Tropescilloscope: Cowboy Cop

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

More Tropes Fainting Central Theme Accidental Misnaming The '50s Pet the Dog Nice Guy Advertised Extra Grievous Bottley Harm Dirty Coward The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Rule of Three Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Anyone Can Die Token Minority Bait-and-Switch Tempting Fate Badass in a Nice Suit Eiffel Tower Effect The Brute Russian Films Mr. Fanservice Only in It for the Money Corrupt Corporate Executive Cain and Abel Refuge in Audacity What Happened to the Mouse? Deliberately Monochrome Undying Loyalty Spared by the Adaptation Market-Based Title Cool Shades Villain with Good Publicity Gold Digger Epic Fail Pyrrhic Victory Heroic Sacrifice Contrived Coincidence Groin Attack May–December Romance My Beloved Smother Evil Is Hammy Oh, Crap! Sequel Hook Film Noir Index Rape as Drama Half the Man He Used to Be Intergenerational Friendship Hate Sink Friend to All Children Video Credits Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Heel–Face Turn BFG Guns Akimbo Happily Married The Reveal Only Known by Their Nickname Works Set in World War II Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Title Drop Dressing as the Enemy Gratuitous English Combat Pragmatist Black Comedy Rape Our Vampires Are Different Babies Ever After Insane Troll Logic The '60s Storming the Castle Villain Protagonist An Aesop A Minor Kidroduction My God, What Have I Done? Race Lift In the Back Empathic Environment Rewatch Bonus British Films Show Within a Show Soft Glass timeperiod Obfuscating Stupidity Evil vs. Evil Poor Communication Kills Horror Comedy Broken Pedestal Shout-Out What You Are in the Dark Captain Ersatz Everyone Has Standards Film Series Retired Badass Irony Documentary Cold-Blooded Torture Genre Shift Jerk with a Heart of Gold All Girls Want Bad Boys What the Hell, Hero? Historical Villain Upgrade Composite Character Mr. Exposition Film Noir Intrepid Reporter Room Full of Crazy Eureka Moment Famous Last Words Action Genre It's All About Me Chekhov's Gunman "Awesome McCool" Name Yandere Shirtless Scene The Starscream Dirty Cop Heroes Want Redheads Instant Death Bullet Catch-Phrase Villainous Breakdown Bond One-Liner Humiliation Conga Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Villain Song Daddy's Girl Bare Your Midriff French Films The Lancer Manipulative Bastard Death Glare Creator Cameo Artistic License – Biology Be Careful What You Wish For Deliberate Values Dissonance Spiritual Successor Cowboy Cop Badass Normal Adorkable Big Eater Celebrity Paradox Big Bad Cat Fight Death of a Child Author Avatar Wrong Genre Savvy A God Am I Shell-Shocked Veteran Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Big Applesauce Rousing Speech Unusually Uninteresting Sight Nothing Is Scarier Cool Car Fingore Sci-Fi Horror Totally Radical Science Fiction Films Riddle for the Ages Spell My Name with an "S" Alpha Bitch Off-into-the-Distance Ending Actor Allusion Establishing Character Moment Sinister Minister Grey and Gray Morality Extremely Short Timespan Broken Aesop Mighty Whitey Meaningful Background Event Dark Action Girl Danny Peary Cult Movies List Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Sacrificial Lion Smug Snake Here We Go Again! Not So Stoic Bilingual Bonus Coming-of-Age Story The Smurfette Principle The Oner I Need a Freaking Drink Adaptational Heroism Roaring Rampage of Revenge Mind Screw Funny Background Event 20 Minutes into the Future Parental Substitute Eyepatch of Power Improvised Weapon Artistic License – Law Dirty Old Man Hooker with a Heart of Gold Vitriolic Best Buds No Ending Gainax Ending Frame-Up Kill 'em All Hypocritical Humor Distracted by the Sexy Punny Name For the Evulz Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Evil Is Petty Malevolent Masked Men Dissonant Serenity Zombie Stories No Name Given Screw This, I'm Outta Here! "Shaggy Dog" Story Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Cloudcuckoolander Cool Old Guy Wounded Gazelle Gambit Karmic Death In Medias Res Random Events Plot Reasonable Authority Figure Action Prologue Psychopathic Manchild Big-Bad Ensemble Calling the Old Man Out Plucky Comic Relief Reality Is Unrealistic Not So Different Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Fish out of Water Heel Realization Foregone Conclusion Race Against the Clock Foil Extreme Doormat Artistic License – History The Chick Boom, Headshot! Casting Gag Black Comedy Sanity Slippage Public Domain Feature Films Stock Footage Too Dumb to Live Better