History Main / CorporalPunishment

* ''{{Gundam}}'' is extremely fond of having people beat on their subordinates. Sometimes it's to [[GetAholdOfYourselfMan knock some sense into them]], but just as often it's just punishment for misdeeds.
** Kamille from ''ZetaGundam'' gets beaten up ''a lot''. It doesn't help that he has no respect for authority and is a decent martial artist on top of being a Gundam pilot. Two of these times even reached MemeticMutation status through the "ZETA PAUNCH" videos.

** Shinn from ''GundamSeedDestiny'' gets slapped around by Athrun for disobeying orders. Shinn being Shinn, all it does is make him resentful.
* GurrenLagann uses it at least once: [[DarkActionGirl Adiane]] beats up on an already injured [[TheRival Viral]] (with her ''[[BewareMyStingerTail scorpion tail]]'') for his failure against the heroes.

* In ThePrinceOfTennis, while Tezuka prefers to punish unruly members via assigning laps (or other forced physical effort methods, in the case of Oishi punishing Momo and Kaidoh when they were first years), Sanada from Rikkaidai resorts to slapping his teamates around. So far he has slapped Jackal, Marui, and Kirihara for different transgressions. [[spoiler: Subverted twice later: Kirihara keeps Sanada from slapping Yanagi via blocking the blow with his racket and vowing to win, and later Sanada actually asks his teammates to slap ''him''.]]

Subtropes include:
* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff
* SpankTheCutie
* ATasteOfTheLash

* In ''BarryLyndon'', Barry participates in a gauntlet

* ''If....'' has a lengthy scene in which Mick (MalcolmMcDowell) and his friends are caned by the prefects. Afterwards they have to shake the prefect by the hand and thank him - a common tradition in public schools, apparently.

* RudyardKipling seems to be an advocate. In ''Literature/TheJungleBook'', both Baloo and Bagheera occasionally smack the young Mowgli for disobedience (and almost getting them killed), while in ''Literature/JustSoStories'' this is seen as the cure for the Elephant's Child's 'satiable curiosity.

* There's a RowanAtkinson sketch called [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q-2TAfM3Fg "Fatal Beatings"]] where he's a headmaster of a Public School which uses corporal punishment, where one of the students has died from it.

* In ThePrinceOfTennis, while Tezuka prefers to punish unruly members via assigning laps (or other forced physical effort methods, in the case of Ooishi punishing Momo and Kaidoh when they were first years), Sanada from Rikkaidai resorts to slapping his teamates around. So far he has slapped Jackal, Marui, and Kirihara for different transgressions. [[spoiler: Subverted twice later: Kirihara keeps Sanada from slapping Yanagi, and later Sanada actually asks his teammates to slap ''him''.]]

* {{Gundam}} is extremely fond of having people beat on their subordinates. Sometimes it's to [[GetAholdOfYourselfMan knock some sense into them]], but just as often it's just punishment for misdeeds.

* ''If....'' has a lengthy scene in which Mick (MalcolmMcdowall) and his friends are caned by the prefects. Afterwards they have to shake the prefect by the hand and thank him - a common tradition in public schools, apparently.

* RudyardKipling seems to be an advocate. Both Baloo and Bagheera occasionally smack the young [[TheJungleBook Mowgli]] for disobedience (and almost getting them killed), while in ''Literature/JustSoStories'' this is seen as the cure for the Elephant's Child's 'satiable curiosity.

* DeadPoetsSociety features corporal punishment as a means of disciplining at least one student.

** Usso from VictoryGundam is at the receiving end once as well, after TeamDad Oliver severely reprimands him [[WhatWereyouThinking for almost getting captured due to his own imprudence.]]

* GurrenLagann uses it at least once: [[DarkActionGirl Adiane]] beats up on [[TheRival Viral]] (with her ''[[BewareMyStingerTail scorpion tail]]'') for his failure against the heroes.

