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* In Michael Reaves' ''The Shattered World'', Beorn the werebear battles a guardian chimera beneath the Labyrinth of Darkhaven, and leads it away in a running brawl when its chain breaks. Although too formidable for even Beorn's bear-form to defeat, the chimera defeats ''itself'' when it leaps across a chasm to attack Beorn, only to have its leap cut short, drop into the chasm, and expire with an audible neck-crack when its trailing chain gets caught up in some rubble at the chasm's edge.

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* This happens to a criminal in a Golden Age ''Seven Soldiers'' story--he's already been sentenced to death by hanging and escaped prison to avoid that fate. Naturally, while fighting Green Arrow and Speedy, he manages to fall off a cliff with a rope in such a way as to hang himself.

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* In ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'', Lord Blackwood falls through Tower Bridge but gets himself tangled up in chains. One of which snaps and sends Blackwood falling off-screen. One of the chains wraps around Blackwood's neck and snaps it, killing him. This is a KarmicDeath as Blackwood had escaped hanging at the start of the movie.
* The fate of Peter Stegman in ''Film/ClassOf1984''.
* ''Film/TheGoldenChild''. One of the BigBad's henchmen has a chain that he uses to snare opponents. Near the end of the movie the title character manages to wrap the chain around the henchman's neck. When the henchman falls over a balcony, he ends up being [[HoistByHisOwnPetard hanged by his own chain]].
* The CorruptCorporateExecutive in ''Film/TheIsland'' is hanged by his own grappling hook.
* A variation occurs in the Dutch horror movie ''Film/DeLift'' ("The Elevator", later remade as "Down" and "The Shaft"). As the titular homicidal elevator is destroyed and crashes to the bottom of the shaft, the CorruptCorporateExecutive responsible for its creation gets entangled in the loose cables and is hanged in the elevator shaft.

* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' has a variant when Indy wraps one end of his {{whip|ItGood}} around a {{mook|s}}'s neck and the other end around a ceiling fan. Instead of getting hanged by falling, the mook gets hanged when the fan yanks him ''upward'' and breaks his neck.

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* One version of Two-Face (where he was a stage actor called Harvey Apollo) had him die in this fashion after slipping on his own TwoHeadedCoin and falling from the top of a cinema screen.

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* This is how Max from ''Film/TheBabysitter'' bows out in the first film; falling through the floorboards of Cole's treehouse and getting hanged on the tyre swing.

A SubTrope of DisneyVillainDeath. Compare ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill.

* In ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'', Lord Blackwood falls through Tower Bridge but gets himself tangled up in chains. One of which snaps and sends Blackwood falling off-screen. One of the chains wraps around Blackwood's neck and snaps it, killing him. This is a KarmicDeath as Blackwood had escaped hanging at the start of the movie. [[spoiler:Ostensibly due to magic enabling him to come back from the dead, but actually due to bribes and trickery.]]

* This is how [[spoiler:Max]] from ''Film/TheBabysitter'' bows out in the first film; after falling through the floorboards of Cole's treehouse, [[spoiler:he]] gets hanged on the tyre swing.

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* This happens to a criminal in a Golden Age Seven Soldiers story--he's already been sentenced to death by hanging and escaped prison to avoid that fate. Naturally, while fighting Green Arrow and Speedy, he manages to fall off a cliff with a rope in such a way as to hang himself.

* The fate of Peter Stegman in Film/ClassOf1984.

* Call of Duty: Modern Warfare ''3'' has the series' villain Makarov be killed by Captain Price in this manner after [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating Makarov's face and head in with Price's fists and the glass floor they're on]] while Price ties a crashed helicopter's winch cable around his neck. Makarov gets to let out a BigNo before Price drives them both through the weakened glass with a final effort and the cable snaps his neck to quickly ending his flailing. It's probably worth noting there was Makarov's dropped Desert Eagle pistol nearby that Price could have grabbed instead to finish him off with, but the hastily-prepared hanging [[DeathIsDramatic was definitely the funner option]].

* This is how [[spoiler:Max]] from ''Film/TheBabysitter'' bows out in the first film; after falling through the floorboards of Cole's treehouse, [[spoiler:he] gets hanged on the tyre swing.

