Tropescilloscope: Police Brutality

Bullies with badges. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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