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{{trope}}
[[File:jack_bauer_torturejack bauer torture.jpg|link=24|frame|"You are going to tell me what I want to know; it's just a matter of how much you want it to hurt."]]
 
{{quote|"''You're not going to get any information out of him if you just ''ask''. You gotta make him squeal a little! (...) If you're too squeamish or worried about being reported, ''I'll'' handle it.''"|'''Captain Bailey''', ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''}}▼
 
|'''Captain Bailey''', ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''}}
▲{{quote|"''You're not going to get any information out of him if you just ''ask''. You gotta make him squeal a little! (...) If you're too squeamish or worried about being reported, ''I'll'' handle it.''"|'''Captain Bailey''', ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''}}
 
The cop starts physically injuring the defenseless perp. For all intents and purposes, this is [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]. Usually indicates that there is some kind of [[Time Bomb]] hanging over the heroes' heads and the interrogator has decided that there isn't enough time to "play nice." Threats to kill will be made, firearms will be discharged. Sometimes done after someone has refused to believe an [[Empty Cop Threat]]. Of course, anyone who does this is usually at least an [[Anti-Hero]] to begin with. Also, if a suspect knows he only has to hold out for a certain length of time, torture will never work. Good thing [[Torture Always Works]].
 
In reality, torture is [[The Laws and Customs of War|illegal]] in many jurisdictions (however,<ref>However, that doesn't stop people from doing it, and doesn't meanprevent thenations evidencefrom gets tossedtossing out inevidence allof nations),use of torture.</ref> and its actual effectiveness is disputed, depending much on circumstances and individuals. In short, there's no real proof that it works effectively and dependably -; it's as likely that someone will tell you something just to make it stop as anything else, and while the "just make it stop" factor can in fact be countered by systems of threatening even worse retribution if the given information turns out to be false, it is still hardly 100% perfect. Someone truly dedicated to a cause may even view this technique as a sign that his enemies are weak or evil, thus enforcing his own convictions and making him more likely to refuse to cooperate. Interrogation is often a long process over days or weeks, as well. Good luck stuffing that time into an hour TV show revolving around a bad guy bomb, though.
 
It would be especially problematic using evidence obtained through torture in the United States. The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution prohibits "Cruel and Unusual punishment." Statute Law, specifically 18 USC 1984, the Civil Rights act of 1869, specifically makes it a crime to violate someone's civil rights under color of law. US treaty obligations also cause problems, as they are a signatory to the "Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment," of 26 June 1987, and the use of torture is a violation of "[[The Laws and Customs of War]]" as set forth in the (Fourth) Geneva Convention,. The First Protocol Addition to the Fourth Geneva whichConvention prohibits even unlawful combatants from being tortured (although the US has not ratified it, although they ''have'' ratified the UN Convention Against Torture). While executing unlawful combatants with only summary tribunal is legal under the Geneva Convention, torturing them, however, is not.
 
See also: [[Exalted Torturer]], [[Torture Technician]], [[Torture Always Works]] and [[Mutilation Interrogation]], a subtrope that involves [[Fingore]].
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{{examples}}
 
