Hanging from the ceiling

Sub trope of "There are strings on me". Also covers the cases of the whumpee being hanged (but for now, only if the situation was inflicted by others or as a sub trope of "All part of the plan", not actual suicide attempts)

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## TV Shows

**Arrow**

* **1x05:** *(flashback)* **Oliver Queen** (Stephen Amell) is captured and taken to the enemy camp, where he is tortured for the first time.
* **1x23:** Captured by Malcolm Merlyn on the previous episode, Oliver is woken with a water bucket.

**Balthazar**

* **1x06: Raphaël Balthazar** (Tomer Sisley) is tied up on tree branches as the killer gives the bad guy motivation speech. He is hiten a few times while immobilized like this.

**Dark**

* **2x02: Jonas Kahnwald** (Louis Hofmann) is caught at the "forbidden place", and for that he will be hanged.

**Gotham**

* **1x01: Jim Gordon** (Ben McKenzie) tries to get answers from Fish Mooney and is captured. He is dragged to some kind of refrigerator, and put alongside the meat, hanging upside down from the ceiling. **Harvey Bullock** (Donal Logue) tries to help him by negotiating with Mooney, but ends up on the exact same situation.
* **1x22:** There's a gang war ongoing, and **Jim** is trying to keep Falcone alive, as the "lesser evil" for the city. But they are ambushed by Fish, and all of them get tied up.

**Magnum P.I. (2018)**

* **3x09: Juliet Higgins** (Perdita Weeks) is kidnapped and kept chained to the ceiling. The kidnapper sends a picture of her like this to Magnum.

**Once Upon a Time**

* **2x19: Robin Hood** (Tom Ellis) tries to steal from Rumpelstiltskin, and as expected, is captured and tortured. He is chained up to the ceiling, until Belle lets him go.

**The Flemish Bandits**

* **Ep 7: Jan de Lichte** (Matteo Simoni) gets captured by the officers, and is whipped for getting in the way of their plans.

**The Vampire Diaries**

* **1x17: Stefan Salvatore** (Paul Wesley) is kidnapped by some of the vampires that escaped the tomb, and is tied up to the ceiling and tortured.

**Torchwood**

* **4x07:** A big group of people finds out that **Jack Harkness** (John Barrowman) is immortal, so he wakes up tied up to the ceiling surrounded by them, being killed over and over again. **Disclaimer: it's an intense sequence, with lots of blood.**

## Movies

**The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)**

* **Edmond Dantes** (Jim Caviezel), imprisioned at the Châteu d'If for 21 years, has his arms tied up to the ceiling for a "commemorative" whipping session once a year, every year, always at the same date he first arrived.

**The Informar (2019)**

* At prison, **Pete Koslow** (Joel Kinnaman) is under the corrupted guard's radar for "breaking the rules", and is ambushed by him and the inmates who run the prison. He gets beaten up, dragged around with a rope around his neck, and finally, hanged to the ceiling about to get killed "looking like a suicide". He almost passes out from the choking rope, as the men interrogates him.