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| 11 | [[caption-width-right:300:...I'll take the rum and the sodomy.]] |
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| 13 | ->''"Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash."'' |
| 14 | -->-- [[BeamMeUpScotty Wrongly attributed]] to UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill |
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| 16 | Flagellation (more commonly called "flogging") is a method of punishment in which a person is beaten or whipped with a rod, a switch, or (most especially) [[WhipOfDominance a whip or a cat-o-nine-tails]]. Flogging was commonly used in various navies around the world during the time of WoodenShipsAndIronMen, especially as the sailors of the time were known to have a disregard for pain. A knotted piece of rope (called a "starter") was used to give "encouragement" to a lazy sailor, while the cat-o-nine-tails was used for harsher, more formal punishments. It was also commonly used by slave owners as a method of disciplining their slaves. Typically during a flogging, the prisoner is stripped naked (or at least stripped to the waist) and then hung upright or chained upright to a pillar or a post (or a pair of posts) in order to stretch them out. Standard practice was to whip the prisoner's back, as there is a greater chance of inflicting a fatal wound while whipping the chest. Depending on the region, more than one person might carry out the punishment. |
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| 18 | In addition to its use as a punishment, flogging (especially self-flagellation) has been used by religious fanatics as a means of "mortification of the flesh". The person would basically torture themselves in order to feel what [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Christ]] felt and to suffer an immediate and rather determined form of self-sacrifice. This is based in the belief that by enduring the pain felt by Jesus during his persecution by the Romans, they become closer to the Son of God. |
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| 20 | Lastly, [[CasualKink some people use flogging as a means of sexual gratification.]] Naturally, in such uses, [[SafeSaneAndConsensual the flogging never approaches the violence levels reached during a punitive whipping]], or at least rarely (though there are exceptions.). Such activity commonly causes bruising, but almost never breaks the skin or cuts the recipient, who is after all trying to enjoy himself or herself. |
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| 22 | Flogging is still a legal punishment used in Brunei, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe to this day. |
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| 24 | Note that people can and have been flogged ''to death''. Given that the tip of a whip can easily break the sound barrier, a hundred lashes can easily kill, especially with a knout. (In the British Army during the Napoleonic era, the maximum number of lashes a soldier could be sentenced was ''one thousand two hundred'', but then British whips were less hardcore than the Continental ones and the sentence would often be reduced anyway.[[note]]The Napoleonic years were toward the end of the years of the "Bloody Code," when Britain's criminal laws frequently mandated punishments ''far'' in excess of proportion (including death for things like stealing anything worth more than twelve pence); as a result, British judges, both civilian and military, were accustomed to handing down extremely severe sentences and then passing along a notice that clemency was to be granted as a matter of course.[[/note]]) Even if you don't die in the process, a good traditional flogging will often result in you dying from your wounds and/or infection shortly after. And even if neither of those happened, you would be left with massive scarring, along with the negative social status which went along with it should anyone else ever see it. This is the sort of flogging that was a popular form of punishment in Imperial Russia, in particular, where they used particularly coarse leather for these purposes. Due to this, it was also traditional to pay the executioner to go easy on someone, which still hurt like hell but generally wasn't fatal. It should also be noted that even if a victim survived a severe flogging, they could end up crippled for life, and in an era of single-income-earner families and little in the way of accessible charity on a large scale, this could leave the victim's family destitute. |
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| 26 | Compare ColdBloodedTorture, AmputativeSentencing and DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff. Contrast with WhipOfDominance. A form of CorporalPunishment. Not to be confused with an online "[[ForumSpeak flog]]", which is a [[{{Portmanteau}} fake blog]] [[AstroTurf designed for advertising]]. |
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| 28 | !!Examples: |
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| 30 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 31 | |
| 32 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 33 | * ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': |
| 34 | ** The first story has this happening to Guts at the hands of the village mayor's TortureTechnician. Fortunately, Puck is there to heal him (though Guts isn't too appreciative of the little elf). |
| 35 | ** Farnese, during her messed up phase as a Holy See official, engaged in the occasional bouts of self-flagellation. |
| 36 | * ''Anime/CrossAnge'': |
| 37 | ** Ange is whipped when she is put on trial and sentenced to a hanging. |
| 38 | ** Embryo allows Sylvia to whip Liza as payback for capturing her and mind-controlling her traumatized, unstable self. |
| 39 | * ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'': The Digimon Emperor tortures Takeru with his whip in the episode "The Darkness Before Dawn". [[spoiler:Takeru stopped the whipping by ''catching the end of the whip with his bare hand''.]] Not to mention all his mooks, slaves, and Wormmon. He was almost never seen without his whip, after all. |
| 40 | * ''Manga/FairyTail'': Erza Scarlet gets [[ShamefulStrip stripped naked]], whipped, ''and'' slashed all over when she's captured by Tartarus. |
| 41 | * ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'': Nakago does this to Tamahome, as well as to [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Ashitare]]. |
| 42 | * ''Manga/Golgo13'': "Power to the People" sees Golgo tied up and forced to undergo a whipping by South African customs agents after discovering he's carrying a concealed submachine gun in his luggage. Oddly enough this is enough to make him laugh subtly. |
| 43 | * ''Anime/GrimmsFairyTaleClassics'': The witch from "Brother and Sister" punishes her stepchildren by whipping them. When Rose fails to stop her from doing this, Rudolf shields her by covering her with his body. |
| 44 | * ''Manga/HybridXHeartMagiasAcademyAtaraxia'': When Grabel is accused of treason, Zelshione has her suspended from the ceiling and tortures her with a whip, while using her hypnotic powers to turn the pain into pleasure to try to break her mind and turn her into a sex slave. In the light novel version, Grabel's clothes get torn to shreds by the whip. In the anime version, she is stripped naked before the whipping. |
| 45 | * ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'': Precia Testarossa establishes herself as a ''supremely'' EvilMatriarch and quite possibly the cruelest villain in the entire series by doing this to her nine-year-old daughter Fate with the whip form of her Intelligent Device during her introduction scene (Arf's internal monologue implies that this is a regular occurrence). [[spoiler:Sure, she is [[LoveMakesYouEvil insane and broken]] but her FreudianExcuse does not justify her cruelty towards Fate at all.]] |
| 46 | * ''Manga/MaidenRose'': Hasebe canes[[note]]or whips, in the OVA[[/note]] Klaus while he is tied to a chair during interrogation for treason. |
| 47 | * ''Anime/NajicaBlitzTactics'': In episode 9, Najica is briefly subjected to this after she's found out while she's infiltrating the Lion of Gilda's base. She gets the chance to escape since the government military forces begin to move towards them, forcing the soldiers to flee for their lives. |
| 48 | * ''Manga/SakuraGari'': One of the "punishments" [[spoiler:Katsuragi]] applies to [[spoiler:Masataka]] is whipping him. [[spoiler:Aside from raping him, subjecting him to an AssShove ''after the rape'' and burning his hand with boiling tea, that is.]] Later Masataka [[FanDisservice removes his shirt to show his fresh scars]] to his boss Souma [[spoiler: aka the person that Katsuragi is {{yandere}} for]], who gets ''very'' angry at the sight. |
| 49 | * ''Anime/ValkyrieDriveMermaid'': Episode 3 begins with Charlotte having Ange give Miyasato and Kouzuki a brutal whipping for failing to keep Mirei locked up. |
| 50 | * ''Anime/VariableGeo'': In the second episode, [[{{Ninja}} Chiho]] is captured by [[NebulousEvilOrganisation the Jahana Group]] and is punished for spying on them. When she regains consciousness, she finds that her wrists have been bound above her head and that she's been stripped down to her panties. [[TortureTechnician Siritahi]] proceeds to whip her mercilessly, not allowing her to pass out, then [[{{Brainwashed}} gives her an injection to enslave her]]. |
| 51 | * ''Manga/WorldsEndHarem'': When Ms. Pope fails to stop Reito's group from escaping confinement, her superior Chloe Mansfield has her stripped, chained up, and whipped. |
| 52 | * ''Anime/YuGiOh'': The Ishtar siblings' abusive father tortured Rishid/[[DubNameChange Odion]] with a whip. This scene was cut out of the English dub. |
| 53 | [[/folder]] |
| 54 | |
| 55 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 56 | * ''ComicBook/{{Alix}}'': |
| 57 | ** ''Recap/AlixIorixLeGrand'': Iorix gives Valerus a whipping in the face to prevent him from following the wagon full of gold and puts his eye out. |
| 58 | ** ''Recap/AlixLePrinceDuNil'': Alix is whipped on several occasions when is condemned to slavery. The first on the main square of Sakhara, the second is when he works on the construction site, and the third is at night when he is tied to a stake. |
| 59 | * ''ComicBook/{{Barracuda}}'': In an effort to break Maria to his will, Ferrango has her stripped to the waist and flogged so brutally that it tears up her back and almost kills her. It does not break her and, if anything, only strengthens her resolve. |
| 60 | * ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer'': In ''Recap/TheYellowM'', Septimus uses a whip to discipline Olrik. The latter furiously returns the favor when he is freed. |
| 61 | * ''Franchise/TheDCU'': |
| 62 | ** ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'': Subverted. Catwoman ''never'' uses her trademark whip to cut people -- only to [[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands disarm]], ensnare, or simply frighten them. She did once thrash Franchise/{{Batman}} across the face with the ''butt'' of her whip, making him bleed, but that's not really a lashing. |
| 63 | ** ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': |
| 64 | *** ''ComicBook/AdventureComics #424: Crypt of the Frozen Graves'': A mob boss tries to torture information out of [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Linda Danvers]], unaware that she's just pretending to be in pain while she's being whipped. |
| 65 | *** ''ComicBook/Supergirl2005'': During the "Candor'' storyline, [[EvilCounterpart Ultraman]] and [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Saturn Queen]] take over the alien ghetto of Kandor -not to be confused with the self-named Bottle City- and maintain the populace subdued by means of frequent floggings. |
| 66 | *** ''ComicBook/SupermanSupergirlMaelstrom'': Proclaiming her love towards ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} gets aspiring [[ComicBook/NewGods Female Fury]] Maelstrom tortured and whipped. |
| 67 | ** ''Franchise/WonderWoman'': |
| 68 | *** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Eviless, the founder and leader of Villainy Incorporated, is a cruel galactic slaver who uses a whip as her primary weapon. |
| 69 | *** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': The Sangtee Empire slave drivers use whips in addition to the remote control shock collars to punish and torment their slaves. |
| 70 | * ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'': Subverted. Emp is defeated by a villain called "The Lash", the sole remaining member of (faux) British trio Rum, Sodomy, and The Lash (Rum was in rehab after his fifth drunk driving charge while Sodomy quit after becoming fed up explaining it was ''strictly'' heterosexual sodomy, leaving The Lash to do all three parts). He's about to whip her but realises they're standing in front of a fabric store, which brings up traumatic childhood memories of being bored out of his skull while his mom shopped for fabric, so he calls it a draw and leaves. |
| 71 | * ''ComicBook/ImEisland'': Sinclar gets it twice in the comic. The first time, after being caught with a male love in the hold, which results in his lover's death, and then a second time when he attempts to desert during the winter and has to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_the_gauntlet run the gauntlet]]. |
| 72 | * ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'': When the future Saint of Killers ends up in Hell, his hatred for those who delayed him in getting medicine back to his family is such that it ''extinguishes'' the fires of Hell. When Satan finds out he flogs the man so mercilessly his spine is the only thing connecting both halves of his body, and even that isn't enough to break him. Only by taking the Angel of Death's place does he leave, allowing the fires to restart ([[spoiler:and killing Satan as he leaves over an insult]]). |
