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* PlayingWithSyringes: Using experimental, and maybe incredibly painful concoctions or chemicals on someone, administered via syringes.
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* TelevisedTorture: The villain isn't the one doing the torture and is instead watching it happen on a screen of some sort.
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* TormentByAnnoyance: Being annoyed over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over...
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* TormentByAnnoyance: Being annoyed over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over...
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* TormentByAnnoyance: Being annoyed over and over and over and over and over...
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* TormentByAnnoyance: Being annoyed over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over...
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* ElectroconvulsiveTherapyIsTorture: Electroconvulsion Therapy depicted in a negative light.
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* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: Denying food as a punishment.
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* AgonizingStomachWound: A wound to the stomach which leads to a long and painful death. When inflicted intentionally, it is usually to prolong the agony of the victim.
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* AgonizingStomachWound: A wound to the stomach which leads to a long and painful death. When inflicted intentionally, it is usually to prolong the agony of the victim or as a means of enhanced interrogation.
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* DefeatMeansMenialLabor: A defeated villain is punished with menial labor, often in their (no longer) own place.
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* TwoPlusTortureMakesFive: Psychological torture that causes the victim to believe something that factually isn't true. For example, 2 + 2 = 5.
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* AndIMustScream: When a character is forever stuck somewhere, probably unable to talk, move, or even die.
* AnythingButThat: When something pretty mundane (or even harmless) is treated as a FateWorseThanDeath.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil
* BreakTheCutie: A character that was once kind and lovable is put through hell and back.
* BunkerWoman: A woman is kidnapped and held somewhere contained, usually a bunker, usually by a man.
* ColdBloodedTorture
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: A punishment that gets the job done, even though it's ridiculous.
* AnythingButThat: When something pretty mundane (or even harmless) is treated as a FateWorseThanDeath.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil
* BreakTheCutie: A character that was once kind and lovable is put through hell and back.
* BunkerWoman: A woman is kidnapped and held somewhere contained, usually a bunker, usually by a man.
* ColdBloodedTorture
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: A punishment that gets the job done, even though it's ridiculous.
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* CurbStompBattle: A battle in which one opponent wins with little to no effort.
* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: A threat so odd it's PlayedForLaughs.
* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: A threat so odd it's PlayedForLaughs.
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* EnhancedInterrogationTechniques: Non-physical forms of torture, usually psychological, that still freak someone out enough to work.
* ExaltedTorturer: When the person doing the torture is also the hero.
* FalseRoulette: A near-empty gun is fired over and over to cause fear that the next trigger-pull with discharge the only bullet--except, the gun is actually empty.
* FireAndBrimstoneHell: When Hell is depicted as a fiery place of eternal torture.
* ExaltedTorturer: When the person doing the torture is also the hero.
* FalseRoulette: A near-empty gun is fired over and over to cause fear that the next trigger-pull with discharge the only bullet--except, the gun is actually empty.
* FireAndBrimstoneHell: When Hell is depicted as a fiery place of eternal torture.
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* HighAltitudeInterrogation: Getting someone to talk by holding them over a high drop.
* HostageHandlerHuddle: The bad guys huddle together to decide how torture is best carried out.
* InterrogatedForNothing: Someone is tortured for information, but they truly don't know anything.
* HostageHandlerHuddle: The bad guys huddle together to decide how torture is best carried out.
* InterrogatedForNothing: Someone is tortured for information, but they truly don't know anything.
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* TheJoysOfTorturingMooks: When players of a video game find joy in torturing and killing their always-spawning, nameless enemies.
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* {{Lobotomy}}: The medical procedure of cutting into part of the brain to change a person's behavior--either as a "treatment" of mental illness, or torture.
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Someone finds joy in the loud, loud misery of others.
* TheLudovicoTechnique: Drugging someone and forcing him (sometimes up to strapping the eyelids so he can't close them) to watch something related to his bad habits to "cure" him from them.
* MaximumFunChamber: Something torturous is said to be so, so horrible, but is either never seen, or seen, but seems innocent enough until it's used.
