History Main / OldCopYoungCop

-->'''1992:''' [[CoolOldGuy Lennie Briscoe]] and Mike Logan. [[spoiler:Logan was [[ReassignedToAntarctica reassigned to Staten Island]] for assaulting an acquitted murderer.]]

* [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bullock and Montoya]]. The MCU in ComicBook/GothamCentral generally averted this, with veteran detectives Davies and Crowe being partnered. In the story arc ''On the Freak Beat'' patrol cops Peak and Kelly have this dynamic. Kelly is a brave, energetic rookie who was a teenager during ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'', while Peak is a kindly man with white hair and spectacles. [[spoiler:Kelly is horribly mutated by a supervillain, and a heartbroken Peak eventually has to put him down.]]* Inverted with Morillo and Chyre from ComicBook/TheFlash. [[InsufferableGenius Morillo]], the younger of the pair, is a detective who mentors [[TheLastDJ Chyre]], the recently promoted 30-year beat cop.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns:'' Two of the first people to witness Batman's return to crimefighting are a gray-haired cop who has met Batman in the past and his rookie partner, who admits that he never believed Batman was real before now. The older cop [[PassThePopcorn slows down their car to watch Batman take down the criminals he's pursuing and then shares a friendly conversation with him]], while the younger man tries to arrest Batman along with the crooks.

-->'''1992:''' [[CoolOldGuy Lennie Briscoe]] and Mike Logan. [[spoiler:Logan was demoted to Domestic Disputes on Long Island for assaulting an acquitted murderer.]]

-->'''1995:''' Briscoe and Reynaldo Curtis. [[spoiler: Curtis took early retirement to take care of his multiple sclerosis stricken wife.]]

* Creator/MichaelConnelly started using this trope in some of the later Literature/HarryBosch novels as Harry, an LAPD cop born in 1950, aged. In 2014 novel ''Literature/TheBurningRoom'' Bosch, who is due to retire soon, is paired up with 27-year-old rookie homicide detective Lucia Soto in order to give her the benefit of his experience and expertise. A couple of books later, after Bosch was forced out of the department for basically being an old nuisance, he makes an informal off-the-books partnership with go-getter young LAPD detective Renee Ballard. This partnership, which forms the heart of Bosch & Ballard novels ''Literature/DarkSacredNight'' and ''Literature/TheNightFire'', is basically Connelly transitioning from his old protagonist to a new one.

* ''Series/AdamTwelve'': Malloy and Reed were a milder version of this with a less pronounced age difference

* Despite [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters the numerous cast changes]], ''Series/LawAndOrder'' managed to play this Trope straight for eighteen years:

--> '''Disher:''' I love [''Series/TheStreetsOfSanFrancisco''].
--> '''Natalie:''' Because you're a cop in San Francisco.
--> '''Disher:''' People mistake me for Creator/MichaelDouglas all the time and the captain is a dead ring for Creator/KarlMadden, only without the crunched nose, the hair, the hat, or the overcoat.
--> '''Stottlemeyer:''' So what's left that makes me a dead ringer for him?
--> '''Disher:''' You're a grizzled old detective at the end of his career and I'm a brilliant hotshot with an amazing future.

* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'': Ryotaro Dojima and Tohru Adachi. However, in this case it's more Middle-aged Cop/Young Cop, Dojima has the attitude and the experience all the same. The mentoring aspect is also slightly downplayed, as Dojima spends most of his time berating Adachi for his bumbling.
* ''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'': Connor and Hank. Though Connor technically isn't an officer, a large part of his story focuses on their dynamic. Also, while Hank is a 53-year old veteran police officer, Connor ([[CopsAndDetectives an android detective prototype]]) is actually a few months old at most.

* ''VideoGame/{{Technobabylon}}'' has CEL agents Charles Regis (an aging, [[{{Technophobia}} Technophobic]] former [[BioPunk gengineer]]) and Max Lao (a younger, more tech-savvy hacker [[spoiler: as well as a ReformedCriminal]].)

* The UK MadeForTVMovie ''Split Second'' follows a hit-and-run driver (Creator/CliveOwen) whose crime is investigated by two traffic cops. One cop (Creator/JamesCosmo) is a thoughtful, fifty-ish collector of seaside postcards, while his twenty-something partner gets more emotionally invested in the case.

->''"''[pointing at Agent K]'' Old and busted. ''[pointing at himself]'' New hotness."''
-->-- '''Agent J''', ''Film/MenInBlackII''

* ''Series/{{Monk}}:'' Captain Stottlemeyer is a gruff, worldly veteran investigator with a BadassMustache, while his younger assistant Disher is an eager-to-please dim-witted ButtMonkey. Disher references the trope in one of the tie-in novels and exaggerates how much it applies to them.

* [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bullock and Montoya]]. The MCU in ComicBook/GothamCentral generally averted this, with veteran detectives Davies and Crowe being partnered.
* Inverted with Morillo and Chyre from ComicBook/TheFlash. [[InsufferableGenius Morillo]], the younger of the pair, is a detective who mentors [[TheLastDJ Chyre]], the recently promoted 30-year beat cop.

* [[Creator/SeanConnery Malone]] and [[Creator/KevinCostner Ness]] from ''Film/TheUntouchables''.

* If SpacePolice count, [[StarWars Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker]] follow this one to a tee.

* ''Seeries/DeadMansGun:'' A Western version appears in "The Fortune Teller," which features an irritable, but practical middle-aged sheriff and his younger AgentMulder deputy.

* Creator/TonyHillerman's ''Literature/LeaphornAndChee'' mysteries set on the [[TheRez Navajo reservation]] feature Joe Leaphorn (older, world-weary, atheistic) and Jim Chee (younger, more idealistic, a practicing shaman).

* Creator/TonyHillerman's mysteries set on the [[TheRez Navajo reservation]] feature Joe Leaphorn (older, world-weary, atheistic) and Jim Chee (younger, more idealistic, a practicing shaman).

* ''Series/{{Monk}}:'' Captain Stottlemeyer is a gruff, worldly veteran investigator with a BadassMustache while his younger assistant Disher is an eager-to-please dim-witted ButtMonkey. Disher references the trope in one of the tie-in novels and exaggerates how much it applies to them.