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A character who has survived a hanging. They will frequently sport a scarred or deformed neck as a result. This may just indicate that he is a real hard case and too tough to kill easily, or it may be used to show what a bad life he has led and to explain his hatred of the world. A Bungled Suicide may also be involved. If he survived three attempts, a sporting (or superstitious) executioner may have let him go. Probably because it's best to keep on the good side of a badass like that. Shoot the Rope may be used to explain their survival. |
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You can hang a Hoka, but it won't hurt him (they have unusually strong neck muscles), and he'll consider it all part of whatever fiction is currently being lived out. | |
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One strip in The Far Side depicted a wax museum for cowboys. One of the attractions was "The Unhangable Rustler", depicting a man happily taunting his would-be executioners while his neck was caught in the noose. | |
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Lord Blackwood in Sherlock Holmes (2009) lives through hanging the first time. Though it turns out that he didn't survive through any sort of toughness or special powers, but because his execution was staged; a hook hidden in the noose and a torso rig diverted the weight of his body away from his neck and onto the torso brace. A few feigned twitches and a drug-induced death-like coma completed the illusion. | |
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Death by Hanging: This Mind Screw of a movie starts getting weird at the point where the prison staff, conducting an execution, put the noose around the victim and drop him through the trapdoor—and he simply does not die. The staff are left at a loss, unable to figure out what to do as the prisoner's heart continues to beat even as he swings from the rope. | |
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Bleak Expectations: Harry Biscuit survives being hanged, by dint of being incredibly overweight. He would have died, but since the judge who ordered the hanging was watching, and eating some cheese, and Harry manages to gain weight just by looking at cheese... | |
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In Gunless, The Montana Kid survived a hanging by Cutter's Bounty Hunters when the branch they tried to hang him from snapped. | |
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An Angel flashback episode dealt with Angel attempting to get rid of a demon in the Hyperion (the hotel he now owns) that manipulates people's emotions causing them to kill each other. Unfortunately, the angry hotel guests target him and hang him from the chandelier. Vampires cannot die this way, and Angel plays dead. After they leave the lobby, he nonchalantly frees himself one-handedly and gives a big fuck you to the guests, telling the demon he can have them. | |
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The Simpsons: Groundskeeper Willie mentions in one episode that his father was hanged for stealing a pig, only for said father to turn up alive and well in a later episode. Well, Willie never said the hanging killed him... | |
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Doctor Who Expanded Universe: Juliette, from the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel The Adventuress of Henrietta Street, is an unusually young example; she's only thirteen. It's implied she'd attempted to hang herself, but not only did she not do it properly, the Doctor showed up to rescue her. | |
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Krane, the eponymous villain of the Queen of Swords episode "The Hanged Man". His neck is permanently cricked at a strange angle as a result of the attempt. | |
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Richard O'Connell is hanged in The Mummy. His neck is strong enough that it doesn't break, and Evelyn negotiates his release before he strangles to death. Brendan Fraser himself fits this trope. He was actually being hanged in that scene due to a prop failure. | |
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Friday the 13th: After the Final Girl Chris manages to knock Jason out in Friday the 13th Part III, she tries to kill him by putting a noose around his neck and dropping him from the barn's second floor. This doesn't work, and she has to give him the axe. In Jason X, it is mentioned how officials tried to execute Jason multiple times, which includes a hanging, before settling for cryogenic imprisonment. |
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Freddie attempts to dispose of Michael Myers by hanging him in Halloween: Resurrection. Needless to say, it doesn't work. Michael acts as though being thrown out of a window and hanged was nothing more than a minor inconvenience. | |
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Pangloss from Candide, who survived hanging by the Inqusition. It's not sure it was for the better. | |
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The Mad Hatter: The titular hero narrowly survives some criminals trying to hang him in his first appearance. | |
