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* Gordon & O'Hara from ''[[Batman]]''.
* 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|"No man escapes the Manhunters!"]]''
* Inspector Ishida in ''[[Usagi Yojimbo]]''.
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* Jack Valentine in ''[[Lord of War]]''.
* From ''[[Clue (film)|Clue]]'':
{{quote| '''Wadsworth:''' Like the mounties, we always get our man!<br />
'''Green:''' ''Mrs. Peacock was a man?!'' (Mustard and Wadsworth slap him) }}
* ''[[Horsefeathers]]''' 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<br />
When I'm abused or badly used, I always get my man<br />
No matter if he's in Peru, Paducah, or Japan<br />
I go ahead, alive or dead, I always get my man'' }}
 
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* 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:
{{quote| '''Booth''': That's right. See? Because I always get my man.<br />
'''Bones''': [[No Man of Woman Born|I am a woman.]] }}
 
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