the desire for justice theme
A character seeks righteous, and typically lawful, vengeance upon some miscreant.
Examples
Riker and his team wanted to bring Captain Picard's presumed murderers to justice in tng7x04 "Gambit, Part I".
35 total · 6 choice · 24 major · 5 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| bbf3x13 | choice | Arthur wanted justice for the wronged |
| ds92x08 | choice | Odo motivated to solve unsolved murder by a desire for justice that he speculated was endogenous to his species |
| movie: M (1931) | choice | we saw how the mindless mobs yearned for righteous vengeance against the child killer and heard, in conclusion, that none of that would bring the kids back to life |
| movie: Rashomon (1950) | choice | the various stories were told during a trial in which society sought to discover the truth of the events |
| movie: The Life of Emile Zola (1937) | choice | Emile would not be stopped until justice was served in the Dreyfus case. Emile proclaimed "Justice, justice, justice, justice." to himself after Dreyfus was vindicated. |
| tng7x04 | choice | Riker :: Riker for the murder of Picard |
| ahh1x15 | major | Sergeant Cresse was determined to bring Andrew to justice nearly to the point obsession. |
| ahh2x30 | major | Ned was deeply troubled by the revelation his newly acquitted client was in fact guilty of the murder for which he was tried. He thereafter went to extraordinary means to see that justice was meted out. First, by exhausting judicial means, then by turning to extrajudicial means when push came to shove. |
| ahp1x34 | major | Dana became preoccupied with finding the person responsible for his lover's death in a hit-and-run accident. |
| ahp3x25 | major | Ted presented himself as a man of integrity who was simply motivated by a desire to prove that Sasha Ismael was innocent of illegally dealing in German war weapons. |