History Main / CleanupCrew

* Mike, the BaldOfAwesome associate of Gus in ''Series/BreakingBad'', often serves practical purposes such as this, but it's Walter himself who knows the proper chemistry to completely dissolve a human body. When Mike learns that Walter is capable of this, he starts bringing bodies back to Walt's lab for disposal.

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* An [[http://gallery.wacom.com/gallery/45212045/Keine-Spuren-keine-Probleme ad campaign for Wingo cleaning products]] shows them being used by mobsters to clean up crime scenes, with a healthy amount of BlackComedy. "No stains, no problems."

* Creator/StephenKing played one in a guest spot on ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy''. Gemma, while on the run, had just killed a woman who threatened to report her to the police. Tig calls in this guy. After he's finished, the main characters are clueless how he managed it with nothing more than regular kitchen appliances.

* Creator/StephenKing played one in a guest spot on ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy''. After he's finished, the main characters are clueless how he managed it with nothing more than regular kitchen appliances.

* Harvey Keitel plays the much more genteel Winston Wolf in ''Film/PulpFiction''. Wolf takes charge and "solves problems," including corpse disposal.

* The ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'' tends to have one or two groups per species of supernatural with the job description "Protect TheMasquerade".
** A less general example: ''World of Darkness: Chicago'' has a vampire named Dumptruck Ned, who specializes in collecting and disposing of bodies, for a fee based on how well-known or connected the corpse was in life. Given the nature of Kindred existence, he never lacks for money. He's staunchly apolitical, but given the sheer amount of secrets and favors owed he's picked up over his career in the dump truck, if he ever ''wanted'' to get involved in the Danse Macabre, he'd have no problem getting into the upper echelons.

* ''VideoGame/{{Killer7}}'': Garcian Smith calls himself a cleaner. Indeed, his job, when one of the personae has been killed in game, is to "clean" up their remains by retrieving what is essentially their head wrapped up in a brown paper bag...then he can resurrect them with the use of a TV in Harman's Room.

* ''Film/JohnWick'': After dealing with a dozen of Viggo Tarasov's men, John calls up a special "Waste Disposal Department" and asks for "[[SpySpeak a dinner reservation for 12]]". For a cost of twelve gold coins (one per body), Charlie and his boys scrub John's house clean of all evidence, wrap the bodies up in plastic, and then haul them off in a van. The crew later show up at Bethesda Fountain to clean up [[spoiler:Ms. Perkins]] after Winston has his firing squad revoke her membership to the Continental. Though not referenced directly in ''Film/JohnWickChapter3Parabellum'', the crew members are [[TheCameo shown in the background]] of the Continental's furnace/corpse disposal room in the basement.

* ''Series/{{Moonlight}}'' had a character like this for the vampires to help maintain the {{Masquerade}}.

* ''Film/{{Munich}}''. Carl, the most experienced member of the group, works as "sweeper" -- his job is to remove any evidence (such as cartridge cases, though not bodies because the hits are made publicly) left behind by the Mossad hit team. "The Group" also carries out this function, usually by paying a lot more money to someone already in that profession, e.g. a gravedigger would be paid to dig a hole, put a body in it and keep his mouth shut.

* Marvel's various ''ComicBook/DamageControl'' limited series were about the wacky misadventures of a CleanupCrew. Their job was to clean up the aftermath of the various (and numerous) super-battles in the MarvelUniverse; HilarityEnsues when abandoned bits of AppliedPhlebotinum are picked up, superweapons are accidentally activated, and super-villains won't pay their bills. Averts this trope throughout, despite being (at various times) co-owned by The Kingpin and a CorruptCorporateExecutive.

* In the novelization of ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'', a CleanupCrew enters Jules' and Dana's apartment as soon as the five college students drive away in their RV. [[spoiler: In this case, it's not dead bodies they're concealing, but any evidence as to where the five intended human sacrifices might have disappeared to.]]

* In the ''Tweed & Co.'' series by Colin Forbes, Tweed gets into a shoot-out in the middle of Zurich, returns to the scene with a disbelieving colleague and finds [[ItWasThereISwear no sign of any damage]]. Turns out the Swiss authorities have an on-call team of builders and glaziers to conceal anything unpleasant from the tourists.