* In the ''WheelOfTime'' series, this is known as Mortification of the Flesh, and is a possible penance for initiates of the White Tower, although hard labour is far more common. Since honour is a big deal in the setting, it is considered preferable to Mortification of the Spirit, i.e. public humiliation.

** Kamille from ''ZetaGundam'' gets beaten up ''a lot''. It doesn't help that he has no respect for authority and is a decent martial artist on top of being a Gundam pilot.

* In ''{{Saiyuki}} Gaiden'' Kenren is given a punishment that pretty much comes down to locking him in a cell and anyone who wants to can come and have a go at him, doesn't help that he's pissed a lot of people off.

Depending on the situation, corporal punishment can be played for comedy, horror, drama, or Rule34. Most likely to be seen in military or school settings.

Depending on the situation, corporal punishment can be played for comedy, horror, or drama. Most likely to be seen in military or school settings.

* {{Matilda}} has the headmistress employ corporal punishment at any chance she can get. She even once spun a girl around and threw her by her pigtails, ''a la'' the hammer throw.

* Parodied (and turned into a sexual innuendo) in the ''RippingYarns'' pilot "Tomkinson's Schooldays", where schoolboys periodically have to beat their headmaster.

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But you can't tell your boyfriend about it! He'd freak out and leave you, or worse. But then, you can't keep it a secret forever, either. At some point, one of your supernatural incidents will inevitably happen exactly when you were having a romantic dinner. Or maybe your relationship has simply reached the next level, and you feel that you need to be completely honest with him.

So what now? How will he react? Well, it turns out he's perfectly okay (well, for the most part he's perfectly okay) and understanding with it! That's right, as a reward for your sacrifices, the PowersThatBe will make sure that you end up with a truly noble and loving soul who loves you for who you are and doesn't care what you are. So no worries!

This trope is a DoubleStandard, in that wives and girlfriends are pretty much automatically accepting of their ActionHero husband/boyfriend's actions, whereas the number of husbands/boyfriends who automatically accept that their significant other is an ActionGirl are pretty thin on the ground. For the guy who is a super and needs a girlfriend, his powers are often a plus for her (because AllGirlsWantBadBoys). For women, finding a guy who truly doesn't have a problem with dating someone with superpowers when he's a {{Muggle}} is the bigger issue, because, well, NoGuyWantsAnAmazon.

Compare ButYourWingsAreBeautiful, when a disguise forms part of the powers. Compare to ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend for the ActionGirl [[InvertedTrope variant.]] Compare and contrast BoyMeetsGhoul, for the guy/girl who is on the other end of this trope. See also TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife, which is an aversion of this trope.

!!Examples:
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* The central premise of ''[[NogizakaHarukaNoHimitsu The Secrets of Haruka Nogizaka]]''. The titular girl is an otaku.
* Ditto with ''[[OreImo My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute]]''. Except that the guy is not a boyfriend, but the big brother... [[{{Squick}} yeah]].
* Austria from ''AxisPowersHetalia'', in regards to his VictoriousChildhoodFriend Hungary. While he's concerned for her well-being, in the end he knows that if she wants to fight, he better lets her... since she will go [[OneManArmy One Woman Army]] and destroy the enemy. Considering their childhood, [[LoveAtFirstPunch he knows it beforehand]]!
* [[ShamanKing Keiko Asakura]] had been dumped by ''every'' single boyfriend she had when they learnt she was able to see spirits. Until the last JerkAss left her and a penniless musician with similar abilities comforted her. That guy was Mikihisa, and she would marry him.
* Horribly deconstructed with [[spoiler: Shiso and Ceres]] in ''AyashiNoCeres''. [[spoiler: Shiso started like this, but being left helpless when he and Ceres got attacked [[IJustWantToBeSpecial made him very frustrated]], so he asked Ceres to give him a part of her powers [[IWillProtectHer so he wouldn't be a burden on her.]] But then, [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity said powers turned out to be too much to handle]], and ItGotWorse...]]


