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* MirroredConfrontationShot: General Carrington and Wally Sheridan face each other on the album cover.
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General Carrington is going to retire. During the succession ceremony, he neutralize his successor and the vice-president, he kidnaps President Wally Sheridan, and he steals the nuclear football. He escapes with him to a disused military base. Then he asks the authorities to send him XIII and Jones.
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General Carrington is going to retire. During the succession ceremony, he neutralize neutralizes his successor and the vice-president, he kidnaps President Wally Sheridan, and he steals the nuclear football. He escapes with him to a disused military base. Then he asks the authorities to send him XIII and Jones.
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* RefusalOfTheCall: Jones and XIII are reluctant at first to help the authorities, but finally they accept the mission, because they are reminded that they could be send to jail.
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* CallBack: General Carrington tells XIII and Jones to go [[Recap/WhereTheIndianWalks where the Indian walks]].
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* ContinuityNod: XIII tells Jones that someday he will tell her about Frank Giordino's past. (Sean Mullway recounted Frank Giordino's backstory in ''Recap/ThreeSilverWatches''.)
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* ContinuityNod: XIII tells Jones that someday he will tell her about Frank Giordino's past. (Sean Mullway recounted Frank Giordino's backstory in ''Recap/ThreeSilverWatches''.''[[Recap/XIIIThreeSilverWatches Three Silver Watches]]''.)
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* RevengeBeforeReason: Irina has XIII at gunpoint. Instead of simply [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim shooting him down]], she wants to make him suffer, because XIII blinded her in one eye in ''Recap/ThirteenToOne'' and she wants to take revenge. This gives [[spoiler:Jones]] enough time to come round and throw a plant pot on her.
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* RevengeBeforeReason: Irina has XIII at gunpoint. Instead of simply [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim shooting him down]], she wants to make him suffer, because XIII blinded her in one eye in ''Recap/ThirteenToOne'' ''[[Recap/XIIIThirteenToOne Thirteen to One]]'' and she wants to take revenge. This gives [[spoiler:Jones]] enough time to come round and throw a plant pot on her.
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''The Trial'' (in French ''Le Jugement'') is the twelfth album of the comic book series ''ComicBook/{{XIII}}''. It was published in 1997.
General Carrington is going to retire. During the succession ceremony, he neutralize his successor and the vice-president, he kidnaps President Wally Sheridan, and he steals the nuclear football. He escapes with him to a disused military base. Then he asks the authorities to send him XIII and Jones.
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!!''The Trial'' provides examples of:
* AlmostDeadGuy: After being shot by Wally Sheridan, the Mongoose survives long enough to reveal that Wally Sheridan was the instigator of the murders he committed and to disclose the location of a bank safe where evidences can be found.
* BadassInDistress: XIII is caught by Irina when he tries to kidnap the Mongoose. She holds him at gunpoint. [[spoiler:Jones]] has to throw a plant pot on her to save XIII.
* BittersweetEnding: Wally Sheridan and the Mongoose are dead. Their crimes are exposed live on TV. The Mongoose discloses the existence of a bank safe where evidences can be found. However, Kim Carrington is dead, General Carrington, Jones and Amos have to flee, XIII is caught by the authorities and Frank Giordino tells him that he will be considered as a foreign agent involved in the kidnapping and the murder of the president.
* BoxedCrook: To force XIII and Jones to accept the mission, the authorities remind Jones that she is officially a deserter and they warn XIII that the case of the murders of Jeremie and Matt Rowland could be reopened. So they accept.
* CallBack: General Carrington tells XIII and Jones to go [[Recap/WhereTheIndianWalks where the Indian walks]].
* TheCavalry: [[spoiler:Jones]] throws a plant pot on Irina when she is about to shoot at XIII's knees.
* ContinuityNod: XIII tells Jones that someday he will tell her about Frank Giordino's past. (Sean Mullway recounted Frank Giordino's backstory in ''Recap/ThreeSilverWatches''.)
* DamselOutOfDistress: Jones is taken hostage by the Mongoose, but she manages to hit his arm so that he has to drop his gun.
* DieHardOnAnX: {{Inverted|Trope}}. The good guys take control of a disused military base, where they hold PresidentEvil and a professional killer hostage. They have also stolen the nuclear football. The professional killer is not searched. Suddenly, he takes out his gun and tries to reverse the situation.
* DisneyDeath: Irina shoots at Jones. Jones falls on the floor. Irina finds XIII and she tells him that she has killed Jones. [[spoiler:Jones reappears moments later: she wore a bulletproof vest.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: Irina falls from a balcony of the Mongoose's house and dies off screen.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The disused military base where General Carrington hides with Wally Sheridan is underground.
* EmergencyImpersonation: After Wally Sheridan is kidnapped, a lookalike plays his role in a hospital. The authorities claim that the president is sick and has to stay in the hospital for some time.
