1 | '''Basic Trope''': Tickling is used as torture. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice, one of [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]]'s subordinates, tickles Bob's feet with feathers as torture. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Alice uses all the tools she can to tickle all over Bob's body to get everything he knows. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': |
5 | ** FriendlyTickleTorture |
6 | ** Alice and Bob are friends, [[PrankPunishment but when Bob tries to keep secrets from her, Alice tickles the truth out of him]]. |
7 | * '''Justified''': |
8 | ** Alice doesn't want to kill Bob, as he could be useful. |
9 | ** Alice [[EvenEvilHasStandards just doesn't believe in killing]]. |
10 | ** Emperor Evulz doesn't believe in killing, and disallows his minions to kill. |
11 | ** Alice is actually the hero, and Bob is the villain, so Alice doesn’t believe in killing. |
12 | ** Bob is extremely ticklish so this form of torture is actually very effective. |
13 | ** Emperor Evulz wants Bob to stay in fighting shape as part of his plan, so he orders Alice to choose a form of torture that won't cause lasting damage. |
14 | * '''Inverted''': Alice does everything she can [[ColdBloodedTorture to hurt and/or interrogate]] Bob, ''except'' tickling him. |
15 | * '''Subverted''': |
16 | ** Alice looks like she's reaching for a bundle of feathers, but she instead picks up a flail. |
17 | ** [[TooKinkyToTorture Bob likes it.]] |
18 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
19 | ** Which happens to actually be a cat toy with feathers on a string at the end. |
20 | ** So she coerces more information out of him with the promise of more tickles. |
21 | * '''Parodied''': AccidentalTickleTorture |
22 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Alice sometimes uses a painful tool, but other times, she tickles her prisoners. |
23 | * '''Averted''': Alice doesn't tickle her prisoner for any reason. |
24 | * '''Enforced''': "This is a kid's show, so we can't do anything painful. Tickling is kid-friendly enough." |
25 | * '''Lampshaded''': "What are you gonna do, tickle me to death?" |
26 | * '''Invoked''': Alice knows just how ticklish Bob is, so she prepares for tickle him in the most unbearable way possible. |
27 | * '''Exploited''': As Alice can't do anything more painful than tickling, Bob doesn't talk. Alice gives up on trying to get information. |
28 | * '''Defied''': Alice knows Bob had been through more painful things, so she doesn't bother with things that seem petty. |
29 | * '''Discussed''': "You're gonna tickle me, aren't ya? I can tell by all the feathers." |
30 | * '''Conversed''': "He's already faced a [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinetic]] and has been set alight! Why is he being reduced to a blubbering baby when his feet are so much as poked?" |
31 | * '''Deconstructed''': |
32 | ** Alice literally tickles Bob until he has died of laughter. |
33 | ** Bob passes out from laughing. |
34 | ** Because Alice's methods are so ineffective, Emperor Evulz [[YouHaveFailedMe disposes of her]]. |
35 | ** Alice enjoys the psychology of tickle torture and humiliating her prisoners that way. |
36 | * '''Played for Laughs''': Bob is TooKinkyToTorture, so he actually enjoys what Alice is inflicting on him. She looks back at Emperor Evulz and says "Am I being paid?" Emperor Evulz, [[BadBoss all the more enjoying Alice's misery]], says "No." Alice haplessly continues. |
37 | * '''Played for Drama''': Alice knows Bob is afraid of being tickled because of childhood experiences, so she uses that to her advantage and successfully gets Bob to talk. |
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39 | Back to TickleTorture- ooh, he he he haHAHAHA STOP [=HAHAHAha.=]..yeah, you get the drill. |
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41 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
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43 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
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