Quotes / Judge, Jury, and Executioner

Anime & Manga

Keiichirou Miyanoshita: I didn't bring [the doll] home!
Satsuki Miyanoshita: Haven't you listened to Momoko? God's going to send you to hell for lying.
Keiichirou: I'M BEING FRAMED!
Satsuki: Oh, you are, are you? Who's framing you, the doll?
Keiichirou: I WANT A LAWYER!
Satsuki: SHUT UP! You're NOT getting a lawyer. All you've got is me, and I'm all you're gonna get! I'm your judge! The jury, and executioner!

— Ghost Stories

Comic Books

Kree minister: House Fiyero still rules the Kree Empire!
Minister 2: The Supreme Intelligence ceded authority to us!
Minister 3: We couldn't beat [the Annihilation Wave]. Would you have genocide?!
Minister 2: The war was lost! What other choice was there?!
Minister 3: We did what we thought was best.
(Beat, as Ronan glowers at them)
Ronan: Know that House Fiyero stands accused.

— Annihilation

Films - Animated

Justice is swift in the Court of Miracles,
I am the lawyers and judge all in one!
We like to get the trial over with quickly
because it's the sentence that's really the fun.

— Clopin, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Films - Live Action

"800 million people living in the ruin of the old world, and the megastructures of the new one. Mega blocks... Mega highways... Mega City One. Convulsing... Choking... Breaking under its own weight. Citizens in fear of the street... The gun... The gang... Only one thing fighting for order in the chaos: the men and women of the Hall of Justice. Juries... Executioners... Judges."

— Judge Dredd, Dredd

"Law, as we know it, collapsed. From the decay rose a new order, a society ruled by a new, elite force. A force with the power to dispense both justice and punishment. They were the police, jury and executioner all in one. They were the Judges."

—Narrator, Judge Dredd

Nicolas: It's Frank! He's appointed himself Judge, Jury, and Executioner!
Danny: He is not Judge Judy and Executioner!
Nicolas: He is!

— Hot Fuzz

Literature

"I'll be judge, I'll be jury,"
Said cunning old Fury;
"I'll try the whole cause,
and condemn you to death."

— "The Mouse's Tale" by Lewis Carroll

"I am not their judge. These people have judged themselves by their own actions. I am their judgement. I am their executioner."

— Mack Bolan, The Executioner

"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die."

— Ned Stark, A Game of Thrones

"There is always one who stands above you in judgment."

— Avatar Kyoshi, The Rise of Kyoshi

"My friend is not a diplomat. She is the failure of diplomacy. She is the breakdown of negotiations. There is no escalation of hostilities beyond her."

— Tieguai the Immortal, on Avatar Kyoshi, The Shadow of Kyoshi

"You do not decide who lives and who dies. That's my job."

— Ozriel the Reaper, Eighth Judge of the Abidan Court, Cradle Series book 10: Reaper

Live Action TV

Robbie: I only kill asesinos who deserve it. It's vengeance, chica.
Daisy: For what? You killed a detective!
Robbie: He had blood on his hands.
Daisy: A teacher!?
Robbie: A pedophile.
[they fight briefly, and Daisy gets the upper hand]
Daisy: You don't get to decide who deserves to die.
Robbie: I'm not the one who decides.

— Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

(a patient smashes a vase over a Judoon trooper's helmet)
Judoon: Witness: The Crime. Charge: Physical Assault. Plea: Guilty. Sentence: Execution! (vaporises him)
Oliver Morgenstern: You didn't have to do that.
Judoon: Justice is swift.

— Doctor Who, "Smith and Jones"

"You wanted to know what I do for a living. I kill people. There's always one who wields the sword of Damocles, one self-appointed god. That's me, Alyson. That's me."

— Robert McCall, The Equalizer

Ray Palmer: This isn't the first time he's been judge, jury and executioner.
Felicity Smoak: He hasn't killed anyone in nearly two years.
Ray Palmer: That really is not your best argument.

— Arrow, "Suicidal Tendencies"

"It's not enough playing judge and jury...you've got to add executioner to the list?"

— Foggy Nelson, Daredevil (2015), "Nelson v. Murdock"

Tabletop Games

What right to we have to pass judge­ment on a fellow human being?
I ask of you, what right have we to presume him innocent?

— The Catechisms Martial, Warhammer 40,000

We determine the guilty. We decide the punishment.

— Codex Arbites - the Commandments of Justice, Warhammer 40,000

"Such men are beyond mere mercy."

— On Lord Marshal Arbites, Warhammer 40,000

"I am a Commissar. I am empowered to deliver justice wherever I see it lacking. I am empowered to punish cowardice. I am granted the gift of total authority to judge, in the name of the Emperor, on the field of combat."

— Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt, Warhammer 40,000

Theatre

"Our logical Mikado, seeing no moral difference between the dignified judge who condemns a criminal to die, and the industrious mechanic who carries out the sentence, has rolled the two offices into one, and every judge is now his own executioner."

— Pooh-Bah, The Mikado

Video Games

For the Tyrant, even Justice is whimsy. He alone is fit to weigh, to measure, and to cut.

—Sofia Lamb, Bioshock 2

Civilian: Mercy, ser, mercy. I've done nothing wrong!
Ser Mettin: You harbored a known apostate.
Civilian: What crime is feeding my cousin? She was whipped, half-starving!
Ser Mettin: It is a crime against the Maker. The sentence is - (notices Hawke) Intruders! Deal with them.

— Dragon Age II

"I am judge, jury, and executioner."

— Daredevil, Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects

Western Animation

Walker: (while welcoming Danny to prison) I am your judge; executioner; jury; executioner; jailer; and, if necessary, your executioner.
Danny: Uh, you said "executioner" three times.
Walker: I like that part of the job.

— Danny Phantom, "Prisoners of Love"

"Hey, who made you Judge Judy and executioner?"

— Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

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