History KangarooCourt / WesternAnimation

* The ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode "Don't Judge Me" has Eggman faking an injury from a battle with Sonic and using it as a pretense to take him to court. While Sonic thinks the whole trial is a sham (going so far as to hire [[{{Ditz}} Knuckles]] as his lawyer and calling [[InnocentProdigy Tails]] and [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Sticks]] as character witnesses). It didn't help that the judge presiding over the case was a creation of Eggman's. The case goes so poorly that it appears he is about to be falsely convicted. He is only saved by dint of Amy showing up at the last moment and slamming her hammer into the ground, jostling Eggman's neck enough to reveal that he'd been faking his injury and subsequently throwing the whole case out.

* The High Tribunal of Rimbor which tries the Justice League in season 2 of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''. The citizens of Rimbor cannot understand why the League just does not bribe the Tribunal, as this is how all trials are resolved on Rimbor.

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* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'': "12 Angry Pups," complete with a public defender who openly states that he believes the defendant to be guilty and a judge who doesn't even try to hide that he's taking bribes.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{MAD}}'' parody "Law and [[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} Ogre]]", Shrek considered Grumpy Bear as the suspect. At his trial, Fiona is the prosecutor, Puss in Boots was the judge, and the jury are football players who tackle him. The one who really did it was WesternAnimation/YogiBear.

* The "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE3Trial Trial]]" episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' centers around this trope, with the inmates of Arkham putting Batman on trial. How "fair" do they intend it to be? They installed ComicBook/TheJoker as the presiding Judge. Surprisingly, Batman's attorney gives a brilliant defense, and the jury (Composed of various members of Batman's RoguesGallery) finds him innocent... at which point Joker decides to give him the chair anyway.

* The High Tribunal of Rimbor which tries the Justice League in season 2 of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''. The citizens of Rimbor cannot understand why the League just does not bribe the Tribunal, as this is how all trials are resolved on Rimbor.

* Technically speaking, ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'''s trial was one of these, as the entire JokerJury was made up of enemies of his and other people that had their lives adversely affected by knowing him...but Bojack knows he had done so many reprehensible things in his life that he felt he ''deserved'' the Kangaroo Court. (And as far as punishments go, considering all he ''has'' done, roughly two years in prison on breaking and entering charges is getting off lightly.)

** The Quintessons are fond of simply dropping anyone they try, regardless of whether they're innocent or guilty into pits full of Sharkticons. And they never bother telling people what they're accused of anyhow. Each Quintesson is both judge and jury, although they have an excuse in this regard, because they're [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot robotic squids that have five faces that flip around]]. They do permit [[IdiotHero Hot Rod]] and [[CoolOldGuy Kup]] to plead for their lives, although the Quintesson admits "It sometimes helps... but not often." (They were saved by [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs the Dinobots]] and [[TheScrappy Wheelie]] anyway.) In one episode of the ongoing series, the Autobots tried to grab one of them and hold him hostage, only for the others to sentence ''him'' to death too and dump them ''all'' into the Sharktikon pit.

* A rare case of the Kangaroo Court in the protagonists' favor in ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'': when a few fans sued Dethklok because listening to the Dethwater album caused them to nearly drown because they tried to 'go into the water', Dethklok spent the entire trial roasting the defendants, causing the attendees to laugh, and the judge is later seen playing golf with Dethklok. It also turns out the defendants had no case in the first place anyway: the album clearly stated 'intended for fish only'.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': "Avatar Day" features Chin Village which has a terrible legal system. The "trial" consists of the plaintiff and defendant giving their version of the events, without any evidence, witnesses, legal counsel or representatives allowed. Then the '''plaintiff decides who's telling the truth''' and apparently gets the final say in the matter. Finally the punishment is decided by a gameshow-style "wheel of punishment" that has many brutal executions ([[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and community service]]). The defendant, incidentally, is being tried for something ''done in a past life''.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'', Brainy was put in charge of looking after Baby, and then let him wander off, then he blamed Clumsy for doing it. After Papa Smurf tells him that no-one should be blamed, and then leaves to visit Homnibus, Brainy has other ideas, as if framing Clumsy wasn't bad enough, he puts Clumsy on trial, which is ''completely'' rigged. He has Greedy act as the judge, and bribes him with pastry so that he'd agree with every motion he made. In a subversion of the trope, Brainy is caught in the act of a bribe and his scheme is uncovered when an understandably angry Papa Smurf comes back. (Probably the worst part of this is, Brainy was so concerned about covering up what he did, that he didn't notice that Baby - who again, he was supposed to look after - wandered off ''again'', and ironically, Clumsy had to rescue him this time.)

