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A type of Perp Sweating frequently used in Crime and Punishment Series. One cop behaves in a very threatening and menacing way towards the suspect, while the other appears sympathetic, helpful and protective. The suspect is expected to be cooperative with the "good cop." Sometimes the Genre Savvy suspect makes fun of this technique. Thus, an increasingly common variation is known as Bad Cop/Worse Cop, which is based on a reversal. The first cop behaves menacingly and threateningly, and the second cop appears initially to be sympathetic then, usually in a whisper, indicates his partner and tells the perp, "He's the good cop," before revealing a far harsher and more threatening attitude toward the perp. In the end, they're just two sides of the same coin, even if one is the "lesser evil". Two cops arguing about who gets to be the Bad Cop is a common extension of the trope. It's also not too uncommon for the good cop to have to physically keep the bad cop away from an uppity suspect, whether genuinely or as part of the act. And in comedic works, a single character might try to be the good cop and the bad cop. This is Truth in Television. It's a classic interrogation technique, but in real life the Bad Cop doesn't need to threaten to beat a confession out - they may simply point out all the nasty things that will happen if the suspect doesn't come clean, while the Good Cop is the one to remind the suspect of the pros of being helpful, and make offers of lighter sentences and making deals with judges. Even so it is usually only used on naive and frightened suspects, because cooler heads tend to recognize it. A Sub-Trope of Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand. Not to Be Confused with the Canadian film Bon Cop, Bad Cop. See also The Easy Way or the Hard Way, Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough and Rude Hero, Nice Sidekick. The Other Wiki has an entry on Good Cop / Bad Cop. |
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Averted in The Thick of It. The Evil Duo of Malcolm and Jamie has been referred to as a Bad Cop/Bad Cop double-act. Referenced by Nicola Murray in a later scene: while being "gang-bollocked" by Malcolm and Steve Fleming, she calls them "Good Cock/Bad Cock" respectively. |
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In "Time After Time," Dean time-travels back to 1944 and finds himself working with Elliot Ness. A bookie is hauled in for questioning and Dean slugs him right away, assuming that's what Ness would do. Ness gives him a disapproving look (the bookie is much smaller than Dean) then portrays Dean as a Shell-Shocked Veteran just back from the war in Europe. The Genre Savvy Dean effortlessly slips into the bad cop role while Ness plays good cop. | |
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Narbonic plays with this, with Dave pointing out how easy the newly human Caliban would be to torture, seeing as he's never felt pain before. | |
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In Batman: Earth One, Gordon and Bullock "interrogate" a criminal on the location of Gordon's daughter with a crowbar and a baseball bat. | |
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Spider-Ninja: Done by four people (Coulson, Hill, Leonardo, and Raphael) to interrogate Agent Sitwell. Coulson and Hill go first, with Coulson as the Good Cop and Hill as the Bad Cop. Sitwell laughs at them and tells them that tactic won't work. That's when Leo and Raph pop in out of thin air, with Leo as the Good Cop and Raph as the Bad Cop (complete with Jack Bauer Interrogation Techniques). Being interrogated by two giant turtles freaks Sitwell out enough that he cracks. When Coulson asks the brothers how they learned interrogation tactics, they admit that they watch a lot of cop shows. | |
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In the Adventure Time episode "Ghost Princess", Finn and Jake are respectively the bad and good cop as they interrogate the ghosts in a cemetery. In practice, Jake spends most of the time looting graves until Finn specifically calls for him. | |
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The titular protagonists in Sapphire and Steel. In all their interactions with humans, Sapphire plays Good Cop and Steel Bad Cop. This is implied to be partly deliberate and partly just their natural personalities. | |
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Dune has the Baron Harkonnen attempt a planet-wide version of this. He would have Rabban brutally oppress the people while mining as much spice as possible, then have Feyd take his place as a more benevolent ruler. | |
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Cowboy Bebop (2021). Spike and Jet are engaged in Teeth-Clenched Teamwork throughout the episode "Venus Pop". In one scene they go to a construction site to get a lead on the Mad Bomber only to start arguing. | |
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit plays this straight quite often, but they also play with it from time to time. Typically Elliot is the bad cop (being known for his anger issues and crimes-against-children Berserk Button), but almost as often he'll go in as the good cop, sympathizing with a misogynist rapist-type. Pretty much every cop on the force is capable of playing either type. | |
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Referenced in Pokémon Detective Pikachu. Pikachu tries to interrogate a Mr. Mime, but when Mr. Mime gestures to "shove it", he says he's switching to "bad cop" and lunges at him — and smacks into the mime's invisible wall. (Frankly, it looks like Pikachu was already the bad cop even before Mr. Mime annoyed him, making threats and snarky insults.) | |
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. When our heroes do this to a pretty girl who accidentally stumbles into UNCLE headquarters in "The Mad Mad Tea Party Affair", Kuryakin complains that he's been typecast as the bad guy, while Solo gets to be the sympathetic shoulder for her to cry on. | |
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In Homeland, Carrie and Quinn use this on Brody in season 2. After Carrie attempts to connect, Quinn takes over for a minute before suddenly going berserk and stabbing the prisoner's hand. Carrie, understandably, storms in and retakes control. Quinn's anger vanishes the second he steps outside and Saul realizes it was just 'theater'. 'Good cop needs a bad cop.' When Brody was broken by Abu Nazir, this was largely how (in a more extreme and long term version involving torture). Abu Nazir set himself up as the Good Cop with the rest of his cell as the Bad Cop. Though the reason that Brody turned was mostly about Issa. |
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Subverted a couple ways in X-23: Target X: While interrogating X-23 throughout the framing story, Captain America of all people plays the bad cop, with Daredevil as the good cop. A second subversion is that it's not an act. Steve sees Laura as a merciless, remorseless killer responsible for the deaths of hundreds, and he's genuinely belligerent and hostile towards her, in large part because he blames himself for allowing her to kill so many peoplenote He actually had her in custody after her very first assassination, but she escaped him by masquerading as one of the victims of her own rampage. Matt, by contrast, genuinely believes in Laura's innocence because of the circumstances of her creation, and takes a much more compassionate and supportive position while questioning her. | |
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The Flight Attendant: Deconstructed. Van White likes to see himself as a Cowboy Cop, especially compared to Hammond being a By-the-Book Cop and even gloats that he accelerated to her rank in half the time. Hammond points out his "rough-and-tumble FBI agent" comes from trust fund ivy league grad white privilege. If she, an African-American woman, did anything even close to what White suggests, she would almost assuredly be forced to resign. | |
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In the Good Luck Charlie episode "Teddy On Ice", Amy and Bob attempt the Good Cop/Bad Cop routine on Gabe, with Bob playing the good cop and Amy playing the bad cop. However, Gabe sees through their deception. | |
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In an issue of the X-Men spinoff X-Factor, during one of its Darker and Edgier periods (in the 90s, of course), two of the team members confront a villain and mention they'd considered playing Good Cop/Bad Cop, but neither of them wanted to be the "Good Cop". Unfortunately for them, the attempt at intimidation is a total failure and the bad guy gets away. | |
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Keen Eddie: Eddie and Monty play Good Cop, Bad Cop with boxer Jimmy Fishkin, who gets the same treatments from his criminal bosses. | |
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Comedy version in Better Off Ted, where Veronica and Linda use this routine to coerce employees into giving to their charity donation drive. | |
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In the Angel spin-off episode "Why We Fight", Spike suggests to fellow vampire Angel, "I'll menace, you talk." | |
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CSI: NY: In "Civilized Lies," Mac is angry and aggressive, while Flack is nicer. Mac storms out and the perp even asks if it's this trope. | |
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Toyed with on Chuck in an example of "Bad Spy/Worse Spy". In a Season 2 episode, Casey is interrogating a witness under their protection, who proves to be uncooperative and only wants to speak with Chuck, whom he (mistakenly) believes beat up the thugs threatening him. Casey then proceeds to set Chuck up as the "bad cop" to ensure the witness's full and undivided cooperation. Played completely for laughs, especially Chuck's expression as he smashes a paper cup to "intimidate" the witness. | |
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Star Trek: Enterprise. In "Precious Cargo" Captain Archer pulls this stunt on an alien kidnapper (his partner has taken off in a spaceship with Trip Tucker). Archer convinces the alien that T'Pol is a ruthless 'judicial administrator' appointed by the Vulcans to enforce discipline on Enterprise. T'Pol then enters the room in formal robes and asks some sinister questions about the alien's height, weight, and possible "post-mortem rituals", whereupon Archer tells the now-panicking alien that he might be able to get her to show "leniency" if he's seen to be co-operative... |
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The Great British Bake Off: Mary and Paul, respectively (and very effectively) as a judging team. They only rarely disagree on the actual quality of a bake, but when critiquing it Paul comes across as much more brusque and insistent on the flaws, while Mary adopts a more sympathetic tone. | |
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Cheers: Invoked at one point by Lilith, when she's getting fed up of Sam spending too much time with her and Frasier's son, telling Frasier if it goes on she'll have to play the part of Bad Cop. Frasier is appropriately alarmed by the implications of that statement. | |
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Todd and Michelle, respectively, in The Burning. Todd is the friendly counselor who tries to relate to the kids, while Michelle is the stricter disciplinarian. | |
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The Simpsons: In episode "The Boy Who Knew Too Much", Lisa is being interrogated at school by Principal Skinner and Groundskeeper Willie, but the pair continually (and unintentionally) keep swapping the Good and Bad roles, much to Lisa's amusement. When being questioned by the police about Mona Simpson's whereabouts Selma Bouvier attempts to engage the police in a game of Good Cop Bad Cop. To her dismay they were all good cops. |
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has a straight performance of Bad Cop/Worse Cop in "The Patriot" when Talbot is interrogating a HYDRA lone wolf who managed to survive the final devastation of HYDRA. Talbot leaves to get a hammer and comes back with Simmons. Three seasons before, she would've been most likely to play the Good Cop, but having done an undercover stint with HYDRA in the second season she proves herself capable of inflicting psychological terror more unbearable than any physical pain Talbot could inflict, beginning with Aida's severed head in an icebox. Played with in "Laws of Nature" when Mack and Daisy first speak with a newly-discovered Inhuman named Joey. It wasn't really an interrogation, and there was some confusion over which one was the Good Cop. |
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Invoked in the anime adaption of Log Horizon. Shiroe played bad cop to Krusty's good, and it's all done very intentionally. Shiroe explains he intentionally invoked this trope by name to Minori, who realizes it's all a front. She's worried about him as a result; he's less concerned. | |
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CIA agents Gordon and Whistler use this technique when interrogating Sergeant Blackburn in Battlefield 3; Gordon acts calm and implores Black to take his time and give the best explanation possible, while Whistler repeatedly hounds him with accusations and insults. | |
