Cool And Unusual Punishment / Fan Works

• Anyone:
  • When All For One hides all of Izuku's hero merch, he retaliates by burning his suits.
  • Nana Shimura is a Terrible Artist and she knows it, so her idea of punishment/torture is to play the trombone while ensuring the other person can't do anything about it.
  • A far less humourous variant is how Anyone retaliates when Shinsou lures them into the Hero Commission's trap. Instead of deleting his account or attacking him, they instead post his username to everyone in the server and describe what he did (though somewhat censored so they don't reveal his personal information). Shinsou is assaulted with countless messages that range from death threats to people sharing their stories with him and explaining that because he cried wolf, now Anyone won't be able to help people who need it.
• Apex Predator (MHA): When Izuku was younger, he kept a notebook of various ways he could take revenge on Katsuki for his bullying, with potential ideas ranging from "ripping his limbs out" to "sending him spiders in the mail".
• In Avenger Goddess, once Nick Fury learns that Natasha has been lying to him for years and maintained a joint loyalty to Fury and Diana, AKA Wonder Woman (who is basically Natasha's adopted mother), he 'punishes' Natasha by assigning her the role of Tony Stark's PA as an undercover assignment.
• A Bad Week at the Wizengamot:
  • After Fudge is kicked out of office by the EMU, Sirius becomes Interim Minister, with one of his proclamations introducing a "Truth in Government and Media Initiative." Part of the punishment for second offenders among the media is being forced to spend three months writing an "advice to the lovelorn" column called "Dear Hecate," while third offenders' punishment includes a hundred hours of enforced viewing of the Muggle television program The Jerry Springer Show.
  • Sirius also adds amendments to the Reasonable Restriction for Underage Magic. The first offense is punishable by a 100-Galleon fine and a public spanking, while the second is punishable by a 300-Galleon fine, 40 hours of community service, and public spankings on three separate days.
• In Batman: Melody for a Mockingbird Bruce and his bride-to-be Selina punish Damian for fighting in school by making him go wedding dress shopping with the girls where he's slowly bored to death. It's so effective that he's tempted to drink complementary champagne just to make the trip less painful.
• In The Beacon Civil War, Jaune captures Ruby as part of the aforementioned mock war (it's a long story). He needs to get information out of her without breaking the rules of the game or enraging Yang, so he threatens her with health food. Ruby is horrified that she will get no cookies, and Yang won't be mad because she's been trying to get Ruby to eat healthy for a while. Ruby caves very quickly.
• In Broken Bow 3, Apollo gets back at Armani by making him read The Twilight Saga. Armani averts this by tricking Artemis into reading it... all while evilly cackling internally.
• Referenced in the Neon Genesis Evangelion/Ghost Rider crossover Burning Vengeance with this exchange:
  Yui Ikari: Not that I'm complaining, but how did you convince a literal sex demon to get me a wardrobe this tasteful?
  Mephisto II: As I keep saying, I'm the King of Hell, damnit! When I give someone a direct order which isn't all that often, really they obey it or risk a brutal punishment.
  Yui: But how the hell do you punish a sex demon who's into every single fetish at once?
  Mephisto II: Two words: Enforced. Abstinence.
• The Calvinverse:
  • The first two trials Calvin and Hobbes must undergo in Calvin and Hobbes III: Double Trouble: eating a bunch of stale Kit Kat bars and going three miles on a treadmill.
  • Calvin & Hobbes: The Series: Socrates considers living with Calvin's dad this.
• Cobra Commander in The Cobra Commander Dialogues is disgusted with an Objectivist doctor who made a cure for strokes and didn't share his research. Not only does Cobra Commander steal the cure, he tells the doctor that he would have sold it at an exorbitant price (he is a cartoon villain, after all), but the doctor's sheer apathy and Lack of Empathy disgusted him so much that he'll distribute the cure for free worldwide, just to spite him. Since the doctor believes that the unwashed masses are unworthy of his work, he is horrified.
• In the Hetalia: Axis Powers Troll Fic "Canada Goes Bonkers" Canada's horrible tortures include forcing Austria and Hungary to listen to Nickelback on headphones and threatening to make Germany watch "shitty reality TV like Jersey Shore."
