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16->'''Thermian Captain:''' I have told you all I know... if you have any mercy within you, please, let me die.\
17'''Sarris:''' When I grow weary of the noises you make, you shall die!
18-->-- ''Film/GalaxyQuest''
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20Torture. Sure, some characters [[ToThePain gloat]] until their victims are [[BigDamnHeroes rescued]]. But some gloat and torture at once. And others just get to doing it.
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22Often shown only by [[ScreamDiscretionShot implication]], or in [[PastVictimShowcase its aftereffects]] (which [[ScarsAreForever can be nasty]] even if the victim survives), for obvious reasons.
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24In ascending order of reason nastiness, the typical reasons: [[TortureAlwaysWorks for information]], for punishment, and [[ForTheEvulz for pleasure]]. The punishment may, indeed, be [[RevengeByProxy for another character to have to watch]] or [[ForcedToWatch see the results]]. But others are possible. A MadScientist may torture to [[PlayingWithSyringes learn about the victim]]. HumanSacrifice may call for a particular and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath gruesome]] death, and if mere death is too good for some criminal (or alleged criminal), he may be tortured to death. If the person wants to break the victim, this may be a way to force him to say that TwoPlusTortureMakesFive, or somehow [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil get the victim to join them]].
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26May be a FateWorseThanDeath, calling for a MercyKill or ICannotSelfTerminate when the hero comes upon the victim — the victim is likely to plead for death even if the hero can save him, but the hero is (obviously) prone to override the plea and drag him out of there, if he can. Recovery is [[AllIsWellThatEndsWell likely to be improbably complete]].
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28[[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique Heroes torture]], sometimes, when they are in a great rush and dire need, and there, the effects tend to be [[TortureAlwaysWorks rather unrealistic]]; in RealLife, torture leaves physical scars and mental trauma, and tends to have [[InterrogatedForNothing poor results]] in terms of getting reliable and accurate information. And some particularly dark {{Antihero}}es may do this for {{revenge}} instead of information. If the bad guys don't like getting their hands dirty, they are likely to employ a TortureTechnician or RoboticTortureDevice to do this for them.
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30One motive for BetterToDieThanBeKilled is to avoid this.
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32Any work that paints UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition (or their nearest fantasy analogue) as bad guys will often have them engaging in some form of this on people they suspect to be [[TheHeretic heretics]] or worse. This general portrayal of the Inquisition is known as the Black Legend.
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34Compare NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. A "light" sci-fi and fantasy equivalent is the AgonyBeam... but if the Agony Beam is set to "Consciousness" expect [[MindRape unpleasant results]]. But you never know — sooner or later you may find a victim who [[TooKinkyToTorture likes the frights.]]
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36See also ToThePain, AmputativeSentencing, ElectricTorture, MindRape, {{Room 101}}, CruelAndUnusualDeath, and WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk. If the player is allowed to do this in a video game, see VideoGameCrueltyPotential.
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38Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease As this is way too common and it's also illegal and disgusting.
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45* ''Anime/AngelCop'' has the anti-terrorist police group doing this to Tachihara, the leader of the [[DirtyCommunists Red May]] terrorist group, for information. They go shockingly and [[{{Gorn}} graphically]] overboard with this [[spoiler:to the point that by the time they ''finally'' get something out of him, one of his forearms is ''gangrenous and infested with maggots'']].
46* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', Minister Nick is tortured to try to get him to reveal Eren's location (he doesn't break). Later, Hanji and Levi do the same to the people who tortured him, partly for information, and partly as revenge. There's some BlackComedy in there too, when Hanji admits she doesn't really know how to torture, and the victim screams that she's supposed to ask questions ''before'' [[{{Fingore}} pulling the fingernails off]].
47* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'''s villains, being in a [[TheDungAges Dung Ages]] medievalesque CrapsackWorld, do this a lot, and it gets nasty.
48** Griffith in particular suffers a nasty year-long torture as punishment for [[spoiler:having sex with the King's daughter]], and Bishop Mozgus crosses the MoralEventHorizon when he has some refugees put through this. Let's not even get into what Emperor Ganishka gets up to.
49** Or what [[spoiler:Griffith himself]] does to the Band of the Hawk, especially what he does to [[spoiler:Casca. Not only does he rape her right in front of the man she loves (which is traumatic enough already), but because she has the Brand of Sacrifice and is as close as anyone can possibly get to a ''member of the Godhand'' (which is closer than Guts himself was able to get to him in the Guardians of Desire arc because of the pain his own Brand was causing him), she is in ''utterly excruciating agony'' all the while he's doing this to her]]. And it's made all the worse [[MindRape by the effect of this horrible act]] on [[spoiler:Guts himself, who is pinned down and completely at his mercy, a situation that is all too familiar to his first traumatic experience, which he's only told Casca about -- and the possibility that Griffith may have gleaned this from either or both of them with his newfound powers as a Godhand and is deliberately using this to torture them both]]. That's not even mentioning [[spoiler:the sort of things that Griffith is doing to Casca as he is raping her... It can only be described as pure ''sexual sadism'', no more, no less]].
50** Guts himself. After being broken and turned into a near-soulless husk of pure rage by the horrible events of the Eclipse, he starts sending the pain right back. Knowing that what would definitely kill normal humans only hurts the Apostles, he pulls absolutely no punches. Particularly, the Baron, whom he riddles with crossbow bolts after rendering him crippled and helpless, and the Count, whom he stabs dozens of times in the face until his knife breaks off.
51--->'''Guts:''' Amazing! No wonder you're higher than us humans -- ''[[WhyWontYouDie you don't know how to fucking die]]!''
52* Ashley does this to Shusei in episode 10 of ''Manga/BetrayalKnowsMyName'' via sticking long thin needles in a VoodooDoll of Shusei which makes Shusei bleed and scream in agony.
53* ''Manga/BladeOfTheImmortal'' has Hyakurin's torture which included being beaten, stabbed, poked with red-hot spikes, having her fingernails ripped off and her arm broken and being raped almost continuously for up to several days. She later learns that she is pregnant, and she doesn't even know which of her attackers was the father.
54* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': In his released form, Szayel has the ability to create a small voodoo doll that has his enemy's likeness. Any damage done to the dolls' internal organs, accessed by taking the doll apart (which doesn't happen to the original) removing the organs and then crushing them, is done to the original, debilitating them from the inside. Though tearing apart the doll won't harm the victim, the doll's exterior has some effect on the victim as well, as seen when Ishida felt Szayel scratch and flick his doll's face. Szayel uses the voodoo dolls to sadistically torture Ishida and Renji. He tries to do the same to Mayuri who fakes that he's in pain, having replaced his organs with dummies before encountering Szayel.
55* Most of what Greg does to Jeremy in ''Manga/ACruelGodReigns'', mixed in with a lot of MindRape.
56* In ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'', after Jimmy Kurosaki captures David, he subjects him to an unedited braindance of a [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul cyberpsycho]] going on a wild killing spree before being put down by [=MaxTAC=], purely ForTheEvulz. Since it wasn't edited, David gets the full sensation and nearly goes insane from the sheer stress, and even suffers flashbacks to it later on.
57* In ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'', Genkaku does this to Nagi to try to get him to revert back to being AxCrazy and [[InLoveWithYourCarnage so that he'll join the Undertakers]]. It's shown to have been done mostly in the form of drugs and MindRape.
58* [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist L]] of ''Manga/DeathNote'' occasionally employs this technique as part of his cold-blooded approach to investigation, though situations tend to be mostly ambiguous; the most blatant example, of course, is his treatment of [[MadLove Misa]], which is far less than kind.
59-->'''Misa:''' ''[to [[SerialKiller Light]]]'' I won't tell them anything, even if they torture me.\
60'''[[EnemyMine L]]:''' I can attest to that.
61* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
62** Any Malomyotismon joke you have becomes HarsherInHindsight when you hear what he said when the dubbers weren't in control. He was not asking Arukenimon if she was afraid, he asked her if the torture hurt, and he pledged to give her a "million years of Hell." He then said very calmly how he would "evaporate that pitiful love Mummymon felt." Evaporation followed. He then declares he will crucify the Digidestined upon the same cross as his minions. Yikes. According to this version, the children were not yelling jobs, but expelling darkness from them. There was a reason this version has never been given to American kids.
63** Another '''even worse''' example occurs in Episode 48 of ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame''. The quartet of Chamblemon in that episode use their spores to gravely weaken people, usually women in bridal dresses, and grow mushrooms on their bodies which they eat. They gleefully rip these mushrooms off their victim's bodies and reduce them to screaming wrecks, even ripping out a bunch from Ruli and Hiro before they go fight Kiyoshiro, causing them immense amounts of pain. It's so heinously insane that it looks less like it's from ''Digimon'' or even a sunday morning anime, but more like it came from ''Manga/MadeInAbyss''.
64* In ''Manga/DogSoldier'', UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi carves a grid on the main character's back and [[FlayingAlive removes the skin]].
65* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
66** Vegeta inflicts this on Goku after becoming a Great Ape, catching Goku in his hands and ruthlessly crushing every bone in his body.
67** Frieza's ''entire fighting style'' revolves around this. He impales Krillin on his horn, slowly crushes Gohan's skull, blasts Piccolo with a BeamSpam, savagely beats down Vegeta while he's helpless, and spends a ''really'' long time beating up Goku while at 50% power, at one point holding him underwater and nearly drowning him. There's a reason this guy is considered one of the worst {{sadist}}s in the DBZ universe.
68** During the Piccolo Jr. Saga of the original series, Piccolo put Goku through a torture session so brutal and horrific it would make Frieza proud. First, he blasts a hole the size of a fist through Goku's shoulder with a BreathWeapon, aggravates the wound by stomping on it and ramming his elbow into it, and then breaks both of Goku's legs and takes out his other arm with an energy beam. It's easily one of the bloodiest and most horrifying moments in the series.
69** After ascending to Super Saiyan 2, Gohan of all people subjects Cell to this. Instead of killing him outright, Gohan is determined to make Cell ''pay'' for the atrocities he's committed and slowly takes his time picking the android apart and gives him a vicious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech before causing Cell to have an epic VillainousBreakdown, both mentally and physically; he even goes so far as to let Cell [[HealingFactor regenerate]] on the grounds that [[RevengeBeforeReason Cell hadn't suffered]] ''[[RevengeBeforeReason enough]]''. This, however, came back to bite Gohan in the rear since the resulting breakdown led Cell to attempt to self-destruct and [[EarthShatteringKaboom take the Earth]] [[TakingYouWithMe with him]].
70** [[AxCrazy Super Buu]] is no slouch in this department either, being worse or equal to Frieza in nature. His methods of killing are extremely brutal; he even killed a man by liquifying his own body, forcibly going down a guy's throat, and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath making him explode him from the inside out.]]
71** Much like Frieza, Goku Black's ''fighting style'' is causing physical pain to his opponents. Among his most prominent techniques include traversing or cutting his opponents with his hand.
72* This trope occurs in ''Manga/ElfenLied'' quite often, whether it's from the AxCrazy [[TykeBomb diclonius]] or the clearly more [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters inhuman]] humans.
73* Near the end of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', [[PlayingWithFire Roy Mustang]] subjects Envy to this once Envy reveals that he was the one who killed Maes Hughes, Mustang's best friend. Upon learning this, Mustang flies into an UnstoppableRage and burns Envy alive again and again, going so far as to [[EyeScream boil the fluid in his eyes]] and [[TongueTrauma burn out his tongue]]. He even lets Envy [[HealingFactor regenerate himself]] each time before torching him again, outright stating that by the time he's done, Envy will have died a ''thousand'' deaths. Yikes.
74* In ''Manga/FutureDiary'', Minene gets tortured by Twelth for information who [[EyeScream pulls her bad eye out of her head]].
75* Rico from ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' is prone to this. Rico is a preteen girl who's also ThePollyanna of the group, which makes her mercilessly beating full-grown adults to a bloody pulp all the more eerie.
76* In the ''Anime/LupinIIIPartII'' episode "Goemon's Close Call", Goemon is abducted by a pair of assassins, who want to gain fame by killing Lupin. In order to learn about Lupin's weakness, they torture Goemon horribly.
77* ''Manga/MagicalGirlSpecOpsAsuka'':
78** Nozomi finds herself on the receiving end when she is kidnapped by Abigail and a pair of Russian magical mercenaries, one of whom burns her skin with heated tongs while the other uses [[MakingASplash hydrokinesis]] to waterboard her. The resulting trauma is so profound that the only way to help her return to a relatively normal life was to give her a magical drug that erased all of her memories from the past week.
79** Kurumi is a master of using torture, both in interrogations and just for fun. She is particularly fond of using magical drugs to [[SensoryAbuse heighten the senses of her victims before going to town on them]]. [[spoiler:One illegal magical girl that the heroines apprehend ends up getting her mind broken as a result and reduced to a HumanPet.]]
80* ''Anime/{{Mnemosyne}}'' has this happening to the immortal detective Rin on a regular basis.
81* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
82** Uchiha Itachi has a power that serves as one of these. Tsukiyomi may appear to be a second-long MindRape to those outside, but those experiencing it they're suffering a near-eternity of endless physical and emotional torture. It's enough to leave them catatonic and Itachi doesn't even try to extract information with it; he just wants them out of the way. It's suffering from it at Itachi's hands, ''twice'', that turned Sasuke into the [[RevengeBeforeReason revenge-obsessed]] {{Jerkass}} he is.
83** Jasshinism encourages its priests to drag out the suffering of their victims as long as possible before killing them. Experiencing the pain of his dying victim has an almost narcotic effect on Hidan; only when extremely angered or pressed for time will he make their deaths clean.
84** Ibiki Morino, the head interrogator in the Konoha Intelligence Corps was subjected to nightmarish torture when he was captured on a mission. [[spoiler:The top of his head is just one massive scab with several old scars... from drills, screws, and other implements used on him. He didn't break and escaped.]]
85* In ''Manga/NightmareInspector'', Chitose [[spoiler:who is now the current Hiruko the Baku]], was tortured for much of his backstory, for the entertainment of a mysterious group of people.
86* ''Anime/NowAndThenHereAndThere''. Abelia doing so to Shu is notable in that she's an adult and he's a young boy. You don't see ''that'' in media everyday.
87* [[SoftSpokenSadist Vincent]] from ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' has been known to use this technique (scissors are usually involved) both as a way to get information ''and'' to [[AxeCrazy get out of a bad mood.]] He is very good at it.
88* In ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'', Okina tortures a low-level {{mook|s}} for information by nailing hot candles to his hands. Later, Enishi mentally tortures Kenshin by [[spoiler:pretending to kill Kaoru]] as punishment for "killing" his sister, Tomoe.
89* ''Manga/SakuraGari'':
90** [[DepravedBisexual Katsuragi]] tortures Masataka because he's {{Yandere}} for Souma, who is in love with Masataka. He does so by drugging Masataka after inviting him to his house for tea, tying him up, and then raping him. He follows that by [[spoiler:whipping him, beating him up, and sticking a household object up Masataka's anus right after raping him]]. He then orders Masataka to give up on Souma and [[spoiler:submerges his hand in boiling hot tea, and Masataka retaliates by throwing the tea in Katsuragi's eyes, which allows him to escape]].
91** Also, almost every lover of either sex [[spoiler:Souma]] takes [[spoiler:in the Saiki household]] has been through this at the hands of [[spoiler:Sakurako, his {{Yandere}} sister]], who not only tortures them, but also ''takes pictures of it'' for her amusement. The most notorious victims are Masataka (whom she [[spoiler:ties up and feeds forcefully, while telling him to go away]]), [[spoiler:Terashima (whose drawing hand she crushes, right before tossing him down a flight of stairs)]], and a young and pretty maid who she [[spoiler:had BoundAndGagged and savagely beat up, causing her to lose Souma's baby that she was pregnant with]].
92* ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'':
93** In the first episode, Mugen and Jin are captured by a corrupt magistrate who has them tortured with various methods over a period of several hours for their (at best very indirect) responsibility for his equally nasty son's death.
94** A later episode has a government agent captured by criminals and tortured for an extended period, but essentially tells his captors nothing.
95* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' features several graphic scenes of torture throughout the series.
96** TortureTechnician Yamori and PsychopathicManchild Juuzou both became warped individuals as a result of extensive torture in their pasts, and are prime examples of how BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil. But torture becomes a key plot point when Yamori manages to catch gentle and idealistic protagonist Kaneki Ken, who happens to possess a very powerful HealingFactor. Several [[{{Fingore}} chapters]] of [[EyeScream graphic]] [[SadisticChoice torture]] [[CreepyCentipedes later]], Kaneki is forced to abandon his kindness and [[TheDogBitesBack turn on Yamori]] to save his own life. He emerges from over a week of torture a [[AntiHero changed]] [[PayEvilUntoEvil person]], and is shown to be suffering serious psychological problems as a direct result.
97** One of the first things Kaneki does after escaping from Yamori, is systematically break 103 of Ayato's bones in retaliation to Ayato hurting Touka. He does so despite having figured out that Ayato could easily have killed Touka but refrained from doing so because he was actually [[CruelToBeKind protecting her]], only hurting Touka enough to keep her from fighting anyone else who might kill her.
98* ''Manga/YuGiOh'': Dark Marik prefers to make his enemies suffer as much possible before their deaths and rub it in while he's doing so. His Penalty Games also reflect this, trapping Mai in an hourglass full of scarabs that slowly devour her skin.
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102* Scratch from ''AudioPlay/WereAlive'' locks Burt up for months, starves him half to death, and finally gets fed up and destroys [[ICallItVera Shirley]] in front of him and then cuts off his trigger finger.
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106* In the Literature/{{Child Ballad|s}} ''Literature/YoungBeichan'', the hero is tortured in prison in many variants.
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110* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': Subverted. In the first tome, the Romans tie Getafix to a table and {{tickle|Torture}} his foot for hours, and Getafix doesn't even break a laugh. Later, they threaten to torture Asterix to force Getafix to prepare his magical potion: both Asterix and Getafix say that there is no way they are going to do it, but as soon as he starts to be tied to the table, Asterix starts to beg for mercy and Getafix decides to do what the Romans say. This is all a way for the Gauls to play the Romans like fools.
111* ''ComicBook/BackToBrooklyn'': Churchill loves to do this.
112** When he tracks Bob to an old store Bob used to frequent, he tortures the elderly owner with a straight razor. After carving him to bits, Churchill has the place set on fire, informing the old man he can carry his bedridden wife out to save her after Churchill has left him in no shape to even walk.
113** Churchill later captures Bob's best friend Vinnie and tortures him, only cutting it short with a bullet to the head when he realizes Vinnie will never betray Bob.
114* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'':
115** Roman Sionis, better known as Black Mask. It seems to be his hobby. Two infamous incidents involve torturing Stephanie Brown to the point that Leslie Thompkins could feasibly fake her death from the injuries, and torturing Maggie Kyle (Catwoman's sister) and her husband, which included ''forcing Maggie to eat her husband's eyeballs''. Maggie's husband was killed and she was rendered catatonic from the ordeal.
116** [[spoiler:Dick Grayson]] inflicts horrible torture and mutilation on [[spoiler:Carrie]] in the finale of ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain''.
117** In ''ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily'', [[spoiler:Batman finds an audio tape that has Joker burning Alfred's eyes with ammonia. Batman is not pleased]].
118* ''ComicBook/{{Batwoman}}'': During her training, Kate Kane was tortured for a week straight, including with electricity and waterboarding.
119* ''ComicBook/Calico2020'': [[TheProtagonist Calico]] does this to a rich family as punishment for murdering a lioness and orphaning her cubs while hunting in the Serengheti. After [[OffWithHisHead decapitating the teenage daughter and presenting her severed head to the parents]], [[AnArmAndALeg he chops off the husband's arms]] and ties him to a chair backwards. He also ties the wife to another chair and [[ForcedToWatch makes her watch as he tortures the husband]] by (presumably) hammering a pipe into his hands. The torture ends up killing them both.
120* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'': The Red Skull loves torturing people. His second-in-command Crossbones probably enjoys torturing people even more.
121* ''ComicBook/CleanRoom'': Wenuka uses his Dark Room to punish distributors who miss their sales quotas. Implements of torture hang on the walls, and the victims are stripped and chained.
122* ''ComicBook/{{Diabolik}}'':
123** The title character started out using this for interrogation. He currently uses realistic TruthSerums, but if you're either immune or allergic to it he'll first [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique threaten you with torture]]... and then do it if you're stupid enough to not talk. Torture may be unreliable, but if he has no choice and you're healthy enough to live and confess...
124** This is attempted on Ginko by some criminals. It fails miserably. After all, if the guy's HeroicWillpower makes him immune to TruthSerums, mere pain has no chance to break him.
125** Attempted once on Diabolik himself. Diabolik resists for a while, then 'breaks'... and lures most of his captors in a deadly trap before returning to their base and killing them all. That's what happens when you deal with someone nicknamed [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast King of Terror]]...
126* ''ComicBook/FrankMillersRoboCop'': The comic sees Margaret Love, the proto-version of [[Film/RoboCop2 Juliette Faxx]], frequently engage in this, twice to Murphy (once after he's just repaired after he shows no remorse for siding with people OCP screwed over, and again after forcing Murphy to say goodbye to his ex-wife and mocking him) and a third time to a regular cop (having him be awake during painful surgery under the pretext of "reality therapy").
127* ''ComicBook/AHistoryOfViolence'': An unspeakably horrible example occurs in the comic. Tom, the main character, and a friend robbed and murdered a group of New York gangsters when they were teenagers, partly as payback for the murder of the friend's brother. The friend is [[LooseLips found out later]], though, and we see him in a room with a [[ProfessionalKiller hitman]] holding a hatchet. Tom has to make a run for it and change his name. Twenty years later, they catch up to him... and he learns that his friend ''is still alive''. When you see [[https://comiconlinefree.com/a-history-of-violence/issue-Full/281 what he looks like]] (link possibly NSFW), [[BodyHorror you'll wish]] you hadn't; among other things his body, or what's left of it, is covered in scars, [[AnArmAndALeg he has no arms or legs]], [[EyeScream he's missing an eye]], and from the look of his mouth and how he talks, [[TheToothHurts he's either missing teeth or probably had some drilled into, maybe both]]. In a subversion of standard hero practice, when the friend begs for a MercyKill from Tom, he complies.
128* The Crime Doctor in Franchise/TheDCU ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' miniseries ''ComicBook/VillainsUnited''.
129* ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'': This becomes literal when Killer Frost exposes Catwoman to extreme low temperatures in an attempt to learn Batman's location.
130* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': Ray Palmer (yes, ComicBook/TheAtom) gets in on the action in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice'':
131-->''"Have you ''ever'' had a sinus headache? So torturous you thought your head would ''explode?'' What if I shrank to ''microscopic'' size, entered your skull, ''then'' began to grow. [[ToThePain Imagine how that would feel]].''"
132* ''ComicBook/KickAss'': Kick-Ass is tortured through testicular electrocution, with his balls hooked up to a car battery, mainly for [[{{Jerkass}} Red Mist]]'s pleasure, because he knows that Kick-Ass knows nothing.
133* ''ComicBook/{{Morbius}}'': After monster hunter Robert Hellsgaard has taken out Morbius with a burst of pure sunlight, he tells his henchmen, "Bring the good doctor. I will like to torture him."
134* ''ComicBook/{{The Outsiders|DCComics}}'': In ''ComicBook/Outsiders2003'', Chang Tzu tortured Captain Boomerang to force him to move at superspeed and let him get a reading (leaving him unable to stand) and started to vivisect the Black Queen (without, needless to say, anesthesia).
135* ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'': The Reaver Cleaver liked to chop off bits of his victims and send them to loved ones before killing them. His last victim survived, albeit without a scrotum and with his face removed and reattached [[{{Squick}} upside down]].
136* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'':
137** Frank commonly uses this to extract information he needs, though he recognizes that it doesn't always take. He also tries not to drag it out, since he prefers his revenge cold.
