"After countless regenerations, I understood... True power is ruthlessness. True power is terror absolute. I'm not the coward I used to be. I've become a warrior worthy of serving Frieza... and I will prove how worthy I am!"
—Tagoma after surviving four months of Training from Hell/Cold-Blooded Torture with Frieza, Dragon Ball Super
"When I was a child, I heard stories of Elves taken by Morgoth. Tortured. Twisted. Made into a new and ruined form of life. You are one of them, are you not? The Moriondor. The Sons of the Dark. The first Orcs."
—Galadriel questioning Adar, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
"That poor bastard you took off my ship. He looked right into the face of it. Was made to stare. [...] The darkness. Kind of darkness you can't even imagine. Blacker than the space it moves through. [...] They made him watch. He probably tried to turn away, and they wouldn’t let him. You call him a survivor? He’s not. A man comes up against that kind of will, the only way to deal with it, I suspect, is to become it. He’s following the only course left to him. First, he’ll try to make himself look like one. Cut on himself, desecrate his flesh, and then... he’ll start acting like one."
—Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, "Bushwacked"
"The Cathedral loves to go on about [Inarius]. His imprisonment in Hell. His valiant escape. His glorious return here—the world he created. But they never mention that being tortured in Hell for a few millennia turns you into an arse."
—Lorath Nahr, Diablo IV
"Have you ever been tortured? Suffered pain applied by men who saw you as less than a man? Saw you as an animal? 'Cause it isn't actually the pain they're inflicting that's the most frightening part of it. It isn't the fear of future pain. It's the knowledge that even when the pain stops, even if they were to let you go, that they've changed you. That pain, that fear, that despair... has made you someone else, someone you barely recognize. Against your will."
— Billy Bones, Black Sails