| 73 | * ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'': In "[[Recap/TheSmurfsBook20TheSmurfMenace The Smurf Menace]]", after Papa Smurf and a few of his Smurfs are caught outside the Gray Smurf prison camp, the two Smurfs are chained up with the Great Leader threatening to give them ten lashes each. When Papa Smurf tells his little Smurfs not to worry because the Gray Smurfs aren't real and they will soon be gone, one of the Gray Smurfs gives one of the chained Smurfs a whip lash. |
| 74 | [[/folder]] |
| 75 | |
| 76 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 77 | * ''ComicStrip/FlashGordon'': Ming threatens his daughter Aura with various punishments for defying him, including having her whipped bloody. |
| 78 | * ''ComicStrip/ModestyBlaise'': Lacey, the BigBad of "The Young Mistress", has a fondness for using a riding crop on those who displease him; often delivering a thrashing severe enough to require medical attention. He does it to his lover/forger, to her ex-boyfriend, and plans to do it to Modesty. |
| 79 | [[/folder]] |
| 80 | |
| 81 | [[folder:Fairy Tales]] |
| 82 | * "Literature/TheEnchantedQuill", by Creator/FranzXaverVonSchonwerth: The main character's unwanted and rejected suitors intend to get revenge on her by cornering her and whipping her; though, she realizes their plan and uses her magic quill to force the trio to whip themselves. |
| 83 | [[/folder]] |
| 84 | |
| 85 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 86 | * ''Fanfic/AlienExodus'': Leego, the Rodian taskmaster, delights in tormenting the slaves with his whip. Bellona is living proof of that. |
| 87 | * ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTheStars'': When she sees some of Keleria's scars, Ayuri realizes that at some recent point in time she was subjected to a lot of whipping, savage enough to leave vicious marks all over her body. |
| 88 | * ''Fanfic/CorrinInPeril'': Corrin is threatened with forty lashes if she says anything while sweeping. |
| 89 | * ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': In [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/dungeon-keeper-ami-sailor-moon-dungeon-keeper-story-only-thread.30066/page-4#post-6355758 Advisers Advise]], from a discussion with her inner circle on how to punish her minions, in a way she'd be willing to do: |
| 90 | -->''"...flogging is used even in some surface armies," Cathy's energetic voice sounded behind her. The tall blonde was gesticulating with her hands, apparently trying to convince her boyfriend of something.'' |
| 91 | * ''Fanfic/FrozenHeartsSakume'': Prince Harken has a variant involving shards of glass in a cat of nine tails, which he proposes as Hans’ punishment. At least one of his whipping victims has died from this punishment. |
| 92 | * ''Fanfic/GarfieldRoyalRescue'': In Part 2, Harry has one of his druid henchmen whip a chained-up Garfield. |
| 93 | * ''Fanfic/HeavensLight'': Frollo personally flogs Quasimodo for continually defying him. |
| 94 | * ''Fanfic/HyruleWarriors'': Chapter 16 reveals that [[spoiler:Cia whipped Zelda bloody in order to demonstrate that her threats are to be taken seriously]]. |
| 95 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11126695/1/I-Will-Always-Follow-You I Will Always Follow You]]'' (''Manga/FairyTail''): A possessed [[spoiler:Lucy]] subjects [[spoiler: Natsu]] to this. To his credit, he eggs it on saying things that would piss off the [[spoiler:Lucy]] he knows to get a reaction out of her to see if she is still [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight there]]. It works but he gets several lashes for his efforts. |
| 96 | * ''Fanfic/{{Left}}'': Frodo gets whipped by a tower orc if he so much as moves around. |
| 97 | * ''[[http://audreys-efanfic.freeservers.com/lostandfound.html Lost and Found]]'' (''Series/{{Emergency}}''): John Gage is held captive for 18 months and appears to have been strung up in handcuffs and "punished" this way quite often. By the time he snaps, kills the scumbag, and is found wandering, his back is covered in scars. One of his flashbacks describes a cat o'nine tails-type whip. And as if that weren't horrific enough, he mentions to Roy that sometimes his captor would rape him as well while he hung there. |
| 98 | * ''Fanfic/LovedAndLost'': Shining Armor -- who has become a HeroWithBadPublicity along with Twilight's friends and Princess Celestia because of [[TheUsurper Prince Jewelius]] -- is flogged in the 11th chapter by his rival [[KnightTemplar Commander Hildread]] as an example to the Royal Guard he's charged of disgracing. |
| 99 | * ''Fanfic/TheMareWhoOnceLivedOnTheMoon'': Celestia once used this as the punishment for an argument between Twilight and one of her teachers about the physics of unicorn self-flight. Whoever was wrong got a flogging and was thrown out of the school. |
| 100 | * ''Fanfic/AMarriageOfConvenience'': When Elsa first meets Hans in the first chapter and sees the scars resulting from the whippings he received from his father and brothers, she can't help but feel pity for the man who caused so much trouble to her and Anna. |
| 101 | * ''Fanfic/MisalignedGemini'': Under Decepticon rule, slaves in Kaon are threatened with whippings if they are late for work, waste Energon, or misplace their keycards in Decepticon HQ. [[spoiler:Barricade pretends that Sideswipe lost his keycard despite Sideswipe having it on him. He drags Sideswipe out into the courtyard and whips him with an electro-whip until he falls into stasis. Sunstreaker and Pyra Magna witness the assault but she prevents him from interfering. Sunstreaker realizes his General has truly changed for the worst after she refuses to use her influence to stop the unjust punishment. This act causes him and the other Companions to turn against the Decepticons.]] |
| 102 | * ''Fanfic/ThePrayerWarriors [[Franchise/HarryPotter Battle With the Witches]]'': Dumbledore's first scene involves him whipping a student for praying. Previously, in "The Evil Gods Part 1", Literature/{{Percy Jackson|and the Olympians}}, after converting, is so overwhelmed with remorse for his past sins that he whips himself. |
| 103 | * ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27853170/chapters/68194306 Pulse and Void]]'', a dark ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fic, Yamada Hizashi aka Present Mic is captured by a villain with an energy siphoning quirk and brutally tortured. His back is so raw and covered in so many gouges by the time he’s rescued that it borders on FlayingAlive -- there’s not much skin left, as it was a cat-o-nine-tails like device. (Dark artwork warning) |
| 104 | * ''Fanfic/{{Reunions}}'': Sansa is stripped naked, tied face-first to a post, and whipped. |
| 105 | * ''Fanfic/SeaChangeSeries'': Flynn is flogged by the pirates who have captured him as punishment for one of his crew acting out. |
| 106 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10552308/1/Something-Better Something Better]]'': Helen's strict parents find out that she's dating Timothy and give her a lashing with a switch. They then tell [[ShotgunWedding Helen to marry her boyfriend]]. |
| 107 | * ''Fanfic/AThingOfVikings'': Mildew's cruelty as jarl under King Mac Bethad isn't limited to keeping dragons chained up; people in his village routinely receive excessive punishments for minor misdeeds; one fisherman was whipped to ''death'' for telling other fishermen from other villages about the dragons that Mildew was training for Mac Bethad. |
| 108 | * ''Fanfic/UnderCoverOfDarkness'': In chapter 28, [[spoiler:Phoebe]] is flogged with a cat o' nine tails while [[spoiler:Arnold]] is forced to listen. |
| 109 | [[/folder]] |
| 110 | |
| 111 | [[folder:Film -- Animated]] |
| 112 | * ''WesternAnimation/BolivarElHeroe'': Carlos punishes Bolívar by whipping him, but Bolivar's grandfather considers this a cruel punishment and fires him. |
| 113 | * ''WesternAnimation/EgoTrip'': Executive Mandark has Number Twelve flogged with a laser whip. |
| 114 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney'': Judge Frollo is seen supervising a flogging [[VillainyDiscretionShot off screen]]. He tells the flogger to wait between lashes, "otherwise, the old sting will dull him to the new." |
| 115 | * ''Anime/LupinIIITheSecretOfTwilightGemini'': [[EffeminateMisogynisticGuy Sadachiyo]] subjects [[MsFanservice Fujiko]] to this type of torture after she's caught snooping around [[spoiler:[[BigBad Jean Pierre]]]]'s hideout. |
| 116 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'': The Egyptians make liberal use of whips to speed the Hebrew slaves along and to punish anyone who falls behind or stumbles. Moses attempts to intervene in a particularly brutal whipping of an old man, and his accidental killing of the guard forces him to flee Egypt. |
| 117 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheReturnOfTheKing'' has the orc musical number, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdXQJS3Yv0Y "Where There's a Whip, There's a Way"]], inspired by an offhand remark in [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings the book]]: |
| 118 | -->"There now!" [Uruk] laughed, flicking at their legs.\ |
| 119 | "[[{{Metaphorgotten}} Where there's a whip, there's a will]], my slugs... you'll get as much lash as your skins can carry when you come in late to your camp. Don't you know we're at war?" |
| 120 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfTheHunchback'': Frollo has Quasimodo publicly whipped as punishment for the earlier riot, expecting the Archdeacon to give up the Church's treasury in exchange for the boy's safety. The Archdeacon reluctantly refuses, and watches hopelessly as Quasimodo receives his fifteen lashes. |
| 121 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarchaserTheLegendOfOrin'': The minemasters ''really'' love using their laser whips against underperforming slaves. |
| 122 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheWayOfPeace'': A man is shown whipping another man as the narration suggests that fear and hatred drive humans to practice things like slavery and oppression. |
| 123 | [[/folder]] |
| 124 | |
| 125 | [[folder:Film -- Live Action]] |
| 126 | * ''Film/TwelveYearsASlave'': The sadistic slaveowner Edwin Epps quotes ''Scripture'' to justify his beatings of his slaves, saying that Scripture condones lashing indolent servants with as many as one hundred and fifty strokes. On a more practical level, he has any slave whipped who picks less than 200 pounds of cotton in one day. When he feels particularly sadistic, he'll force one slave to whip another. |
| 127 | * ''Film/AgainstAllFlags'': One of the first scenes shows the British naval officer Brian Hawke being flogged so he can pose as a common seaman who's deserted and infiltrate a {{Pirate}} stronghold. When he's examined by some pirate leaders (supposedly) a few weeks later, one says he recognizes the style of the sadistic bosun who did the flogging -- he likes to "sign his name" on the victim's back with the last several strokes. |
| 128 | * ''Film/AndQuietFlowsTheDon'': Stepan busts out a whip and whips Aksiniya after finding out she cheated on him. |
| 129 | * ''Film/AnneOfTheIndies'': Pierre is flogged as a spy when he returns to the pirate ship after disappearing in Nassau. |
| 130 | * ''Film/TheBambooHouseOfDolls'': The Japanese enjoy doing this to their captured prisoners, even the women. One of the captured women, Lana, ends up being whipped until she succumbs to her injuries. |
| 131 | * ''Film/TheBarbarians'': Kulchek and Gor are whipped when they're [[MadeASlave child slaves]]. Separated, each brother is whipped by a man in a black or gold mask respectively until adulthood. Then they're each put in the other's tormentor's mask and turned loose on each other for the BigBad's amusement. |
| 132 | * ''Film/BelleDeJour'': Séverine fantasizes about being tied up and flogged on the back by two low class sorts in livery. |
| 133 | * ''Film/BlackNarcissus'': Angu Ayah whips Kanchi for allegedly stealing a chain from the chapel. |
| 134 | * ''Film/BlackRobe'': After witnessing Daniel and Annuka having sex and lusting over it, [=LaForgue=] takes off his robe and starts self-flagellating with a branch of a pine tree, praying for forgiveness for his carnal desires. |
| 135 | * ''Film/Bluebeard1972'': When Brigitte ask the Baron to hit her in a way that doesn't harm her face, the Baron decides to whip her in his wine cellar. |
| 136 | * ''Film/TheBlueIguana'': Floyd has a man tied up and whipped in front of a bank. |
| 137 | * ''Film/TheBoldCaballero'': The Commandante and his sergeant are both very fond of using a whip upon the local natives. |
| 138 | * ''Film/BrideOfTheMonster'': Lobo is fascinated with Janet and at one point approaches her with lustful intent, ignoring Eric's commands to leave the room. Eric grabs a nearby whip and whips the mute servant into submission. |
| 139 | * ''Film/TheBullOfTheWest'': In an attempt to teach his son Will not to be weak like him, Ben Justin rips the shirt off his back and almost takes a bullwhip to him, but is stopped by the TerribleTicking inside his head. |
| 140 | * ''Film/{{Cabiria}}'': Croessa is whipped for trying to prevent the priests of Moloch from taking Cabiria away for sacrifice. Later, Maciste is whipped for the same offense. |
| 141 | * ''Film/CaptainBlood'': Colonel Bishop whips his slaves for information and punishment. When he strings Blood himself up for whipping, he notably begins to lash Blood's ''chest'' instead of his back, which would likely have killed him if the Spanish attack hadn't interrupted. |
| 142 | * ''Film/{{Chino}}'': Creator/CharlesBronson is stripped to the waist and hung by his wrists to be whipped. |
| 143 | * ''Film/TheCorpseVanishes'': Dr. Lorenz uses a whip to discipline his hunchbacked assistant Mike when he catches Mike [[ILoveTheDead interfering with the corpses of the brides in the crypt]]. |
| 144 | * ''Film/TheCountOfMonteCristo2002'': The inmates of Château d'If are given a lashing on the anniversaries of their arrivals, with one lash per year. Done just to remind them how long they had been there. |
| 145 | * ''Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD'': The Robomen use whips on the slaves working in the mine. |
