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A character is subjected to a [[Long List]] of his sins and transgressions, often impossibly long. Alternatively, a character is placed in purgatory or otherwise judged for his crimes, with a convenient long list of crimes at hand, possibly because [[The Powers That Be]] have [[Surveillance As the Plot Demands]].
[[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]] is typically invoked, making this a sister trope.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In one ''[[Black Jack (Manga)|Black Jack]]'' story, Black Jack's school friend, Makube, is a criminal. He gets detained by the ICPO.
{{quote| Inspector: So you won't confess your crimes of murder, smuggling, drug-dealing, gambling fraud, forgery, battery, bribery, human trafficking, pimping, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|public urination?]]<br />
Makube: [[I Resemble That Remark|I'll cop to public urination]]. }}
== Comics ==
* ''[[DR and Quinch|D.R. & Quinch]] Go Straight'' begins with Judge Thorkwung reading all the criminal charges of which the two [[Villain Protagonist|Villain Protagonists]] are being accused.
{{quote| '''Judge Thorkwung:''' Ernest Errol Quinch and Waldo Dobbs, also known as "D.R." or "Diminished Responsibility", you are charged with arson, kidnapping, theft, grievous wounding, possession of unlawful atomic weapons, taking and driving away, conspiracy to overthrow the government, [[What Do You Mean
* In ''[[Strangers in Paradise]]'', when Katchoo is arrested for her revenge on Freddie, her list of crimes reads as follows (creator Terry Moore [[Word of God|got the specifics]] from a lawyer who'd read the previous issue):
{{quote| '''Officer Bob:''' Kidnapping! Re: restraining liberty for the purpose of terrorizing! Two counts of felonious assault! One count of illegal entry! $4400 in property damage and one count of aggravated menacing with a dangerous kitchen utensil with intent to...<br />
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'''Katchoo:''' Imagine my surprise when I found I didn't have to! }}
* ''[[Lobo]]'''s list of crimes.
{{quote| Wanted for crimes against the Galaxy including: Genocide ... Fratricide ... Patricide ... Matricide ... Impersonating a member of the Intergalactic Church of Truth ... Impersonating a member of the Green Lantern Corps ... Carrying a concealed thermo-nuclear device ... Breaking into the Justice League Satellite ... Fishing without a license ... [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Jaywalking]] ... Grand theft plasma rocket ... Disturbance of the peace across three space sectors ... 1,978,643,896 unpaid parking permits ... Illegal bounty hunting ... Wanton destruction of government property ... Demolishing a city without a permit ... Reckless endangerment toward animals ... Hijacking ... Selling/distributing radioactive material to [[Deathbringer the Adorable|cute fluffy]] [[Killer Rabbit|bunny rabbits]] ... Noise infractions level 5.0 ... Illegally poaching Starros ... Bounty Huntering in a restricted zone ... Stepping on the grass ... Defecating in a public garden ... Loitering ... Advocating the overthrow of the heads of state ... Not honoring the bounty hunter code}}
* In ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures (Comic Book)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures]]'' #23, a space criminal named Bellybomb is sentenced to a toxic prison planet for seventeen life sentences for extortion, armed robbery, hijacking, kidnapping, torture, murder, man-eating, brain poaching, soul thievery...and impersonating a primitive deity named Bob. After the jailers read off these crimes, Bellybomb points out that they didn't mention his unpaid parking tickets.
* In IDW's ''[[Transformers|Megatron: Origins]]'' miniseries, Starscream is brought before the Senate to give testimony about the Decepticon "fight club"...
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* ''[[The Good the Bad And The Ugly]]'': At each of Tuco's "executions" an official reads off the list of crimes for which he has been convicted. They go on for quite a while.
** Considering Tuco's rap sheet is several pages long, and goes from murder through rape all the way down to robbery and transporting a minor across state lines for immoral purposes, is quite large. Considering how many of the offenses on the list ... even the relatively lower-grade ones ... were capital crimes, how they do this more than once is an exercise best left to Sergio Leone and the viewer...
