Line #18 WesternAnimation/AxeCop


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2	->''One day, at the scene of a fire, The Cop found the perfect axe. That was the day he became... '''Axe Cop!'''''
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4	One of the first shows on {{Creator/FOX}}'s Animation Domination High Def (ADHD) [[UsefulNotes/BlockProgramming block]] [[note]]created to replace ''{{Series/MADtv}}'' and compete with ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' and Creator/AdultSwim[[/note]] alongside ''WesternAnimation/HighSchoolUSA''. Based on the hit [[Webcomic/AxeCop webcomic]], this series premiered on July 21, 2013. Some changes were made to continuity and character backstories. In Season Two, first-run episodes premiered on [[Creator/FXNetworks FXX]]'s Animation Domination block.
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7	!!Tropes applying to this series:
8	* AIIsACrapshoot: Axe Cop creates "{{cyborg}}" versions of himself and Sockarang, and which almost immediately take up vandalism, [[spoiler:bank robbing]] and [[WouldHurtAChild infanticide]]. Somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]] as their original directive was "watch Unibaby and punch her if she cries."
9	* AbnormalAmmo: The Magic Police's hats turn into bazookas that shoot ''incendiary rabbits''; the poop cannon might also apply, although it's never specified whether poop is the actual payload or just the primer. BadSanta has a rifle that fires candy canes.
10	* AdamAndEvePlot: [[spoiler:Axe Cop's old friend Super Axe and his wife Tracy became the first living things after Axe Cop and Super Axe killed every animal at the beginning of time]]. They even have a religion devoted to them.
11	* AdaptationExpansion: Axe Cop's ancestor Book Cop gets an entire episode to himself, complete with IdenticalGrandson partners Stockarang and Fife Cop and a new PlotDevice in the Secret Attack Almanac. The "[[http://axecop.com/comic/ask-axe-cop-43/ rabbit]] who broke all the rules" gets upgraded from one-off joke to arch-nemesis, and an episode named after him. In the comics, Chemist M was practically a CreatorCameo for Malachai; in the series, [[AgeLift he's a grown man with a family]]. See BadSanta, HappilyMarried, and OriginsEpisode, below.
12	* AlternateContinuity:
13	** Has shades of this, the biggest difference being that Flute Cop remains in his human form, is HappilyMarried and is the [[spoiler:adopted]] father of Uni-Baby.
14	** Another tell is that in this continuity, Sockarang always had his signature black beard (instead of getting it while fighting BadSanta). The fact that Bad Santa has a dirty-grey beard in this continuity instead of a black one like in the comics is proof of this.
15	* AmazingFreakingGrace: Parodied; Flute Cop tries to play it at the grave of [[spoiler:Dead Rabbit]], but keeps going off-key.
16	* AnAssKickingChristmas: A really weird example that starts out as a BirthdayEpisode (premiering in ''mid-August''), which somehow segues into this (except it isn't even about SavingChristmas; for Axe Cop, ItsPersonal). See BadSanta below.
17	* {{Animesque}}: The show avoids Ethan Nicolle's more caricatured designs, as creative director Ben Jones sought [[http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2013/04/03/wc13-foxs-adhd-panel-teases-axe-cop-new-tone-for-late-night/ "the most serious artist dudes trained in the anime style"]], lending everything a sharp and serious look for prime ArtStyleDissonance.
18	* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The King of All Bad Guys, Chicken Head, Dr. Doo Doo's [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Zombie Robot]]...
19	* AwesomeButImpractical: Axe Cop communicates with Flute Cop via an invisible walkie-talkie, which serves no real purpose and would be a nightmare to find if dropped. But it [[RuleOfCool looks cool]]. Or... Doesn't, as the case may be.
20	* BadBoss: The King of England. Upon hearing the mission to retrieve the [[MacGuffin Secret Attack Almanac]] was a failure, he asks the messenger [[SadisticChoice whether he would like to be killed with acid or with sharks]] (see BreadEggsBreadedEggs, below). Later, when he [[spoiler: finds the Almanac]], the soldier with him exclaims how he can't wait to tell [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes his pregnant wife and three children]] about it. The king [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness promptly stabs him]], leaving with a [[FauxAffablyEvil "Cheerio!"]]