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Gotham: Played with in "Red Queen." The interrogation of the missing security guard is initially an apparent reverse of the Good Cop/Bad Cop formula but quickly becomes Bad Cop/Worse Cop when the security guard insults the police to Barnes's face. Bullock wastes no time lampshading this sudden shift to Bad Cop/Worse Cop. In "Smile Like You Mean It," the Bad Cop/Worse Cop game is played against a traitor on the force, with Bullock reprising his role as Bad Cop, and Gordon playing Worse Cop due to Barnes being long incapacitated since the last game of Bad Cop/Worse Cop. Bonus points for a hefty helping of Be Careful What You Wish For, as the traitor had just told them it'd have been at least more interesting if they played against type. |
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Discussed in Undercover Blues, when the couple of the title is about to interrogate someone: | |
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They have a game like this on Whose Line Is It Anyway?, where Colin and Ryan play two ex-cops who apply the Good Cop/Bad Cop routine on their new job (such as dishwasher repairmen), and Hilarity Ensues. | |
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In the Back at the Barnyard episode "Fowl Play", Otis, Pip, and Pig interrogate a Gopher to find out where Peck is when Freddy was accused of eating him. Otis plays the good cop, and Pip plays the bad cop, leading to this exchange: | |
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Alien Nation: George Francisco (alien-American cop) threatens to toss an informant off a roof. His partner balks, claiming it's his turn to throw the perp — Francisco got to do it last time! Alien Nation has fun with this: Usually, if the suspect was a human, Sykes (the human detective) would play good cop while George was the bad cop. If the suspect was Tenctonese (the alien species of which George was a member), than they would do the opposite with George as the good cop and Sykes as the bad cop. Finally, if a suspect was a Purist (a xenophobic group of humans with genocidal inclinations) they'd play bad cop/worse cop with Sykes as the bad cop and George as the worse cop. |
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Batgirl (2009): The Bad Cop/Worse Cop routine was invoked in the 6th issue of the series. | |
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Justice League: In "Injustice for All", Batman is missing, and Superman and the Flash try to interrogate Copperhead, who was part of the gang that captured the Bat. Copperhead just laughs at Superman's attempt to play Bad Cop and doesn't flinch when Superman threatens to hurt him, prompting the Man of Steel to frustratedly wonder how Batman does it. And then there's the conversation in the page quote. Superman almost sounds like he's jealous. This also happens with Green Lantern/Hawkgirl in "War World". You can probably guess who the bad cop is. In "The Brave and the Bold", Flash is arrested for a robbery he did while he was under mind control. Once cop repeatedly yells in his face, demanding to know where the stolen goods are and saying he knew all along superheroes couldn't be trusted, while his partner calmly offers Flash coffee and says he can help him if he cooperates. Green Lantern bails Flash out before it can escalate. In "The Once and Future Thing: Time Warped", which involves Time Travel, Batman winds up playing Bad Cop/Worse Cop with himself, some thirty years in the future. A seventy-year-old Bruce Wayne, as voiced by Kevin Conroy, is the most terrifying being in existence. |
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A Diplomatic Visit: In chapter 7 of the second sequel, Diplomacy Through Schooling, Neighsay's captor manages to pull off both roles all by himself, first offering him a position among his followers, then threatening to destroy his horn if he refuses. When Neighsay stays loyal to Equestria, the captor follows through with his threat. | |
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Subverted in Supergirl storyline Day of the Dollmaker. Someone is kidnapping the Metropolis' children, and Catherine Grant suspects Toyman may be involved. Hence, she blackmails Supergirl into playing "bad cop" to her "good cop" when she goes to interrogate Toyman. However, Cat's idea of playing "good cop" is being harsh and intimidating, whereas Supergirl's "bad cop" is plainly violent and threatening. | |
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Shades of Blue: Two cops are in a room talking, one big tough guy and the other a blonde woman. Another cop arrives. | |
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Brannigan: John Wayne plays the title character, an American Cowboy Cop whose methods are not appreciated by the by-the-book British detective he's working with. This trope is played for laughs when Brannigan convinces a criminal that the British detective is a Rabid Cop and he's the nice one. | |
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In Community episode "The Science of Illusion" Annie and Shirley can't quite keep this straight between them. To clarify, both Annie and Shirley end up trying to out Cowboy Cop the other, after being told they're too uptight. Abed, deciding that only good can come from this, follows them with a bag of popcorn. He later gets to act as Da Chief after the two mess up. Even better, two seasons later he and the others engage in one long Affectionate Parody of Law & Order ("Basic Lupine Urology":). That time, Jeff and Annie switch between Good Lawyer and Bad Lawyer, (Played for Drama), Shirley channels Da Chief (from watching crime shows for 15 years), and Abed plays Good Cop to Troy's Bad Cop. And then they switch. |
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RWBY: In Episode 1, Ruby's introduced saving a Dust shopkeeper from Dust thieves before she herself is saved by the Huntress, Glynda. Glynda takes her to an interrogation room where she dresses the teenager down for her brave, but foolhardy, behaviour until Ruby is squirming at being in trouble. It turns out this is a set-up for her "good cop" partner... who arrives bearing cookies for Ruby to wolf down then holds a very friendly conversation about her weapon, skills and goals in life. It turns out to be a recruitment scout. After seeing Ruby in action, the prestigious Beacon Academy has decided to take her on two years early. The "good cop" was the headmaster himself and Glynda is his right-hand... teacher. | |
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In Paranoia, pairs of Internal Security agents were assigned to carry out this trope, complete with a detailed script ("good cop leaves to go get the perp a drink, bad cop comes in and shoves the perp around", etc.). Then, due to budget cuts, both roles got assigned to the same agent - but the script never got changed, leading to some very confused perps. | |
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The "Bad Cop/Worse Cop" version was used by name in the film Tango & Cash. "Worse Cop" involved duct-taping a (fake) hand grenade to the crook's mouth, by the way. | |
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With This Ring pulls an outwardly polite one, when Paul has captured a number of Dominion leaders and recommends that they surrender to his companion, Lantern Medphyll, in order to get a few decades in the Guardians' Sciencells. The alternative is surrendering to Paul himself, but as the Orange Lantern Corps doesn't have prison facilities set up, that would mean either being marooned forever on a primitive world, slaughtered out of hand, or consumed by the orange light and turned into subservient Construct-Lanterns with no will of their own. He even has one of his Construct-Lanterns present so they can see the end result! | |
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In the Harry Potter fanfic Fire Burns, Katherine and Robert pull this off superbly: | |
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The Tenchi Muyo! fanfic Galaxy Police Files 1: Bad Cop, Bad Cop plays with this trope first by parodying it and then making it scary. The bubbly Mihoshi plays Bad cop while the surly Kihone plays Good Cop (Mihoshi would have broken down crying if Kihone didn't let her be the Bad Cop). They proceed to act out the worst performance of Good Cop/Bad Cop in the history of the universe (not that the perp would have talked even if they'd done it perfectly). When the interrogation fails, Mihoshi points her laser gun at the perp and says that she might as well kill him if he won't talk. The perp thinks she's bluffing... until she fires at him, the only thing saving his life being Kihone knocking off Mihoshi's aim. What really convinces the perp that Mihoshi is a Rabid Cop is when Mihoshi tries to kill her own partner (all without losing her bubbly disposition). At this point the perp breaks down and tells them everything they want to know. | |
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In Daystar and Shadow, Robin and Willy do this on a priest. Willy uses the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique until he breaks, then leaves him alone with Robin for a gentler interrogation. | |
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Discussed in an episode in which the team investigates a group of unruly teenagers involved in a string of base housing break-ins. Parker is attempting to interrogate one of them, but unsuccessfully, as the kid sulks and refuses to cooperate. The kid's mother is in observation with McGee and Knight, and is sure her son wasn't involved. When it's revealed NCIS has him on video breaking into a unit and assaulting someone, the mother politely excuses herself, barges into interrogation, and snaps her son to attention with a Full-Name Ultimatum. He breaks in two seconds and spills everything. McGee, grinning, says they should bring suspects' mothers in more often, and Knight gleefully agrees, calling it "Good Cop, Mom Cop." | |
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Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race has this briefly in episode 12, though it doesn't get them anywhere. | |
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In The Dresden Files: In Proven Guilty Agent Rick and Greene use this on Molly. Until Dresden comes in, explains the whole trope and the whole "No warrant" thing. Also, Molly's under-age. In Turn Coat, Harry and Murphy pull a bad/worse against a suspect. In a bit of genre savvy, he had recognized the set up. In a bit of genre blindness, he thought they were pulling a good/bad. Changes, Tilly and Rudolph are sort of pulling this. Except that they're not partners, Tilly is an FBI agent who thinks Harry is involved but doesn't think he's guilty, while Rudolph is a Chicago PD officer under orders from very scary people to delay Harry as long as possible. Consequently Rudolph starts screaming at Harry to admit it, and Harry, who has spent the past couple of years hacking off creatures scarier than his cop friend's overweight ex-husband, considers Rudolph a total-non-threat and finds the whole thing funny. Tilly eventually orders him out of the room for impeding the investigation. In the short story Last Call, twisted and parodied. Murphy and Harry are interrogating a shopowner. Murphy is swaggering around smashing random items ("Oops") and Harry is leaning on the counter saying things like, "Now be reasonable." Murphy then mentions that she's the Good Cop here. |
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In the iOS game Layton Brothers: Mystery Room, the title protagonist (though close to Deuteragonist) is both of these in one character (with the "bad cop" bordering on Rabid Cop during the interrogation portion). It turns out the "bad cop" is actually Alfendi's real personality while his more pleasant side was a mask created by Justin Lawson through hypnosis . | |
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Supernatural As the Winchester brothers are often Impersonating an Officer they sometimes play this while interviewing witnesses, with the more caring Sam Winchester as good cop. However in Season Six, Sam loses his soul turning him into a callous sociopath. He therefore naturally falls into the bad cop role, as only Dean has the required empathy. In "Time After Time," Dean time-travels back to 1944 and finds himself working with Elliot Ness. A bookie is hauled in for questioning and Dean slugs him right away, assuming that's what Ness would do. Ness gives him a disapproving look (the bookie is much smaller than Dean) then portrays Dean as a Shell-Shocked Veteran just back from the war in Europe. The Genre Savvy Dean effortlessly slips into the bad cop role while Ness plays good cop. Played for Laughs in "Hunteri Heroici" where Castiel starts Suddenly Shouting when interviewing the upset widow of the Victim of the Week. In "Goodbye Stranger," Castiel opens an interrogation by shoving an angel blade through a demon's palm. After screaming appropriately the demon snarls, "I thought angels were supposed to be the good cops." Although rather shocked by Castiel's behavior, Dean does not accept the role of good cop and tells the demon, "Think he's the only bad cop in this room?" |
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In Raising Hope, Burt and Virginia have developed their own version, Bad Cop/Sad Cop, used for everything from convincing Jimmy to babysit Maw Maw, to getting out of parking tickets (fourth season episode "Adoption"). It starts with Virginia threatening the subject with "I will bust you down from star witness/meter maid/checking credentials to loser-who-rents-the-movie-Witness/regular maid/checking-urinal-cakes!", and then spitting out the side of her mouth, and is then followed by Burt spinning a terrible, sad, pathetic story - "you can't turn off our gas. This rotisserie chicken is barely cooked; if we eat it, we'll die."/"I lost my job, my dog died, my best friend didn't make it back from the war... on obesity" - while pretending to be on the verge of tears. Apparently it works. | |