138** One memorable storyline in ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'' has Frank fighting European sex slavers. The evil they deal in makes him snap, with one book beginning with him reading up on human anatomy and ending with one of the ringleaders being left to talk or die, as his intestines are hanging above looped around a tree.
139* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': Johnny Warren was a Mafia enforcer who enjoyed torturing people while waiting for his actual target to show up. When Tim first "meets" him he's been beating, burning and otherwise torturing the girlfriend of a guy who stole from his boss all day while waiting for her boyfriend to show up.
140* ''ComicBook/SinCity'': The SociopathicHero Marv is really fond of torture, but only [[PayEvilUntoEvil towards bad guys]]. Examples include:
141** He amputates all of Kevin's limbs and sicks Kevin's own wolfdog on him to eat him alive. Okay, Kevin was a cannibalistic serial killer, but still... brrr. Becomes AFateWorseThanDeath, but it didn't seem to bother Kevin much. He never screamed, just stared at Marv the whole time.
142** Cardinal Roark might have gotten it worse than Kevin, [[GoryDiscretionShot we don't know for sure what happened,]] but judging from Marv's narration he had the most "fun" with him.
143--->'''Marv:''' ''Kevin was damn frustrating but Roark's a pure joy. [...] I stare the bastard in the face and I laugh as he screams to God for mercy and I laugh harder when he squeals like a stuck pig and when he whimpers like a baby I'm laughing so hard I cry. He spurts and gurgles and life is good.''
144** Marv also tortures and dismembers a cop, partially for information but mainly to avenge [[spoiler:Lucille]].
145* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': The majority of the Inheritors from ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse'' enjoy playing with their food, before killing and eating them. In ''ComicBook/SpiderGeddon'', it's revealed that [[spoiler:their vampirism was artificial, implanted by [[AbusiveParents Solus]]]]. In addition to this, Spiderling describes [[spoiler:their childhood as horrifying]].
146* ''Franchise/StarWars'': It seems that to be a practitioner of TheDarkSide, you have to love torture. (Indeed, according to at least one [=RPG=] sourcebook, to become a Sith Lord you had to have ''endured'' unimaginable pains.) Palpatine, Count Dooku, Aleema and Satal Keto, and Asajj Ventress are some of the most sadistic examples. Sometimes it was done for information, sometimes for punishment, and often for pleasure.
147* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
148** During ''ComicBook/TheHuntForReactron'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} captures her father's murderer Reactron and takes him to her planet so he can stand trial. However, her mother has him tortured for information. Supergirl, who wants justice rather than revenge, is furious when she found out. Several weeks later, in the ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'' story arc, she still feels guilty about it.
149** ''ComicBook/SupermanSupergirlMaelstrom'': In order to punish her for stealing a Boom Tube device, Granny Goodness gets Maelstrom strapped to a table and put through neurological torture.
150* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW'': It is the purpose of the Decepticon Justice Division to locate and torture Decepticons who frustrate Megatron's goals, for the sole reason of making sure other hesitant 'cons fear repercussions from them enough to stay on the straight. And that's bad, but it's even worse when it's obvious that they care little for the Cause and mostly just get off on torturing people...or giant [[HumongousMecha robots]]... whatever.
151* ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'': The Red Skull is very fond of this. Nick Fury managed to get him to join the [[ComicBook/TheUltimates Ultimate Avengers]] a second time by offering to grant him free reign to torture and kill prisoners in the prison he was contained in along with a shopping list of torture tools.
152* ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'': V starves and tortures his sidekick Evey for an indeterminate amount of time in order to "free" her, even if it meant driving her insane.
153* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'': Genocide abducts and tortures Etta Candy after the creature figures out that there are things worse than death to inflict on humans. Diana rescues her old friend, but she spends a long time stuck in the hospital recovering.
154* ''ComicBook/{{X 23}}'':
155** X-23's treatment at the hands of the Facility falls into this. Among the highlights: Her HealingFactor was forcibly activated by exposing her to lethal radiation ''at age seven'' and her claws were removed one at a time to be coated in adamantium at the same age ''while she was wide awake'', [[note]]Not because they could not mainline enough drugs to keep her under but because the head of the surgical team ordered everyone else out of the theater for daring to suggest anasthetic[[/note]] while the process of conditioning her to respond to the Trigger Scent involved electrocution and near-drowning. When Laura is later recaptured by her abusive ex-handler Kimura, she goes to work on her ''with a chainsaw'' for being a "bad girl." GoodThingYouCanHeal...
156** As a trained assassin and spy, Laura herself isn't exactly squeamish about using the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique herself, and has been shown to torture {{Mooks}} for information, [[WhatTheHellHero much to the shock of her teammates]].
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160* In ''ComicStrip/FlashGordon'', Aura starts to torture Flash for refusing her. Fortunately for him, she's enough in love to freak out at the actual pain.
161* ''ComicStrip/ScaryGary'': Torturing people purely for the fun of it is one of Leopold’s ''many'' questionable, sadistic hobbies.
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165* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': The inhumane experiments which Alan Jonah and his paramilitary perform on [[AdaptationalHeroism Monster X]] are both the MadScientist variety and intended by Jonah to be the BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil variety. Later, [[spoiler:the regenerating Ghidorah and [=MaNi=]/Elder Brother subject Monster X to this]].
166* ''Fanfic/AceCombatEquestriaChronicles'' has [[spoiler:Gilda]], who, upon her [[KnightofCerebus first appearance]] in chapter 11 [[spoiler:violently beats up Rainbow Dash to "punish her"]] and later [[spoiler:tortures Medley, as Rainbow tries to save her, and, ultimately, [[ForTheEvulz breaks Medley's wings]]]]. Ealier, in chapter 6, Applejack is subjected to one of these, while being pinned against a wall made of ice. Despite two-hour long beatdown, [[MadeOfIron she doesn't break]].
167* The notorious ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' fanfic ''Agony In Pink''... and yes, its sequels.
168* This is revealed to be one of The Seraphim's specialties in ''Fanfic/AngelOfTheBat'', as his predecessor created a religious cult entirely by breaking the minds of a bunch of children. [[spoiler:He inflicts this on Cassandra/Angel, but she manages to not give in.]]
169* In the beginning of the reboot of ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/13174084/1/ Being Human]]'', Jaune is captured by the White Fang and tortured by OC Ember Rot by, among other things, getting impaled in the shoulder and waterboarded. She wanted to send a message to his friends that she would trade him for Blake. And then after she sends the message herself, she goes even further by using a buzzsaw to cut off his legs and one of his arms, and even rapes him. It gets so bad that he silently prays -- no, ''begs'' -- for any God that's listening to just let him die.
170* In ''Fanfic/BeneathTheSunsSurface'', Princess Celestia is captured by a group of conspirators [[spoiler:who are planning to use Celestia's mind and body to revive Nightmare Moon]]. Since they need her in a near-death state, both physically and mentally, to do this, Celestia is brutally tortured on a daily basis to the point that she starts begging her captors to kill her. [[spoiler:She eventually breaks free, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge kills her captors]] and escapes.]]
171* In ''Fanfic/BlindMansBluff'', [[spoiler:[[AxCrazy Jerry]]]] attempts to do this to [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Ellis]]. Poor, poor Ellis...
172* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6390781/1/Broken BROKEN]]'' does this '''horribly''' to Syaoran, Fai, [[spoiler:and an OC]]. Graphically. It [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8659684/1/At-Kingdom-Come isn't]] [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5559965/1/Dead the author's]] only work in that vein, either.
173* The very first part of the first chapter of ''Fanfic/CabinFeverSouthernHearts'' goes into detail about the inhumane conditions of the prison that the Fire Nation built for waterbenders. What makes it worse is that it's described from ''[[WouldHurtAChild Katara's]]'' point of view, since she was captured and imprisoned with the other Southern waterbenders in this AlternateUniverse.
174* In ''Fanfic/CheerileesGarden'', Cheerilee seemingly takes every violent murder of her students it up a notch with each torture, and then going even further in Scarlet Harvest by [[spoiler:luring the Mane Six into a torture dungeon and splitting them up before horribly mutilating them]]. Let's just say that DarkFic for ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' gets dark as ''shit''.
175* ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum'' does this... to [[spoiler:Spike]], of all the characters. The poor bastard...
176* One of the loyal {{Mooks}} serving the VillainProtagonist in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' fanfic ''The Council Era'' is subjected to this by the Manaban Emperor, a vicious religious zealot who seeks to kill the VillainProtagonist for his destroying of a site that is sacred to the manaba.
177* The whole plot of ''Fanfic/CupcakesSergeantSprinkles'' is Pinkie Pie torturing Rainbow Dash -- and it shows all of it in ''[[PurpleProse graphic]]'' detail.
178* ''Fanfic/DateAReLive'': One trait Isaac Westcott had retained from [[Literature/DateALive canon]]. While trying to figure out what caused Tohka(under the Mio moniker at the time) to inverse. He asked the Spirit AI, Marina to remind him of what he and his group did to Miku's late precursor in an attempt make her inverse. She listed off almost all the above-mentioned torture methods from canon as being done to her, including him trying to destroy her dignity as a woman as well as trying to find a loved one to kill in front of her.
179* ''Fanfic/DeliverUsFromEvilSeries'': Smith does this to Holmes in ''Mortality'' while [[TooDumbToLive gloating over him for the heck of it]]. It's pretty terrifying. Good thing [[UndyingLoyalty Watson is able to help out and get rid of Smith]].
180* ''Fanfic/DoYouREmember'': Kaneki suffers this over the course of the first six chapters, with Aogiri Tree repeatedly cutting off his limbs, gouging out his eyes, and even ripping out his vocal cords.
181* In ''Fanfic/DumbledoresArmyAndTheYearOfDarkness'', the Cruciatus Curse is used as routine punishment, [[spoiler:to the point that the students get ''used to it'']], and that doesn't even begin to compare with what [[spoiler:Doctor Belsen does to Mike Corner (his best friend tries to euthanize him half-way through the torture session)]].
182* In the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14413362 Earning Forgiveness]]'', [[spoiler:Ilia Amitola]] gets absolutely brutalized over the course of three days.
183* In ''Fanfic/EncryptWithinTheDarkToSaveTheClockworkOfAHeart'', "Aniki" subjugated [[spoiler:Aoi Zaizen]] in a mockery of the Lost Incident in a misguided attempt to format itself like an Ignis, preventing themselves from being overwhelmed by its programming again. Yusaku and the Knights of Hanoi, especially Ryoken, [[ThisIsUnforgivable certainly didn't take it well once they found out]].
184* In ''Fanfic/ExperimentingFear'', the nameless scientist has no problem using Nando, a 10-year-old kid, for an experiment which involves forcing the test subject to face [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes whatever their worst fear is]]. Nando is afraid of losing his hearing, so his ears are blasted with high-pitched sound frequencies, then his eardrums are shattered by the scientist firing a gun right next to his head.
185* In ''Fanfic/EzraLost'', [[spoiler:Ezra]] gets strapped to a table and electrocuted -- you know, like you do in ''Star Wars''. It's implied he was tortured a lot more times than shown, to the point of [[spoiler:BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil]].
186* Gil Grissom and Sara Sidle both get it in the ''Series/{{CSI}}'' fic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4828756/1/Face_The_Music Face The Music]]'', and it gets pretty dark at times. The same author also wrote ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4896376/1/Thirty_Minutes_and_Counting Thirty Minutes And Counting]]'', another Grissom torture story that crosses with ForcedToWatch.
187* ''Fanfic/ForwardPeptuck'' has this happening twice in the first "episode" -- to [[spoiler:River and Jayne when they are captured by Niska]], and [[spoiler:by Mal and Zoe to one of Niska's {{Mooks}}, in order to find where Niska took River and Jayne]].
188* In the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' fic "[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/5502176/1/ Freedom to the Free]]", when Simon and a couple more of the crew are abducted and enslaved, Simon -- known for his smart mouth and tendency to snark back, --gets put in a scold's bridle, a real-life device that encircles his face and prevents talking via metal plates pushed between the teeth. Kaylee is even more frightened when River says that the bridle can have barbs, but this one doesn't. Simon is forced to wear it at night for three nights and can't sleep because of it.
189* "Fanfic/{{Frostbite}}": Dalsh Ruul is very calm and conversational most of the time he's torturing Tess, except when Tess' flat refusal to cooperate and constant repetition of her name, rank, and serial number start to get on his nerves.
190* Karl from ''Fanfic/FrozenFractals'' has [[spoiler:Anna]] beat with a cat o' nine tails and burnt with an iron in order to [[spoiler:force Elsa into siding with him]]. It's also mentioned he had planned on raping her.
191* In ''Fanfic/TheGreatRedPandaRescue'', [[WesternAnimation/TurningRed Mei]] is kidnapped, and her captors engage in this.
192* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6260492/1/Happy_Families_Are_All_Alike Happy Families Are All Alike]]'' doesn't show the torture in the detail some of the other stories on this page do. [[spoiler:Even so, we get a disturbing NightmareSequence ending with Naruto waking up covered in the blood from the dream-injuries the Kyuubi inflicted on him. Which apparently happens almost every time he falls asleep.]]
193* In ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'', [[ComicBook/NewGods Desaad]] shows why he's an expert torturer when he gets his hands on Pariah. He can't force the information out of him physically? Doesn't matter; he has mind-breaking machines aplenty.
194-->That had led Desaad down the right track. For tortures of the mind can be even worse than tortures of the body, and Apokolips has mind-probers aplenty.\
195Pariah could not rise from his chair, held as he was by a stasis beam that paralyzed his lower body. Whatever he faced, he could not get up and walk away from it. Perhaps it would not have helped.\
196Desaad had clamped a helmet over his head. It transmitted images from his brain to a receiver, which the master torturer of Apokolips manipulated like an orchestra conductor. He picked and chose among the scenes of Pariah's life, helped along by a gauge which glowed more redly when it registered a pattern of fear in a certain remembrance.\
197The images were recorded and stored in the device's memory bank. Then Desaad began to fiddle with them, for he was an artist, and artists always reshape reality to their best intent. Some of the images were made more subtly frightening. Others were enlarged so as to knock down the viewer's mind with fear coming at him like a diesel train.
198* Conducted by a supposedly heroic character in ''Fanfic/HeroesOfTheDeskRepercussions''; she tracks down a person responsible for mass killings (she hopes this person also has information about the [[MindControlDevice mind-control serum]] used on her). Suffice to say expanding grappling hooks meant to pierce rock used inside the body don't end well, and in a sort of GoryDiscretionShot[=/=]TakeOurWordForIt readers only find out that those responsible for cleaning up what happened needed mandatory counseling.
199* ''Fanfic/{{Hivefled}}'''s prequel ''Reprise'' is TorturePorn, and there's enough detail in Hivefled proper to know exactly what was going on. The sidechapters are pretty brutal as well.
200* ''Fanfic/TheImmortalGame'' shows that [[EvilMatriarch Terra]] enjoys doing this in her free time [[spoiler:to Celestia, her own daughter]]. Late in the story, [[BigBad Titan]] does this as well, to Twilight Sparkle for information -- of course, this has the [[NiceJobFixingItVillain side effect]] of [[spoiler:causing Twilight's splintered mind to [[SplitPersonalityMerge fuse back together]]]].
201* Poor Han Solo gets just about every type there is in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2696712/1/Important-Information Important Information]]'', in an attempt to force him to tell information about the rebels. He ends up getting beaten, whipped, burned, and way too many bones broken, including his arms and most of his fingers. Cerean blood parasites are released onto his skin to burrow around in his flesh. When it becomes obvious that he isn't going to talk, his captor lowers his chained body to the floor and repeatedly rapes him. There are also drugs, first to amplify the pain he's feeling, and then to amplify the sexual sensations of the rape. The only good thing is that the pain and terror he feels are like a homing beacon in the Force for Luke, Leia and Chewie to follow to find him. When they arrive, he's near death, and he actually does die for a few moments in Leia's arms before she manages to revive him. Averts the "all's well that ends well" thing, Han struggles greatly with the aftermath in the sequel.
202* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'' has [[spoiler:Paul in a prison within the Fog Car -- basically Infinity Train ''Franchise/SilentHill'' -- for how he had let an Apex child drown in the lake and did not save him. Walter chains him, blindfolds him in darkness, keeps him in isolation not only for the sake of giving the boy karma for what he did but also to prepare Paul to be the embodiment of Despair for a ritual needed to end the Apex. By Chapter 18, Paul has utterly lost all hope and can only mutter "I am Despair", completely gone and without any way for his brother to know about this]].
203* This occurs off-screen in ''Fanfic/JackOLantern''. Sarada is kidnapped, with the kidnapper's intentions being to take her Uchiha eyes for themself. They break her fingers and several of her ribs. They're unable to take her eyes out before Sarada is rescued. In retaliation, they [[EyeScream slash Sarada's eyes]] and blind her.
204* At the climax of the first arc of ''Fanfic/JewelOfDarkness'', [[spoiler:Midnight captures Robin and attaches him to a harness that apparently injects chemicals of some sort into his body, causing intense pain]]. The point of this is to mentally break [[spoiler:Robin]], in order to [[spoiler:dissolve the Titans]].
205* ''Fanfic/JimmysVisitWithDrFranklin'': Johnny Osgood was subjected to this for hours until he died, it was so bad, in fact that Jimmy didn't want to tell Dr. Franklin what exactly Ebon did for fear that it might give her nightmares.
206* In the incredibly dark ''Fanfic/JokersWildTrilogy'', the Joker puts Beast Boy through this. Joker's methods include skinning him with a scalpel, burning him, using drills, power tools, acid, and tazers on him, and ''nailing him to a cross with railroad spikes, with razor wire wrapped around his head.'' The worst part? Beast Boy's regenerative abilities keep him from dying, so the Joker can do anything he wants to him for however long he wants. Brrrrr.
207* Sora is beaten almost to death [[CrucifiedHeroShot (with description suggesting he's crucified against a cliff)]] in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8242551/1/Kingdom_Hearts_3_The_Return Kingdom hearts 3: The Return]]'' [[spoiler:so he won't resist when being turned into a vessel]].
208* The MadDoctor of ''Fanfic/{{Lightwaves}}'', Ellis, with his serious tendency to have people StrappedToAnOperatingTable just for the sheer fun of it, exacts Cold-Blooded Torture on two of the protagonists (that we see).
209* ''Fanfic/TheLionKingAdventures'':
210** Hago is quite fond of this. [[spoiler:In ''The Return of Hago'', he kidnaps Nala, his daughter, and [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker tortures her into becoming the perfect child]]. It backfires horribly, though.]]
211** The Royal Reaper, in the story of the same name, likes torture, too. [[spoiler:He drowns Nala in the waterhole, only to pull her out before she dies.]]
212* In the ''Series/LostGirl'' fic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8180681/1/Mad-World Mad World]]'', [[TheDragon Thane]] first psychologically tortures Lauren; and then captures her to actually torture her. To make it worse, she has a HealingFactor. Meaning he can torture her, wait for the wounds to heal, and then just torture her again. She, understandably, begins to lose the will to live. It's suggested that while Thane and [[BigBad The Garuda]] are waiting to kill Lauren until [[ForcedToWatch they can do it in front of Bo]], the torture is mainly for [[ForTheEvulz fun]].
213* ''FanFic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace'' has this happen with Wily torturing Ice Man early on, and an innocent Metool in Episode 7. [[spoiler:He later inflicts this on [=ProtoMan=].]]
214* In ''Fanfic/MegaManRecut'', Ballade tortures an innocent woman with the Mad Grinder. Later, he himself is tortured by the Syndicate bosses.
215* Pretty much OnceAnEpisode in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' fanfic series ''The Mellon Chronicles'', especially for Legolas, although Aragorn also gets more than his fair share.
216* ''Fanfic/AMinorMiscalculation'' has [[spoiler:Nui tortured by Isshin]] after the Naturals Election, [[spoiler:Satsuki brutalized by Ragyo for three days]] before the Grand Festival, and [[spoiler:Isshin tortured almost to death by Ragyo and Nui]] in "Downfall".
217* ''Fanfic/MLPNextGenerationKnowFear'': [[spoiler:Twilight Sparkle]], after being lured into a trap in Maretonia and captured by [[CoDragons Wing Commander]] Steel Wing, is sentenced to public flogging for the "crime" of opposing the griffon invasion of Equestria. Steel Wing has this broadcast live over the radio across the country both as a morale blow, and [[BatmanGambit bait to lure out the Fear Lantern]], which proves successful. [[spoiler:Since the Lantern is Twilight's daughter Starburst, it also succeeds in [[BerserkButton pissing her off enough]] that she duels and kills him.]]
218* ''Fanfic/MortalKombatDesperation'' has Kano torture Cassie Cage after he and a corrupted Raiden kidnap her in order to keep her parents and S-F in line.
219* In the Desperation Omake in ''Fanfic/MortalKombatVsMarvelUniverse'', it's ''Kano'' who is on the receiving end of the torture by that fic's version of Cassie Cage.
220* In ''Fanfic/MonsterChronicles'', Cedric commonly tortures his victims to death, such as [[spoiler:Alejandro]].
221* In ''Fanfic/NarutoTheSecretSongsOfTheNinja'', Kakashi and Naruto are captured by an AxCrazy ninja who's an old enemy of Kakashi's out for revenge. He tortures Naruto for days using a jutsu that forces his own muscles to strain against themselves until they begin to rip themselves apart. He tortures Kakashi by [[ForcedToWatch forcing him to watch]].
222* ''Fanfic/NewReality'': Inflicted by Kvar to Brittany for weeks in Asgard Human Ranch.
223* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'':
224** The JackBauerInterrogationTechnique is occasionally used by the good guys, like Kyril and Chloe.
225** The end of Chapter 27 reveals that Chloe has gone missing when following a lead into Mandeville's location. Turns out that [[spoiler:he is her father, and by the time of her next appearance, she is missing an eye and severely wounded, meaning that she has tortured by [[AbusiveParents Mandeville]] since her absence]]. [[spoiler:If one puts her past as a SexSlave under [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil Mandeville]] into consideration, this is probably not her first time being subjected to this]].
226* The ''Series/{{Emergency}}'' fic [[http://www.network54.com/Forum/199227/message/1297994922/Mike+in+peril "The Numbers Game" (bottom two links here)]] has Mike Stoker kidnapped by a guy who was injured in a fire and blames the department for not rescuing him in time. By the time Mike is finally rescued, he's been beaten, burnt and cut up pretty badly.
227* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4657412/1/Operation_There_Is_No_Operation Operation: There Is No Operation]]'' introduces Operative Numbuh V8, the [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor Kids Next Door]] Organization's Interrogation and Vegeatology specialist, whose calm, scientific approach to force-feeding people with veggies utterly creeps out his fellow operatives.
228-->''"Impatient this time, sir? Usually I get at least a couple days. We haven't even gotten through the steamed stage yet."''
229* ''Fanfic/PagesofHarmony'' has [[spoiler:Twilight murdering her closest friends and several others, in ''[[PurpleProse extremely graphic detail]]'']]. As was said by someone on Platform/DeviantArt, it "makes Fanfic/{{Cupcakes|SergeantSprinkles}} look like Barney".
230* The plot of the ''VideoGame/DragonsLair'' fanfic "[[http://mcbain755.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2sh8hq Princess Daphne's Ordeal]]".
231* In the dark ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27853170/chapters/68194306 Pulse and Void]]'', Yamada Hizashi a.k.a. Present Mic is captured by a villain with an energy siphoning quirk. The more Hizashi screams, the more power the villain gets, and it's not hard to guess how he's made to scream so much. It takes a week for Aizawa and some of class 1-A to defeat the villain and get to him, and by the time they do, it isn't pretty. He's been beaten, covered in deliberate slices, welts and bite and scratch marks, his back is flayed raw and covered with salt, he's been repeatedly raped, and to stop his SuperScream when it isn't wanted, he was gagged with a muzzle and fitted with a ShockCollar that are both welded on and leave even more injuries on nis face and neck. (Warning: the fic has art that's not pretty either in places.) The [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/49427425/chapters/124737175 sequel]] (ongoing as of Aug 2023) shows that he does not get an instant recovery, either. Healing quirks were used to help him physically, but he'll never get rid of the countless scars all over his body and has a difficult mental recovery ahead.
