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{{trope}}
[[File:SimonBelmont2.gif|link=Castlevania|frame|[[Devo|For when a problem comes along]].]]
{{quote|''"When a good time turns around''
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''Until they whip it''
''I say whip it''
''[[Trope Namers|Whip it good]]"''
|'''[[Devo]]'''|"Whip It"<ref>Although the song is not actually about this trope, the music video is.</ref>}}
A bullwhip's signature cracking noise is a miniature sonic boom. It's about as close to the [[Stuff Blowing Up]] type of [[Rule of Cool|coolness]] as you can get without infringing upon [[Fantasy Gun Control]]. A whip is also, basically, more or less a long piece of leather rope. In video games, action adventure and fantasy tales, some characters will show how extra [[Badass]] they are by using a bullwhip or other flexible weapon as their primary armament, as well as employing it for a [[Building Swing]].
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Sister tropes: [[A Taste of the Lash]], [[Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off]], [[Chain Pain]].
{{examples}}
== Advertising ==
* A certain [[Orangina]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzkxDfjCmQc commercial] has a black panther whipping... [[Squick|an old man]]. To strip.
== Anime
* An episode of ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' had Aoshima sic two thugs armed with whips on Urd. Urd catches the ends, quips "''This'' is how you use a whip!", and punishes them by [[Dual-Wielding]] their own weapons on the three of them.
** You forgot to mention they '''were''' [[Fetish Fuel|dominatrixes.]]
** Urd also swings a chain around like a whip while on her way to confront Hild in an episode of the second season. Also, Peorth uses her vines as a whip against Keiichi when she tries to help him get over his [[Cannot Spit It Out]] problem.
* Kaito Wanijima in the ''[[Air Gear]]'' anime
* Rascal-sensei from ''[[Akazukin Chacha]]'' used ''whips akimbo''.
* A minor Angel in ''[[Angelic Layer]]'' illegally wielded electric whips. This was the ''only'' thing in the series that was illegal, besides disrupting an opponent's control over his or her Angel (as shown in the Fujisaki arc). Rewriting the Layer matrix, [[Beam Spam]], suddenly growing [[Winged Humanoid|wings]], [[Super Strength]] due to programming glitch: these things were fine.
** It should be note that the battle the whips were used in was an informal battle. Icchan, the game's creator, ''still'' didn't like it.
* ''[[The Big O]]''. In episode 25 "The War of Paradigm City", Agent 12 of the Union uses a whip several times.
* Anime-only [[Knight Templar]] Angela of ''[[Black Butler]]'' has a rather...interesting torture scene with Sebastian [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|that makes you wonder if the cameraman ought to leave the room]]. Of course, in the second to last episode, that is played with even more, when Angela's {{spoiler|male form}} asks Sebastian to become one with him afterward. Sebastian replies with wondering if he is just a toy to Angela.
** In episode 7, Angela is the one who gets whipped.
* [[The High Queen|Maria]], [[The Hero|Miko's]] mother from ''[[La Blue Girl]]'' wields a whip against the [[Horny Devils]] attacking her daughters.
* Despite the fact that she is the dominant main character in a [[Hentai]] manga, Pamila of ''[[Bondage Fairies]]'' does not use her whip for sex play, instead using it as her [[Weapon of Choice]] for combat. And she's damn good with it. {{spoiler|[[Emergency Weapon|It has a knife hidden in the handle, too]].}}
* Jinnai, a humanoid homunculus from ''[[Busou Renkin]]'', is capable of using a steel whip that has the nasty little side effect of [[Brainwashed|emitting mind-controlling soundwaves]].
* ''[[Braiger]]'': Isaac "The Razor" Goodnov's [[Buffy-Speak|laser-whip-sword-thingy]].
* The titular heroine of ''[[Cutey Honey]]'' transformed into a [[Hell-Bent for Leather|white leather]], [[Of Corsets Sexy|corseted]] dominatrix in the second series.
* Hei in ''[[Darker than Black]]'' uses a steel wire as his primary weapon. Not only is he able to choke people to death with it, he can also conduct his [[Shock and Awe|electrical discharges]] through it. Though he usually hurled ''knife'' tied to the wire, which is more sensible in regards of both ballistics and conductance.
* General Cloud Nine in ''[[D.Gray-man]]'' and Lulu Bell. The anime adds this conversation.
{{quote|[[Lady of War|Cloud Nine]]: "Maybe I should whip you [to make you work]."
[[The Casanova|Cross Marian]]: [[Fetish Fuel|" Doesn't sound too bad."]] }}
* In ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'', the Digital Kaiser/Emperor was armed with a riding crop, which he frequently used on his partner (Wormmon) and other mind-controlled minions. It wasn't particularly effective in fighting Takeru/T.K.
* In ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'', Rio uses an energy whip from his Digivice to reign-in his berserk Cyberdramon. No one else's Digivice has this ability, and it doesn't appear to be triggered by any of his cards.
* Lucy, from ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', attacks by means of stellar spirits, but she has a whip. Strangely, she tends to be clad in black when the whip makes an appearence, and being this [[Clothing Damage|Fairy Tail]], it has Dominatrix airs.
* Louise of ''[[The Familiar of Zero]]'' always keeps a riding crop on hand for... [[Black Comedy Rape|controlling]]... Saito ("Stupid dog!!!"), usually when his [[Male Gaze]] gets the better of him. She can't entangle him with it, but it works well for discipline. When that doesn't work, explosive magic is always next.
** She also has an actual whip for more extreme measures, such as the time he tried to molest her on her sleep.
** Same goes for her older sister, Eleonore. Which happens to make Louse cower in fear.
* The warden of the Cassandra prison in ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' basically used [[Dual-Wielding|dual whips]] as main weapons. When things got tougher (i.e. seeing that they didn't work on Kenshiro), he pulled out many more of them, concealed in the horns of his helmet. Still, whoever has the least bit of familiarity with the series can see where it all went (especially since he was one of the last enemies before Raoh's proper introduction in the story).
* Prince Shade and Eclipse from ''[[Fushigiboshi no Futagohime]]'' wield the same whip. {{spoiler|Literally.}}
* Forte, the big-chested [[The Big Guy|Big Guy]] in ''[[Galaxy Angel (anime)|Galaxy]] [[Galaxy Angel (video game)|Angel]]'', carries a riding crop.
* Maetel of ''[[Galaxy Express 999]]'' uses a whip from time to time, usually to disarm someone.
* In ''[[Gash Bell]]'', Sherry Belmont wields a staff that can change into a whip, enabling her to actually fight alongside Brago if necessary. Hmm...[[Castlevania|Belmont, whip...]]
* Haruki Emishi in ''[[GetBackers]]'' is known as the "Fresh Blood Joker" for his skill with the flexible-yet-strong-as-steel Loulan Dancing Whip, and how he laughed at his enemies' spraying blood.
* Ray in the manga ''[[Gorgeous Carat]]''. He even uses it on his future love interest.
* Shirin from ''[[Harukanaru Toki no Naka de]]'' can turn her trademark weaponized [[Something About a Rose|roses]] into thorn-covered vines, occasionally using them as whips.
* In ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'', at Heaven's Arena Killua fights Riehlvelt, a dude in a wheelchair who is armed with two snake-headed electrified whips. They don't work on Killua.
* In ''[[Kaleido Star]]'' there's a handsome circus artist named Dio, whose trusty show artifact is his whip. He's often shown [[Something About a Rose|throwing roses at the audience]] and then using the whip to slice them, showering the viewers in petals.
* Dino from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' wields one of these as a mafia boss, but manages to subvert the trope by only being good at doing so when his subordinates are in the direct vicinity. Without them, he manages to hit everyone ''else'' but his contender with it.
** {{spoiler|Now his student, Hibari Kyouya, appears to have taken after him. By wielding [[Dual-Wielding|two]] bladed chain whips attached to his tonfas.}}
* Eclair from ''[[Kiddy Grade]]''. Though she's a cyborg with superhuman strength and is good with guns, one of her trademark attacks is to use her [[Improbable Weapon User|apparently magical lipstick]] to write her name on the wall and lash her enemies into submission.
* In ''[[Kirby Right Back At Ya]]'', Kirby's foe Meta Knight used a whip once, possibly as a reference to Zorro.
* Villain Precia Testarossa's Intelligent Device in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' had an often-used whip form (its default form was a staff). The first time we see her use it, it's to [[Abusive Parents|brutally torture her daughter Fate]].
