History Main / TickleTorture

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

* May have influenced ''ASongOfIceAndFire'', which has a torture expert known only as "[[SuperHappyFunTropeOfDoom The Tickler]]" who "tickles" captured villagers to gather information about Lord Beric Dondarrion's outlaw band.

* In ''[[SlyCooper Sly 2: Band Of Thieves]]'', THE MURRAY captures General Clawfoot so Bentley can get info on the Contessa's castle from him... With a feather.

* TheJoker briefly does this in an attempt to make {{Batman}} [[spoiler:give in to the Titan transformation]] right before the final battle of ''BatmanArkhamAsylum''.
* A quest in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft's'' Northern Barrens has you interrogating a Quilboar. You can break him pretty much instantly if you tickle him as opposed to punching or feeding him. You also get a status buff, "Saintly" because you're a nice person and using non-violence.

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-->--'''Luigi''' being subjected to this, ''The SuperMarioBrosSuperShow''

* Happens in the ''AhMyGoddess'' manga, as part of a contest.

* Played for laughs in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode "Buster's Dino Dilemma". Buster had kept the dinosaur bone he had dug up during a field trip, instead of turning it in so it could be displayed at the museum as the class had been ordered. In a DreamSequence, he is found out because Arthur was put through this.

* In the ''VeggieTales'' adaptation of the story of Esther, the worst punishment possible was to be banished to the Island of Perpetual Tickling.

* [[ShinryakuIkaMusume Ika Musume]] discovers this in a chapter of the manga. Naturally, she decides to use it to make Chizuru die of laughter. Chizuru [[BewareTheNiceOnes being who she is]], though, means [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/shinryaku_ika_musume/v05/c081/7.html annihilation]] [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/shinryaku_ika_musume/v05/c081/8.html ensues.]]

* Used often in the anime ShinryakuIkaMusume by the main character, There's even a chapter in the manga that focuses on the main character learning about what tickling is and goes on a tickling spree with everyone she meets. This chapter even got adapted into the anime!

* Used in ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' by the villain Don Tortelli to try to force people to talk. It's interesting to note that he seemed to prefer tickling male captives, even focusing more on them when he a female at his mercy as well. This was probably to avoid making him come across as sexual, but [[HoYay that backfired]].

-->''"This tickle torture isn't funny!"''

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[[caption-width:275: Poor Grammi, suffering a ''[[AWorldwidePunomenon feather]]'' [[FateWorseThanDeath worse than death!]]]]

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* Happens in the first episode of ''MaidMarianAndHerMerryMen''.
* An episode of HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys had a man in Tartarus subjected to an eternity of tickle torture.

* ''GummiBears'' had an actual session of Tickle Torture. Duke Igthorn had tried to get Granny to reveal the recipe for [[SuperSerum gummy berry juice]], but she gave him a false one instead. During the actual torture, she does eventually give him the real recipe.

* In the ''TaleSpin'' episode "Polly Wants a Treasure", Don Karnage has his flunkies do this to Kit Cloudkicker.
** On a related note, Baloo tickles King Louie in Disney/TheJungleBook.

* Used on two separate occasions by Robotnik to attempt to gain information in ''AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog''.

* Played for laughs in the ''{{Arthur}}'' episode "Buster's Dino Dilemma". Buster had kept the dinosaur bone he had dug up during a field trip, instead of turning it in so it could be displayed at the museum as the class had been ordered. In a DreamSequence, he is found out because Arthur was put through this.

* In an episode of ''SpongebobSquarepants'', Spongebob uses a tickle belt on Man-Ray when he is training him to be good. During training, Man-Ray tends to beat up Patrick, leading Patrick to torture Man-Ray with the belt.
* In the episode [[RockosModernLife "No Pain No Gain"]], Rocko gets on a rowing machine at the gym (that has a TV screen), and mistakenly gets the {{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.
* An episode of ''BlinkyBill'' has Blinky training a crocodile friend of his to be tough, part of which involves tickling. His rationale is that "tough crocs aren't ticklish".

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

* In ''JackieChanAdventures'', the Monkey King tickle tortures Tohru to make him confess where Jackie and the others went.

* In an episode of ''XiaolinShowdown'' [[AffablyEvil Jack Spicer]] has Clay, Kimiko, and Rai strapped down to a large "tickle bot". You can guess what happens from there.

* An epidoe of ''The Mouse and the Monster'' has the titular characters Chesbro and Mo (the mouse and monster, respectively) being test subjects for some scientists. Mo is subject to tickling, though the actual torture part is subverted as he actually enjoys it.

* Grimmace and Hamburglar become victims of this in the second Rocald [=McDonald=] animated movie.

* [[{{Dragonball}} Goku]] gets tickled by Caterpie (no, not [[{{Pokemon}} that]] Caterpie) in a round of the Otherworld Tournament. He was also tickle tortured by an old hag in hell after she attempted to cook him.