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The heroine is strapped to a chair. She's told to talk by the villain. If she doesn't, the [[Complete Monster|henchman]] standing beside her will [[Cold Blooded Torture|start cutting her fingers off]]. One by one. If she's not talking by then, he'll move onto other areas.

The heroine is strapped to a chair. She's told to talk by the villain. If she doesn't, the [[Complete Monster|henchman]] standing beside her will [[Cold-Blooded Torture|start cutting her fingers off]]. One by one. If she's not talking by then, he'll move onto other areas.

One of the many forms of [[Cold Blooded Torture]] or the [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]]. See also [[Fingore]] and [[Kneecapping]], which this tends to include.

One of the many forms of [[Cold-Blooded Torture]] or the [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]]. See also [[Fingore]] and [[Kneecapping]], which this tends to include.

== Anime, Manga, and Light Novels ==

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* ''Martian Deathtrap'', a novelization based on the ''Mars Attacks!'' comics/card series by Topps, has the Martians capture a showgirl and using a surgical tool that cuts and cauterizes at the same time on the bottoms of her toes after she refuses to tell them (a) how many humans are still alive in the mansion they're all trapped in and (b) how to drive a car, of all things. [[Too Dumb to Live|Given they could have just forced her to take them to the cars and have her drive them to safety at gunpoint, the torture might have been a bit excessive, if not totally unnecessary.]]

* This trope happens in one of the later ''[[Anita Blake]]'' books, where Anita threatens to cut the fingers off of a henchman when he doesn't tell her where Richard's mother and brother are. He loses one finger before he talks.

* Another inversion in ''The High King's Tomb'', third book in the ''[[Green Rider]]'' series. In this one, a female interrogator does this to an evil henchman who had ''already'' lost one hand. To top it off, [[~~Its~~ Personal|this same henchman had driven the interrogator's brother to suicide]] by blaming him for an incident that made their sadistic master cut off ''both'' hands.

* Another inversion in ''The High King's Tomb'', third book in the ''[[Green Rider]]'' series. In this one, a female interrogator does this to an evil henchman who had ''already'' lost one hand. To top it off, [[It's Personal|this same henchman had driven the interrogator's brother to suicide]] by blaming him for an incident that made their sadistic master cut off ''both'' hands.

* This happens to Tia, a major character of Jennifer Fallon's ''Second Son's'' trilogy. This is more of a warm up for the torture that would have occurred however. Years later the protagonist asks her if she has any idea what her enemy would do to her and she replies that she has a pretty good idea, holding up her mangled fingers for emphasis. The protagonist, Dirk, swiftly explains that she has no idea whatsoever, having being made privy to some of the real methods that the [[Torture Technician]] employs (he was very happy to explain it to someone who he thought would be able to appreciate how cleverly brutal and twisted, and effective, it could be. The protagonist Dirk had to pretend to find it fascinating).

* In the [[Stephanie Plum]] novels, the main character was threatened with this on at least one occasion. There was a slight subversion in the latest novel, where the villain was trying to motivate her to do something for him by mailing her someone else's fingers.

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* Octavian and Pullo use this method on Evander in ''[[Rome]]'' to get him to fess up about having had an affair with Niobe.

* [[Firefly|Jayne]] threatens mole Dobson with this in order to find out how much the Alliance knows from the transmission he sent. A spooked Dobson immediately blurts that the Alliance knows everything, leading a disappointed Jayne to deduce that they know nothing. "Was gonna get me an ear, too."

* ''[[~~Blakes~~ Seven (TV)|Blakes Seven]]'': Blake suspects (correctly) that the surgeon who's repairing Gan's malfunctioning [[Morality Chip]] is delaying the surgery long enough for the Federation to catch up with them. Blake tells him that if the operation isn't finished by a certain time, he'll destroy his hands; a very apt threat for [[Fate Worse Than Death|a surgeon]].

* ''[[Blake's Seven (TV)|Blakes Seven]]'': Blake suspects (correctly) that the surgeon who's repairing Gan's malfunctioning [[Morality Chip]] is delaying the surgery long enough for the Federation to catch up with them. Blake tells him that if the operation isn't finished by a certain time, he'll destroy his hands; a very apt threat for [[Fate Worse Than Death|a surgeon]].

* In the TV adaptation of ''[[Casino Royale 1954]]'' in ''Climax!'', the ball-whacking is [[Executive Meddling|substituted out]] for Bond's toenails being painfully pulled out.