History Main / HangingAround

* In Episode 8 of ''Hortensia Saga'', Marius- [[spoiler:Secretly Princess Marrielle of Hortensia]]- is condemned to death for witchcraft. Thankfully, her friend Albert [[BigDamnHeroes manages to storm the castle where she’s being hanged]] [[ShootTheRope and cut the rope]] [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks with a thrown sword]].

* In ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'', Sayori commits suicide by hanging herself at the end of Act 1, revealing the game's real genre to be psychological horror.

* In ''WebAnimation/RabbitGames'', when the ? emotion is selected on the "how are you feeling today?" prompt is selected, a stick figure drawing of Percy is shown hanging by a noose.

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* In the first ''Literature/MythAdventures'' book, ''Another Fine Myth'', Aahz and Skeeve are found and charged with witchcraft and hanged, but Aahz tells Skeeve to use his rudimentary magic skills to levitate just enough to keep the rope from strangling him and Aahz stiffens his neck muscles, which are much stronger than a human's. Skeeve nonetheless thinks Aahz sacrificed himself for him, leading to a distraught moment.

* In ''Le Voyage où il vous plaira'' (roughly "Travel where you will"), by Alfred de Musset and PJ Stahl, the devil tells the tale of a man that tried to commit suicide by [[HangingAround hanging himself]] over a river, taking some poison and, for extra security, shooting himself with a pistol...that misses and [[ShootTheRope Shoots The Rope]] so he falls onto the river and drinks too much water that makes him throw up all of the poison from his stomach. Yes, exactly like the infamous Darwin Award.

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** Mentioned in the show entry above, a villain used this method to kill himself before Walker could arrest him, and the episode where it occurred was Season 9's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E2DeadlySituation Deadly Situation]]". The villain in question was [[spoiler:[[DirtyCop Lieutenant Shell]], a leading detective for the Sage City, Texas, Police Department who was]] one of the masterminds of a drug ring conducted by Chick Winslow, having framed rookie officer and [[PursueTheDreamJob aspiring Texas Ranger]] Glenn Cooper (a descendant of Hays Cooper and a distant cousin of Walker's) for the theft of 300 kilos of cocaine from a recent drug bust. After Glenn busted three of his own, Detectives Baker Moody and Rogers, for stealing the cocaine from that particular bust the night before, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero he gave Shell the original copies of the evidence]], but [[spoiler:Shell [[{{destroy|the evidence}}ed it all]] instead of turning it in to InternalAffairs and planted the stolen coke in Glenn's locker, at which point]] the three busted detectives set out to silence Glenn for good. Glenn doesn't realize the truth until near the end of the episode after Baker, Moody and Rogers are arrested by Gage and Sydney, who retrieved the second set of prints he hid at a library before they could. While Trivette, Gage and Sydney then go on to arrest Winslow, [[spoiler:Shell is cornered at his home by Walker and his boss, Captain Ryder, who open his front door to find his corpse hanging from a makeshift noose.]]

** Mentioned in the show entry above, a villain used this method to kill himself before Walker could arrest him, and the episode where it occurred was Season 9's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E2DeadlySituation Deadly Situation]]". The villain in question was [[spoiler:[[DirtyCop Lieutenant Shell]], a leading detective for the Sage City, Texas, Police Department who was]] one of the masterminds of a drug ring conducted by Chick Winslow, having framed rookie officer and [[PursueTheDreamJob aspiring Texas Ranger]] Glenn Cooper (a descendant of Hays Cooper and a distant cousin of Walker's) for the theft of 300 kilos of cocaine from a recent drug bust. After Glenn busted three of his own, Detectives Baker Moody and Rogers, for stealing the cocaine from that particular bust the night before, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero he gave Shell the original copies of the evidence]], but [[spoiler:Shell {{destroy|the evidence}}ed it all instead of turning it in to InternalAffairs and planted the stolen coke in Glenn's locker, at which point]] the three busted detectives set out to silence Glenn for good. Glenn doesn't realize the truth until near the end of the episode after Baker, Moody and Rogers are arrested by Gage and Sydney, who retrieved the second set of prints he hid at a library before they could. While Trivette, Gage and Sydney then go on to arrest Winslow, [[spoiler:Shell is cornered at his home by Walker and his boss, Captain Ryder, who open his front door to find his corpse hanging from a makeshift noose.]]

