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Come to Gawk

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Come to Gawk	comment	A character is exhibited for ridicule — while still alive. Special garments, signs with the proclamation of the offense, or even nudity may be enforced. Menial labor may be required. Rotten fruit may be thrown, but the character usually finds the staring humiliation enough (without a Humiliation Conga to make it worse). Perhaps even a Fate Worse than Death which is why it often makes for prime Moral Event Horizon material. Pride makes it worse, but no one really enjoys it. Most of the time characters that are meant to be sympathetic are on the receiving end of this but it can occasionally be justified as a dark way to Pay Evil unto Evil. In Real Life, the pillory and the stocks were designed for this, but cages, chains, and even just guards may be used to keep the prisoner in place, or on the route of his enforced procession. It was particularly common in colonial societies, who often couldn't afford the loss of human-power that would come with extended imprisonment or execution. Though a Public Execution may have this as an added blow to the death. Conversely, characters may come to gawk at a prisoner, for much the same effect. When the character has been Made a Slave, an auction may bring this on, even worsened by the fact that the purchasers don't care how humiliated the character is. A defeated or demoralized character, even if not a captive, may greet another with this as a Stock Phrase, with accusations of coming to gawk at their shame, with snarls of Don't You Dare Pity Me!, even if the other character wants only to help. They may demand Get It Over With to avoid the gawking. Similarly, if their Pride convinces them that they came to gloat when they did not even know they were there. The threat of this trope may lead characters to Leave Behind a Pistol or decide that it's Better to Die than Be Killed. Supertrope to Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!, in which the embarrassing event is posted onto the internet. Compare Dead Guy on Display, which can be the same thing for a corpse. See also A Truce While We Gawk. If the gawkers spontaneously show up to mock someone over accidental embarrassments, you're dealing with The Freelance Shame Squad. The comedic equivalent is Pass the Popcorn. The commercial version was used in The Freakshow where the performers were often paid well for their display. Examples
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Come to Gawk / int_1bdeba5a	comment	The team once fought a group of extradimensional beasts called Warwolves who worked for the X-Men's old enemy Mojo; after they were apprehended, the team didn't see the point of putting them through any actual legal system, seeing as, despite their intelligence, they were far too dangerous. So they were incarcerated in a special cage at the London Zoo. (And were a popular attraction for a while.) They escaped a few times, and at present, are at large and in hiding.
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Come to Gawk / int_1c4cf7dc	comment	Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter opens with Hester Prynne standing on a pillory before the crowd as part of her punishment. (And that was the easy part. She'd be stared at the same way by the townsfolk and even by visitors the rest of her life, due to the Mark of Shame she had to wear.)
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Come to Gawk / int_1fccb08b	comment	Prometheus to Oceanus in Prometheus Bound:
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Come to Gawk / int_25f6f1a0	comment	In Umineko: When They Cry, Beatrice forces Battler in a Heroic BSoD to parade around nude and be used as furniture in front of a pack of goat-servants. Shortly afterwards, he's devoured.
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Come to Gawk / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In "New Kid On The Block", Captain McCallister puts Homer on display as "Bottomless Pete", the creature with a bottomless stomach. (This is actually part of an out-of-court-settlement for Homer's lawsuit, and while Marge is pretty humiliated, Homer is fine with it; he gets all the free shrimp he can eat.)
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Come to Gawk / int_27831967	comment	In Parks and Recreation, Ron explains that he's not at an organic food store to buy anything. "I'm here for the same reason people go to zoos."
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Come to Gawk / int_2b2195d5	comment	In The Pillars of the Earth, Remigius asks this to Philip when he's wandering the streets as a beggar. Instead, Philip offers to take him back (as a novice).
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Come to Gawk / int_2baa7b2e	comment	In The Killing Joke, Jim Gordon is locked naked in a cage with a bunch of carnival freaks staring at him while the Joker makes a Breaking Speech about how frail and pathetic man is, in an attempt to drive Gordon insane.
