[File:Juzo Megure 60px.jpg]] || [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] || Men in Black<ref>[[Volume 1|'''File 001''': The Heisei Holmes]]</ref> || ???
</tabs>

==Plot overview==
===Canonical Appearances===
[[File:EP1 26.JPG|150px|thumb|right|Shinichi Kudo is forced to ingest the poison APTX 4869.]]
====Shinichi and APTX 4869 (Manga: [[Volume_1#Prologue_-_Roller_Coaster_Murder_Case|1]], Anime: [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|1]])====
In his first appearance in the series, Gin goes to [[Tropical Land]] with Vodka to complete a transaction with [[Black_organization#Unnamed_Weapons_Smuggler|a company owner]] they were blackmailing for gun smuggling. The two board the Mystery Coaster before the meeting to observe from the pinnacle of the coaster if the business man had come alone to the meeting spot below the ferris wheel. A murder occurs on the coaster and the two are forced to remain at the scene as suspects, although Gin yells at [[Shinichi Kudo]] and [[Inspector Megure]] several times to hurry up and let them go. Shinichi observes that Gin has the appearance and air of a cold-blooded killer. They are released after Shinichi apprehends the true killer. His and Vodka's suspicious appearance cause Shinichi to follow them and encounter them completing the transaction with the businessman. Gin, who seems to have been keeping watch, knocks down Shinichi with a pipe he found, then force-feeds him [[APTX 4869]]. His parting words to Shinichi are "So long, great detective."
[[File:V2-7 Such an awkwardly shaped panel.PNG|100px|thumb|left|Gin converses with Akemi just before he murders her.]]

====Murder of Akemi Miyano (Manga: [[Volume_2#Masami_Hirota_Case|16]], Anime: [[The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case|128]])====
Before the current storyline, undercover [[FBI]] agent [[Shuichi Akai]] dated [[Akemi Miyano]], the older sister of [[Shiho Miyano]], in order to infiltrate the Organization. Akai's true allegiance was discovered and he was expelled from the Organization. Initially, the Organization couldn't do anything about Akemi because they needed the loyalty of her sister Shiho Miyano, who very valuable as a researcher on the [[APTX 4869]] project.

Two years later the Organization decided that the risk of her contact with Akai was too much. They decided to create a situation where they could eliminate her by having her do a bank heist she was supposed to fail, and Gin was put in charge of making a deal with her. [[Akemi Miyano]] was told that the only way that she and [[Shiho Miyano|her sister]] would be allowed to leave the Black Organization was to successfully pull off a 10 billion yen bank robbery. After succesfully completing the robbery and tricking her into accidentally poisoning one of her team members, she confronts Gin at the shipping yard to complete the transaction. She tries to tell Gin to hold up his end of the bargain, but he tells her the Organization wouldn't let her sister leave anyway because she was too valuable. He then kills Akemi and flees.
[[File:Gin_and_Vodka_on_a_train.PNG|100px|thumb|right|Gin and Vodka appear on the Shinkansen in the manga]]

====Bullet Train Case (Manga: [[Volume_4#Shinkansen_Bomb_Case|33]])====
Gin and Vodka are tasked with eliminating a [[Black_organization#Unnamed_woman|former business parter]] who had become useless by tricking her into making a transaction with them involving what she thinks is information about 400 million yen worth of gold. Their plan is set aboard a [[Wikipedia:Shinkansen|Shinkansen]]; during a meeting in the dining car, Gin and Vodka will receive a large case of money from the client who will be given a black attaché containing what she believes is the gold information. However, the case actually contains a bomb rigged to explode when she calls a certain number on her mobile phone.

Conan almost walks into Gin's legs when Gin and Vodka board the Shinkansen. Vodka yells at Conan, and Gin glares coldly, but neither recognize him; it is much later revealed Gin is particularly bad at remembering the faces of those he killed. They sit down nearby with their black attaché case. When they leave to go to the dining car and make the transaction, Conan bugs their seats. After they return with the suitcase full of the client's money, Conan overhears Gin explain to Vodka the details of the bombing plan. Conan is also able to learn Gin and Vodka's codenames. Gin and Vodka disembark at Nagoya to avoid being caught in the explosion, and Conan is stopped from chasing them by Ran. Conan then turns his attention to finding the bomb and successfully ejects the black case from the train before it explodes. Unfortunately, the client knows little about Gin and Vodka or their Organization so the police are unable to do anything.
{{clear}}

====Contact with the Black Organization (Manga: [[Volume_12#Game_Convention_Case|114-116]])====
[[Tequila]] calls Vodka and tells him to inform Gin that the briefcase exchange for the list of world's best programmers was successful. Gin does not show up in person in this case.

