Tropescilloscope: Dirty Cop

A corrupt cop who commits police misconduct. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Make It Look Like an Accident Freeze-Frame Bonus Fantastic Racism Real Life Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Ugly Guy, Hot Wife The '60s Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Throwing Your Sword Always Works A Father to His Men Psychological Thriller Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Greater-Scope Villain Gory Discretion Shot Vacation Films Bloodier and Gorier Rousing Speech Sole Survivor You Have Failed Me Bare Your Midriff Flipping the Bird Took a Level in Badass Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Undying Loyalty Smug Snake Punny Name The Smart Guy Age Lift Foregone Conclusion Bury Your Gays The Ghost The X of Y Country Matters Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Ditz Even Evil Has Loved Ones Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Punch-Clock Villain Very Loosely Based on a True Story Hidden Depths Sacrificial Lion Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Foil The '70s Chekhov's Gun Animal Motifs Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Really Gets Around Immune to Bullets Black Best Friend The Dragon Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Irony Adaptational Heroism Mexican Standoff Broken Aesop Villainous Breakdown Adapted Out Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Frame-Up Evil Plan Slasher Smile Adaptational Badass The Musical Failed a Spot Check Pretty in Mink Dark Action Girl Cold-Blooded Torture More Dakka Cool Car Break the Haughty Only Sane Man Line-of-Sight Name All Men Are Perverts Important Haircut Monumental Damage Hypocrite The Chessmaster Silent Movie Famous Last Words Gainax Ending Obfuscating Stupidity Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Reality Has No Subtitles Meaningful Echo As Long as It Sounds Foreign From Bad to Worse Here We Go Again! The Brute The Remake Shower Scene Storming the Castle Corpsing Bald of Evil Curse Cut Short Sealed Evil in a Can Slap-Slap-Kiss Would Hurt a Child Author Avatar And I Must Scream Politically Incorrect Villain Television Movie Index Offscreen Moment of Awesome Parental Substitute Dual Wielding Annoying Younger Sibling Not So Different Reality Is Unrealistic Getting Crap Past the Radar Did Not Get the Girl Extreme Doormat Author Appeal Advertised Extra "Awesome McCool" Name Word of God Sports Stories Overprotective Dad Random Events Plot Outrun the Fireball All for Nothing Big Applesauce Unusual Euphemism Neck Snap Token Minority Femme Fatale Adult Fear Catch-Phrase Stylistic Suck Rasputinian Death Jerkass Has a Point Hell Is That Noise MacGuffin Improvised Weapon La Résistance Bad "Bad Acting" No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Ambiguous Ending Heel–Face Turn Villain Song Creative Closing Credits What the Hell, Hero? Made of Iron Artistic License – History Lampshade Hanging Blood Knight Spiteful Spit Villain Protagonist Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Department of Redundancy Department Neck Lift The '90s Ship Tease The Atoner Scenery Gorn Bland-Name Product The Alleged Car Not So Stoic Adults Are Useless Hypocritical Humor Heterosexual Life-Partners Rule of Funny Dull Surprise Manic Pixie Dream Girl Serial Killer Demoted to Extra Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Only One Name Brick Joke He Who Fights Monsters World of Ham Crazy Jealous Guy Never My Fault Dressing as the Enemy "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue NO INDOOR VOICE Evil Is Petty Brutal Honesty Protagonist Title Roaring Rampage of Revenge Arc Words Big Bad Big-Bad Ensemble Leave the Camera Running Ascended Extra Race Lift Jerk with a Heart of Gold Noodle Incident Lock and Load Montage Rule of Three Chekhov's Gunman Dogged Nice Guy Crucified Hero Shot Up to Eleven Meaningful Name Not Quite Dead Improbable Aiming Skills Pimped-Out Dress Does This Remind You of Anything? Dies Wide Open Death Seeker Freudian Excuse Slashed Throat Dying Moment of Awesome Distracted by the Sexy Hong Kong Films It Can Think Unusually Uninteresting Sight Killed Mid-Sentence Every Car Is a Pinto Anguished Declaration of Love Happily Married Ragtag Bunch of Misfits And the Adventure Continues Idiot Ball Action Girl Off-into-the-Distance Ending Kill It with Fire Your Cheating Heart Ambiguous Disorder Creator Cameo Police are Useless Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Man on Fire Soundtrack Dissonance Vampire Fiction Daddy's Girl Bound and Gagged Translation Convention The Stoic Mercy Kill No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Take a Third Option It's Personal Skewed Priorities Costume Porn Thriller Flashback Setting Update Made of Explodium Developing Doomed Characters Precision F-Strike Becoming the Mask Mugging the Monster Guile Hero I Have Your Wife Jitter Cam Bolivian Army Ending Stealth Hi/Bye This Is Gonna Suck Eye Scream Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Bi the Way As You Know Hollywood Law Eagleland I'm a Humanitarian Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Kill 'em All Psychopathic Manchild Damsel in Distress Does Not Like Shoes Non-Indicative Name Arranged Marriage Action Prologue timeperiod Aside Glance Victoria's Secret Compartment Zombie Stories Knife Nut Double-Meaning Title Big Damn Heroes Take That! 