Tropescilloscope: Dirty Cop

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

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