History Main / JuryOfTheDamned

* The ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' has [[spoiler:Fluttercruel]] end up in one of these after what appeared to be her death, with a court of demonic shadows ruling on whether or not she should exist. [[spoiler:The find her guilty, but she [[EscapedFromHell fights her way out of it]] to help the heroes defeat [[BigBad Princess Gaia/Nightmare Whisper]] and fix the mess she was responsible for.]] Its left ambiguous as to whether or not this was real or all in her head.
** [[MyLittlePonyTales Starlight]] finds herself in one after dying in the G2 Era's Class 2 apocalypse, being on trial for her role in said apocalypse. Her Defense Attorney is an unnamed Alicorn version of her and the Prosecutor is a foal. In an unusual case, she's both the defendant ''and'' the judge, with Judicium, the Alicorn of Judgment, serving as her adviser. [[spoiler:She finds herself guilty at the end. In another twist, her Defense Attorney was actually [[{{Satan}} Havoc]], the DimensionLord of Hell, and that declaring herself innocent would've condemned her because it means she's refusing to accept responsibility for her actions. The Prosecutor was actually [[{{God}} the Father of All Alicorns]], the DimensionLord of Heaven who was trying to get her to accept that responsibility and ask forgiveness so he could give it and let her into Heaven.]]

* ''TinyToons'' episode "Night Ghoulery" ("The Devil and Daniel Webfoot" segment).

In ''TheDevilAndDanielWebster'' by Stephen Vincent Benet when Daniel Webster is defending his client Jabez Stone against the Devil, he demands the right to a trial with an American judge and jury. The Devil agrees, provided he gets to choose the judge and jury. He provides a jury of traitors and murderers to sit in judgment on Stone.

* ''TheDevilAndDanielWebster'' was made into a brilliant film version in 1941, also known as ''All That Money Can Buy'', with a screenplay by Benet.

* The originator of this trope was the short story ''TheDevilAndDanielWebster'' by Stephen Vincent Benet.

-->'''Nixon:''' But I'm not dead yet![[note]][[LongRunner Indeed, he was very much alive when the episode aired over 20 years ago.]][[/note]] In fact, I just wrote an article for Redbook. Anybody see it?

* The ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' has [[spoiler:Fluttercruel]] end up in one of these after what appeared to be her death, with a court of demonic shadows ruling on whether or not she should exist. [[spoiler:The find her guilty, but she [[LikeABadassOutOfHell fights her way out of it]] to help the heroes defeat [[BigBad Princess Gaia/Nightmare Whisper]] and fix the mess she was responsible for.]] Its left ambiguous as to whether or not this was real or all in her head.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode 'Treehouse of Horror IV' ("The Devil and Homer Simpson" segment), when Homer sold his soul for a doughnut, included a jury consisting of John Wilkes Booth, Lizzie Borden, John Dillinger, Blackbeard, Benedict Arnold, the starting lineup of the [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking 1976 Philadelphia Flyers]] (popularly known as the "Broad Street Bullies" because they were famed for their [[UnnecessaryRoughness violent play]]), and RichardNixon.

* In ''TheIncredibleHercules'', Zeus is put on trial by Pluto with a jury of dead supervillains, including [[http://the-isb.blogspot.com/2006/01/profiles-in-courage-tiger-man.html the Armless Tiger Man]].

* Richard in ''LookingForGroup'' is held in court to be judged by his peers -- the damned, who don't think he's living up to his damnation. [[spoiler: Subverted in that they don't have the power to enforce their ruling after all.]]

-->'''Nixon:''' But I'm not dead yet![[note]][[LongRunner Indeed, he was very much alive when the episode aired over 20 years ago]][[/note]] In fact, I just wrote an article for Redbook. Anybody see it?
-->'''Satan (Flanders):''' Hey, I did a favor for ''you''!

-->'''Nixon:''' But I'm not dead yet[[note]][[LongRunner Indeed, he was very much alive when the episode aired over 20 years ago]][[/note]]! In fact, I just wrote an article for Redbook. Anybody see it?

* In ''OnePiece'', on the island where the World Government's justice is passed, the accused goes before a judge and jury. The jury is all convicts who have, so far, ''never'' passed a not-guilty verdict, on the grounds that they all want to take as many people with them as they can.

* A ''FatherDowlingMysteries'' episode had Father Frank Dowling being the defending counsel in such a situation.

* In DungeonsAndDragons cosmology, the closest thing demons have to a justice system is the Lords of Woe, a cabal of nalfeshnee who hold court on the 400th layer of the Abyss, Woeful Escarand. The court enforces the law of the Abyss, or at least ''their'' interpretation of it, and as you might expect of demons, it's little more than a dark and insane parody of a true court of law. Most of the time they simply decide the fates of chaotic evil mortal souls who end up in the Abyss; when they actually decide to hold a ''trial'', the defendants are usually tried ''in absentia'', as few are willing to submit themselves to their "justice". The only thing that keeps them from becoming a total joke is pacts written in ancient times that do, indeed, given them authority to make judgments, so those who are convicted tend to give them a wide berth.

* ''TheGhostAndMrsMuir'' episode "Not So Faust".

