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2[-[[caption-width-right:300:"Your sins will be read to you ceaselessly, [[CelestialBureaucracy in shifts]]... [[AndIMustScream throughout eternity]]. The list [[LongList will never end."]]]]-]
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4->''[three hours into execution ceremony]''\
5'''Daniel:''' I think we're getting to the end.\
6'''O'Neill:''' How can you tell?\
7'''Daniel:''' Well, the crimes they're listing are starting to sound familiar.
8-->-- ''Film/StargateContinuum''
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12A character is subjected to a LongList of their sins and transgressions, often impossibly long. The list may be presented in person, or written out (perhaps on a WantedPoster). Alternatively, a character is placed in purgatory or otherwise judged for their crimes, with a convenient long list of crimes at hand, possibly because the PowersThatBe have SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands.
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14ArsonMurderAndJaywalking (or BreadEggsMilkSquick, if you're delving into BlackComedy) is typically invoked, making this a sister trope. This can also invoke a {{Dissimile}} if the defense or accuser remarks that the target's record is pretty clean aside from the list. On the other hand, it can be {{subverted}} if it becomes ArsonMurderAndLifesaving. The details on the list may qualify as {{Noodle Incident}}s.
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16Can lead to LongerThanLifeSentence.
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24* In one ''Manga/BlackJack'' story, Black Jack's school friend, Makube, is a criminal. He gets detained by the ICPO.
25-->'''Inspector:''' So you won't confess your crimes of murder, smuggling, drug-dealing, gambling fraud, forgery, battery, bribery, human trafficking, pimping, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking public urination?]]\
26'''Makube:''' [[ConfessToALesserCrime I'll cop to public urination]].
27* ''Anime/DeadLeaves'' start with the main characters, Pandy and Retro, go on a very brief but supremely violent crime spree which ends with them getting captured and sentenced to life imprisonment for "trespassing, theft, violence, assault, illegal possession of firearms, and a really crappy attitude!"
28* The first Mega-level fought [[note]]and the second one encountered in the show[[/note]] in ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'' "purifies" people of their sins by taking their souls. When the Digimon troublemaker claims Ruli as her next victim, she counts a total of 107,231 "impurities" based on minor misdeeds she made in her lifetime before taking her soul and returning her body to the real world as a soulless husk.
29* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'': Steely Dan forces Jotaro to serve him by holding Joseph hostage with his Stand, The Lovers. Jotaro writes down every instance of abuse and humiliation Dan inflicts on him. Once The Lovers are neutralized and Dan is at Jotaro's mercy, he tries to offer money to be left alone, but Jotaro beats the shit out him, then drops the paper on his body and says, "Your receipt. You can keep the friggin' change."
30* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Before Kozuki Oden is introduced, a servant recounts to Sukiyaki, Oden's father and shogun of Wano Country, the feats Oden did across his lifetime up to this point since he was a baby, such as throwing his wet nurse across the room as an infant, catching two rabbits with his bare hands when he was 2, killing a bear with a thrown boulder when he was 4, visiting the red light district and participating in casinos when he was six, starting to drink booze and pick fights with gamblers when he was 8, waging a war against the Yakuza after they banned him from their casinos when he was nine, and having a harem of women who he kidnapped (who stayed willingly) when he was 15 and then causing the Harem War. Ironically, while narrating these events, the servants gets increasingly excited, showing that Oden is secretly admired for doing things the others wish to do but don't to follow Wano's strict rules. This scene gives a first impression of Oden as a troublesome and incredible person.
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35* ''[[Comicbook/DRAndQuinch D.R. & Quinch Go Straight]]'' begins with Judge Thorkwung reading all the criminal charges of which the two {{Villain Protagonist}}s are being accused.
36-->'''Judge Thorkwung:''' Ernest Errol Quinch and Waldo Dobbs, also known as "D.R." or "Diminished Responsibility", you are charged with arson, kidnapping, theft, grievous wounding, possession of unlawful atomic weapons, taking and driving away, conspiracy to overthrow the government, [[FelonyMisdemeanor coveting thy neighbour's ox]], graverobbing, torture, criminal libel, blackmail, polluting the environment, shoplifting, 714 separate driving offenses, forging sacred relics, transmuting base metal into gold, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick genocide]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking spitting]], and thirty-two offenses [[TakeOurWordForIt so unusual and horrible]] they do not have names.
37* In ''Comicbook/StrangersInParadise'', when Katchoo is arrested for her revenge on Freddie, her list of crimes reads as follows (creator Terry Moore [[WordOfGod got the specifics]] from a lawyer who'd read the previous issue):
38-->'''Officer Bob:''' Kidnapping! Re: restraining liberty for the purpose of terrorizing! Two counts of felonious assault! One count of illegal entry! $4400 in property damage and one count of aggravated menacing with a dangerous kitchen utensil with intent to...\
39'''Freddie:''' ...Castrate me! The crazy bitch tried to castrate me!\
40'''Katchoo:''' Imagine my surprise when I found I didn't have to!
41* ''ComicBook/{{Lobo}}'''s list of crimes.
42--> Wanted for crimes against the Galaxy including: Genocide ... Fratricide ... Patricide ... Matricide ... Impersonating a member of the Intergalactic Church of Truth ... Impersonating a member of the Green Lantern Corps ... Carrying a concealed thermo-nuclear device ... Breaking into the Justice League Satellite ... Fishing without a license ... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Jaywalking]] ... Grand theft plasma rocket ... Disturbance of the peace across three space sectors ... 1,978,643,896 unpaid parking permits ... Illegal bounty hunting ... Wanton destruction of government property ... Demolishing a city without a permit ... Reckless endangerment toward animals ... Hijacking ... Selling/distributing radioactive material to [[DeathbringerTheAdorable cute fluffy]] [[KillerRabbit bunny rabbits]] ... Noise infractions level 5.0 ... Illegally poaching Starros ... Bounty Huntering in a restricted zone ... Stepping on the grass ... [[TooMuchInformation Defecating in a public garden ...]] Loitering ... Advocating the overthrow of the heads of state ... Not honoring the bounty hunter code
43** Possibly the most disturbing thing about this list is that it suggests you ''can'' get a permit for demolishing a city. (More than likely, the offense didn't mean "non-licensed building demolitions".)
44* In ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesAdventures'' #23, a space criminal named Bellybomb is sentenced to a toxic prison planet for seventeen life sentences for extortion, armed robbery, hijacking, kidnapping, torture, murder, man-eating, brain poaching, soul thievery...and impersonating a primitive deity named Bob. After the jailers read off these crimes, Bellybomb points out that they didn't mention his unpaid parking tickets.
45* In [=IDW=]'s ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW Megatron: Origins]]'' miniseries, Starscream is brought before the Senate to give testimony about the Decepticon "fight club"...
46-->'''Senator:''' Prisoner Starscream, I am required to list your charges as follows...assault, murder, armed robbery, destruction of state property, inciting civil disobedience, extortion, receiving and selling stolen goods, passing counterfeit funds, firing up on a state senator, multiple counts of attacks on state officers and state property, supplying known criminals with illegal weaponry, vehicle theft, and misrepresenting yourself as a state official.\
47'''Starscream:''' Heh. Nobody's perfect.
48* From ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'':
49-->By the authority of the League of Nations, Baron Heinrich von Helsingard is hereby placed under arrest as an enemy of all mankind for the crimes of kidnapping, human experimentation upon unwilling subjects, and... ''[flips through the list]'' ''Wow. Jeez,'' that's a lot of atrocities. Where did Helsingard find the time to sleep? ''[more flipping]'' I don't even know what this one ''means''.
50* In the ''ComicBook/DetectiveComics'' Issue #64 ("ComicBook/TheJoker Walks the Last Mile"), as part of his master plan in putting his JokerImmunity to the test for freedom, the Joker rattles off a "seemingly never-ending list of his incredible crimes" to the police, including robbing the National Bank of Denver; this goes on for days until it's more than enough to warrant a death sentence (he gets better a little later).
51* ''ComicBook/NemesisTheWarlock'': When Grand Master Torquemada is put on trial after his regime is overthrown, it takes ''several days'' to read all the charges against him. Of course, it helps that he left tons of video evidence of all his tortures and genocidal campaigns (so he could have fun watching it later!) for the prosecution to use.
52* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers:'' The fate of Violator, a Decepticon captured by Autobots one day. After being captured, he was chained up and subjected to ''[[ByTheBookCop Prowl]]'', listing out all of Violator's crimes... and then listing, in full, the laws those crimes broke. At some point during the ''third day'' of this, [[TheBore Prowl]] realized that Violator had willingly [[SuicideAsComedy shut off his own spark]] rather than continue listening.
53* ''ComicBook/DemonKnights:'' In Hell, Vandal Savage is given a list of all the things he's done over his immortal life. Being Vandal Savage, he's not remotely apologetic about any of them.
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57* In ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'', Bill the Cat, according to a FBI background check presented in a SundayStrip, "has been either convicted, indicted, jailed, under investigation or pursued by a special prosecutor for influence peddling, racketeering, obstruction of justice, perjury, shredding documents, insider trading or ''Wedtech'' shenanigans." The punchline is that this sort of "legal experience" makes him highly qualified to be hired as a Reagan administration official.
