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* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Erza Scarlet gets [[ShamefulStrip stripped naked]], whipped, ''and'' slashed all over when she's captured by Tartarus.
* In ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'', Nakago does this to Tamahome, as well as to [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Ashitare]].

* In ''Manga/MaidenRose'', Hasebe canes[[note]]or whips, in the OVA[[/note]] Klaus while he is tied to a chair during interrogation for treason.

* In ''Manga/SakuraGari'', one of the "punishments" [[spoiler:Katsuragi]] applies to [[spoiler:Masataka]] is whipping him. [[spoiler:Aside from raping him, subjecting him to an AssShove ''after the rape'' and burning his hand with boiling tea, that is.]] Later Masataka [[FanDisservice removes his shirt to show his fresh scars]] to his boss Souma [[spoiler: aka the person that Katsuragi is {{yandere}} for]], who gets ''very'' angry at the sight.
* Episode 3 of ''Anime/ValkyrieDriveMermaid'' begins with Charlotte having Ange give Miyasato and Kouzuki a brutal whipping for failing to keep Mirei locked up.

* In ''Anime/YuGiOh'', the Ishtar siblings' abusive father tortured Rishid/[[DubNameChange Odion]] with a whip. This scene was cut out of the English dub.

* Subverted by ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}, who ''never'' uses her trademark whip to cut people -- only to [[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands disarm]], ensnare, or simply frighten them. She did once thrash Franchise/{{Batman}} across the face with the ''butt'' of her whip, making him bleed, but that's not really a lashing.
* Subverted in ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}''. Emp is defeated by a villain called "The Lash", the sole remaining member of (faux) British trio Rum, Sodomy, and The Lash (Rum was in rehab after his fifth drunk driving charge while Sodomy quit after becoming fed up explaining it was ''strictly'' heterosexual sodomy, leaving The Lash to do all three parts). He's about to whip her but realises they're standing in front of a fabric store, which brings up traumatic childhood memories of being bored out of his skull while his mom shopped for fabric, so he calls it a draw and leaves.

* In ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' album titled "The Smurf Menace", after Papa Smurf and a few of his Smurfs were caught outside the Gray Smurf prison camp, the two Smurfs were chained up with the Great Leader threatening to give them ten lashes each. When Papa Smurf tells his little Smurfs not to worry because the Gray Smurfs aren't real and they will soon be gone, one of the Gray Smurfs gives one of the chained Smurfs a whip lash.
* Examples from ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' tales:
** In ''ComicBook/SupermanSupergirlMaelstrom'', proclaiming her love towards ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} gets aspiring [[ComicBook/NewGods Female Fury]] Maelstrom tortured and whipped.
** In ''ComicBook/AdventureComics #424: Crypt of the Frozen Graves'', a mob boss tries to torture information out of [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Linda Danvers]], unaware that she's just pretending to be in pain while she's being whipped.
** During the ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 "Candor"]]'' storyline, [[EvilCounterpart Ultraman]] and [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Saturn Queen]] take over the alien ghetto of Kandor -not to be confused with the self-named Bottle City- and maintain the populace subdued by means of frequent floggings.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Eviless, the founder and leader of Villainy Incorporated, is a cruel galactic slaver who uses a whip as her primary weapon.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': The Sangtee Empire slave drivers use whips in addition to the remote control shock collars to punish and torment their slaves.

* Ming from ''ComicStrip/FlashGordon'' threatens his daughter Aura with various punishments for defying him, including having her whipped bloody.

* Creator/FranzXaverVonSchonwerth's "Literature/TheEnchantedQuill": The main character's unwanted and rejected suitors intend to get revenge on her by cornering her and whipping her; though, she realizes their plan and uses her magic quill to force the trio to whip themselves.

* Leego, the Rodian taskmaster from ''Fanfic/AlienExodus'', delights in tormenting the slaves with his whip. Bellona is living proof of that.

--> "...flogging is used even in some surface armies," Cathy's energetic voice sounded behind her. The tall blonde was gesticulating with her hands, apparently trying to convince her boyfriend of something.
* In the Fairy Tail fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11126695/1/I-Will-Always-Follow-You I Will Always Follow You]]'', a possessed [[spoiler: Lucy]] subjects [[spoiler: Natsu]] to this. To his credit, he eggs it on saying things that would piss off the [[spoiler:Lucy]] he knows to get a reaction out of her to see if she is still [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight there]]. It works but he gets several lashes for his efforts.
* In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Left}}'', Frodo gets whipped by a tower orc if he so much as moves around.
* Poor John Gage in the ''Series/{{Emergency}}'' fic [[http://audreys-efanfic.freeservers.com/lostandfound.html "Lost and Found"]]. He's held captive for 18 months and appears to have been strung up in handcuffs and "punished" this way quite often. By the time he snaps, kills the scumbag, and is found wandering, his back is covered in scars. One of his flashbacks describes a cat o'nine tails-type whip. And as if that weren't horrific enough, he mentions to Roy that sometimes his captor would rape him as well while he hung there.
* In ''Fanfic/LovedAndLost'', Shining Armor -- who has become a HeroWithBadPublicity along with Twilight's friends and Princess Celestia because of [[TheUsurper Prince Jewelius]] -- is flogged in the 11th chapter by his rival [[KnightTemplar Commander Hildread]] as an example to the Royal Guard he's charged of disgracing.
* In ''Fanfic/ThePrayerWarriors [[Franchise/HarryPotter Battle With The Witches]]'', Dumbledore's first scene involves him whipping a student for praying. Previously, in "The Evil Gods Part 1", Literature/{{Percy Jackson|and the Olympians}}, after converting, is so overwhelmed with remorse for his past sins that he whips himself.

