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{{quote|''"This tickle torture isn't funny!"''|'''Luigi''' being subjected to this, ''[[Super Mario Bros Super Show]]''}}
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.
** He is not so lucky in Dragon Ball GT when he is tickled out of the ring during the Junoir Division [[Born Lucky|by a nerd]]. (Thanks in part to a distraction by Vegeta.)
** He was also tickle tortured by an old hag in hell after she attempted to cook him.
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** Later on, most of class 3-A does this to Chao.
* Happens in the ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' manga, as part of a contest.
* 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.
*
* 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]]''.
* An episode of ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' had a man in Tartarus subjected to an eternity of tickle torture.
* On ''[[The Office]]'', Darryl [[Sarcasm Mode|further educates]] Michael on the ways of the street by explaining that gangs often duel using a technique called Fluffy Fingers, where members of each gang tickle one another to the point of capitulation.
* An episode of ''[[Life with Derek]]'' did this, when Derek had to babysit.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* An episode of ''[[Blinky Bill]]'' has Blinky training a crocodile friend of his to be tough, part of which involves tickling. His rationale is that "tough crocs aren't ticklish".
* An episode of ''The Mouse and the Monster'' has the titular characters Chesbro and Mo (the mouse and monster, respectively) being test subjects for some scientists. Mo is subject to tickling, though the actual torture part is subverted as he actually enjoys it.
* Happens in an episode of ''[[Dragon Hunters]]''.
* In the ''[[Space Goofs]]'' episode "Scout's Night Out", Gorgious is subject to this after being captured by boy scouts.
* In the ''[[Muppet Babies]]'' episode "The Frog Who Knew Too Much", Kermit is subjected to this by a machine in a fantasy in an attempt to find out what secret he's keeping from the others.
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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"
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Tickling was occasionally used as a form of relatively mild torture during some periods in history. Nowhere near as bad as practically any other torture one can think up, but often proves handy when the tortured individual must not come under any serious physical harm, and/or recover quickly afterwards, which is why its mostly attributed to have been used against Chinese nobility.
* Some [[Fridge Horror]] comes into play if you know that it's actually possible to die from laughing too hard or for too long, but
* [http://www.fmylife.com/work/13699174 This] entry on fmylife.com.
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