* In ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'', Lord Blackwood falls through Tower Bridge but gets himself tangled up in chains. One of which snaps and sends Blackwood falling off-screen. One of the chains wraps around Blackwood's neck and snaps it, killing him. This is a KarmicDeath as Blackwood has escaped hanging at the start of the movie. [[spoiler:Ostensibly due to magic, but actually due to bribes and trickery.]]

* In ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'', Lord Blackwood falls through Tower Bridge but gets himself tangled up in chains. One of which snaps and sends Blackwood falling off-screen. One of the chains wraps around Blackwood's neck and snaps it, killing him.

* The TropeCodifier: Clayton's death in ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}''. In a frenzied attempt to attack Tarzan with his machete, he gets himself tangled up in jungle vines, not noticing until too late that one is coiling around his neck as he slashes away at them. Eventually, he cuts away the last one holding him up, causing him to plummet a huge distance from the tree the two were standing on — but with one vine still ensnared around his neck. It then suddenly cuts to the vine stretching taut with a loud crunch, Tarzan and Clayton's machete dropping to the ground, and then lightning briefly illuminating the tree behind Tarzan to reveal the shadow of Clayton's dangling corpse.

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* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare3'' features this happening to [[spoiler:Makarov, the series' BigBad]].
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When one of these annoying problems poses itself, there ''is'' a solution: NooseCatch. This is when a character, usually a villain, falls from something very tall, such as a tree, a cliff, a construction site, or a building, and is stopped by some long, thin, dangling object that happens to wrap around his neck. Vines, chains, ropes: almost anything will do. This doesn't ''just'' [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou stop them from falling]] -- it also kills them. Sometimes their neck [[NeckSnap snaps]]. Otherwise, they simply hang there, dying, as the rope ''slowly'' chokes them to death...

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* The TropeCodifier, Clayton's death in ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'', where he falls out of a tree and is hanged by some vines wrapped around his neck. In a frenzied attempt to attack Tarzan with his machete, he gets himself tangled up in jungle vines, not noticing until too late that one is coiling around his neck as he slashes away at them. Eventually, he cuts away the last one holding him up, causing him to plummet a huge distance from the tree the two were standing on — but with one vine still ensnared around his neck. It then suddenly cuts to the vine stretching taut with a loud crunch, Tarzan and Clayton's machete dropping to the ground, and then lightning briefly illuminating the tree behind Tarzan to reveal the shadow of Clayton's dangling corpse.

* In ''Film/Connected2008'', the BigBad falls from a ledge in the airport storage room, gets his neck ensnared in a rope and is hung.

* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' has a variant when Indy wraps one end of his {{whip|ItGood}} around a {{mook|s}}'s neck and the other end around a ceiling fan. Instead of getting hanged by falling, the mook gets hanged when the fan yanks him upward and breaks his neck.

* The climactic fight of ''Film/AirForceOne'' ends with the baddie shoved off the plane by the [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking President]], with a cargo strap wrapped around his neck.

* Clayton's death in ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'', where he falls out of a tree and is hanged by some vines wrapped around his neck. In a frenzied attempt to attack Tarzan with his machete, he gets himself tangled up in jungle vines, not noticing until too late that one is coiling around his neck as he slashes away at them. Eventually, he cuts away the last one holding him up, causing him to plummet a huge distance from the tree the two were standing on — but with one vine still ensnared around his neck. It then suddenly cuts to the vine stretching taut with a loud crunch, Tarzan and Clayton's machete dropping to the ground, and then lightning briefly illuminating the tree behind Tarzan to reveal the shadow of Clayton's dangling corpse.

* In ''Connected (2008)'', the BigBad falls from a ledge in the airport storage room, gets his neck ensnared in a rope and is hung.

* In ''Film/HardCandy'', this is what happens to [[spoiler:Jeff, the pedophile photographer. Hayley, his would-be victim, [[DrivenToSuicide makes him jump from the rooftop]] of his house with a noose around his neck tied to the chimney.]]

* Clayton's death in ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'', where he falls out of a tree and is hanged by some vines wrapped around his neck.

* In ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'', Lord Blackwood falls and is hanged by chains.

-->'''Lord Blackwood''' [[TemptingFate tempts fate]], ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009''

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