History Series / InspectorRex

* DaChief: Averted in the Austrian seasons of Inspector Rex, but in the Italian seasons there is Filippo Gori, who often scolds his team, especially the main inspectors. Averted in the Austrian seasons of Inspector Rex, but in the Italian seasons there is Filippo Gori, who often scolds his team, especially the main inspectors.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Kurt Hauff in "Moser's Death". Even if he killed Moser you can see he feels some kind of genuine remorse for what he has just done. There's also the way he looks Rex in the eyes before being DrivenToSuicide.]]

* MoodDissonance: It's got cheesy theme music, a cute dog acting human, chocolate-box Vienna locations: everything points to a fun family show. And then you realise you're watching a plot about kids being kidnapped from the fair and forced to make child porn... This changes in the Roman seasons, which begin with shots making the shape of a dog footprint.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping / UnexplainedAccent: Moser has a very [[GermanDialects High German]] (theatre) accent when alone, but when speaking to other humans or swearing he slips into Viennese. He is supposed to be Viennese so this is more a case of his accent slipping when he is ''alone''.

* BadassBeard: Marco Terzani eventually grows a short beard, although he has always had facial hair.

* HeroicDog: Guess.
* HeroicPetStory: This series about a cop-canine partnership combines the the HeroicPetStory and BuddyCopShow genres, as the titular canine cop fights crime with his human handler.

* TitleThemeDrop: The incidental music during SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome near the end of most of the earlier episodes incorporates the piano motive from the theme song (this is separate from the end credits, which also use the title theme).

* ThemeTitleDrop: The incidental music during SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome near the end of most of the earlier episodes incorporates the piano motive from the theme song (this is separate from the end credits, which also use the title theme).

** Marco Terzani has a few shirtless appearances. His shape of beard/stubble style may help.

* SpoilerTitle: Moser's final appearance is titled "[[spoiler:Moser's Death]]"

* TemporarilyAVillain: Rex [[spoiler:is drugged with the same elements of a fighting dog so his captors could exploit him for stealing. It turns out that he pretended his madness to avoid being killed.]]

* MoodDissonance: This Austrian cop show is a poster child for Mood Dissonance. It's got cheesy theme music, a cute dog acting human, chocolate-box Vienna locations: everything points to a fun family show. And then you realise you're watching a plot about kids being kidnapped from the fair and forced to make child porn... This changes in the Roman seasons, which begin with shots making the shape of a dog footprint.

** There is Marco Terzani as well, having a few shirtless appearances. His shape of beard/stubble style may help.

* TemporarilyAVillain: Rex falls under this. [[spoiler:He is drugged with the same elements of a fighting dog so his captors could exploit him for stealing. It turns out that he pretended his madness to avoid being killed.]]

* MrFanservice: Brandtner in spades, although Moser has his moments. One episode has Brandtner stripping down to his underwear so show he has no concealed weapons. When asked how he feels about being so exposed, he replies "...Sexy". Moser also goes skinny dipping in "Ein mörderischer Sommer". Later, Lorenzo Fabbri, who could perform an arrest in a ModestyTowel and changed his shirt in an scene.

* MrFanservice: Brandtner in spades, although Moser has his moments. One episode has Brandtner stripping down to his underwear so show he has no concealed weapons. When asked how he feels about being so exposed, he replies "...Sexy". Moser also goes skinny dipping in "Ein mörderischer Sommer"

* MoodWhiplash: For a show that on one level is tonally very much akin to a cute, kid-friendly "[[HeroicDog heroic animal]]" show like Skippy or Series/{{Lassie}}, complete with delightfully corny humour and sometimes implausibly anthropomorphised behaviour by Rex, on the other hand the crimes they investigate are generally murders, and can be quite horrific in nature, not to mention occasionally featuring full frontal nudity.

* [[MsFanservice Mr Fanservice]]: Brandtner in spades, although Moser has his moments. One episode has Brandtner stripping down to his underwear so show he has no concealed weapons. When asked how he feels about being so exposed, he replies "...Sexy". Moser also goes skinny dipping in "Ein mörderischer Sommer"

* YouLookFamiliar: According to TheOtherWiki, Brandtner, Moser's replacement, and Hoffmann, Brandtner's replacement, were both played by actors who had previously appeared as villains. Several Austrian actors also have reoccurring roles throughout the series.

* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: The killer in one episode was a former high powered executive who was fired and had his career ruined when a female employee framed him for AttemptedRape by going into his office and started ripping off her own clothes and screaming. The guy then went on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the woman and her co-conspirators. When he's caught, they point out that since he at no point touched the woman, her clothes had no forensic evidence linking it to him and thus if he had simply gone to the police, he could have them all arrested and gone back to his job.

* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis: The killer in one episode was a former high powered executive who was fired and had his career ruined when a female employee framed him for AttemptedRape by going into his office and started ripping off her own clothed and screaming. The guy then went on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the woman and her co-conspirators. When he's caught, they point out that since he at no point touched the woman, her clothes had no forensic evidence linking it to him and thus if he had simply gone to the police, he could have them all arrested and gone back to his job.