====Sherry's Escape (Manga: [[Volume_18#Missing_Older_Brother_Case|177]], [[Volume_19#Murdered_Professor_Case|181]], Anime: [[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|129]])====
Gin and Vodka were supposed to kill Sherry because she stopped all work on the APTX project to boycott the Organization's reticence about Akemi Miyano's death. Gin and Vodka pull Shiho from her lab and handcuff her to a pipe in a small locked room to await the Organization's judgment. At this time, Sherry takes the Apoptoxin 4869 she had hidden to commit suicide, but instead she shrinks and escapes through a rubbish chute. When Gin and Vodka return, she isn't there. They and many other members of the Organization are ordered to find her, but he and Vodka have no luck. Gin in particular is shown to have an obsession with capturing Sherry and killing her himself.

====Haido City Hotel (Manga: [[Volume_24#Hotel_Party_Murder_Case|238-242]], Anime: [[Reunion with the Black Organization|176-178]])====
One day, Conan and Haibara saw his car on a street. They put a a transmitter in it only some seconds before he arrived there. After a while, Gin found an auburn hair in the car and he deduced it was Shiho's. He found also the transmitter, so he destroyed it (after that is the famous moment when he imagines Shiho naked).
However, Conan and Haibara knew where was he going to go, so they went also to the Haido Hotel. There, Pisco kidnapped Haibara and took her to a room with a big fireplace. When Gin and Vodka arrived at the room, she (with her adult body beacuse of the Baikal) was hidden in the fireplace. Gin heared her breathing, and, when she arrived at the roof, he was there. He shot her many times. When he was ready to kill her, Conan arrived and shot a sleeping dart at him. However, he showed a resistance to it, not falling asleep promptly and shot himself in the arm so he would stay conscious. After that, he climbed down the chimney, killed Pisco and climbed back up. He returned to his car with Vodka and Vermouth and they talked about Sherry. In this chapter, it is hinted that he knows Shiho very well, predicting her movements and being able to confidently distinguish her by just a hair she left in his car.

====Prior to the Bus Hijacking (Manga: [[Volume_29#File_287_-_The_Unseen_Horror|287]], Anime: [[The_Mysterious_Passenger|230]])====
Gin and Vodka are in bar discussing plans to capture Sherry with Vermouth. Meanwhile, the detective boys and Conan are taking a bus to a ski resort and meet Araide and Jodie in the bus. Haibara senses that Vermouth is on that bus and hides to prevent herself from getting caught. Soon after, the bus gets hi-jacked by two armed men who uses the passengers as hostages and demands the city to release their boss. Conan attempts to search a way to apprehend the men, and investigates their bags and realize that they contain explosives.

====Vodka's rendezvous with [[Suguru Itakura]] (Manga: [[Volume_38#Footsteps_of_Darkness|383]], Anime: [[Contact with the Black Organization|311]])====
Once arriving at their destination point, Conan reveals that the two people are the jewelry robbers. Conan reveals that they hijacked a car as evidenced by the man's inability to handle the foreign car and how coins were found in the ashtray yet the man is a smoker. Conan apprehends the two culprits and proceeds to the subway. Once there Conan places the CD containing the program the Black Organization wants and places it in a coin locker with a check sticking out of the prearranged locker. Vodka arrives and takes the CD but is stopped by Gin who revealed that there is tape on the CD which means that someone was trying to get his fingerprint. Gin finds a tracker device. He places his hand on the case to find out its warm meaning the one who set up the disk is nearby. Conan manages to hide in a coin locker and passes out due to the lack of oxygen; He is found by Haibara the next day.
<div class="left">[[File:Ep 311 Gun does not contain roses.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Gin threatens Vodka after he changed the meeting time with Itakura]]</div>
<div class="left">[[File:Heat checking.jpg|thumb|205px|Gin can tell the CD was planted very recently.]]</div>
{{clearleft}}

====Vermouth's Unmasking (Manga: [[Volume_42#Halloween_Party_Case|429, 434]], Anime: [[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night|345]])====
Gin has been ordered by the boss to look into Vermouth’s movements related to a Halloween party aboard a ship and tells Vodka to board in costume and investigate. Gin has no idea what Vermouth is doing but tells Vodka to kill her if she does anything weird even if she is the boss’s favorite. Aboard the ship, a man blackmailed by Vermouth kills the ship's captain, and the murder is solved by [[Heiji Hattori]] in disguise as Shinichi Kudo. Vodka initially reports Shinichi's presence to Gin, but then corrects the information when Heiji takes off the Shinichi disguise and states that he was hoping that appearing as Shinichi would lure the real guy out.

