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Not examples. Execution by a single gunshot doesn't count, and blowing with a cannon is completely different.
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* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_from_a_gun Blowing from a gun]] is a particularly gory and degrading variant that replaces the squad of riflemen with a ''cannon''. Popular among colonial regimes, particularly UsefulNotes/TheRaj with whom it became indelibly associated after the 1857 Indian Rebellion.
* The [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]], particularly under UsefulNotes/JosefStalin, used a variation in which the condemned was shot in the back of the head with a pistol, sometimes just as they stepped into the execution room so they had no time to see it coming. The most infamous and most well known massive wave of such executions are the massacres of the Katyń forest where about 22000 UsefulNotes/{{Pol|and}}ish [[UsefulNotes/PolesWithPoleaxes military personel]] were killed (named after the site of the mass graves, which were first found by the Germans when they invaded the Soviet Union). The most "prolific" executioner at this was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Blokhin Vasily Blokhin]].
* The [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]], particularly under UsefulNotes/JosefStalin, used a variation in which the condemned was shot in the back of the head with a pistol, sometimes just as they stepped into the execution room so they had no time to see it coming. The most infamous and most well known massive wave of such executions are the massacres of the Katyń forest where about 22000 UsefulNotes/{{Pol|and}}ish [[UsefulNotes/PolesWithPoleaxes military personel]] were killed (named after the site of the mass graves, which were first found by the Germans when they invaded the Soviet Union). The most "prolific" executioner at this was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Blokhin Vasily Blokhin]].
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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': "Shot at Dawn" opens with a soldier being executed by firing squad during World War One for cowardice and desertion. His CO administers the CoupDeGrace, then throws up.
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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': "Shot "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS11E1 Shot at Dawn" Dawn]]" opens with a soldier being executed by firing squad during World War One for cowardice and desertion. His CO administers the CoupDeGrace, then throws up.
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* Happens to at least one character in ''ComicBook/NinjaHighSchool''.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Maus}}'': When [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the war]] is over, Vladek and all the other concentration camp prisoners are led out into the woods towards the shore of a lake by a Wehrmacht patrol unit, where machine guns are lined up all around them. They sit there the entire night utterly terrified that they're all going to be shot, but morning comes, and they find the guards have vanished. It turns out the head officer's girlfriend reasoned with him that they'd be executed for war crimes if they went through with it, so they all ran away instead.
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* ''Film/EchoesOfThePast'', a 2021 film and also Creator/MaxVonSydow's final acting role, depicts the massacre of Kalavryta, Greece in 1943 in retaliation for Greek partisans murdering 78 German soldiers that had been disarmed and taken captive. The movie ends with said massacre being carried out on the [[MenAreTheExpendableGender town's men and boys]] via machine gun.
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* "Literature/TheSecretLifeOfWalterMitty" ends with yet another DreamSequence in which Walter Mitty contemptuously declines a handkerchief, takes [[OneLastSmoke one last drag on his cigarette]] and proudly stands in front of the firing squad to FaceDeathWithDignity as "Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last."
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* "Literature/TheSecretLifeOfWalterMitty" ''Literature/TheSecretLifeOfWalterMitty'' ends with yet another DreamSequence in which Walter Mitty contemptuously declines a handkerchief, takes [[OneLastSmoke one last drag on his cigarette]] and proudly stands in front of the firing squad to FaceDeathWithDignity as "Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last."
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* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert'': One of the Soviet missions involves tracking down a traitor across the map. After he's captured, a cutscene shows him being executed by a firing squad.
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* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert'': One of the The 3rd Soviet missions mission involves tracking down a traitor across the map. After he's captured, a cutscene shows him being executed by a firing squad. Much later in the campaign, the Soviets have Albert Einstein tied and blindfolded in preparation for firing squad execution, but the Allies use the Chronosphere to save him.
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* The Soviet Union used a variation in which the condemned was shot in the back of the head with a pistol, sometimes just as they stepped into the execution room so they had no time to see it coming.
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* The [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union Union]], particularly under UsefulNotes/JosefStalin, used a variation in which the condemned was shot in the back of the head with a pistol, sometimes just as they stepped into the execution room so they had no time to see it coming.coming. The most infamous and most well known massive wave of such executions are the massacres of the Katyń forest where about 22000 UsefulNotes/{{Pol|and}}ish [[UsefulNotes/PolesWithPoleaxes military personel]] were killed (named after the site of the mass graves, which were first found by the Germans when they invaded the Soviet Union). The most "prolific" executioner at this was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Blokhin Vasily Blokhin]].
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In order to qualify for this trope, there must be a firing ''squad''.
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In order to qualify for this trope, there must be a firing ''squad''.
''squad'', but it doesn't have to literally take place at dawn.
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* This fate ''narrowly'' befalls Doraemon and gang (save for Suneo and Shizuka whom were elsewhere) in ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasLittleSpaceWar'', when they were arrested alongside their alien ally Papi by the forces of the local dictator, General Gilmore. Everyone gets caught alive and are to be shot by Gilmore's firing squad, but then the shrink-light's effects on the heroes starts to wear off.
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* This fate ''narrowly'' befalls Doraemon and gang (save for Suneo and Shizuka [[note]]and in the 2021 remake, Nobita[[/note]] whom were elsewhere) in ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasLittleSpaceWar'', when they were arrested alongside their alien ally Papi by the forces of the local dictator, General Gilmore. Everyone gets caught alive and are to be shot by Gilmore's firing squad, but then the shrink-light's effects on the heroes starts to wear off.
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* ''Series/WorldOnFire'': Over twenty Polish civilians are shot by firing squad in retaliation for just one SS soldier being killed.
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* ''Series/WorldOnFire'': Over twenty Polish civilians are shot by firing squad in retaliation for just one SS soldier being killed. This is TruthInTelevision, as the Nazis were infamous for their mass reprisals.
