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A [[Bound and Gagged]] prisoner is suspended by (usually) a rope from the ceiling
This is not intended for [[Cold-Blooded Torture|torturing the prisoner]], but in reality, this could cause undue pressure on the body, and bad blood flow. Perhaps even dislocate
Hanging by the ''wrists'', a common variation, would in [[Real Life]] quickly cause permanent damage to the hands and within a few hours cause death by suffocation/"[[wikipedia:Suspension trauma|Suspension Trauma]]", not quite unlike a crucifixion. Many a [[Tailor-Made Prison]] has a prior inhabitant hanging by his wrists in skeletal form.
Reasons for doing this include:
* It provides for more effective immobilization of the prisoner. Tie somebody to a chair and they will be able to maneuver the chair toward a [[Conveniently
* The victim can be suspended above a chasm, [[Shark Pool|piranha pond]], or other [[Death Trap]], as a disincentive from struggling loose.
* Because the [[Rule of Cool]] says so.
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* In rare cases, the villain will actually be doing this to ''deliberately'' hurt the prisoner.
Favorite victims seem to be [[The Hero]](es) or the [[
Not to be confused with [[Turn in Your Badge|being suspended from the police force]]. Or involuntary school discipline.▼
▲Not to be confused with [[Turn in Your Badge|being suspended from the police force]].
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* Pictured above: In ''[[
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''[[Now and Then, Here
▲* Pictured above: In ''[[Voltron (Anime)|Voltron]]''/''[[Go Lion (Anime)|Go Lion]]'', Lotor ties up Princess Romelle/Amue this way.
▲* In ''[[Now and Then Here And There (Anime)|Now and Then Here And There]]'', the [[Decoy Protagonist]] is suspended outside the massive death-ship for three continuous days... during which time they fire something we ''swear'' wasn't a nuke.
* ''[[Digimon]]''
** The Digimon Emperor did this to the Digidestined aside from Davis in an episode of ''[[
** In ''[[
* ''[[
** At the end of the "Wet King" episode, Sergeant Keroro ends up tied up like this outside the Hinata household, with bruises.
** Also in the series premiere, after Keroro is first discovered by Fuyuki and Natsumi. Attempting to escape by slipping out of the ropes only makes it worse as the ropes stop short at his oversized head ''and tighten around his neck''.
** We see a variant in one brief
* Mikura Suzuki of the ''[[Mezzo Forte
* In ''[[Full Metal Panic
* In a more light-hearted version of this trope, Episode 5 of ''[[
* Natsuki in ''[[
* Commonly used in ''[[Ranma ½
** When [[Cloudcuckoolander|Principal Kunô]] tries to force Ranma into obedience by knocking Akane out, then [[Crucified Hero Shot|dangling her from the ceiling]]. Doesn't
** In the same story arc, Ranma later gets tied up and hanging from the ceiling. Unfortunately for Principal Kunô, he omits to secure Ranma's legs, and the martial artist is very adept at fighting with them, even holding a bamboo staff between his toes.
** Done to Ranma again to use him as bait for a [[Cloning Blues|mirror duplicate]] of his female side. Then they went off to have dinner. Hey, at least they left his meal out in a tray for him... just out of reach.
** Happôsai, more than once, as punishment for his [[Panty Thief|indiscretions]] and just to keep him out of the way.
* ''[[
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20121123015552/http://randomc.maximum7.net/image/Bleach/Bleach%20-%20199%20-%20Large%2010.jpg Nemu Kurotsuchi] got once tied up like this, courtesy of {{spoiler|Szayel Apollo Gantz}}. With ''[[Naughty Tentacles|tentacles]]'' {{spoiler|And then [[It Got Worse]]. She got better in the end. Sorta.}}
** Also, Yumichika, Ikkaku, and Matsumoto when they fought Luppi.
* ''[[
** In some of the final chapters, [[Tsundere]] female lead Naru Narusegawa is captured by one of her dorm mates Kaolla Su and left tied and suspended. Averted in that the bindings are tied in a way that they act as an impromptu [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/love_hina/v13/c000/148.html support harness] (no, it's not a crotch rope), making this example a bit more plausible than others.
** Motoko is tied up and suspended in an earlier chapter as well.
* In a season 1 episode of ''[[
* ''[[
** Both Griffith and Guts are subject to this trope, in fact this is how the reader is introduced to Guts on the ''first page'' of the manga... [[Fetish Fuel|mmmmm]].
** Schierke also does this to Isidro as punishment for trying to peak at Farneze and Casca taking a bath.
* ''[[The Three Musketeers (
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (
** Fate is typically suspended from the ceiling in chains while [[Abusive Parents|Precia]] whips her for failing or not succeeding well enough.
