In all the times I've encounter They Fight Crime! on this site, they're almost never used as a trope, but rather as an in-line description for works in other pages. This makes me question how much of this page is used beyond a stock phrase and pothole magnet to make joke descriptions about various works. The fact that this is wicked so much in Laconic and Better Than It Sounds pages doesn't give much confidence that this is actually a trope rather than a Just for Fun/ page. Even if we do keep this as a trope and remove the misuse, the premise is already covered by Wunza Plot, and this is a crime-fighting specific variation that probably don't need its own page.

The Wick Check shows that a majority of the trope's use (37/86 — 43%) is as a Stock Phrase tacked on to a Wunza Plot description, with 3 of them explicitly stating that the characters don't actually fight crime. Of the remaining 34, most of them don't really provide context whether or not the characters actually fight crime, and the stock phrase isn't simply added on as a joke. The second most common use (27/86 — 31.4%) refers to a more general fighting criminals, evil forces and what have you, and these are mostly in the form of potholes and general descriptions of the character's jobs (detective, superheroes, cops, etc.) rather than as actual trope examples. There's also plenty of ZCE and other weird misuse.

Verdict: This is definitely not a trope, and whatever tropeworthy ideas it might have are already covered by other tropes (Wunza Plot, Odd Couple, Buddy Cop Show, etc.). I don't think there's anything left to salvage from this page, so proposing a cut.

1. Grantchester: Wunza Plot: One's a priest, one's a copper. Together, They Fight Crime!!
2. Rizzoli & Isles: One's a badass homicide detective with a dysfunctional family. One's a blue-blooded medical examiner with No Social Skills. They're Heterosexual Life-Partners. Together, They Fight Crime!
3. Lost: Richard is the face, Miles is the brains, and Lapidus is the muscle. Together They Fight Crime!!
4. Castle: Mystery writer and NYPD detective FIGHT CRIME while flirting.
5. Uptight Loves Wild: He's a stuffy uptight cynical genius divorce lawyer! He's a free-spirited genius divorce lawyer who believes in true love! They Fight Crime!! - uh, they're opposing counsel on a bunch of different cases!
6. The Avengers (1960s): He's a suave English gentleman spy. She's a classy lady with a preference for catsuits. They Fight Crime, espionage, and unnatural weirdness.
7. Literature: Honor Harrington: On the other side of the fourth wall, it's an Author Collaboration where one is a naval historian with libertarian leanings and the other is a former mining union organizer with socialist leanings. They're Author Avatars who Fight Crime.
8. Anime and Manga H to K: A boy and his butler live an adventurous life in England. Boy has completely useless servants. Butler is stalked by a gay death god. They fight crime.
9. Beforeigners: Buddy Cop Show: He's a single dad with a secret drug problem. She's a Norse shieldmaiden. Together, They Fight Crime!
10. Karmic Transformation: The title character of Armitage III is a Ridiculously Human Robot, and her partner is a policeman who hates robots and synthetic humans, but who slowly needs more and more cybernetic parts. They Fight Crime!!
11. Dempsey and Makepeace: Wunza Plot: One's an American street smart loose cannon cowboy cop, one's a refined aristocratic proper young British police officer. Together They Fight Crime! and make sparks fly between them!
12. The Apocalypse Door: He's a priest. She's a nun. They fight crime.
13. Video Games G to M: Insecticide: A Cute Monster Girl with a Mysterious Past. A veteran cop and giant cockroach. They Fight Crime!... in the soft drink industry.
14. Lucifer (2016): He's the Devil. She's a cop. They Fight Crime!
15. Film B: Bon Cop, Bad Cop He's a foul-mouthed, chain-smoking Cowboy Cop from Québec. He's a square-headed, stick in the mud, by the book cop from Ontario. They Fight Crime!.
16. Alien Nation: Wunza Plot: Wunza human, wunza former alien slave. They Fight Crime!.
17. Mr Square: "He's a chronically depressed doodle with nothing to lose. He's a pathologically enthusiastic psychotic sheep who thinks he's an ex-cop. TOGETHER, THEY FIGHT CRIME!"