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Come to Gawk / int_2c3cd68a	comment	In the X-Wing Rogue Squadron comics, the self-appointed new Emperor, Sate Pestage, fled the Empire to save his life. He'd been planning to strike a deal with the Rebel Alliance / New Republic, sparing his life and giving him about thirty planets in exchange for leaving the Imperial capital undefended, but he was found out and captured. He was held in a prison, and the Rebels broke him out but couldn't flee off-planet with him yet, so they set up camp. While he was there, an ex-Imperial pilot who had defected came to visit him.◊
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Come to Gawk / int_3953baf0	comment	The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney): When Quasimodo is chosen as King of Fools, at first the people celebrate him, but then a guard throws a tomato and the rest of the crowd turns against him For the Evulz. Frollo, angry that Quasi disobeyed him by leaving the cathedral, lets this go on until Esmeralda saves him.
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Come to Gawk / int_3ac755dd	comment	Beauty and the Beast: The Beast assumes that Maurice came "to stare at the Beast" when the latter takes shelter in the castle.
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Come to Gawk / int_3da91872	comment	In Frostflower and Thorn, hangings tend to draw large crowds. Also, just about every humiliation and torture Frostflower suffers since her capture has an audience, from her public rape to her torture session (though that at least wasn't open to the general public, only priests and staff) to her eventual hanging.
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Come to Gawk / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft; a quest line in the Borean Tundra requires you to speak to a naga priestess named Veejhas who is being held captive in her own temple by Kvaldir. When you do so, she hisses loudly and assumes this is why you're here. (You aren't; your faction opposes the Kvaldir too. Even so, she emphasizes that her cooperation is very temporary.)
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Come to Gawk / int_50b9a0e2	comment	In The Phantom of the Opera novel, as well as the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical and 2004 movie, mention Erik/The Phantom on display in the Gypsy circus as "The Devil's Child." The only difference is in the novel and play he was an adult while the movie had him as a kid which eventually drove him to his first murder.
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Come to Gawk / int_55f41ce9	comment	In Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry has to wear a sign saying he's a shoplifter after he borrows silverware from a restaurant to feed his limo driver.
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Come to Gawk / int_5874f597	comment	In Choke by Chuck Palahniuk, the main character and his buddy work in a Colonial Williamsburg-esque town which punishes loafing employees by making them sit in the stocks all day.
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Come to Gawk / int_5a1506e6	comment	In Eternal Sonata, there's a Magic Researcher on the second floor of Baroque Castle. If the player visits him after completing the Lament Mirror sequence (available only in the PlayStation 3 Updated Re-release of the game), he will ask if the party has come to laugh at them and orders them "Get Out!!" Polka and Frederic, however, note that he's studying magic, and quickly explain that they're both magic users, delighting him as he rarely gets to meet live magic users, and he reveals a lot of interesting information.
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Come to Gawk / int_60156176	comment	In the Vorkosigan Saga, the punishment for Vors on Barrayar, who commit treason is public exposure until they starve to death. At one point, Aral Vorkosigan discusses how the Vor was usually given a chance to commit suicide, but if it came to that, he'd go through with it.
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Come to Gawk / int_623f0768	comment	In Batman: Year One, Flass gets this treatment twice. The first time was Gordon pushing back. Then again from Batman as a message to the precinct.
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Come to Gawk / int_64d851d	comment	In Henry VI Part 2, Eleanor Duchess of Gloucester is subjected to public penance after being accused of witchcraft: Enter the Duchess barefoot in a white sheet, with verses pinned upon her back and a taper burning in her hand, with the Sheriff and Officers and Sir John Stanley. A crowd following.
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Come to Gawk / int_668f6acf	comment	Murders in the Rue Morgue starts out with the mains character wandering through a kind of exhibit show featuring (among other things) Middle eastern belly-dancers, Apache warriors, and a gorilla.
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Come to Gawk / int_6873fde2	comment	In Doctrine of Labyrinths, this happens to two characters. Stephen, wrongfully believing Felix guilty of treason, drags him through the crowded Plaza del Archimago in Melusine. In Corambis, Kay is put on display in public after he's blinded and forced to surrender his army.
