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1	Torture is evil. And yet we're fascinated by it.
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7	+ PerpSweating
8	+ ScarTropes
9	+ ThisIndexIsARealPain
10	+ ViolenceTropes
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14	[[AC:Physical torture methods]]
15	* AgonizingStomachWound: A wound to the stomach which leads to a long and painful death.
16	* AgonyBeam: The fantastical ability (in whatever form) that causes extreme pain to whoever it hits.
17	* AmputativeSentencing: A criminal is punished by having a limb or appendage cut off.
18	* BathroomControl: A character having a PottyEmergency is tortured by not allowed to go to the bathroom.
19	* CigaretteBurns: Putting out a cigar/cigarette on someone else, often as a form of abuse or torture.
20	* CookedToDeath: Covers torture by roasting or boiling a victim.
21	* CorporalPunishment: Inflicting physical pain as punishment for one's misbehavior.
22	* CreepyCrawlyTorture: Torture with insects and other crawly things
23	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: When torture is taken far enough, it may lead to someone dying in a way that is extremely painful, humiliating, and/or bizarre.
24	** [[PublicExecution Execution]]: Many (though not all) methods of capital punishment (especially in earlier periods of history) are intended to have the victim suffer a very slow and painful death, and thus can be considered an extreme form of torture.
25	* DeniedFoodAsPunishment: Denying food as punishment.
26	* ElectricTorture: Torture done by zapping or electrifying the victim -- bloodless, but effective.
27	* ElectroconvulsiveTherapyIsTorture: Electroconvulsion Therapy depicted in a negative light.
28	* ExecutionByExposure: A victim is LockedUpAndLeftBehind to die slowly at the mercy of a hostile environment.
29	* FlayingAlive: Removing someone's skin for torture.
30	* FlippingHelpless: A creature that is flipped over on its back cannot get back up again without help.
31	* ForceFeeding: Forced to eat.
32	* ForcedAddiction: Getting someone addicted to a drug by force in order to break them.
33	* HangingAround: Hanging someone to cut off their air supply without necessarily killing them.
34	* HeadInAVise: A character's head is put in a screw-press, slowly crushing their skull.
35	* IronMaiden: A torture device filled with spikes to stab the poor soul inside of it.
36	* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: The hero needs information, and fast--thus, they immediately decide to torture their captive.
37	* {{Kneecapping}}: A good way to keep someone down is to go for their knee.
38	* {{Lobotomy}}: The medical procedure of cutting into part of the brain to change a person's behavior -- either as a "treatment" of mental illness, or torture.
39	* MutilationInterrogation: Torturous interrogation wherein the punishment for not talking is having part of you cut off one-by-one.
40	* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Someone overpowers another with little effort and in a very painful, bloody manner.
41	* PlayingWithSyringes: Unethical and possibly incredibly painful experimentation with the goal of creating something.
42	* SinisterSuffocation: Torturing someone by suffocating them, but not outright killing them.
43	* SoapPunishment: Punishment for crass language involves having to put soap in one's mouth.
44	* StockPunishment: A device that holds someone immobile so that others can assault them with foodstuffs.
45	* TarAndFeathers: Either as a comedic prank or a serious form of punishment, someone is covered in hot tar and feathers for humiliation.
46	* ATasteOfTheLash: Someone is flogged with a whip or cane.
47	* TickleTorture: Tickling is horrible. In all seriousness, long durations have actually been used to break people's mind.
48	* WaterTorture: Such as simulated drowning, ie "waterboarding".
49	* WhatADrag: Torture/attack/punishment by dragging someone across the ground.
50	* WheelOfPain: People are forced to push a wheel as punishment.
51	* ZenSlap: A Zen mentor slapping their disciple as a punishment for misdemeanor.
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53	[[AC:Mental torture methods]]
54	* AndIMustScream: When a character is forever stuck somewhere, probably unable to talk, move, or even die.
55	* EnhancedInterrogationTechniques: Non-physical forms of torture, usually psychological, that still freak someone out enough to work.
56	* FalseRoulette: A near-empty gun is fired over and over to cause fear that the next trigger-pull with discharge the only bullet--except, the gun is actually empty.
57	* ForcedToWatch: A character is forced to watch as someone they love is tortured and/or killed.
58	* HighAltitudeInterrogation: Getting someone to talk by holding them over a high drop.
59	* TheLudovicoTechnique: Drugging someone and forcing him (sometimes up to strapping the eyelids so he can't close them) to watch something related to his bad habits to "cure" him from them.
60	* MindProbe: A device that forcibly reads someone's mind, usually in the most painful and traumatizing way possible.
61	* MindRape: Psychological torture that forces the victim to see horrible things, re-live terrifying memories, feel things that aren't happening, etc.
62	* PastVictimShowcase: To show just how bad the torture someone is about to endure is, the villain shows them someone who has already been through it.
63	* PunishedWithUgly: A beautiful character is punished by losing their beauty.