| 146 | * ''Film/DeathRidesAHorse'': Pedro goes absolutely ballistic and nearly whips Bill to death after Bill [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes kills his equally-evil brother Manuel]]. |
| 147 | * ''Film/DieAnotherDay'': It's implied that this happened to Bond at some point during the 1.5 years he was held prisoner in North Korea, given the scars on his back. |
| 148 | * ''Film/DjangoUnchained'': Both Django and Broomhilda bear the scars of the whipping they received at the hands of the Brittle Brothers for attempting to run away from the Carrucan plantation. When Django tracks them down after being freed by [[{{Deuteragonist}} Dr. King Schultz]], their leader Big John is about to whip another slave for breaking eggs. After shooting and killing Big John, Django takes the slave-driver's whip to Roger, the one who whipped Broomhilda, in an awesome act of vengeance before killing him with his own gun. |
| 149 | * ''Film/EverAfter'': This happens to Danielle after she attacks her stepsister Marguerite. The flogging occurs off-screen. After the stepmother sentences Danielle to be flogged, it cuts to the nicer stepsister, Jacqueline, treating the lashes on Danielle's back. |
| 150 | * ''Film/{{Evilspeak}}'': Colonel Kincaid beats Coopersmith with a horsewhip to punish him. |
| 151 | * ''Film/FlaviaTheHeretic'': When Flavia is caught and returned to the convent, she is whipped for having had the audacity to run away. |
| 152 | * ''Film/FlowersInTheAttic1987'': Corrine is whipped to atone for her time spent "living in sin", with seventeen lashes for her seventeen years of marriage. |
| 153 | * ''Film/GhostRock'': Pickett sentences Wu Chen to 50 lashes for daring to stand up to his thugs who were attempting to drive the Chinese settlers off their land. |
| 154 | * ''Film/{{Glory}}'': One of the soldiers (played by Creator/DenzelWashington, who won an Oscar for the role) is whipped for going AWOL. When they strip his back to administer the punishment, it is clear that he's quite familiar with being whipped. And while he is being whipped, [[DeathGlare his eyes do not waver at all from his commanding officer.]] |
| 155 | %%* ''Film/GungaDin'': Happens to Sergeant Cutter (Creator/CaryGrant). |
| 156 | * ''Film/{{Haxan}}'': One witch is whipped for not being evil enough. A monk is whipped after the sight of an attractive lady being held prisoner for witchcraft makes him horny. |
| 157 | * ''Film/HeartsOfTheWorld'': One of the Germans whips the Girl after she is too frail and week to lift a heavy bucket of potatoes into a cart. |
| 158 | * ''Film/HighPlainsDrifter'': Marshal Duncan was whipped to death in the street. [[TruthInTelevision Yes, you can be whipped to death]]. The [[NoNameGiven Stranger]] then [[spoiler:gets revenge on those who did it and he whips one to death in the flame-lit street and hangs another with a whip]]. |
| 159 | * ''Film/HoratioHornblower'': Hornblower orders a crewman flogged specifically because one of his lieutenants threatened the man publicly with it, and Hornblower feels his duty to support his officers is more important than his dislike of the lash. But he lectures the lieutenant about it afterwards. |
| 160 | * ''Film/HorrorExpress'': Captain Kavan brutally lashes a man with a cat-o'-nine-tails for calling him a fool. |
| 161 | * ''Film/HouseOfWhipcord'': Punishment for second violations is to be flogged by Walker. First happens to Claire and then Anne Marie. Presumably happened to Karen too, as she was on her third violation when we meet her. |
| 162 | * ''Film/HotSpur'': Carlo flogs the naked Susan as part of his RevengeByProxy. |
| 163 | * ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': Quasimodo is flogged in all film adaptations, while Frollo does this to himself in [[Film/TheHunchback the 1997 version]]. |
| 164 | * ''Film/IAmAFugitiveFromAChainGang'': Prisoners are routinely whipped for getting out of line or not working hard enough. |
| 165 | * ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'': This happens to Indiana and his sidekick Short Round when they try to resist their abductors. |
| 166 | * ''Film/JailhouseRock'': Elvis is "flogged", although it's not done seriously. |
| 167 | * ''Film/JesusChristSuperstar'': Set to [[TheMusical music]]. The lyrics are Pontius Pilate counting off lashes. |
| 168 | * ''Film/{{Khalnayak}}'': Happens to Ballu at the hand of his former childhood friend, [[CowboyCop Ram]]. Unfortunately for Ram, Ballu is TooKinkyToTorture. |
| 169 | * ''Film/KingOfDevilsIsland'': When Erling is recaptured after his escape attempt, he's sentenced to ten strokes. [[ShootYourMate The staff make Olav administer them.]] |
| 170 | * ''Film/LastTrainFromGunHill'': When Rick first accosts Catherine, she lashes him with her buggy whip; cutting open his cheek and leaving him with a RevealingInjury. |
| 171 | * ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia'': Lawrence is flogged by the Turkish officer when captured. |
| 172 | * ''Film/LicenceToKill'': After Sanchez catches Lupe in bed with another man, he whips her with a stingray tail. |
| 173 | * ''Film/Linda1929'': At a particularly psychopathic moment, Stillwater starts whipping Linda when she refuses to marry Decker, and his wife when she backs Linda up. This is why Linda marries Decker: to have someone to protect her. |
| 174 | * ''Film/LouisTheChildKing'': Philippe d'Orléans is whipped on his naked butt for being too cheeky. |
| 175 | * ''Film/TheManhunt'': After being caught on Robeson's ranch following his first escape, Forrest has the stranger strung up in the barn and administers a flogging to him before handing him over to the sheriff. |
| 176 | * ''Film/TheManWhoCameBack'': Even though slavery has officially ended, Billy Duke still carries a whip as he did when he was a slave owner, and uses it to inflict a merciless whipping on Grandpa when he catches the old man and his family attempting to leave the plantation. The scars on Grandpa's back reveal that endured many such whippings when he was a slave. |
| 177 | * ''Film/TheManWhoKilledDonQuixote'': Toby discovers Javier/Quixote flagellating himself with thorny branches, leaving deep cuts on his back. |
| 178 | * ''Film/MasterAndCommander: The Far Side Of The World'': A sailor is flogged for disrespecting an unlucky officer who is being scapegoated as a Jonah. Captain Jack Aubrey goes through with the flogging despite not wanting to (he likes the sailor in question, and more than that is one of the people who thinks the scapegoated officer actually is a Jonah) because discipline must be maintained. |
| 179 | -->'''Capt. Jack Aubrey:''' I am not a flogging captain! |
| 180 | * ''Film/MastersOfTheUniverse'': After capturing He-Man, Skeletor has him flogged with a laser whip to try to force him to [[KneelBeforeZod kneel]]. He remains standing as the other heroes arrive. |
| 181 | * ''Film/MutinyOnTheBounty'': Flogging occurs in both versions, as well as a third version of the story, ''Film/TheBounty''. |
| 182 | * ''Film/NevadaSmith'': After trying to escape from the labor camp, Bowdre is whipped. |
| 183 | * ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera'': Near the beginning, Lassparri chases Tomasso and hits him with a cat-o'-nine-tails after catching him in his dressing room trying on his costume. Surprisingly, despite being a Creator/MarxBrothers film, it's ''not'' PlayedForLaughs. |
| 184 | * ''Film/TheNotoriousDaughterOfFannyHill'': The CasualKink version occurs when HighClassCallGirl Kissey lightly flogs the masochistic Count de Sade. |
| 185 | * ''Film/{{Novitiate}}'': The Roses use the old-fashioned "discipline", a seven-stranded cord with hard knots, on themselves. Cathleen is shown using it properly, flinging it over her shoulders to cause pain but not injury. |
| 186 | * ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist'': Presented rather gruesomely when the Romans flog UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}. It's a lot more {{gorn}}y than you'd expect from a religious flick. A bit of accidental EnforcedMethodActing is involved -- in one take, the whip actually hits the actor, instead of the board they'd placed on him to protect his back. |
| 187 | * ''Film/APearlInTheForest'': Markhaa whips Sendem after he figures out that she was the one who warned Dugar's parents that they would be arrested, allowing them to flee in the night. |
| 188 | * ''Film/ThePianist'': One particular SS officer that Szpilman runs into in the ghetto is particularly fond of whipping the slave laborers under his supervision. At one point, he beats a row of workers simply to celebrate New Year's Eve. |
| 189 | * ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'': Bootstrap Bill Turner is forced to flog his son Will. He mentions that if he hadn't done it, the boatswain would have, and he takes pride in "cleaving flesh from bone" with each strike. |
| 190 | * ''Film/ThePitAndThePendulum1991'' opens with Torquemada ordering a man's body disinterred from his crypt and flogged for his sins. Later the man's young son is flogged in front of the crowd at his wife's execution. Later, when Torquemada is having impure thoughts regarding Maria, he orders his TortureTechnician Mendoza to flog him. |
| 191 | * ''Film/PopeJoan'': |
| 192 | ** Johanna is viciously caned by her father for refusing the destroy a Greek book given to her by Aesculapius. She still bears some marks as an adult. |
| 193 | ** Valentinus is lashed just for thinking about leaving Fulda. |
| 194 | * ''Film/{{Pulgasari}}'': The Governor has the blacksmith whipped with a stick after the iron tools are stolen by the villagers. |
| 195 | * ''Film/TheProposition'' features a realistically stomach-churning sequence where a prisoner is sentenced to a hundred lashes. |
| 196 | * ''Film/{{Quills}}'': Dr. Royer-Collard orders Madeleine flogged for smuggling the Marquis' writing out of Charenton. The Abbé later flogs himself for [[spoiler:ordering the Marquis' tongue cut out]]. |
| 197 | * ''Film/TheRamrodder'': After claiming Tuwana as his squaw, Brave Eagle hangs her from a tree, strips her naked, and savagely flogs her. |
| 198 | * ''Film/RedRiver'': Dunson punishes Bunk Kenneally for causing a stampede and getting a man killed by bullwhipping him. |
| 199 | -->''"You started all this... we're three or four hundred head short and you killed Dan Latimer... stealin' sugar like a kid. Well, they whip kids to teach 'em better."'' |
| 200 | * ''Film/RobinHood1922'': Prince John has women who refuse to have sex with him whipped. |
| 201 | * ''Film/RobinHood1991'': Daguerre attempts to sentence Robert Hode to this. Hode's refusal to accept this punishment and his subsequent insulting of Daguerre result in his being outlawed. |
| 202 | * ''Film/TheScavengers'': When Jess is explaining to Nancy that there are worse things than rape, she slides her dress off her shoulders to show her the scars she received from being flogged after a slave in the cotton mill stole and the overseers randomly chose her to make an example of. |
| 203 | * ''Film/SchoolOfTheHolyBeast'': The film's favorite method of disciplining and punishing. In fact, during Maya's first sleep as a nun, she overhears a fellow sister beating herself causing another sister to tell her that she'll get used to it. |
| 204 | * ''Film/{{Shoeshine}}'': Pasquale is flogged after a metal file is planted in his cell. |
| 205 | * ''Film/TheSinfulDwarf'': Olaf has to punish one of the unfortunate slaves with a squeaky whip. Being an exceptionally perverted dwarf, he ''really'' enjoys it. |
| 206 | * ''Film/SnuffMovie'': Wendy is flagellated with cat-o-nine tails before being crucified. |
| 207 | * ''Film/TheSonOfTheSheik'': Ahmed is subjected to a prolonged whipping by a rival sheik who creepily calls him "my young lion". His rape of Yasmin is presented as revenge for this whipping as he wrongly believes that she is responsible. |
| 208 | * ''Film/StarshipTroopers'': Rico is subject to "administrative punishment" after he bungles a live-fire training exercise, resulting in the death of another cadet. This consists of being strung up and whipped ten times. Dialog early in the movie indicates this is relatively standard fare, with Rico's father indicating he'd rather be lashed in the public square than have Rico join the MI. |
| 209 | * ''Film/LaStrada'': When Gelsomina is slow to pick up the routine that Zampanò is trying to teach her, he picks up a switch and lashes her legs with it. |
| 210 | * ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': Anthony Hope gets this courtesy of the Beadle on orders from Judge Turpin for "gandering" at his ward. |
| 211 | * ''Film/TarzanAndHisMate'': Holt, Arlington, and the foreman Saidi use whips to drive the slave porters along. |
| 212 | * ''Film/TheTenCommandments1956'': Baka intends to kill Joshua this way after Joshua attacks him to free his girlfriend, but Moses intervenes and kills Baka before he can finish. |
| 213 | * ''Film/TessOfTheStormCountry'': Squire Graves whips Tess when he catches her attempting to steal milk for Teola's starving infant. |
| 214 | * ''Film/TimberFalls'': As punishment for failing to have sex with Cheryl as commanded, Deacon lashes Mike with a cat-o'-nine-tails. |
| 215 | * ''Film/{{Timbuktu}}'': The brutal jihadists that take over Timbuktu impose flogging as a punishment for stuff like playing soccer or singing. |
| 216 | * ''Film/LaTourPrendsGarde'': The king takes La Tour's satire show quite well but Duke Philippe de Saint-Sever absolutely doesn't, and has La Tour stripped shirtless and his back whipped by his soldiers. |
| 217 | * ''Film/TowerOfLondon'': Wyatt was subjected to this by Richard to force information on the treasure's whereabouts out of him. He doesn't budge. |
| 218 | * ''Film/TrafficInSouls'': Lorna's madam and pimp both threaten her with a whip after she refuses to put on the kimono. |
| 219 | * ''Film/UnderworldRiseOfTheLycans'': Lucian is subjected to this at the hands of Viktor, who sentences him to thirty lashes for betraying his trust, and even one lash is brutal enough to Lucian. [[KickTheDog Viktor makes it quite clear that he wants Lucian to suffer, even after the first twenty-one lashes]], and even forbids Sonja, his own daughter who is in a [[StarCrossedLovers star-crossed relationship]] with Lucian, from intervening on pain of severe punishment. |