• Child of the Storm has several, usually perpetrated by Doctor Strange.
  • When the Minister for Magic in the 1820s tried to strongarm Strange into working for the Ministry's interests, he emerged, gibbering at the sound of bagpipe music and, for whatever reason, spontaneously vomiting whenever he heard the word "parsley."
  • He spends the entire finale of Unfinished Business screwing with the Arc Villain by using Magic Music with a planetary scale amp (it's that kind of story) to a) undo/suppress her spells and b) annoy the living shit out of her. He later traps said Arc Villain, who'd been using a kind of magic lantern power source, inside a magic golf-ball. While "Another One Bites The Dust" plays in the background. As Peter Parker puts it...
  "Phenomenal cosmic powers! Itty-bitty living space."
  • When Harry makes a hash of explaining his Dark Phoenix experience to Ron and Hermione, scaring them witless, he finds one of the texts that Strange has set him — which he wrote — is called Blood Magic for Morons. Yep, he used his powers as a Seer just to tell Harry he was being a moron.
  • While it was to make his then young apprentice/foster-daughter, Wanda, feel better, he arranged a performance of West Side Story... and, among other things, blackmailed a number of demons into performing.
  • The entirety of the Mirror Image arc, which features Harry having to wrangle the impulsive and well-meaning Clark who often throws himself into danger with no forethought, leads Harry to speculate that Strange is delivering some Laser-Guided Karma.
• Crazy Irken and ? (Invader Zim-based crossover fic anthology by D_rissing and nightmaster000. ^note Unable to link due to violating Content Policy, but it can be found on their Archive of Our Own pages.): Zim's idea of torturing Atomic Betty once he captures her is to force her to simultaneously watch footage of Dib’s gross workout and listen to a recording of GIR singing the Doom Song for over an hour, all of which utterly horrifies her and severely wears down on her mental defenses. Then things take a much more serious turn, as Zim begins raping her with metal tentacles, which works to completely break her mind and spirit.
• A Crooked Man: In stark contrast to the original story, Johann dish out ironic punishments to the villains:
  • Bullseye cannot kill anyone as whatever objects he uses as a weapon are turn into harmless objects such as a rubber duck or a condom.
  • Johann turns Norman Osborn into an actual goblin, making his condition based on anyone or anything with the capacity of thought who looks at him will instinctively know who and what he is.
  • Johann gives Moonstone a conscience, making her to feel guilty over all the people she had ruined while as a psychologist. This sudden empathy sends her into a catatonic state.
  • Johann gives Magneto the chance to start his life over as Erik Lehnsherr and reunited with a resurrected Magda and Anya at the cost of losing his memories as Magneto.
• A Crown of Stars:
  • Gendo wants to earn the pilots and his wife’s forgiveness for his actions. Asuka suggests that he goes through everything what they endured.
    Asuka: Ooh, there’s an evil idea… ne, Shinji, how about we forgive your dad after he gets to go through everything we had to?
    Shinji: What do you mean?
    Asuka: I mean, all the stuff we had to suffer because of him, he gets too. First he gets abandoned by everyone for ten years, then gets his arm broken and an energy spike through his right eye and out the back of his head, blown up, stabbed through the chest with two electric tentacles, shot in the chest with a terawatt laser, chewed on by a giant fish, pile-drivered headfirst into the dirt twice, blown up again, dunked into a volcano, splashed with acid, smashed from orbit, stuffed into a sensory deprivation tank for a night, choked, gets his arms and head ripped off, dissolved into LCL for a month, mind-raped, stabbed in the neck and chest, and then disemboweled by nine winged monsters with spears! Oh, and a spear through the head, too.
    Shinji: Sounds like a good start! […] Should we make him wear a leotard and learn a synchronized dance routine with Vice-Commander Fuyutsuki, too?
  • Asuka tells Shinji at one point: “Third, you had better start making sense, or I’m going to lock you in a room with geek-Stooge and have him jabber about his mecha at you until your ears bleed.”