232* ''FanFic/QueenOfAllOni'': EvilSorcerer and SmugSnake Lung captures Jade's astral self and tortures her via bright lights, which burn away at the shadows composing her astral form (including making her [[EyeScream eye lids]] ''[[EyeScream dissolve]]'' at one point) with the promise that he'll stop if she submits and agrees to serve him... which she refuses to do. So, the torture continues, driving Jade to the brink of insanity, and probably would have ''killed'' her if [[CoDragons Left and Right]] hadn't saved her.
233* ''Fanfic/TheQueenOfHearts'': Over twenty years ago, [[spoiler:Queen Matilda]] was imprisoned during a war. She was tortured and [[spoiler:raped, which resulted in [[ChildByRape Hans]].]]
234* ''Fanfic/ReMyHostageNotYours'': At the story's climax, [[spoiler:the [[BeePeople Valkians]] hook Zim up to their main computer and start draining his PAK's data and energy, causing him excruciating pain. Dib barely manages to get him free of it before the process kills him]].
235* In ''Fanfic/RevengeRoad'', Hikaru, after [[MurderTheHypotenuse killing Madoka]] by [[BoomHeadshot shooting her in the head]], is far less merciful with Kyosuke, stabbing him in the throat so that he can do nothing but feel pain, then slices him to pieces [[PunctuatedPounding while telling him all her grievances with each slash]].
236* The ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' fic "[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/3720599/1/A-Safe-Place-in-the-Mind A Safe Place in the Mind]]" has Mal brutally tortured and given muscle inhibitors so he can’t even fight. It drives him catatonic until Inara helps him come back.
237* In the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' fic "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/96304?show_comments=true#comments Salvage Mission]]", it's not explicitly described, but Jayne is left mentally broken by physical and drug-enabled torture.
238* In the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' fic "[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/3230707/1/ San Diego Serenade]]", Mal is sliced, beaten and has a tooth ripped out, and Simon is repeatedly poisoned and cured along with the beatings.
239* The ''WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7782580/3/Scars_Are_Forever Scars Are Forever]]'' has an OC named Jeromy doing this to [[spoiler:Shifty Dingo. It involves chains, matches, a switchblade and Shifty's tail]]. Do the math.
240* ''Fanfic/SonicXDarkChaos'':
241** A good portion of Episode 67 is Beelzebub torturing Cosmo after luring her into his base by shattering her eardrums with extremely loud rock music and drugging her with neurotoxins (and -- in the rewrite -- electrocuting her before stripping her naked and tying her to his chair with razor wire). Then when Chris goes in to save her, he is captured and suffers even worse torture, eventually ending in [[spoiler:BlackComedyRape via [[NightmareFuel giant acid-covered stinger]]]].
242** It's revealed that after [[spoiler:her failed attempt at killing Tsali]], Talia tried to unsuccessfully make peace with the Seedrians. Hertia [[HeelFaceDoorSlam replied]] by torturing her until she was rendered [[AndIMustScream immobile, crippled, senseless, and permanently catatonic]].
243** Episode 71 features an [[NothingIsScarier audio recording]] of Tsali giving a monologue on his personal philosophy to a young unnamed Seedrian girl he captured... as she's slowly being EatenAlive by his Tsali Endoskeletons.
244* Revealed in the TwistEnding of the ''Fanfic/SpyroMadnessSaga''. At first, we were lead to believe that Ember died after laying the egg that Spyro fathered. The truth, however, is that [[spoiler:Ember was kidnapped right after she gave birth. The kidnapper was her father, Terrador, who wanted her to suffer for the [[SarcasmMode crime]] of being a descendent of Malefor from her mother. Terrador had her locked up for a year and beat her daily to within an inch of her life]]. When Ember is finally discovered, she's badly scarred with tattered wings and her entire left horn is gone.
245* ''Fanfic/StillStandInTheSun'': Waterbenders imprisoned by the Fire Nation are kept in a constant state of starvation and dehydration, while facing humiliation from being dressed in rags and forced to go barefoot during their imprisonment in cages. The story takes the time to describe Katara's fear when the soldiers leer at her young body, the aching of her ribcage jutting out against her gaunt skin, and the sheer effort it takes for her to stay awake during the day.
246* ''Fanfic/SOE2LoneHeirOfKrypton'': Chiron, Section-2 Chief, loves doing this. He abducted Prof. Hamilton and tortured him during months using pain, drugs, sleep deprivation, sensorial deprivation and psychological warfare to worm all secrets of ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} -- including her SecretIdentity (Asuka) -- out of him.
247* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10568721/1/Survival-of-a-Monster Survival of a Monster]]'', King Wurzin and Kowet-Horp do this to one of the Rutans so they can find out how its spaceship works. The torture includes cutting off its tendrils and eating them. [[spoiler:When the Rutan finally escapes it knocks Wurzin into a pit, killing them [[MutualKill both]].]]
248* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' DarkFic ''Sweet Apple Massacre'' amplifies the sheer horror of ''Cupcakes'' above, as [[spoiler:Big Mac horribly rapes and mutilates the Cutie Mark Crusaders]]. Luckily, it's offset by a huge amount of {{Narm}} from the poor writing and transparent attempts at shock.
249* In ''Fanfic/TalesOfAResetMind'', [[spoiler:[[EvilCounterpart Mania]] does this to Nico, and Joy does this to Panic]].
250* ''Fanfic/TimeAndAgain'' ends with [[spoiler:Naruto being captured by Orochimaru, who is convinced Naruto deliberately [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong went back in time]] and accidentally took Orochimaru]]. The sequel ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4781296/1/Here_and_Now Here and Now]]'' picks up where ''Time and Again'' left off and starts by covering [[spoiler:Naruto]]'s two years of torture and starvation as [[spoiler:Orochimaru tries to learn how Naruto did it, when it was a complete accident]].
251* In ''Fanfic/TorqueJakAndDaxter'', Vin gives Keira and Daxter a data chip that allows them to see the experiments and torture that Jak was put through and it makes them sick.
252* ''Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil'':
253** [[VillainProtagonist Shendu]] inflicts this off-screen on [[TheBrute Hak Foo]] for almost killing [[VillainousCrush Valerie Payne]] while forcing the other Enforcers to watch in order to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem discourage them from following Hak Foo's example]]. When Valerie finds the badly bruised and barely alive Hak Foo afterwards, he's revealed to have been kept conscious for the entire ordeal to fully feel the pain and allowed to live only due to being the TokenCompetentMinion.
254** Shendu himself suffers this at the hands of his siblings when he fails to free them through his portal.
255** After Shendu [[RewritingReality rewrites history with the Book of Ages]], it's revealed that [[spoiler:Nataline Homato]] was subjected to months of torture by Shendu before being killed and [[DeadGuyOnDisplay hanged up]] as an example to the rest of humanity of what happens when you defy the Demon Sorcerers.
256* Heavily implied in the third part of ''Fanfic/{{Uplifted}}'', though not shown. Joachim Hoch leaves his detainment in Kiel starved and beaten mercilessly, all for sins of others... Given that he is an SS officer who just found out about the Holocaust, he feels like he almost deserves it.
257* Jayne goes through this in the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' fic "[[http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=9427 The Way]]". Water and electricity are involved, and Simon never had to give anyone so many stitches in his life.
258* ''Fanfic/WeightOfTheWorld'':
259** [[spoiler:An ex-Atlas soldier tortures America and carves the word "Sacrifice" into his back in an attempt to make him activate Penny 2.0 through desperation.]] It doesn't work, but the soldier succeeds in making his "message" [[ScarsAreForever stick]]. Then he comes back and does it again. And again. And again...
260** [[spoiler:Once America is at her mercy, Atlas slowly and maliciously impales him with a spear, repeatedly stabbing him clean through his stomach and out his back.]] She knows he'll [[HealingFactor survive]] whatever she does to him, so she does not hold back, causing him as much pain as possible. Why does she do this? Because he refuses to submit to her and [[TautologicalTemplar say she was right]].
261* The ''Manga/FairyTail'' fic ''What Chapter 372 of Fairy Tail should have been''. At one point in the actual series, [[spoiler:Kyouka of the Dark Guild Tartaros captures and tortures Erza Scarlet. Later, after Erza breaks out in Chapter 372, she has a perfect opportunity to do the same back to Kyouka, but doesn't]]. So, [[http://mrshoneydew.deviantart.com/art/What-Chapter-372-of-Fairy-Tail-Should-Have-Been-524338116 someone rewrote]] [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10791036/1/What-Chapter-372-of-Fairy-Tail-should-have-been that chapter]] so that Erza ''does'' [[spoiler:[[PayEvilUntoEvil torture Kyouka]]]], sometimes with [[KarmicOverkill crueler methods]]. How do you respond to being [[spoiler:stripped naked, having your sensitivity to pain heightened, and then getting whipped like crazy and electrocuted]]? By [[spoiler:chopping your torturer's arms off, smashing her face against a stone floor multiple times, ripping open her stomach and leaving her organs exposed, ripping out a few of her organs (including one of her ''lungs''), squashing her shoulder bones like tin cans, and, of course, more electrocution.]] And when you're done, why not [[spoiler:[[EyeScream rip her eyes out too]]]]? ''Yikes.'' One can only imagine that the author was either sadistic or had a lot of pent-up rage for [[spoiler:Kyouka]]. Of course, the author would like to state that it's actually [[RevengeFic the latter]]. In another of the writer's ''Manga/FairyTail'' fics, ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/mrshoneydew/art/What-Chapter-321-of-Fairy-Tail-should-have-been-717497308 What Chapter 321 of Fairy Tail]] [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12742112/1/What-Chapter-321-of-Fairy-Tail-should-have-been should have been]]'', Erza's defeating of Minerva involved her ''torturing and mutilating her!'' She even rips her fingers off with her teeth and eats them!
262* Done in chilling fashion in ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/119688/1/you-obey/the-interrogation You Obey]]''. The story is a deconstruction of second person at how interrogation is actually done and what its effects are, from the point of the interrogator.
263* In ''Fanfic/ZeldasHonor'', the main antagonist, Naar, tortures just about every captive he meets. The reader is treated to not one but two chapters of torture involving young, Kokiri prisoners -- slicing up their [[spoiler:fairy's wings to observe the mystical link between them]], raping and abusing them cruelly for his own sadistic pleasure, and finally [[spoiler:murdering them violently while mixing the act with arcane magic to ensure they revive as cannibalistic undead that will be trained as lethal assassins]]. This isn't even mentioning the type of trauma he puts [[spoiler:Ruto]] through.
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267* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' has the Joker cross the MoralEventHorizon once and for all when [[spoiler:he kidnaps Tim Drake, {{Mind Rape}}s him over a period of six weeks to break his mind and get him to reveal [[SecretIdentity Batman's secrets]], mutilates him in order to turn him into "Joker Junior", then lures Batman to his hideout in the old Arkham building just so that he can torment Batman by showing him what he's done (most heinously, by showing Batman video footage of one segment of Robin's ElectricTorture) and try to make the BrainwashedAndCrazy Robin deliver the final punchline by murdering his former mentor. To top it all off, [[WouldHurtAChild Robin is only a teenager when all of this happens]]]].
268* ''WesternAnimation/TheCatPiano'': A [[HumansAreBastards human]] drives nails into cats' tails to make them scream.
269* {{Parodied|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater''. After the Secret Formula has literally vanished and Mr. Krabs [[CassandraTruth doesn't believe Plankton about it]], he tapes him to his desk and tells a knock-knock joke. ("Jimmy." "Jimmy who?" "Jimmy BACK MY FORMULA, PLANKTON!") [=SpongeBob=]'s ensuing laughter after he gets the joke (with Krabs wearing ear protectors) [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment is what gets Plankton screaming]].
270-->'''Plankton:''' [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl WAAAAAAAAAAAAA]]--\
271''[cut to silence with Krabs smiling smugly with his ear protectors on]''\
272--[[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH]]! MAKE IT STOP, KRABS! ''MAKE IT STOP!''
273* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'':
274** [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] when Bowser first meets Luigi and interrogates him. In order to get information out of Luigi about Mario, Bowser forcefully tugs and pulls on Luigi's mustache hairs in order to get him to talk with each time that Luigi refuses to give information, Bowser forcefully rips his mustache hairs clean off. It gets to the point that Bowser grabs onto Luigi's ''entire'' mustache and once Luigi finally gives all the information about Mario that he wants, he still rips a huge chunk of his mustache hair anyways due to Luigi annoying him.
275** Played straight when Bowser confronts Princess Peach and Toad and attempts to "propose" to Peach. When Peach understandably rejects his proposal, Bowser orders Kamek to torture Toad by using an AgonyBeam on him which slowly crushes the poor mushroom fellow nearly to death in order to force Peach to accept his proposal. Unlike the Luigi interrogation scene above which was still somewhat comedic, this scene is taken ''dead'' seriously.
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279* ''Film/ActOfValor'': CIA agent Lisa Morales is severely tortured, culminating with holes being drilled through her hands and feet.
280* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension''.
281** Lord Whorfin hooks up Buckaroo to the Shock Tower and uses electricity to try to force him to tell Whorfin how to make his Overthruster work.
282** Lord Whorfin's henchmen uses the "smeared with honey and covered with ants" bit on Penny Priddy, then kill her with a poisonous slug.
283* The main characters in ''Film/AmericanDreamer'' are captured by drug dealers, and when hung upside down, their captor explains just the kind of pain all the blood rushing to the head will do.
284%%* Creator/TakashiMiike hearts this trope in films such as ''Film/{{Audition}}'' and ''Film/IchiTheKiller''.
285* ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'':
286** Thanos tortures Thor by slowly burning him with the Power Stone to make his brother Loki reveal the Tesseract.
287** Ebony Maw is tasked with grabbing the Time Stone, which is in the possession of Doctor Stephen Strange. After Strange casts a spell on it to prevent Maw from taking it, Maw chokes him into unconsciousness, takes him on board his ship and into space, then tries to torture him into releasing the spell by drilling a number of crystal needles into his flesh. One at a time. ''Slowly.''
288** Thanos resorts to torture in order to get Gamora to reveal the location of Soul Stone. However, since he is unwilling to hurt his favorite adopted daughter, Thanos instead decides to torture his other adopted daughter Nebula by pulling apart her cybernetics and living tissue as Gamora is ForcedToWatch.
289* ''Barbarian Queen'':
290** In the first film the heroine Amathea (Lana Clarkson) is stripped topless and tortured on a rack. The torturer is a comically stunted man, which contrasts with the tall, buxom blonde heroine. He recites some cheesy evil dialogue while occasionally pulling a lever which stretches Amathea, causing her to cry out in anguish. While nominally attempting to get information out of her, it is obvious the torturer seems more interested in torturing her for his pleasure. Eventually he gives into his lust and rapes her.
291** In the 2nd film, the heroine Athalia (again played by Lana Clarkson) is stripped topless and tortured on the rack. The villain, gloating after having captured her, makes it clear he is torturing her for punishment (as revenge for an earlier humiliation at Athelia’s hands), and he doesn’t even ask any questions as he draws increasingly loud screams of pain from her with each crank of the rack. A secondary villain, the heroine's bratty niece, makes an appearance to observe the torture and can barely contain her excitement as she watches Athalia writhe and scream in agony. She cheerfully announces that she will enjoy likewise torturing her subjects when she is queen. Sometime later, Athalia somehow manages to free her hands and escape, but in a surprising twist is recaptured and sent sobbing back to the dungeon. When we next see her, she is again stretched out on the torture rack, this time completely naked. While in the earlier torture scene she appeared somewhat defiant, here she appears defeated and exhausted, implying that this torture session has been going on for quite a long time. As the barely-conscious Athalia moans in agony, the villain gleefully tells her that she is being slowly tortured to death, and she will die knowing that the rebels she leads will soon be destroyed by his hand. Seemingly resigned to a painful and humiliating end, Athalia gasps that someday someone will come and avenge her.
292* ''Film/BladeII'': After defeating a Reaper, Reinhard injures the poor thing over and over again before killing it in an agonizingly slow manner. By the time it's over, you feel sorry for the creature, and it becomes clear that he is completely evil.
293* In ''Film/{{Blooded}}'', the AnimalWrongsGroup tortures Lucas, the public face of the hunting lobby, in an attempt to break his spirit and compel him to record a HostageVideo denouncing hunting.
294* ''Film/BloodOfTheTribades'': Grando, the head of the vampire priests, has those who fail him or are supposed "sinners" tortured brutally (sometimes to death).
295* ''Film/TheBookOfRevelation'': Daniel's rapists torture him when he refuses to comply with their demands. They also rape and physically torment Daniel, saying it's just for pleasure after he asks why.
296* In Creator/TerryGilliam's ''Film/{{Brazil}}'', the dark world of the future features white-collar {{Torture Technician}}s who have government offices, waiting rooms, and secretaries who transcribe their victims' screams. The major driving force of the plot is when a misidentified man is tortured to death by mistake. In the end, [[spoiler:the hero is tortured into insanity by the government torture technician, who just so happened to be his best friend.]]
297-->"It's not my fault Buttle's heart condition didn't show up in Tuttle's file!"
298* ''Film/TheCardCounter'': It is eventually revealed that Gordo taught William and Cirk's father "enhanced interrogation techniques" at Abu Ghraib, resulting in their dishonorable discharges from the army. In the denouement it is implied that William [[spoiler:reenacted these torture methods on Gordo, emerging from the latter's room covered in blood after both of them are heard screaming.]]
299* ''Film/ClosetLand'' is one long torture session. The film was intended to dramatize the real-life fate of many Third-World dissidents.
300* This is the usual [=MO=] of the Convenience Store Killer in ''Film/{{Cornered}}''.
301* ''Film/{{Exam}}'': [[spoiler:Brown]] engages in this, believing [[spoiler:Dark]] to be TheMole. The other characters lampshade how wrong this is.
302* ''The Expendables''
303** In ''Film/TheExpendables'', [[spoiler:Sandra is water-boarded by [[BigBad Munroe]] to make her confess "what the Americans want". In the Director's Cut, [[NobleDemon Garza]] stops the water-boarding and saves Sandra.]]
304** This also happens in ''Film/TheExpendables2'', when Maggie does this on several Sang {{Mooks}}.
305* In ''Film/FlashGordon1980'', Klytus and Kala inflict this on Princess Aura -- while her father watches, sipping a cocktail.
306* ''Film/FlaviaTheHeretic'': When Sister Livia is condemned, she is given to Flavia's father to be tortured to death.
307* ''Film/AGoodWomanIHardToFind'': Leo tortures Tito's flatmates in an attempt to find him.
308* The notorious ''Guinea Pig'' film series, released in Japan from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, are nothing ''but'' graphic depiction of hardcore torture, often without even the pretense of a story. The most (in)famous one, ''Flowers Of Flesh And Blood'', depicts a woman being slowly dismembered by a psychopath. There's even an UrbanLegend that Creator/CharlieSheen watched it, thought it was a legitimate SnuffFilm, and reported it to the FBI.
309* ''Film/TheGunsOfNavarone'':
310** The heroes meet a pair of locals, one of whom was held by the Nazis for a while and tortured. She was so traumatized that she refuses to show anyone the scars from the experience. [[spoiler:But that's because there are no scars; she broke under just the threat of torture and has been acting as TheMole for the Nazis. After finding out, her close friend kills her with complete lack of emotion in a very disconcerting scene.]]
311** In the film, an SS officer tortures an injured Major Franklin to try to make the others talk.
312* In ''Film/TheHanoiHilton'', the [=POWs=] are taken one by one to [[Room101 Room 18]], where they're subjected to beatings, UnwillingSuspension, and ElectricTorture. All of them eventually break and renounce America over the prison's loudspeaker.
313* ''Film/{{Havenhurst}}'': Any tenant who falls off the wagon is dropped into the apartment building's basement, where they're murdered in the most painful, sadistic way possible.
314* ''Film/HongKong1941'' have one that overlaps with EarAche; the LesCollaborateurs leader serving the Japanese would torture prisoners and suspected resistance agents by shoving firecrackers, butt-first, into his captives' ears and light the fuse on the other side. This fate befalls the film's hero, as well as multiple civilains.
315* The ''Film/{{Hostel}}'' series is about tourists in Eastern European countries being abducted to be brought to wealthy, paying torturers and gives plenty of examples of this trope, as expected.
316* ''Film/JamesBond'':
317** In ''Film/CasinoRoyale1954'',[[note]]The first screen adaptation of a Franchise/JamesBond novel, released in 1954 as a television movie/episode of the anthology series ''[[Series/{{Climax}} Climax!]]''[[/note]] Le Chiffre [[AgonyOfTheFeet takes a pair of pliers to Bond's feet]] to make him talk.
318** In the opening sequence of ''Film/DieAnotherDay'', we see Bond repeatedly getting his head shoved into a bucket of ice water, stung with scorpions, and beaten, all for the guards' amusement. When the sequence concludes and the movie begins, the caption tells us that Bond has endured this treatment for over a year. Once rescued, we overhear Q talking about what else James went through: he'd be injected with poison and then his torturers would watch the poison take affect for some indeterminate amount of time before injecting the antidote. Multiple times.
319** In ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', the BigBad uses a knotted rope, a bottomless chair, and some very [[GroinAttack strategic blows]] to persuade James Bond to reveal some very vital information -- specifically, [[spoiler:that he has an itchy scrotum]].
320** In ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', [[spoiler:Blofeld has Bond tied to a chair and has several needles drilled into his head, to make sure he doesn't recognize anyone]].
321* ''Film/LawAbidingCitizen'' has a nice discretion shot for the torture scene, but it's described in a... cringe-worthy way.
322** '[[{{Fingore}} I took his fingers with bolt cutters]], [[AgonyOfTheFeet his toes with tin snips]], [[GroinAttack his balls with a hacksaw]], [[FreudianThreat and his penis with a box cutter]]. How's that for specifics?'
323* Dr. Szell, the twisted Nazi concentration-camp dentist, puts the protagonist of ''Film/MarathonMan'' through one of the most nightmarish torture sessions ever filmed. "Is it safe?"
324* ''Film/{{Matewan}}'': What Kenehan describes the Hutterite conscientious objectors suffering while in Fort Leavenworth, and later what a company man does to a ''14-year old boy'' caught stealing coal.
325* General Quoc does this to Braddock and his son Van in ''[[Film/MissingInAction Braddock: Missing in Action III]]''.
326* ''Film/MyLittleSister'': The prologue shows the Little Sister partaking in some torture of his prisoners.
327** He [[FacialHorror cuts a man's face off]] and submerges it in water.
328** He then kills a woman in a painful fashion with a lawn edger to her abdomen.
329* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet2010'': One of Freddy's nastier moments comes when he kills one of his victims... then informs him that the brain keeps running for several minutes after the heart stops, so he's ''not done yet.''
330* In ''Film/OnlyGodForgives'', Chang tortures Crystal's henchmen by stabbing his legs and arms, removing his eyes, and killing him with ear mutilation.
331* Captain Vidal in ''Film/PansLabyrinth'' seems a bit too fond of torturing rebels his soldiers capture, to the point at which he describes the "bond" developed between himself and the victim after various instruments (pliers, hammers, knives, etc) are used. He then orders the doctor to heal a captured rebel who was nearly tortured to death. [[spoiler:Thankfully the doctor is kind enough to euthanize the poor guy. And [[KickTheDog pays]] for this kindness with his [[FaceDeathWithDignity life]].]]
332* In ''Literature/{{Perfume}}'', the captured VillainProtagonist is tortured to extract a confession, and then sentenced to be publicly broken in the process of his execution.
333* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', Westley is subjected to this at one point by Count Rugen, the six-fingered man of Inigo Montoya's past, who considers himself a "scholar of pain." He decided to test out a machine that can sap the life out of his victim, which of course is rather unpleasant to Westley. However, it's small potatoes compared to when Humperdinck gives the machine a spin, since he decides to take it up to fifty years, torturing Westley to near death.