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61* In the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' [[AlternateUniverseFic AU]] ''FanFic/{{Empire}}'' we have this at [[AbusiveParents the Dursleys]] arrest:
62-->'''Kingsley Shacklebolt:''' These are Harry Potter's muggle relatives. I am bringing them in on three thousand six hundred and fifty counts of child abuse—one for every day that poor boy had to spend in their house.
63* In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' [[BadFuture Dark World]], [[BadassSanta Santa Hooves]] breaks into Discord's castle and reads his list to him. He does this ''every year''.
64%%* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3436215/1/Class-is-in-Session BECAUSE I KICK ASS, THAT'S HOW!]]
65* The [[TheFederation United Galaxies]] delivers one to [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Her Imperious Condescension]] in the ''FanFic/GoldenAge'' series, courtesy of [[TheHighQueen Queen Jane]]:
66-->'''Jane:''' ''"The Coalition states for the record that it considers Her Imperious Condescension, Empress of Alternia and its conquered territories a Criminal, a Liability to her own people, an immature brat unfit for power, a Crazy Old Bat and an Abuser, and we do hereby charge her with Corruption, Corruption of Minors, Exploitation, Exploitation of Minors, Slavery, Slavery of Minors, Indoctrination, Indoctrination of Minors, Violation of the Prime Directive and Violation of seventy percent of the Chart of Universal Rights for the Sapient Species, and we declare to unanimously hold her in Contempt."''
67* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10700343/4/Luna-s-Cupboard Luna's Cupboard]]'':
68-->Andromeda forced Snape to write out a confession of all his major crimes using a blood quill. It took up forty feet of parchment, and there was not enough parchment in all of Hogwarts to list his more minor crimes, but there was an extra four feet for the summary of them.
69* ''Fanfic/DidntExpectThat'': Kanril Eleya arrests Section 31 operative Franklin Drake at the end of the story, charging him with "illegal genetic experimentation[[note]]He was involved in the project that turned MACO Lieutenant Rachel Connor into a SuperSoldier.[[/note]], misuse of government resources, sending a false distress signal, criminal negligence leading to combat loss of Starfleet assets[[note]]Both referring to Drake's antics in [[https://sto.gamepedia.com/Mission:_The_Hunt_is_On "The Hunt Is On"]] and [[https://sto.gamepedia.com/Mission:_Space_Chase "Space Chase"]][[/note]], espionage, conspiracy to commit murder[[note]]Involvement in Section 31 baiting the Tal Shiar into assassinating a Cardassian ambassador in-story.[[/note]]… [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Oh, and two counts of trespassing.]]"[[note]]Breaking into her ship to talk to her, twice.[[/note]]
70* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13063680/6/Correcting-Mistakes Correcting Mistakes]]'' the list of Dumbledore's crimes takes up 27 feet of parchment.
71* ''Fanfic/AllForLuz'': When Governor Maxwell is arrested he's charged with enough crimes land him in prison for a life sentence with no parole.
72--> '''Dr. Rodriquez''': Governor Rodger Maxwell was arrested by the Military for, and I quote: Human Trafficking, Child Trafficking, Serial Murder, Domestic Terrorism, Endangerment of Children, first-degree manslaughter, Kidnapping, Money Laundering, Embezzlement, Fraud, and the list goes on for a country mile, so to save myself from reading a literal novel worth of crimes, I'll cut it short there.
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76* ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal''. The charges against Captain Sternn. The viewer soon learns that Sternn also ran a "preschoolers prostitute ring" and "sold dope disguised as a nun".
77-->'''Prosecutor:''' Lincoln Stern, you stand here accused of 12 counts of murder in the first degree, 14 counts of armed theft of Federation property, 22 counts of piracy in high space, 18 counts of fraud, 37 counts of rape...[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and one moving violation]]. How do you plead?
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81* ''Literature/AScannerDarkly'': The character Freck, a relentless drug fiend, attempts to commit suicide but miscalculates the amount of alcohol and pills he needs, so instead he starts hallucinating.
82-->'''Narrator:''' The next thing he knew, a creature from between dimensions was standing beside his bed, looking down at him disapprovingly.\
83'''Freck:''' You gonna read me my sins? ''(the creature nods)'' Eh, it's gonna take a hundred thousand hours.\
84'''Creature:''' '''''Your sins will be read to you ceaselessly, in shifts... throughout eternity. The list will never end.'''''\
85'''Creature:''' ''[begins reading]'' The Sins of Freck.\
86'''Narrator:''' Charles Freck wished he could take back the last half hour of his life.\
87'''Creature:''' "... theft of fingernail clippers..." "... you did knowingly and with malice..." "... punched your baby sister, Evelyn..." "... December, theft of Christmas presents..." "...one billion lies..."\
88'''Narrator:''' One thousand years later, they had reached the sixth grade, the year he had discovered masturbation.\
89'''Creature:''' "... November 14, Percodan... Vicodin... Cocaine..."
90* ''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020'': Every time Harley runs into somebody who seems to be after her, the narration explains their grievance towards her. When she's captured by [[BigBad Roman Sionis]], there is an entire list of grievances that moves too quickly to be read
91* ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'': At each of Tuco's "executions" an official reads off the list of crimes for which he has been convicted. They go on for quite a while. Considering how many of the offenses on the list, even the relatively lower-grade ones, were capital crimes, how he and Blondie cheat the executioner more than once is an exercise best left to Sergio Leone and the viewer, and in-universe, even Blondie realizes that the scam may not work the third time around and leaves Tuco in the desert after the second time, his only stated reason being that he didn't think Tuco would ever be worth more than three grand. The first time we see them pulling this scam, the judge is reading a list of offenses including murder, arson in a state prison, theft of sacred objects, inciting prostitution, armed robbery... but he sounds ''really'' indignant as he winds up with [-"... and, contrary to the laws of this state, the condemned is guilty of [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking using MARKED CARDS AND LOADED DICE!]]"-] He also apparently stole money from ''both sides of the Civil War''. One judge remarks that Tuco "spontaneously confessed" to many of the crimes, implying that he made at least some of them up to drive up his bounty.
92* In ''Film/{{Brazil}}'', arrested [[spoiler: Sam Lowry]] is presented with a long and painstakingly accurate list of his transgressions, from high treason to overexpenditure of stationery. Since this is harsh dystopia, the scene is anything but funny.
93* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'' does this before Jack Sparrow, a notorious pirate, is to be executed. Note that the man reading them stated at the beginning that only "the most egregious" of his crimes were to be stated. The list still goes on for a ''very'' long time.
94-->'''Cryer:''' "...Impersonating an officer of the Spanish Royal Navy... [[Funny/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Impersonating a cleric of the Church of England...]]"\
95'''Jack Sparrow:''' ''[smiling]'' Ah, yes...
96* ''Film/YearOne'' has [[spoiler:Cain]] reading a list of charges against Zed (Creator/JackBlack) and Oh (Creator/MichaelCera) when they are [[spoiler:about to be stoned]] in Sodom. PlayedForLaughs when one of the charges is "Sodomy", much to the crowd's confusion, until it is revealed that the actual charge is "Refusal of Sodomy".
97* Near the end of Creator/WCFields' ''Film/TheGolfSpecialist'', we briefly see J. Effingham Bellweather's wanted poster which includes such things as manslaughter and homicide. The next shot is a ten-second pan down a list of his [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking other offenses]]:
98-->Bigamy,\
99Passing as the Prince of Wales,\
100Eating spaghetti in public,\
101Using hard words in a speakeasy,\
102Trumping partner's ace,\
103Spitting in the Gulf Stream,\
104Jumping board bill in seventeen lunatic asylums,\
105Failure to pay installments on a strait-jacket,\
106Possessing a skunk,\
107Revealing the facts of life to an Indian.
108* Subverted in ''Film/ThePopeMustDie'' when the dying Cardinal Rocco asks for absolution for his sins. When asked what they are he replies that since he doesn't have a lot of time, if you can think of it, he's done it.
109* In ''Film/StargateContinuum'', SG-1 is asked to be present at the execution of the (supposedly) last Ba'al clone. When Jack finally decides to ask what the last several hours of continuous chanting have been about, he's informed that the Tok'ra were listing all of Ba'al's crimes in the Goa'uld language and they're only now reaching the end of the list -- as a TimeAbyss EvilOverlord, it's quite extensive.
110* Played with in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', where the long list is due to the judge reading the charges in a RICO case that is being brought against the entire mob at once.
111-->'''Judge Surillo''': ''...712 counts of extortion, 849 counts of racketeering, 246 counts of fraud, 87 counts of conspiracy murder, 527 counts of obstruction of justice. How do the defendants plead?''
112-->''[torrent of abuse from a courtroom crowded with defendants]''
113* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'' features the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio vs. Karen Sympathy, Rocket J. Squirrel, and Bullwinkle J. Moose.