* In ''Series/{{CSI}}'', a CleanupCrew is involved in the Season 12 episodes "Mrs. Willows Regrets" and "Willows in the Wind". They work very professionally, cleaning their crime scenes with ethanol, wiping any fingerprints and even filling in any bullet holes with plaster. As for the bodies, they take them from the crime scene and use bugs which have been treated with radiation to strip them to the bone in a matter of hours.

* In Creator/HaroldPinter's play ''Theatre/TheDumbWaiter'', two hitmen discuss what happens after they have done their work and left the scene. They come to the conclusion that their organization must have a CleanupCrew that they have never seen.
* In Creator/MartinMcDonagh's play ''Theatre/TheLieutenantOfInishmore'', Padraic and Mairead force Donny and Davey (his father and her brother, respectively) to "get chopping" on the three people they've just killed-- or else the CleanupCrew will be the next to die. [[BloodyHilarious Oh, and it's a comedy.]]

* Operative QUICK from ''The Last Stage'' by WebVideo/NatOneProductions acts as a one-man CleanupCrew. His main function on the team is to dispose of paranormal artifacts, or the [[{{Squick}} mangled bodies those artifacts affect]].

** His novel ''Terminal'' opens with a woman being chased across the snow by guard dogs and DeadlyGas shells. She makes it to the fence only to die from the gas. GasMaskMooks remove her body and, in a chilling detail, one of them carefully wipes the specks of blood from the fence.

* In Creator/HaroldPinter's play ''Theatre/TheDumbWaiter'', two hitmen discuss what happens after they have done their work and left the scene. They come to the conclusion that their organization must have a CleanupCrew that they have never seen.

* ''VideoGame/{{Killer7}}'': Garcian Smith calls himself a cleaner. Indeed, his job, when one of the personae has been killed in game, is to "clean" up their remains by retrieving what is essentially their head wrapped up in a brown paper bag...then he can resurrect them with the use of a TV in Harman's Room.
* ''VideoGame/{{FEAR}}'': Armacham Technology Corporation's security guards engage in an effort to cover up their illegal experiments, which are directly responsible for the strange ghostly phenomenon in Fairport. And in case their standard guards can't do the job, they have an army of hired mercenaries who will destroy all the research facilities and kill all witnesses, including Armacham's own president, whom the board of directors blames for the mess as she stirred up the paranormal activity to begin with against their warnings. However, Armacham's cover up efforts were likely dealt a blow when their clean up crews attacked ''U.S. Military personnel''. Now the government's on to them.

* ''[[VideoGame/HalfLife1 Half-Life]]'': The Hazardous Environment Combat Unit or H.E.C.U. is sent by the government after the Resonance Cascade (the accident that unleashes the aliens from another universe) to fight off the invasion, but also to silence anyone who worked on the project. Most of them are not happy about it. And when they can't do the job, the government sends in Black Ops units who begin ''[[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder killing all the remaining H.E.C.U. forces as well]]''.

* ''Videogame/TeamFortress2'''s Miss Pauling is the mercs' cleaner. She's much more level headed than the mercs, but still crazy enough to shoot incapacitated survivors, witnesses, and giant monsters made of bread tentacles. It's pretty justified; her boss rules the planet, her co-workers are violent psychopaths who kill each other and come back to life, and she only gets one day off a year.
* In ''Mama & Son: Clean House'', Really Shooter's mother cleans up behind him and recycles it all for more ammunition.
* One of the V.I.Ps in the BigBad's dungeon in ''VideoGame/Persona5'' is simply referred to as "The Cleaner". The cast are initially confused at someone like that being considered a VIP (the others are distinguished politicians, a former noble, and company presidents), until they realize he's ''this'' kind of cleaner, and a {{Yakuza}} member.
* It is possible for TheMafia of ''VideoGame/TownOfSalem'' to have a Janitor, who is able to clean a person they kill. Cleaning a dead player will make their role and will unreadable to the rest of the town, which can possibly erase vital information like investigative results or who claimed what to the Jailor. Amusingly, through rare circumstances, they can clean a dead mafia or even ''[[MindScrew themselves]]''.
* In ''VideoGame/RoomboFirstBlood'', the player character is a cleaning robot, so after murdering the burglars it needs to clean up the bodies, blood and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking muddy steps]].
* ''Videogame/SerialCleaner'' casts you as a cleaner who gets hired to dispose of bodies and evidence for various criminals, all the while dodging the cops on the scene.

