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{{quote|''"Fighting crime in a future time, protecting Empire City from Big Boss and his gang of crooks."''|from the [[Opening Narration]]}}
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At the very same time as the cartoon, there was also a [[Comic Book Adaptation|C.O.P.S. comic book]] by [[DC Comics]], which had a much different storyline that was [[Darker and Edgier]].
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* [[Adult Child]]: Berserko and Rock Krusher are both essentially giant children.
** Also the Baby Badguys. To the point that they mess up their own plans fighting over a rattle.
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** At the beginning of one episode, he's trying to kill a fly with a Tommy Gun, and almost shoots Rock Crusher numerous times.
* [[Big Bad]]: Big Boss.
* [[Bound and Gagged]]: Seemed to happen on a fairly regular basis to the COPS members. Both female cops got this on at least one occasion.
* [[Canada, Eh?]]: Inspector Yukon of the Mounties shows up in an episode to help deliver an iceberg to Empire City to cool a hot day.
* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Highway, although mostly in the comic.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: ''"It's Crime Fighting Time!"'' and ''"Crime's a Wastin'!"''
** Bulletproof also has "Here's how the caper came down..." (or "Here's how the caper continued..." in the second part of a two-parter) and "Case closed".
** Buzzbomb's beeping often becomes a robotic version of "Nya-nya-nya-nya-nya!", a common children's taunt.
* [[Classy Cat Burglar]]: Nightshade. She actually came from a rich family.
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* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: In the final issue of the comic, the team went after Big Boss for an unpaid parking ticket, knowing that his gang would try to stop them--and [[Justice by Other Legal Means|racking up tons of charges they could pin on the previously untouchable Big Boss]]. As he was being put in the paddy wagon, he proclaimed that they'd never be able to make the charges stick, and that sort of thing happened only in comic books. Bulletproof [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|turned to the reader]] and said, "That's good enough for me."
* [[Last-Episode New Character]]: Airwave in "The Case of The Invisible Crime".
* [[Leave Him to Me]]: When Sundown's crooked former partner comes calling, he's taken off the case because it's too close to him - but he just can't let Johnny Yuma get away without a word.
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Dr. Badvibes of Big Boss' gang.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: BP "Bulletproof" Vess.
* [[Merchandise-Driven]]
* [[Motor Mouth]]: Again, Airwave.
* [[No Communities Were Harmed]]: The name "Empire City" is evocative of New York City, which is also notably absent from the list of cities that the non-Empire COPS come from. Empire City is said to have a mint, which New York City does not have, but there is one in nearby West Point.<ref>The other US mints are in San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Denver. Empire City can't be the first two, because Mirage and Mace were transferred from them to Empire City, and Denver has no East River (which New York City ''does'' have) nor any river whatsoever to its east -- the Platte River is south and west of it.</ref> Incidentally, it had just started minting coins in 1988, the year that this show started airing.
* [[Oh Crap]]: All of the Crooks have a shocked/horrified expression as they're caught in the opening.
* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: Virtually all of the COPS and Crooks, to the point that Longarm is exclusively referred to by his codename by both his father and his son.
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* [[Robot Buddy]]: Buzzbomb, Dr. Badvibes' assistant.
* [[Shout-Out]]: In the episode where Longarm's father tries to rejoin the force, the board of directors that signs the rejection form include [[Paul McCartney]] and [[Michael Jordan]]. When the COPS computers list any sort of information, they are actually listing the supply inventory for the cartoon.
** The character Checkpoint's name is Wayne Sneeden III. According to his filecard, his father was a member of a top-secret military team that operated in the '80s and '90s. The ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' member Beach Head happens to be named Wayne R. Sneeden.
* [[Show Accuracy, Toy Accuracy]]: Taser was a blond white man in the cartoon and a bald black man in the action figure line.
** Also, Hardtop had brown hair in the cartoon and black hair in the comic.
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