114-->'''[[Creator/WhoopiGoldberg Judge Cameo]]:''' The defendants are charged with grand theft auto: 1 count; breaking out of jail: 1 count; impugning the character of a prison guard: 1 count; reckless driving: 4 counts; [[NoFourthWall talking to the audience]]; five counts; [[LamePunReaction criminally bad punning]]: 18 counts.\
115'''Bullwinkle:''' And three dukes and seven earls.\
116'''Judge Cameo:''' Make that 19.
117* ''Film/LiarLiar'' has a case where the criminal confesses his transgressions:
118-->'''Cop:''' Do you know why pulled you over?\
119'''[[Creator/JimCarrey Fletcher]]:''' Depends on how long you were following me!\
120'''Cop:''' Let's just take it from the top.\
121'''Fletcher:''' ''[sigh]'' Here goes. I sped. I followed too closely. I ran a stop sign. I almost hit a Chevy. I sped some more. I failed to yield at a crosswalk. I changed lanes at the intersection. I changed lanes without signaling while running a red light ''[[BreadEggsBreadedEggs and speeding!]]''\
122'''Cop''': Is that all?\
123'''Fletcher''': No. I have unpaid parking tickets. ''[Opens the glove compartment and masses of tickets spill out.]'' Be gentle.
124* ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' ends with Admiral Kirk and his crew brought before the Federation Council and read the list of their crimes from [[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock the previous film]]. {{Subverted}}, though, in that almost all of the charges are dismissed, and the only legal consequence is Kirk getting demoted to Captain--[[{{Unishment}} which makes him very happy]].
125* ''Film/TheHidden'': When the alien PuppeteerParasite villain's first onscreen body is near death in the hospital, a doctor takes offense to the police officers' relief, saying that no one deserves to die like that. One of the officers responds thus:
126-->He killed twelve people, wounded twenty three more, stole six cars, most of them Ferraris. Robbed eight banks, six supermarkets, four jewelery stores and a candy shop. Six of the ones he killed he carved up with a butcher knife. Two of them were kids. He did all that in two weeks. If anyone deserves to go that way, it sure in the hell was him!
127* At the end of the film version ''Literature/{{Hoot}}'', the villain is arrested for trying to destroy a habitat for endangered owls, driving a bulldozer without a licence, and "many other things".
128* Parodied in ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'' with Harry's comment to an attendant of a church that shows high levels of anti-Semitic, racist, homophobic and anti-choice sentiment as he makes to leave:
129--> I'm a Catholic whore currently enjoying congress out of wedlock with my black Jewish boyfriend who works at the military abortion clinic. So hail Satan and have a lovely afternoon, madam.
130* ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'': Walter Peck reads one of these to Janine when she asks for a warrant.
131* In ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', Thor gives an angry TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Loki listing some of his more recent transgressions- faking his death, stealing the throne from Odin, causing Odin's death by stranding him on Earth and allowing Hela to be unsealed- before noting that he only included the ones from the past ''two days.''
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135* Two from ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
136** In ''Literature/{{Jingo}}''. Carrot suggests war is, by definition, a breach of the peace, and Vimes starts adding up the other crimes you can charge an entire army with:
137--->'''Vimes:''' Conspiracy to cause an affray, going equipped to commit a crime, threatening behaviour, loitering with intent, [[{{Pun}} loitering within tent]], hah, travelling for the purpose of committing a crime, malicious lingering and carrying concealed weapons.\
138'''Carrot:''' I don't think that one --\
139'''Vimes:''' ''I'' can't see 'em.
140::: And one count of offensive behavior to the general on his own side.
141** The Elf Queen's lawyers do this to the Nac Mac Feegle in ''Literature/TheWeeFreeMen'':
142--->'''Lawyer:''' -- including more than two thousand cases of Making an Affray, Causing a Public Nuisance, Being Found Drunk, Being Found Very Drunk, Using Offensive Language (taking into account 97 instances of Using Language That Was Probably Offensive If Anyone Could Understand It), Committing a Breach of the Peace, Malicious Lingering, Grand Theft, Petty Theft, Burglary, Housebreaking, Loitering with Intent to Commit a Felony --
143** Subverted in ''Literature/{{Eric}}'', where Hell's new punishments include, instead of being forced to push a boulder up a hill, being forced to listen to all the safety regulations for manhandling large objects. Neither the sinner nor the demon are happy about this.
144* Dante's ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Inferno]]'' keeps track of transgressions, with Hell being divided into subsections for specific crimes.
145* Platime, head of a country's [[ThievesGuild criminal underworld]] in ''Literature/TheElenium'', delivers his own list of transgressions to his queen -- while negotiating a [[KarmaHoudini blanket pardon]] in exchange for [[RecruitingTheCriminal his loyal service]].
146-->'''Platime:''' Nothing worth mentioning, your Majesty... There were a few incidental murders, assorted thefts, robberies, extortions, burglaries, arsons, smuggling, highway robbery, cattle rustling, pillaging a couple of monasteries, operating unlicensed brothels--that sort of thing...\
147'''Queen Ehlana:''' Is there any crime you ''haven't'' committed?\
148'''Platime:''' Barratry, I think... Also, I've never had [[BestialityIsDepraved carnal knowledge of an animal]], I've never practiced [[BlackMagic witchcraft]], and I've never committed [[TheQuisling treason]].\
149'''Ehlana:''' Those are the more really serious ones, I suppose.
150* The Creator/NeilGaiman short story "Other People" from ''Fragile Things'' is centered on the premise of hell being basically this, only instead of simply being read the list, every single sin is brought forth and purged from the individual via ColdBloodedTorture.
151* In ''Literature/AClockworkOrange'', Alex’s list is so long the policeman in charge of writing it down is completely pale by the time he's finished.
152* In ''The Naked Mole-Rat Diariest'' by Mary Amato, Frankie's father lists everything she's done wrong over the past two weeks-- refuse to be in the school play, rip up a library book, tell a teacher that her father is having a nervous breakdown... Frankie lampshades it in the narration, saying it's horrible hearing a list of her sins and why isn't her father mentioning the sins of the rest of the family?
153* In ''Literature/RallyRoundTheFlagBoys'', Opie Dalmrymple, for his part in provoking the Fourth of July melee, is threatened with CourtMartial proceedings for violations of "several Articles of War, several local ordinances of Putnam's Landing, and possibly the Kellogg-Briand Pact." However, he gets summarily pardoned before any of these charges are brought to trial.
154* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels: Literature/ServantsOfTheEmpire''
155** After things go FromBadToWorse in ''The Secret Academy'', Merei has a long speech about everything she's done against the Empire in the series to her parents, who are staring with their mouths practically agape.
156** In the same book, Zare Leonis is sent to a tribunal and is expected to presented with a lengthy review of all of the bad things he's done against the Empire. Instead, his judge, Colonel Julyan, simply reads off the list of the things he's charged with, which are fraudulent enlistment, making false official statements, perjuring his oath as a cadet, refusal to obey lawful orders, conduct unbecoming of a cadet, dereliction of duty, destruction of Imperial property, conspiracy, providing aid and comfort to enemies of the Galactic Empire, espionage, assault on Imperial personnel, attempted murder of Imperial personnel, sedition and treason. He then asks him for his plea.
157* In ''The Ring of Solomon'', a prequel book from ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy'', Bartimaeus's list of transgressions against Solomon's Jerusalem includes eating guests of Jerusalem, fighting, devouring servants, running in the corridors, cursing, drawing rude stick figures on the harem walls, causing unpleasant smells to permeate the kitchens, and spitting on the upholstery. He explains that these are the things that aren't allowed to be done in Jerusalem because he's been told off personally for doing them. There may be others.
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161* ''Series/BetterCallSaul'': The first episode of season 4, "Smoke," sees Mike decide to conduct a surprise security audit of a Madrigal warehouse. After spending the day going around the office and warehouse, he gives the facility manager a dressing down in front of his subordinates.
162-->'''Mike:''' I waltz through security with someone else's ID. Nobody gives me a second look. When the rightful owner shows up, there's no facility-wide badge check. I find access doors left unlocked or propped open, passwords written on post-it notes. Warehouse workers are using pen and paper instead of electronic inventory devices, which leaves you wide open to pilfering. You got duplicate routing numbers on cargo, surveillance-camera blind spots on the north and the east side of the floor, inventory documents that are going into the trash instead of being shredded, not to mention loading equipment being driven at unsafe speeds and crews disregarding safety protocols-
163-->'''Manager:''' Wait. Wait. Hold on. Hold on. Who are you, exactly?\
164'''Mike:''' Ehrmantraut. Security consultant.\
165'''Manager:''' Well, all due respect, I don't know anything about a security consultant.\
166'''Mike:''' Well, you wouldn't, would you? Maybe you'd best call corporate. Try Lydia Rodarte-Quayle.