* In ''The Simpsons'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10552308/1/Something-Better Something Better]]'', Helen's strict parents find out that she's dating Timothy and give her a lashing with a switch. They then tell [[ShotgunWedding Helen to marry her boyfriend]].
* In ''Fanfic/AThingOfVikings'', Mildew's cruelty as jarl under King Mac Bethad isn't limited to keeping dragons chained up; people in his village routinely receive excessive punishments for minor misdeeds; one fisherman was whipped to ''death'' for telling other fishermen from other villages about the dragons that Mildew was training for Mac Bethad.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney'', Judge Frollo is seen supervising a flogging [[VillainyDiscretionShot off screen]]. He tells the flogger to wait between lashes, "otherwise, the old sting will dull him to the new."

"[[{{Metaphorgotten}} Where there's a whip, there's a will]], my slugs... You'll get as much lash as your skins can carry when you come in late to your camp. Don't you know we're at war?"

* The sadistic slaveowner Edwin Epps in ''Film/TwelveYearsASlave'' quotes ''Scripture'' to justify his beatings of his slaves, saying that Scripture condones lashing indolent servants with as many as one hundred and fifty strokes. On a more practical level, he has any slave whipped who picks less than 200 pounds of cotton in one day. When he feels particularly sadistic, he'll force one slave to whip another.
* One of the first scenes in ''Film/AgainstAllFlags'' is British naval officer Creator/ErrolFlynn being flogged so he can pose as a common seaman who's deserted and infiltrate a {{Pirate}} stronghold. When he's examined by some pirate leaders (supposedly) a few weeks later, one says he recognizes the style of the sadistic bosun who did the flogging -- he likes to "sign his name" on the victim's back with the last several strokes.
* In ''Film/AnneOfTheIndies'', Pierre is flogged as a spy when he returns to the pirate ship after disappearing in Nassau.
* Happens to the eponymous ''Film/TheBarbarians'' Kulchek and Gor when they're [[MadeASlave child slaves]]. Separated, each brother is whipped by a man in a black or gold mask respectively until adulthood. Then they're each put in the other's tormentor's mask and turned loose on each other for the BigBad's amusement.
* In ''Film/TheBlueIguana'', Floyd has a man tied up and whipped in front of a bank.
* In ''Film/TheBoldCaballero'', the Commandante and his sergeant are both very fond of using a whip upon the local natives.

* Creator/CharlesBronson is stripped to the waist and hung by his wrists to be whipped in ''Film/{{Chino}}''.
* In ''Film/TheCorpseVanishes'', Dr. Lorenz uses a whip to discipline his hunchbacked assistant Mike when he catches Mike [[ILoveTheDead interfering with the corpses of the brides in the crypt]].
* In ''Film/TheCountOfMonteCristo2002'', the inmates of Château d'If are given a lashing on the anniversaries of their arrivals, with one lash per year. Done just to remind them how long they had been there.
* In ''Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD'', the Robomen use whips on the slaves working in the mine.
* In ''Film/DeathRidesAHorse'', Pedro goes absolutely ballistic and nearly whips Bill to death after Bill [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes kills his equally-evil brother Manuel]].

* In ''Film/DjangoUnchained'', both Django and Broomhilda bear the scars of the whipping they received at the hands of the Brittle Brothers for attempting to run away from the Carrucan plantation. When Django tracks them down after being freed by [[{{Deuteragonist}} Dr. King Schultz]], their leader Big John is about to whip another slave for breaking eggs. After shooting and killing Big John, Django takes the slave-driver's whip to Roger, the one who whipped Broomhilda, in an awesome act of vengeance before killing him with his own gun.
* This happens to Danielle in ''Film/EverAfter'' after she attacks her stepsister Marguerite. The flogging occurs off-screen. After the stepmother sentences Danielle to be flogged, it cuts to the nicer stepsister, Jacqueline, treating the lashes on Danielle's back.

* In ''Film/GhostRock'', Pickett sentences Wu Chen to 50 lashes for daring to stand up to his thugs who were attempting to drive the Chinese settlers off their land.