** In [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo|A's and StrikerS]], [[Lady of War|Signum]]'s sword Laevatein can transform into the "Schlangenform" (snake form), which is essentially an impossibly long [[Whip Sword|bladed whip]].
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has an odd variation of this with Makie, who's capable doing the whole Indiana Jones swinging bit, picking up and throwing objects (and people)...with a rhythmic gymnastics ribbon.
** There was also that infamous incident when Haruna [[To the Pain|traumatizes her friends]] by drawing a doujin of herself whipping them for not letting her in on [[The Masquerade]] sooner. Naturally, she's dressed like a dominatrix.
* Aswad member Lumen from ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' carries a pair of whips that combine into a [[Double Weapon]] in their unused form. Rosalie also uses one as her Element.
* ''[[Mazinger Z]]'': Several [[Robeast|Mechanical Beast]] used weaponized whips like weapons. Gorias W3 or Rhine X1 are some examples.
* In ''[[Miyuki-chan in Wonderland]]'' [[Naive Everygirl|Miyuki]] meets up with a dominatrix-queen, who wants to make Miyuki her "sub".
* The Heat Rod is a whip-like weapon that appears on several [[Humongous Mecha]] from the ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' multiverse, most famously the MS-07 Gouf (but not its successor, the MS-09... which is strange when you consider its name was Dom). In the Universal Century it's a metal tentacle that can be electrified. In ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' it's a super-heated [[Whip Sword]]. In ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'' it resembles the UC version but can also be super-heated. In ''[[G Gundam]]'', [[Cute Bruiser]] Allenby's Nobel Gundam is equipped with energy whips that look an awful lot like decorative ribbons.
* In the [[Alternate Continuity]] series ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]: Gakuen Datenroku'', EVAs are unique conventional weapons instead of mecha. Asuka has a whip, [[Tsundere|appropriately enough]].
** I'm shocked. Everyone have conveniently forgot about the one-and-only 4th Angel, [http://i433.photobucket.com/albums/qq60/hitotsu_futatsu/ACG/blog/anime/2009/Full%20Metal%20Shorty/Shamshel_RoE.jpg Shamshel]???
* In ''[[Ookami-san]]'', Momoko Kibitsu uses a whip against a school full of dangerous delinquents.
* [[The Vamp]] secretary Kalifa in ''[[One Piece]]'' weilds a spiked whip in her double life as a secret agent.
* Coburn, a protagonist from the [[Manhwa]] ''[[Priest]]'', uses an ordinary whip.
* In ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', Sailor Venus has the "Venus Love-Me Chain" - a magical chain of hearts that's essentially a whip. Sailor Moon R's villainess Calaveras, Venus' sort-of [[Evil Counterpart]] in the Black Moon clan, also used a whip as her weapon.
** In the Manga and Live action, Venus is shown to wear the chain as a belt when not in use, in the anime she summons it and it is much more magical. It also gets upgraded a few times in the manga.
** Don't forget Sailor Lead Crow, who already looked like a dominatrix to begin with. Later, her boss, Sailor Galaxia, is shown to wield an energy whip in an attack named "Galactica Super String"
** Ishtar, another evil verison of Venus, albit from the Video Game ''[[Sailor Moon: Another Story]]'', also uses a whip, though it's just because all the Opposito Senshi reuse the Ayakashi Sisters' attacks in battle
** VesVes and Tiger's Eye also carry whips.
* In ''[[Saint Beast]]'', Kira's main weapon is a whip, matching his vaguely BDSM outfit.
* Chameleon June of ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' has the whip and the dominatrix-styled outfit, yet she's more of a [[Broken Bird]].
* Tira Misu (yes, it is a very, very [[Punny Name]]) from ''[[Sorcerer Hunters]]'' wields a whip to great effect in battle, but its most common use is whipping Carrot's monster form into submission. Her older sister Chocolate wields [[Razor Floss|razor wire]], but the effect is much the same.
** Given a [[Shout-Out]] in ''[[Slayers]]'', where Lina Inverse (also voiced by [[Megumi Hayashibara]]) uses the spell Balus Rod to summon a whip and attacks a monster while shouting "Call me queen!"
* How did we get so many entries without recalling [[Tekkaman]]'s '''SPACE LARIAT!'''?
* Mew Zakuro's Zakuross in ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' is a laser whip with a [[Creepy Cool Crosses|cross]] for a handle.
* BC from ''[[Vandread]]'' handles a mean whip during a fight with the leader of a space station and when defending against aliens.
* ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'' has Schoen, a former model turned bodyguard, who spends most confrontations attacking Ken with a bullwhip for [[Minor Injury Overreaction|scratching her beautiful face]].
* In ''[[X 1999|X]]'', Yuuto Kigai's main weapon is a whip with a sai dagger attached to its end.
* The Harpie Ladies from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' use thorned whips as extra weapons.
** Jim Crocodile Cook of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' wielded a whip, one would think for keeping his pet crocodile in line.
** The psychotic digital pet owner also used a whip.
** Aki Izayoi of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]'', when her psychic powers are combined with Black Rose Dragon and Splendid Rose.
* Kurama from ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' wields a "Rose Whip," a thorn-covered vine whip metamorphosed from a rose.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLvAp70eLI "Oujosama to Oyobi"] (AKA "Call Me Princess"), an [[Image Song]] for Ayeka from ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'', depicts her as a leather-clad dominatrix with a whip -- which she uses on Tenchi.
== Comic Books ==
* El Hombre in ''[[Astro City]]'', who is essentially Batman with the Zorro influence magnified dramatically. His sidekick Bravo wielded the relatively similar bola.
* [[Batman|Catwoman]] is the quintessential comic book example. It's worth noting that the movies and cartoons always show her with a bullwhip, when in the comics, she uses a cat o' nine tails (a whip with multiple ends tied to metal balls). (Wasn't always the case. The whip has changed styles a few times in the comics, I don't know if there was ever a reason given.)
** It is sometimes explained that she chose the weapon due to its difficulty of use, if someone managed to disarm her in a fight they'd be unlikely to be able to use it against her effectively.
** Catwoman once took the time to explain the fact that a whip's crack is the sound barrier being broken, after she uses it for a [[Groin Attack]] on Prometheus.
{{quote|Catwoman: '''Did that feel like the speed of sound, Mama's Boy?'''}}
* In [[The DCU]], there was a minor [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] hero called The Whip (essentially a [[Captain Ersatz]] of [[Zorro]]). His granddaughter briefly resurrected the name, dressed in the obligatory [[Stripperiffic]] costume. She was killed on her first day.
** {{spoiler|By a God.}}
** It wasn't her first day. She'd been a superhero for a while, that was just her first team up, and she was inexperienced in fighting threats like that.
* Sydney Savage from ''[[Danger Girl]]''.
* [[The DCU]] also had Mr America (a.k.a. the Americommando) who was a master of the bullwhip.
* Rum, Sodomy and the Lash from ''[[Empowered]]''. That's only one guy, by the way. Oh, it ''used'' to be a team of three dudes, but long story short the one who was previously just "the Lash" had to take over the whole name after a while. One wonders how the other two fought.
** Also Vanity, the devil half of the [[Conjoined Twins]] superhero Divangelic.
* In the ''[[G.I. Joe]]: Movie Prequel'' comic, [[The Baroness]] displays a previously unsuspected facility with a bullwhip.
* Stiletta from ''[[Jonah Hex|Hex]]'' in [[The DCU]].
* Whiplash (a.k.a. Blacklash), a minor Marvel Comics villain, has an electric whip. He typically uses this to fight ''[[Iron Man]]'', which if nothing else takes serious ''cojones''.
** He's since died, but been succeeded by a couple who took ''both'' identities as Blacklash ''and'' Whiplash. They also took the whip theme and the severely S&M gear themed Blacklash costume and ran with it, being bondage fetishists before becoming villains.
** His daughter also took up his mantle once.
** Now they introduced a Whiplash similar to the movie version.
* The Tarantula, a foe of the [[Marvel Comics]] [[Western]] hero the [[Phantom Rider]], wielded a cat-o-nine-tails as his principal weapon.
* One arc of ''[[Sandman Mystery Theatre]]'' featured a villain/vigilante called "The Scorpion" who coated the tail of his whip with a scorpion venom which was almost instantly fatal.
* For a single page, Miho uses a long chain-hook in the ''[[Sin City]]'' tale, ''Family Values''. It hooks into a mobster's [[Eye Scream|eye-sockets]] and yanks him down the hall.
* In the American ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]] comics'', Lien-da was seen with a whip during the 'Return To Angel Island' arc. Though she mostly used it for flirting, the entire outfit she'd been given with for that arc was designed to resemble a dominatrix.