The murderer then begins shouting that someone named Vermouth forced him to murder the captain. Vodka presumably reports this development to Gin who reports to the boss because Vermouth later receives a message from the boss ordering her back. Vermouth, who was never aboard the ship in the first place, is badly injured by [[Shuichi Akai]] and a self-inflicted gunshot and calls Gin from a telephone booth for pickup because she can't move. While on the phone, Gin asks her if she knows someone named Shinichi Kudo and she lies, saying she doesn't know him.

====Black Impact (Manga: [[Volume_48#Black_Organization_vs._FBI|500]][[Volume_49#Black_Organization_vs_FBI|-504]], Anime: [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|425]])====
[[File:Gin's scope sniped.jpg|thumb|right|Shuichi Akai shoots Gin's scope out and grazes his cheek. The wound will eventually scar and is seen in all of Gin's later appearances.]]
Gin coordinates the assassination of Domon Yasuteru. His first plan, is to get Domon interviewed using Kir, have him sit down on a bench, where [[Chianti]] and [[Korn]] to kill him. His backup plan; which consisted of Vermouth in disguise crashing in front of Domon's car, after which Kir, Chianti, and Korn would kill Domon and his two bodyguards, was canceled when he discovered the transmitter Conan set up. Gin assumes the transmitter was set up by Kogoro, and gets permission from the boss to kill him. However, the assassination of Kogoro is interrupted by Conan whose soccer ball breaking Mouri's window distracts Chainti and Korn who were taking aim. Over the protests of Vermouth, Gin orders the two snipers to kill Conan as well for, as Vodka says, being suspicious. This too is interrupted when Shuichi Akai snipes the transmitter out from between Gin's fingers from 700 yards away. A brief exchange of gunfire ensues, but ends quickly after Akai shoots out Gin's scope and puts two bullets in his flak jacket. Gin recognizes the disadvantage and orders the Black Organization members to disperse without taking any more action against Conan or Kogoro. Gin and the other operatives assume the transmitter was set up by the FBI, but still has residual suspicions about Kogoro. Gin eventually decides not to kill Kogoro at the word of Vermouth.

====The Search for Kir (Manga: [[Volume_53#Mysterious_Job_Case|553,]] [[Volume_54#Mysterious_Job_Case|555]], Anime: [[The Shadow of the Black Organization|464-465]])====

====Clash of Red and Black (Manga: [[Volume_58#Kir_Transport_Case|599]]-[[Volume_59#Foreign_Suspect_Case|609]], Anime: [[Clash of Red and Black|491-504]])====
=====Akai's Assassination (Manga: [[Volume_58#Foreign_Suspect_Case|605]]-[[Volume_59#Foreign_Suspect_Case|609]], Anime: [[Clash_of_Red_and_Black!#Friday_the_Thirteenth_.28Manga:_605-609.2C_501-504.29|501-504]])=====
Gin is the one that orders Kir to kill Akai. He doubted her allegiances to the Organization and was suspicious of her so he put her at gunpoint and forced her to call Akai to tell him to meet her somewhere. He tells her he will be watching the whole assassination so if she planned on doing anything suspicious, he would kill her. Kir kills Akai (actually helped him to fake his death) and Gin is reassured of her allegiance to the Organization.

====Scar Akai and the Beika Department Store (Manga: [[Volume 67#Department Store Bomber Case|700-704]], Anime: [[The Crisis Beckoned by the Red Omen|578]]-[[The Red Shaking Target|581]])====
Scar Akai along with Subaru Okiya is trapped in the department store by a bomber. When the Black Organization spot that someone who looks like Akai entered the store, Gin along with vodka parks outside, Gin holds a gun to Kir's head saying that he'll kill her if Akai was still alive. Before Gin order Chianti to shoot Scar Akai, Vermouth appears and speaks with Gin about a plan she received the boss's authorization for. Scar Akai notices Chianti and smirks, which made her lose her aim and made Scar Akai disappear into the crowd. Gin lowers the gun of Kir's head and decides to drop the assassination, commenting how Bourbon likes to do what he pleases.

