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1	[[quoteright:342:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/black_and_white_411.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:342: Meet the badass forces of good and evil: Lei Mu Sha, Chen Lin, Wu Ying Xiong, Chen Zai Tian, Li Wen Qi, and Hsiao Ma]]
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4	''Black and White'' (痞子英雄 - Pi Zi Ying Xiong) is a Taiwanese police procedural action drama that aired the summer of 2009. It won multiple awards at the 44th Golden Bell Awards including: Best Drama, Best Director, Best Actor (Mark Chao), Best Art Direction and Best Marketing.
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6	In the port city of Kaohsiung, the second largest city in Taiwan, there are two divisions of the police department.
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8	Wu "Hero" Ying Xiong is the top detective of the South Division of the police department (SDPD). Believing that law and justice are the pillars of society, he is a by-the-book investigator who zealously chases the bad guys.
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10	Chen Zai Tian (also called Pi Zi), is considered the top detective of the North Division of the department (NDPD), but appears to be completely incompetent. Newly assigned to SDPD, he drinks coffee, flirts with every pretty woman in sight, drives a yellow Porsche, gets mysterious tips from a fax machine in a restaurant, and generally is a much more laid back person. Or so it seems.
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12	Assigned together, the two must learn to overcome attitudes on both sides and act as a team to protect the citizens, investigating members of the local triad The San Lian Gang, other shadowy figures of the underworld, and even members of law.
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14	Completely unrelated to the video game ''VideoGame/BlackAndWhite''.
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16	!!The series provides examples of:
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18	* AcknowledgedAbsolution: [[spoiler: Hsaio Ming is a wanted terrorist with a kill count in the dozens. Wu Ying is tasked with apprehending him in Episode 11 and successfully does so. In the following episode, he is targetted by assassins and later captured alongside Chen Lin. Ming later [[VillainousRescue saves the two]] from the assassins after he stumbles upon their fleeing kidnappers. He offers his help to the protagonists afterward despite the outstanding charges he has. The protagonists would allow it to slide if he helps them with evidence, which Ming does so by showing the chemical mixture he used and where he got it from.]]
19	* ActionGirl: Chen Lin.
20	* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: Gao Yi, who hurtles an entire subway train down the tracks to the dead end, after aerosolizing Dreamer so that everyone is affected on the train. [[spoiler:The only one who isn't affected is Pi Zi, thanks to his prior experience with the drug via his water, and this allows him to stop him]].
21	* AlwaysGetsHisMan: Ying Xiong.
22	* AmusementPark: One of the episodes.
23	* ArmorPiercingResponse: [[spoiler:While being held captive by Cheng Nao in Episode 20, he demands Lu Wen the location of the DNA chip that has Jin's autospy report. Defiantly, Lu Wen blurts out Cheng Nao's secrets of being raised a killer, which causes enough distress to allow her to escape.]]
24	* BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: Chen Lin, at least until she becomes friends with Ying Xiong and Zai Tian.
25	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Mr. Fan is arrested and the country is saved thanks to Pi Zi and Ying Xiong's efforts. However, several close allies of them are either dead or critically injured, and the San Lien triad had already cut off ties with Pi Zi, severely limiting his options. He-Hisao Mei is also still on the run and manages to kill off the remaining leads to Sarkozy's plan. It will take more efforts to track her down, [[AndTheAdventureContinues but the protagonists are on their way to amend that]].]]
26	* BloodFromTheMouth: This happens in just about every episode where there is some type of hand-to-hand combat.
27	* ClearMyName:
28	** Pi Zi is accused of being a drug addict for the new street drug Dreamer; however, since there is no official test for it (although the crime lab has a test they are refining and it showed a positive response), he is allowed to remain at his post.
29	*** [[spoiler: It is revealed that the mob boss ran Dreamer into Pi Zi's water supply to help alleviate the pain after his plastic surgery.]]
30	** Ying Xiong is framed for the murder of several key witnesses and the head of his police division.
31	* CoolCar: Yu Ming drives a customized Mitsubishi Montero as his patrol vehicle. It even has a hero badge on it!