* Lady Lumiya, who debuted in a Marvel ''[[Star Wars]]'' comic, used a lightwhip, which was actually a lot cooler than it sounds.
** Especially considering she used it to hand Luke Skywalker his ass on a plate in their big showdown. {{spoiler|Lumiya and her light-whip made a return in the ''[[Legacy of the Force]]'' series, and she even wrenched off Luke's mechno-hand in a duel.}}
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** The squid-faced Sith Lord Darth Maleval used a shock-whip in ''Star Wars: Legacy'', making him one of the most badass of Sith in his single, one-shot appearance.
** The Sith woman Githany, of the Old Republic era, also utilised a lightwhip quite effectively. There have been a few others, too.
* Sakura the [[Yakuza]] lady from ''[[Usagi Yojimbo]]''.
* [[Lady Rawhide]] from the Topps ''[[Zorro]]'' comic book.
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* It has become a [[Running Gag]] in the ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia|Hetalia]]'' RPG world that Germany has a whip as his weapon of choice. [http://www.zerochan.net/442941 Every]. [http://www.zerochan.net/507138 Single]. [http://www.zerochan.net/334651 Time].
** Italy is also [http://mangaanimeyaoi.tumblr.com/post/2713077475 drawn] [http://www.zerochan.net/603557 in] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120726124558/http://mangaanimeyaoi.tumblr.com/post/4184283430 fanwork] [http://www.zerochan.net/424930 with] [http://www.zerochan.net/424930 whip].
** Heck, even [[Moe|Liechtenstein]] has a [http://fuckyeahhetaliayuri.tumblr.com/post/9239588616 whip]!
** [http://www.zerochan.net/97565 Group picture consist of whips].
* The infamous ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' fic ''[http://web.archive.org/web/20030413221154/http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~andersor/fanfic/fanfics/aikan.html Aikan Muyo]'' incorporates elements of the [[Image Song]] "Oujosama to Oyobi" (see ''Anime'', above) and its "S&M Queen Ayeka" directly into a serious extrapolation of Juraian culture, traditions and mores -- and what effects those traditions and mores have on the relationship(s) between Tenchi, Ayeka and Ryoko. (Not to mention the reader will never look at Sasami the same way again after the scene where she sighs romantically at the thought of someday meeting a guy willing to accept her whip...)
== Film ==
* ''[[The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother]]''. Moriarty's henchman use whips to fight Sigerson in their battle atop the carriages.
* In ''[[Alien vs. Predator|Aliens Vs Predator: Requiem]]'', one of the new weapons the Predator has is a whip which can slice a xenomorph in half.
* In the [[Syfy]] movie ''[[Beyond Sherwood Forest]]'', one of Sir Guy's henchmen has whips tied to his arms, Whiplash style, which doesn't help him when a dragon catches one in her mouth.
* In ''[[Brotherhood of the Wolf]]'', the [[Big Bad]] wields a sword made from a spine that can break apart into a scourge-like whip. It is almost certainly stolen from ''[[Soul Calibur]]''.
* One of the villains of the 1998 film ''[[Drive]]'' used a whip to nasty effect on the hero's black sidekick Malik Brody during one of the final showdowns, even calling him "boy" as an old-style slave-driver would. When the sidekick turns the tables on him, he tells him off as he delivers a savage beating of his own with the butt of a gun:
{{quote|'''Malik Brody:''' You pulled a whip on me? Are you out of your fucking mind? Let me tell you something -- DON'T YOU EVER PULL A WHIP ON A BLACK MAN AGAIN!}}
* Ni Chang, [[The Dragon]] and [[Dragon Lady]] to the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[The Forbidden Kingdom]]'', not only used a whip as her primary weapon, but also used her own [[Prehensile Hair]] as a whip when disarmed.
* A memorable scene from ''[[Glory]]'' features Denzel Washington's character being lashed with a whip for disobedience.
* In the film version of ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]] And The Deathly Hallows, Part One'', Bellatrix Lestrange [[Fetish Fuel|wields a whip]] against a group of Snatchers.
* In ''[[High Plains Drifter]]'' Marshal Duncan was whipped to death in the street. [[Truth in Television|Yes, you can be whipped to death]]. The [[No Name Given|Stranger]] then {{spoiler|gets revenge on those who did it and he whips one to death in the flame-lit street and hangs another with a whip}}.
* ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' uses a bullwhip as one of his signature weapons and tools.
* From ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]] 2'' we have Ivan Vanko, who wields a pair of Arc-reactor powered whips that have pretty much the same functionality as a lightsaber. {{spoiler|Because he's a [[Composite Character]] of the aformentioned Whiplash and the armored Crimson Dynamo, we have a climactic battle with a suit of armor with even bigger whips.}}
* The [[Ambiguously Gay|camp villain]] Pilate in ''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]'' sets the 39 lashes [[Soundtrack Dissonance|to music]].
* In the film adaptation of ''[[Johnny Mnemonic]]'', the yakuza assassin has a whip housed in his thumb that uses his fake thumbnail as a ballast. It glows like some sorta laser-whip, though in the short story it's just monofilament.
** Of course, having an incredibly sharp, incredibly thin weapon glow so that you know where it actually ''is'' at a given moment isn't the worst idea in the world...
*** I always figured that it was done so the audience knew where it was and what was happening, sort of a whip version of [[Every Bullet Is a Tracer]].
* Western film star Alfred "Lash" LaRue used a bullwhip as his trademark.
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* The Romans in ''[[The Passion of the Christ]]'' use a scourge to lash the flesh from Jesus's back.
* ''[[Pootie Tang]]'', wherein the titular character achieves the [[Improbable Weapon User|same effect]] with ''[[Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off|his belt]]''.
** Which turns out to be an [[Amulet of Concentrated Awesome]]. And/or [[Magic Feather]].
* Madame Rose, the [[Dragon Lady]] villainess of the Tony Jaa movie ''Tom Yum Goong'' (retitled ''[[The Protector]]'' in the United States).
* Two of the tougher bad guys that The Rock had to fight in the movie ''[[The Rundown]]'' used whips.
* Baka from ''[[The Ten Commandments]]'' sadistically tells Joshua (who he's about to torture) that he can [[Informed Ability|"flick a fly from my horse's ear without breaking its stride".]]
* In the intro for ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3'', Woody is shown to be quite adept with a whip.
* One of the vampires in the movie ''[[Underworld (film)|Underworld]]'' attempted two razor-whips against a very big werewolf. It didn't work.
** The prequel establishes that whips ''were'' fairly effective against lycans' more bestial ancestors, which lacked the conscious determination to ignore pain.
* ''[[Unforgiven]]'', another Clint Eastwood western, also features a whip-related death; that of Ned, William Munny's black friend, at the hands of the antagonist Little Bill, which sets up Munny's final revenge.
* Both the Colonel and one of his henchmen in ''[[The Warrior's Way]]'' display expert skill with a bullwhip. The Colonel wraps the lash around Ron's before [[What a Drag|dragging him through the town behind his horse]]. The henchman uses it to yank Lynne's feet out from under her during the fight in the Colonel's room.
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== Literature ==
* In [[J. T. Edson]]'s ''Calamity Jane'' novels, Calamity's preferred weapon is a bullwhip.
* A scene in ''Farmer Boy'', one of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, has a schoolteacher use a bullwhip to succesfully defend himself against six boys who made a habit of attacking the teacher.
** While it's pretty easy to sympathize with the teacher (the "boys" are at least in their late teens, and students had ''killed'' the last teacher who'd worked in that area), the fact that that whip is clearly being used as a weapon in that scene makes it pretty disturbing later on when nine-year-old Almanzo expects to be whipped with it for getting stove polish on the nice parlor wallpaper. We already knew from earlier that Almanzo's father whips his sons with actual whips, but that thing is described as being fifteen feet long with a lead-weighted handle that can kill an ox.
* The eponymous heroine of ''[[Forever Amber]]'' uses a horsewhip to attack her husband, who has tried to poison her. A blow from her servant finishes him off.
* In [[Isaac Asimov]]'s [[Galactic Empire]] books, and especially in ''The Currents of Space'', soldiers employed "neuronic whips", which caused extreme pain to whatever part of the skin they touched.
** The noun is used metaphorically. These are actually guns which shoot [[Agony Beam|AgonyBeams]]
* [[William Gibson]] occasionally writes whips into his stories:
** In ''[[Johnny Mnemonic]]'', the yakuza assassin's thumb detaches to provide the ballast for a monofilament whip housed in his hand. He uses it to battle the razorgirl Molly Millions.