====Sherry and the Bell Tree Express Train (Manga: [[Volume 78|818-824]], Anime: [[The Raven Mystery Train|701-704]])====
After finding out from Vermouth that Sherry was going to board the Bell Tree Express train, Gin and Vodka organized an effort to place enough explosives at the train's destination station to blow up the entire train. Meanwhile, Vermouth and [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] boarded the train with a separate plan in mind to catch Sherry. When Vodka wondered how Vermouth and Bourbon were going to get off the train before it arrived at the station, Gin revealed that he didn't know or care about their fates. Vermouth's attempted assassination of Sherry wound up stopping the train before it arrived at the destination station, rendering Gin's plan moot. Gin asked for confirmation that Sherry was killed, which Vermouth endorsed only to find out soon after that she had been tricked. Because Vermouth kept this deception secret, Gin believes Shiho to be dead.

 
----

===Differences in the anime===
{{main|List of differences between the manga and anime}}
====The Shinkansen's Bomb Case ([[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|Anime 5]])====
In the manga, this case occurred after [[The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case]]. In the anime version of this case, Gin and Vodka are replaced with unrelated criminals who look and dress very similarly. The replacement of Gin and Vodka created a continuity error because the episode omitted how Conan learned their codenames, which was important to identifying [[Tequila]] as a member of the Black Organization in the [[Game Company Murder Case]].

====The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case ([[The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case|Anime 13]])====
In the manga, this case occurred before [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case]]. In the anime version of this case, Gin was replaced by a similar looking man with glasses who shot but did not kill [[Akemi Miyano]]. This created a rather large continuity error.<ref>Akemi's participation in the robbery was a deal she made with the Black Organization stipulating that if she successfully stole the money, she and her sister would be freed. However, the Organization had intended for her to fail so they could kill her for having a relationship with the FBI infiltrator [[Shuichi Akai]]. Although Akemi was successful, Gin killed her anyway. Her death, which the Black Organization refused to explain, was part of the motive that led to [[Sherry]] betraying the Organization.</ref> The continuity error was corrected in [[The Black Organization: 1 Billion Yen Robbery Case|episode 128]]. Other information that wound up being delayed included Gin revealing that Akemi had a scientist sister who was valuable to the Organization, and that he was left handed based on how he held his handgun.

====The Black Organization: 1 Billion Yen Robbery Case ([[The Black Organization: 1 Billion Yen Robbery Case|Anime 128]])====
This case corrected by continuity error created in [[The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case]] by having Gin kill Akemi. Akemi Miyano under the alias "Masami Hirota" and two other robbers successfully steal 10 billion yen. A mask with forged lipstick mark is left behind with the empty getaway vehicle by an unknown party to implicate Hirota. Later that night, Gin and Vodka assassinate the two other bank robbers and place Hirota's lipstick at the crime scene. After realizing she was set up my someone, Conan sneaks into Hirota's apartment and attempts to stop her from meeting the assailants. Ignoring Conan's warning, Hirota heads to an empty warehouse and meets Gin who reveals her true identity to be Akemi Miyano. She asks him to release her sister in exchange for the 10 billion yen; Gin however murders her and takes the keys to a coin locker containing the money from the robbery. Akemi then reveals to Conan the existence of the Black Organization, and the location that she hid the stolen money before dying.
 
----

===Movie Appearances===
====[[Countdown to Heaven]]====
Initially, Gin is involved in the plot because he is to eliminate a traitor in the Organization. Later though, he finds out that Sherry was attending a party at the Twin Tower Buildings, the targeted location, and decides to kill two birds with one stone. He shoots at Sonoko, who got her hair permed and looks a lot like Sherry, but he realizes that it wasn't her after all after Conan gets Sonoko to dodge the bullet and she starts panicking in a very uncomposed manner. He leaves the towers in the end, looking forward to killing Sherry the next time he sees her.

====[[The Raven Chaser]]====
In the beginning, during Conan's dream, Gin appears and is shown to know Conan's true identity. Later, in reality, Gin is looking for a memory card that contains information crucial to the Organization. His next appearance is during the climax of the movie. He, Vodka, Chianti, and Korn arrive at the top of Tokyo Tower in a black helicopter. Gin calls Irish and tells him to hold out the computer chip, then orders Chianti to kill Irish and destroy the chip in one shot. He spots someone (Conan) trying to hide and orders Vodka to start using the machine gun that was built into the helicopter. After Conan catapults the broken light into the back of the helicopter and Vodka is trying to get it back in control, he wonders who could have done so much damage to the Organization and leaves the scene.

