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* Referenced in the lyrics of The Tragically Hip's song ''Bobcaygeon'':
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* Referenced in the lyrics of The Tragically Hip's song ''Bobcaygeon'':''Bobcaygeon''[[note]]The lyrics are not specifically referring to people that were hung and survived, but rather people that could not be punished for free speech. It's based on an incident that happened in Toronto where the RCMP (checkboard floors refers to their hats) was called in to keep order when a neo-Nazi group was conducting a rally. The rally was mostly peaceful, though incendiary, until the neo-Nazis actually started speaking, sparking riots. The RCMP wasn't able to prevent the speakers from holding their rally, and therefore couldn't hang them[[/note]]:
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* Played with in ''ComicBook/AstroCity''. The supernatural hero the Hanged Man is a spectre with a burlap sack on his head and the remnants of a hangman's noose around his neck, and is implied to be the victim of a hanging several centuries ago. Whether or not he currently counts as alive is another matter. [[spoiler:It turns out the implication's at least partially true - while the Hanged Man's true nature remains a mystery, he needs a willing host to serve as his physical body, and seeks out a new host if his current body's destroyed. On at least one occasion, his host was a criminal being hanged who accepted the Hanged Man's offer of redemption.]]
* The Creator/ECComics story "Jury Duty!" (''Crime [=SuspenStories=]'' #6) is centered around a man whose "neck was broken, but the spinal cord wasn't severed!" And using the fact that he was declared legally dead as an odd sort of [[DiplomaticImpunity diplomatic immunity]] to murder the jurors. His downfall came when the remaining jurors realized that since he was legally dead, [[spoiler:it's not a crime to bury him.]]
* In ''ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily'', [[spoiler: when Harley Quinn tries to point out to Joker that a girl always has a secret or two, he gets a noose made of chains around her neck and starts pulling, saying that she should "hang" around and tell him a few secrets. She survives this]].
* This is the origin of John Henry in ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier'': He survived and [[RoaringRampageofRevenge went after the lynch mob who killed his family]].
* The Creator/ECComics story "Jury Duty!" (''Crime [=SuspenStories=]'' #6) is centered around a man whose "neck was broken, but the spinal cord wasn't severed!" And using the fact that he was declared legally dead as an odd sort of [[DiplomaticImpunity diplomatic immunity]] to murder the jurors. His downfall came when the remaining jurors realized that since he was legally dead, [[spoiler:it's not a crime to bury him.]]
* In ''ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily'', [[spoiler: when Harley Quinn tries to point out to Joker that a girl always has a secret or two, he gets a noose made of chains around her neck and starts pulling, saying that she should "hang" around and tell him a few secrets. She survives this]].
* This is the origin of John Henry in ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier'': He survived and [[RoaringRampageofRevenge went after the lynch mob who killed his family]].
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* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': Played with in ''ComicBook/AstroCity''.with. The supernatural hero the Hanged Man is a spectre with a burlap sack on his head and the remnants of a hangman's noose around his neck, and is implied to be the victim of a hanging several centuries ago. Whether or not he currently counts as alive is another matter. [[spoiler:It turns out the implication's at least partially true - while the Hanged Man's true nature remains a mystery, he needs a willing host to serve as his physical body, and seeks out a new host if his current body's destroyed. On at least one occasion, his host was a criminal being hanged who accepted the Hanged Man's offer of redemption.]]
* The Creator/ECComics story "Jury Duty!" (''Crime [=SuspenStories=]'' #6) is centered around a man whose "neck was broken, but the spinal cord wasn't severed!" And using the fact that he was declared legally dead as an odd sort of[[DiplomaticImpunity diplomatic immunity]] immunity to murder the jurors. His downfall came when the remaining jurors realized that since he was legally dead, [[spoiler:it's not a crime to bury him.]]
* In ''ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily'', [[spoiler: when Harley Quinn tries to point out toJoker Joker]] that a girl always has a secret or two, he gets a noose made of chains around her neck and starts pulling, saying that she should "hang" around and tell him a few secrets. She survives this]].
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*This is the origin of John Henry in ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier'': He John Henry survived his attempted lynching and [[RoaringRampageofRevenge went after the lynch mob who killed his family]].
* The Creator/ECComics story "Jury Duty!" (''Crime [=SuspenStories=]'' #6) is centered around a man whose "neck was broken, but the spinal cord wasn't severed!" And using the fact that he was declared legally dead as an odd sort of
* In ''ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily'', [[spoiler: when Harley Quinn tries to point out to
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* Judge Roy Bean in the ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' comic "Le Juge". He survived because his would-be executioners used a faulty rope he himself sold them. It did however leave him with a chronic neck injury that prevents him from turning his head.
