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A comedic subversion of this has the arrow not quite split the rope all the way, leaving the victim dangling (and strangling) until his rescuers can finish the job. If the victim struggles to breathe in the process, you have a case of either [[Did Not Do the Research|not doing the research]], or an incompetent or exceptionally cruel hangman.
You see, people may have only figured out how to do hanging consistently correctly in the nineteenth century, but then they started to do it the scientific way. Normal, "long drop" hanging kills by '''breaking the neck''' when done ''correctly''
But this is unlikely to be the case when bullets are used, because at this point executioners have already learned the proper method. Though in a few cases hangmen have ''deliberately'' "botched" the hanging to make the victim's death more painful (for example, after Nazi war criminal Julius Streicher yelled "Heil Hitler" just before his execution, it is widely believed that the hangman repositioned the noose so that he would be strangled). Another possibility was to pay out so much rope that when the drop finally ends, the body energy gets so high that [[Off with His Head|the head]] ''[[Off with His Head|tears off]]''.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Turned [[Up to Eleven]] and then [[Zig-Zagging Trope|quadruple-subverted]] in ''[[Order of the Stick]]''. Roy [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works|throws his sword]]
* ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' features a variant where Dominic is about to be hanged by a group of evil wizards - one of whom is holding him up with one hand. After he drops Dominic, a stray magic bolt ricocheted off a wizard's hand in the melee cuts the rope - right next to Dominic's neck, no less.
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