Tropescilloscope: Cowboy Cop

A loose cannon cop who DOESN'T play by the rules! (read more at tvtropes.org)

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The Lost Lenore Artistic License – Geography Redshirt Army Punch-Clock Villain Show Within a Show Dramatic Gun Cock Horror Comedy Left the Background Music On Love Triangle Double Entendre Hoist by His Own Petard Didn't Think This Through Product Placement Novelization Be Careful What You Wish For The Ace Enemy Mine Decoy Protagonist Villainous Breakdown Bullying a Dragon Retcon Slasher Smile Never My Fault Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Training Montage Amoral Attorney Cool Shades Creepy Child Age Lift I'm a Humanitarian Badass Bookworm Leaning on the Fourth Wall Nice Guy Ms. Fanservice Car Fu Defrosting Ice Queen Pyrrhic Victory Evil vs. Evil And the Adventure Continues Index of Film Westerns Off with His Head! Double-Meaning Title Loophole Abuse Let's Get Dangerous! Storming the Castle Leave the Camera Running Gender Flip Dark and Troubled Past Re-Cut Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Straight Gay Reasonable Authority Figure Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Would Hit a Girl Gone Horribly Right Artistic License – Military Shipper on Deck Coming-of-Age Story Wham Line Heroes Want Redheads Fatal Family Photo Determinator aka: The Determinator Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Flashback Slap-Slap-Kiss No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Spanner in the Works Sequel Hook Air-Vent Passageway Drives Like Crazy Big Brother Instinct She Cleans Up Nicely Ambiguous Ending Suspiciously Similar Substitute Better to Die than Be Killed Gainax Ending Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Retired Badass In Name Only The Brute Alliterative Name My God, What Have I Done? Blatant Lies Adaptation Name Change Kill 'em All Stuff Blowing Up Hollywood Darkness Psychopathic Manchild Motor Mouth Downer Ending Big "NO!" 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Is Serious Business La Résistance Mr. Fanservice Cool Car Manipulative Bastard The Mafia Death by Adaptation Maybe Ever After Dogged Nice Guy Big Bad For the Evulz Obstructive Bureaucrat The Stoic Red Herring Gory Discretion Shot Sealed Evil in a Can Sinister Minister Badass in a Nice Suit Silent Movie Big Eater Reality Is Unrealistic Small Name, Big Ego Red Oni, Blue Oni The Bad Guy Wins Black and Gray Morality Death Glare Meet Cute Zombie Stories Super Strength Face Death with Dignity Loads and Loads of Characters Disguised in Drag Adaptational Attractiveness Karma Houdini Thriller Hollywood Law The Smurfette Principle Off-into-the-Distance Ending Love at First Sight Drugs Are Bad Martial Arts Movie Reality Ensues Ambiguously Gay Homage Gorn Green-Eyed Monster My Beloved Smother Greater-Scope Villain Neck Snap Kick the Dog Genre Savvy It Will Never Catch On Wham Shot Anachronic Order Badass Longcoat Black Comedy Dark Reprise Evil Brit Silence Is Golden Skewed Priorities Pet the Dog The Bully Calling the Old Man Out There Is No Kill Like Overkill '80s Hair Easily Forgiven Those Two Guys The Hero Dies Chekhov's Gun Everyone Has Standards The Dreaded Hero Antagonist Male Frontal Nudity The Big Guy Suspiciously Specific Denial Evil Plan Our Zombies Are Different Not Quite Dead Beauty Is Never Tarnished In the Back Award-Bait Song Bittersweet Ending Dramatic Irony Break the Haughty No Ending Not Even Bothering with the Accent Bland-Name Product Only Known by Their Nickname B-Movie Corrupt Corporate Executive Mercy Kill Stealth Pun Does Not Like Shoes One-Word Title Ascended Extra Papa Wolf Unusual Euphemism Bad "Bad Acting" Blood from the Mouth All There in the Script It Can Think Ungrateful Bastard Arranged Marriage Evil-Detecting Dog After the End Destination Defenestration Pre-Mortem One-Liner Disney Death The Load Apocalypse How This Is Gonna Suck Humans Are Bastards Combat Pragmatist Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Wretched Hive Meaningful Echo Have a Gay Old Time Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Narrator Retirony Chase Scene Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Early-Bird Cameo Offscreen Teleportation Camp Gay Handicapped Badass Foil It's All About Me Ominous Latin Chanting The Sociopath Put on a Bus Never Found the Body Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Disney Villain Death Our Vampires Are Different Together in Death Insane Troll Logic Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Faux Affably Evil Heel Realization War Is Hell Jerkass Has a Point Chiaroscuro You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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