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Black Organization ===
==== The Boss ====

==== Vodka ====
Gin is [[Vodka]]'s superior and they frequently work together, or are seen communicating with one another by phone. Vodka shows Gin absolute respect, using honorifics<ref>Vodka uses "aniki" meaning literally meaning "older brother", but in context means "one's senior".</ref> while speaking with Gin rather than simply using his codename like other agents do. Gin in turn values Vodka for his obedience, so Gin occasionally orders Vodka to go on missions where he needs objective observation or that are annoying.<ref>Both of these were requirements in the Halloween Showdown. Gin (and the boss) needed a clear idea of what Vermouth was doing so Gin sent Vodka because he could trust him. The mission also required Vodka to dress up in a monster costume, something most other agents, Vodka included, would not have liked to do.</ref> Gin views and treats Vodka as an "inexperienced little brother".<ref name=CD239a>Conan drill page 239: 出来の悪い弟分</ref> Despite this, Gin does not truly trust anyone, including Vodka, and interrogated Vodka about his actions at gunpoint before. Although Vodka is slower than Gin and frequently jumps to incorrect conclusions, Gin patiently explains his deductions to Vodka creating a sort of Sherlock Holmes and Watson dynamic between the two. Vodka covers for Gin's weakness of not remembering the names or faces of those he has killed.

[[Image:Gin imagines Shiho naked.jpg|thumb|right|Gin imagines [[Shiho Miyano]] naked.]]

==== Sherry ====
{{Main|Gin and Sherry}}
Gin has an abnormal attachment for [[Shiho Miyano]]<ref name=CD239/> and seems to enjoy hunting for her, while she seems to fear and hate him. They appear to know each other well despite being in different parts of the Organization. Gin can identify Shiho from a single auburn hair. [[Episode 129|When Shiho escaped from the Black Organization]], Gin began searching for her, ordering Vodka to bring her back dead or alive. Gin and Shiho had [[Reunion with the Black Organization|a direct confrontation]] later in the [[Setting#Haido City Hotel|Haido City Hotel]]. Since then, Shiho has managed to avoid any more direct contact with Gin.

The theory that the two may have had a romantic relationship in the past has been mentioned in at least one official guidebook for the manga<ref name=CD239/> and has some traction in the fandom. [[Gosho Aoyama]] has deferred questions related to the issue in past interviews, asking for fans to be patient.<ref>青山剛昌先生と話そうDAY (Let's talk with Aoyama Gosho-sensei day), held January 3, 2013 [http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/?p=287218]

Q: A girl asked about the "Sherry naked" thing, that why does Gin always think about her without clothes, what exactly is their relationship?

A: Gosho answered that they indeed had a relationship, but it wouldn't be interesting if (he) revealed it there, so please wait for it. The poster also mentioned that Gosho had a trolling (or something like that) laugh/smile at the time.
</ref>
{{clearright}}

==== Vermouth ====
Gin and [[Vermouth]] have rather different personalities. They get along well enough on missions, but Gin does not like Vermouth's habit of keeping secrets or her teasing. Before the events of the showdown on the ghost ship, Gin and Vermouth mostly trusted one another,<ref name=CD239/> but Gin's trust seems to have eroded as Vermouth failed to inform even the boss of her activities and intentions on several occasions. At one point, Gin told Vodka to kill her if he noted her doing anything suspicious, and he didn't particularly care about how she would escape a train heading towards a station packed with explosives. Gin and Vermouth are or were in a sexual relationship with one another, which was hinted in [[Episode 230]] when Vermouth asked Gin if they could make a martini tonight, noting that a martini is a mix of Vermouth and Gin. <ref name=CD239>[[:File:ConanDrill239.jpg|Conan drill page 239]]</ref>

==== Tequila ====
Although [[Tequila]] is a subordinate of Gin's, he doesn't use honorifics like Vodka does<ref>Vodka uses "aniki" meaning literally meaning "older brother", but in context means "one's senior".</ref> to refer to Gin, giving the impression Tequila and Gin appear equally ranked.<ref name=CD239/>

==== Pisco ====
Although [[Pisco]] and Gin are executive members and Pisco is Gin's senior, Gin dislikes and looks down on him.<ref name=CD239/> He does not
show emotion when he kills him in the burning hotel.

==== Irish ====

=== Law enforcement ===
==== Shuichi Akai ====
{{Main|Gin and Shuichi Akai}}
Gin and [[Shuichi Akai]] are rivals and enemies.