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Come to Gawk / int_6b85085e	comment	Shao Kahn seems big on this. In Mortal Kombat games where Kahn's Arena appears, slaves and captives (female ones especially) are chained up to posts around the place. In Sonja's case in the second game, this might be a case of a prisoner being Forced to Watch, but for everyone else, it seems the Trope is being played straight.
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Come to Gawk / int_6b879da2	comment	The short story National Geographic on Assignment: Mermaids of the Old West (included in the anthology Somewhere Beneath Those Waves) is based on the conceit that humans capture mermaids for aquariums and entertainment including dressing in costumes and performing tricks. The mermaids don't like it.
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Come to Gawk / int_6bf150d5	comment	Vow of Nudity: Spectra suffers from this daily, due to her necklace of forced nudity and her career as a circus performer.
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Come to Gawk / int_72262aee	comment	In Avatar: The Last Airbender, thirteen-year-old Prince Zuko's Agni Kai against his father could be seen as a particularly horrifying example of this. Zuko's kneeling, tears, and desperate pleas for forgiveness were all watched silently by a crowd of hundreds after he was tricked into a duel with the Fire Lord, and some individuals could be seen wearing creepily satisfied expressions when he got the scar.
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Come to Gawk / int_73d7930f	comment	In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Captive Pursuit", the hunted alien Tosk is threatened with this if taken back by a Hunter alive, displayed in public and humiliated. Despite this, he refuses an offer of asylum, as that is even more dishonorable in his eyes. Sympathizing with him, O'Brien is able to help Tosk escape so that he can continue his role as the Hunted and maintain dignity as well (with Sisko's off-the-record aid).
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Come to Gawk / int_74c378a4	comment	In Antony and Cleopatra, Cleopatra's motive for suicide is to avoid this.
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Come to Gawk / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: In The Killing Joke, Jim Gordon is locked naked in a cage with a bunch of carnival freaks staring at him while the Joker makes a Breaking Speech about how frail and pathetic man is, in an attempt to drive Gordon insane. In Batman: Year One, Flass gets this treatment twice. The first time was Gordon pushing back. Then again from Batman as a message to the precinct.
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Come to Gawk / int_7bca2171	comment	Bedlam: Sims, the master of the infamous Bedlam insane asylum, lets visitors pay to gawk at the inmates of the asylum. This actually happened in Real Life.
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Come to Gawk / int_7fbd159a	comment	In ThunderCats (1985), Mumm-Ra once bound the heroes in Mummy Wrap so he could "display" them in his burial chamber. (Not exactly a straight example, as he was the only one to gawk at them. This proved a mistake.)
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Come to Gawk / int_835501ca	comment	Freaks — being about a freak show. Then people saw it and quickly changed their minds.
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Come to Gawk / int_83d41855	comment	The "Bushido" episode of Gargoyles had Goliath, Bronx, Angela and several gargoyles of the Ishimura clan abducted to be made part of a gargoyles theme park.
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Come to Gawk / int_85b79d17	comment	Black Mirror: "The National Anthem" has everyone tune in at 4:00 to watch the Prime Minister comply to a kidnapper's singular demand: to have sex with a pig on live television. Everyone who tunes in watches for their amusement or out of pity, and as the kidnapper would know, they can't look away. The signal in "White Bear" has transformed 9/10 people into "Observers" who do nothing but watch our lead female get tormented throughout the episode. In a plot twist, the trope is played completely straight when it turns out the whole thing is an elaborate punishment for the lead and the audience is voluntarily there as a form of Ironic Hell.
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Come to Gawk / int_86814cd2	comment	In Final Fantasy IX, Amarant ventures into Ipsen's Castle by himself to make a point that working alone is better and smarter than working as a team. Zidane and a group of three others (the standard party), enter the castle, leaving the remainder of the party outside. Amarant makes it to the top first and declares his intention to the game's hero, Zidane, to abandon the party, as he's proved his point, and leaves. When Zidane and the others complete their business, they head back outside, only to be informed that they won, as Amarant never returned. Realizing that Amarant must be trapped somewhere inside, Zidane heads back in to rescue Amarant, and when he finds him, Amarant asks if he's come to mock him. Zidane replies that he says some strange things and Amarant admits that he doesn't understand how Zidane thinks. After a bit more talk, Amarant rejoins, this time for good, and slowly begins to come to understand Zidane.