== Anime and Manga ==
* Claire Stanfield, pissed off and in need of information, subjects a [[Smug Snake]] [[Mook]] to this in ''[[Baccano!]]''. {{spoiler|[[What a Drag|Being dragged across railroad tracks from a moving train is not a pleasant way to die.]]}}
* Devilman from the 70's ''[[Devilman]]'' series tortures [[Monster of the Week]] demon to find out cure for Miki's poisoning in one episode.
* Sousuke from ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'' uses this as his normal MO. He uses it to find out how a classmate got embarrassing pictures of Kaname by threatening to ''[[Fingore|cut off a finger]]'' every time he refused to cooperate. Oddly enough, it usually works when it comes to extracting reliable information.
** Sousuke usually doesn't have to go beyond threats, but Mithril also employs torture in interrogating the traitorous {{spoiler|Vincent Bruno}}, breaking several fingers in order to get the details of just who they'd been sold out to.
{{quote|'''Andrei Kalinin''': If I was there, I would've just chopped off the fingers.}}
* Leona from ''[[Dominion Tank Police]]'' managed to successfully [[Perp Sweating|interrogate a suspect]] by strongly implying that she was willing to resort to desperate measures. She came into the room carrying throwing knives and a hand grenade, and -- justand—just to give the suspect the impression that she was ''really'' [[Axe Crazy]] -- wearing—wearing a [[Playboy Bunny]] outfit.
** Also by Masamune Shirow: Deunan Knute in ''[[Appleseed]]'' was once left to interrogate a suspect. The last panel showed her drawing a very large blade from a back sheath. A few pages later, we get the guy complaining about the "neck to groin gash" on the subject. . .
* In the ''[[Darker Thanthan Black]]'' universe, [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]] is established as an effective means of getting information out of [[Differently-Powered Individual|Contractors]] because, as Havoc mentions, their naturally self-serving attitudes will lead them to talk almost immediately. [[Anti-Hero|Hei]] himself performs this on ex-Contractor Havoc in an attempt to get information about his sister before a)it's clear she doesn't know anything and b)he realizes that she's [[The Atoner|no longer the cold-blooded monster he once knew her as]].
** In the first episode, Hei does this on a Contractor- the guy had to break his own fingers as a price for his powers, and Hei stabs him in the hand with his knife. After getting the information, Hei kills him anyway, disgusted by his cowardice.
** You could probably also count November 11 freezing to the ground the gangster who betrayed him and then demanding information on the location of the [[Girl in a Box|"package"]]. Once he gets the info, November walks away, and the freezing spreads across the guy's whole body and he does a [[Cryonics Failure|Popsicle Splat]]. Really, there's no such thing as a [[Technical Pacifist]] in the ''[[Darker Thanthan Black]]'' universe.
** This is given a [[Lampshade Hanging]] in the ''[[Durarara!!]]'' manga. Walker and Erika are going to torture someone based upon whatever anime or manga they choose, and when the victim glances at ''[[Darker Thanthan Black]]'', it's commented that this is a "good choice".
* Many in the Sniper Control Office in ''[[Él|EL]]'' are delighted when female suspects are brought in for interrogation, as it's pretty much their cue to rape and sexually torture them in every way imaginable. Some of them obviously don't care whether they even get any information or not, completely ignoring one victim's pleas that she would talk if they'd stop.
* As mentioned above, Walker and Erica from ''[[Durarara!!]]''. Probably the quickest way to get information out of someone in Ikebukuro is to lock them in a van with those two and a heap of manga.
* In ''[[Maiden Rose]]'', during interrogation for treason, Grand Chamberlain Hasebe cites the fact that Klaus' disavowal of his citizenship means his actions can't be tried for war crimes... and [[A Taste of the Lash|canes]] Klaus brutally, before deciding to just kill him when he won't talk. [[Big Damn Heroes|Taki stops him]] [[Just in Time]].
* After his death in the first season of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'', Daitokuji Sensei lives on as a spirit, often taking the form of a small orb of light. In the final season, Judai suspects he knows something about the Abandoned Dorm, and manages to catch him, place him in a plastic bag, and then use this Trope by threatening to ''flush'' him, literally. Judai had become much darker of late, his soul having bonded with that of Yubel, and such an act seemed his way of showing he wasn't messing around anymore.
 