32	** Pi Zi drives a Porsche Boxster as his personal vehicle.
33	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Zai Tian was a desperately ugly and hungry homeless man, until he was picked up, underwent numerous plastic surgeries, and ultimately ended up as Pi Zi, the handsome rich detective.
34	* EiffelTowerEffect: Practically every episode has the Tuntex Sky Tower (2nd highest building in Taiwan) in the background.
35	* FightingYourFriend: Pi Zi and Ying Xiong get forced into a confrontation when the latter is ordered to arrest Pi Zi. They later reconcile after Ying Xiong nearly sacrifices himself to save Pi Zi from a trap set by [[spoiler:Lei Mousa]].
36	* GoodCopBadCop: The two leads, although uptight Ying Xiong mostly wears black, and Pi Zi mostly wears white.
37	* GrayingMorality: As the storyline progresses, who is the true BigBad, and which side is good gets fuzzy.
38	* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:He Hsiao-Mei, the true leader of Sarkozy.]]
39	* HeroicBSOD: Ying Xiong in episode 22 when [[spoiler: his ex-lover committed suicide and died in his arms]].
40	** Zai Tian goes through a even worse case of this, when [[spoiler: Hsiao-Mei is killed]].
41	* HeWasRightThereAllAlong: [[spoiler: The newly appointed police chief of the South Division turns out to be the man responsible for embezzling funds from offshore companies to export the Dreamer drug. He shows his true colors once Pi Zi discovers Mr. Li's collection left at his desk.]]
42	* ILetGwenStacyDie: [[spoiler: Zai Tian undergoes this in Episode 10 when He Hsiao-Mei is seemingly killed in a terrorist attack purported by Hsiao Ming, believing he wasn't there to save her and falls into a catatonic state of depression]].
43	* JurisdictionFriction: The police of the North and South Districts of Kaohsiung get into this a lot, as cases involving one district tend to cross over into the other district.
44	* LastEpisodeThemeReprise: An extended version of the main theme plays during the final police chase.
45	* LukeIAmYourFather: It is discovered that one of the main police officers is the son of the leader of the San Lian triad.
46	** It's actually a little more complicated than that. [[spoiler: The San Lian triad's leader thought that Pi Zi was the son of the woman he loved when he was young, so he "fixed him up" (see Dark and Troubled Past above). It turns out that Zai Tian was actually adopted by that woman, who died when Zai Tian was a boy, and that the biological son of that woman is Ying Xiong.]]
47	* MafiaPrincess: Chen Lin, who is the only daughter of the head of the triad.
48	* MeaningfulName: Ying Xiong literally means "hero", and Pi Zi is slang for "ruffian".
49	* MobstacleCourse: Pi Zi flees from Ying Xiong in Episode 19 by going through a mall, pushing police officers along the way to escape getting arrested.
50	* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: [[spoiler:Lei Mousa destroys the computer chip when she shoots herself, leaving the police department and the San Lian triad with no leads remaining after Mr. Li is found dead. Or so they thought. Mr Li manages to defy this trope posthumously by leaving Pi Zi with his entire archive, providing Pi Zi with enough evidence to track down the true BigBad.]]
51	* OrbitalShot: During several fight scenes, and the boat chase.
52	* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: [[spoiler:He-Hisao Mei was never killed in the explosion and is later found to be the true leader of Sarkozy in the finale, who faked her death to shake the police off of her trail.]]
53	* RunawayTrain: Ying Xiong and Pi Zi have to stop one of these in Episode 4, courtesy of a tripped out and thoroughly psycho Gao Yi.
54	* ShooOutTheClowns: [[spoiler:Hao Ke is written out of the story by being shot by Lei Mousa in episode 21, which is the point where Sarkozy's plan is revealed and the action starts getting more intense. He manages to survive his injuries as mentioned in the ending narration.]]
55	* TheSyndicate: The San Lian triad
56	* ThickerThanWater: Chen Lin appeals for help to secretly assist her father's jail escape.
57	* TrainEscape: Ying Xiong discovers that riding the subway is more exciting ''on top''.
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