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* Judge Claude Frollo in the [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney version]] of ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''. (He was an archdeacon in the original novel.)

* Doc Hudson's first appearance in ''[[Cars]]'' implies he is one of these.

{{quote| '''Doc Hudson''': All right, I wanna know who's responsible for wrecking my town, Sheriff. I want his hood on a platter! I'm gonna put him in jail till he rots. No, check that... I'm gonna put him in jail till the ''jail'' rots on top of him, then I'm gonna move him to a new jail and let that jail rot. I'm --...}}

{{quote|'''Doc Hudson''': All right, I wanna know who's responsible for wrecking my town, Sheriff. I want his hood on a platter! I'm gonna put him in jail till he rots. No, check that... I'm gonna put him in jail till the ''jail'' rots on top of him, then I'm gonna move him to a new jail and let that jail rot. I'm --...}}

:: And that's ''before'' he recognizes Lightning as being [[Berserk Button|a race car]].

* In ''[[Transformers: The Movie]]'', the Quintesson judge always finds the defendant innocent...unfortunately, [[Bizarro World|being innocent of any crime happens to be a capital offense.]]

{{quote| '''Quintesson Prosecutor''': Before the magistrate renders a verdict, would you like to beg for your lives? It sometimes helps...but not often.}}

{{quote|'''Quintesson Prosecutor''': Before the magistrate renders a verdict, would you like to beg for your lives? It sometimes helps...but not often.}}

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* Judge E. Clarence 'Necktie' Jones from the 1932 [[John Wayne]] movie ''Ride Him, Cowboy''.

* Played for laughs in ''[[Caddyshack]]'':

{{quote| '''Judge Smails''': I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.}}

{{quote|'''Judge Smails''': I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.}}

* Judge Chamberlain Haller, of ''[[My Cousin Vinny]]'', is a notable aversion of this trope. He does allow his dislike for Vinny to color his judgment ''once'' and make a bad decision, but on the whole, he's a stickler for proper courtroom procedure and brooks absolutely no nonsense from Vinny or anybody else but is also very fair and ends up praising Vinny's skills as a litigator after he wins the case.

* Judge Turpin from ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (film)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]''. In probably his only courtroom scene, he sentences a 8-year old boy to death.

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* From ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'', Barty Crouch Senior was the head of magical law enforcement during the time when Voldemort fell from power, and gave those under him the power to kill, rather then capture, fleeing Death Eaters. Typically, they were sent to prison without trial, but those that were lucky enough to receive them would find Crouch the definition of a [[Hanging Judge]], holding no sympathy for those accused or any belief that they might be innocent. Fortunately, the jury involved in these trials were typically more level-headed. This all came back to bite Crouch when his son was captured with a group of Death Eaters, and put on trial with them. Crouch was just as unsympathetic and condemning to Junior as he was to everyone else who came before him, and his cold demeanor toward his own son lost him his standing with the Wizarding public, which cost him his potential bid for Minister of Magic.

* In ''[[Catch-22]]'', Clevinger faces one of these when he's brought before a [[Kangaroo Court]] on trumped up charges. When Clevinger tries to protest that punishing him would be a violation of justice, the judge goes into a full blown rant.

{{quote| "That's not what justice is (...) [[Dirty Commies|That's what Karl Marx is.]] I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning. Garroting. That's what justice is when we've all got to be tough enough and rough enough to fight Billy Petrolle. From the hip. Get it?"}}

{{quote|"That's not what justice is (...) [[Dirty Commies|That's what Karl Marx is.]] I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning. Garroting. That's what justice is when we've all got to be tough enough and rough enough to fight Billy Petrolle. From the hip. Get it?"}}

* ''[[Maximum Bob]]'' by [[Elmore Leonard]] was about such a judge -- the title was his nickname, referring to the harsh sentences he handed down. It was adapted into a short TV series starring Beau Bridges.

* [[Judge Knott]] was inspired to go into politics and displace a hangin' judge whose racism led him to destroy a man's livelihood for a minor infraction.

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** The spin-off card came ''[[Collectible Card Game|Doomtown]]'' included "Hangin' Judge Gabriel", who could [[One-Hit Kill|instantly 'Ace']] any character marked as Wanted. As a bonus, his flavor text was a [[Shout-Out|direct reference]] to [[Judge Dredd|Judge Death]] (see above). A later set introduced the Hangin' Judge monster from the RPG into the setting of the card game.

* The background for [[Magic: The Gathering|Magic: the Gathering's]] ''Ravnica'' setting has an ''even worse'' possibility: the courtroom is ''someone else'''s personal fiefdom (generally the [[Corrupt Church|Orzhov]], or the Dimir, the guild that doesn't exist).

{{quote| "In Otiev's mind, he ruled in favor of the accused. But in his courtroom he was only a spectator, watching his hand deliver the sign of death."}}

{{quote|"In Otiev's mind, he ruled in favor of the accused. But in his courtroom he was only a spectator, watching his hand deliver the sign of death."}}

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== Webcomics ==

* In the ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]],'' the judge for the [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place|Empire of Blood]].

{{quote| '''Mr. Jones:''' Listen, here there are two types of accused. Those who plead guilty, and those who piss the judge off with a time-consuming trial before being ''found'' guilty.}}

{{quote|'''Mr. Jones:''' Listen, here there are two types of accused. Those who plead guilty, and those who piss the judge off with a time-consuming trial before being ''found'' guilty.}}

* Naturally, [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|His Honorable Tyranny]] from ''[[Homestuck]]'', and Terezi acting as a Dredd-esque arbitrator. These are [[Proud Warrior Race|trolls]]; there is no defense. "In a courtblock, the word 'defense' itself is offensive."

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* Judge Constance Harm from ''[[The Simpsons]]''.

* Judge Whitey from ''[[Futurama]]'', who treads the line between embracing and parodying an [[Acceptable Target]], filled up every mental asylum in New York when he declared being poor a mental illness.

{{quote| '''Judge Whitey''': [[Insane Troll Logic|Being as I have a ham sandwich with mayonnaise waiting for me at my mansion]], I declare the defendants guilty as charged.}}

{{quote|'''Judge Whitey''': [[Insane Troll Logic|Being as I have a ham sandwich with mayonnaise waiting for me at my mansion]], I declare the defendants guilty as charged.}}

** [[Truth in Television]]: Poverty really was once considered a mental illness.

* ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law]]'', especially in regards to Judge Mentok, who often doesn't even pay attention to his own cases - instead whiling away the moments swapping the minds of all the jury members or goofing around with the bailiff. And he's known to just declare guilty verdicts solely based on one piece of evidence.