History Main / CoolAndUnusualPunishment

** The line is translated in the German dub as "Wir schicken dich zur strafe nach Zürich!"[[hottip:English translation:"We sentence you to be exiled to Zurich!"]]

!Examples:

* In ''AnimalCrossing'', you get chewed out by Resetti the mole if you reset the game without saving. His rants are quite amusing, and some players keep resetting just to see everything he says.
** Sadly (Or thankfuly) You could not do this on the DS Lite. But thanks to the 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]]
* In ''RetroGameChallenge'', you the player have been sent back in time to the 1980's. Your only way back? Beat the Game Master's classic gaming challenges! The horror, I'm being forced to play mockups of old nes games!

* Rumors have circulated that when Saddam Hussein was being detained by the US military, he was being forced to watch the scenes from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut'' showing him as Satan's gay lover. Over and over again.

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* In ''FullMetalJacket'', the gunnery Sgt. finds a jelly donut in "Private Pyle's" footlocker. One would think he'd sentence him to extra PE, but instead he forces "Pyle" to eat the donut and watch his teammates be subjected to grueling exercises. They weren't very happy with him. Later (after many such group punishments, though) he gets tied down to his bunk and beaten with bars of soap in socks by the entire platoon.

* In ''TheAdventuresOfPriscillaQueenOfTheDesert'', Adam threatens to sing after being locked out of the bus. He carries through with the threat but is unsuccessful and spends the night outside.

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* In ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', Sweet threatens the [[ThePigPen dirt-loving geologist]] Mole with soap if he doesn't leave Milo alone.

* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', [[BigBad Stinky Pete]] [[KelseyGrammer the Prospector]] actually ends up being stuffed into a child's backpack full of damaged {{Barbie}} dolls. It is then revealed that somewhere after that film's events, we actually find out that Stinky Pete actually ''liked'' being damaged since he actually spent almost his entire life in a cardboard box.
** And in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', Barbie tortures ken by ripping his clothes until he talks. It worked.

* In ''WreckItRalph'', Ralph wants some information from Sour Bill, a jawbreaker. But when he won't talk, Ralph licks him. After he still refuses to talk, Ralph puts him in his mouth and sucks on him for a bit. That gets Sour Bill to tell Ralph what he knows.

* In Creator/NealStephenson's ''Literature/{{Anathem}}'', one of the Avout's nastier punishments is being forced to learn a certain number of chapters of "The Book" and pass a quiz on it prior to being allowed back into society. Each chapter is designed to be steadily less rational - Chapter 1 for instance is a set of {{nursery rhyme}}s and nonsense poetry that ''doesn't quite'' rhyme. Chapter 4 is ''four pages'' of the digits of Pi. Only three people have learned the whole thing, and all of them wound up rather insane.

* Reese in ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' discovered that he was a natural chef. When he sabotages a cooking contest [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat would've won easily with his natural skill]], his parents punish him by banning him from the kitchen for a month, and it works!

* [[http://missmab.com/Comics/Vol_471.php Death by Shonen-Ai]].

* Literature/TrappedOnDraconica: How Gothon rewards Zarracka for failing twice over. [[spoiler: throwing her, tied up, into a pit with a giant monster. The monster in question was a herbivore and thus harmless. All it did was scare her shitless, make her beg for her life, and ruin her dress with its slobber. It works beautiful because Zarracka's ego is bigger than his empire.]]
* In the book that "film/FullMetalJacket" was based off of, the drill sergeant's punishments were much worse. At one point, he had a squad pee in the same toilet, and then shoved Private Pyle's head in there while standing on his back until he passed out. Also he would quiz people privately and if they answered a question "wrong", they got a beating. If they reversed their answer, it would be much worse.

* In ''[[YesMinister Yes, Prime Minister]]'', Prime Minister Hacker manages to get a [[SmugSnake slimy Foreign Office]] [[TheMole Mole]] who has been meddling with his attempts to work with Israel in accordance with the Foreign Office's pro-Palestinian leanings a cushy promotion as ambassador to an important friendly nation. Unfortunately, the embassy is in Tel Aviv...

*** Another example comes from this tropers personal experience. Leave your weapon unattended? Do a series of Iron Mikes to 'buy' it back. Fall asleep in a class session? Stand at the back of the room, holding a canteen, looking through the loop that holds the lid on (playing sniper it's called.) Get caught watching the TV in the mess-hall? You get put on your elbows and toes to 'watch TV', and occasionally change channels. Caught doing something in the chow line you aren't supposed to? Stand outside the line reciting EXACTLY what you did so that other recruits don't repeat the mistake. It's safe to say that since the days of a Drill Sergeant beating the snot out of you ended, it just encouraged them to get creative in the HOW they punish you and your whole unit.
**** There is also MASH, which stands for Make A Sailor Hurt. They're not allowed to beat you, but they are allowed to make you exercise until you wish they were beating you.

* In ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'', the nation-tans try to punish France's AprilFoolsDay antics, but find that he's TooKinkyToTorture and would actually like a lot of the stuff they were coming up with. In the end, they successfully make him positively miserable by forcing him to praise everything English (yes, even [[LethalChef England's food]]). The funniest thing? The one who suggested said punishment was ''[[TheQuietOne Sweden]]'', of all people.

And it's always fun when one character has such [[TooKinkyToTorture offbeat tastes]] that he or she ''[[Unishment enjoys]]'' the experience.

And it's always fun when one character has such [[TooKinkyToTorture offbeat tastes]] that he or she ''enjoys'' the experience.

May serve as a TakeThat. For when someone merely threatens to do something like this, see CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon. Compare CruelMercy and MundaneAfterlife. Contrast PokeThePoodle. When this involves sending somebody to a city, see PlaceWorseThanDeath. Frequently follows the stock phrase "WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk!". Contrast {{Unishment}}.

** In [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet Of Fire]], Draco Malfoy is caught trying to hex Harry from behind, and [[spoiler:Imposter]] Professor Moody transforms Draco into a white ferret and proceeds to bounce him around the room while lecturing him. When [[spoiler:The genuine]] Professor [=McGonagall=] catches him, Moody grudgingly admits that he was told something about not using Transfiguration as punishment, but he "forgot."

* In the ''InDeath'' series, Dallas' idea of ultimate torment is...a hair and body treatment from Mavis' friend Trina. This from a woman who regularly works herself to exhaustion, gets shot at, beaten up, blown up, etc.

* In the ''KingdomHearts'' fanfic ''Fanfic/ThoseLackingSpines'', Vexen is tortured with the LazyTown cake song, and his cake phobia afterward becomes a RunningGag. His torturers first try "It's a Small World After All", [[spoiler: but he's half-Disney, so the song has no effect]].

** In Britain, a deathwish driver from Lincolnshire was forced to see the consequences of his driving by going to his local A & E. Needless to say, this was AnAesop in itself on how ''not'' to drive.