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* ''Series/TheWire'' has a few examples. Jimmy [=McNulty=] constantly flouts the chain of command and makes cases against the department's political interests, enraging his superior officers. He is eventually transferred to the Marine Unit, but comes back, then becomes a beat cop and eventually [[spoiler:is forced to retire for going too far.]] Lester Freamon is also a great detective, but was busted down to the Pawnshop unit for going against the Deputy Commissioner, where he stayed for over 13 years ''[[InsistentTerminology and four months]]'' before getting back into real police work.
** Michael is a very talented young drug dealer and hitman for Marlo Stanfield's crew, but he becomes increasingly disturbed by Marlo's tendency to kill ''anyone'' who challenges his authority, and his willingness to murder entire families. He starts to speak out against it to other members of the crew, and [[spoiler: Marlo eventually orders Snoop to kill him. Michael kills her instead, however, and he becomes a stick-up artist]].
** Gus Haynes, the City Desk Editor for the ''Baltimore Sun'' is another example. He seems to be the only one who still values journalistic integrity and the proper process while everyone else keeps their head down to avoid being laid off or actively games the system.
** Cedric Daniels is ''slightly'' more willing to "play the game" than [=McNulty=], but always chooses proper police work over good-looking statistics. His main obstacle is an unspecified past corruption charge that his superiors like to menacingly bring up whenever he goes too far. He eventually [[spoiler: rises to Police Commissioner, and promptly resigns rather than start juking the stats like his predecessors.]]
** Michael is a very talented young drug dealer and hitman for Marlo Stanfield's crew, but he becomes increasingly disturbed by Marlo's tendency to kill ''anyone'' who challenges his authority, and his willingness to murder entire families. He starts to speak out against it to other members of the crew, and [[spoiler: Marlo eventually orders Snoop to kill him. Michael kills her instead, however, and he becomes a stick-up artist]].
** Gus Haynes, the City Desk Editor for the ''Baltimore Sun'' is another example. He seems to be the only one who still values journalistic integrity and the proper process while everyone else keeps their head down to avoid being laid off or actively games the system.
** Cedric Daniels is ''slightly'' more willing to "play the game" than [=McNulty=], but always chooses proper police work over good-looking statistics. His main obstacle is an unspecified past corruption charge that his superiors like to menacingly bring up whenever he goes too far. He eventually [[spoiler: rises to Police Commissioner, and promptly resigns rather than start juking the stats like his predecessors.]]
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* ''Series/TheWire'' has a few examples. examples.
** Jimmy [=McNulty=] constantly flouts the chain of command and makes cases that go against the department's politicalinterests, enraging interests or make his bosses look bad, which naturally enrages his superior officers. He officers, and never lets up no matter what punishment he gets in return. He's also a deconstruction, since the show makes a point of demonstrating that satisfying his own ego and pride have as much to do with this as a sense of ethics, and Jimmy screws over even sympathetic characters and ReasonableAuthorityFigures with his antics. One also gets the sense that Jimmy is enough of a malcontent that he might keep doing this even if given everything he could ask for in a police force that was run according to his personal vision of what the police should be. [[spoiler:He is eventually transferred to the Marine Unit, but comes back, then becomes a beat cop and eventually [[spoiler:is forced to retire for going after a scenario where even he recognizes that he went too far.]] ]]
** Lester Freamon is also a great detective, but was busted down to the Pawnshop unit for going against the Deputy Commissioner, where he stayed for over 13 years ''[[InsistentTerminology and four months]]'' before getting back into real police work.
** Michael is avery talented young drug dealer corner boss and hitman soldier for Marlo Stanfield's crew, but he becomes increasingly disturbed by Marlo's tendency to kill ''anyone'' who challenges his authority, and his willingness to murder entire families. He starts to speak out against it to other members of the crew, and [[spoiler: Marlo eventually orders Snoop to kill him. Michael kills her instead, however, and he Michael becomes a stick-up artist]].
KarmicThief who steals from other criminals]].
** Gus Haynes, the City Desk Editor for the ''Baltimore Sun'' is another example. He seems to be the only one who still values journalistic integrity and the proper process while everyone else keeps their head down to avoid being laid off or actively games thesystem.
system. [[spoiler:He's eventually demoted by his bosses despite having solid evidence that a colleague is fabricating stories, as the stories by that reporter are too high profile and useful to the bosses for them to be called into question.]]
** Cedric Daniels is ''slightly'' more willing to "play the game" than [=McNulty=], but always chooses proper police work over good-looking statistics. His main obstacle is an unspecified past corruption charge that his superiors like to menacingly bring up whenever he goes too far. He eventually[[spoiler: rises [[spoiler:rises to Police Commissioner, and promptly [[ResignInProtest resigns rather than start juking the stats like stats]] as his predecessors.predecessors did.]]
** Jimmy [=McNulty=] constantly flouts the chain of command and makes cases that go against the department's political
** Lester Freamon is also a great detective, but was busted down to the Pawnshop unit for going against the Deputy Commissioner, where he stayed for over 13 years ''[[InsistentTerminology and four months]]'' before getting back into real police work.
** Michael is a
** Gus Haynes, the City Desk Editor for the ''Baltimore Sun'' is another example. He seems to be the only one who still values journalistic integrity and the proper process while everyone else keeps their head down to avoid being laid off or actively games the
** Cedric Daniels is ''slightly'' more willing to "play the game" than [=McNulty=], but always chooses proper police work over good-looking statistics. His main obstacle is an unspecified past corruption charge that his superiors like to menacingly bring up whenever he goes too far. He eventually
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* The {{Trope Namer|s}} is the song "The Last DJ" by Tom Petty, quoted above. Over the course of the song the titular DJ gets pushed out of the industry for his refusal to play mediocre music, until he winds up playing a station in Mexico. The song is about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Ladd Jim Ladd]], widely regarded as a hero of UsefulNotes/BroadcastingInTheUnitedStates and the last free-form rock announcer-programmer on mainstream radio.
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* The {{Trope Namer|s}} is the song "The "[[https://youtu.be/6Knw_GxXPHg?si=mF8FyjECvjk-F4_8 The Last DJ" DJ]]" by Tom Petty, Music/TomPetty, quoted above. Over the course of the song the titular DJ gets pushed out of the industry for his refusal to play mediocre music, until he winds up playing a station in Mexico. The song is about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Ladd Jim Ladd]], widely regarded as a hero of UsefulNotes/BroadcastingInTheUnitedStates and the last free-form rock announcer-programmer on mainstream radio.
