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Bob commits a crime or (more likely) a series of crimes. The jury convicts him and thus the judge must determine an appropriate sentence. The Judge decides to sentence Bob to 400 years of prison or eleven life sentences, essentially rotting in a cell. Bob has just been served a Longer Than Life Sentence. Such sentences can be set sentences of a ridiculously huge amount of years (typically three digits) that, while theoretically having an end, can never be fully served by any ordinary person. They can also include multiple consecutive life terms, a single life term where the time before being eligible for parole is ludicrously long, or a superficially nonsensical sentence such as "one life term plus 40 years". Sometimes it is not explained what the sentenced person did, just that they have X amount of years left that go beyond normal human life expectancy. This is Truth in Television, as real sentences like all of the above examples exist. As shown in the Real Life folder, some of these examples exceed even the most exaggerated of fictional portrayals. In real life though, there's a fully practical reason. Usually, a single crime can't go over one life sentence or 99 years, but if a person is convicted of multiple crimes, they can easily receive multiple life sentences or triple-digit sentences (in one Real Life example, a woman in Thailand got 141,078 years for a $200m pyramid scheme (although she only ended up serving 8 years)). This is because convictions can be overturned, such as if a killer is wrongly accused of killing a second person, causing the second killer to get away. If a person is convicted of two murders, they may get two life sentences, or a 198-year sentence, or "one life sentence plus 99 years". In all of these cases, if a conviction is overturned, this must cut the sentence in half, but the person still has a life sentence for the other murder. For this same reason, most countries that still have the death penalty allow criminals to receive prison terms on top of a death sentence, in case they are acquitted of the capital crime but not the lesser ones before execution. Also in real life, criminals don't always serve their full sentences, with parole as an option after serving a fixed fraction of the original sentence. A 200 year sentence is worse than a 100 year sentence if the former allows parole after (say) 67 years, and the latter after only 33. Note, also, that news reports of "X may face up to Y years in prison" are often exaggerated, typically by just adding up the maximum term for every count of a multiple-count single event (like defrauding two hundred people using one mail fraud scheme, or theft, assault, and attempted murder all in the course of one hijacking) or a long run of minor crimes (like a hundred minor thefts over several years). Many jurisdictions, including the United States' federal court system, have specific and often quite complicated rules covering sentencing for such situations, which almost always work out well below the summed maximum legal sentences on all of the crimes committed. In those jurisdictions, the only way to get absurdly long sentences is to commit multiple separate, serious crimes in succession. This trope can be used by an author to indicate that a criminal is truly hardcore and dangerous or has committed a particularly heinous crime (or crimes), or that a jurisdiction or judge is ruthless toward criminals, or corrupt, or has it out for the one being sentenced. Of course, if the prisoner is ageless or otherwise Long-Lived, they may be faced with the daunting prospect of actually serving out the full sentence. Basically, this trope is There Is No Kill Like Overkill applied to sentencing. A subtrope of In It for Life. See also The Old Convict and Disproportionate Retribution. Known in That Other Wiki as "back-to-back life sentences", with the "list of longest prison sentences" also of interest. Compare Grounded Forever, where children are punished by being grounded for absurdly long amounts of time. |
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Clock Tower 3: All the subordinates that serve as bosses in the game were given ridiculous long sentences for their crimes. For example, Sledgehammer, the first subordinate, was a stone-cutter called Robert Morris who murdered 26 people and was sentenced to 486 years. The sentence is directly proportional to the bosses' Hit Points. | |
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Adventure Time: In "Too Young", the Earl of Lemongrab succeeds the throne from Princess Bubblegum after she was turned into a child. He's a tyrant who routinely gives these kinds of sentences to the candy citizens throughout the episode at the drop of a hat, and when Finn and Bubblegum pull a prank on him his line when sending them to the dungeon has become a meme by itself. | |
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The title character of Megamind is sentenced to 85 consecutive life sentences for his crimes against humanity and Metro City at the start of the movie. Largely meaningless, since he's able to waltz out the front door of his Cardboard Prison with Minion's help. Later on, before the climax where he had turned himself in as a form of going home, it's been bumped up to 88 life sentences. | |
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit In "Hardwired" (S11E5), the leader of a pedophile rights group who convinced a man to rape his stepson is sentenced to ten years for accessory to rape, plus two years for every image of child pornography on his laptop, for a total of 3,000 years.note Which implies, if it wasn't confirmed by the episode (this one did not see the episode, he merely did the math), that the leader had 1,495 images of CP on his laptop. In "Runaways" (S2E16), Alex Cabot threatens Lorna Frankel with a total prison sentence of 715 years for her role in managing a pornographic ring employing runaways - seven years each - and 15 years more for the fact one of them, a 14-year-old runaway named Gina Lang, died from an overdosenote meaning she had 100 counts of child pornography. The episode "Nocturne" (S1E21) features an elderly child molester, with a large amount of child pornography. He's sentenced to 115 years (which would already qualify), and then we get this exchange: |
