History Main / RudelyHangingUp

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* In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', the arms dealer Ulysses Klaue is introduced shouting at a business contact who had sent him a shipment of bad parts, before slamming the phone down and switching to another caller.
-->'''Klaue:''' You pay your account in full by this time next week, or the next missile I send you [[ImpliedDeathThreat will come very much faster]]! ''*hangs up, picks up other line*'' Now, Minister, where were we?

* In ''VideoGame/InSoundMind'', a mysterious stalker will occasionally call [[PlayerCharacter Desmond]] to taunt and mock him, trying to play on his insecurities and doubts. There's nothing stopping Desmond from hanging up on him mid-sentence as a form of ShutUpHannibal, and doing so even unlocks the "Nope" achievement.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Castlevania}}'': In the fourth season, Varney of London, a member of Dracula's court whom others regard as a nuisance, tries to rope the forgemaster Isaac into helping him resurrect Dracula via a magic mirror. Isaac is not interested, as he is trying to complete his own task.

* In one WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck cartoon, he and Daisy have an argument over the phone. She hangs up so hard, the phone booth Donald's in explodes.

* ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'': In "End of the Road", Eddie Houseman does this when his boss is pleading with him not to proceed with a reckless and highly dangerous job involving explosives. However, Eddie has to swallow his pride minutes later, as the explosion places him in an extremely perilous situation, from which he has to be rescued.

* WebVideo/{{Kitboga}} is a scambaiter popular on Website/{{Twitch}} and Website/YouTube. This is the typical ultimate endpoint of any call once the scammers realize just how badly their time has been wasted. The trick is how long they can be kept on the line before then. Additionally, Kitboga loves doing this himself to scammers because it drives them nuts. One of the things scammers try to insist on is that their potential victim remain on the line with them until everything is completed. Any time spent off the phone with them is time potentially outside their control in which somebody could be convincing their victim that they're being scammed. Of course, the risk is also there that the scammer will catch on or give up and either won't call back or won't take a call-back. Therefore, Kitboga usually only does this after the scammer has been well and truly baited into expecting a big payday.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Castlevania}}'': In the fourth season, Varney of London, a member of Dracula's court whom others regard as a nuisance, tries to rope the forgemaster Isaac into helping him resurrect Dracula via a magic mirror. Isaac is not interested.

'''Varney''': Fuck y-(''call ended'')

-->'''Wernstrom:''' No, not the crackslam! *call ends*

* "The Heretic Anthem" by Music/{{Slipknot}} ends with a phone loudly being tossed back onto the cradle, as if to imply the entire {{Angrish}} rant that was the song was being screamed into somebody's ear.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'', Kent calls General Rogard about the giant robot he thinks is roaming the town. Rogard, upset that Kent called him at home for a non-emergency, tells him that he first needs evidence to send troops, and while Kent raves about it, he calmly hangs up on him in mid-rant. Kent doesn't take this well.

-->'''Wernstrom:''' No, not the buttslam! *call ends*