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* [[NiceGuy Kong]] is this to [[XMen Kitty Pryde]] in UltimateMarvel, even going so far as to yell "You're welcome!" at AllOfTheOtherReindeer for not thanking her when she saves their lives.
* Back in the GoldenAge, Steve Trevor was this for WonderWoman (a remarkably progressive move for the times), and not at all threatened by the idea of getting rescued by or mooning over a woman who was twenty times stronger than him. The Silver and Bronze Age characterizations of him were...[[TooDumbToLive unfortunately]] [[JerkAss less so]], which probably led to him being deleted from continuity PostCrisis.
* In an old What If comic, Jimmy Olsen married Supergirl because of amnesia. Once she recovers and lets him know, he's totally fine with being married to Superman's cousin.

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* In ''InnocentBlood'', FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Marie has her understanding CopBoyfriend Joe.

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* Elend in Brandon Sanderson's ''{{Mistborn}}''. At least [[spoiler:until he gets superpowers himself.]]
* Seth in ''WickedLovely''. When Aislinn tells him that she can see faeries, he has exactly one moment of "Is this a joke?" before accepting it and trying to help her with her faery situation.

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* The ''GhostWhisperer'' features Jim the Understanding Husband.
* Both [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] and played straight in ''{{Bewitched}}''. The original Darrin (Dick York) was less than understanding, to the point of being downright hostile to Samantha when she used her magic. TheOtherDarrin (Dick Sargeant), on the other hand, tried his hardest to be understanding, the point that it was more the fault of Endora and the rest of Samantha's family that TheOtherDarrin didn't get along with witches.
* Played with in the ''SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' TV series. Harvey ''does'' leave Sabrina when he finds out she's a witch, not out of intolerance but because she'd been using magic to mess with his life for years. He eventually does come back to her, though, and says he never had a problem with her being a witch per se.
* Zack was the "gay best friend" equivalent of this in ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', at least until ExecutiveMeddling got in the way.
* Unless she's dating one of the undead, Buffy never got this on ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' (even Riley, who was himself a demon fighting super-soldier, had an inferiority complex due to dating a genuine superhero). It's Willow who hit the boyfriend jackpot with Oz; upon being told the truth about the supernatural world she runs in, he replies, "Actually, it explains a lot," and just goes with the flow from there.
* Tyler Ford in ''TheMiddleman'''s unaired season finale (released as a comic)...[[spoiler:at least, until MM pushes the ResetButton]].
* Allison's husband Joe on ''{{Medium}}'' believes in her powers and is understanding and accepting of them.
* In ''{{Series/Merlin}}'', 2x09. Merlin discovers [[spoiler: Freya turns into a bastet at night, but he isn´t afraid and stills takes care of her. He even pets her cat´s head...]]
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* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/understanding/ this]] ''WapsiSquare'' comic. Also the page quote.
* {{Subverted}} (although this may be a retrospective way of seeing it) in ''SluggyFreelance''. Leo seems to be accepting of all the weird things Zoë tells about happening to her - but it turns out that was only because he thought she was lying. In the words of another jerk he hangs out with, "You've got to respect a girl who realizes romantic relationships are based on lies and goes to town with it!" As soon as Leo finds out it was all true, he feels betrayed, and they eventually break off.

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* [[PhineasAndFerb Candace]] seems to have this with Jeremy. Despite all of Candace's attempts to put a stop to PhineasAndFerb's projects, the guy never, ever seems to lose his cool, and they're still an item.
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* [[JojosBizarreAdventure ZA WARUDO!]]
* ''{{Sonic Adventure 2}}''.
* ''ShadowTheHedgehog''.
* ''Okami''.
* ''{{Onimusha}} 4'': Jubei Yagyu's special ability to slow down time.
* ''MegaManX 5'': When you use Dark Hold. And hence, TatsunokoVsCapcom.
* The Unknown from ''KingdomHearts: BirthBySleep'' will cast Stop on you and rewind time a few seconds to heal himself, with this effect.

