Follow TV Tropes

Following

History Main / ElectricTorture

Go To

OR

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
To The Pain is about a torturer describing to their victim in detail what they're doing, or going to do, to the victim's body. Since in this case, the description is coming from the victim, This Is Gonna Suck is more appropriate.


-->-- '''Michael Westen''' in ''Series/BurnNotice'', via voice over [[ToThePain as the device is about to be used on him]]

to:

-->-- '''Michael Westen''' in ''Series/BurnNotice'', via voice over [[ToThePain [[ThisIsGonnaSuck as the device is about to be used on him]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
unnecessary pothole


* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In "[[Recap/CSINYS09E09 Blood Out]]", the team investigates a particularly brutal murder. Before being cut in half with a chainsaw, the VictimOfTheWeek was tortured by having his pectoral muscles attached to a car battery by jumper leads.

to:

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In "[[Recap/CSINYS09E09 Blood Out]]", the team investigates a particularly brutal murder. Before being cut in half with a chainsaw, the VictimOfTheWeek Victim of the Week was tortured by having his pectoral muscles attached to a car battery by jumper leads.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


Instead, most torture sessions in TV, movies and video games takes the form of an electroshock treatment, some form of direct neural stimulation, or the ever popular AgonyBeam. In any case, the point is to have the actor shake around as if in terrible pain without actually causing any physical damage. If the producers are particularly interested in realism, a pair of burns will be left where the electrodes were attached. Depending on medium and genre, this may include visible electric arcs. Sometimes parodied, but far more often played straight.

to:

Instead, most torture sessions in TV, movies movies, and video games takes the form of an electroshock treatment, some form of direct neural stimulation, or the ever popular AgonyBeam. In any case, the point is to have the actor shake around as if in terrible pain without actually causing any physical damage. If the producers are particularly interested in realism, a pair of burns will be left where the electrodes were attached. Depending on medium and genre, this may include visible electric arcs. Sometimes parodied, but far more often played straight.

Top