64	* PunishmentBox: Punishment comes in the form of being forced into an empty, but probably very uncomfortable and/or lonely, box.
65	* ReelTorture: Torturing or punishing someone by making them watch a movie, play, TV show, video recording or photo reel that they find so terrible it causes them agony.
66	* SadisticChoice: Forcing a person to choose between two terrible options.
67	** SuicidalSadisticChoice: Forcing a person to choose between something horrible and death.
68	* SleepDeprivationPunishment: Not allowing a person to sleep.
69	* ToThePain: Telling a future victim exactly what is going to happen to them in slow, painful detail.
70	* TormentByAnnoyance: Being annoyed over and over and over and over...
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72	[[AC:Results of torture]]
73	* TwoPlusTortureMakesFive: Psychological torture that causes the victim to believe something that factually isn't true. For example, 2 + 2 = 5.
74	* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Tortured into evilness.
75	* BreakTheCutie: A character that was once kind and lovable is put through hell and back.
76	* DeadlyHazing: A hazing results in death (usually through physical violence but not always).
77	* DrivenToSuicide: The victim kills themselves.
78	* InterrogatedForNothing: Someone is tortured for information, but they truly don't know anything.
79	* UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome: A proposed psychological condition in which people who have been kidnapped/captured come to feel sympathetic for their captors.
80	* TortureAlwaysWorks: When torturing someone not only works in a work, but the information gathered out of it is true, accurate, and detailed.
81	* TortureIsIneffective: It accomplishes nothing.
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83	[[AC:Character tropes]]
84	* BunkerWoman: A woman is kidnapped and held somewhere contained, usually a bunker, usually by a man.
85	* ExaltedTorturer: When the person doing the torture is also the hero.
86	* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Someone finds joy in the loud, loud misery of others.
87	* TooKinkyToTorture: A character actually ''enjoys'' being tortured.
88	* TortureTechnician: The guy with the job of torturing people.
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90	[[AC:Locations of torture]]
91	* FireAndBrimstoneHell: When Hell is depicted as a fiery place of eternal torture.
92	* LockedInTheDungeon: Someone is locked in a dungeon to be tortured or punished.
93	* MaximumFunChamber: Something torturous is said to be so, so horrible, but is either never seen, or seen, but seems innocent enough until it's used.
94	* {{Room 101}}: The audience may or may not even know what happens in there, but this room is the one '''no one''' wants to be sent to.
95	* TortureCellar: A room with the express purpose of torturing people.
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97	[[AC:Other tropes about torture]]
98	* AbuseDiscretionShot: When abuse (including torture) doesn't get fully shown onscreen.
99	* AnythingButThat: When something pretty mundane (or even harmless) is treated as a FateWorseThanDeath.
100	* ColdBloodedTorture: What this index is all about.
101	* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: A punishment that gets the job done, even though it's ridiculous.
102	* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: A threat so odd it's PlayedForLaughs.
103	* DefeatMeansMenialLabor: A defeated villain is punished with menial labor, often in their (no longer) own place.
104	* TheEasyWayOrTheHardWay: A StockPhrase.
105	* HostageHandlerHuddle: The bad guys huddle together to decide how torture is best carried out.
106	* TheJoysOfTorturingMooks: When players of a video game find joy in torturing and killing their always-spawning, nameless enemies.
107	* NoodleImplements: An odd assortment of objects (and maybe people) are all brought together to do something, but the audience never sees what.
108	* TheNotSoHarmlessPunishment: A punishment seems bearable enough, maybe even laughable... until it's used.
109	* PainlessDeathForAPrice: Someone on death's doorstep is offered a MercyKill in exchange for something valuable (and may be threatened with a long, torturous death instead if they refuse).
110	* RoboticTortureDevice: A robotic device with many tools to torture, from knives to lasers and more.
111	* ScreamDiscretionShot: The audience doesn't see the pain being inflicted, only hearing the victim's scream.
112	* ShakeSomeoneObjectsFall: A comedic trope in which simply shaking someone causes everything they have on them to come falling out.
113	* SuckinessIsPainful: Someone is just so bad at something (singing, acting, you name it) that just seeing them do it is painful.
114	* TelevisedTorture: The torture is being broadcast, either for the villain's personal entertainment or for public consumption.
115	* TooBrokenToBreak: There's no torture that can affect him/her, the damage was done a long time before.
116	* TortureChamberEpisode: An episode in which one or more characters are tortured for the entire duration.
117	* TortureFirstAskQuestionsLater: Someone gets so caught up in torturing someone (or has even already killed them) that they forget to ask questions.
118	* TortureForFunAndInformation: A torture-filled interrogation is presented as comedic.
119	* TorturePorn: A work that's main appeal is its graphic and unrelenting depiction of torture.
120	* WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: A StockPhrase.
121	* WhipOfDominance: Using a whip as a symbol of dominance, control, authority, or sadism.
122	[[/index]]

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