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Basic Trope: An elite team of law enforcement or paramilitary personnel.

  • Straight: The Tropopolis police have a quick response squad of officers who have the latest equipment and utilize advanced tactics.
  • Exaggerated: The Tropopolis police have a squad of cyborg ninjas with superpowers.
  • Downplayed: The Tropopolis police have a squad of officers that are merely somewhat better than the average copper.
  • Justified: The Tropopolis police face situations that go beyond the capabilities of normal officers, and thus need special units for certain tasks.
  • Inverted: The Tropopolis suppliments it's normal police with a civillian squad that lackes the training or authority of normal police, but makes up for it with numerical superority.
  • Subverted: The Tropopolis police look like they have a squad of elite officers, but it turns out they're just wearing SWAT uniforms to make the criminals think they're screwed.
  • Double Subverted: But then a real special unit shows up.
  • Parodied: A SWAT team is called in to "swat" a fly. Get it...
  • Zig Zagged: The Tropopolis police have a SWAT team, but then the fear they strike into citizens causes them to be disbanded by the city council. However, crime runs rampant without them, and they are out back into service. However, their reputation goes south again due to a Noodle Incident, and it looks like they will be disbanded again.
  • Averted: There aren't even police in the movie.
  • Enforced: "We need a dramatic image of law enforcement in our TV show."
  • Lampshaded: "You guys are elite cops, right? Then you're SWAT, even though you're named something different."
  • Invoked: Mayor Trope gathers a team from the best officers in the city.
  • Exploited: Gangster Troper realizes that the SWAT team has different tactics and weapons than other police officers, and thus makes appropriate decisions and takes the right precautions.
  • Defied: Mayor Trope considers making a special police unit, but seeing how corrupt the police force is, he fears what a corrupt SWAT unit would do, and thus does not make one.
  • Discussed: "We better play it safe and only do minor crimes, lest we invoke a SWAT team."
  • Conversed: "Those SWAT officers look kinda cute in their uniforms."

There's a holdup at the Tropopolis Bank, so get the SWAT Team back there as soon as possible!

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