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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* One
* ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'' subverts this in the episode "Beatbox Bandits", where Fuu and Jin are ordered to be executed unless Mugen delivers a parcel and comes back in time. In the end, just as Fuu gives up hope of Mugen appearing, his sillhouette appears in the horizon...which turns out to be the annoying, reoccuring, comedy relief character (Fuu and Jin survive in the end though).
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Subverted in the beginning of the [[Discworld]] book ''[[
* One of the Vorhalas brothers was expecting this when Regent Vorkosigan showed up to his brother's execution in ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Barrayar]]''. Unfortunately, Aral was there because he believed that he needed to witness the execution with his own eyes.
== [[Live
* Subverted in the Cycling Tour sketch from episode 34 of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''. Mr. Pither is about to be executed by a Soviet firing squad. An officer is shown running toward the execution site yelling "Nyet!" (No!). He hands a paper to the firing squad officer.
{{quote|'''FS Officer:''' A telegram? From the Kremlin! The Central Committee! It says..."Carry on with the execution".}}
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