History Main / IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure

* While the affected characters aren’t villains, the slave owner doing this trope certainly is in the ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' fic ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/5502176/1 Freedom To The Free]]''. Simon, Kaylee River and Wash are enslaved and Simon takes a lot of physical and sexual abuse because the overseers keep threatening Wash and Kaylee if he refuses. Kaylee is threatened with rape if he won’t service one of the women and he’s ordered to do a castration despite it being against his oath with a threat to do it without anesthesia and do the same to Wash. By the time the BigDamnHeroes come to the rescue, he’s recovering physically but River says he’s broken like her after he has a nightmare involving a lot of screaming and Jayne needing to shoot the door open to get to him.

* While the affected characters aren’t villains, the slave owner doing this trope certainly is in the ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' fic ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/5502176/1 Freedom To The Free]]''. Simon, Kaylee and Wash are enslaved and Simon takes a lot of physical and sexual abuse because the overseers keep threatening Wash and Kaylee if he refuses. Kaylee is threatened with rape if he won’t service one of the women and he’s ordered to do a castration despite it being against his oath with a threat to do it without anesthesia and do the same to Wash. By the time the BigDamnHeroes come to the rescue, he’s recovering physically but River says he’s broken like her after he has a nightmare involving a lot of screaming and Jayne needing to shoot the door open to get to him.

* While the affected characters aren’t villains, the slave owner doing this trope certainly is in the ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' fic ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/5502176/1 Freedom To The Free]]''. Simon, Kaylee and Wash are enslaved and Simon takes a lot of physical and sexual abuse because the overseers keep threatening Wash and Kaylee if he refuses. By the time the BigDamnHeroes come to the rescue, he’s recovering physically but River says he’s broken like her after he has a nightmare involving a lot of screaming and Jayne needing to shoot the door open to get to him.

* On one episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'', the case of the week involves a group of human traffickers who would collectively punish all of their child slaves if one of them broke a rule. This ensured the kids wouldn't run away when sent out to work or prostitute, because they were certain the others would be beaten or even killed if they ran. It also ensured that if one of them ''did'' try to step out of line, the others would rein that one in for fear of punishment; one boy ultimately killed his own sister when she tried to run, because he was afraid of what would happen if she got away. (When detectives point out that she might have intended to get help for all of them, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he's horrified]].)

* In ''Film/DieHard'', John [=McClane=] is messing up Hans Gruber's plans. John's wife's coworker (whom he met once) tries to get in Gruber's good graces by attempting to talk his "friend" [=McClane=] into giving himself up. [=McClane=], fully aware of what kind of a person Hans Gruber is, tries to get the guy to admit he's lying but to no avail. Gruber smiles, and shoots the guy for his trouble.

* Girem6 in ''Machinima/{{Smashtasm}}'' does this a lot to [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Grant and Gront]], as noted in this exchange:

* On one episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'', the case of the week involves a group of human traffickers who would collectively punish all of their child slaves if one of them broke a rule. This ensured the kids wouldn't run away when sent out to work or prostitute, because they were certain the others would be beaten or even killed if they ran. It also ensured that if one of them ''did'' try to step out of line, the others would rein that one in for fear of punishment; one boy ultimately killed his own sister when she tried to run, because he was afraid of what would happen if she got away. (When detectives point out that she might have been running to get help for the others, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he's horrified]].)

* In ''Anime/YuGiOh'', for the climactic battle of the Marik arc, Evil!Marik makes the board a setup which is basically this plus a SadisticChoice. He [[spoiler:pulls Yugi's soul and Normal!Marik's soul out of their respective bodies and hangs them up in the air. When the dueler loses life points, bits of the other's body are removed, and the loser's normal side "goes to the Shadow Realm" (as [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]] [[{{Mackere}} puts it]]).]]

* The idea of the whipping boy is that misbehaving young princes cannot be physically disciplined by anyone but the king, due to the Divine Right of Kings, and it was impractical to constantly make requests of a reigning monarch to personally oversee his child's discipline, so a child of lesser status would be disciplined in their place, with the hope that this would make the young prince feel guilty. Specifically, the child chosen for this would be a lifelong companion to the prince, and was often one of the only -- if not ''the'' only -- same-age friends the prince had access to, so this method was often an effective tool for teaching noble children that their actions do have consequences and that those consequences will hurt others. The fact that they were forced to watch as someone who had become a close friend get punished for his own actions tended to serve as a deterrent in short order.

* The idea of the whipping boy is that misbehaving young princes cannot be physically disciplined by anyone but the king, due to the Divine Right of Kings, and it was impractical to constantly make requests of a reigning monarch to personally oversee his child's discipline, so a child of lesser status would be disciplined in their place, with the hope that this would make the young prince feel guilty. To really drive this home, the whipping boy was put in a position to befriend the prince, and was often one of the only -- if not ''the'' only -- same-age friends the prince had access to, so this method was often an effective tool for teaching noble children that their actions do have consequences and that those consequences will hurt others. The fact that they were forced to watch as someone who had become a close friend get punished for his own actions tended to serve as a deterrent in short order.

* The idea of the whipping boy is that misbehaving young princes cannot be physically disciplined by anyone but the king, due to the Divine Right of Kings, and it was impractical to constantly make requests of a reigning monarch to personally oversee his child's discipline, so a child of lesser status would be disciplined in their place, with the hope that this would make the young prince feel guilty. To really drive this home, the whipping boy was specifically someone who was put in a position to befriend the prince, and was often one of the only -- if not ''the'' only -- same-age friends the prince had access to, so this method was often an effective tool for teaching noble children that their actions do have consequences and that those consequences will hurt others. The fact that they were forced to watch as someone who had become a close friend get punished for his own actions tended to serve as a deterrent in short order.

* The idea of the whipping boy is that misbehaving young princes cannot be physically disciplined by anyone but the king, due to the Divine Right of Kings, and it was impractical to constantly make requests of a reigning monarch to personally oversee his child's discipline, so a common-born child would be disciplined in their place, with the hope that this would make the young prince feel guilty. The whipping boy was usually himself a noble. Either from the lower nobility, or a distant cousin, and often one of -- if not the only -- same-age friend the prince had access to, so this method was often an effective tool for teaching noble children that their actions do have consequences and that those consequences will hurt others. The fact that they were forced to watch as someone who had become a close friend get punished for his own actions tended to serve as a deterrent in short order.