18. Ninja Cheerleaders: They’re cheerleaders. They’re ninjas. They Fight Crime!
19. The Dragonslaying Maiden: Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The Bronze Fangs consist of a bloodthirsty werewolf, a megalomaniacal dwarf, a rhyming elf, a humorless soldier, and a teenage girl with a pituitary disorder. They Fight Crime!
20. Aggie Blake: Agatha 'Aggie' Blake is an LAPD Homicide Detective. Katherine 'Katie' Lane is a teenage foster child. They Fight Crime!.
21. Sonic the Hedgehog (2020): One's a loose cannon sheriff. One's a hyperactive blue hedgehog. In the sleepy town of Green Hills, They Fight Crime!
22. Twice Upon an Age: Invoked by Felix when giving Dorian information about the Heralds of Andraste. "She's a human noble from Ostwick; he’s a Dalish elf from the Free Marches forests. They fight crime."
23. Sam & Max: Freelance Police: The dog's Sam and the lagomorph's Max. They Fight Crime!
24. Romance Detective: It follows the adventures of Romance Cop, a newly transfer to the peaceful Lovebloom City, and her partnership with the eponymous Romance Detective, a suave yet oddball detective who specializes in crimes of passion. Together, They Fight Crime! and also find love in each other.
25. Anime Japanese N To Z: (Adult) Loki, Miki Naoki and Gurio Umino solve mysteries and fight crime!
26. Video Games: One is a hot-tempered, undead blind warrior who constantly makes death threats against those who annoy him and who's fast in attacking his opponents without really thinking of a plan first (and he's Dual Wielding red gunblades); the other is a kind and somewhat naive rocker ghost with a heart of gold who loves the ladies (and his weapon is a blue electric guitar). They Fight Crime!.
27. Police Quest: Sonny Bonds is a By-the-Book Cop who assesses most (if not all) situations according to procedure and is known for having played a key role in capturing a serial killer and drug runner, and then killing him in self-defense when he broke out, and has gained the reputation of being cop-of-the-year following Bains' arrest. Pat Morales is a female Cowboy Cop who is a loose cannon who doesn't always do things by the book and believes in harsh justice and that her partner is too soft. Sonny fights crime. She doesn't!
28. Homestuck: Dave Strider a hard-boiled human detective. His new partner is a crazy legislacerator. Together, they solve murders.
29. Honey Coloured Hazardry: He's a police officer, he's a Con Man. Together they fight Kira.
30. Unlikely Hero: Carl Frederickson and Russel from Pixar's Up. Just try explaining them someone who's never seen the film. One's an elderly septuagenarian, the other is an overly enthusiastic boy scout who's never been
31. Top Dog: Top Dog is a 1995 buddy cop film starring Chuck Norris as Jake Wilder and... a dog named Reno. Despite their friction, the duo fight crimeto the wild, and together they fight evil in Venezuela.
32. Metal Wolf Chaos: He's the President of the Great United States of America. She's his secretary with an appetite for random destruction.
33. Black London: She's a Detective Inspector with a magic talent she's been denying up 'til now. He's a punk rocker junkie mage!
34. Family Skeleton Mysteries: She's a college adjunct who teaches English. He's an ambulatory skeleton. They solve murder mysteries.

1. Everyone Must Be Paired: Taken to an extreme in the Homecoming Saga. She's a functionally asexual scientist! He's a gay librarian! They Fight Crime!!^note They don't actually fight crime They get married! They have kids!
2. Cerberus Daily News Citadel Space: Sicaria "Bello" Perihelion and Keros Mehedra. She's a separatist survivalist, he's a Captain in the Turian Hierarchy's Special Forces (recently retired). They Fight Crime!...okay, not really.
3. Marble Hornets: At some point Nyarly and The Operator will team up to fight crime... or maybe just conduct mysterious experiments and terrorize film students.