21	* BadSanta: He gets a much larger role this time around ([[spoiler:he's responsible for making Axe Cop [[DeceasedParentsAreTheBest an orphan]]]]) and a totally different characterization (see DeepSouth, below). He lives on the "[[SingleBiomePlanet South Pole planet]]" and enslaves [[spoiler:or outright murders]] good children.
22	* BadassBoast: "Only when I am not ready to fight... ''[[BloodKnight which is almost never]]."''
23	* BadassBookworm: Book Cop
24	* BigDamnHeroes: Probably the only instance of ''[[CavalryOfTheDead zombies]]'' fulfilling this trope. [[spoiler:Liborg]] pulls it off in the pilot, although it's more of a GondorCallsForAid situation.
25	* BluntYes: In one episode, Axe Cop has said that all girls are on the Dumb List.
26	-->'''Reporter:''' My daughter's a girl. Do you think she's on the Dumb List, too?
27	-->'''Axe Cop:''' Yes.
28	* BondOneLiner: In "The Rabbit Who Broke All The Rules": [[spoiler:Axe Cop gives his late foster son a eulogy thus:]]
29	-->[[spoiler:"You were my foster son, but I never gave you a name. Now I can: Last name, Rabbit, first name, Dead."]]
30	* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In "An American Story" the King's [[YouHaveFailedMe execution]] methods include acid, sharks, and acid sharks.
31	** In "Birthday Month", Flute Cop opens a cooler full of apple juice, grape juice, and apple grape juice.
32	* BreathWeapon: Both Chicken Head and Wexter have these.
33	* BritishRoyalGuards: Stand there and don't move a muscle when the queen is kidnapped.
34	* BusmansHoliday: Seemingly inverted in "Birthday Month" when Axe Cop takes Flute Cop on an "important mission" that's actually just a trip to the beach, then played straight when the mermaids appear [[spoiler:and then tragically subverted when it turns out to all be a misunderstanding]].
35	* ButtMonkey: Grey Diamond fills this role in the first episode. Axe Cop ignores him, refuses to let him tell his story after [[HypocriticalHumor listening to someone else's]], and also runs over his car.
36	** It continues in “Mark Frankenstein” with G.D. quitting the team after it’s pointed out to him he has no battle cry, no powers and no training (and he doesn’t even get unemployment for quitting). Then he pawns his diamond hat—his only possession of value—for $15, and his {{Backstory}} reveals no one took him or his ideas seriously and he was reduced to teaching elementary school. He’s somewhat vindicated by the end though.
37	* CaptainErsatz: Chubby Doll is an {{Expy}} of a [[ComicStrip/LittleLulu Tubby]] doll from the [[Webcomic/AxeCop comic]], for legal reasons.
38	* CaptivityHarmonica: Axe Cop finally relents and lets Grey Diamond tell his story, to get him to stop doing this.
39	* CardboardPrison: In the episode "Heads Will Roll", Axe Cop is incarcerated. He decides to stay because it makes killing bad guys very convenient. As soon as he learns that Flute Cop is in trouble, he easily escapes.
40	* CatchPhrase:
41	** "I chubby-wubby you!"
42	** "I will chop your HEADS OFF!"
43	** Sockarang has a tendency to shout his name when fighting or [[MundaneMadeAwesome answering the telephone]].
44	* ChekhovsGun: Axe Cop doesn't want Unibaby pooping [[spoiler:until his evil {{cyborg}} doppelganger needs stopping]]
45	* CompositeCharacter:
46	** Ray from "Taxi Cop" is a mix of comic characters Officer Lightning, Sergeant [=McQueen=], and Telescope Gun Cop. He's also seen playing with an action figure version of Telescope Gun Cop as a child in flashback.
47	** Bad Santa is revealed to be the one who killed Axe Cop's parents via poisoned candy canes, as opposed to Telescope Gun Cop.
48	* CouchGag: The opening sequence is based on the first few panels of the original webcomic. The crime that Flute Cop was recruited to stop changes with each episode.
