1 | Torture is evil. And yet we're fascinated by it. |
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12 | [[index]] |
13 | |
14 | [[AC:Physical torture methods]] |
15 | * AgonizingStomachWound: A wound to the stomach which leads to a long and painful death. |
16 | * AgonyBeam: The fantastical ability (in whatever form) that causes extreme pain to whoever it hits. |
17 | * AmputativeSentencing: A criminal is punished by having a limb or appendage cut off. |
18 | * BathroomControl: A character having a PottyEmergency is tortured by not allowed to go to the bathroom. |
19 | * CigaretteBurns: Putting out a cigar/cigarette on someone else, often as a form of abuse or torture. |
20 | * CookedToDeath: Covers torture by roasting or boiling a victim. |
21 | * CorporalPunishment: Inflicting physical pain as punishment for one's misbehavior. |
22 | * CreepyCrawlyTorture: Torture with insects and other crawly things |
23 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: When torture is taken far enough, it may lead to someone dying in a way that is extremely painful, humiliating, and/or bizarre. |
24 | ** [[PublicExecution Execution]]: Many (though not all) methods of capital punishment (especially in earlier periods of history) are intended to have the victim suffer a very slow and painful death, and thus can be considered an extreme form of torture. |
25 | * DeniedFoodAsPunishment: Denying food as punishment. |
26 | * ElectricTorture: Torture done by zapping or electrifying the victim -- bloodless, but effective. |
27 | * ElectroconvulsiveTherapyIsTorture: Electroconvulsion Therapy depicted in a negative light. |
28 | * ExecutionByExposure: A victim is LockedUpAndLeftBehind to die slowly at the mercy of a hostile environment. |
29 | * FlayingAlive: Removing someone's skin for torture. |
30 | * FlippingHelpless: A creature that is flipped over on its back cannot get back up again without help. |
31 | * ForceFeeding: Forced to eat. |
32 | * ForcedAddiction: Getting someone addicted to a drug by force in order to break them. |
33 | * HangingAround: Hanging someone to cut off their air supply without necessarily killing them. |
34 | * HeadInAVise: A character's head is put in a screw-press, slowly crushing their skull. |
35 | * IronMaiden: A torture device filled with spikes to stab the poor soul inside of it. |
36 | * JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: The hero needs information, and fast--thus, they immediately decide to torture their captive. |
37 | * {{Kneecapping}}: A good way to keep someone down is to go for their knee. |
38 | * {{Lobotomy}}: The medical procedure of cutting into part of the brain to change a person's behavior -- either as a "treatment" of mental illness, or torture. |
39 | * MutilationInterrogation: Torturous interrogation wherein the punishment for not talking is having part of you cut off one-by-one. |
40 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Someone overpowers another with little effort and in a very painful, bloody manner. |
41 | * PlayingWithSyringes: Unethical and possibly incredibly painful experimentation with the goal of creating something. |
42 | * SinisterSuffocation: Torturing someone by suffocating them, but not outright killing them. |
43 | * SoapPunishment: Punishment for crass language involves having to put soap in one's mouth. |
44 | * StockPunishment: A device that holds someone immobile so that others can assault them with foodstuffs. |
45 | * TarAndFeathers: Either as a comedic prank or a serious form of punishment, someone is covered in hot tar and feathers for humiliation. |
46 | * ATasteOfTheLash: Someone is flogged with a whip or cane. |
47 | * TickleTorture: Tickling is horrible. In all seriousness, long durations have actually been used to break people's mind. |
48 | * WaterTorture: Such as simulated drowning, ie "waterboarding". |
49 | * WhatADrag: Torture/attack/punishment by dragging someone across the ground. |
50 | * WheelOfPain: People are forced to push a wheel as punishment. |
51 | * ZenSlap: A Zen mentor slapping their disciple as a punishment for misdemeanor. |
52 | |
53 | [[AC:Mental torture methods]] |
54 | * AndIMustScream: When a character is forever stuck somewhere, probably unable to talk, move, or even die. |
55 | * EnhancedInterrogationTechniques: Non-physical forms of torture, usually psychological, that still freak someone out enough to work. |
56 | * FalseRoulette: A near-empty gun is fired over and over to cause fear that the next trigger-pull with discharge the only bullet--except, the gun is actually empty. |
57 | * ForcedToWatch: A character is forced to watch as someone they love is tortured and/or killed. |
58 | * HighAltitudeInterrogation: Getting someone to talk by holding them over a high drop. |
59 | * TheLudovicoTechnique: Drugging someone and forcing him (sometimes up to strapping the eyelids so he can't close them) to watch something related to his bad habits to "cure" him from them. |
60 | * MindProbe: A device that forcibly reads someone's mind, usually in the most painful and traumatizing way possible. |
61 | * MindRape: Psychological torture that forces the victim to see horrible things, re-live terrifying memories, feel things that aren't happening, etc. |
62 | * PastVictimShowcase: To show just how bad the torture someone is about to endure is, the villain shows them someone who has already been through it. |
63 | * PunishedWithUgly: A beautiful character is punished by losing their beauty. |
64 | * PunishmentBox: Punishment comes in the form of being forced into an empty, but probably very uncomfortable and/or lonely, box. |
