History Main / TortureForFunAndInformation

** Episode 2.06: [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Four Words]] — Gene and the crane.

* ''Literature/ButlerParker'' had occasions in just about every issue. Usually the fun part was in the reader enjoying the psychological tricks played by the butler, such as

** The second time, a crook is tied up to a large wheel, again with a grenade in his mouth. This time, the officers take turns throwing knives at him.

* In ''ModernWarfare 3'', Captain Price's utterly insane method of interrogating Somalian warlord Waraabe is for he and his buddies to put on gas masks, open up a container of Waraabe's own nerve gas, and ''offer to give him their spare mask if he talks''. And then once he does, Price simply shoots him in the face. He did promise that [[ExactWords he wouldn't let the gas kill him.]]

* In ''[[MegaManLegends The Misadventures of Tron Bonne]]'', you will obtain a TortureRoom on the Gesellschaft if any of your [[MechaMooks servbots]] become TOO lazy. It's essentially a minigame where you have to completely empty their Sloth gauge by forcing them to run around a track, while pulling various traps on them.

** This even extends to the [[Series/LifeOnMars2008 American version]], where the 125's questioning room is the Lost and Found - because it has really thick walls and all kinds of fun tools to play with. According to DVD commentary, Harvey Keitel, who plays Hunt, once lifted a hammer off some guy working on the set and asked if he could use it in a scene.

* ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'' (1987 [[TheMovie Movie]]): Joe Friday [[SteppingOutForAQuickCupOfCoffee goes to get coffee]] so that [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqMw_qIbhOk Pep can use this on Emil Muntz.]] This works at first, but when Emil tries to clam up again, Pep comments that "some donuts would go real nice with this coffee".

* The titular Tank Police from ''DominionTankPolice'' seem to enjoy interrogating criminals almost for the sake of it as much as a way to gather information, with officers actually taking bets on how long each criminal will last.

* In ''Series/GameOfthrones'', Ramsay Snow spent the whole 3rd season physically and psychologically torturing Theon Greyjoy, to the point he has become broken shell of who he was, and renamed him Reek. Ramsay had successfully gain information that the Stark boys are still alive, but his fahter Roose Bolton berates him that he damaged Theon so much that they can't use him as a bargaining chip to the Greyjoys. It didn't matter anyway since Balon Greyjoy doesn't care about Theon.

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* ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'': [[BigBad Darth Vader]] straps [[TheLancer Han Solo]] to some crazy machine and closes in on him while the camera swings outside and we hear him screaming in agony. Later he's dragged into the cell, collapses, and remarks "They didn't even ask me any questions."
** FridgeBrilliance: Vader knew that Luke would psychically sense the agony of his friend and try to save him.

* ''AshesToAshes'': Aside from the incident involving the pool cue, there have been other examples:

* Aaron Echolls of ''VeronicaMars'' is introduced, in his very first episode, [[spoiler: beating his son with a belt]], and is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler: the killer of Lilly Kane]], so you don't want to admire anything about him. But in "Hot Dogs", we find out that Trina, Aaron's daughter, is being abused by her boyfriend. In a scene that has quite a bit of FridgeHorror to it, but is undeniably kind of hilarious, Aaron kicks the daylights out of the kid, singing along with the tune of "That's Amore".
* In ''WireInTheBlood'', [[BunnyEarsLawyer Tony]], of all people pulls one. In "Synchronicity", he convinces a suspect that porridge and jam from the canteen in a plastic bag is actually human brain tissue, and makes the kid vomit. Clearly, the kid's not their sniper, doesn't even own a gun.

* In ''MinionComics'', one of the torture options includes "The Shocker" - a giant power tool with a hand attached making the shocker gesture. The torturer notes: [[http://www.meetmyminion.com/?p=1042 "They'll all have to go in the stink, but that's what makes it torture."]].
* DubiousCompany's Walter threatens [[QuirkyMiniBossSquad Mary and Sue]] with permitting [[CatGirl Tiren]], whom the two earlier ran through a HumiliationConga, to use them as a [[BestServedCold scratching post]].

* The season 3 finale of ''TheBoondocks'' opened with agent Jack Flowers (a parody of [[Series/TwentyFour Jack]] [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique Bauer]]) interrogating a terrorist with a series of {{Groin Attack}}s before breaking him (and ''them'') when he puts on a big steel boot (with ''studs'' over the toes), walks out the door, down the hall, and takes a running start... Later it's pretty much confirmed that Jack Flowers is essentially just the guy you go to when you want somebody's nuts to ''die''.
* {{Archer}}'s style in the episode ''Placebo Effect''. Highlights include conducting an interrogation in the style of a game show, with "wrong answers" receiving a shotgun blast to the kneecap, and chaining down a mook in order to perform an AssShove with a ''fragmentation grenade''.

* In ''Series/GameOfthrones'', Ramsay Snow spent the whole 3rd season physically and psychologically torturing Theon Greyjoy, to the point he has become broken shell of who he was, and renamed him Reek. Ramsay had successfully gain information that the Stark boys are still alive, but his fahter Roose Bolton berates him that he damaged so much Theon that they can't use him as a bargaining chip to the Greyjoys. It didn't matter anyway since Balon Greyjoy doesn't care about Theon.

* In the second ''[[ThePunisher Punisher]]'' movie, the Punisher strings a man up by his ankles and explains that a blowtorch will kill nerves so quickly that the victim doesn't feel pain so much as a sense of numbness. He then lights his blowtorch behind the victim so he can't see, directs it at a raw piece of meat, and drags a Popsicle along the man's back. The victim almost instantly gives up everything he knows, totally convinced he can smell his flesh burning even as it's numbed by the intense heat. In this case, the Punisher used intense mental anguish rather than physical agony, but the pain was just as real and probably more severe. This is directly taken from the comic book.

* ''AFishCalledWanda''. We really shouldn't laugh when Kevin Kline sticks fries/chips up Michael Palin's nose and eats his fish. We really, really shouldn't. * snickers*

* ''LAConfidential'': First, when [[CowboyCop Bud White]] plays FalseRoulette with a murder suspect to find out where he's stashed a rape victim. Second, when Bud dangles [[SmugSnake Ellis Loew]] out a ten-story window to scare him into giving up information and Ed Exley watches bemusedly.
* This happens in ''BonCopBadCop'' - although the pair aren't above torturing suspects for no apparent reason, too.

** And as seen in the page image, episode 2.05 has the ''Camberwick Green'' scene, which [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHP3Jih_rfA really must be seen to be fully appreciated]].

* {{Archer}}'s style in the episode ''Placebo Effect''

* In ''ModernWarfare 3'', Captain Price's utterly insane method of interrogating Somalian warlord Waraabe is for he and his buddies to put on gas masks, open up a container of Waraabe's own nerve gas, and ''offer to give him their spare mask if he talks''. And then once he does, Price simply blows him away and casually proceeds to the extraction point.