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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist|Inspector Zenigata]] from ''[[Lupin III]]'' thinks of himself this way.
* [[Inspector Javert|Inspector Lunge]] from ''[[Monster (Animemanga)|Monster]]'' loses his family and eventually takes an unpaid vacation of several months to try and catch Tenma. He's so determined that, while dying of blood loss he handcuffs himself to Tenma to try and stop him from escaping.
 
== [[Comics]] ==
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* Colonel Samuel Benfield Steele, in [[Don Rosa|Don Rosa's]] ''Hearts of Yukon''. The trope title is even played with:
{{quote| "We always get our ''duck''"!}}
* ''[[Green Lantern (Comic Book)|"No man escapes the Manhunters!"]]''
* Inspector Ishida in ''[[Usagi Yojimbo (Comic Book)|Usagi Yojimbo]]''.
 
== [[Film]] ==
* Like Zenigata above, Inspector Clouseau from ''[[The Pink Panther]]'' believes he is this.
* Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones) in ''[[The Fugitive (Filmfilm)|The Fugitive]]'' and ''[[USU.S. Marshals]]''.
* Jack Valentine in ''[[Lord of War]]''.
* From ''[[Clue (Filmfilm)|Clue]]'':
{{quote| '''Wadsworth:''' Like the mounties, we always get our man!<br />
'''Green:''' ''Mrs. Peacock was a man?!'' (Mustard and Wadsworth slap him) }}
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Leroy Jethro Gibbs in ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]''. Ditto Fornell.
* Don Eppes in ''[[Numb3rs]]''.
* Cordell Walker ([[Chuck Norris]]) in ''[[Walker, Texas Ranger]]''.
* Odo of ''[[Deep Space Nine]]''.
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'': Officer Garibaldi.
* Josh Randall from ''[[Wanted Dead or Alive (TV)|Wanted: Dead or Alive]]''.
* Fraser in ''[[Due South]]'': well, he is a Mountie. See [[Real Life]] below.
** Notably, he protests whenever someone claims that the Mounties' slogan is "We Always Get Our Man." Once again, see [[Real Life]] below.
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* Olivia Benson of ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'' is a female version.
* Joe Friday in ''[[Dragnet]]''.
* Tuvok in ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''
* Columbo in ''[[Columbo (TV)|Columbo]]''.
* Peter Burke in ''[[White Collar]]''
* In ''[[Bones]]'', Booth mentions this trope when Brennan comments that he could never catch her if she were to commit a murder:
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* [[Solomon Kane]], who once pursued a bandit from France into the middle of Darkest Africa.
* Zinc Chandler, a Mountie from Michael Slade's RCMP novels, recited the Mounties' "Get Your Man" slogan repeatedly in his head when he shook off the effects of being rendered nearly unconscious. Nearly all of Slade's Mountie heroes fit this trope, singly or collectively.
* In the ''[[Commonwealth Saga (Literature)|Commonwealth Saga]]'', Paula Myo fits this trope to a T. Genetically engineered to be an incorruptible super-cop, she has been working for the Serious Crimes Directorate for centuries, and in all that time has only failed to solve ''one'' case. Which she is still pursuing, after a century and a half. {{spoiler|When circumstances force her to decide between arresting the [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] perpetrator and saving the human race from extinction, she suffers a near-fatal nervous breakdown.}}
* Harry Bosch, the hero of many a [[Michael Connelly]] mystery novel, is this with [[Cowboy Cop]] mixed in.
 
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* [[Dudley Do -Right]]. He is a Mountie, after all (see below).
* Klondike Kat always gets his mouse!
 
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