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Kamen Rider Revice: As punishment for helping the devil Giff try to take over the world, Olteca is appropriately given a 666-year prison sentence. The post-show media has George give him time off the sentence for good behaviour… bringing it down to 665 years and 364 days. | |
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In Sunrider 4: The Captain’s Return, Kayto Shields is captured by PACT and told that he's looking at a maximum sentence of nine thousand, three hundred and ninety-two years in Cryo-Prison for his crimes against the People’s Alliance, with him to be kept conscious the whole time. | |
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Akudama Drive: Akudamas can receive sentences of hundreds of years. Which, as shown with Cutthroat in the first episode, just means they get the death penalty when they are arrested. | |
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The Stanley Parable: Attempting to activate sv_cheats in the console causes the narrator to take you away into a Serious Room where he locks you away for trillions of years. Do it again, and he increases your sentence to infinity years note Of course, you can just quit and start the game again, so it doesn't really matter. | |
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Sosuke Aizen in Bleach is given a 20,000-year sentence for his crimes as the Big Bad (1,200 of which were added by the judge for being a smartass). Even with the incredibly long lifespan of shinigami, this is still far longer than any shinigami has been known to be alive for (Yamamoto is at least 2,100 years old, though his true age is unknown). However, Aizen's immortality meant he could have served the entire term of his sentence if he hadn't got out anyway after serving less than 2 years. | |
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Achille Talon: In Le Grain de la folie, Achille Talon expects to be sentenced to 745 years (with mitigating circumstances) for breaking in Surrender's base. | |
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In the TaleSpin episode "Flight of the Snow Duck", after committing the heinous crimes of playing in the snow without signing the paperwork for it, not complimenting the judge's new hairdo, and having imaginations, Molly and Wildcat in Thembria were sentenced to 1,000 years in prison. Baloo also gets sentenced to 2,000 years for "defacing state property" after wiping away a government stamp on a plane (despite it being his own plane the Thembrians accidentally stamped on) and also not complimenting the judge's new hairdo. These might actually be considered light sentences considering Thembrians usually like to conduct over-the-top public executions. | |
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The Accidental Animagus: Peter Pettigrew tries to ask for a Plea Bargain until Amelia Bones points out how futile it would be. | |
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Played with in Leif & Thorn. Reincarnation is a proven fact in the setting, although most people don't remember their past lives. The nation of Sønheim sometimes hands down multiple life sentences and takes them quite literally - if a person is proven to be the reincarnation of a convict who died while serving a long sentence, they will be imprisoned. | |
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Grimm: In "Game Ogre", Stark was serving a 300-year prison sentence before he escaped and came looking for revenge. | |
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Kid Eternity: In the first story of issue 3 of the 1946 series, the policeman who arrests the Count remarks that the villain will be around 300 years old by the time he's finished serving his sentences. | |
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: At the end of the episode "Cobra's Creatures", the Joes quip to the incarcerated Dr. Lucifer that he should look them up in the next 200 years, implying that his sentence will last that long. In the DiC Entertainment continuation, the two-part episode "D-Day at Alcatraz" began with Cobra Commander, Destro, Metalhead, and several Cobra soldiers being sent to Alcatraz. The warden mentions that they'll all be serving out sentences of 362 years. The Cobra soldiers are ultimately the only ones who are left serving out their sentences, as Cobra Commander, Destro, and Metalhead manage to escape at the end of the two-parter. |
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At the end of the Looney Tunes short Baby Buggy Bunny, after Baby Face Finster has been jailed, Bugs Bunny shows up and gives him this classic line: | |
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In the Justice League Unlimited episode "This Little Piggy", Medusa gets 300 years taken off her sentence to Tartarus, which is apparently only a small fraction of her original sentence (though as an immortal, she'll presumably be able to serve it eventually). | |
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Sky High (2005): There's a passing mention that Baron Battle had received a quadruple life sentence, with no chance of parole until "after his third life." Considering superpowers, it's quite possible that's literal, and he has some form of immortality so he actually will get out eventually. | |
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SWAT Kats occasionally had characters mention criminals serving nine-life sentences, combining this trope with Cats Have Nine Lives. | |
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Unbelievable: The rapist is sentenced to the maximum on each charge after pleading guilty. It comes out to over three hundred years, and thus he'll never be free again. Believe it or not, this sentence was actually incorrectly listed in the show, as his real-life counterpart got an even harsher sentence, totaling over 450 years, with his earliest possibility for parole being set in December 2283. | |