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Fist of the North Star: Devil Rebirth. He had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment because Villainy Prison didn't have anything, including rope, capable of killing him, and they tried no fewer than thirteen times to execute him, none of them taking. He later meets Death By Kenshiro, but survives just long enough to take Jackal, the scumbag who lied to him to get him to fight Kenshiro, with him. The spinoff Ten no Haoh revealed that Uighur used to be a prisoner of Cassandra who survived five death sentences. He fought Raoh, who ended up making Uighur the new warden of Cassandra because of his ambition and strength. |
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Variation in Eberron: In a story on setting creator Keith Baker's blog, Mordain the Fleshweaver - one of the setting's premier Mad Scientists and Evilutionary Biologists - managed to No-Sell basically every form of execution except hanging through his incredible control over his own anatomy, shrugging off drowning, dismemberment and even burning at the stake, and later went on to shrug off being Taken for Granite and escape from a convoy taking him to Dreadhold. | |
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DC: The New Frontier: John Henry survived his attempted lynching and went after the lynch mob who killed his family. | |
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An immortal was hanged in Highlander twice. Duncan in “Innocent Man� during the American Civil War. A confederate immortal comes back to dig him up and give him some clothes post-revival Kanis from “Leader of the Pack�. Duncan begged the queen he was a kept man of to behead Kanis but she refused, had him hanged, and buried him in a shallow grave, an immortal’s favorite kind. He’s back much later wanting Duncan’s head. |
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Nemesis the Warlock once crashed on Earth and a group of alien-hating villagers decided the best way to kill him was by hanging. Three days passed before they realized he was still alive, after every person who wronged him met Karmic Death. | |
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In Cross Ange, when Ange is sentenced to a hanging, because they want her to suffer, they drop her from a height short enough that her neck doesn't break, and watch her choke. She survives long enough for Tusk to rescue her. | |
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In The Last Continent, the Real Life concept of a sentence being reduced if a hanging is failed is parodied. If the gallows malfunctions in a Fourecksian execution, they let the prisoner go back inside so he doesn't have to stand around in the sun while they fix it. If it takes long enough, they'll even give the prisoner lunch while he's waiting. | |
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Supernatural has a man survive being hanged for killing one of the men who raped and murdered his wife because he's a phoenix. Dean kills him with the Colt in a Showdown at High Noon. | |
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Discworld's Moist von Lipwig is a subversion - Vetinari deliberately has him publicly hanged "to within half an inch of his life" to fake his death so that he can keep Moist on as a Boxed Crook. In The Last Continent, the Real Life concept of a sentence being reduced if a hanging is failed is parodied. If the gallows malfunctions in a Fourecksian execution, they let the prisoner go back inside so he doesn't have to stand around in the sun while they fix it. If it takes long enough, they'll even give the prisoner lunch while he's waiting. |
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Elden Ring has the 'loathsome' Dung Eater, an insane Serial Killer who spiritually defiles his victims, shown in the opening cinematic being publicly hanged. This did actually kill him, but he (like many others) was brought back as a Tarnished in the wake of the Elden Ring shattering. | |
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A mob tried to hang Nick in a Forever Knight flashback. Since he’s a vampire, it’s not particularly effective. | |
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Tal from The Licanius Trilogy discovers his immortality this way. He tries more extreme methods, but still isn't able to die. | |
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According to the sparse back-story for Quake III character Cadaver "is a brutal murderer who couldn’t be executed, The electric chair, gallows, and gas chamber only made him meaner". | |
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Carina Smyth also survives a hanging early in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Henry catches her out of the air below the gallows and holds her high enough that the rope doesn't pull taut, having to stay there until his allies defeat the British soldiers and remove the noose. | |
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Sturmtruppen: Played with in a strip featuring a man too tall to be hanged by normal means, much to the soldiers' dismay. | |
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The unnamed prisoner in Penny Arcade's multi-part strip "Sand". In addition to not being killed by hanging, he also proves invulnerable to fire ("feller don't burn right"), and bullets. | |
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An odd example with Belkar in The Order of the Stick where a group of bandits try to hang him and he suffers no injury. Belkar points out that as a halfling, his anatomy is unsuitable for death by hanging (he doesn't weigh much and his head constitutes the majority of his mass). The worst he gets is a bit of wooziness from the blood rushing to his head when his weight evens out. | |