** Later on in ''[[
* The wrists variation is used on Death the Kid in ''[[
* Has happened to Mokuba in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (
* In the manga ''Torikago Gakyuu'' during the [[Creepy Twins|twin]] arc, [[The Woobie|woobie protagonist]] [[Amnesiac Hero|Mikage]] is kidnapped by {{spoiler|the [[Ax Crazy]] Yuikai}} and held in the school's clock tower. {{spoiler|Yuikai}} proceeds to [[Break the Cutie|tie him up and beat him]] in order to [[Sadistic Choice|encourage]] him into {{spoiler|willingly giving up his freedom and becoming Yuikai's slave and consequently having his ''ears cut off'' so that the last words he'll ever hear are from his ''master''... or ''dying''.}} When Mikage refuses, {{spoiler|Yuikai}} drops him out the window where {{spoiler|Yukan, Yuikai's elder twin sister}} grabs the rope on his foot. Consequently, this leaves Mikage dangling upside down ''by one foot'' with his hands tied behind his back and an enormous drop below him. He remains that way for an uncomfortably long time, ultimately to his advantage {{spoiler|thanks to his [[Split Personality]]}}, but it must have been painful nonetheless.
* Happens to Kyo's girlfriend Yuki in the manga version of [[The King of Fighters]] KYO, when a masked [[Badass Biker]] kidnaps her to force the recently depowered Kyo to a duel. {{spoiler|Subverted: the stranger is Saisyu, who's subjecting Kyo to a [[Secret Test of Character]]. When Kyo "passes" and recovers his flames, he cuts down the rope and Yuki falls down... [[Bridal Carry|and in Kyo's arms]].}}
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== Comic Strips ==
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
== Films -- Animation ==
* Near the end of ''[[
* In ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', Roger and Jessica are tied together and suspended from a rope, and are menaced by an out-of-control jet of Dip.
== Films -- Live-Action ==
* This is done to the inflatable "Citizen" in the Save the Citizen game in ''[[Sky High]]'', to simulate villains doing this to their captives. Will Stronghold mentions at the end how after they replaced the citizens with the actual villains no-one saved the Citizen anymore, but we're to assume that's a joke because [[Don't Explain the Joke|he said as much]].
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* The [[Badass Biker]] gang hung one of the ''[[Wild Hogs]]'' from a tree this way. They tried to rescue him by driving their bikes under him and yanking as they went by. It didn't work.
* Ben Wade in the ''[[
* The women in the movie ''[[Nine to Five]]'' do this to their boss.
* From ''[[Sherlock Holmes (
* Happens to Velma in the 2002 [[Scooby Doo]] movie. She falls off a scaffold and gets her foot caught in the scaffold's chain. When the chain goes taut, Velma is seen hanging upside down.
== Literature ==
* In [[Graham McNeill]]'s ''[[Warhammer
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' story "[[
* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (
* ''[[
** In the second book, [[Magnificent Bastard]] Gentleman Johnny Marcone gets hogtied (which generally means the ankles and wrists are tied together behind the back) and suspended over a pit trap as werewolf bait. Even Dresden, who despises the man, acknowledges that it must be excruciatingly painful and sympathises.
** In a later book, Dresden himself is tied up with his wrists above his head for hours, but the only ill effects he suffers besides lots of wrist pain equating to carpal tunnel syndrome is a loss of his magic due to running water being poured over his head.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Super Sentai]]'' shows that this trope isn't VERY effective when used in a room with fire NOT below the victim (and if the hands are not placed behind, usually).
** In ''[[Dai Sentai Goggle Five]]'', Miki gets trapped into an evil picture diary and gets suspended with a spread-eagle position, then the picture diary gets burned, which in turn, surrounds her in flames. Instead, she makes a flip, then uses the fire to burn the ropes.
** In ''[[Dengeki Sentai Changeman]]'', Mai gets taken hostage and suspended with hands above her head, inside a room. Then, [[The Brute|Buuba]] blasts her room, putting fire inside it. Again, she flips around, burnt the ropes using the fire created.
** In ''[[Hikari Sentai Maskman]]'', both, Momoko and Haruka, were tied up this way in the episode where they were supposedly brainwashed by the Thief Knight Kyros to become bank robbers. This is more effective since Kiros did not use fire in any form, and instead uses spikes of doom, and both girls are only able to escape due to the boys' timely [[Big Damn Heroes]].
** ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Space Sheriff Gavan:
* In ''[[Bones]]'', Brennan is kidnapped by a crazy ex-agent, tied up and hung by her wrists, unable to move and leaving her at the mercy of her kidnapper. Fortunately, Booth came in just in time to stop him, leading to a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] between him and a crying Brennan.
* In ''[[Legend of the Seeker]]'', [http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/4489/107ric.jpg Richard], [http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/9558/40denna.jpg Denna] and [http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/1857/176r.jpg Cara] were all hanged by their wrists and tortured (in the pure [[Fetish Fuel]] fashion) when in possession of Mord-Sith under command of Darken Rahl. {{spoiler|And all of them were successfully punished and broken into submission, if only for a short time.}}
* One of the sets in ''[[You Can't Do That
* Happens to Barnaby in the ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'' episode "Death in the Slow Lane" after he is knocked out by the murderer. The killer plans to drop Barnaby on to a sharp set of ploughs at the end of their conversation.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S14
* [[Invoked]] in the ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'' episode Lardner's Ring. Marian [[Decoy Damsel|pretends to be Robin's hostage]] in order to convince Guy to stop attacking Robin.