1. Doctor Who Confidential: After Karen Gillan suggests the Doctor wants to hang out with another Time Lord because having a human companion is 'like having a hamster', Matt Smith pitches a film idea: "One Doctor. One Hamster..."
2. The Laundry Files: Almost word for word in The Annihilation Score as the Senior Auditor describes the team Mo is set up with. "Together, you will fight crime!"

1. Tropes A to C: His initial reaction to meeting other mutants is a puppyish eagerness to find others like him, as well as a gung-ho enthusiasm to work with a superhuman team to fight evil.
2. Tropes S to U: The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, also several original shorts pairing Daffy and Porky as crimefighters ("Rocket Squad," "Deduce, You Say", "Boston Quackie," Daffy solo in The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, "The Super Snooper" and "Stupor Duck"). And good ol' Bugs in "Super Rabbit."
3. Archie Comics: His frequent adventures fighting spies, or his stint as "Pureheart the Powerful", usually pulling a Follow the Leader act at a current crime-fighting fad (The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Superhero stuff).
4. That's What I Would Do: This is how the titular Castle helps solve crimes: by being Genre Savvy and knowing what he would write in a given situation.
5. Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
   • In this series, Chip and Dale are no longer mischievous troublemakers but rather amateur crimefighters.
   • Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Steggy once more; a super-intelligent, high-tech-equipped dinosaur from outer space meets crimefighting rodents.
   • By helping them first become crime-fighters and then take down Aldrin Klordane, Plato passes the torch on to Chip and Dale who, however, will continue his legacy of crime-fighting without human assistance.
6. Our Gargoyles Rock: Gargoyles is a series in which 6 gargoyles, originally the guardians of a castle in 10th-century Scotland, are transported to modern-day New York. They Fight Crime! at night, and turn into statues to sleep during the day, when they are also healed of any injury.
7. Everyone Meets Everyone: Iron Man had built Ultron robots with Ant-Man, and partied with Ant-Man's companion, The Wasp, a few times. Since Iron Man owns a suit of Hulkbuster armor, some could assume that he also already met the Hulk. The first episode that aired on Disney XD, "Breakout", marks the first time They Fight Crime! together. It also marks the first time any of them meet and team up with The Mighty Thor.
8. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Given Marvel's track record, it's inevitable. Soon, SG teams up with The Punisher. They Fight Crime!.
9. Western Animation: Yes, it is about cute and fuzzy little rodents, but these cute and fuzzy little rodents are quite elaborate and multi-dimensional characters in a Daring Rescue and crime-fighting team.
10. Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series: Alien hockey players by day, alien super heroes by night.
11. Las Paridas de la Guarida: She's a superheroine.
12. Jumper: David has only begun to hunt them down and reconcile with his girlfriend when The Government steps in and things go From Bad to Worse.]]
13. Anime and Manga P to S: Soreike! Anpanman: A living loaf of bread fights crime and feeds himself to the hungry. His archenemy is a germ from space.
14. The Club of Queer Trades: Rupert Grant is a jack-of-all-trades turned private detective. His brother, Basil, is an eccentric retired judge. They Fight Crime!. Or, rather, Rupert tries to fight crime, and Basil shows how the mystery isn't actually at all criminal.
15. Miss Machiko: Best Known for the Fanservice: Obviously, the main point of this series was fanservice so it's easy to overlook the fact that the show involved episodes about a Haunted House, Sea Monster, and more than a few episodes where Machiko and her students take on criminals.
16. Ranma ½: Ranma has left Nerima (for reasons unknown) and joins a special police force, the DAPC, Department of Abnormal Phenomenae Containment.
17. Theatre: 'A Steady Rain'' (2009, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, LA): Wolverine and James Bond are cops.
18. Fate/unlimited codes: Despite the majority of the characters having Downer Endings or Bittersweet Endings at best, Archer of all people actually gets a much better ending than in Fate/stay night canon: specifically, he ends up teaming up with Rin to fight demons together, and if their flirty dialogue is any indication, they become a Battle Couple.
