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{{trope}}
[[File:NeckBright 6159.png|link=Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|frame|[[Memetic Mutation|No one gets hit with this trope like Gaston!]]]]
{{quote|Strong people don't put others down. They lift them up.
|[[Wrongfully Attributed|Darth Vader, Philanthropist]]}}
Sometimes a character needs to demonstrate his or her strength by making some poor schmuck feel helpless. The standard method of demonstrating [[Super Strength]] is to grab the victim by the neck ''with one hand'' and pick him up. If you want to maintain a slight atmosphere of plausibility, you can then slam him up against a wall. To be truly [[Badass]], however, you should simply hold him in mid-air, using sheer force of personality to keep him from realizing that he can escape simply by tilting his head back. You may even decide to [[Minion Maracas|shake them a little bit]].
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{{Quote|'''Guizel''': Three ... two ... one ...
{{Spoiler|'''Tita''': ZERO! <[[Boom! Headshot!]]>}} }}
== Comic Books ==
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* [http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=31&Itemid=47&limitstart=70 This cover] of ''[[Angel and the Ape]]'' #4, in which Gorilla Grodd does it to Dumb Bunny.
* Shortly after being introduced as leader of the Mutant Liberation Front in New Mutants #87, Stryfe does it to MLF member Wildside as punishment for incompetence, as seen [http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/14.jpg here].
* Once happened in ''[[What's New with Phil and Dixie]]'' to a game-company flack, who'd interrupted yet another attempt by the hosts to address the topic of Sex in ''D&D''. One panel shows him being subjected to this trope; the next reveals that it's Dixie, rather than Phil, who's doing it.▼
== Fan Works ==
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* Emperor Zurg neck-lifts "Buzz 2" in ''[[Toy Story 2]]''. It helps that they're both made of light-weight plastic.
* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?|Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]''. Judge Doom does it to Roger when he captures him in the bar.
* The [[Horny Vikings|Viking captain]] actually does this to his first mate after he refuses the first mate's warning that the Leviathan is about to destroy their ship during their search for Atlantis in a deleted opening for ''[[Atlantis: The
== Films -- Live-Action ==
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* There's a really badly done version in ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]] II'', where villainess Serleena grabs and lifts the pizza shop owner (actually an undercover alien guarding the Light of Sartha) by the ''chin''. Then again, the fact that he turns out to be a hollow skin animated by alien energy might explain that...
* In ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'', Loki does this to Tony Stark [[Destination Defenestration|(and chucks him out a 50th story skyscraper window)]] in a fit of pique after [[Won't Work On Me|Loki's attempt to brainwash him fails spectacularly]].
== Literature ==
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** Heroic example, in that badgers are occasionally known to do this when they get into fights with their enemies. At least in this example, the vast difference in size and strength is fully justified.
* In ''[[War of the Spider Queen]]'' the half-demon [[Blood Knight]] does this to a dark elf prisoner. Justified in that he is eight feet tall and insanely strong and she is barely five feet tall.
== Live-Action TV ==
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* In an episode of ''[[The X-Files]]'', a shapeshifting alien pretending to be Mulder does this to Scully.
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* Once happened in ''[[What's New with Phil and Dixie]]'' to a game-company flack, who'd interrupted yet another attempt by the hosts to address the topic of Sex in ''D&D''. One panel shows him being subjected to this trope; the next reveals that it's Dixie, rather than Phil, who's doing it.
== Pro Wrestling ==
* The Chokeslam (lifting your opponent by their neck then slamming them to the mat) used by big, powerful wrestlers such as [[The Undertaker]], [[Kane (wrestling)|Kane]], and [[The Big Show]]. The way the chokeslam actually works is (like most pro wrestling moves) with the person on the receiving end doing a good bit of the work; they jump. They're also very rarely held in the air for any amount of time, just long enough to get them to the highest point before bringing them down. Typically the wrestler delivering the move will lift with the other hand on the victim's hip, unless he's doing it to two guys at the same time.
* Some moves start with a two-handed chokelift, too.
== Video Games ==
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* Hal was on the receiving end of one of these by [[Super Mario Bros Z|Turbo Mecha Sonic]] in the [[Easter Egg]] of ''[[Bowser's Kingdom]]'' episode 8.
* In ''[[Haloid]]'' a Covenant Elite does this to an ODST near the end of the initial battle.
== Web Comics ==
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* [[Butt Monkey|Syphile]] in ''[[Drowtales]]'' gets [http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=4981 physically lifted off the ground] by Quain'tana after a particularly ill-advised decision, and the fact that Quain has about a foot of height on her helps. Quain even seems to considering just choking her right then and there, but lets her down with a warning that the next time Syphile disappoints her [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|will be her last]].
* In ''[[The Dreamland Chronicles]]'', in a rare [[Good Versus Good]] example, an impatient Orion does it to Alex just so the latter will take his flight training seriously. From there, it's [[Die or Fly]].
== Web Original ==
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* Carmilla of the ''[[Whateley Universe]]'' does this to Shadowolf, but she has [[Combat Tentacles]], so his legs and arms are also restrained and he can't fight back. He then finds out she's really a [[Cosmic Horror]] instead of a schoolgirl.
* Captain Hammer uses a slightly more practical version on Dr. Horrible at the end of the first act of ''Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-Long Blog'', grabbing the Doctor by the neck without lifting him off the ground.
== Western Animation ==
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* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', the show, seems to like this one. Danny Phantom, the character, is understandably less fond. Throughout most of the show, this trope is almost literally [[Once Per Episode]]. It's only subverted by the fact that a Neck Lift is a lot less effective if the person being grabbed can shoot ''[[Frickin' Laser Beams|lasers]]'' out of their ''eyes'' or occasionally ''[[An Ice Person|freeze the attacker solid]]''. Still don't work on [[Big Bad|Vlad]], though.
* ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short ''Big Top Bunny''. Bruno the bear does it to [[Bugs Bunny]] so Bugs will let Bruno do the 1,000-foot-high dive first.
== Real Life ==
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