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Death by firing squad has been a classic way of execution since firearms became widely used in war. A classic scenario for a Just in Time rescue, a Last-Minute Reprieve, a "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner, or a combination thereof. The condemned is sometimes offered One Last Smoke. Expect a hero to refuse a blindfold. Contrast You Always Hear the Bullet. May involve a Public Execution. Most of the examples are set in World War I or in the Banana Republic, but they can occur at other times too. In order to qualify for this trope, there must be a firing squad, but it doesn't have to literally take place at dawn. As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. |
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In the new Tales from the Crypt series, the episode "Yellow" centers about the general's cowardly son. Said son caused the deaths of his squadmates, due to his cowardice. So, he is sentenced to execution via firing squad. His father says, if he acts brave for the squad, he will load all of the rifles with blanks and put provisions so the son can escape, quietly. At the climax, after the son sees the provisions in the ditch and gives a brave final speech, the squad lowers their rifles and the general turns his face away since he cannot watch his son being shot. | |
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In one episode of Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team, Eledore and Michel are scheduled to be executed at dawn after being captured by Zeon troops. | |
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One The Far Side comic has a very fat general giving the very skinny prisoner his last cigarette as the guns are already lined up... and a woman trying to warn people about the flames on the top floor yelling "FIRE" | |
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An impromptu version occurs in Dillinger (1973). Pretty Boy Floyd is being chased on foot by a posse when FBI agent Melvin Purvis figures 'stuff this', orders everyone to stop running, take aim and fire. | |
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Maus: When 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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In The Little Rascals, when Alfalfa is tried for violating the policy of the He-Man Woman Haters Club, resulting in their clubhouse burning down, Judge Spanky threatens this punishment on him, using the term "executed in the morning". | |
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Bonanza had an episode where Little Joe was mistaken for someone else, captured and sentenced to be executed in this manner. Fortunately, the real man was found Just in Time and Joe was released. | |
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This is a favored method of execution in Thembria in TaleSpin. Except they like to use cannons (sometimes tanks). | |
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In By the Hands of the People, a revolution breaks out against Queen Elsa who refuses to use her powers against those rebels and ultimately surrenders to them. She and Anna are executed by a firing squad; Elsa is lucky enough to die instantly while Anna receives several painful but non-fatal wounds and a soldier finishes her off with his bayonet. | |
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F Troop: Corporal Agarn is sentenced to be executed by firing squad after losing a prisoner in "The Day They Shot Agarn". The men all miss Agarn and hit the water tower he was standing next to. | |
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Looney Tunes: The ending of the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Fresh Hare" has Bugs nonchalantly facing a firing squad after being captured by Elmer Fudd (here playing a Mountie) and is granted a last wish. He manages to distract them by breaking out into song-and-dance (and in the uncut version, it turns into a minstrel show, with the firing squad dressed in blackface and singing "Camptown Ladies"). "Rebel Without Claws" has Sylvester (an interceptor for the Union in the Civil War) capturing Tweety (a messenger bird for the Confederates). Tweety faces a firing squad who happen to be all cockeyed and not too efficient with their weapons—they shoot Sylvester instead. |
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In The Suffering, Marksmen are a type of Malefactors infesting Carnate Island and representing execution by firing squad: they are large grotesque humanoids with blindfolds of flesh covering their eyes and a large cluster of guns and rifles on their backs they can use to attack Torque. When they spawn, they're even tied to a large wooden beam. | |
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In the silly 1926 comedy Hands Up!, Raymond Griffith is about to be shot as a Confederate spy (he is one). Every time the officer yells "Fire!", Griffith throws a dinner plate up in the air for the soldiers to shoot at. Eventually the soldiers are distracted and Griffith escapes. | |
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Return Of The Obra Dinn: One of the Obra Dinn's late passengers was framed for murder and executed by firing squad. It's easy to determine what killed him, but figuring out exactly who killed him is a little more complicated. Three of the four gunmen missed, and it's possible to trace the path of the one fatal shot to determine which gunman fired it. | |