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Homicide: Life on the Street may hold the title of longest single Good Cop Bad Cop sequence. The Emmy Award winning episode "Three Men And Adena" consists almost entirely of an extended interrogation of a murder suspect, with Pembleton and Bayliss trading roles as it unfolds. | |
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In an episode of The Fairly Oddparents, Jorgen Von Strangle plays this with Wanda, trying to get her to blame Cosmo. He even volunteers to switch right away to his "Good Cop" plaque, but when Wanda refuses to comply, he switches right back to the "Bad Cop" side of the plaque. | |
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In Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Mon Mothma and General Draven play this trope when persuading Jyn Erso (whom Cassian Andor had just rescued from an Imperial prison transport) to help them carry out a mission. Draven threatens to throw Jyn back to the Empire while Mothma offers her a chance at freedom. | |
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Parodied on and off in the Discworld series ("I get it ... 'good cop, bad cop', right?" "Well, we're a little short-staffed, so if I give you a cup of coffee, would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth?") Then again, Carrot and Vimes are the quintessential pair of cops. | |
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Chief Johnson on The Closer is an unparalleled master of the Good Cop role, liberally mixed with a Ditz Cop act. Her Bad Cop counterpart is often a federal agent whose authority she's taking advantage of, or a political rival on the L.A.P.D., meaning Brenda's stringing along her ally as well as the perpetrator. | |
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Parodied in a MADtv (1995) skit where the suspect immediately sees through the good cop/bad cop ploy, forcing the cops to get creative with things like Jackie Gleason cop/Ricardo Montalban cop. | |
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Torchwood often does this with interrogations with Gwen as the good cop and Jack as the bad cop. | |
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Justice League Action continues the trend in "Good Cop, Bat Cop," where Batman and Superman interrogate Deadshot, except Superman says he's sick of playing Good Cop all the time and makes Batman switch roles with him. Deadshot is utterly unfazed and even slightly amused by Superman's pathetic attempts at being mean and intimidating... but Batman trying to be nice is so out-of-character that Deadshot finds him even scarier that way than normal, and quickly breaks down and says he'll talk just to get him to stop. | |
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The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.: in order to interrogate a german bandit who does not speak English, one of the Schwenke sisters openly seduces him to make him feel comfortable... until the other sister comes in and kick the crap out of him! | |
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Parodied in RoboCop: The Series when Robo and Madigan have two suspects who won't talk. The cops glance at each other, Robo gets "angry", Madigan says it's "the worst glitch she's ever seen!", tries to "talk Robo out of it", and tells the criminals that the only way to stop him is to tell him the truth. Remember, Robocop has a built-in lie detector. All this did was save them some time. | |
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In A Miracle of Science, Caprice and Benjamin pull the routine pretty effectively. | |
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A teaser on Batman: The Brave and the Bold has Batman as the good cop and Detective Chimp as the bad cop. | |
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Messiah: Avenir and his old partner used to do this routine with prisoners they interrogated (the former as bad cop). | |
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In a Season One episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Ahsoka tries to play the Bad Cop to Luminara's Good one when interrogating the corrupt Nute Gunray, but is pulled aside and chastised by Luminara just when it seems that she was starting to get somewhere. | |
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In the In Death series, Eve Dallas regularly uses this tactic with both her former partner Feeney and her eventual partner Peabody, complete with occasional disputes about who gets to be the "bad cop" (it's almost always Eve). | |
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Played with in the Sonic Boom episode, "Vector Detector"; When Sonic and Vector interrogate Dave on the Meh Burger VIP card the latter found as a clue to who stole Amy's hammer, they both play the bad cop. | |
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Done in an episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun in which Don teaches Dick to be a cop. First Dick is good cop and Don is bad cop. Then they switch places, but they don't stop there. Instead, they both do bad cop and finally both do good cop. This, by the way, is all done on the same (very confused) suspect. At the end, Don explains that this experiment proves that good cop/bad cop is the only viable combination. Dick then pitches "sad cop/somewhat effeminate cop"; Don tells him to leave. In another episode, Tommy and Sally pull this trick on a frightened neighborhood kid. They're trying to find the kid that egged their house, and the duo pull off the technique surprisingly well, for aliens. Sally, of course, is the bad cop. |
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Blue Bloods gives us Danny as the "Bad Cop" with his partner (or sometimes Erin) filling the "Good Cop" role. | |
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Occurs in I, Jedi with Corran Horn as the good cop and Luke Skywalker as the bad cop. It works quite well, because the perp is a rogue Force-sensitive, and the "cops" have the area blanketed by a ysalamiri's effect - the bluff is that Luke has disabled the perp's Force powers, and is telepathically berating Corran for coddling the prisoner. All Luke has to do is stand there glowering, and an angry Skywalker, prequels notwithstanding, is a terrifying sight indeed. | |
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Persona 5 somewhat subverts this with the twin Velvet Room attendants Caroline and Justine. While the Bad Cop role fits Caroline like a glove, insulting Joker every chance she gets, Justine isn't neccessarily what we consider Good Cop material. Granted, she not as verbally abusive as Caroline, but her professional attitude makes her appear cold and distant. So, it's more like Bad Cop/Neutral Cop. | |
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Lt. Joe Kenda of Homicide Hunter typically takes on the first role in interrogations, even though it's the complete opposite of his personality. He states that people are more likely to incriminate themselves or confess outright if they think he's on their side. Even with crimes involving children (his Berserk Button), he's gotten numerous people to admit to what they did by assuring them, "I know you didn't mean to do it." and pretending to understand their feelings. | |
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In Fallout: New Vegas, Lt. Boyd, playing the "passive-aggressive, sarcastic cop" hires you to be her "bad cop" and help interrogate a captured centurion from Caesar's Legion. She wants you, a civilian contractor unhindered by the NCR's pesky "proper treatment of POWs" laws, to beat the crap out of him until he cracks, but with a little smarts you can get the centurion to sing without even touching him, netting a better reward. Or, if you are playing as siding with the Legion, you can help him commit suicide (like he was supposed to when captured) or escape. |
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Deputies Jones and Garcia were going to invoke this trope in Reno 911! with a suspect they had in custody... that is until Garcia slipped up and called it "Good Cop Black Cop", understandably pissing off Jones. | |
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Even better, two seasons later he and the others engage in one long Affectionate Parody of Law & Order ("Basic Lupine Urology":). That time, Jeff and Annie switch between Good Lawyer and Bad Lawyer, (Played for Drama), Shirley channels Da Chief (from watching crime shows for 15 years), and Abed plays Good Cop to Troy's Bad Cop. | |
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Variation in The Dark Knight: | |
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Black Panther (2018): Everett Ross suggests he and T'Challa do this to the captive Ulysses Klaue. T'Challa and Okoye aren't interested, preferring to let Everett question him while eavesdropping via a bug. In fact, the closest the movie gets to the routine is how they act towards Ross — Okoye visibly has no patience for him whatsoever, while T'Challa playfully tells her to rein it in. | |
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American Dad! Steve and Roger, as Wheels and the Legman, are interrogating Barry. They fight over which one of them gets to be the bad cop. They both escalate their torture of Barry, culminating in Roger making a sandwich with Barry's hands and preparing to put them in a hot panini press. Steve gives in and tells Roger he can be bad cop. | |
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On Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Goren and Eames love to play this, switching roles as needed. Eames's bad cop is often a Straw Feminist, while Goren's is a textbook case of Brooklyn Rage (complete with exaggerated accent). | |
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The team also like to use a variant where the "good cop" isn't being presented as a "cop" at all, but as either another captive or enemy of the interrogators, who the actual captive can bond or team up with. This includes Michael pretending to be a member of a large Russian crime syndicate being held right alongside an actual member, or capturing a Yakuza, roughing him up, and then presenting Michael's mom Maddy as a traumatized nurse who's been kidnapped so she can keep the Yakuza healthy enough to be tortured further. Eventually the Yakuza trusts the nurse enough that he suggests they escape together, promising that his organization will protect her from their captors. When they do "escape", the rest of the team follows them straight back to the Yakuza hideout, which was the goal all along. | |
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Referred to in The Shield. When a suspected pedophile isn't confessing as to where he's hiding his latest victim, Captain Aceveda pulls Detectives Wyms and Wagenbach off the case and instead calls in notorious Dirty Cop Vic Mackey. The perp asks "What is this, good cop and bad cop?" Mackey replies "Good cop and bad cop left for the day. I'm a different kind of cop", and proceeds to beat the living hell out of the perp. | |
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Parodied in an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond, where Robert tries this technique by himself. He attempted to play both the good cop and the bad cop, switching between roles. To top it all off, he was trying to interrogate his brother and his father. | |
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Day Break (2006): Downplayed with Spivak and Choi. If they do the interrogation together, Spivak will typically be far more hostile and dismissive than his partner while Choi will be a little more receptive to evidence that might prove Hopper's innocence. Hopper and Damien act out a version of this after kidnapping Torrez. Damien is a gangster while Hopper is a police detective, so the latter frequently has to restrain the former from attacking Torrez. This ends disastrously when Damien shoots Torrez in the middle of the interrogation. |
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In Walker, Texas Ranger: A generic cop is interrogating a suspect. Walker comes in and the suspect asks if it is good cop/bad cop; Walker says yes, but informs him that the generic cop (who'd already gotten rough with the suspect) was the good cop, and then breaks the table in half. Another episode has an on-the-spot Good Cop/Bad Cop routine in a chop-shop. The girl playing the role of "bad cop" threatens to call on the talents of the crooks' blowtorch. They crack pretty fast after that. |
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In Neuromancer, the Anti-Hero Case gets arrested and recognizes this technique being used by his interrogators. | |
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Ghost Rider (2007): Two cops attempt this when interrogating Johnny, but he quickly stops them and tells them that he's seen this on TV. Also (via his Ghost Rider powers) he knows that they're both good cops and compliments them for doing a very important public service. | |
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White Heron: White Heron attempts this when interrogating a captured spy, after the concept is explained to her by Park Seong. When Captain Park's threats of seeing the spy hang fail to get him to talk, Kim Jeong volunteers to take over. The spy is unimpressed at first, mockingly asking if Heron is going to have sex with him in exchange for his intel... until she smashes the steel interrogation room table like it's made of wet cardboard and threatens to do the same to him unless he talks. | |
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Mocked in The X-Files episode "Hungry" when the Genre Savvy suspect, who, indeed, is a man-eating monster, calls Mulder on his supernatural-slanted inquisition. | |
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Pokémon the Series: Black & White does this in one episode, with Cilan and Meowth in the respective roles, trying to interrogate the current Monster of the Week: a Scrafty. | |
