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It's almost guaranteed that a variation on this conversation will take place:
{{quote|'''[[Big Bad]]''': [[Tim Taylor Technology|Increase the intensity!]]
'''[[Torture Technician]]''': [[Even Evil Has Standards|But that could kill him]]!
'''Big Bad''': [[Kick the Dog|DO IT]]! }}
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** 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.
* ''[[Star Trek: The
** 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.]]
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* 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.
* In an episode of ''[[The Flash (TV
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