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Male Frontal Nudity N-Word Privileges Video Credits Meet Cute Blood from the Mouth The End... Or Is It? Ripped from the Headlines Card-Carrying Villain Well-Intentioned Extremist "Shaggy Dog" Story Book-Ends Suspiciously Similar Substitute Camp Gay Exact Words Film Noir Once More, with Clarity! Reality Ensues The Lost Lenore Time Skip Contrived Coincidence Eyepatch of Power There Is No Kill Like Overkill Bloody Hilarious Villain Ball Jerkass Index of Film Westerns Have a Gay Old Time Death by Sex Bring My Brown Pants The Cameo Men Are the Expendable Gender Adaptation Dye-Job Madness Mantra Character Development Intergenerational Friendship An Arm and a Leg Shut Up, Hannibal! Beta Couple Match Cut Auto Erotica Death by Irony Almost Kiss Anti-Hero The Alcoholic Taking the Bullet An Axe to Grind Informed Ability Military and Warfare Films Evil-Detecting Dog Ax-Crazy Smoking Is Cool Never Trust a Trailer Needs Wiki Magic Love Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Stuff Blowing Up Big Eater Bittersweet Ending Oh, Crap! Drowning My Sorrows Affably Evil Bottomless Magazines The '50s Left the Background Music On Not Using the "Z" Word Rule of Cool Extremely Short Timespan Fiery Redhead Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Poor Communication Kills Soft Glass Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique All There in the Script Pretty Little Headshots Mythology Gag Chewing the Scenery Sir Swears-a-Lot Genre Throwback Corrupt Corporate Executive Fatal Family Photo Evil Sounds Deep Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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One-Man Army Anachronism Stew Anachronic Order The Oner Grey and Gray Morality Naked People Are Funny Not What It Looks Like I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Your Head A-Splode Those Wacky Nazis Action Genre Artistic License – Law Fate Worse than Death Interrupted Suicide Facial Horror As Himself Insane Troll Logic Biopic Body Horror Romantic False Lead Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Red Shirt Insult Backfire Works Set in World War II The Place Gratuitous English Nice Hat Pragmatic Adaptation Mr. Fanservice Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Central Theme Fake Shemp Same Language Dub Antagonist Title Obstructive Bureaucrat Calling the Old Man Out Coming-of-Age Story Homage Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Red Herring 20 Minutes into the Future Jump Scare Hooker with a Heart of Gold From Nobody to Nightmare Married to the Job Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Say My Name In Name Only Belligerent Sexual Tension Not Even Bothering with the Accent Sinister Minister Retired Badass Artistic License – Physics Heroes Want Redheads Film Noir Index Vomit Indiscretion Shot Manchild Meaningful Background Event Vomit Discretion Shot Butt-Monkey Aluminum Christmas Trees Nice Guy Despair Event Horizon Drill Sergeant Nasty Fat Bastard Badass Longcoat How We Got Here You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Villain with Good Publicity Red Right Hand My Greatest Failure Artistic License – Geography Accidental Misnaming Breaking the Fourth Wall Badass Normal Double Entendre Actor Allusion Stepford Smiler Stealth Pun Cat Fight Leaning on the Fourth Wall Cat Scare Self-Deprecation Spiritual Successor Dramatic Gun Cock Retirony Darker and Edgier Running Gag Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Cool Guns Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience The Vamp The Reveal Bond One-Liner Wham Line Ghost Fiction Hero of Another Story folderlabel Sequel Escalation Awesome, but Impractical Tap on the Head Moment Killer Black Comedy Rape Darkest Hour My Beloved Smother The Bully Dirty Coward What You Are in the Dark Dark and Troubled Past All There in the Manual "Well Done, Son!" Guy Agony of the Feet Wounded Gazelle Gambit For Want of a Nail Dutch Angle Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Took a Level in Jerkass Unresolved Sexual Tension Broken Bird Disappeared Dad Dumb Blonde Ironic Echo BFG She's Got Legs Beard of Evil Large Ham Recycled IN SPACE! The Bad Guy Wins Black Comedy Deus ex Machina Fainting Ambiguously Gay The Mole Empathic Environment Blatant Lies The Stinger Ass Shove Laser-Guided Karma Romantic Comedy Five-Man Band Sequel Hook Put on a Bus Gilligan Cut Action Survivor Canadian Movies Last-Name Basis Loads and Loads of Characters Beauty Is Never Tarnished Attempted Rape Based on a True Story Disproportionate Retribution Bilingual Bonus It Will Never Catch On Abhorrent Admirer Riddle for the Ages Credits Gag Laughing Mad Star-Crossed Lovers Rape as Drama The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Face Death with Dignity The Starscream Parental Incest Artistic License – Military Conspicuous CG Big Fancy House Continuity Nod Artistic License – Gun Safety