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In Turn Coat, Harry and Murphy pull a bad/worse against a suspect. In a bit of genre savvy, he had recognized the set up. In a bit of genre blindness, he thought they were pulling a good/bad. | |
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Jackie Chan Adventures - Jackie and Jade while interrogating the mask of General Ikazuki. This is followed by Finn and Ikazuki when they need Tohru to provide them with a mask removal potion. | |
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From the Rush Hour TV series: | |
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Neopets: In the 2023 Faerie Festival, Illusen and Jhudora approach Monty — Illusen to try and reason with him, and Jhudora to grill him. After their initial attempts fail, Jhudora tells Illusen to step outside so she can have a "private chat" with Monty. At this, Monty tries to convince Illusen to stay, saying she seems like "the levelheaded one", but she cheerfully brushes him off and lets Jhudora take over. | |
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Parodied in The Basil Brush Show, where when Basil and Bingo attempt to interrogate someone, they do this routine in the most unsubtle way possible, to the point of announcing it to the suspect before they start. | |
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In Stargate SG-1, when negotiating with hostile aliens, Daniel often takes the role of Good Cop while Jack is the Bad Cop. However in later series, after he'd taken multiple levels in badass, Daniel is far more likely to play Bad Cop instead. | |
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In the second chapter of the Avatar: The Last Airbender fic Once more, with hindsight, the Gaang is able to trick a resident of Gaoling into giving them details on Toph's situation without him knowing he's being interrogated. Aang and Sokka are the Good Cops, laughing with him over the much-disliked Lao's misfortune of his daughter going missing, while Suki and Katara play Bad Cop and scold him for his callousness. Between defending himself from the girls' scolding and encouragement from the boys, he gives them nearly all the information they need. | |
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In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Necessary Evil", Sisko and Odo get information out of Rom this way. Though Odo, with his fanatical loyalty to justice, can play both parts all by himself at the same time. If he promises you to let you off easy and protect you, he will do it without question, but he's also scary enough that you have no doubt he would do exactly what he threatens if you don't cooperate. The Cardassian "justice system" uses this at the trial itself. Instead of an actual defense attorney, the accused (who has already been found guilty and sentenced to death) is assigned a "public conservator" who functions as the Good Cop, while the arbiter acts as the Bad Cop (and no, there's no jury). |
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In an episode of Inspector Rex, Marc tells a man he's interrogating that he's the good cop here, and when asked about who the bad cop is, he points to Rex. | |
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Thane's loyalty mission in Mass Effect 2 gives the player the option of whether to be the good cop or the bad cop while interrogating Elias Kelham. The optimal solution is for Paragon Shepard to play the Bad Cop, which allows them to be a Guile Hero and trick Kelham into letting slip the information the player needs. Humorously, you can choose to be the good cop and then beat the guy within an inch of his life while Thane just sort of stands there (there was apparently supposed to be a proper good cop route, but it didn't make it in). You can also smack him around a few times, and then say you and Thane are both the good cop, with the real bad cop outside. Alternatively, provided that you have the Renegade score for it, you can choose instead to simply point a gun at his face and inform him that you are a Council Spectre, thereby causing the remainder of the interrogation to proceed incredibly smoothly and last about 30 seconds as Council Spectres are above the law. |
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Mass Effect 3 At a certain point in Citadel, Kaidan or Garrus will lament not being able to use the good cop/bad cop routine they respectively planned. In one of Liara's "non-critical correspondence" files, two Alliance interrogators are warming up to start this routine on a captured Cerberus phantom... and then she triggers her ocular nerve flashbang. |
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One Life to Live. While preparing gang-rape victim Marty Saybrooke for her attackers' trial, DA Hank Gannon abruptly begins screaming at her, accusing of her wanting to have sex with them. She's shaken, but he tells her that she has to be ready for whatever cross-examination the defense lawyer puts her through. | |
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Ray Machowski and Leon McAffrey were partners in the LCPD in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, the former was a By-the-Book Cop and the latter was a Dirty Cop. Unfortunately, Ray himself became a corrupt cop in Grand Theft Auto III. | |
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Paranatural has the school bullies trying this method to get information out of Jeff. And then they try another method. | |
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Averted in Drake & Josh in the episode "The Gary Grill" when Drake and Josh accidentally sold stolen grills since in the interrogation room both cops happened to be bad. | |
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Gintama takes this to eleven when they combine it with 'Carrot and Stick' and invert good/bad and carrot/stick to accommodate the twisted mind of a sociopath. You see, to a serial killer, the goodness of the good cop will come off as offensive. One person has to be the bad cop and offer him the 'carrot' and then follow that up with a personality change into good cop and offer the 'stick' - because serial killers prefer sticks to carrots. Follow? | |
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Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] Abridged: Rin interrogates Shinji and at first calls herself the "Bad Cop" and wants Shirou to be her "Good Cop". After seeing that Rider was killed, she tries again, only calling herself "Bad Cop/Worse Cop". She scares him by firing a Gandr near his head and saying Worse Cop wouldn't miss. | |
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. After invading Mama Luna's sanctuary looking for the titular cat, Goldilocks orders her parents to make the old lady talk. They're not that great at it. | |
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Anansi Boys: Wrong Genre Savvy in this case. Fat Charlie is arrested for embezzlement. He's brought into the interrogation room, finds the pleasant Daisy, and says he's expecting the bad cop to come in in a few seconds. Daisy says that a: there's no bad cop, and b: she's pretty sure he's innocent. | |
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Cole Phelps and his partners in L.A. Noire. Cole himself could play both roles at once depending on how you interact with witnesses and suspects. The HD remaster renames the dialogue choices from "Truth, Doubt, Lie" to "Good Cop, Bad Cop, Accuse". | |
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Girl Genius: Gil and Bang prove adept at manipulating people by Bang repeatedly and loudly talking about killing everyone, and Gil holding her back. This helps underline the seriousness of the situation when Gil goes bad too. Not that they're doing this on purpose. Apparently Bangladesh and the Baron used to do this as well. Bangladesh always wanted to kill prisoners, the Baron would stop her which encouraged people to surrender. On the other hand, the circus folk fool them by playing Good Perp Bad Perp. Pix plays the xenophobic peasant trying to grift anyone who comes by—even if that person has the authority to shoot her. Abner plays her level-headed boyfriend who steps in and tells the truth before she gets, you know, shot. It works beautifully. |
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In The Adventure Zone: Balance, Magnus and Taako slip into this routine while interrogating Graham... with Merle as a bonus "Maternal Cop". Later, Merle and Magnus go into this when interrogating Lucas, with Taako acting as "guy who's here to pay a parking ticket." |
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Parodied in The Onion article "Good Cop, Avid-Stamp-Collector Cop Routine Not Working". | |
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Chapter 23 of A Hollow in Equestria has Ulquiorra and Princess Celestia using this routine on a captive changeling to try and extract what Chrysalis has planned. | |
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Doug and Carey try this when buying a new car on The King of Queens. Doug plays Good Cop while Carey plays Bad Cop. When Doug gushes over the car, Carey announces "I wanna take a sledgehammer to this piece of crap." Doug then tells her in private "You're supposed to be Bad Cop, not...Gestapo!" | |
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NCIS When Gibbs and Fornell are talking to a suspect, Kate asks if it they're doing Bad Cop, Scary Cop. In "Doppelganger", when he and his civilian counterpart grill a guy, the man's lawyer sarcastically asks, "What is this? "Bad Cop, Bad Cop"?" They've also used the phrase Bad Cop, Stupid Cop when Gibbs was trying to bluff out a confession... One memorable example is when Gibbs and Tony team up to get a confession from a teenage suspect. Tony plays bad cop, Gibbs plays good cop. The suspect won't meet Tony's eyes, and starts smiling at Gibbs... then Gibbs suddenly turns into a bad cop as well. The suspect breaks down soon after. Gibbs and Vance also play this when they interrogate Ziva (and later Malachi ben Gidon) about a massacre aboard the ship Damocles. Vance is direct and borderline ruthless in his questioning — and he's the good cop. Gibbs is, well, Gibbs. (And how appropriate it is that the episode in question is called "Good Cop, Bad Cop".) In another episode, Tony and McGee are interrogating a suspect who conspired with a terrorist and murdered a marine captain. When Tony gets in his face about how pissed-off he is, the suspect tries to invoke the "good cop" half of this trope by asking McGee to step in. McGee's response: "You're on your own." In yet another, McGee and Torres are interrogating a suspect, who assumes McGee is the Good Cop. McGee responds by abruptly twisting and pinning the man's arm to the table. The man asks Torres for help, but only gets the response "I would, but he's actually kind of scaring me right now." Discussed in an episode in which the team investigates a group of unruly teenagers involved in a string of base housing break-ins. Parker is attempting to interrogate one of them, but unsuccessfully, as the kid sulks and refuses to cooperate. The kid's mother is in observation with McGee and Knight, and is sure her son wasn't involved. When it's revealed NCIS has him on video breaking into a unit and assaulting someone, the mother politely excuses herself, barges into interrogation, and snaps her son to attention with a Full-Name Ultimatum. He breaks in two seconds and spills everything. McGee, grinning, says they should bring suspects' mothers in more often, and Knight gleefully agrees, calling it "Good Cop, Mom Cop." |
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In an episode of Monk the perp refers to the two cops as "good cop, demented cop" after Randy acts more of an idiot than normal. | |
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RWBY: Reckoning had Darrel Conway and Velvet Scarlatina pull this on Sky Lark, in order to get info about Cardin's interactions with Yang. | |
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On Law & Order Ed Green's first episode sees him grab a suspect and pin him to the wall before Briscoe calls him off. They go outside, and Briscoe chews Green out for being too rough with the suspect; he wasn't acting. | |
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In The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed, the suspect points out that he's familiar with the trope from literature, as well as the psychological reasons this works in real life even if the suspect is familiar with it. As expected, it does work, after a fashion - possibly because the Good Cop does like the suspect and the Bad Cop does loathe him. | |
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In Dark Heresy the Coordinated Interrogation talent allows two Acolytes to work together on an interrogation, getting a bonus to the roll. Of course, given the nature of the setting this is more likely to be Bad Cop, Worse Cop. | |
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Referenced in Red vs. Blue by Doc. He is quick to point out that his two captors are really bad at this trope and more of a bad cop/even worse cop. | |
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In Proven Guilty Agent Rick and Greene use this on Molly. Until Dresden comes in, explains the whole trope and the whole "No warrant" thing. Also, Molly's under-age. | |
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The Rise of Darth Vulcan: When Vulcan is imprisoned in the Canterlot dungeons and being interrogated, Celestia plays good cop while Luna is bad cop. Vulcan calls them out on this, though he actually has to explain the trope to Luna. | |
