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Not to be confused with the live action series ''[[Cops]]''. Compare with ''[[You're Under Arrest]]'', an [[Anime]] with a similar (if not more realistic & relatively modern) perspective.
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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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* [[Drugs Are Bad]]
* [[Dueling Shows]]: More of a Dueling Merchandise with the cartoon series of ''[[Police Academy]]''; just look at the gimmicks of both toylines.
** The same with Kenner's ''[[RoboCop
* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Rock Krusher and Berserko.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Big Boss refusing to help sell a designer drug because "drugs kill".
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* [[Every Episode Ending]]: Bulletproof gives the lowdown on how everything ultimately turned out and says "Case Closed".
* [[Everything Is Big in Texas]]: Sundown specifically points this out when he can't fit into Turbo Tu-Tone's superspeed suit. "Shoot, this thing's plum too small! Sorry, but we're grown big down in Texas."
* [[Everything's Sparkly
* [[Evil Clown]]: The unreleased third series of the action figure line would have featured a whole gang of them called the Pranksters.
* [[Flowers for Algernon Syndrome]]: In "The Case of The Brilliant Berserko", Berserko steals a "chess crown" meant to augment intelligence and becomes a well-mannered (if still criminal) supergenius. In the middle of the episode, the battery momentarily fails, setting up the common "it's just temporary" plot - but subverting it when he gets it working again almost immediately.
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* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Each episode is titled "The Case of..."
* [[Initialism Title]]
* [[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
* [[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.
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* [[Motor Mouth]]: Again, Airwave.
* [[Oh Crap]]: All of the Crooks have a shocked/horrified expression as they're caught in the opening.
* [[Only Known
* [[Power Fist]]: Big Boss has a cybernetic right hand that gets a workout whenever he gets ''really'' steamed.
* [[Pretty in Mink]]: A few, such as a huge white fox coat among the prizes Nightshade tried to steal from a [[Beauty Contest]]. It turns out she could have even kept it if she hadn't tried to steal them.
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* [[Right-Hand-Cat]]: Big Boss' pet Scratch is actually a ''weasel'', because subtlety is for chumps.
* [[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 [[
** 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.
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** The Crooks barely resemble their toy counterparts thanks to vast exaggerations on the part of the animators.
* [[Sixty Five Episode Cartoon]]
* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: ''C.O.P.S.'' had four major female characters, [[Two Girls to
* [[The Starscream]]: Ms. Demeanor in the comics.
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Mainframe and Mirage for the C.O.P.S., and Ms. Demeanor and Nightshade for the crooks.
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