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* ''LightNovel/TheGreatestMagicmastersRetirementPlan'': Downplayed. Alus Reigin usually doesn't like working with newbies like Tesfia and Alice, but he allows Tesfia to join him in rescuing Alice because he knows how personal the mission is to her. Though he states he would have knocked her out if he didn't think she had enough resolve.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': When Judy is pursuing Duke Weaselton, Officer [=McHorn=] yells "leave it to the real cops" at her. Judy is a professional police officer, but an inexperienced one who is on parking duty when the crime happens.

* ''Literature/KnitAndNibbleMysteries'': Several times, Pamela and Bettina are told not to investigate the murders that happen in their town -- by the police (who say it's their job and not for civilians), by Nell Bascomb from her knitting club (who doesn't believe in gossip or snooping around, and tells her husband not to help them, though he does anyway), and by Pamela's daughter Penny (who worries about her mom's safety and doesn't want to lose her like she did her dad). Pamela herself isn't too eager to get involved in investigations, but Bettina keeps ignoring anyone who tells her not to go poking around and just drags Pamela into it anyway.

* ''Literature/SecondChanceCatMysteries'': Nicolas "Nick" Elliot is a death examiner for the local medical office, who constantly tells his mother and her friends to stay out of police business on the grounds that it's too dangerous for them. The trio just as constantly ignore him and anyone else who does the same thing though, and eventually the face of the agency, Alfred Peterson, officially and legally becomes a registered private investigator early in book 3 to give them legal credibility.

* In ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', Jill's father has a bad case of ICouldaBeenAContender regarding his days in the army. When the Knights of the Iron Chain show up hunting Guts, he offers to guide them, but when battle is about to begin he is shooed away by the knights who don't want civilians messing around.

* In Creator/AAPessimal's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' and ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' crossover ''Fanfic/TheManyWorldsInterpretation'', the City Watch have to deal with a wild animal on the loose, running panicked in a non-familiar city environment. Doctor Johanna Smith-Rhodes, who realises exactly [[OurWerecreaturesAreDifferent what the animal is]], joins the pursuit. A new and naive Watchman tries to exclude her from the pursuit on the grounds that she's a civilian. Johanna rolls with it, potentially adding assault on a police officer to her charge sheet. Then she rounds up the creature.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'': One sword upgrade is obtained by giving it to two smiths who take turns hammering at it. If you try to join in with your own hammer, they tell you amateurs shouldn't interfere.
* In ''VideoGame/TokyoXanadu'', Asuka wants Kou to stay out of her business and not try to investigate the Eclipse with her. She's an enforcer for Nemesis and prefers to [[IWorkAlone work alone]], while Kou has no knowledge of the Underground. He manages to wear her down and get her grudging acceptance, but this trope comes back in full effect in Chapter 5, when Asuka discovers a Greed on a tier higher than anything they've faced before. According to her, a Grim Greed is entirely beyond the rest of the group's skill, and so she puts Kou in a barrier so he doesn't interfere with her defeating it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'', Commander Feral frequently tells the vigilante SWAT Kats to let the Enforcers handle the MonsterOfTheWeek. The SWAT Kats have an advanced fighter jet that's better than anything the Enforcers have, and PoliceAreUseless against the kind of supervillains they have to fight, so nobody ever listens to him.

Compare HeroHarassesHelpers and NotNowKiddo. Can lead to ProhibitedHeroSavesTheDay.

[[AC: Film - Animated]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', when Judy is pursuing Duke Weaselton, Officer [=McHorn=] yells "leave it to the real cops" at her. Judy is a professional police officer, but an inexperienced one who is on parking duty when the crime happens.

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[[AC: Fan Works]]

* In ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'', when Judy is pursuing Duke Weaselton, Officer [=McHorn=] yells "leave it to the real cops" at her. Judy is a professional police officer, but an inexperienced one who is on parking duty when the crime happens.

* ''VideoGame/ALinkToThePast'': One sword upgrade is obtained by giving it to two smiths who take turns hammering at it. If you try to join in with your own hammer, they tell you amateurs shouldn't interfere.

->''The '''Enforcers''' will handle this!''
-->'''Commander Feral''', '''''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'''''

Sometimes, of course, the professionals aren't just telling the civilians to step back for their safety. Sometimes, they're trying to maintain TheMasquerade or keep other secrets out of the public eye.

* In Creator/AAPessimal's ''{{Discworld}}'' and ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' crossover ''Fanfic/TheManyWorldsInterpretation'', the City Watch have to deal with a wild animal on the loose, running panicked in a non-familiar city environment. Doctor Johanna Smith-Rhodes, who realises exactly [[OurWerecreaturesAreDifferent what the animal is]], joins the pursuit. A new and naive Watchman tries to exclude her from the pursuit on the grounds that she's a civilian. Johanna rolls with it, potentially adding assault on a police officer to her charge sheet. Then she rounds up the creature.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'', Commander Feral frequently tells the vigilante SWAT Kats to let the Enforcers handle the MonsterOfTheWeek. Of course, the SWAT Kats have an advanced fighter jet that's better than anything the Enforcers have, and PoliceAreUseless against the kind of supervillains they have to fight, so nobody ever listens to him.

In Fictionland, the RuleOfDrama means that this never works out. In some stories, the "civilian" is really better able to deal with the situation than the official professionals; this is particularly common in SuperHero stories or other stories with paranormal elements, where the "professionals" may try to defeat a supernatural problem with [[FiveRoundsRapid mundane methods]] and get their backsides handed to them. In others, the protagonists will ignore the professionals and get in ''way'' over their heads for doing so, though even then they tend to solve the story's central problem anyway.