History Main / CoolAndUnusualPunishment

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

* ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'': As punishment for being a hypocrite, flirting shamelessly with Ryuuji and calling her out on her height, Taiga makes Ami impersonate 150 people and films everything.

* ''NiNoKuniIIRevenantKingdom'': In the Kingdom of Goldpaw, anyone who aquires a gambling debt that they can't pay gets stuck with a magical black bird called a "Duebill". It follows them around yelling '''"U O ME!"''' at random intervals until they pay off their debt. It's likely that you can be driven mad from this.

-->'''Priest''':[To Norman] My son, you have murdered your fellow man out of lust and envy. For this, you must recite three Hail Marys. But you have also broken numbers 1, 78, and 116 of the Bro Code. For this, you must suffer the grieves of all punishments...Loss of Permanent Shotgun Status!
-->'''Norman''': May God have mercy on my soul, for no bro will.
* During [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment KSI's first visit]] to the ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'', he [[SadistTeacher punished the students]] who did "badly" in his sex-ed class using very ''strange'' methods, including being teleported into space or turned into a chicken to give a practical demonstration of "sexual education". By the end of the class, four of the students had gotten ''killed'' as a result of KSI's punishments.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekNewFrontier'' miniseries ''Turnaround'', Zak Kebron spends the course of two issues showing Romulan Centurion Lucius his family's vacation slides. Lucius takes it for an interrogation technique (and breaks rather quickly), but Kebron claims that he's just "being sociable." By the time Captain Calhoun comes for him, Lucius wishes he'd simply let Kebron crush his head earlier.

* At the end of ''Film/{{Paddington}}'' antagonist Millicent [[spoiler: is sentenced to community service in a petting zoo, which considering her attempted murder throughout the film, is a pretty light punishment, but her horrified reaction drives the trope through in a hilarious way.]]

%% The example of Chief Gant's pipe organ has been removed as it's an example of sound torture, which sadly is entirely mundane.

* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' after [[spoiler: Kakyoin defeats [[EnfantTerrible Mannish Boy]] in a [[DreamLand Dream World]], after they wake up, Kakyoin mixes Mannish Boy’s poop in with his baby food for almost killing him and his friends.]]

-->'''Urd:''' Good, good! Now make a robot [[ArtificialStupidity that does nothing but go around in circles]]!\\

** ''Recap/AsterixInSwitzerland'': There is an orgy centered around a fondue. Lose your bread in the cheese cauldron, get beaten with a stick. Lose it again, [[WhipItGood get whipped]]. Lose a third time, get thrown in the nearby lake with weights on the feet. The orgygoer who keeps losing his piece of bread, Malodorus Caseus, seems almost as delighted as his fellow revellers when he incurs these punishments.

** When it became clear that Team Kimba were no longer fazed by Hawthorne, Headmistress Carson instead gives them personalized assignments which were meant to be as humiliating as possible: nature-loving Fey was sent to work in the sewers, ultra-foodie Phase was given scut work in the school cafeteria, Lancer was assigned to be the Home Ec teacher's TA, etc.

** 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/AMonsterInParis'' uses this for the ultimate fate of the villain, [[spoiler: Maynott, for trying to murder Francœr - locked in a cell with a pair of bad singers.]]
** [[spoiler: A pair of bad singers [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard he threw in jail]], no less]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'', Mr. Krabs tortures Plankton by... [[spoiler: getting [=SpongeBob=] to laugh at a knock-knock joke. Hard.]]

!!Examples:

* ''WebAnimation/YouTubePoop'': In [=DinnerWarrior=]'s "Link Discovers Ganon's Least Favorite Color", Link assumes he's going to be fired for headbutting King Harkinian, and he ''is'' fired... [[LiteralMetaphor into space]].

* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' after [[spoiler: Kakyoin defeats [[Main/EnfantTerrible Mannish Boy]] in a [[Main/DreamLand Dream World]], after they wake up, Kakyoin mixes Mannish Boy’s poop in with his baby food for almost killing him and his friends.]]

* The radio series of ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' first introduced [[BrownNote Vogon poetry]] being used by Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz to torture Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect after he caught them hitchhiking. For the audience's sake only short bits of it are heard between the screaming and the Guide's explanation.

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'': When you are arrested in the ''Shivering Isles'', the realm in which the eponymous expansion takes place, you get the usual options of paying a fine or going to jail. Going to jail, however, places you in a dungeon, along with a box of weapons. While you could simply serve your sentence, you are encouraged to go on a dangerous [[DungeonCrawling Dungeon Crawl]] without your standard inventory in order to earn your freedom.

* 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 [[SuccubiAndIncubi Succubi]] who constantly spout phrases like "world peace" and "eternal love". His attack power is cut in half in that level.

* [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDIGames Zelda CDI]]: "After you've scrubbed all the floors in Hyrule, then we can talk about mercy!" Although likely unintentional, this particular punishment could be far more severe than it sounds, as Hyrule has several monster-infested dungeons, trying to scrub the floors of which would be an assured death to anyone who is not a legendary hero.

* In ''WebComic/{{Savestate}}'', Kade makes Nicole play ''VideoGame/{{Superman 64}}'' in [[NintendoHard hard mode]] [[http://www.savestatecomic.com/2014/05/revenge/ for posting an embarrassing video of him]] on Website/YouTube.

* ''WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum'': agents who break the rules are forced to watch the dreaded [[FanDisservice No-Drool Videos]]. The exact content is unknown, but it has been said to involve the Librarian of Literature/{{Discworld}}, who is a 300-pound orangutan, and YaoiFangirls are shown the adventures of a lesbian ParodySue (the lesbian sex in itself isn't the problem so much as the Sue being there}. Also, agents are not allowed to physically harm canon characters, so revenge upon a canon character for attacking an agent has on at least one occasion consisted of forcing him to participate in MSTing a Bad SlashFic starring himself. The PPC also has a department dedicated to this, appropriately called the Department of Cool and Unusual Punishment.