167* ''Series/OurMissBrooks'': In "Spare That Rod!", Mr. Conklin is tricked into believing he's about to be fired for being "flagrantly dictatorial" in his [[DeanBitterman administration of Madison High School]]. As a result, he requests Miss Brooks, Mr. Boynton, Walter Denton and Stretch Snodgrass provide him with a list of his transgressions:
168-->'''Mr. Conklin:''' Now, if you will read me your bill of particulars considering my various infamies...\
169'''Mr. Boynton:''' We're all going to read some of it, Mr. Conklin. Will you begin Miss Brooks?\
170'''Miss Brooks:''' Thank you, Mr. Boynton. Whereas I, Osgood Conklin, Principal of Madison High School, desiring to improve relations between myself, the faculty, and the student body... your turn, Walter.\
171'''Walter Denton:''' Ahem. Do promise to keep the following ever before me as a reminder of past sins of which I am heartily ashamed.\
172'''Stretch Snodgrass:''' Which I ain't never gonna repeat no more.\
173'''Mr. Conklin:''' Splendid. Splendid. Please continue.\
174'''Miss Brooks:''' Wait until you hear this! I readily admit on many occasions I have acted like a pompous, puffed up, ill tempered, addlepated blowhard.\
175'''Mr. Conklin:''' Forgive me, but it seems to me you have omitted maladjusted.\
176'''Miss Brooks:''' Please don't interrupt, that's in the next paragraph. Now, where was I?\
177'''Mr. Conklin:''' Addlepated blowhard.\
178'''Miss Brooks:''' Oh yes. Addlepated blowhard. And on other occasions, I have bellowed like a bull...\
179'''Mr. Boynton:''' Screamed like an elephant...\
180'''Walter Denton:''' Hissed like a viper...\
181'''Stretch Snodgrass:''' Snorted like a buffalo...\
182'''Miss Brooks:''' And otherwise exhibited the behavior of a maladjusted nincompoop.\
183'''Mr. Conklin:''' Oh, oh, oh, there it is!
184* Happens in ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' in a preliminary to the court case. It makes George Sr. aware, for the first time, just how deep in trouble he is.
185* The health inspector reading the list of violations at ''Series/FawltyTowers''. About halfway through Basil says "Yes... say no more..." but the inspector just ploughs right on until he reaches "... and two dead pigeons in the water tank."
186* From ''Series/{{CSINY}}'':
187-->'''Mac:''' You're under arrest for the murder of Derek James [and] Lauren Salinas, kidnapping and attempted murder of a crime scene investigator, armed robbery, grand theft auto, assault and battery. But most of all, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking for pissing me off.]]
188** A later episode has a US Treasury Agent reading a [[LongList laundry list]] of charges to a suspect they've been unable to charge with murder.
189** Downplayed by Adam saying of one suspect, "The penal code is his personal to-do list. Pick a section, he's violated it."
190** And with Flack saying of another, "This guy should get a gold medal in the felony Olympics. He's got 17 arrests so far this year, and two open drug charges to boot."
191* ''Series/LawAndOrder'':
192** The same thing with Lennie Briscoe:
193--->'''Briscoe:''' I'm trying to decide what to arrest you for -- obstruction of justice, harboring a fugitive or just being a general pain in the ass!
194** Another episode ends with one; as the crime in question was a subway bombing with multiple victims, the list consists of the jury being asked "on the count of murder in the first degree of ____, how do you find" and answering "guilty" many times.
195* One ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch centered on a lawyer representing one of the old cranks that the ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' gang caught who was accusing the kids of having a criminal record (Lowe played Scooby-Doo, who advocated the "Reath Renalty" for numerous criminals). By the lawyer's account, prior convictions against the kids included 4 counts of [[YouMeddlingKids meddling]], 12 counts of meddling in the second degree, two counts of [[NoodleIncident vehicular]] meddling, [[SexualEuphemism meddling]] across state lines, and sodomy. Though the last one, it turns out, was just misread and was actually just "meddling."
196* In ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'', Gordon Brittas has quite [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist a long list]] when he turns up in heaven including [[ComedicSociopathy 115 separate acts of manslaughter]], [[DrivenToSuicide cause of 4 suicides]], and [[BreakTheCutie 23 people driven clinically insane]]. They'd been counting up a while before he arrived too, [[spoiler: don't worry, even Heaven recognises the DeathEqualsRedemption trope]].
197* This happens in ''Series/StargateSG1'' when Vala is put on trial by the people of a world Qetesh ruled harshly while using Vala as a host. After she is charged with mass murder and mass torture (the first two of seven charges), Vala and Daniel interject that Qetesh did those things, not Vala. Played for laughs and drama when the modified list of charges (only four now) which only includes crimes Vala perpetrated after she was released from Qetesh starts with "planetary-wide forced labor". She considers it for a second, before deciding it's a fair charge.
198* This is how every episode of ''Series/TheIncreasinglyPoorDecisionsOfToddMargaret'' begins, with a British judge reading legal charges against the titular character, leading into a HowWeGotHere plot.
199* An amusing minor joke in [[Series/TheLibrarians2014 And the Trial of the Triangle]], where the team stages an intervention for Flynn. Ezekiel starts his section by unrolling a very large roll of paper which contained his list of grievances. He is cut off by the rest of the team before he can get to most of them.
200* ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'', and its American counterpart ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'', go into this whenever "Judgment Time" takes place.
201* The entire premise of ''Series/MyNameIsEarl''. The titular character learns about the concept of [[LaserGuidedKarma karma]] and figures that the reason his life sucks and nothing but bad things happen to him is because he is a {{Jerkass}} and a crook who does nothing but bad things to other people. He makes a list of every bad thing he remembers doing [[TheAtoner and sets out to make amends for them one by one]].
202* Vogler in ''Series/{{House}}'' rattles off House's.
203-->'''Vogler:''' A man is the sum of his actions. Here are a few of Dr. House's. He violated a DNR and was charged with assault. He brought a termite into the OR and spat on a surgeon. He accepted a Corvette from a patient who was a known member of the New Jersey mafia... He is a drug addict who flaunts his addiction and refuses to get treatment. He is a disgrace and an embarrassment to this hospital. I'd go on, but it gets kinda mean.\
204'''Board Member:''' If you look far enough into any doctor's past--\
205'''Vogler:''' This is all in the past month!
206* Inverted in a ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode. Kirk takes the stand in a trial, and the computer begins to read his long service record and awards. The prosecuter wants to shut it off, but the defense argues that it's relevant.
207* Captain Sisko does this to himself at the end of the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "In the Pale Moonlight". It's actually a short list, but the transgressions are real doozies for a Starfleet officer.
208-->'''Captain Sisko:''' So... I lied. I cheated. I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But the most damning thing of all... I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again... I would.
209* ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'':
210** Michael Burnham gets it twice in "[[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryS1E02BattleAtTheBinaryStars Battle at the Binary Stars]]" for her actions in [[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryS1E01TheVulcanHello the previous episode]] -- first from her captain, and second when she's CourtMartialed.
211--->'''Captain Georgiou:''' Commander Burnham, you have endangered your vessel and your shipmates. You have attacked a superior officer. You violated the chain of command. You are relieved of duty. Security, remand her to the brig.\
212\
213'''Judge:''' To the charge of dereliction of duty, to the charge of assaulting a fellow officer, to the charge of mutiny. To all these charges, how do you plead?\
214'''Burnham:''' ''(sotto)'' Guilty.\
215'''Judge:''' The accused cannot be heard.\
216'''Burnham:''' Guilty on all counts.
217** In the "Short Treks" episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryShortTreksE04TheEscapeArtist The Escape Artist]]", the audience is treated to a long list of the crimes Harry Mudd is wanted for, culminating in a CallBack:
218--->'''Tevrin Krit:''' Harcourt Fenton Mudd, wanted by the Federation on 30 counts of smuggling, 20 counts of attempted homicide, one count of attempted ''regicide''...\
219'''Harry Mudd:''' [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne Pft!]] "Regicide". He was a duke. Hardly counts as regicide. What are we attempting to murder now? Accuracy?\
220'''Tevrin Krit:''' Transportation of stolen goods, and one count of... ''[[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryS1E07MagicToMakeTheSanestManGoMad penetrating a space whale?!]]''\
221'''Harry Mudd:''' [[ItMakesSenseInContext You kinda had to be there.]]
222* In the episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS02E19FolsomPrisonBlues Folsom Prison Blues]]" of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', Agent Reidy lists Dean's criminal charges from at least 5 different states.
223* ''Series/RedDwarf'':
224** The series kicks off with Rimmer's EstablishingCharacterMoment, which is the list of charges he has filed against Lister, namely: 123 counts of insulting a superior technician, 39 counts of dereliction of duty, 84 counts of general insubordination and one count of mutiny.
225--->'''Todhunter:''' Mutiny, Lister?\
226'''Lister:''' I stood on his toe.\
227'''Rimmer:''' Maliciously and with intent to wound!
228** In the episode "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVTerrorform Terrorform]]", Kryten, in a perfectly earnest manner, spends a minute giving Rimmer a long list of reasons why he'd have so much self-loathing (and only goes through half the list).
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232* During live shows early in their career, Music/{{Disturbed}} would have an Music/AliceCooper[=-=]like on-stage execution of their "madman" lead singer for concert openings. He struggles like an animal, strapped into an electric chair, while a chilling voice reads out his absurdly long and unreal list of crimes.