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Darkwing Duck: When Taurus Bulba is first seen, he's serving a 99-year sentence for unspecified crimes, but still running a criminal organization from behind bars. | |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Played with in the final episode: Carl and Frylock get a singular life sentence for murdering Christopher Lambert...except since they both used a shampoo that made them immortal, that means they're trapped in prison for eternity. Frylock begs a now elderly Meatwad to find Lambert (who's actually also immortal) to prove their innocence and get them out, while Carl laughs at the prison's attempts to execute him on the electric chair. | |
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In the opening scenes of The Shawshank Redemption, Andy is painted as a sociopathically cold-blooded and remorseless killer by the prosecutor, and the judge comes to agree with this statement throughout the trial due to Andy's demeanor and seeming lack of emotion, so he sentences Andy to two consecutive life sentences, one for each of the people Andy killed. Except Andy really is innocent, something which isn't confirmed until about 2/3 of the way through the movie. | |
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With This Ring, unlike canon, sees Sportsmaster being actually caught and jailed, along with his daughter Cheshire, so no one breaks him out. His other daughter, Artemis, later meets his side of the family and lets them know that he's serving fifteen life sentences in Belle Reve. | |
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In the final episode of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Chrono states that Fate's part in Precia's crimes could see her locked up for hundreds of years... under normal circumstances. Since she was obviously an unwilling accomplice, he was able to get her out on parole without ever seeing the inside of a prison cell. | |
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In Jack Blank, the Calculans sentence the Space Pirate Solomon Roka to 942 years in prison... for operating without a license. The length of the Calculan year isn't known, but 942 is still a lot of them. | |
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James Eagan Holmes, who shot and killed 12 people and wounded 70 others at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises, was sentenced to 12 life sentences plus 3,318 years. | |
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Played with in Freefall when Mr. Kornada is caught trying to lobotomize every robot on the planet. The chief of police wants to charge him for "exceeding his authorized access" according to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Because this is a very nebulous law, the chief of police only wants to ask for one minute of community service. One minute of community service for each of the 450 million counts (one for each robot). This adds up to about 856 years. The Chief hopes he'll plea bargain down to 15 seconds before his lawyer has time to do the math. | |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, Kenzo was given 280 years in prison for the murder of 34 people. | |
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In Another Note, although we are not told exactly how long Beyond Birthday's sentence was, it can be reasonably assumed that since he's been convicted in the state of California for three murders (although the novel hints that those are just the three we know about), plus other serious crimes (grand theft auto, assaulting a police officer, impersonating law enforcement and fraud), he was likely serving one of these. note It's also possible that he was on Death Row; California does have capital punishment. So if he wasn't facing a sentence like this, he was almost certainly awaiting execution. Not that it really matters, however, since Kira got him. | |
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In Elementary, the series finale sees the show's final Big Bad, Odin Reichenbach, sentenced to 148 years in prison for his numerous murders from his criminal conspiracy to kill potential criminals before their crimes are committed. | |
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Steven Jay Russell, the man whose life was the basis for I Love You Phillip Morris, was sentenced to 144 years in prison in 1998, mostly due to his multiple (and successful!) escape attempts. | |
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In Freedom Wars, the player character is a convict who was sentenced to a prison sentence of one million years on the day they were born. Specifically, all "Sinners" are slapped with the same sentence for being an unproductive net drain on resources. They're incentivised to do the work for which they're best suited by having sentence reductions as part of mission rewards (tens of thousands at once, for some of the most demanding ones). Lower sentences also equal better living conditions and more liberties. Reducing the sentence to zero awards the Sinner the same rights as a Citizen and freedom to pick and choose their work, but they're explicitly warned if they fall below their quota, then they're an unproductive net drain on resources and will be sentenced appropriately. | |
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A flashback in Supergirl (2015) shows Lex Luthor being sentenced to 31 consecutive life sentences. Before the judge can bang her gavel, however, she starts coughing. Luthor quips, "Maybe we should make it 32?" — having poisoned her, the jury and the prosecutors. | |