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Crisis on Earth-X. In "Part 3" our heroes are led off to be shot by the Alternate Self of Quentin Lance, here a Nazi concentration camp commandant. The only one who's blindfolded is Oliver Queen, whose counterpart is the Glorious Leader of Earth-X so Kommandant Lance can't stand to look him in the eye when he's shot. Fortunately Captain Cold does a Big Damn Heroes, waiting till just before the command "Fire" to ice up their weapons with a Freeze Ray. "I hate fire!" | |
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Tosca features the title character's love interest scheduled for execution at dawn at the Castel Sant'Angelo. | |
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Nick is in danger of this in one Forever Knight episode, where he annoys the Kazakhstani embassy while searching for a killer amongst them. As he's trying to figure out how to work around the diplomatic immunity problem, they threaten him with this. The shooting isn't a problem for a vampire, but the sunlight is, so Nick has to work his way out of it. | |
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In 49th Parallel, Hirth has Vogul executed for attempting to defect from the Nazis to join the Hutterites. | |
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This fate narrowly befalls Doraemon and gang (save for Suneo and Shizuka note and in the 2021 remake, Nobita whom were elsewhere) in Doraemon: Nobita's Little Space War, 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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In A Million Adventures, Alice and members of La Résistance on pirate-occupied Brastak are captured and ordered to be shot at dawn. However, they escape during the night. | |
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In Alan Ford, in the issue A Trip to San Guerreta, Alan ends up witnessing first hand an execution by firing squad, complete with corporal unloading his pistol after the volley. While Alan is shocked, there's still room for Black Comedy. | |
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In Arcadia of My Youth, the Vichy Earth government manages to capture the Rebel Leader Maaya and Emeraldas (whom they suspect to be in cahoots with the rebels) and puts them both for public execution by firing squad in an attempt to lure Captain Harlock to their rescue (as Emeraldas is his longtime friend, while Maaya is strongly implied to be his One True Love). He, however, refuses to betray their shared ideals for personal sentiments and stays in orbit, while a group of former soldiers whom he managed to sway to his side earlier comes to Maaya and Emeraldas' rescue in the nick of time instead. The skirmish doesn't go too well for them, however, as the mutineers' leader Zoll is killed, Maaya is fatally wounded, and Emeraldas is shot in the face (but survives, thanks to her badass factor) by the soldiers before they all can escape. | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars has Fives and Jesse sentenced to death by firing squad in the Umbara arc after defying Pong Krell and destroying a Separatist Supply Ship supporting the city they were about to attack, without there even being a court-martial first (though Krell makes it clear the court-martial wouldn't do much). Fortunately, Fives is able to talk down the (all-clone) firing squad. | |
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Irresponsible Captain Tylor: Captain Tylor faces execution by firing squad after handing back the Empress Azalyn whom he had prisoner. Showing his usual luck, he's not only saved at the last moment by an all-out Raalgon attack, the UPSF brass give him total command of their forces as he seems to be the only one who can get them out of this. | |
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In Jingo, Lord Vetinari tries, through subtle hints, to get through to Sergeant Colon what will happen if they are discovered as being from Ankh-Morpork in Klatch. "A nice sunny wall and a cigarette" is mentioned. It doesn't take...at first. | |
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From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter opens with Ambrose Bierce having a nightmare in which he's being executed by a Mexican firing squad. | |
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The War Game. After nuclear war has devastated much of Britain, armed police are shown executing two men by firing squad as part of the harsh measures used to maintain law and order. | |
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Sonic Adventure 2: This is how the kind scientist-turned-supervillain Gerald Robotnik died, executed by a firing squad for his experiments. | |
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In Hussar Ballad, after the French find out Shura is a spy and Vincento has been covering for her, they sentence both to be shot at dawn. A rescue party arrives before that can happen, but in the ensuing battle Vincento is shot right when dawn breaks out. | |
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This is a recurring theme of "Duck" Edwing's one-page "Tales from the Duck Side" comics in MAD magazine. | |
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Nick Velvet: In "The Theft of the Meager Beavers", Nick gets caught up in Banana Republic politics and has to thwart an attempt to assassinate the president while making it look like the work of a judicially appointed firing squad of nine foreigners (It Makes Sense in Context). | |
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Hardcase opens with a captured revolutionary being executed by a Mexican Army firing squad. | |
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In The Alloy of Law, Miles is executed by firing squad. Since he's a gold compounder with incredible regenerative abilities, it takes quite a few volleys for him to actually die. Even after he's dead, he's shot in the head, just to be sure. | |