19. Dino-Boy: While at first glance the series seems to be about Evan and Halle fighting crime, most stories feature an Aesop about life, the universe, and stuff like that.
20. Interrupted Suicide: Glory Girl thought Taylor was throwing herself off a building to kill herself because she wasn't in costume, but in truth, she was testing her teleportation powers. They decide to team up afterwards and fight crime.
21. Fan Works: Beth has commented that they will probably never get off the honeymoon, and both are perfectly fine with that. Now, They Fight Crime! in the 22nd century, particularly dealing with the clone of Professor Moriarty.
22. Przygody Psa Cywila: And so they go on to thwart criminals!
23. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Main Characters: A boy traveling with his demon sister, a coward who harbors hidden determination, and a boy raised by boars. They slay demons.
24. Alien: Natasha Xander was just an Ordinary High-School Student, but after a meteor crashes in Central Park, she uses the costume inside to fight crime as XenoGirl!
25. Pirates of the Caribbean: Pirate Parrot: and monkey too. Then they join forces to defeat evil using explosives.
26. TV Tropes Examples: And then Samuel L. Jackson and the T-Rex both travel to the mainland at the end, Samuel gets a bionic arm, and they go into business together as private investigators.
27. Choose Your Own Adventure: The whole plot of Your Very Own Robot. Also, one of the paths in Supercomputer has your computer getting a robotic body, and the two of you fighting crime.

1. Route 66: Well, sometimes they do.
2. Simon & Simon
3. Diamond Phase: AC and Calia.
4. Clockwork: Gaz and Christian, with limited success.
5. Sam & Max: Sometimes on purpose.
   Sam: "I'm Sam. He's Max. We bust punks."
6. The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty: The premise of the show. Although Sui Zhou does most of the fighting.
7. Nobody Dies: The Ree's new hobby: They Fight Crime!
8. The Galaxy Trio: It's what they do.
9. Rainbow Double Dashs Lunaverse Ponyville: With Caramel.

1. Lethal Weapon: Buddy Cop film series with a mismatched duo as heroes — a single and reckless Cowboy Cop and a family man who's (mostly) a By-the-Book Cop. That pothole is probably better linked to Odd Couple than They Fight Crime!
2. Western Animation: Home Movies: This show features this trope almost every episode, given that the central premise of the show is that three kids make their own movies.
3. Bad Liar: Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Steve Rogers, beacon of morality that he is, is a truly terrible liar. Not a single S.H.I.E.L.D. employee is fooled for a second by his repeated claims not to know what's going on, and Black Widow even insults him to his face for it (in an appreciative way). I don't even know what this pothole is even doing here. Nothing in the entire sentence talks about crime-fighting, superheroics or anything of the sort.
4. The Kingfisher: There's two, Lord Auberon Greyburn and Nick The Cutter. The former is almost comically insane with Mad Artist forms of expression, and the latter was post conversion able to see spirits. Both became friends.
5. Fake Ultimate Hero: As a demon, Neuro cannot be the one to get the spotlight, so he needs a patsy/victim/chew toy to be his face. This isn't to say Yako is useless. She possesses an incredible amount of empathy (something a demon totally lacks), and the more the story goes on, the more They Fight Crime! together.
6. Unseen Academicals: We don't know if she has any actual magic power, but witchcraft is mostly about having the right sort of personality and intelligence and she does have that. (Also, it makes the idea of her, Nutt and Oats having adventures in Überwald just a little more awesome.) Having adventures =/= fighting crime.
7. Pitch the Work: 'Person of Interest'': Reclusive billionaire and ex-CIA agent fight crime with a machine that predicts people involved in violent crimes before they happen... but they don't know if the person of interest is the victim or the perpetrator.
8. Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack: ...but the fluidity of anime canonicity (plus the far-off promise of a Quess-free remake) could result in Amuro and Char surviving atmospheric re-entry after pushing Axis away from Earth...and spending their remaining days as buddy cops.
