vigilante justice theme

Extrajudicial punishment that is motivated by the nonexistence of law and order or dissatisfaction with justice is featured.

41 total · 6 choice · 22 major · 11 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
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.
ds91x04 choice An angry mob wanted to lynch Odo. Odo wanted to throw Ibudan off space station without due process.
movie: Taxi Driver (1976) choice Travis shot a convenience store robber and several shady people involved with prostitution in various ways.
movie: The Dark Knight (2008) choice Batman undertook to rid Gotham City of organized crime with the tacit support of law enforcement. Batman was contrasted with copy cat vigilantes. The police cooperated clandestinely with Batman as he is legally an outlaw.
rbt1985e6x12 choice Mr. Benedict had taken it upon himself to desecrate the corpses of various people in order to mete out what he considered ironic punishments for their wicked behavior in life.
tz1959e3x29 choice Mr. Crangle was busy maniacally administering his own justice to whomever he felt like designating "an evildoer".
ahh2x30 major Ned have Tony his tacit approval to extrajudicially kill the wrongly acquitted murderer.
ahp1x01 major A.H. denounced Carl's actions as vigilantism in the after-word.
ahp5x28 major Munro wanted William to avenge Munto's wife's murder extrajudicially.
ahp6x23 major A lynch mob stormed the county jail to administer its own justice to a suspected serial killer.