* Happens to a car thief in ''[[
* Happens to Frank and Jesse Colton when they are captured by Chinese gangsters in the ''[[MacGyver]]'' episode "The Coltons".
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* Tails in ''[[Sonic Advance Trilogy|Sonic Advance 2]]'' - prior to the beginning of the game, he is kidnapped by Eggman. When you fight the boss of Music Plant, he's swinging from a pole on the machine.
* ''[[Super Mario]]''
** Peach is tied up like this at the opening of ''[[
** Also, in ''[[Mario
* Justin in the original ''[[Grandia (
* April O'Neil in the story mode of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters]]'' for the [[SNES]].
* All the captive maidens in ''[[Wizards and Warriors]]''.
* In the first ''[[Golden Axe]]'', when you end up rescuing the king and the princess of the land, they're lowered this way. Except the king is ''upside down''.
* Ada is tied up like this near the end of ''[[
* In ''[[Monkey Island 2:
* Marian in most versions of the original ''[[Double Dragon]]''. There's actually a close-up of her tied up this way before the final battle in the iPhone version.
* The [[Cold-Blooded Torture|torture]] sequence in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'' had Snake hanging from a hook on a track, and the momentum of his swing was used to increase the force of the blows he was receiving.
* On occasion, prisoners are tied up like this in ''[[Metal Slug]]''. When you cut one down, he flaps his arms as he drops.
* [http://youtu.be/u1gqbuV84bs Rena and Master Genryusai] at the end of ''[[Final Fight|Final Fight 2]]''.
* ''[[Batman:
** Countless times, you can do this to terrified mooks. [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|Before dropping them on their head as their teammates patrol underneath.]]
** {{spoiler|This happens to Commissioner Gordon in the final level, bats thinking he'd already left the island}}.
* The final level of the 1982 Atari game ''[[
* Some of the kidnapped "cavebabes" from ''[[Joe and Mac Caveman Ninja]]'' (specifically the raven-haired ones) are tied up this way.
* In the indie adventure game ''[[The Marionette]]'', {{spoiler|the protagonist, at the end,}} is tied up by his arms from ropes suspended from the ceiling in a way that evokes the game's title.
* [[Donkey Kong]] in ''[[Donkey Kong Country (
* In ''[[Vigilante (
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[
** George spends the entire third game parody as one of these. Like [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/020603c here]. [[What an Idiot!|When reminded about his superpowers]] and asked why he didn't free himself that way, [[Beware the Nice Ones|he leveled the castle in a fit of rage]].
** [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/010902 Bob] and [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/010919 Mike] also ended up as [[
** [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/021211c Blues], with a [[Lampshade]] on the dangers, plus [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/021214c joined by Rock Man]. This seems to be The Thing To Do for [[
** So [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/031201c Mega Man] gets it, too, and it's [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/031207c George]'s [[Fate Worse Than Death]].
** First of all, [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000909c the Author was there.]
** And then there was [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/010403c Nate]
* In [[Dan and
* In ''Killroy and Tina'', [[Cloudcuckoolander|Brandon]] ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120510141316/http://www.graphicsmash.com/comics/killroyandtina.php?name=killroyandtina&view=single&ID=4089 allowed]'' Killroy to put him in one of these.
* ''[[Minions At Work]]'': [http://www.minionsatwork.com/2010/09/minions-241-unwritten-fine-print.html They should have noticed what the boss was like.]
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Pibgorn]]'' [http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2002/10/07/ here] and [http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2004/03/26/ here]
* In ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* In the "Treehouse of Horror X" episode of ''[[The Simpsons (
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series
** Robin is chained up this way above a rising pit of water after being kidnapped by the title character in the episode "Bane". For best effect, they added an equivalent of [[Cement Shoes]] to his feet.
** The final episode of the same series has Raven and Lark (the Penguin's [[Bodyguard Babes|female bodyguards]]) hanging bound and gagged from the ceiling after being subdued by the Judge.
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* This happened at least once on ''[[The Perils of Penelope Pitstop]]''.
* The ''[[Batman]]''/''[[Superman]]'' animated series cross over, ''World's Finest'', has [[Lois Lane]] tied up like this.
* Happens in ''[[Totally Spies
* Shaak Ti gets bound up by electric wires by General Grievous in ''[[Star Wars:
* The [[Three Amigos]] of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' get strung up this way by [[Satan|Lucius]].
* Happened to Jean early in the ''[[X-Men (
* In ''[[Dan Vs
* In ''[[Codename
* The beginning of two [[Mighty Mouse]] cartoons--"The Perils Of Pearl Pureheart" (1949) and "Sunny Italy" (1951) has Pearl Pureheart dangling upside down by one foot.
* Happens to Max in [[Goof Troop]].
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