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{{trope|wppage=Tickle torture}}
[[File:GrammiTickle.png|link=Adventures of the Gummi Bears (Animation)|rightframe| Poor Grammi, suffering a ''[[A Worldwide Punomenon|feather]]'' [[Fate Worse Than Death|worse than death!]]]]
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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]]".
Of course, tickling! Sometimes lampshaded. Basically, tickling is a G-Rated [[Cold-Blooded Torture]].
 
Can'''Tickle lead to a [[Fridge Horror]] (as does [[The Scarpia Ultimatum|forced marriage when you realise that itTorture'''s actuallyis G-Rated rape]]). Sometimes tickling becomes a [[Fetish Fuel]]. Usuallyusually done with a feather (despite not being the most effective in [[Real Life]]). See alsoand/or [[CoolRobotic andTorture UnusualDevice|tickle Punishmentrobot]]. andMay be played as [[Spank theRomanticized CutieAbuse]].
 
See also [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]] and [[Spank the Cutie]].
Usually lead up to by the torturer saying "[[We Have Ways of Making You Talk]]". Often paired with a [[Robotic Torture Device]]. May be played as [[Romanticized Abuse]].
 
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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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Naruto|Jiraiya]] interrogates some [[Mooks]] from the Rain Village using this method. When that fails, he threatens them with [[Baleful Polymorph|turning them into frogs]].
* 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 Love LOVE-Ru]]'' by a [[Man-Eating Plant]]. Since it's To Love Ru, it's purely for [[Fan Service]].
* Happens to Sasami in the second OVA and an episode of the [[Pretty Sammy]] TV series.
* [[DragonballDragon 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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* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', Asuna got the tickle treatment in the nude from Fate who could make water turn into a bunch of arms. {{spoiler|It's later revealed that the only thing stopping him from ripping her to pieces was Asuna's magic-cancelling ability.}}
** Later on, most of class 3-A does this to Chao.
* Happens in the ''[[Ah! My Goddess (Manga)|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.
* [[ShinryakuTe Ikaeponymous Musume|Ika[[Squid MusumeGirl]] discovers this in a chapter of the manga (which was adapted into an anime sub-episode), and goes on a tickling spree with everyone she meets. Naturally, she decides to use it to make Chizuru die of laughter. Chizuru [[Beware the Nice Ones|being who she is]], though, means [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/shinryaku_ika_musume/v05/c081/7.html annihilation] [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/shinryaku_ika_musume/v05/c081/8.html ensues.] (Presumably, the episodes are not in chronological order, as a couple of earlier episodes show her tickling Eiko both as revenge and to convince her to become her servant, and on the four alien-obsessed scientists to find out why they wanted a strand of Chizuru's hair.)
* 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 Byby Their Nickname|known only]] as "[[Super Happy Fun TropeHappy Thing of Doom|The Tickler]]" who "tickles" captured villagers to gather information about Lord Beric Dondarrion's outlaw band.
* 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 -Action TV]] ==
* 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 (TV)|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 Withwith Derek]]'' did this, when Derek had to babysit.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Super Mario RPG (Video Game)|Super Mario RPG]]: Legend of the Seven Stars'', if you don't give in to Yaridovich's [[Hostage for McGuffin]] demands, he tickles the town's mayor mercilessly until you [[But Thou Must!|give in]]. (The more you resist his demands, the number of Flowers you get from him afterward is reduced to merely one. Keep it up long enough, and all you get is a single coin.)
* In just one of many blatant and slightly creepy attempts at [[Fan Service]] in ''[[Rumble Roses]]'', one ringside weapon is a long stick with a cartoony hand on one end that is used to tickle an opponent. It doesn't hurt them, but causes their humiliation meter to rapidly shoot up.
* In ''[[Sly Cooper (Video Game)|Sly 2: Band Of Thieves]]'', THE MURRAY captures General Clawfoot so Bentley can get info on the Contessa's castle from him... With a feather.
{{quote| Bentley: "[[Crowning Moment of Funny|Talk, you scoundrel!]]"}}
* [[The Joker]] briefly does this in an attempt to make [[Batman]] {{spoiler|give in to the Titan transformation}} right before the final battle of ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum (Video Game)|Batman Arkham Asylum]]''.
* A quest in ''[[World of Warcraft (Video Game)|World of Warcraft]]'s'' Northern Barrens has you interrogating a Quilboar. You can break him pretty much instantly if you either feed or tickle him as opposed to punching or kicking him. You also get a status buff, "Saintly" because you're a nice person for using non-violence.
{{quote| Haha - <snort> ha - heee! <snort> Haha no stop haha <SNORT> <wheeze> Hee hee! [[You Just Told Me|Battlemaster Tortusk]] never prepared us for this!}}
 
