History Main / TrenchcoatBrigade

* ComicBook/{{Gambit}} from ''Franchise/{{X-Men}}''. Trenchcoat, stubble, mysterious past, dubious morality, all that's missing is the occult specialty.

* Bigby Wolf from the adaptation ''Game/{{The Wolf Among Us}}''. The voice actor really did great job in making him a ''Hellblazer''-standard SnarkKnight.

* Kiritsugu Emiya from ''LightNovel/{{FateZero}}''. He wears a grungy longcoat, smokes so much and has cold and calculating facade. Top of all that, he's also a Magus killer specializing in killing rogue mages with his own brand of magic.

* The film version of ''Film/AloneInTheDark (2005)'' has a more snarky and jerky (but less life-like) Edward Carnby.

*** The {{New 52}}'s JusticeLeagueDark is essentially a successor to the Trenchcoat Brigade. Like the original, it deals in the occult and is headed by John Constantine. For a period it also included original Trenchcoat Brigader Phantom Stranger

** He was first appeared on earth in Britain (though he was actually born in Hell.) He considers himself American, though.
* Samuel Burke from ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}''. Although overweight, the guy sees everything in the shades of grey. He smokes from time to time and when he taggles along with Spawn in his adventures, he becomes an OccultDetective.
* Lt. Kellaway from ''ComicBook/TheMask'' qualifies. He wears a trench coat and smokes, even having a cynical yet-by-the-book look in his cases, and as he chases down the reality-warping maniac Big Head.
* Harvey Bullock from the Franchise/{{Batman}} mythos. This fat trenchcoat, [[CigarChomper cigar smoking]], and donut eating cop is morally ambiguous in his cases. Lampshaded much in ''ComicBook/GothamCentral'', which has the "freak beat"; the cops in that section deal with Batman's superpowered rogues gallery.

* Fitz Kreiner, from the ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures''. Being GenreSavvy, he seems to know it, too. He smokes, wears a leather coat most of the time and a trench coat some of the time, swears more than basically anyone he knows, has PermaStubble (because he's bad at shaving), and is a lower-middle-class Londoner and a [[GuileHero Guile]] {{Sidekick}}. He's also basically quite sweet and sensitive, but most characters, upon first meeting him, distrust him. Like all of the Doctor's compainions, he's given a WeirdnessMagnet, to make sure when he wanders off, he discovers the nearest source of alien influence.

* Some incarnations of the Doctor in ''Series/DoctorWho'', specifically the ones who are cold and snarky bastards.

* AgentMulder and AgentScully , [[Series/TheXFiles FBI]]

* The not so badass, not so witty, and bumbling idiot Dick Gumshoe from the ''AceAttorney'' series. The only thing he had was the similar shoes, similar cigars, and similar attitude.

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden'', private investigator and wizard hits every tick on the box but smoking. His [[http://img01.spacenode.com/article/5pc_dresden-new-cover.jpg book covers]] add a NiceHat to the formula, but the actual character makes a point of [[CoversAlwaysLie not being a hat person.]]

* ''Anime/YuugenKaisha'' has U Division's Detective Karino, who's usually seen in his trencoat and PermaStubble, and he's a smoker. {{Subverted}} in that he isn't hard-boiled. Instead, he's an UnluckyEverydude who's overworked and a bit of a bumbler, but still [[LetsGetDangerous reasonably good at his job.]]

* Tatsumi Saiga of ''Anime/{{SpeedGrapher}} fits the bill to a T. Smokes, snarky- hes a photo journalist investigating a fetish ring.

* Andrew Cross from ''[[{{Webcomic/Morphe morphE]]}}'' is a by the numbers example. An agent of the occult with a long coat, thick stubble and a crazed paranoid outlook.

* Andrew Cross from ''[[{{Webcomic/Morphe morphE]]'' is a by the numbers example. An agent of the occult with a long coat, thick stubble and a crazed paranoid outlook.

* ''Anime/YuugenKaisha'' has U Division's Detective Karino, who's usually seen in his trencoat and PermaStubble, and he's a smoker. {{Subverted}} in that he isn't hard-boiled. Instead, he's an UnluckyEverydude who's overworked and a bit of a bumbler, but still reasonably good at his job.

* [[LightNovel/FateZero Emiya Kiritsugu]] is pretty much John Constantine in a different setting.

* The ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' cast is Her Majesty's private answer to alien threats to England and the World. Longcoat optional (Jack's is dark blue wool).

* Seems to be the dresscode in most FilmNoir.

->''"Just what the world's been waiting for. The Charge of the Trenchcoat Brigade."''
-->-- '''[[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]]''', ''Comicbook/TheBooksOfMagic''

* Being an adaptation of the UrExample and TropeNamer [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]], of course [[Series/{{Constantine}} Constantine]] features this.

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Many creators figure that if they give a bloke a [[BadassLongcoat trenchcoat]], a pack of [[SmokingIsCool smokes]], and a [[PermaStubble five o'clock shadow]]; a [[DeadpanSnarker quick wit]], [[FirstPersonSmartass hard-boiled and self-referential dialogue]] and a [[MysteriousPast mysterious]] and [[DarkAndTroubledPast dark past]], they've got themselves a MagnificentBastard of an {{antihero}} that they can send out to fight [[EldritchAbomination occult foes]].