Turn in Your Badge: Difference between revisions

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'''Guido:''' Yeah! I'm gonna burn my uniform!...|'''The [[Firesign Theatre]]''', ''How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All?''}}

* Bud White from ''[[L.A. Confidential]]'' fits the brutal-cop part of the trope perfectly, but his [[Turn in Your Badge]] moment is undercut by {{spoiler|the fact that [[Da Chief]] only did it to get leverage over White when he recruited him as muscle for a criminal enterprise.}}

* [[Lampshade|Lampshaded]] by Danny Madigan in ''[[Last Action Hero]]''.

* In ''[[Licence to Kill]]'', [[James Bond]] pretty much turns in his badge to go after the iguana-stroking villain who dumped his best friend into a shark pool.

** Subverted at the beginning of ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]''. After M takes Bond off the hunt for [[Big Bad|Blofeld]], Bond tells Moneypenny to write a memo tendering his resignation (presumably with the intent of pursuing Blofeld as a rogue agent). Moneypenny instead writes a memo requesting two weeks' leave.

* DCI Gene Hunt gets suspended in both ''[[Life On Mars]]'' {{spoiler|accused of murdering a boxing promoter}} and ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'' {{spoiler|Gene and Ray attack a suspect and are reported by Alex, and Gene gets put on paid leave}}, which means, of course, that he was just being Gene!

** Gene Hunt himself employs this trope in the seventh episode, when there is a death in police custody and he suspends Sam for being overzealous in his pursuit of the truth. [[The Stinger]]?

** He also suspends Alex in series 2, in a heartbreaking moment illustrating the deterioration of trust between them.

* Subverted in ''[[New Tricks]]''; although he's not technically a police officer anymore, when Gerry is briefly sidelined from an investigation owing to his possible old-time connection to a gangster who has become the focus of the investigation, he angrily ''offers'' his resignation, only for his boss (Sandra) to flatly refuse it; she doesn't want his 'badge', but at the same time she can't reasonably have him in the investigation.

* Done, [[The Simpsons Did It|as everything is]], on ''[[The Simpsons]]'' when Apu is fired from the Kwik-E-Mart. He is told to hand in his pricing gun (which he keeps in a shoulder holster) and his backup (kept in an ankle holster).

* Parodied in ''[[South Park]]'' when Mr. Garrison is fired.

'''Mr. Garrison:''' Oh, sorry. So I can keep it then? }}

* Grizzlikov, the [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] supreme of SHUSH, ends up getting let go by [[Da Chief]] J Gander Hooter, in favour of a squad trained and inspired by Costumed Crimefighter (and title character) [[Darkwing Duck]] in one episode. {{spoiler|It's the variant, as mentioned above; he gets recruited by the villains and works as [[The Mole]] to sabotage their big design, all according to Hooter's plan.}}