History Main / CoolAndUnusualPunishment

* Bandit from ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'' is forced, via [[DuctTapeForEverything being duct taped to a couch]], [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb389.html to watch a Martha Stewart show marathon after pulling a prank on Doc and Roger]].

* ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'': Doc gets back at [[spoiler:Bandit]] for spiking his shower gel with Nair in this fashion. The last panel of the last strip in the storyline shows the culprit duct-taped ''very'' securely to a couch in front of a TV:
-->'''{{Continuity announce|ment}}r''': "Next up on ''Creator/MarthaStewart''..."

* The "Fistful of Yen" sequence in ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'' includes a CIA agent who responds defiantly to the villain's every threat- but turns yellow when [[PlaceWorseThanDeath he learns what'll happen to him]]. "Take him to Detroit!" In the Spanish dub, he's taken to Madrid instead.

* ''Comicstrip/TheFarSide'': many and varied, from variations on Hell ("this is your room, Maestro" [room filled with thirty banjo players]) to the mysterious object known only as "Mr. Thingy".

-->'''Continuity announcer''': "Next up on ''Creator/MarthaStewart''..."

* In one ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'' story, a serial killer has, as his [[{{Idiosyncrazy}} personal obsession]], being BeneathNotice, making him one of the few theme criminals in Gotham who ''doesn't'' want attention. Batman captures him and he gets locked up in Arkham. But the "cool and unusual" part is that he specifically asks for the guy to be put in Joker's usual cell (the Joker having disappeared to prepare for ''Comicbook/BatmanEndgame''). Now ''everyone's'' going to be talking about him and wondering who he is.

* ''Webcomic/MinionComics'' features a torturer offering a series of these, including "The Spiky Thing," "The Shocker," and [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120304024944/http://www.meetmyminion.com/?p=1042 a George Lopez comedy special]].

* ''Webcomic/MinionComics'' features a torturer offering a series of these, including "The Spiky Thing," "The Shocker," and [[http://www.meetmyminion.com/?p=1042 a George Lopez comedy special]].

** [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=936#comic Regular Hell]], on the other hand, looks exactly like Heaven, with one very important difference -- [[spoiler:you stub your toe every forty-two seconds]]. [[ThisIsntHeaven Realization takes a few hours to set in]].

** Sadly (Or thankfuly) You could not do this on the DS Lite. But thanks to the UsefulNotes/DSi's power button functioning as a soft reset, players can do this over and over and over and over and over and over [[OverlyLongGag and over]]

* From ''Website/Play4Real'': "[[http://www.p4rgaming.com/us-government-leak-reveals-cia-uses-yoshis-new-island-music-to-torture-prisoners/ US Government Leak Reveals CIA Uses Yoshi’s New Island Music to Torture Prisoners]]". The (satirical) story claims prisoners were being forced to play the game by being promised increased food rations, but they figured out that they could turn the volume down, so the CIA started blaring the music through the complex, which caused prisoners to reveal information that they weren't even trying to get. Mention is also made of the UsefulNotes/WiiU being meant to be sold by Nintendo as a torture device, although they cancelled the plans after they found out that the UsefulNotes/{{Ouya}} did the same thing for cheaper.

* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', Castle Heterodyne attempts to torture Othar Tryggvassen, GentlemanAdventurer!, by sticking him in a torture chamber. The walls are pink, people have to take a number and wait to see the torturer (and the machine is out of numbers), and the room appears to play [[AFateWorseThanDeath Elevator Music]]. It seems to be specifically designed to torment heroes accustomed to more regular kinds of torture as they go mad 'waiting in line', as none of the non-Othar people thrown into it seem affected.

* In the ''WebAnimation/BonusStage'' episode "Morbid", Joel goes to hell ([[DeathIsCheap for the first of many times]]), and may choose from one of three punishments: watching ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'' for 24/7, watching ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'' for 24/7, or [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers eating]] {{Satan}}'s mom's spaghetti which is so bad that "[[GodwinsLaw even Hitler couldn't handle it.]]"

* Abusive administrators and faculty are on the receiving end of psychological warfare in ''Literature/TheSagaOfTuck''.

'''King Harkinian:''' "Take him away! If you don't hear from me in the pit, you must DIE."\\

* ''Anime/DirtyPairFlash'': After one of their accidental atrocities (Yuri didn't ''mean'' to blow up that space station), the Lovely Angels are ordered to send each one of the 300,000 survivors a handwritten apology.