  • When an Avaloni Princess was arrested and brought to a judge for “'borrowing' the lander, leaving the Empire underage without permission, and ditching school”, the judge punished her by throwing a book at her:
    “The police brought the casualties here, and the judge threw the book at her. She protested that it hurt, hitting her in the head like that. ‘Crime and Punishment’ isn’t a small book. The judge told her ‘Exactly. Now maybe you’ll learn not to skip class when they’re covering literary metaphors.’”
• The MLP:FIM Diamond Tiara's retribution has Diamond Tiara being tortured by Nightmare Moon. By being forced to eat mashed alfalfa.
• Several examples in Diaries of a Madman, though Celestia awarding Nav a garish suit of armour and dressing it up as a reward is probably the largest example.
• In Did you forget who I am? (a very NSFW Teen Titans fic), Beast Boy and Raven really get loose with his Power Perversion Potential and her half-demon appetites, with Raven's powers half-wrecking the Titans Tower and nearly killing their teammates. In response, Robin takes a picture of them (clothed, but with obvious marks of their passion), and shares it (along with pics of the damage) with all the Titan Network, with the comment that the two are only allowed to have sex now in a very well warded room.
  ‘Leave it to Robin to come up with a punishment this unreasonably cruel.’ The chime of the communicators continued for several minutes as the two tried their respective best to shut out the rest of the world.
• A Diplomatic Visit:
  • In the last chapter of the sequel Diplomat at Large, in response to the Diamond Dogs of Dimondia essentially enslaving Trixie, Twilight threatens to call Rarity down on them. They give in almost immediately.
  • In chapter 6 of the second sequel, Diplomacy Through Schooling, when discussing what'll happen when they find Sunburst, Twilight says that if he doesn't have a good reason for breaking off contact with Starlight, she'll... "give him the nose-honking of a lifetime". And then she'll call her mom in to have words with him. Spike actually finds this second part a reasonable and threatening punishment when she says it, shuddering in response.
• In the Discworld of A.A. Pessimal, a Witch flying over a bleak wasteland is reminded of her schooldays and having to do a half-remembered play, about a King who got a bit ''leery'' and was banished to a blasted heath with only his Fool for company. Which she considers to be cruel and sadistic punishment. She reasons that a night in the wilderness, even in a thunderstorm, is survivable. The company of a typical Discworld jester, on the other hand, adds a dimension of real sadism to the punishment. All those excruciatingly unfunny jokes. All night.
• Dominoes (Star Wars: The Clone Wars): Captain Rex punishes Fives for disobeying orders during the Blue Shadow Virus crisis by making him give Jar Jar Binks firearm safety training. Fives bails after Jar Jar nearly kills everyone at the firing range in an explosion caused by his Reckless Gun Usage.
• What Ami claims to do in Dungeon Keeper Ami. When an enemy Keeper gathers tens of thousands of innocents for a mass human sacrifice, gouging out their eyes, Ami rescues them all and heals their eyes out of genuine sympathy. Since she has to keep up the appearance of evil to prevent her minions from deserting, she claims she's rubbing her victory in the face of that enemy Keeper; she's so powerful that she can undo everything he did, out of spite.
• Earth and Sky: In the penultimate chapter, Celestia finally has the Flim-Flam Brothers brought into custody for all the chaos they've caused, and proceeds to break down crying, sincerely ashamed of what subjects of hers have done. Compared to seeing their beloved ruler in tears, Flim and Flam gladly accept a sentence of twenty years' hard labor.
• In Empire James and Lily Potter's magical self-updating will bequeaths Dumbledore a bag of "Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans But Lemon Drop."
• From An Entry with a Bang!:
  "Repeating what I am about to tell you will result in sanctions including but not limited to removal of rank, discharge from the Global Defense Initiative, and a very, very, very long time in a very, very, very dark hole. Understood?"
  Dansel nodded. Yes. It must be Tuesday then. On Wednesdays they threaten me with reading bad fanfiction about my life.
• In Escape the Hokage's Hat, Jiraiya makes Homura and Koharu perform 100 D rank missions, and if anyone interferes they have to start all over again. Aside from the fact the two are really old and these missions include digging for potatoes and retrieving a very aggressive cat nearly daily, they don't get paid.
