History Main / ElectricTorture

* Employed in ''Film/BlackMamaWhiteMama'' by a BananaRepublic dictator to a presumed rebel. As is typical for the movie, the girl is rendered topless first.

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* John Rambo in ''RamboFirstBloodPartII'' is such a badass that he took enough electricity to make the lightbulbs of an ''entire'' Viet Cong camp flicker and still kick commie ass soon afterwards.

* In RobotHolocaust, TheDragon & DarkChick, Valeria inflicts this on [[KidnappedScientist Jorn.]] Valaria also gets this briefly a couple of times from [[TheBigBad The Dark One.]]

* From ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', [[spoiler:Robin's torture at the hands of SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.]]
** This is also how [[spoiler:[[HoistByHisOwnPetard Joker meets his end when Terry shocks him with his electric joybuzzer]].]]

** In the main ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, for his battle for his eighth Indigo League badge, Ash finds himself facing off against Team Rocket, since the real gym leader (the same Giovanni from above) was away on "business", and assigned the trio as his substitutes. Team Rocket traps Ash in a platform that electrocutes him whenever his Pokémon take damage during the battle. Meowth rigs the platform to send electric surges even when Ash was winning. In the end, though, Togepi makes this plan backfire.

** Noah turns the tides on her in season 2, when he straps her into a chair in a small pool of water and drenches her, so that anytime she tries to shock him, she ends up zapping herself instead.

* FrederickForsyth's ''Literature/TheDayOfTheJackal'' sees the French Action Service resort to electric torture on Viktor Kowalski, with the ex-Foreign Legionnaire dying after he breaks and finishes confessing. One set of electrodes is [[GroinAttack attached to the penis.]]

* In ''TheSimpsons'', Mayor Quimby gets this by accident when making an announcement on live television. He was demonstrating what would be done to criminals, pretending to be executed with an electric chair, not realizing that it was actually ''on'' until he was strapped in and Police Chief Wiggum flipped the switch.

* In the ''PlanetOfTheApes'' sequel ''Conquest of the Planet of the Apes'', Caesar is tortured by electric shock to get him to admit he can talk. One of the men there is apparently sickened by the display and leaves. The BigBad shows he has an order for Caesar's execution, so just pump up the wattage and electrocute him! In the mean time, the other man went to a control room and disconnects the power. Caesar is smart enough to fake being tortured to death, then later escapes.

* On a fall 2003 edition of ''WWE Raw'', Kane tied up Shane [=McMahon=] to the ringpost. He then applied a set of jumper cables to Shane's "nether regions". The other end of the cables were hooked up to a car battery.

* In the same show, the Question was captured after attempting to assassinate LexLuthor and put through electroshock torture.

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* PlayedForLaughs in {{Bleach}}. Mayuri Kurotsuchi decides to bring a bunch of previously defeated enemies BackFromTheDead, secretly implanting with punishment devices to cause electric shocks directly into their brains. Said "minions" ([[spoiler: Cirucci, Charlotte, Dordoni and Luppi]]) are... [[LargeHam hard to handle]] and they ''really'' don't trust him. [[InvokedTrope So this trope happens.]] [[RunningGag Several times.]]

* PlayedForLaughs in {{Bleach}}. Mayuri Kurotsuchi decides to bring BackFromTheDeath a bunch of previously defeated enemies, secretly implanted with punishment devices to cause electric shocks directly into their brains. Said "minions" ([[spoiler: Cirucci, Charlotte, Dordoni and Luppi]]) are... [[LargeHam hard to handle.]] [[InvokedTrope This trope happens.]] [[RunningGag Several times.]]

* The "Blinking Electrocution" game on ''{{Distraction}}''. The contestants have to answer questions while strapped to electric chairs, and are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin shocked every time they blink]].

* ComicBook/ThePunisher does this in the ''Punisher MAX'' issue "Long Cold Dark". The Punisher is already nasty-talented at inflicting pain on others. [[spoiler: When Barracuda kidnaps Frank's daughter, who he didn't know existed, The Punisher goes PapaWolf on the man and hooks up [[GroinAttack Barracuda's danglies to a car battery.]] For an hour.]]

** Used on Literature/JamesBond in the book ''Literature/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', [[GroinAttack on his favorite bodily organ.]]

* In Anime/FairyTail, Erza recieves this when she's being interrogated by [[spoiler: Kyouka of the Dark Guild Tartaros.]]

* Happens in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'': It ''is'' possible to be killed in this scene; to survive, the player must repeatedly press a button to keep Snake's [[LifeMeter health bar]] up. Something similar happens in the second game. The third game, ''Snake Eater'', also has the hero tortured with electricity, but meanwhile the BigBad is also (literally) beating the piss out of him. Cunningham also (very briefly) does this to Big Boss by whipping him with a stun baton (twice), as well as [[GroinAttack placing his artificial leg directly into Big Boss's groin]] between the two shocks in the very beginning of ''Portable Ops''. ''Peace Walker'' also has this happening to Big Boss.