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* Example of comedic use: ''Film/BackToTheFuture'':
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* Example of comedic use: ''Film/BackToTheFuture'':''Film/BackToTheFuture1'':
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** At the end of season 1, former Republic soldier Cara Dune starts working for Greef Karga on Navarro. Halfway through season 2, it's revealed that she drove out the Imperial remnant and the criminals, making the planet a reasonably safe place.
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** At the end of season 1, former Republic soldier Cara Dune starts working for Greef Karga on Navarro. Halfway through season 2, it's revealed that she drove out the Imperial remnant and the criminals, making the planet a reasonably safe place. By season 3, it's become one of the largest trade hubs on the Outer Rim.
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[[folder: Film Films -- Live-Action ]]
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* ''Film/RoadHouse''. Dalton starts off acting as head bouncer at a bar, but is forced to CleanUpTheTown to save his own life.
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* ''Film/RoadHouse''.''Film/RoadHouse1989''. Dalton starts off acting as head bouncer at a bar, but is forced to CleanUpTheTown to save his own life.
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A new person (or an old inhabitant returning after years away) comes to a town suffering from lawlessness and corruption. He or she is appointed to a position of responsibility, such as TheSheriff, and proceeds to reduce crime, establish the rule of law, and topple the corrupt powers that kept the town from prospering. TheDrifter on the other hand does this chronically, switches between towns and repeats the feat.
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A new person (or an old inhabitant returning after years away) comes to a town suffering from lawlessness and corruption. He or she is They are appointed to a position of responsibility, such as TheSheriff, and proceeds proceed to reduce crime, establish the rule of law, and topple the corrupt powers that kept the town from prospering. TheDrifter on the other hand does this chronically, switches between towns and repeats the feat.
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* City Marshal [[AwesomeMcCoolname Dallas Stoudenmire]] was brought into El Paso to clean it up as the previous 5 marshals in the last 8 months were either incompetent, corrupt, or killed. He proceeded to kill at least 10 criminals in the next year, dropping the crime rate significantly.
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* City Marshal [[AwesomeMcCoolname Dallas Stoudenmire]] Stoudenmire was brought into El Paso to clean it up as the previous 5 marshals in the last 8 months were either incompetent, corrupt, or killed. He proceeded to kill at least 10 criminals in the next year, dropping the crime rate significantly.
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* {{Deconstruct|ion}}ed in Creator/HarlanEllison's short story, "The End of the Time of Leinard". The sheriff who was brought in to clean up the town decades before is now seen as a menace for his heavy-handed tactics, leading the town to conspire to get rid of him.
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* {{Deconstruct|ion}}ed in Creator/HarlanEllison's short story, "The End of the Time of Leinard".''Literature/TheEndOfTheTimeOfLeinard''. The sheriff who was brought in to clean up the town decades before is now seen as a menace for his heavy-handed tactics, leading the town to conspire to get rid of him.
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* In a sci-fi comedy ''Arm of the Law'' by Creator/HarryHarrison, an android police officer is assigned to a police station of BadCopIncompetentCop types in a WretchedHive on Mars. He promptly arrests the local crime boss for an outstanding warrant, forcing the other officers to help him clean up the town (which the android [[RobotsAreJustBetter does most efficiently]]) because they're afraid the crime boss [[YouHaveFailedMe will have them tortured and killed once he gets out of jail]].
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* In a sci-fi comedy ''Arm of the Law'' ''Literature/ArmOfTheLaw'' by Creator/HarryHarrison, an android police officer is assigned to a police station of BadCopIncompetentCop types in a WretchedHive on Mars. He promptly arrests the local crime boss for an outstanding warrant, forcing the other officers to help him clean up the town (which the android [[RobotsAreJustBetter does most efficiently]]) because they're afraid the crime boss [[YouHaveFailedMe will have them tortured and killed once he gets out of jail]].
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* Similarly done at the end of the ''WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw'' cartoon "Double Barrel Double," but without the double entendre line. Possibly because Quick Draw himself is a horse so the joke wouldn't work.
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* Similarly done (by the same writer) at the end of the ''WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw'' cartoon "Double Barrel Double," but without the double entendre line. Possibly because Quick Draw himself is a horse so the joke wouldn't work.
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* ''VideoGame/WarDogsRedReturn'': When Red returns to his old neighbourhood, it's been taken over by a gang called "The Slaughter Club". Red decides he needs to take it back from them.
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* ''VideoGame/WarDogsRedReturn'': ''VideoGame/WarDogsRedsReturn'': When Red returns to his old neighbourhood, it's been taken over by a gang called "The Slaughter Club". Red decides he needs to take it back from them.
