Tropescilloscope: Police are Useless

Security authorities either don't help to solve problems or makes them worse. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Be Careful What You Wish For Historical Hero Upgrade timeperiod Mystery and Detective Films From Bad to Worse Up to Eleven Retired Badass One-Word Title Abhorrent Admirer Cat Scare Developing Doomed Characters Evil vs. Evil Canadian Movies Self-Deprecation Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer One-Man Army Flipping the Bird Daddy's Girl Same Language Dub Race Against the Clock Award-Bait Song Unusually Uninteresting Sight Central Theme Missing Mom Manipulative Bastard Older Than They Look The Bully Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Beauty Is Never Tarnished Bottomless Magazines Big Eater The Casanova Smug Snake Anachronism Stew Big-Bad Ensemble Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Red Herring Death Seeker Eureka Moment Darkest Hour Spared by the Adaptation Dumb Blonde Badass in a Nice Suit Distracted by the Sexy Cluster F-Bomb Ironic Echo Mugging the Monster Evil Counterpart The End... Or Is It? Decoy Protagonist Animal Title Index Evil-Detecting Dog Frame-Up Obstructive Bureaucrat Off-into-the-Distance Ending Small Name, Big Ego Not Using the "Z" Word Pretty Little Headshots Reality Has No Subtitles Red Eyes, Take Warning The Starscream Freudian Excuse Vampire Fiction No Celebrities Were Harmed Smoking Is Cool The Place Implacable Man Wicked Cultured BFG Horror Films All There in the Script Contrived Coincidence Peek-a-Boo Corpse Empathic Environment The Stinger Offscreen Moment of Awesome In the Back Crazy Jealous Guy Slasher Smile Psychopathic Manchild The Ghost Lock and Load Montage No-Sell Made of Iron Due to the Dead Chewing the Scenery Setting Update Papa Wolf Important Haircut Refuge in Audacity Morality Pet Call-Back Grievous Bottley Harm Catch-Phrase Meet Cute Arranged Marriage Horror Comedy folderlabel Ass Shove Flashback Not What It Looks Like Obfuscating Stupidity Ambiguous Ending Properly Paranoid Product Placement Christmas Movies Index NO INDOOR VOICE Redshirt Army Would Hit a Girl Beta Couple Grey and Gray Morality Black Comedy Amoral Attorney Dramatic Gun Cock Fish out of Water Dirty Cop Get Out! 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No Antagonist Adaptation Dye-Job Calling the Old Man Out Kick the Dog Serial Killer Whole Plot Reference Foreshadowing Evil Plan '80s Hair Jerkass Scare Chord The Ditz Demonic Possession Our Zombies Are Different Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Motor Mouth The Dreaded The '50s Kill It with Fire Mr. Fanservice Madness Mantra Broken Pedestal All Men Are Perverts Homage Artistic License – Geography Break the Haughty Camp Gay Your Cheating Heart My Beloved Smother Ship Tease Make It Look Like an Accident Creepy Child Affably Evil Black Best Friend Parental Neglect Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Kids Are Cruel Manchild Authority Equals Asskicking Science Fiction Films Composite Character And Starring An Axe to Grind Adaptational Badass Villain Opening Scene Light Is Not Good Four-Temperament Ensemble Killed Mid-Sentence Take a Third Option The Stoner Parental Incest Tranquil Fury Funny Background Event Handicapped Badass Framing Device The X of Y Badass Grandpa Eiffel Tower Effect Becoming the Mask Death by Irony Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality A.I. Is a Crapshoot Spiteful Spit Blood Knight Affectionate Parody Pyrrhic Victory "Awesome McCool" Name Freeze-Frame Bonus Historical In-Joke "The Reason You Suck" Speech Arch-Enemy Sinister Minister Nice Hat Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie The Brute Insane Troll Logic I Need a Freaking Drink Storming the Castle Malevolent Masked Men Domestic Abuse Accidental Murder Broken Bird Humans Are Bastards Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Really Gets Around Disappeared Dad Sanity Slippage Eyepatch of Power Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Greater-Scope Villain Woman in White Car Fu Suspiciously Specific Denial Meaningful Background Event Thriller Large Ham Shout-Out Chekhov's Gunman Heel Realization Sports Stories A Date with Rosie Palms Belligerent Sexual Tension Happily Married Mad Scientist Credits Gag You Have Failed Me Bound and Gagged Coming-of-Age Story Call-Forward Expy Fourth Date Marriage Drowning My Sorrows Manly Tears Cold-Blooded Torture Hooker with a Heart of Gold Running Gag Action Prologue Straight Gay Military and Warfare Films Retcon Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Dark Reprise Eldritch Abomination Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Fun with Acronyms Overly Long Gag Punch-Clock Villain Dirty Coward Pet the Dog The Vamp No OSHA Compliance Actor Allusion What the Hell, Hero? Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Scenery Porn Gory Discretion Shot Fatal Family Photo Chekhov's Gun Unspoken Plan Guarantee Mistaken for Gay My God, What Have I Done? The Oner Jerk with a Heart of Gold Casting Gag Ghost Fiction Covers Always Lie Non-Indicative Name Death by Sex As Himself He Knows Too Much Take That! Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Bar Brawl Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Left the Background Music On Auto Erotica No Good Deed Goes Unpunished I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Cool Old Lady Spiritual Successor Earn Your Happy Ending Serious Business Double Entendre Awesome, but Impractical Adult Fear Manic Pixie Dream Girl Damsel in Distress Canon Foreigner Skewed Priorities Good Is Not Nice Attempted Rape Alas, Poor Villain Improbable Weapon User Taking You with Me Artistic License – Law Improvised Weapon Break the Cutie Almost Kiss Cool Car Tap on the Head All Girls Want Bad Boys Henpecked Husband Dull Surprise Trailers Always Spoil Bland-Name Product Establishing Character Moment For Want of a Nail Romantic Comedy Guile Hero Sequel Hook Mood Whiplash Translation Convention Those Two Guys Truth in Television Stalker with a Crush Creator Cameo Fanservice Dirty Old Man Fake Shemp Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Babies Ever After The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Mundane Made Awesome Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Never My Fault Pre-Mortem One-Liner Dressing as the Enemy You Killed My Father Early Installment Weirdness Those Two Bad Guys Hope Spot Enemy Mine Destination Defenestration The Hero Dies Back from the Dead Fiery Redhead Superhero The Chessmaster Mexican Standoff Ungrateful Bastard Sequel Escalation Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Australian Movies Jump Scare Shipper on Deck One Steve Limit Closed Circle Red Right Hand True Companions Villainous Breakdown I'm a Humanitarian Bad Boss Department of Redundancy Department Heterosexual Life-Partners Character Development Bi the Way As the Good Book Says... Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Works Set in World War II Driven to Suicide Fantastic Racism Victoria's Secret Compartment Bowdlerise O.O.C. Is Serious Business Jerkass Has a Point Intergenerational Friendship Big Fancy House Major Injury Underreaction Bring My Brown Pants Playing Gertrude Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The '80s Epic Movie The '60s Unreliable Narrator Guns Akimbo Love at First Sight Riddle for the Ages What Happened to the Mouse? 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Guy Dogged Nice Guy Ax-Crazy Action Survivor Fainting Jitter Cam Death by Adaptation Immune to Bullets 20 Minutes into the Future Genre Throwback The Bad Guy Wins Costume Porn Fingore Big Bad Duumvirate Vitriolic Best Buds Bavarian Fire Drill Documentary Friend to All Children My Greatest Failure Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Poor Communication Kills Fat Bastard Dying Moment of Awesome Antagonist Title How We Got Here Faking the Dead Loophole Abuse Annoying Younger Sibling Villain Song Meaningful Name Deadpan Snarker Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Made of Explodium Narrator Film Noir Index Match Cut Agony of the Feet Captain Ersatz And the Adventure Continues Meaningful Echo Too Dumb to Live Real Life Unwitting Instigator of Doom Ambiguously Gay Brother–Sister Incest Sealed Evil in a Can Men Are the Expendable Gender The Musical "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Cowboy Cop Oh, Crap! Japanese Films Dramedy Rich Bitch Epic Fail Disproportionate Retribution Naked People Are Funny Breaking the Fourth Wall Groin Attack Big Damn Heroes Only a Flesh Wound Plot Hole Naïve Newcomer Monumental Damage The Cavalry Never Trust a Trailer Police are Useless Action Girl Kick the Son of a Bitch The Chick Bolivian Army Ending Bullying a Dragon Rewatch Bonus Reality Ensues Hong Kong Films Slap-Slap-Kiss The Stoic Deconstruction Comically Missing the Point Evil Is Petty Novelization Foil Knife Nut Bloody Hilarious Black and Gray Morality