Inspector Javert/Playing With

Basic Trope: An officer believes The Hero is the bad guy and goes after him ruthlessly.
 * Straight: Detective Bob believes Alice, who has been framed, is a thief and does everything in his power to arrest her.
 * Exaggerated: Bob mistakes a ketchup stain on Alice's shirt for blood and attempts to arrest her for murder.
 * Downplayed: Bob, a truant officer, goes after Alice whom he believes is skipping school, but has graduated school years ago.
 * Justified: The hero is framed for all the shit, but without evidence, Bob is right in trying to apprehend her.
 * Inverted: Alice believes that Detective Bob is actually the villain in disguise and tries to capture him.
 * Subverted: Bob is after Alice, who claims to have been framed, but turns out, was lying and did commit the crime.
 * Double Subverted: But that was not the crime Bob is after Alice for.
 * Parodied: Alice is a completely innocent woman, but through a series of coincidences and misunderstandings, Bob accuses Alice of several crimes, and her every attempt to prove her innocence only makes things worse.
 * Deconstructed: After Bob has arrested Alice, evidence of Alice's innocence pop up, and Bob is fired for his inability to spot this evidence before.
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 * Zig Zagged: ???
 * Averted: Alice really is guilty of the crime Bob accuses her of.
 * Enforced: ???
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 * Exploited: ???
 * Defied: ???
 * Discussed: ???
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