* ''{{Berserk}}'' does this to Guts in supremely heinous fashion during the end of the Eclipse when he is forced to watch [[spoiler:his lover Casca be brutally raped to the point of insanity by his best friend turned BigBad Griffith, who has become a demon god named Femto. He tries to reach her by ''chiseling off his own arm'' which was trapped in the jaws of a demon, only to be [[DogPileOfDoom dogpiled by more demons]] before he can and is forced to watch the rape as a demon [[EyeScream claws out his right eye]]]].
** It's made even more heinous in that [[spoiler: Casca was forced to look at Guts in the middle of her rape by Femto when he began to rape her from behind. Not only is Casca being degraded more and worse by the minute, but she has to look at Guts while it happens, and it's [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] to see [[DontLookAtMe Casca beg Guts not to look at her]] during her last sane moments, even though he's just as forced to look on while he's ''[[TheDeterminator still trying to get to her]]''.]]

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* ''{{Berserk}}''
** This happens to Guts in supremely heinous fashion during the end of the Eclipse when he is forced to watch [[spoiler:his lover Casca be brutally raped to the point of insanity by his best friend turned BigBad Griffith, who has become a demon god named Femto. He tries to reach her by ''chiseling off his own arm'' which was trapped in the jaws of a demon, only to be [[DogPileOfDoom dogpiled by more demons]] before he can and is forced to watch the rape as a demon [[EyeScream claws out his right eye]]]]. It's made even more heinous in that [[spoiler: Casca was forced to look at Guts in the middle of her rape by Femto when he began to rape her from behind. Not only is Casca being degraded more and worse by the minute, but she has to look at Guts while it happens, and it's [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] to see [[DontLookAtMe Casca beg Guts not to look at her]] during her last sane moments, even though he's just as forced to look on while he's ''[[TheDeterminator still trying to get to her]]''.]]

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* Seras Victoria from ''{{Hellsing}}'' has a rather dark and disturbing backstory, which seems to have happened when she was very young. It consists of her father being murdered by burglars, her MamaBear hiding her in a cupboard to protect her, and her mother's subsequent murder by the same burglars. Seras tries to exact revenge by [[EyeScream stabbing one of the guys in the eye with a fork]]; she gets shot for her trouble and one of the perpetrators proceeds to rape her mother's corpse, due to it being "still warm". In full view of little Seras, who lies on the ground bleeding profusely.
* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', Nnoitra orders his subordinate Tesla to beat Ichigo to death and grabs Orihime (who's in love with Ichigo) and forces her to watch. He even says "I want you to watch while the guy who came to save you gets torn apart." Thankfully, Kenpachi pulls a BigDamnHeroes moment before Tesla can kill Ichigo.
** Similarly, when [[spoiler: Ishida and Orihime]] arrive to the place where [[spoiler: Ichigo is fighting Ulquiorra]], the latter [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy openly]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshades the trope]] when he tells her (paraphrased) to "watch as [[spoiler: the person you love the most]] dies", and then [[spoiler: blows a '''massive''' hole in Ichigo's chest, killing him. [[CameBackWrong For a while, anyway]].]]
* In ''TanteiGakuenQ'', while she and Ryu investigate a girl's vanishment in a BoardingSchool, Megumi is caught and kidnapped by a mysterious masked man. She finds herself BoundAndGagged and is forced to watch as [[spoiler: said masked man kills the also kidnapped StudentCouncilPresident by smashing a bottle in his head.]] Few later, Ryu and other kids find a video featuring this as well as [[spoiler: how the masked man threateningly approaches poor Megu and the scene goes to black, implying he's killed her too. In a subversion, he has not, and Megu is released unharmed but ''very'' shaken by what she was forced to see.]]