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Occurs almost every major arc, with the Straw Hats arriving on a new island and ending up overthrowing some villainous tyrant that has taken over or is attempting to take over. It's usually not their original ''intent'', but circumstances end up forcing their moral intervention (usually either the villain picking a fight with them or the villain's actions threatening one of their new friends).
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Occurs almost every major arc, with the Straw Hats arriving on a new island and ending up overthrowing some villainous tyrant that has taken over or is attempting to take over. It's usually not their original ''intent'', but circumstances end up forcing their moral intervention (usually either the villain picking a fight with them or the villain's actions threatening one of their new friends).
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* ''Film/SupportYourLocalSheriff'' is another comedic western example.
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* This is a good deal of the plot of ''Film/{{Walking Tall|1973}}'' (1973).
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* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': Carrot Ironfoundersson, when he arrives in Ankh-Morpork - but he's so nice about it...
* ''Literature/LiadenUniverse'': Pat Rin yos'Phelium when he arrives on Surebleak.
* ''Literature/LiadenUniverse'': Pat Rin yos'Phelium when he arrives on Surebleak.
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-->--'''Toxie''', ''Film/TheToxicAvenger''
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* ''Film/TheUntouchables1987''.
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* ''Film/TheUntouchables1987''.''Film/TheUntouchables1987'', like the original series, is about Elliot Ness and his titular team going after the gangsters who rule UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}.
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* ''Series/TheUntouchables''.''Series/TheUntouchables'', as explained above.
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* ''Film/TheUntouchables''''Film/TheUntouchables1987''.
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* ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'': This becomes the main plot of Season 5 after the TimeSkip: After some time overseas in the Army, Archie is sent to his hometown to establish an ROTC club. But when he gets there, he finds out that [[BigBad Hiram Lodge]] has run the town into the ground. He calls up his friends in order to fight back and fix things.
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* ''Series/TheMandalorian'':
** At the end of season 1, former Republic soldier Cara Dune starts working for Greef Karga on Navarro. Halfway through season 2, it's revealed that she drove out the Imperial remnant and the criminals, making the planet a reasonably safe place.
** This is part of the backstory of Cobb Vanth. His hometown of Mos Pelgo (a mining settlement on Tatooine) was enslaved by the Mining Guild, but he escaped, got ahold of Mandalorian armor and weapons, and drove the guild out of Mos Pelgo. He's protected the town ever since.
** At the end of season 1, former Republic soldier Cara Dune starts working for Greef Karga on Navarro. Halfway through season 2, it's revealed that she drove out the Imperial remnant and the criminals, making the planet a reasonably safe place.
** This is part of the backstory of Cobb Vanth. His hometown of Mos Pelgo (a mining settlement on Tatooine) was enslaved by the Mining Guild, but he escaped, got ahold of Mandalorian armor and weapons, and drove the guild out of Mos Pelgo. He's protected the town ever since.
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* ''VideoGame/WarDogsRedReturn'': When Red returns to his old neighbourhood, it's been taken over by a gang called "The Slaughter Club". Red decides he needs to take it back from them.
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->''"You can tell all your scum friends that things are gonna change in this town. I'm not just another pretty face."''
-->--'''Toxie''', ''Film/TheToxicAvenger''
-->--'''Toxie''', ''Film/TheToxicAvenger''
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* Robert Stack name drops this trope in an ''Series/UnsolvedMysteries'' segment about the murder of small-town police chief Robert Hamrick, who was the third man to take on the position in 6 months, his predecessors having been driven away by a local gang.
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* Deconstructed in ''ComicBook/SouthernBastards.''
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* Deconstructed in ''ComicBook/SouthernBastards.'''' Earl's father Bertrand once famously ran organized crime out of the town, but it doesn't go well when he tries the same years later.
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* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "WesternAnimation/DripAlongDaffy": Daffy comes to "clean up this one-horse town", and in the end he does... as streetsweeper. "Lucky for him, it ''is'' a one-horse town."
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* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "WesternAnimation/DripAlongDaffy": Daffy Duck comes to "clean up this one-horse town", and in the end he does... as streetsweeper. street-sweeper. His HypercompetentSidekick Porky Pig, who's been made the new sheriff, quips "Lucky for him, it ''is'' a one-horse town."
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* ''VideoGame/TheNamelessMod'''s [[PlayerCharacter Trestkon]] is this- if the player wills it.
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* The original ''VideoGame/SaintsRow1'', drawing a rather obvious inspiration from ''San Andreas'', opens with the VigilanteMan Julius Little forming the 3rd Street Saints (so named after their original turf, the Saints Row hood in Stilwater) for the express purpose of bringing down the three massive gangs currently [[MobWar warring]] over the city. The PlayerCharacter is an innocent victim of said gang war who is saved by Julius and offered a place with the Saints. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, combating gang violence with even more violence, while eventually stopping the gang war, only makes the Saints fill the resulting power vacuum. This HeelRealization prompts Julius to disband the Saints and try to kill the protagonist in the finale, as he realizes that, having tasted blood, the "Playa" will never go back to civil life.]]
