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* OneSceneWonder: Albert Pierrepoint [[IncomingHam makes a big entrance]] near the end, utterly demolishes Harry's smug sense of vanity, [[ItMakesSenseInContext demands everyone smell his hair]] and then strides out again.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Almost everything about Mooney and the ending. [[spoiler: Did Hennessy actually kill anyone? Or did Mooney actually commit the crime Hennessy was executed for? Did Mooney ever even meet Hennessy or was he making it up - he was definitely lying about having kidnapped Shirley, in the same conversation. And why did he seem to commit suicide-by-hangman? It certainly seems like he's guilty of ''something'', but]] we never find out for sure.
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* AdultFear: The entire second act basically revolves around the fear that Mooney has abducted and killed the Wades' teenaged daughter Shirley.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Mooney]]
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* NotSoDifferent: Mooney deliberately uses this as a tactic to get close to Shirley. He also pulls this on Syd, although that one is much more sincere.
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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: Mooney deliberately uses this as a tactic to get close to Shirley. He also pulls this on Syd, although that one is much more sincere.
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* YourCheatingHeart: It's implied that Harry cheated on his wife sometime around the Nuremburg Trials (and Grand National Week).
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* AttentionWhore: Harry, though he likes to claim otherwise.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Shirley returns to the pub alive and safe, but Mooney has been illegally hanged in front of several witnesses - none of whom are particularly fond of Harry by this point - and Harry himself is now something of a BrokenPedestal to his family and friends.]]
* BlatantLies: A variation: after creeping out Shirley by [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext asking if sand goes into her swimsuit when she's at the beach]], Mooney attempts to deflect the situation by claiming he "just likes sand"; she chooses to believe him.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Mooney is polite and charming but it doesn't really take much for him to become dangerous.]]
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* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Mooney Mooney is polite and charming but it doesn't really take much for him to become dangerous.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Mooney himself. He appears after Hennessey has announced that he'll haunt Syd and Harry for hanging him, claims to have "picked out" Syd (rather than, as Syd assumes, it being the other way round) and, as noted above, his final scene contains several call-backs to Hennessey's hanging.
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* Sadist: [[spoiler:Mooney definitely shows hints of being this.]]
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''Hangmen'' is a 2015 play written by Creator/MartinMcDonagh, carrying the same BlackHumor of his cult films, Film/InBruges and Film/SevenPsychopaths. The play premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre before transferring into the West End and starred DavidMorrissey, ReeceShearsmith and Johnny Flynn.
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''Hangmen'' is a 2015 play written by Creator/MartinMcDonagh, carrying the same BlackHumor of his cult films, Film/InBruges and Film/SevenPsychopaths. The play premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre before transferring into the West End and starred DavidMorrissey, ReeceShearsmith Creator/DavidMorrissey, Creator/ReeceShearsmith and Johnny Flynn.
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* {{Trickster}}: Mooney. Syd wishes to see himself as this, but he does a pretty poor job.
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Mooney - goading an (ex)professional hangman is not going to end well for you.]]
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* BeserkButton: Harry's is any mention of Pierrepoint, a fact that's well-known and often exploited by the other characters.
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''Hangmen'' is a 2015 play written by Creator/MartinMcDonagh, carrying the same BlackHumor of his cult films, Film/InBruges and Film/SevenPsychopaths. The play premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre before transferring into the West End and starred DavidMorrissey, ReeceShearsmith and Johnny Flynn.
Set in the north of England in the 1963, just after the abolition of hanging, the play centres around former hangman Harry Wade (Morrissey), a stern Northerner with a professional and personal rivalry with fellow hangman [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Albert Pierrepoint]]. Now running a pub with his wife and daughter, Harry runs into his former assistant Syd (Shearsmith) whom Harry got fired for unprofessional behaviour, who warns him that he's met a stranger claiming to be responsible for committing several murders that bear an eerie resemblance to a series of murders that the two hanged a man for some years prior. Naturally, Harry becomes increasingly concerned with the news - not least because the stranger happens to be a charming young man, Mooney (Flynn) who has struck up a friendship with Harry's shy teenaged daughter Shirley. But not everything is as clear as it seems - Syd hired Mooney as part of a scheme to scare Harry as revenge for firing him; however, it's not long before Mooney causes events to spiral wildly out of Syd's control.
