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until the ghosts of the Scoleri brothers, whom he had sent to the chair in the past, vengefully attacked the courtroom, proving the Ghostbusters weren't a fraud. The Judge in Ghostbusters 2, who would've had the Ghostbusters burned at the stake if he could.The first Judge from John Grisham's The Rainmaker.Judge Hangin' Harry Shoat in Primal Fear actively embraces this trope, even noting that if hanging were legal, he'd be the first one to pull the lever.

The worst part is that he can kill toons, who are practically invincible otherwise.

The good police forces are nothing more than pawns just doing their work. What makes him even more sinister than the other judges is the fact that Toontown is undisputedly under his power, and he certainly has enough influence around LA to say that he pretty much IS the law-enforcement of the city.

Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?.Judge Alvin 'J.P' Valkenheiser in the movie Nothing but Trouble.The film's villains take a chance on using Harrison, an honest judge, simply because he's guaranteed to give the harshest sentence should he find the heroes guilty. Harrison is portrayed as a hanging judge, complete with model guillotine and hangman's noose on his bench. Quite frankly, any kind of power seems to go to Pete's head. Weird Pete when he is presiding over 'Gamer's Court' in Knights of the Dinner Table.In the end he is revealed to be more of a Corrupt Hick Jerk with a Heart of Gold who's mostly concerned with lining his own pockets and giving the townspeople a good show: No-one gets worse than fines and confiscation of property because there would be no point in killing his own customers. He charges Lucky Luke with theft in order to confiscate the cattle herd Luke was in charge of, assigns a deaf-mute as the defense attorney, and packs the jury with cronies (including the town's undertaker and his own pet black bear). Roy Bean also shows up in the Lucky Luke album The Judge.He apparently regards kidnapping, assault, making a man waste good liquor, and pretty much all crimes as hanging offenses.

Real Life Wild West lawman Roy Bean is portrayed like this in Don Rosa's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck: The Prisoner of White Agony Creek (you know, the one where Scrooge has hatesex.).This trope is lampshaded when Dredd meets an actual Hanging Judge (or feed-to-flying-rats-judge) in Cursed Land.Judge Death's Catch Phrase is "The crime is life, the sentence is death!" after all. Anyone who willingly gives up, though, receives a (relatively light) prison sentence. He's not corrupt, the laws are just that ruthless. Judge Gallows from The Sandman spin-off The Dreaming (and the earlier horror anthology Unexpected).