 
== Comic Books ==
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'''Wolverine:''' That's two. Wanna go for three? }}
* Common with some variations of [[Batman]], more often he would [[High Altitude Interrogation|hang them over fatal chasms]] than beat them but both techniques were used often enough.
** Of course, if ''[[Animation/Justice League|Justice League Unlimited]]'' is to be believed, [[Retired Badass]] Bruce only gets ''scarier'' in his methods with age ("I can't believe I used to be so green. ''This'' is how you interrogate a suspect...").
** He ''tries'' this on the Joker in ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', but he's '''far''' [[Too Kinky to Torture]]
{{quote|'''[[The Joker]]:''' You have nothing, ''nothing'' to threaten me with. Nothing to do with all your strength.}}
*** And in the same movie, it even becomes ineffective on common criminals... because by now, they've realized that nothing Batman could possibly do to them will be as bad as what the Joker will do if he finds out they ratted on him. Still, Batman gives it a good shot with Salvatore Maroni.
{{quote|'''Maroni:''' ''([[High Altitude Interrogation|being held from a three-story fire escape]])'' Let me give you some advice, from one professional to another; Pick a better spot. [[Lampshade Hanging|From this height, the fall wouldn't even kill me]].<br />
'''Batman:''' [[Torture Always Works|I'm counting on it.]] ''(drops Maroni off the fire escape; girly screaming ensues; Maroni lands flat-footed on both feet, shattering his ankles)'' }}
* Pretty much a staple of Marvel's ''[[The Punisher]]'', with Frank Castle able to come up with some rather [[Squick|impressive]] techniques, to the point where the Punisher video game consisted of a variety of ways to use the environment to threaten a criminal with horrific bodily injury... and then let him have it anyways once he gives up the needed information. Note that he sometimes merely threatens torture, but the MAX version is much more overt about him committing it and ''The Punisher: Force of Nature'' one-shot (MAX) had a page with him monologuing about torture as well as the threat: for some the threat is enough, some ''never'' break, and some just pass out. One of the villains even says that he figures that the Punisher would simply "shut down" if he were tortured.
** In the Garth Ennis arc ''The Slavers'', Frank needs to get information from one of the titular Croatians and realizes that, hard as they are, "what I would need to do to such men would be...extreme." So he drugs the guy, cut a hole in his belly, pulls about two feet of his intestines out and drapes them on a tree branch in front of him. And that's ''where he starts.''
* Rorschach from ''[[Watchmen]]'' seems to consider this the best way to get information about the criminal world.
{{quote|"I've just [[Fingore|broken]] this gentleman's little finger.. Who killed Edward Blake?"<br />
[[[Beat]].]<br />
"...and his index finger. Who killed Edward Blake?" }}
** And he does this to completely random people at dinky bars. He doesn't care if the person is actually guilty of anything - he just expects that when he does it enough times, he'll find someone who is, or is willing to talk about a guilty person to make it stop. In one of his diary entries he comments how depressing it is when no-one's guilty.
* [[Transmetropolitan|Spider Jerusalem]] will get at the truth, no matter who he has to maim to do so.
** Or even just if he doesn't like them, although that's usually limited to punches, general manhandling, and shots with his bowel disruptor rather than anything terribly permanent.
* [[Tex Willer]] typical modu operandi involves punching the poor sop across the room until he finally tells the truth.
* During the [[Daredevil]] arc, "The Devil, Inside and Out" Daredevil interrogated Hammerhead by hitting some [[Pressure Point|Pressure Points]]s that made "his eyes feel like hot coals in his head".
* [[Asterix]] suspected that the captain of a Nile ferry was lying about there being no more stone left in the quarry, so Obelix struck him [the captain] in the face repeatedly (apparently toning the force of the blows down enough to not be fatal). The captain confessed how [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Artifis]] had bribed him.
 
== FanfictionFan Works ==▼
 
▲== Fanfiction ==
* In the ''[[Firefly]]'' fanfic ''[[Forward]]'', Mal and Zoe start interrogating one of Adelei Niska's men because {{spoiler|Niska has kidnapped River and Jayne and is torturing them [[For the Evulz]].}} The morality of the situation is highly suspect; most of the crew find the apparent necessity horrific, and in the end it proves entirely fruitless, as the thug is more afraid of Niska than he is of Mal. It isn't until {{spoiler|Book drugs the man and Wash talks him into revealing information}} that they get anything useful.
 