| 220 | * ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'': Little Bill kills Ned this way, setting the stage for the protagonist's final vengeance. |
| 221 | * ''Film/{{{Videodrome}}'': |
| 222 | ** A snuff film shown from the Videodrome signal has a woman with her hands tied above her as she's flogged repeatedly by two strangers in hoods. |
| 223 | ** During the scene where Max wears a helmet to record his hallucinations, he ends up dreaming of Nicki who wants to play. Max finds himself in the Videodrome room, then obtains a whip and uses it on Nicki, who turns into Masha, who's trapped in a television set. |
| 224 | * ''Film/VivaVilla'': Pancho's father is whipped to death for defying the local aristocrat. |
| 225 | * ''Film/WhenTaekwondoStrikes'': In the basement of the Bansan Karate School, Japanese spies whip handcuffed captives on the chest and stomach. |
| 226 | * ''Film/{{Yellowbeard}}'': Parodied. The prison guard whips Yellowbeard to get his attention. Yellowbeard treats it like the guard was tapping him on the shoulder. |
| 227 | * ''Film/YellowHairAndTheFortressOfGold'': Colonel Torres has a captured Indian flogged for the pleasure of hearing him scream. |
| 228 | * ''Film/Zorro1975'': Brother Francisco, trying to take a stand against Huerta's soldiers, ends up getting subjected to a public whipping until Zorro intervenes. Later on Zorro turns this around on the corrupt judges who sentenced this treatment on Francisco. |
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| 230 | |
| 231 | [[folder:Folklore]] |
| 232 | * ''Myth/TheWhiteWitchOfRoseHall'': The eponymous ''witch'' is widely portrayed as using a bullwhip to punish her slaves. |
| 233 | [[/folder]] |
| 234 | |
| 235 | [[folder:Gamebooks]] |
| 236 | * ''Literature/FightingFantasy'': The main character gets one while serving in a SlaveGalley in ''Literature/MasterOfChaos''. Try to prevent a fellow slave from getting whipped and you get [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished to take his place]]. |
| 237 | [[/folder]] |
| 238 | |
| 239 | [[folder:Jokes]] |
| 240 | * There is a joke involving three men who are each sentenced to receive a hundred lashes with a whip as punishment. They are also each granted a single request. The first man requests to have a pillow strapped to his back. After twenty lashes, the pillow is destroyed, so the man only receives eighty lashes. The second man sees what happened to the other guy, so he asks for ''two'' pillows strapped to his back. After twenty lashes, the first pillow is destroyed, and the second is destroyed after another twenty, so the man only receives sixty lashes. The third man saw what happened to the other two and thinks for a long time about his request... [[BulletproofHumanShield then asks to have one of the other two men strapped to his back]]. |
| 241 | [[/folder]] |
| 242 | |
| 243 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 244 | * ''Literature/AlexisCarew'': A standard naval punishment in the WoodenShipsAndIronMen [-JustForFun/InSpace-] stories. In particular, Captain Neals in the second book is noted as a "Tartar", a captain very free with the cat, and regularly orders that the last man down the mast at shift change be flogged. This naturally results in the crew throwing safety to the wind in their haste to reach the bottom, eventually resulting in two of them going overboard and being lost in space. As a midshipman, Alexis cannot be flogged no matter how much Neals wants to, [[spoiler:until he disrates her for disobeying his demand to KneelBeforeZod and promptly gives her twenty lashes on general principles. The log of his excessive floggings is eventually his undoing at CourtMartial: it's revealed that he did it roughly twice as often as the tribunal would expect of even a captain with an ''extraordinarily'' unruly crew.]] |
| 245 | * ''Literature/AllTheLightWeCannotSee'': The school that enrolls Werner after the authorities find out about his uncommon intelligence is as brutal and vicious as everything else in Nazi Germany. Werner's friend Frederick is singled out for being physically weak and beaten with a rubber hose. |
| 246 | * ''Literature/TheArtOfWarMachiavelli'': The choice of punishments for your troops is either this or public beheading, with flogging being reserved for ''the worst'' crimes. |
| 247 | * ''Literature/AtarGull'': Atar Gull is repeatedly whipped by slavers and overseers for rebelling or causing property damage. |
| 248 | * ''Literature/AubreyMaturin'': Captain Jack Aubrey is considered a stern but fair commander, and one of the reasons for this is that he dislikes imposing more than a dozen lashes, and only imposes even that punishment when it's absolutely required to maintain discipline on his ship. He much prefers to dock troublemakers' grog rations, especially if whatever they did was done drunk. By contrast, Jack has served under and alongside a number of officers who quite like the lash, and is well aware that it does ''not'' endear the men to their officers. |
| 249 | %%* ''Literature/BarberBlackSheep'': Oliver Winslow is punished this way during his stay in Flitwith Prison. |
| 250 | * ''Literature/TheBearkeepersDaughter'': Justinian has John flogged near the end, believing him to be an interloper who lied to his wife. Theodora quickly interferes and comes clean once she hears about it, and John is mostly unharmed afterwards, but his back is too badly scarred for him to use the public baths again. |
| 251 | * ''Literature/TheBelgariad'': Silk mentions that in his day, flogging was a punishment for sloppy work by students of the intelligence service's academy. Apparently it's "a very effective teaching tool", though he doesn't comment on whether or not he knows this from personal experience. |
| 252 | * ''Literature/BillyBudd'': Billy, on the day after his impressment, witnesses the flogging of a young novice and is horrified. |
| 253 | * ''Literature/TheBlackStranger'': Valenso has Tina brutally whipped [[ShootTheMessenger purely for saying that she has seen the black stranger on the beach]]. |
| 254 | * ''Literature/BloodyJack'': Jacky's (second) worst nightmare as a ship's boy in ''Bloody Jack,'' as stripping for a lashing will reveal her true gender. [[spoiler: Both Jacky and Clarissa get lashes in Book 4 and Jaimy takes his licks in book 8.]] |
| 255 | * ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'': How John the Savage punishes ''himself''. |
| 256 | * ''[[Literature/InheritanceCycle Brisingr]]'': Roran is flogged for disobeying orders during a battle (never mind that his superior actually lauded his actions, which saved many of his subordinates' lives. The problem was that he couldn’t be seen to be getting away with insubordination). |
| 257 | * ''Literature/CanYouSpareAQuarter'': Jamie has scars on his back resulting from intense whipping, a product of his AbusiveParents which disturb Graham when he first notices. He compares them to the marks that slaves in slave films bear. |
| 258 | * ''Literature/CarrerasLegions'' is yet another MilitaryScienceFiction story that draws inspiration from ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'', with the titular mercenary outfit punishing middling-serious crimes and derelictions that do not warrant execution with public lashing. Though it also [[{{deconstruction}} deconstructs]] this: a lashing is ''always'' followed by a dishonorable discharge since this sort of humiliation will effectively destroy the subject's worth as a soldier anyway (whether due to the damage done to him or to his dignity before the other men). |
| 259 | * ''Literature/CatchingFire'': Romulus Thread reinstitutes whippings as punishments. Gale receives a flogging after being caught poaching. |
| 260 | * ''Literature/ChristianNation'': The [=POWs=] are treated to this whenever one of their own commits an offense that's worthy of flogging. |
| 261 | %%* ''Literature/ChungKuo'': Happens to Little Bee. |
| 262 | * ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'': "Literature/TheBlackStranger" has a scene in which Valenso, a vicious pirate, has his niece Belesa's protegee, a young girl by the name of Tina, subjected to this because he thinks she's lying about the coming of the title Black Man. |
| 263 | * ''Literature/TheConfessionsOfNatTurner'': Nat is struck in the face with a whip by Moore, the illiterate cretin to whom he is sold by the Rev. Epps. It is a shock for Nat, who was never whipped when he was enslaved by Samuel Turner. |
| 264 | * ''Literature/CudjosCave'': The Confederates liberally employ whipping against anyone they want to punish or get information from, such as a slave named Pete they find walking between plantations without a pass and Dan Pepperill for treating Pete's wounds. |
| 265 | * ''Literature/TheCurseOfChalion'': A few months before the start of the story, Lupe dy Cazaril (then a galley slave) antagonized the slavemaster in order to protect another slave; it was mostly luck that he survived the resulting flogging. [[spoiler:Since lifting the titular curse requires that someone lay down their life three times for the house of Chalion, the fact that a flogging stands a decent chance of killing you and Cazaril provoked one anyway is actually a ''very'' important plot point.]] |
| 266 | * ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'': Silas the Albino flogged himself to a bloody pulp out of a sense of religious fanaticism. |
| 267 | * ''Literature/TheDeedOfPaksenarrion'': As a recruit in Duke Phelan's Company of mercenaries, Paks witnesses two other recruits being flogged for crimes against the Company, before being branded and banished from the Duke's lands. The one charged with minor crimes gets five strokes that hurt but do little real damage; the one who led the conspiracy and then tried to escape by force is given forty strokes "well-marked", the last five with extra force. When it's over, his whole back is covered in blood and he's fainted from the pain of it. However, the guardsman wielding the lash is careful not to inflict lethal or even crippling damage. |
| 268 | * ''Del amor y otros demonios'', by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Father Cayetano Delaura flogs himself while in an HeroicBSOD state [[spoiler:after he realises that [[CreepyChild Sierva]] [[WildChild Maria]] [[UnequalPairing is getting to him]].]] His superior finds him half-dressed, exhausted, and almost delusional after all the self-torture. |
| 269 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': |
| 270 | ** Not quite flogging, but a novel cites an incident where a witch caught a traveling peddler beating his exhausted, overloaded donkey. She grabbed the riding crop out of his hands and used it to strike him in the face twice, saying: "Hurts, doesn't it?" |
| 271 | ** ''Literature/TheTruth'': A little old lady that William de Worde hires at the end had previously submitted a letter to the editor, in which she recommended that anyone under the age of 18 should be flogged daily to stop them from being so noisy. "That'll teach them to go around being young." |
| 272 | * ''Literature/Dive2003'': Blade carries a whip everywhere with him and loves using it on his crewmen at the slightest excuse. |
| 273 | * ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'': The punishment for the seducers and pamperers (pimps) damned in the first ring of the Eighth Circle of {{Hell}} is to be forced to march around said ring while being constantly whipped by demons. |
| 274 | * ''Literature/DoctrineOfLabyrinths'': Felix has permanent scars as a result of being whipped as a child; he also gets off on flogging sexual partners to the point of bleeding. Mildmay is covered in whip-weals when [[spoiler:Malkar Sends an image of him as a captive to Felix]]. |
| 275 | * ''Literature/DolphinTrilogy'': In ''Destiny and the Dolphins'', the diamond thieves whip Syn to force her to tell them where the diamond mine is. |
| 276 | * ''Literature/DragonBones'', by Creator/PatriciaBriggs: Oreg has a flashback to being whipped after laying a curse on one of his old masters. His powerful magic makes the damage real, at least until he can get enough of a grip to heal himself again. It's noted that the only part of his body left without lacerations is the top of his head, and his face is almost unrecognisable, with one cheek slashed down to the ''bone''. |
| 277 | * ''Literature/TheEnchantedQuill'': The cook's unwanted and rejected suitors intend to get revenge on her by cornering her and whipping her. She realizes their plan and uses her magic quill to force the trio to whip themselves. |
| 278 | * ''Literature/EricOrLittleByLittle'': [[spoiler:After [[TheCabinBoy Eric]] is {{kneecapp|ing}}ed by the sadistic skipper of the ''Stormy Petrel'', he becomes unable to do any work at all. When the skipper orders him to furl a sail, Eric tries to climb the rigging but can't. The skipper orders him tied to the rigging by his hands and whips him on the back with a rope until one of the sailors warns that continuing the beating will kill him.]] |
| 279 | * ''Literature/FracturedStars'': Prisoners on Frost Moon 3 are punished with an e-whip, a lightning-like cord of energy that leaves deep burn marks. |
| 280 | * ''Literature/TheGadfly'': The Gadfly is beaten severely and tied down with tight leather straps as punishment for trying to escape the military prison. |
| 281 | * ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'': ''The Guns of Tanith'': Lijah "That Fething Bastard" Cuu gets flogged for looting. This ends...[[UnfriendlyFire badly]]. |
| 282 | * ''Literature/AGirlCalledBlue'': One of Sister Regina's favourite punishments is to hit the children with a leather strap. [[spoiler:Blue is beaten so badly as to be sent to the hospital when Sister Regina discovers her having broken into her office.]] |
| 283 | * ''Literature/TheGraceYear'': When Gertrude is punished for depravity, her knuckles are whipped almost to the bone. She hides the scars with lace gloves. |