** In ''[[Neuromancer]]'', Case is desperate for a weapon and winds up with a whip called a "Cobra." The whip looks like a cylinder with a pyramid on top until the pyramid is pulled and the whip coils out, using the pyramid as ballast. Case never uses it and quickly ditches it after he finds a gun.
*** The example in ''[[Neuromancer]]'' is actually a collapsing baton. The tip of the telescoping section is usually weighted with a spherical or pyramidal end.
* Benvenuti from [[Eric Flint]]'s ''[[Joe's World]]'' series favors a whip in combat. It's not very deadly, but combined with the right words, can be terribly demoralizing.
* In a non-sexualized example, the Balrog from J.R.R. Tolkien's ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' wields a huge whip alongside a sword. All the Balrogs in the ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' have one. Or so it seems.
** The orcs' motto about hard work and perseverance: <small>"[[Metaphorgotten|Where there's a whip, there's a will]]!"</small> Which turned into a [[Crowning Music of Awesome|musical number]] in the [[The Return of the King (animation)|animated]] film (see below).
* Isabelle in ''[[Mortal Instruments]]'' uses a whip when she fights demons, one which can somehow cut through flesh and bone. It's partially magical, however, which explains its unusual cutting capacity.
* A traditional weapon of the [[Winged Humanoid|garuda]] from ''[[Perdido Street Station]]''. Yagharek wields a bullwhip to good effect in the closing chapters, despite it not being as well-designed for combat as the ones used in his homeland.
* In ''[[Redwall]]'', Cluny the Scourge uses his own tail as a whip, mostly to instill fear and deal out punishment, but can be equipped with a poisoned barb to become a very lethal weapon.
** Mariel's weapon of choice is a salt-water soaked rope with a knot at the end.
* In'' [[The Seventh Tower]]'', Milla eventually gets to use a light whip. A ''homing'' light whip.
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', one of the Dothraki weapons is the whip, and a silver-handled whip is a traditional gift at a Khal's wedding, given to his new bride, though she is expected to refuse and offer them to her new husband. Jhogo, one of Drogo's bloodriders, is particularly skilled with the whip, {{spoiler|and inherits Drogo's silver-handled whip when Dany asks him to become her bloodrider after Drogo dies.}}
* ''[[Star Wars]]'': The Yuuzhan Vongs' melee weapon of choice, the amphistaff, has a whip form (in addition to spear, staff, sword, and probably some other ones...). Said form is typically used to disarm, or to get the weapon's head (literally, as it's a living snake-like creature) behind an enemy. Slightly better for use as a weapon than a normal whip, since it's venomous.
** The amphistaff can be completely stiff for use as a staff or club or completely floppy for use as a whip. Most Vong carry it wrapped around their arm in the floppy state and stiffen it to the stafflike state when ready for combat. [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]?
* ''Storm Haven'' by Frank G. Slaughter involved cowboys in 1860s Florida who used whips extensively for herding cattle ... and for fighting. In the final battle, one of them [[Eye Scream|took the villain's eye out]], [[Shooting It Out of Their Hands|knocked his rifle out of his hands]] with the second strike, and on the third wrapped the whip around his neck and yanked him so he smashed his head open (fatally) against an iron stanchion.
== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', G'Kar is nearly killed by the Centauri when the Emperor orders him whipped. The laser-whip used to punish him delivers a harsher shock with every lash. The Emperor sits and rapidly counts out the lashes to be administered while Lando watches.
* On ''[[The Borgias]]'' Cesare flogs Micheletto. Miccy doesn't seem to mind, and is in fact, the one to suggest it.
* In ''[[Community]]'' episode [[Community/Recap/S1/E18 Basic Genealogy|Basic Genealogy]] Britta is on a receiving end of a switch.
* Lady Heather on ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]'' has one because she's a dominatrix, or was one, and she uses it on the guy who killed her daughter.
* In ''[[Deadwood]]'', Calamity Jane briefly displays her prowess with the bullwhip.
* The Sycorax of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' have whips that [[Stripped to the Bone|reduce a human to a charred skeleton]]... though the Doctor can catch one in his hand without any apparent ill-effects.
* Atalanta wielded one in ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]''.
* An epsiode of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' had a sub-plot in which Ted was given a [[Indiana Jones|whip and a fedora]] upon becoming a professor. Marshal, the friend who gave it to him, demands they go outside and play with it. One [[Gilligan Cut]] later and Marshal is shown holding a bruised jaw, telling Ted, "The whip is not a toy". He is later seen playing with it, however.
* ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'s'' Luna Metal form does this by applying Luna's [[Rubber Man]] powers with Metal's [[Simple Staff]]. Luna Joker does something like this, except that since Joker uses [[Good Old Fisticuffs]], the "whips" are ''[[Body Horror|his own arms and legs]]''.
* Maid Marion in ''[[The New Adventures of Robin Hood]]''.
* In ''[[Queen of Swords]]'',, Tessa wields a whip alongside her rapier in her alter ego as the Queen of Swords.
* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' references a "holo-whip" on a few occasions, a weapon that apparently hurts both humans and holograms and can be utilized by either.
** One is actually shown in the episode "Angels and Demons", wielded by Evil Bondage Rimmer.
* One ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' skit was about a fictional show called ''The Whipmaster'', about a cowboy in the [[Old West]] who fought with a whip rather than a gun with enough extraordinary skill as to disarm gunslingers, snatch cigars out of peoples mouths, and retrieve objects and saloon girls... feats the regular actor's stand-in was [[Hilarity Ensues|hilariously unable to replicate]].
* ''[[Star Trek]]'''s Ferengi were originally armed with electric whips. This was one of the only cool things about them, and since the writers quickly realized these guys would not work as intimidating villains, the whips were dropped.
** Another reason why it was dropped was because of [[Special Effect Failure]].
** The whip made a return during the appearance of the Ferengi on ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]''.
** The whip also showed up in the multigenerational crossover [[Comic Books]] story "The Modala Imperative."
* Just one of the many weapons wielded by ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]''.
== Music ==
* [[Devo]]'s "Whip It" is the [[Trope Namer]], but they claim it was meant to encourage Jimmy Carter, then the [[wikipedia:Whip (politics)#United States|"whip"]] for the Democratic Party.
* Jimmy Buffet's song "Desperation Samba (Hollywood in Tijuana)" has whipcrack sound effects. . . provided by Harrison Ford.
== Newspaper Comics ==
* Mrs Pruneface from the ''[[Dick Tracy]]'' strip, although there was nothing fanservice-y about this grotesque character.
* The whip was Papa Pyzon's weapon of choice in ''[[Terry and the Pirates]]''.
== Tabletop Games ==
* The [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Clanners]] in ''[[BattleTech]]'' use ''laser guided whips'' in their single combat duels, and as discipline in basic training.
* [[Meaningful Name|Mina Devlin]] runs [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Black River]] Rails in ''[[Deadlands]]''. Given her sadistic streak, it was only a matter of time before she wound up with a rail enforcer like Violet Esperanza. Given ''her'' sadistic streak (and her penchant for using her drop-dead looks as a weapon), it was only a matter of time before she started using a weapon ''designed'' to cause pain without causing the sweet release of unconsciousness. Given the nature of the Weird West, it was only a matter of time before Violet's whip became a Relic, capable of doing more damage than most rifles...but only when Violet ''wants'' it to.
* ''[[Dungeons
** The standard whip is a fairly underpowered weapon. In earlier editions, it deliveres a mere 1d2 damage (''1'' for Large target) and does not belong to any other weapon group
*** Same in Players Options, plus useless if the target wears any proper armor, but it's a more decent [[Utility Weapon]], as it's light, dirt-cheap, wielded in one hand, has great reach and now also bonus to trip and offensive disarm.
** In 3.5, the weapon is Exotic, requiring characters to devote a feat to use it properly, and still does hardly any damage. It is treated as a ranged weapon with a 15' range, meaning that it uses Dexterity rather than Strength and does not threaten. Although they bumped the damage up to 1d3, it is completely incapable of damaging any opponent wearing armour at all. Its main use is for applying trip and disarm attacks at a longer range and by Spellswords to deliver ranged touch attack spells from a greater distance.
*** In 3.5 Bards, rather oddly, start with proficiency in whip. Given that they are cheap, ability to trip or disarm at range can be quite useful in the right situation, there's no reason why you WOULDN'T pick one up, [[Crazy Prepared|just in case.]]