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In Bend of the River, James Stewart, of all people, is one of these. References are made throughout the film to his past as a "border raider" during the Missouri-Kansas violence before The American Civil War. At the end of the movie he's revealed to have somehow survived a hanging, with an ugly scar on his neck as the proof. | |
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Played with in "Near Algodones" where The Nameless cowboy is about to be hung for robbery when injuns attack and kill the lynch party. They leave him strung up for a laugh, but he's found by a cattle rustler and freed, only to be hung for the rustler's crime which he had nothing to do with. | |
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Lieutenant Aldo Raine in Inglourious Basterds has an unexplained rope scar around his neck, suggesting that this trope is somewhere in his backstory. In the part of the country he's from, at the time this movie takes place, didn't take a whole lot. | |
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In Conker's Bad Fur Day, Franky the Pitchfork is Driven to Suicide by his heckling companions, the paint pot and the paintbrush, after failing to kick Conker's ass. When he decides to hang himself, he fails because he "does not appear to have a neck of any description", and remains stuck hanging from the barnyard ceiling until Conker cuts him down. | |
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Big Mouth (2022): The three NR Forum prisoners give Changho a warm welcome by suspending him by a noose with a chair under his feet. They don't plan on killing him but they came close to it. | |
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In Moonlight it's shown that the French Revolutionaries figured out the aristocracy were vampires when they tried hanging one, and failed. Hence the guillotine and the fire (instead of burning, it ashes vampires). | |
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The cancelled original iteration of Fallout 3, known as Fallout: Van Buren, was going to include a companion NPC called "The Hanged Man". You would have found him hanging by his neck from a tree, more annoyed at the predicament than anything. Having him in your party would have you quickly discover that the man is regarded as legendarily evil and badass, to the point that many people will either flee outright or attack on sight if you were with him. He eventually got Refitted for Sequel in Fallout: New Vegas. As the former Dragon to the Big Bad, Caesar, he was set on fire and thrown into the Grand Canyon in a truly epic example of You Have Failed Me. Rumor has it he didn't even scream on the way down. Naturally, his reputation as the ultimate Implacable Man means there are still rumours that he's walking around somewhere - though Caesar's ban on speaking his name means he's generally known as "The Burned Man". He eventually shows up in the DLC expansion Honest Hearts, where it's revealed that his survival drove him to return to his hometown and become a born-again Christian (well, Mormon). Of course, he still has some anger issues from his time as The Dragon... |
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The potential for this situation becomes a problem in Tuck Everlasting after Mae Tuck kills The Man In The Yellow Suit in self-defense to prevent him from obtaining the Immortality spring. Mae is sentenced to be hanged, but because the Tucks drank from that spring their secret will get blown open if the attempted execution goes through and she doesn't die on the noose. They have to break her out of jail and run away, waiting decades to let the incident be forgotten about before they can return. | |
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Sindy Gallows of LISA: The Joyful is initially found after being hanged and shot full of arrows by a band of cultists. After killing them, just as Buddy is about to walk away, he wakes up and tells you: | |
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And, as Skeeve learned in the Myth Adventures series by Robert Asprin, never try to hang a Pervect by the neck. They've tried to hang Skeeve too, but being a wizard, he just levitated. Aahz is a wizard as well, but he was depowered at the time, so he survived because Pervects have extremely strong neck muscles. | |
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In Vampire: The Masquerade, Nosferatu elder Prudence Stone has this as part of her backstory. Having grown up in Puritan New England, her odd behaviour ended up condemning her when the witchcraft trials rolled around; found guilty and sentenced to death, she was only saved thanks to her friendship with Osric, a Nosferatu pilgrim, who gave her a vial of his blood and instructions to drink it on the night prior to her execution. As a result, Prudence survived both the Neck Snap and the suffocation until nightfall, when Osric was able to rescue and Embrace her. | |
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The Ren & Stimpy Show: Parodied in the episode "Out West", where Ren & Stimpy are hanged for horse-stealing. Ren just blows in the wind, and Stimpy has no neck. | |
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The Hanged Man from The Black Company. Survived due to being an incredibly powerful wizard. | |