* ''VideoGame/TheNamelessMod'''s [[PlayerCharacter Trestkon]] isthis- this -- if the player wills it.
* ''VideoGame/TheNamelessMod'''s [[PlayerCharacter Trestkon]] is
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* Happens in (of all places) ''SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'', after Mean Mr. Mustard's theft of the magical musical instruments turns the town of Heartland into a crime-ridden cesspool. How does the eponymous band clean things up? With a musical carnival!
* This is a good deal of the plot of ''Film/WalkingTall1973''.
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* Happens in (of all places) ''SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'', ''Film/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'', after Mean Mr. Mustard's theft of the magical musical instruments turns the town of Heartland into a crime-ridden cesspool. How does the eponymous band clean things up? With a musical carnival!
* This is a good deal of the plot of''Film/WalkingTall1973''.''Film/{{Walking Tall|1973}}'' (1973).
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* ''Film/DodgeCity''''Film/DodgeCity'': Wade Hatton comes back after years away and takes the job of sheriff of Dodge City to rescue the town from the violent misrule of evil Jeff Surrett.
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* Pretty much every new ''Series/{{ER}}'' chief showed up with the attitude of getting the faltering, disorganized department into top-notch shape.
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* A juvenile version in ''Literature/MissNelsonIsMissing'', when the titular teacher calls in sick because she can't handle her unruly class anymore. Substitute teacher Miss Viola Swamp shows up and flat-out states, "I'm here to whip this class into shape!"
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'''s "Frankie and Ellie Get Lost" has Jay decide, when his wealthy parents are lost at sea and presumed dead, to divest the family's holdings in corrupt businesses and from there turns his inheritance towards literally cleaning up New York City's garbage and graffiti. It works; unfortunately the city officials decide to thank him with a ''ticker tape parade'' and from there the celebration leaves the town just as grimy as it was before.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'''s "Frankie and Ellie Get Lost" has Jay decide, when his wealthy parents are lost at sea and presumed dead, to divest the family's holdings in corrupt businesses and from there turns turn his inheritance towards literally cleaning up New York City's garbage and graffiti. It works; unfortunately works so well that the city officials decide to thank him with a ''ticker tape parade'' parade''...and from there the celebration leaves the town city just as grimy as it was before.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'''s "Frankie and Ellie Get Lost" has Jay decide, when his wealthy parents are lost at sea and presumed dead, to divest the family's holdings in corrupt businesses and from there turns his inheritance towards literally cleaning up New York City's garbage and graffiti. It works; unfortunately the city officials decide to thank him with a ''ticker tape parade'' and from there the celebration leaves the town just as grimy as it was before.
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' starts off [[spoiler: and ends up]] being about CJ and Sweet cleaning up their crack-ridden 'hood.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Crackdown}}'', the city's police force barely is able to hold the line at their own headquarters. [[SuperSoldier The Agent]] must go through the city, killing the leaders of the three gangs who rule the city and their lieutenants. [[spoiler: It becomes a subversion when it's revealed the Agency [[EvilPlan allowed the gangs to run roughshod, so they'd be able to assert a despotic regime once they clean out the gangs.]]]]
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Crackdown}}'', the city's police force barely is able to hold the line at their own headquarters. [[SuperSoldier The Agent]] must go through the city, killing the leaders of the three gangs who rule the city and their lieutenants. [[spoiler: It [[spoiler:It becomes a subversion when it's revealed the Agency [[EvilPlan allowed the gangs to run roughshod, so they'd be able to assert a despotic regime once they clean out the gangs.]]]]
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* In a sci-fi comedy ''Arm of the Law'' by Creator/HarryHarrison, an android police officer is assigned to a police station of BadCopIncompetentCop types in a WretchedHive on Mars. He promptly arrests the local crime boss for an outstanding warrant, forcing the other officers to help him clean up the town (which the android does most efficiently) because they're afraid the crime boss [[YouHaveFailedMe will have them tortured and killed once he gets out of jail]].
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* In a sci-fi comedy ''Arm of the Law'' by Creator/HarryHarrison, an android police officer is assigned to a police station of BadCopIncompetentCop types in a WretchedHive on Mars. He promptly arrests the local crime boss for an outstanding warrant, forcing the other officers to help him clean up the town (which the android [[RobotsAreJustBetter does most efficiently) efficiently]]) because they're afraid the crime boss [[YouHaveFailedMe will have them tortured and killed once he gets out of jail]].