49	* CreatorCameo: Ethan Nicolle confirms [[http://axecop.com/comic/page-185-wedding-day/ here]] that he had ''two'', as Chubby Doll and a disgruntled merman.
50	** Also the boy looking out the window while Malachai Nicolle provides the opening narration bears a suspicious resemblance to Malachai's previous appearance in the comics...
51	* CreepyChild: The boy possessed by Dead Rabbit, although it's mostly PlayedForLaughs.
52	* {{Cyborg}}: available in Sockarang and Axe Cop flavors, although they're more like NoisyRobots than cyborgs. The Axe Cop model comes with {{arm cannon}}s and [[ShouldersOfDoom police cruiser emergency light shoulder pads]]!
53	* DarkerAndEdgier: Insofar as is possible with ''Axe Cop'' - The series goes for a more realistic tone than the comic, with the unchanged Axe Cop being painted as a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} BunnyEarsLawyer ManChild compared to [[OnlySaneMan Flute Cop]]. "Birthday Month" is probably the best example (see BadSanta, HeroicBSOD).
54	* DeaderThanDead: The fate of [[spoiler: Dead Rabbit.]]
55	-->'''Axe Cop:''' I learned that if you're going to kill something, you have to make sure you kill its soul too.
56	* DeepSouth: BadSanta is a depraved redneck with ScaryTeeth who sits in a rocking chair on the front porch of his dilapidated house, holding a gun. It's an entertaining (and [[NightmareFuel creepy]]) departure from [[Webcomic/AxeCop the comic's]] [[http://axecop.com/comic/episode-5/ morbidly obese, alcoholic Osama bin Laden muppet]] interpretation.
57	* DemonicPossession: Dead Rabbit possesses a random boy in order to get close to Axe Cop.
58	* DesignatedGirlFight: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]].
59	-->'''Beautiful Girly Bob:''' You can't beat up a girl on national television!
60	-->'''Axe Cop:''' No, but she can!
61	* DetonationMoon: The moon contains a self-destruct mechanism in case of an emergency such as "super werewolves." Because this is ''Axe Cop'', the self-destruct switch requires karate-kicking the moon's guardian vampire in the chest, where the BigRedButton is.
62	* DisproportionateRetribution: the series ''runs'' on this trope.
63	** Axe Cop and Sockarang are unmasked as "fake magicians" by the Magic Police; the crowd's response? "[[TorchesAndPitchforks Let's kill them!]]"
64	** Young Axey beheads a rabbit for the crimes of a) [[FourLegsGoodTwoLegsBetter walking upright]], and b) [[BizarreTasteInFood eating coconuts]].
65	** "Soda is better than ''juice!"''
66	** Axe Cop seems ready to ''decapitate'' his own foster son for being ''bad at kicking''. Though to be fair, how you kick determines if you're good or evil in the Axe Cop universe.
67	* DoubleMeaning: When Axe Cop uses a bear disguise to enter Bearopolis, Flute Cop (who is, keep in mind, a [[TheBear middle-aged man carrying a comfy amount of extra weight]]) asks why he doesn’t get one.
68	-->'''Flute Cop:''' I mean, I’m a husky guy, I could pass for a bear!
69	* DumbIsGood:
70	** Invoked. The dinosaurs that Axe Cop summoned ate all the bad brain cells in the King of All Bad Guys, making him into "a really dumb good guy."
71	** Inverted by [[LoonyFan Baby Man]], who gets recruited to Axe Cop's team after Axe Cop wishes for him to stop being so dumb. He gains BrainySpecs in the process.
72	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Two "Ask Axe Cop" cartoons were animated to help promote the then still in development television series: [[http://youtu.be/lsCdD5AUgNA President]] and [[http://youtu.be/Fkh6IZdPp98 Halloween]]. While the fact that they have the same tone as the original comics can be chalked up to being from Axe Cop's POV (or, in the case of President, his FantasySequence), the fact that his team has different members in Halloween means that the trope's still played straight. To be specific, Ralph Wrinkles the talking dog and Baby Man the are both present as his official team members, but not Gray Diamond. Note that this episode was animated before Baby Man officially joined the team in the episode "No More Bad Guys".