%%* Happens to Sergeant Cutter (Creator/CaryGrant) in ''Film/GungaDin''.
* In ''Film/HighPlainsDrifter'' Marshal Duncan was whipped to death in the street. [[TruthInTelevision Yes, you can be whipped to death]]. The [[NoNameGiven Stranger]] then [[spoiler:gets revenge on those who did it and he whips one to death in the flame-lit street and hangs another with a whip]].
* In the [[FilmOfTheBook film]] ''Film/HoratioHornblower'', Hornblower orders a crewman flogged specifically because one of his lieutenants threatened the man publicly with it, and Hornblower feels his duty to support his officers is more important than his dislike of the lash. But he lectures the lieutenant about it afterwards.
* In ''Film/HorrorExpress'', Captain Kavan brutally lashes a man with a cat-o'-nine-tails for calling him a fool.
* Quasimodo is flogged in all adaptations of ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', while Frollo does this to himself in [[Film/TheHunchback the 1997 version]].
* In ''Film/HotSpur'', Carlo flogs the naked Susan as part of his RevengeByProxy.
* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'', this happens to Indiana and his sidekick Short Round when they try to resist their abductors.
* Elvis is "flogged" in ''Film/JailhouseRock'', though it's not done seriously.
* Set to [[TheMusical music]] in ''Film/JesusChristSuperstar''. (The lyrics are Pontius Pilate counting off lashes.)
* Happens to Ballu in ''Film/{{Khalnayak}}'' at the hand of his former childhood friend, [[CowboyCop Ram]]. Unfortunately for Ram, Ballu is TooKinkyToTorture.

* In ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia'', Lawrence is flogged by the Turkish officer when captured.

* In''Film/TheManWhoKilledDonQuixote'', Toby discovers Javier/Quixote flagellating himself with thorny branches, leaving deep cuts on his back.
* In ''Film/MasterAndCommander: The Far Side Of The World'', a sailor is flogged for disrespecting an unlucky officer who is being scapegoated as a Jonah. Captain Jack Aubrey goes through with the flogging despite not wanting to (he likes the sailor in question, and more than that is one of the people who thinks the scapegoated officer actually is a Jonah) because discipline must be maintained.

* Flogging occurs in both versions of ''Film/MutinyOnTheBounty'', as well as a third version of the story, ''Film/TheBounty''.

* The CasualKink version occurs in ''Film/TheNotoriousDaughterOfFannyHill'', where HighClassCallGirl Kissey lightly flogs the masochistic Count de Sade.
* Presented rather gruesomely in ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist'', when the Romans flog the ever-loving poop out of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}. It's a lot more {{gorn}}y than you'd expect from a religious flick. A bit of accidental EnforcedMethodActing is involved -- in one take, the whip actually hits the actor, instead of the board they'd placed on him to protect his back.

* Bootstrap Bill Turner is forced to flog his son Will in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest''. He mentions that if he hadn't done it, the boatswain would have, and he takes pride in "cleaving flesh from bone" with each strike.

* In ''Film/TheRamrodder'', after claiming Tuwana as his squaw, Brave Eagle hangs her from a tree, strips her naked, and savagely flogs her.
* Daguerre attempts to sentence Robert Hode to this in ''Film/RobinHood1991''. Hode's refusal to accept this punishment and his subsequent insulting of Daguerre result in his being outlawed.

* In ''Film/SnuffMovie'', Wendy is flagellated with cat-o-nine tails before being crucified.
* In ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', Rico is subject to "administrative punishment" after he bungles a live-fire training exercise, resulting in the death of another cadet. This consists of being strung up and whipped ten times. Dialog early in the movie indicates this is relatively standard fare, with Rico's father indicating he'd rather be lashed in the public square than have Rico join the MI.
* Anthony Hope from the film version of ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' gets this courtesy of the Beadle on orders from Judge Turpin for "gandering" at his ward.
* Happens in ''Film/TheTenCommandments1956''. Baka intends to kill Joshua this way after Joshua attacks him to free his girlfriend, but Moses intervenes and kills Baka before he can finish.

* In ''Film/TowerOfLondon'', Wyatt was subjected to this by Richard to force information on the treasure's whereabouts out of him. He doesn't budge.
* In ''Film/UnderworldRiseOfTheLycans'', Lucian is subjected to this at the hands of Viktor, who sentences him to thirty lashes for betraying his trust, and even one lash is brutal enough to Lucian. [[KickTheDog Viktor makes it quite clear that he wants Lucian to suffer, even after the first twenty-one lashes]], and even forbids Sonja, his own daughter who is in a [[StarCrossedLovers star-crossed relationship]] with Lucian, from intervening on pain of severe punishment.
* Little Bill kills Ned this way in ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'', setting the stage for the protagonist's final vengeance.

* In ''Film/YellowHairAndTheFortressOfGold'', Colonel Torres has a captured Indian flogged for the pleasure of hearing him scream.

* The main character gets one while serving in a SlaveGalley in the Literature/FightingFantasy gamebook ''Master of Chaos''. Try to prevent a fellow slave from getting whipped and you get [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished to take his place]].

* There is a joke involving three men who are each sentenced to receive 100 lashes with a whip as punishment. They are also each granted a single request. The first man requests to have a pillow strapped to his back. After 20 lashes, the pillow is destroyed, so the man only receives 80 lashes. The second man saw what happened to the other guy, so he asks for ''two'' pillows strapped to his back. After 20 lashes, the first pillow is destroyed, and the second is destroyed after another 20, so the man only receives 60 lashes. The third man saw what happened to the other two and thinks for a long time about his request... [[BulletproofHumanShield then asks to have one of the other two men strapped to his back]].

