History Main / CoolAndUnusualPunishment

** ''VideoGame/BlackDesertOnline'' didn't punish for cheating but did punish players for griefing roleplayers, who the developers were very protective of as the game is meant to be a life simulator. In one particular extreme example a serial RP griefer who preferred to PlayerKiller them as soon as they left cities for any reason found himself face-to-face with an invisible game master playing as a Giant, who proceeded to read him the riot act, suplex him for [[NoKillLikeOverkill several thousand times his HP]], and banned him until he wrote a 5000 word essay on the forums about the positive influence roleplay has on a game's community.

* In ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'', a villain who wouldn't give up any information under threats, promises of a reduced sentence or even TheChick's hit single "''Me''" crumbled under the {{Cloudcuckoolander}}'s stream-of-consciousness rambling.

May serve as a TakeThat. For when someone merely threatens to do something like this, see CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon. Compare CruelMercy, IronicHell, MundaneAfterlife, and ThePunishmentIsTheCrime. Compare and contrast PrankPunishment for something like this is indended as a playful punishment from a mentor or a loved one, rather than a type of torture. Also contrast PokeThePoodle. Not to be confused with {{Unishment}}, when it's ''the character'' who wants the punishment rather than the audience. When this involves sending somebody to a city that they may or may not hate, see PlaceWorseThanDeath; when it involves just sending them anywhere that's dull and/or unpleasant, see ReassignedToAntarctica. Frequently follows the stock phrase "WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk!". Likely to be present in an IronicHell.

* In ''Rocking the Boat'' Voldemort notices Bellatrix Lestrange looking [[TooKinkyToTorture expectant]] during a punishment session and promptly announces that ''her'' punishment will be to not torture or kill anybody outside of missions for a month, cause no collateral damage ''during'' missions and heal and release the prisoners every morning.

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

** Also played straight much later, with Dabura, king of Hell. When he ends up in the afterlife, King Yemma sends him to Heaven instead. He breaks almost instantly, and all following cameos feature him espousing a love of peace, friendship, and flowers.
** In ''Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF'', [[GalacticConqueror Frieza's]] punishment for his sins was to spend eternity in Hell... stuck in a cocoon and strung from a tree in a happy field of flowers as angels, fairies, and living stuffed animals happily sing, dance, and play around him. He ''hated'' every second of it, and when he confronts the Z-Fighters after his revival, describes it as if it were the most horrible torture ever devised.

** When Tess's friends overhear her breaking the contest rules by giving the Selby students inside information, she gets punished by being forced to spend some time cheerleading, which she is very unenthusiastic about.

* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/34346623/chapters/85463296 Hawkmoth Gets a Reference]]'', Lila call several of Alya's ship[[note]]Adrientte, Julerose, Kimlix, and LadyNoir[[/note]] trash and claims that [=LadyBee=] (Ladybug and Queen Bee) is the superior ship. The frustration causes Alya to be akumatized into the love-powered Shipmaster, who gets back at Lila and Chloe by shipping them... or more accurately making Lila fall in love with Chloe and put them into a makeout frenzy. This ends up {{Deconstructed|Trope}}, as the fallout leaves Lila catatonic and Chloe needing therapy[[note]]Which admittedly did help her realize that her mother was horrible and that she was gay, and later lead to her own redemption arc[[/note]]. And because Hawkmoth has become more compatible and efficient with using the Butterfly Miraculous, Alya remembers everything she did as Shipmaster, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone and is horrified at what she had done]].

* [[https://notalwaysright.com/stretch-the-rules-and-your-librarian-might-snap/ A story on]] ''[[Website/NotAlwaysLearning Not Always Learning]]'' has a librarian shooting rubber bands at students who use cell phones in the library.

* [[https://notalwaysright.com/stretch-the-rules-and-your-librarian-might-snap/ A story on]] ''[[NotAlwaysRight/SisterSites Not Always Learning]]'' has a librarian shooting rubber bands at students who use cell phones in the library.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', the AuthorAvatar threatens the BigBad with lounge music each time he tries to gun down another character that's trying to help him. It works.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'', 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]]''.

* Q was handcuffed to a [[EveryoneHatesMimes mime]] for 24 hours.

* ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'': After realizing that the temple's standard "one day in the repentance chamber" punishment doesn't mix well with Myne's DelicateAndSickly constitution, Ferdinand discovers a punishment that is both much more effective and more considerate of her health: Myne is a ''huge'' {{Bookworm}} and doesn't have any books at home, so all he needs to do is forbid her from accessing the temple's book room.

