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So, we have a [[Card-Carrying Villain]] who is going to inflict a horrible torture on his victims. [[Fingore|Cutting off fingers]] won't work in a G-Rated show, what can be a substitute for that? Of course, tickling! Sometimes lampshaded. Basically, tickling is a G-Rated [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]. It's usually led up to by the torturer saying "[[We Have Ways of Making You Talk]]".
See also [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]] and [[Spank the Cutie]].
Can lead to [[Fridge Horror]] since, [[Lighter and Softer]] depiction aside, it is still a form of [[Cold-Blooded Torture|torture]] (and there ''are'' cases of people [[wikipedia:Death from laughter|dying of laughter]]).
Compare [[Friendly Tickle Torture]].
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* In ''[[Digimon Frontier]]'', two of the Digidestined were tortured by Ranamon tickling them with a feather.
* And in ''[[Digimon Xros Wars]]'', Shoutmon gets treated into this because the villains think he has the [[Plot Coupon|Code Crown]].
* Used in ''[[To
* Happens to Sasami in the second OVA and an episode of the [[Pretty Sammy]] TV series.
* [[Dragon Ball|Goku]] gets tickled by Caterpy (no, not ''[[Pokémon|that]]'' Caterpie) in his first round of the Otherworld Tournament.
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* Purely for the sake of [[Fetish Fuel]], this shows up a few times in [[Seikon no Qwaser]]. Specially between [[Mistress and Servant Boy|Katja]] and [[Happiness in Slavery|Hanna]].
* In ''[[Nabari no Ou]]'', Raikou and Kouichi do this to some poor Alya Academy student for fun.
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* When the Saigoku Three show up and finish their introduction, [[Sengoku Otome|Nobunaga]] easily defeats them and ties them up. To find out where the [[Dismantled MacGuffin]] is, Hideyoshi does this to each of them. They return the favor later in the episode.
* In [[Maburaho]], Elizabeth does this to Yuna. You can't see what's happening, though, and she does it in such a dramatic and over-the-top fashion that Kazuki assumes it's ''actual'' torture.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Inverted for [[Gallows Humor]] in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', which has a [[Torture Technician]] [[Only Known by Their Nickname|known only]] as "[[Super
* A type of monster known as Night Gaunts in Lovecraft's works are said to torture people by carrying them off into the lower reaches of the Dreamlands and tickling them with their tails and grotesque claws. In the Call of Cthulhu tabletop game, this is described to be a very humiliating experience.
* Played deadly seriously (literally so) in the short story "The Screaming Laugh" by Cornell Woolrich.
== [[Live
* An episode of ''[[Monster Squad]]'' (the 1976 live-action kids' series, starring Fred Grandy and Henry Polic II) had a villain who used giant feathers in an attempt to tickle Our Heroes to their doom. It was as silly as it sounds.
* Happens in the first episode of ''[[Maid Marian and Her Merry Men]]''.
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* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', when Jimmy is tried by the Horn Fairies (Miseryville versions of the Tooth Fairy), he expects this is the worst punishment they will come up with. He's wrong.
* In ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]'', the Monkey King tickle tortures Tohru to make him confess where Jackie and the others went.
* In the ''[[My Little Pony:
* Used in ''The Secret World of Benjamin Bear'' episode: "A Tickle Too Far"
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[[Category:A Tortured Index]]
[[Category:Turn-On Tropes]]
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