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The Season 4 Bravest Warriors episode "From the Inside Room" has Danny forced to serve a thousand-year sentence in a time prison for an unspecified crime he hasn't even committed yet. Since he is serving his sentence in a time prison, the time he spends serving his sentence travels much slower within the prison and he does so without aging. The same episode establishes that Beth's father is serving a 30,000-year sentence for his actions as an underling of the Aeon Worm. | |
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In the last issue of the C.O.P.S. (1988) Comic-Book Adaptation, the C.O.P.S. finally get an excuse to bring in Big Boss and his gang. After the crooks are in custody, they're informed of the charges against them — all told, if convicted on all counts, they're each looking at a minimum sentence of over 400 years. The comic doesn't address it, but Nightmare, being more machine than man, could potentially live to serve that term in its entirety. | |
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The Garfield Show hinted at this trope in the "Rodent Rebellion" special when Jon Arbuckle pleads to his lawyer that he's been framed for the town's robberies by rats after the lawyer states that Jon will probably be released from prison in twenty to thirty years. | |
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The plot of The Night Mayor revolves around a prison escape attempt by a Diabolical Mastermind, whose crimes include murder, arson, drug running, pornography, blackmail, and theft, all on an epic scale. His rap sheet includes "8,921 counts of first-degree murder alone, excluding his various thermonuclear adventures". His sentence is concomitantly epic. | |
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Taken to its logical conclusion in Soul Eater when the witches' Kangaroo Court can give someone multiple death sentences. Kim, Risa, and Arisa just get one each, but the latter gets three more for complaining. Eruka got five. Free (who has Complete Immortality and was already serving an indefinite sentence when he was introduced and broken out of their jail) gets 1000. Death the Kid (the son of the Grim Reaper himself), they sentence to a million death penalties. | |
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In the Red Dwarf episode "Justice", Rimmer gets sentenced to ten thousand years imprisonment. Subverted as he is expected to be able to serve his sentence and be released at the end since he is a hologram. Of course, as always Status Quo is God and the Reset Button is hit by the episode's end. | |
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Super Sentai vs. Power Rangers has the fate of Arc Villain Ichijou be to work in a mine for 200 years, which even the narrative notes he won't survive to the end of. | |
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In MAD, one strip has a lawyer being given statements about a defendant's murder of a guard during a bank robbery, which he answers in the form of a question- two questions are worth 200 points each, and another question is worth 400. After the lawyer gets all the questions right, the judge sentences the man to 800 years in prison, and he complains that the Constitution doesn't allow putting people in double jeopardy. | |
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The impetus of Yellowbeard is the fact the Royal Navy wanted to increase the eponymous character's sentence of 140 years so that he escape and recovers his Booty. | |
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In Malcolm X the main character's friend Shorty faints because he thinks he will be the victim of this trope. | |
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At the end of Cube Zero, Wynn gets two more life sentences added to his existing sentence. | |
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Superman II begins with an incarcerated Lex Luthor lamenting his "life plus 25 years" prison sentence, precipitated by his schemes in the previous movie. And after his later actions in this film, that sentence was undoubtedly increased even further. | |
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Occurs on The Powerpuff Girls (1998) in the What A Cartoon! Show pilot "Crime 101". After the Powerpuff Girls rob a bank just to show the Amoeba Boys how, the Judge nearly sentences the girls to one million years in Townsville Correctional Facility until the Amoeba Boys take the blame. | |
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Shakara: One of the criminals in Eva Procopio's group of condemned sentients dumped on the prison world is an alien who was sentenced for eternity because he is immortal. He's apparently swallowed by the planet, which is a living Death World, but this leaves some food for thought. | |
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Deadtime Stories: In "Goldi Lox and the Three Baers", the newscaster reports that Beresford 'Papa' Baer and Wilmont 'Baby' Baer were both serving 4,726 years for their various crimes. | |
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Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Megatron at one point notes that if he is put on trial for all the crimes he committed during the Cybertron Civil War, against both other Cybertronians and the galactic community at large, he'll either be executed or will be incarcerated until the heat-death of the universe. | |
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The Perry Bible Fellowship: In "Life Sentence", a man is sentenced to three consecutive life sentences. Eventually he dies of old age and is reborn as a baby — with prison guards around his crib. | |
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Shantae: Half-Genie Hero: As punishment for kidnapping girls from a nearby village to process into monster food, Techno Baron is sentenced to a billion hours—a little over 114,155 years—of community service. | |
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The Ren & Stimpy Show: In "A Scooter for Yaksmas", Stimpy accidentally steals the scooter he wanted (but didn't get) from a store, and has a guilt-ridden nightmare in which his idol Stinky Wizzleteats sentences Stimpy to "infinity years" in prison. | |