* "The service" in ''Literature/InterviewingLeather'' took care of this kind of thing for villains such as Leather.
* Often mentioned offhandedly or indirectly in the Wiki/SCPFoundation.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' Season 3 Episode 13 features one who looks like Mr. Clean. He uses a cleaning spray that [[HollywoodAcid instantly melts flesh]] and apparently leaves behind a clean, lemony-fresh scent.
-->'''Brock Sampson:''' You'll find a number for a guy called The Cleaner. Call 'em and tell 'em we got a [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank Damian Hurst]] in Room 202.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' has Wanda's father, "Big Daddy", who handles Fairy World's garbage disposal. He even boasts about it in his card:
-->'''Big Daddy's card''': [[AlmightyJanitor Garbage]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Incorporated]]. We make your trash and your problems disappear, if you know what I mean.
* The Plumbers in ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'' were essentially the frontline equivalent of TheMenInBlack. Same suppressing function, a lot more wet work.

* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'': Though, given it was a civil war where both sides felt the other were illegitimate and his side won and wrote history, it is slightly debatable as 'crime scene,' [[FalseFriend Iizuka]] was this for Kenshin for pretty much his whole assassin career. (Roughly ages fourteen to sixteen.) Once he switched to 'free swordsman and general rearguard', he didn't need one anymore, which is good, [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves because...]]

* In ''Manga/ACertainScientificAccelerator'', Scavenger is a gang employed by Academy City's Board of Directors to swoop in after battles to terminate stragglers and witnesses.
* ''Manga/MeiCompany'' is a team of retired magical girl warriors who run a cleaning service, and often clean up after battles with monsters. Spoofed slightly in that the current generation of magical girls is completely unaware of Mei Company's existence, leading them to assume that just like how monsters disappear when destroyed, the surroundings magically fix themselves. Mei Company is left with extra work after the magical girls decide this means they don't have to hold back in battle.

* Franchise/{{Batman}}: The Eraser was a one-shot villain who specialized in making the evidence of others' crimes disappear, for a small percentage of the take. And [[TheGimmick because he's a Batman villain]], he does this while dressed in a yellow pin-stripe suit and a cylindrical pink mask that makes him look like a walking #2 pencil.
* ''ComicBook/BatmanBlackAndWhite'': In "The Devil's Children", Victor Dean used to work as a body disposer for Gotham's mobs, hiding the bodies in landfill or disposing of them out at sea. His legitimate cover business is as a cement contractor.

* Marvel's various ''ComicBook/DamageControl'' limited series were about the wacky misadventures of a CleanupCrew. Their job was to clean up the aftermath of the various (and numerous) super-battles in the MarvelUniverse; HilarityEnsues when abandoned bits of AppliedPhlebotinum are picked up, superweapons are accidentally activated, and super-villains won't pay their bills. Averts this trope throughout, despite being (at various times) co-owned by The Kingpin and a CorruptCorporateExecutive.
* Jimmy Natale, the sixth Vulture from ''Franchise/SpiderMan'', used be one of these, but got tired of cleaning up sloppy mistakes. He found someone with the technology to manufacture supervillains and approached his bosses with the idea of creating their own Vulture to "[[YouHaveFailedMe thin the herd]]" and discourage screw-ups. Unfortunately, he failed to notice that ''he'' had all the qualities he suggested they look for. Next thing you know, he's a flying, acid-spitting monster.

* The Fraternity in ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}'' have one called Cover that stops their antics reaching the news. They're so good they managed to stop the public learning about the second coming of Jesus Christ.

* The forensics department of [[NGOSuperpower The Company]] in ''FanFic/TheReturn'' which exists to maintain TheMasquerade and clean up leftover demon parts and patch up the landscapes.

* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7957228/1/ Who Needs Obliviators? ]], a oneshot, addresses one of the various possible ways to "clean up" a scene of magic in the Harry Potter universe.

* ''Film/{{Nikita}}'' is the TropeCodifier, with Jean Reno playing Victor the cleaner -- a ruthless ImplacableMan feared even by the trained killers of the agency. He not only disposes of the bodies in the bathtub with acid (while they're still alive, much to his annoyance) but forces Nikita to carry out the original mission.
* Harvey Keitel plays "Victor" in ''Film/PointOfNoReturn'', the [[ForeignRemake English-language remake]] of ''Nikita''.
* Harvey Keitel plays the much more genteel Winston Wolf in ''Film/PulpFiction''. Wolf takes charge and "solves problems," including corpse disposal.
* ''Film/ThreeDaysOfTheCondor''. After the protagonist reports a CIA station has been attacked and his friends murdered, a CIA team (driving a cleaning truck, and carrying buckets and mops) turns up to investigate and presumably dispose of the evidence.
* ''Film/TheGodfather'' Part II has a possible variation where Michael and co "offer" to clean up after their own frame job on Senator Leary, who was drugged and left in a hotel room with a DisposableSexWorker. The idea is that he'll owe them a favour, and thus be in their pocket.

* The ''Film/MenInBlack'' have "Special Services", members of the [=MIB=] organization who clean up evidence of aliens to prevent the general public from learning about their existence. They appear after (a) Mikey is killed, (b) J and K examine the dead alien in the morgue and (c) the Bug escapes from the jewelry store.
* ''Film/{{Munich}}''. Carl, the most experienced member of the group, works as "sweeper" -- his job is to remove any evidence (such as cartridge cases, though not bodies because the hits are made publicly) left behind by the Mossad hit team. "The Group" also carries out this function, usually by paying a lot more money to someone already in that profession, e.g. a gravedigger would be paid to dig a hole, put a body in it and keep his mouth shut.
* [[AlienInvasion Aliens carrying out an Infiltration-style invasion]] find these people very useful. Check out the garbagemen in ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1978'' and the gardeners in ''Film/TheArrival'' (1996); the latter also double as a hit squad who either MakeItLookLikeAnAccident or 'vanish' the evidence with AppliedPhlebotinum.
* ''Film/Underworld2003'': Alexander Corvinus leads a group of men, appropriately called The Cleaners, who cover up the evidence of lycans and vampires. They collect bodies, destroy evidence, and bribe eyewitnesses into staying silent. It's explicitly mentioned that they don't kill to cover it up. [[spoiler: They are all killed by Marcus in Evolution, [[BrokenMasquerade which is what probably led to humans learning of the existence of lycans and vampires in Awakening]]]]. The novelization explains that all of them come from special forces all over the world.

* ''Film/TheShadowConspiracy'' (1997). A household cleaning crew for a company called A Tidy Job turn up to dispose of the bodies left by a killer who murders several people in the opening scene.
* The reason [[PoliceAreUseless the police never get involved]] in the events of ''Film/BurnAfterReading'' is that the CIA are observing everything from afar, [[IdiotPlot confused as to what's happening]] but worried that it ''might'' be a matter of national security. They're repeatedly forced to dispose of bodies before the police can find them and make everything uncomfortably public.
* In ''Film/JackRyanShadowRecruit'', Ryan has a close-call with an assassin in his hotel room after arriving in Moscow, which results in quite a bit of damage. He calls the CIA team monitoring him, who instruct him to leave for a few hours. Once Ryan returns, he finds the body has been removed and everything in the room has been restored, even the bullet holes in the door and the smashed bidet.
* ''Film/JohnWick'': After dealing with a dozen of Viggo Tarasov's men, John calls up a special "Waste Disposal Department" and asks for "[[SpySpeak a dinner reservation for 12]]". For a cost of twelve gold coins (one per body), Charlie and his boys scrub John's house clean of all evidence, wrap the bodies up in plastic, and then haul them off in a van. The crew later show up at Bethesda Fountain to clean up [[spoiler:Ms. Perkins]] after Winston has his firing squad revoke her membership to the Continental. Though not referenced directly in ''Film/JohnWickChapter3Parabellum'', the crew members are [[TheCameo shown in the background]] of the Continental's furnace/corpse disposal room in the basement.

* ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': In TheStinger, several people are shown vacuuming the spent cartridge cases and mopping the blood from [[spoiler:Wolverine's carnage at the Alkali Lake facility]].

* In ''Film/{{Momentum|2015}}'' the main antagonists are cleaners employed by a corrupt US senator, skilled in assassination and body disposal. They're totally ruthless, especially TheDragon in charge and his DarkActionGirl lieutenant.

* In the Literature/MercyThompson novels by Patricia Briggs, most werewolf packs retain the services of a witch to clean up their messes.

* Played for BlackComedy in ''[[Literature/DoraWilkSeries Dora Wilk]]'' short story "Clean Job After Dirty Job", where werewolf alpha kills a wannabe-leader when the latter tries to assassinate him and he has to clean up the mess before his wife shows up. The cleanup crew turns out to be CoolOldLady called [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Grandma]], and she leaves the place in better state than it was before the attack.
* To protect TheMasquerade, characters in the ''Literature/YoungWizards'' series have been known to patch up disaster areas by using timeslides, at least once replacing an entire town with a version from an alternate reality [[RetGone where the damage never happened]].

* Mentioned briefly in ''Literature/GuardsGuards'', when Lord Vetinari orders his secretary to have someone paint over the disturbing Hiroshima-esque shadows on a wall where some bandits got obliterated, so as to quell rumours of Ankh-Morpork being attacked by a dragon. His secretary points out that fresh paint in [[TheCityNarrows The Shades]] would [[RevealingCoverUp just make it obvious that someone had something to hide]], so the Patrician amends it to having the wall demolished. Not that it helps much.

* ''Literature/TheGirlFromTheMiraclesDistrict'' has trolls fulfilling this role for Scandinavia's magical community. As they're man-eaters, they're always happy to "dispose" of any body - or bodies - they're invited to.
* In the novelization of ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'', a CleanupCrew enters Jules' and Dana's apartment as soon as the five college students drive away in their RV. [[spoiler: In this case, it's not dead bodies they're concealing, but any evidence as to where the five intended human sacrifices might have disappeared to.]]

* ''Series/{{Moonlight}}'' had a character like this for the vampires to help maintain the {{Masquerade}}.
* Eliot pretends to be this twice in ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', both times to scare a mark into panicking and doing something stupid.
* The Centre in ''Series/ThePretender'' had "Cleaners" and "Sweepers": Sweepers seemed to be low-level {{mooks}} who cleared the bodies out after a shootout. Cleaners seemed to be active assassins who were sent in to eliminate threats. Interestingly enough, two of the main females on the show - Miss Parker and Brigitte - were at one time Cleaners.
* ''Series/{{Nikita}}'', like [[Series/LaFemmeNikita its predecessor]], has Cleaners who kill and dispose of bodies on Division's orders, but it also has Reapers, Cleaners meant to deal with Division personnel. In episode 6, we learn that [[spoiler: Owen was once a Reaper, and one of his assignments was the murder of Nikita's fiance.]]

* ''Series/TheManFromUncle'': The United Network Command for Law and Enforcement apparently had insurance to cover any collateral damage done in the course of an 'Affair'. In one novelization Napoleon offers a dismayed homeowner a card for UNCLE's special insurance adjusters.
* Creator/StephenKing played one in a guest spot on ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy''. After he's finished, the main characters are clueless how he managed it with nothing more than regular kitchen appliances.

* In one of the third season episodes of ''Series/BurnNotice'', Michael was tasked with following a cleaner for a group thieves. Said cleaner used explosives to clean the crime scene.
* Near the end of Season 2 of ''Series/TheWire'' there's a scene that cuts between a cleanup crew working for The Greek furiously cleaning up a location, (washing heroin and coke down a drainage system with a hose, shredding documents and then taking big bags full of those shreds to dispose of elsewhere, etc.) and cops furiously typing up warrants to search that location. [[spoiler:By the time the cops get there, everything is gone.]]