65 | * ReelTorture: Torturing or punishing someone by making them watch a movie, play, TV show, video recording or photo reel that they find so terrible it causes them agony. |
66 | * SadisticChoice: Forcing a person to choose between two terrible options. |
67 | ** SuicidalSadisticChoice: Forcing a person to choose between something horrible and death. |
68 | * SleepDeprivationPunishment: Not allowing a person to sleep. |
69 | * ToThePain: Telling a future victim exactly what is going to happen to them in slow, painful detail. |
70 | * TormentByAnnoyance: Being annoyed over and over and over and over... |
71 | |
72 | [[AC:Results of torture]] |
73 | * TwoPlusTortureMakesFive: Psychological torture that causes the victim to believe something that factually isn't true. For example, 2 + 2 = 5. |
74 | * BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Tortured into evilness. |
75 | * BreakTheCutie: A character that was once kind and lovable is put through hell and back. |
76 | * DeadlyHazing: A hazing results in death (usually through physical violence but not always). |
77 | * DrivenToSuicide: The victim kills themselves. |
78 | * InterrogatedForNothing: Someone is tortured for information, but they truly don't know anything. |
79 | * UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome: A proposed psychological condition in which people who have been kidnapped/captured come to feel sympathetic for their captors. |
80 | * TortureAlwaysWorks: When torturing someone not only works in a work, but the information gathered out of it is true, accurate, and detailed. |
81 | * TortureIsIneffective: It accomplishes nothing. |
82 | |
83 | [[AC:Character tropes]] |
84 | * BunkerWoman: A woman is kidnapped and held somewhere contained, usually a bunker, usually by a man. |
85 | * ExaltedTorturer: When the person doing the torture is also the hero. |
86 | * LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Someone finds joy in the loud, loud misery of others. |
87 | * TooKinkyToTorture: A character actually ''enjoys'' being tortured. |
88 | * TortureTechnician: The guy with the job of torturing people. |
89 | |
90 | [[AC:Locations of torture]] |
91 | * FireAndBrimstoneHell: When Hell is depicted as a fiery place of eternal torture. |
92 | * LockedInTheDungeon: Someone is locked in a dungeon to be tortured or punished. |
93 | * MaximumFunChamber: Something torturous is said to be so, so horrible, but is either never seen, or seen, but seems innocent enough until it's used. |
94 | * {{Room 101}}: The audience may or may not even know what happens in there, but this room is the one '''no one''' wants to be sent to. |
95 | * TortureCellar: A room with the express purpose of torturing people. |
96 | |
97 | [[AC:Other tropes about torture]] |
98 | * AbuseDiscretionShot: When abuse (including torture) doesn't get fully shown onscreen. |
99 | * AnythingButThat: When something pretty mundane (or even harmless) is treated as a FateWorseThanDeath. |
100 | * ColdBloodedTorture: What this index is all about. |
101 | * CoolAndUnusualPunishment: A punishment that gets the job done, even though it's ridiculous. |
102 | * CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: A threat so odd it's PlayedForLaughs. |
103 | * DefeatMeansMenialLabor: A defeated villain is punished with menial labor, often in their (no longer) own place. |
104 | * TheEasyWayOrTheHardWay: A StockPhrase. |
105 | * HostageHandlerHuddle: The bad guys huddle together to decide how torture is best carried out. |
106 | * TheJoysOfTorturingMooks: When players of a video game find joy in torturing and killing their always-spawning, nameless enemies. |
107 | * NoodleImplements: An odd assortment of objects (and maybe people) are all brought together to do something, but the audience never sees what. |
108 | * TheNotSoHarmlessPunishment: A punishment seems bearable enough, maybe even laughable... until it's used. |
109 | * PainlessDeathForAPrice: Someone on death's doorstep is offered a MercyKill in exchange for something valuable (and may be threatened with a long, torturous death instead if they refuse). |
110 | * RoboticTortureDevice: A robotic device with many tools to torture, from knives to lasers and more. |
111 | * ScreamDiscretionShot: The audience doesn't see the pain being inflicted, only hearing the victim's scream. |
112 | * ShakeSomeoneObjectsFall: A comedic trope in which simply shaking someone causes everything they have on them to come falling out. |
113 | * SuckinessIsPainful: Someone is just so bad at something (singing, acting, you name it) that just seeing them do it is painful. |
114 | * TelevisedTorture: The torture is being broadcast, either for the villain's personal entertainment or for public consumption. |
115 | * TooBrokenToBreak: There's no torture that can affect him/her, the damage was done a long time before. |
116 | * TortureChamberEpisode: An episode in which one or more characters are tortured for the entire duration. |
117 | * TortureFirstAskQuestionsLater: Someone gets so caught up in torturing someone (or has even already killed them) that they forget to ask questions. |
118 | * TortureForFunAndInformation: A torture-filled interrogation is presented as comedic. |
119 | * TorturePorn: A work that's main appeal is its graphic and unrelenting depiction of torture. |
120 | * WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: A StockPhrase. |
121 | * WhipOfDominance: Using a whip as a symbol of dominance, control, authority, or sadism. |
122 | [[/index]] |
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