Character turning up with cops at the King's Head (5)
I believe the answer is:
spock
'character turning' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.
'up with cops at the king's head' is the wordplay.
'up with' is a reversal indicator (move letters in down clue up).
'at' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'head' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'kings' is 'k'.
'cops' back-to-front is 'spoc'.
'spoc'+'k'='SPOCK'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for spock that I've seen before include "Star Trek Vulcan" , "aka Leonard Nimoy" , "Star Trek character" , "In terms of childcare, a revolutionary" .)