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* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'': In "Le Juge", Judge Roy Bean in the ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' comic "Le Juge". He Bean, survived because his would-be executioners used a faulty rope he himself sold them. It did however leave him with a chronic neck injury that prevents him from turning his head.head.
* ''ComicBook/TheMadHatter'': The titular hero narrowly survives some criminals trying to hang him in his first appearance.
* ''ComicBook/TheMadHatter'': The titular hero narrowly survives some criminals trying to hang him in his first appearance.
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* The ''Comicbook/{{Nightwing}}'' villain Torque is a grotesque variation of this. His neck was broken when Blockbuster twisted his head 180 degrees, but he survived with a cybernetic neck brace and a backwards head.
* Played for laughs in a ''ComicBook/{{Sturmtruppen}}'' strip featuring a man too tall to be hanged by normal means, much to the soldiers' dismay.
* Lady Deathstrike was hanged from a telephone wire by Nazi soldiers during the Spanish Civil War in a TimeTravel related ''Comicbook/{{Wolverine}}'' storyline. Rather than dying, as one might expect, she flexed her neck to massive proportions, bursting the wires, and proceeded to kill the soldiers' tank...
* Played for laughs in a ''ComicBook/{{Sturmtruppen}}'' strip featuring a man too tall to be hanged by normal means, much to the soldiers' dismay.
* Lady Deathstrike was hanged from a telephone wire by Nazi soldiers during the Spanish Civil War in a TimeTravel related ''Comicbook/{{Wolverine}}'' storyline. Rather than dying, as one might expect, she flexed her neck to massive proportions, bursting the wires, and proceeded to kill the soldiers' tank...
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* The ''Comicbook/{{Nightwing}}'' ''ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}'' villain Torque is a grotesque variation of this. His neck was broken when Blockbuster twisted his head 180 degrees, but he survived with a cybernetic neck brace and a backwards head.
* ''ComicBook/{{Sturmtruppen}}'': Playedfor laughs with in a ''ComicBook/{{Sturmtruppen}}'' strip featuring a man too tall to be hanged by normal means, much to the soldiers' dismay.
* Lady Deathstrike was hanged from a telephone wire by Nazi soldiers during the Spanish Civil War in a TimeTravel related ''Comicbook/{{Wolverine}}'' storyline. Rather than dying, as one might expect, she flexed her neck to massive proportions, bursting the wires, and proceeded to kill the soldiers' tank...dismay.
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* Lady Deathstrike was hanged from a telephone wire by Nazi soldiers during the Spanish Civil War in a TimeTravel related ''Comicbook/{{Wolverine}}'' storyline. Rather than dying, as one might expect, she flexed her neck to massive proportions, bursting the wires, and proceeded to kill the soldiers' tank...
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* In ''FanFic/PastSins'' When [[spoiler:Nyx sees [[ParentalSubstitute Twilight]]]] about to be executed she [[spoiler:saves her with her FlashStep powers]].
* In ''FanFic/PastSins'' When [[spoiler:Nyx sees [[ParentalSubstitute Twilight]]]] about to be executed she [[spoiler:saves her with her FlashStep powers]].
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* In ''Fanfic/PastSins'' When [[spoiler:Nyx sees [[ParentalSubstitute Twilight]]]] about to be executed she [[spoiler:saves her with her FlashStep powers]].
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* In ''Fanfic/PastSins'' When [[spoiler:Nyx sees [[ParentalSubstitute Twilight]]]] about to be executed she [[spoiler:saves her with her FlashStep powers]].
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* Celtic rock band [[Music/TheMenTheyCouldntHang The Men They Couldn't Hang]] take their name from this trope, with the added bonus of sounding very anti-establishment.
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* Celtic rock band [[Music/TheMenTheyCouldntHang The Men They Couldn't Hang]] Music/TheMenTheyCouldntHang take their name from this trope, with the added bonus of sounding very anti-establishment.
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* One strip in ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' depicted a wax museum for cowboys. One of the attractions was "The Unhangable Rustler", depicting a man happily taunting his would-be executioners while his neck was caught in the noose.
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* One strip in ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' depicted a wax museum for cowboys. One of the attractions was "The Unhangable Rustler", depicting a man happily taunting his would-be executioners while his neck was caught in the noose.
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* Anna Greene, an English domestic servant was sentenced to death for infanticide in 1650, though it's more likely that she had a miscarriage. Greene was hanged and after half an hour on the gallows, she was cut down and given to two physicians for dissection. When the physicians opened her coffin the next day, they discovered that she's still breathing and managed to revive her. Seeing her survival as a sign from God, the authorities pardoned her and she lived unitl 1659.
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* Detective Hartigan in ''Film/SinCity'' gets hung by Roark Jr, [[spoiler: but managed to hold his neck stiff to avoid it being broken and rocks back and forth to break the support he is being hung from]].
