History Main / NotSoBadassLongcoat

* Rotton the Wizard from ''Manga/BlackLagoon''.

* ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'''s Inspector Clouseau.

* Detective Dick Gumshoe from ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series. Although he ''can'' TakeALevelInBadass when required of him, he often loses it as soon as he's done.
* Soviet Conscripts in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3''.

* Dr Linksano on ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall''

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* WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget
* Harvey Bullock of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''. Although it depends. We're talking about a gruff man who single-handedly took on a band of mobsters with GoodOldFisticuffs and ''won''.
* Timmy Turner in the ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'' mystery episode "Where's Wanda."
* Buster Baxter from ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' when he goes into detective mode.

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* In ''Fanfic/NeonMetathesisEvangelion'', Touji has taken to wear over his plugsuit during synch-tests or even lead-ups to battle when he is outside the entry-plug. Asuka calls it his 'bathrobe'.

** The Sixth Doctor's technicolor dreamcoat. It was... [[WTHCostumeDepartment a lot of things]], but "badass" wasn't on that list.

* ''Series/HillStreetBlues'': Captain Frank Furillo is seldom seen outside without his distinctive beige overcoat over [[SharpDressedMan a variety of rather nice suits]], which looks a lot like Columbo's in the photo above only better-fitting and less battered. While Furillo could be pretty badass in his own way, he was very much TheDiplomat and a GuileHero rather than the conventional BadassLongCoat wearer. Besides, the series is set in TheEighties when such coats were typical menswear and in a city[[note]]probably a NoCommunitiesWereHarmed version of Chicago[[/note]] that gets bitterly cold in the winter; he'd stand out more if he didn't wear one.

* Series/{{Columbo}}'s famously shabby beige coat ([[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample despite being the page image]]) is a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]]. Columbo deliberately presents himself as a dim-witted slob as part of his ObfuscatingStupidity - he's an extremely competent detective who almost always gets his man.

* Series/{{Columbo}}'s famously shabby beige coat - though Columbo himself is a fantastic detective who always gets his man.

* Series/{{Columbo}}'s famously shabby beige coat - though Columbo himself is a MasterDetective who always gets his man.

* Series/{{Columbo}}, though he's much sharper than he looks.

* LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': When he attacks Kirito in real life after losing to him in ALO, Sugou is wearing a khaki trenchcoat. Of course, he's anything but badass, and it's proven when Kirito overpowers him and just barely manages to stop himself from slitting Sugou's throat; by that point, Sugou has been reduced to InelegantBlubbering and even [[BringMyBrownPants wets himself]] in fear.

** The Sixth Doctor's technicolor dreamcoat. It was a lot of things, but Badass wasn't on that list.

Sometimes just wearing a longcoat isn't quite enough to look [[BadassLongcoat badass]]. It can be because the longcoat in question is old, battered, two sizes bigger than needed or it can be because the character himself is lame or [[ObfuscatingStupidity just acts as one]].

* The Gang from ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia have a black leather duster that is indeed pretty cool. Unfortunately, they are all idiots.

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* [[Series/DoctorWho The Sixth Doctor's]] technicolor dreamcoat. It was a lot of things, but Badass wasn't on that list.

* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', Bootstrap Bill Turner wears a long, tattered black coat, which drags on the ground behind him and accentuates his slouched posture and general air of misery.

Sometimes just wearing longcoat isn't quite enough to look [[BadassLongcoat badass]]. It can be because the longcoat in question is old, battered, two sizes bigger than needed or it can be because the character himself is lame or [[ObfuscatingStupidity just acts as one]].

* In Fanfic/NeonMetathesisEvangelion, Touji has taken to wear over his plugsuit during synch-tests or even lead-ups to battle when he is outside the entry-plug. Asuka calls it his 'bathrobe'.

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->''Goodnight... You died as you lived: in a dumb WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget coat.''

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->''Goodnight... You died as you lived: in a dumb InspectorGadget coat.''

* Collins' coat in ''{{RENT}}'' is pretty beat up, with the sleeve hanging off.

* InspectorGadget

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* ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'''s Inspector Clouseau.

* Deckard from ''Film/BladeRunner'', despite having a lot of the typical traits of a classic Noir detective, is decidedly ''not'' badass, despite his longcoat. His sole two kills in the movie are women, both of which he shoots in the back. The male replicants he pursues kick his ass up and down the field, and he's very narrowly saved from death both times (once by Rachel blasting Leon in the back, and the other time by Roy showing him mercy).
* Gary in ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' certainly ''tries'' to look cool in his long black coat, but given how [[ManChild he refuses to grow up as he's reaching his forties]], it comes across as rather pathetic and hence falls a bit flat. It eventually graduates into a proper BadassLongcoat when [[spoiler:he becomes a sword-wielding post-apocalyptic hero in the film's epilogue.]]

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* Some bandits in ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}'' tend to use hooded leather trenchcoats in the Zone, [[CoolButInefficient because they look cool]]. Degtyarev can get one as well in ''Call of Pripyat''. That doesn't change the fact that leather clothing is woefully inadequate for ''any'' of [[DeathWorld the dangers the Zone presents]] – be them bullets, mutant attacks, or the effects of anomalies – and the average user is an ill-equipped and combat-incompetent bad guy wannabe.

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* Subverted by [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Inspector Zenigata]], from ''Franchise/LupinIII''; he can actually be pretty BadAss at times, just [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter not quite badass enough to take out Lupin and co.]]