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* ''{{Persona 3}}'': The whole world is covered in a green filter during the Dark Hour
* ''DarkerThanBlack'': When Amber/February users her powers she and whoever else she chooses to affect turns gold and is able to move around while the rest of the world is tinted in a strange purple or blue color.
* ''[[{{Discworld}} The Thief Of Time]]'': The visual effects are described in a way that's [[ShownTheirWork actually sort of plausible]]: everything ahead of Lobsang is blue-shifted, while on the one occasion he glances behind him while moving the view is red-shifted to impenetrability.
* In ''PrinceOfPersia: The Forgotten Sands'', the timestopped world is simply darker.
* ''The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Everything'': Uses a red filter.
* ''ShakuganNoShana'': The sky becomes dark red.
* ''{{Bayonetta}}'': The Witch Time tints the world in dark blue.
* ''CardCaptorSakura'': Everything turns a shade of gold.
* ''{{Homestuck}}'': A red zodiac appears on the victim, who flashes red. [[http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003664 As seen here]]. It doesn't seem to be in effect for all timestops though, just some.
* GhostTrick: The ghost world is basically the normal world with time stopped and a tinted filter over it, different ghosts receiving different colored filters.
* RedDeadRedemption has it's bullet time filtered in a sepia screen.
* In ''BunnyMustDie'', the world turns bluish when time stops, red when time is reversed, and yellow when time is slowed.
* In the non-fighting games of TouhouProject, the screen darkens when Sakuya stops time.
* The ''MegaManBattleNetwork'' and ''MegaManStarForce'' games have some chips/cards which freeze the action while they play out; these darken the screen.

Corporal punishment is the practice of deliberately inflicting physical pain as a form of punishment. The most minor version is generally children getting a swat on the backside from their parents, while the opposite extreme can lead all the way to ColdBloodedTorture. Note that it ''only'' counts as corporal punishment if it's legitimately inflicted -- PoliceBrutality and the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique are illegal, and thus don't qualify. A DopeSlap from one friend to another might count as an "informal" version, though, if you consider one's peers to be a legitimate authority.

Subtropes include:
* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff
* SpankTheCutie
* ATasteOfTheLash

Depending on the situation, corporal punishment can be played for comedy, horror, or drama. Most likely to be seen in military or school settings.