334* The 2013 drama film ''Film/{{Prisoners}}'' plays this painfully straight. Hugh Jackman hits, punches, threatens to stab, scalds, freezes and psychologically destroys the Paul Dano character who he thinks has kidnapped his and his best friend's daughters. What makes it even worse is that for most of the film, we don't know if he's a guilty kidnapper or an innocent mentally handicapped kid.
335* Marcellus Wallace in ''Film/PulpFiction'' promises to "get medieval" on Zed with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch in revenge for raping him.
336* Subverted in ''Film/ThePunisher2004'' when Castle hangs his victim upside down, threatens to torture him with a blowtorch, and [[spoiler:runs a popsicle up and down his back]].
337* ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''
338** By the Nazi agent Toht on the captive heroine. Marion is willing to confess when she sees the instruments, but Toht, being a sadist, wants to torture her anyway.
339** Later subverted when Toht has Marion at his mercy again. He whips out an ominous-looking assemblage of rods and chains, she gasps in shock... [[spoiler:and he snaps it together to form a coat-hanger, drapes his leather greatcoat on it, and asks her with a polite smile what she knows]].
340* ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'':
341** Art Galt triggers a PTSD flashback from Rambo as a result of this in ''Film/FirstBlood''.
342** Rambo is dipped into a leech-infested lake by the Soviets and later subjected to ElectricTorture in ''Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII''.
343* In ''Film/TheRecruit'', there's a scene where Colin Farrell's character, who is training to be a CIA covert agent, is kidnapped along with his LoveInterest fellow recruit [[spoiler:(or so he believes)]], and after keeping and beating him for days the torturers approach him with this electric device that makes him completely ''shit'' himself -- it's the fact that he's portrayed up to this point as a really tough, brave character who won't be broken that makes his reaction so scary. A ScreamDiscretionShot follows. What kind of makes this whole scene a TearJerker too is that he only breaks when he's told that they have the LoveInterest and she's been tortured -- they prove this by throwing her pants at him to show she ''pissed herself in fear'' for God's sake -- [[spoiler:but it turns out that the whole thing is a set-up where the CIA kidnapped him for training purposes and the whole recruit class has been observing him while he's been captive, ''including'' the LoveInterest]].
344** Possibly made worse by the fact that the purpose of the torture was to show the recruits that when captured and tortured, it doesn't matter how strong your will is, or how smart you are, or even ''what you know'': You. ''Will.'' Break. It wasn't designed to teach them how to resist torture, it was designed to show them what resistance would get them. ''And then they're told to resist anyway.''
345* Gavin Hood's ''Film/{{Rendition}}'' features a full complement of contemporary methods of "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation enhanced interrogation techniques]]" including water-boarding and electricity, performed on a suspected terrorist.
346* Vic Vega (Mr. Blonde) cutting off that cop's ear in ''Film/ReservoirDogs''.
347-->'''Mr. Blonde:''' Listen kid, I'm not gonna bullshit you, all right? I don't give a good fuck what you know, or don't know, but I'm gonna torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information. It's amusing, to me, to torture a cop. You can say anything you want cause I've heard it all before. All you can do is pray for a quick death, which you ain't gonna get.
348* ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'': Moriarty sticks a hook in Holmes' shoulder, hangs him by it and, after [[WickedCultured singing along with some Schubert]], proceeds to swing Holmes around on it, tugging on him and twisting around the arm to which the violated shoulder is attached; his motivation for doing this seems to be half to get information and half just to prove that Holmes is his bitch.
349* ''Film/SodomAndGomorrah'':
350** When slave girl Tamar is captured by Sodomite guards after her meeting with the Elamites to co-ordinate Astaroth's attempt to overthrow his sister, Queen Bera, the latter locks her in a cage with a blind slave wearing spiked upper body armour, the spikes on which protrude whenever he takes a breath, in the hopes of getting her to name her co-conspirator. But Tamar remains loyal to Astaroth... at the expense of her own life -- and those of her younger sisters.
351** As if working slaves to death in the salt mines isn't bad enough, the Sodomites torture them to death for entertainment. When Ishmael's attempted slave revolt fails, the re-captured slaves are strapped to a wooden wheel over a fire pit, doused with oil, and slowly burned to death as the wheel turns, all while a raucous crowd of Sodomites watches and cheers.
352* ''Film/SpiderMan1'': During Spider-Man's final fight against Green Goblin, when Goblin decides to take a moment to gloat in Spidey's face about how he was gonna finish off MJ '''nice''' and '''slow''', he most likely meant he was gonna torture her to death. This is thankfully {{averted}} when this causes Spidey to gain his HeroicSecondWind and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown absolutely destroy Goblin.]]
353* ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'': What Khan does to the scientists on Regula I in the {{Novelization}}. We only see the aftermath in the movie.
354* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
355** In ''Film/ANewHope'', Darth Vader tortures Leia to get information.
356--->'''Darth Vader:''' Now, your highness, we will [[{{Understatement}} discuss]] the location of your hidden rebel base.
357** Later, in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', Darth Vader tortures Han and Chewie [[TargetedToHurtTheHero to lure Luke to him]] by making him feel their suffering through the Force. (ScreamDiscretionShot comes into play.)
358--->'''Han:''' They didn't even ask any questions.
359** Jabba the Hutt uses torture to amuse himself. He even has ''droids'' tortured, and puts a droid that loves the pain of others as much as he does in charge of it. A droid from a line that had, decades earlier, been given then-illegal interrogator droids' motivators by mistake.
360** After Luke refuses to [[SelfMadeOrphan kill his father]] and take his place, Palpatine, [[VillainousBreakdown infuriated that something isn't going according to his plan]], proceeds to use his [[ShockAndAwe Force Lightning]] to [[ElectricTorture slowly electrocute him]]. Thankfully for Luke it only lasts a few minutes before [[HeelFaceTurn his dad throws the Emperor down a reactor shaft]], but even then in ''Literature/TheTruceAtBakura'' it's shown he needed extensive surgery afterward. Some ''[[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Legends]]'' sources note that the best way for a Sith to master the art of torturing people with Force Lightning is [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil to be on the receiving end of it at least once]]...
361* ''Film/StonehearstAsylum'': Salt's methods in curing his patients. Sadly, [[TruthinTelevision this is how many asylums were run back in those days.]] Even one of his staff criticizes it after the fact.
362* Bryan Mills in ''Film/{{Taken}}'' tortures a particularly nasty guy who is part of the slave ring that has his daughter by hammering two long, blunt and rusty nails into his thighs, connecting them to a fusebox and then [[ElectricTorture running current through them]] by turning on the light. And once he's gotten the info he's gotten from him, he leaves the guy in the room with the light still on.
363* ''Film/TalonFalls'': The maze in Talon Falls Scream Park is full of scenes of scare actors inflicting pain and suffering on people. What no one knows, however, is that the torture is real, and the people in the chair are abducted patrons. No one notices because they think it's AllPartOfTheShow.
364* The speciality of the Projects Manager in ''Film/TenDeadMen''. When Axel tries to call his friend, not realising that he had fallen into the Project Manager's hands, all he can hear is some inarticulate gurgles. The Projects Manager them speaks into the phone and apologises that his friend couldn't speak more clearly, but he had just had his jaw removed. He then sends Axel a picture to prove the point.
365* In ''Film/TheTerrorOfTheTongs'', Chung King has Captain Sale subjected to a torture known as bone scraping, where fine needles are inserted into his flesh and dragged along his bones.
366-->'''Chung King:''' Have you ever had your bones scraped, Captain? It is painful in the extreme I can assure you.
367* In ''Film/TragedyGirls'', Lowell is tazed, duct-taped to a chair, blindfolded, locked in a tiny, windowless cell, and forced to eat dog food for weeks on end. While he gets very little sympathy, being a SerialKiller and all, the fact that the girls chose to do ''this'' rather than call the police and tell them they captured a murderer is an early clue to what sort of people [[VillainProtagonist our heroes]] are.
368* Seen in the movie ''Film/{{Transsiberian}}.'' [[spoiler:Kolzak is a thug connected to a Russian drug-dealer, looking for information on one of their smugglers who stole a bunch of drugs and money from them. Near the climax of the film, he tortures the girlfriend of the drug-runner, but she legitimately doesn't know where her boyfriend is]]. The scene and the after effects are particularly gruesome.
369* ''Film/Trench11'': Priest is subject to this by proto-Nazi Reiner in order to gain intelligence against the Allies.
370* ''Film/{{Unthinkable}}'' features an interrogator called "H", played by Creator/SamuelLJackson, who specializes in this sort of "questioning."
371* ''Film/VForVendetta'':
372** The source of V's [[BadassNormal resilience and strength]] was the gruesome medical experiments that were performed on him.
373** Evey gets her courage to go back to "regular" society after she is tortured.
374* At the start of''Film/VigilanteDiaries'', the Vigilante is being tortured by the Cartel, seemingly just for the hell of it. Then Andreas, the boss of the Armenian Mob, sends his personal TortureTechnician Raven to Mexico to do a more professional job. There is also a brief scene of Barrington and Swan very calmly and professionally torturing some poor soul in India about uranium.
375* In ''Film/TheWayOfTheGun'', [[spoiler:Parker and Longbaugh torture Obecks the captured bodyguard on a makeshift rack]].
376* In ''Film/YellowHairAndTheFortressOfGold'', the Tulpani do this to the Comancheros they capture: driving a hot needle through the lips of one; cutting the eyelids of a second and leaving him staked out staring at the sun; and a third is dunked in molten gold.
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380* Patrick Bateman from ''Literature/AmericanPsycho'' is a master of this trope, creating some of the most sickening and gruesome tortures ever put to print. He even keeps his victims alive longer ''just'' so they can experience more pain.
381* In one ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' book, Tobias is captured by a sadistic human-controller named Taylor and tortured with an AgonyBeam.
382* ''Literature/{{Aristillus}}'': In book one, ''Powers of the Earth'', Tudel uses pliers to break each of Captain Kear's fingers one by one, solely to hear the man scream and take revenge for earlier humiliations. He then proceeds to do something unspecified with his belt, and is shown to sadistically enjoy the whole process.
383* In the ''Literature/AubreyMaturin'' series, Stephen Maturin is tortured by French officers in Mahon. Details are sparse: his fingernails were pulled out among other things (the damage to his hands remains throughout the rest of the series, impacting his musical skill), but not only did he not break, even to revealing his nationality, he steals important papers while he is being rescued.
384* ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'': Poor, poor Czeslaw Meyer. No wonder the kid's [[CrazySurvivalist a little paranoid]]; he's gone through probably the single worst example of WhoWantsToLiveForever this side of ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream''.
385* In ''Literature/BattleMagic'', Evvy, who is still a ''child'', is stripped and tortured by the Yanjingyi invaders who want her to tell them where Briar and Rosethorn are. Her injuries are so great that when she uses her magic to flee her mind and the pain her tormentors take her for dead and [[BuriedInAPileOfCorpses toss her in a pile with the rest of the people from the fortress]].
386* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': Thrembode enjoys torturing people, be it for dark magic rituals or interrogation.
387* ''Literature/BlackDaggerBrotherhood'' has Phury, who -- owing to a fucked-up mental state -- enjoys taking a hammer and chisels to his enemies' joints and carving interesting shapes on their faces.
388* In the ''Literature/BloodAngels'' novel ''Deus Encarmine'', the Word Bearers use this to make a [[BloodMagic sacrifice]]. Then, when one of them is captured, Inquisitor Stele uses it on him, culminating in a MindRape.
389* Considering that ''Literature/BookOfTheNewSun'' is the story of a professional torturer, there is surprisingly little of this trope. (The narrator actually [[LampshadeHanging mentions]] that it isn't a book for people who enjoy reading about such things.) We do see a few torture-executions and one very horrible device, the Revolutionary: [[spoiler:a MindRape device whose victims become their own worst enemy, to the point where they will tear off their own eyelids because they hate themselves so much]].
390* In ''Literature/BrothersOfTheSnake'', the TownWithADarkSecret had lured Space Marines to capture and [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] one of them. They are found after the Marine has nearly been tortured to death.
391* In the Creator/DaleBrown novels, [[spoiler:David Luger]] was tortured by his Soviet captors as part of his {{brainwash|ed}}ing. ''Wings of Fire'' has some redshirts tortured to death by the Libyans. ''Executive Intent'' has [[spoiler:Wayne Macomber]] being badly beaten by GRU agents.
392* In Micah E. F. Martin's short story "Literature/TheCanticle", most of the cast are members of an inquisitorial sect. Naturally, this comes up often.
393* ''Literature/CatChaser'': Andres specialized in this as head of Trujillo's secret police. Nolen and Rafi recall he frequently brutally mutilated anyone who found themselves in his custody and fed them to the sharks after he was done with them.
394--> '''Andres:''' The trick when you question someone is to never ask them a question.\
395'''Jiggs:''' You don't ask 'em anything?\
396'''Andrew:''' No, never. You take the person's clothes off. Always, you do this, strip the person naked, and sometimes that's enough. Or you subject the person to an unpleasant experience, increasing this gradually. The person wants to tell you something, but you still don't ask him. He pleas with you, he begins to say things, to also the questions himself, yes, and then answer them, he's so anxious to see you if you'll stop [[DeadlyEuphemism the unpleasantness.]]
397* In ''Literature/CatsEye1961'', [[spoiler:Dragur]] observes that only the unimaginative resort to this, since a man will say anything to stop the pain.
398* In ''Literature/TheClericQuintet'', it's the main character, Cadderly, who engages in this, first deliberately crushing and mangling the hands of a mage to keep her from casting spells who later has an internal monologue about how much she loves Cadderly and wants him to be happy, and then as a means of "killing" a demon to send it back to the Abyss (instead of simply making a quick, clean kill). [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality And Cadderly's the good guy]].
399* Torture of a rather Pavlovian nature makes up the backbone of ''Literature/AClockworkOrange'''s second act, where VillainProtagonist [[TheSociopath Alex]] is "cured" of his criminal impulses by being forcibly drugged and brainwashed to [[RestrainingBolt become violently ill]] when he thinks of crime. Of course, this process is pretty nasty, and the resulting miserable helplessness is even worse, eventually [[spoiler:[[DrivenToSuicide leading him to attempt suicide]]]].
400-->'''Alex:''' Stop it, stop it, stop it. Oh, I've had enough. It's not fair, you vonny sods!\
401'''Dr. Brodsky:''' First class. You're doing really well. Just one more and then we're finished...\
402'''Alex:''' Stop! Stop, you [[{{Conlang}} grahzny disgusting sods]]. It's a sin, that's what it is, a filthy unforgivable sin, you bratchnies!
403* ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'':
404** In "Literature/AWitchShallBeBorn", Salome subjects her sister to this after usurping her throne, starting with rape; when physical pain no longer hurts her, she opts to demonstrate her RevengeByProxy.
405** In ''Literature/TheDevilInIron'', Octavia's refusal to allure Conan is silenced by threatening her with the torturer.
406** In ''Literature/IronShadowsInTheMoon'', Olivia [[DreamingOfTimesGoneBy dreams]] of a [[HalfHumanHybrid demigod]] being tortured to death. [[PhysicalGod His father]] arrives only after his son [[CallOnMe calls on him]] and is murdered. He opts for TakenForGranite, with the victims coming alive now and again.
407* ''Literature/{{Corum}}'': This happens to Corum at the hands of Glandyth.
408* The torture in later chapters of ''Literature/CountAndCountess'' is calculated, methodical, and occasionally hard to read.
409* ''Literature/ACourtOfThornsAndRoses'': This is seemingly a favorite pasttime of everyone in Hybern.
410* ''Literature/DanielFaust'':
411** Torture -- and making suspected troublemakers watch, to teach them a lesson -- is Nicky Agnelli's preferred way of dealing with traitors. Juliette and Justine, his [[TortureTechnician torture technicians]], refer to the act as "our favorite game: attitude adjustment!"
412** Caitlin grants [[spoiler:Carl Holt]] a swift death, because he's mortally wounded, in shock, and torturing him "wouldn't have been any fun". [[spoiler:His partner Alvin]], on the other hand, isn't so lucky. Given some of Caitlin's remarks, she enjoys torture as a recreational pastime and according to Nicky, she tortured [[spoiler:an angel she captured]] until its mind shattered.
413** When Daniel first meets Naavarasi, she's torturing a food critic who panned her restaurant. It reads like she's acting more out of petty spite than actual sadism.
414** Savannah Cross tortures Marie in order to make her call out to Nessa, in the hopes of understanding the source of their power.
415* ''Literature/DarkFuture'''s [[ReligionOfEvil Church Of Joseph]] engages in this in order to spill blood to hasten the coming of the Dark Ones. Seth deliberately pushes resettlers from their vehicles in Route 666, has Josephites flagellate themselves to death and Jesuit commandos crucified and kept alive with occasional doses of water in Krokodil Tears, in order that their deaths are prolonged to make them better food for the Dark Ones.
416* One of the fetishes of [[BigBad Isaac Westcott]] from ''Literature/DateALive''. He also goes on [[ToThePain a long and detailed list]] on what he would do Tohka in order to [[DespairEventHorizon push her to the brink]], like [[ElectricTorture electrocution]], [[AlmostOutOfOxygen oxygen deprivation]], [[{{Fingore}} peeling her nails]], [[TheToothHurts ripping out her teeth]], and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil trample her dignity as woman]]. We get to see the results of his torture in full in volume 13, [[spoiler:Nia re-experiences them with the Realizer implanted in her head]].
417* ''Literature/TheDeedOfPaksenarrion'': In the third novel, ''Oath of Gold'', the paladin buys the freedom of the lost king by enduring days of torture at the hands of priests of Liart, the god of torment.
418* ''Literature/{{Deryni}}'': Derry is tortured by Wencit and Rhydon in ''High Deryni''. In ''The King's Justice'', after [[spoiler:Duncan]] is captured at Dorna, Loris, and Gorony keep him drugged with ''[[FantasticDrug merasha]]'' (the side effects are themselves very unpleasant) and torture him for hours, including [[ATasteOfTheLash multiple whippings]] and pulling out all his nails.
419* ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'':
420** Tris quickly learns that people are more willing to share information after they've been shot.
421** Also used by the Erudite on [[spoiler:Tobias]]. Doesn't work until they [[spoiler:force him to watch Tris undergo the torture instead]].
422* ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'': Paarfi, the narrator of ''The Baron of Magister Valley'', tells us that he's sparing the reader's sensibilities by not describing the torture that our hero endures. He goes on to note that, in these more enlightened times, such barbarity is no longer inflicted on anyone except the peasant Teckla, who does not feel pain as gentlemen do.
423* ''Literature/DragonsWinter'' has more than one character tortured at the hands of the EvilSorcerer and his {{Mooks}}.
424** After being held prisoner for three years and getting ATasteOfTheLash, Azil returns with horrible scars and disfigured hands.
425** There is a vivid description of Hawk's eye [[spoiler:being burned out with a hot poker]].
426* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'':
427** In ''Literature/TurnCoat'', the [[EldritchAbomination skinwalker]] tortures [[spoiler:Thomas by peeling strips of skin off and [[HealingFactor waiting for them to grow back]]. Once he's so low on vamp energy that he's about to die, it feeds him someone, who, given his current state, he's guaranteed to kill. Then it starts the process over. By the time Harry gets him back, Thomas is so completely [[BreakTheCutie broken]] that he's stopped caring about much of anything.]]
428** Harry undergoes a milder version of himself in ''Literature/DeadBeat'' at the hands of [[spoiler:Cassius, who wanted revenge for Harry's JackBauerInterrogationTechnique last time they met]]. It's mentioned three books later that he still has scars from having his abdominal wall cut into with a knife and his stomach beaten with a chain for who knows how long.
429** This trope barely covers what Mab did to the traitorous Winter Knight, from ''Literature/SummerKnight'' until [[spoiler:Harry kills him in ''Literature/{{Changes}}'', which is roughly 6 years later]].
430** Harry himself does this in ''Literature/WhiteNight'' to one of a group of ghouls who killed and partially ate two teenage Wardens-in-training. He blasts a hole in the desert sand, dumps the ghoul in, melts the sand around it, and then leaves a trail of orange juice from the ghoul to a nest of fire ants. He does MercyKill the ghoul eventually at the behest of Ramirez, but still, DAMN.
431** It's heavily implied that [[spoiler:both Lily and Fix were tortured by Maeve and Lloyd for an unknown amount of time for the amusement of the Winter Court]].
432* ''Literature/{{Eisenhorn}}'':
433** In ''Xenos'', Eisenhorn is captured and tortured by a Chaos cult. They demonstrate the techniques with their threats, including the promise he will [[FrozenFace never smile]] again -- and the damage to his nerves is so extensive that he never will.
434** In ''Malleus'', Eisenhorn is going to be "questioned" -- he knows he will not survive. [[BigDamnHeroes His friends]] [[GreatEscape stage a rescue]].
435* ''Literature/TheElricSaga'': Elric's torturer Doctor Jest gets his hands on some spies early in the series. It's a toss-up which is worse: the Doctor's gleeful professionalism, Elric's bored demeanor, or author Michael Moorcock's discreet yet horrifying references to the proceedings...
436* ''Literature/EnchantedForestChronicles'': In ''Talking to Dragons'', one [[EvilRedhead fire-witch]] tortured people to power her magic.
437* In Susan Matthews's novel ''Exchange of Hostages'', a doctor is drafted into service as an official torturer of the state. He is {{squick}}ed to discover that he enjoys it -- a lot.
438* ''Literature/TheExecutioner'': Being turned into a "turkey" is the fate of several people who anger TheMafia, usually leaving the protagonist Mack Bolan to inflict the MercyKill. Such torture is inflicted by specialists such as MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate "Fat Sal", who tortured undercover Federal agent Georgette Chebleu. While Bolan is not into torture himself, he does blow Sal's kneecaps off on this occasion before executing him.
439* The evil wizard Busirane from ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene'' has locked up Amoret, driven an arrow into her heart, and uses the blood from the wound to write in his tome in hopes of crafting a spell to force her to love him. This goes on for at least two days before Amoret is rescued.
440* In the ''Literature/FarsalaTrilogy'', Garren orders this done to Kavi. What makes it particularly horrifying is that, as far as torture goes, it's relatively tame, but relentless.
441* ''Literature/FirebirdTrilogy'':
442** The dendric striker is used once on a {{mook|s}} who had failed his mission and once on a prisoner whom the Shuhr had no more need for and wanted to make a point with.
443--->''"It causes all the central motor neurons to fire. Every muscle contracts and every synapse sparks as if it were insane. It will tear your muscles from the bones, and eventually stop your breathing... but it leaves sensory nerves intact to the very end."''
444** The worst of the Netaian execution methods fall under this, too. There are the D-wave rifles, which disrupt and then destroy nerve cells, crazing the victim with pain. Firebird's sister intended to execute her using it under vigilante "justice". And then there's lustration, which is when super-heated plates are set at the end of the prisoner's extremities and very slowly moved inwards, vaporizing flesh and bone but leaving the victim alive until the plates reach the torso. Firebird was sentenced to die via this method.
445* In ''Literature/TheFirstFifteenLivesOfHarryAugust'', two [[BornAgainImmortality ressurective kalachakra]] characters get on the receiving end of this.
446** Harry, upon a CIA agent discovering his knowledge of future events, gets this in his fourth life and in a later life is given the full treatment by a TortureTechnician hired by [[spoiler:Vincent]]. The second torturer subjects Harry to a more nuanced method, involving car battery, sleep deprivation, extreme heat, nail-pulling, and a "creative" use of surround sounds, featuring violent noises, yelling in different languages, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking techno beats]]. Harry even gets to compare the CIA's crew of five to the one professional. The crew breaks him first.