** The first time we see them pulling this scam, the judge is reading a list of offenses including murder, arson in a state prison, theft of sacred objects, inciting prostitution, armed robbery . . . but he sounds ''really'' indignant as he winds up with <small>"... and, contrary to the laws of this state, the accused has been found guilty of [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|using MARKED CARDS IN A POKER GAME!]]"</small>
* In ''[[Brazil (Film)|Brazil]]'', arrested {{spoiler|Sam Lowry}} is presented with a long and painstakingly accurate list of his transgressions, from high treason to overexpenditure of stationery. Since this is harsh dystopia, the scene is anything but funny.
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: Curse of the Black Pearl'' does this before Jack Sparrow is to be executed.
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* ''Year One'' has {{spoiler|Cain}} reading a list of charges against Zed ([[Jack Black]]) and Oh ([[Michael Cera]]) when they are {{spoiler|about to be stoned}} in Sodom. [[Played for Laughs]] when one of the charges is "Sodomy", much to the crowd's confusion, until it is revealed that the actual charge is "Refusal of Sodomy".
* ''[[Heavy Metal (Animation)|Heavy Metal]]''. The charges against Captain Sternn:
{{quote| '''Prosecutor:''' Lincoln Stern, you stand here accused of 12 counts of murder in the first degree, 14 counts of armed theft of Federation property, 22 counts of piracy in high space, 18 counts of fraud, 37 counts of rape...[[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and one moving violation]]. How do you plead?}}
** Coincidentally enough, the viewer soon learns that Sternn also ran a "preschoolers prostitute ring" and "sold dope disguised as a nun".
* Near the end of W.C. Fields' ''The Golf Specialist'', we briefly see J. Effingham Bellweather's wanted poster which includes such things as manslaughter and homicide. The next shot is a ten-second pan down a list of his [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|other offenses]]:
{{quote| Bigamy,<br />
Passing as the Prince of Wales,<br />
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== Literature ==
* ''Ecclesiastical History of the English People'', Book 5, Chapter 13 - an example of this trope being [[Older Than Print]]. Two beautiful youths gave the king was given a small white book containing a list of good deeds performed. Then, evil spirits came and gave a large black book containing a list of transgressions. The evil spirits told the youths why they were here, since he was clearly ours.
* The [[Neil Gaiman]] short story "Other People" from ''Fragile Things'' is centered on the premise of hell being basically this, only instead of simply being read the list, every single sin is brought forth and purged from the individual via [[Cold
* Dante's ''[[Divine Comedy|Inferno]]'' keeps track of transgressions, with Hell being divided into subsections for specific crimes.
* Two from ''[[Discworld]]'':
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* ''[[Law and Order]]'' did the same thing with Lennie Briscoe:
{{quote| '''Briscoe:''' I'm trying to decide what to arrest you for - obstruction of justice, harboring a fugitive or just being a general pain in the ass!}}
* One ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch centered on a lawyer representing one of the old cranks that the ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' gang caught who was accusing the kids of having a criminal record (Lowe played [[Scooby Doo]], who advocated the "Reath Renalty" for numerous criminals). By the lawyer's account, prior convictions against the kids included 4 counts of [[You Meddling Kids|meddling]], 12 counts of meddling in the second degree, two counts of [[Noodle Incident|vehicular]] meddling, [[Is That What
* In ''[[The Brittas Empire]]'', Gordon Brittas has quite [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist|a long list]] when he turns up in heaven including [[Comedic Sociopathy|115 separate acts of manslaughter]], [[Driven to Suicide|cause of 4 suicides]], and [[Break the Cutie|23 people driven clinically insane]]. They'd been counting up a while before he arrived too, {{spoiler|don't worry, even Heaven recognises the [[Death Equals Redemption]] trope}}.
* This happens in ''[[Stargate SG 1 (TV)|Stargate SG 1]]'' when Vala is put on trial by the people of a world Qetesh ruled harshly while using Vala as a host. After she is charged with mass murder and mass torture (the first two of seven charges), Vala and Daniel interject that Qetesh did those things, not Vala. Played for laughs and drama when the modified list of charges which only includes crimes Vala perpetrated after she was released from Qetesh starts with "planetary-wide forced labor".
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== Radio ==
* In the first episode of [[Old
== Tabletop Games ==
* The Dwarves of ''[[Warhammer]]'' have a Book of Grudges.