| 284 | * ''Literature/{{Grunts}}'', by Creator/MaryGentle: Barahkukor finds some of his female orcs flogging a female elf (a reporter for ''Warrior of Fortune'' magazine). At first he's pleased to see them keeping up with tradition, but then the elf turns her head and complains, ''"You stopped."'' One of the other orcs present complains ''"She's had ages, Sarge! It's my turn next!"'' |
| 285 | * ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'': Harry overhears Argus Filch gleefully reading that Professor Umbridge, who with Dumbledore on the run has just been named headmistress, has just lifted the school's ban on whipping students. With the ban lifted, Filch and Umbridge corner the Weasley twins, whose newest prank is turning a school hallway into a swamp, and declare that they shall be whipped. The two, however, manage a dramatic escape. After this, it's said that Filch would prowl the corridors with horsewhip in hand, desperate to catch students in the act, but there were now so many causing chaos that he didn't know which way to turn. |
| 286 | * ''Literature/TheHistories'': When the pontoon bridge across the Strait of Hellespont, meant to carry the Persian army into Greece, is damaged in a storm, Xerxes has the waters of the strait itself lashed as punishment. |
| 287 | * ''Literature/HonorsParadox'': Drie, Timmon's half-brother, was treated as a literal [[TheScapegoat whipping boy]] during Timmon's childhood. When Timmon's mother Distan wished to punish him, she would have Drie beaten in front of him. Aden, the Ardeth war-leader, attempts to do this again when he shows up at Tentir, and Timmon breaks his whip. |
| 288 | * ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'': Corporal punishment like flogging or caning appears often, sometimes presented as just punishment, sometimes as injustice. As a commander, Hornblower hates to administer floggings, because he believes that it breaks the spirit of good men, and makes bad men worse. He's squeamish about them, as well. |
| 289 | -->''He was ashamed of the fact that he looked upon punishment as a beastly business, that he hated ordering it and dreaded witnessing it. The two or three thousand floggings he had witnessed in the last twenty years had not succeeded in hardening him--in fact he was much softer now (as he was painfully aware) than as a seventeen-year-old midshipman.'' |
| 290 | * ''Literature/HowNotToSummonADemonLord'': Alicia Crystella has a flashback of being hung from the ceiling naked and tortured with a whip. This didn't make it into the anime. |
| 291 | * ''Literature/{{Kherishdar}}'': Whipping is a common tool of punishment, with truly heinous offences followed by being "bathed in wine" -- i.e., having alcohol poured immediately onto the open weals. |
| 292 | * ''Literature/TheKingkillerChronicle'': An important part of Kvothe's legend building in ''Literature/TheNameOfTheWind'' is when he is flogged as a punishment at the Academy - he takes a drug beforehand to dull the pain, which has the side effect of constricting the blood vessels and causing him not to bleed - earning him the nickname "Bloodless". |
| 293 | * ''Literature/KnightAndRogueSeries'' by Creator/HilariBell: After the title characters get press-ganged onto a ship the threat of horrible floggings is always at hand. Michael, the knight, is eventually seriously flogged. The flogging scars, combined with his MarkOfShame, cause most people to assume he's a hardened criminal. |
| 294 | * ''Literature/TheLostKingdomOfBamarre'': Goodman Meerol is flogged for [[ZerothLawRebellion harvesting only unripe fruit from his master's orchards]]. |
| 295 | * ''Literature/MaraDaughterOfTheNile'': Zasha, and later Hatshepsut's lackeys, beat Mara with a whip as punishment. |
| 296 | * ''Literature/{{March}}'': Grace takes a savage whipping after her owners discover that she got John March to teach one of the slave children to read. Watching this is what causes John to become a hardcore abolitionist. |
| 297 | * ''Literature/MartinFierro'': At Song III of this NarrativePoem, Fierro says that when the conscripted soldiers arrived at the Frontier, [[VillainousDemotivator an official told them that anyone who tries to desert will get five hundred strokes]], and so he could count himself as dead. |
| 298 | * ''Literature/TheMermaid'': Amelia, who can transform between a human woman and a mermaid, is hired as an attraction by P.T. Barnum. Barnum sends her on tour with a variety of other attractions, including an orangutan whose handler keeps her in a tiny cage without enough food or water and beats her if she moves too slowly. One day Amelia sees the handler whipping the orangutan, leaving stripes on her neck and shoulders. Amelia grabs the whip and lashes him across the left cheek, leaving a welt from his mouth to his ear. |
| 299 | * ''Literature/LesMiserables'': When Valjean thinks or talks about prison, stick blows will come up sooner or later as inevitable as the tides. |
| 300 | %%* ''Literature/MobyDick:'' One is included in "The Town-Ho's Story". |
| 301 | * ''Literature/MoreThanHuman'': Lone breaks into the tyrannical Mr. Kew's yard, drawn by the signal from his daughter Evelyn's mind. When Mr. Kew sees the two of them, he starts whipping Lone. |
| 302 | * ''Literature/MrRevereAndI'': The redcoat Giles Treadwell deserts the English army after receiving 25 lashes because he didn't salute Sir Cedric the right way. |
| 303 | * ''Literature/TheNameOfTheWind'': An important part of Kvothe's legend building is when he is flogged. A drug he takes beforehand, to dull the pain, has the side effect of constricting the blood vessels so he doesn't bleed, earning him the nickname "Kvothe the Bloodless". |
| 304 | * ''Literature/TheNickelBoys'': Rule-breaking of any sort at Nickel is punished by savage, brutal whippings with a leather strap. |
| 305 | * ''Literature/{{Night}}'', by Elie Wiesel, which is the autobiographical story of the author's time in a concentration camp when he was young: Elie is whipped for inadvertently seeing one of the officers seeing a woman and preparing to have sex with her. |
| 306 | * ''Literature/NoliMeTangere'': Tarsilo is whipped for a number of times, beaten, and then repeatedly dunked upside down in a well used as a dumping spot for trash. He dies from his injuries, but remains defiant against his tormentors through all this. |
| 307 | * ''Literature/{{Outcast}}'': Jason gets whipped for malingering after he collapses at his oar. Then he gets tossed overboard, so Beric attacks the overseer. Then ''Beric'' gets flogged and tossed overboard. |
| 308 | * ''Literature/{{Outlander}}'', by Diana Gabaldon: This happens three times to Jamie. The scars from the whipping are meant to mark a person as a criminal. Jamie's are extensive enough that his brother-in-law Ian mentions that "not an inch of your back" is unscarred. |
| 309 | * ''Literature/RaiKirah'', by Creator/CarolBerg: Seyonne gets this a few times, mostly as part of his [[MadeASlave time in slavery]]. He also has scars on his back from previous occasions. |
| 310 | * ''Literature/RandysDandyLions'': The ringmaster suggests a whip to make the lions perform, which kind-hearted Randy protests. The new lion tamer has absolutely no objections to using one, and it scares the lions half to death. |
| 311 | * ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'': Cluny the Scourge, the warlord rat, whips his subordinates with his own tail. Since presumably he couldn't hit someone hard enough to kill them without breaking his tail, if he wants to actually kill them he attaches a poisoned metal barb to it. Another BigBad, the LawfulEvil Vilu Daskar, uses a particularly nasty variation on this as a punishment for theft aboard his ship; the perpetrators are strung upside-down from the mast, given twenty lashes, have their wounds washed with seawater, and cut down after several hours. |
| 312 | * ''Literature/RoseUnderFire'': Rose is beaten as punishment for refusing to work. |
| 313 | * ''Literature/TheScar'' by Creator/ChinaMieville: Bellis and Tanner are both flogged for treason after they unwittingly call New Crobuzon's ships down on Armada. |
| 314 | * ''Literature/TheScarletLetter'': Dimmesdale punishes himself with whippings, fasts and vigils to atone for his perceived lustfulness. |
| 315 | * ''Literature/SeafortSaga'', by David Feintuch, about the damned Captain Nicholas Seafort has constant floggings of the adolescent cadets and midshipmen - pretty expected since though it is a story about interstellar space vessels, it is based on "Hornblower" and other Napoleonic sea tales. |
| 316 | * ''Literature/{{Sharpe}}'': |
| 317 | ** Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill had Sharpe flogged while the latter was still a private in India. This was only one of the reasons that Sharpe hated Hakeswill and considered the man his ArchNemesis, and why he never has one of his own men flogged once he becomes an officer. |
| 318 | ** ''Literature/SharpesTriumph'': Colonel Harness gives Wellesley a long speech about the advantages of flogging, and insists flogging a man once a day keeps an army on its toes. |
| 319 | * ''Literature/{{Simon}}'': Corporal Relf narrowly escapes hanging for desertion when he takes French leave of the Army to pursue James Gibberdyke. His court martial takes the merciful option of having him flogged before his regiment, after which he promptly deserts again. |
| 320 | * ''Literature/SkinOfTheSea'': Simi rescues Kola, a boy thrown overboard from a slave ship, and finds that his back is covered in lash marks. She treats them with crushed wild lettuce. |
| 321 | * ''Literature/SpaceBeasts'': Every time Ichabod falls OffTheWagon and gives in to his wasabi addiction, he needs to be whipped back to normal before he turns into a member of TheFairFolk. |
| 322 | * ''Literature/{{Spellster}}'': Tracker reveals he was beaten and whipped multiple times during his childhood as punishment. |
| 323 | * ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'', by Creator/RobertAHeinlein, has Johnny Rico get flogged for disobeying orders during a Mobile Infantry training exercise. It is also mentioned, in terms of an AuthorTract, that in his society being "flogged in the public square" is considered a valid and effective punishment for minor crimes (major ones are punished by death) and is also used as a visceral warning to those watching the punishment. It is also done to children. It should be noted that punitive floggings in this novel are closely monitored by a doctor to ensure that no permanent damage is done, and the punishment is followed immediately by treatment - It does not even leave scars - but it is a proper flogging as the skin is broken on the third strike of a ten strike flogging, and is not stopped just because you are bleeding. |
| 324 | * ''Literature/TheirsNotToReasonWhy'', in apparent reference to ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'', uses canings for corporal punishment of Terran military personnel. In the first book, a Marine recruit is caned before his dishonorable discharge for stealing a StaticStunGun and attacking his fellow recruits and the drill instructor before attempting to desert. |
| 325 | * ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'', being a WoodenShipsAndIronMen series [-WITH DRAGONS!-], has this show up out of necessity a few times. |
| 326 | ** ''His Majesty's Dragon'': Laurence mentions briefly that, when he was still in the navy, one of his past captains took a dislike to him (due to Laurence's good manners) and that he frequently ordered Laurence flogged or beaten. Laurence conjectures that if said captain had not died of dysentery, the abuse might have cost Laurence his life. |
| 327 | ** ''Black Powder War'': Laurence has to order his own aviators flogged a couple times. Both times he hates to do it but is forced to; once because his man hits a superior naval officer and needs to be appropriately punished to keep the sailors from turning against the aviators, and again when two of his men break a pretty important law while in Istanbul and this is the alternative to letting them be executed. Both times he is hugely uncomfortable with the proceedings. In the second incident, he insists on keeping the count himself silently, so he can stop it early and pretend that they received more lashes than they actually did. |
| 328 | ** ''Empire of Ivory'': Laurence himself is flogged while being held prisoner. We don't know how severe it is since it's from his perspective and he loses count at around ten, but he does end up being delirious for a week. |
| 329 | * ''Literature/ToRideHellsChasm'', by Janny Wurts, in a display of the class prejudices of a medieval-type society, the hero is whipped for not showing proper respect to his social superiors. |
| 330 | * ''Literature/ThroneOfGlass'': Celaena is whipped several times during her time as a slave in the salt mines of Endovier, both as punishment and for the amusement of the guards. She still has the scars and quite a bit of trauma. [[spoiler:Maeve is fully aware and deliberately orders her whipped at the end of ''Empire of Storms'' for extra pain and humiliation.]] |
| 331 | * ''Literature/TheUglyEmpress'': Teng Ying is whipped for murdering the empress. Unknown to everyone, [[spoiler:Teng Yun's soul ended up in Teng Ying's body, so ''he's'' the one who's whipped]]. |
| 332 | * ''Literature/TheUndergroundRailroad'': Brutal whippings are a common form of punishment. Cora is viciously flogged for stepping in and taking the blow when Terrance canes a young slave named Chester. |
| 333 | * ''Literature/TheVazulaChronicles'': In ''A Kingdom Threatened'', the increasingly paranoid and magic-hating King Matlock orders that the twins Germain and Jacqueline be separated from their mother so their powers can be assessed. Heath refuses to pledge loyalty to a king who would break up a family and treat two infants like criminals. For his defiance, Matlock sentences Heath to five lashes at the public flogging post. |
| 334 | * ''Literature/{{Viy}}'': Both the rector and the lieutenant threaten Khoma with whippings. The former simply regards it as a school penalty. The latter strongly implies Khoma won't survive after "his lads" (cossacks) perform the act. |