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Adventures of the Gummi Bears (Animation)|Adventures of the Gummi Bears]]'' had an actual session of Tickle Torture. Duke Igthorn had tried to get Granny to reveal the recipe for [[Super Serum|gummy berry juice]], but she gave him a false one instead. During the actual torture, she does eventually give him the real recipe.
* In the ''[[Veggie Tales (Animation)|Veggie Tales]]'' adaptation of the story of Esther, the worst punishment possible was to be banished to the Island of Perpetual Tickling.
* In the ''[[Tale Spin (Animation)|Tale Spin]]'' episode "Polly Wants a Treasure", Don Karnage has his flunkies do this to Kit Cloudkicker.
** On a related note, Baloo tickles King Louie in ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]''.
* Happens in ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks|The Chipmunk Adventure]]'' with a feather.
* Used in ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' by the villain Don Tortelli to try to force people to talk. It's interesting to note that he seemed to prefer tickling male captives, even focusing more on them when he has a female at his mercy as well. This was probably to avoid making him come across as sexual, but [[Ho Yay|that backfired]].
{{quote| "Where do you want it, girlie? The armpit? The soles of your feet?" }}
* Bloo and Mac are subjected to this in an episode of ''[[FostersFoster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]''.
* Used on two separate occasions by Robotnik to attempt to gain information in ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (Animation)|Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]''.
* A fox gets tickled as punishment in two scenes in an episode of the ''[[Redwall]]'' series.
** While toned down from the ''actual'' [[Cold-Blooded Torture|torture]] from the book, the animated series still manages to make this disturbing by having the fox ''[[Family-Unfriendly Death|dropped to his death]]'' when they were done the second time.
* Olive Oyl gets tickled on two separate occasions in the ''[[Popeye]]'' cartoon.
* Played for laughs in the ''[[Arthur (Animationanimation)|Arthur]]'' episode "Buster's Dino Dilemma". Buster had kept the dinosaur fossil (a footprint) he had dug up during a field trip, instead of turning it in so it could be displayed at the museum as the class had been ordered. In a [[Dream Sequence]], he is found out because Arthur was put through this.
* Something similar to this happened in ''[[Bobby's World]]''. He thought he would be able to use his new found Martial Arts skills to bully his classmates.
* In an episode of ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' Muriel is on the receiving end of this trope when Dr. Le Quack interrogates her to tell him where her valuables are while under the ruse of being a psychologist trying to help her get her memory back after a blow to the head gave her amnesia.
* In an episode of ''[[Xiaolin Showdown (Animation)|Xiaolin Showdown]]'' [[Affably Evil|Jack Spicer]] has Clay, Kimiko, and Rai strapped down to a large "tickle bot". You can guess what happens from there.
* ''The [[Super Mario Bros Super Show]]'' episode where Bowser was a vampire had him perform this on Luigi.
* In an episode of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants (Animation)|SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', Spongebob uses a tickle belt on Man-Ray when he is training him to be good. During training, Man-Ray tends to beat up Patrick, leading Patrick to torture Man-Ray with the belt.
* In the ''[[Rocko's Modern Life (Animation)|Rocko's Modern Life]]'' episode "No Pain No Gain", Rocko gets on a rowing machine at the gym (that has a TV screen), and mistakenly gets the ''[[Deliverance]]'' scene. On the screen, Rocko runs into hillbillies, one of whom says [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|"Now we gonna make you squeal, piggy!"]], and produces a pig and proceeds to tickle it with a feather. The pig enjoys it, but Rocko is scared off and abandons the rowing machine.
* An episode of ''[[Blinky Bill (Animation)|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.
* In the kiddie show, ''[[The Backyardigans (Animation)|The Backyardigans]]'' episode "International Super Spy", this is Lady in Pink's (played by Uniqua) torture.
* 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 (Animation)|Jackie Chan Adventures]]'', the Monkey King tickle tortures Tohru to make him confess where Jackie and the others went.
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "It's About Time", Spike does this briefly to Twilight Sparkle.
* 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 [[Tickle Torture]] almost never escalates to that point.
* [http://www.fmylife.com/work/13699174 This] entry on fmylife.com.
 
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