Turn In Your Badge / Western Animation

• The Angry Beavers, "Dagski and Norb" (parodying Starsky & Hutch). The titular cops report to their superior about seeing a car that looked just like theirs... and end up turning in their badges anyhow because there was a report about "something bad going down" and their car being seen leaving the scene of the crime.
• Arcane: After narrowly surviving Jinx's attack, Caitlyn's mother speaks to the sheriff to get her kicked off the force to keep her safe, much to Caitlyn's displeasure. Though as usual it does jack squat in keeping her off the case, as before she can be formally dismissed she heads off to Stillwater take advantage of her status and when she eventually she meets with the sheriff again he dies soon after.
• Happens to Montoya in the Batman: The Animated Series episode "P.O.V.". (Bullock and an incidental character, Wilkes, are also forced to turn in their badges, but only Montoya keeps working on the case.)
• Danger Mouse: In "The Invasion of Colonel K," the Colonel fires Danger Mouse and Penfold, but that's only because Baron Greenback (reduced to microscopic size) has entered his brain and is telling the Colonel what to say.
  • "Demons Aren't Dull" has DM attempting to quit after he is humiliated on a "This Is Your Life" show showcasing his shortcomings. The show was secretly staged by Baron Greenback.
• In the Bonkers episode "Quibbling Rivalry," Bonkers meets Miranda's sister, Shirley Wright. During one scene, because of the damage caused when Shirley filmed them doing their jobs, Bonker phones her news station and announces on live television that he will turn in his badge, despite Miranda's pleas that he not do it. Later in the episode, however, Bonkers and Miranada rescue an old lady and her cat, and Shirley's praise of him causes Bonkers to change his mind about resigning. (This is a harsh blow for Francis, who desperately wants Bonkers out of the department.)
• Darkwing Duck: Grizzlikov, the Obstructive Bureaucrat supreme of SHUSH, ends up getting let go by Da Chief J Gander Hooter, in favour of a squad trained and inspired by Costumed Crimefighter (and title character) Darkwing Duck in one episode. It's the second variant; he gets recruited by the villains and works as The Mole to sabotage their big design, all according to Hooter's plan.
• In the first part of Family Guy's "Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story", Tom Tucker is fired from the news station and had to give back all of his station items, including his mustache.
• In at least one episode of Fillmore!, the title character has to turn in his Safety Patrol sash.
• Futurama: Professor Farnsworth used this on Leela to demand her to give back stuff he didn't give her in the first place, specifically the "captain's jacket," in fact an unremarkable woman's jacket that she's owned since well before she joined the crew (which is subsequently worn by Bender and then Fry when each takes over as captain).
• The second variation of this trope happened with Elisa on Gargoyles. Turns out she was going undercover to catch Dracon.
• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983): In "Prince Adam no More", when Skeletor banished Beast-Man from Snake Mountain, he told Beast-Man to turn in his whip and his seat at their meeting room. (Skeletor had the second part done by destroying said seat)
• After several missions gone wrong, Lin Beifong from The Legend of Korra resigns as Chief of Police so she can fight Amon and his Equalists on her own terms.
• In Metalocalypse, Murderface is placed on band suspension because the others are tired of dealing with his crap. Murderface tries to make it sound cooler by comparing himself to a badass cop who crossed the line and has to turn in his gun and badge. Ofdenson then informs that he actually does need to turn in his badge. Apparently he was given one when the band was formed, but he lost it.
• In the Phineas and Ferb episode "The Chronicles of Meap", The Stinger for the episode features a mock trailer for a sequel episode, including a scene with Major Monogram furiously telling Perry the Platypus "I want your hat on my desk!"
  • When it was made into an actual episode, when the scene itself occurs... Major Monogram suddenly changes his tone and says, "'Cause it rains a lot in Seattle, and we want to spray it with this cool new waterproofing treatment."
• Parodied in the The Powerpuff Girls (1998) episode "Cop Out", where a lazy cop named Mike Brickowski gets fired and is called to turn in his equipment. He turns in his badge, then his sunglasses. When Brickowski tries to hand in his gun, Da Chief refuses, telling him to keep it as a souvenir, and asks him to give him the donut he's holding instead.
  Chief: Now, hand over your badge.
  Brickowski: You... want my badge?
  Chief: Did I stutter? Now hand it over. [Brickowski gives him the badge] Good. Your sunglasses. [Brickowski gives him the sunglasses he's wearing, then tries to hand in his gun] No, no, you can keep that. Little souvenir for ya. That doughnut's looking good, though. [Brickowski gives him the donut] Oh, yeah.
• Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century has the traditional version where Chief Grayson complains about her rather reckless crime-fighting decisions—enough that he's had to suspend her in the past. She also pulls a Resign in Protest version on him in the first episode when he initially refuses to harbor the notion of bringing Sherlock Holmes back to life.
• Done on The Simpsons when Apu is fired from the Kwik-E-Mart. He is told to hand in his pricing gun (which he keeps in a shoulder holster) and his backup (kept in an ankle holster).
  • In one episode, Ned Flanders became a Bounty Hunter. When he quit, he tried to play the trope but then realized there wasn't anything he had to give back. (Which is odd, considering Ned and Homer were seen using tasers. Was Homer the only one to be given one?)
  • Subverted in one of the McBain clips — Da Chief reads our Cowboy Cop his List of Transgressions, and just as he starts to threaten that "You're outta here!", McBain picks him up and throws him through a window. ("That makes two of us.")
  • During the ending credits of "Sky Police", Chief Wiggum turns in his badge, his gun and the jetpack. The last item smashes Mayor Quimby.
• Parodied in South Park when Mr. Garrison is fired.
  Mr. Garrison: I suppose you'll be wanting my badge and gun...
  Chairman: Mr. Garrison, most teachers do not carry a gun!
  Mr. Garrison: Oh, sorry. So I can keep it then?
• Inverted on Superman: The Animated Series. Da Chief Maggie Sawyer remarks that if she had a nickel for every time Cowboy Cop Dan Turpin turned in his badge of his own volition, she'd be richer than Lex Luthor.
• April O'Neil's news station boss occasionally threatened to "have your press card!" on the '90s animated version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
• The Dysfunction Junction crew of the Combining Mecha Titan Maximum has this happen to them when the villain releases a sex tape of one of them. Since the team was especially unruly, their Da Chief, Admiral Bitchface, enjoys this more than he should.
  Palmer: You're having us reassigned???
  Admiral Bitchface: Did I say reassigned? I meant decomissioned. [To his men] I want these ships dismantled piece by piece, melted down, and turned into a statue of my balls in Palmer's mouth.

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