History Main / TortureChamberEpisode

* TheQuestion spends most of the ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' episode "Flashpoint" being either tortured or carried out of the torture facility.

* "PhineasAndFerb [[BootCampEpisode Get]] [[MindRape Busted"]]. [[spoiler: Though it was AllJustADream]].
* ''Adventure Time'' has "Power Animal", in which Finn is abducted by gnomes and forced to power their doomsday machine by various sadistic means.

** An unusual version in B5 Season 2, Comes the Inquisitor when Delenn spends the episode being tortured by a Vorlon inquisitor. The Vorlons are Delenn's allies. [[Spoiler: The audience knows from early on that she has volunteered for this as a test of her worthiness to play a leading role in the upcoming war, though that doesn't stop the Inquisitor from getting carried away, especially when Sheridan intervene.]] At the end [[Spoiler: it turns out that the Inquisitor is Jack the Ripper, abducted from Victorian London by the Vorlons so they could harness his fanatical belief in absolutes of right and wrong, an early sign of the Vorlons' true nature ]]

** An unusual version in B5 Season 2, Comes the Inquisitor when Delenn spends the episode being tortured by a Vorlon inquisitor. The Vorlons are Delenn's "allies" and the audience knows from the beginning that she has volunteered for this as a test of her worthiness to play a leading role in the upcoming war.

** An unusual version in B5 Season 2, Comes the Inquisitor when Delenn spends the episode being tortured by a Vorlon inquisitor. The Vorlons are Delenn's "allies" and the audience knows from the beginning that she has volunteered for this as a test of her worthiness to play a leading role in the upcoming war.

An episode about reinforcing how BadAss the hero is... by showing them completely helpless and at the mercy of someone who doesn't have their best interests. Expect a lot of [[DeadpanSnarker defiant comebacks]]. The torturer will almost always be AffablyEvil. A BattleOfWits is commonplace also. [[FreakOut Permanent psychological damage]] is a possibility.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': The source of the page quote is "The Chain of Command, Part II". Picard, after being captured by Cardassians, is tortured for information. When the [[Creator/DavidWarner torturer]] is failing to make any progress in breaking Picard, he attempts to get Picard to tell him that [[TwoPlusTortureEqualsFive there are five lights when there are only four]]. Picard defiantly insists there are four lights, despite being put through a full-body pain experience every time. In the end, Picard doesn't break, and when he is set free after after Star Fleet demands his release, he loudly proclaims that "THERE! ARE! FOUR LIGHTS!" He later tells his counsellor that, in fact, his release happened just in the nick of time, because at that moment he was so broken that not only was he ready to say that there were five lights, he could ''[[DespairEventHorizon actually see five lights]].''

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': The source of the page quote is "The Chain of Command, Part II". Picard, after being captured by Cardassians, is tortured for information. When the [[Creator/DavidWarner torturer]] is failing to make any progress in breaking Picard, he attempts to get Picard to tell him that [[TwoPlusTortureEqualsFive there are five lights when there are only four]]. Picard defiantly insists there are four lights, despite being put through a full-body pain experience every time. In the end, Picard doesn't break, and leaves the torturer sobbing. He later tells his counsellor that he, in fact, ''did'' see five lights [[DespairEventHorizon the final time he was asked.]]

->"[[PunctuatedForEmphasis THERE! ARE!..]].. ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome FOUR!!! LIGHTS!"]]''
->-- Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': The source of the page quote is "The Chain of Command, Part II". Picard, after being captured by Cardassians, is tortured for information. When the [[Creator/DavidWarner torturer]] is failing to make any progress in breaking Picard, he attempts to get Picard to tell him that [[TwoPlusTortureEqualsFive there are five lights when there are only four]]. Picard defiantly insists there are four lights, despite being put through a full-body pain experience every time. In the end, Picard doesn't break, and leaves the torturer sobbing. He later tells his counselor that he, in fact, ''did'' see five lights [[DespairEventHorizon the final time he was asked.]]

