Crime And Punishment Tropes

Basic Information

Crime and Punishment Tropes are genre tropes which predominantly appear in Crime and Punishment shows.

List of Crime and Punishment Tropes

• Acquitted Too Late
• All In Hand
• All Crimes Are Equal
• Alone With The Psycho
• Always Murder
• Asshole Victim
• Atonement Detective
• Be As Unhelpful As Possible
• Beneath Suspicion
• Big Brother Is Your Friend
• Big Secret
• Big Store
• Blackmail Is Such An Ugly Word
• Bluffing The Murderer
• Bonnie And Clyde
• Book 'Em, Danno
• Bugs Meany Is Gonna Walk
• The Butler Did It
• Candlelit Bath
• Chewbacca Defense
• Clear My Name
• Clueless Mystery
• Comatose Canary
• Connect The Deaths
• Cowboy Cop
• Creek Moment
• Cut And Paste Note
• Cut Himself Shaving
• Da Chief
• Dead Mans Chest
• Detective Patsy
• Dirty Harriet
• Donut Mess With A Cop
• Encyclopedia Browned
• Everyone is a Suspect
• Evidence Scavenger Hunt
• Exposition Victim
• Fair Cop
• Fatal Attraction
• Fair Play Whodunnit
• Fingertip Drug Analysis
• Flashed Badge Hijack
• Framing The Guilty Party
• Freaks Of The Week
• Going By The Matchbook
• Guilt By Coincidence
  • Repli Force
• Handy Cuffs
• Hanging Judge
• He Knows Too Much
• Hidden Wire
• Hitman With A Heart
• Impersonating An Officer
• Inkblot Test
• Insanity Defense
• Insignia Rip Off Ritual
• Internal Affairs
• It Never Gets Any Easier
• Its For A Book
• It Was Here I Swear
• Jack The Ripper
• Jurisdiction Friction
• Justice By Other Legal Means
• Justified Criminal
• Just One Little Mistake
• Kangaroo Court
• The Killer Becomes The Killed
• Last Minute Reprieve
• Let Me At Him
• Locked Room Mystery
• Luxury Prison Suite
• Mafia Princess
• Mary Kelly's Kidney
• McCloud Speech
• Mistaken Confession
• Motive Rant
• The Murder After
• Murder Dot Com
• Murderer POV
• Murder The Hypotenuse
• Necro Cam
• Never One Murder
• Never Suicide
• No Tell Motel
• Noble Bigot With A Badge
• Not Proven
• Off On A Technicality
• Perfect Poison
• Perp And Weapon
• Perves Sell Products
• Photo Psychic
• Plea Bargain
• Plethora Of Mistakes
• Police Brutality
• Prison Rape
• Prison Sequences
• Private Defective
• Private Detective
• Private Eye Monologue
• The Profiler
• Profiling
• Pull The Thread
• Reading Your Rights
• Retirony
• Returning To The Scene
• Saying Too Much
• Self Restraint
• Serial Killer
• Snuff Film
• Society Is To Blame
• Spock Did It
• The Summation
• Sympathetic Murderer
• Taking The Heat
• Take Me Out At The Ball Game
• There Should Be A Law
• Time Delayed Death
• True Crime
• Turn In Your Badge
• Urban Legends
• Vigilante Execution
• Vigilante Man
• Vomiting Cop
• Whodunnit To Me
• Wrongful Accusation Insurance
• You Do Not Have To Say Anything
• You Get Me Coffee
• You Have 48 Hours
• You Meddling Kids

Other Tropes

• Basic Mystery Classes
• The Con
• Courtroom Antic
• Forensic Phlebotinum
• Mystery Arc
  • Perp Sweating

See Also

• courtroom procedure
• crime scene
• crimes
• criminal
• investigator
• organized crime
• police procedure
• punishment
• victim

Sources

Bibliography

1. TV Tropes Wiki entry

Game and Story Use

• If there are no crimes being committed in your campaign, someone involved in it is probably doing something wrong.