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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'': A [[Deal with the Devil|Mephisto-like]] character introduces Kaiser to a method of playing Duel Monsters that involves [[Electric Torture]], which Kaiser inflicts on his own brother post his [[Freak-Out]]. Later, it's revealed that he's used this method so much, it's screwed with his heart and substantially shortened his lifespan.
** Nevermind, turns out [[This Is Your Brain on Evil|it was his Cyberdark deck, all along]].
* In the manga version of the [[Yu-Gi-Oh!|original series]], Jonouchi is tortured by gang members (the leader of which just happens to be a former friend) with stun guns. Later on, Yugi defeats the entire gang using a knocked-out member (holding a stun gun), the weather, and a couple of well-placed threats.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Happens (in an unexpected and fairly graphic sequence) to Lightfoot in ''[[G.I. Joe]] Special Missions'' #13.
* In ''[[All Fall Down]]'', {{spoiler|Siphon}} endures a form of this while on a deathtrap power-nullifying platform.
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* Employed in ''Black Momma White Momma'' by a [[Banana Republic]] dictator to a presumed rebel. As is typical for the movie, the girl is rendered topless first.
* ''[[Tron]]'': Subverted. The MCP tortures Sark by 'depriving him of cycles'. In this case, he RUNS on electricity, so this requires the opposite action to get the desired effect.
** Also played straight, when the MCP captures Clu 1.0, threatens him with total de-resolution if he fails to tell the MCP who his User is, then brutally tortures the Program to death.
** Dumont the I/O Tower Guardian is also given this treatment when he was captured by Sark and brought on board his Carrier.
* 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.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* A brain-electrodes variant shows up in ''[[Duumvirate]]'' that can also cause [[Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul|pleasure]].
* In Ken Follett's thriller ''Jackdaws,'' the Nazi interrogator (who is not in any way [[Those Wacky Nazis|comical]]) tortures one of the women by {{spoiler|sticking an electric probe up her vagina}}. She gets her comeuppance, however, by [[Karmic Punishment|doing the same thing to him]], simply in a different location.
* [[Canon Sue|John Galt]] goes through this at the end of ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''. [[Too Kinky to Torture|Not only does he stoically endure the torture, but he's able to professionally troubleshoot the torture device, while still tied down, when it breaks after being turned up too high]].
* Heinz, one of the interrogators in [[Stephen King]]'s short story ''In the Deathroom'', has custom-built a device that draws power from a car battery and transfers it to a large steel stylus; he claims to the story's protagonist that he has used it to deliver shocks to prisoners' hands, feet, and other more delicate places. Evidence in the story indicates that he killed a friend of the protagonist by jabbing him in the temple with the stylus -- the shock triggered a lethal epileptic fit.
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** Also the collars used on [[People Farms|human "cows"]] by the Pyleans in ''[[Angel]]''?
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' alluded to this in an early 2009 commercial parody. One of the items offered at Guantanamo Bay's going-out-of-business sale was '''C-C-C-CAR BATTERIES!!!'''
* This happens to Sayid in the first season of ''[[Lost]]'', at the hands of Danielle Rousseau, who believes him to be one of the evil "others". Sayid manages to escape after convincing Rousseau that he is not one of them.
* [[Legend of the Seeker]] has the Mord-Sith, whose [[Agony Beam|Agiels]] cause intense pain and flashing light when they touch someone. Using it enough can kill them, but it doesn't leave any sort of mark when they're done.
* The "Blinking Electrocution" game on ''[[Distraction]]''. The contestants have to answer questions while strapped to electric chairs, and are [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|shocked every time they blink]].
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* Used widely in South America during the 60s-80s.
** The ''parrilla'' was an infamous interrogation tool routinely used by the Chilean secret police during Pinochet's dictatorship (1973-1990). It was a metal frame prisoners were strapped onto naked, while the questioners applied electrodes to whatever body part they thought appropriate.
** The ''picana'' was an electric cattle prod that Argentine torturers used on their victims during the Dirty War (1976-1983). Oftentimes, people were raped with the picana.
** The "Cadeira do Dragão" (Dragon's Chair) was an electric chair used as a torture device and part of the plethora of torture devices used by the Brazilian military dictatorship in the 60s-70s.
* Used by Syria after the Yom Kippur war on [[Badass Israeli|captured Israelis]], though it hardly ever earned them any good intelligence.
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* In the backstory for ''[[Star Control]] II'', thousands of years ago, many of the Ur-Quan voluntarily wore "Excruciators" for months or years to prevent them from being mind-controlled by the Dnyarri (as the one doing the mind control also feels the pain and has to break the link). The experience left most quite insane.
* Squall is subjected to electric torture in early Disc 2 of ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]''. More so, if you refuse to feign cooperation.
* Used on {{spoiler|Pikachu of all people}} in the story mode of ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl''.
** Well, actually {{spoiler|it's possible to use electric Pokémon like Pikachu as power sources, so they were actually sucking electricity from it's body}}. But it still qualifies as torture.
* Occurs in the first two ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' games, just to fulfill a villain's perverse fantasies (much more blatantly in the second). In the first one, it's done to Alice, and giving the proper responses ({{spoiler|the first one every time}}) opens a [[Sidequest]] (and saves her from being shocked). In the second one, you choose who gets the torture, and the responses you give determines the contents of a later treasure chest.
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