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!! This show provides examples of:
* AdultFear: The entire second act basically revolves around the fear that Mooney has abducted and killed the Wades' teenaged daughter Shirley.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Mooney]]
* BadassBoast: Harry is prone to giving these - whether they are strictly ''warranted'' or not is another matter. Mooney occasionally gives these as well, though in a much more subdued manner.
* BeserkButton: Harry's is any mention of Pierrepoint, a fact that's well-known and often exploited by the other characters.
** Mooney's appears to be people doing things behind his back if his reaction to Alice Wade trying to call his references is anything to go by.
** Shirley's is people calling her "mopey".
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Mooney]]
* BlackComedy: As is par for the course for MartinMcDonagh...
* BookEnds: The play begins and ends with a hanging, and the scenes were deliberately written to mirror each other.
* BreakTheCutie: Shirley, to some extent.
* BreakTheHaughty: Harry, particularly towards the end.
* BrokenPedastal: Harry is this by the end of the play to some extent.
* ButtMonkey: Bill, one of the patrons of Harry's bar. Also Syd.
* {{Callback}}: As noted above, the scene of [[spoiler:Mooney]] being hanged contains a few to the scene of Hennessey being hanged. These include both complaining of hurt wrists at the mention of their hands being tied, and both being hit by Harry to get them to stop resisting.
* TheChessmaster: Syd attempts to be this. [[spoiler:Mooney actually is this.]]
* CloudCuckoolander: Shirley's friend Phyllis has been committed to a mental home for supposedly being this (it's heavily implied she suffers some form of OCD). Shirley displays signs of this occasionally and Mooney seems to be this to the Northerners. [[spoiler: [[ManipulativeBastard He plays up to it a lot.]] ]]
* ComedicSociopathy: Mooney's sense of humour is probably best described as this.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Harry and Syd are trying to hang Hennessey, he's panicking over the fact that he's about to die. Syd tries various ways to calm him down, including telling him to relax and correcting his grammar. {{Lampshaded}} by Hennessey.
-->'''Hennessey:''' Is he having a laugh? Are you having a laugh?! I'm about to die and you're [[SkewedPriorities correcting my English!!]]
** Mooney also tends to do this, especially whenever he's being questioned. [[spoiler:Whether he's doing it on purpose or not is up to you.]]
* CrapsackWorld: It's subtle but still hinted at.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Mooney makes a few potentially racist remarks and no one really calls him out on it. It is set in the 60s, after all.
* EmpathicEnvironment: The second half takes place during a rainstorm and it only gets worse as the situation does.
* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Mooney is polite and charming but it doesn't really take much for him to become dangerous.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Before he's hanged, Hennessey says that he will return to haunt Harry and Syd. When Mooney shows up a couple of years later, Hennessey's case is brought up again.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: Enforced at the end. [[spoiler:Mooney is a thoroughly unpleasant individual who (until it's revealed otherwise) is thought to be responsible for the kidnap and murder of Shirley - an idea he encourages and gloats about to her parents. However, Harry resorts to hanging him illegally as a means of torture and eventually kills him.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Harry and Syd both fall victim to this, to varying degrees. [[spoiler:Depending on whether Mooney intended to be hanged or not, this might also apply to him]].
* InsistentTerminology: Shirley isn't "mopey"; she's just ''shy''.
** Also, Mooney is just "menacing", ''not'' "creepy".
* ItsAllAboutMe: Harry.
* LargeHam: Both Harry and Mooney have their moments. Also Pierrepoint spends his five minutes onstage chewing as much of the scenery as he can.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Mooney - goading an (ex)professional hangman is not going to end well for you.]]
* MoodWhiplash: The play opens with an almost farcical scene of a prisoner begging not to be hanged and claiming he's innocent while the hangmen attempt to reason with him and get him to relax. Then they succeed in hanging him.
** Also at the end. [[spoiler:Pierrepoint's arrived at Harry's pub to have a go at him while he and his patrons are attempting to hide the fact they've got Mooney on a chair with a tightened noose around his neck. Then the chair falls over.]]
* MurderByMistake: [[spoiler:It's left ambiguous whether Mooney deliberately kicked his chair away at the end or whether it just fell over.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Pretty much everyone's attitude towards Harry at the end.