* A standard naval punishment in the WoodenShipsAndIronMen [-JustForFun/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 the ''Literature/AubreyMaturin'' series, Captain Jack Aubrey is considered a stern but fair commander, and one of the reasons for this is that he dislikes imposing more than a dozen lashes, and only imposes even that punishment when it's absolutely required to maintain discipline on his ship. He much prefers to dock troublemakers' grog rations, especially if whatever they did was done drunk. By contrast, Jack has served under and alongside a number of officers who quite like the lash, and is well aware that it does ''not'' endear the men to their officers.
* In ''Literature/BarberBlackSheep'', protagonist Oliver Winslow is punished this way during his stay in Flitwith Prison.
* In ''Literature/TheBelgariad'', Silk mentions that in his day, flogging was a punishment for sloppy work by students of the intelligence service's academy. Apparently it's "a very effective teaching tool", though he doesn't comment on whether or not he knows this from personal experience.
* In ''Literature/BillyBudd'', Billy, on the day after his impressment, witnesses the flogging of a young novice and is horrified.

* ''Literature/CudjosCave'': The Confederates liberally employ whipping against anyone they want to punish or get information from, such as a slave named Pete they find walking between plantations without a pass and Dan Pepperill for treating Pete's wounds.
* ''Literature/Dive2003'': Blade carries a whip everywhere with him and loves using it on his crewmen at the slightest excuse.
* Roran is flogged in ''[[Literature/InheritanceCycle Brisingr]]'' for disobeying orders during a battle (never mind that his superior actually lauded his actions, which saved many of his subordinates' lives. The problem was that he couldn't be seen to be getting away with insubordination).

* In ''Catching Fire'', the second book of Literature/TheHungerGames series, Romulus Thread reinstitutes whippings as punishments. Gale receives a flogging after being caught poaching.
* In ''Literature/ChristianNation'', the [=POWs=] are treated to this whenever one of their own commits an offense that's worthy of flogging.
* Happens to Little Bee, a maid in David Wingrove's ''Literature/ChungKuo'' series.
* Robert E. Howard's ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'' story, "Literature/TheBlackStranger," has a harrowing scene in which Valenso, a vicious pirate, has his niece Belesa's protegee, a young girl by the name of Tina, subjected to this because he thinks she's lying about the coming of the title Black Man.
* A few months before the start of the story in ''Literature/TheCurseOfChalion'', Lupe dy Cazaril (then a galley slave) antagonized the slavemaster in order to protect another slave; it was mostly luck that he survived the resulting flogging. [[spoiler:Since lifting the titular curse requires that someone lay down their life three times for the house of Chalion, the fact that a flogging stands a decent chance of killing you and Cazaril provoked one anyway is actually a ''very'' important plot point.]]
* In ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'', Silas the Albino flogged himself to a bloody pulp out of a sense of religious fanaticism.

* In Gabriel Garcia Marquez's ''Del amor y otros demonios'', Father Cayetano Delaura flogs himself while in an HeroicBSOD state [[spoiler:after he realises that [[CreepyChild Sierva]] [[WildChild Maria]] [[UnequalPairing is getting to him]].]] His superior finds him half-dressed, exhausted, and almost delusional after all the self-torture.
* Not quite flogging, but a ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel cites an incident where a witch caught a traveling peddler beating his exhausted, overloaded donkey. She grabbed the riding crop out of his hands and used it to strike him in the face twice, saying: "Hurts, doesn't it?"
** A little old lady that William de Worde hires at the end of ''Literature/TheTruth'' had previously submitted a letter to the editor, in which she recommended that anyone under the age of 18 should be flogged daily to stop them from being so noisy. "That'll teach them to go around being young."
* In ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', the punishment for the seducers and pamperers (pimps) damned in the first ring of the eighth Circle of {{Hell}} is to be forced to march around said ring while being constantly whipped by demons.

* In Creator/PatriciaBriggs' ''Literature/DragonBones'' Oreg has a flashback to being whipped after laying a curse on one of his old masters. His powerful magic makes the damage real, at least until he can get enough of a grip to heal himself again. It's noted that the only part of his body left without lacerations is the top of his head, and his face is almost unrecognisable, with one cheek slashed down to the ''bone''.

* In ''Literature/FracturedStars'', prisoners on Frost Moon 3 are punished with an e-whip, a lightning-like cord of energy that leaves deep burn marks.
* In the ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' novel ''The Guns of Tanith'', Lijah "That Fething Bastard" Cuu gets flogged for looting. This ends...[[UnfriendlyFire badly]].
* Barahkukor in ŠvejkMaryGentle's ''Literature/{{Grunts}}'' finds some of his female orcs flogging a female elf (a reporter for ''Warrior of Fortune'' magazine). At first he's pleased to see them keeping up with tradition, but then the elf turns her head and complains, ''"You stopped."'' One of the other orcs present complains ''"She's had ages, Sarge! It's my turn next!"''
* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', Harry overhears Argus Filch gleefully reading that Professor Umbridge, who with Dumbledore on the run has just been named headmistress, has just lifted the school's ban on whipping students. With the ban lifted, Filch and Umbridge corner the Weasley twins, whose newest prank is turning a school hallway into a swamp, and declare that they shall be whipped. The two, however, manage a dramatic escape. After this, it's said that Filch would prowl the corridors with horsewhip in hand, desperate to catch students in the act, but there were now so many causing chaos that he didn't know which way to turn.