* An issue of ''Series/IncredibleHercules'' had Phobos showing Pluto his worst fear: Franchise/CareBears and [[Franchise/MyLittlePony My Little Ponies]]... then he threatened to bring on the children's rock band. Pluto cracked.

*** In ''Recap/AsterixTheGaul'' he discovers that Crismus Bonus was trying to discover the secret of the Gauls' strength to overthrow him, so [[UriahGambit he assigns him to quell a rebellion... In ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Mongolia Outer Mongolia]]''. It's unknown if the Han Dynasty appreciated the help.

* A number of reviews on Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses have been portrayed as horrific punishments:
** When WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic wants to punish WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick for reviewing non-girly stuff like ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' and ''Film/Armageddon1998'' ([[BreadEggsMilkSquick and also for chloroforming him]]), he forces her to review the Film/{{Bratz}} movie.
*** Subverted when he explains he only did it so she could be proud of sitting though the worst girly movie ever. They hug then mutually chloroform each other at the end.
** [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] (acting under orders from Dr Linksano) forces [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] to review ''Film/TheSpirit''. Despite it ostensibly being torture, he joins in himself.
*** Linkara was also forced to endure some of ''[[OldShame his own fan-fiction]]'' being read by Bennett the Sage.
** [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] goes through a lot of this. After reviewing the board game "Nightmare", the Gatecleaner banished him to the "Blagole" to play Pumpkinhead's video game. Later on he criticises ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and is sentenced by the Gate''[[Creator/LittleKuriboh Keith]]''er to undergo a GenderBender and review "Party Mania".
*** And now that he has failed in his task to review all of Nightmare's sequels in a year, the Gatecleaner seems to be setting up some more of this sort of thing for him.
** In ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}'', [[WebVideo/PawDugan Paw]] suggests playing really loud Music/MichaelBolton music to flush [[spoiler:WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic]] out of the government house. Everyone else agrees that no one should be submitted to that kind of torture (except Creator/JewWario).
*** Also from Kickassia is the final threat which causes the president to flee: "Don't make us review you."

* In ''VideoGame/LegoCityUndercover'', Chase McCain punishes one of Rex Fury's henchmen, Jimmy, by forcibly feeding him ice cream until he gets genuine BrainFreeze.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'', for all the grief he wrought [[spoiler:both in the Mushroom Kingdom and Brooklyn]], Bowser is [[spoiler:force-fed a Mini Mushroom, bottled up and locked away in an empty room in a literal gilded cage... with only a piano for entertainment.]] For extra "cool and unusual" points, [[spoiler:the room said cage is in is within Peach's castle, meaning he got to be with her... just not in the way he wanted.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', Barbie gets Ken to spill the beans about how to reverse [[spoiler: Buzz's]] BrainwashedAndCrazy status by...tying him up and tearing his clothes apart in front of him. Destroying a pair of Hawaiian swim trunks and then a glitter tux doesn't faze him, but when Barbie threatens Ken's Nehru jacket, he cracks.
* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheWild'' the antagonists are a herd of wildebeests... with near-flawless dance moves.

* In ''Film/ThePinkPantherStrikesAgain'', the method [[BigBad Dreyfus]] used to torture the professor's daughter was by scratching a chalkboard with a huge metal gauntlet.

* In ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'', Dark Helmet uses Princess Vespa to force her father to give the combination to his planet's air shield. He threatens to use a plastic surgeon to restore her old nose. It leans back into regular cruelty when you realize [[FridgeHorror there's no anesthetic in the shot anywhere]].

* In ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'', Dark Helmet uses Princess Vespa to force her father to give the combination to his planet's air shield. He threatens to use a plastic surgeon to restore her old nose.

** ''Recap/AsterixAndCaesarsGift'': Caesar can come up with fairly interesting punishments for minions who promised to finally defeat the irreducible Gauls but failed or have otherwise angered him. The most hilarious (and devastating, at least in his intentions) was to a legionaire due for discharge who spent his entire service drunk and passed his last night as a soldier in a jail for being drunk and disorderly and insulting Caesar on top of it: rather than have him thrown to the lions or discharge him without the traditional gift of a plot of land, he gifts him ''[[UndefeatableLittleVillage the village of the irreducible Gauls]]''.

* The Knights Who Say "Ni" from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' would torment people with their CatchPhrase ("Ni!") until they caved in to their demands.