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Line 2: {{quote\|'''Fraser:''' [slams jail cell door on fugitive] That's the last time ''he'll'' fish over the limit.\|''[[Due South]]''}} This is a cop's cop. He is incorruptible, competent, and feared by evildoers. If he is not [[Da Chief]] it is likely because either he is too young, or his path is blocked by [[Obstructive Bureaucrat~~\|Obstructive Bureaucrats~~]]s who fear him for obvious reasons. He is often a [[By-The-Book Cop]], though some versions have a bit of [[Cowboy Cop]] in them. If he is an [[Inspector Javert]], he will be portrayed sympathetically as a [[Worthy Opponent]] and he is only on the opposite side by an unfortunate error in the system or else because the protagonist is a [[Villain Protagonist]]. Often, because [[Elites Are More Glamorous]], this kind of Cop belongs to a famous law enforcement organization: effectively the constabulary equivalent of a [[Badass Army]]. Very often, he's a [[Determinator]] who is [[Lawful Good]]~~-- with~~—with a strong accent on ''lawful''. Generally a fair cop, though if the protagonist is operating outside the law, he'll pursue him as relentlessly as anyone else. You very much do not want to do something to make him follow you. {{examples}} == Advertising == * Molson (IIRC) Lager commercials: "Malcolm the Mountie Always Gets his Can". == [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == Line 31: {{quote\|'''Wadsworth:''' Like the mounties, we always get our man! '''Green:''' ''Mrs. Peacock was a man?!'' (Mustard and Wadsworth slap him) }} * ''[[~~Horsefeathers~~Horse Feathers]]''' Professor Wagstaff ([[The Marx Brothers\|Groucho Marx]]) is no lawman, but at one point he invokes the trope in song anyway: {{quote\|''My son is right, I'm quick to fight, I'm from a fighting clan When I'm abused or badly used, I always get my man Line 50: * Olivia Benson of ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'' is a female version. * Joe Friday in ''[[Dragnet]]''. * Tuvok in ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' * Columbo in ''[[Columbo]]''. * Peter Burke in ''[[White Collar]]'' Line 67: == [[Tabletop Games]] == * In [[GURPS]][[Traveller]] ''Sword Worlds'' the Confederation Patrol provides a lot of these kinds of [[Space Police]] for the Sword Worlds Confederation. == [[Web Comics]] == Line 74: == [[Western Animation]] == * [[Dudley Do-Right]]. He is a Mountie, after all (see below). * Klondike Kat always gets his mouse! == [[Real Life]] == * Though they may or may not qualify under the trope, [[Canada, Eh?\|the Royal Canadian Mounted Police]], one of those "constabulary [[Badass Army]]" type organizations that have a lot of these kind both in fiction and presumably in [[Real Life]], are the [[Trope Namer~~\|Trope Namers~~]]s here, thanks to the famous motto: "[[Badass Creed\|The Mountie always gets his man!]]". (It's not ''really'' their ~~motto--that~~motto—that's "Maintain The Right"~~--but~~—but it's [[Beam Me Up, Scotty\|gotten established in pop culture that way.]]) ** Even referenced in ''Peabody's Improbable History'' segment of ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' when Peabody and Sherman went back in time to Canada to meet a Mountie who ''always gets his man''. He couldn't arrest a wanted Native American because she's a woman which turns out to be a man in disguise at the end. * Robert Carrey, an Elizabethan adventurer who served as Warden of the Northern Marches and patrolled the Anglo-Scottish border keeping evildoers at bay. A decent and honest man and too seldom remembered. Line 88: [[Category:Hero Tropes]] [[Category:Crime and Punishment Tropes]] [[Category:~~Always Gets His Man~~{{PAGENAME}}]]