*** Plus there's "Whip Climber" trick in ''Complete Scoundrel''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20180109082026/http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd%2Fex%2F20070105a&page=5]
** In some versions, a scourge (cat-o'-nine-tails) is essentially the same except its damage isn't quite so pathetic, and special bonuses are less, if any.
** The spiked chain, introduced in 3.0, is a far more effective weapon. Though Exotic and dealing a little less damage than most Large melee weapons, it has nearly every special ability a weapon can have and, almost uniquely, threatens all squares out to 10'. A character willing to devote almost all his feats to the task could be ''very'' effective with it.
*** It is parodied in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0216.html this] [[Order of the Stick]] comic.
** The Balor [[Our Demons Are Different|demon]] (called a Balrog in earlier editions before the Tolkien estate sued) uses a whip as a weapon.
** There are many whip variants introduced in a variety of supplements, including the Drow Lash of Torment (which has broken glass attached to it and hits the user on a miss if the user isn't a Drow) and a perfectly nonmagical Bladed Whip
** Drow has two animated (as such, using their own attack values rather than the user's) sorts - more of long scourges: ''whip of fangs'' (traditional for Lolthites for some reason) that can deliver weak poisons from each snake head (number and types vary) and ''rod of tentacles'' (made by Ghanaudrans, but others sometimes keep them as battle trophies) that delivers magial attacks per tentacle.
*** Naturally, those are prominently featured in just about every book about the Drow, such as ''[[The Dark Elf Trilogy]]'', ''Starlight and Shadow'' or ''[[War of the Spider Queen]]''.
* The villainous version of Cinderella in the D20 game ''[[Grimm]]'' is more than a little [[Axe Crazy]] and has an aversion to being touched due to her years of abuse (she married Humpty Dumpty because he didn't want to... ummm... you know). Now she uses a thorned scourge to torture her sisters and pretty much anyone else who bugs her.
* A normal whip in ''[[GURPS]]'' does little damage and penetrates armor poorly but is basically impossible to parry. Monofilament whips do moderate damage, go through armor like it's barely there and are liable to slice your head off.
* Satyxis Raiders of Cryx and Bloodrunner master tormentors of the Skorne in the ''[[Iron Kingdoms]]'' setting use bladed whips.
* In ''[[Shadowrun]]'', the most effective melee weapon is the monofilament whip, which delivers a terrific amount of damage at long range and is quite concealable. It's effectively a strand of molecular-width wire with a weight on the end to allow it to be used as a whip. Like much of ''Shadowrun'''s world, it's ripped from the works of [[William Gibson]].
** Right up until you roll a fumble and ''whip off your own face''. Many characters, both in the in-game flavor text and the novels, remark that using a monowhip in combat is very scary, but also ''insane''.
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''
** The dominatrix-like [[Amazon Brigade|Sisters of Battle]] "[[Fetish Fuel|Mistress]]", who has a barbed cat-o-nine-tails in each hand (which she uses to drive around large squads of near-naked [[Girl with Psycho Weapon|penitent young nuns carrying]] [[Big Freaking Good|eight-foot-long]] [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw swords]]...). The [[Church Militant|Ordo Hereticus]], of which the Sisters are a part, also have Arco-Flagellants, brainwashed, tortured penitents with electrified whips implanted directly into their bodies and stimulant injectors to turn them into berzerkers on demand. These are [[Nightmare Fuel|about as far from sexy as it is possible for a whip to get.]] Tech-priests themselves use a similar implanted weapon, Coil-Whip.
** Dark Eldar, being, well, [[Fetish Fuel|Dark Eldar]], actually have not one, but several different whip-like weapons. The most common one is the Agoniser Lash, which causes the victims nervous system to go haywire, burning out their nerves and inflicting horrible pain. Then there's the Electrocorrosive Whip, an electrified poisoned whip designed to cause debilitating pain and sap the victim's strength. Dark Eldar Wytches sometimes use Razorflails which are [[Whip Sword]]s that can switch between sword- and whip-forms at the user's will. Besides these exotic weapons, Dark Eldar Beastmasters often use regular bullwhips to goad their beasts into battle.
** As well as Chaos Lords of Slaanesh, whose daemon weapons are whips.
*** There's also a Slaaneshi psychic power called the Lash of Submission, which creates an immaterial whip that places the target under the controll of the user.
** Bloodthirsters of Khorne often carry Gorewhip made of twisted, blood red sinew studded with sharpened chunks of broken bone. But they mainly use them to drive lesser daemons into frenzy or to hit enemies trying to stay out of their melee range (in close combat they rather use [[An Axe to Grind|enormous daemon-axes]].
*** Another Khornate weapon is Forgewhip - long, white hot cat-o-nine-tails. Which is also animated. That's because those are [[Evil Weapon|Daemon Weapons]] with a [[Hell Hound|Flesh Hound]] bound in each.
** Some [[Horde of Alien Locusts|Tyranid]] creatures have Lash Whips, which like most other Tyranid weapons are infact separate organisms. In combat they wrap themselves around enemies, reducing their initiative.
** Orks Runtherdz use "Grotwhip". Which is Orky - i.e. somewhat larger and more brutal-looking - equivalent of Groxwhip (see below).
** It gets better in WH 40k RP.
*** "Groxwhip" is a blade-studded bullwhip, used by some rustics in the Imperium. People who like its sheer brutality, but can afford a better weapon may opt for mono-edged version.
*** On the more high-tech side there's Neural Whip - long whip which is also a shocker.
** ''[[Rogue Trader]]'' has Grapplewhip as an overt reference to [[Indiana Jones]]. Except it's a retractable metal whip with grappling claws at the end. A weapon that can bind the enemy, grappling hook and sort of ascender in one package. It's also springy and tend to snap back at the inexperienced users.
* In ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' Dark Elf beastmasters have barbed whips used for goading War Hydras and other beats. Designed to inflict pain or large thick-skinned monsters, they are also quite deadly against humanoid enemies (although their damage isn't particularly high, they're armour-piercing weapons). Dark Elf characters can equip a magic weapon that is a slightly more powerful version of these whips.
== Video Games ==
* Lenny Creston in ''[[Art of Fighting]] 3''.
* ''[[Batman: Arkham City]]'': As discussed in the comics section, this is Catwoman's weapon of choice.
* Sofia from ''[[Battle Arena Toshinden]]'' brandished her whip with style.
** Her [[Evil Counterpart]] Zola (who [[Captain Ersatz|looked a lot like Catwoman]]) had one, too.
* In ''[[Bayonetta]]'', the demon Kulshedra is captured and resurrected as the game's whip weapon, and it even has the ability to grab enemies by holding down the attack button. {{spoiler|When playing as Jeanne, this is replaced with Vritri, a green whip to Kulshedra's purple.}}
* ''[[Black Sigil]]'' has [[Fiery Redhead|Aurora]] the [[Black Magician Girl]] whose weapon of choice is a bullwhip.
* Billy Candle in ''[[Call of Juarez]]'' uses a whip as a climbing aid, and in situations when he doesn't have a gun, to fight off animals.
* ''[[Castlevania]]''. No whip in videogame history is as well known and respected as a weapon as the Vampire Killer.
** Brought to the pinnacle of video game perfection in ''Super Castlevania IV''. Simon can whip in any of the eight directions and can control his whip when brandishing it about as realistically as you could in real life.
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*** For the sake of extra info: Note that the Vampire Killer is generally at its weakest as a normal whip, though the 3D games are exceptions. In the 2D titles, the whip has two power-up stages, both of them chain-based whips with different lengths, and a mace on the end, which makes the whip a far more effective weapon. It also helps that it was created through alchemy to be deadly against the forces of darkness - it's called the Vampire Killer for a ''reason''. As well, the Belmonts can also ''[[Kill It with Fire|set the thing on fire]]'' and ''Bloodlines'' includes the ability to turn it into a ''lightning whip''. Bloody awesome.
**** Also, it contains the soul of the matriarch of the Belmont clan, Sara Trantoul, who was killed by vampires. Chances are a ''spoon'' would have miraculous vampire-killing properties if Sara was in it.
* The Supernatural power set in ''[[Champions Online]]'' has a few powers that utilize a chain as a whip, including grabbing and yanking the victim towards you.
** Several enemy mooks use it as well, including the punderfully named Chainganger.
* In ''[[City of Villains]]'', the Demon Summoning powerset uses a hellfire whip for a few attacks.