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': A common form of execution during the days of Hays Cooper, but most of the time in the series, used by the villains against their victims, but in one episode, one villain ''[[DrivenToSuicide killed himself]]'' this way [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled before he could be arrested]].

** Mentioned in the show entry above, a villain used this method to kill himself before Walker could arrest him, and the episode where it occurred was Season 9's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E2DeadlySituation Deadly Situation]]". The villain in question was [[spoiler:[[DirtyCop Lieutenant Shell]], a leading detective for the Sage City, Texas, Police Department who was]] one of the masterminds of a drug ring conducted by Chick Winslow, having framed rookie officer and [[PursueTheDreamJob aspiring Texas Ranger]] Glenn Cooper (a descendant of Hays Cooper and a distant cousin of Walker's) for the theft of 300 kilos of cocaine from a recent drug bust. After Glenn busted three of his own, Detectives Baker Moody and Rogers, for stealing the cocaine from that particular bust the night before, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero he gave Shell the original copies of the evidence]], but [[spoiler:Shell {{destroy|the evidence}}ed it all instead of turning it in to InternalAffairs and planted the stolen coke in Glenn's locker, at which point]] the three busted detectives set out to silence Glenn for good. Glenn doesn't realize the truth until near the end of the episode after Baker, Moody and Rogers are arrested by Gage and Sydney, having retrieved the second set of prints he hid at a library before they could. While Trivette, Gage and Sydney then go on to arrest Winslow, [[spoiler:Shell is cornered at his home by Walker and his boss, Captain Ryder, who open his front door to find his corpse hanging from a makeshift noose.]]

** In Season 3's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS3E16AndS3E17WarZone War Zone]]", the dispatcher of Prevent Armored, Clete Gibson, is killed this way by the main villain, Mitch Bolton, who was responsible for the murder of a close friend and former partner of Walker's. Walker and Trivette find his corpse while searching his home, but after they cut him down, they find out too late the noose was booby-trapped with [[StuffBlowingUp a bomb]], having been rigged with a fishing line connected to a SelfDestructMechanism that would go off [[RaceAgainstTheClock in approximately 10 seconds]], destroying the house and everything in it. [[OutrunTheFireball Walker and Trivette barely escaped]].

** Two {{serial killer}}s in the series had this as their CallingCard: Adam "The Hangman" Quinn in "Hall of Fame" (also in Season 4) and Dirk Morgan from "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS7E5CodeOfTheWest Code of the West]]" (Season 7). The former, living well up to his name, was [[ThatOneCase an old nemesis of C.D.'s, which ultimately retired him]], having never been caught because he checked himself into a clinic, but that failed just as CD was about to be inducted in the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame, and he went right back to his killings, [[AssholeVictim where he is eventually shot dead by CD in a final showdown]]. The latter was an extremely dangerous convict who had recently escaped from prison and went on a deadly spree of killings against those who put them away, with the retired judge-turned-author who runs a ranch for the children of convicted felons so they don't follow in their parents' footsteps at the end of his list.

** In Season 4's "The Lynching", a mentally-impaired young man named Jonah Nelson (played by Creator/EricBruskotter) is almost subjected to this a few times from his angry neighbors when he is accused of killing Wilma Casey, whom he had been living with at the time and was very well-known in her town, and it eventually comes to the point they start a HouseFire with him inside along with Walker and the sheriff. [[spoiler:The real culprit turns out to be his EvilUncle, Earl, and after Walker [[ShamingTheMob shames the entire town]] for almost killing an innocent man, they were all forced to apologize to him. Moreover, Casey left everything to Jonah after she was killed.]]