9. Cop and a Half: Since Police Are Useless, Devon is partnered up with well-known Child Hater McKenna and given his dream job. They Fight Crime! Hilarity Ensues.
10. Arrow: They are already close, but the time they will spend together as They Fight Crime! will bring them family-like closeness.
11. Eberts Glossary Of Movie Terms^note Page was since cut for plagiarism: Odd Couple Formula: Seemingly incompatible characters are linked to each other in a plot which depends on their differences for its comic and dramatic interest. Cf. Tango and Cash, Homer And Eddie, Lethal Weapon, Loose Cannons. Essential that one member of each team be a slob, as revealed by presence of fast-food wrappers in back seat of his Hollywood Cop Car

1. Grantchester: Wunza Plot: One's a priest, one's a copper. Together, They Fight Crime!!
2. Rizzoli & Isles: One's a badass homicide detective with a dysfunctional family. One's a blue-blooded medical examiner with No Social Skills. They're Heterosexual Life-Partners. Together, They Fight Crime!
3. Lost: Richard is the face, Miles is the brains, and Lapidus is the muscle. Together They Fight Crime!!
4. Castle: Mystery writer and NYPD detective FIGHT CRIME while flirting.
5. Uptight Loves Wild: He's a stuffy uptight cynical genius divorce lawyer! He's a free-spirited genius divorce lawyer who believes in true love! They Fight Crime!! - uh, they're opposing counsel on a bunch of different cases!
6. The Avengers (1960s): He's a suave English gentleman spy. She's a classy lady with a preference for catsuits. They Fight Crime, espionage, and unnatural weirdness.
7. Literature: Honor Harrington: On the other side of the fourth wall, it's an Author Collaboration where one is a naval historian with libertarian leanings and the other is a former mining union organizer with socialist leanings. They're Author Avatars who Fight Crime.
8. Anime and Manga H to K: A boy and his butler live an adventurous life in England. Boy has completely useless servants. Butler is stalked by a gay death god. They fight crime.
9. Beforeigners: Buddy Cop Show: He's a single dad with a secret drug problem. She's a Norse shieldmaiden. Together, They Fight Crime!
10. Karmic Transformation: The title character of Armitage III is a Ridiculously Human Robot, and her partner is a policeman who hates robots and synthetic humans, but who slowly needs more and more cybernetic parts. They Fight Crime!!
11. Dempsey and Makepeace: Wunza Plot: One's an American street smart loose cannon cowboy cop, one's a refined aristocratic proper young British police officer. Together They Fight Crime! and make sparks fly between them!
12. The Apocalypse Door: He's a priest. She's a nun. They fight crime.
13. Video Games G to M: Insecticide: A Cute Monster Girl with a Mysterious Past. A veteran cop and giant cockroach. They Fight Crime!... in the soft drink industry.
14. Lucifer (2016): He's the Devil. She's a cop. They Fight Crime!
15. Film B: Bon Cop, Bad Cop He's a foul-mouthed, chain-smoking Cowboy Cop from Québec. He's a square-headed, stick in the mud, by the book cop from Ontario. They Fight Crime!.
16. Alien Nation: Wunza Plot: Wunza human, wunza former alien slave. They Fight Crime!.
17. Mr Square: "He's a chronically depressed doodle with nothing to lose. He's a pathologically enthusiastic psychotic sheep who thinks he's an ex-cop. TOGETHER, THEY FIGHT CRIME!"
18. Ninja Cheerleaders: They’re cheerleaders. They’re ninjas. They Fight Crime!
19. The Dragonslaying Maiden: Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The Bronze Fangs consist of a bloodthirsty werewolf, a megalomaniacal dwarf, a rhyming elf, a humorless soldier, and a teenage girl with a pituitary disorder. They Fight Crime!
20. Aggie Blake: Agatha 'Aggie' Blake is an LAPD Homicide Detective. Katherine 'Katie' Lane is a teenage foster child. They Fight Crime!.
