History Main / OldCopYoungCop

* ''VideoGame/ChickenPolice:'' While the exact ages of the main characters, the two detectives Santino "Sonny" Featherland and Marty MacChicken, are never disclosed, they clearly have this dynamic between, with Sonny being the Old one and Marty being the Young one (even though he has a cop been at least a decade and some change). Sonny will regularly make complaints about [[FeelingTheirAge feeling old and worn down]] and chastise Marty for his moments of youthful recklessness and hotheadedness. Marty meanwhile likes to occasionally playfully needle Sonny over his tendency to talk and behave like a GrumpyOldMan. Marty also have a tendency to be the more idealistic between the two of them, while Sonny is quite cynical.

* Martin Beck & Gunvald Larsson in the ''Film/{{Beck}}''-series.

-->'''1990:''' Max Greevey (older cop) and Mike Logan (newbie cop). [[spoiler: Greevey was shot and killed.]]
-->'''1991:''' Phil Ceretta and Mike Logan. [[spoiler: Ceretta was also shot, but survived the injuries and took on a desk job.]]
-->'''1992:''' [[CoolOldGuy Lennie Briscoe]] and Mike Logan. [[spoiler:Logan was [[ReassignedToAntarctica reassigned to Staten Island]] for assaulting a murderer after his mistrial.]]
-->'''1995:''' Briscoe and Reynaldo Curtis. [[spoiler: Curtis took early retirement to take care of his multiple sclerosis stricken wife.]] Briscoe was old enough to be Curtis's father, and snarked about it in a couple of their early episodes together.

-->'''1999:''' Briscoe and Ed Green. [[spoiler: Briscoe retired and joined the D.A.'s office, setting the stage for ''Series/LawAndOrderTrialByJury'']].
-->'''2004:''' Joe Fontana and Green. [[spoiler: Fontana retired.]]
-->'''2006:''' Played with this time: Average-experience cop Ed Green and total newbie Nina Cassidy. Cassidy left the show after one season, and was replaced with Cyrus Lupo, a cop with some seasoning, thus breaking the Trope. The final two seasons and change featured Lupo with Kevin Bernard, again two moderately experienced detectives.

* Detectives Clemons and Bolt from Rucka and Checchetto's run on ComicBook/ThePunisher have more than a few [[CaptainErsatz similarities]] with Somerset and Mills.

'''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.

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

* ''Film/{{Paycheck}}:'' There is a twenty-year age difference between the two FBI agents. Dodge, the older one, has some good gut feelings and reasonable insights. His partner Klein is less imaginative, but is practical and efficient. They are also a SaltAndPepper pair, and while neither is whacky or a hothead, Klein (the Caucasian agent) is more strait-laced.

* Ikari and Maniwa from ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent''.
* Soichiro Yagami and Touta Matsuda from ''Manga/DeathNote'', at least at the beginning of the series.
* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' does this with a slight alteration: instead of cops, they're ''[[CorporateSponsoredSuperhero superheroes]]''
** In a bit of inversion, the older one is the idealist and considered to be a bit of an idiot.

* Sideswipe and Cheetor in Fun Publications' "The Stunti-Con Job", which is in-continuity with ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated''.

* Connor, the "senpai" (Creator/{{Sean Connery}}) and Smith, the "kohai" (Wesley Snipes) in ''Rising Sun''.
* Agents [[Creator/TommyLeeJones K]] and [[Creator/WillSmith J]] from ''Film/{{Men In Black}}''.

*** Don't forget Anakin and Ahsoka, and Dooku and Qui-Gon. This is a MasterApprenticeChain spanning at least five generations.

* Bob Hodges and Danny Mcgavin from ''Film/{{Colors}}''
* Anderson and Ward, ''Film/MississippiBurning''.

* ''Literature/DarknessAtNoon'': Rubashov's chillingly pragmatic old friend Ivanov and the young zealot Gletkin are a WellIntentionedExtremist SecretPolice version who embody the old and new generations of Soviets as they try to make Rubashov confess to crimes that he is sometimes only guilty of FromACertainPointOfView.

* Goodman and Muldoon from R.A. Wilson's ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}'' trilogy.

* KnightInSourArmor Roslyn Forrester and WideEyedIdealist Chris Cwej in the Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures novels.

* Sully and Davis on ''Series/ThirdWatch''.

* Series/Car54WhereAreYou: Toody (old cop); Muldoon (young cop).