* These have shown up in ''Series/TheBlacklist'' on at least one occasion. The most notable examples are The Stewmaker, who acts as one of these for criminals, using chemicals to dissolve and dispose of bodies; and Mr. Kaplan, who is Red's own personal Cleanup Crew. And also not [[SamusIsAGirl a mister]]
* Olivia Pope and Associates have acted as one of these in at least one instance on ''Series/{{Scandal}}''.
* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. In "Control-Alt-Delete", Finch expresses disbelief that Control (in charge of the nation's black ops anti-terrorism unit) hasn't heard a thing about their shoot-out with Samaritan agents beneath the New York Stock Exchange, deriding her efforts as "just a clean-up crew" for Samaritan. At the end of the episode Control goes to look for herself and finds the whole place spic-and-span. Except when she runs her finger along the wall, fresh paint comes off.
* In the ''Series/AgentCarter'' episode [[Recap/AgentCarterS2E1TheLadyInTheLake "The Lady in the Lake"]], this is the side job of [[spoiler: [[DirtyCop LAPD Detective]] Andrew Henry]], dumping bodies and making "problems" disappear for people wealthy enough to pay.
* In the ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' third season episode "The Adventure of the Nutmeg Concoction", it turns out that several crime scenes are linked not by a common killer, but by a common cleaner whose preferred method of body disposal [[spoiler:leaves a nutmeg scent behind]]. In a later episode, [[spoiler:Kitty brews up her own nutmeg concoction to dispose of the body of her tormentor, though she ultimately settles on "merely" disfiguring his face with it and leaving him alive.]]

* ''Series/TheDefenders2017'': Luke Cage gets involved in the mess with the Hand due to being asked by Misty Knight to help out the late Candace Miller's brother Cole, who is one of several young men the Hand have been recruiting out of Harlem to do dirty work for them. Luke ultimately ends up first crossing paths with Danny Rand when he tails Cole's crew to a warehouse where the crew are destroying the bodies of Chaste warriors.

* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': Wilson Fisk has a couple on hand, such as the assailants who kill Dex's friend Julie.

* ''Series/StarTrekPicard''. The Zhat Vash clean up all the evidence of their attempt to kidnap Dahj, leaving her apartment immaculate. Laris even notes they went to the trouble of erasing all the evidence down to the molecular level just in case someone with Romulan equipment decided to investigate, [[NoOSHACompliance despite the risk to themselves]]. However, because they can't [[RevealingCoverUp leave signs that they had cleaned up the apartment]], there's still a clue left in the computer because they couldn't afford to erase it entirely.
* In ''Series/{{CSI}}'', a CleanupCrew is involved in the Season 12 episodes "Mrs. Willows Regrets" and "Willows in the Wind". They work very professionally, cleaning their crime scenes with ethanol, wiping any fingerprints and even filling in any bullet holes with plaster. As for the bodies, they take them from the crime scene and use bugs which have been treated with radiation to strip them to the bone in a matter of hours.

* ''The Shadow Conspiracy'' (1997). A household cleaning crew for a company called A Tidy Job turn up to dispose of the bodies left by a killer who murders several people in the opening scene.

* In Creator/MarkGatiss' Lucifer Box novels, [[TheMenInBlack The RA]] continues the theme of janitorial euphemisms by calling its cleanup crews "Domestics".
* Played for BlackComedy in ''[[Literature/DoraWilkSeries Dora Wilk]]'' short story ''Clean Job After Dirty Job'', where werewolf alpha kills a wannabe-leader when the latter tries to assassinate him and he has to clean up the mess before his wife shows up. The cleanup crew turns out to be CoolOldLady called [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Grandma]], and she leaves the place in better state than it was before the attack.

* In the [[Creator/SimonRGreen Greenverse]] of the Literature/{{Nightside}} and Literature/SecretHistories series, ghouls sometimes hire out for this purpose, while the Literature/GhostFinders have crews of human technicians to clean up evidence and spiritually detoxify "bad places" after an investigation.

* In the Tweed & Co. series by Colin Forbes, Tweed gets into a shoot-out in the middle of Zurich, returns to the scene with a disbelieving colleague and finds [[ItWasThereISwear no sign of any damage]]. Turns out the Swiss authorities have an on-call team of builders and glaziers to conceal anything unpleasant from the tourists.