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Come to Gawk / int_87e00d8e	comment	In the Teen Titans (2003) episode "How Long is Forever?", Starfire time-travels 20 years into the future. She seeks out the 20-years-older versions of her teammates and discovers Beast Boy on display in a cage in a circus.
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Come to Gawk / int_89ce309d	comment	At the end of the Scottish play Macduff threatens Macbeth with public humiliation if he won't fight for killing his wife and son. Macbeth's pride won't allow him to submit, so he has no choice but to fight even though it's been prophesied that it will mean his death.
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Come to Gawk / int_8dd4a32c	comment	In one Popeye cartoon, Bluto is an Evil Poacher with a zoo full of rare animals, and intends to put Popeye and Olive there; he eventually gets A Taste Of His Own Medicine and is locked up in his own zoo, gawked at by his former collection. ("Can't you read?" he angrily shouts to them, indicating a sign. "It says don't tease the animals!")
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Come to Gawk / int_90f42a9b	comment	The Wheel of Time: After the False Dragon Logain is captured, he's taken to Magical Society's capital city to be De-Powered and paraded in a cage through the streets of every city along the way. On the way he happens to see the true Dragon Reborn, as yet unaware of his true identity, and breaks down laughing at the irony.
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Come to Gawk / int_91c00be5	comment	In The Scar by China Miéville, the Brucolac is hung up atop a ship's mast and left there. Being a vampire, he is slowly dying of exposure to sunlight before he is finally taken down.
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Come to Gawk / int_95343e40	comment	Ninjago: Dragons Rising: In the Imperium, anyone who violates any of the kingdom's laws is punished by being subject to public humiliation, which is live-streamed to the entire kingdom. On hearing this, Lloyd doesn't think it's as bad as all that, thanks to years of teasing from his fellow ninja, until Sora points out that for their purposes of sneaking around the place, everyone seeing their face is very bad.
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Come to Gawk / int_976efc02	comment	Referenced by Mystery Science Theater 3000 when they watched the short "Junior Rodeo Daredevils". After one youngster loses a competition and throws his hat in the air in frustration:
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Come to Gawk / int_9908ca47	comment	In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, after being locked in his room by the Dursleys, Harry Potter has a nightmare about being placed in a cage in a zoo for people to gawk at, with a sign on it reading "UNDERAGE WIZARD."
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Come to Gawk / int_993bf7f3	comment	Kylar from The Night Angel Trilogy enjoys a bit of this after being sentenced to death for regicide in order to help his friend gain the throne. Unfortunately, there was a famine going on, so the crowd only had rocks.
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Come to Gawk / int_994af351	comment	In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, when you visit Edgeworth in prison, he asks if you've come to laugh at him. (You haven't, of course.)
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Come to Gawk / int_9acdda28	comment	In Watership Down, poor Blackavar is made to stand on display as an example to the other rabbits after he gets his ears shredded for trying to flee the totalitarian Efrafa.
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Come to Gawk / int_9bcc183b	comment	Quasimodo in the stocks in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. It was a typical sentence for attempting to kidnap the gypsy Esmeralda though the real mastermind was Archdeacon Frollo.
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Come to Gawk / int_9d47a2a2	comment	Happens to Cersei Lannister in A Song of Ice and Fire. She is sentenced by the Faith to walk along the streets naked. Also serves as a Break the Haughty moment, and is ironic for several reasons: she was the one who revived the Church Militant order and she was sentenced for crimes she accused Margaery of.
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Come to Gawk / int_a851558c	comment	In The Confidence-Man, passengers on the boardwalk come to just watch the crippled man from New Guinea, who is actually just one of the avatars of a Con Man who is painted up to look that way.
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Come to Gawk / int_a895e9d3	comment	Portal 2 has some Dummied Out lines of an alternate version of the scene where Chell finds GLaDOS in Chapter 6.
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Come to Gawk / int_a9d9d1f1	comment	In The Rose of Versailles, when Jeanne Valois is publicly branded as a criminal, many spectators came to gawk at her.