447** Victor Hoeness, a Kalachakra who, by speaking to others who would see the technologies of his future, brought advanced tech to the court of a 17th century French king. This began a cataclysm that changed history enough for many kalachakras to simply cease existing. Once the remaining Cronus Club (a group of surviving Kalachakra) got their hands on Hoeness in his next life, they began torturing him as punishment for his action and in order to discover his point of origin (date and place of birth). When he finally broke and told them, they cut off his tongue, ears, hands, and feet, gouged out his eyes, and bound him in a metal straitjacket. When he died, the Club simply abducted him and repeated the process until he died a second time. However, after two lives and about two decades of torture, baby Victor wasn't able to use his hands, eyes, tongue, or ears. The Club, upon discovering that they had essentially broken Victor, decided to kill him and abort his mother in the next life, thus removing Victor from existence.
448* ''Literature/TheFirstLaw'' features DeadpanSnarker Sand dan Glokta, an Inquisitor who does his job frequently and well. Since he was tortured horrifically for two years before taking up his current job and lives in constant pain, he really doesn't care about the agony he inflicts on others. He chops off, smashes, and burns sensitive body parts several times in each book. Generally, this is done for information, but at other times he gets innocents to confess to crimes they never committed after being ordered explicitly to do so. He also ends up torturing [[spoiler:Arch Lector Sult]] for the amusement of both himself and [[spoiler:Salem Rews]], though the man certainly deserved it.
449* In ''Literature/{{Freckles}}'', Black Jack agrees that Wessner can kill Freckles however he pleases but objects to watching.
450-->''We agreed to take out these trees and leave him for you to dispose of in whatever way you please, provided you shut him up eternally on this deal. But I'll not see a tied man tormented by a fellow that he can lick up the ground with, loose, and that's flat. It raises my gorge to think what he'll get when we're gone, but you needn't think you're free to begin before.''
451* The death penalty in ''Literature/FrostflowerAndThorn'' is a form of this, and [[spoiler:Frostflower herself experiences liberal amounts of torture when questioned about the identity of her "stolen" child's parents. While the priestly family stand singing hymns around the altar she is being tortured on]].
452* In ''Literature/GalateaIn2D'', after the villain sends [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman magically animated paintings]] after him to kill him, the hero tracks them down and tortures one in front of the other to get information. Produces [[WhatHaveIDone ghastly guilt]]; after defeating the villain, the hero tells them they can leave safely if they don't bother him again.
453* ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'':
454** In ''First & Only'', Heldane tortures [[spoiler:Rawne]]. We see it exclusively from the eyes of the rescue team, who [[ScreamDiscretionShot hear his screams]].
455** In ''Necropolis'', the {{Backstory}} between Gaunt and Kowle is that Gaunt had him transferred from the front after Kowle had a trooper flogged to death for improper uniform.
456** In ''Honour Guard'', Pater Sin tortures [[spoiler:Yael]] to death as a [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] to his Chaos cult.
457** In ''Only in Death'', the discovered Blood Pact camp holds many prisoners who have been gruesomely tortured; Mkoll {{Mercy Kill}}s them [[spoiler:until he recognizes Gaunt from [[ScarsAreForever an old scar]]]].
458* Happens a few times throughout the ''Literature/{{Gone}}'' books:
459** Sam is whipped by Drake at the power plant and would have died if he hadn't been healed by Lana.
460** Caine sentences Cigar to a day of being tortured by Penny, who has the power to cause hallucinations, as punishment for killing someone in a drunken fight. Penny makes him claw out his own eyes and bite through his own veins.
461* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'':
462** In ''Literature/HaloContactHarvest'', there is a scene where UNSC forces torture and execute Insurrectionist prisoners.
463** In ''Literature/HaloTheColeProtocol'', Major Watanabe is heavily scarred from being tortured by Insurrectionists. Because of his experiences, he disapproves of using torture as an interrogation method.
464** In ''Literature/HaloBrokenCircle'', the Prophet of Exquisite Devotion uses a gravity device to torture and kill captured Sangheili Councilors.
465* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
466** The Cruciatus Curse. Repeated attacks drove Neville's parents insane, as revealed in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', then shown in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix''.
467** The Cruciatus Curse has been used on about half of the main characters in the series, Harry and Hermione probably being the most notable (with thanks to Voldemort and Bellatrix, respectively). Also, during the peak of Voldemort's reign, Hogwarts students were actually being ''forced'' by the Carrows to perform this curse on one another. Yeeps.
468** Harry suffers this at the end of Book 4 when Voldemort ties him to a gravestone and tortures him repeatedly while the Death Eaters watch.
469** The Cruciatus Curse, a supreme form of torture such that no character has ever been shown withstanding it, seems to be definitively cold-blooded; it works best when the caster is in control, or who delights in the pain caused, whereas casting it out of spite or righteous anger is far less effective. This is demonstrated in Book 5 when Harry himself tries to use the curse against Bellatrix in revenge for killing Sirius. Although that said, it works just fine for Harry in Book 7 on Carrow because he "really means it".
470** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', [[SmugSnake Dolores Umbridge]] magically forces Harry to carve the words "I must not tell lies" onto the back of his hand through writing the line with a magic quill that cuts the line into his skin as he writes, pulling his blood out through the wounds and depositing it on the paper. By the end of the book, he's had to write "I must not tell lies" so many times that his hand is permanently scarred by it.
471** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' has Bellatrix torturing Hermione with a combination of the Cruciatus Curse and a knife for information. She seems rather fond of this--as Dumbledore says, she "plays with her food before she eats it". The film managed to make this even worse by having Bellatrix carve the word "Mudblood" into Hermione's arm with her knife.
472* In ''Literature/HeavyObject'', Frolaytai needs information from an enemy officer and has no time to play games with him. When he refuses to answer, she shoots him dead and then has her staff revive him. Every time he fails to answer her question, she repeats this, each time requiring more equipment to keep him alive.
473* ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'': Talia is tortured in ''Arrows Fall'' (spoilered for gory details). [[spoiler:She is raped repeatedly, burned, branded by Hulda's magic, and has her feet crushed.]] She's portrayed with fairly realistic mental and emotional symptoms after she is finally rescued, and needs the help of another Mind Healer to block the emotional pain.
474* ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'': [[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians Percy]] deals out the "sadistic pleasure" variant in ''The House of Hades'', [[MomentOfWeakness after having endured a fair amount of suffering himself]].
475-->He didn't want to stop. He wanted to choke [[PhysicalGod this goddess]]. He wanted to watch her drown in her own poison. He wanted to see how much misery Misery could take.
476* Parodied in ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1'' when a Vogon captain tortures [[UnfazedEveryman Arthur]] and Ford with bad poetry.
477%%* {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''Literature/TheHorseAndHisBoy''.
478* In ''Literature/HungoverAndHandcuffed'', Mina Davis gets worked over with a cheese grater in pretty excruciating detail.
479* In the ''Literature/{{Hurog}}'' duology, there is a literal example, where the torturer is just doing his job, with no emotional involvement whatsoever. His grandson, who is a bit more sensitive about the whole thing, ''doesn't'' want to follow in his footsteps [[spoiler:and leaves the room, which means he survives when the torture-victim kills the torturer and escapes]].
480* In ''Literature/IfThisGoesOn'', Johnny is captured and tortured by the authorities of the CorruptChurch. Later, when he is offered a position as assassin (to ensure he knows how serious his commitment must be), they point out that he has at least one useful qualification for it -- they ''know'' that if the enemy catches him and puts him to the Question, he won't crack. Later in the novella, we learn that LaResistance has a ready source of suicide agents: men whose wives have been tortured by the secret police.
481* ''Literature/InDeath'': David Palmer from ''Midnight in Death'' has done this to his victims and so... ''clinically''. "The Groom" from ''Creation'' does it to see how long his victims can last, while the duo from ''Devoted'' just does it for fun.
482* In ''Literature/IslandOfTheAunts'', there's some torture when the villains capture the mermaids, such as holding a blowdryer to the fishtail of one of the mermaids, to make them talk.
483* ''Literature/JackelianSeries'':
484** In ''Literature/TheCourtOfTheAir'', [[spoiler:Molly]] suffers this to control the Hexamachine through her.
485** In ''The Rise of the Iron Moon'', [[spoiler:Molly and Coppertracks]] are subjected to this for scientific purposes.
486* ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'':
487** In ''A Princess of Mars'', the Green Martians are fond of this. In Sola's {{Backstory}}, they tortured her mother in an attempt to learn who her father had been.
488** In ''A Fighting Man of Mars'', Tan Hadron is threatened with this twice.
489* In ''Literature/TheJourneyer'', set in 12th-century China, torture is a trade. The royal torture artist is called "The Tickler" (due to the words for "torture" and "tickle" sounding very close in Chinese) and he has apprentices.
490* ''Literature/KaneSeries'': In the {{Backstory}} of ''Darkness Weaves'', king Netisten Maril learns about a plot to kill him. He subjects conspirators to a long session of brutal torture, which includes cutting out their tongues, burning them with hot irons, killing their families before them and then roasting on spikes over slow fire.
491* Phedre, the protagonist of the ''Literature/KushielsLegacy'' series, is a [[TooKinkyToTorture true masochist and craves and enjoys pain]], so normal BDSM torture occurs quite often. However, there is one scene in which Melisande tortures Phedre for sheer pleasure, and after a brief part of the scene is shown, we're treated to a literary ScreamDiscretionShot.
492* ''Literature/LaughingJack'': Laughing Jack has a liking towards [[WouldHurtAChild torturing and murdering children]], which was inspired by his former playmate, Isaac.
493** James is nailed to the wall by the hands and feet, his teeth shattered, eyes missing and guts spilling from his torn torso, yet he's still alive. It's such a gruesome sight that his mother can't help but puke.
494** The origin story describes the torture as it happens. Firstly, there's Isaac's victims, most of whom are [[CruelAndUnusualDeath brutally tortured before they are killed]]. Finally, there's Laughing Jack's torturous mutilation of Isaac, which involves nailing him to his own torture bed, [[EyeScream heavy damage to his eyelids (with hooks) and retina (with a needle)]] and cutting open his abdomen to disturb his intestines, amongst other nasty things.
495* ''Literature/TheLegendsongSaga'':
496** Coralyn encourages and makes extensive use of this practice. Her son Kalide particularly enjoys it and is infamous for his 'skill'. He tends to be less cold-blooded about it, frequently becoming frustrated and losing control; getting him in trouble with Coralyn for causing excessive damage.
497** [[spoiler:Bleyd]] and [[spoiler:Glynn]] are both on the receiving end from Kalide.
498** Myrmidons fall into a coma to avoid this, requiring the trigger word within three days to waken them, or they die.
499* ''Literature/TheMachineriesOfEmpire'':
500** Invoked in Cheris' guide on how to handle Jedao, which mentions that in case he's uncooperative, the vessel should swallow wraith glass, which will, quote, "give the general a body so that he can be tortured".
501** Keeping the Hexarchate calendar working requires the Vidona to torture heretics on holidays.
502** The Vidona do this to [[spoiler:the captured Mwennin, likely as part of their scheduled heretic torturing.]]
503* Invoked in ''Literature/TheManWhoWasThursday'':
504-->''Now listen to me. I like you. The consequence is that it would annoy me for just about two and a half minutes if I heard that you had died in torments. Well, if you ever tell the police or any human soul about us, I shall have that two and a half minutes of discomfort. On your discomfort I will not dwell. Good day. Mind the step.''
505* ''Literature/{{MARZENA}}'': Marian uses her [[BedlamHouse bedlam skills]] to pull out MLK's earrings and to skin out his tattoos with a knife, all the while enjoying herself with a speech, and while the narrator is busy describing everything that is happening inside MLK's brain thanks to her neuroscience genius. This results in the [[FiveStagesOfGrief Five Stages of Lövheim's Cube]].
506* In ''Messiah'' by Creator/BorisStarling, the police are chasing a serial killer who [[spoiler:believes himself to be Christ and is gathering apostles by murdering people by the names of James, Peter, Thomas, etc, based on how the apostle with the matching name is said to have died]]. One gruesome murder consists of the victim being [[FlayingAlive flayed alive]] -- while kept upside down in order to stay conscious for as long as possible.
507* In ''Literature/MiserereAnAutumnTale'', Catarina did this to Lucian, laming him.
508* Several characters are subjected to this in ''Literature/{{Mockingjay}}'', including [[spoiler:Johanna Mason, Annie Cresta and Peeta Mellark]].
509* In ''Literature/TheNameOfTheWind'', when Kvothe finds the massacre, he hears the killers talk; Lord Haliax rebukes Cinder for not killing cleanly.
510* ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'' has [[spoiler:the Marquis de Carabas]] [[CrucifiedHeroShot crucified]] and ''then'' tortured to death by [[ProfessionalKiller Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar]], who make sure to "wring every last drop of life out of him" with various small, sharp medical implements (and a poker), pretty much ForTheEvulz. [[spoiler:[[ResurrectionGambit He gets better]].]]
511* ''Literature/NightfallSeries'': [[spoiler:After Prince Vladimir recaptures Bastien, he orders Yong to torture him to show his 'children' what happens when they disobey.]]
512* The Cable Street Particulars are... particular in this regard in ''Literature/NightwatchDiscworld''. When a building full of their victims is found, Vimes goes to each cell to give what help he can. He also has a knife with him, for the same reason. [[MercyKill Think about that]].
513* In ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', prolonged torture of prisoners is standard practice at [[SuperFunHappyThingOfDoom the Ministry of Love]].
514* ''Literature/OtoXMaho'' features Kanata breaking Jou's arm, just to confiscate some pictures. Based on the class's reaction to the torture, Kanata performing this kind of torture is quite common.
515* In ''Literature/{{Outlander}}'', Col. Jack Randall tortures Jamie Fraser, shattering his hand and raping him. Earlier in the story, Randall had whipped Jamie twice in a week, so that he almost died. (His manner is disturbingly professional throughout, and his attentions, even when they aren't explicitly violent, are creepy. [[ScarsAreForever Jamie never physically recovers complete use of his hand, and keeps the scars through the series]].)
516* In ''People of the Book'', Reuben a.k.a. Renato, a converted Jew, is tortured to death for "Judaizing", trying to convert a Christian woman into a Jew.
517* In ''Literature/PerryRhodan'', the Empire of Arkon has been known to combine this with capital punishment in the form of the so-called "infinite" death penalty, which involves the condemned being repeatedly executed and promptly revived again for another round until the reanimation attempts finally fail for good. During some of the Empire's more decadent periods, this ''has'' been used as [[BreadAndCircuses a form of public entertainment]].
518* ''Literature/TheRadix'': Adriana Borgia (a descendant of 'that' Borgias) tortures Edgar Wurm. [[spoiler:The scene becomes creepier in hindsight when we find out that she was his daughter and knew it.]]
519* The Wither Curse is used as torture in ''Literature/TheReaderAndProtagonistDefinitelyHaveToBeInTrueLove''. It first appears as a tattoo of a few, small black lines. The tattoo grows bigger every hour and once the black lines have covered a large area of the body, black tattoo roses start to slowly grow. The roses wither and the black flower petals fall. The "falling petals" are actually the curse target's flesh. The curse continues until the caster cancels it or until all the cursed person's flesh falls off.
520* ''Literature/RealmOfTheElderlings'':
521** In ''Royal Assassin'', Fitz is subjected to torture. There are also suggestions that the Fool may have been tortured earlier in the same book.
522** At the end of the second series starring Fitz, ([[spoiler:the Fool is physically and psychologically broken by a particularly horrific and extended series of torture, which included being flayed alive. Poor Fool]]).
523** Fitz and the Fool return for a third trilogy, and we meet [[spoiler:the Fool, who has been tortured ''again''. This time they took the Silver from his fingers, and they took his eyesight. They also put him in a chair with screws in the back smeared with feces and ''slowly'' screwed them in. They wanted him to know he would die, ''and'' they wanted him to talk]].
524* In ''Literature/TheRedVixenAdventures'', pirate turned bodyguard Alinadar is captured by her old pirate commander and has her entire pelt shaved off and left bound outside in the cold rain to die of hypothermia.
525* The {{Novelization}} of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' makes a passing reference to Leia's torture on the first Death Star. Evidently, it included "fire knives" and "electrojabbers".
526* ''Literature/TheReynardCycle'':
527** Duke Nobel threatens to subject Hermeline to this in order to get Reynard to comply with him in ''Reynard the Fox''. Given the severity of the crime (harming a priestess is a crime punishable by death no matter who you are), it's unclear whether or not he would have gone through with it.
528** Ghul, a Glyconese TortureTechnician, plans to make Reynard suffer ''very slowly'' before killing him.
529* ''Literature/RogueWarrior'': Richard Marcinko is funny about this. On the one hand, he sees torture as a necessary evil in obtaining information when lives are on the line. On the other hand, he despises those who go beyond the call of duty and enjoy it. In a post-9/11 novel, he has a female soldier absolutely butcher a terrorist to death -- however, he tapes the orders to do whatever it takes from the President and uses it as blackmail.
530* ''Literature/RumoAndHisMiraculousAdventures'' has General Tictoc, the love of his life -- a pimped-out Iron Maiden -- and Rala, the main character's love interest.
531* In ''Literature/{{Sandokan}}'', this happens to unlucky prisoners who don't want to spill the beans. The one who got it worse is an alleged Meccan Pilgrim, who, captured by Yanez and the original (American) crew of the King of the Sea, was subjected to the water cure by the Americans and broke just as Yanez begged them to stop.
532* In Philip Kerr's ''The Second Angel'', Prevezer is forced to do this to Gates and Dallas by Rimmer, under threat of death. Even though it doesn't go into explicit detail as to exactly what's happening to Dallas and Gates inside the Simworld, we're probably better off not knowing.
533* ''Literature/ShadowsOfTheApt'':
534** In ''Blood of the Mantis'', the Ants torture [[spoiler:Sperra]]. Particularly cold-blooded in that they found her side innocent and show no remorse.
535** The Empire does it throughout the series.
536* In the ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' story "The Crooked Man", a soldier had been betrayed to the enemy by his rival in love and suffered [[ColdBloodedTorture horrific tortures]].
537* ''Literature/TheShipWho'': During ''[=PartnerShip=]'', Blaize is assigned to oversee the natives of Angalia, [[FirstContactFauxPas thought to be no more than dumb animals dependent on humans for food]]. The small band of {{Royal Brat}}s he came into the system with have all agreed to abuse their positions for profit and Blaize has the least to work with, but he proudly shows them how he's put the "Loosies" to work serving him. [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Darnell]] gets really into the idea of "discipline" being a problem to be solved with beatings, [[ClandestineChemist Alpha]] starts speculating about using the Loosies to test {{Fantastic Drug}}s, and [[BigBad Polyon]] is just bored -- so Blaize breaks out his demonstration with a Loosie who dropped a serving platter, having two others drag it to a boiling mud pit, push it in, and use long sticks to keep it there, screaming. This manages to impress the others. [[spoiler:The twist is that the Loosies actually are people that Blaize has great mutual respect for and is helping, and while the mud is bubbly it's only about sauna-heat. But he had to keep the others from thinking he was soft or exploiting them, hence the demonstration.]]
538* ''Literature/SisterhoodSeries'': The Vigilantes have inflicted this on some villains, like John Chai from ''Vendetta'' and Karl Woodley from ''The Jury''. It's okay, because those villains had it coming to them!
539* Happens a few times in ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant''. Usually to Skulduggery (once for an entire ''year''), but Valkyrie and Tanith get some as well.
540* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''
541** The Tickler, one of Gregor Clegane's merry band of psychopaths. He's first seen torturing civilians for information. Outside of this task, he appears to be a perfectly unexceptional soldier.
542** The Boltons are known for flaying their enemies alive. Roose Bolton's bastard Ramsay takes a particular interest in torturing various victims.
543** Qyburn uses his knowledge of anatomy and new position as the Master of Whispers to become Cersei's official torturer.
544* ''Literature/SpaceAcademy'': Captain Elgan and his inner circle subject the General to this via ElectricTorture. Vance reacts with disgust and outrage. Interestingly, no one reacts as if this will do anything to get the General to cooperate; it's done purely [[FantasticRacism to punish him for the crime of being Notha]].
545* ''Literature/SpaceWolf'':
546** In ''Ragnar's Claw'', the [[WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture enslaved convicts]] are kept in line with the lash or inquisitors' interrogation machines.
547** In ''Wolfblade'', Ragnor passes by where a prisoner is being questioned and feels rather queasy about it. When he realizes that the other Space Wolves, who have been on Terra longer, feel no misgivings at all about it, he is uneasy about the whole affair.
548* In ''Literature/TheSpiritThief'', the Duke of Gaol is infamous in the spirit community for using creative torture to bend them to his will. He's not averse to doing the same to humans, as one of the protagonists learns the hard way.
549* ''Literature/SplitHeirs'': Gorgarians are fond of torturing people by having wolverines maul them, either for fun or as a prelude to death.
550* In the ''Literature/StarTrekEnterpriseRelaunch'' novel ''Patterns of Interference'', Maltuvis is genuinely bewildered by the idea of torturing someone for information, saying you can't rely on information you get from someone in pain... and you can't torture someone ''properly'' if you're trying to keep them coherent.
551* Gary Seven goes through hell in ''Literature/StarTrekTheEugenicsWars'' -- first being tied up and thrown into the back of a flatbed truck, driven across a good chunk of India during the middle of the day, taken into the Thar Desert, chained up with animals and injected with a truth serum that causes agony if you don't answer any questions your interrogator asks.
552* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
553** In the ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' series, the Yuuzhan Vong torture ''all the time'', but as they attach spiritual significance to pain in all its forms, they're generally not "Cold-blooded" about it. (In fact, it's implied that they see torturing someone to death as being more merciful than straight-up killing them, as it gives them the chance to connect with the gods before they die. Yes, this civilization is [[ScaryDogmaticAliens massively screwed up]]. However did you guess?)
554** [[spoiler:The computer SIM]], in ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'', can't use conventional tortures and has to get creative -- but it ''is'' called torture, several times. This is done partially to get something equivalent to a RestrainingBolt removed, partly for fun -- as soon as [[NiceJobBreakingItHero someone else undoes that]], they start getting put through the same thing.
555--->'''[[spoiler:SIM]]:''' [[spoiler:Malik]] was a brilliant computer programmer, but not a very good soldier. Especially since I've kept him trapped in this room for hours, turning the lights on and off, raising the heat to the boiling point, then letting the room nearly freeze over. In between, I'd send [[HollywoodAcid crab droids]] in to hunt him.
556** In ''Literature/StarWarsKenobi'', FauxAffablyEvil accountant Mosep Binneed sends Orrin Gault for a session with a "nerve disruptor," not for any practical reason, but simply as a punishment for being behind on loan payments. [[spoiler:Ben rescues Orrin before he gets there.]]
557* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'' pulls this off twice during the climax of the Fairy Dance arc:
558** Sugou experiments on the minds of the 300 SAO survivors, testing their fear and pain responses. Then there's what he does to Kirito during the climax, running him through with his own sword, changing the Pain Absorber to make Kirito actually feel it, and making him watch as he molests Asuna.
559** After acquiring the late Kayaba's [[GameMaster admin status]] and pulling off a HeroicSecondWind, Kirito [[PayEvilUntoEvil subjects Sugou to torture right back]]. Instead of quickly finishing him off, Kirito first strips Oberon of his admin status, sets his in-game level to 1, and sets the Pain Absorber to Level 0, ensuring that every wound he inflicted on Oberon would [[YourMindMakesItReal carry over to Sugou's real body]]. Then, he summons [[InfinityPlusOneSword Excalibur]] and gives it to Sugou, knowing that [[TheManMakesTheWeapon it won't make a difference]]. Finally, he gives Sugou a small cut on the cheek before [[AnArmAndALeg chopping off his right arm]], [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe slicing him in two at the waist]], and then throwing him up into the air before [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling him]] [[EyeScream through the eye]], killing Sugou in-game and [[WoundThatWillNotHeal permanently injuring him in real life]].
560* In ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'', this is the function of the Mord-Sith. Virtually all villains in the series demonstrate a fondness for torture, although at one point, the "[[DesignatedHero good guys]]" have an enemy soldier tortured to death after he gives them the information.