* MindProbe: A device that forcibly reads someone's mind, usually in the most painful and traumatizing way possible.
* MindRape: Psychological torture that forces the victim to see horrible things, re-live terrifying memories, feel things that aren't happening, etc.
* {{Lobotomy}}: The medical procedure of cutting into part of the brain to change a person's behavior--either as a "treatment" of mental illness, or torture.
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Someone finds joy in the loud, loud misery of others.
* TheLudovicoTechnique: Drugging someone and forcing him (sometimes up to strapping the eyelids so he can't close them) to watch something related to his bad habits to "cure" him from them.
* MaximumFunChamber: Something torturous is said to be so, so horrible, but is either never seen, or seen, but seems innocent enough until it's used.
* MindProbe: A device that forcibly reads someone's mind, usually in the most painful and traumatizing way possible.
* MindRape: Psychological torture that forces the victim to see horrible things, re-live terrifying memories, feel things that aren't happening, etc.
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* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Someone finds joy in the loud, loud misery of others.
* TheLudovicoTechnique: Drugging someone and forcing him (sometimes up to strapping the eyelids so he can't close them) to watch something related to his bad habits to "cure" him from them.
* MaximumFunChamber: Something torturous is said to be so, so horrible, but is either never seen, or seen, but seems innocent enough until it's used.
* MindProbe: A device that forcibly reads someone's mind, usually in the most painful and traumatizing way possible.
* MindRape: Psychological torture that forces the victim to see horrible things, re-live terrifying memories, feel things that aren't happening, etc.
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* NoodleImplements: An odd assortment of objects (and maybe people) are all brought together to do something, but the audience never sees what.
* TheNotSoHarmlessPunishment: A punishment seems bearable enough, maybe even laughable...until it's used.
* PastVictimShowcase: To show just how bad the torture someone is about to endure is, the villain shows them someone who has already been through it.
* TheNotSoHarmlessPunishment: A punishment seems bearable enough, maybe even laughable...until it's used.
* PastVictimShowcase: To show just how bad the torture someone is about to endure is, the villain shows them someone who has already been through it.
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* PunishedWithUgly: A beautiful character is punished by losing their beauty.
* PunishmentBox: Punishment comes in the form of being forced into an empty, but probably very uncomfortable and/or lonely, box.
* RoboticTortureDevice: A robotic device with many tools to torture, from knives to lasers and more.
* {{Room 101}}: The audience may or may not even know what happens in there, but this room is the one '''no one''' wants to be sent to.
* ScreamDiscretionShot: The audience doesn't see the pain being inflicted, only hearing the victim's scream.
* {{Shake Someone Objects Fall}}: A comedic trope in which simply shaking someone causes everything they have on them to come falling out.
* SleepDeprivationPunishment
* PunishmentBox: Punishment comes in the form of being forced into an empty, but probably very uncomfortable and/or lonely, box.
* RoboticTortureDevice: A robotic device with many tools to torture, from knives to lasers and more.
* {{Room 101}}: The audience may or may not even know what happens in there, but this room is the one '''no one''' wants to be sent to.
* ScreamDiscretionShot: The audience doesn't see the pain being inflicted, only hearing the victim's scream.
* {{Shake Someone Objects Fall}}: A comedic trope in which simply shaking someone causes everything they have on them to come falling out.
* SleepDeprivationPunishment
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* StockholmSyndrome: A real-world phenomenon in which people who have been kidnapped/captured come to feel sympathetic for their captors.
* SuckinessIsPainful: Someone is just so bad at something (singing, acting, you name it) that just seeing them do it is painful.
* SuckinessIsPainful: Someone is just so bad at something (singing, acting, you name it) that just seeing them do it is painful.
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* TelevisedTorture: The villain isn't the one doing the torture and is instead watching it happen on a screen of some sort.
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* ToThePain: Telling a future victim exactly what is going to happen to them in slow, painful detail.
* TooKinkyToTorture: A character actually ''enjoys'' being tortured.
* TormentByAnnoyance
* TortureAlwaysWorks: When torturing someone not only works in a work, but the information gathered out of it is true, accurate, and detailed.