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* Seras Victoria from ''{{Hellsing}}'' has a rather dark and disturbing backstory, which seems to have happened when she was very young. It consists of her father being murdered by burglars, her mother hiding her in a cupboard to protect her, and her mother's subsequent murder by the same burglars. Seras tries to exact revenge by [[EyeScream stabbing one of the guys in the eye with a fork]]; she gets shot for her trouble and one of the perpetrators proceeds to rape her mother's corpse, due to it being "still warm". In full view of little Seras, who lies on the ground bleeding profusely.
* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', 
**Nnoitra orders his subordinate Tesla to beat Ichigo to death and grabs Orihime (who's in love with Ichigo) and forces her to watch. He even says "I want you to watch while the guy who came to save you gets torn apart." [[spoiler: Thankfully, Kenpachi pulls a BigDamnHeroes moment before Tesla can kill Ichigo.]]
** Similarly, when [[spoiler: Ishida and Orihime]] arrive to the place where [[spoiler: Ichigo is fighting Ulquiorra]], the latter [[LampshadeHanging lampshades the trope]] when he tells her (paraphrased) to "watch as [[spoiler: the person you love the most]] dies", and then [[spoiler: blows a '''massive''' hole in Ichigo's chest, killing him.]]
* In ''TanteiGakuenQ'', while she and Ryu investigate a girl's vanishment in a BoardingSchool, Megumi is caught and kidnapped by a mysterious masked man. She finds herself BoundAndGagged and is forced to watch as [[spoiler: said masked man kills the also kidnapped StudentCouncilPresident by smashing a bottle in his head.]] Few later, Ryu and other kids find a video featuring this as well as [[spoiler: how the masked man threateningly approaches poor Megu and the scene goes to black, implying he's killed her too. He has not, and Megu is released unharmed but ''very'' shaken by what she was forced to see.]]

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* Averted in ''Manga/RurouniKenshin''. Because [[spoiler: Enishi did not force Kenshin to watch as he "killed" his love interest Kaoru even though he knew what affect it would have on Kenshin, this set off Aoshi's suspicion that Kaoru [[DisneyDeath was not dead at all]]. And she was.]]
* In the climax of the 'Saint Beasts' arc in Manga/YuYuHakusho Suzaku has a giant screen showing the footage of [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Botan]] and [[LoveInterest Keiko]] being hunted down by his bug-zombies. At first this serves mostly as a distraction, but as Yusuke increasingly gets the worse end of the fight and things get tighter and tighter for Keiko, it gets closer to torture, culminating in Yusuke on the ground, beaten past moving, while the zombies close in on Keiko. (Botan is not in real danger, as her real form is a spirit the zombies can't touch.)
** Ultimately Yusuke produces HeroicWillpower and sacrifices his life force to break Suzaku and his whistle. Kuwabara has to give him Spirit [=CPR=] to stop him from dying.
** When Yusuke wakes up, Kuwabara and Kurama team up in dickishness and pretend for about a minute and a half that he was too late to save her. People tend to either underestimate how normal Kurama is in favor of DracoInLeatherPants, or underestimate how ''mean'' he is because he's TheSmartGuy and [[DudeLooksLikeALady wears pink]]. This incident showcases both. Also the only time he wears a pony tail.
* Happens in ''DeadmanWonderland'' to Ganta.

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* Nearly literal namedrop: In Marv's short of ''SinCity'', his friend and parole officer Lucille was kidnapped by the cannibal Kevin, who then ate her hand. When Marv finds her, the poor woman breaks down and cries "he made me watch!"
* Mal does this to the Operative in ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' - torture in this case being watching a heartbroken Alliance researcher tell and show of the atrocity on Miranda - the Alliance's greatest crime - right before the speaker is [[spoiler:attacked, raped and ultimately eaten by Reavers. The feed goes on.]]
** A case of FridgeHorror hits. [[spoiler: When the Serenity crew watched it, they quickly turned if off, it was so horrible. When Mal shows the Operative, the Operative's chained down, and Mal walks away as it begins. The Operative likely had no choice but to witness the whole thing... and the Reavers were unlikely to turn it off, so the record lasts as long as the power and storage space allowed.]]
*** Is that really FridgeHorror? I thought that was, you know, the ''point''.
*** The FridgeHorror doesn't end there. Remember that bit about [[spoiler:this same recording being broadcast to pretty much the entire known universe?]]
** It also tortures him in a different way. It destroys his entire view that the Alliance is truly making the universe a better place, [[KnightTemplar which is the entire reason he was doing horrible things for them.]]

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