to Die than Be Killed Loophole Abuse Implacable Man Evil Sounds Deep Bland-Name Product Red Herring Meet Cute Driven to Suicide Black and Gray Morality Due to the Dead Costume Porn Adaptation Distillation "Well Done, Son!" Guy Ironic Echo Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Fantastic Racism Shoot the Shaggy Dog Names to Run Away from Really Fast Gender Flip All There in the Manual Ambiguous Ending Mythology Gag Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Ascended Extra Protagonist Title Hell Is That Noise Papa Wolf Blood from the Mouth Unspoken Plan Guarantee Never Trust a Trailer In Name Only I Have Your Wife Disney Death Deal with the Devil A Father to His Men Amoral Attorney Artistic License – Military Anguished Declaration of Love Camera Abuse Your Cheating Heart Genre Throwback Throwing Your Sword Always Works Dying Moment of Awesome Bitch in Sheep's Clothing The Cameo Tranquil Fury As Himself War Is Hell There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Load Mundane Made Awesome Anachronism Stew Self-Deprecation Daylight Horror Took a Level in Badass Bavarian Fire Drill Lock and Load Montage Badass Longcoat Freeze-Frame Bonus Book-Ends Even Evil Has Loved Ones Accidental Murder I Did What I Had to Do Character Development Corpsing Cruel and Unusual Death Jitter Cam Actually Pretty Funny Mercy Kill Evil Counterpart Male Gaze '80s Hair Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Agony of the Feet Breaking the Fourth Wall Psycho for Hire Ugly Guy, Hot Wife NO INDOOR VOICE Off with His Head! Pretty in Mink Drowning My Sorrows Those Two Bad Guys Bullying a Dragon Call-Back Death by Adaptation Blood Knight Anti-Hero The Dog Bites Back Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Rasputinian Death Cassandra Truth Ambiguously Gay Knife Nut Blackmail Determinator Training Montage Department of Redundancy Department Kids Are Cruel Dramatic Irony Evil Laugh Animal Motifs Rich Bitch The Dragon Sadistic Choice Playing Gertrude Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Broken Bird German Films Darkest Hour Adaptational Attractiveness Immune to Bullets The X of Y Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Stepford Smiler Reality Ensues Not What It Looks Like Visual Pun All Men Are Perverts Conspicuous CG Bond Villain Stupidity Well-Intentioned Extremist Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Have a Gay Old Time Disney Villain Death Star-Crossed Lovers Adaptational Villainy Fat Bastard Parental Incest Woman Scorned Crapsack World Beta Couple Obstructive Bureaucrat Chekhov's Gun Redemption Equals Death Evil-Detecting Dog Defiant to the End Blatant Lies Amusing Injuries Japanese Films Adaptation Expansion The Place Jerkass Car Fu Big Damn Heroes Stealth Pun Married to the Job Slap-Slap-Kiss Parental Abandonment Pragmatic Adaptation Demonic Possession Crucified Hero Shot She Cleans Up Nicely Batman Gambit This Is Gonna Suck Unusual Euphemism Missing Mom Narrator Hero Antagonist Black Best Friend The Quiet One Final Girl Abusive Parents Death by Irony Historical Hero Upgrade Anachronic Order Neck Snap Flashback Asshole Victim Sequel Escalation Skewed Priorities Bald of Evil Plot Hole More Dakka Politically Incorrect Villain The Vamp It's Personal Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Rule of Funny "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue An Arm and a Leg Maybe Ever After Straight Gay Ripped from the Headlines Early-Bird Cameo Offscreen Teleportation Taking the Bullet Ass Shove Kubrick Stare The Sociopath Shown Their Work Needs Wiki Magic Love Dropped a Bridge on Him Say My Name True Companions Brick Joke My Greatest Failure Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Epic Movie Dramatic Gun Cock MacGuffin Romantic False Lead Eagleland Adapted Out B-Movie I'm a Humanitarian Earn Your Happy Ending Easily Forgiven Sexy Discretion Shot Man on Fire Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The '70s Laser-Guided Karma From Nobody to Nightmare The Musical Romantic Comedy Offscreen Moment of Awesome He Knows Too Much Expository Hairstyle Change Black Dude Dies First The Ditz Hollywood Darkness Evil Plan Deconstruction Not Quite Dead Adult Fear Reckless Gun Usage Television Movie Index Morality Pet Not Even Bothering with the Accent Crazy-Prepared Honor Before Reason Death Seeker Neck Lift Getting Crap Past the Radar The Hero No Antagonist Martial Arts Movie Big Bad Duumvirate Hollywood Law Green-Eyed Monster Hair-Trigger Temper The Un-Reveal Call-Forward Authority Equals Asskicking The Casanova Deus ex Machina Cat Scare