taking the law into one's own hands theme
A character can't wait for law-enforcement and instead takes matters into their own hand by, e.g., tracking down and killing criminals.
18 total · 4 choice · 7 major · 7 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahh1x21 | choice | As is alluded to in the title: When the authorities proved unable to help, Mark decided to administer justice to his wife's murderer on his own. Later Alex and Louise engaged in the very same kind of extrajudicial vengeance for Mark's murder. |
| ahp4x08 | choice | Fearful of mobster retribution if he went to the police, Jones decided to summarily murder the two gangsters that were after him. |
| bbf3x08 | choice | Sheridan went up against his own people for their own good |
| movie: Hang Em High (1968) | choice | A central theme was how the near-lawlessness of 19:th century Oklahoma prompted some people to mete out extrajudicial justice. Both sides in this dilemma were weighed and feature: Jed subjected himself and others to excessive risk and hardship by insisting on taking three criminals back to where they would assuredly be hanged, rather than just allow them to be hanged on the spot. |
| blackmirror3x06 | major | A hacker administered rogue justice by hacking into mechanical bees to make them kill people in the middle of online shit-storms. |
| ds91x19 | major | Kira was sorely tempted to punish Marritza for the crimes of which she accused him |
| ds92x01 | major | Benjamin and Kira arranged to free Li Nalis without governmental approval |
| ds94x12 | major | Leyton's tough decision was to break the law for the sake of humanity as he saw it |
| movie: The Dark Knight (2008) | major | Batman undertook to rid Gotham City of organized crime with the tacit support of law enforcement. Harvey Dent resolved to take the law into his own hands and avenge Rachel's death. |
| play: Julius Caesar (1599) | major | in killing Caesar, Brutus and others took the law as they saw it into their own hands as Caesar controlled the judiciary |