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| “ | Good Cop: Hi buddy! I'm your friendly neighborhood police officer. Would you like a glass of water? Emmet: Yeah. Yeah, actually. *switches face* Bad Cop: Too bad! |
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| ~ Bad Cop after changing into Good Cop in front of Emmet. |
Bad Cop is the secondary antagonist of Warner Bros. Pictures Animation's 1st feature film, The LEGO Movie, and a minor character in its 2019 sequel The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part.
He is Lord Business' former right-hand man and his sole enforcer who isn't a robot. He is also a dissociative police officer who alternates between Bad Cop, his evil self, and Good Cop, his kind self. Despite initially helping Lord Business in his attempt to rule the Lego world, he ends up getting betrayed, and he starts to assist the Master Builders. He is also Emmet Brickowski’s former archrival.
He was voiced by Liam Neeson, who also played Martin Brogan in High Spirits, Ra's al Ghul in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight Rises, Eliot Deacon in After.Life, Phango in Khumba, Norvirus Raccoon in The Nut Job, himself in Family Guy, Clinch Leatherwood in A Million Ways to Die in the West, Jimmy Conlon in Run All Night, The Impresario in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Harry Rawlings in Widows, High-T in Men In Black: International, and Fujimoto in Ponyo.
Biography[]
Background[]
Bad Cop works for Lord Business, due to being his strongest and most ruthless henchman. At some point, he was hired by the Lord to hunt down every Master Builder. He will do anything that he can to help Lord Business accomplish his goal of gluing the world together with the Kragle.
The LEGO Movie[]
President Business meets with Bad Cop as his alter-ego, Lord Business, in the Octan Tower's relic room, which is full of non-LEGO items from a world beyond theirs: the human world. Lord Business lets it be known that he is angry that Emmet escaped with the Piece of Resistance, but intends to set everything in place literally with the Kragle (which happens to be a tube of Krazy Glue with some letters rubbed off). He tests his lieutenant's loyalty by having him fire the weapon-turned relic onto his own parents, Ma Cop and Pa Cop, but his Good Cop side doesn't let him comply with the order. And then, Lord Business discovers this and rubs off that side of the officer with other powerful items (nail polish remover and a q-tip) before convincing him to demonstrate the Kragle's power.
Bad Cop tracks down Emmet, Wyldstyle, and Vitruvius in the Old West which leads to him destroying a bridge for the train they are on, but they are rescued by Batman in his Batwing, who rebuilds Bad Cop's car into a baby carriage to lose him. Bad Cop and his robot forces locate Emmet again via a tracking device shot onto him when previously saving Wyldstyle from the shot and attack and capture all the remaining Master Builders (except for Emmet and a few others who escape in a quickly-built submarine) during the attack on Cloud Cuckoo Land. Above the ocean waves, Bad Cop reports no other survivors amongst the surfacing wreckage to Lord Business—but fails to notice said survivors hiding in the only part that stayed intact: a double-decker couch that Emmet had built for the first time on his own.
Bad Cop later helps Wyldstyle and the Master Builders fight Lord Business's robots after he was abandoned by Lord Business for double-crossing him in the tower, and draws on a new Good Cop side with a marker. After the Kragle was destroyed, Bad Cop reunites with his parents.
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part[]
Bad Cop, now known as Scribble Cop, is shown to be a citizen of Apocalypseburg. He has converted his police car into a post-apocalyptic carriage that is carried by the Skeletrons. Emmet says good morning to him to which he growls. He then appeared in Emmet's nightmare about Armamageddon. Scribble Cop can be later seen in Batman's base. However, he is not seen again afterwards.
During the scene where he meets Emmet, he flips his head from the Bad Cop to the Good Cop face, with the latter growling quietly.
Appearance[]
Bad Cop dresses in the black LEGO police uniform, and also has grey hands. His head is yellow, and has double-sided printing. One side portrays his "bad" personality, and the other side portrays his "good" personality. His bad side has sunglasses with grey lenses and a determined expression. His good side has an open smile and glasses. Bad Cop also wears a black helmet.
His 71004 The LEGO Movie Series, Scribble Face Bad Cop, variant comes with a double-sided head pieces. One side shows his bad side, while the other is a scribbled good side face. He does not have details on the back of the torso, despite having them in the movie.
The set 70802 Bad Cop's Pursuit also has his Bad Cop face but with a more angry expression as well as his Good Cop expression.
In the set 70840, Bad Cop is called Scribble Cop and still retains his police uniform; however, he now wears armour plates on his shoulders.
Personality[]
Bad Cop is an evil cop that is loyal to President Business and does whatever he commands. He has a second split persona named Good Cop that acts friendly, but Bad Cop likes his evil persona more, and usually has a tendency to fight between the two personas. Lord Business eventually killed his good side by rubbing it with nail polisher, but Bad Cop revived his good persona back by drawing another Good Cop face with permanent marker since Lord Business betrays him.
In other media[]
LEGO Dimensions[]
Bad Cop appears as a playable character in the game, coming in a 71213 Fun Pack along with his Police Car, but doesn't appear in the story mode.
Trivia[]
- Liam Neeson and Batman's voice actor, Will Arnett, co-starred in The Nut Job (another 2014 animated film), where Neeson voiced Norvirus Raccoon and Arnett voiced Surly Squirrel.
- Bad Cop has a habit of throwing and kicking metal chairs around when he breaks down. In fact, he even throws a chair so far at an escaping robot, that it knocks out the robot.
- This isn't the first time that Liam Neeson has played a character who has fought Batman, as he previously played Ra's al Ghul in Batman Begins.
- The names of Bad/Good Cop's split personalities don't actually signify their moral alignments, but rather their behaviour. Initially, both were loyal to Lord Business, but Bad Cop was rude and more vicious, while Good Cop was polite and hesitant to hurt his parents. After being left for dead by Business, Bad Cop helped the heroes out and restored Good Cop, who promised to continue assisting them by holding the robots off.
- Bad Cop is (so far) Liam Nelson's only villainous role to not be the main antagonist of his film.
External links[]
- Good Cop on the Heroes Wiki
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Octan Corporation Phantom Zone Criminals The Rogues Shark Army Doom Lords Others | ||