* A priest/lawyer addressing the famous Rogue-Mage Raz in a trial:
{{quote| '''Inquisitor:''' You...are the worst of all... Your crimes are the stuff of nightmares to all decent folk and just ways! YOU ARE AN ABOMINATION UPON LIFE AND DECENCY!!! VANDALISM, BANDITRY, SPYING, PIRACY, ABDUCTION, ILLEGAL USE OF MAGICAL ENERGIES, LOITERING, RESISTING ARREST, and worst of all.... [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|tax evasion]]. WHAT HAVE YOU TO SAY FOR YOUR HERESY?}}
* This is what Lord Soth had to put up with during his time as [[The Undead]] on [[Dragonlance|Krynn]]: a [[List of Transgressions]] provided by ghosts. When he went to [[Ravenloft]], his punishment was to listen to them repeated improperly, which is apparently worse.
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* The ''[[Protectors of the Plot Continuum]]'' are required to read the list of charges to the various [[Mary Sue|Mary Sues]] they terminate.
** [[PPC|PPCers]] often start out the chargelist with things like grammar and spelling errors, move on to bigger charges like "disrupting the fabric of reality", and end with things like "having a stupid name", "pissing off PPC agents", etc.
* In ''[[Open Blue]]'', the [[The Federation|Axifloan Coalition]] lists various crimes that various Pirate Lords and ladies are wanted for. While some have pretty serious lists throughout, others... [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|not so much]]. Pirate Lady Lucille Prideux's (from v4) list ends with "Theft in general" while Captain Van Wijk's ends with "Blasphemy" (which is pretty light compared to his other crimes). The real cake takers, however, are Captain Garth (v4), with "Unlicensed operation of a menagerie", and Captain Ingrid (v4), with "Insulting Admiral Flota Vladimir Ilyavich Tokarev, '''HERO OF THE TRIBES'''".
* [http://endling.deviantart.com/art/Rex-the-D-A-W-G-89045011 Rex's rapsheet] starts out strong. Murder. Torture. Arson. Domestic violence. Brutal assalt. Treason. Smuggling. Piracy. Kidnapping. Espionage. ''Drunken'' espionage. Aggravated Mischief. Cattle forgery. Forgerous brutality. Brutal Drunkenness. Moving violations, kittennapping, littering, chain pulling... you get the idea; The number of silly crimes outstrips the serious ones, and "Drunken {something}" recurs often.
* Before killing his victim, the Confessor from the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' recites a list of his victim's sins. He plucks this information from their own minds telepathically.
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== Western Animation ==
* In an episode of the ''[[Woody Woodpecker|New Woody Woodpecker Show]]'', Woody finds out his nemesis Buzz Buzzard's long list of offenses to the law, which includes "unlawful toenail clipping". But there's more: Upon seeing this, Woody immediately calls the police on the phone and starts listing Buzz's offenses, to which the cop pays no mind whatsoever. Only when he mentions: "But Officer, he parked in a [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|no-parking zone]]!" do the cops decide to flock in on Buzz and arrest him (he was trying to escape in Woody's stalled car).
* The election episode of ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'' [[Double Subversion|doubly subverts]] it. Ms. Fowl lists off the candidates' transgressions as "Bribery, blackmail, and murder", then corrects herself that the last wasn't actually murder, but operating a zeppelin on school property without a permit.
* Many Western-themed ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' shorts had wanted posters with the outlaw's offenses listed as "bank robbery, cattle rustling, and square-dance calling." Adding to that, another poster listed the Third Crime as square dancing in a roundhouse.
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== Real Life ==
* When King Charles I was executed, the list of crimes was boringly detailed: "he, ... hath traitorously and maliciously levied war against the present Parliament, and the people therein represented, particularly upon or about the 30th day of June..."
** At his trial, Charles I was found guilty of treason, murder, rapine, burning, spoils, desolation, damage... and mischief. This last one is not really an example of [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]] since the common law definition of 'mischief' involves destruction of property. Such definitions lead to the theoretical common law crime of "Malicious mischief and mayhem".
* King Louis XVI was executed on 33 charges, the last of which was "You caused the blood of Frenchmen to flow".
** ''[[Completely Missing the Point|Inside]]'' their bodies?
* [[The American Revolution|The Declaration of Independence]] is mostly devoted to enumerating the Crimes of King George III. ([http://www.usconstitution.net/declar.html The full list is here].) There's a reason people [[Chorus
{{quote| ''5.'' "He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people."<br />
''24.'' "He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people."<br />
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