Unk. Yes. Irritating genre, if not done well. Alas, done badly all too often.
Funnily enough, the show which had a cheerfully "bad" cop for *ages* was "The Bill". Personally, I think that he was written as slightly bent for years, in order to have a little character aroung the place. They didn't put in the effort to make him a problem-child until a few months before he left the show. Still, if you've gotta go, do it in style. None of this "self sacrificial redemption" nonsense. A decent fireball will do it, every time.
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Funnily enough, the show which had a cheerfully "bad" cop for *ages* was "The Bill". Personally, I think that he was written as slightly bent for years, in order to have a little character aroung the place. They didn't put in the effort to make him a problem-child until a few months before he left the show. Still, if you've gotta go, do it in style. None of this "self sacrificial redemption" nonsense. A decent fireball will do it, every time.