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': The source of the page quote is "The Chain of Command, Part II". Picard, after being captured by Cardassians, is tortured for information. When the [[DavidWarner torturer]] is failing to make any progress in breaking Picard, he attempts to get Picard to tell him that [[TwoPlusTortureEqualsFive there are five lights when there are only four]]. Picard defiantly insists there are four lights, despite being put through a full-body pain experience every time. In the end, Picard doesn't break, and leaves the torturer sobbing. He later tells his counselor that he, in fact, ''did'' see five lights [[DespairEventHorizon the final time he was asked.]]

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': The source of the page quote is "The Chain of Command, Part II". Picard, after being captured by Cardassians, is tortured for information. When the [[DavidWarner torturer]] is failing to make any progress in breaking Picard, he attempts to get Picard to tell him that [[TwoPlusTortureEqualsFive there are five lights when there are only four]]. Picard defiantly insists there are four lights, despite being put through a full-body pain experience every time. In the end, Picard doesn't break, and leaves the torturer sobbing. He later tells his counselor that he in fact, ''did'' see five lights, [[DespairEventHorizon the final time he was asked.]]

* The ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'' episode "Abyss" is about Jack being tortured for information by Ba'al -- mostly information he doesn't actually know.

* ''BabylonFive'': After being captured by the Clark Administration, Sheridan was sent to an interrogation center on Mars, where he underwent brutal psychological torture and attempts to subvert his hold on reality. To further portray his isolation, the episode had no B plot, being set entirely within the center. Sheridan fails to crack and prepares himself for death, only for the execution to be a fake and a new cycle of torture begins under a different interrogator.

-->"I must have my scream."

* ''{{Recess}}'' somewhat parodies this with "The Box". The episode deals with Miss Finster's new punishment for the kids, "the box", which is just a square drawn on the blacktop. After T.J. ends up in there, it ends up breaking him and sends him into a MadnessMantra.

An episode about reinforcing how BadAss the hero is... by showing them completely helpless and at the mercy of someone who doesn't have their best interests. Expect a lot of [[DeadpanSnarker defiant comebacks]]. The torturer will almost always be AffablyEvil. A BattleOfWits is commonplace also. [[AndIMustScream Permanent psychological damage]] is a possibility.

* ''BabylonFive'': After being captured by the Clark Administration, Sheridan was sent to an interrogation center on Mars, where he underwent brutal psychological torture and attempts to subvert his hold on reality. [[BadAss It didn't work.]]

* ''Sereis/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': The source of the page quote is "The Chain of Command, Part II". Picard, after being captured by Cardassians, is tortured for information. When the [[DavidWarner torturer]] is failing to make any progress in breaking Picard, he attempts to get Picard to tell him that [[TwoPlusTortureEqualsFive there are five lights when there are only four]]. Picard defiantly insists there are four lights, despite being put through a full-body pain experience every time. In the end, Picard doesn't break, and leaves the torturer sobbing. He later tells his counselor that he in fact, ''did'' see five lights, [[DespairEventHorizon the final time he was asked.]]

->-- StarTrekTheNextGeneration

* ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': The source of the page quote is "The Chain of Command, Part II". Picard, after being captured by Cardassians, is tortured for information. When the [[DavidWarner torturer]] is failing to make any progress in breaking Picard, he attempts to get Picard to tell him that [[TwoPlusTortureEqualsFive there are five lights when there are only four]]. Picard defiantly insists there are four lights, despite being put through a full-body pain experience every time. In the end, Picard doesn't break, and leaves the torturer sobbing. He later tells his counselor that he in fact, ''did'' see five lights, [[DespairEventHorizon the final time he was asked.]]

->"[[ThisIsSparta THERE! ARE!..]].. ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome FOUR!!! LIGHTS!"]]''

* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': Wash and Mal, after getting captured by Niska.

* "PhineasAndFerb [[BootCampEpisode Get]] [[MindRape Busted". [[spoiler: Though it was AllJustADream]].

->"I must have my scream."

* ''{{Barbarella}}'': Her brief stint in the Ex-sex-sive machine. It proved that orgasming her to death... would not be possible.