-->He was ashamed of the fact that he looked upon punishment as a beastly business, that he hated ordering it and dreaded witnessing it. The two or three thousand floggings he had witnessed in the last twenty years had not succeeded in hardening him--in fact he was much softer now (as he was painfully aware) than as a seventeen-year-old midshipman.

* In the ''Literature/KnightAndRogueSeries'' by Creator/HilariBell, after the title characters get press-ganged onto a ship the threat of horrible floggings is always at hand. Michael, the knight, is eventually seriously flogged. The flogging scars, combined with his MarkOfShame, cause most people to assume he's a hardened criminal.
* In ''Literature/MartinFierro'': At Song III of this NarrativePoem, Fierro says that when the conscripted soldiers arrived at the Frontier, [[VillainousDemotivator an official told them that anyone who tries to desert will get five hundred strokes]], and so he could count himself as dead.
* In ''Literature/TheMermaid'', Amelia, who can transform between a human woman and a mermaid, is hired as an attraction by P.T. Barnum. Barnum sends her on tour with a variety of other attractions, including an orangutan whose handler keeps her in a tiny cage without enough food or water and beats her if she moves too slowly. One day Amelia sees the handler whipping the orangutan, leaving stripes on her neck and shoulders. Amelia grabs the whip and lashes him across the left cheek, leaving a welt from his mouth to his ear.

* In ''Literature/MoreThanHuman'', Lone breaks into the tyrannical Mr. Kew's yard, drawn by the signal from his daughter Evelyn's mind. When Mr. Kew sees the two of them, he starts whipping Lone.
* In ''Literature/MrRevereAndI'', the redcoat Giles Treadwell deserts the English army after receiving 25 lashes because he didn't salute Sir Cedric the right way.
* 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 seeing a woman and preparing to have sex with her.
* This happens three times to Jamie in Diana Gabaldon's ''Literature/{{Outlander}}'' series. The scars from the whipping are meant to mark a person as a criminal. Jamie's are extensive enough that his brother-in-law Ian mentions that "not an inch of your back" is unscarred.
* Seyonne in Creator/CarolBerg's ''Literature/RaiKirah'' series gets this a few times, mostly as part of his [[MadeASlave time in slavery]]. He also has scars on his back from previous occasions.
* Cluny the Scourge, the villainous rat of the TalkingAnimal book ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'', whips his subordinates with his own tail. Since presumably he couldn't hit someone hard enough to kill them without breaking his tail, if he wants to actually kill them he attaches a poisoned metal barb to it. Another BigBad, the LawfulEvil Vilu Daskar, uses a particularly nasty variation on this as a punishment for theft aboard his ship; the perpetrators are strung upside-down from the mast, given twenty lashes, have their wounds washed with seawater, and cut down after several hours.
* In ''Literature/TheScar'' by China Meiville, Bellis and Tanner are both flogged for treason after they unwittingly call New Crobuzon's ships down on Armada.
* David Feintuch's ''Literature/SeafortSaga'' series about the damned Captain Nicholas Seafort has constant floggings of the adolescent cadets and midshipmen - pretty expected since though it is a story about interstellar space vessels, it is based on "Hornblower" and other Napoleonic sea tales.
* In the ''Literature/{{Sharpe}}'' series, Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill had Sharpe flogged while the latter was still a private in India. This was only one of the reasons that Sharpe hated Hakeswill and considered the man his ArchNemesis, and why he never has one of his own men flogged once he becomes an officer.
* In ''Literature/SkinOfTheSea'', Simi rescues Kola, a boy thrown overboard from a slave ship, and finds that his back is covered in lash marks. She treats them with crushed wild lettuce.

* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'' has Johnny Rico get flogged for disobeying orders during a Mobile Infantry training exercise. It is also mentioned, in terms of an AuthorTract, that in his society being "flogged in the public square" is considered a valid and effective punishment for minor crimes (major ones are punished by death) and is also used as a visceral warning to those watching the punishment. It is also done to children. It should be noted that punitive floggings in this novel are closely monitored by a doctor to ensure that no permanent damage is done, and the punishment is followed immediately by treatment - It does not even leave scars - but it is a proper flogging as the skin is broken on the third strike of a ten strike flogging, and is not stopped just because you are bleeding.
* In apparent reference to ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'', the ''Literature/TheirsNotToReasonWhy'' series uses canings for corporal punishment of Terran military personnel. In the first book, a Marine recruit is caned before his dishonorable discharge for stealing a StaticStunGun and attacking his fellow recruits and the drill instructor before attempting to desert.