[[folder:Western Animation]]
* The Snorch on ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'' deals these out to students who break the rules or otherwise get on the bad side of The Gromble, including being forced to walk through a field of flowers or listen to {{opera}}.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'', [[OurOgresAreHungrier Toadwart]] warns Tummi that if he doesn't do what he says, he'll resort to the deluxe torture plan.
-->'''Toadwart:''' You'll be forced to listen to a medley of popular folk tunes sung by Gad and Zook.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': in the episode "In Country... Club", Roger wants the code to the Pay-per-view channel. When Stan won't give it to him, Roger kidnaps Stan during a UsefulNotes/VietnamWar reenactment and tortures him by reading the first draft of the ''Film/SexAndTheCity'' film. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking This was after]] he had already subjected him to a genuinely brutal beatdown.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' feature-length ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'', the Warner kids are sent through The Cave of Your Worst Nightmares, which contains horrors they endured in episodes of the TV show: "Baloney" the Dinosaur, a filthy gas station bathroom, and Creator/JerryLewis [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed look-alike]] Mr. Director.
** In the episode where they end up in [[GoshDangItToHeck Hades]], the Devil prepares to throw them in a room containing "unspeakable torment": listening to "whiny {{protest song}}s from TheSixties" for all eternity. The Warners scream in terror and throw the Devil in the room.
** The Warners themselves tend to be this on people.
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In "Mother Daughter Laser Razor", Logan and Louise are punished for disrupting the mother-daughter seminar. Their punishment is to be locked in a closet called the "Ute-room" and forced to watch a loop of ''Film/FreakyFriday1976'' until they promise to get along and behave.
* One torture session on ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'': While Buzz is going through a FakedRipVanWinkle, Zurg has his three comrades captive. Booster, TheBigGuy, is in a cell with bouncy walls that all his strength can't break. X-R, the versatile robot, has his extendable limbs in shackles, extending them out as far as they will go, so he can't really do anything. And Mira, who can [[IntangibleMan phase through solid matter simply by concentrating]], is in a cell rigged to burst into a cacaphony of light and sound whenever she tries to use her powers. The perfect torture... except, well, Booster is having a ball bouncing around in his cage, and the shackles work better for X-R than any chiropractor could have. As for Mira? Well, okay, maybe it's a little annoying, but it's hardly ''torture''. Zurg starts yelling at the underlings who cooked up this cockamamie scheme.
** Mira's torture was ''supposed'' to be that she was ForcedToWatch as her teammates were tortured powerless to do anything, but since they're having great time she was just bored.
** Near the end of the episode, these tortures start to set in for them. Booster is getting motion sickness while unable to stop bouncing around and XR is starting to actually reach his breaking point.
* In one rather memorable episode of ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'', the Legion of Doom stole a powerful matter transmuting device, but in the process, most of them abandoned Cheetah, Sinestro, and Black Manta in order to escape with it, leaving them to be captured by the heroes. As can be expected, those three were ''very angry'' at their teammates when they escaped, and decided to teach them a lesson by commandeering the device and using it to play billiards, with ''them'' as the balls.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''
** In "Operation U.N.C.O.O.L." had a part where Numbuh 2 asks one of the nerds what he's done with the other operatives- we then see those operatives strapped to a chair forced to watch a ''Series/DoctorWho''-like show called "Dr. Spacetime and The Continuums" with the nerds.
--->'''Numbuh 5''': Turn it off! In the name of all that's pure ''TURN IT OFF!''
** This, along with the opening credits of the episode "Operation: A.M.I.S.H.", seems to imply that the creators don't really like the show.
** In "Operation: B.R.E.A.K.-U.P.", Numbuh Four's mother tells him that if he breaks one more vase, she will send him to a place even worse than military school: ''ballroom dancing school''.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheDatingGuy,'' Woody tries to get information out of VJ by tying him to a chair and telling him the entire plot to ''Series/GilmoreGirls.'' VJ automatically cracks.
* A bit from an episode of ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'', where the punishment is the only one available, may well be a {{Homage}} to ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'':
-->'''Captain:''' "Men! Tie 'em to the yardarm!" \\
'''Mister Mate:''' "We ain't got a yardarm, cap'n, I ate it last week." \\
'''Captain:''' "Well what 'ave we got?" \\
'''Mister Mate:''' "We've got a comfy sofa..." \\
'''Captain:''' "I can't say, 'tie 'em to the comfy sofa!'" \\
'''Mister Mate:''' "It's all that's left, cap'n." \\
'''Captain:''' "Oh, all right. Tie 'em to the... comfy sofa!"
** In one episode, Duckula threatens Nanny and Igor to accompany him on a carnival ride by threatening to start singing.
* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''
** In one episode, Megavolt tried to think up some way to torture his prisoners, one of them was "Make them watch Game Shows".
** One of [[VillainousHarlequin Quackerjack's]] sinister toys is the Mr. History doll, who just sprouts random historic facts with the intention of boring you to death.
--->'''Quackerjack:''' Get ready for the UsefulNotes/IndustrialRevolution!
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': In the episode "The Old Switcharooms" Dexter's father makes him and Dee Dee stay in each other's rooms as punishment for running into him (causing his bowling trophy to break). Later Dad confines Dexter to the doghouse, leaving him to worry about the fate of his lab.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}'' the dungeon in Dreamland's castle is equipped with conventional torture equipment such as thumb screws and racks, but also a particularly dreaded book of golf jokes.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DragonHunters'' episode 32, an old man is interrogated by ''threatening him with [[{{Spoiler}} book spoilers]]''.
* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'',
** When Captain Hero and Spanky Ham are caught cheating in an Indian casino, the owners, after torturing them (spoofing the film "Casino") threaten that if the two ever return, they will "show them just how bad an Indian burn can be". They then perform a simple Indian burn in the air while laughing maniacally, while Hero and Spanky scream in fright.
** In another episode, when Pikachu knock-off/Japanese stereotype Ling-Ling refuses to give into an extortionist's demands, he threatens to send his accomplice over to Ling-Ling's house and have him walk around [[UsefulNotes/InsideShoes without taking off his shoes]].
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'':
** In "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E56DuckmanOfAquatraz Duckman of Aquatraz]]", when Glomgold gets caught framing Scrooge, the judge orders him to always keep a portrait of the world's richest duck in his house. Thus, [[AlwaysSecondBest Glomgold]] has to put up with [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter Scrooge]] grinning down at him constantly.
** Scrooge once recounted how a police officer was sentenced to 30 days wearing skirts for arresting him for wearing a skirt simply because he was wearing a kilt. (Scrooge lucked out: the judge was also a guy who wore a kilt; he wasn't amused.)
** In the episode where Magica and the Beagle Boys infiltrate Scrooge's mansion, a tied up Burger Beagle (shape-shifted as Huey) gets his glamour spell undone. Scrooge demands where Huey is, and Burger refuses to talk, so Scrooge threatens him with no supper, making him crack.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'' features the titular detective strapping his partner Cornfed into ''Film/AClockworkOrange''-type forced-viewing setup, and airing a slide show.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'',
** Related: In one episode, Timmy comes into contact with the Yugopotamians, "sadistic" aliens who become recurring characters; at one point, he must brave their "horrifying trials" to save the Earth. These include skipping through a field of flowers, hugging a teddy bear, and "eating the dreaded chocolate".
** Later in the episode, when they start to forget his "impressive feats" and renege on what he blackmailed them into doing, he leans around a doorway and menacingly eats a flower, immediately terrifying them back into compliance.
** Subverted when Timmy blithely accepts a challenge from a Yugopotamian, expecting more chocolate-eating and suchlike. [[TheNotSoHarmlessPunishment He's unpleasantly surprised to find he accepted a gladiatorial death match.]] He wins by firing pillows at his opponent and choosing an [[SickeninglySweet unnaturally cheerful]] day-care center as his combat arena.
** Another episode had Timmy freeing the town mascot, Chompy the Goat, from captivity and Vicky getting blamed for it. She is locked in a stockade and given 'an extremely bad hair day until she talks' in the form of a balloon being rubbed against her hair to make it puffy.
** In ''Channel Chasers'', Timmy's mom mentioned that she punished him by making him eat chocolate. Then she says that, in hindsight, it wasn't a good punishment.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** In the episode "The Former Life of Brian," Dylan, Brian's human son [[MST3KMantra who is older than Brian]], makes Meg watch the 178 hours of Creator/MontyPython that weren't funny or memorable. To which Meg shouts, "I'm a ''girl''! I don't even like the ''good'' Monty Python jokes!"
** Another episode ends with Cleveland and Quagmire tied up in the basement of a building, forced to watch the [=DirectTV=] Help Channel on a continuous loop.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantomcat}}'', whenever [[MinionWithAnFInEvil Vile]] screwed up, [[BadBoss Marmagora]] would feed him to her pet ManEatingPlant, Gloria.
* In ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters'', the BigBad Prime Evil seemed to be ''very'' good at thinking up creative ways to punish his minions when they messed up. For example, in the FiveEpisodePilot, he sent the mummy Airhead and Apparatia on one of the missions, but the heroes beat them after filling Airhead with air until he exploded. So Prime Evil simply made Apparatia sew him back together. (Neither an easy or pleasant job, definitely.)
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'':
** In the origin episode, the villain (voiced by Ricardo Montalban in a spoof of his role as Khan in ''Franchise/StarTrek'') tries to coerce Dexter and Roddy [=McStew=] by revealing that he has kidnapped Dexter's family and is threatening to show them a videotape of "The Best of Marty Ingels", to which a horrified Roddy responds, "What kind of sadistic creature are you!?"
** And the episode "Hotrods from Heck", one of the titular hot rods blows himself up rather then endure 7 hours of Creator/TonyDanza.
** In another ep, Freakazoid gives a speeder a ticket...to ''Series/TheJerrySpringerShow''. After seeing the speeder's horrified reaction, he decides to just give him a warning.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
** In "Space Pilot 3000", Fry learns that anyone who refuses the job assignment programmed into their career chip gets [[TheNotSoHarmlessPunishment fired]]. [[EscalatingPunchline From a cannon]]. ''[[HurlItIntoTheSun Into the sun.]]''
** The episode "Amazon Women in the Mood" brings us "Death By [[OutWithABang Snu Snu]]".
--->'''Fry:''' (''sombre expression'') I never thought I'd die this way...(''suddenly smiles'')...but I'd always really hoped.
** In "Hell is Other Robots", Bender is subject to many such punishments for his sins in Robot Hell. These include his hard drive being used as a turn table by the Music/BeastieBoys for illegally copying their music or being turned into a giant cigar for his smoking habit. But the worst part for Bender is the ''up-tempo singing and dancing''.
** Still, "Calculon 2.0" shows that the Robot Devil has [[EvenEvilHasStandards standards]]. Even the damned don't deserve to listen to [[LargeHam Calculon]] ChewingTheScenery.
** "The Late Phillip. J Fry" states that in the year 1,000,000 & 1/2, mankind's ultimate punishment will be enslavement by giraffes.
--->'''Song:''' ''Man will pay, for all his misdeeds''\\
''When the treetops are stripped of their leaves! Whoa-oh-oh!''
* This precious gem from the first Aloysius Pig episode of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'':
--> "You clean your room first, then maybe you can be in charge. Bossing people around. I don't know where you'd get that!"
* Prior to the formation of Music/{{Gorillaz}}, Murdoc and 2D had a horribly twisted MeetCute when Murdoc ram-raided the keyboard shop 2D worked at, hit 2D with the car, and put him into a [[DudeShesLikeInAComa coma]]. Instead of jail, Murdoc was sentenced to thirty thousand hours (a total of about three years) of community service, plus ten hours a week of watching the unconscious 2D. Semi-logical, but if you needed proof that theirs is a CrapsackWorld, remember this is [[JerkAss Murdoc Niccals]] we're talking about.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' and ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' crossover has Mandy inflicting one of the [[ColdBloodedTorture most horrifying tortures known to man]] on Numbuh 1...making him watch Fred Fredburger act weird and spout non sequiturs. For hours. He's screaming "MAKE IT STOP!" by the end.
* In mainstream ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', Grim's punishment for abandoning senior citizens in the woods is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYiFbobLK5E fifty hours of]] ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYiFbobLK5E dancing]]''.
** Also, in the half-hour special, "Keeper of the Reaper," the judge orders Billy and Mandy to stop acting out in the courtroom, "or so help me, I'll make you sit in the chocolate pudding chair! The stains will '''''never''''' come out of your clothes!"
* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'': When the Joker captures Harley's crew at the end of Season 1, he tortures the notoriously misogynistic Dr Psycho by strapping him to a chair and forcing him to watch videos of feminist rallies.
* In ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget2015'', most episodes typically end with Dr. Claw punishing his nephew/Number Two henchman Talon in a way tailored to whatever plan MAD was enacting. Some of these punishments are hilariously non-threatening (e.g. selling Dr. Claw's polish lotion door-to-door).
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'',
** In "A Room With a Moose." Zim cackles over his latest diabolical plan, which will force Dib and his classmates into a pocket dimension consisting of only a room... a room... with a moose! When Dib doesn't see what's so horrible about that, the camera focuses on the moose, chewing on some walnuts... and Dib screams in terror. [[TakeOurWordForIt We never see why]]. [[spoiler: Though it's implied that the walnuts are a placeholder for the school bus, meaning that when the bus containing Dib and his classmates arrive in the moose's pocket dimension, they'll suffer the same fate as the walnuts... As in, they'll be eaten alive!]]
** The episode "FBI Warning of Doom" features this [[FreezeFrameBonus blink-and-you'll-miss-it explanation]] of what happens to those who perform copyright infringement: "They will hunt you down like the dirty monkey you are and force you to wear a moose skin and ride a greased piggy while singing folk tunes. They're forcing me to ride the piggy as I write this. The Piggy is Smelly!!"
* In the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' movie ''So the Drama'' we get a look at one of Drakken's proposed master plans. Which has one of his mooks subjected to a set that looks an awful lot like the "It's a Small World" ride. He decides it's too much.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', when a thief is arrested for trying to steal Hank's truck, the very creative judge sentences him to ''live'' in a truck, reasoning that if he goes to jail, he'll just learn how to be a better thief. Hank actually admires the judge for having some common sense.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'',
** In "Early To Bet". The gamble-holic cat is subjected to a Wheel o' Punishment chock full of these sorts of things whenever he loses to the dog. "No! Not that! Not the Geshundteit!" Eventually, the dog refuses to play with him, because he's afraid the cat will get hurt.
** Before "Early To Bet" was "It's Hummer Time", where the punishments are just randomly meted out to the cat when it upsets the dog while trying to pursue a hummingbird. "No! NOT HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"
** In "From Hare to Heir", Sam applies the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "nose in the book"]] punishment to his accountant for failing to keep the books balanced.
* ''WesternAnimation/MegaManRubySpears'': "Electric Nightmare" had Roll strapped to a chair, where she received... a bad facial.
* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseworks'': In one cartoon, Mickey and Minnie find themselves in a place called Topsy Turvy Town [[BizarroWorld where everyone does the opposite]]. They are arrested (long story) and put in prison, where they find that their "punishment" is rest and relaxation on a beach.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'': In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986'', the evil witch Hydia tortures her daughters Reeka and Draggle into confessing why the Smooze was stopped by forcing them to eat ice cream. Under normal circumstances, the witches ate sandwiches made with live bats and other disgusting things. In "The End of Flutter Valley", she punishes them for another failure by making them eat doughnuts.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** When a [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide batshit crazy]] [[ArtifactOfDoom Alicorn-Amulet-Powered]] Trixie shows up for revenge, she does everything from manipulating age to [[WipeThatSmileOffYourFace removing Pinkie Pie's mouth]]. Then she puts Rarity in a horrible dress, ''which literally reduces her to tears''.
** Another earlier example in "The Last Roundup": When Applejack started working at a cherry farm and won't tell the others why she won't return, they decide to send Pinkie Pie in to ramble on and on about random topics until Applejack finally caves in.
** In "The Cutie Re-Mark Part 2", for nearly destroying the world with a time travel revenge plot, Starlight Glimmer's ultimate sentence... is becoming Twilight Sparkle's student and being friends with the Mane Six.
** In "Gauntlet of Fire", Spike sentences [[{{Jerkass}} Garble]] to return home... and to hug every dragon he meets on the way back, without explaining why.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode "Gettin' Twiggy With It", [[TheBully Mitch]] is allowed to take Twiggy, the class pet hamster, home, only to cruelly torture her; later, after an accident involving radioactive waste (after Mitch flushes her) causes Twiggy to grow to giant size, Mitch is punished at school by having to run in a giant hamster wheel with Twiggy chasing him. (A lenient punishment, seeing as the Girls were originally [[PayEvilUntoEvil going to let Twiggy]] ''[[PayEvilUntoEvil eat]]'' [[PayEvilUntoEvil him.]])
** Princess Morbucks receives one of the most harshest, yet well-deserved versions of this trope in "The Fight before Christmas" when her plan to change the Naughty and Nice lists is revealed to Santa Claus after she has a VillainousBreakdown in front of him and the girls, leading Santa to angrily place her on the "'''Permanent''' Naughty Plaque", before taking away the superpowers he gave her for Christmas earlier.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' entitled "The Box", the character T.J. is forced to stand in a box painted on the ground. Everyone else is told to ignore him or be punished likewise. He goes Partially insane by the end of recess until he realizes it's just a line painted on the ground.
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken:''
** In the season one finale, the Bloopers host is chained up in a dungeon and his captor tells him that he will soon be free....[[BaitAndSwitch to watch their movies on demand service.]] The host is okay with that, until the captor reveals that the only movie they have on demand is ''Film/ChristmasWithTheKranks.'' Cue BigNo.
** One sketch shows [[Film/FirstBlood Rambo]] captured by two Asian soldiers who do a number of odd forms of torture on him, including reading ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' to him, making him play "ET The Video Game", and making him watch "Two Girls, One Cup."
* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'':
** In a "Bullwinkle's Corner" segment, Bullwinkle does the "Queen of Hearts" poem, where he's the king, Rocky is the queen, and Boris is the knave who steals the tarts Rocky made. They were turnip tarts, so when Boris promises he'll steal no more, Bullwinkle says, "You don't get off that easy. You stole them, friend, you eat 'em!" With that, he shoves a turnip tart into Boris' mouth, and Boris looks sick.
** Boris and Natasha did this a lot too. In one episode, Natasha made Bullwinkle talk by having Boris tie him up and then eating a ''huge'' sundae in front of him. (It was torture for Boris too, given his reaction.)
* In ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', Spunky is sent to the pound for not having his collar (after another, tougher dog took it off him). Rocko goes to rescue Spunky, and is mistaken for a dog. The other dogs in the pound tell Rocko about the conditions they are forced to endure, one of which is being subjected to repeats of a syrupy cartoon called "Mervin the Happy Cat". (one of the dogs even pleads, "Somebody neuter me!" as the show starts up again). This inspires Rocko to run for the position of dog catcher of O-town. [[spoiler:He loses the election but wins the war; the plight of the dogs gets noticed and an ordinance is passed to treat them much better, leaving the position of dog catcher nothing more than a "glorified pooper-scooper".]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'',