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Aria the Scarlet Ammo has Aira's mother Kanae Kanzaki, who due to various circumstances has been sentenced to 862 years in prison. One of Aria's main motivations is clearing her mother's name since she's innocent. | |
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In Red Dragon, it's mentioned that Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter got sentenced to several consecutive life sentences for his killing and eating of multiple human beings. The film adaptation starring Anthony Hopkins and Edward Norton places the exact number at six in a Freeze-Frame Bonus in the opening credits. | |
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The Devil Judge: Yo-han sentences Joo Il-do to 235 years for allowing dangerous chemicals to leak into a village's water supply. | |
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Centaurworld: In "Holes, Part 2", using magic in the moletaurs' court is punishable with three consecutive life sentences. | |
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In the final episode of Better Call Saul, Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman is facing a sentence of life plus 190 years in federal prison for his part in Heisenberg's operations. He manages to get his sentence reduced to seven years in a Luxury Prison Suite via plea bargain but changes his mind at the last second and accepts culpability for all the crimes he committed while working for Heisenberg, which nets him a sentence of 86 years in a Hellhole Prison instead (though the "hellhole" part ends up somewhat diminished since all of the inmates are huge fans of his). He tells Kim there's a chance he could be granted parole for good behavior, but it's pretty clear that he doesn't believe that'll happen and his age means that even if he did manage to win parole, his post-prison life would likely be brief. | |
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In Star Wars: The Old Republic we have Belsavis, a Rakata planet turned into a Republic penal colony where the inmates' sentences are so long that whatever descendants they have while incarcerated inherit them. This is part of the main storyline for Republic players on the planet, where a Kaleesh inmate has convinced the others to rebel against the Republic for them being saddled with the weight of their ancestors' transgressions. | |
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The Daltons are serving a 4200-year hard labor sentence at the beginning of Lucky Luke: Ballad of the Daltons before escaping. | |
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Garfield and Friends: In the episode "Wade: Wanted", Wade pulls a tag off of a couch, then learns that it's against the law to remove it. This causes him to run frantically around, step on a rake and have an Imagine Spot where the police catch him and he's sentenced to 9999 years in prison: | |
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Trinity Blood: Leon Garcia de Asturias has been convicted to about a thousand years in prison for a mass murder but has his sentence reduced by several years every time The Church makes use of his combat skills. At the time of the main plot, he still faces many centuries of incarceration, however. | |
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Beany and Cecil: "Grime Doesn't Pay" has Dishonest John being sent to jail. When the warden asks how long his sentence will last, Dishonest John tells him that he is to serve 199 years. The warden then quips that at least Dishonest John didn't get life. | |
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I Am Weasel: "I.R. Wild Baboon" has Weasel end up serving several life sentences for letting Baboon go down a waterfall in his trailer. In "I Stand Corrected", Baboon gets sentenced to 99 years in a correctional facility and Weasel is forced to serve the sentence with Baboon because of a law forbidding judges from being short, hairy, and having beady eyes. |
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In Law & Order: In episode "Fluency", the culprit is convicted for selling a fake flu vaccine, thereby causing 16 people to die from the flu. He is sentenced to 16 consecutive terms of 15 years each, adding up to 240 years. In episode "Deadlock" the Criminal-of-the-Week is a convicted mass murderer, serving eight consecutive life sentences. He escapes and kills a lot more people before being re-arrested. His prior crimes mean bail isn't even up for debate but also means he has no reason to take any deals. In fact, he tries to get the D.A.'s office to bargain with him (for better prison conditions), pointing out that every trip to the courthouse is another chance to escape. Also, there's really nothing riding on the trial. What are they going to do, give him additional consecutive life sentences? The D.A.'s office starts looking for legal loophole they can use to put him up for the death penalty, and then he's killed in a Vigilante Execution setting off the real trial of the episode. |
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World Tree (RPG): Some crimes warrant multiple death sentences, the lighter ones with an equal number of resurrections — life magic, including resurrection of the recently dead, is generally very cheap and reliable. Still hurts like the devil, though. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series: Downplayed in "Showdown". DuVaul was sentenced to 50 years of hard labor for his part in trying to conquer the old west with the intention that he wouldn't survive it. Unfortunately (for DuVaul, that is), he was given extended life by the Lazarus Pits, and by the end, he was a broken shell of his former self. | |
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Animorphs: In The Beginning, Visser One is put on trial at the International Criminal Court and is said to be eligible for up to 800 years in prison. It's unclear how long Yeerks actually live. | |
