Basic Trope: Tickling is used as torture.
- Straight: Alice, one of Emperor Evulz's subordinates, tickles Bob's feet with feathers as torture.
- Exaggerated: Alice uses all the tools she can to tickle all over Bob's body to get everything he knows.
- Downplayed:
- Friendly Tickle Torture
- Alice and Bob are friends, but when Bob tries to keep secrets from her, Alice tickles the truth out of him.
- Justified:
- Alice doesn't want to kill Bob, as he could be useful.
- Alice just doesn't believe in killing.
- Emperor Evulz doesn't believe in killing, and disallows his minions to kill.
- Alice is actually the hero, and Bob is the villain, so Alice doesn’t believe in killing.
- Bob is extremely ticklish so this form of torture is actually very effective.
- Emperor Evulz wants Bob to stay in fighting shape as part of his plan, so he orders Alice to choose a form of torture that won't cause lasting damage.
- Inverted: Alice does everything she can to hurt and/or interrogate Bob, except tickling him.
- Subverted:
- Alice looks like she's reaching for a bundle of feathers, but she instead picks up a flail.
- Bob likes it.
- Double Subverted:
- Which happens to actually be a cat toy with feathers on a string at the end.
- So she coerces more information out of him with the promise of more tickles.
- Parodied: Accidental Tickle Torture
- Zig Zagged: Alice sometimes uses a painful tool, but other times, she tickles her prisoners.
- Averted: Alice doesn't tickle her prisoner for any reason.
- Enforced: "This is a kid's show, so we can't do anything painful. Tickling is kid-friendly enough."
- Lampshaded: "What are you gonna do, tickle me to death?"
- Invoked: Alice knows just how ticklish Bob is, so she prepares for tickle him in the most unbearable way possible.
- Exploited: As Alice can't do anything more painful than tickling, Bob doesn't talk. Alice gives up on trying to get information.
- Defied: Alice knows Bob had been through more painful things, so she doesn't bother with things that seem petty.
- Discussed: "You're gonna tickle me, aren't ya? I can tell by all the feathers."
- Conversed: "He's already faced a pyrokinetic and has been set alight! Why is he being reduced to a blubbering baby when his feet are so much as poked?"
- Deconstructed:
- Alice literally tickles Bob until he has died of laughter.
- Bob passes out from laughing.
- Because Alice's methods are so ineffective, Emperor Evulz disposes of her.
- Alice enjoys the psychology of tickle torture and humiliating her prisoners that way.
- Played for Laughs: Bob is Too Kinky to Torture, so he actually enjoys what Alice is inflicting on him. She looks back at Emperor Evulz and says "Am I being paid?" Emperor Evulz, all the more enjoying Alice's misery, says "No." Alice haplessly continues.
- Played for Drama: Alice knows Bob is afraid of being tickled because of childhood experiences, so she uses that to her advantage and successfully gets Bob to talk.
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