233-->[[AC:Docket 1031373]][[note]]Draiman's birthday (March 13, 1973)[[/note]] [[AC:in the case of the United States versus David Michael Draiman.]]\
234[[AC:The defendant has been found guilty of the following crimes:]]\
235[[AC:38 counts of murder; Forced entry; 24 counts of statutory rape; 13 counts of sodomy; 12 counts of aggravated assault; 10 counts of theft of private property; and one count of treason against the government of the United States of America.]]\
236[[AC:Because of the violent and overall [[TitleDrop disturbing]] nature of these crimes, the defendant is hereby sentenced to death by electrocution]]\
237[[AC:May {{God}} have mercy upon your soul.]]
238* Doug Anthony Allstars' ''Broad Lic Nic'' is the alleged life story of a fabulist who makes Baron Munchausen look restrained. At one point, he boasts that the list of his transgressions is so long and terrible that hearing it constitutes a punishment in itself:
239--> "I told a pack of filthy lies as a politician; '''I heard my own confession as an act of contrition."'''
240* Music/BigAudioDynamite's song "Medicine Show" samples the listing of Tuco's offenses from ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''.
241* The narrator of Music/TheyMightBeGiants' song "Reprehensible" has this happen every night by a mystery voice.
242-->"Night after night, the voice recites my misdeeds"
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246* ''Pinball/CactusCanyon'' has a variation; the sides of the backbox include an extensive list of the various crimes that the player (as sheriff) must enforce.
247-->''Make arrests for the following offenses: murder, manslaughter, assault, assault of a horse, robbery, hooliganism, willfully and maliciously placing objects on a railroad track, chewing gum in church, insulting the fine and God-fear'n women of Cactus Canyon (with the exception of a certain Saloon Gal who shall remain nameless), loitering, drunk and disorderly, public display of affection (livestock not included), spitting, possession of "loco-weed," flirting with Mayor Cheetum's wife, train robbery, claim-jumping, and carrying a concealed cannon in town.''
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251* In the first episode of ''Radio/OldHarrysGame'', Thomas demands to know why he's been put in Hell. At first, {{Satan}} can't find the list and thinks he's made a mistake, but he soon finds Thomas's list - and it's pages long.
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255* Literature/TheBible mentions in its last book Revelation that there will be a great judgment of the entire human race conducted by God Himself. It states simply that those who have accepted Jesus will enter God's kingdom as their transgressions have been pardoned by Jesus on their behalf, and those who have not accepted Jesus will not receive this pardon and all of their long list of sins will be held against them.
256* ''Ecclesiastical History of the English People'', Book 5, Chapter 13 - an example of this trope being OlderThanPrint. Two beautiful youths gave the king a small white book containing a list of good deeds performed. Then, evil spirits came and gave a large black book containing a list of transgressions. The evil spirits asked the youths why they were here, since he clearly belonged to the spirits of evil.
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260* In ''Roleplay/OpenBlue'', the [[TheFederation Axifloan Coalition]] lists various crimes that various Pirate Lords and ladies are wanted for. While some have pretty serious lists throughout, others... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking not so much]]. Pirate Lady Lucille Prideux's (from v4) list ends with "Theft in general" while Captain Van Wijk's ends with "Blasphemy" (which is pretty light compared to his other crimes). The real cake takers, however, are Captain Garth (v4), with "Unlicensed operation of a menagerie", and Captain Ingrid (v4), with "Insulting Admiral Flota Vladimir Ilyavich Tokarev, '''HERO OF THE TRIBES'''".
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264* The Dwarves of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' have a Book of Grudges in which are recorded every slight and every insult made to a dwarf. Appropriate passages from the book are read out during the wars waged to avenge these insults, with the dwarves having difficulty in seeing the link between every such war lengthening the Book and their diminishing population.
265* A priest/lawyer addressing the famous Rogue-Mage Raz in a trial:
266-->'''Inquisitor:''' You...are the worst of all... Your crimes are the stuff of nightmares to all decent folk and just ways! YOU ARE AN ABOMINATION UPON LIFE AND DECENCY!!! VANDALISM, BANDITRY, SPYING, PIRACY, ABDUCTION, ILLEGAL USE OF MAGICAL ENERGIES, LOITERING, RESISTING ARREST, and worst of all.... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking tax evasion]]. WHAT HAVE YOU TO SAY FOR YOUR HERESY?
267* This is what Lord Soth had to put up with during his time as TheUndead on [[Literature/{{Dragonlance}} Krynn]]: a list provided by ghosts. When he went to TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}, his punishment was to listen to them repeated improperly, which is apparently worse.
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271* ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'': Near the end of the play when Aaron Burr has had enough of Alexander Hamilton and seeks to challenge him to a duel, Hamilton sends Burr an itemized list of thirty years of disagreements, with the side dancers in the play delivering the pages to Burr across the stage one by one. Burr's response is just a "Sweet Jesus."
272* In ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'', Constable Dogberry attempts this against Borachio and Conrade, but it's a DisorganisedOutlineSpeech where he [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment keeps repeating the same transgression in different forms]]:
273-->'''Dogberry''': Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.
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277* Mentioned in ''Videogame/Portal2''.
278-->'''[=GLaDOS=] (to [[PlayerCharacter Chell]]):''' [[AC: [[spoiler: Impersonating a Stalemate Associate]]. I just added that to the list. It's a list I made of all the things you've done. Well, it's a list I AM making, because you're still doing things, even though I'm telling you to stop. ''Stop'', by the way.]]
279* In ''VideoGame/TheFeebleFiles'' (aka ''Floyd''), the game menu will track your progress by providing a list of crimes committed so far. Since the game setting is a dystopian parody, the list grows long quite quickly.
280* Guybrush in ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge'' has one of these in a WantedPoster, which keeps growing in size as the game progresses.
281* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' own little lawbreaker, Jinx, has quite the interesting list of transgressions. As seen on her wanted poster:
282--> Murder, [[ForTheEvulz Unprovoked Assault]], Disturbing the Peace, [[{{Stripperiffic}} Public Indecency]], Murder Again, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Unauthorized Property Recoloration]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Unflattering Impersonation]] [[IShallTauntYou of an]] [[ArchEnemy Officer]], [[StuffBlowingUp Reckless]] [[MadBomber Hexplosive]] [[BombThrowingAnarchists Detonation]], Destruction of the Peace, [[EvilIsPetty Really Petty]] [[PokeThePoodle Larceny]], [[{{BFG}} Exorbiant Weapon Size]], [[RuleOfThree Some More Murders]], Inciting Mass Hysteria, Making Fun of the Peace, [[JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife Aggravated Jaywalking]], [[UnreliableNarrator Forging of]] [[ShamelessSelfPromoter Official Wanted Posters]].
283* All of the playable characters in the first two ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' series have {{Wanted Poster}}s with a list of crimes. Most of the Vault Hunters have at least three crimes a piece with [[VideoGame/Borderlands2 the second game's]] Salvador the Gunzerker has [[LongList so many crimes listed]], they had to staple two wanted posters together to fit all of them.
284* ComicBook/TheJoker's rap sheet in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamVR'', which goes from the horrific, to {{Mythology Gag}}s, to ArsonMurderAndJaywalking, to absolutely ridiculous and back again, as it would for him.
285-->'''Batcomputer:''' Previous convictions include: kidnapping, torture, extortion, racketeering, fraud, grave robbing, unlicensed dentistry, counterfeiting, bullying, cyberbullying, badger baiting, bear baiting, duck baiting, wildlife smuggling, monkey baiting, iguana baiting, piranha baiting, failure to adequately restrain a rhino, identity theft, malicious mischief, trespassing, arson, assault, larceny, grand larceny, spectacular larceny, vandalism, forgery, impersonating a police officer, impersonating a doctor, impersonating an airline pilot, unlicensed caberet entertainment, theft of livestock, unlicensed taxidermy, involuntary manslaughter, voluntary manslaughter, enthusiastic manslaughter, desecration of a corpse, improper disposition of a body, improper labeling of meat products, cannibalism, homicide, regicide, attempted omnicide, littering.\
286'''Joker:''' My only regret is I didn't do ''more''.
287* Humorously {{inverted}} in ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'', in which the lead character Velvet Crowe lays out a list of [[AntiHero her own dark deeds]]...
288-->'''Priest:''' Come, sinner, and repent your wicked deeds!\
289'''Velvet:''' Empyreans, hear my confession. When I was in prison, I instigated a riot and used it to break myself out.\
290'''Priest:''' Huh...?!\
291'''Velvet:''' Then I set fire to some warehouses in town and stole a ship to make my getaway. Then I teamed up with some pirates to destroy a military fortress. I killed anyone who got in my way.\
292'''Priest:''' What?!\
293'''Velvet:''' What do you think, Father? Will the Empyreans will forgive me?\
294'''Priest:''' I, er... ah... I think you should turn yourself in to the Abbey, and let them help you repent...\
295'''Velvet:''' That's convenient! I'm already planning on going to the Abbey. You see, I'm going to kill their boss, Artorius.\
296'''Priest:''' I-I need an exorcist over here, quick! Somebody! Anybody!\
297'''Velvet:''' That's... about how I figured it'd go.