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In Dual Destinies Phoenix Wright comments his newly hired junior lawyer Athena Cykes is "like good cop, bad cop all rolled into one". This is a pretty accurate description, with her being kind, rather caring and considerate of people's feelings and what they're going through, but also being quick to anger, not above hurting people (with slaps mostly) and using underhanded tactics to get information, as well as asking Apollo if she can go and "ring his neck", in regards to a witness. | |
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In Powers, The Stoic and hulkingly huge Walker is the good cop and tiny and cute Deena Pilgrim is bad cop. In fact, after her 10-Minute Retirement when she comes back and starts beating on an accomplice to a murder, the rest of the cops comment on how good it is to have her back because apparently no one else could play bad cop like her. | |
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Spartan: Bobby gets enlisted to play Bad Cop when the government agents are interrogating the Secret Service agent who was supposed to be on duty when Laura Newton was kidnapped. Bobby ends up getting into the role, hitting the Secret Service agent in the mouth, before he gets pulled off. | |
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Snakes on a Plane played with the Bad Cop/Worse Cop version: we are led to believe that Samuel L. Jackson is the bad cop of his former partnership, until we discover that role corresponded to his mild mannered, happy-to-be-in-desk-duty best friend. | |
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Operation Finale The Argentinian police brutally torture Graciela but don't get any info out of her. After Klaus Eichmann comes in, screams for them to stop, and gently tells Graciela that he just wants to get his father back and it will all be over if she gives the address, she does. An accidental version occurs when the Mossad agents are trying to make Eichmann sign a letter agreeing to be extradited to Israel. Aharoni tries to wear down Eichmann psychologically, while Peter suggests they appeal to his ego and make him think he's in control of the situation. Aharoni is understandably angry on finding that Peter has been trying the good cop approach because it undermines his own efforts, though it's successful in the long run. |
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The Professionals. In "Slush Fund", a South African hitman gets into an altercation with Bodie who's handling the Perp Sweating. Cowley enters the cell and puts a stop to their fight, then tries a softer approach. The hitman is a former member of BOSS so isn't impressed, citing a variation on the trope name. "First the bull at the gate; then comes the china shop." | |
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Angel Starr from the first game's fifth case is a former detective who was known as the "Cough-up Queen" for her ability to squeeze information out of suspects. It's implied that the reason for her effectiveness was that she could do this routine by herself, using colored contacts and moving her bangs from eye to eye to flip between inviting and threatening. | |
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The Boondocks episode "A Date with the Health Inspector" parodies this with an interrogation between a "Good Cop / Bad Cop" duo and Tom DuBois, who is being accused of a crime that he obviously didn't commit solely because both he and the real perp are black. The Bad Cop immediately accuses Tom of the crime and assaults him, before the Good Cop pulls him off. The Bad Cop grudgingly walks out of the room... before rushing in two seconds later to assault Tom again. Furthermore, when the Bad Cop is finally led away for good and the Good Cop starts doing his spiel, Tom protests that as a prosecutor, he knows all about how the Good Cop / Bad Cop thing works. Ten minutes later, he's tearfully signing a confession, as the Good Cop very insincerely promises that Tom will never do any jail time (Tom was very afraid of getting anally raped). | |
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Muhyo and Roji: Jyo acts quite polite to the pair when they're called in for questioning about a disappearance, while his partner is less trusting. Muhyo suspects that it's just an act and he doesn't believe in magical law. It turns out that Jyo is desperate enough to solve the case that he would trust them, and was being sincere. | |
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Odd Squad: Despite interrogating three different suspects in three different rooms, "How to Interrogate a Unicorn" has Otto and Oscar sharing the good cop role while Olive carries the bad cop role. Otto and Oscar are both generally amiable to their respective mummy and robot suspects, while Olive becomes aggressive towards the unicorn she's interrogating when it refuses to cooperate with her. Subverted in "Mystic Egg Pizza" when Delivery Debbie believes that she and Otto are playing the roles of the bad cop and good cop, respectively. However, Otto isn't playing the good cop role at all — he's not interrogating Delivery Doug in any manner and believes him to be innocent, as there's no proof that Doug is stealing pieces of Debbie's pizza. In "Moustache Confidential", Olive (the bad cop) and Otto (the good cop) interrogate numerous agents of Precinct 13579 in order to find out who stole Obfusco's moustache. While Olive asks meaningful questions and is more straightforward in nature, Otto is more laid-back and asks questions that are of little help. At one point, Olive asks Ori how many cases he solved last week, and when Ori can't remember, Otto decides to bribe him with a puppy, much to Olive's chagrin. |
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Referred to by name in the Star Trek: The Original Series novel Savage Trade in which a Vulcan official suggests that she and Captain Kirk use this on an alien requesting asylum. She volunteers to play the "bad cop". | |
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Invoked in Batgirl: Year One. When Batman wants to learn the new Batgirl's secrets he drags her into the Batcave and tries to unmask her. When she tells him off, he walks out, leaving her guest to Robin, who is considerably friendlier. | |
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Law & Order frequently plays with this: On Law & Order Ed Green's first episode sees him grab a suspect and pin him to the wall before Briscoe calls him off. They go outside, and Briscoe chews Green out for being too rough with the suspect; he wasn't acting. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit plays this straight quite often, but they also play with it from time to time. Typically Elliot is the bad cop (being known for his anger issues and crimes-against-children Berserk Button), but almost as often he'll go in as the good cop, sympathizing with a misogynist rapist-type. Pretty much every cop on the force is capable of playing either type. On Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Goren and Eames love to play this, switching roles as needed. Eames's bad cop is often a Straw Feminist, while Goren's is a textbook case of Brooklyn Rage (complete with exaggerated accent). Law & Order: UK. Matt and Ronnie would often alternate these roles and play them to varying degrees, sometimes within the course of a single interrogation, depending on the situation and/or what kind of a person they were dealing with. Several subversions have them playing both roles—in "Vice", they're both very gentle and supportive of a young prostitute suspected of murder, while in "Samaritan", they both grill an officer suspected of leaving his partner to die (and they put a nice twist on it by letting the guy—and the viewer— think that Matt will be the "Good Cop" by having him initially sit silently while Ronnie browbeats him). Matt's short-tempered replacement Sam Casey took the latter role without any prompting, but his replacement Joe Hawkins seemed to like alternating with Ronnie much like Matt did. |
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Good Omens: They're about as far from being cops as you can get, but this is very much how Aziraphale and Crowley act when interviewing Mary Hodges. | |
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Happens in the I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC spinoff "Rorschach and Deadpool", with a twist. | |
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On Murder, She Wrote, Sheriff Metzger, a former New York cop, once attempted this gambit with a suspect, but his deputy was a bit confused; he accidentally told the suspect that Metzger was the bad cop, after Metzger warned the suspect that his deputy was the bad cop. | |
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Outsider: Invoked by Jardin in his internal dialogue when Beryl and Fireblade first approach him after the failed interrogation. Beryl introduces herself and says that she's taking him to see the ship's diplomatic officer, then introduces Fireblade and notes her title and role, and that she's in charge of overseeing Jardin's security. | |
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In Bad Boys II, cop partners and best friends Mike and Marcus do a version of the bad cop worse cop bit combined with Twerp Sweating to a young boy who shows up to date Marcus' daughter. Marcus starts off with the boy as an overprotective dad, but things get much worse for him when Mike comes out, acting like the even more protective godfather of Marcus' daughter all while pretending to be a con who just got out of jail, waves a pistol around and points it at the kid, and briefly makes references to Prison Rape while insinuating that the kid would be on the receiving end of it if he mistreats the girl at all. Suddenly Marcus seems positively sympathetic and reasonable by comparison. Scene. | |
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The Last Seidr: When Harry and Fawkes first arrive in the MCU (mere minutes before Loki arrives and brings the building down), Fury tries to get information out of the kid by slightly scaring him (although he doesn't touch him in any way). Unfortunately for him, Harry's grown up around adults treating him that way, and doesn't tell him anything he wants to hear. The next person to talk to Harry is Agent Coulson, who brings the kid food, thanks him for getting Nick Fury to safety when Loki attacked, and complimenting Fawkes. Harry is much more willing to speak with him. | |
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The West Wing: Played for laughs. No one's actually a cop... Josh attempts it on another occasion (where it's also being Played for Laughs) but is quickly stopped in his tracks by Toby: Also played straight in season 7, with President Bartlet as good cop, and President-Elect Santos as bad cop, in getting the Russians and Chinese to settle their dispute in Kazakhstan. |
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Played straight in Book 10 of The Iliad making it Older Than Feudalism. Odysseus and Diomedes were on a night raid and captured the hapless but useful Dolon. Bad cop Diomedes said to stand still or die. Good cop Odysseus said, "Fear not, let no thought of death be in your mind." It went on like that for awhile until Diomedes "struck him in the middle of his neck with his sword and cut through both sinews so that his head fell rolling in the dust while he was yet speaking." | |
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Lucifer (2016) is the ultimate Bad Cop, able to reduce any suspect to screaming in terror whenever he reveals his true form with burning red eyes. | |
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Pokémon: The Lost Child: In Chapter 7, Prinplup and Grovyle have this dynamic. Grovyle keeps threatening the information out of the Pokémon they are interrogating while Prinplup tries to get him to stop doing so. At first, Grovyle seems to be winning, but his methods end up giving them bad information. | |
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Wellington Paranormal: Subverted: When asked by Minogue to "do your bad cop" to a demon in "Demon Girl", O'Leary deadpans, "Stop that. It's a bit scary." Surprisingly, it works. | |
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Exterminatus Now has "Bad Cop / Badder Cop" routine. The second time it sort of backfires. | |
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FBI agent Norman Jayden and police lieutenant Carter Blake respectively from Heavy Rain tend to have this dynamic when facing suspects together - which is just about every time, seeing as they work together for most of the game despite the fact that they seem to loathe each other. In fact, two achievements in the game obtainable in one of Norman's chapters are called "Good Cop" and "Bad Cop," the former obtained by stopping Blake during an interrogation done his way and the latter by encouraging him. | |
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For the Glory of Irk: At one point, CB wholeheartedly suggests he and Dib do this to interrogate Clark about possibly being an alien. Dib shoots this down, as he doesn't even want CB involved. Tenn, who CB explained this trope to, wants to try this when Zim is investigating GIR's disappearance. Though as Skoodge points out, she seems to have misunderstood the concept, as she thinks that the "good" cop has to be the aggressive one. |
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Simultaneously played straight and inverted in the Justice Wing story The Interrogation. The hero Paragon (who literally is the Paragon of this setting) wants to be the bad cop, while the Vigilante called Nightstick tries to talk him out of it... because Paragon's too good at it and Nightstick is worried about psychologically scarring the villain, because Paragon legitimately treats them kindly and earnestly, absolving the villain of blame for his failure to stop them and telling them that no matter what happens, the villain has to remember the upcoming disaster isn't their fault. By the end the criminal's told Paragon everything and is last seen begging the police to send the heroes backup. | |