Retcon Slasher Smile No-Sell Men Are the Expendable Gender Real Life Writes the Plot Red Right Hand Defrosting Ice Queen Didn't Think This Through Belligerent Sexual Tension You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Wham Shot Would Hit a Girl Hidden Depths Jerk Jock Catapult Nightmare Those Two Guys Ominous Latin Chanting Break the Haughty Sports Stories Despair Event Horizon Failed a Spot Check The Chessmaster Continuity Nod The Mole Idiot Ball Badass Bookworm The Bad Guy Wins As the Good Book Says... Bound and Gagged Antagonist Title Flipping the Bird Bad Boss Suddenly SHOUTING! Naïve Newcomer The Power of Love Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Mugging the Monster Twist Ending Mooks Shut Up, Hannibal! Break the Cutie Spiteful Spit The Dreaded Stylistic Suck Slashed Throat Kick the Son of a Bitch Adaptation Name Change An Axe to Grind Even Evil Has Standards The Atoner Darker and Edgier Unreliable Narrator Scary Black Man Only a Flesh Wound After the End Jump Scare Femme Fatale Toplessness from the Back Improbable Weapon User Killed Mid-Sentence Homage Destination Defenestration Chiaroscuro Henpecked Husband Historical In-Joke Psychological Thriller Informed Ability Stalker with a Crush Curse Cut Short La Résistance Country Matters Soundtrack Dissonance Fanservice Humans Are Bastards Victoria's Secret Compartment Last-Name Basis He Who Fights Monsters Recycled IN SPACE! Only One Name Evil Brit Bloodier and Gorier Four-Temperament Ensemble Villain Ball Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Fan Disservice Wham Line Alliterative Name Not So Above It All Mystery and Detective Films Foreshadowing Fake Shemp Australian Movies Badass Boast Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Back from the Dead Shipper on Deck How We Got Here Word of God Properly Paranoid The Remake Gone Horribly Right Peek-a-Boo Corpse Scenery Gorn Cool Guns Nice Hat The Alcoholic Taking You with Me Big Brother Instinct Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday As Long as It Sounds Foreign Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Gilligan Cut Dark and Troubled Past Genre Savvy Paper-Thin Disguise Faux Affably Evil Berserk Button Bad "Bad Acting" A.I. Is a Crapshoot Beard of Evil Fiery Redhead Covers Always Lie Never My Fault Bring My Brown Pants Manic Pixie Dream Girl Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Fantasy Films The Faceless Bottomless Magazines Horror Films Military and Warfare Films Good Is Not Nice No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Trailers Always Spoil Kick the Dog Domestic Abuse Red Shirt Wicked Cultured Betty and Veronica Suspiciously Specific Denial Tap on the Head Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Those Wacky Nazis Jerkass Has a Point As You Know Awesome, but Impractical Almost Kiss Damsel in Distress Take That! Older Than They Look Chewing the Scenery Drives Like Crazy Large Ham Depraved Bisexual Fanservice Extra Major Injury Underreaction Mexican Standoff You Have Failed Me Revenge Put on a Bus Bunny-Ears Lawyer Disguised in Drag Manly Tears Sassy Black Woman The Stoic Facial Horror Determinator aka: The Determinator Time Skip Worthy Opponent Gorn Chekhov's Skill Becoming the Mask Love Triangle Historical-Domain Character Author Appeal Woman in White Death by Sex Get Out! Really Gets Around Dwindling Party No OSHA Compliance Motor Mouth Face–Heel Turn Police are Useless Dutch Angle Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Music Stories Pay Evil unto Evil Funny Foreigner Beauty Is Never Tarnished Stealth Hi/Bye Ms. Fanservice Does This Remind You of Anything? Bowdlerise World of Ham Truth in Television Non-Indicative Name Decoy Protagonist Adults Are Useless Scare Chord The Alleged Car It Can Think Meaningful Name Re-Cut Real Life Artistic License – Gun Safety Affectionate Parody Parental Neglect Five-Man Band Your Head A-Splode Italian Films Captain Obvious Vomit Indiscretion Shot Made of Explodium Meaningful Echo Sir Swears-a-Lot She's Got Legs Very Loosely Based on a True Story Kill It with Fire Affably Evil A Date with Rosie Palms Moment Killer Bi the Way Hong Kong Films Police Brutality Logo Joke The Stoner From Bad to Worse Madness Mantra Air-Vent Passageway Big Fancy House And the Adventure Continues Silence Is Golden Bloody Hilarious Serious Business Fourth Date Marriage Animal Title Index Left the Background Music On Translation Convention Novelization The Great Depression Crazy Jealous Guy Ambiguous Disorder Our Zombies Are Different Chase Scene Dies Wide Open Mistaken for Gay Dual