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* Mr. Black's assistant Mr. Lynch in ''[[Red Dead Revolver]]'' survived being hanged. It shows, as he has hard time keeping his neck straight during his pre-duel scene.
* According to the sparse back-story for Quake 3 character Cadaver "is a brutal murderer who couldn’t be executed, The electric chair, gallows, and gas chamber only made him meaner"
* Ganondorf is this in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]'' a game, often considered a direct sequel to ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]'' the start of the Child Timeline of the franchise. In this scenario, Link travels back in time and warns Zelda of Ganondorf’s plot; as a result the events of ''Ocarina of Time'' are avoided in this timeline and Ganondorf is executed for his crimes, stabbed through the chest with the Sword of the Sages. But having previously absorbed the Triforce of Power, he does not die, and the Sages imprison him in an alternate dimension, still pinioned to a slab of rock. Years later he is still able to terrorize Hyrule via proxy. In fact, one could argue this version of Ganondorf is a more competent villain than the one in the adult timeline, for while he is still hateful, egotistical, and cruel, he is now cunning and pragmatic, realizing the mistakes he made by underestimating Link that led to his imprisonment here.
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== Real Life ==
* Western legend Roy Bean was a [[Real Life]] case of this, making it [[Truth in Television]].
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* One tale tells of a [[Pirate|buccaneer]] [[Badass|who was hung, scared the crowd away by yelling at them, chewed through the rope, and escaped]].
* In real life, on the other hand, most "hanging" sentences are more specifically enunciated as "hanged until dead". Even if being hanged doesn't snap the victim's neck, staying there for a while would almost definitely suffocate anyone. It's more slow and painful but it would get the job done. This is intended to ensure the demise of a would-be [[Rules Lawyer]].
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