** The demon summoner Desdemona exemplifies this trope, from the blazing whip to the absurdly low-cut leather outfit.
* [[Dark Souls]] feature a whip as a weapon. In its description, it is already said that it is not meant for combat; not only it has slow attack motions, wielding a whip deprives the player of the ability to backstab and parry, for obvious reasons. It ''can'' however, be upgraded to fire or lightning weapon, significantly increasing its combat ability. There is another weapon called the Notched Whip, but is more of a [[Whip Sword]] rather than a true whip.
* In ''[[Devil May Cry]] 2'', The Despair Embodied (the final boss) can switch between a male and female form. True to this trope, it's the female form that can use a flaming whip.
* Several of the larger demon enemies in ''[[Diablo]] 2'' use whips, in particular the Overlords from the ''Lord of Destruction'' expansion. Perhaps in the 3rd installment the player will be able to equip one?
* The "Linda" enemies in ''[[Double Dragon]]'' came at you with whips, as well.
* Whips are an invaluable weapon type in ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' games, having the ability to hit groups of enemies. Usually the strongest whips in the game are capable of hitting all enemies.
** In ''[[Dragon Quest VIII]]'', one of the weapon types Jessica can wield is a whip, which allows her to attack multiple enemies at once. It's arguably her best weapon choice, especially once she learns the deadly Twin Dragon Lash.
* Whips and scourges occasionally turn up in ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'', and function quite realistically; they take the fewest hits to make an opponent pass out from pain, short of critting with a slashing weapon and severing a limb, but their base damage is atrocious and they're useless against armour. Considered something of a [[Joke Weapon]] as a result.
** Occasionally verging on [[Lethal Joke Weapon]] or [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]]. Dump an unarmored goblin into a room full of whip- and scourge-based weapon traps, and just see how very long it takes them to die, and how much blood they lose before then.
** In the current version, however, whips function as [[Game Breaker|laser-guided killing machines]], effectively ignoring any armor the target is wearing and doing way too much damage, due to some [[Good Bad Bugs|errors in the way stats represent its physical characteristics]] (part of a weapon's damage is now based on weight, but it uses the weapon's ''entire'' weight instead of the very small part making contact, making it more like getting shot with a bullet).
* When the ''[[Dynasty Warriors]]'' characters were redesigned for the sixth game, Diao Chan and Zhen Ji were given whips.
* In ''[[Etrian Odyssey]]'', the Dark Hunter class has the option to use whips. The females in particular like to dress in scant leather outfits, and they all sport skills such as [[Fetish Fuel|Climax]] and Ecstacy. They even specialize in [[Instant Knots|tying up enemies]] and their [[Limit Break|Dominate]] skill lets them [[Fetish Fuel|completely bind and gag]] an enemy without fail. In ''Heroes of Lagaard'' they are a favorite for their ability to [[One-Hit Kill|instantly kill]] most enemies, including some ''[[Badass|bosses]]'', once said enemies are at 55% HP or lower.
* ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'''s Rydia is an aversion; in her adult form, she wields a whip, but she's not otherwise sultry or [[The Vamp|vamp-ish]].
** Her use of the whip is probably related to her ability to [[Summon Magic|summon and command magical beasts]]. It's a crappy weapon, and generally the worst offensive option for her in any fight. Then again, given that she's the party's [[Black Magician Girl]] on top of being a Summoner means that "Fight" is usually the ''last'' command you should be selecting in the first place, unless you're the kind of player that doesn't use [[Mana Meter|Ethers]]. Whips have the capability of paralyzing enemies, but still...
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* Quistis Trepe wielded a mean chain-whip in ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]].''
* Vanille's weapon in ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'' is a binding rod, combining this trope with [[Magic Wand]]. The resulting weapon functions somewhat like a fishing rod.
* In ''[[Final Fight|Final Fight Revenge]]'', bad girl Poison uses a standard whip. Later, in ''[[Street Fighter V]]'', she switches to a riding crop.
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* While not an actual weapon in game, Vaida from the seventh ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' game is shown with a whip in her official artwork.
** However, enchanted whips are used to promote pegasus knights and wyvern riders.
* ''[[Galaxy Angel (video game)]]'': Oddly enough, Forte always carries around a riding crop, despite never using it and is more of [[The Gunslinger]]. Of course, being the eldest of the Angel Brigade, she does get to train the younger ones (especially [[New Meat|Chitose]]), but she never, ever uses it. Lampshaded when [[Mouthy Kid|No]][[Insufferable Genius|ah]] points out that Forte cannot be the one person she's looking for by the bad way she swings her riding crop.
* ''[[God Hand]]'' has many female mooks and even some bosses holding these. And they damn hurt.
* Kratos from ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]'' has magic blades attached by chains to his arms that he uses like whips - in one scene in the second game you even use them to drive some giant stone horses. It's actually different version of the blades with each game (the first is the Blades of Chaos, the second is the Blades of Athena and the third game gives you the Blades of Exile).
** ''God Of War III'' gives you the {{spoiler|Claw of Hades}}, which basically whip around Kratos and differ from the Blades of Exile.
** Not to mention the {{spoiler|Nemesis Whip}}. Shorter range than the Blades of Exile, but electrified.
* And another one like the ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' example: the Trainer's Whip in ''[[Golden Sun]]: The Lost Age'' is not a weapon, but a class-changing equip item. The class set that it produces is based around summoning, unsurprisingly.
* In ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'', we don't actually see Catalina using the whip on C.J. in the intro to the "Gone Courting" mission, but [[Sexy Discretion Shot|oh man, do we ever hear it]].
* In ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]]'', dark elf matriarchs dress in dominatrix gear and wield whips. (These dark elves are clearly based on the female dominated drow from ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''.) (Yeah, they probably have nothing to do with similarly half naked dark elf witches from warhammer. And the dark riders also are nothing similar to dark one riders.
** In ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]] III'' there were the Pit Fiends/Lords.
* Military girl Whip (real name [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Sarah/Seirah]]) from ''[[The King of Fighters]] '99'', who also uses a Desert Eagle and a [[Revolvers Are Just Better|Revolver]]. ''In a martial arts tournament''.
** Elizabeth Blanctorche uses a riding crop.
* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts (video game)|Kingdom Hearts]]'', the kid version of Selphie uses a jumprope to fight.
** In ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep]]'', there's [[Bonus Boss|another opponent]] with a whip, but let's just say that [[That One Attack|circumstances are way worse.]]
* Kirby gets the softest version of a whip in ''[[Kirby's Epic Yarn|Kirbys Epic Yarn]]''; where, like everything else, it is made out of yarn.
** Also, in the "normal" games, he gets to [[Mega Manning|copy]] the Waddle Doo's Beam ability, which attacks with an **[[Shock and Awe|electric]] whip.
** In ''[[Kirby's Return to Dream Land]]'', he gains a whip ability. [[Shout-Out|The hat]] [[Indiana Jones|is a fedora.]]
* Lemeza Kosugi uses a whip as his starting weapon in ''[[La-Mulana]]''. This is due to the character's basis on [[Indiana Jones]], and the [[Metroidvania|gameplay]]'s basis in ''[[Castlevania]]''. (There are two hidden, tricky ways to upgrade the whip to a mace-like weapon, and there is a way to further power it up that involves finding a Castlevania ROM.)
* Majora's Wrath in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask]]'' has whiplike arms that can strike at a distance.
** Link arsenal in ''[[Spirit Tracks]]'' includes a snake whip, probably a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Mother 3]]''.
** ''[[Skyward Sword]]'' brings back a version of the whip, which is even cooler thanks to Motionplus.
* Whip-esque weapons can be bought and equipped in ''[[Lufia]] 2'', but only by female characters. Tia's combat sprite is holding a whip.
* ''[[Luminous Arc 2]]'''s Fatima, uses a whip as her weapon of choice when she's not casting Shadow Frost magic.
** And so to [[Luminous Arc 3|Inaluna]] when isn't casting [[Light Is Good|Light Magic]] or [[Status Buff]]. Her whip reasemble more to slave whip thought. It can also function as a fan too.
* Tempest in ''[[Lunar Silver Star Story Complete|Lunar: The Silver Star]]'' used whips. This was removed in the remakes in favor of bows.
* One of Morrigan's more memorable winposes in the ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom]]'' series has Lilith descending from the sky bound at the wrists while Morrigan changes to a dominatrix outfit, whip at the ready. This was supposedly taken out of the American version, but I (and a number of concerned parents) still saw it.
* Spike Rosered/Axel the Red from ''[[Mega Man X]] 5'' uses a whip as his primary weapon.
* Zero's Chain Rod in ''[[Mega Man Zero]] 2'' is a powered whip, capable of grabbing walls and ceilings, yanking enemies' shields off, and even draining their energy.