* EmptyQuiver: General Carrington, a renegade officer, steals the nuclear football and takes the president hostage.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: This is why Wally Sheridan kills [[spoiler:the Mongoose, the hitman who has worked for him for so long]], in the end (along with YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness).
* KnockoutGas: General Carrington uses it to neutralize his successor, the vice-president, and Wally Sheridan.
* ItsPersonal: The main reason why General Carrington wants to expose Wally Sheridan's crimes is that Wally ordered to kill Kim, Carrington's daughter.
* ManlyTears: General Carrington sheds tears when he switches off the machine that keeps [[spoiler:his daughter]] alive.
* MilitaryMaverick: General Carrington breaks many rules in this episode: he neutralize his successor and the vice-president, he kidnaps President Wally Sheridan, and he steals the nuclear football.
* MurderByMistake: Giordino blows off the bomb hidden inside the Mongoose's gun. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:Wally Sheridan]] has taken to gun and he dies.
* RefusalOfTheCall: Jones and XIII are reluctant at first to help the authorities, but finally they accept the mission, because they are reminded that they could be send to jail.
* RetiredMonster: The Mongoose now lives on an island in the Bahamas.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Irina has XIII at gunpoint. Instead of simply [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim shooting him down]], she wants to make him suffer, because XIII blinded her in one eye in ''Recap/ThirteenToOne'' and she wants to take revenge. This gives [[spoiler:Jones]] enough time to come round and throw a plant pot on her.
* SecretUndergroundPassage: There is one inside the disused military base. It leads to an undergound river. General Carrington, Jones and Amos use it to escape.
* SeriesFauxnale: The Mongoose and Wally Sheridan, two major villains who were involved in the conspiracy and who [[KarmaHoudini had not been punished so far]], [[spoiler:die]]. But on the last page, XIII is jailed by Frank Giordino.
* {{Shoutout}}
** Amos reads an album of the ''Bruce J. Hawker'' series (another series by Willian Vance) when he is waiting for XIII and Jones.
** One of the Mongoose's bodyguards reads ''Franchise/{{Batman}}''.
** When Jones suggests to burn the Mongoose's house, XIII tells her that he is not ComicBook/ThePunisher.
* ShowSomeLeg: Jones uses this trick to distract the man who delivers water to the Mongoose. She tells him that a snake bit the inner side of her thigh and asks him to have a look. (Then she slaps him in the face because he looked too closely.)
* SlippingAMickey: XIII puts a drug in the water delivered to the Mongoose's house, so that everyone ([[spoiler:except Irina]]) is asleep when he attacks it with Jone.
* StormingTheCastle: In the Bahamas, XIII and Jones attack the island where the Mongoose and Irina live.
* SurpriseWitness: [[spoiler:Kim Carrington]] is still alive. General Carrington introduces her during the trial. {{Subverted|Trope}}, because she is in a coma and cannot testify.
* VillainDecay: The Mongoose was a dreaded hitman in the previous instalments. In this episode, he enjoys life in the Bahamas. XIII and Jones easily capture him when he is asleep. (XIII even lampshades that this dreaded opponent is just an old man sleeping in a chair now.) His attempt to reverse the situation in the military base fails.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:
** This is why the gun that Frank Giordino gives to the Mongoose contains a bomb. Giordino plans to set it off as soon as the Mongoose has killed General Carrington.
** This is why Wally Sheridan kills [[spoiler:the Mongoose, the hitman who has worked for him for so long,]] in the end (along with HeKnowsTooMuch).
* YouWouldntShootMe: When Wally Sheridan grabs the Mongoose's gun, XIII says that he will not dare to shoot because he only kills people with the help of a hitman).
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General Carrington is going to retire. During the succession ceremony, he neutralize his successor and the vice-president, he kidnaps President Wally Sheridan, and he steals the nuclear football. He escapes with him to a disused military base. Then he asks the authorities to send him XIII and Jones.
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!!''The Trial'' provides examples of:
* AlmostDeadGuy: After being shot by Wally Sheridan, the Mongoose survives long enough to reveal that Wally Sheridan was the instigator of the murders he committed and to disclose the location of a bank safe where evidences can be found.
* BadassInDistress: XIII is caught by Irina when he tries to kidnap the Mongoose. She holds him at gunpoint. [[spoiler:Jones]] has to throw a plant pot on her to save XIII.
* BittersweetEnding: Wally Sheridan and the Mongoose are dead. Their crimes are exposed live on TV. The Mongoose discloses the existence of a bank safe where evidences can be found. However, Kim Carrington is dead, General Carrington, Jones and Amos have to flee, XIII is caught by the authorities and Frank Giordino tells him that he will be considered as a foreign agent involved in the kidnapping and the murder of the president.
* BoxedCrook: To force XIII and Jones to accept the mission, the authorities remind Jones that she is officially a deserter and they warn XIII that the case of the murders of Jeremie and Matt Rowland could be reopened. So they accept.
* CallBack: General Carrington tells XIII and Jones to go [[Recap/WhereTheIndianWalks where the Indian walks]].