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Red Ivan of Evil Genius had been sentenced to 90 years of hard labour in The Gulag by the Soviet secret police for excessive brutality against dissidents, but managed to escape after one month. As a result, he is able to be recruited as a Henchman for the Evil Genius. | |
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In Heat Guy J, those in the city-state of Magnagalia who are sentenced to more than 100 years are punished by being genetically and surgically altered, so that they have a human body, but the head of some kind of animal. They are also conditioned (read: tortured) by a deranged and sociopathic ringmaster. The idea is so they'll regret what they've done for the rest of their lives, as it is supposed to be an alternative to the death penalty (by virtue of being a Fate Worse than Death). Judoh, by contrast, rather than giving a sentence longer than a normal lifespan, simply executes its most serious criminals. | |
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In GURPS Technomancer, the state of Louisiana allows for sentences of "death plus hard labor". This means a death sentence, followed by being zombified and put on a chain gang. | |
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Shazam!: Captain Marvel, Jr. had a foe called Greybeard. As a young man, he was sentenced to 99 years in prison, to which he sarcastically told the judge how considerate he was to not make it a life sentence. However, he served out his entire sentence and, once free, began a crime spree based on the theme of old age. | |
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Invoked in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Tomorrow Is Yesterday". After Kirk is caught inside a US Air Force base in the 1960s, he is interrogated and threatened with being locked up for two hundred years, which he ruefully declares would be "just about right". | |
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Wade from U.S. Acres steps on a rake, sending him into a musical number, followed by a short trial sentencing him to 9999 years in prison. | |
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LegalEagle: In this video, DJ watches The Dark Knight and tallies up the number of crimes committed by both the Joker and Batman over the course of the film (using New York City's laws since Gotham is based on NYC). At the end, he estimates what their sentences would be if they were arrested and convicted of all their crimes. Serving all of their sentences concurrently, he guessed the Joker would be sentenced to 12,000 years in jail, while Batman would be sentenced to 60 million years in jail (mostly because of his stunt with hacking the city's cell phones: assuming tens of millions of people live in Gotham, that would be several tens of millions of counts of computer hacking/trespassing). The same lawyer covers Jurassic Park, calculating Dennis Nedry's sentence at 320 years, with three life sentences for the kill count caused by the security shutdown, plus 20 years for grand larceny. |
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The 30th issue of The Brave and the Bold, which featured the debut of Justice League villain Professor Ivo, ended with Ivo being sentenced to 500 years in prison. Due to inventing a serum to extend his lifespan by at least 500 years, Snapper Carr is quick to point out that Ivo is likely to survive his sentence. | |
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Edgar Ray Killen, of Mississippi Burning fame, was sentenced, at 80, to sixty years of prison for the murder of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, with twenty years for each of his victims. He died in prison in January 2018. | |
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NUMB3RS: "Arrow of Time" reveals that Buck Winters from "Spree" received a 250-year sentence for his crimes in that episode. (And then he breaks out of prison and kills a man, implying that he'll end up getting even more time tacked onto his sentence.) | |
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The RWBY fic Captain Dragon has Roman get arrested and sentenced to 500 years for associating with Cinder and his role in attacking Beacon. And that was after negotiating down to that amount. | |
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The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3: Crimewave Clyde serves 12,423 years in prison with no parole for his extensive criminal record. He later tells the Mario Bros. that he prefers this sentence over spending another day with the Koopa family. | |
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In the Takeshi Kovacs novels "storage" sentences of a century or more are not uncommon. In the first chapter of "Altered Carbon" Kovacs himself is sprung from a two-century sentence 117 years early, but he's resleeved in a much younger body. | |
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Spider-Man: Even before he became Carnage, Cletus Cassidy was a Serial Killer who had received eleven consecutive life sentences. And when he got angry at his cellmate Eddie Brock, he figured he'd "make it an even dozen" by killing him too, as he was smart enough to realize his chances of gaining a release via legal means was pretty much nonexistent. Unfortunately, that was when the Venom symbiote re-bonded with Brock and he escaped, leaving behind a young symbiote that bonded with Cassidy. | |
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In the Big L song "Da Graveyard", guest rapper Microphone Nut mentions escaping from jail while serving "25 consecutive 25-to-life bids". | |
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Legion of Super-Heroes: In issue 363 of Adventure Comics, Mad Scientist Dr. Mantis Morlo insists to the Legion that he won't talk in a million years. Cosmic Boy responds that Morlo just might be in prison for that long. | |
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In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Bubbletown", SpongeBob is given three life sentences for accidentally destroying most of Bubbletown. | |