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Come to Gawk / int_ae285944	comment	Robin Hood: Men in Tights That's part of Prince John's punishment for all the abusing of power that he did:
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Come to Gawk / int_bbc842d0	comment	The climax of The Blue Angel has the main character, a once-proud (too proud) professor, dressed up as a clown and forced to crow like a rooster in front of a crew of his former colleagues, students, and neighbours. It's an incredibly difficult scene to watch. Then he goes berserk.
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Come to Gawk / int_c08f5913	comment	Kirby and the Forgotten Land: Inside Lab Discovera is the Big Bad Fecto Forgo, aka ID-F86. The elevator leading to its containment chamber has an announcer that cheerfully presents its backstory like one would see at a museum or a zoo exhibit. In fact, Forgo has heard the announcer's voice on repeat for so many years that it became a Madness Mantra it can never escape from, not even in their dreams. Granted, Forgo is an evil alien that tried to destroy the titular world just because it could, so it's not like it didn't deserve this kind of karma.
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Come to Gawk / int_c2463c55	comment	This is also Tromell's reaction in Final Fantasy X if you return to Guadosalam late in the game. "Come to kill me? I welcome it. Or are you here to laugh? Laugh at the fallen Guado?"
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Come to Gawk / int_c35714d6	comment	In Blackadder II, the title character (as Lord High Executioner) kills a man ahead of schedule, only to have the man's wife come for a visit. In order to get the information Blackadder needs to pose as the dead man, Percy demands she prove that she's really his wife and not just a "Gloater", claiming that the jail is "up to our ears" in people coming by to gloat over those on Death Row. It works, but Blackadder still calls Percy a prat for coming up with such a ludicrous idea.
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Come to Gawk / int_c487221e	comment	In Men in Black, Beatrice has already endured the ridicule of the local authorities and others for her story about an alien stealing her husband Edgar's body and is sure that Agents J and K, allegedly of the FBI, are there to do the same. K, however, hastens to assure her that this is not the case, because:
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Come to Gawk / int_c64acec7	comment	The Holy Office: Hundreds of people gather to laugh and boo at the people about to be executed in an Auto de Fe.
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Come to Gawk / int_d523f952	comment	Not only Indigenous people were exhibited: People with handicaps, bizarre illnesses, and body distortions were also put on display. In the 19th century, and most of the 20th century, this was seen as legitimate entertainment for the normal people. One famous example is Joseph Merrick, immortalized in The Elephant Man.
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Come to Gawk / int_d9c602eb	comment	On South Park, characters have a rather nasty habit of gathering to watch people do outrageous things. Most of the time, they do it to watch characters fight each other.
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Come to Gawk / int_da861da1	comment	Veronica Mars:: This is the subtext of the second season when a parent commits a crime, their children have to walk the walk of shame. In "Ain't No Magic Mountain High Enough", Jackie is volunteered to sit as the target in the water balloon carnival booth, in a bikini, being pelted with cold water by people who hate her. It's also a common occurrence for people to be stripped naked and duct-taped to the high school's flagpole.
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Come to Gawk / int_dbb1ac0c	comment	Excalibur (Marvel Comics): The team once fought a group of extradimensional beasts called Warwolves who worked for the X-Men's old enemy Mojo; after they were apprehended, the team didn't see the point of putting them through any actual legal system, seeing as, despite their intelligence, they were far too dangerous. So they were incarcerated in a special cage at the London Zoo. (And were a popular attraction for a while.) They escaped a few times, and at present, are at large and in hiding. When Arcade kidnapped Captain Britain's girlfriend Courtney Ross, he combined this with Go-Go Enslavement (same idea as a Playboy Bunny outfit, but a ribbon instead of ears) and a rather unique Death Trap: She was dumped onto a stage in front of a Tough Room full of android hecklers who demanded to be entertained; failing to win them over would result in them killing her. (Amazingly, Courtney survived by discovering a talent for impromptu stand-up comedy, much to Arcade's surprise.)