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* Appears heavily in Brazilian movie ''Tropa de Elite'' (aka ''[[The Elite Squad]]'', won the Berlin Golden Bear), with [[Truth in Television]] techniques since the movie is based on a real Special Forces squad. Besides physical aggression, other interrogation methods include plastic bags on the head (and watering one which passed out after receiving the bag ''twice''), and menacing [[Ass Shove|sodomy with a broomstick]].
* In the [[Blaxploitation]] film ''Three the Hard Way'', the heroes capture a [[Mooks]] alive, and torture him, in which he's placed in a bedroom with three gorgeous females, who, behind the closed door, do some sort of rape or something to him, over quite a period of time, and various screams, so much so that one of the other heroes gets nervous. He wants to find out what's going on, and his friend suggests otherwise, "Brother, if you go in there, they're liable to pull your assets in with him, too." "Yeah, maybe I better wait."
* Probably the godfather of the [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]] is none other than [[Dirty Harry|"Dirty" Harry Callahan]]. When Scorpio, a murderous psycho who likes to snipe people off, kidnaps a teenage girl and leaves her in a spot where she'll drown in a few hours, he makes Harry run all the way across the city as fast as he can in order to get the information on her whereabouts, but when Harry is finished, the killer, in a crossing of the [[Moral Event Horizon]], says that he's changed his mind and is just going to let her die before trying to kill Harry. Needless to say, Harry is furious, and when he finally tracks Scorpio down on a football field, Harry gets brutal in making him give up the location of the girl. Harry's brutal methods get results, but when the girl is finally found, it's too late for her. Harry promptly gets a dressing-down for "police torture" among other violations of due process by [[Da Chief]], and Scorpio gets [[Off on a Technicality]] anyway because of those violations.
* Referenced in ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]'' where Mr. White, Mr. Pink and Mr. Blonde try to torture a cop to find out if he knows anything about the setup of their disastrous heist. When Nice Guy Eddie finds out, he criticizes their thinking saying "If you fucking beat this prick long enough, he'll tell you he started the goddamn Chicago fire, now that don't necessarily make it fucking so!" When everyone but Blonde leaves, he proceeds to torture the cop anyway, admitting that he neither cares nor expects to get any information out of him, [[Complete Monster|but simply because he likes to torture cops]].
** Also notable in that, despite the particularly brutal beating the cop suffers, he tells them nothing, {{spoiler|even though he knows exactly who the cop is.}}
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* In ''[[X-Men: First Class|X Men First Class]]'', Magneto pulls out the metal fillings of a banker in order to get the location of some Nazi war criminals.
* In ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094293/ Wanted: Dead Or Alive]'', bounty hunter Nick Randall comes up with a technique that works more on the principle of abject terror than pain: tossing the terrorist's [[Mook]] into a free-standing locker and locking him inside, he demands to know where the [[Big Bad]] Malak Al Rahim is. Every time the mook refuses to talk, Nick taps the locker twice with the tip of the barrel of his rifle, and then fires. Faced with the terror of trying to dodge the bullets in the blind, his subject quickly cracks. The film somewhat justifies his being able to use this technique by establishing earlier that as a freelance bounty hunter, Nick is not quite as constrained by some of the laws binding the police and government agents also pursuing the terrorist. Of course, he probably could still have been prosecuted for this [[Asshole Victim|if anyone actually cared about his victim]].
* Parodied in ''[[Dude, Where's My Car?]]''. The two main stoner characters are interrogated by the cops for a crime they didn't commit, but they don't remember anything from the night before. Thinking they're holding out on them, the cops then bring in a dummy, which they "torture" with beatings, pouring hot coffee in its face, and cigarette burns.
{{quote|'''Chester:''' Leave him alone! He doesn't know anything!}}
 
