History Main / WalkThePlank

* In episode 24 of ''Anime/MacrossDelta'', Hayate, Freyja, and Mirage are sentenced to be executed by way of walking off a few narrow beams over a high cliff. Bogue demands Freyja go first, but Hayate offers to go first as a last request. Thankfully, Arad uses a remote controlled Valkyrie to give the three a chance to escape.

* In episode 24 of ''Anime/MacrossDelta'', Hayate, Freyja, and Mirage are sentenced to be executed by way of walking off a few narrow beams over a high cliff. A soldier demands Freyja go first, but Hayate offers to go first as a last request. Thankfully, Arad uses a remote controlled Valkyrie to give the three a chance to escape.

** Data immediately wonders why everybody else thinks Worf's impromptu dive is hilarious. Beverly Crusher makes the mistake of telling him that humans find the misfortune of others [[ComedicSociopathy to be hilarious]]. Data immediately figures that if one is funny, two must be even better-and tosses the advice-giver overboard. Instead of more laughter, Data is met with horrified expressions, and Geordi must tell him that he has instead invoked [[DudeNotFunny an entirely different trope]] by applying it to a woman instead of [[IronButtMonkey the resident Klingon.]]

* In ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' Captain Plunder makes Tails WalkThePlank into a pit in issue 23; however, Sonic reminds Tails he can fly. In another story, Captain Plunder makes Proctor Speckle Walk The Plank for eating his Old Caribbean chocolate bars; however, Speckle changes into Mr Fry.

** In #78, Wonder Woman herself is forced to walk the plank from a pirate ship several feet in the air. As she dives off of the plank, she grabs the ship's anchor and pulls it back to Earth.

* In episode 24 of ''Anime/MacrossDelta'', Hayate, Freyja, and Mirage are sentenced to be executed by way of walking off a few narrow beams over a high cliff. A soldier demands Freyja go first, but Hayate offers to go first as a last request. Thankfully, Arad uses a remote controlled Valkyrie to give the three a chance to escape.
* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', Episode 291: During a flashback to [[PirateGirl Mutsu's]] early years, she and Sakamoto were captured by pirates and were nearly executed this way. [[spoiler: Fortunately, the slaves that Mustsu had freed earlier come to their rescue.]]

* In ''[[ComicBook/ActionComics Action Comics #54]]'', Lois Lane is made to walk the plank by the pirate Captain Ironfist. She falls into the sea but, as always, Superman rescues her, cutting her ropes and bringing her to the surface.

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* In the Richard Bolitho by Alexander Kent, Bolitho is reporting to his new captain when he witnesses the bloody mess of a keelhauled sailor being hauled past the windows of the cabin. The captain is furious--not because of the keelhauling, of course.
* A poem by Shel Silverstein has the pirate captain Jim say this to a young boy, who responds, "But Captain Jim, I cannot swim." The pirate captain tries to come up with other suitable punishments for the boy until he decides to make him a captain.

* The WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon ''WesternAnimation/HighDivingHare''. It's really a diving board but it's treated as if it's a "walk the plank" plank several times.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In ''WesternAnimation/HighDivingHare'', Yosemite Sam forces Bugs Bunny to do a high-diving act, and Bugs [[NoPeekingRequest asks him to look away]] so he can put on his bathing suit. However, this was actually so he can flip the diving board around and trick Sam into thinking he's diving, leading Sam to walk off the board and into the water.

* A pirate captain does this to Gargamel when he chases after a group of Smurfs sailing the seas in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "The Last Smurfberry."

* WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor: In the episode ''Operation P.I.R.A.T.E.'', Captain Stickybeard makes Numbuh Five walk the plank after she refused to join his crew. The second she falls off, Numbuh 2 and the others come just in time to save her and take the fight back to the pirates.
* In the WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}} cartoon "Spooky Swabs", a bunch of ghosts blindfold Olive Oyl and try to send her off the plank into the ocean. Luckily, Popeye lifts the plank over to the deck of the ship so she lands in a bucket of water.
* The ''[[WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries Spider-Man: The Animated Series]]'' episode, "The Return of Hydro-Man, Part 1", opens with Mary Jane Watson having a nightmare which ends with her walking the plank from a pirate ship into a dark abyss.
* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/TotallySpies Totally Spies]]'' episode, "WOOHP-ahoy", a hi-tech WOOHP ship is captured by pirates who aim to use a heat-ray to heat up the Sun and melt the ice caps. Sam and Alex are captured and made to walk the plank into the boiling sea, but they manage to turn the ship around, thus turning the ray away from the Sun and cooling the ocean (also they never fall).

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' has babies fantasizing as pirates and Angelica puts Tommy on the plank.

** In #78, Wonder Woman herself was forced to walk the plank from a pirate ship several feet in the air. As she dives off of the plank, she grabs the ship's anchor to pull it back to Earth.

** Data immediately wonders why everybody else thinks Worf's impromptu dive is hilarious. Beverly Crusher makes the mistake of telling him that humans find the misfortune of others [[ComedicSociopathy to be hilarious]]. Data immediately figures that if one is funny, two must be even better-and tosses the advice-giver overboard. Instead of more laughter, Data is met with horrified expressions, and Geordi must tell him that he has instead invoked [[DudeNotFunny an entirely different trope]] by applying it to the TheChick instead of [[IronButtMonkey the resident Klingon.]]

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Billy and Mandy]]'s Big Boogey Adventure'', Billy is forced to do this by (undead) pirates at one point. Then, he launches into his "Scary-O" number.

* In ''LightNovel/AmagiBrilliantPark'', when real pirates show up and take over the theme park, they force a few people to walk the swimming pool's high dive board... after filling the pool with some tentacle monsters. The monsters molest but don't harm the victims; it's just for the pirates' amusement. Moffle has an IndulgentFantasySegue where he epically breaks free and defeats the pirates, but when he actually tries it he slips and falls into the water.
** Also, one of the other, less scrupulous mascots, Tiramie, temporarily pulls a FaceHeelTurn, forcing some of the heroes onto the plank. He tries to do this to his SitcomArchnemesis Isuzu Sento...but the DeathGlare and [[KillingIntent killing aura]] scares him and HE takes steps back on the plank.

* ''Manga/Gintama'', Episode 291: During a flashback to [[PirateGirl Mutsu's]] early years, she and Sakamoto were captured by pirates and were nearly executed this way. [[spoiler: Fortunately, the slaves that Mustsu had freed earlier come to their rescue.]]

* ''MangaNegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', Chapter 268. This was how [[spoiler:Queen Arika]] was supposed to be executed, walking off a plank settled over a huge canyon full of monsters. [[spoiler:Luckily for her, Ala Alba (commanded by Nagi, who is able to catch her and drag her out ''[[BroughtDownToBadass without his powers]]'') is there to save her.]]