History Series / InspectorRex

* YouLookFamiliar: before being cast as Alex Brandtner, Gedeon Burkhard played [[spoiler:a murderous jerk]] in "Diagnose Mord".

* GoodSmokingBadSmoking: played straight with Koch's pipe and with many small time criminals and their cigarettes. Averted with [[spoiler:Frau Krammer's endless stream of fags in Der Neue.]]

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first time we see Alex, his colleagues are expressing mild annoyance at the fact that more junior officers are letting a piece of evidence drift away in a river. Before even introducing himself, Alex takes off his jacket and jumps into a river to retrieve the evidence, whereas Moser would probably have screamed at the officers until somebody took care of the issue. As you might have guessed, Alex is very dedicated, corageous, sporty and, most notably, lacks Moser's temper.

** His BerserkButton is his divorce, as Stockinger learned upon being chased down a flight of stairs for mentioning it.

** His BerserkButton is his divorce, as Stockinger learned upon being chased him down a flight of stairs for mentioning it.

* HairTriggerTemper: Moser is quickly established as having a short temper; he sort of mellows out later on, but not entirely: as late as [[spoiler:"Moser's Death" Bock half-jokingly suggests to Hollerer that a shrink see *Moser*.]]

** Davide Rivera isn't seen dating any woman unlike the other Rex's owners. He had a romance with a woman, but they now are AmicableExes. Talking about that, it contrasts with Moser who had come from a far from amicable separation. Another difference is that he is much more poetic and more irascible than the other inspectors. His predecessors lack his OralFixation to liquorice.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first time we see Alex, he takes off his jacket and jumps into a river to retrieve evidence. As you might have guessed, he's very dedicated, isn't afraid of taking risks and very sporty.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: In a few occasions, Rex has switched masters without explanation because the former occupant of that role disappears without justification. This happens to [[spoiler:Brandtner, Hoffmann and Rivera]]. There is no explanation to why Rex became a dog without owner when the series becomes Italian.

** Unlike Moser and Brandtner, who had multiple love interests tht don't stick, Hoffmann is only interested in Niki. Hoffmann is less experienced than them and has a lawyer phase.
** Davide Rivera isn't seen dating any woman unlike the other Rex's owners. He had a romance with a woman, but they now are AmicableExes. Talking about that, it contrasts with Moser who had come from a far from amicable separation. Another difference is that he is much more poetic and more irascible than the other inspectors.

* OldEpisodeNewPals: Rex moves to Rome, so he had a new team. He and Lorenzo do a travel to Vienna and meet Kunz and Dr. Graf. It happens again when Rex and his master Marco Terzani are transferred; Monterosso goes with them and Gori does two visits to the new base, but Rex and Terzani have a new cast of colleages.

* LongRunnerCastTurnover: There have been a lot of changes on all the police teams on the series. The first one has been since Stockinger left to do his own series and was replaced by Christian Böck, who had ChuckCunninghamSyndrome to leave the slot to Niki Herzog. Peter Höllerer retires to care after his ailing mother and gets replaced by Fritz Kunz. [[spoiler:Moser dies,]] Brandtner disappears and it is unknown what happened to Hoffmann [[note]]it is rumored he died while fighting a drug cartel[[/note]]. Barring Rex, the only RegularCharacter who was constant was Leo Graf. Then the series moves to Italy; Hoffmann's role in Vienna is taken by [[RememberTheNewGuy Erika Hedl]] and in Italy, the commissar is Lorenzo Fabbri. [[spoiler:The latter dies]] and is replaced by Davide Rivera, who disappeared without reason and is replaced again by Marco Terzani. Morini [[spoiler:moved to Milan in secret from Lorenzo]] and is replaced by Monterosso; Tommaso Bizzarri is exclusive to Davide Rivera's tenure.

* 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 Italian seasons, which begin with shots making the shape of a dog footprint.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: 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''.

* ShooOutTheClowns: Giandomenico Morini, a funny, childlike character, transfers to Milan and is replaced by Alberto Monterosso, a more serious character, before [[spoiler:Fabbri is killed]]. However, Monterosso would later become more comical and emotional.

* {{Bookends}}: Lorenzo Fabbri's seasons begin with his right hand being transferred and Morini fills that hole. At one of his last chapters, Morini goes to Milan and gets replaced by Monterosso.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Gori punishes Monterosso and Bizzarri by forcing them to eat bananas with the peel because they [[spoiler:had delayed Gori's squad by putting bananas in the motor]].