History Main / TickleTorture

* In ''Anime/DragonQuest:TheAdventureOfDai'' 1st episode Zurbon, The female member of the Fake Heroes, is kidnapped by Dai to find out where Gome-chan is, not wanting to speak she is tortured with a tickle by an anteater.

This trope was so widely used in cartoons from the 90's and earlier, many a kinky adult can trace their *ahem* inclinations to watching these scenes as a child. See also AccidentalTickleTorture for the unintentional variant, and FriendlyTickleTorture, for, well, the ''friendly'' variant.

This trope was so widely used in cartoons from the 2000's and earlier, many a kinky adult can trace their...inclinations to watching these scenes as a child. See also AccidentalTickleTorture for the unintentional variant, and FriendlyTickleTorture, for, well, the ''friendly'' variant.

* SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker briefly does this in an attempt to make Franchise/{{Batman}} [[spoiler:give in to the Titan transformation]] right before the final battle of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum''.

* In an episode of Marco and Gina, Gina is captured. To extract information from her, she is restrained to an interrogation table and her feet are tickled with two spinning brush wheels.

** Goku gets tickled by Caterpy (no, not ''[[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} that]]'' Caterpie) in his first round of the Otherworld Tournament.

** He was also tickle tortured by an old hag in hell after she attempted to cook him.

* ''[[WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded How Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice Should Have Ended]]'': "Super-tickle!" That is, Superman tickling Bruce Wayne.

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* This is a very popular topic for FanFic and FanArt alike. Seriously, check ''Website/DeviantArt'' for example; you can find tickle torture fics and art for just about any character from any given story.

* The Italian singer Gala spends the entierty of the music video of her song "The Beautiful" tied to a roof and tickled by off-screen strangers for...[[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible seemingly no good reason whatsoever.]]

* A fox gets tickled as punishment in two scenes in an episode of the ''{{WesternAnimation/Redwall}}'' series. While toned down from the ''actual'' [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] from the book, the animated series still manages to make this disturbing in the second scene by making the fox try to hold himself up on a rope suspended high above the ground while being tickled. Eventually it turns away from him and his laughter is cut off by a loud ''[[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath thud]]''.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "No Pain No Gain", Rocko gets on a rowing machine at the gym (that has a TV screen), and mistakenly gets the ''Film/{{Deliverance}}'' scene. On the screen, Rocko runs into hillbillies, one of whom says [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar "Now we gonna make you squeal, piggy!"]], and produces a pig and proceeds to tickle it with a feather. The pig enjoys it, but Rocko is scared off and abandons the rowing machine.

* In the French science program, ''[[https://youtu.be/BVoJXABxRIQ E=M6,]]'' test subjects Nicolas and Jeannette are have their feet tickled in a test of wills. They are first tickled with a tiny feather duster and both manage to hold a straight face as their feet twitch away. The woman performing the experiment on the two soon ditches the feather duster, opting to use her fingers instead. During the timed experiment, Nicolas is the first to crack, lasting a total of six seconds while Jeannette is broken down after the ten second mark. To conclude the experiment, Jeannette mentions that the repetition of the woman's fingers gliding across her arches turned it into a torturous experience and both Nicolas and Jeannette give the experimenter [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine a taste of her own medicine]].

* In the “Measurement” segment of ''Series/BeakmansWorld'', Beakman compares Phoebe and Lester's foot sizes to explain the need for standardized measurements. Beakman repeatedly tickles Phoebe’s foot, who in turn tickles Lester’s rat costume foot. Somehow, Lester is in hysterics. At the end of the segment, he tickles Phoebe's foot and she kicks him in the face while she laughs hysterically. Apparently, this was an instance of ThrowItIn, as Senta Moses [[https://twitter.com/sentamosesmikan/status/331254338716581888?lang=en confirmed via Twitter]] that her feet are genuinely very ticklish.

* In the French science program, ''[[https://youtu.be/BVoJXABxRIQ E=M6,]]'' test subjects Nicolas and Jeannette are shown baring their soles for a test of wills. They are first tickled with a tiny feather duster and both manage to hold a straight face as their feet twitch away. The woman performing the experiment on the two soon ditches the feather duster, opting to use her fingers instead. During the timed experiment, Nicolas is the first to crack, lasting a total of six seconds while Jeannette is broken down after the ten second mark. To conclude the experiment, Jeannette mentions that the repetition of the woman's fingers gliding across her arches turned it into a torturous experience and both Nicolas and Jeannette give the experimenter [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine a taste of her own medicine]].

* In '' Series/JustForLaughs'', during their [[https://youtu.be/JGwE9OeoDQI "Tickle Torture Therapy"]] compilation, three women and a man have their soles subjected to this, under the impression that they'll be receiving a nice, relaxing foot massage. When their "masseuse" begins to break out feathers, a rotary brush and a toothbrush to assault their toes, they begin to pick up on the act.
* Janina Burgmer is frequently tickled on her neck and soles throughout [[https://youtu.be/m4gaIuy1z9Y one episode]] of the German kid's show, Kaiser! König! Karl! Twice by her co-host (a cat puppet named Kater Karl), once in a medieval torture chamber, complete with dull witted TortureTechnician, and once during an interrogation by her “daughter”, using the same torture technician, who is trying extract what her birthday present is from her.

