Electric Torture: Difference between revisions

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'''Big Bad''': [[Kick the Dog|DO IT]]! }}

 

* Poor [[The Woobie|Bumblebee]]. He's shocked in the first live action ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' movie, for no apparent reason, and in a comicbook story arc connected with said movie...

* In ''[[Lethal Weapon]]'', Riggs is tortured by a [[Torture Technician]] played by Al Leong.

* Memorably applied by [[Papa Wolf|Bryan]] (played by [[Liam Neeson]]) in ''[[Taken (film)|Taken]]'' on a [[Complete Monster|worthless brute]] that addicts helpless little girls to drugs before selling them to be raped by dirty old men. He slams two long-blunt-and-rusty nails into the evil bastard's deserving thighs, connects the nails to a fuse box, and turns on the light, coolly telling him that unlike third world countries (which they used to outsource this kind of thing to), the power in Paris "will stay on till they turn it off from lack of payment on the bill." When the bastard gives up information on the person he sold Bryan's daughter to, Bryan leaves the room, with the power on.

* The torture device in ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'' isn't technically electric—although it may qualify as "some form of direct neural stimulation"—but the sequence checks all the boxes, including electrode-analogues, actor thrashing around in pain, and "increase the intensity" moment. And then Westley dies. Well, ''[[Only Mostly Dead|mostly]]'' [[Only Mostly Dead|dies]].

* Toward the end of ''[[The President's Analyst]]'', Dr. Schaefer is captured by {{spoiler|the phone company}}, who intend to extract information about the President for their ends. They have him trapped in a phone booth and subject him to some kind of high-tech pain-inflicting technology.

* Played with in ''[[The Artist]]'', as the movie begins with an audience watching George Valentin's [[Show Within a Show|newest movie]], where Valentin's character is being subjected to some sort of electric torture.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

** This can also be assumed to be what is happening in "the booth" in that same episode.

** The episode "Dagger of the Mind" features the neural neutralizer. Admittedly, it wasn't made for torture, and, being based on direct neutral stimulation, it didn't need any electrode-like things to be attached to the subject. Dr. Tristan Adams nevertheless figured out a way to make it into a very painful brainwashing device.

** And the methods are a [[Homage]] to ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]]'', above. Right down to the [[How Many Fingers?]] torture trigger (with Picard's memorable "THERE ARE ''FOUR'' LIGHTS!" at the end).

* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' had the Centauri Emperor torture G'Kar with an "electric whip" that delivered an increased charge each time, with a guaranteed fatal shock on the 40th blow, simply because he wanted to hear G'Kar scream. [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|He does, on the 39th lash.]]

* This was the specialty of the killer in the ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' episode "Limelight".

* In ''[[Married... with Children|Married With Children]]'', Peg and Al are competing with Steve and Marcie on a TV game show which gives prizes to the couple who torture each other worse. One of the tortures is electrocution.

 

 

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* Dupree of ''[[Girl Genius]]'' [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20041231 shows us how a medical device] can be tweaked a little to deliver massive electrical shocks for interrogation purposes.

* In [[Gaia Online]]'s plot comic, {{spoiler|Don Kuro tortures Zhivago for attempting to refuse an order to kill Gino Gambino}}. Turns out he's [[Not So Harmless]] after all...

 

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