* TheCavalry: [[spoiler:Jones]] throws a plant pot on Irina when she is about to shoot at XIII's knees.
* ContinuityNod: XIII tells Jones that someday he will tell her about Frank Giordino's past. (Sean Mullway recounted Frank Giordino's backstory in ''Recap/ThreeSilverWatches''.)
* DamselOutOfDistress: Jones is taken hostage by the Mongoose, but she manages to hit his arm so that he has to drop his gun.
* DieHardOnAnX: {{Inverted|Trope}}. The good guys take control of a disused military base, where they hold PresidentEvil and a professional killer hostage. They have also stolen the nuclear football. The professional killer is not searched. Suddenly, he takes out his gun and tries to reverse the situation.
* DisneyDeath: Irina shoots at Jones. Jones falls on the floor. Irina finds XIII and she tells him that she has killed Jones. [[spoiler:Jones reappears moments later: she wore a bulletproof vest.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath: Irina falls from a balcony of the Mongoose's house and dies off screen.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The disused military base where General Carrington hides with Wally Sheridan is underground.
* EmergencyImpersonation: After Wally Sheridan is kidnapped, a lookalike plays his role in a hospital. The authorities claim that the president is sick and has to stay in the hospital for some time.
* EmptyQuiver: General Carrington, a renegade officer, steals the nuclear football and takes the president hostage.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: This is why Wally Sheridan kills [[spoiler:the Mongoose, the hitman who has worked for him for so long]], in the end (along with YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness).
* KnockoutGas: General Carrington uses it to neutralize his successor, the vice-president, and Wally Sheridan.
* ItsPersonal: The main reason why General Carrington wants to expose Wally Sheridan's crimes is that Wally ordered to kill Kim, Carrington's daughter.
* ManlyTears: General Carrington sheds tears when he switches off the machine that keeps [[spoiler:his daughter]] alive.
* MilitaryMaverick: General Carrington breaks many rules in this episode: he neutralize his successor and the vice-president, he kidnaps President Wally Sheridan, and he steals the nuclear football.
* MurderByMistake: Giordino blows off the bomb hidden inside the Mongoose's gun. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:Wally Sheridan]] has taken to gun and he dies.
* RefusalOfTheCall: Jones and XIII are reluctant at first to help the authorities, but finally they accept the mission, because they are reminded that they could be send to jail.
* RetiredMonster: The Mongoose now lives on an island in the Bahamas.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Irina has XIII at gunpoint. Instead of simply [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim shooting him down]], she wants to make him suffer, because XIII blinded her in one eye in ''Recap/ThirteenToOne'' and she wants to take revenge. This gives [[spoiler:Jones]] enough time to come round and throw a plant pot on her.
* SecretUndergroundPassage: There is one inside the disused military base. It leads to an undergound river. General Carrington, Jones and Amos use it to escape.
* SeriesFauxnale: The Mongoose and Wally Sheridan, two major villains who were involved in the conspiracy and who [[KarmaHoudini had not been punished so far]], [[spoiler:die]]. But on the last page, XIII is jailed by Frank Giordino.
* {{Shoutout}}
** Amos reads an album of the ''Bruce J. Hawker'' series (another series by Willian Vance) when he is waiting for XIII and Jones.
** One of the Mongoose's bodyguards reads ''Franchise/{{Batman}}''.
** When Jones suggests to burn the Mongoose's house, XIII tells her that he is not ComicBook/ThePunisher.
* ShowSomeLeg: Jones uses this trick to distract the man who delivers water to the Mongoose. She tells him that a snake bit the inner side of her thigh and asks him to have a look. (Then she slaps him in the face because he looked too closely.)
* SlippingAMickey: XIII puts a drug in the water delivered to the Mongoose's house, so that everyone ([[spoiler:except Irina]]) is asleep when he attacks it with Jone.
* StormingTheCastle: In the Bahamas, XIII and Jones attack the island where the Mongoose and Irina live.
* SurpriseWitness: [[spoiler:Kim Carrington]] is still alive. General Carrington introduces her during the trial. {{Subverted|Trope}}, because she is in a coma and cannot testify.
* VillainDecay: The Mongoose was a dreaded hitman in the previous instalments. In this episode, he enjoys life in the Bahamas. XIII and Jones easily capture him when he is asleep. (XIII even lampshades that this dreaded opponent is just an old man sleeping in a chair now.) His attempt to reverse the situation in the military base fails.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:
** This is why the gun that Frank Giordino gives to the Mongoose contains a bomb. Giordino plans to set it off as soon as the Mongoose has killed General Carrington.
** This is why Wally Sheridan kills [[spoiler:the Mongoose, the hitman who has worked for him for so long,]] in the end (along with HeKnowsTooMuch).
* YouWouldntShootMe: When Wally Sheridan grabs the Mongoose's gun, XIII says that he will not dare to shoot because he only kills people with the help of a hitman).
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