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Audience! Day is an exhausted optimist with insomnia and First is an implacably austere authoritarian that never sleeps, literally. Together, they fight crime. | |
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Used on Brianna, the little girl, in Mystery Team. They tell her they're playing pretend, and she thinks it's fun after that. | |
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L.A. Confidential: The D.A. being questioned goes "Don't give me that 'Good Cop, Bad Cop' crap, I practically invented it." The cops then resort to Jack Bauer/Batman interrogation techniques. That works out juuust fine. And soon after, once Bud has pulled him back inside the window; |
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Game of Thrones: Cersei and the small council use this trope to manipulate Sansa, with Pycelle insisting that treason must be punished while the other councillors act firm but supportive. Ramsay Snow uses this technique on Theon, casting himself as a sympathiser who helps Theon escape after Theon has been tortured by the 'bad cop' random Bolton mooks. Ramsay goes so far as to kill five of his own men just to keep the ruse going until he reveals himself to be the worst cop. Theon quickly spills a load of information that Ramsay uses later as ammunition against him, but this is incidental; Ramsay isn't interested in Theon's information, only his suffering. There is no hint of it being deliberate but during Littlefinger's interrogation in "The Mountain and the Viper," Lord Royce is relentless while Lady Waynwood remains reserved and polite. |
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In Starsky & Hutch the title characters refer to this game as "push or shove?" when deciding who should play bad cop and who should play good cop. Starsky complains that he's tired and that Hutch should play bad cop this time when shaking up a snitch. In another episode, they do a far more elaborate number on an assault-and-battery suspect, with Starsky throwing a giant (fake) tantrum in the interrogation room before storming out, so that Hutch can, with great kindness and concern, comfort the suspect and spin a yarn about how the last time Starsky got this mad "they almost threw him off the force, but then at the last minute, the guy managed to pull through." | |
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Kiwi Blitz: After Natrix is apprehended, officers Flores and Barnes give him the "bad cop/whatever cop" routine, though Flores might just be relieving stress. | |
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Something Awful: Dungeons & Dragons: Used against the ghost of an assassin, with the party using its body's severed legs as leverage (having captured said legs after they had attempted to flee). Joey plays the bad cop by trying to Intimidate him, Bananaramawicz attempts to roll Diplomacy for the good cop. Meanwhile, Kensington shouts lies at him from across the room with Bluff checks. While hunting down a shapeshifter in a small town after reaching Paragon Tier, Joey and Minerelle play detective while the rest of the party investigates a wizard's tower. It's noted in the thread that it seems like a good cop/bad cop situation where both of them are the bad cop. |
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Spider-Man: Believe it or not, a reverse situation was done once with Captain America as the Good Cop, of all people, in a six-issue The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) story called "The Assassin Nation Plot". When trying to find Sabertooth (who had just murdered the prime minister of Symkaria) Cap and Silver Sable track him to a group of sleazy thugs in Latin America. After trouncing them, Cap tries to get the leader to talk, but the crook knows Cap's reputation and says he wouldn't hurt him. Then Silver points a gun at him and says "Yes, he won't." The guy quickly starts to talk. (It's doubtful Cap would have actually let her shoot him, but the situation was rather dire.) | |
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Played for laughs in the British sketch show Absolutely. Two cops are interrogating a suspect, they can remember one is supposed to be nice but cannot remember the other part and so try a number of combinations including 'nice & flirty', 'nice & shy', 'nice & clumsy' and 'nice & forgetful'. When they eventually remember, they explain that neither of them are any good at being the bad one, so they get in a Victorian melodrama villain dressed as a Bow Street Runner. | |
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Goodness Gracious Me: Parodied in a sketch—Good Cop, Indian Mum Cop. | |
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Disco Elysium: Kim Kitsuragi and the Defective Detective Player Character can do this during interrogations. The player character can choose either side, and Kim will go the opposite route, but the same relationship and personality differences are reflected in both scenarios: If the Detective is the good cop, he will be empathetic and charmingly eccentric, sometimes even to the point of reflexively apologizing or agreeing to turn a blind eye to minor crimes for altruistic reasons. Kim's bad cop routine will thus see him being a cold and unsympathetic stickler for protocol. The Detective's bad cop routine sees him playing the part of a mentally unstable, authoritarian, and domineering Cowboy Cop, with bizarre mannerisms and alarming mood swings. Here, Kim's good cop routine is playing the calm Only Sane Man, keeping the Detective reined in while offering less stressful ways out. |
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Transformers: Animated, Optimus and Grimlock fall into this while questioning Powell...only it was more like "Good Cop, Crazy Dinosaur Cop." And now again, this time "Robotic Cop, Organic Cop With Terrifying Snot."(Lately Autobots have been getting more and more terrified of organics.) |
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Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku! has Tamako Nokogiri and Dan'ichiro "Dan" Shitsugen, who show up to investigate the circumstances behind Bakugou's injuries. Nokogiri is the Good Cop, remaining friendly and professional to the Midoriyas and assuring a clearly guilt-ridden and horrified Izuku that it was just an accident. Shitsugen is the Bad Cop, railing at Izuku's and Bakugou's parents and threatening to rough up Hisashi for talking back to him. | |
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Most of the partnered cops shown in the Gotham Central comics series fall naturally into this routine. Dagmar Procnjow and Tommy Burke: she's Bad, he's Good. Nelson Crowe and Jackson Davies: Crowe's Good, Davies is Bad. Renee Montoya and Crispus Allen: she's Bad, he's Good. Interestingly, before being partnered with Detective Allen, Montoya was paired with Harvey Bullock. Renee Montoya was Good Cop, he was Bad. In one story, a criminal found himself facing Montoya, Bullock and "Hardback" Bock, who informed him the current setup was "Bad Cop, Bad Cop, and Bad Cop". Sometimes Batman and Robin work that way as well. The usefulness of the trope is even demonstrated a few pages later, when they change these roles: |
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In a chapter of Shadowchasers: Conspiracy, Jalal tries to interrogate a rather stubborn prisoner - Aysis, a demonic bounty hunter - about what has happened to Karen. Aysis notices he's brought Dolores with him and assumes this is a Good Cop Bad Cop method, laughing at the prospect. However, she's wrong; it's Bad Cop Worse Cop, and Dolores is the Worse Cop. (What happens during the interlude isn't shown, but when the scene shifts back, Aysis is cowering, sobbing, and telling the now coldly-stoic Dolores everything.) | |
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Parodied: In LoadingReadyRun's "commodoreHUSTLE: Showdown", Kathleen and Paul interrogate Tim for Geoff's location. Bill has a hard time discerning who is the good cop. | |
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The Yogscast's Sips and Sjin used this routine to interrogate members of the Beaver Mafia (who had disguised themselves as farm animals) after the nefarious woodland creatures blew up their Minecraft house. Ass-slappage and police brutality ensued. The interrogation room had a stripper's pole. It was a weird couple of episodes. | |
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In a special issue of the The Punisher, Frank Castle once helped one Ax-Crazy Italian hitwoman (a villain from a previous special) get revenge on a mob boss that had taken her daughter hostage. At one point, they interrogate a few mooks. Despite Frank's tendencies, he's shocked by the role he takes in the discussion. | |
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In the Black Books episode "The Black-Out", Manny has stayed up all night drinking espresso and watching The Sweeney, and believes himself to be a copper. When he finds himself in a police station, mistaken for a genuine copper, he is cajoled into assisting in an interrogation, and asked to play the part of the Good Cop. Slightly misunderstanding what this involves, he ends up being rather too nice, making non sequiturs like "You've got lovely eyes" and "Why don't I go out and get us all some crispy duck?" This unsettles the perp, so the genuine policeman decides to leave Manny to continue the interrogation alone. As soon as he leaves, Manny falls to his knees and admits to the perp that he isn't a real copper, he's "just had too much coffee", and begs the perp to help him get out of the situation. This further unsettles the criminal, who cracks and says that he'll talk to "the other guy", as long as Manny goes away. As a result of this confession, the genuine policeman tells Manny that he's one of the best officers that he's ever served with. | |
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Lost Girl Dyson and Tamsin are a more literal fashion when they're first partnered up, as Dyson is a Light Fae cop while Tasman is Dark Fae. In the same episode Tasman lampshades the trope by sarcastically referring to Dyson and Bo as, "Bad cop, horny cop." In a "Freaky Friday" Flip, Kenzi ends up in Dyson's body, and when they have to Spot the Imposter to find who's channeling the Villain of the Week suggests they play "Good cop, Kenzi-cop!" |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Played with by Rainbow Dash (bad cop) and Fluttershy (good cop) to greed-enlarged Spike after he kidnaps Rarity. Rainbow Dash demands he release Rarity, while Fluttershy adds her typical passive comments to Spike (who she's afraid of now). Happens again as more of a literal example in the episode Rarity Investigates! with Dash again where (bad cop) Rainbow Dash interrogates the castle guards with (good cop) Rarity. Rainbow asks biting questions while Rarity talks softly and seductively (while posing on her fainting couch). |
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In the Doctor Who serial "The Deadly Assassin", Castellan Spandrell (good cop) and Commander Hilred (bad cop) use what the Doctor calls the "hot and cold technique" on him. | |
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Men in Black. When K pulls out a strange-looking Hand Cannon and threatens to blow a shopkeeper's head off, Jay thinks he's doing this routine and immediately starts playing the good cop... until K actually carries out his threat. Then things start getting weird. | |
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Murderville: In the first episode, Terry and Conan decide whether to be "good cop/bad cop" and eventually land on "bad cop/worse cop" where they both end up yelling at the suspect. When approaching Terry's high school crush in the third episode, Terry positions himself as "good cop" and Kumail as "stupid cop". |
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Coulson proves his skill at this routine in Child of the Storm, playing good cop to Nick Fury's bad cop in Book 1 and Harry's in Book 2 (in the latter case, he had no clue that Harry had started a pre-interrogation at all, much less in bad cop mode, but picked it up without blinking twice. He's that good). It's noted in the former case that Coulson and Fury can switch off if necessary, with Fury playing the Jerk with a Heart of Gold and Coulson taking on a cold Jerkass demeanour. Fury also notes his friend's skill at this trope. | |
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Hunter (NBC): Before interrogating someone, DeeDee McCall (a short Fair Cop) insists that she be allowed to play "bad cop" despite Hunter's (tall, middle-aged) claims that he's usually the "bad cop" in these situations for a reason. The perp immediately sees through the act and tells them to get lost, so she upgrades to breaking in his door and threatening him with a baseball bat. | |
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In The Bill, an officer goes Bad Cop on a suspect. When he leaves the room after getting what he wants, Jo Masters comments that she didn't think they did that any more. | |