561* ''Literature/TakeshiKovacs'':
562** At one point in ''Altered Carbon'', Takeshi Kovacs is captured and loaded into a VR torture program. This allows his captors to torture him in the body of a woman, which is more vulnerable to their techniques, as well as torture him to death before starting again in a fresh virtual body. Also, the [[YearInsideHourOutside accelerated time in VR]] means that they can subject him to several days of torture in only a few minutes.
563** Torture of various forms crops up a several times in the sequel ''Broken Angels''. The most notable are:
564*** The company goon whose cortical stack Kovacs captures. He sets him up in a bare-bones VR to interrogate him, but doesn't have the time or inclination to bother with the normal torture. So he just threatens to leave the guy there. In the VR that's just an empty room on an endless gray plane, with nothing to do whatsoever. And the hardware for the VR is a low power unit in a random location running on a [[YearInsideHourOutside high time ratio]]. So by the time the guy would be found (if ever) he would have spent the equivalent of several hundred years in an empty room with nothing to do and no way to even kill himself. Kovacs is confident that the goon would be utterly insane before the end. Naturally the guy cracks and tells Kovaks what he wants to know.
565*** One character is subjected to the Wedge punishment for traitors; a machine designed to slowly torture them to death over the course of a day. While the machine is busy flaying skin, breaking bones and cracking teeth for the enjoyment of the watching crowd, it's also carefully administering drugs and medical attention to ensure that the subject is alive and conscious for as much of the ordeal as possible.
566* Several times in the ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'' books.
567** In ''Empire of Ivory'', the Tswana king has Laurence [[ATasteOfTheLash whipped until insensible]] for refusing to give them information.
568** In ''Blood of Tyrants'', Laurence rescues Tharkay from a group of Chinese rebels -- they had, among other things, [[{{Fingore}} broken all of Tharkay's fingers]].
569* ''Literature/TolkiensLegendarium'':
570** When Pippin looks into the palantír in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', Sauron gives orders for him to be brought to Mordor rather than perform the on-the-spot MindProbe that he ''could'' have done. Gandalf explains that Sauron wished to deal with Pippin himself -- slowly. Brrrrrr...
571** Sauron also tortured Thráin (Thorin's father) while he had him prisoner in the {{Backstory}} to ''Literature/TheHobbit'', and Gollum in the {{Backstory}} to ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' (the latter was how Sauron and his minions learned that the Ring was loose in Middle-Earth). And that's the ''named'' victims.
572** He also tortured Celebrimbor (the chief maker of the Rings of Power) to death in an attempt to get him to tell where the Rings were. Then he [[DeadGuyOnDisplay used Celebrimbor's body as a flag]] when he invaded Eregion.
573** Poor Frodo in the tower of Cirith Ungol. What exactly happened to him was never specified, but odds are it wasn't good.
574** In ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', Maedhros is tortured when Morgoth captures him. Enough that he [[ICannotSelfTerminate begs for death]] when Fingon tries to rescue him and looks like he won't succeed.
575** While Húrin Thalion isn't ''physically'' harmed, he's still [[AndIMustScream horrifically tortured]].
576** In the "Lay of Leithian", when Sauron captures Beren, Finrod, and their ten followers, he has them "chained in chains that eat the flesh" and then has a demonic wolf eat them, one by one...
577* If it wasn't already obvious that Colonel Williams from ''Literature/{{Tranquilium}}'' was an '''anti'''hero, there is a brief, but graphic description of how he had his men torture a key Soviet spy to death over a long period of time, drawing out enough information out of him to take down a huge part of the Soviet intelligence network in Tranquilium. Ofcourse, the Soviets try this on Gleb too, but it's rather subtler as they were trying to break his spirit and ''recruit'' him.
578* ''Literature/{{Transition}}'' has a torturer's POV, in which he describes, among other things, his favorite methods, the importance of simply scaring people into talking, and the need to inflict a minimum amount of pain so that the agency he works for will remain feared. [[LaserGuidedKarma Don't worry]]; [[KarmicDeath he gets his]].
579* ''Literature/{{Ultramarines}}'':
580** Practiced extensively by the Dark Eldar and by [[spoiler:de Valtos]] in ''Nightbringer''. When they raid [[spoiler:de Valtos]]'s estate, they find [[spoiler:Solena Vergen]]'s corpse and [[spoiler:Taryn Honan]], still alive and [[ICannotSelfTerminate asking for death]]; they had [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived their usefulness]].
581** In ''Dead Sky Black Sun'', the captured {{Space Marine}}s are handed over to torturers.
582** In ''The Killing Ground'', the Grey Knight, Leodegarius, clearly disbelieves in Uriel's protests of [[IncorruptiblePurePureness innocence]] and burns him to secure his compliance with the ordeals to test him for Chaos taint. (Once they pass the first ordeal, a mind probe, Leodegarius is far more conciliatory.)
583* In ''Literature/VampireAcademy'', [[spoiler:Victor Dashkov has a TortureTechnician subject Lissa to it in order to make her heal his disease. He calmly watches in the process. The TortureTechnician is an air user who uses air to pressure her skull, smother her, and leave her gasping for air]].
584* Alan from ''Literature/VeryBadDeaths'' is a wealthy hypersadist. His repertoire includes drugs to enhance pain, drugs to prevent his victims from passing out, and a perfect painkiller that lets him break every bone in someone's body then allows them to contemplate the excruciating pain they're about to experience. He boasts at one point that he kept someone dying horribly for 22 days.
585* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'':
586** In ''Literature/ShardsOfHonor'', Konstantin Bothari is a mentally ill soldier with a troubled past, and used as a torturer/rapist by a sadistic admiral. Cordelia (as a prisoner of war) observes that "there are two victims in this room".
587** In ''Literature/TheWarriorsApprentice'', Miles orders Bothari (then his bodyguard) to interrogate a prisoner, inadvertently causing Bothari to lose control and torture the prisoner to death.
588** In ''Literature/TheVorGame'', General Metzov's {{Backstory}} includes torturing a prisoner to death.
589** In ''Literature/MirrorDance'', Baron Ryoval tortures Mark in {{Revenge}} for what Miles did to him -- not knowing, or caring, that it is Mark rather than Miles.
590** In ''Literature/TheBordersOfInfinity'', the Cetagandan prison camp that Miles has infiltrated is full of subtle and not-so-subtle tortures designed to break the prisoners' will, and every one of these tortures abides by the letter to interplanetary treaties on how to treat prisoners of war.
591*** Access to trained medical personnel? Some of the prisoners are med-techs. They have no equipment, but they're medtechs.
592*** Sufficient lighting? It's on all the time.
593*** No solitary confinement? No individual cells at all.
594*** And so on.
595* [[SmugSnake Cree Bega]], TheDragon in ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheJerleShannara'', is fond of doing this. He and his [[LizardFolk Mwellrets]] eagerly torture the seer Ryer Ord Star, stripping, beating, cutting, and (possibly) raping her. He later [[KickTheDog tells her friend]] Ahren [[JustBetweenYouAndMe all about it]].
596* In the first book of the ''Literature/WarchildSeries'', BigBad Falcone tortures Jos at the climax. Because he is also the man who raped and abused Jos as a child, this scene is undoubtedly a source of terror for both the protagonist and the reader.
597* ''Literature/WarlockSeries'': In ''Storm Over Warlock'', the Throg threatens Shann with this to get him to make a broadcast and lure a ship in, so that it can be disposed of, preventing news from getting back. He does make the broadcast, and gives the warning cryptically, so it's only when the ship veers off that they drag him off for it. They strap him to a frame so that arrivals will see him and be warned. When a counter-attack comes, the leader appears to ponder whether to drag him with them so that ThePromise to do this can be fulfilled. [[spoiler:Thorvald, arriving to cut him loose, looks anxiously over him to see if he's hurt, and Shann assures him that they arrived soon enough.]]
598* ''Literature/WeAllFallDown2000'' is set during [[ReligionIsRight the biblical tribulation]], where the Antichrist forces everyone to have special ID tags implanted into their hands. Those who don't comply are brought to the One World Community Registration Center and into the White Room, where they're tortured and disfigured every day for weeks until they submit. (The torturers claim they're "healing" them.) Those who hold out long enough for execution have been hacked apart and stitched back together again, with limbs and eyes missing.
599* In the ''Literature/WhiteScars'' novel ''Hunt for Voldorius'', this is how the Alpha Legion tries to secure Malya's compliance.
600* In "Literature/AWorldCalledMaanerek", the Hegemony ship, having suffered too many discipline problems, had taken over part of a planet and let the men abuse the men and children there, and rape the women, freely to release their pent-up aggression.
601* In ''Literature/TheZeroStone'', Jern arrived home to find his father dead, bound to his chair with ropes that are covered with blood -- in a RansackedRoom.
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605* ''Series/TwentyFour'':
606** Jack Bauer. [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique Over and over and over again]]. To the point where CTU torture innocent people, even having hired torturers on their pay roll.
607** In addition, Audrey Raines was [[spoiler:tortured by the Chinese government for months until her mind completely broke down]]. This would be the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique had someone mentioned that Audrey went through this for some reason ''other than'' [[spoiler:the Chinese believing this would be a trump card against Jack Bauer at some point due to having tortured ''him'' for nearly two years and failed to break him]].
608* ''Series/{{Andor}}'': The Empire regularly tortures those suspected of being connected to the rebellion trying to pry useful information from them.
609* ''Series/BabylonFive'':
610** In "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS03E11CeremoniesOfLightAndDark Ceremonies of Light and Dark]]", the Special-Operations-turned-Nightwatch guy recollects taking seven days to kill a Minbari. He cut his victim to pieces, starting from the digits and extremities and tying off the body part to be removed next, so as to avoid his victim dying from blood loss. He ends his story with "It was beautiful, you should have seen it." ''Then'' he starts singing ''Dem Bones'' in CreepyMonotone...
611** [[TheCaligula Emperor Cartagia]] of the Centauri tortures G'Kar to the brink of death several times, mostly as an amusing diversion.
612** Sheridan is imprisoned and tortured in "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E18IntersectionsInRealTime Intersections in Real Time]]". Made even more chilling by the fact that it uses a methodology ''based on real torture techniques''.
613* Institutionalized by the ''Series/BlakesSeven'' Federation. Most torture occurs offscreen, but it's implied to be common procedure, especially for suspected politicals.
614-->''"I'm going to start by burning out your eyes..."''
615* In ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'', Chalky White is effectively TheDon of Atlantic City's black underworld. One night, a group of out of state gangsters attempt to kill him, but not being familiar with him, get [[TheDriver his driver]] instead. To try to find out who was behind this, Chalky and some of the {{Dirty Cop}}s he works with bring in one of the leaders of the local KKK group. Before he starts going to work, Chalky shows the man a group of large, vaguely menacing tools, and explains that they belonged to his father, a self-taught carpenter who was lynched after doing some work for a white man. Sometime later, Chalky exits the room and confidently says that the Klan wasn't involved in the murder. When asked why he's so sure, he responds "There comes a point when you ''know'' a man is telling you the truth. We passed that point ten minutes ago." To drive things home, he unwraps the bundle that holds the tools, revealing a [[{{Fingore}} severed finger]] with a Klan ring still on it. Chalky then absently wonders whether the man will want the ring back, or if it will be adding insult to injury.
616* ''Series/{{Bones}}'':
617** Mark Kovac used a medieval method involving pressing a cage of rats to the victim and heating one end of the cage. The rats tear into the living victim trying to escape the heat. The guy was Booth’s friend Aldo, and he did a HeroicSacrifice to stop himself from talking. Kovac also tortures an old woman to get info from her regular delivery man, who served with Booth. He even uses his paramedic training to keep them alive longer.
618** Booth himself in an earlier episode gets tortured as well. They weren’t counting on Brennan and her fearsome dad pulling a BigDamnHeroes to save him.
619* ''Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}'':
620** Willow kills Warren in a very gruesome way in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E20Villains Villains]]" following her [[BewareTheNiceOnes transformation]] from meek geek to BigBad of Season 6. She first impales him with the bullet that he shot Buffy with, then ''rips his skin off'' before ''burning him alive''.
621** [[spoiler:He gets even with her]] in the Season 8 comics, when [[spoiler:he slowly lobotomizes her -- but she is rescued and able to heal herself.]]
622** Angelus' entire M.O. revolves around this, both physically and psychologically. In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E22BecomingPart2 Becoming Part 2]]", when he's captured Giles for information, he freely admits that he hopes Giles ''won't'' willingly tell him what he wants to know because he doesn't want to be deprived of an opportunity to torture him.
623** Another example from Angelus was the psychological torture he inflicted on Drusilla before he turned her that drove her crazy. After this, Drusilla is quite a fan of inflicting torture on people as well.
624** In "[[Recap/AngelS01E03InTheDark In the Dark]]", Spike hired a vampiric TortureTechnician to get the location of the Gem of Amara from Angel. It mostly involved red hot pokers.
625** In "[[Recap/AngelS01E18FiveByFive Five by Five]]", Faith tortures Wesley while laying out the primary torture groups (she was using Sharp). Needless to say, this makes their later cooperation in defeating a BigBad... a tad awkward.
626** In the spin-off, Wolfram and Hart has a special hell dimension where they keep people who have really ticked them off. The victim is brutally tortured by a giant demon before having their heart torn out before growing a new one. And the worst part? During all of this, their mind is purposefully programmed to believe they have a perfect suburban life so they have no ability to deal with the torture each time it occurs.
627** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E1WhenSheWasBad When She Was Bad]]", Buffy dangles a cross on a chain down a vampire's throat for information. Bad enough even if it wouldn't burn.
628** Spike references the fact that he is quite the TortureTechnician himself in "[[Recap/AngelS05E16Shells Shells]]", mentioning that he got out of a servant of Illyria, "screams, various bodily fluids and a name".
629* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
630** Sutekh does to the Doctor in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsofMars Pyramids of Mars]]", using his psionic powers to [[MindRape mentally torture]] him when the Doctor messes up his initial plan of escape and then to get information out of him.
631** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E1TheMasqueOfMandragora The Masque of Mandragora]]", Marco is tortured to get him to accuse the Duke.
632** The Others threat to burn the Doctor with a red-hot iron in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E4TheSunMakers The Sun Makers]]".
633** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E5Underworld Underworld]]", Herrick is tortured to get the truth out of him.
634** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums The Sound of Drums]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords Last of the Time Lords]]", the immortal Captain Jack Harkness is [[spoiler:captured by a very, very gleeful, homicidal and practical Master]] and spends the next ''year'' being tortured and killed in every possibly conceivable way. When ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' picks up in a new series chronologically after this, he tells Gwen, "I have died...''so'' many times."
635** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E9ColdBlood Cold Blood]]", [[spoiler:[[MamaBear Ambrose]] ends up torturing captured Silurian Alaya with a taser while trying to get her to give her information on how to save her father from poisoning, which kills her as a result. It's also worth noting that Alaya ''deliberately'' goaded Ambrose into attacking her because she wanted to start a war between the humans and the Silurians]].
636** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent Heaven Sent]]" is ''entirely'' about the Doctor being subjected to this. Trapped in a lonely castle in the middle of nowhere, he is completely alone save for the Veil, a hooded creature with an agonizing TouchOfDeath in store if he can't outrun it or keep it at bay by confessing what he knows about the prophecy of the Hybrid. Worse, it takes him quite a while to figure out exactly what he's supposed to be doing. ''Even worse'', the torturers are [[spoiler:his people]]. ''Even worse'', the Doctor is transported here in the wake of [[spoiler:Clara Oswald's death]], thus plenty anguished and enraged already without the whole "torture" thing to add to his woes, which leads him to [[spoiler:willingly undergo this torment ''billions of times over'' so he can escape without confessing all, hoping that once he's free he can save Clara]]. Once he gets out, he's... ''[[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds really not himself]]''.
637* ''Series/TheExpanse'' features Undersecretary Chrisjen Avasarala, who has zero compunction about letting a native-born Cerean, whose body structure is not adapted to Earth's gravity, hang from hooks under his shoulders for ten hours to "persuade" him to give up his information.
638* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' came up with some ''doozies''!
639** Scorpius had lots of fun with the Aurora Chair -- plus the mind-control probes he'd use to make his prisoners torture ''themselves'', resulting in a charming scene where he made Grunchlk bite off two of his own fingers.
640** In the Shadow Depository storyline, Natira, the owner of the bank, was so good at this that part of her own body is dedicated exclusively to poking her victim's eyes out, making her even ''creepier'' than the [[Franchise/StarTrek Borg Queen]].
641** The really nightmarish one one took place in "A Clockwork Nebari" and featured our hero ''[[EyeScream getting his eyeballs pulled out]]''. They even showed that one in the ''trailer''. Jesus ''fuck''.
642** [[TheNapoleon Rygel]] slowly carving a Charrid soldier up with his own knife--not for answers, but for fun. True, he got answers, but still...
643** Under considerable stress and SanitySlippage, Talyn starts torturing Crais via their neural link, resulting in hideous sores growing on Crais's body as he screams at Crichton to put him out of his misery.
644** Aeryn endures torture-by-Scarran-heat-probe in season 4. Given that she's Sebacean and therefore has a natural intolerance for heat (which is exacerbated by her [[spoiler:pregnancy]])... yikes.
645* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'':
646** Adelai Niska is shown to be a rather twisted individual early on when he shows ''Serenity'''s crew the tortured body of his nephew during "[[Recap/FireflyE02TheTrainJob The Train Job]]", but in "[[Recap/FireflyE10WarStories War Stories]]", he gets his hands on Mal and Wash and puts them to the torture in revenge for what happened in that episode. He opens up with ElectricTorture on them, but when Zoe gets Wash out of there, Niska gets extra nasty with Mal, first [[EarAche cutting off his ear to give to Zoe]] and then using a rather nasty little device on Mal that ends up ''killing him''...and then Niska brings Mal back to life just so he can torture him some more. His reason for doing this is because he strongly believes in the works of Shan Yu, which hold that only when you put someone through hell will you finally meet the real man. Niska's other reason was in regards to reputation -- brutally torturing Mal would let others in the 'Verse know the consequences of crossing him like Mal did. Meeting [[TheDeterminator the real Malcolm Reynolds]] proves to be a very painful experience for him.
647** Jubal Early, from "[[Recap/FireflyE14ObjectsInSpace Objects in Space]]". Tying up Kaylee in the engine room and threatening to rape her for interfering with his plans was [[MoralEventHorizon bad enough]], but then we hear from River during her BreakingSpeech that he once tortured his neighbor's dog to death, which lays bare his true nature as a PsychoForHire in general.
648** The Reavers (psychotic cannibalistic zombie-like barbarians) not only kill their victims in the most horrible and prolonged manner possible (remember, you are VERY lucky if you are already dead by the time they start their meal) but also apply torture as a recruiting solution -- they force some of the prisoners witness the unthinkable sufferings their comrades are put to until they completely snap and embrace the Reavers' ways. The bastards then leave these mishaps as a surprise gift for the rescue team...
649** The cruel medical experimentation performed on River at the Academy, described partially in horrifying detail by Simon in "[[Recap/FireflyE09Ariel Ariel]]", could also qualify.
650* ''Series/Forever2014'':
651** Used by Iona's stalker on Henry in "The Ecstasy of Agony" using strangulation and electricity.
652** Adam prefers to carve people up with a blade when he wants information, both in "Hitler on the Half-Shell" and "The Last Death of Henry Morgan," in search of the whereabouts of the ''pugio'' (Roman dagger) that caused his first death.
653* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
654** Gregor Clegane and his underlings employ it indiscriminately throughout the war, particularly at Harrenhal where Arya witnesses their work firsthand. Gregor is also commanded by Cersei to inflict it on Septa Unella and prolong it as long as he can.
655** Roose Bolton advocates using it on prisoners to gain information in "Garden of Bones", but Robb adamantly refuses.
656** Joffrey quickly turns a night with two prostitutes into this in "Garden of Bones".
657** Theon is confined to a medieval Room101 throughout most of Season 3.
658** The Master Torturer's interrogation methods, such as peeling off the victim's fingernails (and likely flaying the fingers), and using the boot to slowly crush the victim's feet.
659* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'':
660** One episode has the much loathed [[TheScrappy Stuckey]] taking out his frustrations on Elliot's chest with a knife... Ouchies. Any permanent damage [[HollywoodHealing isn't very likely]].
661** This is also the subject of the episode "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS9E5Harm Harm]]", the main antagonist of which is a psychiatrist who helped develop "enhanced interrogation methods" for the US Army to use on suspected terrorists, resulting in the death of one suspect. Throughout the episode, she never wavers from her position that what she did was right and moral, and never shows a shred of sympathy for the victims. Unfortunately, she [[KarmaHoudini pretty much gets away with it]].
662* ''Series/{{Lost}}'':
663** When RichBitch Shannon almost dies of asthma and Sawyer has her medicine, Sayid tortures him for information by jamming reeds under Sawyer's fingernails. He follows that by threatening to stab Sawyer in the eye before Jack stops him.
664** Torture as a whole is ''very'' important in Sayid's backstory. He was a TortureTechnician for the Iraqi Republican Guard, after all.
665* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'':
666** An Islamic terrorist spends four months torturing main character Ziva for information. [[TortureAlwaysWorks It doesn't work]].
667** Gibbs and [=McGee=] are subjected to months of torture in Paraguay.
668** In the spin-off series ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'', the Russian arms dealer Sidorov captures Sam and Deeks. He proceeds to use ElectricTorture on Sam, and then he uses a [[TheToothHurts dentist drill]] on Deeks.
669* ''Series/Numb3rs'':
670** In the Season 4 premiere, an enemy agent tortures Colby by injecting him with drugs after TheReveal that [[spoiler:Colby is a FakeDefector]]. The first impairs his breathing, creating "the sensation of slowly drowning", and the second massively increases his sensitivity to pain, among other effects. The torturer then attempts to kill Colby with a third drug, but [[spoiler:Dwayne Carter performs a HeroicSacrifice to stop him before Colby gets a lethal dose]]. While the torture isn't particularly graphic, what makes the scene truly horrifying is the extent to which the torturer is almost inhumanly calm and unbothered the entire time -- he's not ''enjoying'' Colby's pain per se, but he's so completely indifferent to the suffering of another human being that it's almost worse.
671** A few episodes later, they get a killer who tortures his victims for days before killing them. The same episode reveals that [[TheProfiler Megan]] was forced to take part in "interrogations" of terrorism suspects, even though she was horrified by the idea. Allegedly this was a case of EnhancedInterrogationTechniques, but Megan, who knows that TortureIsIneffective, sees it as this trope.
672* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'': This happens to various characters multiple times. Standouts include the torture done to Fusco in "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E09 The Crossing]]", the torture done to Root in "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS03E12 Aletheia]]", and the torture done to Reese, Elias, and Fusco in "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS04E22 YHWH]]".
673* In the episode "The World Is Changing" from ''Series/ThePretender'', Jarod is recaptured by the Centre and subjected to electroshock torture by Mr. Lyle.
674* ''Series/PrisonBreak'':
675** Used by Mahone on Wyatt. Wyatt killed Mahone's son. Consider it payback time. Mahone shoves a needle into Wyatt's finger. Oh, and he's also connected to a defibrillator that will give him a wake-up call when he starts to fall unconcious due to the pain. The effects are spectacular, as the normally completely [[TheStoic stoic]] Wyatt is screaming and wheezing from the crippling pain.
676** Wyatt himself is both a ProfessionalKiller and a TortureTechnician for the Company. He repeatedly invades people's homes to slowly torture them for information. He's most thorough with Gretchen Morgan, whom he ties up and locks up in a tiny cell with nothing but a bucket for days, occasionally coming back to explain what he's going to do to her next.
677* In the ''Series/{{Roswell}}'' episode "The White Room", [[TheMenInBlack Agent Pierce]] tortures Max to get him to reveal the location of the [[MacGuffin second alien orb]]. He uses hallucinogenic drugs, [[ElectricTorture electric torture]], some lectures, and a shirtless dunk in ice water. Max withstands the torture, but gives in when [[spoiler:Pierce threatens to kill his girlfriend Liz]]. He then threatens Max with [[PlayingWithSyringes live dissection]] to get Max to show him how the orbs work. Through all his threats, Pierce remains [[SoftspokenSadist calm and professional]].