73	* EleventhHourSuperpower: Happens twice, with Axe Cop '''FIRE!''' and the Power of Christmas.
74	* EvilTwin: Santa Claus [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this in reference to BadSanta; they even have [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience green]] and [[RedEyesTakeWarning red]] eyes, respectively.
75	** Also the Best Fairy Ever and her evil twin the Worst Fairy Ever, who were about the fight each other to the death before [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Axe Cop pulls the Best Fairy Ever out of his television set]].
76	* FakeOutOpening: "President Axe" begins with the opening titles of ''WesternAnimation/HighSchoolUSA'', which are [[WeInterruptThisProgram interrupted]] by coverage of Axe Cop's first press conference as President.
77	* FanserviceExtra: The animators seem to enjoy sneaking buxom female characters into the background. There's a ridiculously well-endowed lady magician (with a [[ShoutOut suspicious resemblance]] to ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}), a buxom villainess...
78	* FlippingTheTable: Axe Cop does this to his desk when his birthday cake is "all wrong".
79	* ForcedTransformation:
80	** Book Cop sprinkles Fife Cop with eagle blood, turning him into Fife Eagle Cop.
81	** Flute Cop in "No More Bad Guys". First he gets dinosaur blood on him, transforming into "Dinosaur Soldier". Then he eats an avocado and becomes "Avocado Soldier". Finally he asks Axe Cop to wish him back to being Flute Cop, only for Axe Cop to wish for him to become "a giant gorilla with robo-gun fists and a red bow-tie". Flute Cop's wife isn't pleased.
82	** {{Downplayed}} in “Night Mission: The Moon”. Flute Cop becomes a bear after Axe Cop showers him with a decapitated bear’s blood, then Spider Bear Cop after accidentally swallowing a spider. This time, Flute Cop just rolls with it.
83	* FreezeFrameBonus: The auction scene in "Heads Will Roll" includes bad guys who look a lot like [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII M. Bison and Sagat.]]
84	* GenerationXerox: Book Cop was assisted in the Revolutionary war by Fife Cop and Stockarang.
85	* GoshDangItToHeck: As befitting a show written by a nine-year-old, no one swears. Even the British characters say "Bloody heck".
86	* HappilyMarried: Flute Cop has a wife, named Anita.
87	** When Axe Cop meets up with [[http://axecop.com/comic/ask-axe-cop-67/ Super Axe]] again, we learn that he has given up crime-fighting to focus on his marriage.
88	* HatesBeingTouched: looks like the show is making Axe Cop out to be this; after he saves [[spoiler: some child slaves from BadSanta]], they rush forward to hug him and he stops them with "Not a chance." See also RunningGag.
89	* HeroicBSOD: A rarity for Axe Cop, a borderline SociopathicHero who claims he never cries; after the mermaid incident, he sheds a SingleTear.
90	* HeterosexualLifePartners: Grey Diamond and Liborg.
91	* HighClassGlass: Chemist M sports one, a trait he shares with his wife, his daughter (even when she was a small child) and [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext the turd excreted by the zombie who ate his brain]].
92	* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Dr. Doo Doo forces [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethII the Queen of London, England]] to marry him so he can obtain her scepter, which gives poop power.
93	* IJustWantToBeNormal: In "No More Bad Guys", Flute Cop finally undergoes his trademark transformations from the beginning of the comic. By the end of the episode, the bad guy is defeated with the help of Uni-Baby's horn. Flutey (as Avocado Soldier) asks Axe Cop to wish him back to normal ([[HappilyMarried so as to not disrupt his marriage]]), but Axe Cop instead transforms him into a gorilla with robo-gun fists and a red bowtie.
94	-->'''Flute Cop:''' Aw, what? I wanted to be normal!
95	-->'''Axe Cop:''' But I wanted you to be better.
96	* InsaneTrollLogic: [[spoiler:Bad Santa]]'s EvilPlan.