** In ''His Majesty's Dragon'', Laurence mentions briefly that, when he was still in the navy, one of his past captains took a dislike to him (due to Laurence's good manners) and that he frequently ordered Laurence flogged or beaten. Laurence conjectures that if said captain had not died of dysentery, the abuse might have cost Laurence his life.
** In ''Black Powder War'', Laurence has to order his own aviators flogged a couple times. Both times he hates to do it but is forced to; once because his man hits a superior naval officer and needs to be appropriately punished to keep the sailors from turning against the aviators, and again when two of his men break a pretty important law while in Istanbul and this is the alternative to letting them be executed. Both times he is hugely uncomfortable with the proceedings. In the second incident, he insists on keeping the count himself silently, so he can stop it early and pretend that they received more lashes than they actually did.
** In ''Empire of Ivory'' Laurence himself is flogged while being held prisoner. We don't know how severe it is since it's from his perspective and he loses count at around ten, but he does end up being delirious for a week.
* Janny Wurts' novel ''Literature/ToRideHellsChasm'' does a fantastic job of showing the class prejudices of a medieval-type society, the hero is whipped for not showing proper respect to "his betters".

* In order to encourage Skeeter in his training for GladiatorGames in ''[[Literature/TimeScout Wagers of Sin]]'', he's given a taste of the lash.
* "The Whacko" in ''Literature/WorldWarZ'' talks about how during the war, old-world punishments like lashings and stockades were instituted, since incarceration drained scarce resources with minimal return on the state's investment. He notes that while he thought such punishments were barbaric, he couldn't argue with the results.

* In one episode of ''Series/AlloAllo'', after the wacky scheme du jour fails Edith decides to indulge in some flagellation as penance. PlayedForLaughs as all she can think to use is wet spaghetti.
* ''Series/{{Around The World In 80 Days|2021}}'' (2021): Episode 5 sees Fogg wrongly arrested for theft in Hong Kong and sentenced to a dozen lashes at the stroke of noon. Abigail and Passepartout scramble to clear his name first, [[BigDamnHeroes arriving with a pardon]] ''as'' the clock strikes. Fogg escapes all but one lash, as the creators wanted to avert JustInTime.

** In the episode "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E03TheSummoning The Summoning]]", 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.
** In the episode "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS05E02TheVeryLongNightOfLondoMollari The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari]]", Londo experiences a mental re-creation of G'Kar's whipping -- only this time ''Londo'' is being whipped and ''G'Kar'' is calling out the strokes, and the objective is to get Londo to say he's sorry. It's all happening inside Londo's mind, but it's strongly implied that if the fortieth stroke falls, it will kill him for real.
* ''{{Series/Bones}}'':
** In "Mayhem on a Cross," 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.]].
** In "The Archeologist in the Cocoon," the VictimOfTheWeek has scars to his skeleton indicating he was whipped at some point. His wife confirms that her father did it to punish him for their relationship.

* ''[[Series.TheCollector The Collector]]'''s protagonist was a flagellant monk.
* Not an official punishment, but it was used by Lady Heather in the ''{{Series/CSI}}'' episode "Pirates of the Third Reich" on the guy who killed her daughter. Grissom catches up to her in the desert to find her flogging the guy, who's tied to the hood of her car.

* ''Series/FatherBrown'': In "The Cat of Mastigatus", Father Brown that a boys' school has a secret history of inflicting terrible CorporalPunishment on boys using a modified taws called [[TitleDrop 'the cat of mastigatus']], that leaves permanent scars and permanently crippled the hands of one boy.
* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': The victim of the week in "The Ecstasy of Agony" was flagellated, in this case as part of "domination therapy".
* ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'': In "Gladiator", an evil queen captures several men for GladiatorGames, including Hercules. The queen takes a liking to Hercules and offers to spare him from the games if he'll become her boy toy. When he refuses, she angrily orders him whipped. The whipping is offscreen, then he is dragged into his cell with whip marks on his back, and it takes him time to recover.
* In the miniseries ''Series/HoratioHornblower'' (an adaptation of the book), several characters receive corporal punishments.
** "The Examination for Lieutenant": Sailor Bunting deals badly with the death of his friend, hunger, and fear of starvation. He's later caught stealing food. Captain Pellew is disgusted and orders a gauntlet for him. Hornblower feels responsible because he should have dealt with him earlier, so Pellew concludes that Hornblower will make amends by leading Bunting through the gauntlet himself.
** "Munity": [[InsaneAdmiral Crazy Captain]] Sawyer has Mr Midshipman Wellard beaten... because he was only doing his duty and belayed Captain's order, otherwise their sail would tear. Later he has him beaten again because he thinks Wellard conspires against him and wants him to confess to mutiny. Most characters feel it is an injustice, and Mr Hornblower speaks up for him, which earns him a continuous watch that keeps being extended to whole days. And if an officer is caught sleeping on his watch, he will be sentenced to death.
** "Duty": Captain Hornblower orders flogging to Styles who was in charge of the kitchen and its stove's fire might have burnt their ship down. Other people aboard suggest he should be hanged for it but Mr Bush spoke for him as it was not intention, but negligence. However, it was actually the antagonist Wolfe who set Styles up.

* Alluded to in ''Series/{{Merlin 2008}}'' by King Uther. "If this were a time of war, I would have you flogged".