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Lucky Luke: In "Le Juge", Judge Roy Bean, survived because his would-be executioners used a faulty rope he himself sold them. It did however leave him with a chronic neck injury that prevents him from turning his head. | |
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The protagonist of Red Ninja: End of Honor, Kurenai, is hanged by her neck using iron wire with her hands tied behind her back, but her small stature combined with watching her father getting killed right in front of her gives her enough Heroic Willpower to survive. | |
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In Machete Kills, Machete gets hanged by a racist sheriff near the beginning. To the sheriff's amazement, other than being unable to free himself, Machete is unaffected. Machete gives him a Death Glare until he is released. | |
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From Girl Genius: you can't hang Jaegermonsters. Da Boyz are introduced swinging in the breeze in Zumzum, where they've been hanging for two days. The only thing they're worried about is Jenka finding them. | |
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The young adult novel Newes from the Dead, based on a real account of a young woman sentenced to death for killing her child (it was stillborn, but they assumed she did it) who survived. | |
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Murdoch Mysteries has this as a key element of an episode as the detectives are trying to figure out how a convict survived his hanging and then escaped. The hangman is an expert who used detailed anatomical charts and precise calculations to make sure nothing like that ever happened. The condemned man was innocent and the hangman knew exactly how to sabotage things so an innocent man would not be hanged on his watch again. | |
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In Jason X, it is mentioned how officials tried to execute Jason multiple times, which includes a hanging, before settling for cryogenic imprisonment. | |
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Charlie, on Lost, managed to (barely) survive a hanging, but that might have been the cause of his demise in Season 3. | |
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The eponymous villain in Madman survived being hanged by angry villagers who tried to punish him for killing his family, and now carries the noose as his secondary weapon. | |
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In Batman: The Animated Series, Scarecrow evokes this with his New Batman Adventures design, wearing a severed noose around his neck to imply he cannot be killed and to instill fear into his victims. It's even left ambiguous whether or not he truly is undead now and even Bruce Timm stated in an interview the writers weren't even sure if he was still human or not, with this design proving popular enough to carry over to his designs in Batman Begins and Batman: Arkham Asylum. | |
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Mat in The Wheel of Time series has a scarred neck from a survived hanging (because a friend cut him down in time), which he carefully conceals. Mat's hanging from the tree of life is another part of his intentional similarity to the Norse god Odin. | |
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Some versions of the story Stagger Lee have the titular villain getting hanged, but "his neck refused to crack". | |
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The character selection screen in Path of Exile 2 starts off like this: you're greeted with an execution of seven people and select one of them as your character. The executioner pulls the lever and they all get hanged, except for your player character, whose rope snaps. They flee from the execution by jumping off the wall and into the ocean. | |
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Thomas of Hookton from The Grail Quest novels. | |
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The Nightwing villain Torque is a grotesque variation of this. His neck was broken when Blockbuster twisted his head 180 degrees, but he survived with a cybernetic neck brace and a backwards head. | |
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In Back to the Future Part III, Marty McFly survives Buford Tannen and his gang attempting to hang him because Doc Brown shoots out the rope. Like Brendan Fraser mentioned above, Michael J. Fox really got hanged during one take when his hand slipped, before resuscitated by a crewmember. | |
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Attempted by Yankee Jim in The Haunting of Whaley House, as he did in real life. However, his method of doing so just guaranteed a slow death by strangulation instead of a quick one by his neck breaking. | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire one of Beric Dondarrion's numerous rumored deaths is being hanged. As it turns out, he was, and died. He just came back after. | |
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He doesn't have a scar, but Captain Jack Sparrow fits this trope by the end of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Will throws his sword into the scaffolding just as the hangman pulls the lever, and Jack lands on it perfectly, balancing there until the rope is cut. | |