21. Sonic the Hedgehog (2020): One's a loose cannon sheriff. One's a hyperactive blue hedgehog. In the sleepy town of Green Hills, They Fight Crime!
22. Twice Upon an Age: Invoked by Felix when giving Dorian information about the Heralds of Andraste. "She's a human noble from Ostwick; he’s a Dalish elf from the Free Marches forests. They fight crime."
23. Sam & Max: Freelance Police: The dog's Sam and the lagomorph's Max. They Fight Crime!
24. Romance Detective: It follows the adventures of Romance Cop, a newly transfer to the peaceful Lovebloom City, and her partnership with the eponymous Romance Detective, a suave yet oddball detective who specializes in crimes of passion. Together, They Fight Crime! and also find love in each other.
25. Anime Japanese N To Z: (Adult) Loki, Miki Naoki and Gurio Umino solve mysteries and fight crime!
26. Video Games: One is a hot-tempered, undead blind warrior who constantly makes death threats against those who annoy him and who's fast in attacking his opponents without really thinking of a plan first (and he's Dual Wielding red gunblades); the other is a kind and somewhat naive rocker ghost with a heart of gold who loves the ladies (and his weapon is a blue electric guitar). They Fight Crime!.
27. Police Quest: Sonny Bonds is a By-the-Book Cop who assesses most (if not all) situations according to procedure and is known for having played a key role in capturing a serial killer and drug runner, and then killing him in self-defense when he broke out, and has gained the reputation of being cop-of-the-year following Bains' arrest. Pat Morales is a female Cowboy Cop who is a loose cannon who doesn't always do things by the book and believes in harsh justice and that her partner is too soft. Sonny fights crime. She doesn't!
28. Homestuck: Dave Strider a hard-boiled human detective. His new partner is a crazy legislacerator. Together, they solve murders.
29. Honey Coloured Hazardry: He's a police officer, he's a Con Man. Together they fight Kira.
30. Unlikely Hero: Carl Frederickson and Russel from Pixar's Up. Just try explaining them someone who's never seen the film. One's an elderly septuagenarian, the other is an overly enthusiastic boy scout who's never been
31. Top Dog: Top Dog is a 1995 buddy cop film starring Chuck Norris as Jake Wilder and... a dog named Reno. Despite their friction, the duo fight crimeto the wild, and together they fight evil in Venezuela.
32. Metal Wolf Chaos: He's the President of the Great United States of America. She's his secretary with an appetite for random destruction.
33. Black London: She's a Detective Inspector with a magic talent she's been denying up 'til now. He's a punk rocker junkie mage!
34. Family Skeleton Mysteries: She's a college adjunct who teaches English. He's an ambulatory skeleton. They solve murder mysteries.

1. Everyone Must Be Paired: Taken to an extreme in the Homecoming Saga. She's a functionally asexual scientist! He's a gay librarian! They Fight Crime!!^note They don't actually fight crime They get married! They have kids!
2. Cerberus Daily News Citadel Space: Sicaria "Bello" Perihelion and Keros Mehedra. She's a separatist survivalist, he's a Captain in the Turian Hierarchy's Special Forces (recently retired). They Fight Crime!...okay, not really.
3. Marble Hornets: At some point Nyarly and The Operator will team up to fight crime... or maybe just conduct mysterious experiments and terrorize film students.

1. Doctor Who Confidential: After Karen Gillan suggests the Doctor wants to hang out with another Time Lord because having a human companion is 'like having a hamster', Matt Smith pitches a film idea: "One Doctor. One Hamster..."
2. The Laundry Files: Almost word for word in The Annihilation Score as the Senior Auditor describes the team Mo is set up with. "Together, you will fight crime!"

1. Tropes A to C: His initial reaction to meeting other mutants is a puppyish eagerness to find others like him, as well as a gung-ho enthusiasm to work with a superhuman team to fight evil.
2. Tropes S to U: The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, also several original shorts pairing Daffy and Porky as crimefighters ("Rocket Squad," "Deduce, You Say", "Boston Quackie," Daffy solo in The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, "The Super Snooper" and "Stupor Duck"). And good ol' Bugs in "Super Rabbit."