 
== Literature ==
* At one point in [[Warhammer 4000040,000]], Haegr of the Space Wolves threatens to rip off a cultist's arms and eat them if he doesn't spill his guts. Unlike in most cases, it actually works with a space marine, since they can literally smell a lie.
* According to Sirius Black in [[J. K. Rowling]]'s ''[[Harry Potter]] and the Goblet of Fire'', Aurors during the first war were given permission to, and did, enact this trope. Given the Ministry's standard for due diligence and investigative competence, it is likely that a great many innocent people were tortured (Such as Sirius himself, who was later sentenced to life in prison without trial). [[Retired Badass]] Alastor Moody was singled as having never done this in spite of being authorized to do so to show he's a good guy.
** Dolores Umbridge from ''[[Harry Potter]] and the Order of the Phoenix''. Particularly disturbing about this example is the light-hearted calmness with which she conducts these interrogations, to say nothing of the fact that they are, by definition, practiced on ''children''. And yet, she isn't punished for ''anything'' until she starts cooperating with Voldemort.
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* In [[Black Sunday]], Kabakov wants a freighter captain to tell him whom he dealt with, and he refuses. So Kabakov tells the captain, "I'm going outside for a smoke." Kabakov turns to his assistant, and says "Mochevsky, I suspect the captain would like some refreshments. Call me when he has finished eating his testicles."
* Utilized by Agent Stanley B. Goode to extract information from Dr. Wiley in [[The Tumbleweed Dossier]].
* Twice in the ''[[Andre Norton|Solar Queen]]'' series, the main characters say they might use such techniques. The first time was to a [[Ruthless Modern Pirates|pirate]], but the second was to a technician who was just being uncooperative with their '''illegal''' demands -- the heroes were, at the time, officially outlaws.
{{quote|"A swift death by a blaster is a very easy way into the Greater Space, is it not? But out on the Rim, in the Wild Worlds, we have learned other tricks."
---
"Out on the Rim, we play rough, and we play for keeps. I know half a hundred ways to set you screaming in three minutes and at least ten of them will not even leave a mark on your skin!"}}
 