97	-->'''Axe Cop:''' [You're going to] Heaven? Why?\
98	'''[[spoiler:Bad Santa]]:''' To [[KillTheGod kill God]] and become Jesus, obviously.
99	** [[WordOfGod Ethan Nicolle explains]] that the writers asked Malachai what [[spoiler:Bad Santa]]'s plan was, and that was his verbatim response, delivered in a tone that suggested everybody should know this.
100	* {{Keet}}: Sockarang, as brought to life by the inimitable Creator/PattonOswalt.
101	-->"Magic world is so ''[[ShapedLikeItself magical]]!'' I could cryyy!"
102	* KindaBusyHere: During deadly combat with evil cyborgs, Axe Cop answers a phone call from Flute Cop with "What is it, Flute Cop? I'm babysitting."
103	* LondonEnglandSyndrome: Parodied; "London, England" seems to stand for the whole England or Great Britain in the second episode, and later on, the phrase still comes up, although just "England" also exists.
104	* MagicMusic: The show really emphasizes Flute Cop's MagicalFlautist qualities. He can drop coconuts from trees and [[InformedAbility allegedly]] charm volcanoes into never erupting again.
105	* MagicalSociety: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Magic World]], complete with Magic Police, although it's not clear whether Magic World is an actual place or just Axe Cop's fantasy brought to life by Unibaby's horn.
106	* MagicalIncantation: "Babysitting Unibaby" lovingly preserves the nonsense "magic words" Malachai invented for the comic, although in this version they might just be gibberish Axe Cop concocted to mess with the people of Magic World, since Unibaby's horn requires no magic words. "Abra-ca-handcuffs" is a straight example (that doubles as CallingYourAttacks).
107	* MaleGaze: a first for the franchise; Flute Cop (and the viewers) get a good look at some bikini-clad women in "Birthday Month"
108	** MrFanservice: In the same scene, Axe Cop shows off his perfectly-toned body in a Speedo!
109	* ManChild: It's [[JustifiedTrope justified]], in that Axe Cop's creator is a literal child, but the show emphasizes this even more. So far, Axe Cop has: pounded on his partner's door in the middle of the night to demand food (to go), decapitated a helpless alien for not liking soda, and declared that everyone must celebrate his birthday for an entire month.
110	** And in “Axe Cop Saves God”, when Axey finds out a diner is out of birthday cake he leaps onto the table and screams that every day is his birthday.
111	* MisappliedPhlebotinum / MundaneWish: Axe Cop and Sockarang obtain a magic item that can do virtually anything. They use it to go to Magic World... and then fuck with some spectators and give themselves a bunch of money, which they end up not even using.
112	* MoodDissonance: Axe Cop has just learned who killed his parents. The music is [[ActionFilmQuietDramaScene very dramatic]]. But Sockarang and Flute Cop are just enthused they got Axe Cop a birthday gift he likes.
113	* MoreDakka: Wexter's arms, cyborg Axe Cop, and BadSanta's sleigh.
114	* MundaneMadeAwesome: "I love paperwork. One time me and my buddy filled out like ten forms at once. It was like, ''what!"''
115	* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] with Soul Kick, which didn't exist until the first time it was used.
116	* NobodyPoops: ''[[InvertedTrope Inverted]]'' with Dr. Doo Doo's global BrownNote; EVERYBODY poops, even UsefulNotes/ThePope. {{Invoked}} later on, when Axe Cop [[spoiler:uses the Queen's scepter for a wish]].
117	-->'''Flute Cop:''' I dunno if that's such a good thing, I mean, sometimes I enjoy a good poop.
118	** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in the case of [[spoiler: Axe Cop]], whose body is so efficient it produces no waste.
119	* OpeningNarration: Done by none other than Malachai himself, although it was changed slightly from the original opening line.
120	* OriginsEpisode: "Taxi Cop" takes a few known facts about Axe Cop's history to construct an AdaptationExpansion of his early career, even as it contains a CompressedAdaptation of the Evil Planet Tinko arc.
121	* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: they ''look'' fairly standard; but they make [[CultureClash mean faces instead of smiling (and vice versa)]], are AlwaysLawfulGood and might be a OneGenderRace.
