Tropes:
Genres:
Trope sub-categories:
- Abuse Tropes
- Cops and Detectives
- The Courtroom Index
- Criminals
- Forensic Phlebotinum
- I Have Your Index
- Index to the Rescue
- Morality Tropes
- Murder Tropes
- Mystery Tropes
- Organized Crime Tropes
- Perp Sweating
- Prison Tropes
- Sexual Harassment and Rape Tropes
- Revenge Tropes
- Steal This Index
- Threatening Tropes
- Toxic Tropes
- Vandalism Tropes
- Victimhood Tropes
- Violence Tropes
- Absence of Evidence
- Accidental Kidnapping
- Accomplice by Inaction
- Acquitted Too Late
- After Action, Villain Analysis
- The Alibi
- All Crimes Are Equal
- Alone with the Psycho
- Always Gets His Man
- Amateur Sleuth
- Ambulance Chaser
- Amoral Attorney
- Anonymous Killer Narrator
- Armed Blag
- Arrested for Heroism
- Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving
- Artistic License – Law
- Asshole Victim
- Atonement Detective
- Audit Threat
- Autopsy Snack Time
- Bail Equals Freedom
- Bank Robbery
- Be as Unhelpful as Possible
- Because I'm Good at It
- Beneath Suspicion
- Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon
- Bewildering Punishment
- Big Secret
- Big Store
- Blackmail
- "Blackmail" is Such an Ugly Word
- Black Market
- Blatant Burglar
- Bluffing the Murderer
- Body in a Breadbox
- The Boxing Episode
- The Butler Did It
- By-the-Book Cop
- Calling Card
- Caper Rationalization
- Captured on Purpose
- Carousel Kidnapping
- Carpet-Rolled Corpse
- The Cavalry Arrives Late
- Chalk Outline
- City Guards
- Clear My Name
- Clear Their Name
- Clue, Evidence, and a Smoking Gun
- Clueless Detective
- Clueless Mystery
- Coat Full of Contraband
- Coffin Contraband
- Cold Reading
- Colliding Criminal Conspiracies
- Comatose Canary
- Come to Gawk
- Common Nonsense Jury
- The Con
- Confess to a Lesser Crime
- Condemned Contestant
- Con Men Hate Guns
- Connect the Deaths
- Consulting a Convicted Killer
- Contract on the Hitman
- The Convenient Store Next Door
- Conviction by Contradiction
- Conviction by Counterfactual Clue
- Convicted by Public Opinion
- Cops Need the Vigilante
- Les Cops Sportif
- Cop and Scientist
- Cop Killer
- The Corpse Stops Here
- Corruption by a Minor
- Corruption of a Minor
- Coincidental Dodge
- Cowboy Cop
- Cramming the Coffin
- Crime After Crime
- The Crime Job
- Crime Magnet
- Crime of Self-Defense
- Criminal Mind Games
- Crusading Lawyer
- Cuffs Off, Rub Wrists
- Cut-and-Paste Note
- Cut Himself Shaving
- Da Chief
- Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster
- Dead Man's Chest
- Dead Person Impersonation
- Death by Falling Over
- Death in the Clouds
- Deliberately Painful Clothing
- Denied Food as Punishment
- Destroy the Evidence
- Detective Mole
- Detective Patsy
- Diabolical Mastermind
- Dirty Cop
- Dirty Harriet
- Disposing of a Body
- Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off
- Don't Tell Mama
- Donut Mess with a Cop
- Dudley Do-Right Stops to Help
- Dying Clue
- Eat the Evidence
- Emancipated Child
- Empty Cop Threat
- Eureka Moment
- Everyone Is a Suspect
- Evidence Scavenger Hunt
- Evil Plan
- Exalted Torturer
- The Exile
- The Exotic Detective
- Exposition Victim
- Facial Composite Failure: When not Played for Laughs
- Fair Cop
- Faked Kidnapping
- Faking and Entering
- Fall Guy
- False Confession
- False Rape Accusation
- Fantastic Legal Weirdness
- Fatal Attraction
- Fed to Pigs
- Felony Murder
- Fiery Cover Up
- Finger in the Mail
- Finger-Licking Poison
- Fingertip Drug Analysis
- Flash Mob Cover-Up
- Flashed-Badge Hijack
- A Fool for a Client
- Foreign Money Is Proof of Guilt
- Forensic Accounting
- Frameup
- Fresh Clue
- Friend on the Force
- Found the Killer, Lost the Murderer
- Fugitive Arc
- Gang Initiation Fight
- Gentleman Detective
- Give Me Back My Wallet
- Going by the Matchbook
- Good Cop/Bad Cop
- Good Lawyers, Good Clients
- Grave Robbing
- Great Detective
- Guilt by Coincidence
- Guilt-Ridden Accomplice
- Had to Come to Prison to Be a Crook
- Hand of Death
- Handy Cuffs
- Hanging Judge
- Hardboiled Detective
- He Knows Too Much
- Hello, Attorney! (aka Legally Fruity)
- Hidden Wire
- Hide the Evidence
- Historical Rap Sheet
- Hollywood Glass Cutter
- Hollywood Law
- Hollywood Police Driving Academy
- Identification by Dental Records
- I Fought the Law and the Law Won
- Impersonating an Officer
- Important Character, Important Evidence
- Impossible Theft
- Inconveniently Vanishing Exonerating Evidence
- Incriminating Indifference
- The Informant
- Infraction Distraction
- Inkblot Test
- Insanity Defense
- Inside Job
- Insignia Rip-Off Ritual
- Instant Mystery, Just Delete Scene
- Insurance Fraud
- Intangible Theft
- Internal Affairs
- Interrogating the Dead
- It Gets Easier
- It Never Gets Any Easier
- It's for a Book
- It Was Here, I Swear
- I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure
- I Won't Say I'm Guilty
- Jack the Ripoff
- Janitor Impersonation Infiltration
- Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life
- The Judge
- Judge, Jury, and Executioner
- Jurisdiction Friction
- Jury and Witness Tampering
- Just a Gangster
- Just Got Out of Jail
- Just One Little Mistake
- Justice by Other Legal Means
- Justified Criminal
- Kangaroo Court
- The Ketchup Test
- The Killer Becomes the Killed
- The Killer Was Left-Handed
- The Kindnapper
- Last Minute Reprieve
- Lawman Baton
- Leave No Witnesses
- Let Me at Him!