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One Piece: Kaido, one of the Four Emperors of the Sea. They tried hanging him; the rope just broke. They tried again with chains; they also broke. They tried to guillotine him; that also broke as soon as it hit his neck. He's survived 40 execution attempts so far, simply because he's that indestructible. It's reached the point he attempts suicide for fun (and also to figure out if anything can so much as scratch him). | |
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Ygor from Son of Frankenstein and The Ghost of Frankenstein, the character who gave his name to The Igor, was hanged for his part in providing bodies for Dr. Frankenstein. He received his trademark broken neck in the process and was pronounced dead from the ordeal, but didn't actually die. This doesn't stop him from saying he had died. | |
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In Past Sins When Nyx sees Twilight about to be executed she saves her with her Flash Step powers. | |
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The Suspect: The silliest moment in the movie has Ji the secret agent hanged by the North Koreans, who helpfully walk away right after dropping him through a trap door. His hands are tied behind his back, but he manages to rotate his arms backwards 180 degrees to grab the rope and pull himself up. | |
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Celtic rock band The Men They Couldn't Hang take their name from this trope, with the added bonus of sounding very anti-establishment. | |
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Played for laughs in Oglaf's "Full Throttle", which has the said hung man not even realize he's still hanging there as he attempts his escape. The executioners and even the next condemned tell him to hurry up and die so they can use the equipment again, and eventually just decide to ask for a pardon. | |
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In The Last of Us Part II, Abby gets saved from being hanged by Yara and Lev. | |
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One tale tells of a buccaneer who was hanged, scared the crowd away by yelling at them, chewed through the rope, and escaped. | |
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In Excalibur, Morgana, Mordred, and their minions capture Sir Percival and hang him from a tree where several other knights have already been hanged. Percival hangs from the tree for several hours in agony until his rope is accidentally cut by a hanged knight's spurs. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable has Angelo, who was to be hanged for his crimes survived the punishment, most likely due to his recently awakened Stand. | |
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Game of Thrones: Zigzagged with Beric Dondarrion, who actually died but was resurrected later. | |
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The Reynard Cycle: Reynard has this reputation due to a double being hanged in his place. | |
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Silas Greaves from Call of Juarez: Gunslinger is eventually revealed to be after the three outlaws who tried hanging him and his two older brothers. Since they hanged them on the same tree branch simultaneously, the branch broke off under their combined weight, so Silas survived—but his brothers didn't. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: He doesn't have a scar, but Captain Jack Sparrow fits this trope by the end of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Will throws his sword into the scaffolding just as the hangman pulls the lever, and Jack lands on it perfectly, balancing there until the rope is cut. Carina Smyth also survives a hanging early in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Henry catches her out of the air below the gallows and holds her high enough that the rope doesn't pull taut, having to stay there until his allies defeat the British soldiers and remove the noose. |
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Agent Carter: When it looks like Peggy and Jarvis are going to be tried and found guilty of treason Peggy implies she survived a hanging once, but provides no further context. | |
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Kullervo in The Kalevala was The Man They Couldn't Hang. Or drown. Or burn alive. | |
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In the Doctor Who episode "Empress of Mars", it is revealed that Colonel Godsacre was hanged for cowardice but survived. His villainous second-in-command Captain Catchpole rips his collar open to reveal the scar from the rope. | |
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In Death of the Family, when Harley Quinn tries to point out to Joker that a girl always has a secret or two, he gets a noose made of chains around her neck and starts pulling, saying that she should "hang" around and tell him a few secrets. She survives this. | |
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At the very end of The Magnificent Seven (2016) it is revealed that Chisolm has a scar around the base of his neck from where a group of Confederate renegades tried to hang him on Bogue's orders, back in Kansas. | |
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Roger in the Outlander series. | |
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In the pilot of Disenchantment, Elfo's village chief attempts to hang him for sleeping with his daughter, but it turns out he doesn't have the body weight for it to be fatal. Apparently, the last elf they tried hanging died of old age. | |
