Theme: Law Enforcement in Fantastic Cinema

This topic refers to different type of policing in fantastical scenarios. Covered here are depictions of police forces in different worlds – be they future settings or dystopian scenarios, outer space, alternate realities or temporal police forces.

The other major treatment in fantastic cinema is police officers with uniquely different abilities such as those with cyborg replacement parts or where individual officers are afflicted with conditions such as vampirism or lycanthropy. A popular variant is the Buddy Cop film where a regular, usually curmudgeonly, human is partnered with a non-human that can range all the way from aliens and androids to gnomes and orcs.

For more detail and an overview of the genre see the Theme Essay Law Enforcement in Fantastic Cinema.