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[[File:judge-dredd_super.jpg|link=Judge Dredd|frame|[[Catch Phrase|I]] ''[[I Am the Trope|am]]'' [[Badass Boast|the Law.]]]]

'''Danny:''' "Uhh... [[Department of Redundancy Department|you said executioner]] [[Rule of Three|three times."]]<br />

'''Walker:''' "I like that part of the job."|''[[Danny Phantom]]''}}

* In ''[[The Proposition]]'', Cpt. Stanley appoints himself judge and jury, but not executioner, using the titular proposition as a rather creative way of fighting crime. Unfortunately, the governor thinks that ''he'' should be judge and jury, but not executioner.

* Parodied in Disney's version of ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', in the character of Clopin. When Phoebus and Quasimodo find their way into the Court of Miracles, an energetic Clopin does a quick, jolly, and almost frightening song involving three changes of costume:

Because it's the sentence that's really the fun! }}

* [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Hot Fuzz]]''. See page quote above.

* ''[[Lost]]'': in the episode "Stranger in a Strange Land," we meet the Others' "Sheriff," Isabel. She conducts the inquiry into Juliet's killing of Danny, and appears to be the sole authority in the matter -- until Ben intervenes with a pardon.

* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek TNG]]'': [[A God Am I|Q]] in "Encounter at Farpoint", and by extension, the judges in the 21st century of the Trekverse. [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|He]] [[Book Ends|reprises]] this role in the series finale "All Good Things...".

* ''[[The Professionals]]''. CI5 use just the kind of tactics condemned by numerous Royal Commissions into police conduct, but it's OK because they only use them against bad guys. They draw the line with assassination and planting evidence (except in minor cases to pressure a criminal) presumably because such tactics would make the audience a bit nervous. Their limits are probably best lampshaded in an episode where Bodie and Doyle investigate a town where the police have been using extralegal means, such as planting evidence and beating up members of a gay rights group. Bodie and Doyle eventually gain evidence of the latter, and when the main culprit decides to murder them to avoid prison, another officer steps in and stops him, as murder is going too far.

* The ITV series ''[[The Fixer (TV series)|The Fixer]]'' has a ex-special forces soldier turned [[Vigilante Man]] being released from prison on condition he serve as an assassin for an unnamed government unit tasked with killing those the law cannot reach. However the choice of target appears to be based not on any sense of morality, but on a need to keep British society stable.

== Music ==

* The song "Dirty Window" by [[Metallica]] has the chorus line

* "Welcome to the Family" features the line "Grandpa's the local sheriff, yeah, he's the judge and the jury too." No mention of executioner, but the next line is "Uncle Bill's the undertaker"...

* "I Am the Law", by [[Anthrax]], is an obvious example, given that it's a tribute to Judge Dredd. The trope's name is cited in the lyrics:

Judge, jury, and executioner'' }}

* The titular "Dogs" of the RPG ''[[Dogs in the Vineyard]]''.

* Referenced on the ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]'' card [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=240199 Harvester of Souls]

== [[Theater]] ==

* ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]] 4'' has Duo, a sort of super-Navi created by an ancient civilization and written onto a satellite computer to go around erasing planets as he sees fit. Too bad he happens to fly by Earth during [[The Syndicate]]'s main operation: spreading [[Psycho Serum]] and creating a sudden influx of EVIL all over the world. Good thing we've got [[The Messiah|Lan and MegaMan]] to kick his ass and [[Defeat Means Friendship|make him spare us]]! Along, of course, with the ''entire world at once'' yelling at him to stop.

* ''[[Mega Man Zero]] 3'' gives us the Eight Gentle Judges, who rule [[The Empire|Neo Arcadia]] alongside X (both the [[Mega Man X|real one]] and his [[Evil Knockoff]]). They were as much [[Knight Templar|Knights Templar]] as the rest of the series' antagonists, until they were turned [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] by [[Big Bad|Dr. Weil]] to become his [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]. Glacier le Cactank, in particular, provides us with this quote:

''I, Glacier Le Cactank, of Weil's Numbers, have reached a verdict. The punishment for thievery is death!'' }}

** The Maverick Hunters of the [[Mega Man X|previous series]] were forced into this trope more often than not due to both extreme circumstances and the complete unwillingness of their targets to cooperate. Needless to say [[Martial Pacifist|X]] was very unhappy about this fact.

** Batman himself comes right to the edge in an early episode of the series. After chasing down a man who keeps children underground and uses them to steal things for him, he tells him that, while he'll never betray his values of [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]] and that he'll still turn him over to the courts for judgment, he was very tempted.

* The ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' episode "Avatar Day" features a town where the justice system is called "justice" because it involves "just us," as in the same man is the prosecutor, judge, and jury. Punishment is decided by the Wheel of Punishment, however, which ranges from "boiled in oil" to "community service."

* In an episode of ''Garfield and Friends'', Jon is stopped by a [[Corrupt Hick]] for driving faster than the posted limit of 8 mph (incidentally obscured by overgrowth.) The selfsame sheriff that arrests him proceeds to prosecute him, defend him, judge him, and act as several different members of the jury.

* "[[Monkey Dust]]" - The Paedofinder General's entire career is spent accusing people of being pedophiles.. His evidence is always based on completely spurious coincidences or otherwise innocuous irrelevancies. He then pronounces the sentence which is always death. The fact that he is a parody of actual UK paedo witch-hunt logic is somewhat worrying.