Exalted Torturer: Difference between revisions

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Compare [[Path of Inspiration]] for an institutional example: something that is made to look "good" and "heroic" and has a ton of good publicity, but is, in reality, nothing of the sort.

Compare and contrast [[Cowboy Cop]], [[Moral Dissonance]], [[Values Dissonance]], and especially the [[Torture Technician]] (when the torturer isn't specifically defined within his story as a heroic or "good" character and is only glorified as a result of [[Misaimed Fandom]] or [[Fan Dumb]], he is a [[Torture Technician]] and ''not'' this trope). [[Fridge Horror]] may exist when [[Writer on Board]] is in effect from the beginning (as in at least one of the examples below).

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== Anime & Manga ==

* ''Rapeman''. While the manga and anime are arguably [[Satire]] featuring [[Black Comedy Rape]], enough [[Viewers are Morons]] that it reinforces the idea that rape can be a valid "punishment" or source of redemption for victims.

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** Hell, sometimes even [[Good Is Not Nice|Paragon Shepard.]]

* A ''[[Dragon Age 2]]'' example. During the quest "Inside Job", [[Player Character|Hawke]] can torture a miner and have him killed. In his/her own home.

* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' is a special case. While most of the torturers in game (Torturer Lecraft and such) are ~~NOT~~ this trope because they are antagonists to both factions (which would make them [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Unexalted Torturers]]), there are characters that do meet this trope because at least one faction considers them non-antagonist (Sergeant Kanren in Falconwing Square is a Horde example, Interrogator Khan in Telaar an Alliance one), and there's a class (Death Knight, at least in the beginning) and quests for both Horde and Alliance that can make [[You Suck|your]] [[Player Punch|character]] [[What the Hell, Hero?|become]] an [[Exalted Torturer]].

* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' is a special case. While most of the torturers in game (Torturer Lecraft and such) are ''not'' this trope because they are antagonists to both factions (which would make them [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Unexalted Torturers]]), there are characters that do meet this trope because at least one faction considers them non-antagonist (Sergeant Kanren in Falconwing Square is a Horde example, Interrogator Khan in Telaar an Alliance one), and there's a class (Death Knight, at least in the beginning) and quests for both Horde and Alliance that can make [[You Suck|your]] [[Player Punch|character]] [[What the Hell, Hero?|become]] an [[Exalted Torturer]].

== Web Comics ==

* ''[[Sonichu]]'' and Christian Weston Chandler's self-insertions.

== Real Life ==

* In post-9/11 America, this is what the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] wants people to think its interrogators are, when it's not busy denying that what they do really "counts" as torture.