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The Outlaws: During the Latvian campaign, the hero witnesses the execution of some captured Bolshevik soldiers. Not much later, he barely evades being shot himself when he is briefly captured by the enemy. | |
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Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie: after being arrested by Gavan, the Gokaigers are supposed to be executed by firing squad. | |
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Sleeping at Last: Described in the song "Mars", a song about war: | |
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Mata Hari opens with three German spies being executed by the French. This is Mata Hari's fate at the end, although the film ends as she's being marched away to the firing squad. | |
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On The A-Team, the team are convicted in trial and sentenced to death in this manner. | |
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Thunderpants. After his fartillery accidentally kills someone, Patrick Smash is sentenced to death as a public menace. For some reason, Gas Mask Mooks are not used for his firing squad, but it's a moot point as a Last-Minute Reprieve is arranged by his Only Friend who's now working for the US Government. | |
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One episode of Open All Hours has Arkwright mentioning making his errand boy/nephew Granville an executive "because I'm going to execute him in the morning!" | |
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In Wings of Glory, one of the characters gets executed by firing squad for being a German spy.' | |
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Balibo ends with Roger being executed by firing squad during the invasion of Dili. | |
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Lucheni, while recounting what happened to Elisabeth's family members: | |
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The sequel trilogy of the The Powder Mage Trilogy features "Mad" Ben Styke, who has survived not one, but two firing squad "exceutions" with nothing more than some aches and pains to show for it. No explaination is really given for how. Styke does have magical powers, but it's a minor ability that allows him to smell others using magic, nothing that should allow him to survive such an ordeal. | |
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The two German boys from War Horse are executed after the elder pulls the younger from marching to the front. | |
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In Judge Colt #4, Colt investigates a series of apparently unrelated murders where the killer left a Civil War medal on each of the bodies. Colt eventually learns that the men all served on a firing squad that executed a soldier for dereliction of duty during the Civil War. The killer is the soldier's son extracting revenge. | |
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In My Fair Lady, Eliza fantasizes about ordering Henry Higgins to be executed by firing squad in "Just You Wait": | |
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Girl Genius: A group of Mechanicsburg bakers gets rounded up during the siege, and the commanding officer of the soldiers who managed it orders them "treated with respect," lined up and shot. The Doom Bell knocks out the invaders and the bakers decide to tie up the rank and file soldiers, and treat their officer with "respect". | |
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The ending of the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Fresh Hare" has Bugs nonchalantly facing a firing squad after being captured by Elmer Fudd (here playing a Mountie) and is granted a last wish. He manages to distract them by breaking out into song-and-dance (and in the uncut version, it turns into a minstrel show, with the firing squad dressed in blackface and singing "Camptown Ladies"). | |
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In The Captain Hates the Sea, General Salazaro is on the cruise to South America because he is going home, to assist in a revolution in his own country. Unfortunately, the revolution has already happened (and failed) when he arrives. He's met at the dock and marched straight to his execution. | |
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The film Breaker Morant, about the court-martial of Harry Morant and Peter Handcock during the Boer War, ends with their dawn execution by firing squad. | |
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Happens twice in Soap. In Season 3, Burt and Saul use their transporter (which also appears to be a Time Machine, since they also end up in ancient Rome) to escape and accidentally end up in front of a firing squad. In Season 4, the final episode has Jessica facing a firing squad due to her relationship with the revolutionary leader El Puerco. | |
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A French Village: The Germans arrest twenty random French civilians when Communist resistance members kill a German officer. Daniel gets this down to ten, but can't do any more. They are shot by firing squad. Marcel and Philippe are also later shot this way. All of the condemned Milice prisoners are also shot by firing squad. Servier is shot as a traitor for collaborating, plus handing over people to be killed after the war's end. |
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Referenced in an exchange from the Animorphs: | |