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The Wire: Herc and Carver have arrested Bodie for the first time, and they plan to play this totally straight with Herc playing the bad cop. So Carver goes in first and tries to bond with Bodie over their shared rough backgrounds. Bodie looks as though he's about to confess...and then tells Carver to do something unpleasant. Carver starts beating Bodie, prompting "Bad Cop" Herc to rush in and stop him. Then you have Bird's interrogation, which starts with Kima trying to get him to make a deal while Bird shouts an endless stream of anti-lesbian abuse at her. Daniels eventually has McNulty (of all people) go in too just to make sure "Kima doesn't cut his ass." McNulty plays the role of good cop by simply getting them all to sit in sullen silence until the police lab brings backs some results on Bird's gun. When the results are in, Bird goes right back to his abuse. Now thoroughly tired of Bird, a whole group of of detectives come into the room to beat a confession out of Bird, who happens to be handcuffed at the time. |
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Used in the Circle of Magic novel "Battle Mages". One of the protagonists, the thirteen year old girl Evy, gets captured by an invading army, and they start interrogating her for information. One of them is playing the mean bad cop, but the other seems genuinely nice, protecting her and asking her to comply for her own good. The act drops when he begins to torture her. | |
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Halo: Nightfall has an impromptu but very effective variant when Locke and Aiken interrogate Axl. After Randall Aiken beating the crap out of Axl doesn't work, Locke addresses Axl rather amicably in his native language, then comments that if Axl doesn't cooperate, Locke can always let Randall have another go at him. Axl is quickly convinced to give them the information they need. | |
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In the season fifth episode "Into the Breech" of JAG, when Bud and Gunny go to the ex-wife of an old sailor they're looking for to testify at a hearing, Gunny says to Bud that they should approach it as good cop and bad cop to obtain a positive result. | |
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FBI Special agents Clayton and Archer while interrogating the protagonist in a Yemeni prison in the film Traitor. | |
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Hec Ramsey: In "The Century Turns", Stamp and Mendoza pull this on an outlaw they have in custody. Mendoza is threatening some serious Police Brutality when Stamp comes in and pulls him off. Once Stamp has Mendoza out of the cells, it becomes obvious they have planned this. Stamp returns to the cells and plays nice cop, offering the suspect a cigarette. He manages to get him talking and eventually reveal where is partners are holed up. | |
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A Daredevil issue introduces a new variant: Bad Cop, Giant Monster. A 2002 team-up issue with Spider-Man had Daredevil and Ben Urich performing a variation of this. Urich went into a bar to gain information about a kidnapped girl. When the guy pulled a gun on Urich, Daredevil shows up to intimidate the information out of him. Urich's dialogue suggests this is not the first time they've pulled this act. |
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Similar to the Pink Panther example below, Gargoylemon of Digimon Fusion attempts to be both the good cop and the bad cop, alternatively threatening the captured heroes and offering them DigiNoir. Humorously, they're so busy eating they don't even notice. | |
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Criminal Minds: In "Lessons Learned", Gideon invokes this technique as a way of finally breaking down the UnSub. He notes that since the CIA had already roughed him up, he thought that by being the nice guy and allowing the UnSub his daily prayers that he would open up to him. It worked. In "Bloodline", Hotch (bad cop) and Prentiss (good cop) play off each other very well while interrogating an UnSub. Which can be seen here. |
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In one volume of Paul Chadwick's comic series Concrete, two police detectives interrogate suspects about a suspicious accident on a movie set. With the first suspect, they do the routine perfectly, with one cop getting angry at the suspect and the other cop trying to cool him down. Then they go and interrogate the second suspect, and do the routine again, except with the cops playing the opposite parts. You can tell whose turn it is to be bad cop because he's wearing his gun in the interrogation room. | |
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Two police sergeants, Spears and Samu, attempt to get Dr. Piper Kaufmann to spill her guts in Intragalactic by using the time-tested "girl cop, boy cop". | |
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In one Pearls Before Swine strip, Pig thinks it's "Good Cop, Fat Cop." | |
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In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Steve is atop a rooftop with Natasha interrogating Jasper Sitwell. Steve makes the typical Batman-esque threats, but Sitwell points out that throwing people off buildings just isn't his style. Steve relents and says "You're right, it's not.... It's hers!". Steve then steps aside and Natasha promptly kicks the guy over the side where Sam is waiting to literally swoop in and catch him. | |
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The Batman (2022). Lampshaded by the Penguin when he realises that Jim Gordon and Batman are doing a joint interrogation. | |
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Battlestar Galactica. Baltar uses this technique as a means of helping Gina, a raped and tortured Cylon prisoner in the custody of the Cylon-hating Admiral Cain. He pretends to Cain that his efforts to feed, clothe and comfort Gina are merely an attempt to break down her resistance through kindness, after the harsh methods of her previous interrogators failed. And in "Taking A Break From All Your Worries", Roslin and Adama try this on Dr. Baltar, first the "stick" (pretending they're going to throw him out the airlock, then drug interrogation) and then the "carrot" - sending in nice guy Gaeta to get his confidence. Unfortunately that doesn't work either as Baltar is too smart to fall for it and flips out, provoking Gaeta into stabbing him in the neck with a pen. | |
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Parodied in The Other Guys where the good cop bad cop routine instead turns into bad cop insane cop. | |
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Lina and Abby even lampshade the use of this in Against the Wall when they interrogate a summons officer accused of stalking his therapist. | |
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The Sandman (1989) has a talking raven and a reincarnated nightmare killer running a good cop bad cop interrogation on the Norse god Loki. It's that kind of series. | |
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Sam & Max: Freelance Police: The eponymous duo tried to pull this one while interrogating Jimmy Two-Teeth in the first puzzle of Culture Shock (Sam is the good cop, Max is the bad one). While they aren't interrogating, usually when you can choose if the one talking is Sam or Max, Sam tries to be helpful somehow (or at least have some tact) while Max just says whatever is on his twisted mind. Since the games are puzzle-based, this usually backfires unless you think carefully. | |
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In No Need for Bushido, a captured soldier confesses before even being questioned after he hears a Good Cop/Bad Cop discussion going on outside the door before the protagonists come in the room. | |
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Finishing the Fight: Keyes and Drizzt do a fairly spectacular version when interrogating Luskan prisoners, though Bad Cop Psychotic Cop might be a better description. Drizzt has Guen drag a prisoner into another room, makes him scream once before knocking him out, and then plays recordings of the scream and randomly throws in bouts of maniacal laughter for good measure. Keyes threatens the other prisoners both with him, and with a truth serum that might "melt their brains" if they don't talk to her. | |
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In Veronica Mars, Keith Mars and Sheriff Lamb pull this off at least once, with Keith being the classical good cop and Lamb, the bad one. Veronica and Keith also use this, with Keith as the bad cop, to get information from a hotel employee. | |
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Batgirl: Invoked in Batgirl: Year One. When Batman wants to learn the new Batgirl's secrets he drags her into the Batcave and tries to unmask her. When she tells him off, he walks out, leaving her guest to Robin, who is considerably friendlier. Batgirl (2009): The Bad Cop/Worse Cop routine was invoked in the 6th issue of the series. |
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The technique is specifically referenced in the first book of The Echo Case Files series in relation to Ramirez and Tycho. Oddly, Tycho, the friendly, cheery officer tends to be bad cop. | |
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Discussed in one of the "Junior Detectives" skits in RWBY Chibi, in which Neptune complains that he never gets to be bad cop, and Sun says he's just not cut out for the role. He's right, too - when they try to interrogate Nora and accuse her of eating all the pancakes, she manages to switch things around until it's Sun and Nora yelling at Neptune until he confesses. | |
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American Gods - Shadow is being 100% truthful in his answers even before the Bad Cop gets a chance to work his magic, but the two goons interrogating him (who aren't, technically, real cops) don't believe him, so they beat the crap out of him anyway, assuming he'll change his tune after a solid kneecapping). Also, they probably don't care that he's "not talking", because they're employing Torture for Fun and Information. They may also be playing out this trope because they're the personification of movie cops and/or Men in Black, so act the way they're supposed to act, rather than because it makes sense. | |
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The LEGO Movie has a single character with a Literal Split Personality called Bad Cop/Good Cop. He's one of those minifigures whose head has two faces with different expressions and rotates to change them, the "inactive" face being obscured by the helmet. Good Cop's face gets erased with nail polish remover when he refuses to carry out the villain's Evil Plan, locking him into Bad Cop mode... and when Bad Cop has a change of heart, he (very poorly) redraws Good Cop on the back of his head, restoring him. | |
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In the Enemy at the Door episode "V for Victory," Kluge attempts to gain the confidence of a young suspect this way, recruiting SS officer Reinicke to be the Bad Cop. It doesn't go according to plan. | |
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Anita Blake and Jean-Claude play good cop/bad cop respectively when Anita needs some answers from a woman who is terrified of vampires. This was entirely Jean-Claude's idea, and Anita sends him out of the room after it looks—to Anita—like he threatened to rape her.note He rubbed the woman's shoulders, whispered something into her, ear and she started shaking. Knowing Jean-Claude, it was probably something a little more subtle than that. Probably. | |
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In The Darkside Detective, in a rare moment of self-awareness, McQueen's dimwitted partner Dooley describes McQueen and himself as "good-cop, how-is-this-guy-still-a-cop". | |
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5 Second Films used the lesser-known variant, "Good Cop, Rocket Alligator". | |
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Changes, Tilly and Rudolph are sort of pulling this. Except that they're not partners, Tilly is an FBI agent who thinks Harry is involved but doesn't think he's guilty, while Rudolph is a Chicago PD officer under orders from very scary people to delay Harry as long as possible. Consequently Rudolph starts screaming at Harry to admit it, and Harry, who has spent the past couple of years hacking off creatures scarier than his cop friend's overweight ex-husband, considers Rudolph a total-non-threat and finds the whole thing funny. Tilly eventually orders him out of the room for impeding the investigation. | |
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Ray from Forest Hill is subjected to this by a pair of detectives who are trying to determine whether he is molesting his daughter. | |
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Ace Attorney: Angel Starr from the first game's fifth case is a former detective who was known as the "Cough-up Queen" for her ability to squeeze information out of suspects. It's implied that the reason for her effectiveness was that she could do this routine by herself, using colored contacts and moving her bangs from eye to eye to flip between inviting and threatening. In Dual Destinies Phoenix Wright comments his newly hired junior lawyer Athena Cykes is "like good cop, bad cop all rolled into one". This is a pretty accurate description, with her being kind, rather caring and considerate of people's feelings and what they're going through, but also being quick to anger, not above hurting people (with slaps mostly) and using underhanded tactics to get information, as well as asking Apollo if she can go and "ring his neck", in regards to a witness. |
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In Experimental Film, two cops use a relatively mild version of this routine while interrogating Lois about Sidlo's death. | |
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Parodied in an issue of Adventure Time: Candy Capers. Peppermint Butler deputizes Tree Trunks and Marceline as members of the royal guard to investigate the disappearance of Finn and Jake, and the sweet-natured Tree Trunks insists on being the "bad cop" just because it's something she's always wanted to do. She's surprisingly good at it, but Marceline is not so keen on being shoe-horned into the role of "good cop". | |