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In The Wizard of Id, the Spook is serving one, although the exact details vary depending on what is needed for the joke. | |
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All three protagonists of the cyberpunk anime Cyber City Oedo 808 are cons serving astronomical sentences on a prison satellite, to the tune of 300 years or more. For duty served, they get a few years of that sentence taken off, though if they fuck up a job or piss off Hasegawa, the warden, time gets added to their sentences — if he doesn't just pop their collars, that is. | |
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Seemingly Captain Boomerang in Suicide Squad (2016), as he sarcastically tells Amanda Waller that having 10 years knocked off his three consecutive life sentences is not much of an inducement. And, as the final scenes show, sassing the Wall is a really bad idea. | |
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Happens quite a lot in Judge Dredd considering how brutal sentencing can be. Special mention goes to Paul Klesa, who was sentenced to 150 years in 1980, long before the judge system ever came to be. Due to his Long-Lived nature, he manages to complete the sentence and is released. He then attempts to perform a ritual sacrifice that will extend his lifespan even further before being dealt with more permanently by Dredd. "Beat the Devil" is an Urban Legend told by prisoners about the prisoner in Iso-Cell 666. According to the story, Dredd arrested Satan for the crime of 'sin' and for being an accessory to every crime ever committed in Mega-City, and the Devil is now serving eternity. The last panel of the story implies the legend is true. |
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Doctor Who: River Song is sentenced to twelve thousand consecutive life sentences for killing the Doctor. However, after the Doctor removes all information about himself from every database in the universe, thus making it appear that the man she killed never existed at all, she is pardoned and released from Stormcage Containment Facility. In "The Infinite Quest", the Doctor when he arrives on the planet Volag-Noc is sentenced to two billion years. Ironically, he would spend more than double that amount of time trapped in a confession dial in "Heaven Sent". |
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Lampshaded in Money Heist. While the team is preparing for the heist, the Professor gives them a lecture on Spanish criminal law and has them study the laws they are about to break. They are about to kidnap a bunch of police officers and hold them and a bunch of civilians hostage for a number of days. Every time they manhandle a hostage, they will be committing an additional assault. By carrying and using a large arsenal of weapons, they will be breaking scores of firearm laws. Every time they fire a weapon, they could be adding an attempted murder charge. As soon as the heist begins, they will be guilty of crimes that will get them hundreds of years in prison even if they get a lenient judge. The purpose of the lecture is for the thieves to understand that if the police offer one of them immunity in exchange for betraying the others, the police are lying. Only a presidential pardon can result in one of them walking away without any jail time. | |
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During the Hunter Exam arc of Hunter × Hunter, the prisoners of Trick Tower are noted to have sentences of several hundred years each. John the Strangler, the guy Killua murders, was only 50 or so years from 'a 'four'' digit sentence. | |
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In the Johnny Bravo episode "Jailbird Johnny", a misunderstanding results in Johnny having to serve 86 life sentences in a women's prison before his mother and Little Suzy exonerate him. | |
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The Looney Tunes Show: In the episode "Jailbird and Jailbunny", Bugs and Daffy have served their one-year sentence and are let out. Bugs doesn't want to leave, while Daffy is bidding his prison friends farewell. | |
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A hacker was caught modifying save data in Monster Hunter 3 (Tri) and he was banned until December 12th 9999, and that was just the first ban. The next time they violate the terms of service would result in a lifetime ban, that is, if the hacker in question could even live long enough to violate the terms of service again. The whole thing was rendered moot when the game's online services were terminated. | |
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In the song "99 to Life" by Social Distortion, the narrator is given a sentence of 99 years to life for the crime of stabbing his girlfriend to death. | |
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In Oz, Chris Keller is sentenced to 88 years with parole accessible in 50 before being sentenced to death, sentence overturned eventually. Subverted with Omar White: while he is sentenced to 75 years, he's up for parole in 20. |
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Halo 3,: Just before the release of the game, several Xbox 360 players managed to download an almost complete pirate of the game. Microsoft responded by banning the consoles with illegal copies from Xbox Live until December 31st, 9999. Seven-thousand years. A player was caught using video chat to send explicit videos to other players during a game of Uno. He too was banned until December 31st, 9999. |
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Jeffrey Dahmer, the Milwaukee Cannibal, got a total of 16 life sentences, life plus ten on the first two counts of murder, plus 70 on each of the next 13. He would have been eligible for parole in 900 years if his cellmate hadn't killed him in 1994, which might explain his mention in Demolition Man. | |
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In a Bizarro strip, an extremely old suspect is told by his lawyer that he was scheduled to receive 80 years in jail, but the lawyer managed to convince the judge to "decrease" his sentence to life. | |