** Not only is Salem turned into a cat like usual in this version, but also Sabrina's aunts are de-aged into teenagers, and (because they aren't legal adults in the mortal world) are forced to attend high school and share a house with their "legal guardian" Uncle Quigley -- despite [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld actually being hundreds of years old]]. Somehow this is a dreadful punishment for witches.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E5TreehouseOfHorrorIV Treehouse of Horror IV]]", when Homer sells his soul for a donut, the Devil (Flanders) agrees to Marge's insistence of a trial to determine who owns his soul, but he must remain in Hell until the trial begins. Homer's punishment while he waits is to be [[IronicHell forced to eat donuts without rest]]. He promptly eats and eats and his torturer remarks that nobody has ever lasted so long.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E3HomersOdyssey Homer's Odyssey]]", Ms. Krabapple punished Bart for acting out on the bus by making him sing in front of everyone. (Bart asked if he could choose the song, but she refused, saying it would be "John Henry Was a Steel Drivin' Man".) This turns out to be an {{Unishment}}, because Bart can actually sing it pretty well.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E10TheSpringfieldFiles The Springfield Files]]", Bart finishes a campfire horror story with the line "...and that's how much college is going to cost for Maggie." Homer's rightfully horrified.
** From "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E11MargeBeNotProud Marge Be Not Proud]]", it shows that Homer's not very good at coming up with punishments himself:
--->"I've figured out the boy's punishment. First, he's grounded. No leaving the house, not even for school. Second, [[DeniedFoodAsPunishment no egg nog. In fact, no nog, period.]] And third, absolutely no stealing for three months."
** Most of Principal Skinner's Vietnam memories are legitimately horrifying, but one of them actually does fit this trope:
--->'''Skinner:''' I spent the next three years in a POW camp, forced to subsist on a thin stew of fish, vegetables, prawns, coconut milk, and four kinds of rice. I came close to ''madness'' trying to find it here in the States, but they just can't get the spices right.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E8TakeMyWifeSleaze Take My Wife, Sleaze]]", the Hell's Satans take offense at Homer using their name; so they barge into his house, and make him ''eat'' his biker jacket.
* In the Jetlag Productions version of ''Snow White'', the Queen has a temper tantrum upon learning Snow White is still alive after a third attempt to kill her. She shatters all her mirrors, but when she throws a hand mirror towards her MagicMirror, she's horrified when the hand mirror simply goes into it and disappears. The voice in the mirror starts mocking her for her petty jealousy and then sucks her in, stating she will never again see her own face. The Queen is last seen banging on the other side of the glass before disappearing.
* Kaos punishes Glumshanks in ''WesternAnimation/SkylandersAcademy'' by making him wait in line at the DMV with him.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'', "Spyhog", Snively tortures Antoine by offending his refined tastes in food: using too much batter for a crepe suzette, and using margarine for escargot.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** When the Feds workers are trying to force information out of the boys in "[[Recap/SouthParkS3E13StarvinMarvinInSpace Starvin Marvin in Space]]" they do so by... Having one worker rub his hand against a balloon to make a noise that is apparently hard on the ears. Cartman eventually cracks.
** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E12MechaStreisand Mecha Streisand]]", Barbara Streisand's singing is so torturous to the boys, it causes one of them to tell her where he hid a small artifact [[note]]the Triangle of Zinthar, which can turn her into a Kaiju[[/note]] he took from Kyle.
** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS8E13CartmansIncredibleGift Cartman's Incredible Gift]]", Cartman is captured by the [[SerialKiller "left-hand killer"]] and forced to watch slides of vacation photos.
** UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad actually likes Hell]]. So how does {{Satan}} get rid of him? He asks God to let him into Heaven. The [[spoiler:Mormon]] residents are so nice it's a FateWorseThanDeath for him.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SpacePOP'', Tibbitt tortures the girls' parents with audio of Geela's awful singing.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarePants'':
** One episode, [=SpongeBob=] is dragged through a field of giant clams, cheese graters, and finally, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Educational Television!]]
** In another episode, Spongebob and Patrick have only one means of escaping the Flying Dutchman's dastardly clutches... they must run through the dreaded ''perfume department!'' Though admittedly they ''did'' get sprayed in the eyes a time or two. That's gotta sting.
** In the episode Krabby Land, Mr. Krabs being forcefully fed lima beans as a result of the trouble he gave to the children, letting out a BigNo in the process.
** And in the episode Patty Caper, [[ForcedToWatch Mr. Krabs is made to watch Krabby Patties get sold for free]] [[LaserGuidedKarma for stealing his own secret ingredient all because he wanted to save $1.99]].
** Sandy threatens [=SpongeBob=] with a drop of BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce to the tongue. That ''[[BigLippedAlligatorMoment talks]]''.
---> "By the powers of naughtiness, I command this particular drop of hot sauce to be really, ''really'' hot!"
** When Spongebob and Squidward think Mr. Krabs is a robot, they read a book called "How to Torture" and then gather some rope, tools and comedy records.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SushiPack,'' the leader of the Legion of Low Tide threatens one of his minions to break off a friendship with a member of the Pack under penalty of the worst punishment there is -- ridicule. The other members procede to tease her until she begs them to stop.
* ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'', Don Carnage's favorite tool for torturing people was a clawed glove... ''which he would use to scratch a chalkboard''. This, in turn, is a reference to a scene in ''Film/ThePinkPantherStrikesAgain''. The former Chief Inspector Dreyfuss straps his victim to a chair in... the schoolroom... stuffs cotton in his ears, and utilizes the aforementioned clawed gauntlet. In what is obviously an intentional audio gaffe, the victim of the torture is heard screaming but the sound of the claw on the chalkboard is not.
* The 1964 ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoon "Much Ado About Mousing" had Jerry under the protection of an unnamed bulldog. Rather than [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating up Tom]] (as Spike did in the Golden Age cartoons), this dog would roll Tom up into a bowling ball and send him hurtling through garbage cans into water. This happens to Tom [[RunningGag at least three times]] in the cartoon.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama''
** One episode featured the contestants being tortured in various off-kilter ways, including eating ice cream until you get brain freeze.
** Not to mention the punishments Mal gave to Mike's alternate personalities...
* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' Starscream punishes Knockout for his failure, by putting a huge scratch in his finish. It seems like this trope at first... [[FridgeHorror until you realize that Starscream has effectively mutilated Knockout's skin!]]
* In ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'', the Trapster attacks a school play of Spider-Man, traps Flash Thompson who he thought was Spider-Man, then is subdued by the real Spider-Man and forced to listen to Flash's horrible singing till the police arrive.
* The ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' version of the story of Esther replaces capital punishment with something more suitable for the target audience: [[TickleTorture banishment to the Island of Perpetual Tickling]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', the inmates of Light Rock are subjected to [[SickeninglySweet cute animals, happy music and nice environment]] non-stop until they reform. Only the Trix resisted more than a couple months (instead becoming more evil as revenge), but when the guards recaptured them they were ''terrified'' of returning there.
* WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker has an example: In the end of the short ''Ace in the Hole'' after Woody ejects himself and the general who is chasing him a plane, all but completely crippling the general of the military airport Woody was working for at the time from the fall, he is forced to tediously shave all of the hair off of a very, very long line of horses, one by one.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheWorldOfDavidTheGnome'': In the wedding episode, the trolls try to crash said wedding, but the gnomes escape. One of the more dim-witted trolls, Pat, then falls into a pit trap and refuses to tell the gnomes who was behind the party-crashing. David then declares that Pat has decided to stay behind and get an education, to which the other gnomes agree and start listing off the subjects he'll learn, good manners included. Pat starts pleading for mercy and that he'd "rather die" after Lisa mentions he'll graduate with flying colors. After she says she'll teach him to wash with rose-scented soap, he's ready to talk.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/YogisTreasureHunt'' episode "Yogi's Heroes," Dick Dastardly and Muttley capture Snooper and Blabber and torture them by making them watch episodes of ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines''.
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* The Russians' execution of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Dmitriy_I first Impersonator of Dmitriy.]] They shot and burned him, put the ashes in a canister, put the canister in a cannon, and shot the canister towards Poland.
* After UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte had been defeated in the Battle of Laon, the victors exiled him to the island of Elba. They gave him sovereignty of the island and its inhabitants. They couldn't match Napoleon's cool, though, given that he escaped while they were distracted. It was a meaningless island with barely working infrastructure. A few months under Napoleon's governorship, and the island was running like clockwork. It was at this point he got bored again and thought about taking back France.
* There was a judge known for his unusual sentencing, among the examples:
** Forcing a man to stand on a street corner with a pig, holding a sign that says "This is not a police officer" after evading arrest and calling a cop a pig.
*** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cicconetti Michael Cicconetti]] from Painsville, OH. Other highlights: sentencing a woman who abandoned kittens in a forest to spend a night in the woods alone with no food and only the clothes on her back, sentencing a man who stole from a Salvation Army kettle to spend 24 hours homeless, and man who stole pornography was sentenced to standing outside the shop blindfolded and holding a sign saying "See no evil".
** Similarly, a Denver man who got caught using a dummy to sneak into the high occupancy vehicle lane on the highway was sentenced to stand by the road with a sign saying "The HOV Lane Is Not For Dummies."
** Another set of youths had to read classic lit., and write book reports.
** Sounds like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Poe Ted Poe]], who now represents TX-2 in Congress. He loved doing that kind of thing.
* According to [[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/world/asia/07cnd-thai.html this article]], police officers in Bangkok may be punished for minor infractions by being forced to wear a Franchise/HelloKitty armband.
* Rumors have circulated that when Saddam Hussein was detained by the US military, he was forced to watch the scenes from ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'' showing him as Satan's gay lover. Over and over again.
* Antanas [[MeaningfulName Mockus]], mayor of Bogota, Colombia, hired 420 mimes to curb traffic violations by ridiculing jaywalkers and reckless drivers, and encouraging other pedestrians to do the same. And it ''worked''.
* Legal humour blog ''Lowering the Bar'' categorises these incidents as "[[http://www.loweringthebar.net/category/creative-sentencing Creative Sentencing]]". For instance:
** [[http://www.loweringthebar.net/2007/09/violators-of-no.html Noise Ordinance Violators Sentenced to Easy Listening]]
** [[http://www.loweringthebar.net/2015/07/judge-orders-defendant-to-draw-him.html Aspiring artist allowed to post bail for illegal drug use if he comes to court for three days to draw lawyers]]
** [[http://www.loweringthebar.net/2006/07/judge_tells_con.html Convicted vandals sentenced to trash their own cars]]
** [[http://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/05/judge-wearing-handcuffs.html Corrupt justice on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered to send a handwritten apology letter and a picture of herself in handcuffs to every judge in the state]] (in addition to fines, house arrest, and volunteer work) for using her judicial staff to help her campaign for reelection. The requirement to send the photo of her in handcuffs was removed on appeal as serving "no legitimate rehabilitative or corrective purpose", but the rest was upheld (including hand-writing every single one of the 500+ apology letters).
* Courts in UsefulNotes/{{Singapore}} are ''big'' on punishing criminals by embarrassing them. For example, they often sentence someone to community service, picking up trash while wearing a sign on his chest describing the crime he comitted. Considering Singapore's draconian laws against littering, picking up enough trash to fill the quota might...take a while. Not to mention that corporal punishment for some crimes is legal there (and the subject of controversy).
* Ever been to (or heard of) Arlington National Cemetery? That's one huge example of this trope. Union Quartermaster-General Montgomery C. Meigs was asked to find a new place to bury the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Civil War]] dead. What did he do? He chose the house and property of the man he felt was responsible, Confederate General and Virginian Robert E. Lee. (We should note there was no shortage of bad blood between Meigs and Lee, as each regarded the other as a traitor: Meigs, a Georgian who remained loyal to the Union, saw Lee as a traitor for rebelling against his homeland, the United States, while Lee, a Virginian first and foremost, saw Meigs as a traitor for abandoning his homeland, the State of Georgia.) It gets even better though, when Meigs' son was killed in battle he buried him in Mrs. Lee's flower bed. Oh the delicious irony.
* The small town of Mason, Texas had a problem with the influx of prisoners to its tiny jail. The sheriff's solution? Deter re-offenders by painting the inside of the jail pink and forcing the prisoners to wear pink jumpsuits and making them eat bologna sandwiches for breakfast, lunch and dinner. (Apparently, [[http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/10/national/main2077390.shtml it worked.]])
* In Ohio, if one is convicted of a DUI, they're required to place ''bright'' yellow license plates with red lettering, known as "party plates", on their vehicle in order to drive. Not only is it [[MarkOfShame embarrassing]]--and a reminder every time the offender looks at their car--but it's a proverbial red flag to other drivers: they know to be more cautious around that vehicle.
** Gallagher used to have a joke like that, saying that drivers should carry toy guns that shoot suction cup darts for when they see another driver being a jerk; and that when a car gets four darts, the other drivers can pull him over and each take a tire.
* In Valley Falls, NY, [[http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=846181 a vandal who tore down and burned an American flag belonging to the local VFW post]] for refusing to serve him beer at their bar without ID was given a choice: either the VFW could call the cops and press vandalism charges (probably worth a couple weeks jail, since such a politically charged crime is guaranteed to earn its maximum allowable sentence), or he could accept being duct-taped to the flagpole for six hours while wearing a humiliating sign, [[TakeAThirdOption or]] fight a veteran in a one-on-one battle. Needless to say, he [[Series/LetsMakeADeal picked Door #2]].
* You also have some of the more minor ones that drive people insane. One shown by the movie ''Film/TheMenWhoStareAtGoats'' is a flickering light. Lock someone in a room with it and most people will go insane, especially if it is at a slow random pace, like Chinese water torture. The playing of a kiddy song over and over was just plain cruel. An especially interesting one as well is not allowing someone to go into deep sleep, so even though they slip out of consciousness, when you wake them up to interrupt them they don't feel like they've slept at all. Although after a few days they start hallucinating and go batshit insane but it's better than some of the other ways.
** The No Sleep one was used on [[spoiler:Cersei Lannister]] in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' to make them confess their sins. It worked.
* Two old men in Britain were convicted of making the lives of everyone nearby a misery with their endless feuding. The judge ordered them to be handcuffed together for 12 hours per day. They became fast friends, since the alternative was unthinkable.
* The above example may have been inspired by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrew%27s_fiddle the two-man version of the shrew's fiddle called a "double fiddle"]], a torture device used in medieval Germany and Austria. If two people were arguing excessively over something trivial, a judge could order them both put in this device facing each other, forcing them to talk to each other (and likely be laughed at by everyone in the town) until the argument was resolved.
* Punishments involving music:
** Hear a story once, where people were playing loud rap music in a dorm. It was keeping people in the next room awake, so what did they do? If you guessed blasted classical music through the walls back to them, then you're today's winner!
** An episode of ''Magazine/NickelodeonMagazine'' had an article about a judge whose punishment for teens blasting rap music in public places was to put them in a room and force them to listen to Beethoven for several hours. (Maybe he was a fan of ''Film/AClockworkOrange''.)
** In a similar vein, there was a story about two students in a dorm who got into a loudness war with their sound systems. Every night, one would turn up his rock, the other would turn up his rap, until it was impossible to hear anything on the floor. It stopped when one student down the hall, sick of the noise, woke them up at 8AM with a 2-stroke chainsaw revving at full volume outside their doors.
** The Creator/MontyPython song ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbRyH6fkee0 I Like Traffic Lights]]'' [[note]]Listen. If you can.[[/note]] has been used, on a repeating loop, for exactly the same reasons, as has Music/PinkFloyd's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o2sA0vpA-4 Interstellar Overdrive]]''[[note]]For those unfamiliar with the piece, it is an ''experimental'' work which consists of nearly ten minutes of a theme struggling to emerge, but not quite getting there - it's also notable for a disorienting GratuitousPanning section in the stereo mix, where the music keeps jumping back and forth between the left and right speakers[[/note]].
** In 1989, a United States Delta Force team cornered Panama dictator Manuel Noriega in the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See, the diplomatic quarters of Vatican City. Since they couldn't go in and get him, they instead enacted a campaign of psychological warfare known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nifty_Package Operation Nifty Package]], which including blaring loud rock music until the Papal ambassador convinced Noriega to surrender himself.
** In the Ottoman-Saudi War, Abdullah bin Saud was forced to hear his victorious enemies play a flute before being beheaded. This is because he belonged to a fundamentalist Islamic sect that [[DystopianEdict explicitly forbid listening to music]], with such sentence being essentially torture for him.
* Military punishments:
** There was a instructor in ROTC, a [[TheCaptain Captain]], who would have a cadet stand at attention in the back of the room if he caught him nodding off. If the cadet STILL managed to nod off while at attention, the instructor would have them hold a chair over their head. (This is akin to proper military behavior. If someone is nodding off during a briefing it was perfectly understandable to get up from your seat and stand in the back.)
** It only ever gets more creative when you get into the real military, where they're allowed to humiliate you on a grand scale in front of dozens if not hundreds of your peers. Picture things on the level of fraternity hazing, only it's not hazing because it's punishment rather than a membership requirement. Take for example, "The Dying Cockroach," in which the soldier being punished was forced to lie on their back while kicking and flailing their arms and yelling "I'm a dying cockroach!" until the punisher saw fit to let it end.
** 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 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.
** An Air Force drill sergeant was once ''extremely'' pissed because his men failed an inspection. After spending a half hour loudly dressing them down, he announced that all that yelling had made him thirsty, and he wanted a refreshing beverage from the soda machine on the first floor. No, he was tired and didn't want to walk all the way down there. No, he didn't want someone to go get him a soda because he didn't know what he wanted and needed to look at all the choices. His solution? Ordering his men to ''go get the soda machine and bring it to him.'' An eight hundred pound soda machine. Up three flights of stairs. Once they did so, he bought his beverage, popped the tab, took a long drink, then ordered his men to put the soda machine back where they'd found it, and reminded them that there'd be another inspection tomorrow.
** One recruit in basic training thought he was above his fellows because he was an eagle scout. The DS took him into the woods and had him construct a nest complete with "eggs" (large rocks) and sentenced him to hatch the eggs by sitting on them for a long time.
** 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.
** Russian cadets are forced, if they're caught doing something forbidden or violate army rules, to carry around big wooden objects reminding of their misdeed. [[http://www.boredpanda.com/russian-army-punishments-hazing-dedovshchina/ Here's a few examples.]]
* In Britain, a deathwish driver from Lincolnshire was forced to see the consequences of his driving by going to the accident and emergency department at the local hospital. Needless to say, this was AnAesop in itself on how ''not'' to drive.
* Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger has gone on record as threatening his political opponents with having them watch his ''Film/RedSonja'' movie.
** His [[http://twitter.com/#!/Schwarzenegger/status/19303039793 weaponization]] of ''Film/JingleAllTheWay''.
* On the last season of Celebrity Big Brother UK after he failed a task, Jonas Erik Altberg (Basshunter) and Lady Sovereign were forced to be stuck in a room listening to Jonas' song All I Ever Wanted on repeat for hours.
* Famous case from the 1980s: a notorious slumlord was sentenced to live in one of his own buildings. Yup, Joe Pesci's ''The Super'' was based on a true story.
* A Malaysian political aide tweeted defamatory comments about his friend's employer. They responded by suing him, and he was forced to [[http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/02/defamation-settlement-requires-malaysian-man-to-apologize-100-ti/ apologize 100 times on Twitter]].
* [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19197_the-7-most-ridiculous-cases-misplaced-priorities_p2.html Man prefers jail over arguing with wife.]] Long story short, dude was sentenced to house arrest, pleaded to be put in jail. They denied the request, and sent him back to house arrest, thinking that arguing with the wife was more than enough punishment.
* A small example, but as punishment for stealing soap in the Mohave county the thief is forced to wash themselves with said soap until it is completely used up.
* The German author Hans Fallada remembers in his biographical work ''Damals bei uns daheim'' how he and his brother sneaked into the storage room and ate part of a Baumkuchen intended for a family celebration. The punishment: for quite a long while, they got (pieces of) the rest of the cake as school meals, until they couldn't stand the confectionary any more.
* The procedures for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_conclave electing]] a new [[UsefulNotes/ThePope pope]] essentially come down to locking the cardinals into a room until they make a decision, and if that doesn't work, [[DeniedFoodAsPunishment start restricting their food supply]]. Historically, this has included such things as removing the roof.
* A few instances of men having sex with goats in rural areas have been punished by forcing the suitor to pay a bride-price to the owner and formally get married to the subject of their affections.
* A documentary said that detainees in Guantanamo Bay were tortured by forcing them to listen to ''Series/SesameStreet'' [[http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/sesame-street-songs-allegedly-used-guantanamo-bay-interrogations-014514261.html songs]].
** Listening to ''anything'' at the duration and volumes reported would cause sleep deprivation and other problems, though; the Sesame Street songs may have been good choices (they were certainly good choices if making people take the technique less seriously was the intention) but even a song you want to listen to isn't one you want forcibly played to you all night at unreasonable decibel levels.
* Davao City, Philippines vice mayor Rodrigo Duterte, -- who was infamous for FlippingTheBird while defending his daughter, the mayor of same city, who punched a sheriff in 2011 -- [[http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/07/10/12/duterte-makes-swindler-eat-fake-docs had a swindler eat the fake land titles the latter presented to informal settlers he duped]].
** Duterte is now the 2016 president-elect of the Philippines, running on a platform of being "tough on crime, lenient only to surrendering criminals." Judging by the type of punishments he inflicts, minor offenders are likely to do what he wants.
* It has been repeatedly suggested that the US government should interrogate terrorists by forcing them to watch/listen to ''Series/BarneyTheDinosaur''.
* 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 this trope 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.
** To which the little brother retaliated by [[http://web.archive.org/web/20150509010107/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q14JT8pcc-I painting the older brother's car pink]].
* In the beginning of the Vietnam War, they used to run through the muddy creek beds at Parris Island. That is, until an instructor left seven recruits there until after the tide came in.
* After the warship Cheonan was sunk, South Korea blamed the North and counter-attacked... with ''[[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/south-korea-blasts-pop-music-propaganda-border-article-1.184065 Pop Music]]''. It pissed off the "Dear Leader" enough that he vowed to destroy any speakers set up along the border.
* One of your mangaka missed a deadline? [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2013-03-25/big-gangan-magazine-flips-manga-page-as-punishment Confuse her readers by flipping a page of her story in retaliation!]]
* According to the AA, Thames Valley police have allowed primary schools to borrow their radar guns for use in classes. Children are allowed to stand at the school gate and point the gun at passing cars to measure their speed. Drivers caught speeding in this manner have been given two choices, either face prosecution as normal, since the gun records enough evidence, or attend the primary school to explain to a group of preteens why they were speeding. Most prefer to be prosecuted, even though it costs an average of £600 (US$1,000) in fines and insurance premiums.
** Because of the effectiveness, more and more regions are setting up [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/38021839 similar schemes.]]
* A family court in Argentina sentenced two divorcees who were using their children to put one over on each other to read ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'' to their children 'so that [the parents] learn to treat their children like persons'.
* The Ancient Greeks were in on this as well. During the Olympic Games, everyone hates cheaters, okay? The Ancient Greeks had only one punishment for cheaters. They were given a statue of their own in a specific hall that everyone went to and they all had to carve on the accompanying tablet what they had done to deserve it: "My name is XX and I cheated by..." In other words, cheaters were immortalized for everyone to come see and point and laugh at for the rest of eternity. Some people just had style, you know?
* Most companies who run [=MMORPGs=] have a simple solution to deal with players who cheat or exploit glitches, like botting, hacking, sharking, illegal downloading, exploiting glitches, or spamming - banning their accounts. However, some have thought up unique ways to punish cheaters:
** As of August 2015, ''VideoGame/EverquestII'' unveiled a unique solution: the "prison server" of Drundar. [[http://www.gamespot.com/articles/cheaters-to-get-locked-away-on-prison-server-in-ev/1100-6429927/ As explained here]], characters transferred to Drundar are isolated from characters belonging to rule-abiding players, and customer support is inaccessible there; players can use those characters to cheat all they want, because they're only cheating against other cheaters. (This doesn't ban the account, however; Daybreak Games maintains that, for now, this is an experiment.)
** ''VideoGame/{{Titanfall}}'' has taken inspiration from Daybreak Games by creating a prison server of their own. Cheaters banished there can still use whatever hacked or sharked downloads they used, as their only opponents are other cheaters.
** ''Marvel vs Capcom 3'' also does something similar. In this game, if you disconnect before your fight is over, then you can avoid having a loss on your record. However, [[DevelopersForesight the devs thought of that too]], and if your in-fight disconnect numbers got suspicious, you were sent to a special server that was entirely populated with people who did the same thing. [[IronicHell If you try to weasel out of a loss, then they send you to a place where everyone else weasels you out of your wins.]]
** One famous example in ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'' happened when a player was not just cheating, he was ''blatantly'' cheating. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCSYfJZNYLY (As in, respawning all over the place where most players couldn’t and attacking with weapons he clearly wouldn’t have access to.)]] The devs shanghaied control of his character, unequipped all of his gear, then made the character climb to the top of the highest point of the game’s HubLevel and had him leap off in a very public suicide. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqfUi9DzBuo (And they taped it]] for [[MakeAnExampleOfThem the whole game community to see.)]] ''Then'' they perma-banned the player and deleted his characters.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' online:
*** One time, some wise guys found a glitch that let them import overpowered cars into the game. When Rockstar Games found out, they put in a program that made these ill-gotten cars self-destruct when the player got in automatically killing him. For one day, the game world was lit up like the Fourth of July.
*** ''Grand Theft Auto'' also has a "prison server" like the ones mentioned above for bad sports. What makes them notable is that they also put everyone in said server in a dunce cap.
** When ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar2'' started, some players found a way to unlock every Achievement at once. Didn’t last long. When the devs found out, every player who exploited the glitch found they had lost those achievements and had gained a new one – worth no Gs at all – called Cheater For Life.
** Similarly, in both versions of ''VideoGame/{{Drakensang}}'' there were several Gotchas for people using a cracked version. In the first one, one city guard would not show up at her appointed place, trying to rescue a group member from jail landed the whole group in there (without a way out), and later in the game the characters would slow down more and more if a crack was detected. In the second one, instead of the group's healer being able to heal a group member who had been disabled in a fight, for someone using a crack, only a paid healer would be able to heal those characters. Unfortunately, occasionally, people who needed to use a virtual machine professionally were also detected as running a crack...
** ''VideoGame/{{H1Z1}}'' had something novel. After issuing over 24,000 bans to players who were exploiting purchased hacks and cheats, Daybreak's CEO made a statement saying banned players would be unbanned if they apologized publicly via Website/YouTube and emailed him a link of it. While that seems like getting off easy (especially seeing as Daybreak had lost 500K in revenue) [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube one could say that going on YouTube and admitting you were a thief is punishment enough]].
** In ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'', a glitch lets a player make a ''lot'' of in-game currency by selling hides and pearls. An update didn't remove the glitch, but it did ensure that anyone who exploited it would eventually encounter a special NPC, a rather unfriendly tax man demanding it be paid back. That's right, CDPR ''[[IntimidatingRevenueService forced cheaters to deal with the IRS.]]''
** In ''VideoGame/Fallout76'', cheaters were banned from their account, and would only be given their account back if they wrote a 500 word essay on "Why the use of third-party cheat software is detrimental to an online game community".
** ''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 [[PlayerKilling gank them]] as soon as they left cities for any reason found himself face-to-face with an invincible 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. Said person was also (very publicly) named and shamed and banned permanently after a GM saw him skulking [[DueToTheDead an in-game wake for a roleplayer who passed IRL]].
* 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 to 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]]):
** In ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}}'', if you try to play a pirated copy, your gun shoots ''chickens'' that do no damage at all, and also slow the game down, making the game unwinnable unless you can somehow use your fists through the entire game.
** The developers of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' realized the game would be a prime target, so they fixed it so that pirated copies had a serious {{Nerf}} on Batman's gliding ability, making it impossible to reach some key areas and frustrating the owners to no end. This caught at least one player who had posted a thread on the developers' official message board asking how to get past this exact problem, outing themselves as using a pirated copy; the developers simply replied that "it's not a bug in the game's code, it's a bug in your moral code."
** Pirated copies of ''[[VideoGame/SeriousSam Serious Sam 3]]'' included a extra enemy that was literally invincible, an undead red scorpion man. Players on the forums pleading for tips on how to beat this thing (proving they had a pirated copy) sure made fools of themselves.
** Know those scenes in ''VideoGame/TheSims4'' where your toon goes to the shower or toilet and his/her nudity is blurred out? Do it in an illegal version, and the blur never goes away. Ever.
** ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'' may be all about fighting "the system", but the developers did ''not'' want players to do it. Anyone with a pirated copy would never make the first jump; trying would make Faith hesitate from fear, and if the player persisted, fall to her death.
** ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'' gives the owner of the pirated copy fair warning first; a fairy tells Spyro that the game may be pirated, and warns him not to proceed. If the player does anyway, if he reaches the FinalBoss, the game shuts down right before the battle, deleting the save file.
** ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' had something similar. If you have an illegal copy, Grunty (who tends to troll the player a lot as it is) will eventually pop up and cackle, "Now I will erase your game pack, because you had the need to hack!" And this is a ''warning'', because she doesn't do it until you actually try save the game. (Cruel, maybe, but she ''is'' evil.)
** ''VideoGame/GameDevTycoon'' has one of the best ways to punish pirates, bar none. This game is all about designing and marketing video games. Play an illegal version of the game, and you'll go bankrupt when the game ''you'' design is pirated too much!
** ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' has a feature that, if you use a pirated copy, upon opening it [[JumpScare Golden Freddy pops up out of nowhere to startle you.]]
** ''Music/MichaelJackson: The Experience'' on the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS assaults the player with vuvuzelas, drowning out the music. And to make matters worse, all the game controls become invisible, forcing the player to frantically search for the exit button to escape the incessant SensoryAbuse.
** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer: Red Alert 2'' will let you start the game and play as normal...for about 3 minutes, after that everything explodes. ''Command and Conquer: Generals'' will do the same thing, but after only 30 seconds.
** Perhaps the cruelest punishment though came from ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994''; if your SNES detects you're playing a pirated copy, the amount of enemies dramatically increases, making the game much more difficult to get through. Let's say though you power through it and get to the final boss; if you get to that point, the game locks up and forces you to reset the system. When you boot it back up, ''your entire save file will have been erased''.
* Have a teacher that also happens to be a sports coach, especially a particularly rough sport like American Football? Expect punishments to involve push-ups. Bonus points if the teacher tells the class to count and they decide to be uncooperative. ("1, 3, 2, 8, 5...")
* 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.
* In December 2018, a poacher by the name of David Berry Jr. was sentenced to watch the movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'' at least once a month for poaching deer over the course of nine years.
* One Belgian teacher's solution to students talking in class? [[https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2014/mar/25/teacher-punishes-students-with-game-of-thrones-spoilers Write spoilers]] from the as-yet unadapted ''Literature/GameOfThrones'' books on the blackboard.
* William Burke of the Burke and Hare Murders was on the receiving end of a brutally poetic example. After being convicted and sentenced to hang for murdering 14 individuals to sell to anatomy lecturer Robert Knox as anatomy specimens, the presiding judge made an additional stipulation regarding Burke's fate. His residency at the Edinburgh Medical School continues as of 2020.
--> "Your body should be publicly dissected and anatomized. And I trust, that if it is ever customary to preserve skeletons, yours will be preserved, [[MakeAnExampleOfThem in order that posterity may keep in remembrance your atrocious crimes.]]"
* Leicester judge Timothy Spencer sentenced a Neo-Nazi sympathiser convicted of planning to build bombs to read classic novels like ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' rather than extremist literature and come to court to be tested on them every four months, with the threat of being sent to jail if he didn't. His sentence was later changed to two years in prison after being judged too lenient.
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* In ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', it turns out that S.H.I.E.L.D. is fond of passive-aggressively dealing with their less dangerous prisoners.
-->'''Quinn:''' I've been locked in a cell smaller than my shoe closet! I was forbidden from eating with a fork, which would be okay if I was fed anything other than ''meatloaf!''
* In ''Series/TheAlienist'', the protagonist Laszlo Kreizler has to be aided by his housekeeper Mary even in simplest everyday tasks like tying his shoelaces due to his crippled arm. Laszlo has a bad temper, and when he misbehaves towards Mary, she is not above "punishing" him by leaving him to do these tasks on his own (which would not be a big deal for a person with two functioning arms, but renders Kreizler basically helpless). There are also romantic feelings between Kreizler and Mary, so the trope overlaps with PowerDynamicsKink.
* This occurred at the end of every "Judge Trudy" skit on ''Series/TheAmandaShow'', when Trudy would rule in favor of the child plaintiff and sentence the hapless adult defendant to something odd, which the bailiff would immediately carry out.
* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': When Diggle needs information from a captured mook, he has Felicity hack the man's finances and start donating his money to charity.
-->'''Felicity''': Oh, look at this, you have a bank account in the Cayman Islands. Wow, two million dollars, quite the little nest egg. But it looks like you just approved a wire transfer of $1 million to a charity here in Starling City. Very generous. What should I do with the rest?\\
'''Diggle''': Greenpeace!\\
'''Felicity''': Great cause! And they really appreciate the support.\\
'''Clinton''': Bitch!\\
'''Felicity''': Bitch with wifi. Hey Clinton, looks like your mom and dad have a really nice retirement portfolio too, but they, oh no, are just about to make some really bad investments.\\
'''Clinton''': Okay, just wait, just wait, stop. What do you want to know?
* In ''Series/AuctionKings'', Cindy has done this to Jon via Using a toe-pulling device on Jon's fingers to find out if he left a case unlocked. Don't mess with Cindy.
* ''Series/BabylonFive'':
** In the very first episode Commander Sinclair tells G'Kar that G'Kar has ingested a micro-tracker which will keep a complete record of his movements for the next five years because of G'Kar's involvement in the events of the episode. After G'Kar leaves Sinclair tells Michael Garibaldi that there is no tracker but just think of all the unspeakable procedures G'Kar will be subjected to in search of the tracker.
** Londo learned the hard way not to cross a Technomage. They respond by planting a Holodemon in his quarters, subjecting him and Vir to Narn opera as well as draining his account in such investments as a spoo ranch and Fireflies, Inc. before finally killing the power to his quarters. It was the last bit that convinced Londo to give the Technomages an apology.
* The 60s ''Series/Batman1966'' show had one of these every other episode when the Dynamic Dunderheads would be captured and put in a Rube Goldbergesque deathtrap.
* One of the earliest sketches from ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' was one that featured Hugh Laurie enthusiastically showing the most boring holiday pictures you can think of and describing each one while Stephen Fry made sarcastic comments that appeared to be falling on deaf ears.
-->'''Laurie:''' And this is one of me on the toilet half an hour later. I used a self-timer for that one. Because the whole new Minolta range have got self-timers.\\
'''Fry:''' Self-timers? Oh, well, then I must leave at once.\\
'''Laurie:''' I discovered this marvelous little man in Hadia who developed film the traditional Cretan way. Nikos his name was, or Costas. Could have been Andreas.\\
'''Fry:''' Oh, but I must find out. Which? Which was his name?\\
'''Laurie:''' This is him on the toilet.\\
'''Fry:''' GO AWAY! ''(hugs himself and cries)''\\
'''Laurie:''' Right. Well, you touch my daughter again and it'll be a slide show. You understand?\\
''(Fry nods weakly)''
* In ''[[Series/{{Blackadder}} Blackadder Goes Forth]]'', Edmund and Baldrick are at one point captured by the Germans and sentenced to a "fate worse than death". Since said fate apparently consists of spending the rest of the war at a German convent school teaching home economics, Blackadder is pretty miffed when [[UnwantedRescue he gets rescued]] and promptly sent back to the front.
* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': In the ColdOpen for "The Bimbo," Jake comes in late. As punishment, Captain Holt invented a unique high-five for everyone in the precinct, including the guy who was just there to install the copier, because he knows Jake loves high-fives.
-->'''Jake:''' But you hate high-fives!\\
'''Holt:''' Yes, every minute of it was hell, but it'll be worse for you.
* ''Series/{{Castle}}''.
-->'''Rick Castle:''' There has to be a way to get it out of him. We could force him to watch Paris Hilton videos.\\
'''Kate Beckett:''' You want to be brought up on charges?
* ''Series/{{Cheers}}:'' When Doctor Simon Finch-Royce deliberately overcharges Frasier, despite his heavy hint dropping, Frasier points Diane back in his direction, knowing her refusal to admit defeat or that she's wrong will drive Simon nuts. And he's right, as Diane is in full-on IRejectYourReality mode.