* In ''Series/Roots1977'' (as in real history) the slaves are whipped for just about any reason.
* In the second season of ''Series/{{See}}'', Baba Voss is tortured via whipping on the orders of his younger brother Edo. Since most people are blind in that universe, the whips are guided towards Baba's body via ropes. And the whips appear to have cutting material on them considering the horrific state of Baba's back after they're used on him.
* Flogging is used as a threat to get soldiers in line in ''Series/{{Sharpe}}''. Richard often removes his shirt to display his flogging scars and show enlisted soldiers that he understands what they're going through.

** Kirk and Spock get flogged for real in the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E21PatternsOfForce Patterns of Force]]". This makes their subsequent escape attempt (which involves Spock standing on Kirk's back) all the more excruciating for the captain.

* Disney's ''Series/TheSwampFox'' has a scene of this in the episode "Tory Vengeance". Marion's nephew, "Young" Gabe Marion, is flogged by Col. Townes in an attempt to force him to disclose the location of Marion's base. Marion storms the place with his brigade and rescues Gabe, only for the boy to be shot moments after he's freed from the ropes.
* Disney's ''Series/Zorro1957'' in "The Agent of the Eagle" The corrupt Magistrado and false Comandante had a man chained to [[WheelofPain a well's spoke]] and whipped for the spurious charge of poaching on the king's land. The corrupt leaders and bad guys also frequently threatened to whip those who are unfortunate to earn their ire.

* In the fake movie trailer for ''Buggery On The High Seas'' from Creator/CheechAndChong's "Pedro And Man At The Drive-In" sketch from the ''AudioPlay/LosCochinos'' album, one of the pirates gets flogged for sassing the ship's captain, which starts off sounding painful but then his reaction turns to ecstatic joy with each whip lash he receives.

* The Creator/TakarazukaRevue version of ''Theatre/SeventeenEightyNine'' has Ronan being whipped during his interrogation and incarceration in the Bastille.
* In ''Theatre/BillyBudd'', a flogging scene happens offstage. Then the victim is brought onstage. And sings a duet with his friend.
* Attempting to appease the bloodthirsty mob, Pilate has UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} flogged 39 times - with each stroke being counted in song - in ''Music/JesusChristSuperstar''.
* Subverted in ''Theatre/TheKingAndI''. The King prepares to whip Tuptim for running away but decides he just can't do it with Anna watching.
* In a scene that is not often included in shows of ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'', Judge Turpin, who is developing a serious lust for Johanna, his teenage ward, takes the whip to himself during the course of the song "Johanna (Mea Culpa)" in an effort to drive off the "devil." The whipping instead ''drives him to climax'', and he decides he's going to marry her, much to Johanna's horror.

* In ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', Franziska has a habit of whipping Gumshoe to punish him for his (frequent) incompetence. Of course, she also has a habit of whipping foolish fools for spouting foolishly foolish nonsense - meaning, of course, everyone in this game. She whips Phoenix ''into unconsciousness'' when she loses her first trial.

* In ''VideoGame/CriminalCaseTheConspiracy'', [[spoiler:Professor Kevin Charles]] is murdered by being tied up and flagged to death by [[spoiler:all five members of junior [[TheConspiracy Ad Astra]]]], though according to [[TheCoroner Martine]], the shock actually managed to kill him before the final blow.
* The Flagellant DLC class from the ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'' expansion ''The Crimson Court'' uses flagellation (hence the name) as a source of his abilities and power, which mostly come in the form of high bleed damage and healing skills. He even uses it to relieve stress and status effects when camping, eschewing the traditional forms of comfort.
** This is also the best form of stress relief in the church, and it's pretty severe to the point you wonder how it doesn't affect their performance. Anyone who undergoes it mentions shedding plenty of blood, which also implies plenty of painful scars. One negative side effect of a session in the Penance Chamber is a temporary reduction in bleeding resistance.
* The Templar Order from ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' does this to convicted criminals that they want to make into new Templars after first beating them for three days. The purpose of this, according to your follower Kormac, who went through the process himself, is to strip away everything that brought the initiate tainted joy, to cleanse and purify them of sin. Needless to say, your PlayerCharacter doesn't see things that way. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the Order doesn't really give a damn about an initiate's actual guilt or innocence, and the Order's Inquisitors will gladly pile false sins upon an innocent if they deem him to be a useful asset to the Order, which is exactly what happened to both Kormac and his former comrade Jondar]].
* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', the supports between [[spoiler:Azura and Arthur]] reveal that the [[spoiler:latter]] got whipped when young, [[spoiler:after TakingTheHeat for the first]].
* The opening of the second ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' ExpansionPack ''Storm of Zehir'' has the PlayerParty take ship to Samarach on a sailing ship. Captain Lastri Kassireh can be overheard threatening to unleash her first mate with the cat o' nine tails if the crew doesn't have the ship ready for an oncoming tropical storm.
* Harrow from ''{{VideoGame/Warframe}}'' uses his signature thurible to whip himself in his ability animations, particularly when using his "Penance" ability, which sacrifices all of his current shields to provide a life steal for his allies alongside a passive fire rate and reload speed bonus.

* ''{{Webcomic/Erfworld}}'': Wanda [[TortureAlwaysWorks uses a whip]] on Jillian, nominally [[TortureAlwaysWorks for information]], but with clear [[CasualKink kinky]] [[LesYay overtones]].