* French humor website The Daily Béret, a website running fake funny stories (and admitting they are fake) had this gem here: http://www.ledailyberet.fr/2014/10/elle-enferme-son-beau-pere-raciste-dans-une-machine-a-uv/ . The story is about a young woman who received her stepfather's visit. The dude was a huge racist, prejudiced against African people, and after one too many racist comments against her African neighbours, she had enough. So, to teach him a lesson, she locked him into a tanning machine, with the radio station "Africa Number One" for sole company, until his skin had the same color as an African man's. While the story is an admitted fake, it's still a pretty good example of CoolAndUnusualPunishment.

* One kid in the Netherlands thought it would be funny to hack his older brother's Facebook profile. The brother did think about doing the same to him in retaliation, but decided to take a somewhat more creative tack. He [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-DTQPBUJJ4&feature=colike turned his brother's room into a little girl's room]], complete with Franchise/MyLittlePony light switch, Music/JustinBieber posters, a set of girl's rollerblades, ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' novels and a [[BreadEggsMilkSquick vibrator]]. He even replaced the carpet and the furniture! When DisproportionateRetribution meets CoolAndUnusualPunishment the results can be simply epic. Then, a year later, he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWoBXHDeJSY tilted his brother's room 90 degrees]], while admitting that the brother hadn't even done anything bad this time.

* At the beginning of ''Film/SuperTroopers'', [[AmbiguouslyBrown Ramathorn]] and [[NewMeat Rabbit]] pull over a car of young stoners high on marijuana and 'shrooms. As punishment, Ramathorn wants to watch them while they smoke a whole plastic bag of reefer. We are never shown if they end up doing that, as Mac chooses this moment to drive by at high speed on an impounded car. After they catch up with Mac, they come up with a different punishment: Mac pretends to shoot the other cops (he's dressed in civvies) then takes their cruiser for a ride, along with the scared trio of stoners.

'''[[AntiHero Joe Hallenbeck:]]''' Play some rap music.

* Michael Grade is the only controller of the BBC to not be knighted by Queen Elizabeth.It's rumored that the reason is that he hated and cancelled ''Series/DoctorWho'', of which Her Majesty was a huge fan.

* Also, some video game companies thought up creative ways to punish players who pirated copies of their hottest games (this is sometimes preferable to simply making the game not work if its copy protection is broken, as making it harder to tell when the game's been successfully cracked means it takes longer the break the copy protection[[note]]The idea is to slow them down, as most AAA titles make the majority of their sales in the first few months of release[[/note]]):

-->'''Yui Ikari:''' [[ItMakesSenseInContext Not that I'm complaining, but how did you convince]] [[HornyDevils a literal sex demon]] to get me a wardrobe this tasteful?\\

* In ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea|HourOfDarkness}}'', Laharl is physically injured by both optimism and women with sexy bodies. One of his enemies takes advantage of this, attacking with [[HornyDevils Succubi]] who constantly spout phrases like "world peace" and "eternal love". His attack power is cut in half in that level.

** When WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic wants to punish WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick for reviewing non-girly stuff like ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' and ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' ([[BreadEggsMilkSquick and also for chloroforming him]]), he forces her to review the Film/{{Bratz}} movie.

* In ''Did you forget who I am?'' (a ''very'' NSFW ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' fic), Beast Boy and Raven really get loose with his PowerPerversionPotential and her half-demon appetites, half-wrecking up the Titans Tower and nearly killing their teammates. In response, Robin takes a picture of them (clothed, but with obvious marks of their passion), and shares it with all the Titan Network, with the comment that the two are only allowed to have sex now in a very well warded room.

** When Barney loses a slap bet against Marshall, he continuously gets slapped Marshall over and over in several episodes.
** And after losing yet another bet, Barney was forced to wear Marshall's duckie tie for most of the seventh season.

** Another example: 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. (Called "Beasting" in the British Army, and every bit as horrible as the word implies.)

** The royal Military Academy at Sandhurst has a punishment called "Show-clean". this involves cleaning and polishing every issue item in your locker, arranging every item within the locker on the correct shelf or hook as per regulation, and then taking the whole thing to the guardhouse on a hand-truck for inspection. If a single item is out of place or showing even a speck of dirt, everything gets tipped out on the ground regardless of weather, and the hapless cadet officer is instructed to truck it all back to his quarters and do it all over again. And again. And again. Until the duty NCO is satisfied. As NCO instructors at Sandhurst are largely drawn from the Brigade of Guards, who have VERY high standards of presentation, this process may take some time.