* NotSoDifferent: Mooney deliberately uses this as a tactic to get close to Shirley. He also pulls this on Syd, although that one is much more sincere.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Mooney is generally very soft-spoken, philosophical and polite. When he's angry, he's the exact opposite.
** Invoked with Shirley. Her parents only really become worried when they realise how long she's been gone.
* OhCrap: Syd when he realises things are getting out of hand.
** Harry when Pierrepoint shows up at his pub.
** [[spoiler:Everyone at the end [[ItMakesSenseInContext when the chair falls over]].]]
* OnlySaneMan: Inspector Fry has shades of this.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Mooney is particularly fond of handing these out to people. He even manages to give a posthumous one to Hennessey.
-->'''Mooney''': It's at times like this that I ask myself "what would Hennessey do?" and the answer to that is always something stupid that would get me executed, so I don't do that, I do the opposite.
* RunningAwayToCry: Shirley attempts this early on.
* Sadist: [[spoiler:Mooney definitely shows hints of being this.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Invoked by Mooney when things start going wrong. [[spoiler:Averted in that he decides to stick around anyway.]]
-->'''Mooney:''' Do I walk back into that pub like I own the place just for a laugh? Do I go back to the garage? Or do I say balls to all this and go back to London and civilisation?
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Again, Mooney definitely shows signs of this. Harry and Syd aren't too far behind either.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: Whether it's "good" or not is a matter of personal opinion, but [[spoiler:Inspector Fry is really reluctant to go along with Harry's idea of hanging Mooney.]]
* Trickster: Mooney. Syd wishes to see himself as this, but he does a pretty poor job.
* WideEyedIdealist: Shirley certainly ''begins'' the play as one.
* YourCheatingHeart: It's implied that Harry cheated on his wife sometime around the Nuremburg Trials (and Grand National Week).
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Set in the north of England in the 1963, just after the abolition of hanging, the play centres around former hangman Harry Wade (Morrissey), a stern Northerner with a professional and personal rivalry with fellow hangman [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Albert Pierrepoint]]. Now running a pub with his wife and daughter, Harry runs into his former assistant Syd (Shearsmith) whom Harry got fired for unprofessional behaviour, who warns him that he's met a stranger claiming to be responsible for committing several murders that bear an eerie resemblance to a series of murders that the two hanged a man for some years prior. Naturally, Harry becomes increasingly concerned with the news - not least because the stranger happens to be a charming young man, Mooney (Flynn) who has struck up a friendship with Harry's shy teenaged daughter Shirley. But not everything is as clear as it seems - Syd hired Mooney as part of a scheme to scare Harry as revenge for firing him; however, it's not long before Mooney causes events to spiral wildly out of Syd's control.
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!! This show provides examples of:
* AdultFear: The entire second act basically revolves around the fear that Mooney has abducted and killed the Wades' teenaged daughter Shirley.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Mooney]]
* BadassBoast: Harry is prone to giving these - whether they are strictly ''warranted'' or not is another matter. Mooney occasionally gives these as well, though in a much more subdued manner.
* BeserkButton: Harry's is any mention of Pierrepoint, a fact that's well-known and often exploited by the other characters.
** Mooney's appears to be people doing things behind his back if his reaction to Alice Wade trying to call his references is anything to go by.
** Shirley's is people calling her "mopey".
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Mooney]]
* BlackComedy: As is par for the course for MartinMcDonagh...
* BookEnds: The play begins and ends with a hanging, and the scenes were deliberately written to mirror each other.
* BreakTheCutie: Shirley, to some extent.
* BreakTheHaughty: Harry, particularly towards the end.
* BrokenPedastal: Harry is this by the end of the play to some extent.
* ButtMonkey: Bill, one of the patrons of Harry's bar. Also Syd.
* {{Callback}}: As noted above, the scene of [[spoiler:Mooney]] being hanged contains a few to the scene of Hennessey being hanged. These include both complaining of hurt wrists at the mention of their hands being tied, and both being hit by Harry to get them to stop resisting.
* TheChessmaster: Syd attempts to be this. [[spoiler:Mooney actually is this.]]
* CloudCuckoolander: Shirley's friend Phyllis has been committed to a mental home for supposedly being this (it's heavily implied she suffers some form of OCD). Shirley displays signs of this occasionally and Mooney seems to be this to the Northerners. [[spoiler: [[ManipulativeBastard He plays up to it a lot.]] ]]
* ComedicSociopathy: Mooney's sense of humour is probably best described as this.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Harry and Syd are trying to hang Hennessey, he's panicking over the fact that he's about to die. Syd tries various ways to calm him down, including telling him to relax and correcting his grammar. {{Lampshaded}} by Hennessey.