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode 'Rubberneckers' Stan is arrested for insurance fraud after falsely claiming he swerved to avoid hitting a dog when he actually got distracted looking at a beautiful jogger and lied so Francine wouldn't get mad at him for looking at other women. At the trial the judge claims he will be tried by a jury of his peers, who just so happen to all be married women around Francine's age, all of whom are giving him dirty looks.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', Slappy is put on trial for "assault with intent to squash" on her nemesis Walter Wolf (basically, hanging him from a tree and hitting him with a big rock). Given that the judge and jury are all wolves, Skippy is understandably afraid that Slappy is gonna get railroaded (the VisualGag does not help). Slappy tells Skippy not to worry, as she's got "a dynamite case". That is to say, she's wired the jury box with explosives, so she gets off even though her own testimony not only copped to the charge, but also ''blowing him up'' afterwards. The only dishonest part about the trial was that Walter had in fact started it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ElTigre'' as part of a gag regular villain El Oso falls into a court room through the roof, and the first person to speak is the judge, who immediately says guilty. El Oso then says "Well, at least I got a fair trial, man."

-->'''Quintesson:''' Silence, or you will be held in contempt of court.
-->'''Hot Rod:''' I have nothing ''but'' contempt for this court!

** Zapp Brannigan's could likely have made a case for a biased jury in "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E2BranniganBeginAgain Brannigan, Begin Again]]", seeing as all of them had been injured when he destroyed the space station. (It took them less than a minute of deliberation to deliver a guilty verdict. Of course, he obviously ''was'' guilty.)
** Bender being put on trial for being Santa in "A Tale of Two Santas", when it's pretty blatant he is. The evidence largely consists of a little girl pointing at him, and this is sufficient conviction to have Bender executed.

** The Quintessons are fond of simply declaring everybody who they try as "innocent", then dropping them into pits full of Sharkticons anyway. Each Quintesson is both judge and jury, although they have an excuse in this regard, because they're [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot robotic squids that have five faces that flip around]]. They do permit [[IdiotHero Hot Rod]] and [[CoolOldGuy Kup]] to plead for their lives, although the Quintesson admits "It sometimes helps... but not often." (They were saved by [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs the Dinobots]] and [[TheScrappy Wheelie]] anyway.) They were [[AlwaysChaoticEvil truly vile creatures]]; in one episode of the ongoing series, the Autobots tried to grab one of them and hold him hostage, only for the others to sentence ''him'' to death too and dump them ''all'' into the Sharktikon pit.
** Later in season 3 the ''Autobots'' do this to Sky Lynx and the Dinobots, after several world monuments were stolen by the Decepticon base/dinosaur warrior Trypticon. They were suspected for the sole reason that "dinosaur electrons" were found at the scenes of the crimes (raising the question of why Sky Lynx was suspected, since he's a dragon-lynx beast). They couldn't do much to defend themselves from the accusations, since the court was presided over by the Autobot's own base/giant warrior Metroplex. (Metroplex and Trypticon ''[[ArchEnemy utterly despise]]'' [[ArchEnemy each other]], and this tended to give Metroplex a bias against anything that even ''resembled'' a dinosaur.)

** In ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', Quickstrike is given a "trial" for treason after he tried to kill Megatron while taking part in one of Tarantulas' schemes. [[BigBad Megatron]] is the judge (complete with powdered wig), [[TheDitz Waspinator]] is the defense, and [[PsychoForHire Rampage]] and [[TheDragon Dinobot II]] are the jury. After Waspinator's "brilliant" summation, Megatron asks for the verdict. Rampage and Dinobot II immediately point their weapons at Quickstrike.