History Main / TickleTorture

* In Neverworld: The Great Dragon, after Lynn and Katie capture an intruder, they interogate her by taking off her shoes and tickling her bare feet with a feather.

* ''Film/ANewYorkChristmasWedding'': Jenni broke off contact with Gabby when the latter had blown off their tree decorating to spend time with her boyfriend. It seems petty, but Jenni had planned to tell Gabby she loved her, with the boyfriend coming between them. She regrets it deeply later when [[spoiler:Gabby kills herself due to losing her baby]], which might have gone differently if Jenni had been there supporting her.

* PlayedForDrama on ''Literature/TheNightmareHour'' when evil, murderous clowns abduct children from the audience of their circus performances to tickle them until they die and eat their souls. The audience apparently just assumes that if the children are laughing then it's just harmless fun from their point of view. Chris almost suffers from this until [[spoiler: he strikes a deal to join the clowns and in exchange he will help them find more victims to kill. He breaks the fourth wall and tells the reader that if they cross him then he'll tickle them to death with his clown powers.]]

** Goku performs this on [[BountyHunter Hasky]] to get her to hand over the dragon balls she tried to steal from him.

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

* In the "''What If? Mode''" of ''VideoGame/SpiderMan'' during the 1st boss fight with Venom in the Back Alley. When Venom uses his "[[LecherousLicking lick attack]]" on Spider-Man, Spidey with start giggling and lampshades this trope.

* The "[[Recap/LupinIIIS1E1 Is Lupin Burning... ?!]]" episode of ''Anime/LupinIIIGreenJacket'': Occurs to Fujiko in one of the most famous scenes of the episode. The DVD/Blu-ray set of ''Anime/LupinIIIPart5'' features a memorial episode that re-creates said scene.

* ''WesternAnimation/ALVINNNAndTheChipmunks'': In "Principal Interest," Alvin tickles Brittany's armpit when she blocks his way to see the principal.

* Website/DeviantArt, being [[{{Fetish}} DeviantArt,]] has a game that revolves entirely around doing this to a female. [[SubvertedTrope However, she enjoys it.]]

** In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', Puppetmon tickles T.K. through the use of a Main/VoodooDoll.

** And in ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'', Shoutmon gets treated into this because the villains think he has the [[PlotCoupon Code Crown]].

* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', Asuna got the tickle treatment in the nude from Fate who could make water turn into a bunch of arms. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that the only thing stopping him from ripping her to pieces was Asuna's magic-cancelling ability.]]
** Later on, most of class 3-A does this to Chao.
* Gingka of Anime/MetalFightBeyblade gets this treatment [[spoiler:during a "training course" orchestrated]] by Merci.

* At least 3 times in Manga/NagasareteAirantou. Once on Mikoto from some bats summoned by Rin. Again on Ikuto when he was placed in a trap by Chikage. And lastly on Suzu, when she refused to do studying and was subjected to this by Ikuto.
* [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Jiraiya]] interrogates some {{mooks}} from the Rain Village using this method. When that fails, he threatens them with [[BalefulPolymorph turning them into frogs]].

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''

** A Mincinno in episode 13 of ''Best Wishes'' uses Tickle no less than three times, tickling Bianca's Pignite and Ash's Oshawott into submission. Pikachu manages to resist it, however.

* [[Manga/SquidGirl Ika Musume]] discovers this in a chapter of the manga (which was adapted into an anime sub-episode), and goes on a tickling spree with everyone she meets. Naturally, she decides to use it to make Chizuru die of laughter. Chizuru [[BewareTheNiceOnes being who she is]], though, means annihilation ensues. (Presumably, the episodes are not in chronological order, as a couple of earlier episodes show her tickling Eiko both as revenge and to convince her to become her servant, and on the four alien-obsessed scientists to find out why they wanted a strand of Chizuru's hair.)

* [[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]]"...

* Literature/WheresWally: in the medieval setting of the book ''Where's Wally Now'', one of the things one can find is a man in stocks being tickle tortured.

* In the soap, ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'', Jack has a dream that Greta and Jen have tied him to a chair and are about to torture him. He snaps out of the dream and tries to calm himself down by meditating. When that doesn't work, he begins to dream again and this time Greta grabs a feather and says they will tickle him right where it tickles the most...[[BaitandSwitch his feet]]. They tickle his feet and Jack snaps out of it again, only to find Jen and Greta standing there confused.

* In ''Videogame/AliceMadnessReturns'', the Dollmaker ''attempts'' to do this against Alice during the final boss fight with his GiantHandsOfDoom, but she's not laughing due to [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge being hell-bent on killing him.]] Then again, given the Dollmaker's [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil proclivities]], he may be attempting to do something... else.

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''

* This is how Morgan is exposed as a Brazilian in ''WebComic/NerfNow'': [[https://www.nerfnow.com/comic/1704 when Jane tickles her]], her laughs are rendered as 'hue', the Brazilian colloquialism for laughing.

* 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. Rocko screams bloody murder and abandons the machine.

* ''VideoGame/RumbleRoses''
** One ringside weapon is a long stick with a cartoony hand on one end that is used to tickle an opponent. It doesn't hurt them, but causes their humiliation meter to rapidly shoot up. The next game would allow the winner of a "Queens Match" to tickle the loser with the same stick using an extended sequence of the tickle animation.
** Mistress Spencer can [[https://i.imgur.com/pKpsd0Q.mp4 tickle the side of her opponent's ribs]] and it causes damage twice to her opponent's body area. Looks more realistic if her opponent's [[BareYourMidriff midsection is exposed]].

* Mistress Spencer can [[https://i.imgur.com/pKpsd0Q.mp4 tickle the side of her opponent's ribs]] and it causes damage twice to her opponent's body area. Looks more realistic if her opponent's [[BareYourMidriff midsection is exposed]].

* In just one of many blatant examples of {{Fanservice}} in ''VideoGame/RumbleRoses'', one ringside weapon is a long stick with a cartoony hand on one end that is used to tickle an opponent. It doesn't hurt them, but causes their humiliation meter to rapidly shoot up. The next game would allow the winner of a "Queens Match" to tickle the loser with the same stick using an extended sequence of the tickle animation.

* In the kiddie show, ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'' episode "International Super Spy", this is Lady in Pink's (played by Uniqua) torture.

* ''Anime/SengokuOtome'' When the Saigoku Three show up and finish their introduction, Nobunaga easily defeats them and ties them up. To find out where the DismantledMacGuffin is, Hideyoshi does this to each of them. They return the favor later in the episode.

--> "Where do you want it, blondie? Under the arm? The soles of your feet?"

This trope was so widely used in cartoons from the 2000'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.

** Used by recurring villain Don Tortelli to try to force his captives to talk (which, oddly enough, never included the Turtles themselves but their human allies). It's interesting to note that he seemed to prefer tickling male captives, even focusing more on them when he had a woman at his mercy as well. If that was a conscious choice on the writers' part to avoid making him seem sexual, it didn't work. It ''[[HoYay really]]'' didn't.

* In just one of many blatant examples of {{Fanservice}} in ''VideoGame/RumbleRoses'', one ringside weapon is a long stick with a cartoony hand on one end that is used to tickle an opponent. It doesn't hurt them, but causes their humiliation meter to rapidly shoot up.