• Flaming Frost: Contains a nod to the COVID-19 Pandemic. After causing a Chain of Cats while trying to fish up a Pike to prove his challenge to Mistyfoot is safe, Hawkfrost's punishment is that he must stay within 6 Fox-lengths of Mistyfoot, Leopardstar, or Mothwing. He is also forbidden from going to gatherings and talking to Brambleclaw.
• Forever And A Mile gives some Adaptational Explanation as to what happened to Orbot when he told Oprah about O'Brian's tube-blocking — he got sent to the moon and hasn't come back due to the tubes being broken. Taken into consideration, it's clear to see why Octavia, one of O'Brian's latest bullying victims, doesn't want to incur his wrath.
• In chapter 10 of Friends In High Places Dennis Sterling, a retired Imperial Navy intelligence officer, recommends the use of an old Yoko Ono recording as an aid to interrogation. "I must confess," Dennis continued, "that I've found a roll of duct tape, a high quality audio headset, and one of her early recordings to be quite useful when questioning a prisoner."
• In the FusionFall fic Haywire Ben Tennyson's evil genetic double Albedo (who hates humanity and is a misogynist to boot) is the only one that can save Ben's life; naturally, he won't cooperate unless they capitulate to his ridiculous demands despite being offered generous payment and not being turned over to the Space Police. To make him compliant, Professor Utonium gets... creative by hosting an insanely cutesy tea party in Albedo's cell with Bubbles, Dee Dee and Sarah while the girls play movies of an annoying My Little Pony Expy as they shove sugary foods down Albedo's throat and paint his fingernails. It's almost too much for Albedo to take, but he resists... until Utonium brings in Number Three. Dexter even calls it "cruel and unusual punishment" as he compliments his adoptive father on raising the bar for said punishment.
  Kevin Levin: Dude, that is harsh.
  Utonium: He had his chance.
• In the Invader Zim fanfic Gaz Dreams of Genie, an impulsive offhand comment while making her first wish results in Gaz accidentally making it so Dib was never born. As a result, she finds herself as a worker drone slave in an Alternate Timeline where Zim has conquered the Earth. When she refuses to go along with her new role, she's sentenced to the Chamber of Torment... but since it's full, she instead gets put in the Chamber of Moderate Annoyance, where she's sprayed with itching powder, mustard, and skunk stink, gets pelted by live squirrels, and gets wedgied by a robotic arm. And as the cherry on top, while she's dangling in midair from the wedgie, speakers start playing a recording of Zim's autobiography.
• The Guile of the Traveller:
  Grindelwald: You lost the Flamels! You lost my LAST AND ONLY chance at finding the Peverells – I HOPE YOU ARE VERY HAPPY WITH YOURSELVES! NO SHOPPING TRIPS FOR A MONTH FOR YOU, GOLDSTEIN, OR YOU ROSIER! AND CREDENCE – YOU WILL BE WEARING WHATEVER COLOUR I DECIDE FROM NOW UNTIL YULE!
• In Hand Delivered Letter Peeves is caught throwing rocks at the first years and the Bloody Baron announces his punishment is to spend the next month with Moaning Myrtle.
• In Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Quirrell, during a brief stay in Azkaban, manages to break the Auror watching him by humming.
  And this horrible, horrible humming is impossible to ignore. It is similar to a known lullaby, but it departs from that pattern unpredictably. It sets up expectations and then violates them, never in any constant pattern that would permit the humming to fade into the background. The listener's brain cannot prevent itself from expecting the anti-musical phrases to complete, nor prevent itself from noticing the surprises.
  The only possible explanation for how this mode of humming came to exist is that it was deliberately designed by some unspeakably cruel genius who woke up one day, feeling bored with ordinary torture, who decided to handicap himself and find out whether he could break someone's sanity just by humming at them.
