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* [[Marvel Comics]] has The Living Tribunal, who can destroy planets or whole realities to maintain the greater Marvel multiverse.
* During the course of events in ''[[Kingdom Come]]'' [[Superman]] is essentially trying to cure this very mentality.
* ''[[Brat Pack (actors)|Brat Pack]]'' features Judge Jury, who dresses like an executioner.
* In the [[Predator]] comic books produced by [[Dark Horse Comics]] (specifically the comic ''Bad Blood''), the Arbitrators of the [[Proud Warrior Race|Predator nation]] are essentially the assigned Predator cops plus this. If you are a Predator and you are bad, they will come for you. And they will get to kill you. No questions.
 
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* [[The Empire|The Imperium]] of ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'', perhaps unsurprisingly, includes several [[State Sec|organizations and individuals]] with this power. The Adeptus Arbites (who [[Captain Ersatz|rather resemble]] the [[Judge Dredd|Judges of Mega City]]) who govern the populace, the [[Commissar Cap|Commissars]] of the [[Redshirt Army|Imperial Guard]], the [[Church Militant|Ecclesiarchy]] (who tend to favor some of the more [[Fate Worse Than Death|unusual]] [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|punishments]]) and, of course, the Inquisition.
** To be more specific of the Inquisition, they have executed billions of people, be they guilty or not of whatever crime they were accused of. And they also have an [[Earthshattering Kaboom|extreme measure]] that they will use to purge a planet of taint when it is considered "irredeemable" (and the philosophy behind it specifically states that the billions of innocent casualties that are often included is acceptable collateral damage).
* The titular "Dogs" of the RPG ''[[Dogs in the Vineyard]]''.