298* Not-so-humorously {{inverted}} in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'''s "Lair of the Shadow Broker" DLC, where one option for resolving a HostageSituation is to have [[PlayerCharacter Shepard]] rattle off to the hostage-taker several of their climactic decisions from earlier in the series, which involve sacrifice for the greater good[[note]]Letting the Destiny Ascension be destroyed with the Citadel Council on board vs sacrificing several human ships to protect the Destiny Ascension, and exterminating the rachni vs. letting the rachni go free to potentially terrorize the galaxy once again[[/note]] and then ask her if she's ''really'' willing to bet that Shepard ''won't'' ShootTheHostage.
299* In ''VideoGame/LiberalCrimeSquad'', you get one of these when one of your Liberals is arrested. If they've been particularly active, it will also be a comically LongList.
300* ''VideoGame/JudgeDreddDreddVsDeath'': The Dark Judges' prisoner files list the crimes each of them were charged with by Mega City One's Justice Department.
301-->'''Judge Mortis:''' Murder, Genocide, and Transmission of Prohibited Diseases
302-->'''Judge Fire:''' Arson, Murder, and Genocide
303-->'''Judge Fear:''' Murder, Genocide, and Inciting Terror in the General Populace
304-->'''Judge Death:''' Murder, Incitement to Murder, Genocide, and Attempted Omnicide
305* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', after some members of the Western Church get captured while trying to break into the Holy Mausoleum, a sacred place to the Church of Seiros, while using an assassination attempt on Archbishop Rhea as a diversion(allowing the church to discover the plan after they suppress Lord Lonato's rebellion) Shamir, a Knight of Seiros, gives the prisoners a list of their crimes.
306-->'''Shamir''': Inciting a Kingdom noble to rebel. Unlawful entry. The attempted assassination of the archbishop. An attack on the Holy Mausoleum. It is unnecessary to go on, followers of the Western Church.
307* In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', when you meet with Caesar for the first time, he will list all the transgressions you have committed against his Legion, from thwarting his various schemes to killing high-ranking members.
308* In ''Risorgimento Represso'' Ninario's study contains a glowing strip of wallpaper which is actually paperwork headed ''Case for the Wizards Guild versus Ninario, styling himself 'wizard'. Pending charges:'. According to the description it contains hundreds of lines listing misdeeds ranging from "Magicking without a Guild Membership" to "Involuntary Magical Manslaughter".
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312* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': In "Franchise/RoboCop vs. Franchise/{{Terminator}}", [=RoboCop=] lists the Terminator's crimes ''while setting him on fire'' as, "Property damage, Resisting arrest, Assaulting an officer, ''murder''... your hot streak ends ''here''."
313* ''WebAnimation/{{HFIL}}''
314** King Yenma is horrified at the long list of sins Cell has committed...just in his ''[[CannibalismSuperpower first]]'' form. He doesn't even get to Cell's [[DeathFromAbove second form]] before declaring him a Code Orange and sending him to the titular HFIL.
315** Yenma is too busy being horrified by [[BunnyEarsLawyer Captain Ginyu's]] list of transgressions to realize that 'Captain Ginyu' is really a frog that swapped bodies with him.
316-->"This is one of the worst rap sheets I've seen in my life! The [[PersonOfMassDestruction murder]], the [[PlanetLooters pillaging]]! And the [[NoodleIncident jockstrap incident?!]] [retches]
317** The ''real'' Ginyu ''tried'' to reveal this to Yenma, but since he was in the frog's body, Yenma couldn't understand him, and just told his assistant to put him in the soul scrubber while he took his lunch.
318* In episode four of ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'', the Emperor is not fond of the many ways the Inquisition has been operating over the last 10,000 years since he was put on the Golden Throne.
319-->'''The Emperor''':''[[AC: Really, what the fuck have you all become? Labor camps and sterilizations? Murder millions over bare superstition? Excommunication of actually loyal Astartes? Have thousands of imperial planets and its valuable assets destroyed because some guy fapped with barbed wire and accidentally summoned a daemon or two? Be painfully hypocritical and use xenos and daemonic weaponry and aid in order to carry across "my will?" [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Use techno-monkeys??]]]]''
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323* One occurs in ''Webcomic/{{Fanboys}}''. Which is also an InsultBackfire and/or ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne... unless all those crimes took place on the same day.
324* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' has this in purgatory, except the list is a menu. The dead must ''eat'' all their sins before they can move on to their final rest. It takes a very long time, because there's only [[TheGrimReaper one waiter]]. In the words of [[spoiler:Ben Franklin II]], the service is "the worst."
325* ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' in [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0329.html this strip]]:
326-->'''Obi-Wan:''' Let's see... You stole the plans for a symbol of peace. You're allied with (a) a known megalomaniacal warlord and (b) a criminal sociopath. You have not one, but two, armies at your disposal. You've captured me -- unfairly -- and are holding me with no means of escape. And you're [[EvilGloating monologuing]].
327* In ''Little Dee'', Vachel engages in a hip-hop battle with one of his former Furtovian Library colleagues who, in his rap, lists Vachel's on-the-job misdeeds:
328--> You read the books / With sticky feathers, / Left books out / In stormy weathers! / Ordered books of lower caliber, / You truly are a sallow shallow bird! / We found your underlines in [[Creator/JohnMilton Milton]], / We found you loaned / The books to children!
329* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'': At the trial of Fructose Riboflavin--
330--> "...And so, thou art called before this court on charges of high treason, murder, assault, theft, tax evasion, destruction of public property, destruction of private property, fraud, persiflage, littering, [[Franchise/{{Peanuts}} graphic blandishment]], jaywalking, kaywalking, spitting..."
331* An early ''Webcomic/BrunoTheBandit'' strip featured a list which took the [[http://www.brunothebandit.com/d/19980904.html entire day]] to recite, and then some.
332* In ''Webcomic/{{Skullkickers}}'', when [[spoiler:Shorty]] briefly dies, the guardian of the underworld produces a scroll that stretches past the page border, and does not list individual crimes but the amount of each crime committed. It starts with 635 armed killings, and ends 76 minutes later, with one [[spoiler: dwarven crown]] lost.
333* In [[http://www.housepetscomic.com/2014/08/29/asking-nicely/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' strip, Spirit Dragon asks of both her mortal realm representatives what she had done to harm them. The first one replies in a way suggesting that there's a LongList of harm done, and the second has a list of harmful acts that's apparently so long that it's been compiled into a rather thick notebook labeled "Grievances".
334* In ''Webcomic/{{Precocious}}'' at the [[http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2013/02/28 conclusion]] of the "Poppinstock Fundraiser" arc the principal rattled off a five-panel WallOfText detailing the incidents perpetrated by the kids at the fair.
335--> ''They broke a boy. We had several riots. Booths were wrecked... Fines and citations are still rolling in. The EPA voiced concerns about the school's radiation levels... While I lack proof I believe there was a homemade bomb crafting workshop operating under the announcer's booth. And, despite all warnings, some are trying to sue us.''
336* Captain Tagon, of ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', suffers a RhetoricalQuestionBlunder because, apparently, the company lawyer kept a list:
337-->'''Tagon:''' Massey, you've been with us since before Doyt came aboard. During that time have we done anything illegal?\
338'''Massey:''' Do you want me to sort the list by date, or do you want it grouped into 'felonies' and 'misdemeanors?'\
339'''Tagon:''' You could have just said "yes" and left it at that.\
340'''Massey:''' A couple of items may fall under 'high treason' or 'war crimes.' I'll have to check.
341* ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'': From [[https://www.sdamned.com/comic/974 page 974]], for Rhea and J, {{wanted poster}}s with a list of 8 of this for each of them, a picture of them, and their ages. Rhea rips them down in the same page.
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345* ''Literature/LoomingGaia'': When the Freelance Good Guys try to arrest Itchy in "Dirty Animal", Evan tells him that “In the last year alone, [he's] committed fifty-three counts of public intoxication, forty counts of disturbing the peace, twenty-five counts of petty theft, nineteen counts of prostitution, twelve counts of assault, two counts of burglary, and one count of bestiality.” When they encounter him again five years later, Evan adds "three counts of assault and one count of horse theft.”
346* The WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum are required to read the list of charges to those they terminate. [=PPCers=] often start out the chargelist with things like grammar and spelling errors, move on to bigger charges like "disrupting the fabric of reality", and end with things like "having a stupid name", "pissing off PPC agents", etc.
347* [[http://endling.deviantart.com/art/Rex-the-D-A-W-G-89045011 Rex's rapsheet]] starts out strong. Murder. Torture. Arson. Domestic violence. Brutal assault. Treason. Smuggling. Piracy. Kidnapping. Espionage. ''Drunken'' espionage. Aggravated Mischief. Cattle forgery. Forgerous brutality. Brutal Drunkenness. Moving violations, kittennapping, littering, chain pulling... you get the idea; The number of silly crimes outstrips the serious ones, and "Drunken {something}" recurs often.
348* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'':
349** The trope is PlayedForDrama in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/hive-5-4/ Hive 5.4]], at the meeting to discuss the bullying of Taylor by Emma, Madison, and Sophia.
350--->'''Taylor:''' ''[referring to the stack of papers she brought]'' Six vicious emails, Sophia pushed me down the stairs when I was near the bottom, making me drop my books, tripped and shoved me no less than three times during gym, and threw my clothes at me while I was in the shower after gym class had ended, getting them wet. I had to wear my gym clothes for the rest of the morning. In biology, Madison used every excuse she could to use the pencil sharpener or talk to the teacher, and each time she passed my desk, she pushed everything I had on my desk to the floor. I was watching for it the third time, and covered my stuff when she approached, so on the fourth trip, she emptied the pencil sharpener into one of her hands and dumped the shavings onto my head and desk as she walked by. All three of them cornered me after school had ended and took my backpack from me, throwing it in the garbage.\
351'''Principal''' [''making a sympathetic face'']: I see. Not very pleasant, is it?\
352'''Taylor:''' That's September eighth. My first day back at school, last semester. September ninth--\
353'''Principal:''' Excuse me, sorry. How many entries do you have?\
354'''Taylor:''' One for pretty much every school day starting last semester. Sorry, I only decided to keep track last summer. ''September ninth''...
355** Later, in [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/cell-22-2/ Cell 22.2]], Taylor receives this from the other end, discussing the charges laid against her by the PRT with her lawyer, including ''several hundred'' counts of assault and battery each with a parahuman ability, domestic terrorism using a parahuman ability, robbery with a parahuman ability, assaulting a law enforcement officer with a parahuman ability, [[spoiler: kidnapping with a parahuman ability, complicity to manslaughter, and ''treason.'']] She is surprisingly unaffected by this recitation.
356* In [[https://www.duffelblog.com/2012/11/commander-relieved-court-martialed-for-violating-entire-ucmj/ this]] Website/TheDuffelBlog article, a Maring colonel is on trial for violating articles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. All of them.
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359[[folder:Web Videos]]
360* Used for Comedy in ''WebVideo/{{Manwhores}}'' when Randy is listing reasons for why Greg has ruined their lives, in that none of the crimes are actually Greg's fault--or crimes.
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363[[folder:Western Animation]]
364* In an episode of the ''[[WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker New Woody Woodpecker Show]]'', Woody finds out his nemesis Buzz Buzzard's long list of offenses to the law, which includes "unlawful toenail clipping". But there's more: Upon seeing this, Woody immediately calls the police on the phone and starts listing Buzz's offenses, to which the cop pays no mind whatsoever. Only when he mentions: "But Officer, he parked in a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking no-parking zone]]!" do the cops decide to flock in on Buzz and arrest him (he was trying to escape in Woody's stalled car).
365* The election episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' [[DoubleSubversion doubly subverts]] it. Ms. Fowl lists off the candidates' transgressions as "Bribery, blackmail, and murder", then corrects herself that the last wasn't actually murder, but operating a zeppelin on school property without a permit.[[note]]That last transgression was for a show Jimmy put on. The actual transgression he committed was trying to convince Carl to vote for him by using the "best friends" card.[[/note]]
366* Many Western-themed ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' shorts had wanted posters with the outlaw's offenses listed as "bank robbery, cattle rustling, and square-dance calling." Adding to that, another poster listed the Third Crime as square dancing in a roundhouse.
367** WesternAnimation/BugsBunny even got this once. In "Fresh Hare", Elmer (as one of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) tries to arrest Bugs, listing his crimes as follows: "Wesisting an officer, assault and battewy, twespassing, disturbing the peace, miscewwaneous misdemeanors, pubwic nuisance, twaffic viowations, going thwough a bouwevard stop, jaywalking, twiple parking, conduct unbecoming to a wabbit, [and] viowating twaffic weguwations". (This cartoon has some controversial scenes, and is rarely seen nowadays, and tends to be edited a lot when it is; at least one edit has the blackface finale blurred to cover the offending faces).
368* ''WesternAnimation/BountyHamster'':
369** "You stand accused of breaking the Prime Directive, 16,000 speed limits, and a really nice vase!"
370** On another occasion a bounty hunter arrests a criminal wanted for "12 robberies, 300 counts of dangerous flying, and dropping an ice cream truck into an active volcano".
371* The ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' episode "Bus the Two of Us" is about Bloo taking Mac for a joyride without Frankie's knowledge. Unfortunately, Frankie sees the multiple police cars that followed them home. Over the end credits, she delivers her fury unto him with the following list of all the crimes he committed in the day:
372--> "Driving without a license, lying on a job application, destruction of private property, destruction of ''public'' property, illegal use of [[NauseaFuel toilet plungers]], ''and'' calling me a [[HollywoodPudgy heifer]]! I mean, '''HONESTLY''', Bloo, what do you have to say for yourself?!!
373* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' had "The Final Judgment of Beavis", in which St. Peter reads Beavis a list of his sins.
374-->'''St. Peter:''' When you were 4, you mutilated an action figure in a most disturbing manner.\
375'''Beavis:''' Oh yeah, heh heh, that was cool.\
376'''St. Peter:''' No... that sucked. Then, when you were 5, you and your friend Butt-Head passed out chocolate laxatives in your kindergarten class.\
377'''Beavis:''' Yeah, that was really cool.\
378'''St. Peter:''' No, Beavis, that also sucked.\
379'''Beavis:''' What do you know, asswipe?\
380'''St. Peter:''' I know everything... buttmunch.
381* Near the end of the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' special "Summer Belongs To You", Doofenshmirtz is arrested by Major Monogram.
382-->'''Monogram:''' Well, there's a list of outstanding violations as long as your arm.\
383'''Doof:''' Ohh, well, [[LampshadeHanging I do have unusually long arms.]]
384* In the ''WesternAnimation/PacMan'' cartoon "Nighty Nightmares", Clyde dreams that he is on trial. Pac-Man, as the judge, reads the charges: "Chomping without a license. Chomping ''with'' a license. Chomping, chomping, chomping!"
385* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
386** In "The War of the Simpsons", Marge and Homer attend a marriage retreat in the mountains, and Marge recounts all of Homer's faults, everything from not listening, to chewing with his mouth open, to blowing his nose into a towel.
387--->'''Homer:''' "I only did that a couple of times!"
388** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E1TheCityOfNewYorkVsHomerSimpson "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson"]], Marge and the kids watch a play where a defendant is found "guilty of mayhem, exposure indecent... Freaked-out behavior both chronic and recent... Drinking and driving, narcotics posession... And that's just page one of this ten-page confession."
389** The Creator/DisneyPlus short "The Good, the Bart and the Loki" ends with a [[TheStinger stinger]] (the third one, in fact) in which [[Series/{{Loki2021}} Loki is in TVA court]] with Renslayer reading his rap sheet.
390--->'''Renslayer:''' You stand here accused of tampering with the Sacred Timeline, philosophically opposing predeterminism, crossing over into forbidden areas of Disney+, taking two spots in the Goofy parking lot, [[EnsembleDarkhorse being more popular than all the heroes]], [[EvilBrit having a British accent when you're actually supposed to be from Norway]], promising to be good then breaking your promise like, uh, a ''zillion'' times, [[LampshadeHanging making us sit through numerous mid-credits scenes hoping they advance the story]], and will you ''please'' wash your nasty hair?! Guilty as charged, get outta my face!
391* In one ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode, the Robot Devil claims to have a "55-page warrant" with Bender's crimes. He also lists some of them... in song, no less.
392** In "The Cyber House Rules", Bender is arrested by Child Services on counts of child cruelty, child endangerment, depriving children of food, selling children ''as'' food, and misrepresenting the weight of livestock.
393* The Animated ''Series/DoctorWho'' special ''"The Infinite Quest"'' has a [[spoiler:fake]] prison governor deliver a list of The Doctor's known outstanding crimes to Martha.
394-->'''Governor:''' Minor traffic violations: 1400 counts. Evading library fine: 250 counts.\
395'''Martha:''' Come on, that's nothing serious.\
396'''Governor:''' Planetary demolition...\
397'''Martha:''' How many counts?\
398'''Governor:''' Seventeen... no, Eighteen.
399* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'':
400** Subverted in the season five premiere, when Archer is informed by an FBI agent that he is under arrest (after having shot another agent.) When Archer asks for the charges, he is told "In addition to the attempted murder of a federal agent? Well, there's gonna be just a whole bunch of charges, but mostly treason."
