Brilliant Idea: Remake Death Note, But with Columbo

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Death Note is a manga and anime series about a young man who encounters a notebook dropped by a shinigami--a Grim Reaper-like death spirit in Japanese folklore. If he writes a person's name in the notebook, that person dies.

The young man, who is named Light, decides to use the death note. This leads to him being hunted by a formidable detective--but one not as unstoppable as Lt. Columbo of the Los Angeles Police Department.

An internet meme started by, I think, Lia Treppé imagines an ingenious alternate version of Death Note. The seemingly bumbling detective who looks barely competent to serve as a police officer, let alone a homicide detective, would certainly corner Light.