* ''Series/TheCosbyShow'': After Vanessa comes home drunk, her parents make her participate in the same drinking game again, even watching her younger sister have to take a shot. (What they don't tell her is that they're using tea.)
* ''Series/{{Danger 5}}''. Tucker is captured by Italian sailors and forced to drink [[NationalStereotypes endless cups of coffee]] (though they [[MustHaveCaffeine might just have been having a good time]]). In Season 2, Hitler torments our heroes by [[TrappedInTVLand imprisoning them in a sitcom]] starring himself: ''Hitler's Haus''.
* ''Series/Daybreak2019'': After an AssassinationAttempt on Turbo, he and Mona Lisa interrogate the captured assassins for the name of the traitor who helped them, by means of making them watch disturbingly graphic {{Educational Short}}s.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** In the beginning of the ''Key to Time'' arc, the White Guardian gives us this gem:
--->'''Doctor:''' Ah! You want me to volunteer, isn't that it?\\
'''White Guardian:''' Precisely.\\
'''Doctor:''' And if I don't?\\
'''White Guardian:''' Nothing.\\
'''Doctor:''' Nothing? You mean nothing will happen to me?\\
'''White Guardian:''' Nothing at all. ''Ever.''\\
'''Doctor:''' Ah.
** In the episode "A Good Man Goes to War", a [[BloodKnight Sontaran]] was forced to restore his honor by serving duties as a nurse, prolonging life, rather than allowing them to die in the glory of battle. In the same episode the losing commander Manton is explicitly told by The Doctor to order his troops not to retreat, but "run away". He will be known as Colonel Runaway from that day on.
** In "The Return of Doctor Mysterio" Lucy Fletcher tortures a SQUEEZE TOY to get information from the Doctor. And IT WORKS. This is especially hilarious since the Doctor had [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent just]] endured over four billion years of being horrifically and painfully murdered over and over again at the hands of the Time Lords without giving up anything, but squeezing poor Mr. Huffle was too much for him to bear.
--->'''Lucy Fletcher:''' This is Mr. Huffle. Mr. Huffle feels pain.
* ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow''
** You know what happened to the last guy who played a game of "I'm not touching the Devil"? He wound up ''wiping a fly's mouth'' for all eternity.
** In another episode, Mimi blasted the Music/VanHalen song "Panama" over and over for several days to attempt to drive Drew out of his house.[[note]]This is in reference to the same being done to Manuel Noriega, described below.[[/note]]
** When Mimi pulls a prank by putting Drew's obituary in the paper, it activates his "Doomsday Prank" on her. Mimi is handcuffed to a chair and forced to watch four Drew lookalikes in only their underwear dance to "I'm Too Sexy."
* ''Series/{{ER}}'': In the season six premiere episode "Leave it to Weaver", the ER is busy because of a car accident that injured severa bystanders, and a man with a migraine is upset because everyone is too busy to attend to him. He ends up pulling a fire alarm so he can get someone to help, and Randi responds by decking him. When the man protests, Kerry warns him if he complains any more, she'll let Randi hit him again.
* In ''Series/{{Friends}}'', there was one episode in which Joey forces Chandler to wear blue lipstick as punishment for lying to him. There was also an earlier episode where Joey makes Chandler stay in a wooden box for six hours as punishment for kissing Joey's girlfriend ([[RunningGag his reasons were threefold]]). In another episode, Rachel tells Ross to drink a glass of fat to make up for him insulting her (although she stops him when she sees that he was actually going to do it). Ross was harsh to Phoebe, who thought her dead mother's spirit was inside of a cat, so Rachel made Ross apologize to the cat. And yep, all of those [[ItMakesSenseInContext make sense in context]].
* ''Series/{{Glee}}'':
** Sue is upset with Will:
-->'''Sue''': I will go to the animal shelter and get you a kitty cat. I will let you fall in love with that kitty cat. And on some dark, cold night I will steal away into your home, and punch you in the face.
** Sue also punished her moles' failures by revoking their tanning privileges. [[SeriousBusiness It causes Santana to burst into tears.]]
** Everything Sue does, really...
** When Will has finally had enough of Sue, he [[spoiler:gets her to fall in love with him, mends all the damaged caused by their rivalry, and then dumps her just because he can]].
* [[Series/GoodEats Alton Brown]] tries this on his overreaching torture technician, Ygor J. Dungeonmaster. It backfires.
--> '''Alton''': "BAD DUNGEONMASTER, BAD! Now... go skim the moat!"
--> '''Dungeonmaster''' (''gleefully''): "Oh, goody!" (takes out bendy straw) "Lucky straw, lucky straw!"
* In ''Series/TheGoodPlace'', [[spoiler:this turns out to be Michael's plan to torture the main four human characters: make them ''think'' they're in Heaven but subtly manipulate things behind the scenes so that they constantly get on each other's nerves, are continually reminded of their insecurities and life's failures, and end up being utterly miserable and stressed in what should be a paradise for them]].
** Later on in the series, it turns out that among the legitimately horrific tortures of the Bad Place (penis flatteners, acid pits filled with spikes, flesh-eating lightning, spastic dentistry) there also exist departments such as children's dance recitals and weekend holiday shopping at IKEA.
** The almighty judge of all reality threatens to torment Shawn, a head demon, by taping his eyes open and make him watch videos of soldiers returning home and being reunited with their dogs.
* ''Series/HankZipzer'': In "Hank's New School", Mr. Rock forces Mr. Joy to give in to his demands by handcuffing him to a chair and singing protest songs at him.
* In the ''Series/HannahMontana'' episode "Ready, Set, Don't Drive", Miley gets arrested for driving with an invalid license. She got her license as Hannah Montana because she didn't want to wait two weeks for a retest. Why, you ask? She couldn't handle the embarrassment of showing up to [[AlphaBitch Amber's]] big party when Amber had her license and she didn't. Does Robbie Ray ground her? Passe! Take away her allowance? Old hat! Instead, he drives her to the big party, and announces over a bullhorn that Miley didn't get her license.
* In ''Series/{{Happy}}'', after the reality TV producer insults Mr. Blue's gangster profession, [[spoiler:Blue breaks ''a Christmas tree ornament'' across the producer's face, complete with broken shards lodging themselves into the skin]].
* On ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', Mohinder knows his [[YouKilledMyFather mortal nemesis]] Sylar has absorbed the power of super-hearing. His hearing is so keen he can hear other people's breathing and heartbeats, and in fact suffered terrible headaches from the noise. So when Mohinder goes to torture Sylar, what does he do? He strikes a ''tuning fork'' and [[LoudOfWar holds it up next to Sylar's ear in all of its shrill, discordant glory]] and lets Sylar scream for mercy.
* ''Series/TheHexer'': Witcher trainees are punished by standing still on tiny stone pillars, barely big enough to plant both feet on the top. ''For few days and nights'', ExposedToTheElements. By the end of their punishment, they usually just fall flat on the ground, too exhausted to even bother covering their face. Geralt calmly endures his punishment, but in an act of utter defiance, ''steps down'' from the pillar and taking tiny steps, slowly walks away, just to show everyone he can't be broken that easily. All while clearly shaking from pain and muscle strain.
* During an episode of ''Series/HomeImprovement'', [[DirectionlessDriver Tim gets himself and his wife lost while driving but stubbornly refuses to ask for directions]]. To make Tim change his mind, his wife threatens to get up each morning and cut out the sports section of the newspapers they get if he continues to refuse to stop and ask for directions. It works.
* ''Series/{{House}}'':
** When a girl comes in with neck pain in "Kids", instead of firing Chase for being Vogler's [[TheMole Mole]], House decides to be creative:
--->'''House''': You, sir, will research all the causes in the universe of neck pain.\\
'''Chase''': The list is, like, two miles long!\\
'''House''': Start with the letter A.
** When [[Film/OfficeSpace Ron Livingston's]] [[SamaritanSyndrome global altruist]] character in "TB or not TB" orders a press conference on the unfairness of Africa's lack of Western medical care, House breaks into his hospital room and increases the heat, turns off the TV, knocks his supplies on the floor and ''flushes his cell phone down the toilet'' to simulate the third world environment he "obviously wants".
* On ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', [[ButtMonkey Barney is a frequent victim of this trope]]:
** When Barney loses a slap bet against Marshall, he continuously gets slapped by Marshall over and over in several episodes.
** And after losing yet another bet, Barney is forced to wear Marshall's duckie tie for most of the seventh season. Until he exchanges it for further slaps.
** In "Woo", Ted nearly loses his dream job of building the new [=GNB=] building when Barney hires a band called the Sven Brothers instead before reconsidering Marshall's preposition that Ted is better fit for the job. After Marshall tells Ted that Barney is the reason why he didn't get the job at first, Ted punishes Barney by strapping him to a mechanical bull and deliberately leaves it on making Barney spin uncontrollably. And to add insult to injury, when Barney finally breaks free he is so dizzy he misses out on a chance of having a threeway with two of the "Woo Girls".
** In "Magician's Code Part 2", Quinn redecorates everything in Barney's apartment pink as punishment for Barney sneaking off to Atlantic City with Marshall.
** Combined with a YouAreWhatYouHate situation; Barney who has been making fun of Canada for years, finds out he himself is one-quarter Canadian. Robin spends an entire episode teasing him about it as punishment and even tries to make him wear a Canadian costume for a Holloween in exchange for her stopping (although Barney doesn't follow through).
* This is the entire point of ''Series/ImpracticalJokers''. Four lifelong [[VitriolicBestBuds friends]] compete to embarass each other in public with challenges, and if one loses too many times, they become that episode's "Big Loser". They can be pretty creative when it comes to dishing out the pain:
** Murr was tricked into thinking that all four of them were posing as skydiving instructors. Turns out, it was only him, which didn't sit well with the acrophobic loser.
** In a rare three-way=tie between Sal, Murr, and Q, Joe decided to get them all tattoos. Q got a tattoo of a cat with the text "[[SelfDeprecation 38. Lives alone. Has 3 cats]]" on his arm. Murr got a picture of a [[AnimalMotifs ferret]] [[CallBack skydiving]] on his thigh, and Sal got a picture of a young Creator/JadenSmith on his other thigh... for some reason
** Joe was dressed up like a superhero and strapped to the top of the Roosevelt Island tram car. He wasn't as scared of heights as Murr, but it was hard being "Captain Fatbelly"
** Sal was sent in a prison uniform and blackout sunglasses to speak with teenagers about life in prison. Sal offered a relatively decent monologue as he walked around the room, telling the story around his apparent crimes and life behind bars. The main issue came when he took the sunglasses off and realized what everyone else knew; [[spoiler: the people in the room were all elderly]].
** Q was strapped to a machine that stimulated the abdominal pains of childbirth.
** Joe was to investigate which tables were real and which were fake cardboard tables. With dozens of real and fake customers around him, Joe went table to table, testing each one that he found to be suspicious. In order to crumple a table that was “harder than others,” Joe was finally prompted to climb a ladder and fall on the last one.
** Q was handcuffed to a [[EveryoneHatesMimes mime]] for 24 hours.
** Sal was strapped down to a flat board as [[MySisterIsOffLimits Murr married his sister]].
* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': After Harm and Mic get into a fight that inadvertently breaks Bud's jaw (he stepped in between their simultaneous punches), Admiral Chegwidden offers them "non-judicial punishment". He takes them to an empty building, opens the door, and tells them they are not to leave until they inflict damage and pain [[LetsYouAndHimFight on each other]] equal to what they inflicted on Bud. The next day in court, they both look like they went 10 rounds with the heavyweight champ.
* In ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'', [[{{Tsundere}} Natsumi]] will respond to anything [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Tsukasa]] does to annoy her - and I mean ''[[DisproportionateRetribution anything]]'' - by hitting him with the Laughing Pressure Point, a thumb-jab to the neck that causes him to laugh uncontrollably for the next several minutes. She even hit Tetsuya with it in one episode where she couldn't use it on Tsukasa.
* On episode of ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'', [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Matt]] pretends to have an ImaginaryFriend [[ItMakesSenseInContext so his parents would buy him whatever he wanted]]. They punish him by making him wash a number of imaginary animals while the rest of the family watches.
* 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! This example at least has the justification that Reese is such a hard-core [[TeensAreMonsters borderline-sociopathic]] {{Jerkass}} that Lois and Hal had completely run out of ideas - this is literally the only punishment that could hurt him.
* "Damn Bundys" from ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': When Al goes to hell because of a DealWithTheDevil, the latter condemns Al to eat "Weenie Tots" (Which Al loves) for the rest of forever because they will force Al to spend eternity in the bathroom ([[SarcasmMode and we all know how bad this is for Al]]). When The Devil notices that this has not had the effect he wanted, he proclaims, "For the rest of eternity you'll never see your family again", causing Al to fall on his knees saying "This is heaven." However, the Devil finally manages to come up with a Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Forcing Al to continue his normal life forever.
** He also inflicts some Cool and Unusual Punishments on the rest of his family and neighbors as well. Bud ends up with claws, which results in him constantly popping his blow-up sex dolls. Kelly is turned into a gargoyle, which scares off would-be dates. Peggy's hands are turned into hooves, which means she can't operate the TV Remote or the Phone. And Marcy and Jefferson are forced to come over every day and be subjected to Al's insults.
** The season 7 episode "Peggy and the Pirates" showcased Peggy telling their (temporary) house guest Seven a bedtime story, with her as the heroine who is kidnapped by "Rubio The Cruel" (played by David Garrison), the most feared pirate on the Seven Seas. Why is he so feared? because his awful, awful singing of showtunes brings searing pain to the ears of whomever hears it. Half of the crew of the ship he captures jumps overboard to escape it.
-->'''Captain Courage (played by Ed O'Neil):''' Now we know why he's called "Rubio The Cruel"!
* Some of the bad guys in ''Series/{{Medium}}'' ended up being punished this way, especially [[spoiler: Jeremy and his girlfriend]] from ''An Everlasting Love'', [[spoiler: stuck together as ghosts ''for all eternity'', the lone thing that bound them together (kidnapping and killing young women) gone]] and the GoldDigger wife from ''Will The Real Fred Rovick Please Stand Up?'' who [[spoiler: ends up being conned out of her inheritance - for which she had murdered her 91-year-old husband - by the guy she used to corrupt one of the jurors]].
* Mel during one episode of ''Series/MelissaAndJoey'' tells her niece and nephew under her care: "Stay out of trouble, or I'll come to your school and kiss you at lunch."
* ''Series/ModernFamily'': Fail to accomplish what you're tasked to do, and Luke will punish you with his water gun. Better have some spare clothes with you if he's supervising your work.
* During the second to last episode of Season 2 of ''Series/TheMole'', three of the four contestants have to spend one night in a creepy room. One room is a glass box filled with cockroaches and harsh light, the second is a completely dark room with a python slithering around, and the last(and worst) is a completely normal room where the song "Tiny Bubbles" by Don Ho plays over and over in different iterations(sometimes very slowly, sometimes speeded up, sometimes backwards, etc.)
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': Confess, or the Spanish Inquisition will ''poke you with soft cushions''. And if that fails... "Cardinal Fang! Fetch... ''the comfy chair!''" This might be considered a subversion, since the people tortured in this way are just confused, and do not react as if being tortured. Unlike...
** Doug Piranha from the Piranha brothers sketch was so scary that ''grown men would pull their own heads off'' rather than endure this:
--->'''Vercotti''': He used... Sarcasm. He knew all the tricks; dramatic irony, metaphor, pathos, puns, parody, litotes and... Satire. He was vicious.
* Used in an episode of ''Series/MorkAndMindy'', where Mork gets captured by Amazon-esque aliens who torture him with massages and the dreaded ''bubble bath!''.
** Were these the ones commanded by Raquel Welch? Whose character complained about her skimpy silver toned costume, 'Who could look good in this?'
* Parodied on the VHS cover synopsis for ''Film/AMuppetFamilyChristmas'': "Don't miss it or they'll send you a fruitcake!"
* A Cool and Unusual Punishment was used as the final punchline for a Season Four episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' (the episode guest-starring Creator/LizaMinnelli). When JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf are caught trying to "bump off" the Muppets, they're taken away. It's only after the credits, during their traditional "last laugh", that we see their fate: they're locked in the theater box (complete with bars) and forced to watch the Muppet Show.
-->'''Statler:''' How long are we here for?\\
'''Waldorf:''' 20 years.\\
'''Statler:''' If I'd known that judge was giving us [[FateWorseThanDeath the Box]], I'd have asked for [[ElectricTorture the Chair]]!
* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': The B-plot in "Murdoch Ahoy" starts with a mention of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Edson_Taylor Annie Edison Taylor]], the first person to take a trip down Niagara Falls, who is touring with the barrel she rode down the falls in. When her barrel is stolen during an appearance in Toronto, she enlists Crabtree's help. Crabtree discovers that the thieves are a group of university students who stole the barrel as a prank, along with Dr. Grace's mounted skeleton Shelley and Constable Jackson's helmet. The boys plead with Crabtree not to arrest them, since the scandal would lead to their being disowned by their families. In lieu of arresting them, Crabtree punishes the boys by forcing them to clean the entire stationhouse from top to bottom, and he insists they write a letter of apology to Ms. Taylor.
* ''Series/MyWifeAndKids'':
** This is how Michael Kyle would usually punish his kids every time they get out of line.
** Michael himself gets threatened with this trope in one occasion -- it involves his wife, ill with flu at the time, threatening to kiss him unless he agrees to the task she sets for him (taking their youngest daughter, who's also sick with flu, to their physician). Not wishing to risk being infected, Michael obliges at once.
* The entire premise of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. The main characters are forced to watch crappy movies as part of an experiment; the villain is hoping to discover a film so bad it drives them insane, at which point he will turn it into a WeaponOfMassDestruction.
** Pearl Forrester gives the crew the especially hellishly god-awful film ''Film/{{Hobgoblins}}'' as a punishment for jumping on her rent-to-own sofas.
** Pearl came oh-so-close to succeeding with ''Film/InvasionOfTheNeptuneMen,'' which nearly drove Mike and the bots insane. Their spirits were lifted by a visit from Krankor.
** The original baddest of the bad, ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E24ManosTheHandsOfFate "Manos" The Hands of Fate]]'', a film so terrible that Dr. Forrester ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards apologized]]'' for showing it to them.
** Pearl at one point threatens Mike Nelson with "a John Agar film festival" as punishment for one of Mike and the 'bots transgressions, though the threat is not carried out.
* Parodied by the ''Series/MythBusters''. One of the selected myths for the third viewer special was whether bamboo could grow through a person's body. The setup sequence in the blueprint room featured Adam pretending to be tied to a chair while Jamie said "I can keep singing all day".
* On ''Series/TheNanny'', Maxwell grounds Brighton for trying to sneak past Fran to go to the mall in New Jersey. He then says that Brighton isn't allowed to go to his play premiere, which Brighton didn't want to go to anyway. Brighton is okay with that, until Fran convinces Maxwell to be "lenient" and let him go to the play.
** This showed up fairly early in the series, when he tried smoking. After consulting her mother, Fran brought him to visit Grandma Yetta in her nursing home and watch her cough incessantly while puffing. To rub it in, Yetta then took him to visit another resident, described as "phlegm in a hairnet".
** In "The Two Mrs. Sheffields", Maxwell's mother visits him, but takes an immediate dislike for Fran, demanding that he fire her. So, Maxwell decides to get back at her by proposing to Fran. Eventually, Fran realizes that Maxwell's only going through this out of spite, so she starts playing along, soon making him feel guilty about this insincere proposal.
-->'''Maxwell:''' There must be something I can do to make it up to you.
-->'''Fran:''' No, there's really not.
-->'''Maxwell:''' No, please, I insist. Anything.
-->'''Fran:''' Come on, you're insulting me.
-->'''Maxwell:''' Are you sure?
-->'''Fran:''' Well, maybe three things. Don't tell Miss Babcock for 48 hours. I promised Niles. Oh, and someone's gonna have to tell [[JewishMother Ma]]. I figured you'd wanna do that personally. And then the third thing is, well, you can return this. (''hands him a bag'') It's what I was gonna wear on our honeymoon night.
-->'''Maxwell:''' There's nothing in here but lip gloss.
-->(''{{Beat}}'')
-->'''Fran:''' (''smirks'') Suffer.
-->(''Fran winks at Maxwell'')