| 335 | * ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'': Caspian threatenes two dozens lashes to anyone who steals valuable drinking water while there is a shortage after a storm. |
| 336 | * ''[[Literature/TimeScout Wagers of Sin]]'': In order to encourage Skeeter in his training for GladiatorGames, he's given a taste of the lash. |
| 337 | * ''Literature/{{Winnetou}}'': |
| 338 | ** In "Old Surehand", "General" Douglas receives a lashing from his own partner-in-crime Old Wabble, as punishment for stealing Winnetou and Old Shatterhand's weapons. Later on, the two criminals have become die-hard enemies, and Old Wabble gets the opportunity to give him a second beating. |
| 339 | ** Old Wabble's gang of hired outlaws receive a similar punishment earlier for trying to kill the heroes. Although it's carried out using thin young shoot branches instead of whips, the principle is the same. |
| 340 | * ''Literature/WorldWarZ'': "The Whacko" talks about how during the war, old-world punishments like lashings and stockades were instituted, since incarceration drained scarce resources with minimal return on the state's investment. He notes that while he thought such punishments were barbaric, he couldn't argue with the results. |
| 341 | * ''Literature/XuthalOfTheDusk'': After Natala knifes her superficially, Thalis punishes her with a silken cat o' nine tails. |
| 342 | * ''Literature/{{Zorro}}'': |
| 343 | ** In ''The Curse of Capistrano'', Fray Felipe is publicly whipped on trumped-up charges because the authorities (correctly) believe him to be an ally of the masked highwayman Zorro. When Don Diego is unable to stop this, he goes as Zorro to whip the people involved. |
| 344 | ** In later stories Zorro regularly carries a whip as in other media. He often uses it to flog in turn those mistreat the natives and peon workers by flogging them. At least once, as in "Zorro's Strange Duel", this results in a whip duel between Zorro and such a taskmaster. Zorro also claims his whip is for foes that are beneath notice of his sword. |
| 345 | [[/folder]] |
| 346 | |
| 347 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 348 | * ''Series/The100'': "[[Recap/The100S02E03 Reapercussions]]": A sci-fi variant. Kane has Abby suspended between two poles and Major Byrne shocks her with a Guardsmen lance. It seems to hurt like hell, but leaves less lasting damage than a traditional whip would. |
| 349 | * ''Series/AlloAllo'': In one episode, after the wacky scheme du jour fails Edith decides to indulge in some flagellation as penance. PlayedForLaughs as all she can think to use is wet spaghetti. |
| 350 | * ''Series/AroundTheWorldIn80Days2021'': [[Recap/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays2021S01E05 Episode 5]] sees Fogg wrongly arrested for theft in Hong Kong and sentenced to a dozen lashes at the stroke of noon. Abigail and Passepartout scramble to clear his name first, [[BigDamnHeroes arriving with a pardon]] ''as'' the clock strikes. Fogg escapes all but one lash, as the creators wanted to avert JustInTime. |
| 351 | * ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': "[[Recap/ArrowS4E7Brotherhood Brotherhood]]": Conklin's fate at Olver's hands on the orders of Baron Reiter for his part in the death of the worker from the previous episode. The whipping torture is so horrifying that Reiter's men have to turn away from watching. |
| 352 | * ''Series/TheATeam'': "[[Recap/TheATeamS5E10TheCrystalSkull The Crystal Skull]]": Just to hammer home how evil they are, the diamond smugglers are shown lashing the natives that they have enslaved. |
| 353 | * ''Series/BabylonFive'' uses this twice. |
| 354 | ** "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E03TheSummoning The Summoning]]": The Centauri Emperor [[TheCaligula Cartagia]] orders that G'Kar to be whipped until he dies or screams, whichever comes first. For no reason beyond the fact that he wants to hear the Narn scream. He specifically orders that the "[[TortureTechnician pain technicians]]" use a special high-tech whip that gradually increases the level of pain until dealing a fatal blow at lash number 40. G'Kar stubbornly refuses to scream until the 39th lash, even then only doing it to keep Cartagia from ruining his and Londo's plan to assassinate him and end the occupation of the Narn homeworld. |
| 355 | ** "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS05E02TheVeryLongNightOfLondoMollari The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari]]": Londo experiences a mental re-creation of G'Kar's whipping -- only this time ''Londo'' is being whipped and ''G'Kar'' is calling out the strokes, and the objective is to get Londo to say he's sorry. It's all happening inside Londo's mind, but it's strongly implied that if the fortieth stroke falls, it will kill him for real. |
| 356 | * ''Series/BattlestarGalactica'': "[[Recap/BattlestarGalactica1978TakeTheCelestra Take the Chelestra]]": Charka seems to have a soft spot for torturing people who fail to fulfill their work quotas, though he'd usually starve entire families before beating anyone. What a ''nice'' guy. |
| 357 | * ''Series/TheBlacklist'': "[[Recap/TheBlacklistS2E11RuslanDenisov Ruslan Denisov]]": Leonid Zhabin whips himself as a form of penitence for his involvement in the first Anneca pipeline that poisoned and killed hundreds. |
| 358 | * ''Series/{{Bones}}'': |
| 359 | ** "[[Recap/BonesS4E21MayhemOnACross Mayhem on a Cross]]": Lance Sweets is shown to have scars on his back indicating he was whipped. It's revealed his own [[WouldHurtAChild foster parents did it when he was just a six-year-old kid.]]. |
| 360 | ** "[[Recap/BonesS8E11TheArchaeologistInTheCocoon The Archaeologist in the Cocoon]]": The VictimOfTheWeek has scars to his skeleton indicating he was whipped at some point. His wife confirms that her father did it to punish him for their relationship. |
| 361 | * ''Series/ChappellesShow'' does a sketch poking fun at the actors of ''Series/Roots1977'' during a whipping scene. |
| 362 | * ''Series/TheCollector: The protagonist is a flagellant monk. |
| 363 | * ''Series/CriminalCaseGrimsborough'': "[[Recap/CriminalCaseGrimsboroughCase07DeathByCrucifixion Death By Crucifixion]]": According to his killer, Gordon flogged himself to atone for his {{Greed}} and having a church destroyed. Linda, one of the suspects, was also detained in the past for drunkenly lashing herself in the middle of the street, then smashing a whiskey bottle on an officer's head. |
| 364 | * ''Series/{{CSI}}'': "[[Recap/CSIS6E15PiratesOfTheThirdReich Pirates of the Third Reich]]": Not an official punishment, but it's used by Lady Heather on the guy who killed her daughter. Grissom catches up to her in the desert to find her flogging the guy, who's tied to the hood of her car. |
| 365 | * ''Series/Daredevil2015'': "[[Recap/Daredevil2015S1E8ShadowsInTheGlass Shadows in the Glass]]": Bill Fisk takes his anger out on his wife with a belt. Doing it one time too many gets [[RageBreakingPoint Wilson to finally snap and use a hammer against him]]. |
| 366 | * ''Series/TheDoctorBlakeMysteries'': In "Sorrow Songs", a band of gypsies attempts to flog one of their number before banishing him when they believe him guilty of murder. Lucien and Charlie intervene before the flogging can be carried out. |
| 367 | * ''Series/FatherBrown'': "[[Recap/FatherBrownS6E8 The Cat of Mastigatus]]": Father Brown that a boys' school has a secret history of inflicting terrible CorporalPunishment on boys using a modified taws called [[TitleDrop 'the cat of mastigatus']], that leaves permanent scars and permanently crippled the hands of one boy. |
| 368 | * ''Series/Forever2014'': The victim of the week in "The Ecstasy of Agony" was flagellated, in this case as part of "domination therapy". |
| 369 | * ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'': "[[Recap/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneysS1E10Gladiator Gladiator]]": An evil queen captures several men for GladiatorGames, including Hercules. The queen takes a liking to Hercules and offers to spare him from the games if he'll become her boy toy. When he refuses, she angrily orders him whipped. The whipping is offscreen, then he is dragged into his cell with whip marks on his back, and it takes him time to recover. |
| 370 | * ''Series/HoratioHornblower'' (an adaptation of the book): Several characters receive corporal punishments. |
| 371 | ** "[[Recap/HoratioHornblowerS1E2TheExaminationForLieutenant The Examination for Lieutenant]]": Sailor Bunting deals badly with the death of his friend, hunger, and fear of starvation. He's later caught stealing food. Captain Pellew is disgusted and orders a gauntlet for him. Hornblower feels responsible because he should have dealt with him earlier, so Pellew concludes that Hornblower will make amends by leading Bunting through the gauntlet himself. |
| 372 | ** "[[Recap/HoratioHornblowerS2E1Mutiny Mutiny]]": [[InsaneAdmiral Crazy Captain]] Sawyer has Mr Midshipman Wellard beaten... because he was only doing his duty and belayed Captain's order, otherwise their sail would tear. Later he has him beaten again because he thinks Wellard conspires against him and wants him to confess to mutiny. Most characters feel it is an injustice, and Mr Hornblower speaks up for him, which earns him a continuous watch that keeps being extended to whole days. And if an officer is caught sleeping on his watch, he will be sentenced to death. |
| 373 | ** "[[Recap/HoratioHornblowerS3E2Duty Duty]]": Captain Hornblower orders flogging to Styles who was in charge of the kitchen and its stove's fire might have burnt their ship down. Other people aboard suggest he should be hanged for it but Mr Bush spoke for him as it was not intention, but negligence. However, it was actually the antagonist Wolfe who set Styles up. |
| 374 | * ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': "[[Recap/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaS11E09TheGangGoesToHellPart1 The Gang Goes to Hell, Part 1]]": Mac pulls out a cat o'nine tails and asks Scott to give him three lashes when he scores badly during a game of bowls so that he can "be a better boy". |
| 375 | * ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': The orcs are shown whipping the enslaved villagers of the Southlands in a graphic manner. |
| 376 | * ''Series/TheManFromUncle'': "[[Recap/TheManFromUncleS1E4TheSharkAffair The Shark Affair]]": Aboard Captain Shark's vessel, the punishment for disrespect is ten lashes. |
| 377 | * ''Series/Merlin2008'': Allued to by King Uther. "If this were a time of war, I would have you flogged". |
| 378 | * ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS11E2 Blood Wedding]]", Barnaby goes to question TheVicar only to find him flagellating himself in church. |
| 379 | * ''Series/MissionImpossible'': In "Bayou", white slaver Jake Morgan whips any girl who attempts to escape. |
| 380 | * ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': The flogging of a sailor has finished and the captain orders him to be cut loose. The sailor invokes the episode's title: "You're no fun anymore!" |
| 381 | * ''Series/{{Outlander}}'': |
| 382 | ** "[[Recap/OutlanderS1E11TheDevilsMark The Devil's Mark]]": Claire is whipped for disrespecting the court of the church. |
| 383 | ** "[[Recap/OutlanderS1E2CastleLeoch Castle Leoch]]": Jamie reveals that he's been whipped on three separate occasion for obstruction, theft, and attempted escape. |
| 384 | ** "[Recap/OutlanderS6E1Echoes Echoes]]": |
| 385 | *** Jamie is flogged after accepting responsibility for the tartan on James’s body. |
| 386 | *** Allan Christie is flogged with Jamie's belt after Richard Brown catches him with a stolen powder horn. |
| 387 | ** "[[OutlanderS7E8TurningPoints Turning Points]]": Daniel Morgan shows his scarred back, the result of receiving 499 lashes for striking a British officer. |
| 388 | * ''Series/Roots1977'': As in real history, the slaves are whipped for just about any reason. |
| 389 | * ''Series/{{See}}'': In the second season, Baba Voss is tortured via whipping on the orders of his younger brother Edo. Since most people are blind in that universe, the whips are guided towards Baba's body via ropes. And the whips appear to have cutting material on them considering the horrific state of Baba's back after they're used on him. |
| 390 | * ''Series/{{Sharpe}}'': Flogging is used as a threat to get soldiers in line. Richard often removes his shirt to display his flogging scars and show enlisted soldiers that he understands what they're going through. |
| 391 | * ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'': "[[Recap/SpartacusBloodAndSandS1E12Revelations Revelations]]": At the end of the episode, Crixus is strung up and whipped repeatedly. |
| 392 | * ''Series/{{Stargate}}'': "[[Recap/StargateSG1S7E4Orpheus Orpheus]]": In one of Daniel's flashbacks, he sees Bra'tac and Rya'c being flogged while working on Erebus. Teal'c and Rak'nor are later subjected to the same treatment after they're caught trying to infiltrate the camp. |
| 393 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'': |
| 394 | ** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E21PatternsOfForce Patterns of Force]]": Kirk and Spock get flogged for real. This makes their subsequent escape attemp, which involves Spock standing on Kirk's back, all the more excruciating for the captain. |
| 395 | ** [[AgonyBeam Agonizers and the Agony Booth]] seem to have taken the physical place of the lash in the MirrorUniverse, though their purpose remains in place. In the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS04E18InAMirrorDarkly In a Mirror, Darkly]]", Imperial Captain Forrest even remarks that while he can understand the Booth's usefulness, there's still something to be said for [[GoodOldWays a good old-fashioned flogging]]. |
| 396 | * ''Series/TheSwampFox'' has a scene of this in the episode "Tory Vengeance". Marion's nephew, "Young" Gabe Marion, is flogged by Col. Townes in an attempt to force him to disclose the location of Marion's base. Marion storms the place with his brigade and rescues Gabe, only for the boy to be shot moments after he's freed from the ropes. |
