History Main / SuperCop

One step up from the CowboyCop who enters HotPursuit with no regard for their own safety or anyone else's, here you have the police who have the [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys equipment]], [[StockSuperpowers the powers]], or whatever else that puts them above and beyond the capabilities of the average police officer. This is common to the point where one of the StockSuperheroDayJobs is police work, though they don't always do both at once.

** Section 9 Public Security in ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'' and ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex''. Cyborg bodies, advanced weapons, Tachikomas, super-hacker skillz, etc. It helps that most of their field operatives are former soldiers.

** ''Anime/DominionTankPolice'' probably counts, since the heroes are cops... with TANKS. [[TankGoodness Really BIG tanks]], at that. And unlike the ''Patlabor'' dudes, these fellows DO move against any and all crime, with superior firepower through and through. Unfortunately for the city, they're also all [[CowboyCop Cowboy Cops]]... can you say 'Collateral Damage'?

* ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' and its better-known spin-off ''Manga/SailorMoon'' have a strange example in Minako Aino, alias Sailor V and Sailor Venus: Minako has a rather vocal dislike for police officers, yet both the manga and anime continuities show her befriending some officers and acting like a Japanese cop when superheroing (and getting mistaken for a Super Cop by a youma during her early days as Sailor V), with the [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]] even having her as a Super Cop in UsefulNotes/{{London}} for a while as part of her background [[spoiler: and the ''Codename: Sailor V'' manga ending with Minako accepting to work for the UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}} Metropolitan Police, meaning she was a Super Cop for the whole run of ''Sailor Moon'' without it ever coming up]]. [[YouAreWhatYouHate She]] ''[[YouAreWhatYouHate still]]'' [[YouAreWhatYouHate dislikes your average Japanese cop.]] In fact, she initially took on the role, not for justice, but to stick it to Tokyo's cops by making fools out of them.
* The title character of ''Anime/BirdyTheMighty''. She [[LightningBruiser has superhuman strength, speed, agility, and durability]] [[spoiler: She's also a [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke bioengineered]] SuperSoldier]].

** The Pride Troopers are an interplanetary police force in Universe 11, very similar to Universe 7's Galactic Patrol except in power: Toppo, the leader of the Pride Troopers, is strong enough to be training to become a God of Destruction, and Jiren is simply [[WorldsStrongestMan the mightiest mortal of all universes]], stronger than even a ''[[PhysicalGod God of Destruction]]'' (as verified by Belmod, Universe 11's God of Destruction).
** Katopesla from Universe 3 is a SpaceCop, and, thanks to his super suit, can fight in the Tournament of Power alongside the likes of Goku, Vegeta, and fellow Super Cops 17, Krillin and the Pride Troopers (and in fact went toe-on-toe with many of them without getting smashed).

* Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/TopTen'' series (and its spinoffs) is set in a city where all the cops are superheroes because '''everyone''' is.

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': In stark contrast to most contemporary depictions of the character as a vigilante, during most of the Golden Age and Silver Age, Batman was a deputized officer of the Gotham City Police Department. While his precise official status is seldom explicitly brought him, he and Robin essentially functioned as special cops reporting to Commissioner Gordon, albeit cops who wore costumes and masks and used their own resources.

* Meet the ''ComicBook/SavageDragon''. The UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} Police's best weapon against super-human crime. Taken even further because there have been many times when he's been able to handle superhuman rampages by talking down the suspect instead of applying violence like cops are trained to do.

* In the {{Elseworlds}} tale ''ComicBook/JusticeRiders'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman Diana Prince]] is a super-powered sheriff in the WildWest.

* The low-budget film ''Film/{{Wolfcop}}'' is about an inept policeman who gets turned into a werewolf by way of a satanic ritual through no fault of his own. He's at least as competent in his BeastMan form as he is while [[DrunkenMaster drunk...]]