678* In the Season 6 story arc of ''Series/{{Spooks}}'', Zafar Younis is captured by a group known as the Redbacks who torture him for information, and who have then passed him on to further clients to torture. [[spoiler:His mutilated body is found dumped.]] At the end of the Season [[spoiler:Jo Portman and Adam Carter]] also find themselves captured by the Redbacks, and face the same fate.
679* Most of the {{Big Bad}}s in the ''Franchise/StargateVerse'' go with a patented AgonyBeam and MindRape to get information and their jollies.
680** Ba'al, by far the greatest bastard of the series, wasn't satisfied with something so menial. While holding Jack O'Neil captive he tortured him to death dozens of times using everything from daggers to acid. And then, when Jack dies, he has him popped in a Sarcophagus so he can be revived to go through it all over again. The combination of torture and the mental decay from repeated resurrections drove him to demand death before he could give in.
681** The Goa'uld Marduk's own people killed him [[spoiler:(or tried to)]] by locking him in a healing sarcophagus with a dangerous, flesh-eating predator. He was eaten alive while the sarcophagus continuously regenerated him...
682** Even worse is the Goa'uld Sokar. He basically takes the personage of the devil and even goes so far as to turn an entire planet into a literal hell just to invoke this trope, complete with people screaming in agony and gleefully listening to it.
683* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
684** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E15Paradise Paradise]]", Sisko is tortured by creepy cult leader Alixus, who subjects him to one of the oldest tortures in the book: the simple hot box. She hopes to break his spirit through using its heat, dehydration, hunger, and stress posture, to make him accept her cult and authority. It doesn't work, but the episode pulls no punches in showing just how effective and debilitating such a simple torture can be in causing pain.
685** Garak tortures Odo in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E21TheDieIsCast The Die is Cast]]". Since Odo, as a shapeshifter, needs to return to his natural form every few hours, all Garak has to do is simply force him to remain in his humanoid form. We see that this is very painful, and eventually causes Odo to start flaking apart.
686** When Romulans discover that Bashir cannot be mind-probed in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E16InterArmaEnimSilentLeges Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges]]", they torture him for information.
687* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS04E18InAMirrorDarkly In a Mirror, Darkly]]" shows that [[AgonyBeam the agony booth]] in the MirrorUniverse was developed by Dr. Phlox, who is a [[TortureTechnician master of torture]] in his universe, as well as [[MadDoctor a doctor]], in order to cause the subject continuous pain via nerve stimulation. It also continually switches nerve clusters in order to prevent the victim from getting accustomed to the pain. In one ExpandedUniverse novel, the mirror-Chekov is killed by being left in the agony booth by Tiberius (mirror-Kirk) set on high (right after the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E4MirrorMirror Mirror, Mirror]]").
688* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E10ChainOfCommand Chain of Command]]", Picard is captured by Cardassians. They use drugs to extract information, but [[InterrogatedForNothing later]] Madred tortures him ''just for the sake of it''. And beyond that, Picard later reveals to Counselor Troi that, just for a moment, Madred had successfully broken his mind.
689* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'':
690** In "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E9DaggerOfTheMind Dagger of the Mind]]", the corrupt head of an insane asylum takes particular pleasure in using a very nasty device that simply activates the pain receivers in the brain, resulting in an increasing sensation of pain the longer it's kept on with no evidence afterward, and theoretically nothing to stop the pain until the victim dies from it. The fact that ''the Federation'' is shown to use such a device even in those early, ridiculously idealistic days of the franchise is quite chilling.
691** "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E12TheEmpath The Empath]]" uses this trope as the entire ''plot''. A race of aliens named the Vians subject both Kirk and [=McCoy=] to physical torture to see how an alien named Gem (who's race is able to cure the physical injuries by taking them on themselves) will react. It turns out the Vians have the power to save Gem's dying planet, but will not do so unless she is willing to sacrifice herself for victims, proving her race compassionate enough to save. No prizes for spotting the hypocrisy in this scenario.
692* Captain Jack Harkness of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' is unable to stay dead, always reviving after some time that varies depending on how injured he is, and [[ImmortalityHurts this is repeatedly used against him]]. For example:
693** In the episode "[[Recap/TorchwoodS2E13ExitWounds Exit Wounds]]", [[spoiler:his nemesis Captain John Hart takes him back to 27 A.D. in Cardiff where Jack's long-lost brother Gray buries him alive as punishment for not saving him from an attack when they were children. He is eventually dug up by Torchwood in 1901, having repeatedly suffocated and revived for 1874 years]].
694** In the third series, ''[[Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth Children of Earth]]'', [[spoiler:an attempt to kill Jack with a bomb in his stomach fails, so after his body reassembles itself and he revives, he is sealed in concrete until Ianto comes with a fork truck to break him out by dropping the concrete block off a cliff]].
695** In "[[Recap/TorchwoodS1E6Countrycide Countrycide]]", Jack claims that he himself has experience doing this.
696** In ''Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay'', we get a flashback of Jack being chained in a basement and killed repeatedly.
697* Used often enough in ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' to suspect at least some AuthorAppeal.
698** Damon tortures Mason to get information out of him and then kills him.
699** Brady does this with Caroline in "Daddy Issues".
700** Jules does with Damon in "Crying Wolf". Damon acknowledges the irony.
701** In the Season 3 premiere we see Stefan torturing a werewolf by chaining him to a wall over a dart board and throwing darts at him that have been dipped in wolfsbane.
702** As of Season 4, most of the main characters have tortured, been tortured, or both. [[AllIsWellThatEndsWell There are never any lasting repercussions, though.]]
703* Towards the end of Season 2 in ''Series/{{Vikings}}'', Ragnar Lodbrok carves a Blood Eagle on Jarl Borg.
704* In ''Series/TheXFiles'', alien abductees are tortured and "tested" by their alien abductors.
705** [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E05DuaneBarry Duane Barry]], a deranged former FBI encountered in Season 2 reports that he had his teeth drilled with lasers (while awake) and implants inserted into his nose and gums.
706** Women who get taken aboard get their ova removed -- Scully is one, though she does not remember much.
707** The pinnacle comes when Mulder himself is abducted in Season 8. Shots of him show he has metal anchor rods ''drilled right through his wrists and ankles'' to a stone chair and forced to endure painful procedures, like open heart surgery while still awake and with no anesthesia. Like Duane Barry, he has his teeth drilled, and his mouth held open by hooks inserted into his cheeks.
708** The MonsterOfTheWeek "[[Recap/TheXFilesS01E13BeyondTheSea Beyond the Sea]]" episode has a pair of kidnapped teenagers tortured by a SerialKiller.
709** Mulder himself is tortured by having his fingers broken when a militia leader believes he is a mole in "[[Recap/TheXFilesS05E18ThePineBluffVariant The Pine Bluff Variant]]".
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713* Podcast/DiceFunk: This trope is the reason Episode 20 is called "Pimps Stole My Blood".
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716[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
717* After the large majority of Wrestling/RingOfHonor's roster was chased off by a weed whacker wielding Wife Beater after ''Arena Warfare'', the Wrestling/{{CZW}} wrestlers tortured the one who did not get away, BJ Whitmer. Then CZW owner John Zandig threatened to break Whitmer's neck as his roster [[TrashTheSet destroyed the ROH ring]].
718* The infamous [[FreudianThreat "Choppy-choppy your pee-pee!"]] segment in Wrestling/{{WWE}} where Wrestling/ValVenis was kidnapped by Japanese stable Kai En Tai for sleeping with Mr. Yamaguchi's wife and was strung up so they could "slice the cucumber" with a samurai sword.
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721[[folder:Religion]]
722* Appears a couple of times in ''Literature/TheBookOfMormon'' among especially wicked groups.
723** Near the end of their civilisation, the Nephites would rape captured Lamanites and then torture them to death.
724** Implied to have happened to some of the people of Ammon, when their fellow Lamanites (or more specifically, formerly Nephite dissenters) attempted to provoke them into fighting back and defending themselves. [[ActualPacifist It didn't work.]]
725---> Therefore, they would suffer death in the most aggravating and distressing manner which could be inflicted by their brethren, before they would take the sword or cimeter to smite them.
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729* One FlashForward in ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'' shows a future where a group called the Dark Dragons have kidnapped some of the main characters and are torturing them to get information on their leader. Their methods include sensory deprivation (keeping them locked in pitch-black rooms), physical torture (breaking their bones if they attempt to fight back), and {{electric torture}} (putting shock collars around their necks).
730* In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', the Church of the Memory of Cardia and the Clergy of Mardük are fond of using cold-blooded torture on their captives.
731* ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'':
732** J.R. Rizzolo is apparently rather fond of this, seeing how he viciously tortures Cara Scholte and Laeil Burbank (the former by cutting up the helpless Cara's face, breaking her fingers, and then mutilating her right hand with a morning star before finally pushing her off a nearby cliff, the latter by [[EyeScream cutting out her left eye and crushing it]]. [[{{Squick}} And you get to read about both of them]] in graphic detail.
733** Sarah Atwell [[MadArtist makes an art of this trope]].
734* [[BigBad Haine]] inflicts this on both [[spoiler:Marcus and Sylvestre]] in ''Roleplay/YuGiOhEastAcademy''. Never mind the Shadow Game, the deck he uses is essentially made as a collection of ''his favorite torture devices''.
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738* Devils in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' harness their power by torturing the souls of the damned:
739-->''To devils, these souls are all the same — clay to be sculpted...even as it screams.''
740** Pain devils are specifically designed to function as torturers, but the worst by far is Alloces, the Butcher of Nessus. A unique devil who was a gruesome torturer even when he was [[LightIsNotGood an angel]], Alloces' reasons for torture have shifted over the countless years he's been doing it. First it was simply inflicting pain and suffering for the enjoyment of it, which shifted into turning the infliction of pain into an art form, which changed into a study of the nature of life and the resiliance and malleability of flesh (he was experimenting on other angels at the time, mind), to experimenting on torturing souls and other devils to see what he could make out of them.
741*** Kytons, or chain devils, are another type of devil that specializes in torture. They are the rulers of Jangling Hiter, a city in the Third Hell were torture is the biggest source of revenue. They and pain devils are hated rivals.
742*** Devils even have a way of doing this to ''other devils''. In the fourth level of Hell, Phlegethos, there's a place called the Pit of Flame. Devils who screw up but don't deserve to be demoted for whatever reason are brought there, locked into inescapable cages, and blasted with fire so hot it burns ''them'' (and bear in mind, ''devils are immune to fire''). How long they have to put up with this depends on how badly they failed.
743** The ''Book of Vile Darkness'' supplement actually gives official rules for interrogation using torture. (Meaning how to determine how someone can successfully get a victim to talk by using it.) This is recommended for villains only, naturally, much like a lot of the stuff in the book.
744** Fourth Edition has a ''god'' devoted to this -- Torog, God of Jailers, Torturers and the Underdark.
745* Subverted in the ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' adventure CLONES IN SPACE. The aliens' idea of torture is... alien, revolving mostly around things which offend their developed aesthetic sense, like [[spoiler:listening to Waylon Jennings]]. After a while, the players should get into the spirit and start shouting "Do your worst, Commie alien scum! We'll NEVER betray The Computer!"
746** In Alpha Complex itself, Internal Security tortures people for information.
747* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' setting, Routine torture done solely for information counts as a [[MoralEventHorizon Act of Ultimate Darkness]] that always gets the character attention from the [[PowersThatBe Dark Powers]] when done to a good aligned character or a family member. Even when done to evil or neutral aligned characters, you have a relatively high chance of attracting attention from the Dark Powers. In the case of sadistic torture, done for pleasure, torturing anyone but an evil character is an Act Of Ultimate Darkness and even torturing an evil character has a very high chance of attracting the Dark Powers' attention.
748* The Drukhs have made torturing enemies and each other an integral part of their culture in ''TabletopGame/{{Talislanta}}''. The Rajans and the Aamanians are known for their use of torture as well.
749* The Dark Eldar, a faction in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' revolves its entire culture and ''survival'' around extreme torture. And they enjoy it, too.
750** As mentioned in other ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' examples on this page, this is also standard procedure for both Inquisitors and their many enemies.
751*** In fact, inquisitors usually operate using a nine step procedure when it comes to interrogation with increasing levels of brutality, and the ninth step even lampshades how at that point the inquisitor has usually given up trying to gain any useful information from the subject and is just doing it for the hell of it. Although it should be noted that anything that lasts until step 9 without breaking is a terrible danger to the Imperium of Man in and of itself. Most people don't get past step 1, which is an Inquisitor personally doing a verbal interrogation and anyone ignorant of the Inquisition (not likely) and can still be described as sane break at step 2, which is simply a description of steps 3 through 9.
752** The Literature/NightLords legion of Chaos Space Marines make this their [[PlanetOfHats hat]], along with being TheDreaded.
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756* In the second chapter of ''Theatre/TheKansasCollection'', you're led to a room where the {{Anti Hero}}ic Glinda is torturing the Tin Woodsman to try and get news on Dorothy's whereabouts. Glinda used to be a gentle rule-abider but has since changed viewpoints because her pacifism led to nothing as Oz goes downhill quickly. This is [[spoiler:subverted when the Tin Woodsman reveals that he wasn't being tortured and was working with Glinda to get information from you]].
757* In ''Theatre/TheLadysNotForBurning'', Thomas is taken offstage and tortured in an attempt to make him change his testimony. Most of the details are glossed over, but thumbscrews are involved.
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761* At Ride/UniversalStudios:
762** Lord Farquaad inflicts this on some of the supporting characters in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekFourD'' to discover the whereabouts of Shrek and Fiona.
763** Voldemort threatens the riders with this in ''Ride/HarryPotterAndTheEscapeFromGringotts'' when they won't give up Harry's location.
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767* The Penguin from ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', [[{{Pun}} in more ways than one]].
768* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' can use her magic to summon horrible and deadly torture devices like spike-filled iron maidens, giant twisting winches, guillotines, and even giant chainsaws in order to brutally finish off angelic enemies. The devices are also the same ones that were used on the other Umbran Witches after the angels tricked humanity into turning on them, so their use falls under 'revenge' (case in point, when Bayonetta uses a Torture Attack on a demon she doesn't use these devices, instead just using her summoned demons to brutalize them). Although with how she taunts and dances, it seems Bayonetta genuinely enjoys using these devices on her angelic foes as well, so their use probably also falls under 'pleasure'.
769* ''VideoGame/BioShockInfiniteBurialAtSea'' has a particularly horrifying example in Episode 2 when [[spoiler:Atlas]] tries to get Elizabeth to tell him where the "ace in the hole" is. His method? Sliding an ice pick just above her eye and tapping it with a hammer over and over, all the while describing how a transorbital {{lobotomy}} can wreak havoc on the pre-frontal lobe of the brain. [[NightmareFuel Through a first-person point of view!]] [[spoiler:When Elizabeth [[NervesOfSteel refuses to talk, and even invites him to go ahead and give her the kind of brain damage that will make her stop caring about what's going on around her]], he wheels in Sally, the little girl Elizabeth came back to Rapture to save, and [[WouldHurtAChild threatens to do it to her instead]].]]
770* In ''VideoGame/CallOfCthulhuDarkCornersOfTheEarth'', Jack is tortured with jumper cables by a doctor working for the FBI. It says a lot about the horrors he's seen that it takes several high-powered shocks and threatening to send him back to the asylum for him to agree to return to Innsmouth.
771* ''VideoGame/TheDarkness'':
772** Jackie is captured by [[spoiler:police captain Eddie Shrote]] and tortured for information on who helped him raid a crooked cop's stash (unfortunately for everyone involved, the answer is: no one). He uses a drill to do things the viewer can't quite see thanks to the game's first-person perspective. We can hear Jackie scream though, and afterward his mouth is bloody and his speech is slurred.
773** Then, in the sequel, it gets kicked up a few notches when Jackie gets captured and tortured ''twice'', this time by [[spoiler:the Brotherhood of the Darkness]] who are trying to get Jackie to give the Darkness up. First they crucify him bloodily and try to siphon the power out of him; then later, they shove him into an iron maiden, ''actually'' siphon the power out of him, and ''then'' hang the iron maiden over a fire just to make his death as painful as possible. Nice guys.
774** Jackie's Darkness execution moves probably qualify as well, ranging from "Wishbone" to "Throat Plunge" to tearing out a dude's spinal cord, while the poor {{Mooks}} scream bloody murder.
775* The bad guys of the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' universe are quite fond of this.
776** Act I of ''VideoGame/DiabloII'' has you going through the Rogue Monastery, which has been taken over by the evil forces of Andariel, the Maiden of Anguish. Those Rogues who didn't become demons can be seen dead on various torture devices throughout the monastery, and judging by the state of their bodies, what happened to them was not pleasant.
777** What Baal did to Marius was pretty cold-blooded too. [[spoiler:Instead of simply seizing the soulstone from Marius and killing him quickly, Baal used an illusion to disguise himself as Tyrael, forced Marius to relive his horrific adventure with Diablo, and convinced Marius to give up the soulstone willingly... and then revealed his true colors before finally killing Marius.]]
778** The Halls of Agony from ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' were the old torture chambers of King Leoric, back when he was still alive and going mad. In addition to having many people (up to and including his own queen) executed out of paranoia brought on by Diablo's attempts to take over his mind and the evil whisperings of Archbishop Lazarus, he had quite a lot of people put to the torture. The Darkening was not a fun time to live through.
779** Maghda's Dark Coven (and by extension, the minions of Belial) are quite fond of torturing others. In particular, the Coven's use of torture is used to [[BlackMagic power their magic]], including illusions.
780** Throughout hell and in the Arreat Crater's demon outpost, giant demons are chained up, boiled alive, and flayed / chopped until all their skin falls off. Repeatedly. The primary reason not being revenge or for intel, but because the skin is used to create the roads that demons march on. It says something about the sheer level of their torture that the Demon Hunter will ''spare them''.
781** This is basically what Kormac's "initiation" into the Templar Order amounted to. He was chained to a wall and beaten for three days till he was half-mad from pain and hunger, at which point the whipping began. According to the inquisitors who did this, this was meant to make the initiate relive his transgressions and everything that brought him tainted joy, and to cleanse the joy and the sin from him, leaving him pure. Needless to say, your character doesn't see it that way -- the Wizard in particular is outraged, telling him that the inquisitors treated him worse than an animal. [[spoiler:As it turns out, Kormac did not commit any crimes, but that the order wanted him for his fighting prowess, so they piled false sins upon him and brainwashed him to take away his memory -- and that they did the same thing to his fellow Templar Jondar, who you helped him to kill.]]
782* In ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest'', [[spoiler:Kaptain K. Rool is seen beating Donkey Kong before you fight him aboard the Flying Krock]].
783* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
784** Molag Bal, the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] of [[TheCorrupter Domination and Corruption]], is a major fan of inflicting this. He loves taking good and noble mortals, then seeing them break. For those who prove resistant to his tortures, he has the ability to fragment their souls, essentially a form of MindRape which causes them to lose or forget about that which gives them strength. Molag Bal's plane of Oblivion, [[EldritchLocation Coldharbour]], is designed to torment a person as horribly and efficiently as possible. The ground is sludge, the sky is on fire, and the [[EvilIsDeathlyCold air is freezing]]. It resembles a ruined and desecrated copy of Nirn that is filled with suffering and "spattered" with blood and excrement. It contains charnel houses full of the dead and slave pens beyond count. The very ''[[EvilSmellsBad smell]]'' of the place is enough to break most mortals. It is said that no mortals willingly visit this place except in error.
785** Vaermina, the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] of Nightmares, has this within her sphere. She can cause {{Mind Rape}}s by afflicting mortals with ceaseless, horrific nightmares. For a mortal, simply being in her realm, Quagmire, can be this. Quagmire changes for the viewer every few moments in a flash of lightning to something even more horrific than before.
786** Xivilai are a [[GiantMook massive]] and [[EliteMooks powerful]] form of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent lesser Daedra]]. Xivilai are noted to be skilled torturers who revel in the act, particularly when torturing mortals.
787** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'':
788*** [[ANaziByAnyOtherName The Thalmor]] are exceptionally fond of this trope. In addition to grisly blood spatters and skeletons chained to the walls, their dungeons usually contain racks, embalming tools, and ''axes''. In one quest you even interrupt an in-progress interrogation, which is about as unpleasant as you'd expect.
789*** A dedicated torture chamber is one of the things you can buy for the new Dark Brotherhood sanctuary. Torturing victims within reveals the location of hidden treasure, and are also useful for training up your skills (but be careful not to kill them, as they won't respawn).
790* There's a good deal of this in ''[[VideoGame/EVEOnline EVE Chronicles]]''. [[http://www.eveonline.com/background/potw/default.asp?cid=29-01-07 This]], for example.
791* ''VideoGame/FarCry3'' features this in spades, performed by both heroes and villains throughout the game. One particularly notable and darkly hilarious example occurs in the live-action promo videos, in which [[BigBad Vaas]] has Christopher Mintz-Plasse buried up to his neck on the beach and periodically tortures him over the course of several days: he pulls out some of his teeth with pliers, zaps him with car batteries, covers his head with a fishbowl full of spiders, pisses in his face, and lets off a firecracker in his face. Even in the rare moments in which Vaas [[FauxAffablyEvil pretends to be friendly]] take a turn for the sadistic: at one point, he serves Chris a barbecue, complete with Argentinian wine... only for Chris to [[IAteWhat learn that that the meat is actually]] [[spoiler:the remains of Barry the cameraman]].
792* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
793** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', two guards are gleefully beating [[spoiler:Celes]] and jeering over the treatment she's to receive the following day when [[spoiler:Locke]] shows in to rescue her in South Figaro.
794** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', Seifer does this to Squall in D-District Prison.
795** Poor Basch from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' was held in solitary confinement and frequently subjected to this for ''two years'', partly for information and partly for revenge. He's visibly in pretty bad shape when the rest of the PlayerParty rescues him.
796** In ''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII'' have [[spoiler:Bhunivelze to Hope. In order to make Hope an acceptable vessel, he reverts him to his childhood form and tortures him for 169 years.]]
797* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'':
798** Happens to [[spoiler:Miguel]] in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'', though like everything else in the game, it's played for (very dark) laughs: [[spoiler:"Shall we tighten it some more or just wait for it to turn black and fall off?"]]
799** Most certainly not played for laughs when it comes up in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''. [[spoiler:Trevor, under the control of the player, has to use several instruments of torture to beat the information out of a prisoner. These methods include pulling a tooth out with some pliers, electrocuting him with a car battery, smashing his testicles with a wrench and waterboarding him with gasoline. Trevor, himself, admits to enjoying torture, even though [[TortureIsIneffective it's a lousy way to extract useful information]].]]
800* ''VideoGame/Halo2'': Thel 'Vadamee (better known as the Arbiter) is put through this as punishment for his "failure" to prevent the Chief from destroying Halo in [[VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved the previous game]].
801* ''VideoGame/KaneAndLynch 2: Dog Days'':
802** The game opens with the duo being sliced like deli meat by a Chinese gangster with a box-cutter. A later level shows the results of this and has them running a ''naked and bloody'' marathon through Shanghai.
803** Xiu, Lynch's Chinese girlfriend, is [[spoiler:disemboweled and highly implied to have been [[RapeAsDrama raped]]]].
804* ''Videogame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'': The Sith use Force Lightning or just common electricity, at different times, to extract information, [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil convert Jedi to the Dark Side]], [[YouHaveFailedMe punish apprentices for faults]] and ''as a part of a question-and-answer game''.
805* In ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'', Joel has to find out where David is keeping Ellie. He interrogates two members of David's group, and while it's absolutely disgusting and brutal and Joel does it while feeling no emotion besides rage, it seems to [[TortureAlwaysWorks just be for information]]. But once he gets the location and kills the one who told him, the other one says that he got what he wanted, but Joel kills him nonetheless.
806* ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'':
807** Kazuma Kiryu suffered torture at the hands of the Snake Flower Triad some time before the events of the first game. Fortunately, [[ParentalSubstitute Kazama]] rescued him before the Chinese could inflict lasting damage.