** In Season 4's "The Lynching", a mentally-impaired young man named Jonah Nelson (played by Creator/EricBruskotter) is almost subjected to this a few timesfrom his angry neighbors when he is accused of killing Wilma Casey, whom he had been living with at the time and was very well-known in her town. [[spoiler:The real culprit turns out to be his EvilUncle, Earl, and after Walker [[ShamingTheMob shames the entire town]] for almost killing an innocent man, they were all forced to apologize to him. Moreover, Casey left everything to Jonah after she was killed.]]

** In Season 4's "The Lynching", a mentally-impaired young man named Jonah Nelson is almost subjected to this a few timesfrom his angry neighbors when he is accused of killing Wilma Casey, whom he had been living with at the time and was very well-known in her town. [[spoiler:The real culprit turns out to be his EvilUncle, Earl. Moreover, Casey left everything to him after she was killed and everyone in town apologized to him.]]

** Two {{serial killer}}s in the series had this as their CallingCard: Adam "The Hangman" Quinn in Season 4's "Hall of Fame" and Dirk Morgan from Season 7's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS7E5CodeOfTheWest Code of the West]]". The former, living well up to his name, was [[ThatOneCase an old nemesis of C.D.'s, which ultimately retired him]], having never been caught because he checked himself into a clinic, but that failed just as CD was about to be inducted in the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame, and he went right back to his killings, [[AssholeVictim where he is eventually shot dead by CD in a final showdown]]. The latter was an extremely dangerous convict who had recently escaped from prison and went on a deadly spree of killings against those who put them away, with the retired judge-turned-author who runs a ranch for the children of convicted felons so they don't follow in their parents' footsteps at the end of his list.

** Two {{serial killer}}s in the series had this as their CallingCard: Adam "The Hangman" Quinn in Season 4's "Hall of Fame" and Dirk Morgan from Season 7's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS7E5CodeOfTheWest Code of the West]]". The former was [[ThatOneCase an old nemesis of C.D.'s, which ultimately retired him]], having never been caught because he checked himself into a clinic, but that failed just as CD was about to be inducted in the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame, and he went right back to his killings, [[AssholeVictim where he is eventually shot dead by CD in a final showdown]]. The latter was an extremely dangerous convict who had recently escaped from prison and went on a deadly spree of killings against those who put them away, with the retired judge-turned-author who runs a ranch for the children of convicted felons so they don't follow in their parents' footsteps at the end of his list.

** Two serial killers in the series had this as their CallingCard: Adam "The Hangman" Quinn in Season 4's "Hall of Fame" and Dirk Morgan from Season 7's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS7E5CodeOfTheWest Code of the West]]". The former was [[ThatOneCase an old nemesis of C.D.'s, which ultimately retired him]], having never been caught because he checked himself into a clinic, but that failed just as CD was about to be inducted in the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame, and he went right back to his killings, [[AssholeVictim where he is eventually shot dead by CD in a final showdown]]. The latter was an extremely dangerous convict who had recently escaped from prison and went on a deadly spree of killings against those who put them away, with the retired judge-turned-author who runs a ranch for the children of convicted felons so they don't follow in their parents' footsteps at the end of his list.

** "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E21BloodDiamonds Blood Diamonds]]" (also in Season 9) had Trivette assuming the identity of an African diamond smuggler (killed by a pimp during a one-night stand with a prostitute named Sparkle, and also later revealed to have been [[ContaminationSituation a carrier of an]] [[PlagueEpisode extremely deadly variant of Ebola virus]]) in order for him and Walker to try to trick [[EvilBrit Victor Drake]], a deadly arms dealer, into a trap. Somehow, Drake caught on to the two Rangers' cover, and subjects [[spoiler:Trivette]] to this fate before mortally wounding Walker. Walker, while being chased by Drake through the building after this while he has the recovered diamonds in hand, recounts everything that happened in the episode in flashbacks before [[spoiler:he [[HeroicSacrifice gets gunned down]] by Drake [[NoMacGuffinNoWinner after tossing the diamonds off the roof]]. Afterwards, the entire episode was luckily {{all just a|dream}} [[DreamEpisode terrifying]] {{nightmare|sequence}} Alex was having, but it may come to pass anyway since [[OrWasItADream Walker and Trivette are on the case from that nightmare]].]]