- Let Off by the Detective
- Littering Is No Big Deal
- Locked Room Mystery
- Longer-Than-Life Sentence
- Loony Laws
- The Lopsided Arm of the Law
- Luxury Prison Suite
- Mafia Princess
- Magician Detective
- Make an Example of Them
- Make It Look Like an Accident
- Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal
- Manslaughter Provocation
- Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All
- Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
- Miranda Rights
- Miscarriage of Justice
- Mistaken Confession
- The Mob Boss Is Scarier
- Mob War
- Monumental Theft
- More Criminals Than Targets
- Motive Equals Conclusive Evidence
- Motive Misidentification
- Motive Rant
- Mugging the Monster
- Murderer P.O.V.
- Must State If You're a Cop
- My Rule-Fu Is Stronger Than Yours
- Necro Cam
- Never Going Back to Prison
- No Badge? No Problem!
- Noble Bigot with a Badge
- Non-Violent Initial Confrontation
- No-Tell Motel
- Not Me This Time
- Not Proven
- No Warrant? No Problem!
- Obstructive Vigilantism
- Occult Detective
- Occult Law Firm
- Off on a Technicality
- Off the Record
- Old Cop, Young Cop
- Ominously Open Door
- Omnidisciplinary Lawyer
- Omniscient Database
- One Case At A Time
- One Last Job
- One Phone Call
- Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers
- The Pardon
- The Peeping Tom
- Penal Colony
- The Penance
- The Perfect Crime
- Perfect Poison
- Perp and Weapon
- Perp Walk
- Phone-In Detective
- Phone-Trace Race
- Photo Psychic
- Pinkerton Detective
- Play-Along Prisoner
- Plea Bargain
- Plethora of Mistakes
- Police Brutality
- Police Code for Everything
- Police Lineup
- Precrime Arrest
- Prefer Jail to the Protagonist
- Pregnant Hostage
- Price On Their Head
- Prison Episode
- Prisons Are Gymnasiums
- Private Detective
- Private Eye Monologue
- The Profiler
- Profiling
- Promotion, Not Punishment
- Public Execution
- Pull the Thread
- Punished for Sympathy
- Punishment Box
- The Punishment Is the Crime
- Rabid Cop
- Rage Against the Legal System
- Ransom Drop
- Rape and Revenge
- The Rat
- Rationalizing the Overkill
- Reading Your Rights
- Real Estate Scam
- Rear Window Investigation
- Rear Window Witness
- Recruiting the Criminal
- Regularly Scheduled Evil
- Retirony
- Returning to the Scene
- Rewind, Replay, Repeat
- Rogue Juror
- Safecracking
- Saying Too Much
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
- Screw the Rules, I Make Them!
- Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!
- Screw the Rules, It's the Apocalypse!
- Selective Squeamishness Suppression
- Self-Restraint
- Sentenced to Down Under
- Serial Killings, Specific Target
- The Sheriff
- Shipped in Shackles
- Shouldn't You Stop Stealing?
- Sliding Scale of Law Enforcement
- Smith of the Yard
- Smoking Gun Control
- Snuff Film
- Society Is to Blame
- Spotting the Thread
- Spousal Privilege
- Stalker Shrine
- Statute of Limitations
- Steal the Surroundings
- Stepping Out for a Quick Cup of Coffee
- Sticky Fingers
- Stock Punishment
- "Strangers on a Train"-Plot Murder
- Subculture of the Week
- Suicide, Not Murder
- The Summation
- Summation Gathering
- Super Cop
- Sus Law
- Suspect Is Hatless
- Suspect Existence Failure
- Suspicious Spending
- Suspiciously Idle Officers
- Swiss Bank Account
- Sympathetic Murderer
- Tag-Along Actor
- Taking the Heat
- Take Me Out at the Ball Game
- A Taste of the Lash
- Ten Little Murder Victims
- That One Case
- Theme Serial Killer
- There Are No Police
- There Is No Higher Court
- There Should Be a Law
- This Bear Was Framed
- Tort Reform
- Throwing the Fight
- Time-Delayed Death
- To Know Him, I Must Become Him
- Trading Bars for Stripes
- Train Job
- True Crime
- Turn in Your Badge
- Unbelievable Source Plot
- Undercover Cop Reveal
- Unintentionally Notorious Crime
- Unishment
- The Unsolved Mystery
- Urban Legends
- Useless Security Camera
- U.S. Marshal
- Vehicle Roof Body Disposal
- Vigilante Execution
- Vigilante Man
- Villain-by-Proxy Fallacy
- Vomiting Cop
- Wanted Poster
- Win Your Freedom
- White Collar Crime
- Who Murdered the Asshole?
- Who Watches the Watchmen?
- Widely Spaced Jail Bars
- Witness Protection
- Working on the Chain Gang
- Writing About Your Crime
- Writing Indentation Clue
- Wrongful Accusation Insurance
- You Didn't Ask
- You Do Not Have to Say Anything
- You, Get Me Coffee
- You Have 48 Hours
- You Meddling Kids
