Choking

The whumper may overpower the whumpee and choke them with a myriad of objects, such as steel bars, ropes or clothes. And what about empty hands? It's so hard to choose a favorite!

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Animes
Ao no Exorcist


 * 1x07: When a ghoul attacks the dorms building, Okumura Rin runs to the rescue... and is thrown through a glass door. Pinned down and being choked by the creature (who even apologises!), there's little he can do but wait to be rescued himself.

TV Shows
50M²


 * 1x08: Gölge (Engin Öztürk) thinks the hitman he had just fought is unconscious when entering back into the shop... only for the man to come from behind and start choking him with a cloth.

Arrow


 * 1x12: (flashback) Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) is put inside a fight ring, and is beaten by Yao Fei, choked unconscious.

Gotham


 * 1x10: Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) is trying to find Bruce and Selina when he comes across the hitwoman. They fight, and she chokes him unconscious.

Hanna


 * 1x01: Very brief. Erik Heller (Joel Kinnaman), while sparring with Hanna.
 * 1x06: Erik is being tortured, but he keeps the defiance going, and at some point his captor tries to choke him.
 * 1x08: Again during a fight, Erik is grabbed during the invasion sequence.

Lucifer


 * 1x10: Dan Spinoza (Kevin Alejandro) tries to arrest the corrupted cop who's blackmailing him, and they start fighting. In the end, Dan is choked unconscious and kidnapped.
 * 2x01: The killer of the week chokes Lucifer Morningstar (Tom Ellis) with a fire poker.

Sherlock


 * 1x02: Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) breaks into a missing woman's apartment, and while investigating, someone comes from behind and choke him with a cloth rope.

Movies
The Informer (2019)


 * At prison, Pete Koslow (Joel Kinnaman) is ambushed by a corrupted guard and the inmates who run the place, being beaten, dragged around with a rope around his neck, and finally, hanged to the ceiling to get killed "looking like a suicide". He almost passes out from the choking rope, while being interrogated by the men.

Drama
The Untamed


 * Ep 16: Wei Wu Xian (Xiao Zhan) tries to stop Jiang Cheng from going back to their clan and seek revenge against the enemies who destroyed it. Jiang Cheng becomes violent against him, choking him on the ground and yelling all the reasons that was his fault.