-->'''Hennessey:''' Is he having a laugh? Are you having a laugh?! I'm about to die and you're [[SkewedPriorities correcting my English!!]]
** Mooney also tends to do this, especially whenever he's being questioned. [[spoiler:Whether he's doing it on purpose or not is up to you.]]
* CrapsackWorld: It's subtle but still hinted at.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Mooney makes a few potentially racist remarks and no one really calls him out on it. It is set in the 60s, after all.
* EmpathicEnvironment: The second half takes place during a rainstorm and it only gets worse as the situation does.
* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Mooney is polite and charming but it doesn't really take much for him to become dangerous.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Before he's hanged, Hennessey says that he will return to haunt Harry and Syd. When Mooney shows up a couple of years later, Hennessey's case is brought up again.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: Enforced at the end. [[spoiler:Mooney is a thoroughly unpleasant individual who (until it's revealed otherwise) is thought to be responsible for the kidnap and murder of Shirley - an idea he encourages and gloats about to her parents. However, Harry resorts to hanging him illegally as a means of torture and eventually kills him.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Harry and Syd both fall victim to this, to varying degrees. [[spoiler:Depending on whether Mooney intended to be hanged or not, this might also apply to him]].
* InsistentTerminology: Shirley isn't "mopey"; she's just ''shy''.
** Also, Mooney is just "menacing", ''not'' "creepy".
* ItsAllAboutMe: Harry.
* LargeHam: Both Harry and Mooney have their moments. Also Pierrepoint spends his five minutes onstage chewing as much of the scenery as he can.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Mooney - goading an (ex)professional hangman is not going to end well for you.]]
* MoodWhiplash: The play opens with an almost farcical scene of a prisoner begging not to be hanged and claiming he's innocent while the hangmen attempt to reason with him and get him to relax. Then they succeed in hanging him.
** Also at the end. [[spoiler:Pierrepoint's arrived at Harry's pub to have a go at him while he and his patrons are attempting to hide the fact they've got Mooney on a chair with a tightened noose around his neck. Then the chair falls over.]]
* MurderByMistake: [[spoiler:It's left ambiguous whether Mooney deliberately kicked his chair away at the end or whether it just fell over.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Pretty much everyone's attitude towards Harry at the end.
* NotSoDifferent: Mooney deliberately uses this as a tactic to get close to Shirley. He also pulls this on Syd, although that one is much more sincere.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Mooney is generally very soft-spoken, philosophical and polite. When he's angry, he's the exact opposite.
** Invoked with Shirley. Her parents only really become worried when they realise how long she's been gone.
* OhCrap: Syd when he realises things are getting out of hand.
** Harry when Pierrepoint shows up at his pub.
** [[spoiler:Everyone at the end [[ItMakesSenseInContext when the chair falls over]].]]
* OnlySaneMan: Inspector Fry has shades of this.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Mooney is particularly fond of handing these out to people. He even manages to give a posthumous one to Hennessey.
-->'''Mooney''': It's at times like this that I ask myself "what would Hennessey do?" and the answer to that is always something stupid that would get me executed, so I don't do that, I do the opposite.
* RunningAwayToCry: Shirley attempts this early on.
* Sadist: [[spoiler:Mooney definitely shows hints of being this.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Invoked by Mooney when things start going wrong. [[spoiler:Averted in that he decides to stick around anyway.]]
-->'''Mooney:''' Do I walk back into that pub like I own the place just for a laugh? Do I go back to the garage? Or do I say balls to all this and go back to London and civilisation?
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Again, Mooney definitely shows signs of this. Harry and Syd aren't too far behind either.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: Whether it's "good" or not is a matter of personal opinion, but [[spoiler:Inspector Fry is really reluctant to go along with Harry's idea of hanging Mooney.]]
* Trickster: Mooney. Syd wishes to see himself as this, but he does a pretty poor job.
* WideEyedIdealist: Shirley certainly ''begins'' the play as one.
* YourCheatingHeart: It's implied that Harry cheated on his wife sometime around the Nuremburg Trials (and Grand National Week).
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