Warning: As a potential Death Trope for successful examples, many unmarked spoilers are ahead.
Burn the Witch! in Western Animation.
- Batman: The Brave and the Bold: The Cavalier attempts to burn Batman and Green Arrow at the stake in "Bold Beginnings!". Not that he actually thinks they are witches, but it is a Death Trap in keeping with his criminal motif, which is The Cavalier Years.
- In Castlevania (2017), Dracula's wife is burnt at the stake as a witch for the crime of being a woman interested in science. Dracula ain't too happy about that, and returns one year after she's killed to rain down bloody vengeance on the town of Wallachia, both figuratively and literally. The bishop who did the deed later tries to defend himself.
- Sam is captured and almost burnt on the stake in the Danny Phantom episode "Infinite Realms" when the gang arrive in colonial era Salem, Massachusetts for no reason other than the possibility that her Gothic appearance looks much like the witch type. Vlad, disguised as a pilgrim, eggs on the crowd, which doesn't help her cause at all.
- Family Guy: You hear that? A girl solved a math problem. You know what that means? A WITCH!
- Home Movies - at the Medieval Faire, McGuirk is talking on his cell phone - faire organizer Lynch swipes it away from him. McGuirk starts yelling "He has a PHONE! BURN him!!!" Several faire goers advance on Lynch with torches.
- Episode 13 of Il Était Une Fois... features the Hundred Years Wars and Joan of Arc, and almost at the end there's a scene featuring a traveler that tells the cast about her execution.
- In the Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures episode "Ice Will Burn," the people from the underground caverns threaten to throw Jessie and Katrina to the smoldering lava as Human Sacrifices, thinking they are witches.
- The Scooby-Doo episode "To Switch a Witch" features the gang going to Salem, MA, on Halloween, and ending up having to save a friend who is accused of being a witch. A mob of townspeople forms and wants to burn the accused witch at the stake, and this was what, in the 1970s?
- The Simpsons:
- Played for laughs. During a news report, viewers learn that Springfield has the lowest science scores in the country. Cut to angry mob surrounding Principal Skinner who is tied to a stake:Skinner: I'm telling you people, the Earth revolves around the Sun!
Grampa Simpson: Burn him!
[a photographer snaps a picture of Grampa Simpson]
Grampa Simpson: You've stolen my soul! - There was also a Halloween special that took place in the time the Witch Hunt happened and Marge and other women were accused of witchcraft and were tied to the stake. Lisa pointed out that if they were witches, they could use their powers to escape. She quickly shuts up when Homer threatens to add her to the pyre. Of course, Marge really was a witch. It's that kind of episode.
- A group of Wiccans were accused of blinding people in Springfield, and were going to be drowned in a lake. It turns out the reason people turned blind was because Homer and some rednecks threw moonshine into Springfield's water source.
- Played for laughs. During a news report, viewers learn that Springfield has the lowest science scores in the country. Cut to angry mob surrounding Principal Skinner who is tied to a stake:
- In the short film "Jungle Drums", one of the Superman Theatrical Cartoons, Lois Lane had to endure being tied to a stake as part of an interrogation by Nazis in Africa.note Taken captive after her plane crashes she's held tied to a chair and threatened with fire by Nazi operatives if she doesn't answer any questions. Naturally being Lois she declines to answer and they tie her to the stake and prepare to burn her until Superman arrives to save the day.
- In the short, "Day For Knight" from the Tiny Toon Adventures episode, "Brave Tales of Real Rabbits", when Buster is summoned to rescue Babs, he is in the middle of saving Shirley the Loon from having this happen to her. He abandons Shirley to take on this other mission, which comes back to bite him by the very end.