| 397 | * ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'': "[[Recap/XenaS06E13YouAreThere You Are There]]": After lashing out at Nigel, Eve and the cult of Eli offer their backs to him so that he could flog them with sticks. |
| 398 | * ''Series/Zorro1957'': "The Agent of the Eagle": The corrupt Magistrado and false Comandante had a man chained to [[WheelofPain a well's spoke]] and whipped for the spurious charge of poaching on the king's land. The corrupt leaders and bad guys also frequently threatened to whip those who are unfortunate to earn their ire. |
| 399 | [[/folder]] |
| 400 | |
| 401 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 402 | * The original lines of the sea shanty "What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor" include the punishment "Give him a taste o' the Captain's Daughter". The Captain's Daughter was a nickname for the cat o' ninetails, meaning the song calls for a lashing. The choral "way, hey, up she rises" gains actual meaning with this interpretation, referring to the rise of the lash before it's brought down. |
| 403 | * Apocalypse Orchestra's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxtWnAe5ja8 "Flagellants' Song"]] is about "mortification of the sinful flesh": |
| 404 | -->Raise your whip and flay your flesh\ |
| 405 | Join our congregation\ |
| 406 | True believers come with us\ |
| 407 | In corporeal damnation\ |
| 408 | To feel glory\ |
| 409 | When sinew is stripped from bone\ |
| 410 | And to feel closer\ |
| 411 | To he who made this our life |
| 412 | * In the video for ''The Captain'' by Music/BiffyClyro, Simon Neill (as the titular pirate captain) is shown being flogged by a naval officer. |
| 413 | * The video clip of Music/{{Rammstein}}'s "Rosenrot" depicts the band members as priests who flog themselves. No fake whips or special effects were used when filming the scene -- they were actually whipping themselves in reality, just like the wounds were real. |
| 414 | * In the full version of ''Blind Dance'' by Music/VioletUK, it's implied the protagonist has just been the recipient of the BDSM variety. |
| 415 | [[/folder]] |
| 416 | |
| 417 | [[folder:Mythology & Religion]] |
| 418 | * ''Literature/TheBible'': |
| 419 | ** In [[Literature/BooksOfKings 1st Kings and 2nd Chronicles]], King Rehoboam, by the bad advice given to him by the men who grew up with him, tells the other tribes of Israel that "my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions," referring to a more painful form of physical punishment (most likely chains) that made whips seem lighter by comparison. |
| 420 | ** In [[Literature/TheFourGospels the Gospels]], Jesus was given 39 stripes on His back by the Romans before being crucified. |
| 421 | * ''Myth/ClassicalMythology'': In some versions of the story of Eros and Psyche, Aphrodite had Psyche whipped. |
| 422 | [[/folder]] |
| 423 | |
| 424 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 425 | * ''Radio/TheShadow'': |
| 426 | ** "[[Recap/TheShadowRadioS01E12 The Death Triangle]]" begins with a man being flogged on Devil's Island for escaping, and blaming his friends for betraying him. |
| 427 | ** "[[Recap/TheShadowRadioS01E26 The White Legion]]": The White Legion whips William Deven a few times before they kill him, apparently ForTheEvulz. |
| 428 | ** "[[Recap/TheShadowRadioS01E48 The Caverns of Death]]": While the gas reduces the young men to a zombie-like state, they are apparently still responsive to pain, so the Boss whips them to spur them on. This is what causes his underling, Gaffney, to rebel. |
| 429 | [[/folder]] |
| 430 | |
| 431 | [[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]] |
| 432 | * Creator/CheechAndChong: In the fake movie trailer for ''Buggery on the High Seas'' from the "Pedro and Man at The Drive-In" sketch from the ''AudioPlay/LosCochinos'' album, one of the pirates gets flogged for sassing the ship's captain, which starts off sounding painful but then his reaction turns to ecstatic joy with each whip lash he receives. |
| 433 | [[/folder]] |
| 434 | |
| 435 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 436 | * ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'': |
| 437 | ** Clerics of Loviatar, the goddess of pain and torture, are directed to self-flagellate while praying for spells. |
| 438 | ** Drow use whips and scourges to control their slaves. The artwork tends to have a significant amount of {{fanservice}} involved, with art of a female dark elf in tight-fitting leather armor threatening a shirtless male human or elf being rather common. The dark elves are also known for using a lot of magical whips that have enchantments that let them deliver extra pain without actually increasing the injury to the victim or a particularly nasty magical scourge that will automatically strike its wielder should they miss an attack any time it's wielded by a non-dark elf, so as to make it harder for slaves to use it against their masters during a slave revolt. |
| 439 | [[/folder]] |
| 440 | |
| 441 | [[folder:Theater]] |
| 442 | * ''Theatre/SeventeenEightyNine'': The Creator/TakarazukaRevue version has Ronan being whipped during his interrogation and incarceration in the Bastille. |
| 443 | * ''Theatre/BillyBudd'': A flogging scene happens offstage. Then the victim is brought onstage. And sings a duet with his friend. |
| 444 | * ''Music/JesusChristSuperstar'': Attempting to appease the bloodthirsty mob, Pilate has UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} flogged 39 times -- with each stroke being counted in song. |
| 445 | * ''Theatre/TheKingAndI'': Subverted. The King prepares to whip Tuptim for running away but decides he just can't do it with Anna watching. |
| 446 | * ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': In a scene that is not often included in shows, Judge Turpin, who is developing a serious lust for Johanna, his teenage ward, takes the whip to himself during the course of the song "Johanna (Mea Culpa)" in an effort to drive off the "devil." The whipping instead ''drives him to climax'', and he decides he's going to marry her, much to Johanna's horror. |
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| 448 | |
| 449 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 450 | * ''Franchise/AceAttorney'': Franziska has a habit of whipping Gumshoe to punish him for his (frequent) incompetence. Of course, she also has a habit of whipping foolish fools for spouting foolishly foolish nonsense -- meaning, of course, everyone in this game. She whips Phoenix ''into unconsciousness'' when she loses her first trial. |
| 451 | * ''VideoGame/AncientDomainsOfMystery'': A self-inflicted version. Whipping yourself is a way to redeem your sins and build Lawful alignment. Be careful, because you can flagellate yourself to death. [[spoiler: Doing so and resurrecting yourself with an amulet of life saving builds ''massive'' law. This is AwesomeButImpractical, though, since amulets of life saving are rare and valuable, there's better uses for them, and there's much less silly ways to climb to Lawful.]] |
| 452 | * ''VideoGame/BungoToAlchemist'': Ozaki Kōyō is a whip fighter who often refers to fighting enemies as "disciplining" them. |
| 453 | * ''VideoGame/ClickerHeroes'': Grant's first upgrade boosts DPS by whipping his soldiers into shape. |
| 454 | * ''VideoGame/CriminalCaseTheConspiracy'': [[spoiler:Professor Kevin Charles]] is murdered by being tied up and flagged to death by [[spoiler:all five members of junior [[TheConspiracy Ad Astra]]]], though according to [[TheCoroner Martine]], the shock actually managed to kill him before the final blow. |
| 455 | * ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'': |
| 456 | ** The Flagellant DLC class from the expansion ''The Crimson Court'' uses flagellation (hence the name) as a source of his abilities and power, which mostly come in the form of high bleed damage and healing skills. He even uses it to relieve stress and status effects when camping, eschewing the traditional forms of comfort. |
| 457 | ** This is the best form of stress relief in the church, and it's pretty severe to the point you wonder how it doesn't affect their performance. Anyone who undergoes it mentions shedding plenty of blood, which also implies plenty of painful scars. One negative side effect of a session in the Penance Chamber is a temporary reduction in bleeding resistance. |
| 458 | * ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'': The Templar Order does this to convicted criminals that they want to make into new Templars after first beating them for three days. The purpose of this, according to your follower Kormac, who went through the process himself, is to strip away everything that brought the initiate tainted joy, to cleanse and purify them of sin. Needless to say, your PlayerCharacter doesn't see things that way. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the Order doesn't really give a damn about an initiate's actual guilt or innocence, and the Order's Inquisitors will gladly pile false sins upon an innocent if they deem him to be a useful asset to the Order, which is exactly what happened to both Kormac and his former comrade Jondar]]. |
| 459 | * ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'': The supports between [[spoiler:Azura and Arthur]] reveal that the [[spoiler:latter]] got whipped when young, [[spoiler:after TakingTheHeat for the first]]. |
| 460 | * ''VideoGame/{{Huntdown}}'': The Overseer whips the motorcyclists that pull his chariot whenever they stop. |
| 461 | * ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'': The opening of the second ExpansionPack ''Storm of Zehir'' has the PlayerParty take ship to Samarach on a sailing ship. Captain Lastri Kassireh can be overheard threatening to unleash her first mate with the cat o' nine tails if the crew doesn't have the ship ready for an oncoming tropical storm. |
| 462 | * ''VideoGame/PlunderedHearts'': When you find Nicholas in the dungeon, he is suffering torture by being spread-eagled and whipped into unconsciousness, and only you can wake him up with smelling salts after defeating his attacker Crulley. |
| 463 | * ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheEast'': The Global Liberation Army can whip their slaves to force them to move faster. |
| 464 | * ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': Harrow uses his signature thurible to whip himself in his ability animations, particularly when using his "Penance" ability, which sacrifices all of his current shields to provide a life steal for his allies alongside a passive fire rate and reload speed bonus. |
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| 466 | |
| 467 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 468 | * ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'': Captain Snow uses this as one of his ''many'' torture methods used to keep slaves in line on his sub. |
| 469 | * ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}'': Wanda [[TortureAlwaysWorks uses a whip]] on Jillian, nominally [[TortureAlwaysWorks for information]], but with clear [[CasualKink kinky]] [[LesYay overtones]]. |
| 470 | * ''Webcomic/ImTheQueenInThisLife'': Maletta is lashed after bragging to Ariadne she would seduce her father one day. Later, the king sentences Zanobi to flogging for shooting Ariadne's horse and almost causing her to die. |
| 471 | * ''Webcomic/SanThreeKingdomsComic'': Zhou Yu punishes Huang Gai for his insolence this way. [[http://san.paulguo.com/?id=153 There's just one problem about that]]: Huang Gai is ''way'' TooKinkyToTorture. |
| 472 | * ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'': This [[http://www.sdamned.com/comic/53 is one of]] the many [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures]] inflicted on the souls of the damned. |
| 473 | * ''Webcomic/{{Xenospora}}'' has an alien woman named Strike being subjected to this. |
| 474 | [[/folder]] |
| 475 | |
| 476 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 477 | * ''Literature/CanYouSpareAQuarter'': Jamie has scars on his back resulting from intense whipping, a product of his AbusiveParents which disturb Graham when he first notices. He compares them to the marks that slaves in slave films bear. |
| 478 | * ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': From ''[[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/9-original-canon/301-eat-drink-and-be-merry Eat, Drink, and be Merry]]'', it's revealed that Chad Wilson was whipped by his parents for swearing: |
| 479 | -->''"F-u-" I bit down on my tongue. Must not let the parents hear that word, ever. I still remember the rose thorn-covered switch, the scabs and the odd looks from my gym teacher.'' |
| 480 | [[/folder]] |
| 481 | |
| 482 | [[folder:Web Video]] |
| 483 | * ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'': The video on ''VideoGame/DarkCastle'' ends with the Nerd putting the Genesis and cd-I versions of the game in chains and brutally flogging them. He actually hits the cartridge so hard it ''breaks one of the chains''. |
| 484 | * ''WebVideo/DragonballZAbridged'': In the version of Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan, the Shamoshans are whipped, but instead of being whipped as punishment, they're actually masochists. |
| 485 | [[/folder]] |
| 486 | |
| 487 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 488 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E5MagicDuel Magic Duel]]": Trixie forces Snips and Snails to pull her chariot (which ''doesn't have wheels'') and whips them if they try to stop. |
| 489 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS29E01TheSerfsons The Serfsons]]": As the fantasy versions of the power planet's workers toil on the WheelOfPain, an orc version of Wille the Groundskeeper whips them each in turn as they walk by. Then he announces that the "break's over", pulls out a triple chain whip tipped with rake heads, and starts whipping them faster and more strongly. |
| 490 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': |
| 491 | ** "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS6E9BoatingBuddiesTheKrabbyKronicle The Krabby Kronicle]]": [=SpongeBob=] gets revenge on Mr. Krabs working him to death on the newspaper by publishing a report of what's been going on, the headline picture being Krabs flogging him. |