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Come to Gawk / int_dde91ea5	comment	Near the end of A Knight's Tale, Will is locked up in the pillory and the crowds that had previously cheered him on in the jousts come to laugh at him and throw rotten food. His friends show up, intending to shame them into stopping. They get pelted with food, too.
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Come to Gawk / int_e199d649	comment	In Inheritance, from Inheritance Cycle, Sloan believes that this is what Eragon wants when Eragon comes to visit around the end of the book, but he's off-the-mark. Eragon had forgotten Sloan was there until he spotted him and feels so guilty about bringing Sloan's daughter, Katrina, there when he knows that he can't see her that he restores Sloan's eyes, which had been pecked away by the Ra'zac.
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Come to Gawk / int_e45a08d4	comment	Urbanus: In the album Leute voor de Meute the government decides to recreate bread and games activities to keep the people happy. As a result of this initiative, prisoners are tortured in front of an audience for their amusement.
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Come to Gawk / int_e53e8d5	comment	Felix the Cat The Movie: Princess Oriana is forced to work in a Circus of Fear after her uncle The Duke of Zill conquers her kingdom. Doubles as The Not-So-Harmless Punishment if you think about it, since there are few things worse for The High Queen than becoming a sideshow.
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Come to Gawk / int_eb3f769d	comment	In the Aubrey-Maturin books, Jack is pilloried. However, sailors who've fought alongside him or respect him as a war hero, travel from all over the country to surround Jack from the mob. This is based on a Real Life incident with Admiral Thomas Cochrane, Jack's prototype. Cochrane got involved in a stocks scandal and was convicted and pilloried. The public outrage after this sentence (he was a rather popular figure) was so loud that it actually became one of the main reasons for the abolition of pillory in the UK.
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Come to Gawk / int_f57e80d5	comment	In Electra, Clytemnestra actually seems to enjoy provoking Electra in her fallen state.
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Come to Gawk / int_ff9ab17f	comment	In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Most Toys," Data is captured by a greedy alien collector named Kivas Fajo who wants him as a centerpiece for his series of unique and valuable items (being the onlynote publicly-known sentient android in existence). By putting Data into his collection, and showing him off to other thieves, Fajo is using him for a Come To Gawk purpose, claiming it's okay since Data has no emotions and therefore can't find his imprisonment distasteful. At the end of the episode, of course, Data is returned to the Enterprise and Fajo is locked up in the brig, his collection of stolen items being returned to their owners. When Data comes by to watch him in the brig, Fajo asks him if he's enjoying watching him being kept captive by the Enterprise, only for Data to reply that as an android, he finds no pleasure in such things.
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X-Wing Rogue Squadron (Comic Book) / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Memories of the Dance We Shared (Fanfic) / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Vow of Nudity (Fanfic) / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
A Knight's Tale / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Bedlam / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Café Flesh / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Macbeth (2015) / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Rigoletto / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Stoned / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
The Blue Angel / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
The Butterfly Circus / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
The Eiger Sanction / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
The Elephant Man / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
The Highwaymen / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
The Howling / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
The Holy Office / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Aubrey-Maturin / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Book of Judges / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Brothers of the Snake / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Doctrine of Labyrinths / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Eisenhorn / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Inheritance Cycle / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Journey to the Center of the Earth / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Phantom / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Somewhere Beneath Those Waves / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
The Confidence Man / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
The Four Gospels / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
The Pillars of the Earth / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
The Vampire Chronicles / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Watership Down / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Ptitlefjm1jb7t0t3t	seeAlso	Come to Gawk
Ptitleoe7myb9t	seeAlso	Come to Gawk
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The Rose of Versailles (Manga) / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Bleach (Music) / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Bleach (Album) (Music) / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Bone Machine (Music) / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Closer (Music) / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Frankenchrist (Music) / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
13 Reasons Why / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Veronica Mars / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Electra (Theatre) / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Love Never Dies (Theatre) / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Macbeth (Theatre) / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Cult of the Lamb (Video Game) / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
LEGO: The Adventures of Clutch Powers / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Rio Bravo / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk
Eternal Sonata (Video Game) / int_dde7da12	type	Come to Gawk

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