** Season 9's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E2DeadlySituation Deadly Situation]]" is where the villain used this method to kill himself before Walker could arrest him. The villain in question was [[spoiler:[[DirtyCop Lieutenant Shell]], a leading detective for the Sage City, Texas, Police Department who was]] one of the masterminds of a drug ring conducted by Chick Winslow, having framed rookie officer and [[PursueTheDreamJob aspiring Texas Ranger]] Glenn Cooper (a descendant of Hays Cooper and a distant cousin of Walker's) for the theft of 300 kilos of cocaine from a recent drug bust. After Glenn busted three of his own, Detectives Baker Moody and Rogers, for stealing the cocaine from that particular bust the night before, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero he gave Shell the original copies of the evidence]], but [[spoiler:Shell {{destroy|the evidence}}ed it all instead of turning it in to InternalAffairs and planted the stolen coke in Glenn's locker, at which point]] the three busted detectives set out to silence Glenn for good. Glenn doesn't realize the truth until near the end of the episode after Baker, Moody and Rogers are arrested by Gage and Sydney, having retrieved the second set of prints he hid at a library before they could. While Trivette, Gage and Sydney then go on to arrest Winslow, [[spoiler:Shell is cornered at his home by Walker and his boss, Captain Ryder, who open his front door to find his corpse hanging from a makeshift noose.]]

** Season 9's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E2DeadlySituation Deadly Situation]]" is where the villain used this method to kill himself before Walker could arrest him. The villain in question was [[spoiler:[[DirtyCop Lieutenant Shell]], a leading detective for the Sage City, Texas, Police Department who was]] one of the masterminds of a drug ring conducted by Chick Winslow, having framed rookie officer and [[PursueTheDreamJob aspiring Texas Ranger]] Glenn Cooper (a descendant of Hays Cooper and a distant cousin of Walker's) for the theft of 300 kilos of cocaine from a recent drug bust. After Glenn busted three of his own, Detectives Baker Moody and Rogers, for stealing the cocaine from that particular bust the night before, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero he gave Shell the original copies of the evidence]], but [[spoiler:Shell {{destroy|the evidence}}ed it all instead of turning it in to InternalAffairs and planted the stolen coke in Glenn's locker, at which point]] the three busted detectives set out to silence Glenn for good. Glenn doesn't realize the truth until near the end of the episode after Baker, Moody and Rogers are arrested by Gage and Sydney, having retrieved the second set of prints he hid at a library before they could. While Trivette, Gage and Sydney then go on to arrest Winslow, [[spoiler:Shell is then cornered at his home by Walker and his boss, Captain Ryder, who open his front door to find his corpse hanging from a makeshift noose.]]

** Season 9's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E2DeadlySituation Deadly Situation]]" is where the villain used this method to kill himself before Walker could arrest him. The villain in question was [[spoiler:[[DirtyCop Lieutenant Shell]], a leading detective for the Sage City, Texas, Police Department who was]] one of the masterminds of a drug ring conducted by Chick Winslow, having framed rookie officer and [[PursueTheDreamJob aspiring Texas Ranger]] Glenn Cooper (a descendant of Hays Cooper and a distant cousin of Walker's) for the theft of 300 kilos of cocaine from a recent drug bust. After Glenn busted three of his own, Detectives Baker Moody and Rogers, for stealing the cocaine from that particular bust the night before, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero he gave Shell the original copies of the evidence]], but [[spoiler:Shell {{destroy|the evidence}}ed it all instead of turning it in to InternalAffairs and planted the stolen coke in Glenn's locker, at which point]] the three busted detectives set out to silence Glenn for good. Glenn doesn't realize the truth until near the end of the episode after Baker, Moody and Rogers are arrested by Gage and Sydney, having retrieved the second set of prints he hid at a library. While Trivette, Gage and Sydney then go on to arrest Winslow, [[spoiler:Shell is then cornered at his home by Walker and his boss, Captain Ryder, who open his front door to find his corpse hanging from a makeshift noose.]]