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The thoroughly nasty Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill from Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe novels. Obadiah Hakeswill survived a hanging, and claimed that this meant that God had chosen him to be spared and therefore he couldn't be killed. The firing squad proved him wrong on that count later on, though. | |
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In The Hands of Orlac, Vasseur claims to have survived being guillotined, and has the scar on his neck to prove it. It's fake. | |
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Part of Bob Rebadow's backstory in Oz. He was originally sent to Oswald State Penitentiary in the 1960's to be executed in the electric chair for murder, but the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 coincidentally caused a power surge right at the moment when his executioner threw the switch, and he survived. Even more luckily, the death penalty was abolished in New York State while he was in Oz's medical unit recovering from injuries sustained during the botched execution. | |
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Sheriff Jon Highfather from The Golgotha Series was hanged three times at the end of the Civil war, none of which worked. He believes that neither that nor anything else can kill him as it's not his time yet. | |
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Bando from Kengan Ashura is a criminal on death row for raiding Yakuza offices and killing at least 17 of them. He has been hanged 45 times over the course of 25 years and has survived all of them. This is because of his extremely flexible joints, which prevents his neck from breaking when he is dropped. | |
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In The Pit and the Pendulum (1991), Torture Technician Medoza survived being crucified, and has the holes in his hands to prove it. | |
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Astro City: Played with. The supernatural hero the Hanged Man is a spectre with a burlap sack on his head and the remnants of a hangman's noose around his neck, and is implied to be the victim of a hanging several centuries ago. Whether or not he currently counts as alive is another matter. It turns out the implication's at least partially true - while the Hanged Man's true nature remains a mystery, he needs a willing host to serve as his physical body, and seeks out a new host if his current body's destroyed. On at least one occasion, his host was a criminal being hanged who accepted the Hanged Man's offer of redemption. | |
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Ironwood opens with Dave Dragavon hanging upside down from a tree with a rock tied around his neck. He has been like this for three days. Upon being released, he treats the whole incident as no more than a minor inconvenience (aside from a burning need to pee). | |
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The Riftwar Cycle: In the Tsuranuanni Empire, any man possessing magic is automatically and immediately enrolled into the elite Wizarding School regardless of prior circumstances. In one instance, a condemned criminal was about to be hanged and his powers awoke at the instant the stool was kicked away, so he just hovered in midair. A mock hanging is part of the recruitment of the Silver Eagles. Afterwards, the condemned criminals are told that if they cause any trouble during their service as a Boxed Crook, they'll be taken back to the gallows, and this time the guards will tie the other end of the noose to the scaffold before opening the trap door. |
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Mr. Black's assistant Mr. Lynch in Red Dead Revolver survived being hanged. It shows, as he has a hard time keeping his neck straight during his pre-duel scene. | |
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Charmed (1998) had the sisters go back in time to the Salem Witch Trials, where they're quickly identified as witches and hanged. Fortunately for them, one of the witch hunters was an ally and managed to secure the ropes in a way that acted as a safety harness, so they just had to play dead and wait until the others had left. | |
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Dragonlance: The head of the Thieves' Guild in Dragons of Summer Flame is a man named Lynched Geoffrey (or just Lynch), so called because he was lynched and lived to tell about it (just don't ask to see his neck if you value life or limb). Also subverted later in the same book- he antagonizes the Evil Overlord in a misguided attempt to get an alliance, and the response is two words- "Hang him." This hanging goes rather well- after all, Lynch already had practice! | |
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On The Goon Show, Neddie Seagoon was sentenced to hang by a Kangaroo Court but they were forced to relent on realizing he hadn't actually got a neck. | |
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In The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, it's revealed that Tony has been hanged several times, most likely for the various crimes he's committed (including dealings with the mob and selling children's organs on the black market). He survives through a trick in which he swallows a small metal flute, which prevents his throat from being crushed. He ultimately dies when Parnassus swaps the flute with a fake, breakable one. | |
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