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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''Every police force in the US always contains two officers who are direct polar opposites, but are forced to work together, before eventually getting on quite well.''|'''''Hollywood Rule Book''' Vanity Fair''}}
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A Buddy Cop Show that tightly focuses on the emotional lives of the two protagonists frequently [[Ho Yay]] among its fans, c.f. ''[[Miami Vice]]''. If the characters spend leisure time together off the job, they're [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]. The buddies are often an [[Odd Couple]], occasionally [[Salt and Pepper|one black and one white]]. In terms of personality, they tend to follow a distinct formula-one is a straight-laced stickler for protocol, the other is an unpredictable loose cannon. One [[By-The-Book Cop]], one [[Cowboy Cop]]. The primary thing keeping them together - at first, before the [[Character Development]] - is that [[They Fight Crime]]. And they're good at it.
Movie versions abound, or at least they used to: ''[[Bad Boys]]'', ''[[Lethal Weapon]]'', ''[[Die Hard|Die Hard With A Vengeance]]'', etc. It was so common at one point, even making jokes at the expense of the genre is a [[Dead Horse Trope|dead horse]].
An increasingly common variant is partnerships between [[Cop and Scientist|cops and scientists]].
See also: [[Crime-Time TV]], [[Forensic Drama]], [[Cop Show]], [[Police Procedural]], [[Wunza Plot]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[FAKE]]'' takes the trope one further; its [[Odd Couple]], [[Cowboy Cop|Dee]] and [[Team Mom|Ryo]], are a couple in [[Boys Love|more than one sense]].
* ''[[You're Under Arrest]]''
* ''[[Kiddy Grade]]'' starts as one.
* ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'' is essentially a buddy cop show with superheros instead of police officers.
* The relationship between Batou and Togusa in ''[[Ghost in
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* ''[[Alien Nation (TV series)|Alien Nation]]''
* ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]''
* ''[[Black
* ''[[Cagney and Lacey]]''
* ''[[Car Fifty Four Where Are You]]?'' was one of the first Buddy Cop shows, and the first TV police comedy.
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* ''[[The Sentinel (TV series)|The Sentinel]]''
* ''[[Starsky and Hutch (TV series)|Starsky and Hutch]]''
* ''[[Sledge Hammer!]]''
* ''[[T. J. Hooker]]''
* [[White Collar]]
* Spoofed in a [[Conan O'Brien]] sketch, which paired the extremely tall Conan with the extremely short Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich as buddy cops. Reich informing a perp "You have the right... to be my [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|bitch]]!" was possibly the [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].
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* ''[[Community]]'' parodies this in "The Science of Illusion" when Annie and Shirley become temporary campus security guards. They end up getting into an argument about which one of them should be the [[By-The-Book Cop]] and which one should be the [[Cowboy Cop]] despite the fact that both of them are equally suited to both roles, and [[Genre Savvy]] Abed, who is following them around, ends up invoking a whole load of tropes based on this.
* In ''[[Noah's Arc]]'', the movie Wade had written appears to be one of these (based on the lines we overhear and what Wade and Noah discuss).
* Also parodied on ''[[The Late Late Show]] with Craig Ferguson''
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* ''[[Policenauts]]'', essentially a Sci-Fi version of ''[[Lethal Weapon]]''.
* ''[[The House Of The Dead Overkill]]'' is all about this sort of relationship between Isaac Washington and Agent G.
* ''[[Disco Elysium]]'' has this between Kim Kitsuragi and the player, despite being from different districts.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Parodied on ''[[I'm a Marvel And I'm a DC|I'm A Marvel... And I'm A DC]]'' with [[Watchmen (comics)|Rorschach]] and [[Deadpool]].
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* ''[[Civil Protection]]'', which stars two Civil Protection agents, Mike and Dave, from ''[[Half Life|Half-Life 2]]''.
* Parodied in ''[[The Onion]]'', in which a [http://www.theonion.com/articles/veteran-cop-gets-along-great-with-rookie-partner,1818/ tough veteran cop gets along great with his mismatched rookie partner].
* In ''[[Cracked.com]]'':
** "[http://www.cracked.com/blog/why-crimes-would-never-get-solved-at-a-tv-police-station/ Why Crimes Would Never Get Solved At A TV Police Station]"
** Called an easy way to involve a [[Token Minority]] in the #1 [https://web.archive.org/web/20140217160039/http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-4-weirdest-lessons-80s-movies-really-wanted-to-teach-us_p2/ Weirdest Lesson '80s Movies Really Wanted to Teach Us].
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* ''Funky Cops''
* ''[[The Critic]]'', in the episode "Sherman of Arabia," heavily mocked this genre with ''[[Show Within a Show|Beverly Hills Robo K9 Cop and a Half 2]]'', wherein [[Cowboy Cop]] ''[[Dirty Harry]]'' is partnered with, to quote the [[IMDb]]...
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'''Leprechaun''': I'll be your lucky charm!
[Leprechaun explodes]
'''[[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Not Schwarzenegger]]''': You think you've got problems? I'm partnered with a pig, an alien, Siamese twins, a sofa, and a second rate mime.
(The mime also exploded.) }}
* ''[[Fillmore!]]'': A
* Adult Swim's ''Stroker and Hoop''
* ''[[Bonkers]]''
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