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* Depending on who you ask, [[God]] or [[Satan]] ([[Take a Third Option|or both]]) in [[The Bible]]. The book of Job is an example, where an innocent victim is tortured solely to prove his faithfulness.

* In the ''[[Left Behind]]'' series, it's God who's propped up as the [[Exalted Torturer]]. Not that God or Jesus Christ enjoy it, as Jesus sadly watches the Antichrist, the False Prophet, and all those who rejected Him throughout the ages go to their appointed doom. To quote Jesus speaking to Ashtaroth, Baal, and Cankerworm in the Dramatic Audio:

* While no details are given as to what exactly Butcher Brakespeare of the ''[[Flora Segunda]]'' books did during the war, her reputation as her country's greatest war criminal makes it clear that it was not very nice. But apparently she thought very hard about it and while it was difficult for her to do, it was the only way. So ''that's'' all right then. (Meanwhile, the other side's equally-vague war crimes are treated as completely unjustified and horrible.)

* In the ''[[Lensman]]'' universe, Worsel of Velantia and Nadreck of Palain VII both unleash the torture instruments of the Delgonian Overlords upon their former masters in the search for vital information. In Worsel's case, the other Lensmen let him do it because his own species was for countless centuries subject to the Overlords' depredations (basically a combination of [[Mind Rape]], torture and a kind of telepathic sadism, and concluding with snuff and the consumption of the dying victim's life energies), while Nadreck is a member of a species which literally cannot comprehend such concepts as suffering without years of study, and even then can't ''feel'' it.