Idiot Ball Downer Ending Evil Sounds Deep Mythology Gag Age Lift Tempting Fate The Lancer Market-Based Title The Lost Lenore Adaptation Name Change Bond Villain Stupidity Kubrick Stare Star-Crossed Lovers Adaptational Heroism Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Heroes Want Redheads Disguised in Drag Have a Gay Old Time Failed a Spot Check Super Strength The Smart Guy Recycled IN SPACE! Irony Karma Houdini Nice Guy Psychological Thriller Rule of Funny Loads and Loads of Characters Say My Name For the Evulz Corpsing Stylistic Suck Twist Ending Bare Your Midriff Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Evil Brit Card-Carrying Villain Adaptation Distillation Yandere Artistic License – Biology Artistic License – Military Informed Ability Your Head A-Splode Black Dude Dies First You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Overprotective Dad Brick Joke Dropped a Bridge on Him Slasher Movie Gorn Badass Boast Mind Screw Not Even Bothering with the Accent More Dakka Stepford Smiler Not So Stoic Even Evil Has Loved Ones Anti-Villain Intrepid Reporter Pragmatic Villainy Silent Movie The Dog Bites Back Hero Antagonist Catapult Nightmare The Load Bury Your Gays Honor Before Reason Hoist by His Own Petard Book-Ends Male Frontal Nudity War Is Hell It's Personal An Aesop Eye Scream Adaptational Villainy Mercy Kill Martial Arts Movie Based on a True Story Better to Die than Be Killed Bald of Evil Sci-Fi Horror Does Not Like Shoes Hollywood Darkness Soundtrack Dissonance Zombie Stories Anti-Hero MacGuffin Unusual Euphemism Shown Their Work Plucky Comic Relief Bond One-Liner Anyone Can Die Cassandra Truth Demoted to Extra Race Lift Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Fanservice Extra Easily Forgiven Rule of Symbolism Vomit Indiscretion Shot Took a Level in Badass Animated Credits Opening Big Applesauce Early-Bird Cameo Visual Pun Gilligan Cut The Faceless Abusive Parents British Films Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Laughing Mad Soft Glass Death of a Child Well-Intentioned Extremist Drugs Are Bad Pimped-Out Dress Camera Abuse I Have Your Wife Combat Pragmatist The Mole Even Evil Has Standards Spell My Name with an "S" Sir Swears-a-Lot Asshole Victim The Mafia The Quiet One No Ending Bunny-Ears Lawyer Deliberate Values Dissonance Re-Cut Off with His Head! Pragmatic Adaptation Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Roaring Rampage of Revenge Accidental Misnaming Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Foregone Conclusion In Name Only Chiaroscuro Rule of Three Red Oni, Blue Oni Television Movie Index Russian Films Artistic License – Gun Safety Suddenly SHOUTING! Music Stories The Dragon Mama Bear Did Not Get the Girl Wounded Gazelle Gambit Curse Cut Short Mr. Exposition Aluminum Christmas Trees Body Horror Sacrificial Lion From Nobody to Nightmare Hidden Depths Precision F-Strike Author Appeal Police Brutality Everyone Has Standards Dramatic Irony Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Only One Name Shell-Shocked Veteran The Great Depression Worthy Opponent Stealth Hi/Bye Rousing Speech Cool Guns The Film of the Book Depraved Bisexual Adaptational Attractiveness An Arm and a Leg Cool Shades B-Movie Show Within a Show Dies Wide Open Laser-Guided Karma Not So Above It All Together in Death Moment Killer Actually Pretty Funny The Hero Never Found the Body Reality Is Unrealistic Beard of Evil She Cleans Up Nicely Cloudcuckoolander Suspiciously Similar Substitute Disney Death Extremely Short Timespan Adapted Out Reasonable Authority Figure Took a Level in Jerkass The '70s Only Known by Their Nickname Film Noir Offscreen Teleportation Married to the Job Stock Footage Index of Film Westerns Taking the Bullet Those Wacky Nazis In Medias Res Deus ex Machina Reckless Gun Usage Boom, Headshot! Politically Incorrect Villain Sole Survivor As You Know Dutch Angle Outrun the Fireball World of Ham Disney Villain Death Shut Up, Hannibal! Here We Go Again! And I Must Scream Put on a Bus Didn't Think This Through Toplessness from the Back Paper-Thin Disguise Karmic Death Scenery Gorn Alliterative Name What You Are in the Dark Our Vampires Are Different Conspicuous CG A Father to His Men Every Car Is a Pinto Love Triangle Word of God Final Girl Face–Heel Turn Wretched Hive Lighter and Softer It Will Never Catch On Fatal Flaw Insult Backfire Male Gaze Romantic False Lead Corrupt Corporate Executive Gold Digger Nothing Is Scarier Bloodless Carnage German Films