Tickle Torture: Difference between revisions

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]].

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* 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.

 

* 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]]''.

* 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.

* Used in ''The Secret World of Benjamin Bear'' episode: "A Tickle Too Far"

 

 

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