| Role/Occupation Police |
| Total Entries 52 |
| Representative Signor Renzi |
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He’s a loose cannon, but DAMMIT he’s the best we have!Sure, police work may be built upon rules and procedures, but they usually make for bad, boring stories. Sometimes you have to “bend the rules”, “rough up the suspects”, “moon your supervisors” and “shred the Constitution” to get stuff done. A Cowboy Cop may be an Anti-Hero (or an occasional “Byronic Hero”) if he is the protagonist of the show, typically “Hot-Blooded” and passionate about his maverick antics, or a “Jerk with a Heart of Gold” whose unlikely claims will generally be proven correct. However, in shows that feature cops as secondary characters, the Cowboy Cop is often at odds with the main characters, as he will trample all over the crime scene and/or the suspect’s rights. If “Da Chief” is a Cowboy Cop he would often reprimand the naive upstart who is being too soft with the criminals and will gladly let the loose cannons go in shooting first and asking questions later. He will usually be a detective, as a beat cop is much less likely to be intimately involved in a case’s full duration, outside of a “Cop Killer Manhunt”, where “Cop Killers” are his sworn enemies by default… Cowboy Cops are almost always asked to “Turn in Your Badge” by Da Chief and go on leave pending the inquiry, at which point they usually become a “Vigilante Man” in regards to whatever bad guy they are after for either the rest of the movie or until they get their badge back… ~ Cowboy Cop – TV Tropes
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