History Main / UnwillingSuspension

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman''
** A post crisis story involves Wonder Girl Donna Troy trying to fill the role of Wonder Woman while [[TheHero Diana]] is absent but getting defeated by SizeShifter Giganta, who chains Donna Troy up and wears Donna as a necklace as a punishment for the "[[AntiVillain crime]]" of "[[PretenderDiss impersonating]]" Wonder Woman.

* ''ComicBook/{{The Warlord|DC}}'': In #131, Morgan is suspended by his ankles above a vat of boiling oil by his RivalTurnedEvil Maddox. Maddox places a burning candle beneath the rope suspending Morgan so that when the candle burns through the rope, Morgan will plunge headfirst into the oil.

* ''ComicBook/{{Storm}}'' by Don Lawrence: Ember is a victim of Unwilling Suspension a few times. In "The Living Planet" she is suspended above a sea of lava, while in "The Mutineers of Anchor" she is suspended by her wrists above an abyss. A variation can be seen in "The Hounds of Marduk", but this time an unconscious Ember is tied to a crane, and her legs are lowered into a ''healing'' vapour.
* ''ComicBook/TheWarlordDC'': In #131, Morgan is suspended by his ankles above a vat of boiling oil by his RivalTurnedEvil Maddox. Maddox places a burning candle beneath the rope suspending Morgan so that when the candle burns through the rope, Morgan will plunge headfirst into the oil.

** ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman 2006}}'': Circe strings up Wonder Woman, Donna Troy, and ComicBook/WonderGirl(Cassie Sandsmark) above a boiling cauldron in preparation for stealing their powers.

** ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman 2006}}'': Circe strings up Franchise/WonderWoman, Donna Troy, and ComicBook/WonderGirl(Cassie Sandsmark) above a boiling cauldron in preparation for stealing their powers.

*** WonderWoman in the Episode "Maid of Honor", where she was hanging from the wall with her arms outstretched in a dungeon, until Batman broke her out.

* Happens to Barnaby in the ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' episode "Death in the Slow Lane" after he is knocked out by the murderer. The killer plans to drop Barnaby onto a sharp set of ploughs at the end of their conversation.

*** The entire team in the Episode "A Better World" where they were shackled to "X" Shaped structures in high tech cells by [[spoiler:Evil Doppelgänger]]

** First, a bunch of UsefulNotes/AncientEgypt-themed Shamans attacked the Laws in public. One of them had an eagle AnimalTheme and attacked the X-Law leader Jeanne from mid-air... then he suddenly found himself in a gibbet. He was still inside it as Jeanne used her Spirit companion to execute him and his partners.

* Happens to Kyo's girlfriend Yuki in the manga version of ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters KYO'', when a masked BadassBiker kidnaps her to force the recently depowered Kyo to a duel. [[spoiler:Subverted: the stranger is Saisyu, who's subjecting a borderline BrainwashedAndCrazy Kyo to a SecretTestOfCharacter. When Kyo "passes", wakes up from his state, and recovers his flames, Saisyu is satisfied so he cuts the rope and Yuki falls down... [[FallingIntoHisArms and into]] [[BridalCarry Kyo's arms]].]]

* In the 1987 Hong Kong movie ''Film/CityOnFire'', undercover cop Chow is arrested and tortured by other police officers (who are unaware he's a cop), including being handcuffed from a bar in a locker room. Unlike most examples of this trope, he's shown to be in visible pain both during and afterwards.

* The titular character from ''Anime/IzettaTheLastWitch'' is subjected to this in Episode 9 by the BigBad, who proceeds to painfully chain Izetta up and suspend her with her arms overhead. Poor Izetta spends the rest of the next episode dangling helplessly and unconscious while enemy soldiers plan on capturing her. [[spoiler: Thankfully she's rescued by the cavalry before she was sent to the enemy HQ as a Prisoner Of War.]]

* ''Eternal Dread 2''
** Occasionally when you run into goblin camps, you will encounter dead bodies of female warriors strung up by their wrists overhead. Should the player heroine lose their HP while inside the cavern, they will be subjected to this fate... except they're alive and they'll trash and flail their legs wildly while screaming for help to no avail.

* April O'Neil in the story mode of ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTournamentFighters'' for the UsefulNotes/SuperNES. Also happens to Splinter in the original ''[[VideoGame/TeenageMutanNinjaTurtlesTheArcadeGame TMNT]]'' arcade game when he's taken captive by Granitor.

This is not usually intended for [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing the prisoner]], but in reality, this could cause undue pressure on the body, and bad blood flow. Perhaps even dislocate something -- there's a ''reason'' why UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} models engaging in suspension art tend towards the light-weight and [[FlexibilityEqualsSexAbility extremely flexible]] end. In most fiction, the prisoner does not appear to suffer any particular physical discomfort (If the viewer [[FridgeLogic thinks too much]] about this, it results in [[RussianReversal Disbelief]] [[IncrediblyLamePun of]] [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief Unwilling Suspension]]).