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert: The 3rd Soviet 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 Secret Life of Walter Mitty ends with yet another Dream Sequence in which Walter Mitty contemptuously declines a handkerchief, takes one last drag on his cigarette and proudly stands in front of the firing squad to Face Death with Dignity as "Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last." | |
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The Three Musketeers (1973). The Musketeers rescue Rochefort from a rebel firing squad in La Rochelle near the beginning of the second film, complete with a bit of Black Comedy when the executioner is confused about how to blindfold a man with an eyepatch. | |
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Tintin faces this in Cigars of the Pharaoh (in which his death is faked) and The Broken Ear (in which his execution is repeatedly put off due to political turmoil), as do Thompson and Thomson in Tintin and the Picaros (in which they get a conventional Just in Time rescue). | |
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Happens to the main character Rene Artois on 'Allo 'Allo!. The trope is also somewhat subverted - the hero 'dies', as some friendly German officers have loaded the guns with blanks. Rene feigns his death and spends the next eight seasons posing as his own twin brother, also named Rene. | |
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World on Fire: Over twenty Polish civilians are shot by firing squad in retaliation for just one SS soldier being killed. This is Truth in Television, as the Nazis were infamous for their mass reprisals. | |
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After War Gundam X The crew of the Frieden is very nearly killed like this, being shipped to Siberia on a train and lined up in front of a trench that's already been dug for them. Fortunately, Carris Nautilus comes back as The Cavalry to bail them out. Nicola Fafas is executed for daring to discover evidence that Newtypes can be born on Earth as well as space and suggesting peace negotiations with the Federation. Both would upend Rasso's grip on power since he's espousing a spacenoid Master Race philosophy. |
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Get Smart: Max and 99 escape a Banana Republic firing squad by ordering the soldiers to about-face, knowing they've been conditioned into Blind Obedience. They do so and shoot their commander instead. | |
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If you fail a mission but survive after turning traitor in Wing Commander IV, a cutscene will play of Blair being escorted offscreen, being offered (and turning down) a blindfold, and then several gunshots. | |
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In Peanuts Snoopy's Red Baron schtick occasionally has him imagining that he is down behind enemy lines, fearing capture and being shot at dawn. | |
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Happens to Winnie the Pooh in an episode of Red Dwarf, while Lister looks on in horror. Typically for this trope, he refuses the blindfold. | |
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In Threads, a BBC docudrama about the possible effects of nuclear war, looters are rounded up and taken to makeshift prisons to await summary execution. If they aren't shot on the spot, which is what happens to one of the looters who killed main character Ruth Beckett's parents. | |
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Averted for the most part in Warhammer 40,000. While there are mentions of firing squads being used in the Imperial Guard, it is more common for a commissar to personally carry out on-the-spot summary executions, even in the midst of active combat. One comic where a planetary governor is convicted of treason gets the sentence read to him and is executed within the space of five minutes. | |
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Early in Back Stab, this was the hero Henry's intended fate, after being betrayed and framed by his ex-commander Edmund Kane. A cutscene shows a prisoner getting shot, but when it was Henry's turn a resistance attack happens allowing him to break free. | |
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Doctor Who "The War Games" has the Second Doctor in a World War I re-creation sentenced to death by firing squad. The Marshall in the Third Doctor story "The Mutants" tries to have four characters (including the Doctor's then-current companion Jo Grant) executed by firing squad. Two of the characters involved are charged with treason, a third with conspiracy, sabotage, and terrorism. Meanwhile, Jo has been condemned simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Combined with Tested on Humans in "The Time Warrior". Fortunately, none of the medieval warriors have ever handled a firearm before, so they keep missing the Doctor as he keeps dodging about. Averted in "Genesis of the Daleks", after the Doctor and Harry are captured. Their captor remarks that normally they would be executed by firing squad, but since ammunition is so scarce, they'll be hanged instead. In the Fifth Doctor story "The Caves Of Androzani" the Doctor and Peri are captured and sentenced to death without even the pretense of a trial. Unusually, neither one refuses a blindfold (or, in this case, a red hood) but that's because they've been replaced by android duplicates. In "The Curse of Fenric", Commander Millington orders the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Sorin executed for treason. They are saved from the firing squad by the intervention of Sorin's men. In "Hell Bent", Rassilon tries to have the Doctor executed by a squad of Gallifreyan soldiers. Such is the fear and respect inspired by the hero who saved Gallifrey, no soldier dares hit the Doctor. Eventually, the entire squad and their commanding officer throw down their weapons and stand alongside him, deposing Rassilon in a bloodless mutiny. |