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[[folder:Anime]]
* {{Gundam}} is extremely fond of having people beat on their subordinates. Sometimes it's to [[GetAholdOfYourselfMan knock some sense into them]], but just as often it's just punishment for misdeeds.
** Kamille from ''ZetaGundam'' gets beaten up ''a lot''. It doesn't help that he has no respect for authority and is a decent martial artist on top of being a Gundam pilot.
** Shinn from ''GundamSeedDestiny'' gets slapped around by Athrun for disobeying orders. Shinn being Shinn, all it does is make him resentful.
* GurrenLagann uses it at least once: [[DarkActionGirl Adiane]] beats up on [[TheRival Viral]] (with her ''[[BewareMyStingerTail scorpion tail]]'') for his failure against the heroes.
* In ''{{Saiyuki}} Gaiden'' Kenren is given a punishment that pretty much comes down to locking him in a cell and anyone who wants to can come and have a go at him, doesn't help that he's pissed a lot of people off.
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[[folder:Film]]
* ''FullMetalJacket'' has [[DrillSergeantNasty Gunnery Sgt. Hartman]] generally abusing his Marine recruits during the first part of the movie.
* In ''BarryLyndon'', Barry participates in a gauntlet
* ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' has Johnny Rico getting ATasteOfTheLash as "Administrative Punishment" for his carelessness resulting in the death of a fellow recruit. [[DrillSergeantNasty Fleet Sergeant Zim]] gives him a rolled up wad of leather to bite down on, telling him that it will help him cope with the pain.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'' uses ATasteOfTheLash as actual judicial punishment assigned by a court martial, and also discusses the fact that ''any'' corporal punishment (from a DopeSlap to a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to ''summary execution'') is legal as long as the punisher can demonstrate that it was necessary and reasonable.
* HarryPotter features it more than once.
** In the early books, a minor character is constantly petitioning for permission to string troublemakers up with chains and other similarly pleasant things. It's mostly played for laughs.
** [[TyrantTakesTheHelm Umbridge]] uses this when she is named Headmaster in ''[[HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]''. Particularly nasty is the "[[FanNickname blood quill]]", which carves whatever the user writes into their hand as they write it.
** It's implied to get rather worse at Hogwarts in ''[[HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows DeathlyHallows]]'', where Neville is basically covered in scars from the school year.
* {{Matilda}} has the headmistress employ corporal punishment at any chance she can get. She even once spun a girl around and threw her by her pigtails, ''a la'' the hammer throw.
* RudyardKipling seems to be an advocate. Both Baloo and Bagheera occasionally smack the young [[TheJungleBook Mowgli]] for disobedience (and almost getting them killed), while in ''Literature/JustSoStories'' this is seen as the cure for the Elephant's Child's 'satiable curiosity.
* Not directly featured in the book Cryer's Cross, but excessive whipping at a (defunct at the time the book takes place) school is the entire reason people are disappearing. [[spoiler: It created the ghosts entombed in the desk, which are getting into the heads of the kids who sit there and making them bury themselves alive at the site of the school.]]
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* There's a RowanAtkinson sketch called [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q-2TAfM3Fg "Fatal Beatings"]] where he's a headmaster of a Public School which uses corporal punishment, where one of the students has died from it.
-->''"We've had a lot of trouble recently with boys taking out library books without library cards. Your son was caught. I administered a beating, during which he died. But you'll be glad to know the ringleader was caught."''
* Parodied (and turned into a sexual innuendo) in the ''RippingYarns'' pilot "Tomkinson's Schooldays", where schoolboys periodically have to beat their headmaster.
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* ''[[{{Film/StarshipTroopers}} Starship Troopers]]'' has Johnny Rico getting ATasteOfTheLash as "Administrative Punishment" for his carelessness resulting in the death of a fellow recruit. [[DrillSergeantNasty Fleet Sergeant Zim]] gives him a rolled up wad of leather to bite down on, telling him that it will help him cope with the pain.

* StarshipTroopers uses ATasteOfTheLash as actual judicial punishment assigned by a court martial, and also discusses the fact that ''any'' corporal punishment (from a DopeSlap to a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to ''summary execution'') is legal as long as the punisher can demonstrate that it was necessary and reasonable.
** Indeed, they even use the punishment preemptively when it looks like a Trooper is about to do something that will get them in more trouble. At one point, an NCO is reprimanded for ''not'' striking an angry recruit soon enough, because instead the recruit got close enough to strike the NCO, and thus warranted a far worse punishment than a simple beatdown.

* ''[[{{Film/StarshipTroopers}} Starship Troopers'']] has Johnny Rico getting ATasteOfTheLash as "Administrative Punishment" for his carelessness resulting in the death of a fellow recruit. [[DrillSergeantNasty Fleet Sergeant Zim]] gives him a rolled up wad of leather to bite down on, telling him that it will help him cope with the pain.

* ''[[{{film/StarshipTroopers}} Starship Troopers'']] has Johnny Rico getting ATasteOfTheLash as "Administrative Punishment" for his carelessness resulting in the death of a fellow recruit. [[DrillSergeantNasty Fleet Sergeant Zim]] gives him a rolled up wad of leather to bite down on, telling him that it will help him cope with the pain.

* FullMetalJacket has [[DrillSergeantNasty Gunnery Sgt. Hartman]] generally abusing his Marine recruits during the first part of the movie.

* In [[Barry Lyndon]], Barry participates in a gauntlet

* RudyardKipling seems to be an advocate. Both Baloo and Bagheera occasionally smack the young [[TheJungleBook Mowgli]] for disobedience (and almost getting them killed), while in ''JustSoStories'' this is seen as the cure for the Elephant's Child's 'satiable curiosity.