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* 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).

* General Cloud Nine in ''[[D.Gray-man]]'' and Lulu Bell. The anime adds this conversation.

[[The Casanova|Cross Marian]]: [[Fetish Fuel|" Doesn't sound too bad."]] }}

* Kaito Wanijima in the ''[[Air Gear]]'' anime

* 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.

* 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.

* In the [[Syfy]] movie [[Robin Hood|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.

 

* 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.

*** 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.

** 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 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 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.

* 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.

** 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?]]

* Like with the ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' example above, the Beastmaster job in ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]'' has a whip in the artwork, but it's never used in the game.

* While whips aren't available as weapons in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', the Succubus demon (one of the Warlock class minions) uses one.

** In ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]] III'' there were the Pit Fiends/Lords.

* Majora's Wrath in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask]]'' has whiplike arms that can strike at a distance.

* 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''.

* 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''.

* 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.

* One-shot villain Payback in the eponymous ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' episode has, essentially, a ''lightsaber'' whip. Terry acknowledges its awesomeness:

{{quote|''Batman:'' I want one!}}

* 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.

* The [[Weapon of Choice]] for Calamity Jane in ''[[The Legend of Calamity Jane]]''.

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