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* OneManArmy: His bodycount is apparently ridiculous; In the second film, he receives a citation for killing one thousand drug dealers (albeit, the last two were [[AccidentalHero accidentally]] [[DrivesLikeCrazy backed over with his car]]) and upon retirement, his Police Squad colleagues have made him a banner crediting him with killing 6000 bad guys and wounding hundreds more.
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* BigEater: During the baseball game in the first movie, he eats a lot of junk food including a whole cake.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Gets blown up by the bomb that Rocco - whom he is backing - planned to use to blow up the Academy Award ceremony. Bonus points for his helicopter private plane just happening to fly overhead when Rocco [[ItMakesSenseInContext gets slingshotted through the roof]].]]
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* HeroicComedicSociopath: "Just think about it, the next time I shoot somebody, I could get arrested."
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* FromBadToWorse: DisasterDominoes: Something simply bad can't happen to Nordberg, oh no. Something bad has to happen to him immediately followed by something terrible, which would then be immediately followed by something horrendous. And then he'll get an additional injury somehow later on the hospital bed.bed.
* FunnyAfro: Had this in the 70s.
* FunnyAfro: Had this in the 70s.
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* UnwittingTestSubject: Ted, from the research lab at Police Squad, invents cufflinks in the first movie (which go on to be a ChekhovsGun) that fire a tranquilizer dart. [[ComedicSociopathy He then casually tests it on Ed.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: It's a RunningGag that his wife keeps fooling around on him.
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-->'''Ed:''' Yeah, and if I catch the guy who did it—
* YourCheatingHeart: It's a RunningGag that his wife keeps fooling around on him.
-->'''Frank:''' Oh congratulations, I understand that Edna's pregnant again.
-->'''Ed:''' Yeah, and if I catch the guy who did it—
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[[caption-width-right:350:"But there she was, just as I remembered her. That delicately beautiful face. And a body that could melt a cheese sandwich from across the room. And breasts that seemed to say... "[[MaleGaze Hey! Look at these!]]""]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"But there she was, just as I remembered her. That delicately beautiful face. And a body that could melt a cheese sandwich from across the room. And breasts that seemed to say... "[[MaleGaze Hey! Look at these!]]""]]
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TheChewToy: One would almost feel sorry for him if it wasn't such cartoonish fun to see him get beat up so much.
*ButtMonkey: BlackBestFriend: To Frank and Ed.
* FromBadToWorse: Something simply bad can't happen to Nordberg, oh no. Something bad has to happen to him immediately followed by something terrible, which would then be immediately followed by something horrendous. And then he'll get an additional injury somehow later on the hospital bed.
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* FromBadToWorse: Something simply bad can't happen to Nordberg, oh no. Something bad has to happen to him immediately followed by something terrible, which would then be immediately followed by something horrendous. And then he'll get an additional injury somehow later on the hospital bed.
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* PoliceBrutality: Only once attempted this, on a {{Mook}} who he thought beat up Prof. Meinheimer in the second movie. [[AvertedTrope He gets his ass kicked in seconds.]]
* StraightMan: Most of the time he's this for Frank, though he gets in his own brand of deadpan goofiness once in a while.
* PoliceBrutality: Only once attempted this, on a {{Mook}} who he thought beat up Prof. Meinheimer in the second movie. [[AvertedTrope He gets his ass kicked in seconds.]]
* StraightMan: Most of the time he's this for Frank, though he gets in his own brand of deadpan goofiness once in a while.
* AffablyEvil: A really charming socialite, that just so happens to be masterminding an assassination.
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* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Very, very rich, and has the luxuries to show for it.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Very, very rich, and has the luxuries to show for it.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Very frequently, usually with a large helping of [[LiteralMinded literal-mindedness]]. He's played by Creator/LeslieNielson, after all.
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* MsFanservice: Played almost to the point of parody, with the lingering pans up her body, painstaking descriptions by Drebin's narration, and gratuitous {{Sexophone}}. Plus, there's the shower scene in the second film.
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* WickedCultured: Has an appreciation for fine arts and the exotic.