 
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* Vic Mackey from ''[[The Shield]]'', a lot. He beats a suspect with a phone book in the pilot episode to reveal to location of a kidnapped girl and does similar things throughout the show's run, including threatening to drop off a gang member in rival territory (a ticket to the emergency room at minimum) and beating another to death with a length of chain for killing Lem. {{spoiler|The kicker? Shane, the actual killer, was there and trying to convince him to stop.}}
* Al in ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' goes as far as to discharge his gun right next to Lee Harvey Oswald's ear when Oswald doesn't come clean with what he knows.
* Subverted in the new ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined(2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'': When Starbuck tortures Leoben for information... {{spoiler|Leoben spends seven hours giving misinformation and trying to [[Mind Screw]] Starbuck. Only when the torture stops does he admit he's been lying. And even then he manages to [[Mind Screw]] Roslin}}.
** The Cylon talked about God quite a bit, a valuable psychological insight, which Starbuck ignored.
** The Cylons also tortured Baltar for information after he seemingly sent a Basestar to its death. Thanks to Head-Six, the result was infinitely [[Squick|squickysquick]]y and full of [[Mind Screw]], with Baltar managing to both convince his interrogator of his innocence and get into her bed. Needless to say it was one of the strangest scenes in the show and an excellent moment in what was otherwise a terrible episode.
** The ''Pegasus'' crew tried this on their Cylon prisoner Gina, but got no useful information from her in the process. Baltar did manage to get information about the Resurrection Ship from her after applying the carrot, however, because she was so traumatized that she wanted the Resurrection Ship destroyed so that she could die properly.
* [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Hilariously parodied]] in ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]''. There's an enemy that will withstand practically ''anything'' the Rangers try to get him to talk... until they lock him in a room with their SPD Green Ranger, local [[Psychic Powers]] [[Cloudcuckoolander]] Bridge. In less than ten minutes, the prisoner is [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|pleading to have Bridge away from him]].
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** Gibbs himself almost commits this on a suspect in the episode "Engagement Part 2", when trying to find out what their terrorist plan is and where his brother is... by trying to plant cigarette burns on him (which is exactly what his sister often did to the schoolgirls they captured in Afghanistan) before Leon stops him. It's a probable subversion, as it is implied that the entire thing, including Leon "stopping" Gibbs, was a setup to trick the younger brother into explaining what they were planning to do.
* Deconstructed thoroughly by ''[[Burn Notice]]''. Michael states explicitly that torture never works - the person you're torturing will say whatever they think you want to hear to get the pain to stop. Both Michael and Sam have been interrogated in this fashion and never crack, and whenever they interrogate bad guys, it's never strictly physical torture.
** From Michael's voiceover in an S2 episode:
{{quote|'''Michal Westen (Narration)''': The fact is, torture is for sadists and thugs. It's like getting groceries with a flame thrower; it doesn't work and it makes a mess."}}
** And in "The Hunter", all of Fiona and Sam's threats and actual violence on a suspect don't get them the information they need. [[Mama Bear]] Madeline walks in, lights a cigarette, and proceeds to ''talk'' the guy into confessing everything he knows.
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* In one episode of ''[[Dexter]]'', a police officer looking for the murderer of his brother interogates a suspect by shaking up a soda bottle and shoves it up the guy's nostril as it goes off.
* In the pilot of ''City Homicide'', Simon, Duncan and Matt arrest Sean Macready, a serial arsonist and child-killer on his way out of his latest target. To force him to tell them where he locked the children, Duncan and Matt physically pull him back into the burning house while they search. Macready is killed when he attempts to throw himself and one of the children into the fire, and the cops escape any punishment.
* ''[[Homicide: Life Onon the Street]]'' made it a point to avoid this as detectives who hit suspects can not only wreck their case but put their job at risk and can even risk Assault charges.
* Late in season 3 of ''[[Castle]]'', Ryan and Esposito shoot a man non-fatally then question him while threatening not to call 911. Then, for more info, Esposito shoves the still hot barrel of his gun into a bullet wound...
* In ''[[Community]]'' episode [[Community/Recap/S1 /E20 The Science of Illusion|The Science of Illusion]] Annie slams Jeff's head down onto a table in an attempt to do this, but given the context of the show (and the general cuteness of her character), it comes off more as the [[Gene Hunt Interrogation Technique]] (at least to the audience).
** Shirley then provides a straighter example as she threatens to cut Jeff up with a pizza slicer.
* ''[[The Collector (TV series)|The Collector]]'': Applied to Morgan twice. Didn't work, of course. He must have built up resistance to pain from [[Good Thing You Can Heal|the fatal injuries he keeps getting]].
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* The ''[[Monk]]'' episode "Mr. Monk Stays In Bed" has Stottlemeyer doing a mundane version of the trope. He gets to the likely suspect behind a judge's disappearance and tries to question him on what he knows about her disappearance. When the subject denies it, he then dunks his tie into his porridge after [[Incredibly Lame Pun|asking if the man likes "Thai food."]], and later, after supplying his own tie to the man out of guilt (Disher tells him that they have the wrong table), only to discover it was the right man all along, has him helping him with his tie by tightening it to the extent that it was borderline stranglement.
* [[Reality Ensues|Realistically]] [[Subverted]] in the pilot of ''[[Blue Bloods]]''. Danny beats the living daylights out of a child predator to find a kidnapped girl. Said predator's lawyer successfully argues that the confession is inadmissible, forcing Danny to find other evidence to put him away.
* In most versions of [[The Addams Family]]'', Wednesday is shown to be fond of sadio-masachism, though usually with a consenting sub, often her brother (and she likely learned it from her parents). The [[Netflix]] series ''[[Wednesday]]'', however, shows she is more than willing to use these "skills" for this purpose; when she discovers that Thing has been left behind by her parents to spy on her, she gives him two options, she can lock him in her deck for the rest of the semester or he can swear fealty to her. He chooses the latter option.
 