| 492 | ** "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E18SailorMouthArtistUnknown Sailor Mouth]]": Parodied. [=SpongeBob=] fearfully speculates that Mr. Krabs will give him and Patrick forty lashes for saying Bad Word #11. Patrick then [[LiteralMinded imagines himself with forty eye-lashes.]] |
| 493 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' has these combined with electricity in the "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E12SlavesOfTheRepublic Slaves of the Republic]]" three-episode arc, adapted from the comic of the same name. It takes about five electro whips to subdue Anakin when he is captured, and also at one point, he has to figure out how to get out of being asked to whip a captive Obi-Wan with one to show his loyalty while disguised as a slaver himself. They were also frequently employed by the overseers in the mines Obi-Wan and Rex were sent to. |
| 494 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': {{Implied|Trope}} with [[MeanBoss Holly Blue Agate]] who wields an [[LightningLash electrified whip]] and according to [[BigBad Yellow Diamond's]] VillainSong, an agates role in the [[FantasticCasteSystem gem hierarchy]] is to [[BadBoss terrify lower class gems into submission]]. |
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| 496 | |
| 497 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 498 | * The ancient Spartans would flog young men as a test of their masculinity. |
| 499 | * The ancient Romans used a variant known as "scourging", using a whip that had bits of metal or bone at the tips. This punishment was reserved for non-citizens. |
| 500 | ** Both normal flogging and scourging were used in the martyrdom of Christians. For example, after Saint Sebastian was [[MadeOfIron badass]] enough to survive being turned into a HumanPincushion, some versions of his myth say that he was flogged to death (others said he [[OffWithHisHead was beheaded]]); Saint Philomena's myths say that the first torture she was subjected to was scourging, and then angels healed her that same night; and Saint Bibiana was allegedly flogged to death (though some versions say she was scourged, then given a {{mercy kill}} via a stab to the chest.) |
| 501 | * British law actually held a distinction between whipping (to be beaten with a whip) and flogging (to be beaten with a cat-o-nine-tails). Both were abolished in Britain in 1948. |
| 502 | ** This continued in the Isle of Man until the late 1990s as "birching", in which the offender was secured to a frame and whipped with a birch rod. The practice was discontinued by external pressure - the Isle of Man, while independent of Britain and enjoying local autonomy, is still a member of the Council of Europe and had to abide by rulings of the European Court of Human Rights forbidding corporal punishment. Many disgruntled Islanders wanted to secede from Europe in protest at this. |
| 503 | ** It is true that the level of minor crimes, for which birching was imposed as punishment, has since shot up on the Island, to pretty much the same level as mainland Britain. Arguably it was a potent deterrent. |
| 504 | * "Running the Gauntlet", where the punished has to walk between two rows of his fellows as they strike him with knotted lengths of rope. To make sure the punished keeps moving, there is a man behind him sticking a sword into his back, and, to prevent him from going too quickly, there is another in front of him sticking a sword into his belly. |
| 505 | * Ancient Hebrew law limited flogging to forty strokes. It became common practice to only ever administer thirty-nine, so as to avoid any possibility of breaking this law due to a miscount. |
| 506 | ** Even more limiting, the courts would have a physician examine the recipient to estimate how many strokes he could survive - often meaning they weren't even prescribed the full 39. And he would be reexamined after every three strokes to make sure he could survive the next three. Accidentally killing someone who didn't deserve it was SeriousBusiness. |
| 507 | ** Even the Romans would limit lashings to 39, as 40 was known to kill some men. |
| 508 | ** This law was copied in New England as well. During the UsefulNotes/SevenYearsWar [[MildlyMilitary colonial troops]] were shocked that the British went beyond this limit. This caused a CultureClash. |
| 509 | *** Though in the Navy with which this trope is usually identified such punishments were considered a sign of a bad commander. Even the harshest of captains would usually limit the punishment by having the ship's doctor step in as early as possible. Ludicrously harsh floggings were almost always carried out by the criminal justice system or the Army. |
| 510 | *** The traditional naval cat o'nine tails [[RealityIsUnrealistic was not as harsh as it may appear]], being made out of rope. This inflicted painful superficial wounds, but rarely cut into the flesh; [[PragmaticVillainy the sailor could recover quickly and do hard labor on the vessel]]. Hard leather lashes used on slaves, serfs, or convicts [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_(slave)#/media/File:Gordon,_scourged_back,_NPG,_1863.jpg were designed for maximum damage]], which crippled and often killed the victim. |
| 511 | * Religious self-flagellation is not just a Christian custom. |
| 512 | ** A few Shi'a [[UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} Muslims]] whip themselves as part of the annual period of mourning for the first ten days of the Muslim year, commemorating the martyrdom of their Third Imam, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husayn_ibn_Ali Husayn ibn Ali]], at the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Karbala Battle of Karbala]] in Iraq (marked by the "festival" of [[UsefulNotes/IslamicHolidaysAndFestivals Ashura]]). A few men, not believing that self-flagellation is badass enough to commemorate Husayn, cut their foreheads with swords. |
| 513 | * Flogging also remains a viable legal punishment in some Muslim countries, mostly those that have expressly incorporated some more conservative versions of Islamic law into their legal systems. |
| 514 | ** In 2011, a 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl died, possibly [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12344959 lashed to death]], when a self-appointed Sharia court sentenced her to 80 lashes for "having an affair"[[note]]no mention is made of whether she consented, and regardless this would have been considered statutory rape in most parts of the world[[/note]] with a married cousin. Bangladesh being a reasonably civilized Muslim country (the practice of flogging as punishment had been banned in no uncertain terms the previous year, following national consensus) those responsible--including the cleric who issued the ruling--were promptly arrested and tried for murder. |
| 515 | ** Back in 2001, the caning of a 17-year-old girl from Northern Nigeria by the name of [[http://snopes.com/inboxer/petition/cane.asp Bariya Ibrahim Magazu]] for engaging in non-marital sex (involving very QuestionableConsent on her part) sparked international outrage which appeared in ''numerous'' email inboxes as a petition on her behalf. |
| 516 | * Caning continues to be used as a legal form of punishment in UsefulNotes/{{Singapore}}, with judges often handing out a number of strokes ''in addition'' to a man's jail sentence (women aren't caned, but some juveniles are) should they deem it necessary. Canings are delivered to bare buttocks with a half-inch thick rattan rod that is soaked in water to avoid splinters. Guards who administer canings are specially selected for their physical strength and they are trained to strike the recipients' buttocks in a way that will inflict as much pain as possible substitutes are always on standby because every stroke is legally required to be delivered at full strength. Doctors will monitor the recipients because some will try and fake health problems to avoid canings. A single stroke is more than enough to break the skin and draw blood and permanent scarring is almost inevitable. The pain is so severe that recipients can't walk or sit properly and have to sleep on their stomachs for months. ''And'', if that wasn't enough, many men experience problems with walking and bowel movements for years afterwards, if not permanently. |
| 517 | ** Michael Fay, an American tourist, caused international headlines and a diplomatic incident when, in 1994, he was arrested for theft and vandalism in UsefulNotes/{{Singapore}}. President UsefulNotes/BillClinton personally tried to intervene on his behalf but the Singaporean government was having none of it and the only concession they made was to commute Fay's sentence from six strokes to four. The incident provided fodder for ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E16BartVsAustralia". |
| 518 | ** Music/{{Weird Al|Yankovic}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU95v23MQ4c did a song about this and other events from the 90s]]. |
| 519 | * One intellectual visiting an eighteenth-century army camp saw an elderly soldier beaten half to death for being careless in the presence of a [[TeensAreMonsters teenage officer]]. His host told him, "I assure you, sir, that it is necessary." Whereupon the guest said, "I cannot swear to that. But I do know that it is not necessary that I should watch it." |
| 520 | * Imperial Russia had the knout. Technically this is just "whip" in Russian, but the brutality of serf flogging with this whip lends the term infamy. Particularly notable was the "great knout," which was an especially large, heavy, hard whip designed to inflict maximum damage. Where most floggings had to get into triple-digit strokes to threaten the victim's life, the great knout was known to kill with as few as twenty strokes - allegedly by ''breaking the spine''. |
| 521 | ** Even after the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, the punishment continued until the early 20th century. By that time it was being used against workers and miners in cities too, particularly those who were involved in the civil unrest that evolved into the Revolutions of 1917. On the other hand, there were relatively few punishments (a handful of cases per year) and it may have decreased in severity. |
| 522 | ** And it continues to this day. In 2014, members of the activist group Pussy Riot [[http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26265230 found themselves getting flogged by Cossack soldiers]] when they attempted to protest at the Sochi Olympics. |
| 523 | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Orlowski Alice Orlowski]], an SS official known for lashing female inmates ''[[EyeScream across their eyes]]'', personally. |
| 524 | ** Similarly, her fellow SS official [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermine_Braunsteiner Hermine Braunsteiner]] was said to carry a horsewhip and have used it to kill at least two female inmates. |
| 525 | * The Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, c. 1780 BCE, mandates flogging for some crimes. |
| 526 | * Historically, more savvy slave traders attempted to limit the frequency and severity of whippings. Scars from frequent whippings would convince buyers the slave must be rebellious or a poor worker; either way, not worth the money spent. |
| 527 | ** Although, as mentioned above, if flogging one person could keep the hundred people watching in line, that was just the cost of doing business. |
| 528 | ** Also, evidence from the time and in places where slavery is practiced today demonstrates that, having convinced themselves that their slaves are dangerous, stupid, and/or treacherous animals, owners are willing to brutalize them without considering something so noble as cost. |
| 529 | * There are a small number who are actually seriously contemplating bringing this back into the American justice system as an alternative to imprisonment for lesser, non-felonious, offenses. Of course, the recipient would have to volunteer for it. Their reason? It's considered by some to be less of a Cruel And Unusual Punishment as it takes care of the punishment quickly and promptly and doesn't subject the recipient to the dehumanizing factor of over-crowded prison life (and save precious taxpayer's dollars!) and would allow them to get on with their lives, while still being a strong deterrent. Considering that convicted felons are essentially doomed to be unemployable or make rock-bottom wages for the rest of their lives, and the downturn the economy has been taking recently... It really says something about how brutal America's treatment of ex-cons is that some of them would rather be ''flogged.'' |
| 530 | ** Delaware kept flogging on the books well into the sixties, but only as a punishment for domestic abuse. The idea was that while domestic abuse should be punished, separating a woman from her breadwinner through incarceration in a time of one-income households would effectively be punishing a victim for stepping forward. |
| 531 | * A strange subversion comes from the heyday of the British Empire. Although the UK military was famous for handing out floggings eagerly, it was strictly confined to British troops. This is remarkable considering the racial inequalities and tensions throughout the imperial period; in Indian service, British infantrymen could be subjected to hundreds of lashes while flogging the native sepoys was strictly forbidden. |
| 532 | * A rather nasty example from colonial-era Australia: The Macquarie Harbour Cat. Not only was it made of leather, but the nine strips had their ends split into three, for twenty-seven tips to hit the victim's back. Worse still, those tips were coated in lead to add weight and make them hit even harder. As the name suggests, it was used in Macquarie Harbour in Tasmania. Macquarie Harbour was a site to which particularly troublesome convicts got reassigned to. Repeat offenders, particularly escape attempts, were the main victims of this monster. |
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