History Main / ShockCollar

* 1970's-80's British ''Starblazer''. The Slave Collar had variable pain settings to punish wearers who disobeyed their owner.

* In a case of Shock Collars being used for good, in ''BatmanArkhamAsylum'' the inmates have shock collars that double as life sign monitors. We see them demonstrated at the beginning as the only thing that can help keep Killer Croc under control in a ChekhovsGun moment.

* This happened in ''MahouSenseiNegima'' to the girls under slavery in the magical world.
* In ''{{Slayers}}'' captured Lina Inverse was restrained by a circlet that zapped her when she tried to use magic. They really haven't a slightest idea what [[AloofBigBrother her big sister]] used to [[GoodIsNotNice put her through]], however...
* InuYasha has a collar of enchanted prayer beads (or rosary) designed to make him hit the ground whenever Kagome says "Osuwari" or "Sit" / "Sit, boy". Kagome is an easily pissed off {{Tsundere}} Type B. Bad day for InuYasha.

* In ''{{MOTHER3}}'', Salsa the monkey has a Shock Collar that is used by Fassad to punish him.

* BoysLoveGenre ''AiNoKusabi'''s plot revolves around how BadassBiker Riki was made into a SexSlave by [[BastardBoyfriend Iason Mink]]. Each "Pet" gets an identity ring in the standard form of jewelry like earrings, necklaces and such. Iason uniquely makes Riki's a cock ring which doubles as a RestrainingBolt ShockCollar whenever Riki rebels. Which is often.

* BoysLoveGenre ''AiNoKusabi'''s plot revolves around how BadassBiker Riki was made into a SexSlave by [[BastardBoyfriend Iason Mink]]. Each "Pet" gets a ring in the standard form of jewelry like earrings, necklaces and such. Iason uniquely makes Riki's a cock ring which doubles as a RestrainingBolt ShockCollar whenever Riki rebels. Which is often.

* BoysLoveGenre ''AiNoKusabi'''s plot revolves around how BadassBiker Riki was made into a SexSlave by [[BastardBoyfriend Iason Mink]]. Each "Pet" gets a ring in the standard form of jewelry like earrings, necklaces and such. Iason uniquely makes Riki's a cock ring which doubles as a RestrainingBolt ShockCollar whenever Riki rebels.....

* In ''[[{{Futurama}} Futurama's]]'' third movie, ''Bender's Game'', Leela gets a shock collar to condition her to give up violence and profanity and all that other fun stuff. In turn, [[FetishFuel Leela writhing on the floor moaning]] inspired in us [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean all that other fun stuff]].

* In the ''FairlyOddParents'' episode "Wish Fixers", the Pixies make Timmy sign a contract that would supposedly help him get rid of any "bad" wishes and put collars on Cosmo and Wanda that release an electric shock every time they grant a wish that is considered "bad". In fact, the only good wish on the contract is handing Fairy World over to the Pixies. However, thanks to a loophole in the contract (making an irresponsible wish that is at the same time responsible will cause the contract to be null and void), Timmy wishes for both his godparents to be made of rubber, making them immune to the shocks and nullifying the contract as a result.

* In ''Coneheads'', the two humans are carted off to the Conehead homeworld and kept in check by a collar with glowy red lights.

* Chiana is wearing one of these when she first appears on ''{{Farscape}}'', activated by a button on her handler's forehead. In another episode, the entire crew is fitted with collars- even Pilot.

* In an episode of ''MarriedWithChildren'', AlBundy had to wear one.

* ''[[BaldursGate Baldur's Gate II]]'' has one trippy level where you follow a band of kidnapped actors into a PocketDimension where the slaves are kept in line by a magical version of these collars. If you're [[SchmuckBait schmuck enough to fall for the bait]], you can pick them up and try them on.

How it actually works is nearly always undefined. It's a metal ring, it hurts, end of. Sometimes it is electricity for some ElectricTorture, sometimes it's a generic pain generated by some alien TechnoBabble. It makes a good RestrainingBolt for the plot, you can even spin some plot lines out of how to get it off, and sometimes it'll have the added feature of being able to be pumped up to deadly levels so that it can also be, effectively, an ExplosiveLeash. On other occasions expect some fun with Pavlovian conditioning.

The concept of a Shock Collar is simple: A character is forced to wear a collar or torc and when he does something undesirable, as designated by whoever put the collar on him, he is shocked. Such things exist in real life for dogs but it is more likely that the trope is in use as a way to replicate the iron slave collar with a SpeculativeFiction twist.

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* In ''Coneheads'', the two humans are carted off to the Conehead homeworld and kept in check by a collar with glowy red lights.
* The [[AwesomeMcCoolname eponymous hero]] wears one in ''Hell Comes to Frogtown''.
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* This happened in ''MahouSenseiNegima'' to the girls under slavery in the magical world.
* In ''{{Slayers}}'' captured Lina Inverse was restrained by a circlet that zapped her when she tried to use magic. They really haven't a slightest idea what [[AloofBigBrother her big sister]] used to [[GoodIsNotNice put her through]], however...
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** "The Gamesters of Triskelion": Used by the title characters on their thralls.

** "Spock's Brain": Belts used by the Eymorg women on their male slaves and the captured Enterprise crew members.

* Cartman wears a shock collar in ''[[SouthPark South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]'' to make him stop swearing.

* Cartman wears a shock collar in ''SouthPark: Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' to make him stop swearing.

* When John Sheridan, captain of BabylonFive, found himself captured by the Earth government, who had recently given themselves a little ''[[NineteenEightyFour 1984]]'' ShoutOut by setting up the Ministry of Peace, he had a ShockCollar put in place as a RestrainingBolt to explain [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim why he didn't just attack]] the torturer who was trying to make him [[strike: [[NineteenEightyFour love Big Brother]]]] [[strike: [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration see four lights]]]] [[strike: have TwoPlusTortureMakesFive]] sign a confession.
** There was also a first-season episode of ''B5'' where a torturer/assassin makes G'Kar wear one (one of his political enemies on the Kah'Ree had just died, and wished to exact revenge for something or other).
* ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' had two episodes with collars that inflicted pain instead of a shock:

** "Spock's Brain": Belts used by the Eymorg women on their Morg (male) slaves and the captured Enterprise crew members.

* The aliens in TheOuterLimits episode ''Rite Of Passage'' put shock wristbands on the humans they were raising to prevent them from trying to leave their enclosure. It wasn't due to malice; the woods were full of dangerous creatures.

* ''Caverns of the Snow Witch'', one of the ''FightingFantasy'' gamebooks, has the [[BigBad Snow Witch]] fit collars onto her slaves, so that when they disobey her orders, they get choked.

* Worn by Shego's subjects in her future dystopia in ''KimPossible: A Sitch in Time''.
* Sideshow Bob has a something similar, a Shock Bracelet RestrainingBolt, so TheSimpsons can keep him under control as he was recruited by the police to uncover who is trying to kill Homer Simpson.