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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
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For all intents and purposes, this is a heroic variant of Cold-Blooded Torture. Usually indicates that there is some kind of Time Bomb hanging over the heroes' heads and the interrogator has decided that there isn't enough time to "play nice." Threats, both outloud and whispered, to kill will be made. Firearms will be discharged. Sometimes this is done after someone has refused to believe an Empty Cop Threat. Of course, anyone who does this is in the first place is usually an Anti-Hero at best or a Token Evil Teammate and/or a Nominal Hero at worst. Also, if a suspect knows he only has to hold out for a certain length of time, torture will never work. Good thing Torture Always Works. Should it fail, one can alternate the plan and exact the interrogations on someone else. In reality, torture is illegal in many jurisdictions (however, that doesn't stop people, and doesn't mean the evidence gets tossed out in all nations), and its actual effectiveness is disputed, depending much on circumstances and individuals. In short, there's no real proof that it works effectively and dependably — it's just as likely that someone will tell you something just to make it stop as anything else, and although the "just make it stop" factor can in fact be countered by systems of threatening even worse retribution if the given information turns out to be false, it is still hardly 100% perfect. Plus, it may turn out that the guy you're torturing legitimately does not have the information you need, but feeds you false info just to make it stop, so not only are you torturing someone who knows nothing, he's sending you on a wild-goose chase instead of staying silent. Someone truly dedicated to a cause may even view this technique as a sign that his enemies are weak or evil, thus enforcing his own convictions and making him more likely to refuse to cooperate. As well as this, even if it does work and the suspect is guilty and confesses, any halfway decent lawyer can get a confession coerced through torture ruled inadmissible, and any evidence found as a result of it being "Fruit of the Poisonous Tree" and also inadmissible, or failing that overturn the conviction, meaning torture can even result in guilty people going free. Interrogation is often a long process over days or weeks, as well. Good luck stuffing that time into an hour-long TV show revolving around a bad guy bomb, though. It would be especially problematic using evidence obtained through torture in the United States. The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution prohibits "cruel and unusual punishment." Statute Law, specifically 18 USC 1984, the Civil Rights act of 1869, specifically makes it a crime to violate someone's civil rights under color of law. US treaty obligations also cause problems, as they are a signatory to the "Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment," of 26 June 1987, and the use of torture is a violation of "The Laws and Customs of War" as set forth in the (Fourth) Geneva Convention, which prohibits even unlawful combatants from being tortured. While executing unlawful combatants is legal under the Geneva Convention, torturing them is not. Even if you are not a law enforcement agent or soldier, trying this can also land you in a lot of trouble. Seriously, Don't Try This at Home. Things can get even more dangerous if you have a Vigilante Man conducting the interrogation. As he is not part of a legal force to begin with, he is not restrained by the law. He is free to give cruel and unusual punishment, he does not need solid proof to go after someone guilty, he does not need to respect people's rights, and there's no authority you can report him to. And if he is an Anti-Hero, without a "Thou Shalt Not Kill" principle, then things are even worse: he may kill you after you give him the name he needed to continue his search. See also: Exalted Torturer, Torture Technician, Torture Always Works, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, and Mutilation Interrogation, a subtrope that involves Fingore. For a related but milder trope, see Interrogation by Vandalism. Compare: Torture First, Ask Questions Later, and Torture for Fun and Information, when you're not just torturing someone for information, but having a lot of fun doing it, too. Contrast Torture Is Ineffective, for when torture doesn't get the hero the information. Also see High-Altitude Interrogation, where the interrogator just threatens to drop someone from a great height. |
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Parodied in Max's Big Bust: A Captain Nekorai Tale: the title character's captain uses a disco ball as an interrogation tool. This is 100% successful in terrifying perpetrators into talking, and Max and her fellow police officers are rather frightened by it as well. | |
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Done by Dory in Finding Nemo after she politely asks a crab for information to where Marlin went and gets snubbed by him, she essentially threatens to feed him to the gulls and she actually carries out the threat by lifting the crab out of the water in front of said ravenous seagulls. | |
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Wreck-It Ralph: Ralph putting Sour Bill in his mouth if he doesn't tell him the truth behind Sugar Rush: | |
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The video for Abnormality's "Mechanisms of Omniscience" shows two State Sec agents using this on a captive who leaked documents on the internet. He's ultimately tortured to death. | |
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For Pathfinder, this is what the Intimidate skill is for. What form that takes exactly depends on the players, from threats to magical manipulation to outright torture. And yes, there are rules found in various DM books for torture devices and less-than-pleasant spells meant to extract information. | |
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In Oedipus the King, when the shepherd who found the abandoned infant Oedipus and gave him to Polybus is brought to Oedipus he refuses to talk. Oedipus orders his guards to twist his arm behind his back until he does. Later, he threatens to have the man killed when he hesitates again. | |
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Elvis Costello's Watching The Detectives references this. | |
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BoBoiBoy: Downplayed; after BoBoiBoy overpowers the shrunken Multi Monsters who were sent by Adu Du to attack BoBoiBoy, he demands information of Adu Du's plans from one of them. When the shrunken clone says he wouldn't tell even if he knew, BoBoiBoy traps him in a jar and spins it. The other clones think it looks fun, but the trapped Multi Monster wants no more of it, so he instead suggests to BoBoiBoy what Adu Du's next move may be (which turns out to be a correct guess later on) and is let go. | |
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In Ikemen Sengoku, Masamune, after hearing from Nobunaga that the main character claimed that she time-traveled from 500 years in the future, decides to find out if it's true by asking her about it while pointing his sword at her throat. Which works well enough, but the main character lampshades how this method of interrogation isn't as reliable as he seems to think it is by commenting that she'd have willingly told him she was from Ancient Egypt just to get him to put his sword away. | |
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The reliability of the technique is played with in Hitherby Dragons here | |
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Standard operating procedure for Imperial law enforcement in Warhammer 40,000. Shining example: the "Nine Actions" are the Inquisition's specific guidelines on gradually increasing the intensity of their questioning, psychological manipulation, torture, and Mind Rape. Action Nine would kill any normal human pretty quick, but then normal humans usually give in at about the two-mark, which involves explaining exactly what is going to happen through the next seven stages. You all want to know what they are, don't you? Here: | |
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In The Gamer's Alliance, Ismail tortures Izael, who's revealed to be a member of the Totenkopfs, to find out more about the Totenkopfs' plans from him. Also happens when Alessandra and Raphael interrogate the dark cleric Grigori; however, they don't leave the cleric alive after he's spilled the beans, and instead they kill him and toss his body into the city's canals. | |
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