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A {{subversion}} of a trope is where the viewer is set up to expect it to happen, but then it doesn't. As the supposed example comes in the form of an openly sarcastic remark which makes it quite clear that he doesn't think it made up for her reckless behavior, and there was nothing else beforehand that even remotely suggested that this would be an ArsonMurderAndLifesaving situation rather than a straightforward instance of the CowboyCop being chewed out for her recklessness, [[NotASubversion I don't think that's a subversion.]]
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A {{subversion}} of a trope is where the viewer is set up to expect it to happen, but then it doesn\'t. As the supposed example comes in the form of an openly sarcastic remark which makes it quite clear that he doesn\'t think it made up for her reckless behavior, and there was nothing else beforehand that even remotely suggested that this would be an ArsonMurderAndLifesaving situation rather than a straightforward instance of the CowboyCop being chewed out for her recklessness, [[NotASubversion I don\'t think that\'s a subversion.]]
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ArsonMurderAndLifesaving is a pretty hard trope to subvert, given that the trope itself is nothing more than a subversion of the type of straightforward
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ArsonMurderAndLifesaving is a pretty hard trope to subvert, given that the trope itself is nothing more than a subversion of the type of straightforward \"Hero screwed up and is now getting chewed out by the boss\" scene which this is.
In order for it to be subverted, the audience would, at minimum, have to be led to believe that she had done something so monumentally heroic that anything else she did would have to be forgiven. She\'d merely caught a common thief, not saved the entire city, so there\'s no reason to be surprised when her getting-chewed-out session \'\'doesn\'t\'\' culminate in being praised for heroism and forgiven.
That scene as a whole \'\'might\'\' instead be considered a subversion of TurnInYourBadge, as it looked like she was about to be fired, and she would have been if Bellwether hadn\'t intervened. A TurnInYourBadge plot (which is not simply any instance of a cop being fired, but a plot arc of them getting fired and then solving the case as a civilian anyway, which is fairly common in movies and shows with a CowboyCop protagonist) typically resolves in an ArsonMurderAndLifesaving followed by reinstatement, but this scene doesn\'t really subvert that directly.
In order for it to be subverted, the audience would, at minimum, have to be led to believe that she had done something so monumentally heroic that anything else she did would have to be forgiven. She\'d merely caught a common thief, not saved the entire city, so there\'s no reason to be surprised when her getting-chewed-out session \'\'doesn\'t\'\' culminate in being praised for heroism and forgiven.
That scene as a whole \'\'might\'\' instead be considered a subversion of TurnInYourBadge, as it looked like she was about to be fired, and she would have been if Bellwether hadn\'t intervened. A TurnInYourBadge plot (which is not simply any instance of a cop being fired, but a plot arc of them getting fired and then solving the case as a civilian anyway, which is fairly common in movies and shows with a CowboyCop protagonist) typically resolves in an ArsonMurderAndLifesaving followed by reinstatement, but this scene doesn\'t really subvert that directly.