* Administered in the Brazilian telenovela, Três Irmâs, to Graziella Moretto's character, [[FemmeFatale Valéria Gutierrez]], as [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment an interrogation tactic]]. Valéria, who hid money from the gang of thieves she belongs to, had her wrists and ankles tied together while Vidigal Castro, their leader, gently stroked a feather up and down her soles. Initially, Valéria denies knowing anything about the money's whereabouts but, Vidigal is persistent and continues to tickle her feet until she cracks. After her confession, he stops briefly and goes back to tickling her feet, claiming she didn't beg for mercy. Valéria immediately complies and Vidigal apologizes, stating that it was the only way to get her to talk.

* On ''Series/{{Today}}'', [[https://youtu.be/9qWNKgMh7r0 Jenna Bush Hager]], yes, [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush 43's]] daughter, had her foot tickled by Savannah Guthrie, after being maliciously teased about her callouses.
* In the ''Series/UglyBetty'' episode, "Queens for a Day", Betty is forced to endure this as part of her makeover. Turns out Betty's feet are so ticklish, it requires BOTH Hilda and Cholli to keep her leg down.

** On the "Medicine" episode, hostess Christine "Moose" spends the bulk of the episode in a cast, with her bare sole sticking right in the camera. At the very end, Ross, the producer, threatens her foot with a feather duster while she begs him not to. He then tickles her foot, causing her to fall over hysterically into a nearby trash can.

* In an episode of ''Series/Zoey101'', when Dustin got sick, one of the ways Quinn tried to cure him was by immobilizing his bare feet in a pair of stocks. She flashed proton impulses to his soles, making him laugh and squirm around.

* [[https://youtu.be/zv32tVH2Hhg Miriam Pielhau]] had her soles tickled during a broadcast of GIGA Green. She attempted to resist and continue her sentence but, the tickling proved to be too effective and she quickly crumbled.

* QVC presenter Alison Young has been known to utilize this on [[https://youtu.be/138ZFmT48Y4 models]] [[https://youtu.be/aSCi17y3MVs with]] [[https://youtu.be/SFIqOyicoq8 ticklish feet]]. In [[https://youtu.be/m4Bdt4nmgFY this clip]], she ruthlessly tickles and teases a model who begins BEGGING for her stop because of how ticklish her feet are.

* In ''Disney/TheJungleBook'', King Louie is holding his arms up in place of a column in his palace-ruins. Baloo was in a similar position, until he [[SarcasmMode nicely]] stepped out and shifted the entire burden to King Louie. Taking the opportunity presented by King Louie's raised arms, Baloo tickles him until the entire building collapses. Ironically, Baloo himself told Mowgli in an earlier FriendlyTickleTorture scene, that one didn't do that in the jungle.

* [[PlayedForDrama Horrible variation]] in the TorturePorn ''FanFic/{{Hivefled}}'' prequel ''Reprise''; Gamzee spent some time being kept as a student and treated something approaching normally by his FamousAncestor the Grand Highblood, who was actually grooming him for real ''[[https://tickle-torture.com tickle torture]]'' and eventual sacrifice. At one point, GH tickled Gamzee into hypersensitivity and [[GroinAttack punched him in the groin]], then went back to acting as if nothing happened. Naturally, when Gamzee messaged his friends to complain, [[RefugeInAudacity they didn't believe this was a problem]]. It got worse later on; Condesce wanted a turn, and then they decided to "[[GlasgowGrin immortalise the moment]]"...

* [[PlayedForDrama Horrible variation]] in the TorturePorn ''FanFic/{{Hivefled}}'' prequel ''Reprise''; Gamzee spent some time being kept as a student and treated something approaching normally by his FamousAncestor the Grand Highblood, who was actually grooming him for real torture and eventual sacrifice. At one point, GH tickled Gamzee into hypersensitivity and [[GroinAttack punched him in the groin]], then went back to acting as if nothing happened. Naturally, when Gamzee messaged his friends to complain, [[RefugeInAudacity they didn't believe this was a problem]]. It got worse later on; Condesce wanted a turn, and then they decided to "[[GlasgowGrin immortalise the moment]]"...

** All of the mob apparently does this, as one episode Burne Thompson and Vernon get captured by some of Tortelli's goons who enact this on them, only for them to get abducted by a rival mob who proceed to enact the same thing on them. Then by the end of the episode the two are abducted by aliens who all look like Elvis, and proceed to put them through this as well just for the heck of it.

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* ''WesternAnimation/KryptoTheSuperdog'': When Krypto's tail [[ItMakesSenseInContext becomes a sentient being and runs out in the world on it's own]] to stir up trouble the Dog Stars are tasked to stop it by any means necessary. They eventually trap the living tail in a hole while [[TheBigGirl Mammoth Mutt]] holds it down. However, the tail playfully tickles her belly, causing her to roll over laughing hysterically as it escapes.

* The "[[Recap/LupinIIIS1E1 Is Lupin Burning... ?!]]" episode of ''Anime/LupinIIIGreenJacket'': Occurs to Fujiko in one of the most famous scenes of the episode.

This trope was so widely used in cartoons from the 90's and earlier, many a kinky adult can trace their...inclinations to watching these scenes as a child. See also AccidentalTickleTorture for the unintentional variant, and FriendlyTickleTorture, for, well, the ''friendly'' variant.