* ''Series/NightGallery'': a hippie finds he's gone to Hell. He's cool with it and can't wait to see the groovy fire and brimstone and demons...then is horrified to find his custom-made Hell is spending eternity with an old couple, watching their nonstop vacation slide show and listening to a mile-high stack of Lawrence Welk records. This set-up is also the old couple's custom-made Heaven.
* ''Series/PoliceCameraAction'' is not averse to this trope in the ReTool series presented by GethinJones since December 2008. All participants in the show learn the consequences of their driving misdemeanors in some shocking way. But ValuesDissonance comes into play here.
* In ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'', Elgar once fouled up and let the Rangers get an important diskette; Astronema punished him by making him "play with Scrudley". (Exactly who "Scrudley" is isn't clear; presumably its a monster of some sort that's ''very'' rough with anyone who plays with it.)
* In ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'', a villain who wouldn't give up any information under threats, promises of a reduced sentence or even another character's hit single "''Me''" crumbled under the {{Cloudcuckoolander}}'s stream-of-consciousness rambling.
** Their was also a subversion in a different episode with Piggy. Gruumm had left Piggy in a disgusting filthy pit for half an hour to convince him to help him defeat the rangers. The subversion isn't that it was a punishment, both of them saw it as a taste of a [[TooKinkyToTorture reward]].
* ''Series/{{Reba}}'':
** Jake once gripes to Cheyenne about having Kyra as babysitter because Kyra makes him watch "The Wiggles" with his niece. Kyra, standing right behind Jake, replies: "Keep complaining. I got Barney tapes here."
** Kyra spends much of the episode "Go Far" making snarky remarks while strumming her guitar. At the end of the selfsame episode, when she does it once too many for Reba to tolerate any further, Reba threatens to sell Kyra's guitar. Kyra, not wishing to run that risk, puts her guitar away.
** After Reba wrecks [[CoolCar Rhonda]], Van gets back at her by calling [[DropInCharacter Barbra Jean]] to tell her of Reba's temporary blind condition, knowing full well that she would rush to Reba's aid despite Reba's dislike of having Barbra Jean around.
* On an episode of ''Series/{{Roseanne}}", Darlene wants D.J. punished for messing up her room. Roseanne and Dan decide to let Darlene name the punishment, and she decides to make D.J. wear a suit and tie to school the next day, which he hates.
-->'''Roseanne:''' Of course, I would have made him wear a dress. (''Darlene gapes'') Too late!
** D.J.'s punishment for grand theft auto was equally bad, if not worse. Roseanne would bring him to school, except ''she'' would wear the embarrassing apparel, namely a hillbilly outfit and very messy lipstick.
** Becky and Darlene were hit with this too when they gave Roseanne a particularly generous Mother's Day gift as a way to suck up to attend a concert out of town. They got their trip out of town, all right...to visit their grandparents. They got to meet Bev's garden club, watch an endless vacation slide show, and sing showtunes.
* Salem in ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' was a warlock who was turned into a cat by the Witch's Council as punishment for trying to TakeOverTheWorld.
* One ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch was a History Channel-style documentary about an Allied attack on the Germans in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Eventually, a former POW talks about how his friend went insane in prison, after being [[ImpossibleTask taken into a round room and told to go sit in the corner.]]
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''
** Dr. Cox and Jordan punish the doctor responsible for Dr. Cox's failed vasectomy by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTXNSZ7M7VE strapping him to a chair]] while an a cappella group continuously sings the baritone part to the "Chili's Baby Back Ribs" {{Jingle}} over and over. The torture is so horrendous that ten minutes into the singing, the doctor starts eating his own face.
--->'''Doctor:''' When do they say "ribs?"\\
'''Dr. Cox:''' Never. They never say "ribs."
** It seems Dr. Cox is the distributor of cool and unusual punishments; at one point he made Keith check the countertop's heartbeat for two hours. JD then relates the story of Dr. Cox making him give every air conditioning duct in the hospital a papsmear. Dr. Cox also once made all his interns stand in a corner for saying "let's rock and roll." JD says it a few moments later, with predictable results (despite him being an Attending at the time.)
** A bizarre one: To get back at Elliot for dating Keith, JD in one of his {{yandere}} moments demands to be part of their sexual fantasies.
** [[CloudcuckooLander The]] [[AlmightyJanitor Janitor]] also gets a few of these because he hates JD. One episode has the Janitor paint stars and stripes on JD and hang him from a flagpole, telling him to "act like a flag" for a while. Another episode has him punishing JD for his pride by recruiting everyone in the hospital, including JD's [[WithFriendsLikeThese friends]], to pelt JD with balls. This one gets bonus LaserGuidedKarma points because if JD had just swallowed his pride and asked someone what was going on, nothing would have happened to him.
* On ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', this was one of the ideas Jerry and George pitched to NBC for Jerry's sitcom pilot. After hitting Jerry's car, a man has no insurance or ability to pay for the damages, so a judge sentences him to be Jerry's butler. The network executives like this ridiculous premise much more than "a show about nothing."
* This was part of a running gag on an episode of ''Series/SesameStreet'' where Oscar's mother comes to visit and every time she heard him say "please" (a word that grouches never say) she would wash his mouth out with ice cream.
* A few episodes of '''Series/StargateAtlantis'' have Major Sheppard threaten Dr. [=McKay=] with, of all things, a lemon.
** This is a credible threat, considering [=McKay=] is highly allergic to lemons.
* While not technically a punishment, a [[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Royale_%28episode%29 second season episode]] of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' had a 21st century astronaut that got accidentally abducted by aliens and when they couldn't return him home, made him a small reality where he could live out the rest of his days in the company of pseudo-humans based around a book as an attempt at apologizing for screwing him. Unfortunately, they based the reality off such a godawful book that the astronaut writes in his logbook "I hold no malice toward my benefactors. They could not possibly know the hell they have put me through, for it was such a badly written book, filled with endless cliché and shallow characters. I shall welcome death when it comes."
** Of course, this leads to the minor [[FridgeLogic logical problem]] of why the SufficientlyAdvancedAliens never noticed that the technology level described in the 1930's novel clearly wasn't the same as the 21st century spacecraft they were dealing with, not to mention that if they could understand the language written down in the paperback novel, why didn't they simply ''ask'' the astronaut what his home planet was like?
* In the ''[[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Suite Life On Deck]]'' episode "Model Behavior", Moseby punishes Zack, Marcus, and Woody for throwing a party without his authorization and encouraging a group of teen models to stay out past curfew by making them don snorkeling gear and fish the floaties they threw overboard out of the ocean.
** Also in another episode, Zack Marcus and Woody set up a fake beauty pageant to meet girls and then announce that the pageant is canceled leading to many complaints from disappointed girls. When Mr. Moseby finds out, he punishes Zack Woody and Marcus by hosting a real beauty pageant, appoints them as judges, puts them in charge of the preparations and cleaning up afterwards, and even forbids them from flirting with any of the contestants.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': In "The Man Who Would Be King", it is shown that after Crowley took over Hell, he got rid of the agonizing torture and turned it from FireAndBrimstoneHell into a CelestialBureaucracy consisting of nothing but one long line that everyone is forced to wait in for eternity. According to Crowley, a lot of people sent to Hell are masochists who are TooKinkyToTorture, but ''everybody'' hates waiting in line.
-->'''Castiel:''' And what happens when they reach the front?\\
'''Crowley:''' Nothing. They go right back to the end again. That's efficiency.
* In one episode of ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'', Sarah threatens to have Cameron shipped off to boarding school when she gets a bit too carried away.
* In the ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "A Nice Place To Visit," a prideful, greedy burglar named Rocky Valentine is shot dead and wakes up in what he believes to be {{Heaven}}. He meets a man in a white suit named Pip, who promises to grant him anything he wants. Rocky gets it all: beautiful women, delicious food, fancy clothes, success at gambling, and millions of dollars. He gets all of that and more...and then he finds that, no matter what he does, he'll always get what he wants. [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction Always.]] The boredom drives him out of his mind and he decides he doesn't want to stay and begs to go to [[{{Hell}} The Other Place.]] [[ThisIsntHeaven That's when Pip reveals where he's been all along.]]
-->'''Pip:''' Heaven? Whatever gave you the idea you were in Heaven, Mr. Valentine? This ''is'' [[IronicHell the Other Place]]!
* ''Series/TomicaHeroRescueFire'' takes it literally with the "cool" part. Whenever the villainous underlings fail one of their plans, BigBad Donkaen punishes them with an ice-related punishment, which makes sense, as they are fiery demons.
* On ''Series/TopGear'', when the presenters are making a long journey in second-hand cars (bought under a narrow budget according to certain criteria; e.g. two-wheel drive and not modified for off-roading), the producers send along an emergency backup car which is either 1. hateful to all three of them, 2. entirely inappropriate for the setting, or both. If a car breaks down and the presenter cannot get it going again, his punishment is to use the backup car for the rest of the journey.
** In the Botswana special, the backup was an old-model VW Beetle.
** In the Vietnam special, it was a motorbike painted in a bright and gaudy American flag livery and blasting Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA", with the radio controls disabled.
*** Ironically if you listen to the lyrics, "Born in the USA" is a protest song about a man who gets sent to Vietnam, loses his best friend, and can't find work after coming back home as a disgruntled veteran. If the Vietnamese understood the song, they might even like it. Unfortunately, most of them don't speak English.
*** Due to copyright laws, on US streaming services and video sales it has been replace with The Star Spangaled Banner. This is arguably less of a perceived offense (and ruins the joke that comes a few seconds later).
** In a Season 13 episode involving a long drive in France and a race on Val Thorens's ice-driving track, it was a Morris Marina--a car which, inexplicably, usually winds up crushed under a piano whenever it appears on the show. The presenters blame a nearby piano moving service, Careless Airways.
*** Adding insult to injury, this was a rare instance where the backup car was required (as James's selection died.) Heaping a metric ton of insult to injury, it proved to be the car that won the challenge. (One guess what happened after they walked away from it at the ice-track finish line. They blamed Careless Airways' French affiliate.)
** The one where they went to America, although they had no idea it was going to be punishment. As a joke on the stereotypes of USA Southerners (which aren't true... right?) they paint some joke things on each other's car. Hammond's (painted by May) says "Man-love rules OK", Clarkson's (painted by Hammond) says "Country and western is rubbish", and May's (painted by Clarkson) says "Hillary for President". They laugh at how idiotic they feel, and stop at a petrol station to fill up. The owner is like 'Are you serious?' and they're like 'It's just a joke, we're sorry if you're offended'... and she subsequently calls her friends and they have a mob of people chasing after the 3 guys ''and the camera crew''. The rest we see of that is a mobile phone recording of them absolutely ''shitting'' themselves and trying to rub the words off their cars. Completely unexpected but a cool and unusual punishment for thinking that Southerners aren't like their stereotype.
** Subverted in the hunt for the "source of the Nile" when the backup car, a Ford Scorpio, failed to make it to the destination [[spoiler:because the men in white coats dropped it in a river the presenters had crossed in their self-made car ferry.]]
** Series 13's "Cars For Teenagers" challenge, parking quietly at night. Hammond and Jeremy elected to push their cars into position. James, on the other hand, was doomed before he started...
-->'''Jeremy:''' Ahem. ''*holds up the remote for James May's superglued (max volume, adjustment knob removed) stereo*''\\
'''Richard:''' Is that the control..?! ''*corpses as he realises what Jeremy's holding*'' \\
'''Jeremy:''' ''*aims the remote squarely at James' car*'' Ready... steady... ''aaaand''... ''*LOUD MUSIC*''
* In one episode of ''Series/TheWeirdAlShow'', a sadistic kid's show host threatens his sidekick with a "Pauly Shore marathon" if he doesn't win a coveted award. He doesn't win ([[DarkHorseVictory but nor does the other guy he's aiming to beat]]). The last shot of the episode is his sidekick, bound and gagged to a chair, as the host snarls, "Which do you want to see first? ''Encino Man'' or ''Jury Duty''?"
* On ''Series/TheWestWing'', C.J. once accidentally arranged for a photo op wherein the president would pose with a goat. Leo was not happy.
--> '''Leo''': If he's wearing a hat, or that thing's wearing a Bartlet button -- I'm hiding snakes in your car.\\
'''C.J.''': Come on, don't say that, not even to joke!\\
'''Leo''': You're never gonna know where they are...\\
'''C.J.''': Leo!\\
'''Leo''': ...''or'' if you got 'em all out. Gonna lay their eggs right in your glove compartment.
* ''Series/WillAndGrace''
** Karen throws a wild party and trashes Will's apartment. Her punishment? Will denies Karen her afternoon martini (a.k.a. "lunch") and makes her look at Grace's endless honeymoon photos.
--->'''Karen:''' ''(to Will)'' I HATE YOU!\\
'''Grace:''' Roll One: my ''luggage!''
** In another episode, Karen and Jack are coming up with some type of revenge against the English Lorraine Finster for stealing Karen's husband. Jack's idea? Make her watch the American version of anything British.
** Another time, Grace forces Karen (who has just gone on a several-thousand-dollar shopping spree) to cut back on her spending habits by threatening to cut up part of the sweater set she just bought.
--->'''Karan:''' No! You kill one piece and the whole ensemble dies!
--->'''Grace:''' Maybe I'll just start with...the ''label''.
--->'''Karen:''' No! Honey that's the BEST PART! (covers mouth in abject horror) No...
--->'''Grace:''' (moving scissors in a cutting motion) [[Film/{{Jaws}} Dah dah! Dah dah! Dah nah dah nah dah nah...]]
* ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'':
** In response for Alex always taking things from his room, Justin creates a female Frankenstine's monster named "Franken Girl" to guard his room, makes Franken Girl befriend Alex, and eventually forces Alex to join the cheerleading squad.
** During the episode "Dancing With Angels" Max (who has been turned into a little girl) refuses to tell his parents where Alex, Harper and Justin have sneaked off to. His punishment? Being entered into a beauty pageant for 7-12 year-old girls.
* A lot of ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' sketches feature some form of this, particularly "World's Worst". For example, in one "Hoedown", Colin claims he hates the Backstreet Boys so much that he punished them by making them wear copies of his loud Hawaiian shirt.
* During one episode of ''Series/YesDear'', Greg got threatened with one of these by his boss: "Warner, if you keep talking, you're going to come to work in a thong and a beefeater hat." That got Greg quiet.
* In ''Series/YesPrimeMinister'', 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...
* On ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', a character was shown torturing someone for information by shaking up bottles of Coke and opening them so they would spray straight up the guy's nose.
* In ''Series/IAmFrankie'', Tammy frames Robbie for vandalizing the school lockers. When she confesses to framing him, her punishment is to be his "genie" and grant him three "wishes".
* In ''Series/TheNoddyShop'', whenever Warloworth is caught playing a trick on the toys, he has to take care of Whiny and Whimper, Noah's two baby dolls.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* According to ''Literature/TenSixtySixAndAllThat'', the Order of the Bath "was an extreme form of torture in the Middle Ages," and the most sickening practice in UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell's Crommonwealth was the Serjeant-Majors' ''viva-voce'' examinations of little boys:
-->"For this purpose the unfortunate children were dressed in their most uncomfortable satins and placed on a stool. The Serjeant-Major would then ask such difficult questions as 'How's your Father?' or 'Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?' and those who could not answer were given a cruel medicine called Pride's Purge."
* ''[[Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo 1634: The Baltic War]]'': during a discussion, Colonel Wood says that he'd rather have a colonoscopy than participate in another argument over machine guns. The down-timer Torstensson asks for an explanation. After he gets one, he ponders using it as a punishment in the army.
* In a ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' tie-in novel by Jack Sharkey, Gomez has a rather interesting punishment for Pugsley and Wednesday's apparent misdeed -- forced attendance of a fifteen-cartoon Kiddie Matinee with ice cream and "golden cake with pink icing" to follow, along with a stack of comic books on their bedside tables. Morticia considers that last part overly cruel punishment.
-->"Oh, Gomez!" Morticia cried, clutching his arm. "Isn't that going a little ''too'' far...? You wouldn't make them --" she gave a shudder of revulsion "-- ''read'' the comic books?"\\
Some of the sternness went out of his face. "Well," he said in a softer tone, "perhaps that ''is'' a bit excessive." Then he stiffened his expression and said, "But if you don't eat every last bite of that cake and ice cream, you will be made to listen to...''the Bonnie Baker recording of 'The Good Ship Lollipop'''!"
* 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. Chapter 6 is designed to take several months. There are 12 chapters in total. Only three people have learned the whole thing, and all of them wound up rather insane.
* ''Literature/ArtemisFowl''
** In ''The Opal Deception'', Opal decides to punish Holly and Artemis by handcuffing them and locking them in an exhibit of an abandoned fairy themepark. Which has been overrun by bloodthirsty trolls. Opal being a fan of {{irony}}, she chooses the Temple of Artemis exhibit.
** Again from ''The Opal Deception'':
-->'''Opal:''' Peace be within me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, tell me where [[FantasticRacism the filthy human]] is [[HypocriticalHumor so that I may feed him his organs]].
* ''Literature/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.
* A ''Series/BabylonFive'' novel reveals that a standard punishment at the Psi Corps academy is for a miscreant to have to stand still in the courtyard all day and remain silent except for giving a detailed description of their infraction if anyone asks.
* In Literature/TheButterflyKid, the protagonist is hooked up to an alien torture machine. The "torture" begins with "a deep perverted urge to refrain from sexual intercourse with three of the most improbable creatures I'd ever been forced to imagine", followed by a Donald Duck marathon, and gets "worse" from there.
* ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'':
** In ''The Wife of Bath's Tale'', a knight is to be executed for raping a woman, but the queen decides to spice things up a little bit. If he wants to live, he has a year and a day to...discover the one thing women really want more than anything else. ... ... OnSecondThought... (In case you're wondering, the answer is [[spoiler:"power over their husbands".]] This ''was'' the Middle Ages.)
** In "The Summoner's Tale", a cruel friar is extracting money from a poor man and his family. As revenge, the poor man promises to give him what he has hidden underneath him to divide among the friars. He ends up farting into the friar's hand...and then, because the deal had been made, he has to fart in the faces of ''all'' the friars, proving that tasteless humor is OlderThanTheyThink.
* The ''[=SERRAted Edge=]'' novel ''Chrome Circle'' by Creator/MercedesLackey and Creator/LarryDixon has racer-mage Tannim captured by unseelie fey, and in order to keep their mind readers from learning anything, he concentrates on the music and lyrics of Music/TheyMightBeGiants. He ''drives several mind readers insane,'' and theorizes he may have started a rash of accordion thefts by convincing them of the magical nature of the instrument. Part of the reason they go insane is because they think Tannim is thinking about alchemical terms (and they can't figure out what the terms mean because he really isn't).
* In ''Literature/AClockworkOrange'', the lead character is forced to sit with his eyes peeled open while watching films about [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]] and violence to pay for his crimes of murder, rape, torture, statutory rape, and drug-taking via milk. Aversion therapy is used to make him sick at the sight of violence-- and as a side-effect, the doctors administering the punishment used his beloved classical music to enhance the emotional effect, making him unable to enjoy the music either.
* The newspaper columnist Creator/DaveBarry used this trope in a number of columns. Typical example:
-->'''Judge:''' I hereby sentence you to admire four hours of federally subsidized modern dance.\\
'''Defendant:''' No! Not modern dance!\\
'''Judge:''' One more outburst like that and I'm going to order you to also watch the performance artist who protests apartheid using a bathtub full of rigatoni.