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Star Wars: Doctor Aphra. Having screwed up three times, Magna Tolvan is automatically sentenced to execution, and her apparent Last Words involve her critiquing the stormtroopers on her firing squad for sloppy dress. But at the last minute the paperwork for her promotion comes through, so she's now allowed four demerits before execution, so she goes free. She then awards the commander of the firing squad a demerit point. Unfortunately it's his third... | |
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One episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus (the full-episode story "The Cycling Tour") features the Soviets trying to execute Reg Pither via the firing squad. The firing squad misses. Repeatedly. | |
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In Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Admiral Wolfgang Mittenmyer will not hesitate to have his own soldiers executed if he catches them abusing the population of a conquered world. | |
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In Seven Men of Gascony, one of The Squad is caught deserting. His final request is that his mates volunteer to do the deed because he wanted men who knew how to shoot to do the job. | |
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Tom Zarek and Felix Gaeta on Battlestar Galactica, after leading a bloody, but ultimately failed mutiny. The execution takes place in a Viper launch tube so the bodies can be disposed of in the usual manner. | |
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Oz: After Donald Groves is sentenced to death for the murder of a correctional officer, he chooses firing squad as his method of execution. | |
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Police Squad!: In keeping with the deaths of every other guest star during the opening credits, one episode begins with Robert Goulet smoking a cigarette, the camera pulling back to reveal him up against a wall, and he is shot. | |
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Paths of Glory starring Kirk Douglas. After an ill-planned attack fails, three soldiers are selected, condemned by a Kangaroo Court-martial for cowardice, and of course, shot. | |
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In the Enemy at the Door episode "After the Ball", a German soldier is court-martialed and sentenced to be shot at dawn. The execution scene plays out (onscreen, though it ends just as the squad fires) in unhurried fashion, and the soldier goes from respectably stoic to a trembling nervous mess as the fatal moment approaches. | |
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Early in Casino Royale (1967), Sir James Bond's nephew (Woody Allen) is in front of a Banana Republic firing squad. He gets away using a concussion grenade hidden in his last cigarette, jumps the wall - and lands in front of a firing squad in the neighboring country. | |
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The Avengers (1960s). In "The Living Dead", John Steed appears calmer than the commander of the firing squad, who accepts the One Last Smoke that Steed declines. Unusually for this trope, Steed accepts the blindfold, so doesn't realise that the eruption of gunfire is actually Mrs Peel coming to his rescue. The suspense of the Big Damn Heroes is drawn out by an Overly Long Gag of the firing squad maneuvering to shoot Steed while Peel is still battling her way past a minion. | |
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Midsomer Murders: "Shot at Dawn" opens with a soldier being executed by firing squad during World War One for cowardice and desertion. His CO administers the Coup de Grâce, then throws up. | |
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In Invisible Avenger, the Generalissimo releases a newsreel of Pablo's twin brother Victor being executed by firing squad to lure Pablo out of hiding. | |
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In Hangmen Also Die!, the Germans execute the hostages they have taken after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by firing squad, 40 at a time until the killer is turned in. It all happens offscreen until the last group of hostages to be executed, which includes Professor Novotny. | |
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A common sketch on You Can't Do That on Television has one of the kids apparently in front of a firing squad in some Banana Republic. Many sketches end with the commander getting shot instead when the kid tricks him into inadvertently saying "fire". | |
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The New Avengers: In "Dirtier by the Dozen", Colonel 'Mad Jack' Miller has one of his men executed by firing squad following a drumhead court martial. | |
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A Fistful of Dynamite have the moment where Juan Miranda gets sentenced to be shot by Colonel Reza's soldiers, only for John Mallory to explosively interrupt the execution the only way he knows how. A subsequent scene however shows literally hundreds of arrested revolutionaries being lined up by multiple rows, and shot by soldiers in one of the film's most disturbing moments. | |
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At the end of Valiant Hearts, Emile is executed by firing squad for killing his commanding officer. | |
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