Wielding Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Gory Discretion Shot Male Frontal Nudity Hope Spot Only Sane Man Artistic License – Geography Superhero Deadpan Snarker And Starring Brainless Beauty Drugs Are Bad Age Lift Drill Sergeant Nasty Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Camp Gay Fate Worse than Death Manchild Vampire Fiction Together in Death Anti-Villain Smoking Is Cool Red Eyes, Take Warning Ghost Fiction The '80s Light Is Not Good Fire-Forged Friends Big "NO!" The Voiceless All Just a Dream No Celebrities Were Harmed Disappeared Dad For Want of a Nail Never Found the Body Obviously Evil Line-of-Sight Name Running Gag "The Reason You Suck" Speech One Steve Limit Thriller Let's Get Dangerous! Rated M for Manly Shower Scene Cool Old Lady folderlabel Diabolus ex Machina Mama Bear Leitmotif Abhorrent Admirer Leaning on the Fourth Wall Fatal Family Photo Ungrateful Bastard Scenery Porn Insistent Terminology Curb-Stomp Battle Karma Houdini Comically Missing the Point Dumb Blonde The Ace And I Must Scream Biopic You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Pragmatic Villainy One-Word Title Hero of Another Story Eye Scream Double-Meaning Title Mood Whiplash Aluminum Christmas Trees Mad Scientist Sealed Evil in a Can Serial Killer Slasher Movie Monumental Damage Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Early Installment Weirdness Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Improbable Aiming Skills Loads and Loads of Characters Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Award-Bait Song Reality Has No Subtitles Exactly What It Says on the Tin Bloodless Carnage The Mafia Ship Tease Love at First Sight Stuff Blowing Up Heterosexual Life-Partners Silent Movie The Hero Dies Small Name, Big Ego Hypocrite Pretty Little Headshots Bittersweet Ending Exact Words Children Are Innocent Did Not Get the Girl Insult Backfire The '90s Dark Is Not Evil Does Not Like Shoes Product Placement Body Horror Apocalypse How Handicapped Badass Creative Closing Credits Important Haircut Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Brutal Honesty Make It Look Like an Accident Animated Credits Opening The Bully Brother–Sister Incest N-Word Privileges Punch-Clock Villain Canon Foreigner Butt-Monkey Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Up to Eleven Take a Third Option Knight Templar Whole Plot Reference Arc Words Villain Opening Scene Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Guile Hero Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Noodle Incident Spanner in the Works Dramedy Arranged Marriage Retirony Eldritch Abomination Canadian Movies Pre-Mortem One-Liner Expy Christmas Movies Index Attempted Rape Redshirt Army Rule of Cool Index of Film Westerns The Lost Lenore Framing Device All There in the Script Imagine Spot Overprotective Dad Action Girl Armor-Piercing Question Badass Grandpa All for Nothing Pimped-Out Dress Super Strength The Big Guy Not Using the "Z" Word Double Entendre Faking the Dead Artistic License – Physics Developing Doomed Characters Greater-Scope Villain Same Language Dub The Cavalry Dark Reprise Would Hurt a Child Bolivian Army Ending Suspiciously Similar Substitute Closed Circle Rule of Symbolism Annoying Younger Sibling O.O.C. Is Serious Business Red Oni, Blue Oni The Ghost Fatal Flaw Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! The Smart Guy Freudian Excuse Every Car Is a Pinto Vomit Discretion Shot Made of Iron Ax-Crazy Once More, with Clarity! Disproportionate Retribution Took a Level in Jerkass Interrupted Suicide Fun with Acronyms Unwitting Instigator of Doom Enemy Mine Aside Glance The Film of the Book Tagline Auto Erotica Beware the Nice Ones I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Posthumous Character Bar Brawl Overly Long Gag Bury Your Gays Action Survivor Precision F-Strike Unresolved Sexual Tension One-Man Army Laughing Mad I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Vacation Films Sole Survivor Leave the Camera Running Demoted to Extra Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Based on a True Story Wretched Hive Creepy Child Lampshade Hanging The Stinger It Will Never Catch On The End... Or Is It? Alas, Poor Villain Heroic BSoD Credits Gag Naked People Are Funny Dull Surprise Adaptational Badass Outrun the Fireball Dogged Nice Guy Adaptation Dye-Job Lighter and Softer Downer Ending Setting Update Card-Carrying Villain Arch-Enemy No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Hoist by His Own Petard You Killed My Father Cluster F-Bomb Match Cut Face Death with Dignity