* The Night Watch from ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' may fit in this trope. Living in a fantasy world, they've got [[AllTrollsAreDifferent trolls]], [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame dwarves]], [[{{Golem}} golems]], [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombies]], [[FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampires vampires]] and [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]] in their ranks; and [[TheCape Carrot Ironfoundersson]]. Of course, criminals can also belong to any of those supernatural species, which makes The Watch even more impressive because their superpowered members don't necessarily have an edge because of their superpowers.
* In the Literature/XWingSeries, Corran Horn discovers that his father, who was part of the [[SpacePolice Corellian Security Force]] all his life and got Corran into it too, was the son and the student of a Jedi Knight. Both of them did rely a bit on their Force-Sensitivity. ''[[Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy I, Jedi]]'' also notes that Corellian Jedi, including Corran's grandfather, tended to work closely with the Corellian Security Force on the tougher cases.
* The Aurors (and also the poor forgotten Hit Wizards) of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' [[spoiler: including Aurors Harry Potter and Ron Weasley]]. Mad-Eye Moody was a legend amongst them.

* Season 7 of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' [[spoiler: has Oliver Queen joining the Star City Police Department, as the exposure of his SecretIdentity, coupled with anti-vigilante legislation, makes it impossible for him to continue to operate as a masked vigilante. He continues to wear the Green Arrow suit, albeit without the now-redundant hood and mask.]]
* ''Series/FutureCop'' features an android programmed to be the perfect cop.
* In his first episode of ''Series/{{Heroes}},'' cop Matt Parkman is able to telepathically hear a little girl calling for help. In later episodes and seasons, he uses his powers to also try to help people, even when he is no longer a cop.
* The robot Yoyo from the TV series ''Series/HolmesAndYoyo''.

** ''Series/MiraiSentaiTimeranger'' [=/=] ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'' is about a team of TimePolice from the year 3000, chasing a villain who travelled a millennium back in time with an entire prison of criminals in tow.
** The [[FunWithAcronyms S.P.D.]] from ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' (where it stands for Special Police Dekaranger) and ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' (where it's Space Patrol Delta) plays the police theme much heavier, down to having {{Finishing Move}}s that can only be used when the team's superpowered badges judge an enemy guilty. The team even have a "[=SWAT=] Mode" as their SuperMode.
** ''Series/KaitouSentaiLupinrangerVsKeisatsuSentaiPatranger'' features a team of SuperCop heroes competing with a team of PhantomThief ones to get their hands on the lost fortune of Literature/ArseneLupin.

* ''Creator/TheBrewingNetwork'': In Lunch Meet when an article mentions a police officer by the name of J R Mc Knight, they immediately make jokes about him being this tough, no-nonsense cop who can take care of anything (as well as using a fake voice to give him lines). From then on, when they talk about situations that need a tough hand to fix it, they mention that J R Mc Knight is on the case.

* "Officer Prometheus" from ''TabletopGame/SilverAgeSentinels''. A combination between the powers of [[ComicBook/FantasticFour the Human Torch]], the mentality of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, and an allegiance to the NYPD (well, [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed Empire City PD]], actually). He prefers not to think of himself as a (super-) hero (even actively declining membership with the local super-teams), but rather as just one more cop--one that can be an equalizer when his brother cops have to deal with a super-criminal.

* ''VideoGame/{{ESWAT}}''. Once your character achieves chief rank he gets a cyber suit with turbothrusters and armor.

* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' features Blue Steel, MemeticBadass and the only major superhero who works directly for the police force. There are also cops in PowerArmour, cops with PsychicPowers, and the Awakened division of alien symbiote-infused cops. There's also nothing stopping player character concepts from being cops.

* Konoko from ''VideoGame/{{Oni}}''. [[spoiler: Helps that she was secretly bred to be a [[OneManArmy One Woman Army]] capable of handling anything the Syndicate could field.]]
* A rare glitch in [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity GTA: Vice City]] would sometimes render a single random Police Officer invincible, there were also rumors that he could arrest you anywhere, including magically teleporting from the ground onto your helicopter and playing the arrest animation.

* Chun-Li of ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' is an Interpol agent, always hot on the trail of M. Bison.

* ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'' puts Chun-Li together with Rikiya Busujima from VideoGame/ZombieRevenge and Bruno Delinger from ''VideoGame/DynamiteCop''/''Die Hard Arcade''.

* The titular ''WebAnimation/InfernoCop'' pursues criminals and other miscreates using the powers of Hell. His police car's siren lights are actually flames.

* Webcomic/AxeCop
* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' space cops wear "strength rings" which give them SuperStrength and {{Flight}}. Officer Krelch has additional powers by virtue of being a [[HollywoodCyborg cyborg.]]

* From ''WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats}}'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Mandora the Evil Chaser.]]

** Justice Department's history with robo-judges is... complicated. Most of the Mechanismo projects have failed becsause of [[AIIsACrapshoot bad AI]], and even after the Day of Chaos, when they finally got most of the problems ironed out, they're still only used as back-up for human Judges. Some Judges are cyborgs, having lost one or more bodyparts in the line of duty, though these don't always afford superpowers.

''Creator/TheBrewingNetwork'': In Lunch Meet when an article mentions a police officer by the name of J R Mc Knight, they immediately make jokes about him being this tough, no-nonsense cop who can take care of anything (as well as using a fake voice to give him lines). From then on, when they talk about situations that need a tough hand to fix it, they mention that J R Mc Knight is on the case.

* The Aurors (and also the poor forgotten Hit Wizards) of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' [[spoiler: including Aurors Harry Potter and Ron Weasley.]]. Mad-Eye Moody was a legend amongst them.

* And Creator/JackieChan's ''Police Story'' series, where he (mostly) became this by necessity.

* The metalbending police force from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' have SupernaturalMartialArts on their side, which is pretty impressive against innocent non-Benders. Against Benders or non-Benders with more preparedness (such as the Equalists) they are just a RedshirtArmy.

Compare SuperSoldier.

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** Section 9 Public Security in ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'' and ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex''. Cyborg bodies, advanced weapons, Tachikomas, super hacker skillz, etc. It helps that most of their field operatives are former soldiers.
** Averted with ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}''. They ''could'' be Supercops, but regulations have them stuck in the station until a crook brings out his own HumongousMecha. For regular criminals they have to go on foot just like all other cops, and face the same obstacles.

* ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' and its better known spin off ''Manga/SailorMoon'' have a strange example in Minako Aino, alias Sailor V and Sailor Venus: Minako has a rather vocal dislike for police officers, yet both the manga and anime continuities show her befriending some officers and acting like a Japanese cop when superheroing (and getting mistaken for a Super Cop by a youma during her early days as Sailor V), with the [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]] even having her as a Super Cop in UsefulNotes/{{London}} for a while as part of her background [[spoiler: and the ''Codename: Sailor V'' manga ending with Minako accepting to work for the UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}} Metropolitan Police, meaning she was a Super Cop for the whole run of ''Sailor Moon'' without it ever coming up]]. [[YouAreWhatYouHate She]] ''[[YouAreWhatYouHate still]]'' [[YouAreWhatYouHate dislikes your average Japanese cop.]] In fact, she initially took on the role, not for justice, but to stick it to Tokyo's cops by making fools out of them.

** Manga/JacoTheGalacticPatrolman will ''not'' stop reminding you he's a member of a "super elite" police force (even adopting "Super Elite" as a pseudonym when he was stuck in East City for a while), and often shows superhuman prowess. However he's quite low in the power totem pole, as in his solo series he flat-out admitted he'd have been no match for ''any'' adult Saiyan back when they were still working for Frieza (by the time of ''Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF'' he's grown strong enough to easily defeat Frieza's {{Mooks}}, but he was still no match for his stronger soldiers, let alone Frieza himself).

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* Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/TopTen'' series (and its spinoffs) is set in a city where all the cops are superheroes, because '''everyone''' is.

** There's a WhatIf story where Joe Dredd himself was never cured of his lycantrophy after his encounter with a pack of werewolves. His HeroicWillpower allows him to regain control over his wolf form and he becomes a crimefighter in the Undercity.
* Meet the ''ComicBook/SavageDragon''. The UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} Police's best weapon against super-human crime. Taken even further because there have been many times when he's been able to handle superhuman rampages by talking down the suspect instead of applying violence, like cops are trained to do.

