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The Executioner

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The Executioner	comment	An executioner is someone tasked with killing prisoners or criminals sentenced to death by an official authority. In some cases this person could also execute other corporal sentences such as whipping or chopping off limbs. In the beginning, justice was meted out privately, i.e. feuds and vendettas: as such the victim or his relatives had to execute their sentence themselves. Oftentimes it was the community who executed the sentence, and some sentences, such as stoning, were based around this concept. Growing centralization made justice an exclusive prerogative of the state, and the execution of sentences became a public monopoly. First functioning by hiring hourlies, this position became later a permanent one. Subtypes: Alienated: Given their rapport with death, especially with death violently and voluntarily given, and even though they were nominally agents of justice, the executioners were often shunned by the public. For this reason, they often appear masked. Dynastic: The above factor oftentimes led to dynasties of executioners, since no one would give them relatives to marry and their children were often banned from doing other work, or training. Tormented: They might be depicted as suffering anxiety due to them causing the death of other human beings or because of a particular convict they befriended, fell in love with or were convinced of their innocence. Psychopath: Contrarily to the above factor, some might be depicted as blood thirsty who enjoy the opportunity to kill people legally. Professional: In a more moderate version of the above factor, others might be proud of their work, which they see as essential for a society. Apathetic: We would have these who became stone-hearted because of their work. Incompetent: Finally, we would have these who are really bad at their jobs by being clueless, clumsy, and would likely botch the job even when successful. Of course, several subtypes could fit for each example. If the executioner also carries out the task of judging the culprit personally, this is Judge, Jury, and Executioner. If he acts without legal sanction then he's a Vigilante Man doing Vigilante Executions. Executioners will also overlap with Torture Technician and Exalted Torturer, as in medieval Europe, executioners also dealt with torture. Although historical executioners rarely wore hoods, depictions may show them as Malevolent Masked Men. Sometimes depicted shirtless, which can display his muscular, portly, Acrofatic, or Stout Strength figure. Will most likely wield a sword and/or an axe. Also see Public Execution for more tropes about what executioners do. Compare and contrast with Professional Killer, another kind of career which revolves around taking people's lives, albeit without serving any judicial purpose. Not to be confused with Mack Bolan, the vigilante known as The Executioner.
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The Executioner / int_605b8f40	comment	As Lord Blackadder discovers in "Head" his manservant Baldrick has a secondary job as the local executioner. As it turns out he's just as incompetent at it as he is with everything else, with the ending revealed he executed the wrong person.
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The Executioner / int_63be4131	type	Pretty Boy
The Executioner / int_63be4131	comment	Many sources attest the existence of Ance, executioner of Rochefort and Brest, (his real name was probably "Hans" but it was frenchified to "Ance") was known as an arrogant Pretty Boy and a complete sadistic nutcase with little to no redeeming qualities. This man was a Social Climber, and supremely arrogant (to the point of refering to himself in third person). He "punished" a convict for being too stoic by, instead of using the guillotine to kill him in one shot, dropped it several times, stopping before it cut the spinal cords. He did so four times before being satisfied. He placed chopped heads in perfect lines just to terrify the condemned. Oh, and he helped to publically disgrace (what he did precisely is not said explicitly, but it probably was something along the lines of necrophile acts or an oddly sexualized dissection) the decapitated corpse of a virgin girl (in an amphitheater, mind you) along with the judge who ordered the sentencing.
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The Executioner / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
The Executioner / int_65acf9db	comment	Theon Greyjoy executes Farlen as a scapegoat for the murder of three of his men, who were actually killed by Reek for being privy to Theon's faked murders of Bran and Rickon Stark. In the TV series, he executes Rodrik Cassel instead in order to "pay the iron price" for Winterfell as he helped lead Greyjoy forces in taking it, and he didn't want to execute Rodrik, but was pressured into it by his own men. This being said, he honors his time as Ned Stark's ward (read, Political Hostage, as he was kept by Ned to make sure his father Balon Greyjoy stayed in line after his attempted rebellion) by choosing to execute Farlen/Rodrik himself, though to symbolize his conflicted feelings, he botches the execution quite badly.
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The Executioner / int_927d046a	type	Accidental Pun
The Executioner / int_927d046a	comment	The 1963 film The Executioner (original Spanish title El Verdugo) by Luis Garcia Berlanga features the experienced (and close to retirement) Amadeo, who is a combination of professional, alienated, and dynastic, and his son-in-law Jose Luis, who got roped into applying for the job in order to get an apartment and is deeply tormented by the idea of having to execute someone.
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The Executioner / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Executioner / int_c3c18143	comment	When serving as Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, Ned's bastard son Jon Snow orders Janos Slynt executed for insubordination, and first seems to want him hanged. He changes his mind as Janos begs for his life, however, leading to a bit of a Hope Spot for Ser Janos, before asking his aides to fetch him a block instead, showing that he, too, believes that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
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The Executioner / int_cbed4c8e	type	Historical Detective Fiction
The Executioner / int_cbed4c8e	comment	The French Historical Detective Fiction series Nicolas Le Floch features the historical executioner of Paris at the time, Charles-Henri Sanson, as a personal friend of the protgonist who serves as the equivalent to a coroner thanks to his having studied medicine and his experience with corpses.
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The Executioner / int_ed358a04	type	Jidaigeki
The Executioner / int_ed358a04	comment	In Jidaigeki, executioners were grouped in the eta and the hinin along other professions which were deemed dirty and impure by Japanese society.
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The Executioner / int_ed84457a	type	Consummate Professional
The Executioner / int_ed84457a	comment	AndrÃ© Guillaume was a dynastic executioner, who died in 1690. He was quite an...interesting person (bordeline sociopathic or at the very least a hardened marginal mixted in with Consummate Professional). He was a rather immoral and arrogant man. He took his niece as a wife after the death of his first wife, with some suspecting he killed his first wife. (Talk about a Creepy Uncle). It must be noted that incestuous marriage was the norm amongs dynastic executioners, do to being so ostracized they needed to resort to consanguinity in order to have a blood line. Also, during the execution of the Chevalier de Rohan, when it came time to hang the accomplices, he said to his assistants: "Pendez cela, c'est besogne pour vous." (Translation by me: "Hang that. It's work for you.") Make of that what you will. In short, quite a nice guy. That makes him fit both the "dynastic" and "aliennated" description, with being apathetic at best and sociopathic at worse.
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The Executioner / int_ef43c232	comment	In the Delicious Last Course campaign of Cuphead, the Rook from the King of Games' gauntlet is depicted as an executioner who attacks the player with rolling heads and sparks from the grinding of his axe. The player doesn't learn enough about what the Rook is like to categorise it under any specific variants of this trope, though, when the fight initially starts, he's seen lovingly daydreaming of an anthropomorphic, Betty Boop-esque guillotine, suggesting at least that he has interests outside of his work.
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