History Main / TickleTorture

** The Team Rocket trio, among other things, use a tickling machine on the Safari Zone Warden to try and get him to reveal the location of a Dratini.
** Ash has his Bulbasaur tickle Misty's Psyduck into submission in the episode ''Who Gets to Keep Togepi?'', and this was long before Tickle became an actual attack.
** Meowth tickles Ash into letting go of a torch that holds "The Flame of Moltres" during the first episode of the Indigo League Arc.
** A Mincinno in episode 13 of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhite'' uses Tickle no less than three times, tickling Bianca's Pignite and Ash's Oshawott into submission. Pikachu manages to resist it, however.

** Happens to Sammy (a.k.a. - Sasami) again in ''Anime/MagicalProjectS'' via a tickling hand by Mrs. Third of the Lovely Madams.

-->-- '''Luigi''', ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow''

* In ''Anime/{{Maburaho}}'', Elizabeth does this to Yuna. You can't see what's happening, though, and she does it in such a dramatic and over-the-top fashion that Kazuki assumes it's ''actual'' torture.

* Played deadly seriously (literally so) in the short story "The Screaming Laugh" by Cornell Woolrich.

* Discussed in ''LightNovel/SpiceAndWolf'' where Lawrence tells a young shepherd that he heard that in a city in the easy, they use sheep for torture. They rub some salt on the bound criminal's feet and then lead the sheep to him. Then The sheep would continue to lick his feet with fervour.

* One episode of ''Machinima/ArbyNTheChief'' has Arbiter doing this to Chief so that he can play VideoGame/HaloReach's Beta release.

* ''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]].

* The climax of ''WesternAnimation/RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure'' involves this. King Koo Koo is normally short, but inflates when he laughs at the misfortune of others. So he sets a tentacled sea monster on our heroes and many of the supporting characters and orders it to tickle ''all of them'' at the same time...

%%* Happens in the first episode of ''Series/MaidMarianAndHerMerryMen''.

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* In ''Webcomic/HeroesVSVillains'', a lot of characters especially when they're powerful have this kind such as:
** Sneezy shown in 'Atlantic: Recourceful Rainbow' and 'Bridget's Enchanted Bracelet'.
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* In ''Webcomic/HeroesVSVillains'', a lot of characters especially when they're powerful have this kind such as:
** Sneezy shown in 'Atlantic: Recourceful Rainbow' and 'Bridget's Enchanted Bracelet'.

* Website/DeviantArt, being [[{{Fetish}} DeviantArt,]] has a game that revolves entirely around doing this to a woman. [[SubvertedTrope However, she enjoys it.]]
** [[FollowTheLeader Another one]] with the same concept was released in June 2020. The only difference is that the victim ''doesn't'' enjoy it.

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--> '''Wanda:''' (laughing) I'm gonna kill you (more laughing) you're a dead man!

--> Bentley: "Talk, you scoundrel!"

* A fox gets tickled as punishment in two scenes in an episode of the ''{{WesternAnimation/Redwall}}'' series, but they manage to make even this somewhat dark (compared to the ''actual'' [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] from the book). The fox happens to be dangling by a rope hundreds of feet above the air as he's being tickled--eventually, we hear his laughter suddenly turn into a scream and then a ''thud''. Less brutal than being tortured on the rack or riddled with arrows, like in the book, but it's a pretty neat way of averting full {{Bowlderization}}.

* 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, his laughter becomes a scream that becomes a thud, and while the height he was dangling from wasn't anywhere near enough to guarantee his death, it was certainly high enough that the drop wouldn't have been fun.

* In the Japanese action comedy, Eyecatch Junction, Makoto enters a martial arts competition against athletic weightlifter Atsuko, who agrees to join the Shintai Sobu fitness club if she loses while Makoto agrees to shave her head if she loses. Makoto nearly loses but, discovers that Atsuko is ticklish on her sides and defeats her by exploiting this weakness.

* In the 1947 film ''Hue and Cry'', street boy Joe and his friends apprehend crook Rhonda Davis in her home and tie her to a chair with the intent of making her tell them who her boss is. While debating on what interrogation method to use, the younger Alec suggests tickle torture but, is quickly shot down by Nicky. During the interrogation, Nicky repeatedly threatens to cut the uninterested and annoyed Rhonda with a pocketknife but, is unable to follow through with it. The camera then widens to show Alec at Rhonda's stocking feet. Rhonda easily dismisses Alec, who has been ineffectively tickling her feet with a brush the entire time.

* ''Film/ANewYorkChristmasWedding'': Gabby is very ticklish. In flashbacks we are shown that it was a fairly common part of her and Jenni's [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship "friendship" for Jenni to tickle her]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/LuckyLuke'' episode "Alibi", a young blonde girls name Gladis was kidnapped by Outlaws who wanted her to sign document. When she refused, they tickled her with feather on her bare shoulders.

* In ''WesternAnimation/LuckyLuke'' episode Alibi, a young blonde girls name Gladis was kidnapped by Outlaws who wanted her to sign document. When she refused, they tickled her with feather on her bare shoulders.