--> "F-u-" I bit down on my tongue. Must not let the parents hear that word, ever. I still remember the rose thorn-covered switch, the scabs and the odd looks from my gym teacher.

* In the ''WebVideo/DragonballZAbridged'' version of Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan, the Shamoshans are whipped, but instead of being whipped as punishment, they're actually masochists.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "Magic Duel", Trixie forces Snips and Snails to pull her chariot (which ''doesn't have wheels'') and whips them if they try to stop.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "The Krabby Kronicle", [=SpongeBob=] gets revenge on Mr. Krabs working him to death on the newspaper by publishing a report of what's been going on, the headline picture being Krabs flogging him.
** Parodied in "Sailor Mouth", where [=SpongeBob=] fearfully speculates that Mr. Krabs will give him and Patrick forty lashes for saying Bad Word #11. Patrick then [[LiteralMinded imagines himself with forty eye-lashes.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' has these combined with electricity in the 'Slaves of the Republic' three-episode arc, adapted from the comic of the same name. It takes about five electro whips to subdue Anakin when he is captured, and also at one point, he has to figure out how to get out of being asked to whip a captive Obi-Wan with one to show his loyalty while disguised as a slaver himself. They were also frequently employed by the overseers in the mines Obi-Wan and Rex were sent to.
* [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' with [[MeanBoss Holly Blue Agate]] who wields an [[LightningLash electrified whip]] and according to [[BigBad Yellow Diamond's]] VillainSong, an agates role in the [[FantasticCasteSystem gem hierarchy]] is to [[BadBoss terrify lower class gems into submission]].

* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'' has Johnny Rico get flogged for disobeying orders during a Mobile Infantry training exercise. It is also mentioned, in terms of an AuthorTract, that in his society being "flogged in the public square" is considered a valid and effective punishment for minor crimes (major ones are punished by death) and is also used as a visceral warning to those watching the punishment. It should be noted that punitive floggings in this novel are closely monitored by a doctor to ensure that no permanent damage is done, and the punishment is followed immediately by treatment. It does not even leave scars.

* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'': Clerics of Loviatar, the goddess of pain and torture, are directed to self-flagellate while praying for spells.

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "Blood Wedding", Barnaby goes to question TheVicar only to find him flagellating himself in church.

* David Feintuch's ''Literature/SeafortSaga'' series about the damned Captain Nicholas Seafort has constant floggings of the adolescent cadets and midshipmen - pretty expected since though it is a story about interstellar space vessels, it is based on "Hornblower" and other Napoleonic sea tales.

* ''Literature/TheKingkillerChronicle'': An important part of Kvothe's legend building in ''Literature/TheNameOfTheWind'' is when he is flogged as a punishment at the Academy - he takes a drug beforehand to dull the pain, which has the side effect of constricting the blood vessels and causing him not to bleed - earning him the nickname "Bloodless".

* This happens three times to Jamie in Diana Gabaldon's ''Literature/{{Outlander}}'' series. The scars from the whipping are meant to mark a person as a criminal.

Note that people can and have been flogged ''to death''. Given that the tip of a whip can easily break the sound barrier, a hundred lashes can easily kill, especially with a knout. (In the British Army during the Napoleonic era, the maximum number of lashes a soldier could be sentenced was ''one thousand two hundred'', but then British whips were less hardcore than the Continental ones and the sentence would often be reduced anyway.[[note]]The Napoleonic years were toward the end of the years of the "Bloody Code," when Britain's criminal laws frequently mandated punishments ''far'' in excess of proportion (including death for things like stealing anything worth more than twelve pence); as a result, British judges, both civilian and military, were accustomed to handing down extremely severe sentences and then passing along a notice that clemency was to be granted as a matter of course.[[/note]]) Even if you don't die in the process, a good traditional flogging will often result in you dying from your wounds and/or infection shortly after. This is the sort of flogging that was a popular form of punishment in Imperial Russia, in particular, where they used particularly coarse leather for these purposes. Due to this, it was also traditional to pay the executioner to go easy on someone, which still hurt like hell but generally wasn't fatal. It should also be noted that even if a victim survived a severe flogging, they could end up crippled for life, and in an era of single-income-earner families and little in the way of accessible charity on a large scale, this could leave the victim's family destitute.

* ''Anime/VariableGeo'': During the second episode, [[{{Ninja}} Chiho]] gets captured by [[NebulousEvilOrganisation the Jahana Group]] and is punished for spying on them. When she regains consciousness, she finds her wrists have been bound above her head and that she's been stripped down to her panties. [[TortureTechnician Siritahi]] proceeds to whip her mercilessly, by not allowing her to pass out, then [[{{Brainwash}} gives her an injection to enslave her.]]

* ''Anime/LupinIIITheSecretOfTwilightGemini'': [[EffeminateMisogynisticGuy Sadachiyo]] subjects [[MsFanservice Fujiko]] to this type of torture, after she's caught snooping around [[spoiler:[[BigBad Jean Pierre]]]]'s hideout.

-->'''Uruk:''' "There now!" he laughed, flicking at their legs.\\