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** The regular Judges aren't above this trope either, though it's usually played for BlackComedy in shorter stories. This includes extending the city's anti-mutant laws to include people with dwarfism (leading to a parody of the Seven Dwarves from ''Snow White'' being exiled into the Cursed Earth, with the survivors returning to seek revenge), and cancelling Christmas in one city block due to high crime rates.



* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', when Roger takes over as dictator of a small Caribbean island, everyone must dance to Music/{{Bananarama}}.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', when "Moon Over Isla Island" Roger takes over as becomes the dictator of a the small Caribbean island, everyone must dance island of Isla due to Music/{{Bananarama}}.an uncanny resemblance to the real one (who had accidentally died while Stan tried to convince him to ally with the U.S). After seizing power, Roger renames the island Music/{{Bananarama}}, and makes their new anthem the song Venus. He turns the island into a non-stop party, and eventually forces the people to repaint the whole place in yellow, only to decide he hates it, and tells them to repaint it purple. This turns out to be TheLastStraw, leading to open rebellion and Stan saving Roger at the last minute using the corpse of the original dictator.
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** During the reign of [[TheCaligula Judge Cal]] over Mega-City One, the insane Chief Judge made several of these, including one that outlawed anything that might cause happiness, and another one sentencing the entire city to death, with the executions being based on the phone book. An unfortunate man with the name of Aaron A. Aardvark ([[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor who'd changed his name just so he could be first in the phone book) was the first to be executed, though the edict was rescinded soon after.

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** During the reign of [[TheCaligula Judge Cal]] over Mega-City One, the insane Chief Judge made several of these, including one that outlawed anything that might cause happiness, and another one sentencing the entire city to death, with the executions being based on the phone book. An unfortunate man with the name of Aaron A. Aardvark ([[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor who'd changed his name just so he could be first in the phone book) book]]) was the first to be executed, though the edict was rescinded soon after.

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* The Dark Judges in ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' come from a parallel dimension where it was decreed that, because all crimes are committed by the living, life itself is a crime, punishable by death. Unfortunately for Mega-City One, they don't recognize jurisdictional boundaries either.

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Dark Judges in ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' come from a parallel dimension where it was decreed that, because all crimes are committed by the living, life itself is a crime, punishable by death. Unfortunately for Mega-City One, they don't recognize jurisdictional boundaries either.either.
** During the reign of [[TheCaligula Judge Cal]] over Mega-City One, the insane Chief Judge made several of these, including one that outlawed anything that might cause happiness, and another one sentencing the entire city to death, with the executions being based on the phone book. An unfortunate man with the name of Aaron A. Aardvark ([[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor who'd changed his name just so he could be first in the phone book) was the first to be executed, though the edict was rescinded soon after.

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