* In ''TrippingTheRift'' episode "The Devil and a guy called Webster", Chode sells his soul to Satan. To get out of paying what he owes, the crew intends to travel back in time to the 1880s to hire Daniel Webster to represent him. Unfortunately, they accidentally travel to the ''19''80s, and brink back Emmanuelle Lewis (aka {{Webster}}). Incredibly, he still manages to win the case.

-->'''Nixon:''' But I'm not dead yet[[note]][[LongRunner Indeed, he was very much alive when the episode aired over 20 years ago]][[/note]]! In fact, I just wrote an article for Redbook.
-->'''Satan (Flanders):''' Hey, listen, I did a favor for ''you''!

* In ''TheSmurfs'' episode "Harmony Steals the Show", Harmony Smurf is put on trial by a jury of (generic) ghost musicians and composers in a dispute about being in a [[DealWithTheDevil legally-bound contract]] that allowed him to use a ghost's original symphony as his own in exchange for being that ghost's eternal spectral nightclub performer; only the ghost making the charge against Harmony is found guilty of plagiarism when the "original symphony" he claimed he created was revealed to be musical pieces stolen from other musicians.

* In DungeonsAndDragons cosmology, the closest thing demons have to a justice system is the Lords of Woe, a cabal of nalfeshnee who hold court on the 400th layer of the Abyss, Woeful Escarand. The court enforces the law of the Abyss, or at least ''their'' interpretation of it, and as you might expect of demons, it's little more of a parody of a dark and insane parody of a true court of law. Most of the time they simply decide the fates of chaotic evil mortal souls who end up in the Abyss; when they actually decide to hold a trial, the defendants are usually tried ''in absentia'', as few are willing to submit themselves to their "justice". The only thing that keeps them from becoming a total joke is pacts written in ancient times that do, indeed, given them authority to make judgments, so those who are convicted tend to give them a wide berth.

* ''The Barsoom Project'', sequel to Creator/LarryNiven's ''Dream Park'', features a sequence where the PlayerCharacters are put on trial by the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification manifestations]] of humanity's sins and crimes as defined by the literal themepark version of the Eskimo religion.

* The Nelvana production ''The Devil and Daniel Mouse'' sees a jury of the damned. The Devil himself supplies three demons to sit as jurors, and when Daniel complains that a jury requires twelve persons, the demons split into several copies until there are twelve.

* ''Series/SwampThing'' TV series: Anton Arcane complains that the jury is not impartial, as they all know him well. This troper thinks it was a dream sequence or something.

* {{Superman}} was once put on trial by group of dead criminals raised when a magical MacGuffin fell into a prison graveyard. He had ThePhantomStranger as his defender.

-->'''Nixon:''' But I'm not dead yet[[hottip:*:[[LongRunner Indeed, he was very much alive when the episode aired over 20 years ago]]! In fact, I just wrote an article for Redbook.

* ''The Barsoom Project'', sequel to LarryNiven's ''Dream Park'', features a sequence where the PlayerCharacters are put on trial by the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification manifestations]] of humanity's sins and crimes as defined by the literal themepark version of the Eskimo religion.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode 'Treehouse of Horror IV' ("The Devil and Homer Simpson" segment), when Homer sold his soul for a doughnut, included a jury consisting of John Wilkes Booth, Lizzie Borden, John Dillinger, Blackbeard, Benedict Arnold, the starting lineup of the [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking 1976 Philadelphia Flyers]] (popularly known as the "Broad Street Bullies" because they were famed for their [[UnnecessaryRoughness violent play]]), and Richard Nixon.

** [[MyLittlePonyTales Starlight]] finds herself in one after dying in the G2 Era's Class 2 apocalypse, being on trial for her role in said apocalypse. Her Defense Attorney is an unnamed Alicorn version of her and the Persecutor is a foal. In an unusual case, she's both the defendant ''and'' the judge, with Judicium, the Alicorn of Judgment, serving as her adviser. [[spoiler:She finds herself guilty at the end. In another twist, her Defense Attorney was actually [[{{Satan}} Havoc]], the DimensionLord of Hell, and that declaring herself innocent would've condemned her because it means she's refusing to accept responsibility for her actions. The Prosecutor was actually [[{{God}} the Father of All Alicorns]], the DimensionLord of Heaven who was trying to get her to accept that responsibility and ask forgiveness so he could give it and let her into Heaven.]]

** [[MyLittlePonyTales Starlight]] finds herself in one after dying in the G2 Era's Class 2 apocalypse, being on trial for her role in said apocalypse. In an unusual case, she's both the defendant ''and'' the judge, with Judicium, the Alicorn of Judgment, serving as her adviser. [[spoiler:She finds herself guilty at the end. In another twist, her Defense Attorney was actually [[{{Satan}} Havoc]], the DimensionLord of Hell, and that declaring herself innocent would've condemned her because it means she's refusing to accept responsibility for her actions. The Prosecutor was actually [[{{God}} the Father of All Alicorns]], the DimensionLord of Heaven who was trying to get her to accept that responsibility and ask forgiveness so he could give it and let her into Heaven.]]

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