• In Hawkmoth Gets A Reference, Lila calls several of Alya's ships^note Adrientte, Julerose, Kimlix, and LadyNoir trash and claims that LadyBee (Ladybug and Queen Bee) is the superior ship. The frustration causes Alya to be akumatized into the love-powered Shipmaster, who gets back at Lila and Chloe by shipping them... or more accurately making Lila fall in love with Chloe and put them into a makeout frenzy. This ends up Deconstructed, as the fallout leaves Lila catatonic and Chloe needing therapy^note Which admittedly did help her realize that her mother was horrible and that she was gay, and later lead to her own redemption arc. And because Hawkmoth has become more compatible and efficient with using the Butterfly Miraculous, Alya remembers everything she did as Shipmaster, and is horrified at what she had done.
• In I Reincarnated As A Minor Villainess And Survived Past My Death Scene, Duo will feed the most sugary sweet treats ever to anyone annoying him. When Meilan calls him out on this, he gleefully declares he will stop only when it won't work anymore.
• I Saw Grayson Kissing Santa Claus: For not just causing the events of the story but also escalating them, Alfred forces Jason to spend Christmas with the family. For Jason, who did all that for the sake of trolling said family, it's the worst punishment he could ever receive.
• In The Infinite Loops, the most common punishment for crashing a loop is being sent to a 'punishment loop'- a boring and unpleasant setting where the loopers' powers are sealed and they are railroaded onto the canon plot. The best-known punishment loop is Eiken (a bland Fanservice-filled wish-fulfillment-but-not-for-you high school), but there are others. Teletubbies has been used as a punishment loop, and Twilight Sparkle has had My Little Pony G3 punishment loops.
• In Is it Too Late? once he becomes a professor, Harry Potter has to deal with a lot of fangirls in his classes, especially since he's only 16. After he gets tired of girls wearing Stripperific versions of their uniforms (including at least a few who deliberately flash him), he starts forcing them to wear full platemail armor during his class if they're not properly attired.
• It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a...Startrain?: After the Justice League finds out that Hal Jordan has been dismissing calls from Paris about the akuma attacks and Miraculouses as prank calls and they only find out around the Startrain incident, Batman assigns him to clean the Teen Titan's bathroom for a month... and passes the message that Alfred is disappointed for not handling the situation properly, which further bring down Green Lantern's mood.
• It's For a Good Cause, I Swear!: Sasuke's torture of choice when using Tsukyomi on Orochimaru in the Forest of Death? Seventy-two hours of being dragged around to go shopping by Sakura and Ino.
• In Just An Errant Thought Harry and several others come up with a mental defense where every time Voldemort tries to invade Harry's mind, he's forced to watch a random Muggle movie. He complains about having to begin Star Wars with Episode IV and the sappiness of The Sound of Music and Beauty and the Beast in a letter to Harry, then comments that The Exorcist actually gave Bellatrix ideas.
• In Later, Traitor, Frazie promises to braid the Night-Mare’s mane if it tries to torment its host again. Given its mane is made out of assorted arms and limbs, it’s a surprisingly painful and effective threat.
• In The Lion King Adventures, as opposed to execution or imprisonment, tickling is used as a punishment in the Pride Lands. Zazu falls foul of this in The Royal Challenge.
  Nala: How come the Pride Lands don't kill people as a punishment? Why do they tickle you instead?
  Mufasa: Do you know how unpleasant it would be to kill people every time they broke a rule? Tickling is a far more suitable punishment. It takes a lot longer, for a start. And it lasts for however long you want it to. Unless, of course, I sentence someone to death by tickling.
• In The Lovers Left Broken Laurel encounters a drunken Thea, surrounded by a bunch of "friends" also drunk and high. In order to talk to Thea, she scares them away by threatening to call their parents, and makes it a legitimate threat:
  Laurel: My name is Laurel Lance. I'm an attorney. My father is a detective with SCPD. Kids, it is not your lucky night. I make one call and you're all spending the night in the drunk tank. Or worse. I could call your parents. Tell me, what else would the cops find in your system? More importantly, what happens to your trust funds if your parents have to crawl out of their 300 thread count Egyptian cotton sheets and leave their vast mansions to come down to the precinct in the middle of the night to bail out their kid?...I am giving you one chance, one chance to go outside, get in the cabs I've called for you, sneak into your beds, and keep pretending you're perfect, angelic children in the morning. You have five seconds to make your choice. In five seconds, I call my father. In ten seconds, I call yours.