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Wild River: Not cops, and they may not be working together, but Sy Moore and R.J. Bailey have this dynamic in dealing with Chuck and trying to keep him from hiring away their underpaid African-American laborers for the dam. Moore arrives at Chuck's house making polite requests, but warns that he and his companions deliberately excluded Bailey from the meeting because he'll be rougher. When Moore's overture doesn't work, Bailey does show up and is willing to rough up and threaten Chuck. | |
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From Family Guy: Good Cop, Developmentally Disabled Cop. | |
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John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme: Parodied, when a bunch of police officers try this, and it doesn't work since their perp knows the routine. So they switch up to Good Cop, Bad Cop, Nasty Cop, Defeatist Cop, Haiku Cop, Holistic Cop, and Truthful Cop. That eventually gets the confession, even if it does eat up a lot of manpower. | |
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In Durarara!!, Kadota initially seems to be the "bad cop", when he interrogates a thug by beating him up. But then, after he turns the guy over to Walker and Erika, it's clear that Kadota is the good cop and they are the bad ones. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager In “Living Witness�, a historian shows a grossly-inaccurate portrayal of the Voyager crew as militaristic thugs. The Good Cop was Chakotay. The Bad Cop was Harry Kim. Both are the two nicest characters on the real Voyager. In another instance, in "Equinox", Janeway and Chakotay are interrogating a crewmember of the Equinox, a Starfleet ship whose crew has been killing aliens in order to power their ship. Janeway wants the crewmember to give her the tactical status of the Equinox's captain, Ransom. She threatens to lower the shields in the room, which would allow the aliens an opening to get through and attack the man, while she and Chakotay leave the room. The crewmember demonstrates his familiarity with this trope, looking at Chakotay and asking "I suppose the plan is that you're going to come to my rescue now, right?" Chakotay, however, admits that "There's no plan as far as I know. The Captain's on her own." When the crewman continues not to talk, Janeway and Chakotay leave the room and Janeway proceeds to do just what she said she was going to do, shocking Chakotay, who thought she was only bluffing. (The crewmember does crack, but not before being badly spooked.) Subverted in "Critical Care". Security chief Tuvok is playing bad cop when Neelix enters and insists on feeding the prisoner. However he's a Lethal Chef... |
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Lampshaded on The Mentalist. After Lisbon is injured (by one of Jane's stunts), CBI boss Hightower joins Jane in the field. When they are going to question a suspect, he asks her if she's going to be bad cop. She replies that she will do what she always does. Jane says that's exactly what he meant. | |
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In The Other Grey Meat, Karl and Chuck interrogate Sylene about the murder of a Category One Zombie. Chuck starts nice, Karl immediately goes aggressive.Karl isn't really trying to be part of the interrogation, he just wants his TOGM fries back, and Chuck looks surprised at his overreaction. | |
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The Iron Hand of Mars by Lindsey Davis. Marcus Didius Falco (a private detective in Ancient Rome) and his friend Justinus are interrogating a barmaid about her missing boyfriend. She loses her temper and throws Falco out, but Justinus comforts her and she gives him the required information. Afterwards Falco mentions this technique and jokes that "the nice guy is supposed to be a fake!" | |
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Crush (2022): Paige tells AJ she should be "bad cop" to her "good cop" while looking for the school's tagger. In actual practice though they both just act much the same. AJ turns out to be the tagger as well. | |
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Lost Voices: At the end of the first book, the mermaid Luce rescues the human boy Dorian from a wreck, trusting that if he tells anyone about her, no one will believe him. However, in Waking Storms, Dorian is interrogated by the FBI agents Ellison and Smitt, who know about mermaids and want him to admit that he saw one. Ellison acts kind, interested, and sympathetic and assures Dorian that they'll take anything he says seriously no matter how impossible it sounds, while Smitt yells at him for lying when he doesn't say what they want. It doesn't work - Dorian can't bring himself to betray Luce. | |
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Mentioned in the second Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident, when the LEP bring in Artemis to question him about goblins using human technology. Artemis asks Root which one he is, to which Root replies "Hate to tell you this, Dorothy, but you ain't in Kansas anymore." They then proceed to knock him out, and scan his retinas to see if he's ever seen the bad guys. | |
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Michael and company from Burn Notice have had to do this a few times when interrogating people. They like playing with this too, as happened on one occasion Michael when actually states their roles of Bad Cop, Worse Cop, Hammer. Hilarity Ensues. Perhaps most amusingly, on one occasion they had to use Fiona (who is infamous for her Hair-Trigger Temper, constant suggestions of simply shooting the bad guys instead of using Michael's sneaky/devious methods, and various other Ax-Crazy... shenanigans), as the good cop that a female suspect can sympathize with. Fiona manages right up until the suspect starts casually talking about selling fake medications to cancer patients, at which point Fiona flips out and starts trying to cave the other woman's head in. On one occasion they have to interrogate a professional assassin named Kendra. Kendra beats her own head on the table to show they can't break her by torturing her. After she cuts her head open and shows no sign of stopping, Jesse forces her to stop, and Mike angrily drags Jesse out of the room. When they get out of the room Jesse says he did the right thing, and Michael calmly agrees, because now Jesse appears to be a "Good Cop" who is too nice and soft-hearted for his own good, while Michael is the Bad Cop. Furthermore, Jesse's show of "weakness" by stopping Kendra from injuring herself now has Kendra believing that Jesse is a weak link that she can manipulate into helping her and that there's friction between Jesse and Michael that she can exploit. The rest of the episode Jesse slowly manipulates Kendra into telling him what she knows while she thinks she's manipulating him. The team also like to use a variant where the "good cop" isn't being presented as a "cop" at all, but as either another captive or enemy of the interrogators, who the actual captive can bond or team up with. This includes Michael pretending to be a member of a large Russian crime syndicate being held right alongside an actual member, or capturing a Yakuza, roughing him up, and then presenting Michael's mom Maddy as a traumatized nurse who's been kidnapped so she can keep the Yakuza healthy enough to be tortured further. Eventually the Yakuza trusts the nurse enough that he suggests they escape together, promising that his organization will protect her from their captors. When they do "escape", the rest of the team follows them straight back to the Yakuza hideout, which was the goal all along. |
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In the opening of "In the Line of Fur" from Turner & Hooch (2021), Scott Jr. and Laura interrogate a guy who was in their dad's files. They only get the name "John" out of him and some info about what he did for him, but the guy doesn't know much else and Scott Jr. can tell. Laura, however, as they're leaving, asks if that's really all, saying that they could use tactics like good cop / bad cop. He points out that you need to two cops, not a cop and a veterinary assistant, and that he's pretty sure the guy told them everything he knows anyway. | |
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Phoenix. Lampshaded and played straight in "Shaking the Tree". The Major Crime Squad bust drug dealer Fergie who (thinking they're home invaders) fires on them with an elephant gun, giving Lochie a Bring My Brown Pants. Laz (who knew Fergie when he was working undercover) tries the gentle approach while Lochie can barely restrain himself because of his humiliation. Fergie is not impressed and sarcastically lampshades the trope. Lochie later deliberately plays Rabid Cop as a means of putting pressure on him, but it's done realistically and Fergie wavers but doesn't crack. | |
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"Wrong Exposure", a Season 4 episode of Code Lyoko, Odd accidentally sends a picture of Franz Hopper, with his daughter, Aelita, to Sissi. Not surprisingly, Sissi shows it to Mr. Delmas. In a meeting with the principal, Jim played Bad Cop while Mr. Delmas played Good Cop to the Lyoko Warriors. | |
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Done twice in Kyon: Big Damn Hero. Once with the Bad Cop/Worse Cop variant and again with Good Cop/Bad Cop. | |
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In The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye Whirl, an ex-cop, catches one of the little enemy robots running away, and without being asked, simply beats him up in private until he promises to answer the questions of the other Autobots. Whirl's tendency toward police brutality is, in fact, revealed to have been the reason for the start of the entire Cybertronian Civil War. He brutally beat Megatron when the latter was arrested following a bar brawl. This convinced Megatron, who up until then was an Actual Pacifist, that violence really was the best means of achieving social change. | |
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Quite common in fanfics for The Sentinel, especially when they make the 6'2"/220 lb. ex-Ranger Jim the 'good' cop and the 5'9" long-haired anthropologist Blair the 'bad cop'. | |
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Riding a Sunset: After they kidnapped Charlie and used her as bait to try and lure in Bumblebee, the Eukarians (or Beastformers) are taken prisoner by the Autobots. Ironhide (as the bad cop) wants to do to them what they did to Charlie (which is why Prime doesn't let him take part in the interrogation). Jazz is more of a neutral cop, as he's as mad as Ironhide but recognizes that the Eukarians are just a bunch of punks that Starscream lured to the Dark side. Optimus is the only one to speak kindly to the Eukarians, telling them that things will be better for everyone if they give the Autobots the information they want. The Eukarians finally talk to Prime. | |
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Avatar: The Way of Water: After General Ardmore tries to use a brain-scanning machine to very painfully extract the location of the Na'vi resistance's headquarters from Spider and fails miserably, Colonel Quaritch—who is Spider's biological father—tries just talking to him man-to-man. Spider still refuses to give up Jake Sully's location out of sheer loyalty, but Quaritch is able to convince him to act as a native guide and interpreter for his unit. | |
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The Chronicles of Dorsa: Akella plays this routine with Linna when torturing a prisoner. Linna doesn't know it, but her objections are useful to offset when Akella threatens worse. She had done this with her first mate too, in the roles of honorable and bloodthirsty pirates. Objections by the honorable helped to get the prisoner fearing worse from the bloodthirsty, and give up information. | |
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Law & Order: UK. Matt and Ronnie would often alternate these roles and play them to varying degrees, sometimes within the course of a single interrogation, depending on the situation and/or what kind of a person they were dealing with. Several subversions have them playing both roles—in "Vice", they're both very gentle and supportive of a young prostitute suspected of murder, while in "Samaritan", they both grill an officer suspected of leaving his partner to die (and they put a nice twist on it by letting the guy—and the viewer— think that Matt will be the "Good Cop" by having him initially sit silently while Ronnie browbeats him). Matt's short-tempered replacement Sam Casey took the latter role without any prompting, but his replacement Joe Hawkins seemed to like alternating with Ronnie much like Matt did. |
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Cobra Kai: In the episode "Nature vs. Nurture", Daniel and Johnny, despite not actually being cops, play good cop and bad cop (respectively) while visiting Trey and Cruz. Hilariously, while Johnny is ostensibly the "bad cop", the two are more terrified of Daniel, who had kicked their asses in the previous season, prompting Johnny to bitchslap Cruz (while the guards pretend not to notice) to prove his "bad cop" credentials. Daniel, at the end of their visit, threatens to send Johnny back alone if their intel isn't legit. Johnny even cites the trope by name to Daniel's wife Amanda, who points out it's more like a no-cop situation. | |
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