* TortureCellar: A room with the express purpose of torturing people.
* TortureChamberEpisode: An episode in which one or more characters are tortured for the entire duration.
* TortureFirstAskQuestionsLater: Someone gets so caught up in torturing someone (or has even already killed them) that they forget to ask questions.
* TortureForFunAndInformation: A torture-filled interrogation is presented as comedic.
* TortureIsIneffective
* TorturePorn: A work that's main appeal is its graphic and unrelenting depiction of torture.
* TortureTechnician: The guy with the job of torturing people.
* WaterTorture
* WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: A StockPhrase.
* TickleTorture
* ToThePain: Telling a future victim exactly what is going to happen to them in slow, painful detail.
* TooKinkyToTorture: A character actually ''enjoys'' being tortured.
* TormentByAnnoyance
* TortureAlwaysWorks: When torturing someone not only works in a work, but the information gathered out of it is true, accurate, and detailed.
* TortureCellar: A room with the express purpose of torturing people.
* TortureChamberEpisode: An episode in which one or more characters are tortured for the entire duration.
* TortureFirstAskQuestionsLater: Someone gets so caught up in torturing someone (or has even already killed them) that they forget to ask questions.
* TortureForFunAndInformation: A torture-filled interrogation is presented as comedic.
* TortureIsIneffective
* TorturePorn: A work that's main appeal is its graphic and unrelenting depiction of torture.
* TortureTechnician: The guy with the job of torturing people.
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* ToThePain: Telling a future victim exactly what is going to happen to them in slow, painful detail.
* TooKinkyToTorture: A character actually ''enjoys'' being tortured.
* TormentByAnnoyance
* TortureAlwaysWorks: When torturing someone not only works in a work, but the information gathered out of it is true, accurate, and detailed.
* TortureCellar: A room with the express purpose of torturing people.
* TortureChamberEpisode: An episode in which one or more characters are tortured for the entire duration.
* TortureFirstAskQuestionsLater: Someone gets so caught up in torturing someone (or has even already killed them) that they forget to ask questions.
* TortureForFunAndInformation: A torture-filled interrogation is presentedWaterTorture: Such as comedic.
* TortureIsIneffective
* TorturePorn: A work that's main appeal is its graphic and unrelenting depiction of torture.
* TortureTechnician: The guy with the job of torturing people.
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* ToThePain: Telling a future victim exactly what is going to happen to them in slow, painful detail.
* TooKinkyToTorture: A character actually ''enjoys'' being tortured.
* TormentByAnnoyance
* TortureAlwaysWorks: When torturing someone not only works in a work, but the information gathered out of it is true, accurate, and detailed.
* TortureCellar: A room with the express purpose of torturing people.
* TortureChamberEpisode: An episode in which one or more characters are tortured for the entire duration.
* TortureFirstAskQuestionsLater: Someone gets so caught up in torturing someone (or has even already killed them) that they forget to ask questions.
* TortureForFunAndInformation: A torture-filled interrogation is presented
* TortureIsIneffective
* TorturePorn: A work that's main appeal is its graphic and unrelenting depiction of torture.
* TortureTechnician: The guy with the job of torturing people.
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* AndIMustScream: When a character is forever stuck somewhere, probably unable to talk, move, or even die.
* EnhancedInterrogationTechniques: Non-physical forms of torture, usually psychological, that still freak someone out enough to work.
* FalseRoulette: A near-empty gun is fired over and over to cause fear that the next trigger-pull with discharge the only bullet--except, the gun is actually empty.
* ForcedToWatch: A character is forced to watch as someone they love is tortured and/or killed.
* HighAltitudeInterrogation: Getting someone to talk by holding them over a high drop.
* TheLudovicoTechnique: Drugging someone and forcing him (sometimes up to strapping the eyelids so he can't close them) to watch something related to his bad habits to "cure" him from them.
* MindProbe: A device that forcibly reads someone's mind, usually in the most painful and traumatizing way possible.
* MindRape: Psychological torture that forces the victim to see horrible things, re-live terrifying memories, feel things that aren't happening, etc.
