History Main / CorporalPunishment

* Referenced but not actually seen in "Baggy Trousers" by Music/{{Madness}}, where the headmaster of TheGoodOldBritishComp "Sits alone and bends his cane/Same old backsides again". There's also a reference to a teacher breaking up a fight by hitting one of the kids with a plastic cup.

* [[ValuesDissonance Most startlingly]], in the [[CrystalSpiresFuture gentle and utopian]] setting of ''Literature/ATaleOfTimeCity'', eight-year-old CheerfulChild Sam is "hit" by his father, the police chief, for stealing money (by the equivalent of credit-card fraud). It's enough to dampen his spirits. [[spoiler: And then his twelve-year-old "cousin", the victim of the theft, rams a butterpie into his face and down his neck, with much the same intent.]]

* [[ValuesDissonance Most startlingly]], in the gentle and utopian setting of ''Literature/ATaleOfTimeCity'', eight-year-old CheerfulChild Sam is "hit" by his father, the police chief, for stealing money (by the equivalent of credit-card fraud). It's enough to dampen his spirits. [[spoiler: And then his twelve-year-old "cousin", the victim of the theft, rams a butterpie into his face and down his neck, with much the same intent.]]

* In another Diana Wynne Jones book, ''Literature/TheOgreDownstairs'', the Ogre spanks Johnny and Malcolm with a backbrush.

* WhipItGood

* It's mentioned in ''LightNovel/WashioSumiIsAHero'', the prequel LightNovel to ''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero'', that, while in the past teachers physically harming students to any degree was an issue, corporal punishment is allowed as long as it's not excessive. When Gin gets late to school, her teacher taps her on the head with the attendance sheet.

* Given the infamous temper of ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck'', you had better believe this shows up in older issues of the ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse''! In Donald's own comics, one of the most frequent endings to stories in which either the nephews cause trouble or Donald feels they "deserve" to be punished (unfairly or not) is either Donald chasing the nephews with a butt-whipping stick in hand, or the triplets recovering from being spanked. Ironically, in the comics with Scrooge [=McDuck=], it's not unheard of for Donald himself to have to flee from his ''own'' angry uncle lest he get a spanking himself! At least one comic has both happen at the same time, with the triplets fleeing a stick-wielding Donald who is at the same time fleeing a cane-wielding Scrooge.

* ''Film/TheBlackPhone'': Gwen gets a good spanking, followed by an order not to ice her sore bottom.

* ''Film/TheBlackPhone'': Gwen gets a good spanking, followed by an order not to ice her stinging bottom.

* ''Film/BillyClub2013'': When the protagonists get to a gas station, Danny goes around the back and sees an old man holding a kid by the arm and yelling at him for breaking a rule, even slapping him across the face. Seeing this makes Danny think back to that fateful Little League game in 1981.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Peggy gets her unruly class in order by spanking them, but gets in trouble with the school. She then gets backed up by Cotton and his band of WWII vets as "Paddlin' Peggy" and becomes a local celebrity (important that for many parents at the time of the episode, paddlings in class were not a distant memory).

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* In ''Film/ThePublicEnemy'', it is suggested that one of the reasons why Tom Powers (Creator/JamesCagney) became a vicious bootlegger was [[FreudianExcuse because his father regularly spanked him when he was a kid]].

** [[TyrantTakesTheHelm Umbridge]] uses this when she is named Headmaster in ''[[Literature/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.

** In "Hurricane Neddy", Ned Flanders was completely unruly as a child due to his hippie parents refusing to discipline him. A therapist chose to use the "University of Minnesota Spankalogical Protocol" which involved eight months of non-stop spanking. [[GoneHorriblyRight It got Ned to behave but it also taught him to completely repress all negative emotion and left him unable to healthily express his anger]].

This does ''not'' mean a punishment issued by or to a low ranking NCO, though this can overlap with the actual meaning in a military setting. Nor does it refer to Krusty the Clown's third-ranked TV sidekick on ''TheSimpsons''. Also not to be confused with [[PublicExecution capital punishment]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Ned Flanders was completely unruly as a child due to his hippie parents refusing to discipline him. A therapist chose to use the "University of Minnesota Spankalogical Protocol" which involved eight months of non-stop spanking. It got Ned to behave but it also taught him to completely repress all negative emotion and left him unable to healthily express his anger.
** Another episode has Otto the bus driver suspended[[note]][[RuleOfFunny With pay!]][[/note]] as a penalty for spanking Bart after the latter commandeered the bus earlier.

* Corporal punishment in form of caning (a number of lashes of ½" rattan stick delivered by a martial arts specialist) is a feature in both Malaysian and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore Singaporean]] Criminal Code. Depending on the number of the lashes, the caning may permanently maim the convict.

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'':