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** 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]]''.

* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]''

* ~~''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' has some of the kinkier Dark Eldar units use whip-like weapons, as well as 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]] [[BFS|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.]]

** 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]] [[BFS|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, 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 whip designed to cause debilitating pain and sap the victim's strenght. Dark Eldar Wytches sometimes use Razorflails which are [[Whip Sword]]s ~~thta~~ 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.

** 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 strenght. 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.

** ~~Bloodthirster~~ of Khorne often carry ~~whips~~, ~~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]].

** 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).

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* Dark Elf beastmasters in [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] 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 (altough 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.

** 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.

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* Dark Elf beastmasters in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' 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 (altough 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.

* Satyxis Raiders of Cryx and Bloodrunner master tormentors of the Skorne in the ''[[Iron Kingdoms]]'' setting use bladed whips.

* 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.