* PastVictimShowcase: To show just how bad the torture someone is about to endure is, the villain shows them someone who has already been through it.
* PunishedWithUgly: A beautiful character is punished by losing their beauty.
* PunishmentBox: Punishment comes in the form of being forced into an empty, but probably very uncomfortable and/or lonely, box.
* SadisticChoice: Forcing a person to choose between two terrible options.
** SuicidalSadisticChoice: Forcing a person to choose between something horrible and death.
* SleepDeprivationPunishment: Not allowing a person to sleep.
* ToThePain: Telling a future victim exactly what is going to happen to them in slow, painful detail.
* TormentByAnnoyance: Being annoyed over and over and over and over and over...
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* TwoPlusTortureMakesFive: Psychological torture that causes the victim to believe something that factually isn't true. For example, 2 + 2 = 5.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Tortured into evilness.
* BreakTheCutie: A character that was once kind and lovable is put through hell and back.
* DrivenToSuicide: The victim kills themselves.
* InterrogatedForNothing: Someone is tortured for information, but they truly don't know anything.
* StockholmSyndrome: A real-world phenomenon in which people who have been kidnapped/captured come to feel sympathetic for their captors.
* TortureAlwaysWorks: When torturing someone not only works in a work, but the information gathered out of it is true, accurate, and detailed.
* TortureIsIneffective: It accomplishes nothing.
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* BunkerWoman: A woman is kidnapped and held somewhere contained, usually a bunker, usually by a man.
* ExaltedTorturer: When the person doing the torture is also the hero.
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Someone finds joy in the loud, loud misery of others.
* TooKinkyToTorture: A character actually ''enjoys'' being tortured.
* TortureTechnician: The guy with the job of torturing people.
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* FireAndBrimstoneHell: When Hell is depicted as a fiery place of eternal torture.
* LockedInTheDungeon
* MaximumFunChamber: Something torturous is said to be so, so horrible, but is either never seen, or seen, but seems innocent enough until it's used.
* TortureCellar: A room with the express purpose of torturing people.
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* AnythingButThat: When something pretty mundane (or even harmless) is treated as a FateWorseThanDeath.
* ColdBloodedTorture
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: A punishment that gets the job done, even though it's ridiculous.
* CurbStompBattle: A battle in which one opponent wins with little to no effort.
* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: A threat so odd it's PlayedForLaughs.
* TheEasyWayOrTheHardWay: A StockPhrase.
* HostageHandlerHuddle: The bad guys huddle together to decide how torture is best carried out.
* TheJoysOfTorturingMooks: When players of a video game find joy in torturing and killing their always-spawning, nameless enemies.
* NoodleImplements: An odd assortment of objects (and maybe people) are all brought together to do something, but the audience never sees what.
* TheNotSoHarmlessPunishment: A punishment seems bearable enough, maybe even laughable... until it's used.
* RoboticTortureDevice: A robotic device with many tools to torture, from knives to lasers and more.
* {{Room 101}}: The audience may or may not even know what happens in there, but this room is the one '''no one''' wants to be sent to.
* ScreamDiscretionShot: The audience doesn't see the pain being inflicted, only hearing the victim's scream.
* {{Shake Someone Objects Fall}}: A comedic trope in which simply shaking someone causes everything they have on them to come falling out.
* SuckinessIsPainful: Someone is just so bad at something (singing, acting, you name it) that just seeing them do it is painful.
* TelevisedTorture: The villain isn't the one doing the torture and is instead watching it happen on a screen of some sort.
* TortureChamberEpisode: An episode in which one or more characters are tortured for the entire duration.
* TortureFirstAskQuestionsLater: Someone gets so caught up in torturing someone (or has even already killed them) that they forget to ask questions.
* TortureForFunAndInformation: A torture-filled interrogation is presented as comedic.
* TorturePorn: A work that's main appeal is its graphic and unrelenting depiction of torture.
* WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: A StockPhrase.
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* TheLudovicoTechnique: Drugging someone and forcing him (sometimes up to strapping the eyelids so he can't close them) to watch something related to his bad habits to "cure" him from them.