122	* PoliceAreUseless: Axe Cop [[LampshadeHanging points out]] that "The Magic Police are the slowest police." They do seem to be mostly out of shape and not very competent. Although it’s never clear whether this is their fault, or because Axe Cop imagined them that way.
123	** The Regular Police are ineffective, having essentially been replaced by Axe Cop.
124	* PragmaticAdaptation: Certain elements of the original comic have been combined or altered for TV, with Ethan Nicolle's hearty approval; Flute Cop has stayed Flute Cop, to better facilitate his role as the OnlySaneMan; and Sockarang already has his beard despite (presumably) never encountering BadSanta.
125	* PreMortemOneLiner: in more flavors than Baskin Robbins!
126	** "I hope you like being dead, [[spoiler:Dr. Doo Doo]]!"
127	** "Say hello to my parents... [[GiveMyRegardsInTheNextWorld in Hell!]]" Also the closest [[GoshDarnItToHeck this series]] comes to a PrecisionFStrike.
128	** "I have it all in my head!" "You do now." (cue [[spoiler:Book Cop]] throwing [[spoiler:a book]] through [[spoiler:the King]]'s skull)
129	*** BondOneLiner: "Happy ''Die'' Day, redcoats!"
130	* PrepareToDie: "BadSanta, I hope you like dying as much as I'm going to enjoy killing you."
131	* RageAgainstTheHeavens: See InsaneTrollLogic, above.
132	* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Due to their ocean themes, the Water Queen is now the daughter of the King of All Time, and the King also adopted Lobster Man after his parents were murdered.
133	** On the other hand, Flute Cop adopted Uni-Baby [[spoiler:(and later, the orphaned Vampire Man Baby Kid)]] after a momentary PsychicLink seemed to confirm that Uni-Baby is ''not'' Uni-Man's daughter, only from the same planet.
134	* RidiculousFutureInflation: Inverted. While the setting is arguably modern, $200 is treated as a preposterously large sum amongst a group of the top bad guys in "Heads Will Roll".
135	* RoboticReveal / TomatoInTheMirror: Causes the final scene of [[spoiler: “President Cop”]] to take a surprisingly dark [[MoodWhiplash turn]] when [[spoiler: Flute Cop]] realized he was one of the [[spoiler: bomb clones]] all along.
136	-->'''[[spoiler: Dumb Bomb Clone Flute Cop]]:''' But why do I have feelings? Memories?\
137	'''Axe Cop:''' Because I’m really good at drawing.
138	* RunningGag:
139	** Someone puts a friendly arm around Axe Cop's shoulder, and he casually pushes it away.
140	** Whenever someone undergoes a ForcedTransformation, other people will immediately begin calling them by their new and most up-to-date name.
141	--->'''Axe Cop With Lemon:''' Look, I'm Axe Cop With Lemon.\
142	'''Baby Man:''' ''(Just now walking up)'' Hey, Axe Cop With Lemon...
143	* SanitySlippage: In "President Cop", as Axe Cop goes insane from the utter boredom of world peace, his antics including growing out his fingernails a la HowardHughes and marrying a {{gender flip}}ped time-travelling Abraham Lincoln.
144	* SeriousBusiness: How someone kicks is indicative of whether they are good or evil.
145	* ShipSinking: Preemptively and InUniverse! A RunningGag in "Zombie Island" is Isabella nearly having a moment with Flute Cop, only for him to remind her that he's HappilyMarried.
146	* ShoutOut:
147	** The main cast of ''Series/HappyDays'' are the friends Bat-Warthog Man was looking for.
148	** The King of England's throne is remarkably similar to the [[Series/GameOfThrones Iron Throne]], and the king ''himself'' has an eerie resemblance to a certain ''other'' [[Advertising/TheBurgerKing king]]...
149	** Axe Cop was born with a mustache and was thus nicknamed "Baby [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]" by his parents. He even wore a red cap with an "M" monogram.
150	** In Baby Man's flashback during "No More Bad Guys", [[VideoGame/PsychoNauts Milla Vodello]], [[ComicBook/JonahHex Jonah Hex]] and [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime The Ice King]] can be seen trying out for Axe Cop's team.