  Thea's Friends (flee before she gets to 3).
• In Manehattan's Lone Guardian, when Leviathan doesn't respond when Drama Heart asks her to do something for her, the unicorn threatens to hug her. For most, being hugged by a pastel pony would probably be a dream come true, but for Leviathan it's a hassle she doesn't want in light of their rather grabby first meeting.
• The Meaning of One: After their confrontation with Professor Quirrell, Molly Weasley punishes Harry, Ron and Ginny by making them trim the grass in their meadow. With scissors.
  Molly:Cut it to three inches tall. The width of your palm should be close enough. You’ll do this on weekdays between breakfast and lunch.
• Metal Gear: Green: All Might manages to convince Ocelot not to expel Bakugou, Kirishima and Todoroki for sabotaging the efforts of All Might and the Ocelot unit to handle the situation. So, what is their punishment? Clean the entire UA campus for three months. The barracks, training grounds, school, school walls... the entire campus. If they refuse, he will expel and blacklist the three from ever getting a hero license.
• The Moon's Flash Princess: Asuna's punishment for people who disobey and/or annoy her, turn them into her dress-up dolls and parade them around to the others.
• A common running gag in fanfic MSTings involves, whenever a Fate Worse than Death is mentioned in the narrative, the riffers making a comment about reading whatever story they're currently reading. Happens regularly in the classic riffing of The Eye of Argon.
  "The prince would surely have subjected them to the most ghastly of tortures..."
  "Insert joke about having to read The Eye of Argon here."
• In My Brother, when Harry and his sister Emma confirm the Dursleys' abusive treatment of them but decide to stay in Privet Drive for the blood wards' protection, Dumbledore modifies the wards so that, if any of the Dursleys try to harm Harry, Emma, or their pets (Hedwig and Emma's kneazle Mopsus) in any sense, such as Dudley trying to take Emma's food, the Dursleys will turn into animals for up to two hours, Vernon and Dudley becoming pigs while Petunia would turn into a goose.
• In Naruto: life is a Game, Itachi traps Hidan's mind in a world full of loudly singing Nyan cats for seventy-two hours.
• In The Official Fanfiction University Of Middle-earth, one punishment involved having to write lines in "Urple" ink, Urple being a colour described as a combination of pink and purple in the worst possible way. It's very hard to write when looking at the ink is painful. Or listening to Bombadil poetry for a whole day.
• In One Thing Leads to Another, Beast Boy offers Raven a back massage after their first date and she says that if his hands stray, she will send him to "another dimension — one where there are no females to give back massages to and no video games, and the only thing on TV is constant reruns of Barney the Dinosaur". He acts properly scared.
• In The Parselmouth of Gryffindor, to discipline Lucius Malfoy, Hermione forces him to donate large amounts of money to Muggle charities.
• In Professor Arc: Student of Vacuo, Glynda gives a twofer threat to Nora and Yang. First, if they ever "obscene and unskilled display" as their last spar again, they'll have to spar against her. Second, if they don't start learning how to dodge rather than tanking every attack, they'll only be allowed to spar against Jaune and Neo, and yes, their losses will count against their official rankings.
• Naruto is quite fond of these in The (Questionable) Burdens of Leadership of a Troll Emperor, mostly because of how effective they are. Jaffa who disobey his orders have to run laps around the palace to "Fan the Flames of Youth". A priestess of Baset who goes on and on about how great Baset was and how she'll smite Naruto is made to oversee the freeing of Baset's slaves (who like all Goa'uld slaves are basically worked to death). People who greatly irritate him with their insistence on defending horrible practices such as slavery are "made to see". That is, Naruto forces them to psychically feel the suffering of the people their actions hurt.
  • Xanna punishes one of the Ascended for "daring to attack what's hers" (that is, trying to forcibly descend Oma) by removing all of their powers, leaving them a powerless ghost and, in Xanna's words, leaving them in the perfect position to adhere to their own non-interference laws.
• RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse: During "The Platinum Kingdom", Trixie and Lyra speculate the Element Bearer's diplomatic tour is one of these, courtesy of Princess Luna, for their actions during the Grand Galloping Gala.
• Rig the Game: Royal: In retaliation for how much Akira inadvertently expanded Kamoshida's confession and the amount of extra work it put onto Akechi, Akechi...gives him a pair of tickets to Madarame's exhibit so that he can 'enjoy' a couple of hours looking at paintings and take Sumire with him so that he'll have someone who can make sure he takes it easy. Lampshaded:
  Akira: …this is a weird and unusual punishment from you.
  Goro: It’s the best I could come up within about ten minutes…
• The Rigel Black Chronicles: After the ruse is busted, Sirius amuses himself by imposing arbitrary rules on Archie as punishment — such as spending twenty four hours without using any form of the verb "to be".
• In Rites of Ascension, the punishment for the neglectful, shallow, elitist, racist, and borderline abusive social-climber mother of the new Grand Mage for what amounts to blatant lèse-majesté (Princess Celestia regarding herself as much "Mud Pony" as anything)? Twilight Sparkle giving Twilight Velvet her old job as Ponyville Librarian... and her old assignment of weekly friendship reports.
• In Rocking the Boat Voldemort notices Bellatrix looking expectant during a punishment session and promptly announces that her punishment will be to not torture or kill anybody outside of missions for a month, cause no collateral damage during missions and heal and release the prisoners every morning.
• In Shadow Snark, the titular character's small harmless stick.
  Pinky: My one weakness!
• An ambiguously canon omake of Son of the Sannin has Itachi capture an Amegakure shinobi and prepares to torture him for information using Tsukuyomi... by forcing him to watch the whole filler season of a show named Haruto, which he describes as "72 hours of mediocre writing, forgettable characters, cheap animation and nonsensical yet predictable plots".
• In the Once Upon a Time fanfic Siren, Emma successfully makes Hook stop pressuring her to sing a song with the threat: "Hook, if you don't back off and get moving right the hell now, the only song you're gonna get from me is '99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall.' And I will sing it off key, and so help me, I will deliberately miscount."
• In Starscream - The Predacon Whisperer, Megatron punishes Starscream for losing the Apex Armor by making him wash Predaking, while secretly hoping that Predaking will kill Starscream in the process. It ultimately fails when Starscream ends up befriending the Predacon, and they fall asleep together.
• In Supreme Champion the goblins put Dumbledore in the Comfy Chair, hit him with a wiffle bat and make him listen to the most talkative and annoying goblin they can find.
• After the Wolkenritter are captured in Takamachi Nanoha of 2814, they are sentenced to fill out all the paperwork connected to the various crimes they committed. In triplicate.
• An absolutely hilarious example in the Tamers Forever Series:
  Takato: IF YOU DARE FINISH THAT SENTENCE I'LL...
  Chaos: What? What will you do?
  Takato: I'LL...I'LL TAKE A PILL OF PROZAC!
  Chaos: You wouldn't dare!
  Takato: OH, YES I WOULD!
  Chaos' silence was enough of an answer, he had won that one.
  Ruki: 'ut at what price...Prozac, Takato? That's just sick...
  Takato: Shut up and let me enjoy this victory...
  Chaos: while it lasts...
  Takato: I thought SOMEONE was supposed to shut up!
  • Even funnier if you know that Prozac is an ANTIDEPRESSANT.
• In This Bites! in order for her to apologize properly for harming her father, Vivi requests that Robin write him a 20-page-long apology... with her real hands.
• In the Kingdom Hearts fanfic Those Lacking Spines, Vexen is tortured with the LazyTown cake song, and his cake phobia afterward becomes a Running Gag. His torturers first try "It's a Small World After All", but he's half-Disney, so the song has no effect.
• The Twilight Child reveals what Pinkie did to her friends after they tried to eat the MMMM (which in this fic also includes Applejack). She takes them to one of the nicer restaurants in Ponyville and buys them a cake. A very large cake, one for each of them. Every time one of them starts feeling like they're full, Pinkie smiles at them.