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Falls over the railing of a football stadium, gets rolled over by a car, flattened by a steam roller and finally is [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking trampled over by a marching band.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: He's the backer for the United States' largest energy firms, and is willing to resort to kidnapping (and eventually murder) to get his way.
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* BaldOfEvil: Clearly has an onset of male pattern baldness.
* BiggerBad: Of the first and thirdmoviesmovies.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Gets blown up by the bomb that Rocco - whom he is backing - planned to use to blow up the Academy Award ceremony. Bonus points for his helicopter just happening to fly overhead when Rocco [[ItMakesSenseInContext gets slingshotted through the roof]].]]
* BiggerBad: Of the first and third
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Gets blown up by the bomb that Rocco - whom he is backing - planned to use to blow up the Academy Award ceremony. Bonus points for his helicopter just happening to fly overhead when Rocco [[ItMakesSenseInContext gets slingshotted through the roof]].]]
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She works for the first movie's BigBad and thinks he is a great guy. In the second film she is dating the BigBad.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: He falls over the railing of the football stadium.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Falls over the railing of a football stadium, gets rolled over by a car, flattened by a steam roller and finally is trampled over by a marching band.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Falls over the railing of a football stadium, gets rolled over by a car, flattened by a steam roller and finally is trampled over by a marching band.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: Subverted. He is pushed out of a high window by Ed, but survives, only to be attacked by a lion that had escaped the zoo along with the other animals earlier.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: He calls out his mom when she insults Pashmir's clients and views Frank as his brother when he think he's an terrorist like him and isn't happy when he learns the truth.
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: His most redeeming trait. He clearly loves his mom [[spoiler: and crosses the DespairEventHorizon when she's killed.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He calls out his mom when she insults Pashmir's clients and views Frank as his brother when he think he's an terrorist like him and isn't happy when he learns the truth.
* EvilVirtues: Honesty, Honour, Love and Valour.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: He's blow up by his own nuke.]]
* MadBomber: He plans to nuke the Academy Award celebration.
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[=McGurk=].
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* TheDitz
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*BigBad: Of the first movie
!! Quentin Hapsburg
* BigBad: Of the second movie
!! Rocco Dillon
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!! Nordberg (OJ Simpson)
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* AccidentalHero: Is quite an expert at this, as mentioned at the beginning of ''2'' as having killed his 1000th Drug Dealer (the latter two hit with his car, although they turned out to be drug dealers), and later on unwittingly hitting a police station robber with the door as he walks in.
* TheAce: He seems to be something like this in the field of police work, although much of it happens through luck and several AccidentalHero moments.
* CasualDangerDialog
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Very often.
* TheComicallySerious: His main character trait.
* CrazyPrepared
* TheDitz
* DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm
* TheFool
* HollywoodToneDeaf: As discovered when he performs the National Anthem to an entire crowd of baseball spectators (that includes the Queen of England!).
* TheKlutz
** LethalKlutz: He accidentally killed his fiancée before the events of the first movie, a fact that Drebin remains blissfully unaware of.
* LiteralMinded: In many, ''many'' ways.
* LoveAtFirstSight: With Jane.
* SixthRangerTraitor: Becomes this to Rocco's gang in the third film when he impersonates a thug called "Slasher" McGurk.
* AccidentalHero: Is quite an expert at this, as mentioned at the beginning of ''2'' as having killed his 1000th Drug Dealer (the latter two hit with his car, although they turned out to be drug dealers), and later on unwittingly hitting a police station robber with the door as he walks in.
* TheAce: He seems to be something like this in the field of police work, although much of it happens through luck and several AccidentalHero moments.
* CasualDangerDialog
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Very often.
* TheComicallySerious: His main character trait.
* CrazyPrepared
* TheDitz
* DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm
* TheFool
* HollywoodToneDeaf: As discovered when he performs the National Anthem to an entire crowd of baseball spectators (that includes the Queen of England!).
* TheKlutz
** LethalKlutz: He accidentally killed his fiancée before the events of the first movie, a fact that Drebin remains blissfully unaware of.
* LiteralMinded: In many, ''many'' ways.
* LoveAtFirstSight: With Jane.
* SixthRangerTraitor: Becomes this to Rocco's gang in the third film when he impersonates a thug called "Slasher" McGurk.