808** [[PsychoForHire Goro Majima]] suffered this as fallout from the Ueno Seiwa hit in ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'', detailed in ''VideoGame/Yakuza0''; after enduring an ''entire year'' of torture (starting with getting his eye carved out), his punishment was switched to excommunication under probation.
809** Also from ''0'', [[spoiler:Tachibana is left to the tender mercies of Kuze and his goons after he is captured, with Yoneda smashing Tachibana's toes with a sledgehammer when he refuses to give up Makoto's location. Kiryu and Nishiki rescue him, but not before Yoneda inflicts a fatal blow and cracks Tachibana's head with the hammer when he starts mouthing off]].
810* Nifilhema of ''VideoGame/{{Lusternia}}'' spends her time birthing new and exciting torture techniques: she favours cutting and piercing tools, as she relishes blood. Though she generally practises on angel, she'll consent to torture her followers and ''[[CombatSadomasochist herself]]''. Incidentally, any angels tortured by her are so traumatized that [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil they become demons themselves]].
811* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': While we can only speculate on the specifics, it can be assumed that one Kron Harga, slaver, was loathsome enough to not warrant a swift and efficient (or [[KarmicDeath ironic]]) execution via Omega's resident badass vigilante, Archangel. Injuries include, but were most likely not limited to: bullets in every extremity and major organ, massive head trauma possibly delivered through the butt-end of a rifle, before finally being in very close proximity to a container filled with explosives when it suddenly detonated.
812* In ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo'', no torture is ever actually shown, but one of the Merovingian's former {{Mooks}} is chained and stretched across a table in a [[TortureCellar dungeon]], while the loyal {{Mooks}} are ready to do this, until you help her free herself.
813* Used in the first game of the ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' series.
814-->'''[=ColorMan=]:''' Now, now, I'll delete you soon enough... Heheh! But first I'll watch you squirm a little!
815* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
816** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', Colonel Volgin dispenses with elaborate, drawn-out methods of causing pain, preferring instead to beat on prisoners with his own two fists (that happen to be charged with 10 million volts of electricity). He doesn't really care if this produces information or not, as long as he gets his kicks.
817** Snake personally undergoes some of Volgin's torture when he gets captured. There's no minigame or way to heal yourself here; you just watch as Snake is left to hang from his wrists and beaten to a bloody pulp. The pain is so excruciating that tough-as-nails Snake ''pisses himself'' from the pain, and worse, ''Volgin is aroused by it''. ''And so is Ocelot''; by this point he's become such a StalkerWithACrush that not only does watching Snake being tortured turn out to be a sexual experience but it actually provided him the epiphany that led him to become the world's leading expert on torture. [[spoiler:Then Snake gets his right eye shot out]]. Apart from maybe [[spoiler:the near-death experience boss battle against the Sorrow]], this is the biggest NightmareFuel segment in the game; it starts brutal and then gets worse from there.
818** Vamp from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' qualifies as well. You must save [[spoiler:Otacon's step-sister]] from the flooded base. You must take her back to the Control Center in the first part of the Big Shell. However, the normal bridge was destroyed earlier, so you must take a floating path, complete with mines and guards. This trope comes out when she's grabbed by [[spoiler:Vamp]]. You shoot the bad guy and rush to Emma, only to discover that while she was grabbed, [[spoiler:Vamp ''knifed her in the back repeatedly'']]. And that bastard's not even dead yet!
819** [[spoiler:Solidus Snake]] is a great bastard, too. He captures Raiden, who is ''naked'' , and ''strangles him with an electrified metallic tentacle'' . He repeats that later in the game.
820** Raiden doesn't catch a break later on in the series, either. The Make it Right trailers for ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' imply heavily that the procedure that turned him into a cyborg was long, excruciating, and undertaken without sedatives.
821** Skull Face from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVGroundZeroes'', however, outdoes them all. The interrogation cassette tapes that the player can find in the game are considered by fans to be arguably the most horrific things in the entire series.
822* There are many examples of this in ''VideoGame/{{Outlast}}'', although the most nightmare-worthy example is when [[spoiler:Miles is captured by Doctor Trager. He is strapped to a wheelchair, taunted with an exit, then has two of his fingers crudely chopped off with bone shears]]. What Eddie Gluskin [[GroinAttack does to his victims]] in the DLC, on the other hand, is a different type of terrifying.
823* ''VideoGame/Persona5'' starts with the Protagonist getting captured by the police. In the next scene he’s being beaten by the police (visibly much worse for wear), drugged with truth serum, and is forced to sign a confession under his name under threat of his leg being crippled.
824* ''VideoGame/ThePunisherTHQ'' lets you punch out, choke, threaten with guns and smash faces, and that's the boring stuff. Angle grinders, drills, car crushers, eels and rhinos, open fires, wood chippers, furnaces, sharks, [[GroinAttack table saws]] and electric chairs are just a sampling of what to expect.
825* ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'':
826** The [[spoiler:Damned 33rd]] torture civilians and [[spoiler:CIA agents]], often killing them afterwards. Their favored method of torture is to pin them on the ground, and fire their guns into the sand next to their face, causing the sand to shoot up and rip up the victim's skin. One victim you find appears to have been dosed with gasoline and set alight.
827** [[PlayerCharacter Walker]] begins to inflict what amounts to torture in his execution moves -- early on in the game, they are {{Mercy Kill}}s, though later on they become increasingly violent, such as blasting out the enemy's knee caps before shooting them repeatedly in the chest, or bashing their head into the ground repeatedly to kill them.
828* ''VideoGame/SplinterCellChaosTheory'':
829** In the first mission you find the person your supposed to be rescuing being tortured. [[{{Squick}} With his legs in a shallow bathtub and a car battery with jumper cables being pressed onto his chest]]. Apparently they had already gotten everything they wanted out of him, and was just torturing him out of spite (so much so that one comments on seeing smoke coming from his head).
830** In the final level, guards in a certain area carry [[TheParalyzer LTL ammo]] and, if hit, Fisher will black out, only to wake up mid-interrogation. After blacking out again, Fisher awakens to one of the guards preparing to torture him whilst expressing joy at the concept; after escaping, however, Lambert tells Fisher ''he's only been gone a few minutes'', which suggests it wasn't exactly a last resort.
831* In ''VideoGame/SpycraftTheGreatGame'', the player is given the option of using Main/ElectricTorture on a female spy to extract information from her.
832* ''Videogame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'': The fondness for lightning is still alive and well in the [[TheEmpire Sith Empire]] three hundred years after the first game, though the game treats some uses (particularly by the Sith Inquisitor's hands) as ComedicSociopathy.
833* In ''VideoGame/StillLife2'', the killer releases video of himself torturing victims to death. For some reason they are prominently played on mass media.
834* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'':
835** It's implied that Heavy Weapons Guy has done this in the past. A file on record with his employers explains that he was sent to TheGulag with his mother and sisters (after the death of his father, a counter-revolutionary), and that only by torturing the guards to death and setting the gulag ablaze were the prisoners able to escape. When the KGB agents ran after Heavy and his family, he taught his sisters to "butcher them like hogs" until "their screams died on their lips". Heavy is very proud when he discovers that his sisters, now all grown women, are more than capable of taking care of themselves without his help.
836** In Heavy's appearance in ''VideoGame/PokerNightAtTheInventory'', he goes into [[ToThePain extreme detail]] of the time he tortured an enemy engineer to death, describing in loving, cheerful detail how he [[spoiler:tore off each finger, one at a time, and shoved the engineer's wrench down his throat, while the engineer sobbed and cried out for his mother.]] The other players at the table can react only with stunned silence.
837** Also, [[spoiler:Classic Pyro]] really likes to torture people for fun, even after they give away all the important information first. Soldier accidentally blabbed that Miss Pauling was the only one who could answer anything. Then they literally drilled his teeth like Swiss cheese for shits and giggles.
838* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/WelcomeToTheGame'' is on the quest to find a Red Room. What a Red Room is a livestream found on the Deep Web of a kidnapped person being tortured to death. Which you get the pleasure of watching at the end.
839* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''
840** "[[ExaltedTorturer Beat this filth until it speaks...]]"
841** A torture chamber can be found in the Scarlet Monastery; their head interrogator really seems to enjoy his job.
842** Arthas uses this to some degree to break particularly strong individuals to heel. He seems to transcend purely physical torture, though, even going so far as tearing at the enemy's very soul. Something his minions learned: one Death Knight tortured an enemy by threatening to destroy the man's soul, beginning the process until he broke... and then finishing it out of spite.
843** The Pit of Saron seems only explainable as a form of this. Captured warriors forced to work endlessly in a quarry, stripped down to only their tabards despite the bone-freezing chill of Northrend? The only likely explanation is that Arthas simply wants to make them suffer before turning them.
844** It's not just the bad guys who do it; the Kirin Tor have you torture a WellIntentionedExtremist they have captured until he talks. [[SarcasmMode Naturally]], he knows all the details and blurts them out after repeated applications of excruciating pain, because TortureAlwaysWorks. [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential You can also continue torturing him even after he gives you information]], [[YouMonster he calls you sick through an exhausted from screaming whimper]].
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848* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'':
849** Unlimited Blade Works route, Caster capture Shirou's Servant, Saber by force, then tortured her. And knowing Caster from Fate route, you know she is ''not'' a nice person.
850** The background of [[spoiler:Avenger]] reveals that in life he was a completely ordinary human who was made TheScapegoat for all the evils in the world by his village. They tortured him endlessly for years, carving curses into his skin, cutting off parts, and committing every sin imaginable on his flesh. They continued this until his death, and he only died because of ''old age''. Made even worse by the fact that the people torturing him included his friends and family, who had all agreed he was the source of evil.
851* Used in ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry''. It isn't pretty. Ironically, the arc that actually shows the torture makes the character performing it far more sympathetic, with a well-done StartOfDarkness showing how [[TheWoobie the universe hates her]]. [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari]] has ''nothing'' on [[spoiler:Shion Sonozaki]]. Speaking of [[spoiler:Miyo]], there's also what happens to the people at [[OrphanageOfFear the orphanage]]. The anime censors it -- the manga does not.
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853
854[[folder:Webcomics]]
855* Yadmon from ''Webcomic/{{Aisopos}}'' tortures Adult!Aesop mainly for sadistic purposes.
856* Black Mage of ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' is of the "for pleasure" variety. While he mostly [[AxCrazy just enjoys killing]], he sometimes takes his time, like with his blind brother, who [[EyeScream wasn't blind at first]].
857* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'': [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/010911 Here]] and [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/010922 here]].
858* ''Webcomic/ExterminatusNow'': First, the team will have Lothar cut your balls off. Then, you'll talk. And no, they didn't get that the wrong way around.
859* In ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'': Dellyn Goblinslayer does "experiments" on monsters. It becomes clear however, that he does it mostly for pleasure, with the majority of information learned being new methods of causing pain in each race. But seeing as they're "[[FantasticRacism evil monsters]]", all the "good" races think it's just.
860** Perhaps the most chilling example was Kin, the Yuan-ti that Goblinslayer kept as a "pet". Not only did Dellyn torture her, but [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil he also spent his nights raping her.]] This was enough to [[BrokenPedestal turn Minmax, who was Dellyn's biggest fan, against him.]]
861** KnightTemplar Kore is an exceptionally brutal torturer. After capturing Chief, he began to torture him so that his screams of pain would draw the other goblins back, first using holy magic to heal him from the near fatal injury he'd caused capturing him, and then brutally mauling the goblin's body with his axe, including severing an ear and a ''hand''. [[spoiler:And the injuries he caused killed him soon after the torture stopped.]]
862* In ''Webcomic/MinionComics'', Spencer and Dingus are allowed to pick their torture, with options ranging from "The Spiky Thing" to "The Shocker" to [[http://www.meetmyminion.com/?p=1042 a George Lopez comedy special]].
863* Mistress in ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'' is fond of creative magical tortures--[[AssShove often delivered rectally]].
864* Though we don't see it on-screen in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', Redcloak tortures O-Chul for months in order to get information that he knows the paladin does not have, leading to massive scarring. He continues merely as a pretense to convince his boss Xykon that they should stay in the city. [[LaserGuidedKarma It doesn't work out for him]].
865** And [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0757.html now it has been shown on-screen]] that Tarquin (Elan's father and General-in-chief of the Empire of Blood) is definitely not above torturing women until they agree to marry him...*shudder*
866* When a particularly vile character in ''Webcomic/{{Pibgorn}}'' learns that the title character [[http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2004/12/10/ can talk and feel pain]], obviously [[http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2004/12/11/ this is the method used to explore that topic further.]]
867* ''Webcomic/{{Remus}}'''s Ryan Davidson has been on the receiving end of this from Williams.
868* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' villains have tried this on Torg a couple times. [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=980429 They]] [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=980430 just]] [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=980501 never]] [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=980504 seem]] [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=980505 to]] [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=020613 get]] [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=020616 it]] [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=020618 quite]] [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=020619 right]].
869** Bun-Bun tries it after a fashion in [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=000201 this]] strip.
870* The [[Webcomic/{{Asperchu}} Asperpedia Four]] are put through this as their death sentence in ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}''. Alec, the creator of ''Asperchu'', gets the ten-button electric chair for not portraying Chris-Chan's characters "correctly", Sean, the creator of ''{{Moon-Pals}}'', gets shot to death by three characters presumably for portraying them as stoners. Mao, the host of Asperpedia, gets ripped apart using psychic powers. Evan, the creator of ''{{Simonchu}}'' and whom Chris-Chan had shamelessly and imfamously stolen a character from, gets brutally drilled apart by a [[CuteAndPsycho small child]] and then finished by the child and her father. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids This is from a webcomic that is supposedly meant for children]].
871* In ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheQuestor'', [[http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00125.html Nessie suffered it. Perhaps a less severe form that most, but she's only a little girl.]]
872* In ''Webcomic/Trevor2020'', [[spoiler:Enid]] admits that the experiments done on Trevor eventually became nothing but torture in practice.
873* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Window Agents tortured Vienne to death, and relished in throwing it in her face that it was her husband who sold her out to them before killing her. Of course, Mathis did so out of fear, frustration, thought they'd leave her alive, and that it was inevitable they would be coming for her.
874* The startling regularity with which the Cruciatus (Torture) Curse is thrown around in ''Webcomic/VoldemortsChildren'' definitely invokes this trope, especially given the nature of the Curse's targets.
875* ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'': The golem girls are victims of this [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/isnapped/ in the backstory]]
876* ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl'': Sandra engages in it when she gets the upper hand against Gregory during their fight.
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880* Pretty Pink Ponytails in ''Literature/AngelOfDeath'' has a special room in which she does this. So far, she's been seen preparing to press an electric sander against someone's hand with the intent of grinding it off (though something came up before she could get around to it). She also tortured a woman in an alley in order to attract the Angel of Death.
881* In the ''WebVideo/BoardJames'' episode [[spoiler:"Nightmare and Beyond", James tortures Mike and Bootsy in the graveyard scene by hacking off Booty's limbs one by one with a chainsaw to play Hangman and inserts random objects in Mike. He then cuts open Mike with garden shears and uses a live battery wire to remove the objects in order to play a sick version of Operation]].
882* ''WebVideo/{{Criticized}}'': Arthur puts Darian through this, gouging out his left eye with a paperclip and pouring salt in it.
883* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': The whole fight in "[[Recap/DeathBattleS09E05OmniManVSHomelander Omni-Man VS Homelander]]" comes off as this. [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/TheBoys Homelander]] never stood even a remote chance, and it's hinted that the only reason why Homelander lasts as long as he does in the animation is because [[ComicBook/{{Invincible}} Nolan]] takes his time in breaking Homelander physically and mentally as punishment for Homelander killing Debbie. When Homelander threatens to kill Mark in the same way, Nolan stops playing around and immediately and ends the fight, making good on the threat with which he started the fight: he feeds Homelander his own heart, then forces him to swallow by crushing his head.]]
884-->'''[[spoiler:Omni-Man]]:''' Remember what I promised you...? '''Now swallow.'''
885* ''WebVideo/FreshyKanal Rap Battles'': By his second verse against Robin Hood, Guy Fawkes has been captured by the royal guards and King James I gets two lines to describe what will happen to him. Fawkes spends the rest of his verse rapping while enduring the torture.
886-->For the torture, you'll have horses tied to every corner\
887And lamb and forced to ride, pulling your torso, hung, drawn, and quartered
888* The Ant Family from ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' always inflict this upon Sniffles whenever he tries to eat them. They're at their worst in "Tongue in Cheek".
889* In ''ARG/ILoveBees'', there is a torture device known as Cupid's Knife. It makes the victim feel pain whenever they think any negative thoughts about the user, forcing them to love their torturer, hence the name.
890-->''"The Knife is gonna hurt you. A lot. Only way to stop the pain is to surrender, to break, to love..."''
891* ''Literature/{{Kherishdar}}'': Kor is tortured by the Emperor in ''[[http://www.stardancer.org/kherishdar2/ The Admonishments of Kherishdar]]'' as part of his training to become Shame. His role is to provide Correction to deviants in Kherishdar's society, and he is only permitted to use tortures that have been inflicted on himself. Suffice it to say he's one of the most effective Shames in history.
892* In ''WebVideo/NightwingTheSeries'', the mercenary Deathstroke employs electric torture and knife-wounds on one of his targets, who's bound and helpless in a chair.
893-->'''Deathstroke:''' Let's take it up a notch higher... ''[increases the voltage]''
894* In ''WebVideo/PokemonApokelypse'', Brock is tied up, beaten, and tortured with a Magnemite.
895* In Season 12 of ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'', the heroes need to get important information out of a captured Space Pirate, but he isn't talking. [[MadDoctor Doctor Grey]] asks of she could have a few minutes alone with the man, before explaining to him all the wonderful features that the facility they are in has (mainly, an incinerator and state-of-the-art medical equipment) and then asking him if he'd [[DeadlyEuphemism like to see him]]. [[SmashCut Cut to outside the base]], where the Reds and Blues hear the man screaming in pain over the sound of various electrical saws and Doctor Grey singing. After they get the information, Carolina asks if the prisoner is still in any condition to answer more questions, and Grey asks for a moment to put him back together.
896* [[TheUndead Thorolf]] from ''Literature/TheSaints'' has a knife that keeps its victims alive for as long as it remains in their heart. He uses it to keep victims alive while he [[HorrorHunger eats them]]. He doesn't have to eat them, [[ForTheEvulz he just wants to]].
897* In serial 2 of ''Literature/SpectralShadows'', there's Omega, the FinalBoss of the Aslander role-playing game. According to the Character Index he doesn't kill characters who fail to complete his stage. He likes to torture them by forcing them to listen to obnoxiously avant-garde ProgressiveRock.
898* ''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/439144 The Torture Game]]'', a delightful little web game that lets you brutally torture some poor guy with: Ropes, guns, a flesh-stripping razorblade, a chainsaw, huge spikes that shoot out of the walls, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking paint]]. It could either be seen as a great stress-reliever. Or perhaps both.
899* The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aptly-named]] {{Creepypasta}} [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Torture "Torture"]].
900* In the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', mutant Phase is tortured by MadScientist Emil Hammond, who is ''working for Phase's family'' to learn about what makes mutants manifest. His family actually comes in at one point to see how things are going; when Phase calls for them to help, they ignore him at first and then quickly leave. What's scary is how Emil Hammond always refers to Phase as 'it', and clearly is just doing this to learn more about Phase. The height would be 'what happens if Phase is in the middle of an object when he goes from light to solid'.
901* This gets inflicted upon Alador in ''WebAnimation/WolfSongTheMovie'' in order to try and get him to cooperate with the Death Alpha. [[spoiler:Instead of breaking, Alador ends up succumbing to the torture, right in front of his would-be rescuers.]]
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905* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': The episode "[[Recap/BatmanBeyondS2E16TheLastResort The Last Resort]]" features a therapy ranch for troubled teens run by Dr. David Wheeler, whose brainwashing of the students sent to him would be bad enough if Wheeler did not also send those who didn't get with the program to ISO, which amounts to [[GoMadFromTheIsolation total sensory deprivation used as punishment]]. We don't see anyone undergoing ISO, but we ''are'' shown the harmful effects it has on those who are sent there.
906* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E9QuestionAuthority Question Authority]]", this is what happens [[spoiler:to the Question after he attempts to assassinate Luthor. After receiving a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from Lex, Question is handed over to Cadmus and subjected to ElectricTorture and something which causes him to hallucinate about the AlternateUniverse BadFuture. The TortureTechnician demands to know what Question found out about Cadmus and only gets nonsense comments in return]].
907* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfVoxMachina'': The Briarwoods' coup in Whitestone ends with the brutal murder of the de Rolo family, save for Percy and his younger sister Cassandra, who are instead imprisoned in the dungeons. There, Dr. Ripley brutally tortures both of them for information about the ziggurat under Whitestone, with a flashback showing her tear Percy's skin open with hooks, before calling Cassandra in to torture her while Percy is ForcedToWatch. They escape after several weeks, but Cassandra is killed during the attempt [[spoiler:([[DisneyDeath or so Percy thinks]])]], and Percy throws himself into a frozen river to get away. Ironically enough, neither of them had ever even ''heard'' of the ziggurat, meaning Ripley tortured two teenagers for information ''they didn't even have.''
908* {{Parodied|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR''. Coop gets captured by the Glorft. Gorath's torture techniques? Eating a Philly Cheese Steak slowly in front of Coop. And smashing Mega Slushes. This would be considered CoolAndUnusualPunishment, but since it's [[BigEater Coop]]... Humorously, it's just as much torture for Gorath, who can barely stomach the Philly Cheese Steak.
909* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'': Megabyte tears off Phong's head, sticks it in a jar, and tortures ''that'' for information, using painful electroshock to rip the portal command codes right out of Phong's memory. When this ''takes too long'', Megabtye tells HerrDoctor to use other methods, involving saws. Thankfully, Matrix interrupts Herr Doctor before he gets started with that. Despite all the pain, Phong is defiant throughout all of the torture, never giving in to Megabyte.
910* ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon'': In "[[Recap/RenandStimpyAPC1x02RenSeeksHelp Ren Seeks Help]]", Ren does this to several innocent animals including a helpless frog. When the frog [[DrivenToSuicide demands to be put of its misery]], [[CruelMercy Ren refuses so it can continue suffering.]]
911* Appears in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. Music/KanyeWest really, ''really'' wants to know why Carlos Mencia is calling him a gay fish.
912* A G-rated version appears in the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E17 Krabby Land]]". For revenge against lying to the children of Bikini Bottom that Mr. Krabs' park will be fun and a clown will be there, Mr. Krabs is tied up to a post... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and fed lima beans]].
913* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'':
914** "[[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E12RebelResolve Rebel Resolve]]": Kanan gets the full package from Kallus, Tarkin, and the Inquisitor -- torture droid, electric shocks, and a forceful JediMindTrick.
915** "[[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E07StealthStrike Stealth Strike]]": Admiral Titus makes it clear he intends to torture Rex to death and discard him like trash, but Kanan's premonition of the torture enables the Jedi to interrupt before it starts.
916* ''WesternAnimation/TronUprising'': Oh, Users. Where to ''begin?'' First we see the end results of the stuff on the title character in the form of horrible scarring. Then we get a flashback to how they came to be (Courtesy of [[KnightOfCerebus Dyson]]). We get Beck almost being ''boiled alive'' in one episode, another where Beck's friends are going to be drawn and quartered via light-cycle. We also get TortureTechnician Gorn, who totally lives down to her name, [[StrappedToAnOperatingTable strapping Programs down]] and [[EyeScream forcing code worms into her victims through their eyes]]. The series only gets away with the violence because [[BloodlessCarnage Programs shatter into cubes or leak energy]] instead of bleed out.
917* This seems to be the reason why Hater from ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' has a torture room. He never seems to need any information. The few times he sends someone to the torture room, it's because he's imprisoning them. On one occasion, he even sends [[spoiler:a bunch of tourists in there after they're accidentally teleported onto the skullship]].
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