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Gin placed 20th in the poll with 34 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 15th movie, [[Quarter of Silence]], the official Conan movie website held a popularity poll for the top 10 Detective Conan characters. Gin placed 8th out of 10.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conan-movie.jp/camp_chara/camp15th_res.html|title=名探偵コナン「キャラクター人気投票」|date=2011|publisher=www.conan-movie.jp|accessdate=2011-08-12}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Gin placed 12th overall with 190 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

== Name origin ==
Gin comes from the [[Wikipedia:Gin|hard liquor]] which is known for its juniper berry flavor. It follows the Black Organization codename pattern of hard liquor codenames for men. The codename is probably also a pun on Gin's hair color. Gin pronounced with a hard "g" like "gun" in Japanese (ぎん ''Gin'') means "silver" (銀). This pun was used by a victim to implicate Gin as his killer in [[Movie 5|Countdown to Heaven]].

Gin's English name, Melkior, is the name of one of the Magi, or three kings, who visits the infant Jesus in Christian tradition. The name is Semitic and means 'king city.' Gin's English name was later switched to Gin to follow the Japanese.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Gin Before.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Gin's "Before" Appearance (Episode 1)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Gin-Middle-Appearance.png|thumb|left|x200px|Gin's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 425)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Gin-After-Appearance-700.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Gin's "After" Appearance (Episode 704)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|"So long... great detective."|Said to [[Shinichi]] after poisoning him with [[APTX4869]]<ref>[[Volume 1|Volume 1, File 1]]; [[Episode 1]]</ref>}}
{{cquote|"Traitors can't hide their scent."|Talking about [[Shiho Miyano]]<ref>[[Volume 24|Volume 24, File 239, Page 9]] (some versions might have been translated incorrectly; some versions are different but the basic meaning are the same); [[Episode 176]]</ref>}}

== Trivia==
* Gin is left handed.<ref name=304p16>Manga Volume 30, File 9, pg 16: "Genta's Trap"</ref>
* Gin can't seem to remember faces he encounters or kills, which explains that he doesn't remember [[Shinichi]].
:* In the anime, although Gin doesn't recognize the name Shinichi Kudo when Vodka mentions it in episode 345, he knows who he is immediately in episode 1 stating: "Sure didn't want him around". Gin shows no recognition of Shinichi in the corresponding manga scene; only Vodka seems to have heard of the high school detective.
* His favorite car is his [[Vehicles_in_Detective_Conan#Porsche_356A|Porsche 356A]], which he refers to as "German black rain frog". Notably, the car's registration is A 48-69, the same numbers that are used in APTX-4869. In episodes after the reunion with Sherry, the plate is changed to MI 43-68.[[Image:Gin's Porsche.png|150px|thumb|right|Gin's Porsche.]]
* Gin's design has drastically been changed throughout the anime. At first, his hair is actually light brown, and the line structure is not as detailed. In addition, part of his hair comes down his face across his nose. As the series progresses Gin's hair is blond, and the line structure is strongly detailed. Moreover, there is no hair that comes down across his face anymore. Gin's hair color changes once again in Opening 24 where it is then silver to match his manga depiction.
* One glare from Gin can end an argument before it even starts. In episode 176, Gin and Vodka were jaywalking and a man from vehicle that had been forced to stop sharply was preparing to yell at them. Gin looks at him harshly, and the man fearfully shrinks back into his car. In some regions, it is believed that the people with green eyes can bestow the evil eye, intentionally or unintentionally.
* In Episode 425, Gin took Korn's rifle to locate Shuichi Akai who was on a building that is 700 yards. At that moment Akai shot at Gin and the bullet was very visible on Gin's reticule. Gin managed to move his head in time to mostly dodge the bullet.
* The name "Gin" is also known as "Silver" in english, which is also the color of Gin's hair, a point that is noted in Countdown to Heaven.

==In other languages==
{{BeginTable OtherLang|notes=1}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|ジン Jin| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=US|English|Melkior/Gin|Changed to Gin in the Manga}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Gin| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Gin| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Gin| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Gin| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|جين Gin| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Gin| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Gin| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|琴酒 Qínjiǔ| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ยิน Yin| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Gin| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malaysia|Gin|Sometimes pronounced as "Jin"}}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[wikipedia:Gin|Gin]] (Alcohol)

== References ==
<references/>
{{Black Organization}}
{{Characters}}

[[Category:Black Organization]] [[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Male characters]]
[[de:Gin]]