History Main / ATasteOfTheLash

* On ''{{Series/Bones}}'', Lance Sweets is shown to have scars on his back indicating he was whipped. It's revealed his own [[WouldHurtAChild foster parents did it when he was just a six-year-old kid.]].

Compare DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff. Contrast with WhipItGood. A form of CorporalPunishment. Not to be confused with an online "[[ForumSpeak flog]]", which is a [[{{Portmanteau}} fake blog]] [[AstroTurf designed for advertising]].

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* In ''Series/BabylonFive'', Centauri Emperor [[TheCaligula Cartagia]] orders that G'Kar to be whipped until he dies or screams, whichever comes first. For no reason beyond the fact that he wants to hear the Narn scream. He specifically orders that the "[[TortureTechnician pain technicians]]" use a special high-tech whip that gradually increases the level of pain until dealing a fatal blow at lash number 40. G'Kar stubbornly refuses to scream until the 39th lash, even then only doing it to keep Cartagia from ruining his and Londo's plan to assassinate him and end the occupation of the Narn homeworld.

* ''LightNovel/HybridXHeartMagiasAcademyAtaraxia'': When Grabel is accused of treason, Zelshione has her suspended from the ceiling and tortures her with a whip, while using her hypnotic powers to turn the pain into pleasure to try to break her mind and turn her into a sex slave. In the light novel version, Grabel's clothes get torn to shreds by the whip. In the anime version, she is stripped naked before the whipping.

* Agonizers and the Agony Booth seem to have taken the physical place of the lash in ''Franchise/StarTrek'''s MirrorUniverse, though their purpose remains in place. Imperial Captain Forrest even remarks that while he can understand the Booth's usefulness, there's still something to be said for a good old-fashioned flogging.

* ''Manga/HybridXHeartMagiasAcademyAtaraxia'': When Grabel is accused of treason, Zelshione has her suspended from the ceiling and tortures her with a whip, while using her hypnotic powers to turn the pain into pleasure to try to break her mind and turn her into a sex slave. In the light novel version, Grabel's clothes get torn to shreds by the whip. In the anime version, she is stripped naked before the whipping.

* ''LightNovel/HybridXHeartMagiasAcademyAtaraxia'': When Grabel is accused of treason, Zelshione has her suspended from the ceiling and tortures her with a whip, while using her hypnotic powers to turn the pain into pleasure to try to break her mind and turn her into a sex slave. In the light novel version, Grabel's clothes get torn to shreds by the whip. In the anime version, she is stripped naked before the whipping.

Compare DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff. Contrast with WhipItGood. A form of CorporalPunishment. Not to be confused with an online "{{flog}}", which is a [[{{Portmanteau}} fake blog]] [[AstroTurf designed for advertising]].

* In the novel ''Literature/{{Night}}'', by Elie Wiesel, which is the autobiographical story of the author's time in a concentration camp when he was young, he is whipped for inadvertently seeing one of the officers raping a young woman.

->''"Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but [[Music/ThePogues rum, sodomy, and the lash]]."''

->''"Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash."''

* In ''DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD'', the Robomen use whips on the slaves working in the mine.

* ''Literature/MobyDick:'' One is included in "The Town-Ho's Story".

** Shi'a [[UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} Muslims]] whip themselves as part of the annual period of mourning for the first ten days of the Muslim year, commemorating the martyrdom of their Third Imam, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husayn_ibn_Ali Husayn ibn Ali]], at the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Karbala Battle of Karbala]] in Iraq (marked by the "festival" of [[UsefulNotes/IslamicHolidaysAndFestivals Ashura]]). A few men, not believing that self-flagellation is badass enough to commemorate Husayn, cut their foreheads with swords.

* Examples from ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' tales:

* A standard naval punishment in the WoodenShipsAndIronMen [-InSpace-] ''Literature/AlexisCarew'' novels. In particular, Captain Neals in the second book is noted as a "Tartar", a captain very free with the cat, and regularly orders that the last man down the mast at shift change be flogged. This naturally results in the crew throwing safety to the wind in their haste to reach the bottom, eventually resulting in two of them going overboard and being lost in space. As a midshipman, Alexis cannot be flogged no matter how much Neals wants to, [[spoiler:until he disrates her for disobeying his demand to KneelBeforeZod and promptly gives her twenty lashes on general principles. The log of his excessive floggings is eventually his undoing at CourtMartial: it's revealed that he did it roughly twice as often as the tribunal would expect of even a captain with an ''extraordinarily'' unruly crew.]]

* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Erza Scarlet gets [[ShamefulStrip stripped naked]], whipped ''and'' slashed all over when she's captured by Tartarus.

* ''Manga/Golgo13'''s story "Power to the People" sees Golgo tied up and forced to undergo a whipping by South African customs agents after discovering he's carrying a concealed submachine gun in his luggage. Oddly enough this is enough to make him laugh subtly.

** In the ''Maelstrom'' mini-series, proclaiming her love towards ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} gets aspiring [[ComicBook/NewGods Female Fury]] Maelstrom tortured and whipped.