3. Archie Comics: His frequent adventures fighting spies, or his stint as "Pureheart the Powerful", usually pulling a Follow the Leader act at a current crime-fighting fad (The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Superhero stuff).
4. That's What I Would Do: This is how the titular Castle helps solve crimes: by being Genre Savvy and knowing what he would write in a given situation.
5. Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
   • In this series, Chip and Dale are no longer mischievous troublemakers but rather amateur crimefighters.
   • Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Steggy once more; a super-intelligent, high-tech-equipped dinosaur from outer space meets crimefighting rodents.
   • By helping them first become crime-fighters and then take down Aldrin Klordane, Plato passes the torch on to Chip and Dale who, however, will continue his legacy of crime-fighting without human assistance.
6. Our Gargoyles Rock: Gargoyles is a series in which 6 gargoyles, originally the guardians of a castle in 10th-century Scotland, are transported to modern-day New York. They Fight Crime! at night, and turn into statues to sleep during the day, when they are also healed of any injury.
7. Everyone Meets Everyone: Iron Man had built Ultron robots with Ant-Man, and partied with Ant-Man's companion, The Wasp, a few times. Since Iron Man owns a suit of Hulkbuster armor, some could assume that he also already met the Hulk. The first episode that aired on Disney XD, "Breakout", marks the first time They Fight Crime! together. It also marks the first time any of them meet and team up with The Mighty Thor.
8. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Given Marvel's track record, it's inevitable. Soon, SG teams up with The Punisher. They Fight Crime!.
9. Western Animation: Yes, it is about cute and fuzzy little rodents, but these cute and fuzzy little rodents are quite elaborate and multi-dimensional characters in a Daring Rescue and crime-fighting team.
10. Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series: Alien hockey players by day, alien super heroes by night.
11. Las Paridas de la Guarida: She's a superheroine.
12. Jumper: David has only begun to hunt them down and reconcile with his girlfriend when The Government steps in and things go From Bad to Worse.]]
13. Anime and Manga P to S: Soreike! Anpanman: A living loaf of bread fights crime and feeds himself to the hungry. His archenemy is a germ from space.
14. The Club of Queer Trades: Rupert Grant is a jack-of-all-trades turned private detective. His brother, Basil, is an eccentric retired judge. They Fight Crime!. Or, rather, Rupert tries to fight crime, and Basil shows how the mystery isn't actually at all criminal.
15. Miss Machiko: Best Known for the Fanservice: Obviously, the main point of this series was fanservice so it's easy to overlook the fact that the show involved episodes about a Haunted House, Sea Monster, and more than a few episodes where Machiko and her students take on criminals.
16. Ranma ½: Ranma has left Nerima (for reasons unknown) and joins a special police force, the DAPC, Department of Abnormal Phenomenae Containment.
17. Theatre: 'A Steady Rain'' (2009, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, LA): Wolverine and James Bond are cops.
18. Fate/unlimited codes: Despite the majority of the characters having Downer Endings or Bittersweet Endings at best, Archer of all people actually gets a much better ending than in Fate/stay night canon: specifically, he ends up teaming up with Rin to fight demons together, and if their flirty dialogue is any indication, they become a Battle Couple.
19. Dino-Boy: While at first glance the series seems to be about Evan and Halle fighting crime, most stories feature an Aesop about life, the universe, and stuff like that.
20. Interrupted Suicide: Glory Girl thought Taylor was throwing herself off a building to kill herself because she wasn't in costume, but in truth, she was testing her teleportation powers. They decide to team up afterwards and fight crime.
21. Fan Works: Beth has commented that they will probably never get off the honeymoon, and both are perfectly fine with that. Now, They Fight Crime! in the 22nd century, particularly dealing with the clone of Professor Moriarty.