** In another column he suggested using some of the "overly affectionate turtles" on them.
** Another has him suggest what would be the most effective punishment of unruly juvenile delinquents: listening to their parents sing. Hey, it worked with Billy Joel's kids.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''
** At one point in ''Literature/MenAtArms'', Sergeant Colon is afraid to report to Lord Vetinari, fearing that Lord Vetinari will be sarcastic about Colon's performance on the job. He might even be ''satirical''.
*** Elsewhere in the same book, when talking dog Gaspode was reluctant to help Carrot locate Angua, Carrot threatened to "turn the matter over to Corporal Nobbs," a fellow officer with little in the way of moral objections whose own humanity has been repeatedly questioned. Gaspode's bitter reply: "That's what I like--''incentive''."
** Gaspode himself has been known to use his [[TalkingAnimal unique talents]] to get back at annoying humans. Since [[WeirdnessCensor everyone knows dogs can't talk]], when he does so, people assume that since the words they heard could not possibly have come from the dog, they must have thought them. So when he announces, "Captain Quirk, you have an itchy bottom" and periodically adds, "Prickle, prickle, prickle..."
** A strange RunningGag is that Vetinari's mood can be determined by his tone: Friendly, curious, amused, condescending, sarcastic, and if he is ironic...if Vetinari is being ironic then you probably died days ago, you just haven't noticed yet. And woe betide you if he ever gives anyone a choice. Never let him give you a choice!
---> '''Vetinari''': If you don't want to take my offer, you have only to walk through that door and you will never hear from me again.\\
'''Moist''': Excuse me, I'd just like to check something.\\
...There was nothing beyond, and that included a floor.
** In ''[[strike:Faust]]'' ''Literature/{{Eric}}'', we find that under new management, the demons of Hell have switched from their largely unsuccessful physical tortures of the damned to psychological torture...in the form of boring people's souls out of their minds (with vacation pictures and readings from dry, dull textbooks). Under Astfgl's kingship of Hell, a very specific boredom has been perfected--the expensive boredom that goes on during vacations when you ''should'' be having fun. Which turned out to be so tortuous that [[spoiler:the ''demons'' [[EvenEvilHasStandards basically went "Screw This!"]] ''and overthrew him''. Sure, the GoodOldWays weren't really tortuous anymore, but the demons don't care; they are sticklers for ''tradition''.]]
** And then there's [[ConMan Moist von Lipwig's]] cry of cruel and unusual punishment in ''Literature/GoingPostal'': being given a job. Subverted when Vetinari quite reasonably points out to him that while the job offer is certainly unusual, it is not very cruel. On the other hand in the dungeon there are a whole range of punishments which are very unusual and ''extremely'' cruel if Moist would like to try them for purposes of comparison...
** In the ''Literature/RaisingSteam'', Lord Vetinari's latest form of physical persuasion is described graphically. It's called The Kitten Torture. Yes, it involves kittens. And yes, it is the cunning, devious, and wholly persuasive, product of a completely unwarped mind. (And there's a reason why it goes on this trope rather than one involving animal cruelty and unbelievable sadism.) For the curious: [[spoiler:The Kitten Torture is presided over by Cedric; not the smartest, but dutiful and very fond of kittens, with which the streets of Ankh-Morpork were overflowing. The victim is locked in an iron maiden, just large enough to sit in, along with a large number of kittens. Every time one of the kittens was distressed and made its distress known, Cedric would open the maiden and give the victim a good cudgeling, in proportion to the distress of the kitten. It's absurd, but it works; visitors are amazed by the atmosphere of happiness, where purring resonated through the dungeon. ]]
** Mention is made of an EldritchAbomination of the Dungeon Dimensions, known as "Tshup Aklathep, the Infernal Star Toad with a Million Young". It kills its victims by forcing them to look at pictures of its children until their brains implode. "I suppose after you've said 'Yes, he's got your eyes' for the thousandth time you're about ready to commit suicide in any case."
** Witches are good at this, banking on their reputation as TheDreaded. ''Literature/WyrdSisters'' describes how one witch was robbed, and decided to [[ParanoiaGambit do nothing about it but smile in a slightly puzzled manner whenever she saw the thief]]. He eventually fled across the continent. And according to ''Literature/WitchesAbroad'' Granny Weatherwax won't actually [[ForcedTransformation turn you into a frog]], but [[DelusionsOfDoghood she'll make you THINK you are a frog]], which is almost as bad but a lot easier (and more entertaining) for her.
* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' -- particularly the ''Inferno,'' but to a lesser extent also the ''Purgatorio'' -- was filled with punishments specially tailored to the sins of the sufferer. In the case of ''Purgatorio'' the repentant sinners are often practicing the virtue opposed to their sin (thus, the Envious have their eyes sewn up so they can't see and covet, while the Gluttons have to starve themselves and run around a lot, in much the same way that repentant gluttons do in RealLife).
* At the end of ''Literature/EmilyTheStrangeTheLostDays'', after Raven successfully completes a physical feat, thus winning a complex card game, Raven calls upon birds to poop on Attikol, Umlaut, and many others of the traveling show employees.
* In Mark Leyner's ''Et Tu, Babe'' the protagonist gets high on Abraham Lincoln's morning breath, and is arrested for 'Theft of a Federally Protected Biospecimen'. Some of the sentences for this crime are execution by underwater speargunning, nasal septumectomy, and punitive confiscation. The protagonist makes a plea to get the latter, and while the sentence is carried out, he is restrained in a van and forced to watch the wooden narrative scenes from porn movies. This last is stated as having later been ruled cruel and unusual.
* 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 ''Literature/GoodOmens'', Crowley the [[NobleDemon demon]] describes a hamster cage as "Like something [[UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition the Spanish Inquistion]] would use if they had access to plastics and a moulding press."
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'': For being caught out of bed, Harry, Hermione, Neville (Ron in the movie) and Draco are sentenced to searching for a dead unicorn in the Forbidden Forest.
** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'': For flying the Weasleys' enchanted car to Hogwarts and breaking the International Statute of Secrecy, Ron and Harry are sentenced to detentions. Ron's is cleaning the trophy room without magic, while Harry's is ''responding to Gilderoy Lockhart's fanmail''. This involves Harry having to listen to Lockhart's self-important advice on being a celebrity, which makes it even more tedious.
*** Ron's wouldn't be SO bad if...1. Filch weren't an evil, evil man, and 2. Ron wasn't recovering from a backfired attempt to curse Draco Malfoy making him vomit up slugs, and having an attack while cleaning. Harry even tells Ron he'd rather trade punishments with him, given the amount of practice cleaning by hand he'd been given by the Dursleys.
* In several of the books, receiving a Howler: a reprimanding letter in a red envelope, which screams the words for everyone to hear, before bursting into flames. Ron receives a humiliating one from his mother in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets''; Neville receives one from his grandmother in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban''; and Hermione receives several in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' from her ill-wishers after Rita Skeeter's article about her.
** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'': Draco Malfoy is caught trying to hex Harry from behind, at which point Moody transfigures him into a white ferret and proceeds to bounce him around the room while lecturing him, [[spoiler:with his anger also being partially directed at [[SinsOfTheFather Draco's father,]] who had the means to avoid Azkaban that Barty Crouch Jr. (who is impersonating Moody for most of the book, including in this scene) did not]]. When Professor [=McGonagall=] catches him, Moody begrudgingly admits that he was told something by Dumbledore about not using Transfiguration as punishment, but he "forgot."
** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'': When Hermione finds the Weasley Twins testing out their home-made joke candies on younger students, this exchange follows, with the result that she [[DontTellMama scares the Twins so badly]] that they immediately comply, an action that has never been seen before or since:
--->'''Hermione''': If you don't stop doing it, I'm going to...
--->'''Fred''': ''(in an I'd-like-to-see-you-try-it-voice)'' Put us in detention?
--->'''George''': ''(smirking)'' Make us write lines?
--->'''Hermione''': No, but I will write to your mother.
*** Fred and George themselves use their pranking prowess to make Umbridge ''suffer''.
** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'':
*** Fred and George have an unusual punishment for a gnome which invades their garden: petrifying it and using it as the angel on the Christmas tree. They consider a similar punishment for their mother in the following book: at their wedding, telling everyone they can wear what they like, and putting a full body-bind curse on their mother until it's over.
*** The cruel punishment Snape inflicts on Harry, for using the Septumsempra curse on Malfoy: making Harry copy out the crimes and punishments from years ago, which are mostly related to his father, to "add interest to the task".
** And Harry finds out in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' (through PensieveFlashback) that [[spoiler: the teenage Snape]] threatens to sleep outside the Gryffindor common room unless [[spoiler: the teenage Lily]] agrees to talk to him after he calls her a [[FantasticRacism "Mudblood"]] in a moment of severe humiliation. Though she does talk to him as a result, the conversation ends with her telling him "it's over between us", which is NOT what he hoped for at all.
* ''Literature/TheHorseAndHisBoy'':
** From Lasaraleen: "Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then buried alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There."
** Aslan's punishment to Prince Rabadash. First, he's [[ForcedTransformation turned into a donkey]], and then told that he has one chance to become human again, and that's to show up at the Temple of Tash during his country's largest festival, letting the entire country know that their ruler was an [[StealthPun ass.]] Then, if he ever strays too far from the palace ever again, he'll turn into a donkey forever. This prevents him from ever taking military action against other countries, and makes it so that he'll never be able to escape the ridicule that he gets from having been a donkey.
* ''Literature/KeeperOfTheLostCities'': In ''Flashback'', Leto warns Keefe -- who is currently skipping his elvin history session -- that he can become ''very'' creative with his punishments. When Keefe expresses curiosity, Ro shuts him down, since as his bodyguard, she has to be there for them, too. Leto, knowing her dislike of elvin history lectures, agrees and tells her, "And I found an entire room filled with recordings of speeches from the Ancient Councillors that I think you'll find particularly enjoyable." Ro promptly starts dragging Keefe back to his session.
* ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'': [[EccentricMentor The eccentric]] [[BarefootSage magician Coriakin]], who governs over the Duffers (a race of foolish dwarves), transforms them into funny one-legged creatures called Monopods as a PrankPunishment for disobedience. Everyone else agrees that they look better in their new form, and they find advantages in it, but at first they are horrified by their new look, thinking that they have become "ugly".
* In the Literature/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.
* For altering the ending of ''Literature/JaneEyre'', Literature/ThursdayNext is sentenced to wear gingham for twenty years and must read the ten most boring books ever written before she dies.
* In Creator/DouglasAdams' ''Literature/TheLongDarkTeaTimeOfTheSoul'', Norse god Odin punishes Thor by making him count all the stones in Wales.
* The short story "Literature/TheManWithoutACountry" by Edward Everett Hale was about an officer who, while on trial for treason, renounced the United States, declaring that he wished to never hear of it again. As his sentence, he is given [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor exactly what he asked for]]: He is effectively exiled to international waters, and his shipmates are ordered to never speak of the United States in his presence.
* ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'' by Creator/RoaldDahl gives us the [[ChildHater Trunchbull]]. One of her punishments for a misbehaving child is to force him to eat a (very large) chocolate cake. In front of the whole school. In both the book ''and'' the film he ''finishes it all'' to immense applause (in the book, the applause is spontaneous; in the film, [[SlowClap Matilda starts it]]). Then [[KickTheDog Trunchbull smashes the platter over his head.]] Which, in the book, is described as having no effect on the boy, as he's too stuffed from the cake to feel it. In the film, he just stands there and belches, making the kids laugh and angering Trunchbull even more.
** Eating a whole cake would make most people sick, so Trunchbull was probably hoping he'd vomit in front of the entire school so she could make him walk around in vomit-covered clothes all day.
** This is practically Trunchbull's M.O., since the more out-there her punishments of students are, [[CassandraTruth the less likely parents are going to believe the children trying to tell them]].
** Matilda herself inflicts cool and unusual punishments on her AbusiveParents and the Trunchbull. Like causing Mr. Wormwood to accidentally bleach his hair, then superglue his hat to his head, or spilling a glass of water with a newt in it onto the Trunchbull's dress. And the punishment on the Trunchbull at the end of the book is to make the "ghost" of her murdered brother write on the blackboard.
* The Institute in ''Literature/TheMysteriousBenedictSociety'' has a room called "The Waiting Room" that children who misbehave are sent to while they wait to talk with Mr. Curtain. Most kids are clueless to what it is, higher ranking students refuse to discuss what it is, and people who were sent to it are usually too shell-shocked to describe what it's like. Not much is known about what it is but [[spoiler:Sticky]] describes it as sitting in a dark, quiet room full of extremely horrid smelling mud and being surrounded by bugs.
* In one of the ''Literature/NightWatchSeries'' books, Anton describes how Geser, head of the Night Watch (the "good guys"), punishes members for slacking off by having them do something they would think is enjoyable, but ends up being boring. For instance, one Watch member punished is a teenage girl, and her punishment is having to be a normal teenager and be around other teenagers, which she quickly finds annoying. This punishment has a bit of a darker edge, in that Others are frequently mentioned to no longer identify with {{Muggles}}.
* The ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' novel "Descent Into the Depths of the Earth" has the relatively benign action of being tied back-to-back with another person... well, benign if that character isn't Polk the Teamster, a loudmouth who is described as not having stopped talking for the entire two hours they were sitting there; most of the speech was admonishing the hero about how badly he mishandled the previous fight: not because they were captured, but because he wasn't fighting awesomely enough.
* In Creator/TomHolt's ''Paint Your Dragon'', one joke mentions that while Hell does have televised snooker, it's used for a certain group of very ''select'' clients.
* In the ''Literature/{{Percy Jackson|and the Olympians}}'' interpretation of the Greek underworld, torments in the Fields of Punishment range from classic forms of torture to being forced to listen to opera music. To be fair, Myth/GreekMythology had some pretty weird punishments, too; see the "Mythology" folder below.
** Also, at one point the Apollo (god of poet) campers curse at least one Ares (god of war) camper to speak in nothing but rhyme.
* ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil'': How does [[VillainProtagonist Catherine]] punish the ghost of one of her most ruthless and hated foes? [[spoiler: She invites her to a pleasant, friendly get-together with Catherine's other friends. It's much crueler than it sounds, as it forces Akua to confront the fact that genuine companionship was what she truly needed and the only person she ever really cared about was sacrificed by her to attain power she now knows would not have truly made her happy. She now has to live with the knowledge that she could have had all of this years ago and it is entirely her own fault that she didn't.]]
-->“The closest I have to match to last night is a girl I sent to die. You’ve devised a poison so sweet I will crave the taste of it.”
* ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse'' features the Total Perspective Vortex, which shows you how large the universe truly is, and how very very small ''you'' are. People's minds cannot handle it, and are generally driven completely insane if not catatonic from even a second's exposure.
** Subverted by Zaphod's [[spoiler:vision that yeah, he really IS the most important and cool guy in the universe]]. And then reverted when [[spoiler:it's revealed that he was in an artificial reality, built just for him, so naturally he was the most important person in it]].
** And, as indicated by the page quote, [[GiftedlyBad Vogons]] use their own poetry as torture. Vogon poetry is sufficiently awful to elicit screams of pain, and could legitimately be regarded as torture. However, Arthur Dent doesn't seem to be particularly bothered by listening to it, which perhaps has to do with the fact that his own planet had the worst poet in the universe (at least until the Vogons demolished it).
** The Bellcelerephons of Kakrafoon were punished for being utterly satisfied with their lot, which was seen as needlessly provocative by everyone else, by having telepathy inflicted on them, forcing them to talk endlessly to block out one another's thoughts (or host a Disaster Area concert, which does the same thing).
* A Russell Baker column suggested what he really considered painful and condign punishments for the Watergate conspirators -- such as sentencing them to ten years of high school. ("You can't do this to me, Sirica!")
* ''Literature/AScannerDarkly'' has Charles Freck's punishment in the afterlife, after his suicide attempt: a creature with a thousand eyes pulls out a ListOfTransgressions, which he will be made to listen to for all eternity. ''In shifts.'' (In the film, this is a BungledSuicide, and he's later seen in rehab; in the book, the suicide attempt is the last time he appears, raising the possibility that this ''is'' his afterlife.)
* In ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', Prufrock Preparatory School revels in this trope. Punishments for breaking the school's rules include removing your rights to forks, spoons, glasses and knives at the cafeteria. And if you miss one of the vice-principal's violin concerts, you are required to buy him a bag of candy and sit in his office watching him eat it all. It's hinted at being more depressing than it sounds, since the vice-principal is such a jerk.
* In Creator/DanielPinkwater's book [[Literature/SnarkoutBoys ''The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death'']], the villain tortures people by forcing them to watch German comedy. Naturally, the character he kidnaps actually ''likes'' German comedy. It is also mentioned that the same villain once tortured another character by suspending them in a vat of egg foo yung.
* ''Literature/StarTrekEnterpriseRelaunch:'' At one point, T'Pol and Hoshi confront an uncooperative Orion criminal. Every time their perp refuses to give an answer, they "donate" large amounts of her money to various charities until she gives in.
* ''Literature/StregaNona'': While Strega Nona goes out, she warns Big Anthony not to touch her magic pasta pot. He disobeys her, having learned the spell to activate it and serves enough for the whole town. When trying to chant the counterspell however, Big Anthony didn't know that he had to blow three kisses to finish the spell, and instead a humongous amount of pasta spews from the pot to flood the entire village. Strega Nona finds out and reverses the spell properly, then forces Big Anthony to eat all the pasta as punishment for disobeying her, leaving him sick and bloated that evening.
* ''The Stories Julian Tells'': One of the stories involves Julian and little brother, Huey, being told by their dad not to eat the pudding he's made until their mom gets home. Naturally, they can't resist, thinking one more bite won't hurt, and it's almost entirely gone before they stop. When their dad finds out, he tells them there's going to be some beating and whipping... [[ExactWords Before he makes them beat the eggs and whip the cream he needs to make more pudding]].
* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': In the novella ''Literature/{{Edgedancer}}'' When Lift initially claims to be a friend of the Prime Aqasix, the local bureaucrats are understandably skeptical, and try to throw her out. When confirmation comes and they are ordered to obey her, she immediately makes them start calling her "Your Pancakefulness".
* ''Literature/TerraIgnota'':
** The Utopians have a special punishment for killing one of their own: ''Modo mundo''. They cut the perpetrator off from any sort of entertainment, from movies to books. The idea is that every Utopian has a thousand stories inside them even if they never publish, and by killing them you killed all those stories. So, you are cut off from stories in turn.
** When the cook at one of J.E.D.D. Mason's safehouses accidentally destroyed a priceless book, J.E.D.D. told her that the protagonist of every work of fiction is Humanity, and the antagonist is God. Since then Chagatai's found herself unable to enjoy any entertainment without agonizing over the struggle between humanity and God, so she placed herself under an unofficial ''modo mundo'', forgoing any entertainment and collecting knowledge of movie trivia instead.
* ''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.]]
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* In [[Manga/StardustCrusaders JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders]], after [[spoiler: Kakyoin defeats [[Main/EnfantTerrible Mannish Boy]] in a [[Main/DreamLand Dream World]], after they wake up, Kakyoin mixes Mannish Boy’s poop in with his baby food for almost killing him and his friends in the [[Main/DreamLand Dream World]].]]

