Mutilation Interrogation: Difference between revisions

** There's also the scene in the film ''The Punisher'' in which Castle chains up a man in his room and proceeds to go into a lengthy explanation about how torture via blowtorch basically has you smelling your own flesh cooking before feeling cold from the nerve endings being fried, before letting the soon-to-be tortured man catch a glimpse of a blowtorch and letting him have it. {{spoiler|Subverted ultimately because Castle never did blowtorch the guy. He only cooked a slab of meat (hence the "smell your own flesh cooking" bit) and poked the man in the back with a Popsicle. The result was that the man ''thought'' he was being burned to death and spilled his guts only to be released unharmed.}}

** In ''The Slavers'', The Punisher is tracking down the leaders of a Human Trafficking ring. When he gets one of the three bosses, he knocks the man out, drags him out to the woods, ''and cuts him open, pulling out the man's intestines''. Then he wakes the man up and starts asking questions...

* When King Mob is being tortured by Sir Giles in ''[[The Invisibles]]'', he has his fingers dropped in his lab after a convenient blackout. Subverted in that he's merely been injected with an experimental drug that allows him to perceive written language as a tangible object—e.g., he's given a slip of paper reading "Your Severed Fingers," and sees his severed fingers.

* [[Watchmen|Rorschach]] takes this trope and runs with it. He goes to a bar where he believes he can get some information, grabs a random person, and then asks the ''rest of the bar'' for the answers. Getting no response, he breaks one of his fingers, then asks again. Next shot, he's walking out of the bar, having recieved ''no'' information. We never hear what happened to the guy.