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Codename: Kids Next Door: Overlapping with Disproportionate Retribution in "Operation: S.P.A.N.K.", when the team tricks Count Spankulot into spanking a judge and his wife (long story) Spankulot is sentenced to "eleventy-trillion years with no chance of parole ever!" (He still manages to be a thorn in their side in a couple of episodes, one while still behind bars, and another that suggests he was released somehow.) | |
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In Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus Vendra Prog is sentenced to a quadruple life sentence, though the news report adds that she was offered a plea bargain to turn in her brother, and refused. | |
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In Kaiji Part 2, after Kaiji beats the Bog, Ichijou is sentenced to 1050 years underground after costing Teiai 700 million yen. | |
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In the fairly obscure sci-fi TV movie White Dwarf, a race of creatures who can infuse people with a lifespan-extending chemical are employed as prison wardens so that especially heinous criminals actually can serve out sentences like this. At the end of the movie, one prepares to do this to the Big Bad while informing him "After the first few hundred years, the centuries just fly by!" | |
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In Sa Ga Frontier, the Warden of Despair turns out to be a criminal serving a million-year sentence. | |
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Grand Theft Auto IV: After she's arrested and judged, Elizabeta Torres is sentenced to 300 years of imprisonment for thirty charges (ten years each) of cocaine distribution. Lampshaded by her voicemail, where she says she can't answer the messages before the end of her prison sentence, and also by The Liberty Tree which mentions the sentence as a record for a Liberty City criminal case. | |
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Dr. Wily gets a well-deserved one in Mega Man Gigamix for his world domination schemes. "Asteroid Blues" sees him sentenced to 2,000 years in solitary confinement. Later in "Burning Wheel", all the additional attempts and miscellaneous destruction have it upped to 100,000 years in prison. | |
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The few senior mods in the Kingdom of Loathing who can issue chat bans of arbitrary length (as opposed to most mods, who can only ban players based on the number of previous infractions) can't actually ban people "forever". They can, however, ban them for 99,999,999,999 hours, or about 11 million years. | |
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At the end of Police Quest 1: In Pursuit of the Death Angel after apprehending the drug lord, Jesse Bains, he is sentenced to 97 years for counts of Illegal Gambling, Drug Trafficking, Attempted Murder, and First Degree Murder, without possible parole. This doesn't stick in the sequel, as he gets tired of waiting for his appeal to go through and breaks out of prison, seeking revenge. The sequel ultimately ends with him being shot dead by the protagonist. | |
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The curse inflicted upon Lord Soth in the Dragonlance setting was a variation. He neglected to attempt to stop what would cause the Cataclysm, and instead confronted his wife over untrue claims of infidelity; as a result, whole cities were destroyed and thousands of innocents perished. His wife died right before it happened, and cursed him with her final words, saying, "you shall live the lifetime of every soul that you have caused death today". The gods delivered this curse, turning him into a death knight. Exactly how long this astronomically-long sentence actually is has never been calculated, but unlike most examples, Soth's condition may mean having to serve the entire sentence in his horrid, monstrous form. | |
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In Artemis Fowl Mulch Diggums got a total of 300 years for his burglaries against "Mudmen"; subverted as fairies live very long. | |
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Guinness World Records lists one Chamoy Thipyaso as the world record holder for the longest prison sentence ever received by a single person - in 1989, she received a sentence of 141,078 years in jail in Thailand for defrauding thousands of people for millions of dollars in a giant pyramid scheme. She actually served only eight years. | |
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In Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Sabrina's Evil Twin Katrina is sentenced to eternity in prison for pushing Sabrina into a volcano, although in her second appearance (where she's on work detail) the unrepentant Twin claims her sentence was reduced because she "had a good lawyer". (Of course, witches are supposedly immortal...) For that matter Salem is actually an evil warlock serving a 100-year sentence transformed into a cat for trying to take over the world. |
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In The Goon Show episode "The Rent Collectors", Seagoon is sentenced to a hundred years' hard labour for swimming in the canal. | |
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While 'Indefinite' is the usual terminology for permabans on Wikipedia, on other Wiki services, it's common to see particularly annoying vandals, trolls, and other internet oiks be given longer-than-life bans by irritated admins to make an example of them, often accompanied by an overtly passive-aggressive ban reason for good measure. | |
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In the Gravity Falls episode "Blendin's Game", we find that Blendin's punishment for letting Dipper and Mabel steal his time-tape in "The Time-Traveler's Pig" included a "life-squared" sentence. | |
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