Cowboy Cop / Western Animation

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• Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers: All of the Galaxy Rangers are to some extent or another. Zachary is more of a By-the-Book Cop in comparison to the other three (though he has his moments), while Gooseman is a Clint Eastwood Expy with all that implies (and can get away with in an animated series).
• Arcane: Caitlyn isn't outright rebellious, but she does tend to do things her way, like investigating a smuggling operation gone wrong when she should be guarding her family's tent at the fair, or when she arranges for Vi's release by forging papers despite being technically resigned from the force.
• Detective Harvey Bullock of Batman: The Animated Series. He admits to frequently bending the rules, tends to rough suspects up during interrogations, and was once seen reading a crook his rights as follows:
  You have the right to remain silent. If you give up that right, you'll probably bore me to tears — so shut your trap, dog-breath.
• Discussed and parodied in an episode of Bojack Horseman. Da Chief and several officers get sidetracked from the main plot trying to figure out which Cowboy Cop cliché most describes Officer Meow Meow Fuzzyface.
• Parodied on Clone High, when Gandhi and George Washington Carver collaborate on a Buddy Cop Movie called Black And Tan. The gag is that Carver (a black guy) plays the role typically associated with the white cop, while Gandhi plays:
  Tandoori Jones, a typical East Indian cop who plays by his own rules... NONE!
• C.O.P.S. (Animated Series): Sundown, aka Walker Calhoun, is a literal example, since he still looks and acts like the Texas sheriff he used to be.
• In The Fairly OddParents!, Timmy's parents rent a movie called Loose Cannon Cop That Doesn't Play By The Rules! which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
• Fillmore!, the title character. In middle school.
• Agent X in Men in Black: The Series.
• The Simpsons
  • McGarnagle, the Show Within a Show is the perfect embodiment of this trope.
    Chief: You're off the case, McGarnagle!
    McGarnagle: You're off your case, Chief!
    Chief: What does that mean, exactly?
    Homer: (watching at home) It means he gets results, you stupid chief!
    Lisa: Dad, sit down.
  • McBain is another one, when he isn't being either James Bond or a straight Arnold Schwarzenegger Expy.
    • Various clips of McBain on The Simpsons has been edited together to make one linear narrative here.
  • A Show Within a Show featured a clip of Charles Bronson standing in for Andy Griffith on The Andy Griffith Show naturally ends up with this.
    Barney Fife: Where's Otis? He's not in his cell.
    "Andy Griffith": (nonchalantly as he reads the newspaper) I shot 'im.
    Barney Fife: Well that's— WHAT?!
    "Andy Griffith": (puts the newspaper away and draws a revolver) Now I'm goin' down to Emmett's Fix-It Shop, to "fix" Emmett.
• Mercilessly lampooned (of course) in South Park:
  Chief: One UPS vehicle valued at twenty-five thousand dollars, one civilian vehicle valued at sixteen thousand, the second floor of the post office AND a coffee shop valued at sixteen thousand! The mayor's gonna have my ass!
  Stan: Uh, sir, we just kinda got blind-sided by the—
  Chief: You got careless! Now, I don't know how they do things down at that dog-and-pony show they call the Fourth Grade, but here we have rules! Jesus, we don't have guys to question now, because you killed them all!
• Todd McFarlane's Spawn: Sam and Twitch. Sam fits this a bit more than Twitch, but both generally act outside the rules and registrations of their precinct. This makes them probably the most honest and ideal cops in the series and a constant thorn in the side of the dirty cops working their precinct.

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