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== Live Action TV ==
* "The Bank Shot Job" in the first season of ''[[Leverage]]'' centers around a corrupt small town judge who totally believes this trope will save him. It doesn't.
* At the end of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode [[Doctor Who
** It's actually rather interesting to realize that in fact, he is [[Ironic Echo|virtually repeating]], verbatim, what a [[The Master|certain friend of his]] has been saying for quite a while now...
* [[Life On Mars|Gene Hunt's]] last line of the series.
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* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls Four|Oblivion]]: [[Elder Scrolls|The Shivering Isles]]'', at one point a guard will tell you that "Only Lord Sheogorath is above the law here." Of course, {{spoiler|when you become Sheogorath, they'll still fine you/send you to a dungeon.}} Typical.
* Benevolent example in ''[[Breath of Fire II]]'' - a Wyndian with black wings is prophesied to bring about the ruin of their civilization, so all children born with black wings are put to death. When the king's daughter was born so, he vetoed this, imprisoning the one person who knew the secret and sending the child to be raised in a faraway town. {{spoiler|Nina has strong black magic, but remains completely benign and a whole-hearted party member throughout the game.}}
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'' has Colonel Volgin. His response to Ocelot after he killed Granin in a torture session speaks for itself.
** As far as chain of command goes a Colonel does have command authority over a Major so he was the one calling the shots over that operation. His argument does kind of fall apart when you consider that he is a villain who just got through killing a brilliant scientist who created Metal Gear, the titular mecha of the series, when he had no solid evidence that he was a spy and tortured him to death on a whim. Not to mention wanting to start a war with the United States and toppling the current Russian Government, he may have been the one making the rules but those rules were still corrupt.
*** There's also the small fact of Volgin being an absolute psychopath, and that questioning his orders would be a good way to end up dead.
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