 
== Tabletop Games ==
* Standard operating procedure for Imperial law enforcement in ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]''. Shining example: the "Nine Actions" are the Inquisition's specific guidelines on gradually increasing the intensity of their questioning, psychological manipulation, torture, and [[Mind Rape]]. Action Nine would kill any normal human pretty quick, but then normal humans usually give in at about the two-mark, which involves [[To the Pain|explaining exactly what is going to happen through the next seven stages]].
** The Actions themselves are really more of a subversion. Only light physical torture is allowed until the Nineth Action, and information is taken forcefully through psychic methods, ensuring useful information.
 
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* In ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'', Altaïr's method of interrogation is beating people until they talk. Apparently Ezio picks it up in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood|Brotherhood]]''.
* In ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops|Call of Duty Black Ops]]'', you interrogate a scientist by breaking a window, putting the shards of glass in his mouth, and punching him in the jaw (you have to press the button).
** Likewise in ''[[Modern Warfare]]'', there's a mission in the favela where you need to track down an arms dealer while Soap gets information out of his lackey. As you leave Soap behind, he's wiring up a car battery...
* In the remakes of [[Pokémon Gold and Silver|Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver]], Lance gets his Dragonite to use Hyper Beam on a Rocket Grunt...''[[Curb Stomp Battle|FREAKING]]'' ''[[Good Is Not Nice|HYPER]]'' ''[[Beware the Nice Ones|BEAM]]!!!''
* In a revamp of the Mercy Island zone in ''[[City of Heroes]]'', your fledgling villain can use this technique on a Longbow captive. Option 1 is to explain the horrible things you are going to do to him, while options 2 and 3 involve breaking his arm or his leg, respectively.
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== Web Comics ==
* Parodied in [https://web.archive.org/web/20080229114147/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070118 this] ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' comic.
* Used in [http://exterminatusnow.comicgenesis.com/d/20070202.html this] [[Exterminatus Now]] strip. And a few after it.
* [[Heroic Sociopath]] Ken of [[No Need for Bushido]] favors this interrogation technique above all others, as seen [https://web.archive.org/web/20130605203100/http://noneedforbushido.com/2009/comic/348/ here]
 
 
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* Parodied in the episode "The Snuke" of ''[[South Park]]'' that was, in itself, parodying ''[[24]]'', Cartman is under the belief that some Arabs are planning a bombing and wants to know where their son is, so he begins seeming as though he's going to start beating them, and instead injects himself with apple juice and begins farting in their faces until they give in (turns out there was indeed a terrorist plan but it had nothing at all to do with the people he was "torturing").
* Used in an episode of ''[[The Boondocks]]'' featuring a Jack Bauer expy, Jack Flowers. His method of interrogation? [[Groin Attack|Kicking the perp in the groin repeatedly until they confess]]. And if they don't confess right away, he brings out the [[Up to Eleven|steel boot]]...
* In the ''[[American Dad]]'' episode "Homeland Insecurity", Stan does this to everyone in the neighborhood, including ''himself!''
* In one episode of the ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' cartoon, Zartan plants a bomb in an embassy, only to be caught by the Joes before he can make his getaway. When they find out there's a bomb - and Zartan won't tell them where it is - Roadblock decide to "persuade" him by placing him in a holding cell in the embassy itself and then placing his watch outside the cell where he can see it. The idea is, Zartan knows when it will go off, and if he's still there when it does, he goes with it. Roadblock doesn't tell him that he cleverly set the watch a half-hour fast, meaning Zartan is fooled into thinking the deadline is closer than it actually is. It works; eventually he breaks down and tells them.
 
* As hard as it is to believe that someone as sweet as [[Strawberry Shortcake]] would resort to something like this, she did indeed in one of the original specials, in her own way. (And indeed, it was one of the rare times she was visibly angry.) After the Pieman had framed her for cheating in her own contest, she deliberately spoke in Berry Talk to him (something he simply can't stand) until he broke down and confessed in front of everyone.
 
== Real Life ==
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