151	* SociopathicHero / PsychopathicManchild: Mostly ComedicSociopathy, but Axe Cop hews closer to this than before. While clearly on the side of good, he has a clear LackOfEmpathy and no qualms whatsoever about extorting his partner for the cost of a gift Axe Cop purchased himself, or starving said partner's baby, or subjecting it to cyborg violence, or even allowing it to die because he's "not done having fun yet." See DarkerAndEdgier, FlippingTheTable, ManChild.
152	** "No More Bad Guys" plays Baby Man's baby motif for creepiness, sucking on pacifiers while plotting a kidnapping, and falling over bawling as he decides to carry out a death threat.
153	* SpellBook: The Secret Attack Almanac.
154	* SpoofAesop:
155	** If you're going to kill something, make sure you kill its soul, too.
156	** At the end of "Babysitting Unibaby":
157	--> '''Sockarang:''' So Axe Cop, do you ''still'' think babies are dumb?\
158	'''Axe Cop:''' Of course I do.
159	* StatusQuoIsGod: In "No More Bad Guys", Flute Cop turns into Dinosaur Soldier, Avocado Solider, and a gorilla with robo-gun fists and a red bow tie. Flute Cop is back in his original form in the next episode with no explanation.
160	** In the same episode, Axe Cop kills every bad guy on Earth. That doesn't stop bad guys from showing up for the rest of the season.
161	** Happens again in “Night Mission: The Moon” to Flute Cop—oops, I mean [[MultiArmedAndDangerous Spider]] [[BearsAreBadNews Bear]] Cop.
162	* StupidJetpackHitler: Hitler captures Chemist M and forces him to create an army of zombies on Zombie Island InSpace Some of the zombies wear actual jetpacks, although we [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot sadly never see Hitler wearing one]].
163	* ThereWasADoor: Seems to come with the general disregard of life and limb, such as when Liborg bursts through the wall of Axe Cop's office just to arrive at the Thanksgiving party, or when Wexter crashes through the roof of a wedding chapel to give Axe Cop a lift more immediately.
164	* TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: We're never explicitly shown how far Earth, Zombie Island InSpace or the "[[PlanetOfHats dinosaur planet]]" are from each other, but everyone arrives where they need to be at the right time.
165	-->'''Flute Cop:''' (while flying through space) How much longer?\
166	'''Isabella:''' [[LampshadeHanging Ten minutes; fifteen at the most.]]\
167	'''Axe Cop:''' Wrong! We're here!
168	* {{Troll}}: Axe Cop and Sockarang turn into {{jerkass}} trolls in Magic World. After hijacking the big magic show, they taunt the audience by vandalizing and then repairing the tent, and then giving everyone in the audience $100... moments before giving themselves twenty times as much.
169	-->'''Axe Cop:''' We win!\
170	'''Sockarang:''' [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment You lose]]!
171	* UglyGuyHotWife: Flute Cop is short, bald, and paunchy; his wife, Anita, looks like a magazine model. The show points out how good Flute Cop is with his [[DoubleEntendre flute]].
172	* WasOnceAMan: Army Chihuahua and Liborg.
173	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler kidnaps Chemist M and forces him to make a zombie army on Zombie Island... InSpace Hitler is never seen or mentioned again.
174	* WorldOfWeirdness: The Queen has a magic scepter with global control over fecal matter, dinosaurs go to summer camp, the American Revolution was more like ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' and any layman can rent a magic horn that [[SummonBiggerFish summons dinosaurs]]. It says a lot that StupidJetpackHitler is the ''least'' strange thing about the setting.
175	* WouldHurtAChild: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]]; Axe Cop never commits any actual violence against Unibaby, but he's perfectly willing to abandon her to the company of cyborgs he personally programmed to punch her if she cries. [[spoiler: Threatening to ''kill'' Unibaby is what signifies the cyborgs have crossed the MoralEventHorizon.]]
176	** Played straight with BadSanta, who enslaves/harms children and claims to have a "workshop of torture".

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