* In the Series/AgentCarter episode [[Recap/AgentCarterS2E1TheLadyInTheLake "The Lady in the Lake"]], this is the side job of [[spoiler: [[DirtyCop LAPD Detective]] Andrew Henry]], dumping bodies and making "problems" disappear for people wealthy enough to pay.
* In the Series/{{Elementary}} third season episode "The Adventure of the Nutmeg Concoction", it turns out that several crime scenes are linked not by a common killer, but by a common cleaner whose preferred method of body disposal [[spoiler:leaves a nutmeg scent behind]]. In a later episode, [[spoiler:Kitty brews up her own nutmeg concoction to dispose of the body of her tormentor, though she ultimately settles on "merely" disfiguring his face with it and leaving him alive.]]

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* Operative QUICK from ''The Last Stage'' by WebVideo/NatOneProductions acts as a one-man CleanupCrew. His main function on the team is to dispose of paranormal artifacts, or the [[{{Squick}} mangled bodies those artifacts affect]].
* "The service" in ''Literature/InterviewingLeather'' took care of this kind of thing for villains such as Leather.
* Often mentioned offhandedly or indirectly in the Wiki/SCPFoundation.
* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' has Recovery Agents, they go after dead Freelancers, take their equipment and blow the body up.
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* ''Film/JohnWick'': After dealing with a dozen of Viggo Tarasov's men, John calls up a special "Waste Disposal Department" and asks for "[[SpySpeak a dinner reservation for 12]]". For a cost of twelve gold coins (one per body), Charlie and his boys scrub John's house clean of all evidence, wrap the bodies up in plastic, and then haul them off in a van. The crew later show up at Bethesda Fountain to clean up [[spoiler:Ms. Perkins]] after Winston has his firing squad revoke her membership to the Continental. Though not referenced directly in ''Film/JohnWichChapter3Parabellum'', the crew members are [[TheCameo shown in the background]] of the Continental's furnace/corpse disposal room in the basement.

* ''Film/JohnWick'': After dealing with a dozen of Viggo Tarasov's men, John calls up a special "Waste Disposal Department" and asks for "[[SpySpeak a dinner reservation for 12]]". For a cost of twelve gold coins (one per body), Charlie and his boys scrub John's house clean of all evidence, wrap the bodies up in plastic, and then haul them off in a van. The crew later show up at Bethesda Fountain to clean up [[spoiler:Ms. Perkins]] after Winston has his firing squad revoke her membership to the Continental.

* Sawyer the Cleaner from ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' is a cleaner who moonlights as an assassin when she needs to. Not nearly as subtle as most Cleaners on this page, particularly given her [[ChainsawGood weapon of choice]]; but then again, [[WretchedHive Roanapur]] seems to have an unofficial policy of 'do what you want just don't leave bodies lying around, its bad form to not clean up after yourself.'. The police chief seems more bothered about the commotion that criminals cause than the crimes themselves.

* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'': Though, given it was a civil war where both sides felt the other were illegitimate and his side won and wrote history, it is slightly debatable as 'crime scene,' [[FalseFriend Iizuka]] was this for Kenshin for pretty much his whole assassin career. (Roughly ages fourteen to sixteen.) Once he switched to 'free swordsman and general rearguard' he didn't need one anymore, which is good, [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves because...]]
* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' - Bruno, a PunchClockVillain [[VillainsOutShopping with a loving family]] whose job it is to dispose of the victims and stolen cars of the Pandina terrorist organization. Captain Raballo makes a call for a "garbage truck" to dispose of the bodies of two subway hooligans killed by his cyborg in a training exercise.

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* ''Series/StarTrekPicard''. The ''Zhat Vash'' cleans up all the evidence of their attempt to kidnap Dahj, leaving her apartment immaculate. Laris even notes they went to the trouble of erasing all the evidence down to the molecular level just in case someone with Romulan equipment decided to investigate, [[NoOSHACompliance despite the risk to themselves]]. However because they can't [[RevealingCoverUp leave signs that they had cleaned up the apartment]], there's still a clue left in the computer because they couldn't afford to erase it entirely.