22. Przygody Psa Cywila: And so they go on to thwart criminals!
23. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Main Characters: A boy traveling with his demon sister, a coward who harbors hidden determination, and a boy raised by boars. They slay demons.
24. Alien: Natasha Xander was just an Ordinary High-School Student, but after a meteor crashes in Central Park, she uses the costume inside to fight crime as XenoGirl!
25. Pirates of the Caribbean: Pirate Parrot: and monkey too. Then they join forces to defeat evil using explosives.
26. TV Tropes Examples: And then Samuel L. Jackson and the T-Rex both travel to the mainland at the end, Samuel gets a bionic arm, and they go into business together as private investigators.
27. Choose Your Own Adventure: The whole plot of Your Very Own Robot. Also, one of the paths in Supercomputer has your computer getting a robotic body, and the two of you fighting crime.

1. Route 66: Well, sometimes they do.
2. Simon & Simon
3. Diamond Phase: AC and Calia.
4. Clockwork: Gaz and Christian, with limited success.
5. Sam & Max: Sometimes on purpose.
   Sam: "I'm Sam. He's Max. We bust punks."
6. The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty: The premise of the show. Although Sui Zhou does most of the fighting.
7. Nobody Dies: The Ree's new hobby: They Fight Crime!
8. The Galaxy Trio: It's what they do.
9. Rainbow Double Dashs Lunaverse Ponyville: With Caramel.

1. Lethal Weapon: Buddy Cop film series with a mismatched duo as heroes — a single and reckless Cowboy Cop and a family man who's (mostly) a By-the-Book Cop. That pothole is probably better linked to Odd Couple than They Fight Crime!
2. Western Animation: Home Movies: This show features this trope almost every episode, given that the central premise of the show is that three kids make their own movies.
3. Bad Liar: Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Steve Rogers, beacon of morality that he is, is a truly terrible liar. Not a single S.H.I.E.L.D. employee is fooled for a second by his repeated claims not to know what's going on, and Black Widow even insults him to his face for it (in an appreciative way). I don't even know what this pothole is even doing here. Nothing in the entire sentence talks about crime-fighting, superheroics or anything of the sort.
4. The Kingfisher: There's two, Lord Auberon Greyburn and Nick The Cutter. The former is almost comically insane with Mad Artist forms of expression, and the latter was post conversion able to see spirits. Both became friends.
5. Fake Ultimate Hero: As a demon, Neuro cannot be the one to get the spotlight, so he needs a patsy/victim/chew toy to be his face. This isn't to say Yako is useless. She possesses an incredible amount of empathy (something a demon totally lacks), and the more the story goes on, the more They Fight Crime! together.
6. Unseen Academicals: We don't know if she has any actual magic power, but witchcraft is mostly about having the right sort of personality and intelligence and she does have that. (Also, it makes the idea of her, Nutt and Oats having adventures in Überwald just a little more awesome.) Having adventures =/= fighting crime.
7. Pitch the Work: 'Person of Interest'': Reclusive billionaire and ex-CIA agent fight crime with a machine that predicts people involved in violent crimes before they happen... but they don't know if the person of interest is the victim or the perpetrator.
8. Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack: ...but the fluidity of anime canonicity (plus the far-off promise of a Quess-free remake) could result in Amuro and Char surviving atmospheric re-entry after pushing Axis away from Earth...and spending their remaining days as buddy cops.
9. Cop and a Half: Since Police Are Useless, Devon is partnered up with well-known Child Hater McKenna and given his dream job. They Fight Crime! Hilarity Ensues.
10. Arrow: They are already close, but the time they will spend together as They Fight Crime! will bring them family-like closeness.
11. Eberts Glossary Of Movie Terms^note Page was since cut for plagiarism: Odd Couple Formula: Seemingly incompatible characters are linked to each other in a plot which depends on their differences for its comic and dramatic interest. Cf. Tango and Cash, Homer And Eddie, Lethal Weapon, Loose Cannons. Essential that one member of each team be a slob, as revealed by presence of fast-food wrappers in back seat of his Hollywood Cop Car