[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/ACrookedMan'': In stark contrast to the original story, Johann dish out ironic punishments to the villains:
** Bullseye cannot kill anyone as whatever objects he uses as a weapon are turn into harmless objects such as a rubber duck or a condom.
** Johann turns Norman Osborn into an actual goblin, making his condition based on anyone or anything with the capacity of thought who looks at him will instinctively know who and what he is.
** Johann gives Moonstone a conscience, making her to feel guilty over all the people she had ruined while as a psychologist. This sudden empathy sends her into a catatonic state.
** Johann gives Magneto the chance to start his life over as Erik Lehnsherr and reunited with a resurrected Magda and Anya at the cost of losing his memories as Magneto.
* In ''Fanfic/TheBeaconCivilWar'', Jaune captures Ruby as part of the aforementioned mock war (it's a long story). He needs to get information out of her without breaking the rules of the game or enraging [[BigSisterInstinct Yang]], so he threatens her with health food. [[SweetTooth Ruby]] is horrified that she will get no cookies, and Yang won't be mad because she's been trying to get Ruby to eat healthy for a while. Ruby caves very quickly.
* In ''Fanfic/TheParselmouthOfGryffindor'', to discipline [[SmugSuper Lucius ]][[FantasticRacism Malfoy]], Hermione forces him to donate large amounts of money to Muggle charities.
* ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'':
** [[TheAtoner Gendo]] wants to earn the pilots and his wife’s forgiveness for his actions. Asuka suggests that he goes through everything what they endured.
--->'''Asuka:''' Ooh, there’s an evil idea… ne, Shinji, how about we forgive your dad after he gets to go through everything we had to?\\
'''Shinji:''' What do you mean?\\
'''Asuka:''' I mean, all the stuff we had to suffer because of him, he gets too. First he gets abandoned by everyone for ten years, then gets his arm broken and an energy spike through his right eye and out the back of his head, blown up, stabbed through the chest with two electric tentacles, shot in the chest with a terawatt laser, chewed on by a giant fish, pile-drivered headfirst into the dirt twice, blown up again, dunked into a volcano, splashed with acid, smashed from orbit, stuffed into a sensory deprivation tank for a night, choked, gets his arms and head ripped off, dissolved into LCL for a month, mind-raped, stabbed in the neck and chest, and then disemboweled by nine winged monsters with spears! Oh, and a spear through the head, too.\\
'''Shinji:''' Sounds like a good start! […] Should we make him wear a leotard and learn a synchronized dance routine with Vice-Commander Fuyutsuki, too?
** Asuka tells Shinji at one point: “Third, you had better start making sense, or I’m going to lock you in a room with geek-Stooge and have him jabber about his mecha at you until your ears bleed.”
** When an Avaloni Princess was arrested and brought to a judge for “'borrowing' the lander, leaving the Empire underage without permission, and ditching school”, the judge punished her by throwing a book at her:
--->''“The police brought the casualties here, and the judge threw the book at her. She protested that it hurt, hitting her in the head like that. ‘Crime and Punishment’ isn’t a small book. The judge told her ‘Exactly. Now maybe you’ll learn not to skip class when they’re covering literary metaphors.’”''
* In ''Fanfic/TheLionKingAdventures'', as opposed to execution or imprisonment, ''tickling'' is used as a punishment in the Pride Lands. [[spoiler: Zazu]] falls foul of this in ''The Royal Challenge''.
-->'''Nala:''' How come the Pride Lands don't kill people as a punishment? Why do they tickle you instead?\\
'''Mufasa:''' Do you know how unpleasant it would be to kill people every time they broke a rule? Tickling is a far more suitable punishment. It takes a lot longer, for a start. And it lasts for however long you want it to. Unless, of course, I sentence someone to ''death'' by tickling.
* ''Fanfic/FlamingFrost'': Contains a nod to the UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic. After causing a [[ChainOfPeople Chain of Cats]] while trying to fish up a Pike to prove his challenge to Mistyfoot is safe, Hawkfrost's punishment is that he must stay within 6 Fox-lengths of Mistyfoot, Leopardstar, or Mothwing. [[spoiler:He is also forbidden from going to gatherings and talking to Brambleclaw.]]
* ''Fanfic/TheMeaningOfOne'': After [[spoiler:their confrontation with Professor Quirrell]], Molly Weasley punishes Harry, Ron and Ginny by making them trim the grass in their meadow. With scissors.
--> '''Molly''': Cut it to three inches tall. The width of your palm should be close enough. You’ll do this on weekdays between breakfast and lunch.
* "An Unusual Punishment" featured the cast of ''Digimon'' being forced to read very bad ''Digimon'' fanfiction....
** There are probably a lot of "characters-[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]-fanfic-of-themselves" fics you could apply this to, depending on which of them actually explain why the characters are sitting around mocking fanfic.
* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/ItsForAGoodCauseISwear "It's For A Good Cause, I Swear!"]] Sasuke's torture of choice when using Tsukyomi on Orochimaru in the Forest of Death? Seventy-two hours of being dragged around to go shopping by Sakura and Ino.
* In the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' fanfic ''Fanfic/ThoseLackingSpines'', Vexen is tortured with the ''Series/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 ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3362802/1/One_Thing_Leads_to_Another One Thing Leads to Another]]'', Beast Boy offers Raven a back massage after their first date and she says that if his hands stray, she will send him to "another dimension -- one where there are no females to give back massages to and no video games, and the only thing on TV is constant reruns of ''[[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney the Dinosaur]]''". He acts properly scared.
* In Chapter 18 of the ''[[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic]]'' fanfic [[http://hawk.kotorfanmedia.com/node/1593 Yet Another Kotor Parody]], Saul Karath tortures RGN, Carth, and Bastila by reading them awful poetry.
* In chapter 10 of ''[[http://http://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/stories/fihp/index.html Friends In High Places]]'' Dennis Sterling, a retired Imperial Navy intelligence officer, recommends the use of an old Yoko Ono recording as an aid to interrogation. "I must confess," Dennis continued, "that I've found a roll of duct tape, a high quality audio headset, and one of her early recordings to be quite useful when questioning a prisoner."
* From ''Fanfic/AnEntryWithABang'':
--> "Repeating what I am about to tell you will result in sanctions including but not limited to removal of rank, discharge from the Global Defense Initiative, and a very, very, very long time in a very, very, very dark hole. Understood?"\\
Dansel nodded. Yes. It must be Tuesday then. On Wednesdays they threaten me with reading bad fanfiction about my life.
* In the ''VideoGame/FusionFall'' fic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6334530/1/Haywire Haywire]]'' [[WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien Ben Tennyson's]] evil genetic double Albedo (who hates humanity and is a misogynist to boot) is the only one that can save Ben's life; naturally, he won't cooperate unless they capitulate to his ridiculous demands despite being offered generous payment and ''not'' being turned over to the SpacePolice. To make him compliant, [[Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls Professor Utonium]] gets... ''creative'' by [[spoiler: hosting an insanely cutesy tea party in Albedo's cell with Bubbles, [[WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory Dee Dee]] and [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy Sarah]] while the girls play movies of an annoying Franchise/MyLittlePony {{Expy}} as they shove sugary foods down Albedo's throat and ''paint his fingernails.'']] It's almost too much for Albedo to take, but he resists... until Utonium brings in [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor Number Three]]. Dexter even calls it "cruel and unusual punishment" as he compliments his adoptive father on raising the bar for said punishment.
-->'''[[WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien Kevin Levin:]]''' Dude, that is ''harsh''.\\
'''Utonium:''' He had his chance.
* In ''Fanfic/TheOfficialFanfictionUniversityOfMiddleEarth'', one punishment involved having to write lines in "Urple" ink, Urple being a colour described as a combination of pink and purple in the worst possible way. It's very hard to write when looking at the ink is painful. Or listening to Bombadil poetry for a whole day.
* An absolutely hilarious example in the ''Fanfic/TamersForeverSeries'':
--> '''Takato:''' IF YOU DARE FINISH THAT SENTENCE I'LL...\\
'''[[spoiler: Chaos:]]''' What? What will you do?\\
'''Takato:''' I'LL...I'LL TAKE A PILL OF PROZAC!\\
'''[[spoiler: Chaos:]]''' You wouldn't dare!\\
'''Takato:''' OH, YES I WOULD!\\
[[spoiler: Chaos']] silence was enough of an answer, he had won that one.\\
'''Ruki:''' 'ut at what price...Prozac, Takato? That's just sick...\\
'''Takato:''' Shut up and let me enjoy this victory...\\
'''[[spoiler: Chaos:]]''' while it lasts...\\
'''Takato:''' I thought SOMEONE was supposed to shut up!
** Even funnier if you know that Prozac is an ANTIDEPRESSANT.
* This scene, from the ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' fic ''Fanfic/UninvitedGuests'':
-->'''Gin:''' Hmmmm... what's that? Looks like a pimple.\\
'''Yumichika:''' [[BigNo NOOOOOOOO!]]\\
'''Gin:''' Oh, geez, are those split ends? Man, your hair is so dry and stringy. It looks awful.\\
'''Yumichika:''' LIAR! LIAR AND MURDERER!\\
'''Gin:''' No, I'm serious. It's like straw or something, it's so dry and desiccated. Although i suppose it helps to take attention away from how bulbous and huge your nose is.\\
'''Yumichika:''' You... you monster...\\
'''Gin:''' I'm surprised you can see that I'm a monster, what with how puffy your eyes are.\\
'''Yumichika:''' No... please... please stop...
* Referenced in the ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion[=/=]ComicBook/GhostRider'' crossover ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6521348/2/Burning_Vengeance Burning Vengeance]]'' with this exchange:
-->'''Yui Ikari:''' [[ItMakesSenseInContext Not that I'm complaining, but how did you convince]] a literal sex demon to get me a wardrobe this tasteful?\\
'''[[OriginalGeneration Mephisto II:]]''' [[RunningGag As I keep saying]], [[{{Catchphrase}} I'm the King of Hell, damnit!]] When I give someone a direct order which isn't all that often, really they obey it or risk a brutal punishment.\\
'''Yui:''' But how the hell do you punish a sex demon who's into ''every single fetish at once?''\\
'''Mephisto II:''' [[TwoWordsAddedEmphasis Two words]]: Enforced. Abstinence.
* In ''Fanfic/AvengerGoddess'', once Nick Fury learns that Natasha has been lying to him for years and maintained a joint loyalty to Fury and Diana, AKA Wonder Woman (who is basically Natasha's adopted mother), he 'punishes' Natasha by assigning her the role of Tony Stark's PA as an undercover assignment.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7405386/1/My-Brother My Brother]]'', when Harry and his sister Emma confirm the Dursleys' abusive treatment of them but decide to stay in Privet Drive for the blood wards' protection, Dumbledore modifies the wards so that, if any of the Dursleys try to harm Harry, Emma, or their pets (Hedwig and Emma's kneazle Mopsus) in any sense, such as Dudley trying to take Emma's food, the Dursleys will turn into animals for up to two hours, Vernon and Dudley becoming pigs while Petunia would turn into a goose.
* In ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'', Quirrell, during a brief stay in Azkaban, manages to break the Auror watching him by ''humming''.
-->And this horrible, horrible humming is impossible to ignore. It is similar to a known lullaby, but it departs from that pattern unpredictably. It sets up expectations and then violates them, never in any constant pattern that would permit the humming to fade into the background. The listener's brain cannot prevent itself from expecting the anti-musical phrases to complete, nor prevent itself from noticing the surprises.\\
The only possible explanation for how this mode of humming came to exist is that it was deliberately designed by some unspeakably cruel genius who woke up one day, feeling bored with ordinary torture, who decided to handicap himself and find out whether he could break someone's sanity ''just by humming at them''.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3639659/2/A-Bad-Week-at-the-Wizengamot A Bad Week at the Wizengamot]]'' Fudge is kicked out of office by the EMU and Sirius becomes Interim Minister. One of his proclamations introduces a "Truth in Government and Media Initiative." Part of the punishment for second offenders among the media is being forced to spend three months writing an "advice to the lovelorn" column called "Dear Hecate," while third offenders' punishment includes a hundred hours of enforced viewing of the Jerry Springer Show.
* This MLP:FIM [[http://alfa995.deviantart.com/art/Diamond-Tiara-s-retribution-261072054 comic]] has Diamond Tiara being tortured by Nightmare Moon. By being forced to eat mashed alfalfa.
* In ''Escape the Hokage's Hat'', Jiraiya makes Homura and Koharu perform 100 D rank missions, and if anyone interferes they have to start all over again. Aside from the fact the two are really old and these missions include digging for potatoes and retrieving a very aggressive cat nearly daily, they don't get paid.
* In ''Broken Bow 3'', Apollo gets back at Armani by making him read ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''. Armani averts this by tricking Artemis into reading it... all while evilly cackling internally.
* In ''Rocking the Boat'' Voldemort notices Bellatrix 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.
* In ''Shadow Snark'', the titular character's small harmless stick.
-->'''Pinky:''' My one weakness!
* In the ''Series/OnceUponATime'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8922640/1/Siren Siren]]'', Emma successfully makes Hook stop pressuring her to sing a song with the threat: "Hook, if you don't back off and get moving right the hell now, the only song you're gonna get from me is '99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall.' And I will sing it off key, and so help me, I will ''deliberately miscount''."
* ''Fanfic/EarthAndSky'': In the penultimate chapter, Celestia finally has the Flim-Flam Brothers brought into custody for all the chaos they've caused, and proceeds to [[spoiler: break down ''crying'', sincerely ashamed of what subjects of hers have done]]. Compared to [[spoiler: seeing their beloved ruler in tears]], Flim and Flam gladly accept a sentence of twenty years' hard labor.
* In ''Fanfic/{{Empire}}'' James and Lily Potter's magical self-updating will bequeaths Dumbledore a bag [[spoiler: of "Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans But [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Lemon Drop]]."]]
* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7989419/3/Hand-Delivered-Letter Hand Delivered Letter]]'' Peeves is caught throwing rocks at the first years and the Bloody Baron announces his punishment is to spend the next month with Moaning Myrtle.
* Examples from ''Fanfic/{{the Calvinverse}}'':
** The first two trials Calvin and Hobbes must undergo in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesIIIDoubleTrouble'': eating a bunch of stale Kit Kat bars and going three miles on a treadmill.
** ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'': Socrates considers living with Calvin's dad this.
* Several examples in ''Fanfic/DiariesOfAMadman'', though Celestia awarding Nav a garish suit of armour and dressing it up as a reward is probably the largest example.
* In ''[[Fanfic/YuGiOhTheThousandYearDoor Yu-Gi-Oh! The Thousand Year Door Redux]]'', Vladimir, who is being held hostage by Count Bleck, questions why he's telling his minions to simply "restrain" Stan, Francesca and Andy:
-->'''Vladimir:''' Restrain them? Seriously, Bleck, that's the first time I've ever heard a dark wizard tell his goons to do anything to the good guys other than 'kill them'. Maybe you're just not cut out for this.
-->'''Bleck:''' Think I'm not being evil enough? Maybe I want to take them alive and then torture them. Maybe [[ScaryScorpions sting them with scorpions?]] [[ShockAndAwe Shock them with electricity?]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Force them to watch game shows?]]
** Actually, [[spoiler: he's being sarcastic, and the real reason is far more complicated: he wants them as witnesses when he puts his true plan in motion.]]
* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has several, usually perpetrated by Doctor Strange.
** When the Minister for Magic in the 1820s tried to strongarm Strange into working for the Ministry's interests, he emerged, gibbering at the sound of bagpipe music and, for whatever reason, spontaneously vomiting whenever he heard the word "parsley."
** He spends the entire finale of ''Unfinished Business'' screwing with the ArcVillain by using MagicMusic with a planetary scale amp (it's that kind of story) to a) undo/suppress her spells and b) annoy the living shit out of her. He later traps said ArcVillain, who'd been using a kind of magic lantern power source, inside a magic golf-ball. While "Another One Bites The Dust" plays in the background. As Peter Parker puts it...
--> "[[{{WesternAnimation/Aladdin}} Phenomenal cosmic powers!]] ''[[{{WesternAnimation/Aladdin}} Itty-bitty]]'' [[{{WesternAnimation/Aladdin}} living space.]]"
** When Harry makes a hash of explaining his [[spoiler: Dark Phoenix]] experience to Ron and Hermione, scaring them witless, he finds one of the texts that Strange has set him - which he wrote - is called ''Blood Magic for Morons''. Yep, he used his powers as a {{Seer}} ''just'' to tell Harry he was being a moron.
** While it was to make his then young apprentice/foster-daughter, Wanda, feel better, he arranged a performance of ''West Side Story''... and, among other things, blackmailed a number of demons into performing.
** The entirety of the ''Mirror Image'' arc, which features Harry having to wrangle the impulsive and well-meaning Clark who often throws himself into danger with no forethought, leads Harry to speculate that Strange is delivering some LaserGuidedKarma.
* In ''[[Fanfic/TheLifeIsAGameMultiverse Naruto: life is a Game]]'', Itachi traps Hidan's mind in a world full of loudly singing Nyan cats for ''seventy-two hours''.
* ''Fanfic/RigTheGameRoyal'': In retaliation for how much Akira inadvertently expanded Kamoshida's confession and the amount of extra work it put onto Akechi, Akechi...gives him a pair of tickets to Madarame's exhibit so that he can 'enjoy' a couple of hours looking at paintings and take Sumire with him so that he'll have someone who can make sure he takes it easy. Lampshaded:
-->'''Akira''': …this is a weird and unusual punishment from you.\\
'''Goro''': It’s the best I could come up within about ten minutes…
* ''Fanfic/TheRigelBlackChronicles'': After [[spoiler:the ruse is busted]], Sirius amuses himself by imposing arbitrary rules on Archie as punishment -- such as spending twenty four hours without using any form of the verb "to be".
* ''Fanfic/TheTwilightChild'' reveals what Pinkie did to her friends after they tried to eat the MMMM (which in this fic also includes Applejack). She takes them to one of the nicer restaurants in Ponyville and buys them a cake. A very large cake, one for each of them. Every time one of them starts feeling like they're full, Pinkie [[TheUnSmile smiles at them]].
* In ''Fanfic/WeresHarry'', [=McGonagall=] punishes Harry for [[spoiler: sneaking off to visit the basilisk without telling anyone where he's going or what he's doing]] by turning him over to his step-godmother and mother-figure, Kalina, who proceeds to use him as a combination pack mule and living dress-up doll all weekend.
* Manga/{{Naruto}} is quite fond of these in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10917821/1/The-questionable-burdens-of-leadership-of-a-troll-Emperor The (Questionable) Burdens of Leadership of a Troll Emperor]]'', mostly because of how effective they are. Jaffa who disobey his orders have to run laps around the palace to "Fan the Flames of Youth". A priestess of Baset who goes on and on about how great Baset was and how she'll smite Naruto is made to oversee the freeing of Baset's slaves (who like all Goa'uld slaves are basically worked to death). People who greatly irritate him with their insistence on defending horrible practices such as slavery are "made to ''see''". That is, Naruto forces them to psychically feel the suffering of the people their actions hurt.
** Xanna punishes one of the Ascended for "daring to attack what's hers" (that is, trying to forcibly descend Oma) by removing all of their powers, leaving them a powerless ghost and, in Xanna's words, leaving them in the perfect position to adhere to their own non-interference laws.
* A common running gag in fanfic ''[[MysteryScienceTheatre3000 MSTings]]'' involves, whenever a FateWorseThanDeath is mentioned in the narrative, the riffers making a comment about reading whatever story they're currently reading. Happens regularly in the classic riffing of ''Literature/TheEyeOfArgon''.
-->'''"The prince would surely have subjected them to the most ghastly of tortures..."'''
-->"Insert joke about having to read The Eye of Argon here."
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8998877/6/Is-it-Too-Late Is it Too Late?]]'' once he becomes a professor, Literature/HarryPotter has to deal with a lot of fangirls in his classes, especially since he's only 16. After he gets tired of girls wearing {{Stripperific}} versions of their uniforms (including at least a few who deliberately flash him), he starts forcing them to wear full platemail armor during his class if they're not properly attired.
* In ''Fanfic/RitesOfAscension'', the punishment for the neglectful, shallow, elitist, racist, and borderline abusive social-climber mother of the new Grand Mage for what amounts to blatant lèse-majesté (Princess Celestia regarding herself as much "Mud Pony" as anything)? Twilight Sparkle giving Twilight Velvet her old job as Ponyville Librarian... and her old assignment of weekly friendship reports.
* In ''Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops'', the most common punishment for crashing a loop is being sent to a 'punishment loop'- a boring and unpleasant setting where the loopers' powers are sealed and they are [[{{Railroading}} railroaded]] onto the canon plot. The best-known punishment loop is Eiken (a bland {{Fanservice}}-[[WorldOfBuxom filled]] wish-fulfillment-but-not-for-you high school), but there are others. Teletubbies has been used as a punishment loop, and [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle]] has had My Little Pony G3 punishment loops.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' fanfic ''Fanfic/GazDreamsOfGenie'', an impulsive offhand comment while making her first wish results in Gaz accidentally [[RetGone making it so Dib was never born]]. As a result, she finds herself as a worker drone slave in an AlternateTimeline where Zim has [[VillainWorld conquered the Earth]]. When she refuses to go along with her new role, she's sentenced to the Chamber of Torment... but since it's full, she instead gets put in the Chamber of Moderate Annoyance, where she's sprayed with itching powder, mustard, and skunk stink, gets pelted by live squirrels, and gets wedgied by a robotic arm. And as the cherry on top, while she's dangling in midair from the wedgie, speakers start playing a recording of [[ItsAllAboutMe Zim's autobiography]].
* In ''Fanfic/ThisBites'' in order for her to apologize properly for harming her father, Vivi requests that Robin write him a 20-page-long apology... with her real hands.
* After the Wolkenritter are captured in ''Fanfic/TakamachiNanohaOf2814'', they are sentenced to fill out all the paperwork connected to the various crimes they committed. In triplicate.
* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2543735/chapters/5655182 The Lovers Left Broken]]'' Laurel encounters a drunken Thea, surrounded by a bunch of "friends" also drunk and high. In order to talk to Thea, she scares them away by threatening to call their parents, and makes it a legitimate threat:
-->'''Laurel:''' My name is Laurel Lance. I'm an attorney. My father is a detective with SCPD. Kids, it is not your lucky night. I make one call and you're all spending the night in the drunk tank. Or worse. I could call your parents. Tell me, what else would the cops find in your system? More importantly, what happens to your trust funds if your parents have to crawl out of their 300 thread count Egyptian cotton sheets and leave their vast mansions to come down to the precinct in the middle of the night to bail out their kid?...I am giving you one chance, one chance to go outside, get in the cabs I've called for you, sneak into your beds, and keep pretending you're perfect, angelic children in the morning. You have five seconds to make your choice. In five seconds, I call my father. In ten seconds, I call yours.
-->'''Thea's Friends''' ''([[ScrewThisImOuttaHere flee before she gets to 3]])''.
* In the ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' TrollFic "Canada Goes Bonkers" Canada's horrible tortures include forcing Austria and Hungary to listen to Music/{{Nickelback}} on headphones and threatening to make Germany watch "shitty reality TV like ''Series/JerseyShore''."
* In ''Batman: Melody for a Mockingbird'' Bruce and his bride-to-be Selina punish Damian for fighting in school by making him go wedding dress shopping with the girls where he's slowly bored to death. It's so effective that he's tempted to drink complementary champagne just to make the trip less painful.
* ''Fanfic/XMenTheEarlyYears'': In "Hit Women, Goats, and Other Vacation Blunders", ComicBook/JeanGrey catches a thief who had the temerity to snatch her purse, but she reveals her powers in the process. She doesn't want to mind-wipe him or let him go, so Warren finds a way to keep him around as they go shopping until he's willing to confess his crimes to the police without ratting them out.
-->"You're kidding right?" Jean Grey glared at Warren rather coldly. "There is no way I'm wearing that outfit."\\
"Trust me on this one Jean," Warren looked at her earnestly. "Wearing this outfit, no one is even going to blink at you leading around a tied and gagged man by a dog collar."\\
"Did you bring a whip, too?" Jean asked coldly.\\
"I hope so," Hank said, trying very hard to keep a straight face. "It would be the only accessory to complement that outfit... or maybe a handcuff belt. But that defiantly shouts 'cat-o-nine tails' to me. Warren's right, though; no one is going to think twice."
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9335146/1/Starscream-The-Predacon-Whisperer Starscream - The Predacon Whisperer]]'', [[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime Megatron]] punishes Starscream for losing the Apex Armor by making him wash Predaking, while secretly hoping that Predaking will kill Starscream in the process. [[spoiler: It ultimately fails when Starscream ends up befriending the Predacon, and they fall asleep together.]]
* ''Fanfic/WhiteSheepRWBY'': After Blake sneaks out to infiltrate a terrorist rally without telling her team, they decide to make her wear a bell as punishment. Worse, they figured she'd just wear it on her wrist, but when she put it on as a collar they decided to make that part of the punishment; everyone who sees it assumes it's some weird sex thing. Eventually her punishment expires, but Blake forgets to take the bell off, and all her friends think it's too hilarious to remind her. She wears it for the rest of the story.
* ''Fanfic/TheMoonsFlashPrincess'': Asuna's punishment for people who disobey and/or annoy her, turn them into her dress-up dolls and parade them around to the others.
* ''Fanfic/ISawGraysonKissingSantaClaus'': For not just causing the events of the story but also escalating them, Alfred forces Jason to spend Christmas with the family. For Jason, who did all that for the sake of trolling said family, it's the worst punishment he could ever receive.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12909945/19/Professor-Arc-Student-of-Vacuo Professor Arc: Student of Vacuo]]'', Glynda gives a twofer threat to Nora and Yang. First, if they ever "obscene and unskilled display" as their last spar again, they'll have to spar against her. Second, if they don't start learning how to dodge rather than tanking every attack, they'll only be allowed to spar against [[AdaptationalBadass Jaune]] and Neo, and yes, their losses will count against their official rankings.
* ''Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit'':
** In the last chapter of the sequel ''Diplomat at Large'', in response to the Diamond Dogs of Dimondia essentially enslaving Trixie, Twilight threatens to call Rarity down on them. They give in almost immediately.
** In chapter 6 of the second sequel, ''Diplomacy Through Schooling'', when discussing what'll happen when they find Sunburst, Twilight says that if he doesn't have a good reason for breaking off contact with Starlight, she'll... "give him the nose-honking of a lifetime". And then she'll call her mom in to have words with him. Spike actually finds this second part a reasonable and threatening punishment when she says it, shuddering in response.
* ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'': During "The Platinum Kingdom", Trixie and Lyra speculate the Element Bearer's diplomatic tour is one of these, courtesy of Princess Luna, for their actions during the Grand Galloping Gala.
* What Ami claims to do in ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi''. When an enemy Keeper gathers tens of thousands of innocents for a mass human sacrifice, gouging out their eyes, Ami rescues them all and heals their eyes out of genuine sympathy. Since she has to keep up the appearance of evil to prevent her minions from deserting, she claims she's rubbing her victory in the face of that enemy Keeper; she's so powerful that she can undo everything he did, out of spite.
* Cobra Commander in ''[[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/series/atlas-shrugged/the-cobra-commander-dialogues/ The Cobra Commander Dialogues]]'' is disgusted with an Objectivist doctor who made a cure for strokes and didn't share his research. Not only does Cobra Commander steal the cure, he tells the doctor that he would have sold it at an exorbitant price (he ''is'' a cartoon villain, after all), but the doctor's sheer apathy and LackOfEmpathy disgusted him so much that he'll distribute the cure for free worldwide, just to spite him. Since the doctor believes that the unwashed masses are unworthy of his work, he is horrified.
* An ambiguously canon omake of ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'' has Itachi capture an Amegakure shinobi and prepares to torture him for information using Tsukuyomi... by forcing him to watch the whole {{filler}} [[ShowWithinAShow season of a show named]] ''[[ShowWithinAShow Haruto]]'', which he describes as "[[TakeThat 72 hours of mediocre writing, forgettable characters, cheap animation and nonsensical yet predictable plots]]".
* ''Fanfic/DominoesStarWarsTheCloneWars'': Captain Rex punishes Fives for disobeying orders during the Blue Shadow Virus crisis by making him give [[LethalKlutz Jar Jar]] [[WalkingDisasterArea Binks]] firearm safety training. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Fives bails]] after Jar Jar [[EpicFail nearly kills everyone at the firing range in an explosion caused by his]] RecklessGunUsage.
* ''Fanfic/ForeverAndAMile'' gives some AdaptationalExplanation as to what happened to Orbot when he told Oprah about O'Brian's tube-blocking -- he got sent to the moon and hasn't come back due to the tubes being broken. Taken into consideration, it's clear to see why Octavia, one of O'Brian's latest bullying victims, doesn't want to incur his wrath.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11331407/4/Supreme-Champion Supreme Champion]]'' the goblins put Dumbledore in the Comfy Chair, hit him with a wiffle bat and make him listen to the most talkative and annoying goblin they can find.
* In ''Fanfic/ManehattansLoneGuardian'', when Leviathan doesn't respond when Drama Heart asks her to do something for her, the unicorn threatens to hug her. For most, being hugged by a pastel pony would probably be a dream come true, but for Leviathan it's a hassle she doesn't want in light of their rather grabby first meeting.
* In ''Fanfic/IReincarnatedAsAMinorVillainessAndSurvivedPastMyDeathScene'', Duo will feed the most sugary sweet treats ever to anyone annoying him. When Meilan calls him out on this, he gleefully declares he will stop only when it won't work anymore.
* 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]].
* In ''Fanfic/LaterTraitor'', Frazie promises to braid the Night-Mare’s mane if it tries to torment its host again. Given its mane is made out of [[BodyHorror assorted arms and limbs]], it’s a surprisingly painful and effective threat.
* 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, with Raven's powers half-wrecking 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 (along with pics of the damage) with all the Titan Network, with the comment that the two are only allowed to have sex now in a very well warded room.
-->‘''Leave it to Robin to come up with a punishment this unreasonably cruel.''’ The chime of the communicators continued for several minutes as the two tried their respective best to shut out the rest of the world.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14043306/25/The-Guile-of-the-Traveller The Guile of the Traveller]]'':
-->'''Grindelwald:''' You lost the Flamels! You lost my LAST AND ONLY chance at finding the Peverells – I HOPE YOU ARE VERY HAPPY WITH YOURSELVES! NO SHOPPING TRIPS FOR A MONTH FOR YOU, GOLDSTEIN, OR YOU ROSIER! AND CREDENCE – YOU WILL BE WEARING WHATEVER COLOUR I DECIDE FROM NOW UNTIL YULE!
[[/folder]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingMaurice'', Malicia is punished by her father by being locked ''out'' of her room.

** To which the little brother retaliated by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q14JT8pcc-I painting the older brother's car pink]].

** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'': Draco Malfoy is caught trying to hex Harry from behind, at which point Moody / [[spoiler:Barty Crouch Jr.]] transfigures him into a white ferret and proceeds to bounce him around the room while lecturing him, [[spoiler:with his anger also being partially directed at [[SinsOfTheFather Draco's father,]] who had the means to avoid Azkaban that Crouch Jr. did not]]. When Professor [=McGonagall=] catches him, [[spoiler:Crouch Jr.]] begrudgingly admits that he was told something by Dumbledore about not using Transfiguration as punishment, but he "forgot."

* [[Podcast/CastleSuperBeast]] had a segment where Pat and Woolie were talking about people who tamper with food as a prank - noting how dangerous that is by potentially spreading allergens to someone who could suffer anphylaxis, or someone with a compromised immune system dying from their germs. While this is punishable (quite severely in fact), Woolie further suggests anyone caught doing this should be forced by law to only be allowed to eat food [[LaserGuidedKarma that someone has visibly spat in for a year]], monitored the entire time and given replacements if they try to dispose of it. This suggestion drives the germaphobic Pat into a laughing fit as he desperately tries not to suffer a panic attack from the visualization.