** Rospark from ''[[Mega Man ZX]] Advent'' has a pair of whip-like vines used both as weapons and as means of locomotion. Thanks to the wonders of A-Trans, the protagonist gets them as well...after [[Power Copying|recycling him]], of course.
* Sion Eltnam Atlasia from ''[[Melty Blood]]'' (the fighting game sequel of ''[[Tsukihime]]/Kagetsu Tohya'') can use the Ethelite, which acts as a whip in combat and also allows for [[More Than Mind Control]], explained by a mix of [[Techno Babble|Techno]] and [[Magi Babble]].
* In ''[[Mitsumete Knight]] R'', the whip is [[Rich Bitch|Lin]][[Femme Fatale|da]]'s [[Weapon of Choice]]. It doesn't help that one of the multiple outfits and armor she can wear is a dominatrix-looking one, and that this specific outfit ''gives her boosts''.
* Being based off of ''[[Indiana Jones]]'', the Archaeologist class in ''[[Nethack]]'' has a whip as their default weapon.
** As the game is based on D&D 1st edition, the weapon is fairly underpowered.
* In the second ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' expansion, the Valsharess wields a whip. (She's a caster, though, so she hardly ever uses it.) As queen of the Drow, this isn't a terrible surprise, of course...
** In ''[[Kingmaker]]'', one of the premium modules, there's an archaeologist named [[Captain Expy|Ohio Smith]] or some similar name, who wants you to [[Escort Mission|help him get into some ancient ruins.]] Guess what weapon he uses...
** Given the content, it should come as no surprise to the reader that ''[[A Dance With Rogues]]'' contains a large number of whip-wielding opponents and whips among treasure caches. Especially in the pervert cult temple and in the Drow house.
* Infernal Behemoths in ''[[Nexus War]]'' can summon a whip that deals magic-type damage.
* Jack Skellington uses a goo-like whip as his main weapon in the game ''[[Nightmare Before Christmas Oogies Revenge]]''. At its base level it does everything you would expect a whip to do. Leveling makes it, in attack chains, form a scythe and flail at the end. It also makes a cyclone when he holds it out and spins himself around.
* ''[[Ogre Battle]]'' [[The Beast Master|Beastmasters]] use whips as their primary weapon.
* ''[[Okami]]'' has a version of this. Amaterasu can equip rosary as her primary weapon that she uses in a whip-like fashion.
* In ''[[Persona]]'', Ayase/Alana uses whips. She's not really a true [[The Vamp]], but she definitely is the temptress of the team. She initially [[Crowning Moment of Funny|comes equipped with a jump rope]].
* In ''[[Phantasy Star]] Universe'', specifically in the Ambition of the Illuminus expansion, whips are a class of weapon available to a minority of classes, those being the primary magic-user and the remaining two, hybrid magic-users. Popular for their ability to inflict [[Standard Status Effects]] with every hit. Since classes are independent of gender or race, ''anyone'' can Whip It Good in this game.
* Franziska Von Karma in ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' constantly carries a whip, which she uses on nearly everyone she meets. Her favorite victims are Phoenix and Gumshoe—she seems to consider it almost affectionate, by the end, never mind that that thing ''hurts''—only eight-year-old [[Adorably Precocious Child|Pearl Fey]] (which probably would have killed any possible sympathy for her,) paralyzed-from-the-waist-down [[Wheelchair Woobie|Acro]], middle-aged (and not the picture of health) [[Cool Old Lady|Sister Bikini]], [[Badass Spaniard|Godot]], who simply shamed her into compliance, [[Badass Longcoat|Detective Badd]] ([[Nonchalant Dodge|who swayed out of the way]]) and [[Big Badass Wolf|Shi-Long Lang]] (who ''caught'' the whip when Frannie tried to use it on him) manage to escape unscathed. Also notable in that she completely averts a [[Stripperiffic]] outfit, even to the point of constantly wearing gloves (at least while on the job).
** In {{spoiler|case four of ''[[Ace Attorney Investigations]]''}}, she carries a riding crop instead. You really have to wonder about her home life.
*** Raised by [[Complete Monster|Manfred]] [[Disproportionate Retribution|Von]] [[Amoral Attorney|Karma]]. What would you expect?
* In ''[[Prince of Persia]]: The Two Thrones'', the Dark Prince uses a chain whip to both whip his enemies and strangle them.
* In ''[[Prototype (video game)]]'', Alex Mercer has the Whipfist, a mutation that turns his arm into a black, flexible and extremely extendable whip-like appendage. If yout think that's not cool enough, the most basic attack can ''slice a human in half''. And then there's the secondary attack which singles out a target and can destroy an attack helicopter from up to 30 meters away, even while falling. And after an upgrade, can even be used as an impromptu grappling hook to catch someone from afar. And it has cool [[I'm a Humanitarian|consume]] animations to boot.
* Iris from ''[[Radiata Stories]]''.
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* ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'': Ratchet has a sort of [[Buffy-Speak|fiery plasma quantum whip thingy]] in ''Up Your Arsenal''.
** He acquires an electric whip in ''Tools of Destruction''.
* In ''[[Rumble Roses]]'', one of the weapons is a riding crop. In addition to doing damage, it can humiliate an opponent. While any character can pick it up outside the ring and use it, one of the characters(Mistress Spencer, who is the heel version of Miss Spencer, former goody two shoes school teacher current dominatrix to the point where she's sitting on a SLAVE CLOWN in her entrance) actually STARTS the game holding it. While she's the only one that starts with a weapon, she's not any better at using it than the other characters...and a weapon is almost useless at the beginning stages where the enemy is healthy enough to fight back.
* In the game ''[[RuneScape]]'', one of the most powerful melee weapons is a whip called "The Abyssal Whip."
** It's basically a barbed, spiked, linked chain wielded in the style of a whip that has a whip sound effect when it strikes.
*** Although slowly getting bested by the likes of the God Swords, and other high-leveled weapons, the Abyssal Whip is still an amazing weapon. [[Rule of Cool|Did I mention it now comes in several colours?]]
* It's Agan's weapon of choice in ''[[Sands of Destruction]]''. One of his attacks allow him to [[Dual-Wielding]] them to smack the enemy.
* Averted in ''[[Scarab of Ra]],'' in which cracking a bullwhip can scare away animals but ''not'' injure them.
* One of the selectable weapons in ''[[Secret of Mana]]'' is a whip. Bit weak, but it's required to move around certain areas by swinging across gaps.
* There's also the very [[The Vamp|Vampish]] Veronica from ''[[Shadow Hearts]] II''.
* In [[The Simpsons (video game)|''The Simpsons'' arcade game]], Lisa uses her jump rope like a whip.
* Ivy Valentine from ''[[Soul Calibur]]'' has a segmented blade that she uses like a whip, with full dominatrix implications in some of her attacks and victory animations, AND a wonderfully Stripperiffic outfit. Basically, a direct manifestation of this trope.
** Though related, her weapon is [[Whip Sword|another trope]] altogether.
* The whip is the primary weapon in ''[[Spelunky]]''.
* [[Adventurer Archaeologist|Ernest Raviede]] from ''[[Star Ocean the Second Story|Star Ocean 2]]'' is a [[Shout-Out|whip-wielding archaeology professor]].
* In the ''[[Streets of Rage]]'' series, the dominatrix enemies use whips to fight. Those whips are [[Shock and Awe|electrical ones]] starting from ''Streets of Rage 2''.
* In ''[[Suikoden]]'', a few characters use whips. Many of them are animal trainers, but one of the deadliest examples is Lucia, a [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Proud Warrior Race Woman]]. In the second game, she uses it as a tool of bloody vengeance, doing hundreds of points of damage per turn. In the third game, she returns as the main character's ''mother''. Both times, she's definitely ''not'' [[The Vamp]], despite her weapon choice.
* Sheik in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Melee'' has a whip, and Zero Suit Samus in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' ''Brawl'' can change her gun into a laser one.
** {{spoiler|[[That One Boss|Tabuu]] has one of his own, too; being captured by it often leads to instant death.}}
* In ''[[Super Star Wars]]: [[Return of the Jedi]]'', there's one stage where you can choose to play as Princess Leia in the infamous [[Go-Go Enslavement]] outfit. (Keeping with the movie, it's the level where you fight Jabba the Hutt). Her weapon is a broken chain which she uses as a whip. Through the use of a debug code, you can also play EVERY SIDE SCROLLING STAGE in the game this way.