• The Violet Demon: Zim's punishment for Velinda letting the Fornaxians abduct Gaz (when they were after her to begin with) is to lock her in a chamber and listen to a recording of GIR singing the Doom Song.
• In Chapter 18 of the Knights of the Old Republic fanfic Yet Another Kotor Parody, Saul Karath tortures RGN, Carth, and Bastila by reading them awful poetry.
• In Yu-Gi-Oh! The Thousand Year Door Redux, Vladimir, who is being held hostage by Count Bleck, questions why he's telling his minions to simply "restrain" Stan, Francesca and Andy:
  Vladimir: Restrain them? Seriously, Bleck, that's the first time I've ever heard a dark wizard tell his goons to do anything to the good guys other than 'kill them'. Maybe you're just not cut out for this.
  Bleck: Think I'm not being evil enough? Maybe I want to take them alive and then torture them. Maybe sting them with scorpions? Shock them with electricity? Force them to watch game shows?
  • Actually, he's being sarcastic, and the real reason is far more complicated: he wants them as witnesses when he puts his true plan in motion.
• This scene, from the Bleach fic Uninvited Guests:
  Gin: Hmmmm... what's that? Looks like a pimple.
  Yumichika: NOOOOOOOO!
  Gin: Oh, geez, are those split ends? Man, your hair is so dry and stringy. It looks awful.
  Yumichika: LIAR! LIAR AND MURDERER!
  Gin: No, I'm serious. It's like straw or something, it's so dry and desiccated. Although i suppose it helps to take attention away from how bulbous and huge your nose is.
  Yumichika: You... you monster...
  Gin: I'm surprised you can see that I'm a monster, what with how puffy your eyes are.
  Yumichika: No... please... please stop...
• "An Unusual Punishment" featured the cast of Digimon being forced to read very bad Digimon fanfiction....
  • There are probably a lot of "characters-MST3K-fanfic-of-themselves" fics you could apply this to, depending on which of them actually explain why the characters are sitting around mocking fanfic.
• In Way of the Magic Househusband Harry is accosted by a group of thugs in Diagon Alley and forces them... to attend chocolate-making classes at Honeydukes.
• In Weres Harry?, McGonagall punishes Harry for sneaking off to visit the basilisk without telling anyone where he's going or what he's doing by turning him over to his step-godmother and mother-figure, Kalina, who proceeds to use him as a combination pack mule and living dress-up doll all weekend.
• When Karma Runs Over Your Dogma: After trying to sacrifice his life to reunite with Emilie in death, Gabriel Agreste's payment for using the Wish is turned into a hamster and has to spend the rest of his days as Marinette's pet/spirit advisor.
• White Sheep (RWBY): After Blake sneaks out to infiltrate a terrorist rally without telling her team, they decide to make her wear a bell as punishment. Worse, they figured she'd just wear it on her wrist, but when she put it on as a collar they decided to make that part of the punishment; everyone who sees it assumes it's some weird sex thing. Eventually her punishment expires, but Blake forgets to take the bell off, and all her friends think it's too hilarious to remind her. She wears it for the rest of the story.
• X-Men: The Early Years: In "Hit Women, Goats, and Other Vacation Blunders", Jean Grey catches a thief who had the temerity to snatch her purse, but she reveals her powers in the process. She doesn't want to mind-wipe him or let him go, so Warren finds a way to keep him around as they go shopping until he's willing to confess his crimes to the police without ratting them out.
  "You're kidding right?" Jean Grey glared at Warren rather coldly. "There is no way I'm wearing that outfit."
  "Trust me on this one Jean," Warren looked at her earnestly. "Wearing this outfit, no one is even going to blink at you leading around a tied and gagged man by a dog collar."
  "Did you bring a whip, too?" Jean asked coldly.
  "I hope so," Hank said, trying very hard to keep a straight face. "It would be the only accessory to complement that outfit... or maybe a handcuff belt. But that defiantly shouts 'cat-o-nine tails' to me. Warren's right, though; no one is going to think twice."

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