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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In Antony and Cleopatra, Cleopatra's motive for suicide is to avoid this. | |
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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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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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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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Freaks — being about a freak show. Then people saw it and quickly changed their minds. | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In Electra, Clytemnestra actually seems to enjoy provoking Electra in her fallen state. | |
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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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