* [[Black Magician Girl|Rita]] [[Tsundere|Mordio]] from ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'' can use whips as one of her primary weapons.
* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|The Soldier]] from ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' can unlock a riding crop as a melee weapon. In addition to killing enemies, albeit with less damage than the standard melee weapon, he can whip his own teammates to give them and himself a temporary speed boost.
* Cham in ''[[Valis]] III'' wields a whip to compliment Yoko's sword and Valna's magical staff.
* ''[[Wizardry]] 6'', ''7'', and ''8'' all feature both bullwhips and cat' o nine tails as weapons. The former is a weak (but with bonus to hit plus bonus of Lash attack) extended-range weapon suitable for spellcasters, the latter is a genuinely powerful weapon in its own right - not the equal of the unique, named weapons, but as good as you can get up until that point. Still, bullwhip is better than nothing, and it uses "mace&flail" skill and may be a good training for much better weapons, depending on how you plan to promote the character. Notably, you acquire the first bullwhip in ''Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge'' by looting it from the Queen's secret compartment, along with the Studded Leather Bra +2 (yes, it's ''exactly'' what it sounds like, and the narrator sputters as he describes it). While the whip is a good replacement for a mage's staff at that early point, the bra, when used on a thief, is the best armour they can get for most of the game.
* While whips aren't available as weapons in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', the Succubus demon (one of the Warlock class minions) uses one.
* Bart from ''[[Xenogears]]'' uses a whip as his primary weapon, and so does his [[Humongous Mecha|Gear]]; the Gear's whips are called Heat Rods as a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Gundam]]''.
* [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-6391586_ITM This whip-based game] probably never saw the light of day, but it sounded cool. (The designer went on to work for [[Moby Games]].)
== [[Visual Novels]] ==
* ''[[Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!|Maji De Watashi Ni Koi Shinasai]]'' has class 2F's homeroom teacher, Umeko, who carries a whip, and can use it without hesitation for disciplinary purposes. In her own and in Yukie's routes, she demonstrates just how good she is with it.
== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures]]'' gives us head combat instructor Quill. [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1263.php She loves to use the whip on her love interest Jacob.]
{{quote|'''Quill:''' Yes, run fast little volf. I love it vhen they run.}}
* Wanda Firebaugh from ''[[Erfworld]]'' uses a cat-o-nine-tails in her "hobbies" of torture, interrogation and, well, [[Fetish Fuel|BDSM]], while wearing appropriate outfits.
* From the Midnight Crew Intermission of ''[[Homestuck]]'', [[Femme Fatale|Snowman]] of the [[Gang of Hats|The Felt]] uses one of these, combined with [[Revolvers Are Just Better|a revolver]] to take [[Villain Protagonist|Slick]]'s arm off. Needless to say, [[Fetish Fuel|she has a few fans]].<ref>It may interest you to know she is a [[Humanoid Aliens|carapaced alien monster]].</ref>
** Act Five gives us the [[All Trolls Are Different|troll]] [[Adventurer Archaeologist|Aradia Megido]], who had a whip in her room, and apparently looked up to [[Indiana Jones|Troll!Indiana Jones]]. Though her powerful telekinesis obviates it's use as a weapon, she does perform the grappling, swinging acrobatics with it while investigating a ruin.
* Brunhilda in ''[[The KAMics]]'' likes whips, but she's a danger to everyone around her when she starts wielding one.
* [[Dragon Lady]] Mavra Chan in ''[[Terinu]]'' is overly fond of them, whipping Leeza's gun out of her hand while the latter was having a [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?|Why Don't You Just Shoot Them]] moment.
== Web Original ==
* Lilywatt in ''[[Flyover City]]'' has whips that she charges with electricity.
* Brendan Bredard of ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' version three is assigned a bullwhip as a weapon, which he later uses to strangle Luis Chezinski to death.
== Western Animation ==
* In an episode of the ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' TV series, Princess Jasmine is [[Brainwashed and Crazy|turned against the heroes]] by [[Harmless Villain]] [[Meaningful Name|Abis Mal]]. She gets the dominatrix whip ''and'' the black, as-close-to-dominatrix-gear-as-Disney-will-allow outfit ''and'' the dominatrix attitude. ''[[Evil Is Sexy|Evil is Sexier]] [[Everything's Better with Princesses|With Princesses!!]]''
** That incident apparently made her realize the benefits of carrying around a whip even while on the side of good - she uses one in a later episode to (literally!) disarm one of [[Evil Sorcerer|Mozenrath's]] undead servants.
* The tall, tough, and sexy [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Jun]] of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. However, she uses the whip for controlling an animal instead of as a weapon (she seems to actually fight with just her fists). [[Reality Is Unrealistic]] indeed.
** In ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'', the metalbending police of Republic City use metallic whips as their primary weapon. Chief Lin Bei Fong, as the creator of the technique is particularly skilled with them.
* One-shot villain Payback in the eponymous ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' episode has, essentially, a ''lightsaber'' whip. Terry acknowledges its awesomeness:
{{quote|''Batman:'' I want one!}}
* A ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' Christmas special had a segment where the two reply to viewer mail - Butt-head is dressed as Santa in a sleigh, and Beavis is up front in a reindeer costume and harness, with a bit in his mouth. Butt-head doesn't spare the whip. Pretty disturbing stuff.
* In ''[[The Boondocks]]'' Grandpa Freeman can wield a belt with incomparable skill. Apparently beating one's grandson with a weapon enough times allows you to develop enough skill to disarm an angry pimp.
* One episode of ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' tells the story of the cast's [[Identical Grandson|Identical Ancestors]] in the Old West. Eustace's ancestor was a bandit named The Whip who was quite proficient with his [[Weapon of Choice]], even leaving a [[Zorro]]-style "W" on the clothing of his victims.
* In ''[[Dragon Booster]]'' energy-whips became common weapons over the course of the series, along with various forms of staffs. The energy whip's main difference form a normal whip was that it had a node on the end that could attach to a target to drain their mag energy. The main whip-user in the series was [[Anti-Villain]] [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] Moordryd Payyn.
** Sometimes it crossed into mild [[Nightmare Fuel]] when a person was caught between two or more energy whips at once. And the pained yells anyone made when their energy started draining.
* The [[Barbarian Hero]] episode of ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' had Wanda using a whip.
* The [[Weapon of Choice]] for Calamity Jane in ''[[The Legend of Calamity Jane]]''.
* The weapon of choice for The Coachman from ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]''.
* ''[[Quick Draw McGraw]]'' as "The Whip" and Baba Looey as "The Whipper Snapper".
* The orc musical, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdXQJS3Yv0Y Where There's A Whip, There's a Way.] from the children's animated ''[[The Return of the King (animation)|The Return of the King]]''.
* After his initial appearance, Killer Moth of ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' is shown with an energy whip. He later gives it to his daughter.
* Tygra in both ''[[Thundercats]]'' and ''[[Thundercats 2011|ThunderCats (2011)]]'' uses one.
* Leonardo's alternate dimension counterpart, Graviturtle, in the ''[[TMNT]]'' episode "Reality Check". It channels his gravity powers.
* [[Fetish Fuel|Heather whips Courtney]] in the Yukon episode of ''[[Total Drama Island|Total Drama World Tour]]''.
* Leobreaker of ''[[Transformers Cybertron]]'' uses his beast-mode tail as a blade-tipped whip in robot mode. Good for dealing with missiles and lighter Decepticon fliers who stray too close.
* In ''[[Zorro: Generation Z]]'', the Scarlet Whip wields twin laser whips.
== Other ==
* [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=%20John%202:13-16;&version=9; John 2:13-16], which approaches [[Kung Fu Jesus]] trope as close as ''[[The Bible]]'' ever got. Failure to devise a holiday focused on repeating this act every year [http://www.google.com/search?q=%2Bsimony apparently was rather detrimental] to the Christianity.
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* A whip is dangerous in untrained hands, too. Using it to merely cause superficial pain and ''not'' maim isn't as easy as it sounds - ask anyone involved in BDSM.
** This is the main reason bullwhips are actually very rare in BDSM, that and the fact that they force you to stand a good distance away from the action.
*** There are many preferred alternatives, but everyone wants at least one whip and to learn to use
* Jordan Schlansky, one of Conan O'Brien's employees, is apparently an expert with the bullwhip.
* Inuit artist Simon Tookome is proficient with a dog whip, to the point that he used to whip cigarettes in half from almost 15 meters away... while the cigarette was in someone's mouth. He has also used his whip as a weapon to hunt caribou and, on one occasion, ''a wolf.''
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