401** Later in the episode, the team decides to rat on each other and the whole testimony is shown in a montage. Each crime is a CallBack to previous episodes:
402--->'''Ray:''' I said Ms. Archer had an affair with the head of the KGB for, like, 30 years--\
403'''Cheryl:''' Yeah, until he got blown up... Which was actually my fault--\
404'''Cyril:''' Because she was busy having choke-sex with a murderous cyborg, who then became the new head of the KGB until--\
405'''Krieger:''' I built a sexier one out of illegal Soviet parts. And a corpse.\
406'''Pam:''' There was ''no shortage'' of dead bodies around ISIS--\
407'''Ray:''' One of which belonged to the prime minister of goddamn Italy--\
408'''Cyril:''' Oh, Jesus, I forgot about the--\
409'''Cheryl:''' Giant pot farm in West Virginia--\
410'''Pam:''' And this whole other thing with the Yakuza--\
411'''Ray''': Irish Mob--\
412'''Cheryl:''' Piracy--\
413'''Cyril:''' White slavery--\
414'''Pam:''' No, like, actual piracy, with boats and--\
415'''Cheryl:''' I wanna sayyyyy... Burt Reynolds?\
416'''Cyril:''' Poaching alligators--\
417'''Ray:''' Smuggling Mexicans--\
418'''Krieger:''' Defiling a corpse--\
419'''Cyril:''' Defiling a different corpse--\
420'''Pam:''' Kidnapping the Pope--\
421'''Cheryl:''' Faking my own kidnapping! Hah! [{{beat}}] Arson.\
422'''Pam:''' Bumfights! You know, like when you pay bums to--\
423'''Cyril:''' Destroy an oil pipeline in--\
424'''Cheryl:''' Goddammit, I wanna say Burt Reynolds!\
425'''Cyrill:''' Turkmenistan?\
426'''Krieger:''' Odessa. You know, the ratlines--\
427'''Cheryl:''' Where you make it look like a murder-suicide, but--\
428'''Krieger:''' Is it murder if they were my own clones? I'm seriously asking.\
429'''Ray:''' Oh, because, speaking of sexual assault--\
430'''Pam:''' Which time? Because for one of 'em I got a pretty good excuse.\
431'''FBI Agent:''' Can I stop you, please?\
432'''Pam:''' [[BlackComedyRape That's what he said!]] ''Ahem...'' [[DudeNotFunny Inappropriate.]]\
433'''Cyril:''' Geez, when you just list everything ISIS has done, [[UnderStatement it sounds kind of bad.]]
434* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
435** Near the end of the episode "The Stanchurian Candidate", Stan gets disqualified from running for mayor of Gravity Falls due to his extensive criminal record.
436--->'''Anchorwoman:''' Crimes include shoplifting, teaching bears to drive, a new crime he invented called "burglebezzlement", first-degree llamacide...\
437'''Stan:''' [[HeKnowsTooMuch That llama knew too much]]!
438** The rest of the news broadcast is dedicated to listing the rest of Stan's crimes, including "first-degree thermometer theft, pug trafficking, snacks evasion, pickpocketing, woodpecker baiting, impersonating a dentist, general indecency, golf cart theft, bingo fraud, telling jokes that just go on and on, I mean, I have things to do today, really".
439--->'''Stan:''' Whew, at least they didn't list any of the ''bad'' ones. On an unrelated topic, I have a lot of cheap pugs and I need to move them fast.
440* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Twice in Eda Clawthorne's life has the principal of Hexside put a whole stack of these in front of Eda. The first time we see it happen, Eda is in her 40s and is genuinely shocked it isn't longer. Turns out, the first chronological time it happens the list really ''was'' longer, and her response is a lot more smug about it.
441-->'''Eda, both times:''' I thought there'd be more.
442* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In "Twas the Fight Before Christmas", when Princess demand that the Girls prove that she's on Santa's naughty list, they proceed to list every bad thing she's done over the series.
443-->'''Blossom''': [[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E4BubblevisionBoughtAndScold You bought the city and legalized crime!]]\
444'''Buttercup''': [[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS2E8MoJobPetFeud You hired Mojo to try and destroy us!]]\
445'''Bubbles''': [[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS2E3BirthdayBashTooPoopedToPuff You gave us a bomb for our birthday!]]\
446'''Buttercup''': [[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E12MoralDecayMeetTheBeatAlls You teamed up with three villains and went on a crime spree!]]\
447'''Bubbles''': [[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS4EP5 You tricked our friend Robin into stealing, and then you tattled on her!]]\
448'''Blossom''': [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech You’re a spoiled brat who’s greedy and jealous, and you don’t care who you step on to get what you want!]]
449* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': While Rick's exact offenses aren't discernible, the length of the scrolling alien text and the look the guards give each other makes it clear the amount of trouble he's caused. Once Rick's in his cell, he sums it up more succinctly:
450-->'''Alien Prisoner:''' {{What are you in for}}\
451'''Rick:''' [[AllOfThem Everything.]]
452* ''WesternAnimation/StuntDawgs'': In one episode, Richard P. Fungus is shown a long parchment which he assumes to be a list of his sins. He's told it's the list's ''index''.
453* In "A Trash Truck Christmas" from ''WesternAnimation/TrashTruck'', Hank is trying to find out if his friends are naughty or nice. Trash Truck, Walter and Mona all have some small incidents that are easily excused. Donny asks "Where do I begin?" and declares "I guess we'll start from January last year..." and begins long-winded recitation with several perspective shifts to the various characters and trailing-off sentences before "And lastly, that brings us to this morning, I rolled in something brown. I don't know what it was," and Hank telling him he doesn't think it's all bad so much as "raccoon stuff."
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457* When [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England King Charles I]] was executed, the list of crimes was boringly detailed: "he, ... hath traitorously and maliciously levied war against the present Parliament, and the people therein represented, particularly upon or about the 30th day of June..."
458** At his trial, Charles I was found guilty of treason, murder, rapine, burning, spoils, desolation, damage... and mischief. This last one is not really an example of ArsonMurderAndJaywalking since the common law definition of 'mischief' involves destruction of property, which is known today as vandalism. Such definitions lead to the theoretical common law crime of "Malicious mischief and mayhem".
459* King Louis XVI was executed on 33 charges, the last of which was "You caused the blood of Frenchmen to flow".
460* [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution The Declaration of Independence]] is mostly devoted to enumerating the Crimes of King George III. ([[http://www.usconstitution.net/declar.html The full list is here]].) There's a reason people [[ChorusOnlySong only remember the first paragraph]], which ends: "The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world:..."
461-->''5.'' "He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people."\
462''24.'' "He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people."\
463''27.'' "He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the [[FairForItsDay merciless Indian Savages...]]"
464** "...[[Series/TheDailyShow and sometimes pretends he doesn't recognize us at parties]]."
465** Note that the list was misaimed: George III cared little of the Colonies until ''after'' the Declaration, the administration of the Colonies was being done by ''the Parliament'', and, in fact, had been instrumental in repealing some of the taxes hated by the colonials. In fact the crisis that ended with the American Revolution started because the Colonials had requested for either sending their own representatives in the Parliament of the Great Britain or their Representative Houses to become local parliaments (whichever the Parliament found more convenient to allow them their constitutional right of not being taxed without representation) only for the Parliament to reply they were already automatically represented by the House of Commons (in which the colonials had ''no'' representatives). Had George III been more interested in the Colonies, the Revolution would have not happened. Then again, point 1, 13 and 28 deal exactly with that...
466* There's a Christian inspirational story about a man who dreams he's in a room where every wall is a filing cabinet and every cabinet is full of index cards recording each of [[YouBastard his sins]].
467* The Cluny abbey foundation charter of 910 threatens anyone who messes with the place with having their name taken out of the Book of Life, getting limbs chewed off by vermin, experiencing the torments of hell while still alive (as a torture-buddy of Judas), etc. Also they've got to pay a hundred pounds of gold.
468* Some religions (Islam being one) believe that two angels/spirits/what-have-you record all a person's good and bad deeds throughout their lives. When someone dies, the lists get read off to whatever deity does the judging.
469* Emile Zola's historic denunciation "''J'accuse''", charges pretty much everyone from the President on down with the antisemitic Dreyfus affair.
470-->But this letter is long, Mr. President, and it is time to conclude.\
471I accuse Major Du Paty de Clam as the diabolic workman of the miscarriage of justice, without knowing, I have wanted to believe it, and of then defending his harmful work, for three years, by the guiltiest and most absurd of machinations.\
472...\
473I accuse the three handwriting experts, sirs Belhomme, Varinard and Couard, of submitting untrue and fraudulent reports, unless a medical examination declares them to be affected by a disease of sight and judgment.\
474I accuse the offices of the war of carrying out an abominable press campaign, particularly in the Flash and the Echo of Paris, to mislead the public and cover their fault.\
475Finally, I accuse the first council of war of violating the law by condemning a defendant with unrevealed evidence, and I accuse the second council of war of covering up this illegality, by order, by committing in his turn the legal crime of knowingly discharging the culprit.\
476I have only one passion, that of the light, in the name of humanity which has suffered so and is entitled to happiness. My ignited protest is nothing more than the cry of my heart. That one thus dares to translate for me into court bases and that the investigation takes place at the great day!\
477I am waiting.
478* [[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2014/09/priest-found-guilty-of-raping-dozens-of-children-and-a-sled-dog/ A defrocked priest in Canada was found guilty of raping dozens of children and a sled dog.]] Because the 31 charges of sexual offenses against children weren't enough, you have to throw in [[BestialityIsDepraved the dog too]].
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