[[folder: Film ]]

* Of course there's the movie ''Film/ShortTime'' (a.k.a. ''Super Cop,'' [[CompletelyDifferentTitle on some markets]]) in which the cop was trying to get killed in the line of duty before he retired in a few days because of a pretty bad case of MistakenForDying (and thus invoked {{Retirony}}) meeting SpringtimeForHitler (and thus coming off as a CowboyCop).

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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

* In his first episode of ''Series/{{Heroes}},'' cop Matt Parkman is able to telepathically hear a little girl calling for help. In later episodes and seasons his uses his powers to also try to help people, even when he is no longer a cop.

* Most Series/MetalHeroes take on this role. In fact the first three, [[Series/SpaceSheriffGavan Gavan]], [[Series/SpaceSheriffSharivan Sharivan]] and [[Series/SpaceSheriffShaider Shaider]], all share the title Uchuu Keiji, which literally translates to Space Sheriff.

[[folder: Radio]]

''Creator/TheBrewingNetwork'': In Lunch Meet when an article mentions a police officer by the name of J R Mc Knight, they immediately make jokes about him being this tough, no nonsense cop who can take care of anything (as well as using a fake voice to give him lines). From then on, when they talk about situations that need a tough hand to fix it, they mention that J R Mc Knight is on the case.

[[folder: Tabletop Games]]

* The Adeptus Arbites of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', due to their paramilitary like nature and being ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd''' s {{expy}}.

[[folder: Video Games ]]

* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' features Blue Steel, MemeticBadass and the only major superhero who works directly for the police force. There are also cops in PowerArmour, cops with PsychicPowers and the Awakened division of alien symbiote-infused cops. There's also nothing stopping player character concepts from being cops.

[[folder: Web Animation ]]

[[folder: Webcomics ]]

[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* The animated series ''WesternAnimation/{{COPS}}'' was about a team of these.

''This page is about the trope. For the Creator/JackieChan film, [[Film/SuperCop go here]].''
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Superpowered law enforcement.

** When he returns in ''Dragon Ball Super'', Android 17 is a park ranger, single-handedly defending an island with many rare animals from poachers. As the rare animals in general and the last minotaurus are extremely valuable on the black market, poachers generally show up in small armies with cannon-equipped armored cars and bazookas... And remain so outmatched that the only reason they last a few minutes against him is that he holds back not to damage the island or killing them.

Not to be confused with AlwaysGetsHisMan, which is a freakishly perfect cop (though the tropes can obviously overlap).

* Arguably, the metalbending police force from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''

* Arguably, the metalbending police force from ''WesternAnimation/{{TheLegendOfKorra}}''

* Most Franchise/MetalHeroes take on this role. In fact the first three, [[Series/SpaceSheriffGavan Gavan]], [[Series/SpaceSheriffSharivan Sharivan]] and [[Series/SpaceSheriffShaider Shaider]], all share the title Uchuu Keiji, which literally translates to Space Sheriff.

* Has occured a few times in ''Series/SuperSentai'' (and by extension, ''Franchise/PowerRangers''):

* Has occured a few times in ''SuperSentai'' (and by extension, ''Franchise/PowerRangers''):

* The low-budget film ''Film/{{Wolfcop}}'' is about an inept policeman who gets bit by a werewolf. He's at least as competent in his BeastMan form as he is while [[DrunkenMaster drunk...]]

* The low-budget film ''Wolfcop'' is about an inept policeman who gets bit by a werewolf. He's at least as competent in his BeastMan form as he is while [[DrunkenMaster drunk...]]

** The Metropolis Special Crimes Unit (later the Metropolis Science Police) has PoweredArmor and other gear to fight supervillains when Superman isn't available. Thy even briefly during the late '90s has superhuman members.

** The Metropolis Special Crimes Unit (later the Metropolis Science Police) has PoweredArmor and other gear to fight supervillains when Superman isn't available. Thy even briefly during the late '90s has superhuman members.